07-22-03

Vincent J Cataldi

1651 N. Farwell Ave.  #110

Milwaukee, WI.  53202

 

Judge Dennis Moroney

 

Your Honor:

 

In the flash of a moment your life can change, never to return to past aspirations, so you go insane or learn and grow from the experience.  I became publicly involved in this process today, through a most unlikely series of events, a bizarre coincidence, or design beyond the physical.  I address the court today to force into the public court records information that ordinarily might be thought inappropriate.  I ask the court to give me the latitude to submit this information.

 

My mother taught me so many tidbits of wisdom that she gleaned through the passionate study of her family history.  It began as a hobby, yet her persistence and innate skills, allowed her to become an expert genealogist, chasing her forefathers who homesteaded downtown Waterford, Wisconsin, back to their roots, from Germanys’ early 1500’s.

 

After thirty plus years of digging for the Kortendick name, she was rewarded with a treasure.  The earliest records of this family line remained in an ancient church, the only church within more than a hundred miles, that was not destroyed by the wars; the Napoleonic wars, the War to end all wars, and WW II. 

 

The treasure reveled, from my perspective, is that she found five more generations back on her family tree, and after thirty years of search, primarily through records indexed along the fraternal line, the oldest two in the family tree were men who married and assumed the wife’s name as it was the name of the estate, it became maternal.

 

Mom also searched her maternal lines, those who adventured through the Cumberland pass, Daniel Boone lead the way and his cousin, a preacher, married the ancestors en-rout west.  This line eventually homesteaded southern Illinois as it opened.  One of these hearty early Americans survived 12 of her 16 children, as I remember it.  Tearfully, with personal knowledge, mom told me the hardest thing a human can do is to bury their child.

 

As I understand it, Gods’ commandment not to commit premeditated homicide, is commonly misstated as ‘shall not kill’. In fact the Bible goes on to say that we civilized humans shall send those who commit pre-meditated homicide, to God, kill them, and allow God to deal with them directly.

 

I do not trust politics enough to accept capital punishment. Killing by the government has the possibility of error, and Wisconsin offers no such death penalty remedy, but I would rather kill him than allow him ever to be set free.

 

I submit this information into the public record for future genealogist, to help them get a more accurate insight to how powerfully this horrific event has changed our community. Also, I am concerned that future political decisions may allow this monster free someday, to once again prey upon the innocent in our society.  I write to formally warn against such future possibilities.

 

I became publicly involved because of an article in the local paper entitled ‘Despite the evil, believing in good’. I wrote a letter to help the families and friends of Emily, and this letter earned me the public mention for Good. I therefore submit to the official record ‘The Emily Letter’, and this article. I also submit a summary page from the Emily Willegal Memorial web site, www.cataldi.us/Emily. It will remain longer than Kimani Wards’ life in prison. 

 

I want everyone to remember Emily positively, and also,
should Kimani be remembered, it must be only as the monster he was.

 

Sincerely

 

Vincent J cataldi