For Now, Justice For Gillian Realized by LIBBY CUDMORE • Special To AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Jennifer Kirkpatrick was “relieved” when she heard the news that David Dart, the man who murdered her 18 year old sister, Gillian Gibbons 30 years ago, was denied parole. “I’m thankful that we have more time,” she said. “The longer we can keep him in prison, the better off they are.” In 1991, Dart, then 29, was sentenced to 25 years to live for second-degree…
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GILLIAN’S KILLER DENIED PAROLE ONEONTA – David Dart, the man convicted of killing Gillian Gibbons in the Oneonta Municipal Parking Lot in 1989, has been denied parole, according to Gillian’s sister, Jennifer Kirkpatrick, who posted the news on The “Justice For Gillian” Facebook page just moments ago. At a “Justice for Gillian” rally in September, Kirkpatrick rallied friends, community members and state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, to write letters to the parole board urging them to deny him parole. In…
FINALLY, Her Story Told At Gillian’s Rally By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Gillian Gibbons’ voice was silenced when David Dart stabbed her 42 times in the Oneonta Municipal Parking Garage on Sept. 12, 1984. But Jennifer Miller Dutcher intends to use hers to keep Dart in prison. “I am a survivor of David Dart,” she said. “I am a victim who has a voice, and I have to share my story.” She told her story at…
At Rally, Victim’s Sister Warns: ‘Dart Will Kill Again’ His Juvenile Conviction Sealed, His First Victim Tells Her Story Jennifer Kirkpatrick, sister of Gillian Gibbons, asked 50 supporters gathered at the “Justice For Gillian” rally in Muller Plaza this afternoon to send letters asking the state Parole Board to deny convicted murderer David Dart parole in the stabbing death of Gibbons, 18, in Oneonta’s Municipal Parking Garage 30 years ago. “If he gets out, he will rape, he will kill…
JUSTICE for GILLIAN Sister, Senator Plan Rally For Parole Reform By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – When David Dart was sentenced for the murder of Gillian Gibbons, her sister Jennifer Kirkpatrick remembered a chilling message he gave her in the courtroom. “He looked right at me and said, ‘I’ll be back,’” she recounted. Now, 30 years after Gillian’s death, Jennifer is mounting a campaign to keep her convicted killer in prison. “My goal is to let the community…
THE GILLIAN GIBBONS CASE 30 Years Later, A Sister Spurns Killer’s Apology By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Thirty years after the murder of her 18-year-old Gillian Gibbons, her sister was not expecting the call she got from the state Office of Victim’s Services on Tuesday, July 2. “Just out the blue I got a call saying they had a letter from David Dart – and did I want to hear it,” said Jennifer Kirkpatrick. “In 30 years,…