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Originally Posted by JMM
Great..another one.
Yes, they KNEW it was him. His internet account. His house. His phone. If it was a friend using his computer and his phone from his house, perhaps the prosecutor should have opened the door when the police knocked. Perhaps the prosecutor should have said, "hey, my friend Jon has been using my internet account at my house and my phone to pick up little kids" when the police made entry. Instead, the prosecutor told the police he wasn't going to hurt them and proceeded to put a bullet in his brain while the police were entering.
As for security on the computers...this was security beyond anything the experts at the computer crime lab were able to crack. They had to send it to the manufacturer. I don't care if the hard drives were blank, the guy was soliciting little boys on the internet for sex. He didn't deserve to die, but he did deserve a long and harsh punishment. The death penalty was his choice.
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I don't doubt it was him that made the calls. What I have issue with was all the conclusions people are drawing with almost no facts. And, the security went beyond what the "experts" at their little crime lab could deal with? I'm sure that little hick town had real CSI team trained in computer crime. I'd be willing to bet their experts were some geeks from the local best buy.
And why didn't he say it was a friend? Maybe he's not a snitch, maybe it was someone he cared about and was lost in a moment of confusion? Maybe, when he said, "I wasn't going to hurt them..." he was talking about the mass of cops that just raided his home and saw him waving his gun around. Why did he kill himself? We'll never know. Maybe he didn't want to deal with the bullshit. Once you get accused of something like that publicly, you're not coming back from it. His career was over no matter what. And, he could have thought there was just no recovering from it. Depression can make people do stupid things. Most people who kill themselves do it out of depression, not because they committed some crime they can't live with. I've known two people that killed themselves and both of them were fucking morons. They really had nothing to complain about all. Nice homes, nice families, good friends, nice jobs but in both cases they just got this idea in their heads that the problems they thought they had were just too great to overcome.
My point is, we don't know what happened. At least not yet. We only know what it looks like based on nothing more than a phone call and some emails. All of which, for all we really know could have been faked. Now realistically, it's a stretch, I won't deny it. But, seriously, I've been accused of shit I didn't do. Nothing like that of course but it ain't no fun and no matter what kinda proof I had that should have cleared my name to those involved, it didn't matter. In their shallow little eyes I was guilty, end of story. Everything was explained and backed up by fact. But, at the time, I sure did like guilty though. Everyone sounded like you, "Oh he did it, why did he do this and that, why didn't he just try and explain himself then and so on." Sometimes you can't for whatever reasons and it makes ya look guilty as hell. So, as for me, when it comes to proclaiming someone's guilt, it's gonna take a lot for me to believe anything, especially the DA's office and from the cops. They fuck up all the time. And, the only reason it doesn't come out more is because the poor fools getting charged with shit ain't got the money to properly defend themselves.
But, in the long run, I don?t really care. Like you, I think he did it. I think he?s totally guilty based on what I?ve heard. I just think it?s amazingly funny how fast people are to believe every little thing they?re told. I mean there is some doubt in my mind at this point but for the most part, I feel he?s totally guilty and the bullet to his head saved the tax payers a lot of money. However, I can?t help but wonder about a society that is so easily willing to hang the man out to dry with out any hard facts. And, a fact isn?t the kid on the phone who says, ?Yep that was the DA talking.? A fact would be a voice comparison by professionals. Now what he said before he killed himself is a fact as long as enough people confirm what he said. But, does it mean he was talking about the kids? Hell, for all we know he just got home and lost his temper on the road and flashed his gun at some asshole and his friends in a car that just cut him off. In the DA?s mind he?s thinking the cops showed up to arrest to him for that and he said, ?I wasn?t going to hurt them?. We don?t know for sure what was going through his mind at the time. The only thing we truly know that went through his mind was the bullet a few seconds later.
Any ways, I gotta get back to my site updates on my highly secured computers. It's been fun and I'll try to stop in later to see if ya responded. It's been fun. Thanks for the discussion.