1992 [Texas] murders prove no street is immune -- Ex-clown is set to die in girls' fatal stabbings

The Houston Chronicle ^ | September 23, 2002 | Mike Tolson

[maxwell]

Clowning around at the office?

[snortle] I'm in trouble then, bro! ;)

Hey what's the weather like in Dallas in November?

[Billthedrill]

Well, I know hindsight is 20/20, but I swear, one look at that "clown" face and I knew this guy was a fruitcake. That was before reading the article.

I think it was his sitting in the lawn chair enjoying the show afterward that really did it, at least for me. He'll be getting a painless needle in the arm - his victims got thrown down and sat on by somebody three times their size and stabbed repeatedly in the face. Against that the article tries to balance the good things he did in his life, and hey, he'd had a bad day...which is beyond weak, it's an insult to the intelligence.

[MeekOneGOP]

Hey what's the weather like in Dallas in November?

http://www.ssec.org/idis/gates/States/txdalla.htm

DALLAS, TEXAS

 

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[Ditter]

I remember this well. Its past time to fry this SOB.

[maxwell]

Thanks bro!

[MeekOneGOP]

Not too shabby, huh? It should be nice when you're here.....

[MeekOneGOP]

You bet !

[tracer]

Maybe some fun-loving Texas DOC official will squirt "Uh Oh the Clown" in the face with a seltzer bottle after they plop him onto the table for his date with the needle.......

[tracer]

Or a banana cream pie in the face......

[maxwell]

Yeah I'm thinkin' leave the leather jacket at home... ;) Good running weather too. Denton don't look more'n several miles across-- hard to get lost in, bwaha...

[MeekOneGOP]

Denton's bigger than it used to be, but it ain't Dallas......

[DWSUWF]

"...Also, we need to bring back public hangings in the courthouse square..."

And dress him/make him up as his clown alter ego for the execution.

Seeing THAT would scare the bejeezus out of any budding criminals in the audience...

[MissAmericanPie]

I remember this, why is it that so much time passes between the conviction and the death chamber when there is no doubt at all the guy is guilty?

The youngest of these two girls would be seventeen now, and the other 20. It's not right that these guys get to live off the taxpayer for so long.

[xJones]

Thanks for the ping, Ming.

In reading this, I don't notice one word of remorse, of guilt for murdering two little girls. He'd had such a bad day, you see, and the older one smarted off to him after he'd entered the house without permission and went upstairs. I mean, it was such a bad day for him, doncha understand? < /sarcasm>

Part of the definition of a sociopath is that they are unable to feel anything for anyone else. Just the sociopath is all that matters, the feelings of others don't register. He even brought a chair out to his front lawn to watch the show as the police were frantically investigating and the the girls' families were in broken-hearted grief and horror. He'd had such a bad day...

[Indrid Cold]

First John Wayne Gacy, now this guy. No wonder I hate clowns...

[Dialup Llama]

Everybody hates a mime and clowns are just scary. Sorry Shriners its true. And don't get me started on prop comics and jugglers.

[MeekOneGOP]

I remember this, why is it that so much time passes between the conviction and the death chamber when there is no doubt at all the guy is guilty?

The youngest of these two girls would be seventeen now, and the other 20. It's not right that these guys get to live off the taxpayer for so long.

I hear ya. The mandatory appeals process on death penalty outcomes. It just takes a while. Texas actually does a pretty good job. In California just recently, Westerfield was given the death penalty in the van Damm murder. The FOX News Channel guest Napolitano said that their appeals process is so involved that it would take TWENTY years to work through the appeals before he is executed. I think the current average for them is 16 years?

I'm not sure what the Texas average is, but somewhere around 8-10 years I believe.....

[MeekOneGOP]

It seems like it's always about the murderer, and the victims and the victims families don't have much consideration. They are way down on the list of priorities......

[RightOnline]

I admire the father's tenacity, but I gotta tell ya....................if I was that certain my neighbor killed one of my children, I guaranTEE you that he wouldn't be walking around taking in oxygen for another ten years.

Not even close. I'd get the confession first, though..........privately.