Pedophile politician's $150,000 bribery scheme
Friday, Dec. 12 2008 @ 11:28AM
On November 8, 2008, 15-year-old Danielle Renee Black's MySpace page -- screen name psychogirl1993 -- sported the following headline: "~R.I.P~I love u dad!!~We will miss u!~" Beside Danielle's profile photo was this quote: "wats there 2 say??...my heart is broken from so many guys....my father is gone....i need help from my ppl...my real ppl...u kno who u r....there is only 3 of u....but only 2 r here now...."Danielle was referring to the murder of her father, Billy Lee Black, age 47. Black was found brutally stabbed to death on October 31, 2008. He'd been attacked in the early morning hours beside the work truck he parked behind his family's row house in Hagerstown, Maryland.
Danielle's friend Alec Scott Eger, age 19, was Alec Scott Draven and 911r3ap3r911 (911reaper911 for those who can't read leet speak) on MySpace.com.
Prior to December, 2008, Alec's "About me" was a lengthy, pseudo-Nietzschean screed about how to live your life. An interesting quote from the end of Alec's little lecture, spelling and punctuation mistakes intact:
The only thing left is the need for vengeance against those who cause pain, sorrow.People get away with things they should never have done yet no one punishes them. Killers, child molesters, rapists, wife beaters, etc. So the question I ask is this. Is it wrong to extract vengeance on those who deserve it, in defense and revenge for those who cannot protect themselfs. Because in this world of unjust ignorance you are the only one who will stand up for the those who need help.Emphasis was added.

On Wednesday, December 10, Danielle Black was arrested in Hagerstown and charged with solicitation of first-degree murder. Alec Scott Eger was also taken into custody. Eger was charged with first-degree murder.
Police believe Danielle Black approached another male prior to her father's murder and asked him to kill Billy Lee Black. Danielle allegedly told her friend that her father would be entering the truck he used for work around 5 in the morning. The teen said he wouldn't get anything out of it and refused.
But court papers referenced by the Washington Post indicate that Alec Scott Eger held the unsupported belief that his friend Danielle was being abused by her father. Eger decided to do something about it.
The assistant state's attorney for Washington County, MD told the Post that the only problem Billy Lee Black really had was "with his daughter and her group of friends." Dunlap believes that Danielle and Alec were members of a goth "crew," and that they were into "sucking each other's blood, cutting each other."
Charging documents cited by the Post state that Alec Eger has confessed to killing Billy Lee Black. He approached Black that Halloween morning intending to confront the older man about the alleged abuse. They struggled, and Black managed to wrest a knife from Alec's hands. But Alec (who gave his height as 6'5" on his MySpace page), had another knife and he used that weapon to repeatedly stab Billy Lee Black about the head and neck.
Alec took some money from the dead man's wallet. As he fled the scene he threw his weapon, the wallet and bloody clothing in a dumpster.
As often happens in cases like this, Alec Eger's MySpace page has been changed since his arrest. Images of marijuana leaves and the Nietzschean screed have been deleted and the following message has been posted on his profile:
For those who may not already know, Alec has gotten into some serious trouble in Hagerstown, MD while trying to help a young women who he beleived needed his help. If anyone has any information regarding this situation, please contact Jerry Joyce at the Hagerstown Public Defender's Office at 301-791-4735.Until she was detained by Hagerstown authorities on Wednesday, Danielle Black was updating her page on a regular basis...
Previously her self-description had been a rambling mini-bio written in capital letters filled with shout-outs to friends and her longing for a boyfriend. A portion of Danielle's "About me" from her profile as it appeared on November 8:
I PRETTY MUCH LOVE TO GO ANY WHERE AS LONG AS I'M WITH MY FRIENDS OR MY FAMILY. MY FRIENDS CONSIDER ME A STONER. I EVEN HAD A COUPLE PPL CALL ME AN ALCOHOLIC.LOL.DONT UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT OK. ANYWAY I HAVE AN OLDER BROTHER NAMED JUSTIN.HE'S 20 AND HAS A NICE CAR. I AM SINGLE. IM LOOKING 4 A GREAT, GOOD-LOOKING GUY. ITS FINE WITH ME IF HE IS A SMOKER AND/OR A DRINKER AND ITS OK IF HE DOES DRUGS. I JUST WANT SOME1 THAT WILL TREAT ME WIT RESPECT...Later in the same section, Danielle was expressing her affection for a friend named Rachel and she listed several other people to whom she felt especially close:
I LOVE U LIKE U R MY SISTER. HELL WE CALL EACH OTHER SISTERS. I DONT KNO WHAT I COULD POSSIBLY EVER DO WITHOUT U. WE HAVE KNOWN EACH OTHER SINCE WE WERE LIKE 2. SO PRACTICALLY U R MY SISTER. WE ALWAYS GET OUR ASSES IN TROUBLE 1 WAY OR ANOTHER. IT DONT MATTER WHAT WE R DOING WE ALWAYS GET BLAMED 4 EVERYTHING. WELL AS LONG AS WE R 2GETHER WE DONT GIVE A DAMN BOUT WHAT WE GET YELLED AT 4. OR BEING PUT IN JAIL, WHICH WILL WHIND UP HAPPENING 1 OF THESE DAYS SOON. WELL I LOVES U SISSY. MEAGAN WE HAVE KNOWN EACH OTHER FOR OVER A YEAR, AND WE ONLY KEEP GETTING CLOSER. I MEAN I CAN GO 2 U BOUT EVERYTHING. ESPECIALLY THAT 1 THING THAT I KNO U DID CUZ DANIELLE TOLD ME U DID. I LOVE HANGING OUT WITH U, UR BROTHER, JUSTIN, T.A.K., MATT, SEAN, JOEY, BRENT, AND ZACK. UR HOUSE IS LIKE MY 2ND HOME. U HELP ME OUT SO MUCH. AND I LOVES U 4 THAT. PLUS U, MY SISTER RACHEL, ALEC, MATT, DANIELLE AND T.A.K. ARE THE ONLY PPL I TRUST NE MORE.Again, I added emphasis to one name in the quote.
By December 9 the same section was a little more tame:
my name is danielle renee black. i live wit my mother in hagerstown maryland. i have an older brother named justin. hes 20 years old. i go 2 williamsport high but i use 2 go 2 south. i used 2 live with my father until he was killed on halloween of this '08. i great friends nd a wonderful boyfriend. my boyfriends name is jj. hes 16, got a rockin body nd hes kinda pyscho but i guess i love him ne ways...Danielle also wrote a number of entries in her MySpace weblog. Danielle made an interesting post in March this year in which she quoted the lyrics to the song "Warped and Twisted" by a group called Bandaid:
Harsh words & violent blowsAnother post made in March addressed depression and suicide, sometimes in an open, frank manner. Danielle wrote:
Hidden secrets nobody knows
Eyes are open, hands are fisted
Deep inside I'm warped & twisted
So many tricks & so many lies
Too many whens & too many whys
Nobody's special, nobody's gifted
I'm just me, warped & twisted
Sleeping awake & choking on a dream
Listening loudly to a silent scream
Call my mind, the number's unlisted
Lost in someone so warped & twisted
On my knees, alive but dead
Look at the invisible blood I've bled
I'm not gone, my mind has drifted
Don't expect much, I'm warped & twisted
Burnt out, wasted, empty, & hollow
Today's just yesterday's tomorrow
The sun died out, the ashes sifted
I'm still here, warped & twisted
I bet at least three fourths of amercians don't know that everyday people try to kill themselves because of depression. Not everyone has a perfect life like people think. Most suicidal attempts are attempted by teens. Most teens that attempt suicide say that they did it because they were trying to escape from a situation that seemed impossible to deal with or get relief from really bad thoughts or feelings...The entry appeared to have been partially copied from other sources. Later in the same post, Danielle's voice seemed to re-emerge:
Most people dont understand this, but i do. If anyone feels like this relates to them, I am here to let you know you can talk to me. I will listen and will not judge because i went through depression and am still some what goin through it, but it is not as severe as what it was. So i understand a lot. Please come talk to me before you think about killing yourself. I'm here 2 help save lives like someone saved mine.I started crime blogging in late 2004 after happening on to the story of Rachelle Waterman, an Alaskan teen who was accused of masterminding the murder of her mother. Then as now the question arose: did the teen girl in question really intend for someone to murder her parent? Since the state ultimately dropped all charges against Waterman but two older men with whom she was romantically involved were imprisoned for the crime, the question has never truly been answered in her case. It could be that the men who killed Rachelle's mother only believed they were doing what the girl really wanted, no matter what she said. Waterman may have been another teen drama queen who happened to fall in with a couple of sociopaths, and she may not have realized how seriously they would take her hyperbolic complaints about the way her mother treated her.
To be sure, allegations that Danielle Black was actively seeking someone to kill her father are just that -- allegations. So far, court records only show that Alec Eger has confessed to the act.
With Danielle now facing charges of soliciting the crime, I feel fairly certain the same questions that came up during the trial of Rachelle Waterman will come up again with the teens currently sitting in lockup in Hagerstown, MD -- just how serious was Danielle Black when she approached the other teen? And did she ask Alec Eger to commit the crime, or did he ultimately just decided it was something he had to do?
Links:
- Danielle Black's cached MySpace, 11/08/08 [PDF]
- Alec Scott Eger's cached MySpace [PDF]
- Danielle Black's MySpace blog [PDF]
[Herald-Mail.com -- NOTE: The Herald-Mail article named Danielle Black -- the WaPo article does not.]







Stories like these make me sick. I can't ever imagine wanting someone to kill my parents. I have been angry towards my parents, yes, like anyone else, but never in the capacity of not wanting to ever see them again or wish them harm. These kids need to be taught a lesson. I really wonder, though, how does this happen? How do people really go through life with no feelings at all? It scares me. Like the 19 year old guy who wanted to get his girlfriend breast implants, and hiring people to murder his mom to get the money. What a crazy world we live in.
Posted 12/13/2008 at 04:56:47 PMPeople chould not judge right off the bat. In the article the Herald Mail published, it said that she told friends that he physically abused her. It has been "alleged" that she asked someone to kill her dad. But it has yet to be proven. People honestly should get all the facts from someplace other than someone's crime blog. Read a paper, watch the news. While they might not always have all the facts either, you get a lot more facts on the case, not just opinion.
Posted 12/15/2008 at 01:33:56 PMBilly Black was my uncle and i am so mad about all of this. My uncle was a good man who never hurt anyone. i want to know what the hell was in egers head that made him think it was ok to do what he did. because of him my family is suffering. i lost a big part of my life and he took my sons great uncle away from him. Billy never even had the chance to see my son who i just had in september. he took away a loving father, husband, uncle, son, brother,and so much more. he didn't deserve this. so people need to think before they defend egar, because my uncle didn't deserve the hand he was delt.
Posted 01/02/2009 at 09:15:04 PMI remember I was like 15 or 16 & one day I told my mom I was going to kill myself. She told me to go ahead & then left me in the bathroom. I wrote like two songs & then came out. I laugh thinking about it because when you're a teen it really sucks, & things don't seem fair. If you try to kill yourself (unless you're really depressed)just run away! Leave a note to say that you did & to not call the police; but to get someone to kill your parents?! Pathetic & quite frankly immature.
Sounds to me like she actually solicited that murder because who the hell says in their online profile their dad was killed & in the same section talk about how hot their boyfriend is?! BTW, that picture of her at the beginning of this page makes her look like a boy, except for the bra showing.
Posted 01/27/2009 at 06:00:05 PMI Knew Alec Personally i grew up with him all my life you could say hes like a brother to me...
Posted 02/17/2009 at 12:57:14 AMall my life alec has protected me and kept my family safe and strong through thick and thin and all my life he has stood up for what he belived was rite.. i watched his step dad flip shit beat his mom, him and his lil brother
he just thought he was saving danielle and that he was doing the world a favor because danielle told people that he raped her and threw her out a 2 story window and that allmost evry night he laid his hands on her..
i dont understand why danielle didnt tell the police instead of going around south high and the streets of hagerstown telling evrybody to kill her dad
and in defense of my brother he has never been in any legal trouble in his entire life aside from stealing a book from waldens books in the fredrick town mall
i think that he just wanted to help this girl and her family...
The allegations of abuse are somewhat substantiated by the depression, suicide attempts, and self-cutting. Teens, unable to protect themselves, will often act out in just these ways.
Abuse seldom, if ever, occurs when witnesses are present. Look at the Fritzl case in Austria....his 6 other children, his wife, his neighbors, never suspected him of holding, raping, and father 7 children with his daughter he held captive for 24 years. Look at Dennis Rader's family... he a member of the church, city job, raising, from all accounts, 2 well adjusted children. Quite often, the psychopaths amongst us are very adept at concealing their nature from even close, intimate acquaintances and family members.
I don't know if this girl was sexually abused, emotionally abused, as she claims or not. But having worked with abused children in the past, they frequently present the same acting out behaviors as ascribed to her.
It is best to forebear judgement in cases like this until all investigations and facts are presented at trial. While to many of us it is inconceivable act, it is equally inconceivable that you can physically, sexually, emotionally abuse a child without severe consequences to both the child, and yes, potentially yourself.
The other possibility is of course that she is just plain evil herself. Which is the case remains to be seen.
Posted 05/28/2009 at 12:08:19 PMThis is bull shit. The whole story is stupid. He did hit her i sat next to her in home room she was my friend and im not saying he should of died but i dont think she should be locked up.
Posted 07/27/2009 at 02:10:44 PMAs the Rachel in the article is my daughter and Danielle might as well be my daughter since she was at my house so much, it would be nice if the real story was out and not al l this bogus bullcrap then maybe this child would get justice and not railroaded like she was.
Posted 09/04/2009 at 03:52:32 PMCan Anyone tell me what is going on with Alec Scott Eger's case?
Posted 09/14/2009 at 07:32:28 PMDanielle Black was convicted of solicitation of murder in Washington Co. MD in July. She was sentenced on Oct 23 to Life all but ten year suspended. She is currently awaiting transfer to Jessup Women's prison. The only person to address the court was her Step-mother, who told her she "missed my family we had" and that Danielle "had your father killed for nothing." She asked the judge of Life. Danielle expressed no remorse or sadness but the laughing and smiling at her friends that was witnessed (when the jury was out) was gone.
She did FINALLY admit in a pre-sentence investigation that her father never physically abused her, a point that was brought up to the judge. Her crime was compaired to that of the Salem Witch Trials where the lies of little girls brought about not only the murders of innocents but the assination of charaters.
Posted 10/27/2009 at 08:29:56 PMAdditionally, to those SHHS kids she fooled into thinking she was a victum of abuse, it was later found out the the wounds she so proudly displayed were self inflicted and inflicted by her "loyal" friends.
Jennifer - Alec Egar is schedule to stand trial on Feb 1-4 of 2010.
Posted 10/27/2009 at 08:33:44 PMYeah, apparently the only "abuse" Billy Black (God rest his soul) inflicted on his daughter was trying to keep her away from a bad crowd...maybe if Danielle wasn't so wrapped up in her imagined problems, she would've realized that.
Oh, and Melissa, apparently neither you or your daughter knew Danielle as well as you thought you did...funny how none one bothered to verify any of her claims and instead chose to take the word of a disturbed child as gospel.
As for Eger, looks like he entered an Alford plea:
http://www.herald-mail.com/?cmd=displaystory&story_id=238688&format=html
Posted 02/02/2010 at 07:19:25 PMAlso, if Eger really wanted to "help" Danielle, why didn't he call Child Services or some other legal agency? They could've investigated her claims, and once they were proven to be baseless, it would've been the end, resulting in a much better outcome than what wound up actually happening.
Posted 02/17/2010 at 06:20:40 PMFor the last few years I have heard all theissues why kids do things and the parents are always portrayed as the bad guys when no one knows the child (yes I said "child")reason for printing anything on a "My Space" type of site. Don't forget kids do lie more times than not. They took the easy way outand blamed everyone but theirselfs.
Posted 03/08/2010 at 08:05:03 AM