We've been working with investigative reporter Stephen Janis and former homicide detective Stephen Tabeling on another installment of our continuing televisual dialog on crime called "Why Do We Kill?" viewable herehttp://bit.ly/1bfmyi2.
In this episode you'll get a detailed and chilling recounting of the circumstances, evidence, and harrowing details of crimes that confound the normal explanations for violent crime. It's a riveting tale of two inexplicable acts of violence.
On May 3, 2008, a star lacrosse play and honor student living in Cockeysville, Maryland named Nicholas Browning took a break from playing video games at a friend's house, walked home, picked up his father's gun, and shot his entire family as they slept.
Several weeks later just miles from the Browning residence another promising young man inexplicably turned to murder.
A 17-year old star athlete, Lewin Powell, picked up a bat during the dispute with his mother and beat her to death. But Powell wasn't done, later attacking his father while he slept, fracturing his skull in two places before the bewildered parent could subdue him.
Neither boy came from troubled homes or suffered from mental illness. In fact, they were both leading exemplary lives.
I'm encouraging a dialog about these heinous acts for the same reason I continue to advocate for your right to know about crime in your community. I firmly believe that transparency about crime draws on the most powerful tool for preventing it: the wisdom and knowledge of the people. Share your comments at our Baltimore True Crime Facebook page here http://on.fb.me/1bfna7j.
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6 comments:
Well I remember one in Salisbury Md in the 70's that has never been solved. My husband and I had a neighbor that lived on Jackson St. Salisbury. He left to get a mother's day present for his mother and afterwards stopped at the city park to walk his dog on the way home. He never made in home someone in the city park bashed his head in and Richard Greene never came out of his coma, the police found him later that day. He never spoke or had any memory ever until he died years later. I wish someone would put this on the areas unsolved crimes because I will never forget this sweet wonderful human being and how his family died never getting answers.
Putting dialogue aside,the criminal justice system works in a completely opposite manner.In the real world a crime is committed before any action is taken.There is no preventive maintenance.Don't fix it until it breaks is the policy in all forms of government.That being said,how can we be expected to report anything just because we think a problem may eventually surface?
Concealed carry would be good preventative maintenance!
Ever see the movie Minority Report? They arrested murderers before they committed the crime!
Hollywood simplifies everything.
@5:48 at the end it didn't work!
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