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Posted by ElectricWhite on 08-11-2013 at 17:58:

Anvil Update

Many of you might remember that, back in May 2012, I told you about discovering that IтАЩd been living within walking distance of a serial killer. Well, the trial for the murder of his neighbor took place. After a little over to days of testimony, the jury took exactly 17 minutes to find him guilty. And then, after almost three hours, he was sentenced to death.

A few of the details of the case slipped out. For instance, he used an ordinary kitchen knife to mutilate and dismember her, and he snapped her neck and back to display her body just so in his garage. But, besides those details, the media kept quiet because of how gruesome his actions were. (That still blows me away, given how the media tends to dwell on gore...)

Anyway, the next trials for the other two known victims will be in January.

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Posted by Transmute Jun on 08-11-2013 at 18:44:

I'm glad that you have some peace of mind, EW, knowing that the guy has been put away! :huggles;

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Posted by KT1972 on 08-11-2013 at 20:35:

....and the world is that little bit safer once again. Hug

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Posted by ChrisW on 08-11-2013 at 21:34:

Erk EW ... Glad to hear they got him!

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Posted by Redbird on 08-11-2013 at 22:09:

That is really creepy EW. Glad he was caught and convicted....

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Posted by k2p2 on 08-11-2013 at 23:24:

Just don't know what to sayтАжhow horrible.

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Posted by Daniella T on 08-11-2013 at 23:38:

Eek, EW!

This is truly shocking, and goes to show that you can never really now who are the people living close to you.

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Posted by Tengu on 09-11-2013 at 00:02:

I think you are very lucky; we do not have interesting people like that in this country...or at least very seldom.

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Posted by ChrisW on 09-11-2013 at 00:30:

I'm sad to say that it's common for people to believe that their country/location/whatever doesn't have monsters like this, that only other places do ... ultimately it just blinds folks to what's going on around them or keeps the authorities from looking for patterns, etc. At least, that's my understanding.

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Posted by jublke on 09-11-2013 at 03:18:

Awful, but glad the nightmare is over. Hugs!!

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Posted by gatchamarie on 09-11-2013 at 15:11:

The news must be of such a relief for you and all your neighborhood, EW! Huggles These things are so disturbing!

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Posted by Becky Rock on 09-11-2013 at 21:38:

That kind of monster deserves the death penalty. Some people have absolutely no right to be in society with actions like that, nor should tax payers have to pay for them to live out their lives in prison with the possibility of them managing to escape.

I'm glad that nightmare is over for you, EW, but with two more trials to go, there are still some families out their looking for justice.

I'll get off my soapbox now.

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Posted by ChrisW on 10-11-2013 at 00:03:

Eh, I'm the kind of vengeful b*tch that would rather see people like that have to live the rest of their lives in a miserable little cell. Tongue Death is a quick escape.

(Hmm I might be in a mood today ...)

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Posted by ElectricWhite on 10-11-2013 at 00:50:

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Originally posted by Becky Rock
I'm glad that nightmare is over for you, EW, but with two more trials to go, there are still some families out their looking for justice.

The sad thing is that there are surely other families who will never know what happened to their loved ones -- there's a 10-year gap between his first victim and the second. There's no explanation for this other than there being victims that nobody's discovered...he didn't go to jail at any point, he didn't get seriously ill, and didn't spend any time out of this area. And I don't know of any serial killer who kills once, stops cold turkey for a decade, and then starts up again.

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Posted by ChrisW on 10-11-2013 at 00:55:

Ick, EW. Frown Maybe somewhere along the way he'll be persuaded to give closure to more families.

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Posted by ElectricWhite on 10-11-2013 at 01:02:

So far, all he's done is send the police on wild goose chases. He quit talking, though, after he implied that a body was buried in a place he lived a few years before he killed the first known victim. After the entire property was torn apart and dug up -- and no trace of any bodies were found whatsoever -- the owner of the property went on the local news stations to man up and give some poor families some closure.

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Posted by ChrisW on 10-11-2013 at 01:23:

Youch. Did the owner move the bodies, then?

I think what prosecutors hope for is after a few official life sentences with no possibility for parole (or at the end of death row appeals), there's less incentive for the guy to hold back. Things can't really get worse (for the killer) at that point.

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Posted by ElectricWhite on 10-11-2013 at 02:28:

What you said is true, CW, but I also think this guy got off on jerking the prosecutors around...this guy killed his first known victim on his 45th birthday and then got a tattoo commemorating the event!

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Posted by ChrisW on 10-11-2013 at 03:00:

Oh I'm sure he did. Their cruelty aims not just at their victims. What I mean is that they hope that later in the process, when there's multiple convictions, some of these guys will reveal more of their victims so those families can have closure. It's less likely when they think they have a chance of going free.

Bleh.

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Posted by ElectricWhite on 10-11-2013 at 03:19:

I got ya. I'm just not sure that guy's mind is working in that way...

To be honest, I'm not sure I want to know exactly how his mind works! Eek6

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