Breaking News - Bodies of missing family found

[Katarina]

It's being reported on CNN but there is no link yet. The bodies of two adults and one child have been recovered. Earnest Lee Hargon has been charged with 3 counts of capital murder.

I'll post a link as soon as I can.

Edit to add story & link:

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YAZOO CITY, Mississippi (CNN) -- A couple hours after a man was charged with killing his cousin, the cousin's wife and their 4-year-old son, investigators found three bodies Monday.

"We've found two bodies and what appears to be the body of a child," Mississippi Department of Public Safety spokesman Warren Strain said.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/03/01/missing.family/index.html

[Demonaut]

1. what can you say? poor family

greedy evil fuck

[Shrek]

2. Presumption of innocence?

Maybe he didn't do it, maybe he did. Gotta observe the legal niceties regardless.

[Demonaut]

3. true but...................

[kixot]

4. If he did do it

I'm not above hoping they fry this guy. Same with the guy who abducted from the car wash and murdered the little girl in Sarasota. That guy's at least as guilty as his confession and I hoipe they give him the chair. I'm morally against the death penalty but some cases get my blood boiling to hot I don't mind its application from time to time.

[napsi]

5. Death Penalty

I have found myself wavering my entire life on the death penalty. I understand the reasons (good ones) why it is not acceptable. Lately I seem to not care about the moral aspects especially after news like this from MS. I have always believed there are some people who are just plain worthless and evil. Perhaps it is best they are eliminated and removed from the gene pool. I'm getting real tired of news like this..........

[boobooday]

6. No death penalty

Locking people up FOREVER gets them out of the gene pool, and really if there is no possibility of parole at all, it is a much crueler fate.

More importantly, it has become very clear that people in power can't be trusted with the death penalty -- many death row prisoners have been set free recently. Our legal system isn't that flawless, that we can grant it the power to take a life.

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[napsi]

8. I'm sorry

The more I hear about this story....the more I want this guy to die. It's people like this that make me act like a Repuke and it pisses me off to be this hateful but that family was just randomly eliminated by their own relative. I can't get over the fact that my tax dollars will pay to give this guy 3 meals a day, medical care, books and physical ed for the rest of his life. It makes me sick.....geeez....I need therapy.

[rfkrocks]

7. my thoughts

i have had a problem with the death penalty too but in cases of overwhelming evidence (forensics) where there is a rape murder, where a child is killed, where there is a multiple murders (horrendous cases-not that there are good murders) i just think it is too risky to keep those people alive. what if they get out? sometimes we have to protect ourselves. do these killers ever express regret at killing a child? how can one even do kill a child? they are like alien creatures-missing a conscience bone i guess. gacey, bundy.mcveigh and their likes gone!-those cases seem more than justified. but i do respect and appreciate all the arguments on the other side. i find it so depressing we live in a world where children are killed.

[Tansy_Gold]

9. not thoughts, but emotions. . . .

. . . . make us want to kill those who commit these horrible crimes.

A capital murder trial and the inevitable appeals cost far more than keeping the killer in prison for the rest of his life.

Most killers are not evil; they are sick. They may not be curable to the point of ever being allowed free in society, but they are more sick than evil.

How often have we read of a crime like this and asked, "What person in their right mind would do a thing like this?" The answer, of course, is that the people who do these things are usually not in their right minds.

The death penalty is wrong. Period.

JMHO,

Tansy Gold

[Insider]

10. between the lines?

he was charged with capital murder, and the bodies were found shortly thereafter. is it possible he gave locations in exchange for taking death penalty off the table? or do i watch too much law & order?

[booksenkatz]

11. When I think

of how frightened the little 4-year-old boy must've been, it makes me want to vomit. And he just celebrated his birthday a few weeks ago at Chuck E. Cheese, like so many kids his age, it's heartbreaking. I'm going to be hugging my 4-year-old boy extra tight today. I've been following this story and I knew how it was going to turn out, but it still makes me hurt for the family.

All for a piece of property... for dirt. Good God.

[booksenkatz]

12. Tues. morning updates here

http://www.clarionledger.com/


James Patrick's 4th birthday party on Feb. 7th.