GUILTY CT - Barry James, 59, stabbed to death, Fairfield, 28 Aug 2006

[BillyGoatGruff]

I understand, but I still don't buy how someone could break into a house, molest a child, and escape unnoticed on numerous occasions. So much risk and chance of being caught...it's not how most predators operate...they are usually someone who gains the child's trust over time...if this guy was the local weirdo and the parents were very aware of him...how could he possibly do this to the child with no one noticing?? I know anything is possible, but this seems really hinky to me.

Jack Walls III of LOnoke, Arkansas did exactly that for years. He would crawl in through the window and sexually molest his nephews, who lived next door to him. It only came to light after one of his nephews became a teeanger and put a gun to Walls' head and forced him to confess to the boy's mother.

 

[Masterj]

Didn't someone on here say that the neighbor had lock picking tools? Is that true?

also, I asked this earlier, but does anyone know where the child's room was located in relation to her parent's room?

 

[BillyGoatGruff]

Well I just read an article: The facts: The Mom and Dad have two dogs, the neighbour weighed 300 lbs and had Diabetes, he would have had to scale 2 fence and then lift himself up and thorough a window. Without making a sound to alert the parents and or dogs.

He would have had to support his weight by scaling two fences and then again "suport his weight and then "haul" his 300 lbs body though a window.

Then he would have had to repeat all again, to leave, without any heavy breathing, with a "known medical condion" and under the noses of not one but two dogs.......

When asked how this man would have gotten into their home: The Mom broke down crying(no kidding, I am sure now she "has some idea" that her daughter may have "had a story")that lead to her husbanding murdering their neighbour and the Dad "spending" many years behind bars.

The Dad just "glared" at reporters in front of the wife when this question came up.......

As the facts arise, I am having more then enough doubts that the child who said "he comes to me in the starry" nights.

Aren't most nights starry.............

To think that this man who weighed 300 lbs, "sneaked" in the house without the dogs being alerted at all, with a medical condion, and on more then one occassion, is a situation that anyone would find suspect.

I would assume that this house was a two story house, and the man would have had to "scale" to the upper floor......

Plus his age was 58 years old......this does not nor will it ever "add up".

Those are verified facts, not the story of a two year old.

I feel that since the "mother" was visiting her sister in Rhode Island and the Dad phoned her that the "neighbour got hurt" they may have "helped" the young girl "remember" that the man came to her "in the starry nights".

Please........300 lbs people have difficulty walking....let alone climbing fences, scaling houses, climbing through windows, and reversing this all over again........without any knowledge of the parents....or dogs

Not a chance especially at 58 with a medical conditon.

Also "the little girl pointed to her "groin" and said: Barry is this.

That is an adult thing to do as.........we all know the "adult" meaning of that......not a two year old child.

Hey, he sounds like the pedophile I knew-actually slightly less heavy, who somehow also found the energy to molest at least 25 young boys while taking them camping and spelunking, all the while suffering from a debilititating case of psoratic arthritis and fused vertebrae. These bastards find a way.

 

[mom3dd]

IMO I think it is true that the neighbor molested the child. Personally I would have set the SOB up and used justifible force once he was in my home. Here in Tn same day in the paper. Man defrauds bank he works in for 50,000. Sent to jail for 30 years. 3 men KILL A MAN FOR ENTERTAINMENT one gets 5 years the other 2-3 years and all only have to serve 30% of time. The guy who stole the money could be on prohbation and pay back and not cost the community. The 3 that took a life shouldn't be free. So the moral of the story Money is more important than life.

 

[southcitymom]

Didn't someone on here say that the neighbor had lock picking tools? Is that true?

also, I asked this earlier, but does anyone know where the child's room was located in relation to her parent's room?

One of the articles stated that the police had a warrant to search the neighbors car and one of the things they were looking for was lock picking tools.

I don't know the layout of the house as far as rooms go.

 

[Masterj]

One of the articles stated that the police had a warrant to search the neighbors car and one of the things they were looking for was lock picking tools.

I don't know the layout of the house as far as rooms go.

ThankS!

I really want to know the layout of the house so I can try and picture if I think it was possible for him to enter without the parents knowledge.

 

[T-Rex]

I think it does sound like the way a kid would describe abuse.

But the thing is, two-year-olds CAN talk. Very loudly. And one of their favorite words is "No." They can also cry very loudly. And reasoning, and threats, and bribery, won't prevent that. Just ask millions of parents hissing at their kids in the grocery store. So why didn't her parents hear her?

 

[Details]

Looking for lock picking tools may indicate that they found no fingerprints on the window, or also find it improbable that he got in that way. It may not mean that they have heard he has them, just that they want to find anything that might have been used to get him into that house.

 

[Details]

You know what's the worst? If she was molested by this guy, she's now going to feel guilty that because she let it happen, her daddy is in jail. That's not right, of course, but that's often how kids think - blaming themselves for their parents divorces, etc. If it was a story, she'll feel even worse.

 

[southcitymom]

ThankS!

I really want to know the layout of the house so I can try and picture if I think it was possible for him to enter without the parents knowledge.

This is also information I would really like to have - I am having a hard time believing it is possible unless her bedroom is on the ground floor on the opposite side of a big house.

 

[southcitymom]

You know what's the worst? If she was molested by this guy, she's now going to feel guilty that because she let it happen, her daddy is in jail. That's not right, of course, but that's often how kids think - blaming themselves for their parents divorces, etc. If it was a story, she'll feel even worse.

This is a good point. Eventually she will have to be told why her father is in jail. Regardless of whether or not she was molested, a father in jail is a terrible burden in many ways.

It's so depressing - in thinking he was defending her, he has harmed her so much more.

 

[luthersmama]

Alright, this keeps getting weirder. "Hee haw?" Feels like rain on her face? EEEP!

http://www.connpost.com/news/ci_4328633

And he was seen walking around in his UNDIES. Not naked.

:waitasec:

 

[Masterj]

Alright, this keeps getting weirder. "Hee haw?" Feels like rain on her face? EEEP!

http://www.connpost.com/news/ci_4328633

And he was seen walking around in his UNDIES. Not naked.

:waitasec:

I don't know - I am more inclined still to think he did it. "Feels like rain on her face" and in another article talks about him putting himself on her belly and nose? I find it hard to believe a child could come up with that unless it was true.

 

[luthersmama]

I don't know - I am more inclined still to think he did it. "Feels like rain on her face" and in another article talks about him putting himself on her belly and nose? I find it hard to believe a child could come up with that unless it was true.

I'm not opining one way or the other as to whether he did it.

It's just all weird.

But I don't think he should have been slaughtered before he could be interrogated. Now there will always be more doubt.

 

[southcitymom]

You are right that it gets weirder and weirder.

I'm not willing to accept that the 2-year-old is recalling being molested until there is more proof. I have just heard too much 2-year-old babble...they say all sorts of things that can be interpreted all sorts of ways. I am sure the 2-year-old heard her parents discussing this guy in his underwear in a negative fashion around their home...it makes sense that she could come up with some pretty weird statements about him.

If the "rain on her face" contained DNA one would think some of it might still be on her bedsheets, mattress, pjs. Hope the cops are checking that out.

We may never know the full truth in this case...we've got a 2-year-old and a much-maligned murder victim.

Hoping for some forensics to unravel the tale....

 

[Bobbisangel]

I don't know - I am more inclined still to think he did it. "Feels like rain on her face" and in another article talks about him putting himself on her belly and nose? I find it hard to believe a child could come up with that unless it was true.

I think it sounds like he did it too. It sounds to me like that baby is describing the molestation just like someone her age would. She doesn't have the words for what actually happend so she is explaining it in the only way that she knows. I wonder if he peed on her face and that was what felt like rain. He was a alcoholic and that is why I wonder. Maybe he couldn't do anything but pee in his excitment.

In a news report today it said that LE don't believe that the little girl was coaxed concerning what to say. They also feel that because of the short span of time between the time the dad received the phone call and when he stabbed the neighbor to death that he just went into a full blown rage which will fall under some term that the courts in that state use.

There aren't many doors that can't be opened with a credit card. I got locked out of my place once and my neighbor showed me how to get in with a credit card. Made me feel real safe!

 

[joe jones]

How will they ever be able to prove molestation now he is dead,

the word alone of a two year old should not be the only thing used to convict this man,

so unless their is his DNA on her or her clothes or her bedding, or fingerprints in the home showing he was in her bedroom nobody will ever be able to say for sure he did it,

and I think the father should be prosecuted for first degree murder, he broke into somebody elses home and killed him in cold blood,

I have no sympathy for the fact he believed this man may have molested his daughter, call the cops, have her questioned, get her medically examined, have the man prosecuted,

he is not allowed to decide who lives and who dies because he decides it is so,

and even if it is proved he did molest her, I would still expect first degree murder charges,

nobody is above the law, do you think Mark Lunsford would not like to rip Couey to pieces with his bare hands, Or Shastas father want to stomp Duncan to death, of course they do, but we have laws for a reason,

otherwise lets all meet out our own justice, and see how civilised we all out then,

 

[southcitymom]

How will they ever be able to prove molestation now he is dead,

the word alone of a two year old should not be the only thing used to convict this man,

so unless their is his DNA on her or her clothes or her bedding, or fingerprints in the home showing he was in her bedroom nobody will ever be able to say for sure he did it,

and I think the father should be prosecuted for first degree murder, he broke into somebody elses home and killed him in cold blood,

I have no sympathy for the fact he believed this man may have molested his daughter, call the cops, have her questioned, get her medically examined, have the man prosecuted,

he is not allowed to decide who lives and who dies because he decides it is so,

and even if it is proved he did molest her, I would still expect first degree murder charges,

nobody is above the law, do you think Mark Lunsford would not like to rip Couey to pieces with his bare hands, Or Shastas father want to stomp Duncan to death, of course they do, but we have laws for a reason,

otherwise lets all meet out our own justice, and see how civilised we all out then,

I do think the father is this case snapped - it was a crime of passion if ever there was one.

However, the father in this case has a history of snapping - he was arrested once before for trashing a Planned Parenthood exhibit. Who knows what other violent angry behavior he's exhibited in the past? I think this guy is not safe to be wandering around society.

I wonder what he will be charged with?

I agree with your views on vigilante justice.

 

[joe jones]

I do think the father is this case snapped - it was a crime of passion if ever there was one.

However, the father in this case has a history of snapping - he was arrested once before for trashing a Planned Parenthood exhibit. Who knows what other violent angry behavior he's exhibited in the past? I think this guy is not safe to be wandering around society.

I wonder what he will be charged with?

I agree with your views on vigilante justice.

I do think he snapped, but that still does not give him an excuse or right to commit this horrific act,

if they don't come down hard on him they one can only imagine this becoming the new excuse, yeah I killed him but I thought he was abusing my child, so it's ok can I go home now,

 

[kazzbar]

I do think he snapped, but that still does not give him an excuse or right to commit this horrific act,

if they don't come down hard on him they one can only imagine this becoming the new excuse, yeah I killed him but I thought he was abusing my child, so it's ok can I go home now,

Yes, you are right. The guy that was killed may be innocent but nobody will ever know because he is dead.The father in this case may well be a total fruitcake who gets angry at the drop of a hat.These cases of vigilantism mean that the law cannot do what it is there to do and if the whole world just knocks people of because they might have done something, then we will be back in the Dark Ages.
The circumstances that surround this case are strange and I am sure we will learn more when the case goes to trial. I feel for the child in this case because now she has no Father to nurture her. It is very sad.