As many of you know, Chris Tamburello's brother was brutally murdered in 2008. It's hard to even begin to summarizethe events leading to the murder, but it is an incredible story. His father created a website about the murder, the events leading up to the murder, and the fight they have been fighting since 2008 to get a fair trial. The website is Justice4vinnie.com. Mr. Tamburello also gives updates on the Justice4vinnie.com facebook page. There are some interesting pictures of CT when he was younger as well as Vinnie Tamburello Jr. and the rest of the family. I've always been a huge fan of CT and it's clear the rest of his family are pretty incredible as well.
As far as the case, apparently the men that Vinnie Tamburello Jr. had confronted were some low level drug dealers and informants for the District Attorney. These low lifes had went as far as trying to intimidate Vinnie's girlfriend's mother and assaulted her. When Vinnie Jr. showed up and wouldn't back down, they had their "muscle" for their little gang, Gib Bastian, who is reportedly 6' 6'' and weighs over 300+ pounds step up to Vinnie. Vinnie dropped him with one punch. Vinnie waited for the cops to arrive and reports were filed. This out of towner, Vinnie, had come to this small Vermont town and exposed these cowards and then dropped their "intimidator" with a single punch. They couldn't have that. This was one of a series of events that led to the final altercation....
On August 17, 2008, Vinnie was driving with his girlfriend and one of her female friends when he received a call from one of the low life's baiting him to meet them at a softball park to "talk". Vinnie agreed to meet them. Dozens of witnesses said that when Vinnie pulled in, a group of 10-12 men rushed towards him and the girls. Vinnie left a tazer with his girlfriend to defend herself with and grabbed a tool from the back of the truck, a splitting maul. He then charged the group of 10 + men with the maul, and the group scattered. One of the men, Kyle Bolaski, fell near Vinnie's feet, and Vinnie moved on past him and took the maul and started smashing Bolaski's truck. (He had an opportunity to strike Bolaski with the maul but didn't, according to witnesses). While Vinnie smashed the truck, Kyle ran to the other side and pulled out a hunting rifle, and shot Vinnie in the leg. Vinnie dropped the maul, and started to walk away, retreating from the gunman. Kyle then shot him in the back. As Vinnie lay dying, the group of men (now suddenly brave) rushed Vinnie and kicked and beat him with the butt of the rifles. Vinnie was still alive and able to speak when the police arrived, but died soon after.
Onto the case, apparently the Bolaski brothers and the rest of the low level thugs were informants for the local District Attorney, Robert Sand. Sand refused to bring Kyle Bolaski or the other's to trial. He tried to intimidate the family into letting the case go with a slap to the wrist to Bolaski, threatening to bury the case if they didn't keep silent. As anyone who watches CT on The Challenge would guess, they thought very wrong if they thought the Tamburello's would just roll over. Mr. Vincent Tamburello Sr. and his family have courageously fought incredibly hard and overcame unbelievable obstacles within the Vermont Government. Due to pressure caused by the corruption being exposed and the family not rolling over, the D.A. Robert Sand was removed from the case, and Bolaski went to trial. Now finally without a corrupt DA protecting them and a fair hearing where all the evidence could finally be looked at, the jury very quickly found Bolaski guilty and gave him 25 years.
Last year though, now with Robert Sand and some of his corrupt partners in different politcal prominence in Vermont, the Vermont Supreme Court was allowed to be submitted some of the proven perjured testimony and falsified evidence which led them to call for a retrial and set Bolaski free. Now the Tamburello's are having to go through this exhaustive fight again. Incredibly, the Tamburello's are gearing up again, and once again, they are not asking for any special favors, just for a clean, honest trial where ALL of the evidence can be presented. They never set out to try to fight corruption amongst Vermont politicians and officials, this fought was brought to them. They only wanted whats fair for their son. On the bright side, this does give us fans of Chris CT Tamburello a unique chance to help him and his family when they could use it the most. The more light that is shed on this case, the harder it will be for Sand and the other corrupt officials to try to bury the case and let the murderers go free. Please share Justice4vinnie.com andhttps://www.facebook.com/justice4vinniecom-114477608629104/ with other fans of The Challenge and CT and all your friends in general. Justice4vinnie.com also has a message board where you can leave a message to Mr. Tamburello and the family. They check them often.
I personally have never met the Tamburello's but through the site have had the privelege to speak with Mr. Vincent Tamburello Sr. and I can tell you he's a real class act. I never thought when me and my friends were cheering for CT on The Challenge that I'd ever have the chance to be a small part in helping his family fight for justice for his brother. I by no means now "know" the family or them know me, but as impressed as me and my friends have been with CT's character and impressive athletic abilities on The Challenge, I'm even more impressed with his and his family's character and the strength they've consistently shown fighting this fight that no family should ever have to face. This fight has implications on us all, because if it can happen to the Tamburello's, it can happen to us too.
How sad. Hopefully he gets the justice he deserves.
What happened was horrible. However, Vinnie was involved in the drug deals...
I don't think this is denied at all though. Does that justify the way he died or the corruption in getting a fair trial? Inappropriate comment to make...
I don't see how the comment is inappropriate. If there is a retrial you can expect his past with drug dealing to come up.
Also it wasn't mentioned in the story above so it made it seem like a bunch of random people coming at CT's brother for no reason.
It's inappropriate that is one of the first things said about the entire case. Obviously it's gonna come up in court, but is that really one of the first things to say about that entire tragedy? Looks even worse when we know how lurker has a hatred for CT.
I think it's pretty well known his brother dabbled in the wrong scene. It's not stated, but implied. I'd guess it's just not something they wanted to really talk about.
Well I personally didn't know Lurker disliked CT and I never knew anything about his brother's case other than he was killed. That's the only reason I would want to know every aspect of the case because the original post made it seem like there was no history or reasoning (not saying this was a actualy justified reason) behind the attack on the brother.
Does it really matter? People are going to say whatever first thing they want about this situation.
Not inappropriate at it is what it is. People need to stop acting so butt hurt when it comes to him.
I was thinking the same thing. I just seemed weird to me that it wasn't explained in his story on the website why he was even associating himself with such company. The biography is very vague and the story doesn't make much sonse, it does look like a group of drug dealers attacking him for no reason. Why was he even hanging out with them?
I'm not saying that what happened to him was justified. It was a brutal murder and those responsible should be brought to justice, but something about this story just doesn't ring totally true to me.
It doesn't work like that. If you want to bring attention to the case, you cannot choose which aspects you do or do not want to talk about. If you want attention, you have to accept the fact that people are going to ask questions and will want to know the whole story, not just the parts you want to tell.
I feel really bad for CT. Losing two people so close to you like that (his brother and Diem).
Same. Knight was also one of his great friends so that must have hurt CT even more since Knight passed away only two weeks after Diem )= I hope CT is doing well.
Forgot he was close with Knight as well. Great point.
That's true and fair, I just looked at it as a site remembering him for the most part and maybe not being something they wanted to include.
I thought it was common knowledge on here that his brother was dealing with the wrong crowd. CT is also known to hang out with the wrong crowd also. Put the two together people.
The comment was irrelevant because we all know vinny died and are not saying he got killed for no reason, the topic here is that the killer is getting let off and not paying for it.
The corruption is insane!!
Losing his brother changed Chris
Wow breaks my heart for CT and his family.
I can't believe he lost Diem, his brother, and Knight. I pray that CT is doing the best he can<3
According to people close to Vinnie Jr. in Vermont, Vinnie's only involvement with these low level drug dealers was that one of them use to date his girlfriend. They brought the fight to him. The only drug involvement was that one of the drug dealers claimed that he gave Vinnie $40 worth of weed to get him to leave when one of them started a fight with Vinnie. He then later changed his story and said that Vinnie stole the $40 bag of weed when he was leaving. He then changed the story that Vinnie stole some items but not weed. (by the way, this was some of the self conflicting, perjured testimony that Robert Sand was trying to use to get the case dropped). It's clear all 3 can't be true, so probably none of it was true.
That being said, even Vincent Tamburello Sr. said that his son was not perfect and had made some mistakes, but the simple fact is that all the evidence clearly points to this being a pre-planned murder (for instance the men in the truck stopped to pick up the rifles on the way to the ball field AFTER they called baiting Vinnie to come). Just let a fair trial happen and all the evidence to be presented. Point blank. And if people don't help spread the word, that fair trial will probably not come due to it would expose corruption in the Vermont Government. It's turning into a Foxes Watching the Hen House situation. Again, this is a great opportunity for fans like us to educate ourselves about the situation and help this very deserving family. I'm biased because I already think CT is the man on The Challenge, but I think anyone with one eye and half a brain who honestly looks at this case can see the injustice being done to this family and the bastardization of the judicial process.
i think on a mtv site delete scene of rivals 1 ct was with laurel on the bunk beds and ct mentioned his brother being killed and ct also mentioned that he was murdered around the same time duel 2 was filming and he said that he did have the mind of the challenge so he punched adam in order to leave
this thread again???????????????
No, that isn't what he said - it didn't excuse him punching Adam but he was in no frame of mind to be there...he was still very upset and angry about his brothers murder
I love this comment. There is always two sides to a story. I say unless you were there you shouldn't have an open opinion. In saying that I can have an opinion and trust me when I say there were no Angels there that day and he was shot in self defense. Nobody would ever just shoot someone for the **** of it and want to go to jail. Usually it's because someone is scared. There life or someone close to them is being threatened. Just saying there is always two sides and when you have only heard one then you got to remember there is going to be another side. In seeing how this person already caught on to stuff seeming to be hidden or left out, that tells me that it's already apparently seen to many that he wasn't the Angel his family makes him out to be and when you read stories like this and can already feel the sense that he was not making good decisions and those decisions and past are being held by, hidden in a way to make him look better then his actions portrayed him to be.
You were there right ? Okay then you should probably know the true story before making such false and ridiculous comments