Louisiana Man Decapitates / Dismembers Disabled 7 Year Old Son

**Oneironaut Zero** · 08-16-2011 04:35 PM

Louisiana police: Father confesses to decapitating special-needs son - CNN.com

Wow. I've really got no words for this one... Just thought I'd share.

**Xei** · 08-16-2011 04:46 PM

Erm... why?

**Zhaylin** · 08-16-2011 05:04 PM

'Hehee... I can't wait to see the look on that nags face when she sees what I left her!' Is what I imagine was one of his thoughts.
How tragic! I'm just glad someone else saw the boy before the mom could.

**Oneironaut Zero** · 08-16-2011 05:12 PM

Originally Posted by Xei

Erm... why?

'Why' what? Why would I share? Because it's pretty f'cked up and, believe it or not, sometimes people do appreciate being made aware of stuff like this. Personally, as f'cked up as I find it, I find human behavior interesting, and definitely wanted to know more details about the situation, after reading the headline.

**Xei** · 08-16-2011 05:17 PM

Sick people do sick, disgusting, tragic things. Thanks for the reminder. I'm gonna go out in the sun and walk my dogs now.

**KristaNicole07** · 08-16-2011 05:25 PM

I read about this last night...so sick, so wrong. I can't even FATHOM how someone could do something so terrible. *shudders*

**Oneironaut Zero** · 08-16-2011 05:26 PM

Originally Posted by Xei

Sick people do sick, disgusting, tragic things. Thanks for the reminder. I'm gonna go out in the sun and walk my dogs now.

Should have done that a couple of minutes ago, instead of taking the time to stick around and be predictably douchey about it. Better late than never, I guess.

**Kuhnada29** · 08-16-2011 07:31 PM

Originally Posted by Xei

Sick people do sick, disgusting, tragic things. Thanks for the reminder. I'm gonna go out in the sun and walk my dogs now.

what kind of dogs do you have, or were you just joking?

**nina** · 08-16-2011 07:57 PM

My mom is always like..."did you hear about the girl that got shot in the face by her kid/the guy that got raped by a pack of monkeys/the baby that got tossed off a bridge.." I'm like...wtf...why do I want to know about that? I guess some people like talking about this stuff, and that's totally fine. It's just not something I care to know about. The only reason I'm posting this and wasting space in your thread O is to say that I'm sorta on the same page as Xei here. It's hard for me to understand why people want to talk about such awful things. But it's also hard for me to understand why people want to talk about politics and plenty of other things as well.

**Oneironaut Zero** · 08-16-2011 08:19 PM

And I can completely appreciate that, nina. Plenty of people don't 'like' to hear about stuff like that. I don't 'like' to hear about stuff like that. But it's a reality of the world we live in. While I'm disgusted at the act (and that shit like this happens), I do get struck by a sense of awe and amazement, when people do such horrible things. I can't even really say I'm 'shocked' by it, but it always just hits me with a sense of '.....really?'

So yea, I understand that there are people who would rather not hear about such things - and rightfully so - but I don't think there is any harm in discussing them, and getting peoples' sentiments on it. And I respect anyone's wishes to not do so. It's just nice when people can express their distaste for such things without being douchey about it. So thanks for that.

**nina** · 08-16-2011 08:39 PM

**Xei** · 08-16-2011 09:36 PM

Meh, it's just that I don't think there's much to discuss. The man is clearly insane. It's sad all round.

**Wayfaerer** · 08-16-2011 09:40 PM

It is sort of interesting to think about what kind of neurological factors go into making someone like that, I actually just watched a program called "The Brain" that discussed that last night.

**Seroquel** · 08-16-2011 09:54 PM

Eh. I've read much worse.

**saltyseedog** · 08-16-2011 10:39 PM

interesting

**Oneironaut Zero** · 08-16-2011 10:52 PM

Originally Posted by Wayfaerer

It is sort of interesting to think about what kind of neurological factors go into making someone like that.

Exactly my point.

Whenever I hear stuff like this, I starting kind of pondering the thought process behind such an atrocious act. And I know we can't really figure out what's going on - because, really, some people are just fucking crazy - but still, it fascinates me.

**Photolysis** · 08-16-2011 11:08 PM

I guess this is a good reminder that there are some real fucked up people out there.

**Spartiate** · 08-17-2011 12:12 AM

Can any of you really say that you wouldn't do the same in his shoes?

**Zhaylin** · 08-17-2011 12:50 AM

Eh wot, Spartiate?

I've never even been "mean" to stuffed animals or toys lol
If I began viewing my child as an inanimate object, I would have gotten counseling, not chop off his head and leave it in the road for the my spouse to see.

The couple had been fighting about money, so I'm sure dad blamed the kid's disabilities and the mom for not doing something about it (as if she could). Because he left the head in a position with the intent of his wife seeing it, I would say he viewed his actions more as a jab at mom than an actual crime. He was trying to hurt her and calmly sat on the porch to watch it all unfold.
Sick...

**saltyseedog** · 08-17-2011 01:06 AM

When I was a kid I believed that my toys somehow had their own sentience and if I abused them or didn't give them attention it made them sad. Later in life I would burn all of them.

**snoop** · 08-23-2011 03:23 AM

Not saying I would decapitate anyone or that this guy was right in doing so, but I can empathize with not seeing some human beings as actually being human. I see them more as objects than anything, and I couldn't care less about their wants, needs, feelings, or rights. Again, I'm no killer--I don't get enjoyment from that sort of thing. Maybe I have some sort of mental issue, I don't know, but if the guy felt the same way toward his son as I do toward some, really most, people, then I can totally understand why it was easy for him to do something like this. Even more so if he was angry, which it sounded like he was. I realize this is not normal, but I have found no way to change this for myself, so I simply accept it. It's like there is zero emotional connection with these people, and I can't force myself to care, so I'm stuck pretending to just to seem normal.

**ooflendoodle** · 08-23-2011 03:34 AM

The only problem I see with posting too many of these is that eventually we become desensitized, which is bad, it's stories like these that hit me the hardest, the struggle of a mentally handicapped person, because I'm a deep thinker and am horrified to think of someone not being able to do something so beneficial.

**Oneironaut Zero** · 08-23-2011 03:37 AM

@ snoop:
I guess we can only hope that you never have children, or be left alone too long with anyone else's...

**Rozollo** · 08-23-2011 03:44 AM

Not only am I originally from this town, but I worked down the street where it happened.

It's a town of about 15k, and murders are VERY rare. What makes it more horrific is the father mentioned in 2004 that he was planning to kill his child when he was just 6 months. The state did nothing to stop him. No psychological evaluation (or if they did, they didn't follow through with it) and no removing him from the child's direct contact.

He's clearly psychologically disturbed, and this was a failure across the board.

Crazy that it made it here.

I'm sure dad blamed the kid's disabilities and the mom for not doing something about it (as if she could). Because he left the head in a position with the intent of his wife seeing it, I would say he viewed his actions more as a jab at mom than an actual crime. He was trying to hurt her and calmly sat on the porch to watch it all unfold.
Sick...

I didn't read this article because I am pretty over hearing about it, but the mother regularly left the kid with the father even when she was unemployed.

In an addition that I really really hope wasn't repeated, the local rag of a newspaper posted a description of the murder with no warning of it. A lot of people were pretty horrified.

**Xei** · 08-23-2011 01:29 PM

Originally Posted by snoop

Not saying I would decapitate anyone or that this guy was right in doing so, but I can empathize with not seeing some human beings as actually being human. I see them more as objects than anything, and I couldn't care less about their wants, needs, feelings, or rights. Again, I'm no killer--I don't get enjoyment from that sort of thing. Maybe I have some sort of mental issue, I don't know, but if the guy felt the same way toward his son as I do toward some, really most, people, then I can totally understand why it was easy for him to do something like this. Even more so if he was angry, which it sounded like he was. I realize this is not normal, but I have found no way to change this for myself, so I simply accept it. It's like there is zero emotional connection with these people, and I can't force myself to care, so I'm stuck pretending to just to seem normal.

So you're basically a psychopath.