Posted on 07/25/2007 4:33:38 AM PDT by BlueSky194
I don't get how anyone can read this and not want to get a pistol if s/he doesn't have one or practice more with it and resolve to keep it nearby all the time if s/he does.
I heard about this on a new cast yesterday. I was shocked—and I am not easily shocked. This reminds me of the “In Cold Blood” case (Truman Capote). The perps who did this deserve the death penalty ASAP—I don’t care how awful their childhoods were.
I feel so sorry for the Doctor. The guy works hard all his life to build a good life, succeeds, then loses it all in an instant. Truly tragic!
Let me get this straight, the wife had police alerted while at the bank as the criminal waited outside? Why didnt she scream loud and long after she got away from him? Why did she have time to withdraw money, and return home and the criminals do their foul deeds and the police never got to the scene until too late? How fast were they “racing?”
I don’t know if they have determined which one strangled the mother. Presumably he can get charged with capital murder but I suppose they will escape the death chamber because they’ll claim mental retardation or some other bull. I don’t know if deaths resulting from setting the house on fire can result in a first degree murder charge. In any case, if either should ever walk out of prison again, even if it is decades from now, an angry mob had better be there. I am hoping by that time I will be long gone.
That “tragedy could have been worse” crime is puzzling unless the town manager meant the scumbags might have escaped. Too bad the cops didn’t just shoot them on sight. It also could have been worse if they had done this to someone else.
I had thought few other “home invasion” cases could be worse than the Wichita 2000 incident but in some ways this was much worse, with sexual assaults on a child, and an ordeal that lasted twice as long. We’ll see if any ‘reform’ to the justice or parole systems come from this but I won’t hold my breath.
Please don’t tell me you are even hinting that victims brought this on themselves!
“most” predators who RAPE AND MURDER catch sight of their innocent victims going about their daily business, follow them home, then watch the family routine - and plan.
ala, Ted Bundy, Shannon Groene family massacre, Polly Klaus kidnap murder and others
There, fixed.
I have no problem with that but it’s a pipe dream, hell we don’t even execute most convicted murderers. My post is about keeping them in prison for life, something we have a reasonable chance to do.
No, I'm saying there was likely some kind of inside connection - i.e., one of the family members was acquainted with these guys before the crime. Even if it was something like hiring them to rake leaves last fall.
Granted. A man's home should be his castle, but it shouldn't have to be his fortress.
It sounds like they were burned alive, rather than dieing from smoke inhalation.
This is a truly hideous story. Prayers for this poor family.
Often times, it doesn’t take much of a contact to attract the attention of a criminal. We had a case in Florida where an elderly lady had paid her gardener in cash ($100) and he happened to mention it around two young thugs. The gardener had nothing to do with the crime. The thugs figured out which condo he had been working for, and broke in and killed the old lady, thinking they would find a lot of cash sitting around.
Of course, they didn’t. Most of these creeps are not very bright, but they’re vicious and they’re always looking for an “opportunity.”
Federal Banking & Federal Privacy Laws?
The LEO's may have had to get a emergency Court Order to force the bank to release the account holder's information (home address) to locate the crime scene...my guess.
Put the judge who let them out in the cell next door.
Perhaps the two murderers were using cell phones. One slip and the guy at the house kills everybody. That would be my guess. This is such a heartbreaking story. I pray for the families of the Petits.
He befriended the killers, and went into depression over their deaths. He lost his moral compass as he became closer to his subjects.
It was a good book though.
I wondered about that too. Why didn’t they charge them with murder in the first degree? That’s what it was.
I have heard that after an execution in China, the govt sends the family a bill for the bullet. But I don't know if it's true.
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