Six people found slain in Deltona home

[Steve Graham]

they dont deserve court appointed attorneys. imagine being the poor bastard having to defend these pieces of shite?

[clintlove]

Re:: Six people found slain in Deltona home

That's fucked up.

[BeatMonkey]

what the hell is wrong with people these days? everyone just needs to smoke a bowl and chill the fuck out.

on a lighter note, i can see the microsoft commercial now. "xbox! so good, you'll kill for it."

[Steve Graham]

so this son of a bitch was arrested on a probation viloation 8 days or so before the killings? and they let him go, after he has been in jail 8 of the past 11 years? This story just makes me sad

[tiddles]

americans get so upset when some gets their head chopped off in Iraq....and there's shit like this happening in our own yard
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terrible

[progressive420]

these people got killed over a fucking xbox from what i read somewhere. thats stupid, kill 6 fucking people and a dog over a damn xbox. i hope the idiots that killed a whole family for an xbox a taken out and burned alive.

[Steve Graham]

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pieces of shit.. should be fucking dead!

[chuckc]

Re:: Six people found slain in Deltona home

I wish we had something in our justice system where we could bypass all the legal mumbo jumbo and just kill these muther fuckers....imediatly....they should be killed in a worse way than they killed there victims (if that is even possible)

They dont deserve to live....

[peloquin]

^ i agree, and im normally kinda off/on about the death penalty

[cwsiggy]

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I'm pretty sure that Florida has the death penalty!! Thank goodness. The sad thing is that their executions will be appealed for many many years.........

[Steve Graham]

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I'm pretty sure that Florida has the death penalty!! Thank goodness. The sad thing is that their executions will be appealed for many many years.........

Yes it does.. ole' sparky is less than two hours away from Tampa in Starke, Fl.

[FM]

looks like someone f'd up...

Four state employees fired for handling of Florida murder suspect
8/9/2004, 11:00 p.m. ET
By MIKE SCHNEIDER
The Associated Press

DELAND, Fla. (AP) ? The state fired a probation officer and three supervisors Monday for their handling of an ex-convict who is the lead figure in the vicious beating and stabbing deaths of six people last week.

Corrections Secretary James Crosby said the employees missed key opportunities to put Troy Victorino in jail, including Victorino's visit to his probation officer within a day of Thursday's slayings.

Crosby had no answer for why Victorino slipped through the cracks.

"There is no excuse for this inaction," Crosby said. Each of the four fired employees had been with the corrections department or probation system for more than 20 years.

Hours before the murders, Victorino was in the office of his probation officer for his regular check-in. He was allowed to leave, even though he could have been held for violating his probation for allegedly punching an acquaintance in the face a week earlier in a dispute over money.

Paperwork that officials said could have led to his arrest for the probation violation did not reach a judge until Friday, not long after the six victims were discovered.

Police said the killings were the brutal culmination of an argument between Victorino and one of the victims, whom officials identified Monday as Erin Belanger, 22, of Lowell, Mass. She was singled out for a beating so brutal that even dental records were useless in trying to identify her.

Victorino, 27, and three teenage defendants have been charged with first-degree murder and armed burglary. The four were denied bond and appointed public defenders Monday during their first court appearance.

Authorities say the source of the dispute was an Xbox video game system and clothes owned by Victorino. Belanger's grandparents, from Maine, own a Florida winter home that was supposed to be vacant this summer, but police said Victorino and other squatters used it in July as a party spot.

Joe Abshire, Belanger's brother-in-law, said Erin had talked to him recently about heading to the vacant house to go swimming one day and finding about six people living there. The squatters were kicked out, but they left behind the Xbox and clothes. Belanger took the items back to the three-bedroom rental home she shared with friends.

Over the next days, deputies were called to the grandparents' house six times, as one or more of the squatters returned. The victims also reported a tire-slashing at their home and a threat.

The squatters warned Belanger that "they were going to come back there and beat her with a baseball bat when she was sleeping," Abshire told The Sun of Lowell for Sunday editions.

All four suspects were armed with aluminum bats when Victorino kicked in the locked front door, according to arrest records. The group, who wore black clothes and had scarves on their faces, grabbed knives inside and attacked victims in different rooms of the three-bedroom house as some of them slept, authorities said. Victorino, the last to leave the house, took the Xbox, police said.

The victims, who ranged in age from 18 to 34, were found in bloody beds, and on bloody floors, and there were crimson spatters on the walls and the ceiling.

"This is the worst thing that I've ever seen in my career," said Sheriff Ben Johnson, a 33-year veteran of law enforcement. "The brutal force used against the victims ... it's indescribable."

Victorino has spent eight of the last 11 years in prison. His first arrest was in an auto theft when he was 15, according to state records. He has prior convictions for battery, arson, burglary, auto theft and theft.

Some relatives of the victims attended Monday's hearing. Victorino kept his head down during the proceedings. "I wanted to see this. I wanted to see who murdered my daughter," said Kay Shukwit, mother of 19-year-old Michelle Nathan. "I want to look at him."

[Steve Graham]

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I hope those fucking idiots feel awful about what happened. I am not surprised though to be honest. I was on probation in the 90's for something obviously stupid that I did. And the PO's I dealt with for the most part were pretty fucking ignorant. Not telling me certain important bits of information, such as almost letting me move to NY with out going to court and asking permission. Not letting me know I HAD to pay a certain amount of restitution per month until I almost got a violation for not paying. They are not paid very well from what I understand, and there are no real requirements as far as education. The final one I had was very helpful, and I got off a few months early with her help. And now 6 people are dead because he "slipped through the cracks". Unbelievable, yet, believable.

[Trancelucent One]

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I hope those fucking idiots feel awful about what happened. I am not surprised though to be honest. I was on probation in the 90's for something obviously stupid that I did. And the PO's I dealt with for the most part were pretty fucking ignorant. Not telling me certain important bits of information, such as almost letting me move to NY with out going to court and asking permission. Not letting me know I HAD to pay a certain amount of restitution per month until I almost got a violation for not paying. They are not paid very well from what I understand, and there are no real requirements as far as education. The final one I had was very helpful, and I got off a few months early with her help. And now 6 people are dead because he "slipped through the cracks". Unbelievable, yet, believable.

Mainly it's because PO's get paid shit for doing a shit job!

[Steve Graham]

well, now these 4 get paid nothing for doing nothing, which is exactly what they apparently were doing when they had jobs.