Three teens arrested in slaying of Marshall couple

Marshall Democrat-News ^ | Mark Lile

[MassRepublicanFlyersFan]

For a week, the killings of Richard “R.D.” and Jessie M. “Tiny” Shepard of Marshall have been described using words such as “violent,” “brutal” and “heinous.”

But a probable cause statement filed in Saline County Associate Circuit Court over the weekend in conjunction with the arrests of three suspects takes the shocking nature of the crime to a new level - alleging the murders were planned in advance by a 16-year-old juvenile in cooperation with the two suspects named over the weekend, Spencer Tromont Anderson, 18, and Lyndale Devor Henderson, 17; that the trio, all from Marshall, planned who would search which rooms of the Shepards' home and who would inflict which injuries on the elderly couple; and the suspects drove by the home the previous night to inspect it and get an idea of the layout.

[MassRepublicanFlyersFan]

$70.00?????

[piytar]

But don't even think about calling it a hate crime /spit

[MassRepublicanFlyersFan]

Has this been on the national TV news?

[Chickensoup]

No chance this was a hate crime, huh?

[happinesswithoutpeace]

"Has this been on the national TV news?"

This is the first I have heard of it. This is brutal. looks like that little killer is fessing up in the hopes of avoiding the death penalty.

[Lizavetta]

Perps on top, victims below.

[VeniVidiVici]

Meth. If anybody does bother to follow it, I bet it's meth.

[Niuhuru]

That poor couple. To think, if the perps had simply gotten a job, they could have made more than that.

[livius]

The slime that did this looks barely human. Truly disgusting.

[Tax-chick]

the two suspects named over the weekend, Spencer Tromont Anderson, 18, and Lyndale Devor Henderson, 17;

"Spencer" and "Lyndale" could be anybody, but "Tromont" and "Devor" give it away ...

[VOA]

Might be meth.
But...my folks in Columbia, MO say the local news is that this was a planned
job, so maybe not the work-product of meth junkies.

Yes, there is more than enough meth problems here in flyover country.

[Xenalyte]

When will parents learn that names like Tromont and Devor are tickets to the big house?

[Tax-chick]

:-).

"Names found only on police blotter."

[Valpal1]

Planned job of what? Murder for hire or just dumb junkies fantasizing their pathetic useless criminal lives are some how better because they "plan" their vicious acts.

Now they'll be getting 3 hots and cot for the next 15 yrs and released in their mid thirties to prey on society again.

[A knight without armor]

I bet at least one if not both will be out in less than 15 years. I'm very bitter on this. They might go to prison and then show up on some tv show with close ups of big tears going down their cheeks as they tell they horrible childhood stories. Diane Sawyer's face will be a mile long. I've seen that before.

[Turbopilot]

looks like that little killer is fessing up in the hopes of avoiding the death penalty.

According to the Supreme Court, the suspect is an innocent little child, and we can't execute him because Europe would disapprove.