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Naked Woman Found In Road Raped And Burned Has Died

August 29, 2012 at 9:27 am by Morbid

Canton, OH – A woman found on the side of a rural Ohio road severely burned with a rope tied around her neck, has died.

On Sunday, a passing motorist discovered a 29-year-old Celeste Fronsman on the side of a Zainesville, Ohio, road. She was naked with a rope around her neck and suffering from severe burns.

“I have a woman right here. She’s burned severely, she’s been raped and she’s been beat up,” the man told the 911 dispatcher as Fronsman could be heard moaning in pain. “She’s got a rope around her neck, she’s totally without clothes and she’s severely burned.”

Even though Fronsman had been raped and tortured, suffering from fourth-degree burns that went as deep as the muscle and bone (*shudder*), she was still alert and pleading for help. She was able to tell the motorist what happened, as well as responding police and medics.

She was flown to the Wexner Medical Center burn unit at Ohio State University in Columbus, where she remained in critical condition for two days before dying yesterday.

“This is one of the most gruesome things I’ve ever seen in 23 and a half years in law enforcement, as well as some of our detectives,” Sheriff Matt Lutz said. “I can’t imagine the pain this lady went through.”

Using Fronsman’s statements and evidence collected at a “ crime scene” found in woods near the scene, police say they are already focusing on possible suspects responsible for the woman’s heinous rape and murder.

“This was not a random act,” Lutz said. “There was a vehicle that we were looking for that interested us. We found that last night in the Canton area. There are some people of interest to us that we are currently looking for.”

Police have not revealed all the evidence they’ve found, aside from stating they did retrieve gas cans, and they have not stated why they do not feel this is a random attack.

Frosman’s father said he last saw his daughter on Friday after she and a friend borrowed his truck and said the would return shortly. When they did not, he went looking for them before contacting police.

I don’t care who you are, but that is one horrible, horrible way to die.

Tags: Burning, Celeste Fronsman, Crime, Murder, Ohio, Rape, robe, Torture

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EveryVillainIsLemons

I hope they find the people who did that, and I hope the heinous wastes of flesh and billions of years of human evolution spend the rest of their lives in prison.

It really is a pity that we can’t shove the assholes responsible for this into a crematorium alive.
Sam

Wow. I sincerely hope that most of her nerves were burnt, too, so she didn’t have to feel every agonising second until she finally passed.
What a horrible way to die indeed. Even though i read about “victim was burnt alive” every now and again, it’s more emotionally remote somehow. “fourth-degree burns that went as deep as the muscle and bone” certainly hits a lot harder.
Gee

This is foul on so many levels. To leave a human being to suffer such horrific death is just evil. I am glad she is no longer in any pain. Just sad!
JGo555

The only way this is a righteous death is if that woman abused children.
NO ONE DESERVES TO FUCKING DIE THIS WAY UNLESS THEY HARM CHILDREN.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=534902588 Meli Machiavelli

Honestly, thank god she won’t have to live every day with this attack on her heart and soul. No one deserves what she went through. I hope she haunts her attackers every day of their pathetic lives.
blubberdong

Apparently she was no stranger to the CJS. Other articles are citing numerous drug and solicitation arrests. Of course, Ms. Fronsman didn’t deserve to die like this but it seems she put herself in many dangerous situations. Addiction makes some people disregard the risks.
kimbev69

i lived about 10 miles from there as a child…this is disturbing …
BabaPuppe

“Spend the rest of their lives in prison.” For what? So we (people who pay taxes) have to take care of them? Gtfoh. Kill them all. He, she, or they deserve nothing less than what happened to this woman, they don’t deserve to live anymore than they felt she did. Why prison would even be an option is disgusting to me. Watch them burn is what I say.
Athena

Burning is unconstitutional and a death penalty trial is, in most cases, more expensive than housing a prisoner for 40 years.

I just assume we live in reality.
Athena

Now, if we could only legalize and regulate prostitution and drugs, so she could work in a safer environment and have better access to rehab. Prohibition is soooo successful (insert dramatic eye roll here).
BabaPuppe

I’d rather the money that would go towards housing worthless individuals go towards their death… Which should be as violent and painful as what they’ve inflicted. Our reality is slowly fading into a nightmare where people think they can do this fuckery and get away with it. Ugh. I don’t have anything else to say about this, it’s getting quite hard to keep my temper/composure in check.
BearsBluff

Long time lurker, first time poster. Looks like she was arrested in a known prostitution drug house in 2010.
http://www.cantonrep.com/news/x1767501999/Four-arrested-in-known-prostitution-and-drug-house-police-say
http://www.facebook.com/That.Girl.Has.Tattoos Savage Von Drachenberg

So you want them to die. Good, cool. But if they’re alive, they get to actively think about what they have done for some good time. Can you imagine being trapped in the same cement room hearing people constantly screaming and shit ? If there is hell on earth it is definitely prison, and I’ll fucking pay for that.

Plus if we aren’t giving taxes to house inmates then it’s just going to go to other crap. Cut your losses bro, sometimes there are worse things than taxes and death.
BabaPuppe

Actively think about what they have done? Think about what they have done… I can see stealing a car, breaking into a house, or something like that being something to think about… but raping and torturing/burning someone alive INTENTIONALLY is something they need to think about? Please. Stop. I have no compassion for people like that.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=718600192 Tim Bates

Stick them all in solitary. Deprive them of sleep. Force them to watch images of this poor woman’s suffering. For life. They get 1/4 the rations of other prisoners. No religious services other than their banishment to hell by clergy. On the anniversary of this rape they all get beaten, burned, hospitalized, and sent back to solitary. Let them endure hell on earth. Let them know that mankind and God have forsaken them.
http://www.facebook.com/michelle.shonk Michelle Shonk

Right on!
Andyman

If she knew her assailants, which is likely when you have this heinous a crime, IMO they are probably focusing on her ex boyfriends. Or at least they probably should be.
http://twitter.com/Q_Jordon Quintin Jordon

My interpretation of this event shows it was personal in nature. If the perpetrator did not know her, he identified her with someone he knew. Poor Poor girl. . .
Jessica Stewart

There’s a game, I can’t remember what mmo it is, but when people cheat at it, they put them in a special area where they only get to play with other cheaters, and that’s my personal Idea of a solution, don’t put them in prison, put them all in one shitty place together, with limited resources……let’s say Death Valley, and just allow them to go at it with each other. Then film it, put it on TV (people will totally watch that shit) and use the profits for social improvements. Who’s with me?
slavesher

You are forgetting that some of them get satisfaction “thinking about what they have done”
http://www.facebook.com/Ms.Lily.Hex Lily Hex

I want to say how heinous this crime is, and I agree with whomever stated she’s better off not living with the pain which would likely consume her entire life. When I read the details of this post my immediate thought was “Drugs”. Not because the deceased looked like a drug addict and not because of her convictions (that I later read) but because of similar methods that I’ve read about lately. Carina Saunders is a perfect example of “torture” killings with cartels involved. This case read just as vindictive, personal and over all tortuous. It’s obvious she was set-up to come over somewhere, and it’s obvious that the intent was to cause her great harm in doing so. I believe the answer is somewhere within this statement, taken from the news report : “Stokes has been to prison several times for drug trafficking”. I believe she made many enemies in her line of work, and if she “snitched” (she has at least 2 arrests for trafficking, not possession.. so we aren’t talking about someone that was just caught buying for personal use. She was moving weight.), it’s highly probable that she upset those she was in business with and they chose to harm her / torture her and leave her in the ditch. That’s my take in it, and they probably were (the LE) able to find the suspects so quickly because of possibly her being an informant, or cell phone records released.
sweekymom

Since reading this, I have been thinking about the US and Norwegian criminal justice systems and the different emphasis that each places on what they hope to achieve through incarceration. The Norwegians recently sentenced that neo-nazi who murdered 77 people to 21 years in prison (where he will have a three room suite). According to most of the news accounts I have read, even though his sentence is 21 years, it’s doubtful he’ll ever see the free world again. They’ll extend his sentence once his time is served. This sort of sentence ad treatment is because of a “restorative” emphasis in their CJS, where the prisoner is seen as having transgressed against society. The goal of this system is to move them to a place where they can acknowledge what they’ve done and the harm they’ve inflicted and reconcile themselves to society.
Our system, however is retributive: prisoners have messed up big time and must be punished. Our goal is to make prisoners pay for their crimes with months or years of their lives. And to make the experience so wretched that they never want to do it again.
The Norwegian system has definite merits: many people caught up in the system might be capable of rehabilitation. But that neo-nazi does not appear to be one of them. I have grave doubts as to whether or not he can be rehabilitated, and even if he could, does he deserve it?
I truly believe that there are certain things that, once done, put a person beyond the pale, and humanity should put that person away and concern themselves no further with them. The neo-nazi murderer is one such person; there’s just no coming back from what he did. And the person or persons who did this are also unworthy of any further effort or care on our part. Just put them away, give them what they need to survive in their cages, hell let them live next to one another in their cages, so they don’t go bonkers from being alone. And everyone else should just shun them until they die, forgotten and alone. Then haul out their carcasses, feed them to wild pigs, and hose down their cage and make it ready for the next sub-human.
I know that the above is not possible under the 8th Amendment, but, really, given what we have to work with in terms of punishments, how can there possibly be justice for this poor, poor woman and her family?
Athena

I’d rather pull the trigger at point-blank range myself. But that’s quite beside the point, as that will never happen. Nor will your idea, unless the Constitution gets dissolved, in which case, God help us all.
JohnQknowitall

Man… The person who did this must be dangerous in the worst kind of way. I cannot imagine this will be his last murder and possibly not his first.
wyrosjr

The constitution is all but ignored these days.
wyrosjr

Norway has such a low average rate of crime and lesser severity of crime that a system like theirs can exist. We don’t have the same people or culture as Norway. I still support a death penalty that can be administered quickly and efficiently. Just because we can currently execute someone without spending a bundle doesn’t mean we can’t reform.
Athena

I love this post. Most Americans don’t bother to look far enough outside our own justice system to discover that there are different motivations elsewhere. It’s refreshing to see someone reference the rehabilitative vs. retributive systems.

That said, regarding your last thought, I think one of our major philosophical failures as a society as it relates to criminal justice is thinking that there can somehow ever be “justice” when it comes to crimes like this. The very definition of justice is relative. Are we talking moral rightness or equitableness? The former is even more relative (what is moral?) and the latter is impossible. That’s why I believe we should focus solely on what’s best for society. This is the most quantifiable measure of the bunch. It’s the most tangible. We can gather data and analyze it to come to the most right conclusion rather than the most comfortable or most popular.
captaingrumpy

This is the fault of those backwoodsmen.They can’t get a girlfriend so they kidnap and torture. Then when they are finished they murder and burn. The woods are full of bones , blamed on the Bears. Poor Girl,hope they find these killers.
HotReadingMama

@AthenaZ:disqus Hear, hear!
AliceinChainsman =]

I blame pickup trucks.. always picking up girls..or is it the country music..zzzz
EveryVillainIsLemons

You know, they could get killed in prison the day that they’re put in, right?

“Rest of their lives” is a relative term.

And I take it that you didn’t read my last sentence. GTFOH yourself.
EveryVillainIsLemons

Nerve tissue dies in third degree burns, so third degree and beyond, she wouldn’t be able to feel.
spayneuteryourpets

I’m against the death penalty because it costs more to kill them than to warehouse them. I’d also like for the monsters to sit and think about why they are in jail everyday for the rest of their lives. Those cells are tiny and there are some pretty mean people in there.
Abroad

What if the respect for human life that permeates the system there is the reason for the “low average rate of crime and lesser severaity of crime”?
Abroad

Disclaimer: For all they have such a peaceful reputation, you are far more likely to find a mad ax-man in Norway than in Denmark. We blame the long winter mights and the isolation
http://profiles.google.com/coldlogic HAL 9000

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, where’s the garbage man to take out the trash when you need him?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Blokhin
wyrosjr

I won’t disagree that respect for human life is an indicator of the differences of culture in the US vs northern europe. But, Lightening deterrents in place here won’t change our culture into Norway. It might be that the evolution of our CJ system into what it is today is what is keeping this over here from going totally bonkers. We have completely different dynamics.
http://www.facebook.com/trevor.frost.520 Trevor Frost

“Frosman’s father said he last saw his daughter on Friday after she and a friend borrowed his truck”

What happened to the friend? Is he/she one of the suspects or are they missing?
http://www.dreamindemon.com/forums/ Dakota Valkyrie

On Friday, authorities in Zanesville charged Katrina M. Culberson, 20, of 424 17th St. SE, with aggravated murder, kidnapping and aggravated arson in connection with Fronsman’s death.
[...]

Sheriff Matthew Lutz wouldn’t comment on whether Culberson is alleged to have acted alone, nor would he discuss who Fronsman was with or where she was before her death.
[...]

Earlier reports said Fronsman was raped. Lutz wouldn’t release any information regarding that allegation, but rape is not one of the charges against Culberson.

Culberson and Fronsman knew each other but the sheriff wouldn’t discuss their relationship or a possible motive, saying only, “This wasn’t random.”

Investigators are trying to contact other “people of interest,” the sheriff said.

Local court records show that Culberson has been convicted of several misdemeanors, including criminal trespass, soliciting for prostitution and obstructing official business since 2010.

The theft warrant accuses her of stealing a purse from a disabled woman at a Walmart store earlier this month.

http://www.cantonrep.com/news/x1206141534/Suspect-charged-with-aggravated-murder-in-death-of-Canton-woman
blubberdong

Yeah, you’re right as usual, I think. Disregard my innocuous, well intentioned comment to spout your condescending simple-minded rhetoric.
Jean Valjean

Was this was Akin meant by “Legitimate Rape?”
http://www.dreamindemon.com/forums/ Dakota Valkyrie

A second suspect has pleaded guilty in the August kidnapping and burning of Celeste Fronsman, leaving only one suspect scheduled for trial later this year.

Monica J. Washington, 25, pleaded guilty Monday afternoon to an amended count of aggravated murder, an unclassified felony, in addition to kidnapping and aggravated arson, first-degree felonies.

The unclassified felony means the prosecutor’s office agreed to drop the death penalty as an option, Muskingum County Prosecutor Michael Haddox said. Washington also agreed to cooperate with investigators and testify against any co-defendants. In return, the prosecutor’s office will recommend life in prison, with the possibility of parole after 25 years.

“We got a conviction (Monday), and we now have two of the three suspects that have pleaded guilty,” Haddox said. “So, we’re going to go on to the third case and hopefully secure a conviction in that case.”
[...]

Lafonse Dixon has pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder with two death penalty specifications, kidnapping, aggravated arson and conspiracy to kidnapping. He has a trial date set for April 12, but that likely will be moved back to July, Haddox said. Dixon spoke to the Times Recorder in 2012 in an exclusive interview, where he denied involvement in the crime and said he wasn’t in the county and was with relatives and friends at the time.

Culberson told the Times Recorder in a separate interview that she and her co-defendants all were involved.

Culberson and Washington likely will not be sentenced until Dixon has been tried, Haddox said.

http://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/article/20130318/NEWS01/303180014/2nd-suspect-pleads-guilty-Fronsman-death-case