Your link links to the latest ..1 woman and 2 men arrested in connection to this.
Supposedly, the angry husband — or one of his associates — was at the Lake Streety location when Springfield showed up first, after dark Friday night. The first murder took place almost immediately.
The younger two showed up soon after, as per a prearranged plan. They were murdered so they couldn't be witnesses.
Two men and a woman arrested? Strange combo for such a crime. Hmm...
thx for posting....often these stories appear and one never finds out if they got the perps.....glad they did....some local yokels....
Proving, once again, that adding murder to whatever has happened always makes the situation better.
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What a complicated story. The sheriff did a great job...it was like hearing the narration of a movie, and he also appealed for funds for the families of the dead to be able to bury them. Polk County has Winter Haven and some well-off places, but a lot of the county is very rural and poor.
It appears that some of these people knew each other, at least from a business deal over a truck. The three murderers were living in a trailer in the woods and the one who actually did the killings seems like a character from Deliverance.
what I think, without proof as of yet, is that meth is involved, especially with the paranoid rant of the main killer.
Meth is decimating our rural areas around the nation and it’s heartbreaking to watch.
Why are people like this still walking the streets? 230 felonies in 12 years.
According to Polk County Grady Judd at a press conference on Wednesday, July 22 at 11am, three arrests have been made in the horrific massacre of three friends fishing.
According to Judd, Tony Wiggins was “the trigger man”. His criminal career began at 12 years old. Wiggins is now 26 years old. His criminal history includes 230 felonies. It was tips from the community that directed the Polk County Sheriff’s Office to this known community criminal.
more detail here—
Judd identified the suspects as Tony ”T.J.” Wiggins, 26, his girlfriend Mary Whitmore, and Wiggins’ brother Robert Wiggins, 21.
Among the leads that drew detectives to the suspects were tips to the Crime Stoppers line.
“Look at T.J. Wiggins from Frostproof,” Judd quoted some of the callers saying. “Not because they had any idea he did it, just because he’s mean.”
Tony Wiggins was first arrested at age 12 and has a history of 230 felony charges and 15 convictions, Judd said.
These three are truly cold and evil. Wow.
https://www.mysuncoast.com/2020/07/22/men-woman-arrested-polk-county-triple-homicide/
“...After the brutal murder, officers say the three went to a McDonald’s and ordered several double cheeseburgers and McChicken sandwiches...”
You know the girl will flip, possibly even the 2nd brother.
Life is cheap in America and getting cheaper.
Is this a preview of the new season of Ozark?
“he was walking free with 230 felony criminal charges in his arrest history”
It was scheduled to happen
One of the thugs had 230 felony convictions, started his criminal career when he was 12, and was out on bail after breaking a man’s arm with a crowbar.
Tell me again about supposed mass incarceration, and that we have all these innocent dope-smokers languishing in prisons for years? The truth is that we don’t keep criminals in prison nearly long enough. Some get out after serving only a few years for murder. Once again, the liberal narrative is false.
i loved the sheriff’s comment in one of the articles about the shooter, TJ Wiggins:
“he needs to receive a fair trial and then be executed”
Sheriff Grady Judd appears to be a highly competent, intelligent, compassionate sheriff.
I wish that he worked in my county..