Standing beside Jones, Gach described her daughter as a
young woman "with dreams and plans and hopes," who was just
starting her adult life. After Trawick's trial and appeals,
she said she never imagined he would be able to haunt her
from death row.
"There's got to be a line you can't cross, where you can't
do these things," Gach said. "Do you know how many people
are finding these things and saying, 'Oh that's how you
do it'?"
Stephanie Gach was abducted Oct. 9, 1992 from the parking
lot of her apartment complex after being followed by Trawick
from a shopping mall. Gach was strangled and stabbed through
the heart, and her body was thrown from an embankment.
Prison Commissioner Donal Campbell and public information
officer Brian Corbett stood nearby during the news conference
and were confronted briefly by Jones.
"What are you going to do to stop him from tormenting my
client," Jones asked the commissioner.
Campbell later told Gach that Trawick's incoming and outgoing
mail was being screened and his phone calls monitored. He
said Trawick has no access to a computer.
"If I knew right now how that material is being sent out,
it would not be sent out," Campbell said.
Corbett said prison officials believe material that has
been published recently may be old material that may have
been sent out some time ago.
O'Connor does not have a listed phone number and could
not be reached for comment. In e-mail correspondence with
the Associated Press last month, O'Connor said he was no
longer corresponding with Trawick and didn't want anything
to do with him.
Miriam Shehane, executive director of Montgomery-based
Victims of Crime and Leniency, said she was "appalled" when
she heard about the Web site.
"I've seen a little of the Web site and I couldn't handle
it," Shehane said.
State & Govt. -
January 15, 2004
