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Tavares, Florida a couple, ages 60 and 59, attempted to have their 10 year old granddaughter, two step grandchildren, ages 14 and 16, their daughter-in-law and the family dog killed by a hit man. The family dog sort of throws me off, but hey, so does putting a hit on someone, especially when it is grandpa and grandma. The grandparents offered $100 to an undercover sheriff’s deputy to kill the family. They said that they would pay more once the family was dead.
The reason that the grandparents put a hit on their daughter-in-law and grandchildren is because their 31 year old son is in jail on 22 charges of sexual battery on a child, lewd and lascivious molestation and showing obscene material to a minor. The son has been in jail since November.
It turns out that the daughter and stepdaughter are the victims. The son solicited someone in jail to kill his family and the person in jail told detectives, who then set up his parents with a fake hit man (the undercover sheriff’s deputy).
The part that is weird is that the under cover deputy said, ‘you want me to kill everyone, including the dog?’ and they agreed. Why would they want to take out the dog? It’s not like the dog can speak out or testify against them. Do you pay a hit man extra to take out the family dog?
When I did jury duty last summer, I had to take part in a similar trial. The grandparents were crazy and would do anything to protect their son, who was molesting his daughter since she was four. It must be hard to believe that your own son would do such a thing and many parents will do what they must to protect their kid. Apparently, in this story, these parents wanted to take out the whole family in order to protect their son. What’s that saying - the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree? In this case, the saying seems to be true. This story reminded me so much of that trial.
Story:
http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0001/20060602/1134835231.htm
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