SUICIDE AT WHITE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, CARMI
CARMI—The man in question, Carl Devoy, 55, was a business owner in Carmi (having purchased the old Western Auto store downtown), and used to work for the city. He was scheduled for a child support hearing from a 1998 divorce/support case 11.28.11. He was to have appeared in front of one of our most recent Second Circuit judges, former Franklin County state’s attorney Tom Dinn. Dinn is one of the most questionable judges in the circuit as far as his ascension to the bench; nobody’s sure just how he was qualified as judge, but the Franklin County powers-that-be apparently saw Dinn for the controllable dufus he is and just HAD to have him in there.
According to a source who was at the courthouse today on a case of their own, the man had just been ordered to pay $500 a month to his ex and his daughter in order to assist the daughter with college. Dinn granted the request to the ex, but Devoy was never in the courtroom for any of it. Instead, he stayed out in the east parking lot of the courthouse and, rather than go in and be involved in the case, he pulled out a gun and shot himself. The proceedings went on without the ex, Kimberly, or the daughter in question knowing what had happened. Then the ex’s attorney, having left the courtroom, walked back into the courtroom and announced what had happened. Dinn, with his keen perception of the obvious, opined how “sad and selfish” the man was to have done that. Gee, Dinn. I guess if your boyfriend were able to have children and took them away from you and forced YOU to pay a large chunk of your judgly paycheck every month, you’d be feeling kinda sad and selfish too.
The scene was called a suicide, and the coroner was called.
More as we get it. If you know anything, feel free to post.
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Posted by Jack Howser
on Nov 28 2011. Filed under Breaking, White.
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I have no idea about all of the details of this situation but I know this isn’t the first time that a man has committed suicide over financial issues.
Perhaps he realized that Social Security will now do for his daughter what he apparently didn’t feel that he could. I understand that Social Security will pay a child a check for survival benefits until they complete their education, is this true?
That’s correct. But our sources are indicating that this guy was kind of getting a little….edgy…about things. He had been getting into it with the city about his property there in downtown, and a couple of other verbal altercations had occurred as of late.
And anyway, such a monetary demand on someone who can’t possibly pay it sometimes is enough to kick someone over the edge. Tom Dinn is an idiot and probably had had the case for awhile and might even have been a total bitch to the guy in the past. It’s our understanding that he hadn’t even gone into the courthouse, just waited outside, like he didn’t want to go in and face it. The Second Circuit needs to be more careful about our judges….there are some that no one would miss if they were to just resign….& go away.
Is Din a Queer?
From what we’ve understood for YEARS, yes, Dinn is queer. Rather openly so, according to our sources. There’s a BIG problem with that in Franklin County, which is why so much of the corruption is so deep and impenetrable….and why there are people there that get away with murder—literally—or other heinous crimes, and never get so much as a court hearing on it. It’s absolutely sickening.
His daughter and ex-wife was in the courtroom with their lawyer. The lawyer told how they needed his help financially for the daughters college. The wife said he worked for the city of Carmi. Said his income was 1,300.00 every 2 weeks. The lawyer said the father carried medical insurance on the daughter. He asked the judge to grant 500.00 towards college expences and half of all medical that was not covered in his insurance. The judge granted it and the lawyer said he would draw up the papers. No lawyer present for the father. They left the courtroom and a few minutes later the lawyer came back and said they had started out of the court house and he brought the ex and daughter back in and told them what happened.
When I left the courthouse the police was cleaning up the pavement, washing it down…
Arronsgranny…did you see what Brian Doughtery said over on the Facebook?
“How is it that a married man can tell his children that they have to pay for their own college but a divorced man can be forced to pay for it by the courts?”
God help us all if our kids get to be an adult age and, even if there IS no divorce or custody case, decide they’re going to take us to court to pay for their college tuition or ANY college expenses.
But I can see that shit happening just as sure as I can see all the other insanity playing out right now….
Jack, it was in the news a few months back where a mother was sued in court by her over age children because she had neglected to give money to them hand over fist when they were younger. The judge told the “brats” to suck it up !
Omg…I hadn’t heard that.
I can believe there are some people out there who are that pathetic at having raised their children that they would have such leeches. Thanks to the threat of DCFS that the rotten kids can call if they feel like they can get their way by reporting their parents and lying about how they’re being abused, etc, in the home. One of our kids did that once. Both of us handed her a phone and said “Here ya go. Call em. They’ll remove you and put you in foster care, because the other two are going to say we’re not ‘mean’ to them, so they’ll get to stay. More food for us, you little shit.” She had second thoughts about going someplace where STRANGERS would be making her do things like chores and homework, which were her two and only gripes….and didn’t make the call.
Arronsgranny, How old is his daughter? Any idea? Not that it really matters, I was just wondering about that all day after reading of this tragedy.
I think it does matter. If she’s of majority age, and they’re trying to get support payments to continue when the initial decision reached was that support stops at 18, that’s a crock of shit. That’s what happened to me in Tennessee…payments were to have stopped in 2002 when both kids reached majority age or became emancipated, whichever came first. Instead, in the ensuing 18 years after this decision was made, Tennessee made a “new” law that stated support must continue if the kid is still in high school. One of my kids missed almost her entire year of 6th grade because of abuse in her home. So she was set back a year & nobody told me, and the payments continued when I wasn’t aware that they were supposed to be….one of the many major fuckups done to my case through another state. So this could have been considered egregious by this poor guy who maybe was thinking his obligation was met, then they come up with THIS ‘request.’ We’ll be looking at the file to see.
Jack, I should have worded that better. I meant that it was really none of my business when I said, “not that it matters”. Thank you for replying to my comment or I would have forgotten to clear that up. I thought about it after I submitted it and was going to clear it up, but got busy with other things and daydreaming about Sues food. I certainly sympathize with the way you were done. I’m sorry if I offended anyone or(which it did)come across from what I actually meant. I’m getting ready to send you & Ang an extremely great e-mail concerning Thomas Jefferson. I know you will find it very interesting..
Not to sound too negative but this story could go almost any direction. There are Deadbeat Dads out there who actually do go out of their way to keep from paying child support, much rather spending their money on drugs, booze, gambling, etc. Then there are women that use their children as hostages to either hook a man to get married to them or to supplement their income for 18 plus years.
Jack do you believe that he may send young Men to prison so they may get turned like him and then he can have a Crack at then when he gets out?
No…but we’ve heard that he has made deals with young men that have kept them OUT of prison….and has overlooked obvious crimes committed by or for other fags in the area because they were fags.
We did the same thing with the young one wanting to call and report us.No call was made here either and it was never mentioned again.LOL!
I can see that happening and if it happens once it is to often.
I wonder if the same thing goes on in Williamson County .They have a Queer for a States Attorney .Has anyone looked into them?
This man was having financil problems it seems. In the Evansville paper it said he was living in the Western Auto building he had purchased.
That’s correct…he was living in the store. I’m not sure what he was running the store as, though.
Did he have the store open? I remember the two old people that had ran it for ears and was hopeing to sell it to someone who could keep it open.
I dont think so Top Cat. They said in court that he works for the city of carmi. And in the Evansville paper it said he read water meters for years and just recently they sent him to the water plant to work.
Thank you Arronsgranny.I have a feeling we have bumped into each other but I am not sure.Faces I remember,names I remember, but putting to two together is a challage ! :((
The Daughter can collect survivor benefits until she’s 18 years of age. If she turns eighteen while she’s still in highschool she can collect it until the final day of Highschool. After that she’s on her own. I went through this a couple of years ago. You use to be able to collect it if you continued your education and stayed in college but not now.
Are there survivor benefits on suicide?
Yes Jack….
I can’t say for sure but I have been thinking today. I bet with a little research we could probably see this man was drug into court every two yrs and hassled by this woman. Was he mentally disturbed? He had to be in order to commit suicide. I hate it that this brought his disturbance to the level that he felt his death was the only option, but the woman pushing for all of this money from this man is probably the culprit. This type of behavior is probably what led to their divorce back several years ago. It is sad regardless of what caused the problem but based on my opinion I truly believe this may have been the straw that broke the camels back.