Something is wrong with people! Man attacks mom, reads Bible to her as she dies

[qanda]

HOUTZDALE, Pa. -- A Clearfield County man beat and slashed his mother because he feared she would have him arrested for taking her computer, then read the Bible to her as he watched her die, state police said.

Jesse James Campbell told friends that he wanted to kill his mother, Cindy Jo Coleman, because she demanded that he return a computer he stole from her by 8 a.m. yesterday, police said.

Campbell went to his mother's home before the deadline, grabbed a five-pound plastic weight and hit Ms. Coleman repeatedly in the face with it, police said. He also choked his mother and then grabbed a steak knife and stabbed her, police said.

Mr. Campbell later told his girlfriend things "got messy" when he confronted his mother about the computer and that he read his mother the Bible as she lay dying, police said.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08074/865219-100.stm
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Is it just me or do these stories seem to get worse and worse?

[jus_the_facts]

1. Maybe Cindy Jo's first mistake was naming her son Jesse James....

:evilfrown:

[jus_the_facts]

2. dupe

:yoiks:

[islandmkl]

3. the old days of PCP and bad acid pale in comparison to the current 'states of the mind'...

if you become numb to violence, hunger, poverty, injustice, war, death, etc...

it is a short leap...

[Bluebear]

4. It is NOT just you, qanda, the world is getting crazier.

[littlebit]

5. It's not just you

That's just insane.

[politicaholic]

6. No, actually, this behavior is pretty consistent with humanity...

It might happen more because there are more people, but all in all, this kind of sick Shakespearian depravity is par for the course.

[malaise]

7. I prefer the good old days when murderers were just plain evil

These bible thumping killers scare me.

I know a young man who stole over a million from his employers and he's very upset that people think he's a thief. He told one of his co-workers that Jesus will forgive him. He has no understanding of what he did and still believes he's a good person.

[troubleinwinter]

8. "do these stories seem to get worse and worse?" No.

They always have happened and always will. The difference you see is that they used to be largely only reported in local newspapers. Now we have the internet. Your link was to an online reporting of it. From a state where you do not reside. It may "seem" that these occurrences are more common, but you are just more able to access these stories wherever they take place. In 1951, you would never have known of it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Bingo, give the man a cigar

also local, at best regional stories, are now part of the bread and circus

[qanda]

10. I no longer reside in PA, but that's where I was born and raised

I still call Pittsburgh my home because that's where the majority of family and friends reside. I read that newspaper as much as my local paper because it is more familiar to me. I understand your point but wanted to clarify why I read Pittsburgh newspapers.

[troubleinwinter]

11. You read it online. You do not pick it up from your lawn each morning.

[qanda]

13. I guess I'm missing what I said that disputed that fact.

I was simply clarifying why my profile has one state and I was posting an article from a different state. :shrug:

[JoePhilly]

12. Never name your kid Jesse James .... nt

[devilgrrl]

15. Oh, I know, wtf? I'm going to name my child Charles Manson.

May as well right?

:crazy:

[JBoy]

14. Guy stabs his mother, then recounts that things"got messy"

At least he's accurate in his description.