Minister's wife admits to making calls threatening to kill high schoolers

[Bluebear]

:crazy:

KINGSTON, Mass. -- Susan Cram is a minister's wife, a respected community member, and now a suspect in a threat to her son's freshman high school football team that put her town on edge.

Police Chief Joseph Rebello said the community south of Boston was baffled yesterday as to why Cram, 43, allegedly called in a threat, then described a suspect for police, and sent them looking for someone Rebello said was never there.

``She's been a good member of the community; she was well liked, not the kind of person you would put in this scenario," Rebello said yesterday, after police arrested Cram and charged her with making a telephone call to the school in which she allegedly threatened to kill members of the freshman football team at Silver Lake Regional High School. Cram is scheduled to be arraigned today in Plymouth District Court on charges of making a threat to disrupt a school assembly.

Rebello said that Cram admitted to making the phone call and that the authorities have both videotaped evidence and eyewitness identification of her near the pay telephone where the call originated.

Cram allegedly called the school from a pay phone at 1:58 p.m. Wednesday in Whit's Market, which is across the street from the Church of Christ, where her husband is pastor. The caller threatened ``to kill the freshman football team," Kingston Police Lieutenant Thomas Kelley said. Rebello said the caller specifically threatened four members of the team, one of whom was Cram's son...

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/10/06/ministers_wife_is_accused_of_school_threat/

[Binka]

1. Can You Say Bat Shit Crazy?

They better keep her hospitalized until further tests can be done on her.

[EFerrari]

2. The worst thing is, no one will take this seriously enough.

They'll palm off her care on her family and the next thing we'll hear is someone gets hurt.

This is one fucked up country.

[Bluebear]

3. Good thing her name isn't Saira Al Fulani

If an Arab-American made the same threat we'd be at Code Orange already.

[Irreverend IX]

4. It's kind of funny to imagine...

Helen Lovejoy or some other stereotypical preacher's wife storming a high school football locker room and slaughtering all the occupants. It's a good thing she didn't go through with her plan, or Rove would have the perfect distraction from the Foley scandal.

[MagickMuffin]

5. Even had her son on the list: Gee Thanks Mom

From the article:

The caller threatened ``to kill the freshman football team," Kingston Police Lieutenant Thomas Kelley said. Rebello said the caller specifically threatened four members of the team, one of whom was Cram's son...

Rebello said Cram borrowed money from someone in the market to make the phone call. Cram called police about an hour after allegedly calling the school, telling officers that what appeared to have been a 15-year-old girl had just come to her church and spoke of harming members of the football team with her boyfriend, Rebello said. She told them that the girl ran away into the woods behind the church.

Officers spent about two hours, using a helicopter and dogs, searching the woods, Rebello said. ``We found no signs of anyone out there," Rebello said.
Police called Cram to the station yesterday, where she was arrested. ``There is no rationale behind this," Rebello said.

She should also have to reimburse the law enforcement for their search for the invisible 15 year old girl....

[Bucky]

6. Let's be nice here, people. I'll bet she's an alcoholic and was abused

Alas, we have a dark horse candidate for next week's Top Ten.

[hlthe2b]

9. yes... and then there was the role of Soros and Clinton...

and all those horrible Democrats...

Oh, and there must be someway to blame the kids....surely the kids must have made her do it...:eyes:surely the kids must have made her do it...

[Ian David]

7. The Church of Christ is not associated with The UNITED Church of Christ

The United Church of Christ is a great organization. I don't know much about this other group.

However, the people listed on the church website aren't apparently signatories of the anti-gay petition as posted at knowthyneighbor.org .




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The churches of Christ are not associated with the "United Church of Christ," the "First Church of Christ, Scientist," or the "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" (Mormons). We also have no affiliation with the "Boston Church of Christ," also called the "International churches of Christ." We differ in doctrine and practices.
http://www.kingstoncoc.org/

Also:


What We Believe
http://www.kingstoncoc.org/beliefs/index_belief.html






What's odd is that this is a liberal, progressive church.

It sounds like the woman is mentally ill, and that this was a cry for help.

Conservatives would have just started shooting-up the place. Liberals actually find a way to get help before someone gets hurt.

[hlthe2b]

8. boggles the mind...

Shunning, (as practiced by the old order Amish), sounds like an appropriate step for this woman by his community--since I have little doubt she'll serve no jail time...

[Connie_Corleone]

10. Serial Mom??

[Toots]

11. I bet if I made a terroristic threat like that I would be sent away

for a long long time and it wouldn't be called a threat to disrupt a school assembly. It would be called exactly what it is a terroristic threat of mass murder