Brother accused in killings of 5 sentenced to life
Source: News Sentinel
Brother accused in killings of 5 sentenced to life
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Wednesday, September 07, 2016 6:07 PM
TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- The older of two Oklahoma brothers accused of fatally stabbing their parents and three younger siblings last year was sentenced to life without parole Wednesday after pleading guilty in the killings.
The Tulsa World reports (http://bit.ly/2c5sxA8 ) that 19-year-old Robert Bever was sentenced in Tulsa County District Court after pleading guilty at his scheduled arraignment in the July 2015 killings.
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Bentz said at the hearing the teen told of a plan to kill their family, cut up the bodies, and store them in bins in the attic before heading west in the family SUV armed with guns, ammunition and makeshift bombs to randomly attack other locations and kill 10 people at each place.
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Gruesome details emerge in Broken Arrow quintuple homicide investigation Tuesday
Posted: 8:16 AM, Feb 23, 2016
Updated: 12:12 PM, Feb 24, 2016
Two Broken Arrow detectives took the stand in Tuesday's court appearance. The first detective, Chane Cothran, recalled the interview with the 13-year-old who survived.
She said her brothers were interested in mass killings for at least a year before the killings. She also recalled seeing knives and body armor on the bed of the boys the night of the killings.
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They had 2,000 rounds of ammo for the pistols and 250 rounds for the shot gun.
The brothers said they planned to steal a car from their parents and drive to populated places and kill 5 people everywhere they stopped. They wanted to kill as many people as possible.
http://www.kjrh.com/news/local-news/hearing-set-for-2-accused-of-killing-their-oklahoma-family
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Plea deal for life sentences allows older Bever brother to avoid death penalty for killing five family members
Posted: Wednesday, September 7, 2016 9:30 am
By Arianna Pickard World Staff Writer |
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"Ultimately the single most important factor in my decision to resolve this case centered upon the needs of the two surviving children who lost everything in their lives," Kunzweiler said in a statement. "Those children deserve to be able to move on with their lives as best they can without the continued torment of a trial and decades of appeals that a death penalty case would most likely bring."
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While going over the terms of his guilty plea, Ramsey told Holmes that the mental health medication Robert Bever is taking does not affect his ability to understand the court proceedings.
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The brothers' defense attorneys asked multiple questions at the preliminary hearing about the siblings’ isolation from people outside their immediate family, their lack of friends, their home schooling, and physical and verbal abuse in the home. A detective testified that the surviving sister had said her father would throw the children and verbally abuse them.
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/courts/older-bever-brother-sentenced-to-life-without-parole-in-killings/article_cef410f4-b545-5993-8400-b0b8f52dec16.html
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I'd bet anything that homeschooled kids kill far less than kids in public school per capita.
These boys are obviously sociopaths, and I'm pretty sure that if they are sociopaths due to lack of nurture (bonding), that happened before the age of kindergarten. 
