3 charged in woman's death

Anchorage Daily News ^ | August 10, 2002 | Peter Porco and Nicole Tsong

[Brad C.]

3 charged in woman's death Strangled: 20-year-old victim and 18-year-old suspect were roommates.

Three Anchorage teenagers were charged Friday in connection with the murder of a 20-year-old woman whose burned body was found the day before on a dirt road outside Girdwood.

[Brad C.]

It just astounds me that there is so little regard for human life from these people.

There is a companion interview with the perp's father, where he said he knew his son had "anger management issues" and further stated he should have remained locked up at the local youth facility.

[STD]

Among the throwaway children of this generation, it is common knowledge that fetuses in the womb are just inconviences to be ripped out at a whim. Why should they regard human life as precious?

Maranatha,

DrMike

[gcruse]

Ever hear of Leopold and Loeb? Two bright young men who killed a young boy for the hell of it. Clarence Darrow got them off with less than the death penalty. Abortion was illegal at the time. Try again.

[GnuHere]

Friggin' animals.

How long will it take before the perp's father sues the local youth facility for prematurely letting his kid loose?

[DBtoo]

Television, the movies and mas media can do wonders to shape a child's mind. They see these things happening on screens in front of them so often that it warps their perception of right and wrong.

[Irene Adler]

"Ever hear of Leopold and Loeb? Two bright young men who killed a young boy for the hell of it. Clarence Darrow got them off with less than the death penalty. Abortion was illegal at the time. Try again."

The Leopold and Loeb case was a true rarity at the time (1924). People were truly horrified by it. Such cases are fairly commonplace today. That's the difference.

[jaz.357]

CHOOSE LIFE!! but do it ..."FOR THE CHILDREN"!

[holyscroller]

"These little thugs murdered her for $6,000 and a pickup truck," he said. "There's no remorse here, no sense of conscience."

Little thugs yes, but also vicious killers, subhuman white trash, worthless excuses for human beings who deserve no mercy. How much do you want to be out when they hit 21?

[rimtop56]

When abortion was illegal, things like this were very uncommon. STD is right. Now that we have classified life as a commodity through abortion, rather than considering it as something special, these kind of incidents are common.

[gcruse]

 
The Leopold and Loeb case was a true rarity at the time (1924).

A true rarity?

 How about the Lindbergh baby?

I suspect, just as the shark attacks and  child
kidnappings are not more numerous, just more
reported, that the perceived  rate of senseless killing does
rise with abortion, but with information technology.

Didn't the crime rate actually decline since
abortion was made legal, anyway?

[gcruse]

Ooops. that the perceived rate of senseless killing does not rise...

[holyscroller]

" How much do you want to be out when they hit 21?"

Oops, should be how much do you want to BET they'll be out when they hit 21?

[Brad C.]

Actually the primary perp; the one living in the apartment with the girl he killed, is a native indian and not white trash. I really wonder if he will do any time at all for this.

As for the 13 year old girl who decided to tell her mom after the fact, I have to wonder just where she is going to spend the next few years.

[agrandis]

Execute them all. What else is there to do with these little zombies?

[beckett]

Ever hear of Leopold and Loeb? Two bright young men who killed a young boy for the hell of it. Clarence Darrow got them off with less than the death penalty. Abortion was illegal at the time. Try again.

Are you suggesting that the case of Peter L. Andrews and R.B. will find a place in American history comparable to the one occupied by Leopold and Loeb? I should hope not. And the reason why the two cases cannot be compared, and why Rachel Peace's death has for all practical purposes already disappeared into the blackhole of public forgetfulness, are because the sheer volume of life negating obscenities committed daily in this country --- a Leopold and Loeb crime committed dozens of times a day --- presents an unsustainable burden to a public numbed to cruelty, and marks the distance we've traveled down the slippery slope into the culture of death.

The sanctity of human life was taken seriously when Leopold and Loeb were tried, and so the horrible crime caused a great sensation. It's a safe bet that Peter L. Andrews and R.B., along with millions of their contemporaries, have never once been asked by a parent or a teacher to connect in their minds the concept of sanctity with the concept of human life.

[gcruse]

Shoot, abortion may be making it better, not worse.
 

                     Among the most controversial ideas is that proposed by two
                     scholars, Steven Levitt, an economist at the University of
                     Chicago, and John Donohue III, a law professor at Stanford
                     University. Their recently published research shows a strong
                     correlation between the rise in the number of abortions since
                     the passage of Roe v. Wade in 1973 and the drop in the crime
                     rate some 20 years later. By ending unwanted pregnancies,
                     they argue, women avoided raising potential criminals who
                     would now be entering their high-crime years.

                     Critics on both sides of the abortion issue have lambasted the
                     study. Anti-abortion groups object to the idea that terminating
                     pregnancies could have a positive impact on crime, while
                     pro-abortion groups dislike the racial overtones and aspect of
                     social control implied in the research. The scholars say they
                     are just trying to interpret the data as they see it.

[Irene Adler]

The Lindbergh baby was kidnapped and killed by a small-time criminal in his 30s not by a group of predatory teenagers. And yes, kidnapping and murder of a baby was also a rarity at the time. In addition, the two crimes occurred eight years apart (1924 and 1932) so I don't know why you would bring up both crimes as proving that such crimes were somehow common during the period since they weren't particularly similar in nature and were spread apart by eight years.

[gcruse]

I like your grasp of history. :)

[Irene Adler]

Thank you. As it happens, I have devoted quite a bit of study to both crimes. Famous crimes have been an interest of mine for some time, and those two, along with the Lizzie Borden murders and the Ripper murders in London, are among my favorites. My screen name was chosen to reflect this odd tendency of mine, although it does refer to a fictional character rather than an actual historical personnage.

[gcruse]

Then if I mentioned the Pig Lady, I bet you'd know. I am a big fan of history of the twenties.