Chilling MSNBC show - for your "What Harm Can It Do" Dept.

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I just watched MSNBC's Criminal Mindscape show.

A psychologist interviewed Ron Luff, a normal-looking, well-spoken guy who is currently serving 5 consecutive life sentences for murder.

Luff was involved in the 1990 massacre of an entire family, the Averys, in Kirtland, OH.

Three of the Averys were children, the youngest a 6-yr-old girl.

One of the most horrendous parts of the show - Luff describes how that child asked him for a piggy-back ride...as he carried her into a barn where he knew she would be restrained with duct tape, killed, and thrown into a pit with the rest of her family. Luff helped dig the pit.

Luff was acting under the orders of Jeffrey Lundgren (who was executed by lethal injection in 2006).

The funny thing is that after 20 years, Luff still couldn't articulate why he blindly followed orders to help kill those people.

It all happened because he was "searching for answers." And Lundgren seemed to have them - a family had to die to make God happy.

I think I'm changing my designation from "Fundamentalist Atheist" to "Completely Unredeemable Fundamentalist Atheist."

Wikipedia entry on the Kirtland Massacre:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Lundgren