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Cameras captured 'chilling' break-in at Fla. home
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Posted on 07/13/2009 9:01:41 PM PDT by Sir Gawain

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - Byrd and Melanie Billings had a growing brood of adopted children with autism, Down syndrome and other disabilities, and took care to make their nine-bedroom house a safe place for them, wiring it with surveillance cameras in every room.

It was those cameras that captured images of the masked men who shot the wealthy couple to death in a break-in executed with chilling precision.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.myway.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: adoption; autism; billings; breakin; crime; downsyndrome; fl; law; massacre; murder; penal; pensacola; punishment

1 posted on 07/13/2009 9:01:41 PM PDT by Sir Gawain
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To: Sir Gawain
I see similarities to the Sean Taylor murder.

These victims possibly helped these meth-head lowlifes out in someway but the lowlifes were so awestruck by the central airconditioning and wall to wall carpeting that they tried to outdo each other with tales of the fabulous money and treasure piled up for the taking inside that home.

2 posted on 07/13/2009 9:05:28 PM PDT by fso301
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To: Sir Gawain

So it was one of those “hopey changey” class warfare things the DemocRATS are always pimping? If not, I want to know WHY? This was so senseless.


3 posted on 07/13/2009 9:05:51 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Hey America! How's that "hope and change" thing working out?)
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To: Sir Gawain

This is a very tragic siutation.

“Some of the nine children in the house at the time were sleeping, but several others saw the break-in, authorities said. One left the house and went to get a neighbor, who called 911.”


4 posted on 07/13/2009 9:10:50 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: Sir Gawain
Day laborer ?????????

What the heck is going on in this country when good people like this are murdered in their own home minding their own business? A wealthy couple in SoCal were both stabbed to death, by an intruder who entered from the beach, in front of their two children -- the mother was pregnant... and a couple of weeks later another woman in a nearby beach community was murdered in the same manner while her parents slept in a room nearby... in this case I don't think they have caught whoever did this.. in that case (according to Nancy Grace Show) the guy was wearing a motocycle helmet... there was a time when you were safe at home, no more.

5 posted on 07/13/2009 9:11:11 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Arizona Carolyn

I pray that I have enough time between the loud noise/crash/breaking window and grabbing my 12ga....

FILL EM WITH LEAD!


6 posted on 07/13/2009 9:22:44 PM PDT by bicyclerepair (Thank you Mr. Robinson)
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To: Arizona Carolyn

What? Don’t you appreciate how much better the children of this nation have become, since the legality of abortion, the sexual revolution, schools started to concentrate on children’s selfesteem instead of their accomplishments; morals and ethics have been removed from society as virtues; prayer and Bibles banned from schools; and historical documents censored to exclude all referrences to the religious ideals of our forefathers?


7 posted on 07/13/2009 9:33:26 PM PDT by tuckrdout ("Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Arizona Carolyn

Unemployment going up, half of the population on drugs, no religious and moral pinning, you will get barbaric home break ins like South America. Wait till you have day time kidnapping added to the mix against upper middle class families. Liberal and libertarian values suddenly unemployed and cannot support their recreational drug habits (addiction, withdraw still happens if drugs are legalized or not). It is going to get ugly before it gets better. My recommendation is upper middle class people living in rural suburbs or quiet bungalows, form nightwatches that keep tabs on who drives into the neighborhood and determine if they have business there or not. Home invasions typically occur very early in the morning or late at night. If someone intends to break into an occupied home, murder and torture are on the agenda. Life in America is going back to the days of the frontier. Brush up on frontier common sense if one wants to survive the future. Best places to live in is small towns where the homes are close together. That way a neighbor can hear each other scream if something happens. Huge MacMansions on one acre lots, good luck if something happens to you. No one is going to hear anything and they will find out after they find your massacred family in basement.


8 posted on 07/13/2009 9:37:58 PM PDT by Fee (Peace, prosperity, jobs and common sense)
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Damn, this is just a hard story to read. I’m so disgusted..again.


9 posted on 07/13/2009 9:48:14 PM PDT by catbertz
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To: Sir Gawain

Death penalty for all involved in any way, shape, or form for those murders.

Last I saw, the authorities think that there were 8 involved all told.

Fry them all.


10 posted on 07/13/2009 9:57:44 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: bicyclerepair

With all the police departments cutting back it will be everyone for themselves.


11 posted on 07/13/2009 10:09:09 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Sir Gawain

What a sad story. Glad to hear Melanie’s daughter plans to continue on in their place.


12 posted on 07/13/2009 10:09:59 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (ABC-AP-MSNBC-All Obama, All the time.)
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To: Sir Gawain

The murder rate this decade is so low that you have to go back to the mid 1960s to see it this low.


13 posted on 07/13/2009 10:20:30 PM PDT by ansel12 (Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
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To: bicyclerepair

i have 4 dogs just for that reason


14 posted on 07/13/2009 11:02:28 PM PDT by genxer
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To: Fee
Very tragic situation for that unfortunate family.
Your insights on criminal behavior make complete sense.

15 posted on 07/14/2009 12:12:20 AM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: Fee

I agree. Does anyone know why the feds are involved?


16 posted on 07/14/2009 4:47:34 AM PDT by Valentine_W
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