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Woman was shot close up, ME says
 
By BILL BRAUN World Staff Writer
Published: 8/20/2008  2:16 AM
Last Modified: 8/20/2008  2:16 AM

A woman who was found dead in bed at her Tulsa home was shot twice in the head, including one contact wound, a medical examiner reported.

Lori Moon Kastner, 44, sustained a "penetrating contact gunshot wound of the right temple" and also had a "penetrating intermediate range gunshot wound of the right cheek," states a report by Dr. Andrew Sibley, a forensic pathologist.

"There were no other significant injuries. The manner of death is classified as homicide," says the report, dated Monday.

Prosecutors allege that John Robert Kastner, a former Webster High School teacher, killed his wife, a former Oklahoma Supreme Court attorney, on June 25 at their home in the 3800 block of South Union Avenue.

Kastner is in the Tulsa Jail and charged with first-degree murder. His preliminary hearing is set for Monday.

John Kastner, 50, was under financial pressure as a result of promises he made to family members, friends and co-workers, according to a police affidavit filed June 27, the date that he was charged.

That affidavit alleges a pattern of lying by Kastner, including stories that he was a member of the Israeli special forces and that he had access to millions of dollars from an Israeli charitable organization.

Police believe he lied in claiming that his wife was killed by an intruder.

A detective's affidavit states that "the victim was sleeping when she was murdered."

Police said they found the gun — a .22-caliber revolver — on
a dining room table.

The Tulsa school board voted last week to fire Kastner.




Bill Braun 581-8455
bill.braun@tulsaworld.com
By BILL BRAUN World Staff Writer

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Nouvambi, Tulsa (8/20/2008 9:51:44 AM)
A former friend of mine were involved in research not long ago towards greater insight concerning "empathy". Notedly, science already holds substantial data in diverse areas of research, yet due ongoing social permutations relevant diagnostics and analysis are essential. Though I did not aquire opportunity to discover conclusion or finding, my guess is, that the more recent permutations, e.g. over the past several decades, have merely further encited/revealed such arrogance, that far too many people do not possess respect for life, much less even attempt to comprehend another's suffering. That any individual take another's life, mame or sorely injure another, speaks to not mere evident mental deformity, but as psychology of renown would have previously admitted, more specifically a distinct variety of sociopathy, i.e an inherent evil, else of such extenuating circumstance that no logical alternative then appeared possible. Sad reality, is that society is setting itself up for difficulty and suffering inconceivable, ultimately even of involved miscreants which demand none requisite at acknowledgement of another's deficiency, deformity, loss, suffering, serenity otherwise, or any other aspect of life. The more frequent homocide, rape, assault, aggravated assault, theft, much less sheer collusion, the more rapid social mutation takes place, and people began to exhibit signs of a lower specie of presumable unawareness as to the ramifications of their actions. Presently, media and sometimes tattered neighborhoods present little shy of obvious evidence which endure as literal potential preface towards profound ruination. Yet clearly, anthropology is not typically any required course, and most shall suggest inability to comprehend cause for previous ruins, e.g. of other era. Upon any occasion such heinous activity is discovered, further social erosion is noted. But clearly, having not been acquainted with defendent or victim, no personal opinion is offered. Though much grievance is admitted, and that relations of involved victims achieve support in their time of such distress.
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H_Harl, (8/20/2008 3:42:46 PM)
man, shootin your wife and mother of your children in the head while she sleeps. how cold is that? that guy should have been the second body carried out of that house.
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ronnie, (8/27/2008 11:42:56 AM)
nouvambi
what in the hill are you talking about ?
 

 
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