Posted on 10/13/2011 5:48:03 AM PDT by IbJensen
A suburban Chicago teen accused of killing his parents plotted with his friends for months before they went into the couple's bedroom, pummeled them with baseball bats as they slept and stole their money, authorities said Tuesday.
The couple's son, John Granat, 17, was charged with first-degree murder Sept. 13, two days after his parents, John Granat, 44, and Maria Granat, 42, were found dead, all but unrecognizable, in their Palos Park bedroom. Authorities on Tuesday also charged three of the high school senior's friends in the couple's deaths.
"They conspired over the course of months to come up with a plan to kill John Granat's parents and take their money," Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart. "John the son did not like his parents at all and they also wanted to get some money."
Investigators started interviewing Christopher Wyma, 17, Mohammad Salahat, 17, and Ehab Qasem, 19, on Sunday. After confronting them with evidence they'd gathered that contradicted their earlier statements that they had not seen Granat for hours when the slayings occurred in the middle of the night, the three quickly gave detailed, videotaped confessions, Dart said. Then, he said, they led investigators to where they had hidden two baseball bats and a knife. They also recovered bloody clothing and about $21,000 of the $35,000 authorities said they made off with after the killings.
The three are charged with first-degree murder. As they looked on impassively in court Tuesday, Cook County Judge Peter Felice denied them bail.
A prosecutor during the hearing and Dart later provided chilling details of the plot and how the four allegedly carried it out.
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Absolutely sickening and not fit to breath free air. I hope none of these cold blooded killers ever walks free again.
Sad local story. These are extremely deranged kids. Allbecause dad threw his pot plants away. They should be executed at sun up.
Are kids still killing their parents with baseball bats? This is so ‘90’s.
Where does it say the dad threw the pot plants away
It’s a strange world we live in.
4 sick minds in the same place at the same time.
They should all get the needle at the same time.
We will be paying to feed these kids for the next 50 years in some prison.
Al Gore- keep telling them their parents know NOTHING...
Bill Ayers- go home and kill your parents.
Obama friends, of course.
This is the absolute end of the Marxist atheist ideology that they have been fed all their life....Bill Ayers and Van Jones must be smiling....their curricula is working.
The one on the far left is the son. Looks really remorseful don’t he. Hope he burns in hell.
and Obama voters....
Hey...have some compassion. Maybe the parents didn’t get him the 40GB IPOD but only the 20GB one.
I'm not so sure about the next 50 years though. Some guy who has been looking at his mother through glass for the last several years, or who was not allowed to see her on her death bed or go to her funeral, may decide he does not want to share oxygen with a punk who killed his own mother.
According to “sources”, this is an open and shut case of reefer madness...
http://www.wgntv.com/wgntv-palos-teen-angry-over-pot-plants-sept14,0,6596559.story
Too bad the school they went to did not have adequate training on the evils of bullying, all this could have been avoided.
I immediately knew which one had been in the car, I see fear in his eyes, and remorse. I would not execute him. He is guilty, but should be shown some Mercy.
Kinda like the saying I once heard attributed to the USMC: “Kill them all, let God sort them out..” Just saying.
Velly interesting.
Will they demand to be judged by Sharia law?
Leni
They are all guilty, I just think it’s one thing to be involved by driving the car, and quite another to get a knife and stick it into someone *shiver*
I’d give the one guy 20 years, and the rest death.
Send them to the Maker today, the same way the boy’s parents were sent.
“They should be executed at sun up.”
That no longer an option in Illinoise since the jailed ex-gov canceled all executions.
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