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Three charged with murder after body of good Samaritan who left his home to help a stranded motorist was found beside burning car
New York Post ^ | 01/04/2025

Posted on 01/04/2025 9:44:16 PM PST by BenLurkin

Clifford was last seen alive as he was leaving his home in Benson, Arizona, just outside of Tucson, when he left to help a stranger who had knocked on his door seeking help for car trouble, his family said.

The episode began when the family saw a man flashing a light through their windows, then beg for help

She urged her spouse to let someone else help out but Clifford refused, telling her, ” ‘No nobody is coming to help them, I need to help them’ and went out the door.”

The 53-year-old’s remains were later found next to a still-smoldering car. His exact cause of death is still unclear.

“I feel so empty. We planned to grow old together, live into our 90s, and die of old age,” she told the station

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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: 202412; 20241224; arizona; arson; benson; christmaseve; elmersmith; goodsamaritan; jackupchurch; murder; robbery; strandedmotoristruse; theft; trailertrash; wendyscott
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1 posted on 01/04/2025 9:44:16 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Hopefully they get death.


2 posted on 01/04/2025 10:05:09 PM PST by Jonty30 (Genghis Khan did not have the most descendants. His father had more. )
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To: BenLurkin

Gangsters that Biden brought in?


3 posted on 01/04/2025 10:05:40 PM PST by Greg123456
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To: BenLurkin

This has an eerie resemblance to Flannery O’Connor’s short story ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find’.


4 posted on 01/04/2025 10:08:31 PM PST by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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To: BenLurkin
Oddly, not clearly cartel related or the usual norther city perps.

Meth lab?


5 posted on 01/04/2025 10:09:13 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Your oath of enlistment has no expiration date)
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To: BenLurkin

Some people need to die early.


6 posted on 01/04/2025 10:09:29 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: BenLurkin
The episode began when the family saw a man flashing a light through their windows, then beg for help

She urged her spouse to let someone else help out but Clifford refused, telling her, ”

‘No nobody is coming to help them, I need to help them’ ”

Said the dead man.

7 posted on 01/04/2025 10:11:12 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Greg123456

Nope. Just scumbag trailer trash. They should all be hung.


8 posted on 01/04/2025 10:13:47 PM PST by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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To: BenLurkin
news4Tucson

A comment that would make a Calif liberal lose bladder control

"Joel Adkins walks around his neighborhood with a gun holstered to his hip, always ready for the worst. “I’m always ready," he said."

9 posted on 01/04/2025 10:18:31 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Your oath of enlistment has no expiration date)
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To: vpintheak

too much work

bullet to the head at the edge of a ditch — all 3 one at a time


10 posted on 01/04/2025 10:20:42 PM PST by Gene Eric
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To: doorgunner69

The two guys look like Bryan Cranston and Keanu Reeves.


11 posted on 01/04/2025 10:29:56 PM PST by Right Brother
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To: Gene Eric

“bullet to the head”

Bullets can get to be expensive for multiple deaths. Rope, on the other hand, is reusable and there are plenty of trees with good, strong branches.

In this case, there are three. The last one gets to watch the other two twist and wiggle on the rope. That is poetic justice!


12 posted on 01/04/2025 10:34:37 PM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Learn three chords and you, too, can be a Rock Star!)
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To: BenLurkin

His good nature cost him his life. Very sad. Can’t afford to be like that in this time. I wish he would have listened to his spouse.


13 posted on 01/04/2025 10:45:27 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: doorgunner69

Meth heads for sure. Not smart enough to run a lab, just sad stupid junkies.


14 posted on 01/04/2025 10:51:45 PM PST by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: Right Brother
Not to be too flip, but the victim reminds me of Patrick Magee, in A Clockwork Orange.


15 posted on 01/04/2025 11:13:53 PM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. the )
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To: ConservativeMind

They should be able to take it if they can dish it out.

The death penalty is not about revenge or retribution, but protecting society from types like this.


16 posted on 01/04/2025 11:28:31 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: Pelham
This has an eerie resemblance to Flannery O’Connor’s short story ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find’.

I doubt that any one of these perps could measure up to "The Misfit."

Regards,

17 posted on 01/05/2025 1:06:49 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: metmom

And providing deterrence to those who might act similarly.


18 posted on 01/05/2025 1:07:51 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: BenLurkin

Its ok not to help strangers that are this level intrusive asking for assistance. You are not AAA. You are not roadside assistance. You are not the police. Nor emergency services.

If you are moved to do anything, what you can do is call the police about a person needing assistance somewhere. Most oc us have obligations and other people we actually care about, who depend on us every day in many dofferent ways. Your duty is not to strangers. If you feel you have any sense of duty, it ouvht to be to your friends and family.

It was a stupid move. One that he didn’t consider he’d leave his family and friends without him. Call the police if you want to do something to help, and go back to your family. Thats where any sense of duty lies. Both men and women. Especially men though, women aren’t conditioned all their dam lives to help others, but everyone asks a guy for help and has no problem doing so, with many demanding/expecting him to help simply because hes a guy. Don’t fall for that like this guy did amd let nefarious types take advantage of you.


19 posted on 01/05/2025 1:11:51 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise

N9t if you tape their heads together.


20 posted on 01/05/2025 1:12:37 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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