PA. BONEHEAD MURDER SUSPECT SURRENDERS IN WEST VIRGINIA

We were right. Jon Anthony Black wasn’t going to be on the lam for too long. On Saturday, the neo-Nazi that killed 17-year-old Rodnell Burton, stuffed his burned body in a steel drum and dumpted it in a creek has turned himself in. More information has also been revealed about what led up to it, and whole story of Black owing a drug debt to a 17-year-old that he felt he had to kill makes him even more of a lowlife than we thought before. If the story is as it is currently being played out, one truly has to wonder why is it those who want to boast some sense of white superiority are often the most inferior people on the planet. Honestly, we might already know that question. They know they are scum and they can’t handle it. If that’s the case, here’s a thought: don’t take your shortcomings out on everyone else. Ultimately, you are your own worst enemy if you do.

Indiana (Country, PA) Gazette

A former Blairsville man is accused of killing a Pittsburgh teenager with a baseball bat, then burning his remains in a steel drum, court records show.

The charging documents were unsealed this morning by order of Indiana County Judge William Martin.

In the affidavit of probable cause, Trooper Timothy Lipniskis charges that Jon Black, 32, clubbed Rodnell Burton, 17, because of a drug debt early March 29 in a mobile home in Conemaugh Township, to the shock of witnesses who expressed fear for their own safety because they knew what had happened.

The details of the killing have unfolded over the last three weeks.

Robert Hamilton, one of four suspects arrested last month in connection with a series of robberies of a Choice Cigarette Outlet store in Derry Township, told police Aug. 27 that Diedra Endres, a co-defendant in the holdup spree, first told him about the slaying in June at the residence of Endres and her boyfriend, Robert Watkins, at 813 Barkley Road

Burton, nicknamed “Red,” had demanded money that Black owed him for drugs, according to witnesses.

Both Hamilton and Shannon Johnston told police Endres claimed Burton made a threat toward children in the trailer, and that she picked up a baseball bat and went after Burton.

According to the complaint, Endres told them that Black intervened, taking the bat from her and hitting Burton’s head. Watkins and Black then took Burton’s body outside, placed it in a burn barrel and burned the body and the baseball bat.

Christopher Ladue told investigators Aug. 31 that he had visited the trailer to buy drugs, overheard Endres and Black talk about beating Burton because of the drug debt then left the trailer, telling police “it was none of my business.” Then, according to the complaint, Ladue said Watkins called him back to the mobile home the next day, told him not to ask questions, and recruited Ladue to help Watkins and Black to take the barrel with the remains to Newport Road and drop it over a bridge into the water.

When they returned to Watkins’ residence, Ladue told police, “I got the hell out of there; I was terrified they would do something to me.”

The same day, Watkins told troopers in an interview at Westmoreland County Prison that the group had been partying at his residence and that Burton was “kind of falling in and out of sleep.”

Black grabbed a baseball bat from the corner, told Watkins “he’s never going to forgive that debt,” and smashed the bat over Burton’s head, court papers how.

Watkins told police that he “was freaked out” and helped Black to carry Burton out of the trailer.

According to the statement, Watkins told police Burton was making gurgling sounds and that Black killed him with a second blow when they were outside. Next, Watkins told police, Black stuffed Burton’s body in the burn barrel, retrieved fuel oil from the tank at the trailer, then set a fire that burned through the night.

Later, Black told Watkins “we would end up the same way if we talked about this to anyone,” court papers show.

Hours after Ladue and Watkins gave their statements, troopers pulled the barrel with the remains from about five feet of water in the Conemaugh River in Burrell Township.

The next day, forensic pathologists at the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s office found skeletal and soft-tissue remains — including a skull, ribs, vertebra and brain matter — in the barrel and pieces of Burton’s clothing including jeans with a studded waist band identified as Burton’s by his girlfriend.

On the same day, Black told troopers in an interview at the Greensburg station he knew nothing about Burton.

Troopers filed the charges Sept. 10 and obtained a warrant for Black’s arrest.

Black surrendered Saturday in Boone County, W. Va., and awaits an extradition hearing before he is returned to Pennsylvania to face the charges.