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Spam King and Family Dead In Murder-Suicide

Posted by kdawson on from the coming-to-a-bad-end dept.

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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  1. This quote says it all by iamhigh · · Score: 5, Informative

    "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."

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    No comprende? Let me type that a little slower for you...
    1. Re:This quote says it all by LordKaT · · Score: 5, Informative

      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.

  2. A couple more details by j_snare · · Score: 4, Informative

    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...

  3. Re:I understand running away from prison... but by Goobermunch · · Score: 5, Informative

    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