Comments on: The Sugar Land Conspiracy

An All-American Family Is Gunned Down In A Bizarre Plot

[patriot12436]

zootallures2
And where did you take your forensic classes at ?

[patriot12436]

drew30319
I have to disagree. The jury listened to what the father felt and made their decision. Someone this sick should never be returned to society. With the flukes in our judicial system i think this is possible. My parents always favored my sister. I didn''t care. I grew up without supervision, came and went as i wanted, never got into trouble, joined the military the day after graduation from high school, made a career in the military and law enforcement, graudated from college. At 55 i realized if i didn''t get away from my parents it was going to kill me . I walked away and had a heart attack two months later. I have no relationship with my mother. I went to my fathers funeral because my daughter wanted to go. I had no feelings for a man i never knew. After all of this i can honestly say the thought of killing my parents never entered my mind once.

[skeezix06]

Not that we''ll ever know, but I have to wonder how his mother would have approved of her son being given the death penalty. I suspect not. But like I said we''ll never know.

[junycuqui]

This is such a horrific story!
I pray for this man''s family, that they will be able to continue on life.
I can understand the father in forgiving his son.
We all of us have the right to do what we want and although we may regret the choices made, still the consequences of the choices made must be paid.
Being a Christian does not mean you don%u2019t have to pay for the wrong choices carried out!
And this is just my point of view:
The death penalty is just an easy way out for criminals, although life in prison is suction to tax payers, these criminal should pay back to society with EXTRA HARD work for spearing their life and providing food, clothing and shelter! etc...

[texas_tech09]

sadly i have not talked to mr. whitaker. ive wanted to see him but im not sure if i could handle it. i had been so close to this family, that its still too much to bare...

jdubincali- why the hell does everyone point to Kent? Kent loved Trisha SO much, he wouldnt DARE do anything like this to his family! He is a big in Faith and I look up to him for that.

I also agree with someone else on here. I belived Bart should have gotten life. For the longest time, I wanted who did this to get the death penelty but once I found out it was him, I changed my mind. The reason being though, is I believe that life in prison, would be more of a punishment than death itself. He would have to sit there thinking of what he did, each and every day of his LIFE. I believe thats punishment enough, not the death penelty.

[ammie119]

This was an amazingly badly written article.

[dveezy]

crzmeat:

"He seemed like a nice kid. He was fun. He was witty. He was respectful," Peggy says. And she says he was a good son.

Yeah, that''''s a real "good son" allright! I''''m glad to know that Christianity really works to turn sinners into "good" people. Oh what a wonderful world it will be when Bush leads us into Armageddon and Jesus comes back to dispatch all the non-Christians to hell..."blah...

First of all thats'' crazy. I lived with the guy who pulled the trigger for over a year and before this incident he never hurt a fly nor showed any signs that he would EVER do anything like this.In no way am i justifying his actions because what he did was horrible and evil, but this type of action is not always forseeable. Maybe in Bart''s case it was, but not always. I don''t know what the deal is with that whacko radical christian stuff, but i think they just wanted the money.

[drew30319-2009]

Last year my teenage daughter was murdered. My comments are based on my personal experience and the beliefs that I now hold related to her murder.

(1) I believe that the victim (in this case, the father) should have more say in the punishment that the DA pursues. If he strongly feels that the death penalty is inappropriate then he should have the ability to "veto" the pursuit of such. If we truly allowed for LIFE in prison then the impact on society would be negligible. Life in prison would be, in my estimation, much worse than a quick and painless death.

(2) I do not believe that murderers or sociopaths are born, rather they are bred. I do not intend to paint this poor father with a broad brush, rather I''m attempting to point out that a great effort is required to overcome society''s sense of entitlement.

Drew Crecente
Jennifer Ann''s Group
www.JenniferAnn.org

Fight Teen Dating Violence!

[Krazcarl]

texas_tech09....Hows dad doing?

[jdubincali]

texas tech...I''m sure this hurts BUT, I''m not surprised to see wacko "christians" in doing this. I like the comment by zootallures...we have a major conspiracy on a global level that needs to be dealt with. Back to this story, I feel bad that this could happen, but I also feel that wacko "christians" are going to do wacko things...killing their own parents, purposely fly planes in building and attack innocent, sovereign countries. Brain washing has "blow back". I''m glad he got caught, I would look into the husband too. But we have a unjust war going on...wake up and see the death our "christian" leader is causing AND you''re supporting. By the way, I''m Christian too...I just happen to think.

[texas_tech09]

ivyman1 as well as others who are critizing this family. u have no right and savdavid, this is REAL. i was very close to everyone in this family, so dont go on judging them! i loved and cared for everyone of them, including Bart. Trisha was my kindergarden teacher and she pretty much became my second mom. No one could have seen this coming, if it had been your family you know you would have thought the same thing. So don''t you dare talk *** about this family!

[Krazcarl]

SAVDAVID...This is real news a crime was committed and they gave us the details that''s called reporting I for one am pleased the story of the murderers dad was inspirational. I can''t imagine having to deal with something like that. Pops showed us how to be a man if you get nothing out of this story your brain dead every once in a while you hear of a man that has more class than yourself this is one. Every once in a while a man will show you dignity. Guess that''s over your head reread the article gain some insight of what is to be a man I think you need it.Helped me I walk in his shadow.

[myidoncbs]

More exploits of those W-A-C-K-Y Christians! The tabloids are full of ''em!

I LOVE how they always talk about "respect". This kid had it, for sure:

"He seemed like a nice kid. He was fun. He was witty. He was respectful," Peggy says. And she says he was a good son.

Yeah, that''s a real "good son" allright! I''m glad to know that Christianity really works to turn sinners into "good" people. Oh what a wonderful world it will be when Bush leads us into Armageddon and Jesus comes back to dispatch all the non-Christians to hell, after a 1000 year period of unspeakable suffering for all! Yahoo! and Yippie Ki Yay!

"Spare the rod, spoil the child", they preach. I''ve mentioned this before: punishment does NOT create "respect"; it creates fear and loathing and resentment... the perfect precursors to murder!

(I don''t know if that was the problem here, ''cause I couldn''t stand to read more than a couple of pages of this tabloid junk. But I thought I''d just mention it, since corporeal punishment is always championed by the "Christians".)

Oh what wackiness we concieve, when first we practice to believe!

[savdavid]

when are you going to do REAL news? this is a sordid tale fit for tabloid TV like FOX.

[Krazcarl]

ivyman1...I believe it was our conquest of the moon that was why Kennedy was assassinated and I have green man under my bed that steals my stuff. Are you so stupid to believe a educated man would have his son kill the family your insane get help now.

[drdavedmd]

Bart obviously deserved the death penalty. This is because if he doesn''t deserve it, then who else will? How many more people do you have to kill to receive the death penalty. It doesn''t not matter what the defence had to say, really. This is such a heinous crime, that it just desecrates all of humanity. He also showed no remorse, really. If I were on the jury, he would have been sentenced to death without an deliberations.

I can understand that the father still loves his son. This is the nature of bringing up a human being in this world, but when you bring up the devil, you have to give it up. I feel sorry for the father. He did not deserve to die twice. Now he has to live the rest of his life all by himself. This is such a tragic story. However, on the bright side of things, these murderers are behind bars. Justice was served.

[ivyman1]

For some reason I have an hunch that the husband was involved in the murder of his wife and son. He was warned by the police prior to the slaughtering of his wife and son and dismissed it so easily. I hope the prosecutor would looking into his social life, especially the inconvenient woman or women, and other possible motives. Did he have a deal with his "surviving" son about the insurance money?

[Krazcarl]

What kind of pain must a farther feel when he looks at his creation and know he is responsible for the death of of those he loved the most, The man has truly walked in the footsteps of god and has my respect.

[zootallures2]

"all had drawers open on them, but they were all open equal distance. It was very neat and orderly," Slot explains."

Neat and orderly... Like a controlled demolition, maybe? A Conspiracy? Must be the police are tin foil hat loonies too?

[shamrocker6]

With all due respect to the religious conscience some folks tend to hold on to, even in the worst of circumstances, Bart was NOT one of them! He knew he would/could never be like the rest of his family, and he hated THEM for that. He hated his life (with them) so much, he wanted to erase EVERYTHING and start living life his own way.

The money was his only means to just walk away, but he''d have to kill for it. I don''t believe he feels the least bit of remorse.

God knows us best. The Final Judgement is His.