Terry Supino and her children in December 1982
In a two-page poem she called The Game, a teenage Terri Supino may have foreseen the fate of the man she was later to marry. She says she originally wrote the lines in 1976, long before she married Steven Fisher in 1980, and long before the now infamous murders at the Copper Dollar Ranch.
Did she foresee the brief and explosive marriage and the other events that transpired or did the sub-conscious mind of her older self re-write or craft the lines as a way to cope with the pain? Are they merely the words of an impotent girl venting her anger at anyone who will hear, or do they have deeper meaning?
When Gary Peterson and I traveled to Des Moines recently to visit Terri, she shared her poetry with me. She said she revised the original 1976 lines somewhat in 1983 and again in 2002, and she’s convinced that she may have foreseen certain events.
Though I don’t consider myself a poet, and symbolism can sometimes be elusive to literal minds, The Game obviously points fingers at authority figures. I reprint part of it here, with Supino’s permission. Are they the thoughts of an angry and willful teenage girl railing against perceived injustice, or do they portray something more? Note the references to “your badge” and “your system,” and judge for yourself:
He walked the streets of your corruption,
Taking the blame for a crime you’d done
Leaving his innocence behind the hang,
You destroyed the life inside my son
You tore apart his heart and soul,
And stripped him of his pride
While the silenced scandal behind your badge
Became the safest place that he could hide.
You paved his street of loneliness
Scandal paved your way to fame
Soon he’ll pay the price
For your deceit and lies
Playing the odds against your game
He walked the streets of your corruption
And died for a crime you’d done.
With his bed now made of roses
And your system thinking they have won.
The vengeance will one day belong to me
And the guilty will finally pay.
One by one, you’ll be brought down,
As soon as I have my judgment day.
You paved his street of loneliness
To hold on to the glory of fame.
But soon you’ll pay the price
For your deceit and lies
Playing the odds against my game.
Where do the fingers point? The Game tugs at the ends of consciousness, brings up nagging questions that beg to be answered. The Copper Dollar Ranch murders and the Jodi Huisentruit case happened miles and years apart. Were the sins of the past in Newton, Iowa circa 1983 revisited in Mason City in 1995?
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I am wondering why Teri Supiono was not charged with attempted murder the first time that she tried to kill Steven Fisher. She crossed a line when she shut him in a car door and drug him with a vehicle. Steven had to have known at that time that she had crossed the line from injuring to murder, His injuries at the hospital following this told the truth. The story says that he was severely injured and in traction. traction is used to pull and hold the body muscles back so that fractured bones can attempt to heal. then. Traction also describes the act of pulling or holding something or someone down while being drug by wheels of a vehicle on pavement. it says that steven made a decision to cross a line and leave the state to escape Teri’s violence. he crossed the state lne to line in another state in order to keep himself safe from her viol;ence. was she ever charged with such a huge violation? If not why not? Teri says that she and her brother Tim went out to Steven and Melissa to gove them some shit. Powdered up words for a desire to inflict more harm. if teri supino had been charged a restraining order would have been issued protection Steven and any of her children from contact with her for an extensice length of time. I believe she would have served time for that crime. who paid the insurance bills for her act of violence? If an insurance co. paid then they would have been legally authorized to receive the truth of the crime. I assume that they would have sought compensation from the her, offender.
I do not believe that Teri went out the night that Steven and melissa were murdureed to hassle them. She may have been part of a plan to make sure they were home and would stay home. i believe she has all of the information of what happened to Steven and Melissa. She would never have lied the next day about being out there if she were telling the truth. If she had not known the devastation of hearing the brutality to these 2 victims would have overwhelmed her and lying would not have entered her mind. it does not mention if Tim Supino was violent previos to this or after only that he lied about being there. Is he also a victim who was used as a set up unknowingly>
there is a video on a news site that is important….there are a couple videos from the news event of the bodies being taken from the crime scene……the coroners are removing the victims bodies from the site and a group of men are stadning around watching….there is one man there I believe he has on a red jacket….he sees the tv camera and actually stops for a second to pose for the camera. Melissa Gregorys body was posed….Peoples actions tell so much truth. were Supino and Van Sice friends . The man in the red jacket resembles Vcan Sice from other videos of him where he is a suspect in other murders…..like the one on Jodi Huisentruits site where he says “I think she will come back ” I really do”….that clip shows people mourning and deeply saddened by the job they have to do. to take care of the victims in the kindest way after the persons who did not have aone drop of kindness within them left them.
was it common for the men that worked at this ranch to play cards for money? Vsiions show that someone saw thee man who looks like Van Sice cheat at cards…..someone relayed that message on to what looks like Steven Fisher……my thedory suggests that Suppion fueld rage that already burned in VanSice and this is the result. the families of victims suffere additional trauma when they do not have the answeres to who murdurded their loved ones. Additional cruelty. God is and has been coming slowly but surely to bring the truth to you. Thank you for writing this story and thank you to the kind person who came forward to tell the truth. That Teri Supino and her brother lied about being at the crime scene shortly before the murdurers. God bless the victims and families and I pray that the offenders will choose God.
Would be very interested in hearing your thoughts and theories silverbirdie. The information that has been spun on this site through the Sins of Past series and in Dead Air are some what fiction to spin the story in the direction they wanted it to be spun. I am completely open to your thoughts, theories and visions and welcome them.