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LAPD ties 72-year-old man to two waves of serial killings (may have killed up to 30 elderly women)
LA Times ^
| 4/30/09
| Andrew Blankstein and Joe Mozingo
Posted on 04/30/2009 12:08:25 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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Over to you, Death Penalty Opponents..
What say Ye?
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
04/30/2009 12:10:05 PM PDT
by
stuartcr
(If the end doesn't justify the means...why have different means?)
To: NormsRevenge
a 72-year-old state insurance claims adjuster who twice has been convicted of sexual assault
Why would someone with two sexual assault convictions even be considered for a position of public trust?
To: stuartcr
Coming soon.
DNA don’t lie.
I don’t think he is going to get offered a plea bargain.
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posted on
04/30/2009 12:14:37 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
To: NormsRevenge
If guilty, he deserves the penalty.
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posted on
04/30/2009 12:15:26 PM PDT
by
stuartcr
(If the end doesn't justify the means...why have different means?)
To: CaptainMorgantown
Why would someone with two sexual assault convictions even be considered for a position of public trust? How is "insurance claims adjuster" a position of public trust, more than any other job?
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posted on
04/30/2009 12:16:48 PM PDT
by
TChris
(There is no freedom without the possibility of failure.)
To: stuartcr
He was arrested last month.. linked to 5 murders so far,,
he left a lot of survivors too..
LA County Sheriff's Dept.
L.A. County booking shot of murder suspect John F. Thomas.
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posted on
04/30/2009 12:17:28 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
To: TChris
The position was “State” insurance claims adjuster which I assume means he worked for the State.
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posted on
04/30/2009 12:18:36 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: NormsRevenge
Over to you, Death Penalty Opponents..
What say Ye? Not that I'm an Opponent to the Death Penalty (In fact, I don't think it's used nearly enough!) but can we get real here for one minute. The guy is 72 years old! With the current 20 plus year death row time frame, the old codger is gonna croak before he even comes up for his first appeal!
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posted on
04/30/2009 12:19:28 PM PDT
by
cuz_it_aint_their_money
(I'll show their president the exact same respect and loyalty that they have shown my president.)
To: NormsRevenge
As I said, if guilty, he deserves the death penalty.
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posted on
04/30/2009 12:19:55 PM PDT
by
stuartcr
(If the end doesn't justify the means...why have different means?)
To: NormsRevenge
Well, there goes the next Governor of California.
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posted on
04/30/2009 12:21:04 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
To: cuz_it_aint_their_money
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posted on
04/30/2009 12:22:24 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
To: Lurker
State Comp is the name of the biggest Workman’s Comp carrier here in California. However, this is a position of trust where you have access to lots of private info. A better job of security might be good!
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posted on
04/30/2009 12:29:12 PM PDT
by
The Californian
(The door to the room of success swings on the hinges of opposition. Bob Jones, Sr.)
To: NormsRevenge
I think Obama has his next Sec’y of HHS.
To: Lurker
The position was State insurance claims adjuster which I assume means he worked for the State. That's possible, but it could also mean he was assigned to that state as his territory by an insurance company.
Are insurance adjusters government employees in CA?
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posted on
04/30/2009 12:50:19 PM PDT
by
TChris
(There is no freedom without the possibility of failure.)
To: TChris
How is "insurance claims adjuster" a position of public trust, more than any other job?
Well it said "state insurance claims adjuster", so I'm assuming that means he worked for the State of California, making recommendations on the amounts of money to paid out in various insurance claims. That seems like an awful lot of authority to give a convicted felon. When I deal with a government agency, I guess I expect to be assaulted in a figurative sense, but not a literal one.
The scant amount of information in this article raises an awful lot of questions about how someone who was obviously a predator was allowed to spend so many years preying on others. The women who he victimized were somebody's wife, somebody's sister, somebody's mother. The good news is that the evil man who ended their lives couldn't blot out the full lives that they lead before that moment, but what a sad way for good people to leave this world.
To: cuz_it_aint_their_money
The real statement in your comment is about the pathetic case of our justice system.
The victims never got a 20 year stay of thier execution.
Hang the bastard immediately after a fair trial and be done with this trash. Oh...and tell him about Jesus before ya slip the rope over his neck, so he has a chance to repent.
This earth does not need him breathing our air for one second longer than necessary.
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posted on
04/30/2009 12:56:15 PM PDT
by
woollyone
(I believe God created me- you believe you're related to monkeys. Of course I laughed at you!)
To: stuartcr
As I said, if guilty, he deserves the death penalty.
He'll never be executed.
First of all, it will probably take a couple of years before his case comes to trial. Then add at least 25 years for all the appeals before a death sentence can be carried out. That's about average for California. There are men on Death Row that have been there since 1978 and are not even close to their execution date.
So, best case scenario, he'll be 100 years old before an execution date is set. I predict he'll be dead of old age long before that.
To: NormsRevenge
Oh, the poor guy, he looks so sad.
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posted on
04/30/2009 12:59:33 PM PDT
by
ladyjane
To: Deo volente
Death row for life sounds ok too.
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posted on
04/30/2009 1:02:06 PM PDT
by
stuartcr
(If the end doesn't justify the means...why have different means?)
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