Date: Sat, Nov 5 2005 5:26 pm
From the Quad-Cities Online--
Kolb journal: I?ll kill her
By Kurt Allemeier, kallemeier;@qconline.com

Sarah Kolb made death threats against another student the day Adrianne
Reynolds disappeared, two other students testified. Death threats also
were found in Ms. Kolb's handwriting in a journal she kept for a
class.

Classmate Jaque Martinez testified she was leaving the Black Hawk
Outreach Center in East Moline for lunch Jan. 21 when she saw Ms. Kolb
and Ms. Reynolds in a hallway.

She said Ms. Kolb "kind of had" Ms. Reynolds "pressed against a wall"
and that she heard Ms. Kolb tell Ms. Reynolds she was "going to kill
her."

Ms. Martinez said she kept walking.

Lisa Rubalcava, a student at the Outreach Center, testified that on
Jan. 21, Ms. Kolb told her she was going to take a girl she didn't
like to lunch, was going to beat her up and "give her an early grave."

Prosecutors contend Ms. Reynolds, 16, of East Moline was killed during
a stop at a Moline Taco Bell shortly after leaving the Outreach Center
that afternoon.

Ms. Kolb, 17, of 1003 W. 10th St., Milan, is charged with two counts
of first degree murder and one count of concealing a homicide in the
death of Ms. Reynolds. Ms. Kolb allegedly killed Ms. Reynolds, burned
and dismembered the body, then dumped the remains in Mercer County and
Black Hawk State Historic Site. Her trial resumes Monday morning.

Cory Gregory, 17, of 716 21st St. A, Moline, is also charged with
murder in the case and will be tried in February.

Ms. Rubalcava testified she and Ms. Kolb had their conversation during
a class before the Outreach Center's lunch break. Ms. Kolb didn't tell
Ms. Rubalcava the girl's name but did say the dispute was about a boy.

Ms. Kolb asked her if she thought hitting someone on the back of the
head could kill them, mentioning a wooden sledge hammer handle she
kept in her car.

Ms. Kolb also talked about dumping the body in a park or at a farm,
Ms. Rubalcava said.

Ms. Rubalcava said Ms. Kolb is not the "nicest person," but she
"wouldn't expect her to do what she's asking about." She didn't tell
anyone about Ms. Kolb's threats until Jan. 25, the day Ms. Kolb was
arrested.

James Kettering, an Outreach Center student who occasionally went to
lunch with Ms. Kolb, testified Friday morning that he was asked along
for lunch on Jan. 21. He didn't go because he had other plans.

He recalled asking Mr. Gregory if he was going out with Ms. Reynolds
during a break that day. Ms. Kolb then said she was going to beat up
Ms. Reynolds. However, Mr. Kettering also testified that Ms. Kolb and
Ms. Reynolds were "nice and cordial" to each other before lunch.

He also testified that Ms. Kolb said when she was going to lunch that
"I'm going to have fun." Mr. Kettering said he thought Ms. Kolb meant
she was attending a party.

Judge James T. Teros read to the jury the Jan. 21 entry from a journal
Ms. Kolb kept for an English class. The entry contained a threat
against an unnamed student Ms. Kolb had been spreading gossip about.
The prosecution and defense both agreed the journal was Ms. Kolb's and
all the entries in it were written by her.

In the journal entry read by Judge Teros, Ms. Kolb wrote that she
expected to get expelled for spreading gossip about "Jiffy," who is
not mentioned specifically by name. The entry ends, "I'll ------ kill
her."

Two of Ms. Kolb's co-workers at Showcase Cinemas 53 testified that Ms.
Kolb told them on Jan. 22 and 23 that she had been in a fight with
another girl. Ms. Kolb called the girl "Jiffy -- because she spreads
like peanut butter," Tamsen Lecina said.

Ms. Kolb had called Ms. Reynolds "a slut" and "a whore" in
conversations with other Outreach Center students, according to
earlier testimony.

Ms. Lecina and co-worker Elizabeth Guy testified that Ms. Kolb told
them she had knocked out four of the girl's teeth and choked her
before the girl left the car and escaped into an East Moline
McDonald's.

A forensic pathologist had testified Wednesday that Ms. Reynolds'
teeth were intact when an autopsy was done on the remains. Ms. Guy
said she didn't tell police about the conversation until June.

A third witness Friday afternoon testified he may have seen the murder
occur in the parking lot of a Taco Bell on Avenue of the Cities in
Moline, but dismissed the "commotion" he saw in a car as kids "fooling
around."

Glynn Roach Jr. said he got lunch to go at the restaurant and was
walking to his car in the parking lot when he noticed a "commotion" in
a car. He said that at first glance he thought it was fight, but that
as he continued walking to his car, he decided the kids inside were
just "fooling around" and that he left.

On cross-examination, he couldn't describe the car or remember what
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