Marion Bogni's pissed. "He's an intravenous drug-using, lying, manipulating, thieving, axe murderer," she says.
(photo: Scott White)
She speaks, of course, of Scott White, 30, who pleaded guilty in June to the axe murder of her brother, former KIRO talk host Mike Webb. Her anger comes not only at the horrendous act itself but from the prosecutor's recommendation of just 12 years in prison for White.
She and brother Wayne Webb will confront White in court Friday when he's sentenced, and plead with the judge to mete out a stronger punishment.
White's Attorney Julie Lawry will ask for less, of course. Shes says she'll ask Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ramsdell to give White 8 1/2 years because of White's mental condition described as schizoaffective disorder. She may ask the judge for an "exceptional downward sentence," allowing a lower than normal sentence. She told a reporter that he's remorseful about the murder.
There is no insanity plea here, but Lawry feels whe could have gotten one if the case went to trial. So did prosecutors, apparently.
Bogni filled in more detail about the vicious murder and Mike Webb's last days.
She says adamantly, "Mike never used a needle, did not smoke crack, did not do heroin,...the toxocology report did not contain heroin, crack, no street drugs. There was a trace of ethanol, which is a natural by-product of cells decomposing."
White staged the murder scene, to make it look like Webb was using. "He remade the bed he murdered Mike in, scattered his personal affects on top of the bed, and placed a single syringe next to Mikes bed."
After the murder White texted Bogni on Webb's phone telling her that "Mike was ashamed of his drug use." There were "cans and cans and cans" of dirty needles White and his friends left in the house. "You will not find any of Mike's DNA on any of them." she told BlatherWatch.
The motive for the killing was simply money for drugs. "He killed Mike in part for the debit card and assumed he would have Mike's house indefinitely." After the murder, White drove Mike's car, used his debit card, pawned Webb's computers and other belongings, while, she says, "...shooting drugs in Mike's house with his junkie friends."
During these months, (between April and June 2007) White sent texting and emails from Mike's phone and computer to a suspicious Marian Bogni in Concord, Calif. White was buying time while he liquidated Webb's belongings to stick in his arm. "[He said} Mike was on vacation, looking for work, he thought he would cover his bases for quite a while." At one point, he told Bogni that Mike was letting him live in his house while Mike was visiting her in California." Bogni knew from the language he used that he was lying.
Finally, she sent Mike a text-message saying if she didn't hear his voice within 24 hours, she was calling the police. Then, she says, "White vacated my brother's home."
She doesn't believe that White was living with Mike at the time of the murder, despite White's confession that he was.
"I completely believe Mike never knew White came into his house that night, "she says. Mike Webb's autopsy shows no defensive wounds... if he were conscious, a victim would typically have thrown up his arms to fend off the blows. "All of the wounds were parallel. Mike never moved, because Mike never saw it coming."
That's comfort, but cold comfort to the family.
"Seattle police really fucked this up," Wayne Webb told us last month.
When he was arrested, White was charged with first-degree murder, but the charge was reduced when mental health experts doubted White's ability to premeditate the crime or participate in his own defense.
Scott White is a homeless meth, crack, and heroin addict who's been diagnosed with a schizophrenic disorder as well. We can only imagine what kind of slumgullion is his psycho-neurology.
The definition of the schizoaffective disorder includes this: "The untreated individual may quickly change their minds about their romantic partners, friends or family if they hear something negative being said about them; as a result they may attack or, conversely, back away from the person or group until they regain normal thoughts, which usually takes treatment and time."
Many of Mike Webb's friends and family will be in courtroom Friday to see justice done to Scott White. Care to come? It will happen at 2:45p in Judge Ramsdell's court, W813 at the King County Courthouse.
More details here.
Scott White should get the maximum sentence allowed by law.
Even a talk show host's life has value. Webb had family that loved him.
Twelve years, less time served, less good time is unconsionable.
Posted by: chucks | July 09, 2009 at 04:43 PM
Question is, will YOU be there, Michael?
Posted by: bfd | July 09, 2009 at 06:12 PM
If he has the mind to murder people and is deemed somehow incapable of stopping himself then why the fock would they want to let him out sooner?
Posted by: AuthenticAndrew | July 09, 2009 at 06:21 PM
I agree, chucks. And then, after the time is served and he is released, then what?????
Posted by: sparky | July 09, 2009 at 06:29 PM
After time is served, there is nothing we can do. Maybe hope he gets hung up on some kind of a gun charge after he gets out. That will get him put back.
That is why I like capital punishment. The recidivism rate is very low amongst the executed.
For now, just put him in prison for as long as possible.
Posted by: chucks | July 09, 2009 at 06:55 PM
You bet I'll be there, KSR. You can read about it here.
Posted by: blathering michael | July 09, 2009 at 10:10 PM
Mr. White should be convicted of 1st degree murder, no tow ways about it.
Posted by: Mike Barer | July 09, 2009 at 10:23 PM
Scott White is a handsome kid. Small wonder Mike Webb fell in love.
Posted by: mrogi | July 10, 2009 at 03:28 AM
Mrogi, I would love to see you go to the trial today and repeat that to Mike Webb's family.
Posted by: sparky | July 10, 2009 at 08:49 AM
Why did it take so long for him to be sentenced? Was it his mental condition?
Posted by: Duffman | July 10, 2009 at 09:04 AM
Mike Webb was a great talk show host, he's still missed.
Screw that mental health garbage, the judge should throw the book at this jerk...I mean, it's not as if he killed Dori Monson.
Posted by: Upton | July 10, 2009 at 09:53 AM
"slumgullion":
1.a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
2.a beverage made weak or thin, as watery tea, coffee, or the like.
3.the refuse from processing whale carcasses.
4.a reddish, muddy deposit in mining sluices.
Posted by: Fremont | July 10, 2009 at 11:41 AM
Hi Fremont...miss you!
Posted by: sparky | July 10, 2009 at 12:47 PM
GET A ROOM.
Posted by: Kings Hunter | July 10, 2009 at 01:00 PM
20 Years! Hope he rots. Hope he meets Tyrone.
Upton, you should be ashamed of yourself.
Posted by: ryder | July 10, 2009 at 04:45 PM
Does anybody besides me find it kind of ironic that one of Mr. Webb's early triumphs was his coverage of the Harvey Milk assination.... by a guy named White?
Mr. Fremont Sir; Technically speaking, a Slumgullian is a person from Slumgullia who sometimes has Slumgully for dinner. RRR ;-)
Posted by: Ricerocketricky | July 10, 2009 at 05:50 PM
""Seattle police really fucked this up," "--Wayne Webb.
That is exactly right, and one of the morals of this story ought to be how utterly riddled with incompetence and screwups SPD is.
Just in the last year we had one officer who got in a shootout at a biker bar, another who got promoted to Lt. despite a bungled false anonymous allegation against a fellow cop (the James Arata case). And an allegation that a cop gave deep-french-kissing (DFK) to an explorer (youth volunteer). And plenty more where that came from.
Yet, Gil Kerlikowske is now promoted to the stratospheric level of "Drug Czar."
Posted by: woody held | July 11, 2009 at 02:03 AM