Posted on 03/23/2010 5:30:13 PM PDT by stillafreemind
None of the boys had been in trouble and all were good and weren't likely to be runaways. Leaving the community and families at a total loss as to where the teens were. Not a trace of any of the 5 boys was found back in 1978 or in the years following. A complete disappearance of the 5 teen boys. The case went cold.
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I guess libertarians may just want to sit on their back porch and smoke pot and not bother nobody.
But when it comes to stealing their pot, 5 kids lives and someone else’s house aren’t worth their pound of pot.
What a horrible waste. Five kids dead over some pot. What a waste of human potential.
If you read the details you will see that this entire story is made up of smoke and mirrors.
How so?
Was there a fire investigation?
geeeze
I read the sources at the end of the article..and it really does sound like no one put the 2 events together. I think I read in the one article that the house imploded into the basement.
One of the men supposedly confessed in 2008.......to a detective.
He was a suspect from the beginning, all those year ago.
He took and passed a lie detector test.
The house was set on fire. A thorough examination of the ruins found no remains or remnants of humans.
One of the ‘suspects’ is dead.
Having lived near Newark for most of my life, I will say that nothing like this surprises me. I’m sure they simply plowed over the destroyed house and carted away the debris.
Newark is a scary place. I was there is 1987. Went into Newark as my husband was doing a residency there. We are from small town Arkansas. We got lost and twilight decended on us. The streets become alive. A cop pulled up next to us while we were at a stop sign. We rolled down our window. He asked if we were lost (saw our ARkansas tags I guess). He tried for about 30 seconds to tell us how to get back to the interstate and then suddenly said ...Just follow me. I never went back. Got an apartment in Rockaway and my husband had a long drive.
The problem is drug laws that make pot so valuable that people commit murder over it.
On the other hand, to follow your logic, money should be banned as well because its value causes people to murder for it.
Libertarians may just want to sit on their back porch and smoke pot and bother nobody AND *BE BOTHERED* by nobody.
Car theft (both break-ins and actual theft of cars) was a big problem there at the time. One story that didn't make the news (the police didn't want to give the guy any publicity or encourage copy-cats) involved a mechanical engineering student at my school who got so sick of having his car broken into that he rigged up a tear gas canister in the car with some sort of shut-off device connected to the door key. Someone broke into the car and sat on the driver's seat to either pry out the car stereo or steal the car . . . and the interior of the car was quickly filled with a noxious cloud. The police caught the choking, gagging perp stumbling up the street a couple of blocks away.
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