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Suspected Serial Killer is Found Hanged in Jail
St. Louis Post Dispatch ^ | 7/11/02 | Bill Bryan

Posted on 06/11/2002 6:21:08 AM PDT by Clintons Are White Trash

Edited on 05/11/2004 5:33:47 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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To: KissOfTheSith
(With all the academics out there wasting tax dollars on "studies," I'd like to see how much tax money such a system would save the US by thinning out the prison population along purely voluntary lines...)

You don’t really think your government would let those newly unoccupied jail cells go empty would you?
No, my naive friend, new laws would be created, and new criminals would be discovered so that these jail cells would never go to waste, remember now prisons are big business for pork barrel politicians, doughnut eating LEOS and crooked lawyers.
Back to the books for you, maybe the academics you so readily scorn might still be able to teach you something.

21 posted on 06/11/2002 8:03:40 AM PDT by TightSqueeze
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To: TightSqueeze
Most computers will store the last week or twos worth of browsing as well as all the image files that are viewed. This is simple police work to find these items; no great hacking skills are required.
22 posted on 06/11/2002 8:24:50 AM PDT by George from New England
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To: KissOfTheSith
I think all murderers, rapists and child molesters need to be executed. If the government won't take care of business and protect its citizens, we should not stop criminals from getting the job done.
23 posted on 06/11/2002 8:27:42 AM PDT by SpookBrat
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To: from occupied ga
To: contessa machiaveli
nothing wrong with "extra-judicial" deaths. bring them on

Do you work for the ATF or the FBI? You should. They feel exactly the same way. They decided to do away with those pesky Branch Davidians without bothering the court systems. Let me see if I can remember what the ATF applied the death penalty to 60+ people for. Yes, I rememeber - being accused of having an untaxed machine gun. Certaintly worth the death penalty in any facist police state. 17 by from occupied ga

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The government murdered the Branch Davidians,
ALL of the Davidian weapons were legal.

24 posted on 06/11/2002 8:48:33 AM PDT by exodus
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To: OldFriend
If the guy is guilty, I am glad he was caught and that he is dead. But I am getting scared to look things up on my computer. Plus my whole family uses my computer, and my kids are 18, 19, and 21. GOOD Kids but no telling what sites they look up. It is getting to where I would rather go to the local college computer lab to look things up with impunity. And I am a fat lazy boring old housewife! I do want the crooks caught. I want the killers executed or locked up forever. But I don't want the US Gov. looking into everything I do!
25 posted on 06/11/2002 8:55:42 AM PDT by buffyt
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To: exodus

Kiss for a job well done from a fellow commie.

26 posted on 06/11/2002 8:59:03 AM PDT by buffyt
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To: exodus
ALL of the Davidian weapons were legal.

I agree - I said that they were given the death penalty for being accused of have untaxed weapons.

27 posted on 06/11/2002 9:02:33 AM PDT by from occupied ga
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To: TightSqueeze
>You don’t really think your government would let those newly unoccupied jail cells go empty would you?

Well, you've got a point. And, now that the Feds can say that even citizens can be denied due process if they're accused of really, really bad things, (and even Freepers cheer the Feds on! -- see here: 'Dirty Bomb' Suspect Not Cooperating, Wolfowitz Says), I imagine prison space soon will be even more at a premium...

-- KotS

28 posted on 06/11/2002 9:04:05 AM PDT by KissOfTheSith
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To: George from New England
Most computers will store the last week or twos worth of browsing as well as all the image files that are viewed.

That's not what the article implies. They didn't know who he was; they found him by working backwards from Expedia. That's a whole lot different from having a suspect and verifying he'd downloaded a map by looking at his cache.

29 posted on 06/11/2002 9:04:37 AM PDT by Ratatoskr
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To: buffyt; OldFriend
To: OldFriend
If the guy is guilty, I am glad he was caught and that he is dead. But I am getting scared to look things up on my computer. Plus my whole family uses my computer, and my kids are 18, 19, and 21. GOOD Kids but no telling what sites they look up. It is getting to where I would rather go to the local college computer lab to look things up with impunity. And I am a fat lazy boring old housewife! I do want the crooks caught. I want the killers executed or locked up forever. But I don't want the US Gov. looking into everything I do!
# 25 by buffyt

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You have reason to be concerned.

I believe that the death penalty deters criminals,
but after seeing our government murder innocents,
and frame others for crimes they didn't commit,
I no longer trust a "guilty" verdict to be a valid measure of guilt.

30 posted on 06/11/2002 9:10:09 AM PDT by exodus
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To: buffyt
Kiss for a job well done from a fellow commie.
# 26 by buffyt

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Thanks, Comrade.

31 posted on 06/11/2002 9:12:45 AM PDT by exodus
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To: from occupied ga
"ALL of the Davidian weapons were legal. " - exodus
I agree -
I said that they were given the death penalty for being accused of have untaxed weapons.
# 27 by from occupied ga

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I knew your feelings on the Waco murders, from occupied ga.
I just had to speak up again about the corruption of our government.

I still can't believe that government agents killed all those people on national television, and not only got away with it, but got promotions for following their illegal orders.

32 posted on 06/11/2002 9:23:06 AM PDT by exodus
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To: George from New England
Most computers will store the last week or twos worth of browsing as well as all the image files that are viewed.

That's not what the article implies. They didn't know who he was; they found him by working backwards from Expedia . That's a whole lot different from having a suspect and verifying he'd downloaded a map by looking at his cache.
# 29 by Ratatoskr

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Which means that Expedia keeps a record of citizens who use their site,
and what the citizen does on the site,
and provides those records to government agents.

Fine, in this case they caught a killer.
Still, I don't trust this weapon in the hands of corrupt men.

33 posted on 06/11/2002 9:40:07 AM PDT by exodus
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To: contessa machiaveli
nothing wrong with "extra-judicial" deaths. bring them on

Pray that you never find yourself in custody, knowing too many things that would make you "inconvenient" to powerful politicians. Pray hard.

34 posted on 06/11/2002 9:48:33 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor
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To: Clintons Are White Trash
And he did it before the bleeding hearts in the abolitionist crowd and the ACLU could intervene. Now that's what I call summary justice!
35 posted on 06/11/2002 9:52:37 AM PDT by goldstategop
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To: Dog Gone
Proving once again that anonymous websurfing is a myth.

Whenever you surf, the web server you connect to will log your IP address, what web page you asked for, and the time. In the map request, you ask for a specific address to print a map for, with that address printed on the map. So all they had to do was scan the logs for who got a map of that address, and trace back who's got that IP address

Most people also aren't aware that your location can be traced by your cell phone, even if you're not in the process of making a call (the phone system needs to keep track of which cell antenna you're closest to, so it can route incoming phone calls to you. Once the cops know approximately where you are, there's equiptment that will let them home in on your particular cell phone)

36 posted on 06/11/2002 9:56:23 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor
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To: E Rocc
It is not unheard of for a mentally disturbed suspect to commit suicide upon facing his first or even subsequent periods of incarceration.

Defendants who subsequently -- and posthumously -- were cleared of any offense have died before they could receive treatment for the condition that may have led to their erroneously being booked and held as suspects.

The guy in this case was awaiting trial and under the law was considered innocent until proven otherwise. As for correctly convicted killers......

37 posted on 06/11/2002 9:57:12 AM PDT by tracer
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To: Clintons Are White Trash
"Suspected Serial Killer is Found Hanged in Jail"

I love a happy ending!

38 posted on 06/11/2002 10:07:43 AM PDT by Destructor
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To: Destructor
Don't we all? The irony is more murderers die behind bars of old age than are ever executed.
39 posted on 06/11/2002 10:09:08 AM PDT by goldstategop
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To: RedBloodedAmerican
"...At least they can piss on his grave..."

One should never underestimate the ENORMOUS therapeutic value of this simple, symbolic act...

Especially when you've had the opportunity to promise the SOB that you'd do exactly that to them before they died.

Trust me on this...

40 posted on 06/11/2002 10:56:08 AM PDT by DWSUWF
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