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Berwyn Murderer, Steve Jahn

I haven’t written about this yet, but started now. I think I needed to sleep on it some more because I found this so profoundly upsetting and disturbing .

First up: a wrong place, wrong time. A woman in Berwyn murdered by an out of his mind lunatic….whom police had dealt with just a couple of hours before he shot this woman. This was a mom. She was a sister. She was a friend. she was just at the wrong place at the wrong time when someone decided to have a psychotic break. I hope they lock that guy up for a really long time.

According to the timeline laid out, Tredyffrin Police HAD Steven Jahn IN CUSTODAY earlier that evening and perhaps if they had kept a hold of him, this woman might still be alive?

https://patch.com/pennsylvania/te/amp/33777794/police-let-man-go-hours-before-he-fatally-shot-a-woman-in-tredyffrin-affidavit

https://patch.com/pennsylvania/te/man-shot-killed-woman-random-attack-tredyffrin-da

It also speaks to the need for mental health evaluations to be added to requirements for carry permits etc.

I hate to refer to her as just “a woman” or “this woman” but out of respect for her family I am while they try to adjust to something anything but normal.

This woman is known to friends of mine. I have woken up thinking about her these past couple of days. This was about a quasi homeless man on a psychotic break and maybe some sort of substance abuse (who knows?) who murdered a woman who will never wake up again to see the sun rise or take joy in her family, smile at her kids, go for a walk, kiss her husband goodnight. This is a woman with kids and a husband who have to try to make sense of something utterly senseless.

And this piece of crap who shot her? Here is the police comnplaint thingy:

SteveChristianJahn _RedactedDownload

The docket:

JahnDownload

Now was Jahn truly homeless or unhoused? He went to Conestoga and supposedly grew up around Midland in Berwyn? People I spoke to indicated he had lived in Florida, New Jersey, and Maryland before coming back to PA in the beginning of the year? Someone said he had been at some place called the “French Creek Inn” which is some sort of no tell meets meets flop house in East Pikeland? Did anyone check that out? I never heard of that place and someone said it actually came up recently at an East Pikeland meeting?

Anyway, this guy was picked up with his guns at his cousin’s house on Conestoga Road? Look at him? Is that just a full mental break or something else as well? Why do I ask? Because I figured out WHY his name was familiar. 2013. Crazy car accident after hit and runs in East Goshen on North Chester Road. Like 3 hit and runs and his own car upended in the woods.

Berwyn man charged with DUI after multiple hit-and-runs

And next we go to the death of that poor State Trooper Corporal Timothy O’Connor. Fatally shot while performing a traffic stop by one Jesse Nathan Elks. This happened out in West Caln. Another guy who snapped who owned a gun. Elks then ate his own gun.

Timothy O’Connor leaves a wife, daughter, and other family like his beloved parents behind. I literally started crying at one simple comment on the Chester County District Attorney’s Office Facebook Page from his namesake father. All it said was “I love you son.”

There is a meal train for the widow and child: https://mealtrain.com/gew5wl

https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/local/2026/03/10/pa-state-police-timothy-oconnor-chester-county-shooter-jesse-elks-history-of-anti-police-views/89084628007/

So I can’t really find the social media of Jesse Elks but obviously they are out there somewhere because people are posting about it.

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When you dig into Elks you find he fathered kids by two women, married one who later divorced him. He was living in a mobile home park in Honey Brook, not sure if it was the township or West Caln area. He seemed to me to be a POS with anger issues and a coward. He took the life of Timothy O’Connor and then killed himself depriving the State Troopers and O’Connor’s family of justice. At least the women who bore his children are free of him…and I hope his kids do okay through this as innocents in his act of murder.

So why did Jesse Elks have a gun?

Look I am not debating the right to own arms. I am asking when the f*ck are they going to add mental health evaluations to the ownership process? It’s the people with the guns doing the killing, so it’s a different conversation to the regular or more typical gun control conversation.

It’s like the fact that sometimes when people have these mental health breaks, law enforcement needs to confiscate weapons sooner, rather than later.

Corporal O’Connor and currently unnamed wife, mother, sister, friend both were taken to Paoli Hospital. What a terribly sad duty for those who work at Paoli. Two tragedies that were random acts of senseless violence. I hope they met on the way to heaven.

I am not particularly eloquent about these senseless acts and I so want to be because these two victims whose souls left their human form at Paoli Hospital deserve that….from all of us.

We live in an awful world right now that needs more happiness. Pray for these families and for these two people murdered through random acts of violence and being in the wrong place at the wrong time. This could happen to anyone, and that is the most gut wrenching thought of all.

I close with what Timothy O’Connor’s mom posted. It was public. Mrs. O’Connor, I don’t know you either, but like the currently unnamed murder victim in Berwyn, we share people in common and I am just so damn sorry.

People, we need to strive for a better world. And heaven has two new angels way before they should have been there. And can we also put in a plug for Chester County officials to get a hospital back in the area of where the other two closed with a trauma center?

Ok that’s it. I have no more words for now.

oh my

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Remember back in October when we first learned the appointed constable of Honey Brook Borough had applied for one of those federal 287(g) contracts?

Well Claudia Vargas from NBC10 did a HUGE report about 287(g) contracts and Pennsylvania constables who have applied.

Guess what? One of the two Pennsylvania constables they discussed was David Jones from Honey Brook. Constable Jones didn’t care to comment to NBC10. Maybe she should just go to the Lions Club and hang out?

Anyway, it is a whopper of a report. And of course if the constable has nothing to hide, why not answer the reporter’s questions?

To be continued?

https://hoodline.com/2026/03/lansdowne-and-honey-brook-constables-quietly-join-ice-rattle-suburban-officials/

while chester county was sleeping, the chester county constable applied to help ice out in honey brook? why?

truth in advertising honey brook style: politician steve jones mails out alternative reality propaganda…

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I would ask if this mailer was completely targeting Democrats in Honey Brook except for one thing, the fabrication of facts on the mailer postcard. The postcard claims she resigned as a committee person to “seek” the Democrat vote and that is a lie.

Much to Valerie Schultz’s surprise and delight, Democrats in Honey Brook thought enough of her to write her in, so when the primary was decided in order to comply with the rules as a committee person, she resigned to stay the written in REPUBLICAN candidate on the Democrat side of the ticket.

His big gotcha I am sure directed completely and utterly at Democrats with this post card is Valerie holding up a Trump sign. Among other things that is a dated photograph off of Facebook, and I will note that this politician did not have a disclaimer on there as to where he got that photo and isn’t that a no no?

And what does it mean when he points out she’s a lifelong Republican? She’s not a Democrat because she’s a registered Republican on the Democrat ticket, she’s still a Republican. Just how stupid does he think everyone in Honey Brook is?

No one is going to deny that the man has volunteered as a first responder. My opinion, however, on some of his other volunteer things like the land, preservation committee, etc., was engineered for this political race because shall we say it’s all a little obvious? Also if you watch him at any of these meetings that are recorded he never really participates much does he? When it comes to participating in public at meetings, he is a bump on a proverbial log or a hoodie with the hood all tied up.

From a practical perspective, this postcard is complete amateur hour. It doesn’t hold your attention, and the guy couldn’t even spring for a better photo.

The narrative of this postcard is the basic regurgitated disjointed babble of this thug politics cabal, who ran him as a candidate. Because if you want to tell me he thought of this all by himself, I have a bridge you can buy in Brooklyn. If this was cud and a cow was chewing it, a cow would’ve choked by now.

But my purpose today and part is the point out what this guy is like on his personal social media. Before he started throwing stones and living in his glass house, the talking hoodie should’ve cleaned up his own socials now if posts disappear, you know what he’s doing.

Can we wonder aloud if he is a giant talking hoodie conspiracy theorist? Where did he stand on January 6, 2021 and if he’s so trying to cultivate the Democrat vote why does he seems to hate on them so much on social media? And is he actually one of those election deniers from when Biden was elected?

It doesn’t matter if you are a Republican or Democrat, his social media is not that folky person he wants you to believe he is, is it? At the end of the day in my opinion why Democrats who live in Honey Brook Township need to vote for Valerie Shultz is simple: if they ever want the hope of being able to run their own candidates for supervisor out there it starts with a different kind of Republican candidate.

It only takes one candidate in these municipalities to start to change the future. The talking hoodie is not that politician. But it’s not up to me, I am just expressing my opinion.

Please enjoy the following screenshots which were ALL public on Facebook as of yesterday.

are an amish woman and her children really missing from honeybrook in west caln? since the end of may, no less?

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I am sad to acknowledge that as is just like the case with any other part of society where us regular “English“ live, apparently Amish communities have their own issues.

Today a post I keep seeing shared on Facebook by people from the areas further out in the county about something that happened in the West Caln section of Honey Brook which took me down a rabbit hole that needs attention.

Here are screenshots of the post I originally saw :

The Amish are broken down into various sects in various areas of the country where they have settlements.

Different sects have different Bishops and other elders for each community. I have heard before from people that are either related to Amish, who left the fold so to speak or who know Amish that not all of the sects are the same. As a matter of fact, can it be said that some of them are more cult- like the others? And basically, if you are in an Amish community, you can’t blow your nose without the Bishop’s approval or disapproval.

Katie Zook, 40 and her children Daniel, 10 and Elizabeth, 6 were taken May 28th, 2024. The details are on the screenshot of the flyer I posted. The Zook farm is located on Compass Road and the children were scooped up off of essentially a next door neighbor’s farm on the same lane of their parent’s farm from where Katie the wife was taken.

There are no photos because they are Amish, who keep to traditional Amish ways. And yes, you’re right if you’re thinking, it sounds like a Lifetime movie filmed in Canada and supposed to be like Pennsylvania Ohio or whatever, it does. 

One source said to me that they could have possibly been moved to either an Amish settlement somewhere in Ohio or a settlement near Clare Michigan if not in PA any longer. Now this is just supposition because I have and they have nothing concrete. I am not in or near an Amish community. but I have verified that this wife and these children were indeed removed at the end of May.

The husband and father is named John Zook. He is Amish, so he’s not about going to the English authorities, and in case you don’t know, we all are the English. I’m sure John Zook also believes given the fact he is Amish that God will provide. I don’t think in this situation God is going to provide unless man helps with the tools they have available. So here we are.

What I have been able to piece together from those who know John‘s family and some who have left the Amish sects that this was a happy family unit, and this boils down to religion when religion turns ugly.

Family members say there was no abuse or discord. Family members and friends also say there  was nothing wrong except John Zook from what I have been told by someone who knows his brother wanted to leave this Amish sect and church they were currently in and go to another church.

What I was told is he and his son were indeed going to a new church, but the wife and the daughter were going to the old church. I don’t know what the issue was but apparently John Zook had not been happy with this church for a few years. and the thing about being Amish is you can’t just up and move church just like you can’t just up and move house. I mean, it happens when Amish from one community married Amish from another community. John Zook’s wife Katie, who is missing with her children actually grew up in Quarryville and someone said that her father is a church elder of her birth sect.

I have been told that Katie Zook did not wish to be relocated so what happens now? Are they trying to pressure John Zook into doing what they want by this cruel act? And they might have their own laws that they live under but is that really OK given the world in which they live? So what happens if John Zook doesn’t do what they want? Do his wife and children live elsewhere under different names and will she have to marry someone else entirely? Or would she then live a life of some kind of indentured servant somewhere and raise her children?

I think the other problem that this church has with John Zook is some of his family members, his close family members, were shunned by this sect for leaving. I don’t know if they left Amish life all together or what the story is, but I do know that Amish orders are really tough on those who leave their communities for whatever reason. 

And all of these folks basically live in the same area :

I also pulled the property information from the two addresses on the flyer :

I am not trying to be disrespectful of the Amish people. But this post just made me sit up and take notice and people are sharing it all over, especially people in Chester County who live fairly close to these various Amish communities.

I have been told that these kidnapping things happen. Sometimes it’s for good and sometimes it’s for things like this which in my humble opinion are mean and selfish reasons. Families should not be torn apart for ungodly reasons should they? And seriously if this is all true? I wouldn’t stay in this church either. It’s wrong.

If you have any knowledge of where Katie Zook and her children Daniel and Elizabeth are please call any of the following numbers:

610-273-7102

717-442-5115

717-587-9952

I think this also bothers me because you know we were all raised that the Amish were God-fearing simple folk who did things with faith and tradition in mind. I am having a hard time with this because this is anything but God-fearing and lovely, it’s barbaric and horrible. And it’s sad that the religion of this sect seems to have torn a family apart and I think that’s wrong, don’t you?

If you know where Katie Zook and her children are, please let somebody know. And here’s hoping police somewhere take an interest in this if all of this is proved true.

so who is jessica florio and what does she stand for, really?

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Oh I have questions about Jessica Florio. She’s on Honey Brook Borough Council. She’s running against State Senator Katie Muth who is now covering more of us in Chester County after re-districting or whatever. And this is the only person they could find to run against Katie Muth

There was the whole 1994 water issue.

Honey Brook is an odd duck of a municipality. There was that thing in 1996 about racism that was so truly ugly:

So then there is the whole name thing with her. Florio is her maiden name, Curtis her married name. What’s that all about? NOT KNOCKING DIVORCE, LIFE HAPPENS.

And the whole single mother thing that has been all over her campaign? NOT KNOCKING SINGLE MOTHERS, I HAVE KNOWN A FEW. What I am questioning is single mother implies no dad, but her daughter has a dad who appears to be very much in her life and re-married too? I don’t get it. Again, not knocking single parenthood or divorce, it just makes me wonder why she is pigeon holing herself, or allowing campaign wizards to do that? It’s 2022, if you are divorced it is hardly some proverbial scarlet letter, but maybe to spin doctors constantly saying “single mom” sounds better? Do they therefore describe all divorced women as “single moms”?

People say she lives with mom and dad? No issue with that, but is that really a struggling single mom, or just a divorced woman with something like shared custody? Is she actually still a teacher? And if her dad is the Florio (other Florio?) on Borough Council, good thing more family members aren’t on Honey Brook Borough Council because man, imagine a breakfast table quorum? (ROFLMAO I crack myself up, sorry…not sorry.)

Jessica has really been giving it to Katie Muth. Or her handlers have. But where I had enough today was ANOTHER glossy mailer from Team Jessica. We have no Republican voters in our household at present, so why is the PA GOP wasting money on us? Or are they just spamming everyone in Senate District 44 “just in case”?

Below is who is giving Jessica money thus far (I guess, am never sure how up to date these sites are and who she has paid):

Florio-In-and-OutDownload

Oh and this whole thing about her “ethics complaint”? Other than running while seeming to pimp her daughter out on her website, where is she on ummm things? Important things? Specific things?

Jessica Florio, let’s start right at the top: where are you on a woman’s right to choose?

Jessica Florio, where are you on things phobic including but not limited to transphonic, homophobic, etc?

Jessica Florio, where do you stand on drag queens? (I figure since the Republican Committee of Chester County made them a campaign season issue, might as well ask, right?)

Jessica Florio, where are you on burning books and things affecting school districts as a purported teacher and all? Oh and where did you teach? Where do you teach? (Usually when you see a teacher running for office you see where they work.) When I went noodling on the state site for looking up teachers this is what I found:

So Jessica if you are charter/cyber charter school teacher, where are you on these schools and giving them funding? Fair question since a lot of politicians don’t like charter or cyber charter anything when it comes to schools.

Back to questions:

Jessica Florio where were/are you on COVID-19, COVID vaccines, masking vs. no masks?

Jessica Florio where are you on January 6, 2021?

Jessica, where do you stand on pipelines like Mariner East/SuNOco/Energy Transfer?

Jessica where do you stand on issues facing FARMERS ?

I mean come on now Jessica, we need a little more depth than the BS you gave fake news outlets like Broad & Liberty or Uwchlan Republicans, don’t we? I mean it’s not student council and you are giving out lollipops, or is it?

Found this about Jessica Florio, which of course begs more questions:

Funny tweets from the Muth campaign which makes you wonder how The Daily Local and Mercury will check all the election season letters to the editor to see if they are actually real or not, right? Anyway see below:

Yeah so Jessica has lots to say about Katie Muth because she supports a woman’s right to choose, which means no matter what their choice is, so let’s get real about that, supporting freedom of choice isn’t so narrow as some make it seem, right?

And oh wait….Jessica Florio is also a Stepford Wife for Totalitarianism? How darling!

In true GOP fashion, because a woman just can’t be herself, it seems like they have been slowly making Jessica Florio over:

And she fan girls too:

So look, maybe Jessica Florio wouldn’t be a bad candidate if she was more than a Trumpublican GOP wind up doll. But she has nothing to say, and what you hear out her own community is not quite flattering. And Honey Brook? Well let’s just say some pretty farms and oddly run borough? But again I ask, this is the only viable Republican candidate for State Senate out of this huge district? It’s fascinating, truly. And a little bit of a horror show.

Oh and if teaching or politics doesn’t work, there is always Scentsy, right?

Jessica Florio, who are you, really?

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I have a thing for Main Street oriented towns….this is the natural commodity that developers attempt to capture but can never quite naturally duplicate in developments that reflect the theories of New Urbanism, and so forth.  And why create Developer Disneylands when the real deal is all around us? 

Adaptive reuse I think is a more productive key to the future.  The National Trust for Historic Preservation seems to share my opinion too:

The National Trust for Historic Preservation believes that the strength of America’s historic and older neighborhoods is critical to the future of our communities, and that improving housing is a key element of any community revitalization strategy. Our goal is to prevent unnecessary demolition, and to restore, rehab, and reuse existing structures, while helping to ensure that needed new construction is compatible and complementary with the character of our older and historic resources

 But to reuse an old structure, or series of old structures is not what most developers seem to want to do.

If we’re not careful, Main Street will disappear.  And that will be a loss.  I don’t know about you, but I like communities with individual identities.  Not everything needs to be homogenous and Stepford wife situated.

The one thing that concerns me is that Chester County is still seeing a LOT of development.  Lots and lots of strip malls, but I notice that every time one of those goes up, small crossroads town centers are forgotten more and more.

I would hate to see small Main Street oriented Chester County town centers become ghost towns and a thing of the past.  And as I wander through the county, I notice it’s already happening….