The many People that killed George Tiller on May 31st 2009

Part One

The many people that conspired with Scott Roeder to kill George Tiller on May 31sy 2009:

Angel Dillard has been visiting Scott Roeder.

Angel Dillard

A federal judge refused to grant a preliminary injunction yesterday that would have banned anti-abortion activist Angel Dillard from coming near a doctor training to perform abortions in Wichita, the Associated Press reported. Dillard is accused of sending a threatening letter to Dr. Mila Means that referred to explosives being placed under Means' car and that talked about anti-abortion activists stalking Means.

However, Judge J. Thomas Marten didn't see the letter as a threat but did believe it was meant to intimidate Means. Really, judge? The letter in question was allegedly sent by a woman who said she admired the man who assassinated abortion provider George Tiller.

Jennifer McCoy---ten children an abortion opponent who served 30 months in prison for conspiracy to commit arson at a clinic, has attended most of Roeder's pretrial hearings and plans to come to his trial. The 37-year-old Wichita woman, who is expecting her 10th child, had protested in front of Tiller's clinic for 20 years.

McCoy, who visited Roeder in jail, said she wonders what the court is hiding since the public is not allowed to watch jury selection.

"It makes you wonder where the jurors may have stood on a key part of the prosecution and the defense," she said, referring to jurors' beliefs about abortion. "If you don't know that, how can you say whether (the trial) was fair or not?"

James Charles Kopp (born August 2, 1954) is an American citizen who was convicted in 2003 for the 1998 sniper-style murder of Dr. Barnett Slepian, an American physician from Amherst, New York who performed abortions. Prior to his capture, Kopp was on the FBI's list of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. On June 7, 1999 he had become the 455th fugitive placed on the list by the FBI. He was affiliated with militant Roman Catholic anti-abortion group known as "The Lambs of Christ".
He has been referred to as a terrorist by the National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism,^[1] and was "well-known in militant anti-abortion circles, where he was nicknamed Atomic Dog"
James Charles Kopp was born in Pasadena, California and raised Lutheran, but later converted to Roman Catholicism. He graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1976, with a bachelor’s degree in Biology, going on to take a master's degree in Embryology from California State University Fullerton. Kopp started providing support to anti-abortion groups after his girlfriend underwent an abortion, and used his technical abilities to create special locks that protesters then used on the doors of abortion clinics.
On October 23, 1998, at approximately 10 p.m., Dr. Barnett Slepian was standing in the kitchen of his home in Amherst, New York. Kopp fired a single shot from a rifle from nearby wooded area, which entered the Slepian home through a rear window. Slepian was a well-known obstetrician/gynecologist who performed abortions at a women's clinic in Buffalo, New York. He also maintained a private medical practice in an office in Amherst, New York. Within hours of the murder, anti-abortion militants posted Slepian's name crossed out on their internet website, which also served as "a virtual hit list of doctors who carry out abortions".

Co-conspirators

Kopp received help from sympathetic pro-life activist couple Loretta Marra and Dennis Malvasi of Brooklyn, who pled guilty to one count each of conspiracy in helping Kopp avoid capture. Marra and Malvasi had communicated extensively with Kopp, telling him also via electronic communications that "the coast is clear", referring to his proposed secretive return to US via Canada, and also to his use of their home as a safe house. On August 21, 2003, they were sentenced to time served, and released. The fugitive assisters later changed their names to Joyce Maier and Ted Barnes.

Part Two Tomorrow