[Lou L]

I think stories like this just really make you shake your head...these kids could've done a million other things, ran away, eloped, joined and commune, whatever. But rather than do that, this clown murdered her parents in cold blood.

Sure, he's not the first person in the world who's had his girlfriend's parents disapprove of him. But murdering them? Has life gotten so cheap that murder is now a first choice of settling agreements? How long can such a society survive?

[eastforker]

It is called a crime of pasion, unlike animals humans have always had it, pasion that is.The girl was probably his first love and he was probably hers. I can imagine dad telling him on the way out the door to never call or see her again, to him it was unbearable. That is not a defense, there is none, but a probability to his mental condition at the time.