Happy Halloween  / Big Jim's Mom
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Our Angels  / Jim's Mom
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Stoping By  / Karen Collins (Friend Forever )
There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about you. I love you and miss you so much. Close

Thinking of our angels  / Jim's Mom
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Update on Your Sons  / Beverly Ribaudo (Mom)

It has been 3 years.  I would like to say that it has been easier, but it isn't.  I miss you so much.  Staying busy helps me get through the days. 

The boys keep me busy.  Justin has been helping out at a Horse Ranch.  This makes him very happy.  He loves working with horses.  He is breaking one that he will riding in the Whole Hog Parade the end of July.  He is a big help around the house.  

Jesse can be very trying at times.  He always has to have the last word.  Jesse is helpful, but ususally he complains about doing it first.  Sometimes he can get that last word.  However, I don't give in to him and he is learning. 

We wish we could see Mikey more.  You would be proud of all three of your sons.  I wish you were here with them.

Yesterday was July 4th.  Ashley and Cody are here visiting.  Ashley and Justin started lighting the fireworks, and it starting raining so hard.  In between the next rain drops, the kids started lighting more fireworks, but finally had to quit.  Tonight they will light up the sky.

We love and miss you so much.

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July 4th  / Jim's Mom Shirley
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THE LOST OF A LOVE ONE  / Chiquita Peterson (N/A)
SO SORRY FOR YOUR LOST YOU HAVE MY DEEPEST CONDOLENCE Close

I love and miss you so much  / Karen Collins (Friend 4 Ever )

I love you and miss you so much. You will never be forgotten. You are always in my heart.

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I Miss You So  / Beverly Ribaudo (Mom)

Michael & Vince:  I try to stay busy not to think of all that has happened in the last couple of  years.  It has been so hard since your Dad passed away.  We can't go back, but I wish for one more day.  I have been so weepy lately.  It seems like all I want to do is cry.  I think of all that I would have done differently.  I know they say, hind sight is 20/20.  There is no going back. I can't change what has been, but I am trying to change what can be.

I am working so hard on getting this house finished.  It's almost done.  Michael, I wish you were here to help me with the electrical and some of the other repairs that need to be made.  Bryan is too far away, so he can help. 

I am going to foster care classes on Tuesday and Thursday, 3 hours a night.  I find them very interesting.  I am doing all I can do to get your sons, Michael.  They need so much love.  I don't want them to go into adulthood with such angry.  I want them to know that being mean to another person is not acceptable.  It will just make their life more difficult in adulthood.  I hope they remember all the love that was given to them before they had to go to Idaho.  What happened to the boys at the hands of people that were supposed to be caring for them is so wrong.  Don't they realize what they have done to these boys.

I guess I need to get back to shampooing my bedroom carpet. 

I love and miss you so much.  Also, watch over Sherri.  Sometimes I feel like I abondoned her, but I had to come back to Oklahoma.

Love you and watch over each other.

 

 

 

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From our Angels  / Jim's Mom Shirley
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Papa -To Everyone  / Christopher &. Lorraine Rampton (Grandson)
The funeral service went well.  Thanks for family and friends who attended the service.  Papa has finally laid to rest next to our Uncle Michael.  We will surely miss him very much.  Thanks for the memories with the family Papa.  We will met you up there someday with open arms from you.  Take care.  Love, The Ramptons Close

Sending a Snowman to my Angel Friend Michael...  / Lisa Maas (Angel Friend )

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Awesome Memorial Site  / Arlene Andrews (n/a)

Hello,

I don't know your family, but my son was also murdered on Jan. 11, 2008 and I just wanted to extend my condolences. I have a website for him but this website of Michael is just so up close and personal, all the pretty pictures and poems.

You all take care and may justice continue to be served.

 

Arlene

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING  / LISA RAMPTON (BATES) (NIECE)

HEY UNCLE I KNOW I HAVENT BEEN ON HERE FOR A LONG TIME. I WANT TO WISH YOU HAPPY THANKSGIVING. I HOPE YOUR TAKING CARE OF OUR BABY GIRL FOR US, I KNOW SHE'S HAVING A BLAST WITH YOU. I KNOW I DID WHEN I WAS A KID. I WANTED TO GO EVERYWHERE WITH YOU BUT MY MOM ALWAYS SAID NO BECAUSE YOU DROVE TO FAST. THEN I WOULD THROUGH A FIT. WELL GIVE HER HUGS AND KISSES FOR ME AND MIKEY. I LOVE YOU UNCLE!!!!

 

LOVE ALWAYS AND FOREVER,

YOUR NIECE LISA

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Article in Today's Inland SB Sun  / Beverly Ribaudo (Mother)
Mother of Rialto shooting victim pleased with conviction
By Joe Smilor on November 26, 2008 10:30 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | ShareThis


A Rialto mother thought she might feel some relief with the recent conviction of her son's killer.

So far, that hasn't happened.

A Fontana Superior Court jury found Jennifer Kay Stull guilty of second-degree murder earlier this week in the 2006 shooting death of 38-year-old Michael Ribaudo.

But the weight of her son's death, which occurred inside the Driftwood Avenue home he shared with her, hasn't lessened.

"No verdict will ever bring back my son," Beverly Ribaudo said in a telephone conversation Wednesday. "I really felt the burden would be lifted off my shoulders, but that didn't happen."



Michael Ribaudo was found dead inside his mother's house on Driftwood Avenue by his girlfriend about 11:30 p.m. on June 24, 2006. He had been shot with a .22-caliber handgun, according to Rialto Police.

During lawyers' closing arguments in the trial, Beverly Ribaudo said she learned that her son was sitting at his computer desk, when he turned around to look at the screen. Stull, a former girlfriend, shot him in the back of the head.

Police tracked the defendant to a Fontana mobile home, where she was arrested days after the shooting.

Stull, 25, faces 40 years to life in state prison, when she is sentenced Jan. 16, said Clark Hansen, supervising deputy district attorney in Fontana.

Deputy District Attorney Tonya Cole, who prosecuted the case, was unavailable Wednesday.

Michael Ribaudo's mother said she will not spend the rest of her life hating Stull, making her a victim, too. However, she feels "contempt" for her son's killer.

She also thanked prosecutors, police and jurors for the time and energy put into the case.

"The family's happy with the verdict," Beverly Ribaudo said. "We appreciate the time and effort that went into the conviction."

Stull's lawyer, Gina Kershaw, could not be reached at her office.

mike.cruz@inlandnewspapers.com

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Just sending my prayers your way.........  / Debi Collins (Angel Andrew's Mom )

Beverly and family,

I received the email regarding the verdict in Michael's murder trial and I'm thankful that at least you must be experiencing some sense of relief.  I came back to this site this morning at 6:00AM; my house is quite, the Christmas tree glows in the background...everyone is asleep, except for me. As I read your words, which I had done in the past but needed a gentle reminder, I sat at this computer and sobbed like a baby. To begin with, the Josh Grogen song, "You Raised Me Up," was the first song that my close friend sang at our Andrew's funeral. I can't seem to upload it to Andrew's site but would love to have it there. If you can help, please email me and I'll send my password.

Anyway, my heart aches for you. Burying a child shouldn't happen, and learning that one has been murdered is incomprehensible to me. I am so, so sorry for your infinite loss and I would somehow find magical words to make it all better....if that was at all possible. Andrew left us three years and four months ago...still seems impossible...still makes me question why...still makes my heart feel as if someone snatched it from my chest, squeezed all of the happiness out of it and put it back so it could ache some more!

I pray that you have resolution within now that the trial is over. I'm not sure what happened as I had to stop reading for awhile. I just became too emotional reading your hearfelt words...MOMMA words.  God Bless You...Debi Collins

http://andrew-collins.last-memories.com

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our son  / Mikey Bemis (son)

hey daddy do you know how much i miss you and want to hold you and never let you go i wish you were here to gide me through the day and tell me i ok and i will do good in my life and succed in what i want to do for a living do you know what i want to become in my life ........a P.S.R  i wold like to help people with there problems so that they can have good life with their kid and wife or husband i want to just help people i learned so much from you it is unreal and i am liking it so much i thank you for it and i am going to pass it on to my kids and i hope they do the same and dad i the best time with you and the races thanks to uncle brian we would of never done that at all just to get to know each otheir again i thank the lord for the oppertunity to spend time with you it was a blast  but you know i am only a phone call awAY FROM YOU SO CALL ME WHEN YOU GET A CHANCE DO YOU GOT YOUR PHNOE WITH YOU LOL LOVE AND MISS YOU A LOT HAVE A VERY NICE THANKGIVING UP THEIR GIVE ME SOME MASHPOTATOS K AND GRAVE I AM HUNGERY JUST KIDDING LOL ANYWAYS I WANT A HUG FROM YOU WHEN I COME UP WHEN IT IS MY TIME NOT NOW BUT LATER AND A KISS ON THE CHEACKS K

                    LOVE

       YOUR

         SON

   MIKEY RIBAUDO JR

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Trial / Beverly Ribaudo (Mom)

Michael, the wheels of justice are slow, but now finally the wheels are turning.  Today and tomorrow, jury selection.  Trial should start Thursday, November 6th.  Christopher and I are flying out in the morning back to California.  Watch over us.  Please help us get through this last final battle.  Please tell me, Michael, what justice do you want? I know how I feel, but over and over in my mind, I hear you.  I know at times how forgiving you are....

I don't hate Jennifer, but she took your life.  I have this horrible sick feeling when I think of her.  How will I be able to see her again in the courtroom? I have not let her make me a victim.  She took you away from us.  She did not have that right.  I just wish I knew why? She had no business coming to our home. 

What justice do you want?  A life for a life?  A life sentence in prison?  This is what she has given to you family.     

I have this horrible sick feeling in the pit of my stomach.  I choke on every bite.  It's hard to concentrate.  I am slowly slipping back to that night.  I know this is going to be difficult, but we will see that justice is served. 

If I could go back to that night, I would have been home with you. The last time that you needed your Mom, I was not there.

I want to thank everyone that has helped me through the ups and downs since June 24, 2006. With the support of so many friends, I have come this far. One more time, we need your prayers and support to get us through the trial.

I love you.

Mom 

 

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Happy Halloween Michael  / Denise Kneale (angel friends )

Dear Michael, Have a wonderful Halloween with sweet Savanah and all our Angels, lighting up our skies with your celebrations. Love Never Dies.

(((Beverly)))

Love and Blessings Denise mum to James and Daniel. http://james-kneale.memory-of.com xxx

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i miss you  / Vanessa Bates

hi its me nessa man i wish you where hear to tell me haw im doing in school i would never tell you to shut up id tell you haw it went and not be mean about it because i had a bad day the last thing i said to you was shut up and im sorry i realy am i would do anything to take it back and start over the last day you where with us that shut up word is eritating to me know because i have a friend is name is jr and he always says that to me jokeing around and it drives me nuts i tell you lol

well love you dad i wish i can have just one more day with you and savannah banana but we will all be with you guys again someday haws savannah doing good are you driveing her nuts yet lol i love you and i love you to savannah banana

 

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