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How depressing. Someone saw their meal ticket being cancelled and went nuts. That old man and woman probably worked 100 years between them to build the estate too.

That's quite a nice place for semi-rural East/Southeast Texas.

Maybe someone disgruntled over who was or wasn't in the will. That looks to be a fairly substantial estate.

I look at this way: 1.) They drive off to the grocery store two blocks away and get lost, pull over somewhere and wander off into the woods to die of exposure within 8-12 hours. 2.) They wreck the car killing themselves or others due to their deteriorated cognition. 3.) They're assaulted or...

Glad he was found alive. I've gone through this with my mother. Once we realized she was having serious problems and was diagnosed with dementia, the very difficult decision was made to take the car keys. It's just too dangerous, for her and for others as well. I've read way too many stories of...

Very weird. IMO law enforcement has quite a bit of information they're not releasing. This was a pretty brazen attack and the surveillance video will seal the deal. I would concur with other posters that this was a personal beef of some sort.

Ah, O.K. thanks. Can't recall that one. What a nightmare.

That's the sticky wicket isn't it? Not sure there is any viable solution to this as the toothpaste is out of tube. On the one hand you don't want to deprive a child of the vast information store of the net but on the other hand it's a fire hose of good, bad and downright deadly. I grew up in a...

I haven't read every single page here on this case but this one stands out as a real train wreck. I feel so badly for this child that she had nobody to turn to. Surrounded by clowns. Poor kid.

I've been playing various milsims online since the early 90's. Thankfully all the servers I've played have had a zero tolerance policy for tomfoolery of any kind. But since then, smartphones and ubiquitous wi-fi combined with all of these low effort, throw away "games" and instant messaging apps...

There's a difference between winking at the cute girl or guy in public versus a billion dollar corporation printing napkins promoting hookups. It's an appalling coarseness. I feel like a Victorian man railing against licentious Edwardian behavior and I'm Gen X'r. Sigh.

Yes, it is disappointing to hear of only 15 months. I would be satisfied with five years. Her conduct was inexcusable.

The kid couldn't make it through boot camp or, at 21, hold a potentially steady blue-collar job that was arranged for him. It's evident to me, even if he had the money and desire to solicit a prostitute he would have ended up rolled, beaten or dead. He wanted what he wanted and was willing to...

Just heard about this case. All of these people are in my age range so it does hit home. Once again I'm flummoxed by the callousness of a person who apparently had everything going for her. I guess that $1.75 million was just too tempting to pass up. Not sure how these people are able to sleep...

Singularity, thanks for taking the time to articulate your well written posts in #691 and #701. I concur with all you've written and had similar experiences in the late 80's. It's a miracle I didn't end up dead or in the penitentiary given all the extremely dangerous situations my naivety led me...

Yeah, pretty much the same experience here. Scrounging up a joint at 14 or 15 was one thing but we all knew dealing it was bad news. The internet and smartphones have provided an easily accessible and large amount of information on street drugs in addition to the scheming and scams that goes...

I had speculated a few weeks back that her death didn't involve other teens because it just didn't seem plausible and/or they would have been caught immediately. But I was proven wrong once again. It's pitiful she got in over her head at such a young age. Teens need to know that situations can...

Yeah, I'm still leaning that this may not have involved kids around her age or slightly older. I just don't see them able to keep their mouths shut for any appreciable length of time. This one is a tough nut to crack. Wish I could add more that hasn't already been said.

Welp, could have been a somewhat harsher punishment but I was impressed with the judge. I can imagine her having to listen to all that case law was frying her brain. She made a monumental screw-up and kids like her are on notice there will be consequences.

Perhaps I'm just too naive when it comes to how youngsters are handling social media these days but one would think that girls of their age would be savvy enough to understand that meeting someone in person in a remote area is entirely different than clicking like or friend on a keyboard. I've...