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Remembering Anna Svidersky - Public still standing behind slain teen's family.
Byline: Kelly Adams
Jul. 3--Even when sweltering heat wilts the flowers that are always turning up at her daughter's grave, Esther Svidersky is there.
"Every day, it's new flowers," she said, shaking her head in amazement.
Hundreds are still remembering 17-year-old Anna Svidersky, including with donations estimated at more than $100,000.
It's all in memory of the Fort Vancouver High School student who was killed April 20, six days before her 18th birthday. A man with a history of mental illness and violence, David Barton Sullivan, stabbed Anna as she took a break from her shift at the McDonald's on Andresen Road. He is in the Clark County Jail, waiting to go to Western State Hospital for a psychological evaluation.
Her death sent ripples of grief through Fort Vancouver High School, where she was a popular member of the senior class.
News of Anna's death also spread through the World Wide Web, where people learned of the crime through the community created on MySpace.com.
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- Grave site to Web site, now mourners can grieve online.
- Newspaper article from: ORian (Portland, OR) August 14, 2007 700+ words
...Knutson Aug. 14--VANCOUVER -- At least once each day, Anna Svidersky's mother, Esther, visits her daughter's gravestone...It's on MyDeathSpace that Internet users can find Anna's MySpace profile, as well as the thousands of others...
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- News wire article from: Columbian (Vancouver, WA) July 12, 2007 700+ words
...mental retardation, Judge John Nichols acquitted Sullivan of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of teenager Anna Svidersky. Sullivan remains in the Clark County Jail, awaiting a spot to open at Western State's 270-bed Center for Forensic...
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- News wire article from: Columbian (Vancouver, WA) September 22, 2006 700+ words
...pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity Friday to first-degree murder in the April 20 stabbing death of teenager Anna Svidersky. The plea was entered after Sullivan's court-appointed attorney, Thomas Ladouceur, said he was not going to...
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- News wire article from: Columbian (Vancouver, WA) September 22, 2007 700+ words
...Superior Court Judge John Nichols acquitted David B. Sullivan of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of Anna Svidersky. The teenager was working at a McDonald's when Sullivan attacked her. Nichols' ruling marked the first time since...
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- News wire article from: Columbian (Vancouver, WA) July 3, 2007 700+ words
...hearing came a week after Superior Court Judge John Nichols ruled that Sullivan was criminally insane when he killed Anna Svidersky on April 20, 2006. Last fall, Sullivan pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to first-degree murder. Svidersky...
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- News wire article from: Columbian (Vancouver, WA) December 31, 2006 700+ words
...Mentally ill murder suspects Three people died at the hands of people with mental illness, most prominent among them Anna Svidersky, who was stabbed to death as she took a break from her job behind the counter at a McDonald's on Andresen Road...