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July 21, 2009

Tennessee Murderer of Six People Suspect Called His Exwife "UNFIT" and Tried to Take Custody of Children

Filed under: Alabama, Child Custody Battle, Child Custody Issues, Child custody for fathers, Children and Domestic Violence, Children's rights, Corrupt bastards, Desperate men, Domestic Abuse, Domestic Relations, Domestic Violence, Glenn Sacks, Hate Crimes, Husbands who murder wives, Jacob Shaffer, Mark Godbey, Murdered Mothers, Ned Holstein, Protect yourself from FR groups, Tennessee, Tracie Shaffer, Violence against women — justice4mothers @ 5:39 pm

Hey Mark Godbey of "Father's Parental Rights", are you covering this since you hijacked the domestic violence category???

Violent, abusive fathers….no surprises here.  While Ned Holstein and Glenn Sacks are running around the country whining about "why didn't Steve McNair's murder get called domestic violence" and "women are so violent," I DID call McNair's murder domestic violence (even if it wasn't by definition).  I haven't seen them criss-cross the country about all the families being murdered.  It is these violent men that try and take the children from their moms (and are usually successful, thanks to stupid, corrupt judges).  But if that doesn't work, just pull out the shotgun…or just keep beating them any way you can.

Hey, here's an idea: let's just stop calling all of this domestic violence and call it what it is….murder, assault, child rape, etc., etc., etc. 

From The Huntsville Times:

 

Suspect had called ex-wife unfit; has at least 3 children

 

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

By Niki Doyle

Times Staff Writer niki.doyle@htimes.com

Jacob Shaffer

The man accused of killing six people, including his wife and her 16-year-old son, once tried to take custody of his two children away from his ex-wife by claiming she was an unfit mother.

According to court records from August 2008, 30-year-old Jacob Shaffer claimed his ex-wife, Elizabeth Shaffer, was "neglectful in the welfare and well-being" of the couple's two children, 9-year-old Arianna and 7-year-old Justin.

The case was promptly dismissed in December when Shaffer failed to pay the $382 in court costs, records show.

Shaffer has been charged with murder in Lincoln County, Tenn., in connection with the brutal slayings of his current wife, 38-year-old Tracie Shaffer, and the woman's father, brother and son, along with the son's friend and a Huntsville man.

Tennessee Bureau of Investigation officials said Shaffer spared his own 4-year-old daughter, who was in the home with his wife at the time of the killings. According to court records and family, Shaffer has at least three children – the two from his marriage to Elizabeth Shaffer, and the 4-year-old girl from his marriage to Tracie Shaffer.

Jacob Shaffer claimed less than a year ago that his oldest daughter thrived in his household, earning better grades and showing more involvement in Sunday school than when she lived with her mother.

Shaffer said his ex-wife had been living with her boyfriend and left the children in his sole custody for months, neglecting to pick them up at scheduled times, according to court records.

The claims went unanswered, and the case was closed in December after a Madison County judge denied Shaffer's request for a waiver of fees based on financial hardship.

The 2008 civil case was the second chapter of a custody battle between Shaffer and his ex, who sued him three years earlier for $7,375 in back child support for their two children.

Shaffer teetered on the brink of a 110-day jail sentence for failing to pay 80 child support payments since the couple's divorce in 2003. Shaffer put down a "large good-faith payment" after the civil court claim was filed, causing the judge to withdraw the order that could have sent him to jail.

Also see:  Man in custody in six slayings in Tennessee, Alabama

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