Posted on 12/29/2007 1:05:43 AM PST by beaversmom
Within hours of learning he could face the death penalty if he's found guilty of killing three generations of the same family on Christmas Eve, Joseph McEnroe said Friday he has new respect for life.
"You never really realize what life is worth until something like this happens," he said.
During a 15-minute interview at the King County Jail, McEnroe said he's sorry six members of the Anderson family are dead and that he regretted cutting contact with his own family.
Dressed in a white jumpsuit reserved for "ultra-security" inmates, McEnroe wouldn't talk about what happened Christmas Eve at a rural home near Carnation. There, police and prosecutors allege, he and his girlfriend, Michele Anderson, methodically shot Anderson's parents and brother, the brother's wife and their two young children.
"I'm sorry that they're gone. They were my family, too, you know?" McEnroe, 29, said of the victims. "I hope wherever they're at, they're at peace. That's all I'm going to say about them."
McEnroe and Anderson each were charged earlier Friday with six counts of aggravated first-degree murder in the Anderson family slayings.
With his hands chained to his waist, McEnroe had to hunch and sit sideways to talk through a phone in the visiting booth, where a thick window separates inmates and visitors. Tall and slim with a goatee and shoulder-length dark hair, McEnroe spoke softly. At times, his eyes appeared misty.
McEnroe said jail officials have placed him on suicide watch: "I was having a very hard time, but no matter how this turns out, I'm going to try and hold on... I decided I'm going to try and stay alive."
He asked about his family his mother and siblings in Minneapolis and an aunt and cousins in California. McEnroe stopped talking to them five years ago...
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
I don’t know why you chose to attack me, but I no longer wish to have anymore correspondence with you about this. It’s very plain in this thread and the other thread that I posted about this case where I stand. I won’t say anymore now for fear I will say too much.
This poor individual will never server time anywhere. Don't we all know by now that it is the fault of his parents and society in general that led him to this sorry but understandable incident???
Why, I believe his public defender is suing the survivors of the murdered family for "being in his way"!
Poor, poor man!
The bleeding heart liberalism that permeated this article was enough to make me physically sick. I decided to send a quick email to the worthless tripe, Green, who wrote the article--
Subject: Thank You Ms. Green,
Thanks so much for showing me the absolute real human side to Joseph McEnroe. Now that we know you're sympathetic to his plight I'm going to call the King County States' Attorneys Office and ask them to sign over McEnroe to your custody so he can live with you until his unfortunate trial. Truly McEnroe is just a misunderstood human being and simply got caught up in a whirlwind of misfortune. There's absolutely no chance whatsoever he's guilty so your should have no objection to watching over him at your residence until his trial.
thanks for the pablum, -Brent
PS-Once he's squarely placed in your custody maybe you could have your nieces, nephews, and neighbors' children come over. I'm sure it would be totally safe since whatever happened on Christmas Eve was just an accident.......and McEnroe stated that he IS sorry.
OK.
I reread the thread and I apologize. You were collateral damage. I just have very strong feelings about it, not just because it is local. Just seems to me that somebody will make a ton of money defending these animals.
And ANYBODY who defends this is a parasite. A rich parasite, but still, a parasite.
“Within hours of learning he could face the death penalty ...”
Waddya mean ‘could’ face the death penalty ??
These two need to be terminated in the town square publically and on TV. Hang ‘em with no hood and no 6 foot drop that would make it quick.
... and right next to them should be any liberal juror that voted for acquittal.
Seriously folks, this is King County. After they are found not guilty by an all liberal jury, they will be offered well paying positions in the municipal government. Of course they will have to attend a sensitivity seminar before they go to work.
He will probably be made head of the SWAT team as he has shown proficiency with firearms; she will be made head of Child Protective Services.
Accused killer: “I’m sorry they’re gone”(Christmas murders in Washington)...if the scumbag killer was in NJ....he would not fear the death penalty.....
thanks guv corslime and all the lib/dem legislators!!!!
Washington has more sense than that.
But not much.
These reprobate minds are clueless when they run into socio/psycho paths!
Just think what happens when two of then cross paths chilling!
You sir are the voice of reason and common sense.
This is what happens when our society breaks down morally their minds are seared and when they meet monster like these two, they are like fools groping in the noonday as in the night.
We can talk about communists, and liberals and gays and abortions, and democrats, and poverty and economy, but we need to see the forest from the trees.
This was cold blooded assassination. As cold blooded as a muslim would do. (and feel proud of while he bragged about it)
More than likely, a public defender who is employed by the county involved will be appointed to defend him.
It will be the taxpayers who pay.
I believe Washington state has the death penalty, although the liberals have been working passionately for years to change this situation, and are coming mighty close to doing it.
Leni
Death would be best. It would keep those two demons from procreating, or worse.
He LOOKS crazy
Local news has reported that they have both confessed. So now they’re gonna go into a court and plead “Not guilty”?
And the court will let them?
Somethin here is screwed up to the max.
Nice. When it's HIS life, all of a sudden, he sees the light.
Spooky, the similarity.
My wife and I might have been watching the same program - we had a very similar thought. We could see no humility or acceptance of actions.
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