Ah that red eye of sleeplessness...wondering, "Are the police going to come in and take down my computer system?" Combine that with meth use, a pre-existing mental illness and crime and what you get is a very dangerous sadist that likes to ruin everything for everyone, including herself.
Most of us, by now, have had the experience of Lori and Brian fighting with each other. They do it on the microphone so that the fight actually takes place inside the heads of their victims. If you know Lori, she loves to start a fight. She is constantly looking to pit one person against another to take the attention off of her. "Change the subject" is all you hear when you get too close to a topic that she doesn't want to think about. My assumption is that Lori doesn't want to spend any time thinking about her past crimes, but her ego maniac side only likes to brag about them. From an early age, this crime of electronic harassment fit all too well into Lori's personality disorder. Afterall, "She always knew what you were thinking, so it was easier to hate you before you hated her." With that kind of mentality, nobody is safe.
Drugs, reading people's minds, manipulation, sadism and ego are the real elements of her downfall. Maintaining a level of professionalism is one thing, giving away your identity is something else. There are a lot of people that will remember the games that Lori played with them. I'm more about what those games meant to her. Leading someone down the rabbit hole into a land that Lori made up in her mind. "Her own personal playground" is what Lori once called Palm Springs, California. There she could create characters in her mind and control them with the police. In terms of how sophisticated she was about this, I will leave it to the experts. Was she just lucky or did skill come into play for this crime to have taken place?
Truthfully, I can say that the damage she causes ranges from temporary to death. The range of her wake goes from inconsequential to life ending. Of course, Lori prefers the end of a life to a life undisturbed by her. It's all about the pain and suffering she can inflict, no matter what the cost is. She'll destroy a city block to chase some gay man away from having sex without her permission. Her solutions to problems are catastrophic, even to herself. She thinks no further than the immediate second, but lives completely in the past. Planning isn't something she does very well and she isn't able to follow through on anything.
Today she destroyed something else.
Lori has been upset with her brother for a long time for not doing more to kill me. Her fantasy interrupted by too many people looking out for me and my ability to tell you who she is and to question anything that happens to me if she should succeed. No matter what happens to me, Lori should be looked at. Seriously. She has this thing about, "making it look like an accident." After all, "Accidents happen all the time." I've taken many precautions to put this message in a safe at home and in other places in case of my untimely death.
Today was no exception. Lori LIVES with her brother and has for six or more years in this area. Six people living in that home. When they get tired of babysitting Lori to make sure she doesn't steal, say something threatening, knock someone out or whatever she is obsessed with at the time, they flee to another room in the house. Lately her eye candy, Missy and Leah, haven't wanted to be in the same room as her. So instead they sit with her brother Brian. This infuriates Lori.
I think that there are four stolen military computers involved in this crime. These computers link up with Verizon Wireless. Lori was forever forgetting the passwords to log into these old Windows 98 operating system, so her brother had Jonathan Mendehnall create USB password discs so that they would never have to remember a password again. Unfortunately, for Lori and Brian, Jonathan works for me. He kept all four USB reset discs and once those computers are logged off, there is no way to open them again. Thus no access to Verizon Wireless. Up until today 3 of the 4 had been locked out.
With Brian having the only working "Verizon" computer that he calls "the set up Plus", there was no room for error. If that computer got logged off it would mean that Lori and Brian could no longer manipulate the system. No more phone forwarding or number portability. The lines of communication can't be crossed without it.
So today you have Lori, angry with her housemates and angry at everyone, she goes in and intentionally freezes up her brother's computer...and now 4 of 4 computers are completely locked out. This disconnects Lori from the Verizon System and a whole lot of problems that she and Brian can cause. I think she did it because she wanted her brother's attention. The short of it was that it got his attention, but it cost her everything. Now they live in a house with the same problems that all of the victims have and no way to change it. This situation is normal for Lori...you can always expect her to self destruct. It's like clockwork. Cuckoo clockwork, in her case.
It's kind of like turning in her own drug supplier to the police. On the one hand she thinks it makes her look like a detective, on the other hand, where is she going to get her drugs from now on? She cuts off her nose despite her face, then shoots herself in the foot and tells everyone that it is my fault. Everything that went wrong in her life, she says, I caused. Not true. I have never had one single conversation with her in my entire life. Not one. If I caused her problems it's because she imagined a relationship that didn't exist. Now that I've spent time studying her habits, I can see that her paranoid schizophrenia is fantasy based.
Lori lives with this "perceived slight" that I have somehow done something to her. It goes way back to junior high school. I guess she thought that since I was a witness in my father's case, that I was the person that said something about her sexual advances towards our seventh grade science teacher. I was way too consumed by our own family's problems than Lori Whatshername. As I understand it, Lori accused my father of sexual misconduct, but it was Lori that I saw doing it in person. The teacher, not me, had her removed from the class. I didn't even remember the incident. It was the first week of junior high school for god's sake. I didn't know who she was and I didn't care.
There is no past relationship between Lori and myself. If anything she was a bully and I was someone she bullied. That's not a relationship. Knowing what I know now, I was completely right about her. Mentally unstable. Definitely homophobic to the point of violence. Drug addicted. Basically a scary little bitch that freaked out a lot of people with the way she obsessed over violence. She's a nightmare for sure, but I've learned to adapt.
Lori's decision to take her brother's computer offline was stupid, but a huge break for all of us. Only we have the computer discs that open these four computers...there is no other way in. I use to use these types of password reset discs too, I liked them because I didn't have to remember a password. The only problem is you can only make one per computer. Jonathan doesn't even know the passwords, he just knows that this disc goes to #1, this one to #2...and so forth. The discs are locked up far away and Lori can't get to them.
She knew that logging off or freezing up her brother's computer would be catastrophic, but damn it, she wasn't getting to stare at any tits...they were her brother's tits now. She had to get them back so she torpedoed her brother again. It's to be expected with Lori. She destroys everything.
The playing field just got as even as we can make it. Those computers are vital evidence that must be collected. It's a matter of national security. They are not the property of the Palm Springs Police Department, they are the property of the U.S. Navy. It's important to note that the website that translates our thoughts and puts them online, is still up and running. Nothing has changed in terms of what I have to hear and what can be stolen from my mind. Locking up Brian's computer is advantageous for communication and it helps to cut off the sale of phone numbers to other operators. Also, Lori will no longer be able to have a free phone. She can't zero out phone bills and the timing of this computer being taken offline will show, at Verizon, where it is located. FBI could be tracking them right now.
There are lots of computers that log into Verizon Wireless, but only one computer went offline at the time we know Lori froze his computer. This pinpoints the computer that has been used for the past few years. There was only one left and we got it locked up. So where does that leave us now?
At this point those computers are worthless to the six people living in that home. They remain a beacon for terrorism and must be seized. It is vital that we get them and even more vital that we have the discs that can open them. Only a re-install of Windows98 will open them and it will erase the military program for good. Basically they are junk computers for Lori now. We need to capture them asap.
I think it is my favorite thing that Jonathan has ever accomplished. To lock Lori out of her own terror computer system is genius. It took a lot longer than we expected but if you know Lori, she destroys everything to get what she wants. In this case, she wanted to stare at more titties than she was being allowed to stare at...so she blew up her brother's computer for attention. Those must be some tits Leah and Missy have because it cost a fortune for Lori and her brother.
The request to "password protect disc" these computers came from Brian, but the discs were made by Jonathan at his request. There isn't a word password associated with these computers, only a random group of letters and numbers, that nobody could remember. Logging in by hand is virtually impossible. I would suggest to private investigators that these computers can not be lost!!! It is vital to secure them.
In addition to creating and keeping the password reset discs, Jonathan wrote down all the serial numbers and information contained on each of the four CPU's. Not only can we look for these computers with a search warrant, we know they were there and we can be specific in our request. They don't belong to Lori and Brian, they belong to the U.S. Government, Dept of Defense. This should be easy to secure the warrant based on the phone number portability and text message spoofing we've seen.
It's been a long time since Lori was equal to other people without one of these computers that she uses to act defiant. Now her retaliation and ability to hurt families is lessened. She can't go looking up family information on the Verizon system any longer. This significantly reduces the amount of information that she is able to acquire. Of course, she thinks this will free up time for her brother to come after my family, but I think that it would be fool hardy to even attempt it after the theft of my saving's account. There really wasn't any room for error and the error happened. It's completely Lori's fault. She'll blame everyone from me to you, but the jealousy overtook her ability to avoid this catastrophe.
Lori has impulse control problems. Sex is the one thing that can always draw her attention away. I'm not that sexual of a person so I'm pretty much the opposite of Lori. In fact, I find her constant sexual need to hurt people offensive. I've been the object of her hate for so long, I expect it. When she can't get me to be upset, she flails around looking for someone around her to satisfy her need to piss someone off. She use to love to make Steve Frey and Christopher Monti mad. She loves it when my parents freak out about something too. Basically Lori loves starting a fight from afar. She loves to light the fuse. Unfortunately, this time, she lit her own fuse thinking it was someone else's. This crime is going to end and now, they have no income.
