I went to school with a few idiots who chose similar paths. Two of them robbed and beat a man and his young daughter with a club. One is locked up and I believe one of them died. The other asshole is still in for the murder of an infant and at least one other crime that really doesn’t need repeating. Only one of them seemed to have issues starting around adolescence. As far as I’m concerned, you can weld the cell door shut.
I’m sure they all started out as innocent young boys and had friends and loved ones who cared a lot about them, and yes it sucks to hear about childhood friends who went on to do horrible things. But I’ll let the man upstairs forgive them. I can’t.

Hopefully he stays right where he is.

I have a good friend that served time in federal prison then got deported out of the country once he got out. The federal judge that sentenced him, kept tabs on him and even wrote a recommendation for him as he has seen that he has changed for the better for the years while in prison and asked for him not to be deported. However he still got deported. I keep in touch with him using Facebook. People do change for the better. My friend started a new family and has changed for the better as he is more now of taking care of his new family and making sure his children grow up not like him. I pray your friend does the same. God Bless !!!

I joined the service after HS and was gone from my hometown for 5 years. About a year after discharge, I got hired on as a cop in that same hometown. And started right in arresting my former HS classmates and neighborhood friends. My own brother wound up in prison, too. And later in my career, several in-laws were jailed. Drugs and alcohol were ravaging them. The experience of watching what were once my peers (or HS in crowd types) was saddening for me. I saw so much wasted promise.
Some of them died by various means. Some of them just seemed content to live in poverty, squalor or jail. Very few of the troubled ones ever regained themselves. Maybe the OPs friend can.
This is one of many police fun facts they dont mention in your academy class. And a big reason why I dont attend my HS reunions.

Let him rot in prison.
That family is still suffering their loss.

A murder committed in the heat of passion can be rehabilitated. First-degree murder? There's no coming back from that. If I were on the parole board I'd vote no.

I'm sorry you lost your early childhood friend, Black. Who knows why some people take the paths they take?

I have had a few friends who later turned out to be no good. It happens all the time. God can forgive him for his part in the murder if he repents but he also needs to be punished by law. It seems our legal system fails us all the time and those who commit murders it seems, get a slap on the wrist. A life was taken and just because someone had pity on the parole board, does not mean justice was served and he did his time.

I went to high school with Leslie Van Houten.
Group of us would eat lunch together with her.


PC

I have no idea who that is?

He was sentenced. Like it or not. Now the process begin's for him to be released at some point.

Hopefully he has remorse and can try to make amends in the future if released.

I feel like many of you. He should continue to pay for what he did.

quote:

Originally posted by patw:
...God can forgive him for his part in the murder if he repents but he also needs to be punished by law...

Couldn't agree more. God doesn't forgive unconditionally. Repentance is a requirement.

Leslie Van Houten is a convicted murderer member of the Manson Family.

Damn I live in Finneytown and had no idea about this. It happened long before I moved here. There's no longer a Taco Bell on that corner. I wonder if this is part of the reason why.

Had a somewhat similar incident happen close to here in 1996. A 17 year old kid accidentally rear ended a car with five drunken thugs at a stop light in town. I believe this was late morning or early afternoon and these guys were black out drunk already. The thugs got out and beat the kid. Threw him in their car and drove him around several hours before finally driving him out to the reservation and executing him.

Gives senseless a new meaning. These guys are all in for life now. But they were held in the local county jail just a few miles down the road. I knew some of the deputies and my daughters boyfriend at the time was a jailer there. They all said these guys were the most remorseless pieces of shit God ever allowed on the planet. They would sit in their cells and laugh their asses off about what they did and how. They would recount the story and just laugh about how the kid begged to be let go and they could have anything they wanted. The biggest punishment to them was experiencing alcohol withdrawal.

Some people just don't deserve to draw a breath after awhile and these guys don't. This Mcgee sounds like he's cut from the same cloth.

quote:

Originally posted by Jester814:
Damn I live in Finneytown and had no idea about this. It happened long before I moved here. There's no longer a Taco Bell on that corner. I wonder if this is part of the reason why.

Finneytown is where is grew up. It has changed quite a bit.
That Taco Bell was a Zantigo long before Taco Bell was a thing in Cincinnati.
Zantigo was far better too.
Spent many hours at the LaRosa’s and Graeter’s in the shopping center on that corner.

I also grew up with a kid that was fun to hang around, funny, a jokester and just seemed like a nice guy. Turned out him and a friend murdered a 15 year old girl. His wife turned him in after they got divorced. Apparently, he took his then wife with him to move the bones for some reason.

It seemed so uncharacteristic. I suppose you just don’t know how dark someone is inside.