Reading this account ("Carnation suspects tell officers of victims' frantic, final moments") of the Christmas Eve murders in Washington state is sobering. The male perpetrator was a clerk at Target; folks who knew him can hardly believe he's capable of this--according to reports; regrettably he was capable of shooting his girlfriend's 3-year-old nephew and 6-year-old niece at point-blank range after having murdered their parents as the children watched . . the entire time, Aunt Michele stood by, weapon in hand.
It reminded me of a murder prosecution in Knoxville when I was clerking there. A couple kidnapped a neighbor at gunpoint as he returned from work and left him bound and gagged in the bathtub while they went out to eat at a Red Lobster. From time to time it occurs to me that someone around me--in a check out line or at the next table in a restaurant, could be planning a murder.
Read the article above to see how petty the purported "dispute" was. As best I can remember, the Knoxville kidnappers got a couple hundred dollars (and a dinner at Red Lobster) in their grand scheme. Given the 24/7 media cycle and "smallness" of our world, it's easy to conclude that life is cheaper today than in past eras . . . I suppose there's wisdom in the saying, "ignorance is bliss."
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What about that Paul Reid guy? He was attending Volunteer State in Gallatin when he was murdering all those people Ned. Can you imagine how those students in his classes felt when they heard what he had done? They were all in a room with one of the worst serial killers in the modern history of middle Tennessee and probably the entire state. You just never can tell who is around you...
Yeah. Reid deserves to die BIG time, without fanfare, without handwringing.
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