Judith Bauer, Logan Dyjak
BELLEVILLE, IL - After neighbors had tried several times to contact 66 year old Judith Bauer and were unsuccessful, they decided to go over and check on her in person. You see, people had plenty of reason to be concerned about Ms. Bauer. She had just returned earlier that evening from a week long stay in the hospital after having suffered a stroke.
What they found when they got there was the bloody body of Ms. Bauer on the second level of her house. She had been stabbed in the neck and strangled.
Police found her grandson, Logan Dyjak walking down the road with a large knife which they believe may have been the murder weapon. Police were familiar with Dyjak and had been called to the house the Sunday before because he had assaulted another family member. Ms. Bauer was still in the hospital at the time. It is believed that he was en route to a family members house to harm them when they caught him. Someone who was unfortunate enough to be related to this violent assmunch dodged a bullet that night.
What kind of man murders his grandmother? 66 is fairly young by today’s standards but having recently had a stroke and going up against a 20 year old man, this woman had no chance. The thought that he was able to carry out this murder on a person who probably loved him through all his faults makes me want to rip his testicles out through his throat.
What kind of motive was there? Police had documented some mental issues in the past, so we may have to settle with “he was plain old bat-shit crazy.” I’d have to agree. Who tries to pull off the Chris Robinson/Hippie Jesus look these days? Crazy or not, I can’t think of one reason that will be good enough to want me to save his sorry ass from the electric chair. Asshole.
10 responses so far ↓
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Absynthe
Jun 29, 2008 at 6:48 pm -Anyone who kills their grandma, who has tried to do her best to help you, should die!!!
I have an old rusty machete out in my shed that I would be more than happy to slice his fucking throat with!
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WryBread
Jun 29, 2008 at 9:39 pm -Why are these people allowed to walk around free until they kill someone? We need to return to the old days of residential care for the mentally ill, when they kept you for life if that was what you needed, not just shoved you out the door and wished your family good luck.
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petrina
Jun 30, 2008 at 2:08 am -i would love to know more about his diagnosis and trips thru the mental health system. ive seen too many people warehoused in the old institutions who went from mild to fuzznuts. but you are right, what can you do when someone is a threat to others and why wasnt he involuntarily committed. either he was poor and didnt qualify for disability or he was smart enough to say what kept him free, i guess. what can you do?
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funkmama
Jun 30, 2008 at 8:15 am -What a fucknut.
If we’re goin demon hunting I’m bringing a nail laden baseball bat, or do you think that’s too nice? Either way… I’ll meet u there Absynthe.
God damn that loser ass motherfucker.
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Jack Shizz
Jun 30, 2008 at 11:28 am -A ‘curb-job’ is too lenient for this piece of shite.
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WryBread
Jun 30, 2008 at 11:29 am -I agree that warehousing people is bad stuff. Mental illness is a tough situation. I think some of the people who lived out their lives in a hospital were better off than those dying on grates in mid-winter on the city sidewalks. And some people in aslyums just needed the structure and support that such a place gave them. With it, they were able to work off the hospital’s property or some other compromise.
There isn’t any good answer. But having had a friend knifed to death by his mentally ill son and having watched the mentally ill lie on the sidewalks and beg for change, I am tired of the solution of the 1980s — give them a handful of meds and a handshake and see how they do in society.
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lupwnthe3rd
Jun 30, 2008 at 6:37 pm -I am a friend of logans, and I’ve never seen any kind of an indication like this. He has always been the most peaceful man I’ve ever met. always a warm heart.And he always welcomed me into his home. I never saw this coming, none of us did. And my heart aches to know that he snapped and entered the world of darkness. I weep because I lost a great friend, and an amazing person.
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Dakota Valkyrie
Jun 30, 2008 at 10:14 pm -LUPWNTHE3rd, I’m sorry about your friend.
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petrina
Jul 1, 2008 at 1:27 am -i agree, wrybread, there has to be something in between - many levels of something, actually.
and LUPWNTHE3rd, i wish you well as you grapple with this event.
both posts indicate how difficult it is to treat mentally illness. did logan snap? lots of illnesses have late onset or late increase. you or i could experience it tomorrow. or did he hide his demons well from mental health assessors, law enforcement, his friends, his grammaw, even himself? most likely a little of both. how much of not knowing by family is denial? how much of not helping was healthcare professionals being duped or just not caring? patients also try very hard not to dissapoint their doctors, so they often minimize their symptoms, or they are afraid of the hospital, or they are tired of the thorazine shuffle. its an unfortunate crapshoot and i don’t know how to fix it and that frustrates me.
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Kathy
Jul 1, 2008 at 8:25 am -lupwnthe3rd-
Who was the family member he was having problems with? Was there some sort of tension in the household before this all happened or did he actually just lose it all of a sudden without warning?
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