Family's liberalism cost two lives.
Posted on 01/03/2012 6:59:32 AM PST by A_perfect_lady
A woman grieving the shooting deaths of her son and granddaughter is now trying to come to grips with news that one of the accused is a longtime family friend whom the 7-year-old victim affectionately called "Uncle Mike."
Michael Bell, 21, played high school football with Jeremy Crane and spent many weekends at the Crane family's ranch-style home in suburban Indianapolis.
On Wednesday, Bell and another man were formally charged in the deaths of Crane, 21, and his niece, Kyleigh Crane.
Cathy Crane, Jeremy's mother and Kyleigh's grandmother, found the bodies Dec. 12 after returning home from work. She said family members had not had any falling out with Bell and are stunned about his alleged involvement in the killings.
(...) A probable cause affidavit filed Wednesday along with the formal charges says a surveillance camera filmed the pair boarding a city bus not long after the slayings... One man carried a loaded backpack onto the bus and the other a jumble of bulky items wrapped in a blanket, authorities allege. Police believe the backpack and blanket were filled with electronic games and other items stolen from the Crane's ranch-style home.
Prosecutors allege Bell showed little emotion as he watched television reports of the killings from his aunt's house...
Cathy Crane said her son and Bell met in the eighth-grade and became close friends who later played on the same high school football team. They spent weekends together horsing around at she and her husband David's home in Cumberland, a town on Indianapolis' far east side where urban sprawl gives way to farm fields.
The family provided Bell unwavering support during his rape trial, she said. He was also charged with criminal confinement, battery, criminal trespass and criminal mischief in two separate cases in 2009 and 2010...
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I pretty much came to that conclusion after reading the last paragraph.
It's tragic, losing two young family members, but you just can't put a price on the virtuous feeling you get from "helping" an "under privileged", "disadvantaged" "victim".
Makes you wonder if envy/jealousy played a role. Can’t tell from the story, but it sounds like the Cranes were living comfortably. Not to digress, but the class envy/class war that’s been used irresponsibly as a political tool for several decades now has consequences. Of course, it could have nothing to do with this particular case.
I google-imaged their names just to check my theory before I posted this, and yes, I was right. You develop a radar for this sort of thing after a while. Whenever a story makes absolutely no sense... something is being left out. And it’s always the same something.
I live in Indy. I know the area where the Crane family lives. They are not very well off. They helped this Bell creep out of kindness over the years.
They were not picked out of jealousy, but because they were easy marks and the “friend” and his homie buddy, who live in a nearby hood, didn’t have to do much other than knock on the door to get access. They wanted some crack and a few bucks and they knew who they could steal it from. That was what the lives of these two people got them.
The little girl would have still been alive if she hadn’t have stayed home from school ill. She got assassinated because she could identify Bell.
Yes, Google advanced images shows the details missing in this story!
Just another black on white murder. Nothing to see here. It’s not like the victims were GAY or anything.
Those guys both look like a couple of real thugs. “Uncle Mikey” my arse.
Let me guess. Bell is black and the Crane’s are white liberals?
How can the black community expect us to NOT be racist when they keep raising people who do these things so predictably?
And here is a link to a follow-up story about the rape charges that are mentioned as an aside in the fox story.
It seems like this Michael Bell has been a menace for a long time.
The Crane family has some serious soul-searching to do. I suggest they start by pondering “how could we be so S.T.U.P.I.D?”
Isn’t it something? You really don’t even need to see the pictures, all you have to do is read the article and think “Why on earth would they befriend someone with whom they seemed to have so little in common? Someone clearly dangerous? And why would he repay them in such a manner?” Then it dawns on you...
These crumb bumbs actually sold the X-Box to some peeps with blood of the victims still on it.
Once the peeps that bought it heard about the crime, they turned it in.
That poor little girl had the gun put to the back of her head and the trigger was pulled.
Tom Scott, (chaplain with local police) said ... a Christmas tree was set up in the funeral home and Kyleigh was buried with a toy she dreamed of getting but never received in life. "Christmas was very much part of the funeral. Kyleigh was buried with a Nintendo 3DS that she'd always wanted," he said.
(facepalm)
But it was all so nice in “the blind side”...
The Crane family was certainly stupid, but not just them. The wider community should do some serious soul-searching as well.
The apparently absent or deceased father/grandfather of the victims is also a factor. Somebody should have instructed Jeremy Crane about the reality of the society we live in today.
You can’t fix stupid,and the Crane family has it bad.
Nothing like taking in a vicious animal and then being sstunned when it bites you.
The problem started when someone decided that Warren Central high school needed a winning basketball team!
Hard to say more than that because I moved away when they still had an eternally losing basketball team.
Exactly. Certain types of people do not make good pets.
Thanks for the insight. It is tragic, and speaks to the value given life by some.
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