Preston County Teacher Accused of Murder Appears in Court

At some point words just fail us and than all we are left with is silence, time, and sometimes regrets. There are some people who never think twice before they speak. Than there are others who think to much and never speak. Than there are those who have their lifes stolen by an evil evil man and can't speak. I often wonder how people can be so insensitive with their words so crewl and hateful at times. Why do people stand up for murders and death row inmates? Where are they for the victims family and friends? Why do we want to waste our money our time our effort on these monster so they can escape or get released early because the prisons are over filled with these criminals. While the victims friends and family have to go and talk to a polished stone? I think it really sucks that we spend more tax money taking care of prisoners than the amount of money that goes to our childrens education. I think on June 23 and everyday possible that the trail goes on we should rally for Lori, Collin, and baby Angelina at the court house. I think we should go to the court house and give a voice to our beautiful angels taken from us. Let show James that he can not silence Lori because she will live on in our hearts and give them a voice.
We need to bring the focus back to Lori. Make signs and make sure that everyone knows how great and nice Lori was. What a wonderful mother she was and how excited she was looking forward to having her little baby girl. Let's show them that Bruceton does NOT think that he is a good man he is a horrible man and doesn't deserve the right to breathe as far as I am concerned. Remember June 23 give them a voice.......

Lori was my niece. Maybe she wasn't perfect but has anyone of us not done something in our past that we regret. Each morning when I wake, the first thing I think about are Lori, Collin and Angelina. My heart aches for the things we have all missed. Collin's beautiful little face. Lori's smile. Angelina's birth. I know James' family is hurting also but it is incomparable to what we are all feeling. I know when the trial is over we will be glad but it will not bring any comfort. The only thing that will do that is to have Lori, Collin and Angelina back and we know that is not going to happen.

In spite of Lori's past she was a wonderful person with dreams and aspirations, just like you and I. Collin and Angelina were innocent children whom she loved and would never have intentionally put in harms way. I would have never imagined Jimmy was capable of this, but now that I know he is, my only concern is getting justice for Lori, Collin, and Angelina. Please pray for the prosecuting attorney and for the jury to find him guilty of 3 counts of murder in the first degree without mercy!!!!

Dear Casteel Family, I am also a mother of two little boys, my oldest is 4 and my youngest is 9 months, and I can't imagine what it must be like for you not to have them in your lives. I knew Lori,she used to work at the quick stop, she was a very nice girl who did not deserve this to happen to her. When I heard about this I was talking to my husband, turned out that he and Jimmy had known each other since they were small children and still been in contact up until a few months before this happened. He even informed me that Jimmy's kids went to the same daycare that our son went to. I remember him passing me and saying Hi, but other than that he seemed like a quiet, but nice, harmless guy. So I thought, but I was wrong. I have been tring to keep up with the case but it's gotten hard since they have put a block on what they are telling the public. I just want you to know that there are people out there like me that think of Lori even though she was not one of my close friends. My thoughts and prayers go out to your family.

I think it is stupid that they are putting Lori on trial when she was the victim.She is not alive to defend herself.

Ya know, the trial hasn't started yet. Until it does, opinions are just that. Keep in mind bloggers that our judicial system is innocent until PROVEN guilty. Think what you want, but until the truth is known, if you weren't present that day, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. Wait and see and then spew your judgements.

Hmmmm what is that suppose to mean? He has already confessed he wanted to hide their bodies. I don't care what Lori did or what drugs she may have done because there is nothing he you or anyone can say to justify Collin and Angelina deaths. I can't believe you guys are trying to defend this monster. Can you imagine watching someone beat your beautiful children to death and than trying to drag you name threw the mud. I knew Lori and she had her problems like we all do but she could have never done anything to deserve this for her or her children. Are we all forgetting that James does drugs that he has had drug charges against him.... I don't do drugs but if I ever felt trapped and had to live with a monster like him I would probably start. Your the one who needs to not judge and spew your judgements.. Innocent my a##.

wth hmmmm posted: " I don't care what Lori did or what drugs she may have done because there is nothing he you or anyone can say to justify Collin and Angelina deaths. I can't believe you guys are trying to defend this monster."

Amen to that! I can't think of a thing Lori could have done to justify a brutal death like that for her or her children. Thoughts and prayers are with her family through this difficult ordeal.

Jimmy's trial is today. People are saying that his lawyers have something up thier sleeve, that makes them think that he is going to get away with this. I would like to know what strong effidence they think they have that would get a man off that has already confessed to killing a women and her two innocent children. He even ask someone help him cover up the murders by running Lori's explorer over the hill somewhere. Being on drugs can not justify what he did. How can he have been that druged up not to know right from wrong. He knew what he was doing was wrong when he was beating them to death. To me this was even premeditated. He had these ideas of killing her before and he finally followed through with them that morning. A normal person doesn't just wake up one day and kill three people out of the blue. He had some of this sick thoughts before this all went down that day. I can't understand how he could kill the 4 year old. That has bothered me since the begining. That is what I want to hear him try to talk his way out of. I guess we will all have to wait to hear what goes on in that court room today, but keep writing bloggers, I am very interested in what you have to say.

I guess it is true that once the trial is over and justice is done, we will know more about what happened, and the guilty will be procecuted as the court see's fit. What none of us can say is that we could imagine the pain, sorrow, loss and confusion the family continues to go thru.
If anyone who reads these knows of a savings or fund that helps the family please post it. The hopes and dreams all of us have for our families... is gone for them and I think its very important for Preston county to show we care.

I do not in any way condone what Jimmy did but I am so sick of hearing what and angel Lori was and what a good mother she was.Stop and think about it DRUGS and GOOD PARENTING do not go hand in hand. Neither Lori or her children deserved what happened to them but both the ADULTS were into some pretty heavy drug use maybe the other addicts need to be reading this blog so they know what kind of monsters people turn into when they get all jacked up on drugs.My heart goes out to Loris family, God be with you, but stop and think that Jimmy has children too and they are as innocent as Lori and Collin and Angelina. hink of them too when you are praying for Lori and her children.

still wondering, you are right...jimmy's children are innocent victims as well and i have not forgotten about them. i feel horrible for them having to grow up knowing what their father is accused of doing. however, to paint lori as a drug user and a bad mother is petty and does not excuse or lessen what jimmy did in any way... although his defense will try to use that. being a drug user may be wrong but does not constitute a brutal death with a ball bat. drugs may have been a part of lori's past, no one is perfect, but that does not mean that she was still using drugs at the time of her death.

as for as more information coming out during the trial, i wouldn't count on it. i am not too sure i would believe jimmy's story or anything he has to say. you know he will paint her as ugly as he can in an attempt to justify his actions but that is too easy for him to do since lori isn't here to tell her side of the story and easier yet because the only witness, collin, is also gone. if she was so horrible, why didn't he just leave her?...he didn't have to kill her.

i have gone over and over it in my mind and, again, there is nothing that i can come up with that would justify such a brutal death and then trying to conceal the bodies.

While I do not condone drug use "Jimmy" as you like to call him has been using for over a decade. Whether you like it or not Lori was a great mother. She wasn't perfect but she was a great mother. She had to downfalls some drug use and your "jimmy". Now while Lori was a young adult and "Jimmy" a much older adult Collin and Angelina were not adults and they fell to this monster. While I feel bad for his children and agree they to are victims of "Jimmy". They were not victims brought on by lori, her friends, her family, or by her drug use. He made them victims just like he made Lori, Collin, Angelina victims but you must agree that Lori, Collin and Angelina paid a much higher price to this monster than his flesh and blood did. They are able to eat breathe love and in time hopefully come to terms with what their father did. He was kind enough to give my friend Lori a loving mother that chance. Have you looked at the drug use statistics lately. Half the world is on some kind of drug or another. They don't all brutally murder pregnant woman and children with baseball bats and hand guns. That is not my defination of a good guy, a good father, or a decent person. That is my definitation of a horrid monster and like most monsters they are able to disquise themselve to the rest of the world. I think it is about time you admit your Jimmy is no saint. Ohh by the way she had a perscription for her drugs. I believe your "Jimmy" has been charged with possesion and wiggled his way out of that. Maybe you should have shown concern and helped him back then......Instead of saying Lori had equal part in his serial killing.

WTH lets clear a few things up.........
He is not my Jimmy or my anything. I grew up in the area and he was always known as Jimmy to people.
I never said Lori or her children deserved what happened and that isn't even in the paragrph I wrote.Nobody deserves what happened to those 3 all I am saying is that Lori was not the angel you and everyone else want to make her out to be.
I am not denying that Jimmy had a drug problem. But your precious Lori had the same problem. And by the way when did doctors start handing out prescriptions for crack????????

i am not exactly sure what your problem with lori is but i have read a lot of comments saying that they knew lori had problems and that she was not a perfect person but they loved her and they miss her. i dont understand why you feel the need to air her "dirty laundry". we all have some, dont you? even if lori used crack, it doesnt give jimmy more of a right to kill her, her son and his own unborn child, so what is your point?

do you know for a fact that lori was still using? do you know for a fact that she had not gotten clean? personally, though i don't agree with using drugs, it is beside the point...it doesn't lessen the crime or violence.

Are you an angel? Are you perfect? "Jimmy" and Lori might have had the same problem but you didn't see or hear of Lori "brutally and Savagely murdering" anyone now did you. Lori and "Jimmy" are not the only people that I know that have done or do crack but "Jimmy" is the only monster that I know who has done this hedious crime. You try to stand up for "Jimmy" and your only defense is Lori has done drugs. What kind of defense is that? Lori has had a rough life and she had a brutal ending thanks to "Jimmy". Collin wasn't a drug user what is your defense there. You say your tired of hearing nice stuff about Lori and we need to think about "Jimmy" kids. I agree that "Jimmy" has made his kids innocent victims but I am tired of hearing nice stuff about "Jimmy" he definatley has way more strikes against him than Lori. I am sure that he will rot in Hell one day. While Lori, Collin, and Angelina will bask in Heaven in God's Loving Arms.

I hate to sound like Mary Poppins, but we need to stop fighting about this. Fighting apparently is what got us here to begin with.
Drugs are BAD! We know that.
This crime was brutal and unwarranted, regardless of the circumstances. We know that!
The thing we don't know, is what happened that night, and unfortunately we may never know that.
Please stop disrespecting Lori!!! She wasn't perfect, but she was loved inspite of her flaws.
There are countless victims in this.
We need to pray this trial is over quickly, so all the living victims in all the families involved may begin the healing process.
Rest in peace Lori, Collin, and Angelina!

In Loving Memory wrote:

I hate to sound like Mary Poppins, but we need to stop fighting about this. Fighting apparently is what got us here to begin with.
Drugs are BAD! We know that.
This crime was brutal and unwarranted, regardless of the circumstances. We know that!
The thing we don't know, is what happened that night, and unfortunately we may never know that.
Please stop disrespecting Lori!!! She wasn't perfect, but she was loved inspite of her flaws.
There are countless victims in this.
We need to pray this trial is over quickly, so all the living victims in all the families involved may begin the healing process.
Rest in peace Lori, Collin, and Angelina!

Amen

FYI, story on wboy.com !

Why is it that some people are trying to make Lori the villian in this case? Anyone who knew her would know that there was nothing she could have possibly done to deserve what that monster did to her and her son. He is pleading self defense, but I am having a hard time believing that he was fearful for his life. What I believe should be done is that the Casteel family should be given baseball bats and let them take the law into their own hands. The old saying- AN EYE FOR AN EYE!