Flame war extends to allegations, denial of murder

Delvin Maddison

Suspect named in alleged arson

Waco – Delvin Maddison is heavily tattooed. Designs climb out of his collar – a triangular shape, perhaps a pyramid – and his first name is emblazoned over one of his brows.

He speaks in a patois certain American Yakuza affect, a rapid and rhythmic pattern that resembles the flowing lingo of a Harlem hustler dancing down the sidewalk in the middle of a pitch to an uptown visitor strange to the ways of the Apple's most famous ghetto.

Most of his syntax is rendered unprintable by the use of terms that, if uttered in polite conversation, would be considered extremely offensive. It's all the more incongruous coming from the mouth of a squat, heavily muscled Celtic warrior – a pit bull of a white man with all the signs of an urban gladiator riding for the brand.

In fact, in the video presentations Mr. Maddison posted on his Facebook page, which are included here, readers who feel they might be easily offended by the use of such language are encouraged to forego clicking on the YouTube inserts, or, in the alternative, muting the audio portion.

In these videos, which Mr. Maddison published last week, he adamantly answers certain accusers in the community, and denies he set a blaze in a trailer house at 6312 N. 19th St. that claimed the lives of Ashley Dawn Rogers and two of her children on February 16 of this year.(Click here for an earlier report)

In one of the videos, he mentions the street name of a man he calls “Mr. Shogun, y'all know who he is," leveling the accusation that he is the one who “did that b___h-ass s__t.”

It's all part of an ongoing dialogue in a flame war of epic proportions between himself and two women he claims are “hating on” him. One of the women is Keri Nicole Schlasman-Cooper, a sister of Ms. Rogers, the other, Carrie D. Woodlock, an old acquaintance certain knowledgeable persons claim was a first love of Mr. Maddison in their past lives as local high school students.

Some examples gleaned from Ms. Woodlock's page:

Carrie D. Woodlock

I aint takeing s__t off my face book ..... I stood up to Delvin before any body else did u f___ing looser...., I was the 1 st one to call him a baby killer so do your home work playboy before u start running your mouth and I aint gotta get nobody to have my back and what you should do instead of hitting females is a f____ing commercial for lucky charms...btw did i mention F__k off
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Carrie D Woodlock Just in case I forgot F__k off ..., your a real gentleman arent you...,see your supposed to stand up for women not too them..... I dont hang with Delvin you idiot Delvin sent me that picture of him and my daughter. I took that as a threat and I posted it on Facebook so the world would know that I stood up for Ashley even no matter what because I have 3 kids and I can not imagine what she felt without throwing up. Some times at night I have dreams about D trying to kill me.... And I have to ask myself if there is really a kind of evil that strong to take a womans life away......with her child in her arms

Ms. Woodlock is no stranger to violence. Police found her former husband Kenny Wagner dumped on the streets with a bullet hole in his head in 2004. The case is still considered an open murder investigation.

Female prisoners and certain jail officials who requested anonymity who were incarcerated with Ms. Woodlock and Mr. Maddison's new love interest say that their arguments over whether Ms. Woodlock should provide an alibi for his whereabouts at the time of the fire became so disruptive that jailers at the McLennan County Jail were forced to separate them into different wings of the building.

A sample from Mr. Maddison's page:

“im out free and trying to clear my name of badd stuff that people wrongly accussed me my heart goes out to ashely and her kids she was my freind and i would have died saving her if i could have so for all you stupid hatin ass b_____s keep my name out yall mouth love and respect for aqll who know me and know that im not a f___ed person like that facebook im back...”

It is a topic that arouses deep feelings in Mr. Maddison, according to two officers who serve in the U.S. Marshal's Service Fugitive Warrant Task Force.

Accordingto retired Texas Ranger Matt Cawthon, when he and Officer SteveAnderson of the Waco Police Department, both of whom now work as“door knockers” who serve fugitive felony arrest warrants, Mr.Maddison was so perturbed when they arrested him on a charge ofEngaging in Organized Crime that he blurted out inquiries regarding,“Does this have anything to do with a fire?..I mean, this ain't formurder...”(click here for an earlier report)

Mystified, the two officers said no, it was all about some allegations of fraud and theft regarding the illegal appropriation of a car in some shady transaction involving a conspiracy of alleged criminals acting in a combination. Mr. Maddison is one of 9 persons named in indictments attached to the same Waco Police Department case number investigated by Detective Rozyski.

Said Officer Anderson, “Yeah, he was jicking pretty good...He was pretty wound up.”

Ranger Cawthon said, “He kept blabbing it out. He was back there in that back seat hollering about some arson, some fire where a woman and her kids got killed...”

Detective Rozyski has determined that the deaths in the trailer fire were accidental; he has reportedly closed his file.

Certain investigators at the Waco Fire Department have disagreed, and it's touched off a media war between the police, the firemen, and reporters who wrote stories about the allegations.

In the words of veteran newsman familiar with the developing story, “They are all mad at all of us!”

According to an official fire report written by Assistant Fire Chief Yeager, the fire's point of origin was on a couch in the common room, or den, of the residence. Reported at about 6:30 p.m., it was so hot when firemen arrived two minutes later that they could not enter without suffering burns from the flames and steam the intense blaze generated.

In the laconic words of Chief Yeager's report, there are no obvious signs of the use of an accelerant, but the source of the heat that caused the fire is unknown. A chemical analysis and arson investigation is still pending, according to an official spokesman for the department. Fire Marshals Fisk and Vranich were unavailable for comment.

Informed that persistent rumors on the streets hold that Mr. Maddison is the object of a professional “hit,” Ranger Cawthon said, “Good! Society would be a lot better off without him!”