February 05, 2006

It was bound to happen Speaking coherently and politely, Wycoff said Friday that he was upset with the "liberal" political views of his sister and her husband[...] "I was just getting fed up with the life she was leading," he said. "I was appalled with what my sister and brother-in-law did." [via Creek Running North]
posted by the_bone 18 years ago
  • Wycoff said he went to a Coldplay concert... How many more, Chris Martin, how many more?!? Lame jaded hipster posturing aside, I think he probably just didn't want to seem like your average, pettily-motivated killer: ...Wycoff would get the house and his sister would get [Their dead father's] financial assets. However, he said his sister started asking Wycoff to pay her each month for the house... He said he also was upset that his sister moved their great-aunt into a nursing home and began taking control of her assets. It's all about the assets, baby.
  • That......was weird.
  • I would be a bit more concerned about the recent Massachusetts murder than I would these murders. I don't think that these murders seem particularly motivated by politics. Surely, the guy knows more powerful liberals or liberals that he sees more than once or twice a year.
  • Yeah, I think he means "liberal" as in "liberally spending the inheritance instead of sharing it with me."
  • It has to be restated: "I thought it could be a bit of an alibi," he said. "It seems like somebody who goes to a Coldplay concert wouldn't do this."
  • Actually, I apologize for any snark. This is terribly sad. And I agree, it almost was bound to happen.
  • On the contrary: if you can go to a Coldplay concert, you are capable of just about anything. This comment alone could get him an ironclad insanity defense. (i kid, but I know it's all the rage now to diss Coldplay)
  • And this guy is COLD.
  • ....and how.
  • He's just your common-or-garden psychopath. Nothing unusual here, except his stupidity. Usually psychos are smarter.
  • Like that Hannibal Lecturer, from the A-Team! Man, I loved that show. Clarice was all like "yo, tell me where the bad guy is and I'll fall in love with you" - but Sgt. B.A. Baracus was all like, "I pity the fool who kills cereal, fool!". Then everyone rode off on elephants and attacked Rome! Take that, "the Senate" - you all my bitches now! I love it when a plan comes together.
  • Speaking of common-or-garden loonies...
  • Face-man! We have thirteen seconds to construct a bazooka out of these pipe cleaners and some tacks. Hurry up - if we can't save this poor girl's country music career by 12-midnight, then Dad is going to lose the ranch to Tiberius!
  • I like Tiberius. I think moving to Capri was a tasteful measure.
  • It's the Emmy awards! With your host - Tyne Dailey!!
  • What is creepy to me is that, from the article anyway, he seems to be nonchalant about it all, feels that he made the world a better place, and is rather miffed, though not outright upset, that things didn't quite go as planned. Is it all right to wish this guy only the worst?
  • whether dealing with relatives or garden variety kooks I always insist on being the one who gets to cook the books I take this task quite seriously I never crack a smile nor joke for my artistry lies in casuitry and I like to go for barooque when I spend all the loot on me
  • So... does this qualify as a hate crime?
  • ))) Bees! I think Quid's on the jazz...
  • I don't get the term "hate crime". I mean, any time you attack/maim/kill someone, isn't it a hate crime?
  • So... does this qualify as a hate crime?
    My knowledge of law sucks, but I would hazard a guess of no as the crime doesn't involve the victims' religion, nationality/race, or sexual/gender identity as motivating factors. Laura: no.
  • Er, make that "Lara" not "Laura". Sorry.
  • the crime doesn't involve the victims' religion, nationality/race, or sexual/gender identity as motivating factors. mmmm, the victim's politics? If so, Bush is guilty of hate crimes **gunshot** The penalty for bringing politics into the thread **BlueHorse drops in her tracks**
  • Clean that up, horsey.
  • Maybe they want to go back and look at the other sister who died from "a siezure in the bathtub that no-one witnessed." Perhaps she was too liberal, as well.
  • Despite what the FPP claims, the linked article doesn't play out the "killed for political views" angle. It was more about the father's inheritance.
  • Well, he's come by it honestly. Phil Graham, (R)-Tex once claimed the Republicans wouldn't stop until they were "hunting Democrats like dogs", so maybe this is just the precursor.
  • I mean, any time you attack/maim/kill someone, isn't it a hate crime? Not if you do it for money.
  • Quid: the plan, I'm sorry to say, didn't come together. Hannibal just took 30 years to get home.
  • And Tiberius got the ranch.
  • Some people have killed gay men who made passes at them and been acquitted, or at least given lesser sentences, because of "gay panic." So why not "liberal panic"? Then too, remember Valerie Solanas? (I think Tiberius ate too many minnows.)
  • Hic jacet "the plan" (afterwards deified).
  • the quidnunc kid wrote: "I love it when a plan comes together." Quid, you're my hero. That was perfect.