{"id":75644,"date":"2017-10-29T16:45:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T20:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75644"},"modified":"2017-10-29T16:49:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T20:49:29","slug":"george-marecek-convicted-murderer-infiltrates-bergdahl-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75644","title":{"rendered":"George Marecek, convicted murderer, infiltrates Bergdahl hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=75645\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-75645\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/marecek_001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"183\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75645\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/murderpedia.org\/male.M\/m\/marecek-george.htm\">Washington Post<\/a> reports that George Marecek, former Special Forces colonel who was convicted of murdering his wife in 1991, made an appearance at the Bergdahl sentencing hearing last week;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An apparent security lapse enabled a convicted murderer to access Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl\u2019s sentencing hearing last week where the individual made threatening remarks about the former Taliban prisoner, who has pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.<\/p>\n<p>George Marecek, 85, was only a few feet from Bergdahl on Wednesday when he turned to another individual seated in the courtroom gallery and said: \u201cI\u2019ll be glad when this crap is over. I got my firing squad standing by.\u201d Marecek\u2019s comment was overheard by a Washington Post reporter. Bergdahl\u2019s attorneys overheard Marecek make other threatening statements and alerted the prosecution, who in turn notified authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The Army has refused to answer questions about the incident, which alarmed court officers and triggered a security alert at this sprawling military complex outside of Fayetteville, N.C., according to three people with direct knowledge of the matter. They spoke on the condition of anonymity citing the extreme sensitivity surrounding Bergdahl\u2019s legal proceedings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Marecek was a <a href=\"http:\/\/valor.militarytimes.com\/recipient.php?recipientid=5108\">highly decorated Vietnam veteran<\/a> with a Distinguished Service Cross and a Silver Star. He was convicted of bludgeoning and drowning  his wife, Viparet Marecek, at a Fort Fisher, North Carolina military recreation area spot on the Cape Fear River in 1991 while they were celebrating their 9th wedding anniversary. He was sentenced to thirty years in prison, but he was paroled in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post reports that George Marecek, former Special Forces colonel who was convicted of murdering &hellip; <a title=\"George Marecek, convicted murderer, infiltrates Bergdahl hearing\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75644\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">George Marecek, convicted murderer, infiltrates Bergdahl hearing<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}