this appeared in my e-mail the other day. the mail headers have been left
in in the event that any of you know the senders and want to check the story.

From tplesco@phoenixgroup.com Tue Nov 19 01:37:18 1996
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 09:35:43 -0500
From: Todd Plesco <tplesco@phoenixgroup.com>
To: ktruzzi@phoenixgroup.com
Cc: void@arbornet.org, woolf@arbornet.org
Subject: [Fwd: Re: Slimeball Alert!]

Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 17:28:24
From: "Lawrence R. Jones" <lrjones@umich.edu>
To: tod@arbornet.org
Subject: Re: Slimeball Alert!

scottwhite@mindspring.com (Cringer) writes:

I received this from a friend of mine, and wanted to inform everyone
about these dirt bags.

Scott

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 15:27:27 -0800

From: Andra Barrow <grainne@proaxis.com>
Subject: Slimeball Alert

I want this to somehow get circulated as a warning to other
SCA groups, especially in Atenveldt, I'm just not sure it's
appropriate to post to the Rialto. We have just had a pair
of people who were taken in by an SCA family here rob them
blind and take off in a pumpkin orange, late-70's VW van 
with a couple of SCA bumper stickers on the back. The van 
has Washington plates, license number DLJ-406.

Her full legal name is Christine A. Pallak. She goes by 'Kit' 
and may also be signing checks and documents as 
Christine Deyette or Christine Fenwick. She calls herself
'Baroness Raven' in SCA settings and groups.

His full legal name is Michael A. Deyette. He also may be
going by Michael Deyette II, Michael D'hai, or Michael Pallak.
He commonly calls himself Morgainne (Morgan) in both SCA and
mundane settings and claims to be either a Baron or a
household Lord depending. He says his Society name is
Morgainne D'hai and is a Japanese persona. Kit calls him
'Brude'.

They claim to be part of House Blackrose and House Arugala (sp)
from the Port Angeles, Lacey, Olympia, and Tacoma areas of
Washington state. Both of them have a badly tattooed black
rose on their inner right forearms. Hers is badly scarred on
the stem. She also claims to have run and camped with
Clan Bluefeather as a teenager. 

Kit gave birth to a son about three weeks ago and they will 
have the baby with them. The baby's name is Connor. Those are 
the facts as I have them. Here's the background.

Kit also has a four-year-old son named Alex. They sent Alex to
see his father, Dan Fenwick, in Reno, NV just before 3YC. His
father went to a judge and had himself declared Alex's sole
guardian. He also filed charges against Michael for child abuse. 
As the facts have unfolded, it has become known that Michael was
arrested in Washington and charged and then released on bail. 
He was to be tried for beating the hell out of Alex in the
middle of November. Shortly after that, he and Kit skipped town 
and came down to Albany, moving in with a friend. 

They gave us an unending stream of sob stories while they were 
here about how Kit's parents refused to help her at all, about 
how hard she was working at two full time jobs, about how 
Michael was upon hard times because the Army still owed him 
back pay that he needed, etc, etc, etc. Apparently everyone got 
a slightly different story from them.  

They both claim to be former Army Rangers. This is completely
false. They left behind a lot of junk when they peeled out of 
here Sunday, including their military discharge papers. She 
claimed to have just left the Army because of being pregnant 
with Connor. Her papers show she was medically discharged from 
the Army /Reserve/ for a blown knee eight years ago after
only having been in for four months.
He claimed to have been out of the Army for a couple of years
but his papers show that he was thrown out of the Army with
a general discharge after being twice busted from E-4 down to
E-1 for unspecified reasons and has only been out of the
military for two to three months, still owing the Army several
hundred dollars in fines.
When they were asked to leave the house they were staying at,
another family in the local group here offered them a spare room
for a while. That was about a week and a half ago. Then Sunday 
they were found gone and with them almost everything of value in
the family's house, mostly a lot of collector Star Wars stuff,
action figures, and comics, a Nintendo game set and some
miscellaneous gaming stuff. Not only that but Kit turned the
parents in this family in to CPS here for child abuse right 
before they took off. I figure probably as a diversion to give 
the family more to worry about than chasing them. 

The family says that both Kit and Michael would scream at the 
baby to 'shut the fuck up' when he would cry continually and 
would refuse to get up and tend to him in the middle of the
night. We all fear for the baby's life in light of the way they
already treat him and how violent a temper Michael has.

They told a few people they were heading back up to 
Port Angeles, Washington but we all figure that that's probably 
not where they're headed. We also think that they may be headed 
for Reno to kidnap Alex and then run. Kit has been obsessed 
with getting her son back from her ex-husband. 

They seem to gravitate to SCA groups as an MO and their flight 
from here was very well planned. They had obviously been 
planning to snatch and run for some time now. They may very 
well make contact with other SCA groups and try the same routine 
of gaining trust, generating sympathy, being taken in, and then
stealing and running again.

They left a trail of bounced checks and stole rental videos
from the Hollywood Video here and books and videos from the 
local library. We've found several creditor notices left behind
demanding hundreds and hundreds of dollars in fines from other
video rental places and from unpaid credit cards.  

SCA groups in Atenveldt and probably everywhere in the western
US should likely be on watch for these two. If they don't
show up in Washington or Reno, we don't know where they might
be headed. Michael is actively wanted in both Washington and
Nevada and Kit is wanted for questioning. Please notify the
authorities in your area immediately if you should see them.

Descriptions: 

Kit: Between 5'4" and 5'6", weighing between 150' and 160' (she's
still carrying a good bit of baby weight). She appears to be
mostly white, dark complected and possibly part black. Her eyes
are dark brown and somewhat exotically shaped, almost Asian
looking. Her hair is black and short, about down to the base
of her neck, thick, somewhat coarsely textured, and all one
length (sorta pageboy cut) except for eyebrow length bangs. 
She tends to dress in sweaters and leggings although that may
change in hotter areas. She is somewhere between 28 and 32
years old.

Michael: Between 5'9" and 5'10", weighing between 240' and 260'
(he's overweight with a large belly). He's white with medium
brown very short (just a bit longer than military cut) wavy
to curly hair, and I /think/ I remember him with hazel blue, 
maybe light brown, eyes. He is often dressed in jeans and a
t-shirt and very often wears a black leather biker-style
jacket. He tends to be somewhat blunt featured with a largish
nose and a slight double chin. He was clean shaven here but
that may also change. He gravitates to military style games and
comic book shops and is an avid Star Wars collector. He may
also be found trying to get back into paintball playing
somewhere. It was his main hobby here. He is younger than Kit,
somewhere between 25 and 28 years old.

Note: they both claim to be Pagan and were handfasted just
before they moved down to Oregon but are not legally married.
He often wears a silver pentacle. They may also try to contact
pagan groups that are local to SCA groups.

We here are very stunned at this turn of events and very
concerned for Connor's safety. Please forward this notice 
to any other group or individual you see fit.

The family involved here is not on the Internet but I will
gladly answer any and all questions possible or pass on
questions to the family here in Albany, OR.

Thank you.
Grainne Gelleo
MKA Andra Barrow
grainne@peak.org

6 responses total.

This item has been linked from Rialto 34 to Synthesis 103.

Well, if anyone here has the ability, if it hasn't already been done, I
think it *should* be on the "rialto"- that is rec.org.sca or whatever it is
called these days.  I mean, everyone has to make their best judgement about
the accuracy of that report, but it sure is pretty thorough.  And given
that there have been thefts and a few attempted assaults (including sexual)
at Pennsic in recent years, I'd want the autocrats to be alerted.  I don't
think it's appropriate to do any sort of magical work against them, whether
or not they call themselves pagan, unless asked directly by folks who were
directly victimized.  In this case I'd say that the law of the land, 
"innocent until proven guilty" also supports the law of karma- they'll get
what's coming to them, we don't have to volunteer to deliver it unless
personally tagged to do so.  We do certainly have a right to protect ourselves
with foreknowledge.
And as to the call to Protective Services, last year when I had a threat of
false report against me (a minor, entirely potential not actual, threat thanks
be given), I found out from DSS (FIA nowadays) where I volunteer that they
really don't count stuff like that; annonymous calls, calls from folks who
won't support their allegations, etc.  They listen to reports from doctors,
teachers, parents, folks who have a reason to know and care.

Stuff like this sucks, though.  wonder what made them so messed up, and why
it's that poor baby's "karma" to have such ill-formed "parents".

This was originally posted in Rialto.  

I think kami was referring to the Usenet newsgroup, not just the
Grex conference.

Exactly.

I'm sorry to hear about it.  Kami has spoken wisely.  Too bad she had to. 

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