Posted on 04/12/2005 1:42:56 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A man was beaten to death after catching his wife's lover living in a closet in their home, police said Tuesday.
Rafael DeJesus Rocha-Perez, 35, was charged with homicide in the slaying of 44-year-old Jeffrey A. Freeman over the weekend.
"From time to time, you come across a case with very unique - even bizarre - circumstances," police spokesman Don Aaron said. "This one probably rates right up there with them."
Freeman's wife had allowed Rocha-Perez to live in a closet of the Freemans' four-bedroom home for about a month without her husband's knowledge, police said. On Sunday, her husband heard Rocha-Perez snoring and discovered him, authorities said.
Freeman ordered his wife to get the man out of the house while he went for a walk, authorities said. Martha Freeman told authorities that when her husband returned, Rocha-Perez confronted him with a shotgun, forced him into a bathroom and bludgeoned him.
The Freemans were co-owners of a company that does background checks for apartment rental and job applicants.
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With each post it gets more and more beyond belief.
Wonder why they just didn't put the dead guy in the closet and go on with their lives.
Funny to us, but in reality hard to imagine a more evil set of events. The wife and the guy in the closet are the lowest form of scum imaginable.
Just to jog your memory (mine to) I found this at Frank's Reel Movie Reviews:
The movie begins with Ronald Wilby (Scott Jacoby) opening his birthday presents. But there is no one attending his party - no one except his feeble mother (Kim Hunter) clad in a June Cleaver dress and white pearls. We learn that Ronald doesn't have any friends and we see that his mother takes a very active, but smothering, role in his teen-aged life. She has been divorced for many years from her husband with whom she struck a divorce deal stating that she will not seek alimony and child support if the father promises to stay out of their lives. Very much like in Sybil, and Carrie, Ronald's mother takes on the all-encompassing role of mother, father, friend, peer and Ronald's sole contact to the outside world. She compensates for her own social inadequacies by inflicting ridicule and maternal dominance upon him - then repairs the damage with hugs, praise and coddling.
We feel Ronald's humiliation as he awkwardly asks a girl for a date. She not only rejects him but joins her friends in taunts and ridicule. In his rage, he shoves one of the girls, who subsequently hits her head on a rock and dies. In a fit of panic he buries her body and returns home.
He and his mother wall off a spare bathroom under the stairs and decide that Ronald will live in the room until the police investigation cools down. They install a trap door under the pantry for access and concoct a series of knocks as a crude means of communication. "Two knocks for danger, four for safety". But their plans go horribly awry after Ronald's mother dies in an emergency surgery and the house is sold to an unsuspecting family. Now the fun and games begin.
Ronald retreats into a psychological fantasy world and begins to wreak havoc on the new occupants of the house, drilling holes through the plaster board walls to keep an eye on the young daughters. The concept of a stranger "living in the woodwork" is extremely creepy and we realize that it is not really that far-fetched. I found myself sympathizing with Ronald, perhaps because we now understand how critical a child's early parental tutelage is to forming what he will become later in life. We all have experienced some degree of humiliation in our lives, making it quite easy to find an emotional connection with Ronald.
The acting is mostly B-movie quality, although Kim Hunter stands out in her disturbing portrayal of Ronald's doting mother. We are also treated to the performance of a very young and much slimmer Dabney Coleman as the father of the house's new inhabitants. It's hard to ignore the high "kitsch" factor of the production with its cheap sets and poor lighting, but the movie's premise alone is the star of the show and is guaranteed to keep you awake for a few nights. There are a few unexpected twists and Ronald's fantasy world is a nice subplot that winds its way throughout the movie. Overall a great horror movie that will definitely scar your psyche.
"Rafael DeJesus Rocha-Perez,"
Apparently, he was just doing the job that Americans won't do...
I saw pictures of the house and neighborhood on the news last night and this wasn't some trailer trash kind of place! It looked to be fairly upper middle class. And yes, the closet guy looked like an illegal.
LOL...I know what you mean...I can't understand how the husband went for a walk...wouldn't your first instinct be to kill the guy?.....LOL
A family with three daughters moves into an old house, unaware that it has a secret room occupied by a teenage murderer. Starring Scott Jacoby, Pippa Scott, John Larch, Dabney Coleman, Kim Hunter, Cindy Eilbacher, Lisa Eilbacher, Aneta Corsaut, Linda Purl. Based on the novel by John Holbrook Vance. Written by Andrew P. Marin; Directed by Buzz Kulik. A Lorimar production. Original air date: October 23, 1974
They kept it in the closet.
Don't feel stupid, I had to read it twice myself. Definately a WTF?!?! situation going on here!
Dang. I wonder if it was hubby's shotgun?
See, I'm crazy enough that if I had been the hubby, I would have been pointing the shotgun at Rafael DeJesus Rocha-Perez while I called the cops.
That's just me though.
Ole comes home early one day and finds Lena sitting on the edge of the bed naked. "Lena!" he exclaims, "Whatcha doin dere wit no clothes on?" She replies, "I dont have no clothes on cuz I aint got nuthin to wear!" "Whadya mean ya got nuthin to wear?" Olie goes over to the closet and starts taking out clothes. "Here's a red dress, here's a blue dress, here's a green dress, here's Sven, here's a brown dress..."
I caught that too but I got here too late to beat you to posting it.
This is the lead story on our local news. Here are the news stations links
http://wkrn.com/Global/story.asp?S=3200703&nav=1ugBYZye
http://wtvf.com/content/news/10364.asp
http://wsmv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3199989&nav=1TcRYZeu
You have read the story wrong. The man living in the closet did the murdering. It was the husband that got bludgeoned.
"Definately a WTF?!?! situation going on here!"
I told my husband about this story and the first thing he said was 'how do you know he said get him out of here' and then went for a walk if he's dead!
Pretty good thinking on his part. I go back to this article and you know how we know? The wife says so.
Yeah, she's got a lot of credibility, standing there next to her dead hubbie with the guy holding a shotgun who lives in the closet. Also 'said' by wife.
Checking the threads to see if someone had noticed. You are that someone;)
Now I shall go check my threads in the closets!!
sp
"Lena, vy are you layin' dere on da bed a-shakin'! My best man Olaf dere is in da closet havin' a durn heart attack, and nekkid as a blue-jay.
Oofda! vait a gol-durned second . . . "
No this is a Blues song. I'm surprised at you.
"Closet Guy Blues"
I heard a little snoring,
I knew I was awake.
I walked around the household,
I saw the closet shake.
I opened up the closet,
I saw him sleeping there.
I told my wife he had to leave,
I went to walk somewhere.
I got back home and went in,
I saw he hadn't left.
I saw he had a shotgun,
And now my head is cleft.
I got the snoring guy in the closet killed me blues.
I never should have worn my walking shoes.
I got dead by the guy who was scoring with my wife.
I should have been smarter and saved my life.
I got the snoring guy in the closet killed me blues.
Blind Stupid Conspiracy Guy 4/12/05
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