Posted on 11/14/2023 10:05:32 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
A year ago today, Oba Chandler was executed by lethal injection in Florida for the brutal triple homicide of a Willshire, Ohio mother and her two teenage daughters.
Thirty-six-year-old Joan Mae “Jo” Rogers and her daughters Michelle, 17, and Christe, 14, were vacationing in Florida when they vanished on June 1, 1989. Three days later their bodies turned up in the Tampa Bay. All three were naked from the waist down and had their hands and feet bound, their mouths taped shut, and concrete blocks tied to their necks. Michelle had managed to free one arm before she drowned.
The police initially suspected the girls’ uncle, John Rogers, even though he was in prison at the time.
Rogers had been incarcerated for rape; one of his victims was Michelle, and authorities theorized he had a third party kill her and her mother and sister. Eventually that gentleman was cleared, as was his brother Hal, husband and father of the victims.
The sexual abuse, which had gone on for years, had torn the family apart, and part of the reason for the Florida vacation was so that everyone could relax and get some distance from what had happened. Hal had wanted to join his wife and daughters on their trip, but he had to stay and look after the family’s dairy farm.....
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Oba Chandler was a particularly evil SOB I’ve watched documentaries on this case and deserved the death penalty more than once if that was possible
What are the odds that a mom and two daughters, subjected to sexual assaults over the years, go on vacation and then have this happen to them? Tragic.
[Chandler's daughter Suzette] said her father was a monster who got what he deserved.
This FPOS lived too long.
Quite a story.
As one would expect a fair number of them say "I didn't do it" and/or "the death penalty is wrong". But a surprising number (surprising to me at least) acknowledge their guilt and express remorse. Many of those who do so mention God.
Who knows...maybe there's redemption for those who do.
The eerie truth is that the FBI compiled a statistic that showed those who are molested as children are much more likely to be sexually assaulted as adults (+220%).
And in interviews with serial killers, even the killers were puzzled as to how some of their victims, unknown to them at the time, not only sought them out, but tenaciously clung to them, as if they wanted to be murdered.
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