Ihrcke smeared his own feces on Baum's face before cutting him with a knife "to see if he was alive," Moore said.
After destroying Baum's camp, the boys left the homeless man -- head wedged in his own grill -- under a piece of plastic where they hoped the "animals would eat" him.
Then, Moore says, they took off to grab a bite at McDonald's.
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They bragged about it around town. Police picked them up and they described what happened.
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All three teens pleaded no contest to first degree reckless homicide charges and went to prison.
What?!?! These punks deliberately kill a man, desecrate his body, hide the evidence of their crime, and then brag about it, and they get to plead to reckless homicide? The should be doing life sentences in the general population of a maximum security prison.
It seems like when there are more killers, they get a lighter sentence - diminished responsibility, they just got carried away. IMO, the prosecutor should go for the most serious charge. The overwhelming odds against the victim should be considered aggravating circumstances. These go-along caught-up-in-the-violence compassless thugs are the ones who wreck cities and civilizations.
Mrs VS
This murder sounds more vicious than the Matthew Shephard attack but it will never be made into a docudrama or held up as a sign of youth gone wrong.
Goodness! I did not know that is how they killed him. Killing a person is bad enough, but smearing feces and cutting him up, and then leaving him for animals to eat. That is daemonic! That is unbelievable.
Our old DA was kinda lazy, he really didn't like to prosecute anyone.