Kayla Gerdes's "mistake" killed Rebecca Twine on her own lawn

**Ninja0980** · April 21st, 2010, 06:44 PM

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/out.of....2.1647408.html

With tears of remorse and screams of agony, a Long Island teenager defended her actions behind the wheel of a van that plowed into a retired doctor, killing her as she gardened on her front lawn Tuesday in Hempstead.

Eighteen-year-old DUI suspect Kayla Gerdes was hysterical as she was escorted away by police after being booked Tuesday: Emotions spilled over as the teen tried to explain away her actions; but police said Gerdes was high on OxyContin and Xanax, while driving without a license when she leapt behind the wheel of her boyfriend's construction van and swerved out of control off Cathedral Avenue, careening into 69-year-old Rebecca Twine. The respected zoologist was mowing her lawn at the time on the sunny spring day.
After hitting her, the van barreled into the house and came to rest between her front porch and living room.

Twine had an MD and a PhD and had recently retired from the medical community, spending hours gardening and tending to her spacious Hempstead lawn according to her grieving daughter Nancy and son Chauncey.

Gerdes, who lived in Freeport, was kicked out of her mother's home after stealing her jewelry to support a drug habit. She was due in court Tuesday morning to face a grand larceny charge. Police claim the teen was in a hurry and her boyfriend was driving too slowly.

"She became the operator of the van prior to the incident occurring, and the passenger, who has been cooperating with us, was driving that van originally and they did switch positions in the van," said Nassau County Det. Sgt. John DeMartinis.
Sorry Kayla, what you did was no "mistake" but a crime. A woman is dead because you drove all pilled up and just HAD to be at your court date. Least you won't have to worry about missing future ones.

**Laurenthian** · April 22nd, 2010, 10:53 AM

Ugh. Mistake has the same ring as "youthful indescretion."

I feel so bad for the victims family. Dr. Twine sounds like a very nifty lady. She's the same age as my grandmother--who also still mows her own lawn.

**Ninja0980** · April 22nd, 2010, 05:27 PM

An updated quote for everyone....clearly this girl isn't "sorry" at all.
http://wcbstv.com/topstories/kayla.g...2.1650435.html

A teenager charged with crashing a van into a house, killing a woman gardening, told police she didn't feel so bad after learning the victim's age.

According to court documents obtained by CBS Radio's 1010WINS, Kayla Gerdes was quoted in a written statement to police saying: "The thing that made me not feel so bad was she was old," she said. "I mean, 70 years is a long time to live."

Then, on a completely separate note, she told police: "I want to see a newspaper or the news to see what I look like."

I'll tell you what you look and sound like Kayla, a heartless, drug addicted bitch.

**Tundratot** · April 22nd, 2010, 06:03 PM

Digging herself a hole.

**Alf** · April 22nd, 2010, 06:07 PM

Originally Posted by Tundratot

Digging herself a hole.

With a backhoe.

--Al

**TheMorningStar** · April 27th, 2010, 03:54 PM

**Mystica43229** · April 27th, 2010, 04:10 PM

I also wonder if she was drinking on top of Xanax. From first hand observation (a former friend is in jail for murder and an ex went crazy on me while drinking with Xanax) doing it is not good; it makes you do shit you would never, ever do and the look in their eyes is pure evil. But, even with that said, it doesn't excuse you or what you did. She took the meds, got behind a wheel, killed a woman and is running her stupid mouth. She deserves what she gets.

**Tundratot** · April 28th, 2010, 02:14 AM

See, now . . . I wouldn't feel so bad if she got life in prison because she hasn't had any babies yet. If she has removed herself from the genepool, who's to complain.

**sheevaa** · April 28th, 2010, 02:25 AM

Originally Posted by TheMorningStar

Then, on a completely separate note, she told police: "I want to see a newspaper or the news to see what I look like."

Not like an 18 year old with any kind of future. Happy, you stupid piece of shit?

**DamagedGoods** · April 28th, 2010, 03:46 AM

At 69, assuming she survives that long, will she be willing to forfeit her life since she's lived so long? Would she be ok with people offing her relatives once they reached that age?

idiot....

**jus shaking my head** · April 28th, 2010, 07:16 AM

Then, on a completely separate note, she told police: "I want to see a newspaper or the news to see what I look like."

I'll tell you what you look and sound like Kayla, a heartless, drug addicted bitch.

I cannot blame the drugs for this. She appears to be a psychopath to me. Unfortunately, psychopaths aren't crazy under the law.

Ninja, you have her pegged IMO.

**TwiztidAngel** · April 28th, 2010, 07:21 AM

Originally Posted by sheevaa

Not like an 18 year old with any kind of future. Happy, you stupid piece of shit?

THAT is 18 yrs old?? man she needs to lay off the drugs cuz she looks to be in her 40's...i know she's crying in the pic and all but damn...

**Saffron** · April 28th, 2010, 08:53 AM

Originally Posted by jus shaking my head

I cannot blame the drugs for this. She appears to be a psychopath to me. Unfortunately, psychopaths aren't crazy under the law.

Ninja, you have her pegged IMO.

Unfortunately for her... fortunate for everyone else...

**MadmamainNC** · April 28th, 2010, 09:14 AM

A teenager charged with crashing a van into a house, killing a woman gardening, told police she didn't feel so bad after learning the victim's age.

That woman had more of a chance surviving another productive 20 years than that self centered bitch that hit her. WTF?

**Darsa** · April 28th, 2010, 10:18 AM

Fucking skank. My mom died at 66 years old, and the funeral director mentioned that she had "died young". I'd like to take all of this bitch's years from 18 to 70, and add them to my mom's life; she's worth 100 of this fucking dipshit.

Stupid bitch. *snarl*

**Dakota Valkyrie** · January 26th, 2011, 01:42 PM

A Long Island teen, allegedly high on painkillers when she ran down a doctor doing yard work last year, coldly blamed the 69-year-old victim for being too old to dodge her speeding van when it mounted the woman's lawn and crashed into her home, a police officer testified yesterday.

"She looked up at me at the last second, but she was too old to get out of the way," Kayla Gerdes, then 18, said, according to Hempstead Police Officer Anthony Rogers.

Earlier yesterday, Gerdes cried outside the Nassau County courthouse before turning down a plea deal for manslaughter that would have gotten her 10 years in the slammer in connection with the horrific death of Rebecca Twine-Wright outside her Garden City home last April.

"The monster I've been portrayed to be I'm not. I'm so sorry for the family; I'm really sorry," sniffed a handcuffed Kayla Gerdes, who rejected a five- to 15-year deal for manslaughter.

Her blubbering fell on deaf ears.

"The public will see just how despicable and disgusting she is," said Twine-Wright's son Chauncey Twine. "It's been nothing but lies from the beginning.

"It's just another example of how sick and twisted her mind is."
[...]

Lewis added that although Gerdes admitted to police she was high as a kite, he now says the Freeport teenager claims she snorted OxyContin after the accident.

That only further infuriated Twine.

"So she's lying about things she has already admitted doing," he said. "She is very manipulative. She's very calculating."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/d...yMomuitYzySPPM

**Miss Anthrope** · January 26th, 2011, 06:39 PM

Why the hell would she plead not guilty? What is her defense? Getting the manslaughter offer was the best she could hope for – I hope the court throws the book at this self-centered bitch upon her conviction. She is so much more than the monster she is portrayed to be – stupid selfish spoiled little twat!

**Dakota Valkyrie** · January 26th, 2011, 06:50 PM

Originally Posted by Miss Anthrope

Why the hell would she plead not guilty? What is her defense? Getting the manslaughter offer was the best she could hope for – I hope the court throws the book at this self-centered bitch upon her conviction. She is so much more than the monster she is portrayed to be – stupid selfish spoiled little twat!

She pleaded "not guilty" to force the issue before a jury. She thinks she's going to somehow charm them into acquitting her or maybe getting a better plea as the "facts" (as she spins them) come out.

Almost everyone pleads not guilty at this point. It's pretty rare to have any other plea at a preliminary hearing. I am surprised she didn't take the plea. I suspect she's running over her lawyer too.

**Obsolete** · January 26th, 2011, 06:58 PM

I hate this girl, I want to inflict copious amounts of pain of her wretched body.

**carolinablue** · January 26th, 2011, 07:02 PM

She is a narcissist, and well on her way to becoming a malignant narcissist. Everything revolves around her; what matters is how this affects her. Look at what happens to me, what will people think of me, see what I have lost, if the old lady had just moved this wouldn't have happened...hell, it's really her fault. I lived with a malignant narcissist for 16 years, and I can spot one pretty quickly.

**TheMorningStar** · January 26th, 2011, 10:32 PM

This bitch just fucked herself

**Dakota Valkyrie** · January 26th, 2011, 10:38 PM

Originally Posted by TheMorningStar

This bitch just fucked herself

She probably thinks that's OK.

**TheMorningStar** · January 26th, 2011, 10:45 PM

Good. I hope she never gets out.

**DamagedGoods** · January 26th, 2011, 11:43 PM

"The monster I've been portrayed to be I'm not.

No one needed to portray this skank as a monster... she did it just fine herself...

I feel bad for the cops who had to listen to her, while not being able to smack the shit out of her...

**Gidget** · January 27th, 2011, 12:41 AM

...police said Gerdes was high on OxyContin and Xanax, while driving without a license when she leapt behind the wheel of her boyfriend's construction van and swerved out of control off Cathedral Avenue, careening into 69-year-old Rebecca Twine...

...She was due in court Tuesday morning to face a grand larceny charge. Police claim the teen was in a hurry and her boyfriend was driving too slowly...

So - on top of the fact that she stated she doesn't feel as bad about killing that lady because she was "old" - she was on her way to appear in COURT when this happened. She was going to go to court all fucked up. Fucking incredible. What a stupid, useless, cuntsucking waste of air.

**SkummyRummy** · July 29th, 2012, 07:30 PM

I'm glad a human life is only worth 3-9yrs. Fuck the system n fuck these druggy pieces of shits...

http://www.wpix.com/news/wpix-kayla-...,2155833.story

**Obsolete** · August 1st, 2012, 11:33 AM

Originally Posted by SkummyRummy

I'm glad a human life is only worth 3-9yrs. Fuck the system n fuck these druggy pieces of shits...

http://www.wpix.com/news/wpix-kayla-...,2155833.story

If she had been sentenced to 50 years, would that have been worth a human life? What about 100 years? NO amount of time this cunt is sentenced to will be worth the victims life. 3-9, or life in prison, neither will bring Rebecca back. Personally I'm ok with the sentence. I think 25 to life sentences should be reserved for harsher crimes...and before you jump my ass I'm not minimizing what she did. Killing someone while driving under the influence is different than raping and torturing someone and should warrant a different sentence.

For a selfish, self absorbed person like Kayla, her sentence will feel like a lifetime.

**AngelFire** · August 1st, 2012, 02:57 PM

I hope she gets fucked up in prison by an angry burly woman.

**SkummyRummy** · August 11th, 2012, 02:26 AM

Originally Posted by Obsolete

If she had been sentenced to 50 years, would that have been worth a human life? What about 100 years? NO amount of time this cunt is sentenced to will be worth the victims life. 3-9, or life in prison, neither will bring Rebecca back. Personally I'm ok with the sentence. I think 25 to life sentences should be reserved for harsher crimes...and before you jump my ass I'm not minimizing what she did. Killing someone while driving under the influence is different than raping and torturing someone and should warrant a different sentence.

For a selfish, self absorbed person like Kayla, her sentence will feel like a lifetime.

Jumping on your ass would be psychically impossible ;) lol! No I understand what you are saying and agree. it's just sad to see such a light punishment. In the end the victim is dead and doesn't have to worry about anything just her love ones grieve. Rape should def have a harsher charge than murder cuz the victims have to suffer much more than a murdered one(Not taking in account the extreme cases of torture n such like that but more like this case) It's crazy how in some places you can get life for stupid drug charges...

**Darsa** · August 11th, 2012, 02:54 AM

I might possibly agree in some cases; however, this bitch was in no way, shape, or form sorry for what she did to that woman. She was only sorry because she was blamed for it. Not, "oh, what did I do to that poor woman!?". Instead, it was "How can you treat me like this, it was just some old lady!?" That, to me, is completely reprehensible. And I imagine it will take a long time, if ever, for her to actually come to the realization that she's a murderer and she IS to blame. Stupid fucking hosebag bitch. >:(