CAOgirl (member) has been shot and killed

[Dizzy]

Oh I remember her... How random.

How sad

 

[noludoru]

OMG. SHe was a sweet girl. I cant believe that happened to her..... Im speachless...

That's exactly what I thought. I remember her, and really, really liked her. I loved watching Zero grow up... it's just.. really, really sad. The update article someone posted is even worse that Barb's snippet...

 

[HoundedByHounds]

Hokey smokes, fran!
How....horrific....urgh....so sad!

 

[HoundedByHounds]

thinking now I think she was on another forum I am on, too...maybe I'll check...

 

[darkchild16]

OMG

That is horrific.

RIP Barbara

and good vibes for the rest of the family kids and the dogs.

 

[2BlackDogs]

OMG I'm speechless. I can't believe this happened. Her kids and pets are in our thoughts and prayers here as well.

I hope her children will be ok through all of this. Sounds like most of her pets have been taken care of. I can't imagine how this will affect her kids. My prayers are with them. She was such a sweet lady and so young. I hope she gets justice.

 

[Saje]

This is heartwrenching I'm glad the dogs are in good hands and I hope the children get all the care and love they will need.

 

[HoundedByHounds]

If ayone digs up anything on a trust fund or such for the kids or a charity she was involved with please post it.

 

[Laurelin]

Here's a news clip.

http://www.mahalo.com/Barbara_Tassinari

God, it;'s just so horrible.

 

[corgipower]

Tragic, horrible. Prayers for the family.

 

[HoundedByHounds]

Oh my....she had YouTube vid's of her and her dogs...and...jeeze...

 

[goldiefur]

This is just heartbreaking! I remember the videos she would put up of her precious dogs. I feel so bad for her son I believe he is about 9 or 10 that is such a hard age to lose a parent especially through such a violent act. My God that child has lost just about everyone in his life including his pets. Jesus watch over these children. I will keep them all in my prayers.

 

[Laurelin]

Those videos of the dogs chasing each other are just too sweet. It's all heartbreaking to watch especially the one with her son and one of the dogs together.

I think what really hit me was going to her myspace page and seeing her last login dated yesterday.

What an utterly senseless act! I keep thinking about her children and what they're going through- especially the older one. It's just so sad and for such a stupid reason.

 

[HoundedByHounds]

yes the Myspace was so tough. The net is like a ghost world at times.

 

[jess2416]

I think what really hit me was going to her myspace page and seeing her last login dated yesterday.

That really really got to me too

 

[oc_spirit]

That really really got to me too

I just talked to her the other night...

 

[Babyblue5290]

That's horrible

 

[Laurelin]

I just really don't get these situations... why resort to those extremes? I know there is no answer, but it still just baffles me.

Monday was Muster which is the day my school remembers those among us that we've lost. I walked in the MSC on Monday to be confronted with a large portrait of my dorm neighbor and classmate Tynesha Stewart that was murdered last year by her boyfriend.

You start to deal with death as you grow older but it's these senseless wastes of young lives that really get to you. These women were mothers and daughters and so full of potential. It was not their time and some selfish ******* with major problems does something like this to them. And its someone that's supposed to care about them as well! It's just sickening.

No matter how little you really knew them, it still affects you and you'll never forget those names and faces.

I'm praying for justice.

 

[darkchild16]

I found this and its shocking most of the articles are
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view.bg?articleid=1089261&srvc=rss

On paper, John Tassinari was a child prodigy awarded a student Nobel Peace Prize and hailed by state educators as a “model†scholar.

Online, the muscle-bound accused wife killer is a firearm fanatic who posts pictures on his MySpace [website] page of naked women tied up and asks, “Who doesn’t love a 12 gauge?â€

The alter ego bled through yesterday after Tassinari, 29, allegedly confessed to murdering his beautiful wife Barbara, also 29, by shooting her 12 times outside their Abington home late Tuesday night in a fit of jealousy, police said.

The couple, who have a 1-year-old son together, wed Nov. 6, 2004. The bride wore black.

“He sounds like the perfect psychopath,†Kevin Borgeson, a serial killer profiler and professor of criminal justice at Salem State College, said of Tassinari.

“It’s the guy who has these monsters who live inside and can’t control them, but outside will live a life of normalcy,†Borgeson said.

Tassinari is a National Merit Scholar and 1996 graduate of Braintree High, where he once basked in the spotlight of “John Tassinari Day.†Former Commissioner of Education Robert Antonucci once called him “a model of what everyone should be striving for.â€

By day, Tassinari, a mechanical engineer, has been quality manager of his father Paul Tassinari’s Holbrook precision machining company Mica-Tron Products.

By night, Tassinari, a 2000 graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute like his dad (1976), appreciated his stereo loud and his TV shows - “South Park,†“Prison Break,†“The Sopranos†- violent.

His mother, Dawn Marie Goodrich, is a poet who writes of heartache and emotional betrayal. She once described love as “like a thousand stabbing knives.â€

“As a Virgo,†Tassinari wrote on MySpace, “I get too wrapped up in the small details of life.†Barbara, he said, “helps me to remember to step back and enjoy it all.â€

The lives Tassinari has likely destroyed are a stark contrast to the inventions he was lavishly lauded for building - a cable-crossover exercise machine for the WPI Fitness Center and an airplane wing profile, tested by MIT, that increases lift and reduces drag.

In 1996, the wing design won him a trip to Sweden to receive the Glenn T. Scott Nobel Peace Prize Award presented to the top two students at the annual International Science and Engineering Fair.

Tassinari’s then faculty adviser at WPI, John Zeugner, said at the time of his straight-A pupil, “The invitation to the Nobel awards is a tremendous honor, one that recognizes both his intelligence and his promise.â€

Here is a partner article talking about her and what happened leading up to the day

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/re...59&format=&page=1&listingType=loc#articleFull

 

[Laurelin]

This one is more in depth:

http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view.bg?articleid=1089259&srvc=home&position=1

And it actually mentioned her love for dogs:

Barbara Tassinari’s sister, who would not give her name, wept as she described her as a “wonderful wife and mother, a volunteer dog walker at the local animal shelter - the kind of sister who made me chicken soup when I was sick. She was loving, loyal and devoted.â€

ETA: Oh that's the same one.