CRIME BEAT: COP KILLED BY KNIFE-WIELDING SON

Peter and son Paul & his pals.

In this episode Crime Beat focuses on an emerging phenomenon in America: maladjusted inter-racial children. In a sense this has been a “closet” phenomenon which has been at work in the Afican American community, where such children were most likely to be found. This statement is in no way meant to release the non-African American partners in this growing occurrence from contributory guilt. It merely recognizes that the African Anerican community has been embracive toward its “children of many colors.”

 As the ruling establishment in America has premeditatively set forth to change the demographics in America, so that America reflected a minature global demography, usually under the banners of “humanity” and “diversity,” the population began to reflect their design. Further, as educator tried to impose the conceptual vacuity that all are equal, selectivity began to veer from tradition to the “modern, new America.”

Therefore, crime in America began to shift to reflect this reality. If people are identifiably distinct on the outside, it is folly to suppose that the difference(s) are not also found on the inside. This becomes most important in regard to brain configuration, as this will have an effect upon perception. Hormonal levels may differ, also. There are other factors that affect behavior. The most important ones are genetic.

As the Most High of the Holy Scriptures stated through his prophet Amos: If we do not think alike, can we long walk together?

Let us then proceed with the issue at hand. As a preface, let me advised those who are new to Crime Beat that this blog tries to “keep the faith” with the old crime magazines that once were very plentiful at newsstands. As with such magazines, we try to bring interesting cases to our readers, which will thrill, chill, and educate in the unfolding tale. We think that such reading improves the readers, who will be better citizens for having encountered vicariously the moment of terror. Consider our case at hand:

Urbana, Illinois._Peter McLaughlin, 45, was a police officer at Parkland College. He had been married to a Filipino woman. They divorced, and she moved back to the Philippines with their daughter. The son, Paul, 20, remained with the father.

The pair did not get along, and Paul hung out with blacks. Peter threatened to kick him out of the house. Paul met with Phillip Harris, 16, and C.J. Tucker, 15. They plotted to kill the father. Paul called him down to the basement. Harris later confessed that they beat him with his own police baton, while he pled for his life. Paul then grabbed a knife and brutally stabbed his father 19 times. They hid the body in a crawl space under the house.

The prosecutor said that they usually ask for a sentence of 20 to 60 years but will go for 100 years, due to the “heinous” nature of this case.      [THE TRUTH AT LAST, Issue #454]

Although some may infer that in such cases, “Keep the daughter!” is the lesson, at Crime Beat we believe that a larger inference, consistent with God and tradition, is the best one.

Downnlaced, 2008.

CRIME BEAT: “I WAS IN A KILLING MOOD.”

In this episode of Crime Beat we jouney to MoTown, which is no stranger to violence. It is a chilling tale. For those of you not familiar with Crime Beat this is a blog that was inspired by the old crime magazines which once were so common at newsstands. They colorfully but factually related a “crime story” which was meant to instruct, entertain, chill and sometimes create a reader-participation event, as a crime tale had not been solved. Can the readers help? they inquired. Appropriate police contacts were given, should anyone know something not disclosed in the story.

Help!

In so many ways, this one word catches the thoughts of the victims, of the police, and of the surviving family members. To protect each of us, we must stand together. Consider:

Detroit._Eric Marshall, 23, was angry because a prostitute told him she would not have sex with him, regardless of how much money he offered. He drove away but was stopped by officers Jennifer Fatigue and Matthew Bowens.

Marshall got out of his car on Michigan St., and shot both dead. It took the jury only 90 minutes to convict. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Unfortunately, there is no death sentence in Michigan.

The Michigan establishment doesn’t want the state to have the same sort of powers commonly wielded by hoodlums. “That’s archaic,” they groan. “Worse, it’s Biblical! It violates the separation of “church and state!” Will we read of the angry, immature Eric Marshall receiving a commutation of his sentence by the governor in 15 years? Time will tell.

It is not uncommon for Negroes to murder a totally innocent person in their rage over an incident with a third party. A term they have used to describe this in a number of cases is: “I was in a killing mood!”     [THE TRUTH AT LAST, Issue 454]

The editor of Crime Beat can confirm reading this expression in reports of murders committed by members of this minority, but our view is that, however commonly it may be felt, it is only expressed in relatively few cases. One thing most of us can agree on in regard to this case is that, just because a prostitute tells a would-be customer, “No way, Jose,” does not create a justifiable pretext for muder.

Downnlaced, 2008.

CRIME BEAT: SHE WAS WHITE; SHE HAD TO DIE!

In this episode Crime Beat focuses on a “hate crime” that the judicial establishment does not usually recognize as such, as the victim does not fall into the usual ”victim of hate crime” criteria. For those new to Crime Beat, this is a blog inspired by the old crime magazines that used to be commonly available at newsstands. These magazines took interesting crime events, rewrote them into crime scenarios based on the known facts provided by official police reports, and how the crime was solved. Of course, sometimes unsolved crimes were featured, inviting the public to help the police investigators, if they knew anything at all beyond what they read in the magazine account. Police officers regularly appeared in these stories to add their official insights. All in all, these magazines offered a crime-solving read, as well as “reader participation” in the common goal of “law and order.” Of course, in those days the “law and order” promoted was traditional.

In our featured story today the reader is invited to experience a normal human crossing the path of an abnormal one. The victim - in some sense – is anyone of you. She was at the wrong place at the wrong time. Consider:

Westchester County, N.Y._ Mrs. Concetta Carriero, 56, a legal secretary, drove to a nearby mall. As she got out of the car, Phillip Grant, 43, grabbed her. In broad daylight he stabbed her twice in the chest.

In court Grant confessed, telling the judge:

“There’s a lot of White people who need to die. I was thinking that the first person I see this morning that looks White, I’m killing them. Being blonde-haired and blue-eyed, she had to die. My only regret is that I didn’t have the means to kill more.”

Grant had recently been released from prison after serving 24 years for raping three women and trying to kill one with a pitchfork. New York does not enforce the death penalty and thus Grant now faces 20-yrs. to life. He will one day no doubt be released – to kill again!     [THE TRUTH AT LAST, Issue No. 454]

At a Westchester County mall, Mrs. Carriero was blonde and blue-eyed – a formula to die for. This is the sort of portentous story that the old Crime magazines so often featured. Crime Beat will also serve up such tales from the huge archive of crimes – some fresh, some dusty, all food for thought. These are tales from the Archives of Horror, and they are not for the faint of heart.

Downnlaced, 2008.