I knew him and her supposedly they had never gone out. He obsessed about her is the thing.

there is no way he did it. i knew him in high school and know both sides of him. the soft and outgoing side. i remember him showing me a video when he went camping and went to a shooting range, i also remember him being very compassionate and soft always being sweet and raw with me. he did not do it!!!!

Film making, percussion instruments, soldier, violence and power themes throughout. Yes, even his polyglottal orientation seems to be about rebellion and control.
Perhaps it is a typical OC kid in all but control over his own actions.

Police still don't have a motive in this case. If I had to guess, based on covering past cases like this (and I've covered quite a few, beginning in late 2004) I'd say that the unnamed teen (she is apparently not being charged as an adult) may have made some claims to her boyfriend about her mom. That, or Darlene Saddler disapproved of the couple and wanted them apart. It's a Romeo and Juliet-like delusion to the couple in the midst of it.

I dunno . . . been all over his myspace and the thing that cries out to me is repressed/confused homosexual/sexual identity. Anyone else get that? Just don't see the Romeo/Juliet thing you speak of - for one thing there is NO mention that I found, of this supposed GF, anywhere.

Then we have this musical/languages/artsy/envronmental activist side contrasted with the pro-gun/warhawk/anti-abortion etc side. Adding to that is the whole "I'm a virgin" thing and the post about his perfect one boy and one girl family - that if you notice - has no mention of a wife or mother for these imagined future kids(????)

I felt the same way about Eric Rudolph.

There is some kind of homosexual panic going on here, I think. And obviously some kind of love/hate dysfunction with Mother - damage to the face/head/skull very personal and rage filled.

Ultimately, he may have wanted to do something "permanent" to keep him from reporting to the military? I was only on his myspace a few minutes - and that countdown clock was even getting to ME.

If I had to guess, I'd say Mother made a remark about his manhood - whether that be that he'll never make it in the military or he cannot even hold a job (guesswork remember) and with that countdown clock clicking in his head - he bashed her head and then shot later.

First off, it should be known that Brian and this girl were not going out. They have never been in a BF/GF relationship. Also, knowing Brian, he isn't confused about his sexual identity. I can say this because I personally know him.

I feel it should be known that Brian isn't the kind of person that is serious all the time. He jokes around a lot and can't keep a straight face with anything. For him to visit my class and act calm and friendly, as he did the previous year when we were classmates, and at the same time supposedly taken the life of someone else. He would have broken down about it.

Checking his Gaia or Myspace or whatever else everyone thinks makes him guilty is rather pathetic. Based on what is being said, him roleplaying on Gaia makes him a murderer. Him talking about Ron Paul on Digg makes him a murderer. This is a load of crap. You can't put any real accusations on him based on his political views or the fact he likes to roleplay.

It upsets me that this whole time people are bashing Brian for something so horrible but nobody is looking at the supposed girlfriend. Yes her name isn't released because of her age but the students at the school she attends know who she is and everyone is pointing their fingers at her because they know how "crazy" she is.

Darlene was my aunt. I am stunned but do not know enough to take such accusations as truths, Paula is a sweet girl, I have never known this guy, and HIGHLY doubt she would date him, I am truly appalled by all of you posting your opinions on this matter when you HAVE NOTHING to do with it. Noone knows what anyone is capable of, and to say someone is innocent or guilty on a web page is sick. Leave the verdict to the jury and the judge, they will decide.

This "teen" was one of my best friends. I can't believe that she'd ever do this. But I know that it's true from the evidence that I've been told about from her "sister" [another one of my best friends who adopted Paula] that she did do this. I do know that they were never going out. However, he was obsessed with her. Does this mean that she manipulated him in to doing something so terrible? I don't know. What I do know is that she told me "You can't tell anyone okay? I know who killed my mom. It was Landry." I asked her how she could ever possibly know such a thing and she said "My mom made me upset that night and Landry called me and I was crying and he told me that he hated seeing me like that." I don't know how much of this is true. I just don't know what to do with this information.

Paula is not as nice as you think! I know both these kids and he is the one that had a future.

Anon & Frank - *NEWSFLASH* - you are at the TRUE CRIME REPORT and we are in the "comment" section, doin' a little thing called COMMENTING.

What are you two doing here?

Steve,
Nice reading your blog again.

I meet this kid. Good kid, funny, layback. Is hard to believe he could do something like that. He was in Academic Decathlon last year.

We are very sad to hear this news we knew the family and it would be best to let the courts take care of this matter and let their family work through this very difficult time.

@auddie:

Well I suppose that I am doing the exact same thing you are and that is commenting. We may have different ways of doing so but it is still commenting.

i've known brian since we were in 5th grade! i was so shocked when i found out about this. he always seemed like a nice kid. but people are full of surprises i guess.
crazy.

ok i know this girl who is supposed to be in connection to this murder.....uhm...you obviously dont even know your own family if you think think she is a good girl...she is really crazy and extremely annoying ... shes the type who would do anything for attention

Okay so Paula may have been a bit wild, but she never would have told Landry to murder her mother... even if she never really got along with her.
Also Landry(whom I've known for many years) would never, not exaggerating, do something so stupid just Because Paula told him to...
He knows well enough that Paula would never want her mother to die like that

"First off, it should be known that Brian and this girl were not going out. They have never been in a BF/GF relationship. Also, knowing Brian, he isn't confused about his sexual identity. I can say this because I personally know him.

I feel it should be known that Brian isn't the kind of person that is serious all the time. He jokes around a lot and can't keep a straight face with anything. For him to visit my class and act calm and friendly, as he did the previous year when we were classmates, and at the same time supposedly taken the life of someone else. He would have broken down about it.

Checking his Gaia or Myspace or whatever else everyone thinks makes him guilty is rather pathetic. Based on what is being said, him roleplaying on Gaia makes him a murderer. Him talking about Ron Paul on Digg makes him a murderer. This is a load of crap. You can't put any real accusations on him based on his political views or the fact he likes to roleplay.

It upsets me that this whole time people are bashing Brian for something so horrible but nobody is looking at the supposed girlfriend. Yes her name isn't released because of her age but the students at the school she attends know who she is and everyone is pointing their fingers at her because they know how 'crazy' she is."

absolutely correct

she was more likely to have done it yet she was in school that day and he visted after school that day

he has never once missed the chance to go to our school to see his friends

and how gaia roleplay and comments on digg make a person guilty is absolute BS

so you would say anyone on gaia or digg is a most likely a murder than Why not arrest everyone on gaia and digg and put them on trial...

Hmmm????

you see assuming only makes an ass out of u and me

What everyone seems to forget is that someone is dead. Brian will never see the light of day. His life is over, regardless of what the girl had to do with this, hes the one who pulled the trigger, and stabbed the mother. I dont care if you think hes not capable, the police have evidence that says he did. Im sure for the rest of his life he will wish he didnt do it, prison is not a place you want to die. What about the 5 year old that watched him do it and had to stay in the house with the body? He sounds like a great guy. I wouldnt claim I know him.

paula is nice to her little click of weirdo friends, of course she doesn't act like that in front you guys. you guys don't understand how she treats people who she doesn't get along with. I mean i knew she was weird and i knew she was different and i respected her, i honestly didn't think she was capable of something this dangerous and that's really scary, and it's scary to think people like that go to our school. Everyone has their different opinions about this and i really do respect them, but you got to understand that she is really different in a classroom with preppy girls verse a class filled with punker kids. But anyways...all the evidence is there the police traced her texts to her other bf and she was talking about this to him. so i dont know..it's really scary. but we shall see what the judge and the hury say.

I have wanted to say something on this for a long time yes Paula hated her mom and said she wanted to kill her but what I hear from my friends is that she was a bitch I didn't know her mom real well but she seemed pretty mean to Paula when I met her. And Paula would not care if her mom never let her date Landry because she was dating one and only one boy and if she was dating Landry she wouldn't care and she certainly wouldn't kill her mom over it

To Timmy: you don't even know her so shut up. also you have no idea who she is I might not either but I have a better idea than you. And second I don't care what you people think about them they are and always will be my friends I love Paula and you people not you Frank Snyder don't even know her at all but she might have been over extreme at times but I am her friend no wait still am her friend and will stay that way and for Brian I can say yes I hung out with the guy and could never have thought this of him and still don't no matter what the police think. And to ocblondegirl92: you don't even know my friends so law off yeah were weird but who isn't and yeah they say she told him too do it and yes Brian would do anything for her but he would not do that while Paula's little sister was home. And yes I know it's true the have evidence both of them did it and my friend who lived with her told me she did but the real only evidence the police have on here is that he liked guns what guy doesn't. And with this I bid you a good bye.

So if that's the case, maybe Mom traumatized her own upper body, stabbed herself repeatedly and then shot herself in the head?

okie dokie then . . .

God people acting high and mighty because they think they know the truth because the news told them so. Don't comment on things you know nothing about. News stories always exaggerate and add their own flair to the story so that people would read it.

Also he's only 18, why would he ruin his life like this? He signed up for the military, he wasn't being dragged into it. I don't think he would do something like that when he wanted to do something with his life.

I know Brian, and he wouldn't be stupid enough to ruin his life like this.

Teenagers are so stupid. Thats why one will be in prison for life and the other for about 10 years. Brian confessed, they had a search warrant, the idiot kept the gun he shot her with. And he stabbed her in the neck, just before he told her 5 year old to go to her room, and she watched her mother die. Darn I have to wait a year till he gets his life sentence. And if her mom was crazy why not runaway, or go somewhere else. Is that the price you pay for caring? This is 2009, no one gets away with murder. Is this the new thing if you dont like your parents, you kill them? They both deserve punishment, brian for killing someone and paula for not telling someone he was gonna do it.

Ok, to put it clearly the Girl is a manipulative individual that cared only about her own self advancement. She used Landry, she had even told me personally that she only keeps him around because he would do anything for her. It is a fact that Landry did it and anyone that says otherwise is an idiot, they found the weapon at his house if this isn't proper evidence for you then you really need to pull your head out of your rectum. She used anyone and everyone around her she was in Drama and was a pretty good actor. Landry himself was obsessed with her everyone knew that, he only hung out with like 2 people. When she wasn't there he would not hang out with that group of people he was only there for her. And also Landry was not there after school to see her like he usually was. There were never dating, I believe that is a fact but I know this girl and she is a constant lier and she cheated on her real boyfriend multiple times so it is quite possible that she really went out with Landry or told him that if he did it that they would go out, but that is mainly speculation. Fact is he did it, kept the weapon and is now caught. She most likely considering her history told him to do it.

I am Danielle Snyder. I am Darlene Saddlers half sister. I used to live in California until about 10 years ago and I moved to Tennessee where I now live. Darlene was a good person. She was devoted to har kids and her family. I haven't seen Darlene in maybe 6-7 years or her daughter in a longer time than that. It is hard to believe that her daughter the same little girl that I remember is capable of such a horrid crime. I wish I knew what possesed her to do this but no matter what it was, there is still no reason no excuse that would be good enough. It is amazing what people will do. Why would her boyfriend want to do this? Help her. Why would she? There are so many questions that I would like to have answered and unfortunately I don't believe they ever will be answered.

ok first of all, all of this little girls friends and brians friends stop sticking up for them.. they did what they did and now they are paying for it. i didnt really know the girl, but all i really knew is that she walked around school with alot of braclets on her arm... i knew brian he was in atleast one of my classes since my freshman year.. thank god he never pulled a columbine beucase he probably would have killed alot of people at our school.. he was always talking about army and guns in class.. that was the number one thing that signaled me to stay as far away as possible from him..thats creepy.. well i am so glad that he is behind bars because we dont need that kid in our community.. the only good thing about this kid was one thing, he was good at playing the drums and thats it...i hope he rots in jail beucase anyone that kills someone deserves that, especially a creep like him.. that little girl is rotting in juvy knowing she will never ever have a mom again..that makes me sick to know that someone would ever have thoughts to kill there mom...

I knew her very well. Paula did it. she told him to do it. How do I know? Because she asked her ex boyfriend if he would do it. She asked friends she had back in Rancho Cugomanga if they would do it. She told me she wanted her mother to die more than anything. I hate her. I hate Landry. She is a fucking murderer. He is a murderer. I got quite a kick reading peoples comments saying that there innocent. Quite a kick indeed. When I heard that her mom was killed, I had my assumptions, but was not certain. Now that I see that Landry is in jail it's all clear. All I can do is jump for joy. She was as evil as a mixture of Scrooge, Emperor Palpatine, and Justin Chatwin. Now that Bitch is getting what she deserves. And Landry. What a tool. What a prick. This is very exciting. Oh, I can't wait for what happens next. Better heat up some popcorn.

People please what ever you think you might know you don't so let it rest I know Brian and If he did this I only hope he has asked for forgivness if he is innocent may god forgive all of you who took assumption too far.

i knew them both and its true they never went out although he did like her very much. I was there when the police led her away, crying, before they knew that she was connected (when they thought that she had nothing to do with it and were bringing her in to tell her things). I talked with both of them on a regular basis from the day the mom was killed until the day they were arrested. in fact i even had dinner with the girl (whos name i dont think i can say but it started with a P) a week before all that stuff all came down

Brian "V" Who are you, are you Pony Tail? cause i knew them both too and id like to know what you do

Brian V is right. Moreover I am in complete agreement with him on all of his points, though i would state it a bit more subtly.

i dated paula back when i was a senior in highschool and was joining the army when all of this went down

i loved her dearly as a friend and could get her to tell me any thing in cluding things on this matter and all i got from her was that she didnt know how did this

she had called me well i was in training and asked for help i couldnt answer becuas thay take are phones

i know and would bet my life on the fact that she didnt know any thing about this she always came to me with her problems becuas she knew no matter how mad i was at her she could get a blunt straight answer on any subject from me

i just found out to day that she was arested

i she was a good friend and i dont beleave that she had any thing to do with this

James R, Who the fuck is ponytail? No I'm not ponytail. And what do you mean you want to know what I do?

And Vinzent, I don't care how close you think you were to her, but if you JUST found out that she was arrested, I am assuming that you two were never very close at all. In fact, I'll go a step further and say that I am 100 percent certain that you two were never really close at all. You may have gotten a hand job or two from her, but hey, Who hasn't. Point is, your wrong you stupid fuck. Found out in August when this shit went down in April. Yeah, Real good friend. I bet she was straight with you all of the time. Hell, You were the first person she probably called when she had a problem. I'm a gambling man and let me tell you something. "Betting your life on this" would be a very bad investment. This girl you people are all loosely referring to as "Friend" Has either,

A) Fucked you over

B) Planned on fucking you over

Or C) Has failed at fucking you over.

Nevertheless, That cocksucker Landry is being butt-fucked by some inmate named "Bobsled Ned" and that Filthy little girl Paula is in a juvenile detention center. There mothers would be proud... Well. Lets rephrase that. HIS mother would be proud. Be kinda hard for Paula's mother to be proud while worms are munchin on her face

Brian V ? Which one of Paulas piece of shit friends are you? Today is one month away from the mruder. You insensitive little prick. If I knew which one of her friends you were I'd go to your house(which I know where you all live ) and fucking punch you in the face. And Vincent your a duche bag. She could always play you. Thank God she didnt talk you into doing it cause u would have. Paula knew all about this shit, she told the guy how to get in the house, and when to go in. He rode his fucking bike there. Who rides a bike to a murder. Anyone who doesnt think Brian didnt do this, ask Paulas 5 year sister who watch him as he stabbed her mom in the kneck after he shot her. he did this! And Brian V I think your the little dark haired fuck who wears glasses, who lives in Cypress. Let me know so I can come fuck you up!

Though extremely crude in his phrasing, Mr. V is simply telling you exactly how it is. And from what I can see Ocgirl123, you are of the same opinion, just in a more moderate sense. Despite the uncensored nature of the way Mr. V states his argument, he still has a better understanding of the events that have transpired over the last year involving this and her than just about anyone who has voiced an opinion here.

We're talking about a convulsive liar, who constantly uses, better phrased, used, people to take advantage of others. A constant sympathy vote, to alienate people she thought deserved it. I find it unlikely that anyone here was really a good friend of her, as she was constantly sending people down river, even the people she called good friends.

To be sum this up. Do not let Mr. V's vulgar statements cause you to believe he's ill informed, because he knows exactly what he's talking about.

ok so i see that you are all realy mad as as to y i didnt find out tell just resently i joined the fucking army so for give me on not being up on curent events and i did go to viset her 2 days befor i left so the fact that you want to fight ne on this is point less i am how i am and i was a friend to her i will ad mit i was played by her thus the x girl friend thing how ever i am still her friend

Vinzent, no one is angry with you. You obviously want to live in your little bubble and that's okay. It seems that I am the subject of aggression here. By the way Vinzent, we might take you more seriously if you actually spelled some words right.

'OCGirl', I don't see were all of this aggression is coming from. From what I can see you agree with me. Completely. So what's with the threats? Whatever tough girl.

I am the little dark haired fuck who wears glasses.(I figured putting my name on here would give it away). Come get me bitch.

It's really rediculous that we have to deal with nonsense like this in our world. Seriously now. Can't we all just get a long without acting like fools who can't tell right from wrong?

Brian V. I have no anger towards you. I just think your very insensitive, and I would punch you in the face, but thats not anger. Thats how you deal with punks like you! And vincent, your a douche bag. To bad that it will take 3 to 4 years to get this guy sentenced. Its sad that his parents didn't know what there son was doing. Didnt you see him leave in the wee hours of the morning. Didnt you figure it out? To bad he didnt kill his own mother. Why kill someone elses. Its sad that people can have such a disconnect from the people that bring them in this world. The biggest crime is theres a 5 year old little girl who doesnt have her mom anymore, and shes the one who will suffer the rest of her life. And she has a long life to live. Remeber that the next time you want to feel any empathy for landry or paula.

Good Lord. A woman is dead and a toddler is motherless. And now there are people playing keyboard wars on their murder stories? Show some respect for the deceased.

"Respect for the deceased"? Fuck that, She's dead. Am I gonna hurt the corpse's feelings? It's not like I'm going up to five year old Savanna and saying "Hey, guess what! Your mom's dead! HAHAHAHA! Take that fatty! Now there isn't anyone left in the world who is obligated to love you! You'll be alone for the rest of your life! HAHAHA! Also your stupid and you smell bad!" No one is saying that.
I hold no ill will towards the saddlers. Condolences and shit, pity and boo hoo's all around. All I'm saying is that Paula and Landry are pieces of human shit, and that I kick ass. That's all I'm trying say. So I don't see why people need to be threatening me because I'm "insensitive". A punch in the face seems fairly unjustified. Please explain to me, how I am being insensitive.

okay, for all of you that dont believe Paula was involved, you're wrong. she was never that nice, she just played on peoples' feelings. obviously she's crazy if she had been placed in a maximum security ward. and yes, there was proof that brian was involved. and there was motive, but if all of you cant use your brains enough to figure that out, than i'm sorry. obviously you didnt know her as well as you thought.

Brian "V" ROCKS!:D

As I stated before, though very crude in the phrasing, Mr. V is well informed on what he speaks about. And 'Anyonymous' also appears to in the same bracket of knowledge as the rest of us. We all know who they were and what they were. Denying such things and claiming the innocence of either of them is a statement that speaks poorly of the individuals ability to face simple facts.

Any one who thinks both of them are innocent is a dumbass