Browne wrong again: Lori Pleasants

SHOW: The Montel Williams Show (5:00 PM ET) - SYND
DATE: September 10, 2003 Wednesday
LENGTH: 7869 words
HEADLINE: Sylvia Browne: uncovering the truth; Pyschic Sylvia Browne answers guests and audiences members' questions about things in their past and present
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HOST: Montel Williams
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KIMBERLY: Lori was a beautiful, energetic person, very genuine. She pretty much would give you the shirt off her back. On June 15, 2000, Lori didn't show up for work that day, so her neighbors and her friends got really worried. They actually ch--went over to her house, her apartment to check on her and that night they found her in her apartment. Later on they found out that she'd been strangled and her wrists were slit to apparently cover up the murder, make it look more like a suicide.

The police think that someone strangled her and murdered her. They're not sure if it's someone that she knows. They're not sure if it's just someone that was, like, stalking her. They really have no idea.

I have so many unanswered questions. I want to know if there was more than one person involved. I want to know if she knew the person. I hope that Sylvia can give us some answers to what happened to Lori that night.

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WILLIAMS: Please welcome Kimberly to the show. Welcome her.

Before you say anything, Sylvia, ver--very interesting. Because I--I've got to back up for a second. Your friend that evening had been out with friends till 1:00 in the morning or somewhere in there, right?

KIMBERLY: Yes.

WILLIAMS: Her and all of her friends came back to her apartment.

KIMBERLY: Yes.

WILLIAMS: There were multiple people in that apartment.

KIMBERLY: Yes.

WILLIAMS: Some people left over the course of the evening. People got up, woke up in the morning in her apartment.

KIMBERLY: Yes.

WILLIAMS: People then left.

KIMBERLY: Yeah.

WILLIAMS: Did they all leave her there alone? Because somebody else stayed in that apartment, did they not?

KIMBERLY: They stayed in that apartment, but that morning they said they left and they just thought she was asleep and they just left because it was on--on like a college campus kind of thing.

WILLIAMS: They left. And then how much later did somebody come back by the apartment?

KIMBERLY: Actually what happened was she didn't show up for work that day, and they kept calling and calling and calling and she didn't answer the phone. So finally some of her friends and neighbors that lived nearby went by and heard Jasmine barking, so they went in and that's when they found her.

WILLIAMS: Now--but you know, here's the thing.

Ms. BROWNE: It...

WILLIAMS: The police--sorry. Wait. The police asked questions of and--and also did polygraph tests on all the friends that were there that evening. The time of death was established at that night.

KIMBERLY: Between 3 and 5 AM, I think, is what they said.

WILLIAMS: Which means her friends were sleeping in the living room, sleeping in her apartment.

Ms. BROWNE: Something was going on.

WILLIAMS: Someone came in the apartment, strangled this girl, slit her wrists to fake her death, yet everyone present has been questioned, polygraphed...

KIMBERLY: And DNA.

WILLIAMS: ...and so forth--Huh?

KIMBERLY: DNA, too, taken.

WILLIAMS: DNA taken.

KIMBERLY: Found DNA on the knife.

WILLIAMS: OK. And supposedly all of them passed. But how can people be sleeping on the floor, somebody sneaks in, slits a person's wrist, c--c--strangles them and then fakes a murder and leaves, and nobody knows?

Ms. BROWNE: I mean, a lot of them had been drinking, though. But that's neither here nor there, because the guy that did it was the name (censored).

KIMBERLY: I think it sounds familiar.

Ms. BROWNE: I know it does.

KIMBERLY: And that's who they thought it was.

Ms. BROWNE: It is.

WILLIAMS: Excuse me?

KIMBERLY: They--they had a--I mean, there was a suspect as in like this person that they--he took the DNA test, he passed everything, but what's--what kind of evidence can we get to like convict this guy?

Ms. BROWNE: Well, there's the--not necessarily DNA because he slit her wrists and--and, you know, and he didn't leave any semen or anything, do you see what I mean? So it's pretty hard. Besides, he was wearing gloves, so you're not going to get fingerprints.

KIMBERLY: Did he know that he was doing? I mean...

Ms. BROWNE: Oh, yeah. Yeah. He had been sta--he had--you were right, he had been stalking her. But you said you even remember the name, so...

KIMBERLY: Was it premeditated? Like did he plan on doing...

Ms. BROWNE: Oh, yeah. He was--he did it purposely. And if I were to walk up behind somebody and strangle them, you couldn't cry out.

KIMBERLY: Why, though?

WILLIAMS: But--but I'm still--these are people who all came over. There was a whole house full of people, even those passed out...

Ms. BROWNE: Yeah, but some people get those kicks out of that kind of thing. No, really.

KIMBERLY: So they know?

WILLIAMS: Getting away with it in front of people.

Ms. BROWNE: Exactly.

KIMBERLY: So the people n--know that were there and they're just...

Ms. BROWNE: Oh, no, no.

KIMBERLY: Oh.

Ms. BROWNE: What I'm saying is some perverts--let's call them perverts--get a kick out of doing something like this in the presence or seemingly within the next room. Do you see what I mean? It's like the joy of, you know...

WILLIAMS: Were the people that...

KIMBERLY: Well, then no one else was involved but--except for him?

Ms. BROWNE: No one.

WILLIAMS: Were the people at the party have known--would this person have been a person that was invited back to the house, or did he sneak in after everybody else was passed out?

Ms. BROWNE: He sneaked in af--after--he had come in earlier, and nobody really liked him that much, and then he came back later when everybody was kind of zonked.

KIMBERLY: I mean, is she happy?

Ms. BROWNE: You know what I'm saying.

KIMBERLY: Is she with her mother?

Ms. BROWNE: What?

KIMBERLY: Is she with her mother?

Ms. BROWNE: Yes. She's with her mother, and there's also a young man over there that's passed over.

KIMBERLY: M--motorcycle accident? No?

Ms. BROWNE: Uh-huh. It was look...

KIMBERLY: Right afterwards.

Ms. BROWNE: Like part of her family. Yeah.

KIMBERLY: Dave.

Ms. BROWNE: Yes.

WILLIAMS: I'm sorry. Yes, sir.

Unidentified Man #2: Hello, Sylvia. I lost my mother in October, and I miss her very much. She was like my best friend. And I wanted to know is everything OK with her? And is--is there anything...
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Gutersloh sentenced to life plus five years
May 19, 2007

A judge has sentenced William Gutersloh to life plus five years in prison for the strangulation death of Lori Pleasants in June of 2000.
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Three days after his conviction, Gutersloh admitted killing Pleasants. He told the court he strangled Pleasants during sex and even tried to revive her. He says it happened in the bedroom, and he panicked when it was over.

Gutersloh says he got a knife from the kitchen and cut her wrists to make it look like a suicide.

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PAPER: Daily News (New York)
DATE: October 10, 2006 Tuesday SPORTS FINAL EDITION
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 13
LENGTH: 358 words
HEADLINE: DNA LINKS COP'S SON TO OLD SLAY
BYLINE: BY OWEN MORITZ DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
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DNA LEFT BEHIND in the murder of a Virginia student six years ago finally led police to her suspected killer - the son of a top Long Island police official.

Cops say William Gutersloh, 29, killed Lori Pleasants, 23, whose body was found in her apartment in Radford, Va., in June 2000. Gutersloh, also a Radford University student at the time, is the son of William Gutersloh, the Nassau County Police Department's chief of patrol.
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Her right wrist had been cut with a kitchen knife, which authorities learned had occurred after her death. The knife was later found and DNA tests performed.

Gutersloh, who worked as a bartender at a bar frequented by the victim, had long been a suspect.

Rehak said police finally located additional witnesses and "pieced together a better picture than we've ever had before on what we think occurred that night."
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PAPER: The Roanoke Times (Virginia)
DATE: February 27, 2007 Tuesday
Metro Edition
SECTION: VIRGINIA; Pg. B1
LENGTH: 766 words
HEADLINE: TRIAL IN '00 DEATH BEGINS IN RADFORD
BY: Shawna Morrison
DATELINE: RADFORD
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More than six years after her killing and four months after a suspect was arrested, the trial began Monday for the man accused of killing Lori Pleasants and staging it to look like a suicide.

Friends found Pleasants' body late on June 15, 2000, in her third-floor apartment at 507 Clement St. They went to check on her after the former Radford University student failed to show up for her shift as a waitress at the Alleghany Inn and didn't answer repeated phone calls.

William Joseph Gutersloh, 30, of Kings Park, N.Y., was the last person seen with Pleasants at her apartment early that morning. Long a suspect in the case, Gutersloh was arrested in October after two of his friends claimed he told them he killed the 23-year-old.
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Dr. Gregory Wanger, a former Roanoke-based assistant chief medical examiner, later testified that the right-handed Pleasants had died of strangulation, and that her wrist had been cut several minutes to hours after her death. He also said it appeared that Pleasants' body had been carefully positioned after she died.
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Gutersloh confessed to Pleasants' killing on separate occasions to three men, Rehak told jurors. Gutersloh told them he strangled her, cut her wrist then wiped the knife clean, leaving no fingerprints, Rehak said.
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On the night she died, Pleasants left Riley's bar on Norwood Street in Radford about 1:30 a.m. with several friends and went with them to her apartment, where they met up with Gutersloh.

Gutersloh was a bouncer at Riley's who often asked whether Pleasants was still dating her boyfriend, Cody Moore, two friends testified Monday.
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Wowbagger said:

Wake me up when Browne is right about something.

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TjW said:

This just in:
Gullible people will give you money if you tell them crap.

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Zep said:

...........................how much money...?

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TjW said:

This just in:
Gullible people will give you money if you tell them crap.

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Gutersloh sentenced to life plus five years
By Heather Bell

RADFORD - Two months after his tearful, last minute confession on the stand, William Joseph Gutersloh, Jr. was sentenced to life in prison plus five years for killing Lori Pleasants in 2003.

In March, a Radford jury deliberated for nearly six hours before convicting Gutersloh of first degree murder and defiling a corpse for the June 2003 strangulation death of 23-year-old Pleasants. Following that conviction, Gutersloh took the stand and admitted to choking Pleasants and cutting her wrist after death to make it appear as a suicide, saying it was an accidental death during sexual contact.
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