Posted on 08/18/2005 12:13:03 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
What the heck is wrong with the news media and the audience that laps this stuff up?
We have become voyeurs...
I just want them to put that cockroach into prison with those other cockroaches. Let him live his pathetic life until he dies and then drag him out of there.
"...and lastly, I'd like to thank my many victims, without whom this would not have been possible.">>>>>>>
Yeah, it was just like that!!!!! I was working on my computer in the basement, usually listening to my man Rush, but this ass-wipe gets on and just keeps going and going and going, I finally got up to go turn on the T.V. because I thought I heard him sniffling.....when I saw him on T.V., I wanted to vomit....he kept talking about how much he had in common with his victims, listing all their great qualities....I didn't used to think so, but this guy is INSANE
"Dan"?
Dan
OMG, everything you are saying is true! We had dealings with this ass-wipe in Park City. My husband and I were rehabing a fixer-upper there a couple of years ago and he had this guy ON THE FIRST DAY after we bought the property come over and yell at him about EVERYTHING. He just ignored him and laughed it up at city hall when he had to go pull another permit, saying Mr. Rader reminded him of Barney Fife. Nobody laughed. I told my husband I was so glad he didn't piss him off.
BTW, we moved out of Wichita in 1986 to move to Park City to "be safer". It just goes without saying these days, lock your home at all times even if you're in a small town.....
Same here. It's so unbelievable that he seems to think anybody gives a flying fig about his petty little complaints or explanations. It was all over the top, but the worst was when he patted himself on the back for removing the children to another room while he murdered their mother. I thought he'd never shut up, but his narcissism compels him to ramble on and on as if what he had to say was at all important.
That's a good way of putting it. At one point he reminded me of a professor giving an important lecture to his students, but the subject matter made his recitation surreal. He will rot in hell.
I posted this thread with my righteous sounding complaint about the media covering this thing live, but I'm as guilty as anyone of being fascinated by such a spectacle. How could they not cover it?
They have to cover it. I have a daughter leaving for college tomorrow, and took this opportunity to say "See, he doesn't have murdering, raping, sadistic man from hell" stamped on his forehead. It doesn't hurt to remind ourselves monsters walk among us and they look absolutely normal.
That's the scariest part.
Here's hoping he gets some Jeffrey Dahmer justice right after he goes through intake.
Oh, Speck. I thought we were talking about BTK.
He gets off on being in the news. I don't know why they afford him that satisfaction.
I'm with you -
It was fascinating. I eventually turned it off, though, because he rambled on and on and it was all about him and I was bored. Even in the beginning when he was comparing things about himself to each victim. ewww. I guess he was trying to humanize himself, but it was too creepy. And I was amazed when he kept saying 'I knew I wouldn't be able to get out of this' showing a little bit of how he was sorry he got caught. The victim's families were riveting, the best was the one son of the victim, I think Davis. His speech was great, especially when he said (paraphrasing) 'You would never have been caught if you had just kept your big mouth shut!'
"See, he doesn't have murdering, raping, sadistic man from hell" stamped on his forehead."
Show her a picture of ted bundy. He was a good-looking, smart, and apperntly nice guy --- when he wasn't out killing women and haveing sex with their dead bodies.
..I'm not surprised FOX let it play....as good as they can be in some things....they are as voyeuristic as any other ......sometimes more.
You're right....it's sick.
I turned this on yesterday, out of curiosity, hoping to find out HOW this monster was formed.
Instead the court felt the need to parade each victim's death.....thus victimizing them again....in front of the victim's families.
I didn't stay around .....the little I heard was gruesome, vile, evil!!!
We didn't need this on TV.....I hope little kids don't see it.
But, you know, the families are still grieving and angry........
..but I doubt any of them could lower themselves enough to do harm to this sick, evil minion of the devil.
Their words may not have affected him......he has no conscience, I'm sure...but it helped to get the words out for them.
I only saw a couple on Shep tonight....I didn't see the actual live version.
>>He gave himself the name? Holy Smokes<<
Yeah, he was mad that the police hadn't given him a name or anything. So he submitted a few in a letter to a local newspaper, for them to choose from.
Judge: Michael Norman Randall, you have been found guilty of the murder of Arthur Reginald Webster, Charles Patrick Trumpington, Marcel Agnes Bernstein, Lewis Anona Rudd, John Malcolm Kerr, Nigel Sinclair Robinson, Norman Arthur Potter, Felicity Jayne Stone, Jean-Paul Reynard, Rachel Shirley Donaldson, Stephen Jay Greenblatt, Karl-Heinz Mullet, Belinda Anne Ventham, Juan-Carlos Fernandez, Thor Olaf Stensgaard, Lord Kimberrley of Pretoria, Lady Kimberley of Pretoria, The Right Honourable Nigel WarmsIcy Kimberley, Robert Henry Noonan and Felix James Bennett, on or about the morning of the 19th December 1972. Have you anything to say before I pass sentence?
Randall: Yes, sir. I'm very sorry.
Judge: Very sorry!
Randall: Yes, sir. It was a very very bad thing to have done and I'm really very ashamed of myself, I can only say it won't happen again. To have murdered so many people in such a short space of time is really awful, and I really am very, very, very sorry that I did it, and also that I've taken up so much of the court's valuable time listening to the sordid details of these senseless killings of mine. I would particularly like to say, a very personal and sincere 'sorry' to you, m'lud, my lud for my appalling behaviour throughout this trial. I'd also like to say sorry to the police, for putting them to so much trouble (shot of three heavily bandaged exhausted-looking policemen behind him) for the literally hours of work they've had to put in, collecting evidence and identifying corpses and so forth. You know I think sometimes we ought to realize the difficult and often dangerous work involved in tracking down violent criminals like myself and I'd last like them to know that their fine work is at least appreciated by me.
(The policemen look embarrassed.)
First Policeman: No, no, we were only doing our job.
Second Policeman: No, no, no, no.
Randall: It's very good of you to say that, but I know what you've been through.
First Policeman: No, no, we've had worse.
Third Policeman: It was plain sailng apart from the arrest.
Randall: I know and I'm grateful I'd like to apologize too to the prosecuting counsel for dragging him in here morning after morning in such lovely weather.
Counsel: Well, I would have had to come in anyway.
Randall: Ah good, but what a presentation of a case!
Counsel: Oh thank you.
Randall: No, no, it's a privilege to watch you in action. I never had a chance.
Counsel: Oh yes you did.
Randall: Not after that summing up. Great.
Counsel: Oh thank you. (very chuffed)
Randall: And now I must come to the jury. What can I say. I've dragged you in here, day after day, keeping you away from your homes, your jobs, your loved ones, just to hear the private details of my petty atrocities.
Foreman: No, no, 'it was very interesting.
Randall: But you could have had a much nicer case.
Foreman: No, no, murder's much more fun.
First Juryman: Yes and so many of them.
SecondJuryman: Excellent.
Third Juryman: We've had a terrific time. (the jury applauds)
Randall: (blows his nose, does a Dickie Attenborough) I'm sorry, I'm very moved. And so, m'lud, it only remains for you to pass the most savage sentence on me that the law can provide.
Judge: Well er... not necessarily.
Randall: No, m'lud, the full penalty of the law is hardly sufficient, I insist I must be made an example of.
Judge: Well yes and no. I mean society at large...
Randall: Oh no, m'lud. Not with mass murder.
Judge: But in this case, (to court) don't you think?
Court: Yes, yes!
Randall: Oh, come on, m'lud, you've got to give me life.
Court: No, no, no, no.
Randall: (to court at large) Well, ten years at least.
Judge: Ten years!
Court: Shame. Shame!
Randall: Well five then. Be fair.
Judge: No, no. I'm giving you three months.
Randall: Oh no, that's so embarrassing. I won't hear of it. Give me six...please.
Judge: Well, all right. Six months.
Randall: Thank you, m'lud.
Judge: But suspended.
Randall: Oh no.
Court: Hooray. (they applaud)
Foreman: Three cheers for the defendant. Hip. Hip.
Court: Hooray.
Foreman: Hip. Hip.
Court: Hooray.
Foreman: Hip. Hip.
Court: Hooray.
All: For he's a jolly good fellow For he's a jolly good fellow For he's a jolly good fellow
Voice: (off) Which nobody can deny.
You nailed it :)
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