Posted on 07/12/2009 3:14:49 PM PDT by STARWISE
Authorities have made an arrest in the killings of a Gulf Coast couple known for adopting special-needs children, a sheriff's spokesman said Sunday. Byrd and Melanie Billings are seen surrounded by their children.
Investigators announced Saturday night that two people were being questioned in the killings of Byrd and Melanie Billings, who were found dead in their Beulah, Florida, home Thursday night. Sgt. Ted Roy, a spokesman for the Escambia County Sheriff's Office, told CNN that one person had been arrested Sunday afternoon.
Eight children found in the Billings home were unharmed and were being cared for by relatives at "an undisclosed location," Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan said Saturday night. They range in age from infancy to 11 years, police said.
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~~Please pray for this suffering family. God
be with them, and rest the souls of their
dear parents.
Deranged Amish hoodlums,no doubt.
I heard the perps were white. Kinda like the two killers in the slayings of that family of the Connecticut doctor a few years back (where he didn’t have a gun and failed in his use of a baseball hat to fight them off.)
I read someplace that this couple owned several businesses, including some sort of finance company....my guess is some sort of dispute.
Strange they’re not releasing any names. I wonder if they are minors?
Prayers for those children, and the souls of their parents.
If that van was only there for 5 minutes it was an assasination. Maybe a plot by a business partner or even eldest children?
It sure is strange and tragic.
Man accused of evidence tampering in couple’s slaying
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A Florida man has been arrested on evidence-tampering charges in connection to the killings of a Gulf Coast couple known for adopting special-needs children, a case that has become increasingly “multifaceted,” authorities said Sunday.
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Leonard Patrick Gonzalez Sr., 56, is accused of trying to modify a van that surveillance cameras captured leaving the slain couple’s home, Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan told reporters.
He is the first person arrested in connection with the Thursday night shooting deaths of Byrd and Melanie Billings, “hopefully with many to follow,” Morgan said.
Morgan called the investigation “a humdinger” that has become “a window into something bigger,” with multiple motives and players involved. But he would provide no details.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/12/florida.couple.slain
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Humdinger ... something bigger afoot ..
wow
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