Recent content by chaotic_idealism

Trials are finished and sentencing is done: Marshall man gets 30 years for killing disabled Tolono man 20 years for Paris woman tied to Tolono man's death There's still not much detail about what happened and why, but I can make an educated guess. Dennis Bates was 4'11" tall, 100 pounds, and...

Did a Police Camera Hack Help a D.C. Grandma’s Killer Escape Justice? When a ransomware attack disabled 70 percent of Washington, D.C.’s police surveillance cameras for four days in January, it knocked out a possibly vital view of Vivian Marrow’s killing.

Yeah. The video is a good sign. With any luck, somebody will recognize the bastard. Shooting a 66 year old grandma is a special sort of evil...

DC Police Release Video of Shooter Who Killed Grandmother in Wheelchair D.C. police have video of the person who shot and killed a grandmother riding her motorized wheelchair in her own neighborhood. Vivan Marrow, 68, died after she was caught in gunfire Monday morning on the 2400 block of...

So he tried to kill his brother once already, by setting his room on fire? And he wasn't locked up somewhere away from Alex? Somebody dropped the ball here.

I'll go with option C, "domestic violence". It's not that unusual for children to be murdered by their abusive mothers, usually "by accident" when the abuse goes too far for the child to survive. This case is different because this was a deliberate rape-murder. Usually, mothers either...

Ah, but there's no profit in saving kids...

There's a memorial group on Facebook, if anybody wants to offer support to her community. Apparently she's remembered fondly by her classmates, especially her best friend, who probably misses her most of all. https://www.facebook.com/groups/807076019431507

If they had a three-way thing going on, that doesn't make them any more or less guilty in my eyes. Doesn't matter if they had a group marriage with fifty people. What matters is who did what to that innocent girl. The second girlfriend may have been a victim herself, but there's no way to tell...

I'd have called emergency services, personally. I'm not a killer, even by inaction. And in the hospital, they'd be sure to be arrested. It's kind of hard to run from the police if you're sedated and on an IV drip handcuffed to your bed rail. This way, what they did to Grace comes out. They...

SP told the police that Grace had an "emotional disorder" and "behavioral issues"; I figured that was why she was labeled as having a disability. She did get disability payments for her, and the amount is what you'd expect for a disabled child. Also, the school noticed that her letter was too...

They'll use anything as an excuse trying to wiggle out of a just sentence for their crimes. Every time some criminal claims they killed because of their disability or their mental illness, every decent person with that diagnosis cringes and hopes to God that people understand that they're not...

Hit and run, maybe? No drugs, but trauma to the body... Sounds like someone beat her up or hit her with a car. I'm so glad she's been identified. It must have been hard for the family to see her face on the news, but if it were me, it would have been harder not to know where my daughter or...

I've tried to identify the flower in the tattoo, but it's just not clear enough... It may just be a generic flower. But if the other tattoo says "Nature", maybe it isn't generic; maybe she likes flowers, got a tat of a specific flower, and I'm just missing it. Anybody around here who's good with...

They were neglected, yeah; the lack of medical records proves that. The lack of school records, too, if they weren't educated somehow. I don't know if that means they aren't autistic, though. Autistic kids are more likely to be targeted for abuse or neglect than their non-autistic siblings, so...