Murder, so Easy

16 Sept 09

Murder, so easy:

A twice-convicted, serial rapist (mid-30s), out on parole, attacked, sexually assaulted, and then murdered (beat to death and strangled) two young women (both mid-20s) in a suburb of Gary, IN last week. He then set the house, owned by one of the victims, afire, in an effort to cover his tracks.

Like most, he was unsuccessful in avoiding capture!

The suspect, a perpetually-unemployed loser, living with his mother, was quickly arrested and subsequently confessed.

On the evening in question, the two women, sisters, were in the home owned by one of them when three men showed up, uninvited. One was an ex-boyfriend of one of the sisters. The other two were unknown to either woman After a few minutes, all three were asked to leave, which they did.

Later that night, after midnight, one of the friends of the ex-boyfriend, the suspect, returned to the house, broke in, then found and attacked the two women, who were probably asleep when the burglary started. The face of one women was so badly damaged that it took many hours of post-mortem " reconstruction" at the funeral home in order for her body to appear in an open casket, which was the wish of her family.

One woman had recently married. Both were well educated, in good health, had good jobs, and no criminal records, nor history of drug-use. The neighborhood is middle-class and otherwise quiet. Neither sister had ever owned a gun, nor did either have any kind of self-defense training. The house did not have electronic security.

Lessons: In this day and age, you can't be naive and expect to see old-age! We live in a civilization where rapists, murders, child-molesters, arsonists, et al are routinely caught, duly convicted, spend a few years, more likely months, in prison, and then are set free, over and over! The vast majority re-offend within days of release. Our criminal-justice "system" continues to perform this serial abomination upon our society, and there is no expectation that it will ever be any different, because politicians want those criminal votes just as bad as they want yours!

So, we all need to realize, and expect, that our world is populated by vicious criminals, on the loose, who are fully capable of every atrocious felony you can imagine, given opportunity and the right set of circumstances. They will predictably, serially, commit these bestial crimes, for reasons that sometimes make sense to us and sometimes don't make any sense at all, until they die or become too infirm to continue.

The foregoing is the sad reality. We can squabble endlessly over insignificant statistical variations, or we can face facts!

(1) You can't pick your relatives, but you can pick your friends. Life is too short to spend it with seedy, sleazy scum. Trashy losers tend to attract each other. Don't be attracted to them!

(2) For maybe the first time in your life, you need to think about fighting, fighting for your life. You may have to, sooner than you ever imagined!

(3) Women are especially vulnerable to personal attack. Women, in particular, need to harden themselves and the places they live. In the case above, a single man successfully overpowered two women in their own home!

(4) Your home needs electronic security and your need to use it, particularly when you're asleep.

(5) Your home also needs good door locks and secure windows, and you need to be extremely cautious about whom you let inside.

(6) There is no adequate substitute for personal armament, particularly handguns. Handguns need to be kept and carried. You need to be coldly competent in their effective use in personal protection. Expert training is expensive and time-consuming, but acutely necessary.

(7) Be a Force of One! Don't become foolishly dependant upon anyone else, nor any institution. You have to be your own partner, your own backup. No one is watching your back!

"'Civilization'" is a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness."

Werner Herzog

/John