But to portray her as a Mean girl teen is off limits to the real Kirsten. University of Michigan School of Nursing. I know there were problems beteewn she and Nancy Kane, and that other blamed girl. I had known Kirsten since first grade, and had one class with Bernadette at the time of her arrest. Bernadettes own parents turned her in. with this Virus going around. Several on the site say Kirsten was Sweet Cute and Funny. Most cheerleader s are friendly, and yes at the same time, kind of stuck up, to a degree, they only run with certain groups, but they will say hello to you, and help you if you need it. To this day I remember those girls well. She looks like she would have lit up a room. 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Rupaul If shed been bullied by Kirsten, seems like shed have told it in detail. Joy, why dont you stick to writing under one name instead of creating different aliases? So she didnt like everybody who does? My Son was Murders in a drug deal gone wrong. Cant imagine what feelings the Costas family had either. I have also wondered if her self esteem was also riding on the two most important people of all-her parents!! I think Bernadette was a lesbian thats why she felt she couldnt have Kirsten tell everyone that she fancied her. I think she made a pass and got rejected. Attractive and hard-working, they fit easily into their new neighborhood. The Costases raised two children: Kirsten and her younger brother, Peter. Im sorry if I offended anybody here with my earlier comments. Kirsten was the real life of the Party! Lemme tell all of you a little something because I lived and breathed the entire lifestyle of growing up in orinda and knew both Bernadette and kirsten. They were ususally strange. Word around town was that K was stabbed 18 times. I thought Kirsten was a very pretty little thing. Well based on the movie, Kristen came off as a total snob and bully. 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. Kirsten was very Popular, but there were a few a little more Popular, why didnt Bern go after them and befriend them, the girls on Homecoming Court, and in the Atlantis Club. Later, she married her husband and is now officially known to the world as Jeannette Tomanka. Is it difficult to understand why a person might not respect the opinion of someone else who supports a murderer? Orinda, with a population of about 17,500, lies just thirty-three minutes from downtown San Francisco by Bay Area Rapid Transit. Cant blame Kirsten if you werent popular, maybe ask yourself why. The full length picture of Kirsten with her hair tied back is so cute. However, Angela's confirmation is presided over by a priestrather than a bishop, and the priest at Stacy's funeral iswearing green vestments (which are for ordinary days) instead ofwhite, and the casket is draped with a white pall, not purple. [3] Costas attended Miramonte High School and was a member of the school's varsity swim team and the cheerleading squad. Good luck dear. Bernie has a sweet melancholy. Heres how to party like its 1969, See some slimming and sexy 1960s stretch pants, Print Color Fun: Free coloring pages & more fun for kids, Quotes Quotes Quotes: 1000s of clever & inspiring quotations, FindersFree.com: Find answers to lifes little questions. We didnt want to associate with them, cause we didnt want to get in trouble We got good grades and did what we were suppose to, our way of (having fun) and Choices were different than theirs. She watched 2 girls take the blame and did absolutely nothing about it. I read alot om her to. Kirsten was the energy of the house, says her mother. This is what makes her an easy choice every single time. Kirsten was one to always have fun, Was Orinda elite, yes, but they had a lot of wonderful people there to, and they helped one another. The boys at Miramonte liked Bernadettes childhood friend and Kirsten, none were interested in Bernadette. I just think Bernadette had underlying issues and pressure on her to get to the top, but that was no right for murder. Whoever remotely tries to justify that must not have children. How dare you? still no right to murder anyone. You have no one to blame but yourselves for being unnattractive, fat, disliked, broke loserswhatever your issues are. Girls in Jr high and high School can be Brutal. Angela Delvecchio : Monica, just let it go. No one owes anyone a thing. YOU NEED TO LEAVE BERNADETTE TO GOD, AND YOUR NOT HIM. She acted like Kirsten except Kirsten was (more funny). Its possible its someone pretending to know Kirsten. 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. Real class comes from decent human beings who have respect for others, and treating others the way that they want to be treated. Neither does a lot of former classmates. Kirsten has nothing to do with thier problems at Miramonte or any of her friends had anything to do with it, so where is it youre all getting Kirsten and her friends ran these girls out. I never seen her bully. My comments arent gossip. I just didnt bother with them. She was raring to go, ready to start to live her life when it was snuffed out., Everything about her had flair. There is no justification for murder, and I am not siding with the criminals, but you can push someone so far. But I dont remember hearing or learning about it until many years later. Community. I never understood why Bernadette killed Kirsten. No more Bernadette has a point. Pre-meditation seems sensible between the clothes and the knife. So she is a Horrible girl. Rubbish, it was jealousy and pure rage. Cause Bernadette was so obsessed with Kirsten liking her, she had some idea it was Bernadette, also Bernadette owned a Pinto same make as the car seen speeding away. 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! You are lying. Maybe you need (a Life of your own). You want to defend your friend and so you should but once you start calling names and trampling over the comments of others you single yourself out as a bully. Required fields are marked *. It was to Personal. Well youre bullying Kirsten( as Karen said) a dead girl who cant defend herself, that you know nothing about That movie was one sided. How is that possible. Believe me it was a 6 month witch hunt. Her parents were wealthy. She wont tell where shes at, cause to many people have it out for her cause of her past. Im betting youre some white chick who wouldnt know. We were never the same after that, Miramonte was never the same after that. Bernadette, as described would have known that Kirsten would have thought it weird to be driving around with a butcher knife. The only freak in this tragic story is Bernadette. One girl she got mad at for saying stupid stuff around her and embarrassing her. You cant force somebody to be friends with you. More like a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model than a Playboy type.. Snotty people blamed her publicly and without mercy.. shame on them, you know who you are. At 50 years old, I too have been bullied my whole life. Even if Kirsten was stuck up and a Bully! Mats Above a girl is dead, as a result from the girl who had a Sweet Melancholy. A few left our school, one who went out with a lot of football players getting wasted, she was demonized badly also. Kirsten was a Bully, I had heard she was,, and heard she wasnt and it was hard to picture her as a Bully. I just hear she stays mostly to herself and dont see much of former classmates. 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. I was called ugly, to my face by a group of senior boys on my first day. Google It, it sure will tell you. Her house was nice to,(as nice as Kirstens) so she wasnt a lonely poor girl who struggled for friends. Her inadequacies were all created by her and in her own head and she murdered Kirsten as a result. MSW Student @ Ohio University. Talking peoples business again, McDonald may not like her name being used. When a car honked outside the house on Orchard Road around eight-thirty, Kirsten left the TV on, walked out to a mustard-colored Pinto and got in. Her sister at the bank dont discuss Bernadette, or discloses her whereabouts, she just says Bernadette dont wish to be located by former classmates, friends or co workers, she has a very private life now and wants to be left alone. She was a young girl, a funny, silly girl who could also be obnoxious. Angela Delvecchio's Rating . I just believe Bernadette pushed to hard on Kirsten and it weirded out. Bernadette shoukd of just acknowledged Kirsten was around and spoke Civil to her, without forging the friendship. That pain of being relentlessly bullied stays with you your whole life and your self worth is damaged. Just because the Costas had millions of dollars and Are socialites Of the upper class community Does not give their family the right to treat others like dirt. They were all fun gals to be around. This is what makes me sad the most. Angela Delvecchio is an Italian-American character in the Backyard Sports series. Is it respectful to suggest that Kirstens parents should have raised her better and that they are to blame for her murder? Protti lured Costas from her home with a false story about a party, to which the wanna-be would give her pretty friend a ride. No I would never kill someone from being bullied but I totally understand some people who do. I read a lot of nice things about Kirsten as well, so she couldnt of been all that bad. Sweet Melancholy my tail. You seem to have the mentality of a child. I seen a few of them out and about. No one really cares why. Bernadette would have seen the pain and anguish on Kirstens face, the fear and shock in Kirstens eyes, listened to Kirsten scream in agony (she was reported to have screamed) as she felt the knife rip through Kirsten skin. She was good at that. Did you go to School with Kirsten and really know her? Bernadette was prettier. RELATED: 90210's Tori Spelling Can't Be on Real Housewives Because She's 'Too Nice'. Id been weirded out to. The rest of you can lurk around and limp your hunchback selves to therapy. So she had a different view of Kirsten, Bern wasnt nice to of murdered. Still no one deserves to die. Kirsten was just like any other girl who had to go to that snobby school. Material on this site is provided for purposes of education, criticism, commentary, cultural reporting, entertainment, historical reference, and news reporting/analysis. No there were several girls bullied, but Bernadette wasnt one. people no one else liked she was to quite a few and hurt their feelings, she didnt want to associate with the bottom feeders at all, still no excuse for murder. Kirsten wasnt Super Rich like Melrose Place, family was well off, so was Bernadettes. They were snooty and cocky but not mean. Whats worse is how the media played into all of this and have portrayed Kirsten as a girl who deserved this kind of horrific attack, nobody deserves to be tricked, stalked and stabbed in cold blood at 15 out any age. The affluent residents of Orinda cite good schools and a crime-free environment as the main reasons they moved to the town. A couple of them did, Bern just looked the other way. Sure would be interesting to hear the truth behind this tragic story instead of listening to this gossip and speculation of what both girls were like and how they behaved. She didnt Bully Bernadette, Just was irritated cause she lied to her, and her mom about the Party, and all. After the terrible event, Protti legally changed her name and shifted to another place to start a new family. Get a Life please. I'm all over it! Not a plaine jane.get real. There is no way Bernadette is better than Kirsten. No, there is good and bad in every person, just the people are guilty for not seeing the reasons that cause that kind of things. My sympathies are with the Costas family and i hope they have managed to move on. As for the girls who got blamed, so sorry if your lives were miserable at the time, but remember Bernadette was scared herself and did t know what to do, she didnt aim for all that to come down. She had friends to, some were Bernadettes, and they dont care to hear from or about Bernadette anymore. Orinda was not Beverly Hills. Knowing you though youll never have the character or the balls to do this and that was the reason you arent in whatever popular grip you killed to try to get into. Kirsten was almost identical to that, no like Tori Spelling. Bernadette had plenty of other friends, she was in that group, Kirsten didnt have anything against Bernadette, if she would of left her alone, eventually they may of became friends, no she couldnt wait, wanted it all right now and pushed and forced her way into it. Gripping, sad, and just plain scary, A Friend to Die For premiered in September and was the highest-rated TV movie of 1994 (10 years after the actual murder.) Star!! The Costas family is doing well and went on with life. first of all, the judge had to be stupid to find it second degree murder and it doesnt matter if she didnt plan to kill kirsten. She wasnt mean or that just high maintenance. I believe she made a clumsy pass at Kirsten, or said something weird, and Kirsten got all freaked. 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. The release of Protti was met with vehement opposition from Costass parents. Shes the Victim. Well hes probaly no better. But Kirsten didnt deserve to die, some of those girls changed and are more sensitive. I didnt know Kirsten that well, talked to her a few times in passing but we didnt know each other. Some of these girls ( not Nancy or Joanna) acted like Hoes, and ppl dont take kindly to that. RELATED: Red Dead Redemption 2 & 9 Other Video Games That Make You Feel Like A Frontiersman I hear Bernadette was Snooty also as Snooty as Kirsten. So this murderer just gets off free after 8 years and gets to live her life because (somebody picked on her)? Dont let that Sweet Melancholy fool anyone, she was not that unless you were in the group. Regardless no one deserves to die like that. I hope she prays from the bottom of her heart, because the pain she caused the Costas well, she will have to pray forever!!! Theres way to much in Life than to be spending it chasing someone around over 30 years ago the justice system failed, its just pointless. It was all over popularity, and fitting in. I hear Kirsten was Beautiful inside and out. Do I believe she was (stuck up) to a degree I do, but arent most teen girls as I said before. The day after the murder in June 1984, rumors had already spread at the tennis courts, down oak-shaded lanes and at poolside. Was Kirsten a smart aleck , dont know but tell me a teen girl who isnt! Kirsten is better looking than bernadette, because Kirsten facial features are in proportion with her face.. bernadette is not. But those others today are still a lot of fun. Like I said, Im sure theres a purpose somewhere to where she can make a difference in someones life today, she was a lot like Kirsten Costas. Your email address will not be published. If she didnt like someone , there was a reason. Bernadette isnt coming anyway, she is not well anymore. She was mean and Stuck up also. Protti legally changed her name and departed to another location to start a new family following the traumatic incident. Could of been any of those girls in that group as one girl said, they were all like Kirsten in lots of ways. [3] The Costases' neighbors called an ambulance, but Kirsten was mortally wounded and died at a nearby hospital. You are here. But I will feel honored at the same timebut I still would have been weirded out. She had a slumber party on her 15 th BD we all snuck into a pool and swam, (a fun night) and to bad she didnt get to celebrate her 16th Birthday, Art and Berit planned on taking us all to a Hotel and spend the night. Kirsten May of had moments and been a Stuck up person, but that dont Justify murdering her. They were friends from what I seen, they traveled in the same group and walked together with them. Bernadette was just as nice as we were on swim team together growing up. LP was a lot like Kirsten. The case has also been depicted in the TV documentariesDeadly Delinquentsand Killer Kids. The Angela Delvecchio character played by Kellie Martin is actually the opposite of Bernadette Protti - who was older, taller and blonde - while Kirsten Costas, played by Tori Spelling - was only 15, shorter and dark-haired. So before you start judging Kirsten, first get facts. I cant stand snobby bitches who put others down and bully them. That Mats Chick dont know her head from her Butt. 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. So bullies need to die. I dont care how old your comment is, I just have to reply to that bullst. Its not about them, its all about Kirsten who,was,robbed of her life, and robbed from her family. You have those girls in all schools, you just go on and leave them be, and hang with your own friends. Ive been suicidal just from being bullied. The movie, like most movies, is no an accurate account. Just saw the new Lifetime movie Death of a Cheerleader. She was just as mean and snooty as the rest and stuck up to. This version stays true to how Protti confessed, which was by writing a letter to her mother, as opposed to confessing to her priest. Former Case Manager at The Neighborhood Center of West Volusia. In the movie, she's well into her junior year of high school before someone catches on that she did it. Menu Log In Sign Up You obviously are very contradicting since from gathering what the Hollywood movie has told you if Kirsten was truly a witch, then, Bernadette was a bigger idiot since she wanted to befriend such a person to begin with. the fact is bullying had nothing to do with it she was a sick and twisted individual and still is! Bernadette was clearly very sick and disturbed, yet you appear to be minimizing or even excusing Kirstens murder by referring to Bernadette as a fragile human being, and writing Society in the richest places raise their children to be obnoxious and unbearable little freaks who will at some point push a normal person to the brink. They hung out together, Bernadette couldnt face up Kirsten was more Popular than she was, and better at everything. Shame on you. You are still getting that she was a bully from the movie where they changed everyones name because they werent doing a real version. It was on the Murder still haunts Moraga Residents. I didnt know Kirsten but a friend of mine knew her well, she was a (Bubbly) girl and yes she was (self absorbed) what teen girl isnt. Why isnt anyone talking about the incompetency of the police here? She was not some vulnerable lost soul who was bullied mercilessly. For you to even fix your fingers to type a reference that this was some sort of fault of the victims speaks volumes about you as a person. To the fellow classmates of 1986 Miramonte, so sorry if your World crumbled cause it wasnt meant to be that way, but you got to know that it was t any picnic for Bernadette as well, and if she could set time back and do all over, she would of left the situation with Kirsten alone to start with. In the meantime, the girl driving the Pinto had quickly parked and slid out of her own car. The day after the murder in June 1984, rumors had already spread at the tennis courts, down oak-shaded lanes and at poolside. as bad as she wanted her friendship. Kirsten, who appeared tense but not terrified, said, My friend got weird on me. She asked to call home. Bernadette pushed her by her false Alibies. This Mats person youre either Bernadette, or sister, or a very good friend. What? She's the only backyard kid with a pitching rating of 10, and she does not disappoint. I was raised to treat others with respect. If it hadnt have been for Bernadettes confession, this case probably would remain unsolved. Boys are Smart Aleck also, girls are Worse at it. She didnt give examples because she wasnt bullied by Kirsten. I guess we all cant like everyone. She didnt have time to (bully). The people implying that Kristen had it coming, or whoever else blamed her parents, are, in life, the jealous Bernadette types. I never thought she would go as far as murder. She was also shown to be a self-centered and cruel bully, with her main target for harassment being Goth student Monica Whitley. We arent all made to be popular. As I also wrote to you in a previous comment, judging from your malicious, reprehensible comments and utter ignorance and delusion, your moral fiber is rotten to the core, and I pity any child subjected to your skewed guidance as their moral fiber will no doubt succumb to decay. Maybe things wouldve been different for her and she would still be here today. Youre going off a moviea fictionalized account. No one have to take the greatest gift God gives,LIFE. Kirsten wasnt obligated to helping those people, sometimes it has to be done on your own! Is He In Jail? She never had words with Kirsten, just said Kirsten hardly talked to her, maybe once or twice in her entire life. Kirsten didnt have anything against Bernadette before the murder.So Kirsten made a few comments. Karen, it wasnt about Bullying, it was over jealousy issues. Bernadette chased her. Kirsten loved to joke and tell funny jokes to. >> Whoever wrote this article is not being honest All of the pictures featured here are photos taken from newspapers, not the authors private collection. Movie portrayed Kirsten as a Snotty girl, when really she was just down to Earth and Vivacious and fun Loving. One girl said stupid stuff that embarrassed you, and cussed all the time, and other girls who smoked or cussed, she didnt associate with them, she didnt want around them. Judging from your malicious, reprehensible comments and utter ignorance and delusion, your moral fiber is rotten to the core, and I pity any child subjected to your skewed guidance as their moral fiber will no doubt succumb to decay. Its unknown what happened to Peter Costas (Kirstens younger brother). Bernadette was snotty to. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5482. Bernadette was/is just a mental case. With all this Corona Virus going around, none of that matters, it was 36 years ago, maybe LP or whoever moved on with her life. She didnt have enemies,(that were known), just a fallout with Nancy. If you liked this article, please share it! Bernadette and Kirsten were friends supposedly. I think Kirsten was friends with Bernadette or she would of never gotten in her car, Kirsten was funny who she associated with.
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