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Whitaker has been known to have used at least 18 aliases.
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The color photo of PUSD supe Percy
Clark and John Whitaker-Betances which accompanies the piece online was released in response to a second public records act request.....
No word yet from Portland public
schools regarding my PRA request regarding *their* DADS program,
coincidentally (?) begun in the summer of 2003..
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Btw, more on Mr. Whitaker can be found at list member (and list
lurker) Peyton Walcott's blog http://www.peytonwolcott.com/Whitaker-BetancesPUSD.html
.
And stay up to the minute as to the charges against Mr. Whitaker by
visiting the Orange County Sheriff's Department's webpage on him http://www.ocsd.org/InmateInfo/ViewInmateData.asp?BookingNumber=2231105
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According to the Orange County District Attorney's
office http://www.orangecountyda.com/docs/casemanagementlist.pdf
, accused murderer, convicted child sex offender, and flamboyant fraud
John Whitaker is moving closer to a trial date, having had a
preliminary hearing earlier this week and a pretrial hearing set for
August 31 at 8:30 am.
Mr. Whitaker is reportedly accused of murdering two
women here in Southern California - one, an Orange County prostitute;
the other, a clerk for the Santa Monica public schools. Both
murders were "cold" cases to which Mr. Whitaker has
reportedly been tied by DNA evidence.
After release from state prison for a sex offense, Mr.
Whitaker settled in Pasadena, and posing as a military hero http://pownetwork.org/phonies/phonies205.htm
, he impressed many in town as quite a man.
He so impressed PUSD then-supe (currently supe-on-terminal-leave)
Percy Clark that Mr. Clark put Mr. Whitaker in charge of the
district's "Dads Are Doing Something" program, supposedly
without ever doing a background check.
Had Mr. Clark checked the state's Megan's Law website http://meganslaw.ca.gov/
, he would have learned many disturbing things about Mr. Whitaker.
But Mr. Clark apparently didn't bother, and Mr.
Whitaker came to our schools.
It's my understanding that because of the multiple
murder allegations, Mr. Whitaker may face the death penalty.
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Btw, if you believe Mr. Whitaker, the flamboyant fraud and convicted
child sex offender, I've got a nice bridge for sale...
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02/05/2009
Pasadena Weekly
'I did not kill anybody'
Accused double-murderer John Laurence Whitaker calls the Weekly to
proclaim his innocence
By André Coleman 02/05/2009
In a telephone interview from jail last week, former Pasadena schools
volunteer and accused double murderer John Laurence Whitaker
proclaimed his innocence.
Saying there has been a “rush to judgment,” Whitaker, who went by
the name of John Whitaker-Betances when he lived in Pasadena from 1997
to 2004, said flatly, “I did not kill anybody.”
Saying “90 percent of the facts” related to his case “are just
coming out,” Whitaker said, “Trust me; they are making a big
mistake.”
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29 Jan 2009
Mr. Whitaker is due back in court next on March 23. See http://orangecountyda.com/docs/1531282312009casemanagementlist.pdf for details.
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Pasadena Weekly
The Happy Hour alibi
Defense claims former PUSD volunteer was drinking with friends at the
time of 1975 murder
By Aaron Harris , André Coleman 01/29/2009
The attorney for John Laurence Whitaker — a convicted rapist and
child molester who posed as a medical student and later as a decorated
Vietnam veteran under the name of John Whitaker Betances while running
a volunteer program in Pasadena schools — said his client was at
home drinking the night Santa Monica/Malibu Unified School District
clerk Bodil Rasmussen was strangled nearly 34 years ago, one of two
cold-case murders Whitaker is charged with.
“Whitaker was having drinks with two doctors at about the time when
the [Rasmussen murder] was supposed to have been taking place that
evening,” Orange County Assistant Public Defender Lewis Clapp said
without elaborating.
Further, “Witnesses saw Bodil Rasmussen within an hour of her death
in the company of a tall, white male who used a lot of foul
language,” Clapp said, again without specifying who saw the other
man or who at the time of the killing was with Whitaker. [Whitaker is
African-American.] .....
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Date:
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:01:12 -0700 Subject: PW: Identity crisis
The good folks of the P.O.W. Network keep a running
tab on Mr. Whitaker http://www.pownetwork.org/phonies/phonies205.htm
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Their efforts to expose those who, like Mr. Whitaker,
steal the honor belonging to others, is to be lauded, IMHO.
Btw, next Tuesday will mark the four-year anniversary
of the date that the state says it lost track of Mr. Whitaker.
One would think the "brains" at the state DOJ would be
able to keep track of perverts like him, but, as they say, never
assume.
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Pasadena Weekly
Identity crisis
When they learn his whereabouts, maybe Orange
County officials will finally get accused killer John Whitaker’s
name right
By Andre Coleman 06/19/2008
On Friday, John Laurence Whitaker turned 61. But
instead of playing with grandchildren or getting together with old
friends, Whitaker celebrated in the same old place he was last year,
the year before that and the year before that — the Harbor Justice
Center jail in Orange County.
His moustache and goatee are graying and must be
almost white by now. And the six-foot-one-inch, 250-pound accused
killer still cuts an imposing physical figure — that is, if he
looks anything like the last time he was seen in court by the Weekly
back in March 2007.
But even though the flamboyant Whitaker — also a
convicted sex offender who disguised himself as a decorated Vietnam
veteran nearly six years ago while running a volunteer mentoring
program with the Pasadena Unified School District — has been in
custody for nearly four years, he appears no closer to trial for two
separate slayings than when he was first arrested.
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Jan 18, 2008
John Whitaker, the flamboyant fraud and man hand-selected by Percy Clark to run the PUSD's "Dads Are Doing Something" program, will not face the death penalty, although he stands accused of crimes for which the ultimate punishment can be meted out.
That word comes today from the Orange County District
Attorney's office.
Mr. Whitaker, who has been sitting in the Orange County
Jail for just over three years, is accused of two murders coupled with
the special circumstance of multiple murder. As such, the
prosecutor could seek the death penalty, but has chosen not to do so,
according to OCDA spokesperson Farrah Emami.
Instead, the maximum penalty, should Mr. Whitaker
eventually be convicted on all counts, is life imprisonment without
the possibility of parole.
Prosecutors allege that Mr. Whitaker killed two women.
He allegedly strangled a Malibu school district clerk in 1995 and an
Orange County prostitute in 1983.
Mr. Whitaker faces a preliminary hearing on the charges
against him on January 29, 2008. This hearing has been scheduled
for several earlier dates, but each has been delayed by Mr. Whitaker.
Mr. Whitaker, of course, has the right to a speedy trial, but it
appears that he'd rather spend time in the OC Jail than in the general
prison population.
Here in PAsadena, Mr. Whitaker is remembered for his
larger-than-life persona.
Claiming to be a retired Colonel with the US Army
Special Forces, Mr. Whitaker was also reportedly known for his
exciting tales of life as a P.O.W. in Vietnam, telling classrooms full
of school children how he once chewed through the neck of a V.C.
prison guard in order to escape.
Mr. Whitaker told a lot of lies, though. He is,
in reality, a convicted child sex offender who has spent a large
portion of his life in prison for sex-related crimes. He is a
Megan's Law listee. At the time Mr. Clark selected him to run
the DADS program, Mr. Whitaker was registered with the Pasadena police
as required by Megan's Law.
For a relatively complete dossier on Mr. Whitaker's
recent legal problems, see http://www.pownetwork.org/phonies/phonies205.htm
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Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007
17:05:18 -0800 Subject: John Whitaker's Date With Justice Delayed Again
John Whitaker, the man Percy Clark selected to head
the PUSD D.A.D.S. volunteer program, even though Mr. Whitaker was a
convicted child sex offender listed on California's Megan's Law
website, will have spent nearly three years in the Orange County
Jail without a trial by the time his next shot at a preliminary
hearing comes up.
Mr. Whitaker, who is reportedly charged with two counts of murder for "cold case" sex slayings, was extradited from Oregon to California in early 2005, and has been incarcerated since. At nearly every turn, Mr. Whitaker has worked to delay his date with justice.
Last scheduled for just after Thanksgiving, Mr.
Whitaker now faces a preliminary hearing on December 18, according
to the Orange County D.A.'s office http://www.orangecountyda.com/docs/casemanagementlist.pdf
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Mr. Whitaker, of course, was a close associate of Percy Clark, and was known for his tales of derring-do in Vietnam. Turns out that Mr. Whitaker could talk a lot - but that instead of being the war hero he vociferously claimed to be, Mr. Whitaker was a sick individual who had spent most of his life in jail for sex crimes.
For more on Mr. Whitaker, see http://pownetwork.org/phonies/phonies205.htm
.
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Pasadena Weekly
July 12, 2007
Time to kill
Court documents allege Whitaker threatened to kill
ex-wife
By André Coleman
THE REAL DEAL: John Whitaker’s Megan’s Law database
photo.
A high-profile onetime Pasadena Unified School District
volunteer and convicted sex offender currently on trial for the
murders of two women allegedly threatened to kill his former wife
shortly before the couple divorced in 2003, according to court
documents obtained by the Weekly.
According to an application for a restraining order
filed by Eloise Crichton, John Laurence Whitaker verbally abused
Crichton and threatened to harm her daughter and son-in-law if they
should “interfere in his business.”
Whitaker, who sought his own restraining order against
Crichton at that time, claimed Crichton demanded nightly massages,
withheld sex from him and mocked him for his “sexual
inadequacies.”
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Pasadena Weekly
October 26, 2006
Make-up exam
Defense wants murder suspect John Laurence Whitaker’s
DNA examined again
By André Coleman
An Orange County court commissioner ordered new DNA
tests for convicted sexual molester, murder suspect and former
Pasadena school volunteer John Laurence Whitaker, who awaits trial in
the deaths of two women.
Whitaker appeared in a Harbor Justice Superior Court on
Friday where Superior Court Commissioner Thomas J. Rees granted a
defense motion for a five-month continuance to have Whitaker’s DNA
matched against evidence left at two scenes, one in 1975 and the other
in 1983.
“The thing about these old cases is the defense
always wants to test everything,” said Assistant District Attorney
Matt Murphy. “Defense attorney Don Ronaldson is very methodical in
the way he approaches his cases.”
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6/22/2006 -0700
I've heard you have to kill *three* people to be a serial killer. In Mr. Whitaker's case, that'd make him a serial sex killer. R ------------ http://pasadenaweekly.com/article.php?id=3564&IssueNum=25 Pasadena Weekly Murphy’s law When Santa Monica homicide detectives began investigating the murder of Bodil Rasmussen in 1975, their chances of solving the case were slim. Rasmussen, who worked for the Santa Monica School District, was found inside of her car, the victim of an apparent strangulation, but the crime scene yielded little evidence, with the undisclosed instrument used to strangle Rasmussen containing no discernable fingerprints. Police interviewed John Laurence Whitaker, described as an associate of the slain woman, but that interrogation yielded no clues. Shortly thereafter, Whitaker disappeared. Today, prosecutors say new technology has revealed that there was conclusive evidence left at the crime scene after all; DNA evidence found on the weapon used to choke the life out of Rasmussen that has been linked to Whitaker, a former Pasadena Unified School District volunteer who masqueraded as a decorated war veteran and operated under an assumed name and was later revealed as a registered sex offender. Since being found out, Whitaker has been tied to another murder, this one involving the 1983 strangulation of a known prostitute in Laguna Beach..... |
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Santa Monica Daily Press
June 20, 2006
Cold case thaws
Suspect faces justice for 1975 murder in SM
BY MICHAEL J. TITTINGER AND CAROLYN SACKARIASON
Daily Press Staff Writers
NEWPORT BEACH — More than
30 years after the body of 36-yearold Bodil
Rasmussen was found strangled and dumped in a Santa Monica parking
lot, the man long
thought to be her assailant will finally stand before a
judge today and answer to murder charges.
John Whitaker Betances, of Pasadena, was arrested in Oregon and extradited to Orange County in 2004 after DNA samples linked him
to the 1975 murder of Rasmussen and another female
victim eight years later in Laguna Canyon.
Betances, 57, will enter a plea at his arraignment this
morning at the Harbor Justice Center in Newport Beach. ....
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006
16:26:58 -0700
The 13th time *was* the charm.
After celebrating two birthdays behind bars,
59-year-old flamboyant fraud http://pownetwork.org/phonies/phonies205.htm
John Whitaker, aka John Laurence Whitaker Betances http://www.ocsd.org/InmateInfo/ViewInmateData.asp?BookingNumber=2231105
, finally pled "not guilty" to a charge of murder this
morning down in the OC.
He's had a dozen prior chances to proclaim his
innocence and demand a speedy trial.
OCDA's press rep Farrah Emami said that Mr. Whitaker
will have his next day in court on October 20, for a pre-trial
hearing.
As the OCDA puts it, Mr. Whitaker is "(c)harged
with the 1983 strangulation murder of a woman in Laguna Beach.
Through TracKRS, a DNA match linked Betances to the killing. He was
living in Oregon at the time of his arrest. He has been extradited
to California to face murder charges." http://www.orangecountyda.com/docs/casemanagementlist.pdf
Mr. Whitaker, a Megan's Law http://meganslaw.ca.gov/
listee http://snipurl.com/pce6
here in California, made quite a splash during his time in Pasadena.
Percy Clark was so impressed with Mr. Whitaker that
he personally put Mr. Whitaker in charge of the PUSD D.A.D.S.
program and gave him access to PUSD computers, equipment, supplies
and personnel.
Most will likely remember a story by Aaron Harris
from the Pasadena Weekly http://www.pasadenaweekly.com/exclusives.html#ex04
, dated January 26 of this year, which included the
following bits:
Whitaker was "accused of
> the 1983 strangulation murder of prostitute
Patricia Ann Carpenter,
> whose body was found dumped along side a dark
road by police officers
> in Laguna Beach. Until late 2004, the trail to
catch her killer
> remained cold until detectives used technology
that wasn't available
> in 1983 to match DNA evidence to that of her
accused murderer."
"> Investigators hope the same DNA evidence
that linked Whitaker to the
> murder of Carpenter will tie him to the
strangulation of Santa Monica
> School District employee Bodil Rasmussen in
1975.
>
> The OC DA's office is now putting together a
case against Whitaker
> that they feel is solid enough to charge him
with the Rasmussen murder.
>
> As Betances, Whitaker claimed to be a Vietnam
vet, once claiming he
> escaped from a prison camp by chewing through a
guard's neck."
A few people have expressed fears that having Mr.
Whitaker roam the halls down at 351 may have endangered PUSD
employees.
Btw, Percy Clark, the man who put Mr. Whitaker in
charge of the D.A.D.S. program, remains at the helm of PUSD despite
his proven plagiarism.
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June 19, 2006
Maybe the 13th time will be the charm, because the 12th wasn't.
John Whitaker, the man Percy Clark personally put in charge of the
PUSD D.A.D.S. program - despite Whitaker being a locally-registered
sex offender and Megan's Law listee - will have his 13th chance to
plead "not guilty" to a charge of murder tomorrow in Orange
County http://www.orangecountyda.com/docs/casemanagementlist.pdf
.
Mr. Whitaker, who has a long string of sex offenses on his record,
charmed many in the community, especially with his (totally
fabricated) tales of military bravery.
In a manner much like that of one who claims to have dragged a police
dog to a lunch counter, Mr. Whitaker would tell tales of derring-do
that were total lies, but were such great lies that those who heard
simply wanted to believe them.
for more about Mr. Whitaker, see the P.O.W. Network's
"Phonies" page on him http://pownetwork.org/phonies/phonies205.htm
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Date:
It'll be mid-June, the 16th, to be precise, when John Whitaker gets
his twelfth chance to plead "not guilty" and start
proceedings against him to determine his guilt in the murder case he
faces. See http://www.orangecountyda.com/docs/1725391442006cases.pdf
for details.
Mr. Whitaker, the locally-registered sex offender, flamboyant fraud, and Megan's Law listee put in charge of the PUSD D.A.D.S. program by Percy Clark - and thereby granted access to district computers, stationary, and the like - has been in jail in Orange County since January of last year when he lost his 1/2 year fight against extradition from Oregon. He's had 11 prior chances to plead not guilty, including one last Friday, but has chosen to have each delayed.
As a fan of "Arrested Development," I can understand that a
guy might find the OC Greybar kind of homey, but...
R
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Pasadena Weekly
March 9, 2006
Whitaker's ninth no comment
By André Coleman
John Laurence Whitaker, a convicted sex offender who
under the name John Whitaker Betances flourished as one of the
Pasadena Unified School District's top volunteers, has once again
delayed his arraignment on a murder charge.
For the ninth time in more than a year, Whitaker
appeared Friday in Orange County Superior Court, but managed to
avoid making a plea in relation to the 1983 strangling death of
Patricia Ann Carpenter.
Held without bail at the Harbor Justice Center,
Whitaker also faces two counts of failing to register as a sex
offender in Oregon, where Laguna Beach homicide detectives arrested
him in July 2004.
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March 6, 2006
John Whitaker once again did not exercise his right to a speedy trial, once again delaying his arraignment on a charge of murder and two counts of failing to register as a sex offender http://www.ocsd.org/InmateInfo/ViewInmateData.asp?BookingNumber=2231105 , according to the OC DA's office http://www.orangecountyda.com/docs/142117332006cases.pdf .
Mr. Whitaker, whom PUSD supe Percy Clark personally
chose to run the PUSD DADS volunteer program even though Mr. Whitaker
was a locally-registered sex offender on the Megan's Law list http://snipurl.com/n85f
, was given the opportunity to plead "guilty" or "not
guilty" this past Friday, but instead, sought a delay.
Mr. Whitaker will once again have a
chance to start the process of getting out of the OC jail on April 14
- his tenth shot at it.
OC DA representatives have told me that there are often multiple delays in murder arraignments, especially if a "mental" component (I guess that means insanity) is being considered for the plea.
Note, btw, that the state's Megan's Law list is quite
obviously snafued: John Whitaker has been in the OC jail since
January, 2005 - but the Megan's Law site says of him: "LOCATION
UNKNOWN."
About a year ago, I sent in an update on Mr. Whitaker's
whereabouts to the CA DOJ.
Apparently, nobody up there cares.
R
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Pasadena Weekly
January 26, 2006
Whitaker arraignment delayed again
For the eighth time in just more than a year, former
Pasadena resident John Laurence Whitaker, aka John Whitaker Betances,
has had his date to be arraigned for murder postponed again.
The former candidate for the PCC board of trustees
and volunteer for the PUSD chapter of DADS (Dads Are Doing
Something) stands accused of the 1983 strangulation murder of
prostitute Patricia Ann Carpenter, whose body was found dumped along
side a dark road by police officers in Laguna Beach. Until late
2004, the trail to catch her killer remained cold until detectives
used technology that wasn't available in 1983 to match DNA evidence
to that of her accused murderer.
Whitaker also is charged with failing to update his
state-mandated registration as a sex offender.
.....
As Betances, Whitaker claimed to
be a Vietnam vet, once claiming he escaped from a prison camp by
chewing through a guard's neck.
- Aaron Harris
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Pasadena Weekly
December 1, 2005
Murder in the first - twice OC prosecutor says new murder charge will be filed against Whitaker
By André Coleman and Aaron Harris
The Weekly has learned that Orange County prosecutors
plan to file an additional first-degree murder charge against John
Laurence Whitaker, a sex offender and onetime Pasadena schools
volunteer who already faces capital murder charges in relation to the
1983 strangulation of a prostitute in Laguna Beach.
Orange County Assistant District Attorney Matt Murphy
told the newspaper that Whitaker, who went by the name John Whitaker
Betances and pretended to be a decorated Vietnam veteran during his
time in Pasadena, will also be charged with the 1975 strangulation
murder of Bodil Rasmussen, an employee with the Santa Monica/Malibu
Unified School District at the time of her death.
Whitaker was connected to the murder by DNA evidence,
but Santa Monica police had previously said that they would not be
filing charges against Whitaker in connection with that crime.
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Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 21:59:31 -0800 From: Rene Subject: Cool Heels: Whitaker's Arraingment Delayed Until 2006
John Whitaker will have been in the Orange County jail for exactly a
year and a week when on January 20, 2006 he next has the chance to
appear before a judge and plead "guilty" or
"not guilty" to a charge of murder and a charge of failure
to register as a sex offender.
His arraignment on October 14 was rescheduled, according to a
representative of the Orange County District Attorney's office.
Mr. Whitaker, who Percy Clark personally placed in charge of the
PUSD D.A.D.S. program, has had a total of 6 opportunities to date to
declare his innocence and see a speedy trial, but each has been
delayed.
It currently costs California taxpayers about $44,578 to house the
average prison inmate per year.
Btw, it was one year ago that the Whitaker story broke locally, here on the list. See the post from 11/05/04 pasted below. Two days later, the story appeared in the PSN.
Rene
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Subject:
Date:
From:
To:
The POW Network http://www.pownetwork.org/
which is "since 11/11/89, dedicated to information distribution
on our Prisoners of War and Missing in Action Servicemen",
through its "Phonies & Wannabees" pages, has
identified PUSD "DADS" Program founding member John
Whitaker-Betances as a phony http://www.pownetwork.org/phonies/phonies205.htm
. Allegedly using as many as 18 aliases, Mr. Whitaker-Betances
frequently claimed to be a former Colonel in the US Army Special
Forces. Mr. Whitaker-Betances is the 205th individual the site
has identified as a phony.
Ever so much worse, though, the page indicates that Mr. Whitaker-Betances
was in court on Monday facing extradition to California to face two
murder charges, on cases dating back to 1975 and 1983.
KNBC4 ran a story back in July regarding Mr. Whitaker-Betances
arrest http://www.nbc4.tv/news/3600023/detail.html
, but no word has been seen in print locally.
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07/12/05
http://www.pasadenaweekly.com/features/exclusives/webexclusives.html Whitaker's waiting game Arraignment for accused killer and former PUSD volunteer rescheduled for next month By André Coleman John Laurence Whitaker, a convicted sex offender, a former Pasadena Unified School District volunteer and a onetime candidate for the Pasadena City College Board of Trustees, will once again face arraignment on one count of murder in relation to the strangulation of an Orange County prostitute in 1983. Friday's scheduled court appearance was Whitaker's fourth time up for arraignment since his arrest on Nov. 5 in Oregon for failing to register as a sex offender. His fifth court appearance is set for Aug. 19 at the Harbor Justice Center in Laguna Niguel. Using the name John Whitaker Betances, one of at least 18 aliases, Whitaker was appointed by PUSD Superintendent Percy Clark to head up the district's volunteer DADS, or Dads Are Doing Something, program. Whitaker had claimed to be a retired Green Beret colonel and was not given a background check before volunteering for the district...... |
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March 4, 2005
Rapist, fraud, confidant of Percy Clark, and accused murderer John Whitaker will have his day in court - eventually.
At the request of Mr. Whitaker's public defender, an Orange County
judge today delayed Mr. Whitaker's arraignment on a charge of murder
until April 15.
Sure, it shouldn't be that hard to plead "not guilty," but
as I've explained before, for Mr. Whitaker, who's been tied by DNA
evidence to the sex slayings of two women, every day justice is
delayed could be a day his own death is delayed.
Of course, Mr. Whitaker is innocent until proven guilty.
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02/02/2005
The flamboyant fraud Percy Clark personally put in
charge of the PUSD DADS program without doing any sort of background
check will be arraigned Friday in the Orange County Harbor Justice
Center on a murder charge.
John Laurence Whitaker, as he is known to Orange County authorities, is being held without bail for the 1983 murder of a prostitute in Laguna Beach. He has reportedly been linked to that murder, and a second, earlier murder of a Santa Monica school district clerk, by DNA evidence.
Known in Pasadena as John Whitaker Betances or simply
John Whitaker (as he was listed on the state's Megan's Law List of
"serious" and "dangerous" sex offenders http://snipurl.com/biu9
, and as he was registerd with Pasadena Police while working for PUSD),
Mr. Whitaker is also being held on two felony counts of failing to
register as a sex offender filed against him by Los Angeles County.
Bail for those two felonies, should the murder charge be dropped, is
$1,065,000.
Given that Mr. Whitaker was extradited from Oregon on a
fugitive warrant, it is highly unlikely that any bail bondsman would
take the risk of posting Mr. Whitaker's bail - even if Mr. Whitaker,
who has no known occupation, could pay the upfront fee.
Details of Mr. Whitaker's stay in Orange County can be
found via the Orange County Sheriff's Department's website http://www.ocsd.org/
by clicking on the "Who's in Jail" link under "eServices."
Btw, weighing in at 252 lbs. when booked at the Orange
County Central Mens Jail, Mr. Whitaker has put on 17 lbs. since he was
released from a California prison after serving ten years for rape,
which state records indicate involved a child under the age of 14.
R.
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01/12/05
Jane Robeson of the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office this morning indicated that charges have been filed against John Whitaker for (1) failure to register and (2) failure to update registration. His case number is GAO58268. These charges constitute a "second strike" under California's "Three Strikes" law, according to Ms. Robeson.
Ms. Robeson was unaware that Mr. Whitaker had been
arrested in Oregon, but after being quickly filled in on the details,
indicated that it would be some time before Mr. Whitaker would face
the charges above in LA County due to the murder charge he faces in
Orange County.
While it may seem unusual to file charges against
someone who may have been out of the state at the time he failed to
register with California officials, Ms. Robeson indicated that, while
she did not know the details of Mr. Whitaker's parole, it is possible
his parole was conditioned on his not leaving the state.
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Date: Wed,
05 Jan 2005 18:07:44 -0800 From: R Subject: Doubt he'll be singing: John Whitaker Headed "Back to Cali"
Though I doubt he'll be singing LL Cool J's pop tune
"Going Back to Cali" http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/llcoolj/goingbacktocali.html
, that's exactly what John Whitaker, aka John Whitaker Betances, will
soon being doing.
A Multnomah County, Oregon judge today discharged a
writ of habeus corpus filed on behalf of John Whitaker, according to
Multnomah County District Attorney spokeswoman Chirstina Estes.
This morning's ruling cleared the way for the convicted
child rapist, locally-registered sex offender, fugitive sex murder
suspect, and buddy of PUSD supe Percy Clark to be remanded to the
custody of the Orange County Sheriff for transportation back to
California.
Mr. Whitaker, the flamboyant fraud who ran the PUSD
D.A.D.S. program at Percy Clark's personal direction, will face murder
charges in the 1983 death of a prostitute whose partially-disrobed
body was found dumped near an LA Times distribution center.
Mr. Whitaker has also reportedly been linked by DNA
evidence to the 1977 sex slaying of a Santa Monica school district
clerk, but there is no word as to whether Mr. Whitaker faces charges
in that case.
It is my understanding that If he is convicted of both
sex slayings, Mr. Whitaker could face the death penalty.
R
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Pasadena Weekly
December 30, 2004
A long walk home Concerns are raised following the discovery of five registered sex offenders living within blocks of local schools and parks By Andre Coleman
The discovery of five convicted sex offenders living in
the same house near Cleveland Elementary School has sparked community
questions over whether police and school officials should be charged
with notifying parents and the community of potential dangers to
Pasadena schoolchildren.
According to the state's recently made public Megan's
Law sex offender database, http://meganslaw.ca.gov,
five registered sex offenders are living together in a house on West
Washington Boulevard, less than a mile away from Cleveland Elementary
School and only a few blocks from both Robinson and La Pintoresca
parks.
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12/22/2004
The state's newly-created Megan's Law website http://www.meganslaw.ca.gov gives a lot of details - scary details about the man Percy Clark called John Whitaker.
John Whitaker (with no middle name) http://snipurl.com/biu9
, is listed as being in "violation of registration requirements
since 06/24/2004."
The state lists the reason for his being on the
dangerous sex offender list as:
261(2)
261.2
288a(c) ORAL COPULATION WITH PERSON UNDER 14/ETC OR BY
FORCE/ETC
The state lists the following as know aliases for Percy
Clark's close confidant:
* WHITAKER, JOHN L
* WHITAKER, JOHN LARRY
* WHITAKER, JOHN LARY
* WHITAKER, JOHN LAURANCE
* WHITAKER, JOHN LAURENCE
And the following as distinguishing scars, marks or
tattoos:
* GLASSSES
* SCAR ABDOMEN
* SCAR RIGHT CHEEK
* SCAR RIGHT HAND
* SCAR RIGHT WRIST
* SCAR RIGHT FOREARM
"Mr. Whitaker, who ran the PUSD's D.A.D.S. program
at Percy CLark's direction without ever having had a background check,
has reportedly been linked by DNA evidence to the murders of two
Southern California women, and is currently incarcerated in Oregon,
where he is fighting fugitive extradition proceedings which seek his
return to California on a bench warrant for murder."
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Pasadena Weekly
December 9, 2004
W E E K L Y E X C L U S I V E
Sugar DADS
Documents show PUSD gave tens of thousands to DADS program and allowed
accused murderer and convicted rapist to use district equipment and
organize on-campus activities, all without a background check
By Aaron Harris and Kevin Uhrich
It will now be up to a court to decide the extent of accused killer
and convicted rapist John Whitaker's lengthy, violent and convoluted
criminal past.
But determining just how deeply Whitaker, a registered sex offender
who, while using one of 18 aliases, infiltrated the Pasadena Unified
School District administration in the guise of a volunteer mentoring
program leader, is a whole other matter.
After poring through a stack of memos released by the district in
response to a state Public Records Act request by schools watchdog
Rene Amy, it is clear that Whitaker not only had nearly everyone he
met bamboozled, but he also had direct access to the superintendent's
office, as well as PUSD office equipment, computers and district
letterhead stationery.
It's easy to see how one could be fooled. While living in Pasadena
from 1998 to last year, Whitaker posed as
retired Army Col. John Whitaker Betances, a supposed Vietnam hero, and
headed up the DADS, or Dads Are Doing Something, program as a
volunteer.
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Pasadena Weekly
December 9, 2004
Editorial
Will they ever learn?
A few years have passed since John Muir High School track coach Clyde
Turner was first accused of having sex with two teenage boys, and then
eventually found guilty of committing that crime on one of the kids.
That unfortunate episode was more than six years ago, so it's only
natural that people would want to forget it, that is if they ever
really could.
But there are a few important similarities between the hinky things
that Turner did to get prison time and what's happening now in
Pasadena — at that very same high school no less, as well as at
district headquarters — that people, particularly people in
positions of authority, would do well to remember.
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"Btw, the likelihood of a tie
between Mr. Whitaker-Betances and the Portland schools is strengthened
by Mr. Whitaker-Betances oft-repeated claim to the title "Western
Regional Administrator for the national DADS FOR EDUCATION
program" (quoting from one of the emails provided by PUSD in
response to my PRA).
Gotta wonder just how much John Finn,
head/founder/owner/C.E.O. of D.A.D.S., knew about Mr. Whitaker-Betances...
Especially since Mr. Finn "earns a
living setting up chapters in school districts" http://www.parenting.com/parenting/article/article_general/0,8266,6617,00.html
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It could be bad for business to let a
charismatic guy like Mr. Whitaker-Betances go...
Or to have your name blackened by
association with a convicted rapist, registered sex offender, and
suspected sex slayer.
Of course, Mr. Whitaker-Betances was
arrested for *not* registering as a sex offender in Oregon.
So the Portland public schools wouldn't
have had any reason to know...
Unlike PUSD, where Percy Clark
repeatedly referred to Mr. Whitaker-Betances as "John
Whitaker" - the name under which he had registered as a sex
offender with local police."
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