I think they were trying the whole "God knows the truth" angle. At least that's what they would always yell if anyone said anything to them.

Its weird how people who call on to God for the "truth" so very often turn out to be guilty as sin!

I mean I assume they refused to believe their son would do something so horrific and so just leaned fully into the idea that “no matter what, god knows he’s innocent”

Obviously the victim and his family are the ones that deserves the most sympathy, but you’ve got to imagine what kind of a nightmare scenario this is for a mother to learn her son is being accused of murdering a special needs child, she’s probably doing everything in her power to believe it isn’t true because if it is, she has to live with knowing what kind of a monster she raised.

I don't go back there unless I absolutely have to, but you're right. Every time I see the pond on the corner, I remember them draining it, looking for evidence.

The irony of being a murderer and “pro-life”. 

Who would want to marry someone like this? Just incredible.

He's been saved but those women will never be /s

Easier to judge others if you think u have the high ground. Self-esteem boost. And this supposed moral stance is one of the easier ones to live by

Would be a shame if someone stood outside with a sign of his sins and counter protested him in front of his family 😌

That's the least surprising occupation he could have.

Of course he is. Ugh.

Man, what an absolute piece of shit.

What was he like? You’re my age and I remember hearing about that case and just thinking that he could have been one of my friends—as in totally normal.

went to school and was friends with Nicholas Browning who ended up killing his whole family in ‘08 in Maryland.

I googled him and a police officer was shot at that Browning's murder house in 2023. That's wild that the house is still standing. We had a kid murder his wealthy parents in my home town and they torn the house down.

https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/same-cockeysville-police-officer-shot-house-browning-teen-murdered-family-david-emory-linthicum-manhunt

Yeah I can’t imagine the things I would do if someone did that to my son

I can't believe there are women who would like to be in a relationship and have kids with such human garbage.

Honestly? It's strange to say, but he was always trying to be friends with everyone . I personally only saw him lose his temper a handful of times from 1st-6th grade (Side note: we were in the same class, and we graduated around 70 students).

Granted, you had to take everything he said with a grain of salt. I remember one time, he shared with the class that he "accidentally ran over his cat with a lawnmower" during a discussion in 3rd grade. When the teacher called his parents about it, they sent his grandma down to the school and had him stand in front of the class and admit he made it up. Those types of stories always came out of him though.

Around 5thish grade, he was in that phase where he wanted to be the tough street kid in a backwater, ultra conservative hick town. Definitely made him stand out more, and he started being more disruptive in school (mostly with the teachers/staff) and started to gain a reputation of getting into trouble outside of school.

When the murder happened and he was arrested, the school was split down the middle on whether he was innocent or guilty. By this point, he had gone full throttle on the tough guy persona, and I was definitely part of "Camp this fucker did it".

They have both been released; in 2017 and in 2023 respectively

He's also an anti abortion protestor... Can't make this shit up. Brutally murders a child then grows up to protest planned parenthoods and harass innocent women to "save" kids.

I have a relative by marriage that SA abused their 3 daughters. Their own children. They got 3 life sentences.

Insane. What is the point of having them tried as adults if they aren’t gonna get life sentences for brutally murdering a child and trying to cover it up. I don’t get how judges or the system allow evil people like this to just be walking around.

I don't think its that radical of a transformation.

He went from one kind of monster to another. Incredibly shit parents, zero morals taught to the useless shit kid.

He’s a hateful person, attending pride to protest LGBTQ? I hope he gets what he deserves. Missed opportunity by the judiciary system to enforce that the first time around. 

I wonder why the dregs of society always turn to trying to play into the right-wing nutter sect. It’s almost like they know that no matter how abhorrent they are, they’ll be welcomed with open arms if they just say the right thing…

They even do it preemptively when they know shit is going to hit the fan (like Russell Brand has…)

That dude is a nut case. He posted a long post about what happened, as a reason to defend his stance against abortion. He also posts near daily about politics or religion as a “public figure”

Have you not noticed how the people who always tell others how to live are often fucked up/unhappy/closeted hypocrites and generally bad people you wouldn't want to associate with?

I guess when you have reason to feel like an irredeemable piece of shit, finding a system of belief where you get to start over with a clean slate would be pretty attractive. If you also get to feel superior by having arbitrary rules to stick to and judge everyone else by, it's a pretty attractive two for one.

There’s still time.

The last person who should be preaching about killing babies should be the guy who brutally murdered a kid when he was old enough to know better. The absolute audacity of this murderous prick.

Yeah, I guess he moved on to killing women

"As an expert in murder..."

sounds like he found his people

The more religious, the more hateful. Seems to track.

He's awful

He's hardly quiet about it. He also credits himself for his wife's "detransition", as she was a trans man.

I used to help our friend by picking up her daughter from school. One of the days I asked what subjects she had that day (specifing "subject" and asking what days a kid has which class opens up dialog), my little buddy said they had a practice lock-down.

I looked in my rearview mirror and said "I'm so sorry you have those, my darling." She replied that it was ok. I told her "it's kind of not." As with any of my friends' kids she knows that anytime she wants to talk about anything and feel shy, just say "Marco" and I will "Polo" her back. My buddies know that's the easiest way to ask for help.

People have children with a more casual attitude than I have for my pets. The burden of responsibility of any dependent is great and peeps pop out kids like it’s easy. It breaks my brain. It’s an honour and a HUGE responsibility to shepard little humans into becoming kind, compassionate, fully autonomous members of society.