Regardless of the outcome of the legal proceedings against these two, there has to be a special place in Hell already all made up for them when they arrive. On Christmas Eve, a family daughter and her boyfriend gunned down three generations of the woman's family, including children aged 3 and 6 years.
Twice wounded, her husband and his parents already gunned down, Erica Anderson huddled with her children and pleaded with Joseph McEnroe to spare their lives.
"You don't have to do this."
But her pleas prompted no mercy. McEnroe apologized before telling his victims, "Yes, we do."
Then he fired the last blasts in a Christmas Eve shooting spree that killed three generations of a family in a rural Carnation home.
He shot Anderson a final time, then turned a .357 revolver on 6-year-old Olivia and 3-year-old Nathan.
The final, frantic moments of the lives of six people were outlined Friday in murder charges filed against McEnroe, 29, a Target clerk, and his unemployed girlfriend, Michele Anderson, also 29.
The defendants are in the King County Jail with bail denied, accused of killing Michele's parents, her brother, his wife and their two children.
Each faces six counts of aggravated first-degree murder — the only crime punishable by death in Washington. King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg has 30 days from the couple's scheduled Jan. 9 arraignment to decide whether to pursue capital punishment. The only other sentencing option under the law for the crimes upon conviction is life imprisonment without release.
"Given the magnitude of this crime, I pledge to give this case serious consideration for the state's ultimate penalty," Satterberg said.
Monsters exist, they just aren't the kind fiction writers like Stephen King come up with routinely. Cases like this are why there should be a death penalty. The reasons the daughter wanted her family dead are so trivial as to defy belief. The family was "stepping on" the daughter. So we have self-esteem issues leading to the brutal murder of an entire family. Including little kids.
There really are monsters.
The family was “stepping on” the daughter?
from the news/vid I saw, she’s a 29 year old, unemployed, 300 lb toad. I BET they had some criticism. Plus, you know how oppressive 3 and 6 yr olds can be…. always keeping us down
The reasons the daughter wanted her family dead are so trivial as to defy belief. The family was “stepping on” the daughter. So we have self-esteem issues leading to the brutal murder of an entire family.
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Oh, but WAIT … Therein lies the defense for the liberal lawyer that will ride to this “woman’s” rescue. ALWAYS make the perp the victim … The real victims are just so much complicated courtroom fodder that will need to be hung out to dry for the jury to see all their failings and crimes against this poor, misunderstood, and underloved woman.
Even if you are so far out there as to believe that her excuse justifies this, what’s HIS excuse? These two are a good justification for retro-active abortion!
Search the trailer they lived in for Crystal Meth. Its known to destroy all moral behavior and create a monster. ( aptly titled )
From later in the story, the really monstrous part:
In general I oppose the death penalty, but cases like this are why I hesitate to eliminate it. How can people like this possibly _ever_ be allowed back into society? It just makes me sick.
The death penalty is for living survivors. It is so the survivors and their kin don’t need to show up 10 years later and educate a clueless judge about how heinous a crime was that was committed against their loved ones.
It also stops Hollywood from making a movie about some spectacular murderer and gaining public support to let them free. Improve DNA but kill the guilty, and do it quickly.
(Puget Sound resident here) Is it too late to bring back drawing and quartering? How about the Saddam treatment in Westlake Center?
Seriously, while some of the Seattle and Olympia leftists will surely try to play the victim card, I don’t sense much sympathy (putting it mildly) for these two pieces of crud out here in the ‘burbs or for that matter in the local press.
Satterberg is new as King Cty (Seattle) DA (after the sudden death of the previous long-time incumbent, Norm Maleng). Given the details that are starting to come out in the police reports, he better have really good reason for passing on the death penalty or he’s likely to have a firestorm on his hands. That said, even if he goes for the DP and gets it, the track record in Washington for having the DP carried out isn’t good if the defendants put up any defense at all.