Deputies: Teens set 67-year-old man on fire following planned sexual encounter

WISH ^ | February 13, 2017 | WFLA Staff Reports

[digger48]

[DouglasKC]

The depravity of people is overwhelmingly sad...how much must God’s heart hurt...

[Fungi]

What about the dead man?

[DouglasKC]

What about the dead man?

That included...the whole situation....

[pa_dweller]

And the one second from the left: he had scared eyes, he wasn't gonna do nothin'. But that one on the far left: he had crazy eyes. Figured him to make the first move.- Josey Wales

[jacknhoo]

Crazy that, with a hit from a ballbat and all that gaoline, the ould come to the conclusion it was started by a small heater. Fire the investigators.

[DakotaGator]

Then there was the other side of John that we didn’t know, obviously,” Ron Towns said.

Not so obviously. The only version of events presented so far is from one of "John's" self-confessed murderers.

[glorgau]

> Fire the investigators.

Yeah, if they can’t identify an accellerant like gasoline in a house fire, they aren’t very good.

[fluorescence]

Who is “John” anyway? The top of the article says the victim was “Donald”...

[Robert DeLong]

then Johnsey hit him in the head with a baseball bat

And the fire investigators, or was it the coroner, determined it was caused by the fire?

I would say someone needs to be replaced it would seem.

[sport]

He’s dead. No one cares now. The focus is now on getting the hoodlums back on the street. Unless the Craig’s List link can be proven. The part about him and them having sex is bogus also. The man is dead, he cannot defend himself.

[Robert DeLong]

The teens then rummaged through Merkley’s house until they found some gas and poured the gas throughout the home and on Merkley. Johnsey took $2.75 off the kitchen counter as the teens left the home.

Gee, I hope they didn't spend that all in one place.

[Figment]

Ain’t that the truth. They couldn’t spot use of accelerants until someone confessed?

[MNDude]

Teenagers went to a 67-year-old man’s house to have sex with him? I wonder if they are gay.

[sport]

It could be just a story they made up. The guy is dead and cannot refute the accusation. Perhaps they were out looking for someone to rob and blundered into him.If you looked at their pictures up page, they do not appear to be normal.

[sport]

They are not the best and the brightest. That you can take to the bank. And probably political appointees to boot.

[Scrambler Bob]

Crazy that, with a hit from a ballbat and all that gaoline, the ould come to the conclusion it was started by a small heater. Fire the investigators.
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After a few of those movies where the arsonist is a fireman, it makes me wonder how much the investigators may be covering for them, just in case.

Add in some studies about arson and fire science not being so conclusive as we have been told ...

[PLMerite]

“Crazy that, with a hit from a ballbat and all that gaoline, the ould come to the conclusion it was started by a small heater. Fire the investigators.”

Maybe not so much inept as corrupt. It wouldn’t surprise me that authorities in various jurisdictions are cooking the books to conceal crime stats.

[DakotaGator]

Hmmmm...re-reading the article, I am not sure. Had made the mental jump that he was the victim. Now that you have brought me up short, I’m thinking “John” is “Johnsey”, the other teenager.

There’s more to this story. But I made a mistake. Thanks for drawing my attention to it!