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...
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OLTG’s Rules for Life #3243 - Don’t have crazy, evil people in your life.
This recent pattern [of criminologists who believe in detection and punishment] is in contrast to a generation of liberal opinion and scholarship whose aim was to minimize police intervention and lower police numbers. One might even say that this has been the hidden agenda of academic criminology since the Nineteenth Century.”
From the criminal’s point of view, criminology has served him proud.
agree. Cold blooded assination. Plain and simple.
There was another article that included a quote from a neighbor indicating possible drug use. Here's the quote, refering to perp, McEnroe:
"He would come and go all night long," Westberg said. "He'd leave ... and be back in 15 minutes."
I have noticed the same thing. I don't think it is a conscious response to try to avoid seeming responsible, I think it is a window into their true feelings. They haven't truly accepted responsibility for their actions.
Problem is, sometimes you’re related to them, and even if you can avoid them, your other family members may not, and then...
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