My apologies upfront that the move this morning resulted in a loss of a couple of articles and many comments. This resulted in the article posted last evening covering the breaking developments of the Aja Johnson case being lost forever, and created the appearance I didn’t care enough to write about the discovery of her body.
I would like to cover what we know so far. Yesterday afternoon Tonya Hobbs’ white Toyota Paseo was found just north of the intersection of 108th Street and Highway 9 approximately 9 miles east of Norman, Oklahoma. As the news developed we learned that two badly decomposed bodies had been found in the car. One was the body of an adult, the other of a child. Today authorities stated they believe the bodies are those of little Aja Johnson and her abductor/murderer Lester Hobbs.
The vehicle and bodies were discovered by the landowner of property near the location of the car. So far reports have stated that no weapon was found in the car, but a note was. Jessica Brown, spokeswoman for the OSBI stated that while they will not release details of the content of the note it did “give insight” into what Lester Hobbs was thinking. Authorities have stated they believe the bodies have been at the location found for more than a month, but not since January 24th, the weekend Tonya Hobbs was murdered and Lester Hobbs and Aja disappeared.
Last evening, Mildred Anderson, the sister of Lester Hobbs whose front yard Hobbs’ RV was parked in and where Tonya Hobbs was bludgeoned to death with a hammer voiced her discontent at the fact she claims she told authorities to look in “that area” and that if they had they would have found them sooner.
That’s what we know right now.
Now, I’d like to say some things. This case has really hit me hard. Little Aja needed to be found, and I’m glad she has been. I did not have hope that Aja would be found alive, and I must confess I am surprised that at this time it appears she lived longer than I had suspected. But either way, Aja needed to be found. She needed to go home to her father, J.J. Johnson.
There will be those who say “Aja never had a chance”. I do not agree. She did have a chance. Her chance was her father. And to Mr. Johnson I would like to say loud and clear – YOU DID ALL YOU COULD. Then I’d like to repeat that – YOU DID ALL YOU COULD. As the weeks slip into months, and then into years and those days of not hearing her laughter in the rooms and halls of your home stack up, you will find yourself doubting. Did I do enough? I should have not let her go. I should’ve, if only I could’ve, and maybe if I would’ve. Mr. Johnson, YOU DID ALL YOU COULD.
Aja died because of a lethal combination beyond your control. She died because her mother was sick with desperation. A desperation so dark and all-consuming that abuse, lies, convictions and the safety of her own child did not come before what her twisted mind had convinced her she needed. She had slipped into the cyclic pattern of needing the affections of an abuser and into the mental illness of putting that unsubstantiated “need” in place of the inherent maternal instinct of keeping her child from harm.
Aja died because of lies. Lies Tonya told to you in order to get to keep Aja over night. Lies Lester told to Aja and to Tonya and to all who would listen. Aja died because of lies.
Aja died because Lester Hobbs was an abusive alcoholic, a liar, a thief, a con and a murderer. He was driven by nothing but his own desires to stay in his little 2-dimensional world of drinking and hiding in the shadows of reality. Lester Hobbs was destined to be nothing but an anathema to society. His death is no loss – his murder of Aja is a loss that cannot be replaced.
In the coming weeks or months the contents of Lester Hobbs’ “suicide note” will be released. I will state now (and leave it for that time with nothing more to say no matter what the contents) that it will be full of cowardly, sniveling statements of faux-remorse. Those who enabled and covered for Lester will point and say – he was so distraught at what he had done. Lester’s remorse in those penned words is not to the life of Tonya Hobbs, and not to the life of Aja Johnson – a precious life he took for no reason – but to the remorse of his 2-dimensional existence and his barbaric actions squeezing him into an ever-tightening circle that he couldn’t break free from. His remorse will be consumed with HIMSELF. And as a precursor to those vacuous words I now state – I DON’T GIVE A SHIT, LESTER HOBBS. Your passing means nothing to the world except for the lives you took with you.
To those who might think “Aja will never see justice”. I say her justice was served when the sniveling coward Lester Hobbs expended his own energy to rid society of his own worthless self. Justice is NOT revenge. Justice is being held accountable. Justice is removing threats from society. Justice is removing monsters like Lester Hobbs from society. I take great pleasure that society need not expend any energy in the removal of Lester Hobbs from our streets. It is done.
To Mildred Anderson, you pathetic two-faced enabler of a murdering, cowardly abuser I have this to say: In the early days when hundreds of citizens braved freezing weather, dangerous conditions and risked their own health – heroes such as Oriah at Websleuths and the hundreds of angels like her who went day after day looking for Aja – not once did you stand before a microphone and try to reason with your brother to leave Aja in safety. Not once did you use the powers you had at your hands to plead for the safe return of that child. And while you sat in your trailer park, lawyering up and refusing to take polygraphs while law enforcement agencies came together and worked to find your loathsome spawn of hell sibling, the only thing you could think to do was after 40 days of them being missing ask for an interview with a local news agency and announce to Lester and all the world that he need not contact you because you’ll just have to turn him in.
And now you have the audacity to speak your disdain at the actions of law enforcement in their tireless efforts to find Aja! HOW DARE YOU. Did you once get off your ass and go to the area you claim you informed law enforcement about and look for your brother? Did you once in the 2 months they have been missing drive to the cemetery one mile from where that vehicle was found – the cemetery you state your own parents are buried to see if your brother had left clues of a visit? In that month that apparently Aja was still alive, did you do anything to save her life? Did you once look for Aja? I SUSPECT THE ANSWER IS NO, so you are summarily invited to sit down and SHUT THE HELL UP.
May God’s unending mercy and grace surround Mr. J.J. Johnson and the Dunkin family in this time of bitter grief and mourning. And may Mr. Johnson know that his little Aja touched so many lives for all time.
Valhall.
Related posts:
- Aja Johnson Case: Hobbs’ Family Flunks Test
- AMBER ALERT: Aja Johnson, 7-year old girl, Geronimo, Oklahoma – Updated 02/26/10
- Aja Danielle Johnson: In Memoriam
- Could Aja change the Amber Alert System?
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