If you live between Duluth, MN and the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, you probably know who I’m talking about. If you don’t, read on.
On May 26, 1999 Katie Poirer was abducted from her place of business in Moose Lake. She was murdered at 19 years old. The man accused of this is Donald Blom. Now for the rant.
That stupid, sick son of a bitch! Fucking psycho! I can’t take this anymore! My brother said he found the confession (which, as far as I know, won’t be presented in court) somewhere online. Now, this fucking creep has been convicted of sexual crimes before, the first conviction in the 70s. In his confession, he said that he took Katie for the sole purpose of raping her. He got mad at himself as he hadn’t had those “bad thoughts” for more than a decade. He said he didn’t want to commit a sex crime again so he just killed her.
What the fuck is that? Didn’t want to commit a crime, so he committed a crime? Jesus fucking Christ, he could have let her go! He could have gone into his vacation home (a trailer outside of Moose Lake–he lived in the cities) and let her fucking walk! It wasn’t that far back into town. God damn it, he didn’t have to kill her. She didn’t have to die. She was my friend, and he killed her. Fucking stupid, heartless son of a bitch. I can’t take it anymore.
I’m sorry, honey It’s bad enough when someone dies, but to have it spread across the front pages for MONTHS…I can’t imagine
Donald fucking Blom should never have been let out of jail.
And, while I’m in the Pit…fuck convenince store owners who don’t want to spend the bucks to put in surveillence cameras that fucking WORK, dammit!! And let 17 year old girls work ALONE at midnight!!!
Thanks, sandyr. And Katie was so beautiful, nice, funny, extremely charismatic, and incredibly intelligent. She wanted to do so much with her life. She was engaged to be married to another good friend of mine, she was going to attend college soon. It sucks. And the fact that she wasn’t even supposed to be there that night is really disturbing, because that crazy asshole SAID that he knew he was going to do this to HER a few days prior. Why couldn’t he have just gotten mad at himself and killed himself the first time he thought about this. Why couldn’t he have just gotten in a horrible car accident and never even MADE IT to Moose Lake.
We searched for so long, and we were all so hopeful. In the back of my mind I knew she wasn’t coming back, but I never really wanted to believe it. The whole community, and so many others, worked so hard only to find out that she was dead before anyone even knew she was missing.
Now, with the trial underway, I only wish that Minnesota supported capital punishment.
There is absolutely jack SHIT I can say to ease your incredible pain.
Maybe you and your freinds could put your felings into words and petition the govt for stricter rules on the release of sex offenders? Or the notification of neighborhoods that a sex offender is residing there?
I know you and her other friends will haunt his parole hearings, ensuring he doesnt get released, because it is the offenders who have protesters that stay behind bars.
I hope it give you some solace to picture a big sweaty black man with a dick like a baseball bat calling this man his “bitch”, and making him squeal like the filthy pig that he is. He will get what is coming to him…prison is funny like that.
Wanna make sure of it?
Get a pen pal in the prison, and send him a pic of your friend. Even convicts hate sex offenders - especially thosewho prey on young women. Even hard core convicts have mothers, sisters, daughters… they will hate his cowardly ass the minute they find out what he has done.
Thanks, kelli. You got a giggle outta me. Yes, he’s white and he’s about 50 years old. Most think he’ll be killed in prison once word gets out what he did.
Silver_Fire, my sympathies to you and your community. Trust me, I know how you feel. I was 15 in 1993 when Polly Klaas, a beautiful 12-year-old, was kidnappped about mile away from my house in Petaluma, California (pop. 50,000). Her body was discovered a couple months later, only 20 miles away. It was just a tragic event, and deeply hurt my town. I never knew her, and that was part of what hurt me so much - because I WOULD have known her. If she had lived, I would have been a senior in high school when she was a freshman. She was having a sleepover at her house when she was abducted from her bedroom, and I am now acquainted with both of the girls who were with her at that party. Random acts of violence are always painful to hear about, but never had I been so personally touched by one. The inhuman monster - who had an eleven page long rap sheet - who murdered Polly went on trial the year I should have been in band with her, in 1996. Seeing the artist’s sketch of my friend Gilly testifying on the witness stand on the news that night was just unbearable.
I can’t really bring myself to swear and get mad. This is just so terrible and tragic. I’m shaking, writing this. It’s been years now, but I remember the deep pain and sadness and loss that the entire town felt for the whole of the fall and winter of 1993 - and really, still feel today. I’m so sorry that you and your community are having to go through that as well.
It’s bad enough when someone dies, but to have it spread across the front pages for MONTHS…I can’t imagine