I am going to keep up with this case until the trial as a lurker, for the mere reason these unusual cases seem to encompass many different beliefs, judgments, and opinions. I believe everyone has a right to their own perspectives and beliefs, but have learned over the years, to wait until trials, to avoid offending someone with my perspectives in a case like this one which is quite unique in it's circumstances. So my last thoughts about this case for awhile:
Warning, the details of the testimony are graphic.
Detectives said they went to Latunski's home to perform a welfare check as that was the last location Bacon was believed to have been.
When they entered Latunski's Shiawassee County home, detectives testified they found Bacon hanging naked from the ceiling.
According to testimony from the detective, Latunski confessed to killing Bacon by stabbing him with a knife in the back one time then slitting his throat.
He also admitted to police he wrapped a rope around Bacon’s ankles and hung him from the rafters on the ceiling.
According to the documents, Latunski admitted he used the knife to cut off Bacon's testicles and consumed them.
Derek Park, who lives nearby, was disturbed by this detail.
"Now that part's disturbing, that's nasty. He's a little nuts, like he knew what was happening and he just (said) 'hey, yeah come on in, take a look around' like there's nothing wrong," Park said.
Until the trial, my personal perspective and opinion is Latunski's behavior, unless he is an Oscar award winning actor, plus it is difficult to fool competent psychiatrists, if someone were to pretend to be a person afflicted with schizophrenia today, although, this may have occurred long ago when less was understood about this mental illness.
Latunski's perplexing 'norm' behavior, as if "hey nothing happening here, what's up?" may be key in a 'right from wrong,' defense. A sane but diabolical killer usually goes to great lengths to hide and discard a crime of this severity because they have the mental faculties intact, to understand it is wrong, and we see the different lengths people go to, to avoid prison, in ridding of evidence.
This is only an opinion and not an opinion that I believe he should be set free. If found insane, life in a proper mental asylum for life is what I would hope for, but not sure our society cares anymore about the well fare and extremely long term treatments the sickest and most debilitated population of the mentally ill are in need of. In my personal opinion, a lobotomy or death would be more humane for a severe schizophrenic than prison, which is akin to handing over an extremely vulnerable person to people who enjoy killing and torturing others for purely pleasure, and are not mentally ill, they are simply uncaring, diabolical, and many imo evil to the core.
