Why did he do it that way???

[isabeau]

Ok the creep Couey was found guilty on all four charges..and now will be sentenced, beginning on tuesday..he faces possible death penalty...now my question is this...

why did he choose to bury her alive? why didn't he kill her beforehand? my husband says because he is an evil despicable thing..not even human, if you ask me..he raped her, he sexually molested a nine year old girl...what kept him from murdering her then and there? why did he carry her in two plastic bags and bury her alive? i don't understand this at all..

[isabeau]

never mind..i found the answer myself...gesh sometimes it does pay to google..now i wasted a whole thread..grr...anyway he said he couldn't bring himself to kill her with his own hands, that he panicked when the police came around..that he never intended to kill her at all..the defense states that he is mentally challenged and will bring up that fact during the penalty phase of the trial..

[hivoltage]

Isabeau!!!

Cross over to the cynical side and all will become clear.

People are savages! Well, mostly men - but I hear that the women of Generation Z (or whatever) are seriously trying to adopt some of the arrogance and cruelty of their male counterparts. There's a great development for humanity.

Seriously, I stopped being surprised by how cruel and twisted some men can be years ago.

[milagros317]

Personally, I think that Couey should be raped anally and then buried alive. But, then, my sense of justice has always been biblical.

[isabeau]

Personally, I think that Couey should be raped anally and then buried alive. But, then, my sense of justice has always been biblical.

i'm not a violent person..but i agree with you...the thing is, what kind of nonsense does he think he is spewing? saying he never intended to kill her? what was he planning anyway then? and they think he kept her in his bedroom for days..her prints are everywhere..

[Redmage]

My first guess was about what he turned out to have said: that he couldn't bring himself to kill her in cold blood.

Have you ever read the original version of "Snow White?" Seriously, bear with me here, and it'll tie in. In the original, the wicked Queen told one of her huntsmen to take the infant Snow White into the forest and kill her there. But when it came time to do the deed, the huntsman couldn't bring himself to actually kill an infant with his own hands. So he left her in the woods and went back to tell the Queen she was dead. Naturally she was found by some dwarfs, and the rest is history.

I'm sure the huntsman (or rather, the people for whom the story was made) knew that the chances of a baby surviving even one night in the woods like that was near zero. He knew that by leaving her that way he was almost certainly killing her. But almost isn't the same as surely. When he left her she was alive, and some small part of him was able to keep seeing her as alive even though if pushed to the wall he'd have to admit she had probably died there in the woods. The difference between seeing her alive in his mind's eye and seeing her dead with her blood on his hands was the small difference that let him sleep at night. It's a very human thing.

Now, there's another similar case that I admit I can't understand at all. About 30 years ago a man named Lawrence Singleton picked up a 15 year old girl hitchiking near Berkeley. He raped her, then used an axe to cut off both of her arms at the elbows and dumped her in a culvert near Modesto, where he expected her to die of her wounds. She did not, though. She survived to testify against him. Ironically, because she did not actually die, Singleton could be charged only with attempted murder instead of murder, and so he received a lighter sentence as a result.

To me, going that far and THEN leaving her to die is truly beyond understanding.