ANDERSON, Joseph, M. - D-50890

See web page at http://adoptedprisoners.com/display.cgi?prisoner=california_D-50890

BAMBER, Jeremy (age 40 at time of his adopter's murder in UK)

Described by his adoptive relatives as a "physcopath," and convicted of the shooting deaths of both of his wealthy adopters, Neville and June Bamber (who adopted Jeremy at age 6 weeks), his adoptive sister, Sheila Caffell, and her 6 year old twin sons, Nicolas and Daniel (Tolleshunt, D'Arcy, Essex, England; August 1985), and sentenced to 5 life terms. Jeremy claims he was wrongly convicted and that his adoptive sister, a schizophrenic, actually killed their adopters and her children, and then committed suicide. After he was incarcerated, he attempted to connect with his natural parents but they made it clear they wanted nothing to do with him due to the verdict of the court that he killed 5 members of his adoptive family.

Source: http://cgi.neilsands.plus.com/cgi-bin /guestread.cgi?satafile=murder2004

CASSADY, David Dwayne

Convicted of sodomy, David is homosexual and claims "wrongful conviction." His web page, at AdoptedPrisoners.com, is under Georgia, or Click on http://AdoptedPrisoners.com/display.cgi?prisoner=georgia_434646

EICHLER, Dwayne - C-38121 -

See web page at http://adoptedprisoners.com/display.cgi?prisoner=california_H-01695

GARCIA, Joseph B. - H-01695 - Wrongly Convicted (mistaken identity)

See web page at http://adoptedprisoners.com/display.cgi?prisoner=california_h01695

HELM, Roger - 435791 - Wrongly Sentenced

See web page at http://adoptedprisoners.com/display.cgi?prisoner=newjersey_435791

LACEY, Terrel L. - 1004918 - Wrongly Convicted

See web page at http://adoptedprisoners.com/display.cgi?prisoner=missouri_1004918

LISKER, Bruce (age 17 at time of his adopter's murder in California)

The evidence seemed overwhelming 20 years ago when Bruce Lisker was convicted of killing his adopter in a fit of rage. But new investigation reveals previously ignored evidence, investigator's lies, and alleged false confessions by Lisker ...all of which beg the question: Was justice served? The following is excerpted from the LA Times article (see detailing of Source, below):

On a drizzly day in March, Phillip Rabichow stood outside a beige ranch house in Sherman Oaks with a tape measure in his hand and an anxious look on his face. Twenty-two years earlier, almost to the day, a woman named Dorka Lisker had been killed in that house. Her 17-year-old [adoptive] son, Bruce, was charged with the murder. He had a drug problem and a history of fighting with his mother.

.....In recent months, new information had shaken faith in the fairness of the verdict: A bloody footprint found at the scene did not match Lisker's shoes. A mysterious phone call made around the time of the murder raised further questions.

"My mom she's been stabbed!" Bruce Lisker cried into the phone. "She's been stabbed!" [ 911 call.] When police and paramedics arrived at the three-bedroom house on Huston Street, they found Dorka, 66, lying on the floor near the front entryway. Her face was bloody, and she had been stabbed in the back. Her skull had been crushed, her right ear nearly severed and her right arm broken. As the paramedics worked, Bruce paced back and forth, screaming at them to take his mother to the hospital. He was high on methamphetamine, and his hands were covered with blood. He became so agitated that two police officers put him in the back of a patrol car, handcuffed, so he wouldn't interfere. "Do you believe in God?" a tearful Lisker asked one of the officers. "Will you pray for my mother?"

[BRUCE LISKER'S ADOPTION & CHILDHOOD]:

Dorka Zeman, a blond beauty of Czech descent, married Bob Lisker in 1946. They had been dating for about a year when another couple at a New Year's Eve party in Hollywood playfully dared them to tie the knot. A little tipsy, they accepted the challenge and drove through the night to Tijuana, where they were wed the next morning. He was 19; she was 29.

Dorka soon became pregnant, but had a miscarriage. The couple kept trying to have a child but eventually gave up and poured their energies into their careers his as a lawyer, hers as a film cutter for Technicolor. In 1964, one of Bob's clients asked for help with a delicate matter. Her 17-year-old daughter was pregnant. The family wanted to put the baby up for adoption. Lisker said he and his wife would take the child. The baby was 3 days old when they brought him home in June 1965. They named him Bruce. Dorka, then 49, was not "particularly enthusiastic," her husband recalled years later. "But once the baby got home, she was delighted." She quit her job to become a full-time mother. Their Sherman Oaks neighborhood was a child's paradise, with wide-open spaces for flying model airplanes, playing baseball and riding trail bikes. Bruce splashed in the family's backyard pool, dressed up as a tiger for Halloween and went on Boy Scout camp-outs. In a faded snapshot from 1973, a grinning, blond-haired Bruce, then 8, displays a Little League trophy he won with the San Fernando Valley Pirates. Before long, Bruce's poor grades and rambunctious behavior began to cause friction between him and his mother. "I was basically the class clown, and I got in a lot of trouble for that," he would later explain. "I was always a real skinny kind of kid that everybody used to overlook, and I wanted to be heard." By his own account, he began drinking and smoking marijuana at 10 or 11. By 13, he was experimenting with cocaine and LSD. He stole from his parents to support his habit. His disputes with his mother escalated into "semi-hysterical scenarios" in which the two of them would scramble around the house screaming at each other, according to a report by the California Youth Authority. While their arguments raged, Bob Lisker would often sit watching television with the family dog in his lap.

"Usually, at some point in this mother-son contest, either Bruce or his mother would solicit Mr. Lisker's involvement, psychologically forcing him to be the judge in a 'courtroom' game," the Youth Authority report said. The Liskers sent the boy to a group home for troubled children near Susanville in the Sierra Nevada. He spent eighth and ninth grades there.

Returning to Los Angeles, he bounced from Birmingham High School to two continuation schools before dropping out in the spring of 1982, a month shy of his 17th birthday.

He persuaded his parents to rent him an apartment of his own a $210-a-month studio on Sepulveda Boulevard, about four miles from their home. They gave him a car and spending money and hoped he would straighten himself out. They were disappointed. He smoked pot, drank heavily and shot up methamphetamine. In June 1982, he was arrested for throwing a screwdriver at a motorist during a traffic dispute. Police booked him for assault with a deadly weapon; the charge was later reduced to vandalism. Bruce told a police officer who witnessed the altercation that he grew enraged when the other driver cut him off. According to the officer, Bruce declared: "I was gonna kill that son of a bitch." .....In their reports to the judge, the psychologists described [Lisker] as manipulative and volatile. "Bruce has an extremely difficult time controlling his aggressive impulses, especially in emotionally charged situations," wrote one psychologist. "He is demanding, self-cent! ered, impulsive and has a low tolerance for frustration." A pre-sentencing report from the California Youth Authority said that Lisker was "unmotivated for change" and "displayed little in the way of convincing regret or remorse."

[NEW SUSPECT, MIKE RYAN, BACKGROUND]:

LisKer's attorney, Dennis E. Mulcahy, hoped to convince the jury that someone else had [murdered Dora Lisker]: Mike Ryan [Bruce Lisker's roommate], then 17, had been in and out of foster homes, mental institutions and juvenile hall. He had a rap sheet dating to age 11, with convictions for theft, tresspassing and assault with a deadly wepon. a court-appointed psychologust described him as "impulsive and selfish, operating entirely on his own feelings....unpredictable." [He and Bruce both used drugs; Ryan could not pay his share of rent and had been in the Lisker home on the day of the murder, then abruptly left town for Mississippi where his father lived.] ...in 1993 he had taken a sledgehammer to his stepmother's car in Florida and attacked a police officer who responded, biting him on the thumb. In 1996 in California, Ryan took his life with a combination of alcohol and heroin. He left a note...and told a friend he lov! ed him. "F... everybody else" were his parting words.

Lisker now says he told board members what he thought they wanted to hear [when he confessed to the murder]. He was denied parole. After that, Lisker said, he decided he would never again accept blame for a crime he didn't commit. He said he declined to appear at his parole hearings in 1993, 1996 and 1998. In 1999, he attended and read a statement proclaiming his innocence. With a $150,000 inheritance from his [adoptive] father, Bruce Lisker, who died in 1995 [and had believed Bruce to be innocent], he hired new attorneys and private investigators and set out to clear his name. He established a website www.freebruce.org to drum up support and donations.

AmFOR comment (by Lori Carangelo): Psychiatrists have long known that adoptees are overrepresented in psychiatric care; police and journalists have directly or indirectly profiled adoptees according to "Adopted Child Syndrome" behaviors (see http://AmFOR.net/acs) in cases of adoptees suspected of kiling their adopters. In the Lisker case, there is now a second suspect with the same behaviors. Is Lisker completely innocent? Or could he have been an accomplice to his adopter's murder? In either case, he was 17 at the time of the murder and has served 20 years behind bars -- more than some other adoptees who, as juveniles, killed their adopters, and the US Supreme Court recently ruled juveniles may not be tried for murder as adults. So, whatever the truth, it's this writer's opinion that Bruce Lisker was "wrongly convicted."

Excerpted from Source: "A CASE OF DOUBT - New Light on a Distant Verdict" by Scott Glover and Matt Lait, LA Times Staff Writers http://www.latimes.com/lisker, 5-22-05 (see also http://www.freebruce.org)

MUNRO, James Michael - C-44535 - Wrongly Sentenced

See web page at http://adoptedprisoners.com/display.cgi?prisoner=california_044535

NORTHROP, Alan - 712684 - Wrongly Convicted

See web page at http://adoptedprisoners.com/display.cgi?prisoner=washington_712684

RIDER, Christopher S. - P-96108 - Wrongly Convicted or Sentenced

See web page at http://adoptedprisoners.com/display.cgi?prisoner=california_300258

TANKLEFF, Martin "Marty", (18 at time of his adopters' murders)

Having maintained that his confession was coerced, Marty is seeking a new trial with support from some members of his adoptive family. Their website provides recent court rulings, newsclips, and a petition with public commentary invited, at http://www.MartyTankleff.org. Interestingly, in 1988, the Maury Povich Show sensationalized the case of Marty Tankleff, referring to him as an "adoptee" accused of killing his "adoptive parents." But since pressure on media to censor adoption language, the 3-13-2005 CBS-TV's "48 Hours" segments ("Second Chance," and "Prime Suspect") investigated Marty Tankleff's possible innocence in the killing of his "parents" (avoiding the term "adoptive" parents).

Sources include: print and video downloads at http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/ 2005/03/11/48hours/main679576.shtml and http://www.courttv.com/news/ tankleff/072104_ctv.html

On 7-9-05 Marty Tankleff wrote Lori Carangelo/AmFOR:

"Thank you for your letter and article...Let me make something very clear, I do not consider myself 'adopted', nor does my family. While 'legally' that may correct, I find it offensive when people find a need to use that term in relating to my family. I don't have 'adopted' parents. My parents are my parents, and my 'birth' mother is just that--a woman who brought me into the world. I know the name of my 'birth' mother and what her profession was. So, if I wanted to find her I could. Since I was born in Brooklyn and the adoption was handled by an attorney that was a family friend, I could obtain records if I wanted, but I have more important things to handle right now. Thank you for your support.--Marty"

[AmFOR Note: With his adoptive family supporting his bid for freedom, and a family friend holding his adoption file, Marty's denial of his adoptive status sounds like he's in the typical Catch-22 between AdoptSpeak, adoptive family loyalties and the normal need to know....because, on the one hand, there's supposedly nothing "abnormal" with being "adopted," while on the other hand, one must deny adoptive status in order to appear or feel "normal." Regardless whether their adoption file information is brief or extensive, true or untrue, the more important issue is that their control over their decision whether to know, firtshand, should not be mired in a conflict of interests... Professional profilers in the Bruce Lisker case see that conflict as giving rise to behaviors which may make them vulnerable to being easily coerced into a confession though innocent.]

VAN DYKEN (LONG SOLDIER), Fred Daniel, (26 at time of arrest)

Born 5-4-58 at Helena, Montana, to Native American parents named Long Soldier, he was later adopted by the Van Dyken family and grew up in Montana. Fred took his mother's name after being reunited with her and is an enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux) tribe. Convicted of the 1984 shooting death of Missoula Montana Sheiff's Deputy Allen Kimery at a traffic stop, he claims he was wrongly convicted and sentenced to Life Without Parole, but lost his last appeal. Source: The Missoulian, 1-22-85, p.5, and Fred's petition web-site at http://www.longsoldier-international.com/seite1.htm

Also see AmFOR's web page about Van Dyken at: http://adoptedprisoners.com/display.cgi?prisoner=washington_719809

WHITE, ROBERT L. - 300258 - Innocent but took plea bargain

See web page at http://adoptedprisoners.com/display.cgi?prisoner=connecticut_300258

XAVIER, David - 215529 - Wrongly Convicted

See web page at http://adoptedprisoners.com/display.cgi?prisoner_maryland_215529