Brutal murder of mother caught on 911 tape.

[Unamused Cat]

Christian Taylor, 14, Francine Morgan, 40

Christian Taylor, 14, appeared calm and collected as he was led into the courtroom to be charged with murdering his mother Francine Morgan, 40.

While Taylor showed no emotion-- Morgan's husband Brian wept.

Taylor was charged with second-degree murder.

"We will enter a plea of not guilty and demand discovery and also trial by jury," public defender Joyce Brenner said.

Police say it all started when Morgan called 911 before dawn Saturday from her home.

The 911 tape recorded the sounds of screaming and an object striking another object until everything went silent twelve minutes later.

When police arrived, they say Taylor answered the door. He led them to his mother's bedroom where she was was already dead. Police then determined he had been the only other person in the house for hours.

The autopsy found she had been beaten over the head and shot in the jaw. A pistol from his father's nightstand is still missing.

Police say Taylor told them he dreamed he saw his mother struggling as she was attacked and beaten by a shadowy figure until he finished her off.

Police say nothing about a motive in their affidavit-- but friends of Morgan say there had recently been friction between her and her son.

Taylor was ordered held on bail set at $500,000 at the Woodside Juvenile Facility in Essex.

affidavit: http://blackpearl.wcax.com/documents..._affidavit.pdf

story: http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp...=menu183_2_9_2

[Gilbrit]

The autopsy found she had been beaten over the head and shot in the jaw.

Shit.
Shit.
Shit.
12 year old earlier this week now a 14 year old.
Why? What leads these children's mind set to go from being "angry at" their mother to matricide?

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Police say nothing about a motive in their affidavit-- but friends of Morgan say there had recently been friction between her and her son.

The affidavit, it says:

Juvenile CT then began to talk about why this happened. He said that there was a difference of opinion or lifestyle, possibly a misunderstanding or something. He said that the "person" had a desire and was angry with his mother. CT was asked if this was a material want and he said no, something that would "elevate ones' status", something that the mother was morally against.

While not an exact motive, at least more than the article indicated.

Another weird thing:

During the court hearing, Rutland County State's Attorney James Mongeon asked that if Taylor is freed on bail, one condition of his release be that he not be allowed to use computers. He didn't elaborate.

http://www.benningtonbanner.com/local/ci_10101232

Wonder whats up with all this...

[Unamused Cat]

That tells me the fight had something to do with what the kid was doing online. I couldn't find a MySpace on him. Porn maybe and mom was gonna take away his computer?

[Unamused Cat]

Former co-workers of Morgan said they were shocked by the news of her death but less surprised when they found out who police allege committed the crime.

"It seemed like they had a good relationship. He [CJ] was a little weird," said an employee of Poultney Market & Spirits who asked not to be named out of concern for his safety, "if Taylor was ever released," he said.

The employee said Taylor worked with his mother, Francine, at the store on and off for 2-1/2 years, "doing bottles and cans." The 14-year-old would walk through the aisles of the store with his hands up, stopping only to sip one of many energy drinks he consumed throughout the night, according to the employee and other co-workers at the store.

http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pb...34/1002/NEWS01

Maybe he was playing WoW.

[SoUncool]

Elevate one's status but not material...piercing? Tatoo? Needed money for a ho?

[Unamused Cat]

All I can think of is some kind of game status, level 78 thousand, wizard/warlock something or another.

[Aelwynn]

Either its a game, or it's sex. Morally against? Probably not a game, probably sex.

[TDH]

so....why did he kill his mom?

[jvaughn74]

There are so many troubling things about this case. For one- who bailed him out? Is that a guardian appointed by the state? It is scary that this boy is out and being able to go to school even if it is one ran by the DOC. I do not believe a boy that killed his mother in cold blood cares about his education. Maybe I'm wrong, but this kid needs to be under the strictest of supervision and I hope that happens. He just gives me a bad feeling all the way around.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

A 15-year-old from Wells, charged with murder by police for allegedly shooting his mother in their home last August, will be allowed to go to a school run by the state Department of Corrections in Rutland or be taught from home.

District Court Judge Thomas Zonay amended the conditions of Christian James Taylor's release Tuesday, allowing him a chance at an education.
[...]

Guardian Lorraine Moorehouse paid the court $15,000 on Oct. 1 — 10 percent of Taylor's $150,000 bail —resulting in the release, according to court records.

Taylor's bail was reduced in September from $500,000 to $150,000, at the request of his attorney, Brian Marsicovetere.

Taylor, dressed in black pants and a button-up shirt and tie in court Wednesday, talked and laughed with Zonay about what books he read and what he had hoped to read in school.

Zonay casually asked Taylor how things were going and what was most important to him now.

"That I get my education," Taylor said, flanked by guardian ad litem Rita Rinehart.

Taylor could be sentenced to a minimum 20 years in jail and a maximum life sentence if convicted of the charge of second-degree murder.

He is under the supervision of Moorehouse and has a 24-hour, seven-day curfew with exceptions only for school, travel in the state of Vermont with Moorehouse only and travel to medical appointments at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

Taylor must be picked up for school and return directly home unless in the company of Moorehouse, according to court records filed Tuesday.

http://www.rutlandherald.com/article...WS01/911230349