Like seriously, why would ANYONE do something as cruel and inhumane as the four teenagers convicted in the Mont Vernon case? I have heard about this case before, but even now it still angers and saddens me at the same time. What causes someone to murder and kill in such a gruesome and terrible way? It is enough to strip someone of their life, but to do so in such a horrible manner is just unbelievable to me. Machete?! Are you KIDDING? What the heck are you doing with a machete in the first place. A woman, a mother, someone's sister, died at the hands of a terrible murderer. Her daughter had to endure very much the same pain, and also the trauma of watching her mother slaughtered before her own eyes. I don't think I could even imagine half the pain the two had to go through. It is just absolutely heart-breaking.
Something that is also a little uncomfortable is that the murderers were not creepy, middle aged men, but instead young boys the same age as us sitting in these very rooms! Killing just to kill, just for fun. I don't really know the whole story, but I vaguely remember that the boys literally just picked a random house to rob. No motive, no nothing. Just a random house. Think about that for a second; that house could have easily been yours or mine.
It's also extremely bizarre that this happened so close to home, yet not many of us heard about the murders until this very day. One of my friends who goes to Bishop Guertin, a private school in Nashua, knows Steven Spader and a couple of the murderers. She goes to school with one of their ex-girlfriends. When asking my friend about this whole fiasco, she told me that the girls are absolutely normal, but one of them came into school one day wearing a new necklace she claims her boyfriend bought for her. It later turned out that that very necklace, belonged to Kimberly Cates. While the name of this blogpost may not be the most appropriate, it is the only thing that could possibly explain what I'm thinking right at this second: WTF.
I was going to knock you for the title, but your final sentenced convinced me that it is a justified reaction. Your connection to the story is eery and certainly brings this horrific act a bit closer. Your ability to empathize with the victims is impressive and you articulate it well.
ReplyDeleteI know you posted this so long ago but I just came across it. OMG! I can't even believe that! That is the craziest most disturbing thing I've ever heard!
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