Looking back at his old family photos before he went on to kill his family, I would’ve never thought he would go on later in life to kill his entire family. And this raises some serious questions about myself.If I don’t see myself being a child killer in the future than who’s to say I won’t become one if this man is a living example? Who’s to say I won’t also end up cheating on my wife if I end up having one?
Now I’m sure prior to this incident, he actually must’ve been everything he appeared to be. He had no prior criminal record. He must’ve actually been an ordinary decent guy throughout most of his adult life.
Now I was discussing this matter with my Dad today. Since his arrest, he has been serving a life sentence in prison and while in jail he has been writing all sorts of people.
Some of his letters have been released publicly and the man claims to have repented for his crimes and found God.
While I was telling my Dad about this he claimed that many prisoners in the past have claimed similar reasons of “finding God” out of desperate attempts to earn the public’s sympathy.
But what if the man really does feel sorry for his crimes as he claims to? Would he then deserve a lighter sentence?
From the best of my knowledge this man only killed his family out of desperation. Apparently he was having financial troubles and didn’t want to pay child support pending his plans for divorce.
And while I am not trying to justify his actions because they are morally despicable, I do not see him as a threat to the general public.
I believe that once he has served a fair amount of time (in my view at least 30 years) he should be able to live his final days in freedom as an old man.
If everything he is saying is true about his repetance and newfound faith in God then there is a degree of sympathy that I feel for him.
I've seen the analysis of his body language and read about the incident.
That guy is totally a sociopath. Sociopaths don't become monsters overnight, there were born that way. It's obvious to me that he hated his family and was used to seeing them as a burden that he had no reason not to get rid of. And then he claims that he "found god"! Yeah, yeah, he found god after killing his wife and kids, that's a really nice way to find god. Very odd god this one that's always in the presence of murderers, pedophiles and rapists, and seems to enjoy being with them!
It's just a readily available manipulation trick to pull on everyone. These people usually have gigantic egos and can't deal with it when they figure out that they're despised by everyone. Or maybe he's already tired of the "treatment" he gets from the other prisoners...
In any case, I only feel sorry for that woman and her kids for having that monster in their lives. But he's getting what he deserves.
He is getting what he deserves. But at the same time. I have a hard time believing he was always like that. I suspect the woman he was cheating with probably coerced him into the act.
I really doubt that. Desperation and rage are not reasonable excuses for murdering one's own kids.
His case is much easier to explain than it seems, as he either 1) is incapable of empathy, something we can infer from the fact that he was incapable of developing paternal love since loving fathers don't kill their children in any circumstances, so that makes him fit the sociopath profile, or 2) that kind of mentally deranged guy who's used to hearing "voices" that tell him to kill people around him.
He doesn't look like a paranoid schizophrenic, so...
Yeah, he's a lost case and evil by nature. I doubt that his wife was even a bad woman as sociopaths generally select innocent people to be their victims.
1. Sometimes, people just look like a criminal and we are not surprised when they go bad, but many criminals - from their outward appearance - do not appear to be evil.
2. The fact that his physical appearance does not look psychotic or deranged doe not mean that everything was okay with him before his killing spree.
3. Many people "find God" in prison. If he was a truly good person, he could have devoted his life to doing good works instead of ending up in prison.
4. Imprisonment serves many purposes: punishment of the perpetrator, deterrent to others, retribution for the victims, and protection of society are the first few reasons that come to mind. I would not start feeling sorry for him just because he now claims to be sorry. Start reducing his sentence because he found God and guess how many other prisoners will also find God in prison.
2) But maybe it was. Maybe he was a good man before he met the woman he wanted to be with. There’s a possibility she coerced him into killing his family. I don’t know. I’d like to know more though.
I find it sickening you actually think he should be set free after 30 years. He killed 2 young girls that did nothing wrong to him or other people. Imagine if somebody killed you or a person you really cared for. Would you want them to spend the rest of the their life in prison. I assume so
I’ve actually seen plenty of evil people that looked downright creepy. But not this guy. Strangely enough. I mean if you saw him walking down the street with his family, would you assume he was a bad guy? Or would later become one? I find it so shocking.
Nah my husband has this rule about friendly people. If their friendly in public their probably crazy behind closed doors. The people that come off weird are most likely super nice to their loved ones.
Well even if there are weird people that are nice to their spouses. That doesn’t take away from the fact that I’ve seen creepy looking people convicted of child molestation. I think it goes both ways honestly
Child predators do tend to be creepy but more specifically murders always look decent. Everyone raves about how "hot" Ted Bundy is and I just dont see it but maybe he was hot for his time.
I have no clue what your future holds but I guess just dont get side girlfriend while you have a family. That seems to be the cause of a lot of family murders
I'd be more interested in knowing what the women even get out of writing to him? Do they just get off to the fact that they wrote to a killer? I just don't understand what they getting out of it
Ever notice how when a white, middle-class professional snaps and murders his family the reports show smiling photos of the killer with his arms round the children and wife he just used a 12 guage, rifle, .357, machete to butcher with the caption "happier times" or "family man", but when a man of colour does the same its ALWAYS a police mugshot - even if he had no prior record it's the photos of him being per-walked away from the scene with a caption like "cold-blooded killer" or "xxxxxx after he executed his family", but never a family photo of happier times?
Institutionalised racism at its finest.
A "jury of his peers" probably will be an accurate description for the white murderer, who will get 15 years for each killing to run concurrently because of "extenuating circumstances" while the man of colour gets the death sentence.
By the way: I'm a white, middle-class professional.
2. "Now I was discussing this matter with my Dad today. Since his arrest, he has been serving a life sentence in prison and while in jail he has been writing all sorts of people.". This paragraph should be re-written, because it makes it sound like your dad is serving a life sentence in prison.
3. A lot of people find God (or "find God") after being caught and being punished for their crimes. That does not negate the fact that they still committed the crime. Their situation in the afterlife has absolutely zero relevance to their position in the world of the living. Even if they were a so-called religious person before committing the act, the outcome would still be the same. You do the crime, you do the time. ALL of it.
4. "From the best of my knowledge this man only killed his family out of desperation. Apparently he was having financial troubles and didn’t want to pay child support pending his plans for divorce." BULLSHIT! He was desperate to not face responsibility for his own actions! He's the one who pumped his semen inside of his wife's vagina. He's the one who fertilized the eggs. Child support is his responsibility and his DUTY. If he didn't want his marriage to fail, then he shouldn't have allowed it to fail. (It was probably his fault anyway!)
I never liked the idea of allowing killers any sort of freedom. Killers deserve to get what they were willing to give to other people: death.
I like old fashioned justice, this humanitarian crap gets sickening. Boo hoo, the poor child murderer is in jail. Just give me a rusty axe and I'll achieve true justice by putting it into his brain.
I do t know enough about the case to supply a well informed opinion.
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