Spam King and Family Dead In Murder-Suicide

Lt.Hawkins was one of many readers sending in word that the escaped spam king discussed yesterday was found dead in Colorado, after apparently killing his wife and 3-year-old daughter. A teenager was injured, and an infant was found alive in the car.

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This quote says it all

[iamhigh]

"What a nightmare, and such a coward," U.S. Attorney Troy Eid said. "Davidson imposed the 'death penalty' on family members for his own crime."

Re:This quote says it all

[LordKaT]

Have you ever been in the "farm system" (as you so daintily put it)? Let me tell you what life is like behind the bars at the "farm system":

Dorm living with fully grown men. These "dorms" are sometimes the size of a gymnasium. A gymnasium full of grown men. Fully grown, under enormous stress, living in close quarters. Honestly, you'd have much less stress living in a car.

2 minute showers, enforced.

Scheduled bathroom times. Gotta shit? Hold it until shit time, which is usually at the start of the day and the end.

Forced labor. They don't even bother matching you up with work from your skillset. Too fat? Go work in the yard. Too stupid to know how to kill someone with a knife? Kitchen work.

This "farm system" isn't about rehabilitation, it's about "serving your time" and getting the fuck out.

That's not rehabilitation, it's life structure enforcement. Rehab means breaking a person down into their individual pieces, examining all of those pieces, finding out what's wrong, and then learning to live life with the knowledge that you have a problem.

A couple more details

[j_snare]

I saw another article that linked to this one http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_9985333 that had a couple of other details.

It sounds like they weren't just a big happy family...

Re:Coward.

[Dorkmaster Flek]

I know you were going for comedy points, but it's more a force of habit and generally accepted "curse phrase" by society than a religious affirmation.

Re:I understand running away from prison... but

[Goobermunch]

I can't believe a father would really kill his innocent little child.

This kind of murder-suicide is a relatively common experience (murder-suicides being highly uncommon events in the first place). Customarily, they are committed by Caucasian men. The shrinks and the profilers believe that this particular type of murder is an insidious relative of a "vanilla" suicide. The male figure feels shamed due to personal and professional failings and feels that he is unable to provide for his family. In a state of depression he determined to kill himself. However, the basis for the suicidal impulse is the fear of being unable to care for the family, a result guaranteed by the suicide. Therefore, the perpetrator, as "patriarch" decides to commit suicide for the entire family. That way, he can prevent them from dealing with the consequences of his failings and his suicide. These cases often appear in connection with financial failures.

--AC

Re:I understand running away from prison... but

[drinkypoo]

Yeah, keep in mind that IBM in Germany built the machines for managing the concentration camps, wrote the software, printed the punch cards, and even sent people on site to do service. The service contract payments went to IBM in New York, not to IBM Germany. Now, you can argue all day whether that means the IBM of today should be held responsible for that, or for that matter if the Krups of today should be held responsible for making gas chambers, but either way you just have to remember not to expect morality from a corporation.

Re:I understand running away from prison... but

[WhatAmIDoingHere]

"Mother Teresa liked making people suffer."

Fixed that for you.