Posted on 12/17/2024 9:35:19 AM PST by Beowulf9
Accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann has been charged with a seventh murder: the death of Valerie Mack, whose remains were first found 24 years ago, according to a superseding indictment unsealed Tuesday.
A hunter's dog discovered Mack's decapitated body in a wooded area of Manorville on Long Island on Nov. 19, 2000. Her remains were bound with rope inside a black plastic bag which was wrapped with duct tape, according to a bail application that accompanied the new indictment.
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Hopefully it’s only seven but these psychopaths usually don’t stop until caught.
The suspect is a New York City architect.
I’m surprised Biden hasn’t pardoned him yet. What’s he waiting for?
The law seized 350 electronic devices from perp.
I’m a firm believer that after a certain amount of life sentences have been levied, it doesn’t make any difference. So if you can’t punish any more, and this person will not be rehabilitated, just give him a tab and call it a wash. No trial, just a hearing like a coroner’s inquest with evidence and that’s it. Killer identified as someone has to take blame and he will die in prison anyway. Wasn’t the first six enough?
wy69
So was Paul Kersey.
he’s got that Wayne Gacy look ...
The families of the victims need to know what happened to their daughters is just one reason why it’s needed to be pursued.
The truth of what happened is needed. The application of the law. Should we just let it go, like bygones will be bygones, these people were violated, snuffed out, their murders were crimes to be applied as such. The victims cry out from their graves for justice, to borrow a phrase from the great Bugliosi.
For it to be known what happened to them, what this man did to them, took from them and their families.
Boy, you are so right.
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Kersey would have much busier, these days in NYC...
“The victims cry out from their graves for justice”
No they don’t, they are dead. The only thing that can happen to the case is that more money, time, and heart break comes from prosecuting a case like this. He can’t be staying in prison any longer for this one than the first six. The punishment won’t mean anything to him, and the family can do nothing to him. There is no advantage to doing the trial. This closure thing happened when the victim was buried. The goodbye was said, and an occassional visit warrented. Nothing there can change. And there is a possibility he won’t be convicted anyway like O.J. He did it too, but he wasn’t put in prison or punished until they caught him stealing. And since the guy killed so many others, who’s to say he might not get committed to a psychiatric hospital after this one and get cured? Let him rot, don’t rock the boat.
wy69
Well, guess what, I don’t agree.
Suppose someone else killed this victim. The real murderer would escape justice because this particular killing wasn’t investigated, just attributed the the guy with six notches on his belt.
“You don’t escape jail if you go to a psych ward for a year and then get “cured”
If a person can be found innocent of a seventh killing by reason of insanity, why can’t the original sixth be overturned for the same reason after the fact? Going back to court to find someone guilty of a seventh same crime decision opens the door for the original six to be re-examined. If the perpetrator can be absolved of one just like the others, it would be easy to claim the entry of new evidence and retract the decisions and change them to insanity. And as soon as the perpetraitor is considered cured, since they can’t at that point separate them calling one fault and the others insanity, the criminal walks upon cure. So much for a life sentence.
wy69
“...because this particular killing wasn’t investigated...”
But it was investigated just like the other quarter million unsolved homicides in the US. I’m not talking about the admission of guilt, just the waste of time and money doing nothing to the criminal except open the door to changing the first six.
wy69
“...because this particular killing wasn’t investigated...”
But it was investigated just like the other quarter million unsolved homicides in the US. I’m not talking about the admission of guilt, just the waste of time and money doing nothing to the criminal except open the door to changing the first six.
wy69
Serial killers frequently inflate their totals.
It’s strange to me that a quarter of a million unsolved homicides make you want to unsolve even more.
I’d much rather spend time, money and effort into making sure every case that can be solved is solved.
“I’d much rather spend time, money and effort into making sure every case that can be solved is solved.”
Why? It isn’t going to make the victim less dead, and after 6 previous convictions for life, it hopefully won’t change that either. We have been taught as a society that if you don’t morn the dead, you are not humane. The only thing on earth you have to do once you are alive is die. Just a fact. But the cost to people that have nothing tod ow ith it, is a little out of hand.
Crime generates substantial costs to society at individual, community, and national levels. In the United States, more than 23 million criminal offenses were committed in 2007, resulting in approximately $15 billion in economic losses to the victims and $179 billion in government expenditures on police protection, judicial and legal activities, and corrections (U.S. Department of Justice, 2004a, 2007a, 2008). Programs that directly or indirectly prevent crime can therefore generate substantial economic benefits by reducing crime-related costs incurred by victims, communities, and the criminal justice system.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2835847/
It ain’t worth the cost of the time if it doesn’t mean anything to people that are footing the bill only.
wy69
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