I knew there were girls who didnt like Kirsten not sure why, we all cant get along with everybody. Yes we all feel that way, but nothing can be done about it, decision has already been made. I heard they ran Several girls out not just them, they Demonized one to where she had to Leave portraying her as a Tramp over some guys. I had an English class with Kirsten and her friends, we were all put in pairs in order to read off as part of a project, Kirsten and them just acted as though I was invisible and everyone in our group (but me) got to read a part. Dont matter if those 2 were mean and Bullies, no right to murder them, that went to far. No there were several girls bullied, but Bernadette wasnt one. We are no longer in the 80 s and never will be again. Material on this site is provided for purposes of education, criticism, commentary, cultural reporting, entertainment, historical reference, and news reporting/analysis. No, it is about love, people. Kirsten Ill admit she wasnt in favor with stupid acting people and had zero tolerance for them, (as did I). Obviously we didnt know B was the killer. She watched 2 girls take the blame and did absolutely nothing about it. For one, some of Heather Cranes former classmates have started speaking to Heather again. No Tori Spellings character in a fictionalized movie was a bit mean. Also, Kirsten was upper middle class and lived in a less expensive area than Bernadette. As the cops went through the list of suspects, Bernadette Prottis name cropped up.
Miramonte High School - Notable Alumni I live in LA and know people on the Bay Area that know all about the case, and know people who knew Kirsten, and they say the Movie was offbeatfar from Kirstens Personality. The movie and rolling stone for both girls in a narrative to sell newspapers. But I dont remember hearing or learning about it until many years later. However, she didn't finish her nine-year sentence behind bars as she was paroled after seven years, released on June 10, 1992. I dont think they meant any harm at all, and as for the prank calls, they were probaly only fooling around, Nancy would take it all wrong, and say things back thinking it was a personal attack my standpoint. In your dreams Bernadette was better looking! 2023 Cinemaholic Inc. All rights reserved. She should have been happy With the circle of friends and family she had. Whether the murder was premeditated or not, no one can really determine that, still a young girl died at the hands of Bernadette Protti, and Bernadette will have to live with that the rest of her life. What can you do? That was 36 years ago, and the Memory still lingers on. Move on. In order to get into the Bobbies you had to have money. Bernadette was just as nice as we were on swim team together growing up. I would suggest that you should be able to distinguish between a fictional depiction and reality, but judging from your comments it is clearly beyond your capacity to do so. For legal reasons, we will not publish her name in this article, or the comments. At the end of the struggle, Kirsten was stabbed twice in the stomach and twice in the back. Those girls wouldnt allow you in their groups in classes, they would exclude you as an earlier article stood. She wanted to, but decided not to go through with it. I was told she had no known enemies. Firstly, Bernadette is an insentient and abhorrent human being. She doesnt leave her house hardly at all anymore. Additionally, the Bernadette character was portrayed as sweet and innocent, while a sexy twenty-something Tori Spelling played the part of the 15 year old Kirsten. Tuko.co.ke featured an interesting article about the English actor and model that gained popularity in NBCs short-lived drama, Emerald City. She probaly wanted Bernadette to leave her alone thats all. The following morning, a cold, blustery day, Bernadette gave her mother a letter and asked her not to open it for half an hour. As for Bernadette, I didnt know her well, but said hello to her a few times in passing at school, and when she came to get the attendance slips. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. The reason why Bernadette killed Kirsten is because Kirsten didnt appreciated the fact that she was lured out of her house under the pretence of a Bobbies sorority initiation dinner by someone she wasnt friends or even acquaintances with. Very, very mean. Lets make it a great Memorial for Kirsten. Unfortunately, no one was home as nobody answered the call. Her parole would have gone ahead sooner apparently but in 1992 one of the parole board Victor Wisehart voted to keep her in jail as she showed an inability to control her anger and he felt that she was still a danger to the public, she had had a violent altercation with a boyfriend in the prison/school system, he said there was a hidden trigger that switched on when she didnt get her own way! The murder of her daughter, Berit says, was premeditated from the moment of the phone call. Bernadette gave a ninety-minute confession, taped by sheriffs deputies. I dont buy into the lesbian theory. Several Miramonte folks from the class of 1986 complained it was rough and if you werent accepted you were ran off and out of there. Who killed Stacey in Death Of A Cheerleader? Kirsten had exotic features from her full volumes curly locks to her tan skinnot to mention her eyes were also sky blue. Is it respectful to perpetuate lies about a murdered teenage girl due to a fictional depiction? Guys can be, girls are Worse. The only incident Bernadette recounted was a remark Kirsten made about her skis. We all make remarks to people as teens even the best of people, were not perfect, but no right to Murder and it dont Justify Murder. Well it is best to not bother the girl anymore sick or not, cause she moved on and so did the Costas family, so why keep the fuel burning, its just best to let folks live their lives. Kelly, Karin and Brooke, her friends shout. Bernadette committed the crime at the age of 15. Kirsten didnt like people who acted (Dumb) or got into trouble and cause trouble. If Bernadette killed Kirsten because she was bullied by her, why didnt she give examples at her trial, which would have strengthened her case? she threatened to tell everyone at school the next day, she didnt tell Alex Arnold ( the Man who drove her home) again it was to insane he probaly would of freaked and she didnt want to scare him with the details. Only talked to her once or twice ever. You obviously didnt know Bernadette to describe her as Sweet. I hope it was justice, though I fear it may have been nothing more than entertainment. It took me 2 decades to deal with it, couldnt before. Skylar Neese: The tragic story of the teen murdered by her friends. But this is just my opinion, dont come after me :/. She was snooty to or maybe just misunderstood. Kirsten and Bernadette were both well off. You dont know whether or not Kirsten had to go without anything. So this murderer just gets off free after 8 years and gets to live her life because (somebody picked on her)????? Karen, keep repeating the same Comment over and We all have someone we dont like. Was Bernadette fragile when she watched as two innocent girls were accused of Kirstens murder by the Orinda community? Im not saying that she should have been killed, but sometimes bad behavior has a terrible outcome which is why we all need to teach our children to respect the feelings of others. Those who say Kirsten was a Mean Girl clearly didnt know her, or she didnt like them with (good Reasons).
So if she didnt like you, probably you did something to irritate her and she let you know it. She looked like Kirsten with her curly hair, and the Life of the Party like Kirsten. The paint was peeling off, and it put a lot of pressure on her sensitive self-esteem as she never imagined living in such a place. I was happy enough at school without popularity. Who could have stabbed popular, beautiful cheerleader Stacy to death? Kirsten from my Understanding was Self Absorbed and a Snob, but not a Bully. On April 1, the first hot day of spring, while kids throughout Orinda were signing up for Meadow Pools summer swim team, Bernadette Protti was sentenced. They told about the girls ran out of School. Although Bernadette had been questioned and cleared via a polygraph test, a private detective hired by the Costas found discrepancies in her alibi. Rubbish. Karen I believe on that fateful night In The car Bernadette was pushing a friendship was was adamant and persistent about it. Kirsten didnt like (stupidity). Kirsten didnt have anything against Bernadette before the murder.So Kirsten made a few comments. Cant see her making fun of anyone. Did you know the other 2 girls that were accused? Everyone loved my friends because they were funny and not rich. I was born with common sense. Judging from your comments you clearly have sided with Bernadette, so why contradict yourself? Kirsten was also described as Cute, funny and full of Life, and Bern took that Life. I dont understand why you sympathize with a murderer and perpetuate lies about her murder victim under different aliases. Not when she was bullied and pushed to her limit!! So she didnt like everybody who does? I understand wanting to have what your friends have. Kristen was a total bully, just horrible. They dont even bother to investigate her alibi to see if she was telling the truth? Raising new questions about the micro-aggressions high-schoolers experience on a day-to-day basis, it offered a unique portrayal of the twisted psychological motifs that can lead an adolescent to commit a horrible crime. How tragic she was murdered over basically nothing. You cant go back in time. Star!! Whats been done has been done. She claimed she followed in the Pinto only to make sure Kirsten got home safely. I was in the artsy and nerd group to. It was only a matter of time before she d get caught so she came forth. Even Bernadette was to I bet. March 11-12, Miramonte students of each class came together to decide their class presidents, vice presidents, and treasurers for the 2020-2021 school year. Thats a much more obvious motive. She called Bernadette on her bizarre behavior that night, and if Bernadette would of left Kirsten alone, it would of never reached that Point, and Kirsten would still be alive maybe even today. Her house was nice to,(as nice as Kirstens) so she wasnt a lonely poor girl who struggled for friends. Kirsten is better looking than bernadette, because Kirsten facial features are in proportion with her face.. bernadette is not. Dont let that Sweet Melancholy fool anyone, she was not that unless you were in the group. Bernadette was obsessed with her, a friend of ours, she thought Bernadette was guiltyall along. Im sorry.. I know a gal who knew someone who knew Kirsten. Sorry but the parents are to blame. Shes no better than you. As I wrote in a previous comment to you above rupaul/joy, if there was evidence of Kirsten bullying Bernadette, she would have given examples which would have strengthened her case and possibly portrayed her as a sympathetic character. She just didnt think at the time and it cost a lot of people lots of problems. But they never said! Those girls like Chris she hung with has changed, theyre not like they were in school, Kirsten would of changed also as she got older. One person said Missy was mean and a bully and she bullied them bad well that person and you are the same, Justifying Murder cause someone was mean, or Stuck up. Looking at the pictures, it is shocking to see that Kirsten Costas is the face of an innocent little girl. You are lying. There were more than just Joanna that were singled out at Miramonte, I read other stuff there were quite a few that felt like they werent socially accepted. She was happy go lucky mostly, she only had a couple (she didnt like), we all have someone we do t get long with. So sad her life was shortened. This is Berns BFF or her Sister or Bern herself, no one else would go to such extend to call a dead girl names. Youre going off the crappy movie. Kirsten was full of energy and life. Missy didnt start fights just stood her ground. Sheriffs aide Michael Bachman searches for murder weapon, San Francisco Examiner Tuesday, June 26, 1984. Also there Was another girl who went out with the football team and accused them all of raping her, not the entire team, but several players and I hear she was ran out as well and dogged by the Students. She was home with a friend and an adult man who was watching them, classmates say. A few more saying they didnt fit in and refuses to come to Reunions, I say you dont want to come then dont. Kirstens friendship meant so much to her, she would go on and on about it. The news flew through the town. Other outsiders felt like they were excluded from her group to. Kirsten ran from Bernadettes car and wanted to be left alone, yet Bernadette stalked Kirsten to her house. I heard also Kirsten was just Self Absorbed to, but not a Bully. Did Kirsten deserve to die over it. She stuck to her story initially, but when Hilley described the psychological profile of the suspect in the case which showed, among other things, that the killer would have little remorse for her crime, Bernadette said, It sounds like me.. She could be mean, in fact, I could see her getting mean before I could see Kirsten. Lots of teen girls are caddy and laugh at people. This whole story is just disgusting. Me! She is in her 50s currently, and it seems like she has gotten a fresh start at life. Nurturers dont kill people. So think before you get that angry cause there is no turning back from it. Give me an example. The boys at Miramonte liked Bernadettes childhood friend and Kirsten, none were interested in Bernadette. So no she is a Psychopath. How dare you? They had to leave school. We get it now, we already got it. Well said Sarah. Kirsten was a hugging person and went around joking, she would tease all of us, it was harmless. I just hear she stays mostly to herself and dont see much of former classmates. Plenty of facts support that view. I was fortunate to be surrounded by guys who were my best friends from 3rd grade and were very popular. I hear Bernadette dont want anything to do with anyone from her past at all now. I highly doubt I would like you either. She dared to say she could not commit suicide because her religion would not allow it, but did not take into consideration the life of Kirstens! There are speculations that Bernadette has changed her name to Jeannette Tomanka. She didnt hate anyone (as I said) just didnt like the way they acted. Same for Karen Severson and Laura Doyle theyre cold blooded killers to, Missy was Kirstens age, this happened not long after Kirsten was Murdered. I was a 1985 highschool graduate.i had skipped a grade so my classmates were more mature physically and socially. She also had nice clothes, her problem was with Kirsten, that Kirsten was reaching the top, where Bernadette wanted to reach the top. Dee I dont agree with you, so Kirsten and them had you on a project assignment and they didnt include you in the circle, you ever thought maybe you gave signals you dont belong, or why didnt you ask them to allow you, people cant read minds. To this day I remember those girls well. She was a typical teenage girl who just wanted to have fun with her friends. I got the impression they were both Stuckup ( Bernadette and Kirsten) they were friends to. These stories chronicle the immediate news reports that detailed the crime, the communitys shock, the victims funeral, and discusses some of the police work that was involved in the effort to find the killer and to understand her motive. "I was afraid she was going to tell people I was weird," Protti told the police on another occasion. It was okay at her age, like most teenagers who wish for the ultimate pinnacle of popularity. I instantly knew it had to be a true-life story. Both girls attended Miramonte High School in Orinda, California. I would love to hear Bernadette being interviewed now about that tragic night in suburban Oakland. However, this endeavor was met with several failures. Read the article, read more on the actual case, stop judging real people based on a low-budget lifetime movie. Just some girls on interviews said she was just self absorbed but no bully. I was on a few adult precision ice skating teams, and let me tell you, some of the women who were on the teams were a hell of a lot worse than high school girls!! I dont go by Movies cause Movies dramatize the events to how they perceive it. The judgemental insecurities started there for Bernadette and everyone else that was raised in those conditions. First, an assumedly innocent girl murdering her schoolmate got people by surprise. So could LP, I hear she dont get around much to to many places anymore, shes not in California. Ive been suicidal just from being bullied. When Kirsten approached the Pinto she looked inside and said blandly, Oh, its you.. Its time to move on and stop rehashing alll this. Mira note ran a lot of girls out from what I read. She felt it was even worse than having killed someone which is ridiculous and sad but thereve been a few cases like this.. Its thought to be the reason why Skylar Neese was really killed though her two best friends who killed her claimed they just didnt like her any more (again doesnt make sense) and there was evidence that Skylar had seen her two friends making out. I wasnt Popular and Kirsten liked me and was nice to me. But I heard both sides on Kirsten, some say she was a hugging person who liked everyone, like in the Interview of a friend of hers mom said she was a loveable Puppy. Those girls had a clique. Another DJ initials it was said she was bullied relentlessly as well. You have no idea what you are talking about with Columbine. Youre not looking at that Situation. Another lesson is parents should not have kids too late in life. There are more murders in american continent than in Europe and its not in the time of war. I think Kirsten probably threatened to tell everybody their bizarre conversation in the car that night. The Principal though highly of her. After her sentencing, Bernadette was sent to California Youth Authority in Ventura, where she completed high school and received her GED. You didnt read that. Theres other Measures to take other than Murder. She liked mostly everybody. Sad. She dont go hardly anywhere anymore. That pain of being relentlessly bullied stays with you your whole life and your self worth is damaged. I knew both gals. They just had their own group of girls. If you did your research, you would know that Kirsten didnt bully Bernadette. I saw the film Death of a Cheerleader this January, 2021. Kirsten was described mostly Vibrant and friendly by others, and so was Bernadette. Is the Action-War Epic 'The Dirty Dozen' Based on a True Story? Sticking up for a Murderer youre Pathetic. To a degree Bernadette struggled harder than most of her friends, she wasnt as Popular as they were and was a little of an Outcast, but Tolerated. Contra Costa County Sheriffs deputies were searching yesterday for a teenage girl as a suspect in the stabbing death of another girl here Saturday night. The only apparent witness to the killing told reporters that he and his wife were playing pinochle in their home with neighbors in nearby Moraga when Kirsten, looking frightened, came to their door and asked to use the phone to call her parents. I hear Bernadette was Snooty also as Snooty as Kirsten. Id been weirded out to. Cant blame Kirsten if you werent popular, maybe ask yourself why. Even if Kirsten was stuck up and a Bully! I dont care how old your comment is, I just have to reply to that bullst. Where are the examples of Kirsten bullying Bernadette and pushing her to her limit?
Bernadette Protti - Ladies' Handbook of Murder No one is bothering her anymore. It also tends to victimize blonds! On the other hand, Bernadette informed her parents that she had a babysitting job that day. Considering the evidence presented here, I must conclude that the prosecution has failed to prove its contention of premeditation. Shame on such a post you wrote! Otherwise, her new identity would have surfaced as well. Maybe you need to hear one of those shooters moms speak on YouTube on the Ted talks. She wont be going back to Orinda its highly likely she wont. She didnt have time to (bully). People who grew up in Orinda and say its snobs were mostly people who werent socially accepted growing up, and they made choices that others didnt make and cussed and talked dirty and skipped school and always in trouble, and hung out with outcasts, and they became outcasts by association. Im incandescent with rage. The 2nd version of Death of a Cheerleader is more like Kirsten to a degree. You know movies arent real, dont ya? But those others today are still a lot of fun. Until something happens. She and her BFF were both Odd. So people got the wrong view of her saying she was a Bully. Bernadette was a Snob also, she only wanted to hang with the incrowd, if you were nothing she didnt talk to you anymore than she had to. Costas, a Miramonte cheerleader, was murdered by fellow student Bernadette Protti in June of 1984. And Sarah saying Kirsten got what she deserved. To them maybe. "Our community is devastated. Maybe Snooty, but no Bully. To bad Kirsten didnt get a chance to grow up and grow out of it. Doesnt make her a killer, thats being a teenager but dont make it sound like she just said shut up thats unrealistic. If it was national news, I missed it. Bernadette planned everything down to the last detail, even telling Kirstens Mum to ask Kirsten not to tell anyone about the supposed dinner that night. No one owes anyone a thing. When the time was up, Elaine Protti read her daughters confession. There is absolutely no justifying what she did and if you feel justifiedthen at the core, you are the problem, not the pretty, popular girl. It has her sister cutting vegetables with a ridiculously long knife too, and Kirstens parents were right who cuts up vegetables with a knife that long that they keep in the car? Kirsten made some comment about them, and it just seemed like everyone else was thinking that, but she was the only one who would come out and say it., MORE:Lip Smackers from Bonne Bell: The super trendy vintage lip balm from the 70s & 80s, Bernadette admitted she had made the phone call setting up a meeting with Kirsten. I hear a lot of them still get together on Occasions, and others have moved on. Bernadette was/is just a mental case. She called Kirsten names. A grown woman from England pretending to be someone who knew Bernadette, Kirsten, or Kirstens brother. The school was no more competitive than any other school around anywhere. Are you suggesting by your comment Kirsten had is well deserved that Kirsten deserved to be murdered because she understandably didnt take kindly to being lured out of her house under false pretences to a bobbie (sorority) dinner that didnt exist by someone she wasnt friends or even acquaintances with and was then driven to an empty car-park at night. I hardly knew this girl. Dont matter, been what 37 years. Everybody who knew her just loved her well most everybody. We all have someone we dont like, and we wont be liked by everybody. From a standpoint Kirsten was Adorable and fun person. So she had money, her family did. She was described as a nurturer in an episode of Killer Kids. Not to mention all over the world. If Bernadette killed Kirsten because she was bullied and put down by her, why didnt she give examples at her trial which would have strengthened her case? Kirsten Costas, who had just finished her sophomore year at Miramonte High School in this scenic, affluent suburb, was killed at about 10pm Saturday, Contra Costa County Sheriffs Department investigators said. Between 10-15 years ago bullying came into the news. Where are you getting she had no friends and was bullied. Reflecting on her public humiliation, Angela has a heart to heart talk with her sister about her wanting to be someone else. That other gal said Kirsten was Sweet that knew her. She lived big. Notable Alumni. Her parents were hard-working and respectable people, but Bernadette felt that they were too old and did not listen to her. That leaves only the knife and whether its true or not a witness corroborated the girls account. That girl on Deadly Women who portrayed Kirsten was almost perfect, watch Landscape Suicide and they show a girl portraying Kirsten talking on the phone and laughing listening to Music, that is the closest to Kirsten Costas that can be described the best. Do I believe Kirsten was a Mean girl (bully) not at all, I believe she had those she didnt like and may of been Snooty towards that got on her nerves. Anyone still get on these sites? The senior Vice President is still to be determined. She didnt give examples because she wasnt bullied by Kirsten. I also believe Nancy and Joanna were nice girls that had thier moments also. She still is as far as Im concerned. So they had a clique, what School or job doesnt? You the one telling about the Bullied girls who were accused of the Crime. Doesnt it seem weird that Bernadettes sister would have an 18-inch knife for cutting tomatoes? Completely agree with you Midwest Jimmy. Bernadette is a Weirdo as Kirsten spotted, this wasnt about Bullying, it was about being called out in front of the School, and tarnishing her reputation, which in the long run it did. Bernadette then stalked Kirsten all the way to her house, ambushed her from behind with a 15/18 inch knife, inflicted Kirsten with two two foot wounds down her back and continued to stab Kirsten when she was suffering on the ground with her wounds. If you werent Popular she looked down on you just as bad as Kirsten did.
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