# 14 year old terrorists?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-year-old-terrorists/376504>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 15, 2006, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-year-old-terrorists/376504 "2006-10-15T06:30:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-year-old-terrorists/376504/61 "2006-10-23T00:04:55Z")

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I am pretty sure they knew quickly that it was nothing. However the chance to make a public display was too good to pass up. A little bit of fear goes a long way.  
Like when the yearly raids made by a huge number of IRS agent on a seemingly normal family just happens at the beginning of every tax season.We willl be scared straight.

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**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-year-old-terrorists/376504/62 "2006-10-23T09:50:01Z")

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[QUOTE=Bricker]  
…but it’s not harmful to treat her as an adult for the comparatively unserious matter of a brief police interview. As the issue becomes more serious - say, criminal charges - I’d say she should be moved into the child realm early on…  
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Yeah right, as you well know **Bricker** , the road to criminal charges often starts with an interview, I give you the case of [Michael](http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1999/05/06/48hours/main46045.shtml) [Crowe](http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/reports/crowe/) as a perfect example.[

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> …The police began looking for the killer immediately, but were stymied by a frustrating lack of physical evidence. They found no signs of forced entry, either. The phrase “Kill, Kill” had been written on Stephanie’s window sill.
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> Police interviewed a transient {Richard Tuite, who would later be convicted for the murder} who had been seen knocking on neighbors’ doors that night but dismissed him as a suspect because, they said, he would have been incapable of sneaking into the house quietly.
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> With no sign of forced entry, police turned their attention to the family. That morning, the Crowes were taken to the police station, separated and questioned. Each member of the family was photographed naked, even Shannon, who was 9 years old. Police thought that the killer might have been scratched during the crime.
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> After 15 hours, they had found no evidence against Steve {the father}, so they let him go. But they continued to question Michael. Two days after the murder, police arrested him and accused him of plotting and carrying out the murder of his younger sister. His parents, who didn’t know he was being questioned as a suspect, were shocked and confused.
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> After two days of questioning - alone, without parents or a lawyer - Michael had given the police a videotaped confession. Police said they had first become suspicious when, in the hours after the murder, they noticed that Michael seemed unconcerned and played a handheld game while the rest of the family seemed more upset…

]([The Confession - CBS News](http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1999/05/06/48hours/main46039.shtml))[RIGHT]{DarkRed}=CMC[/RIGHT]Here’s some excerpts from the interview [Interrogation Tapes](http://www.cbsnews.com/elements/2004/10/15/48hours/videoarchive649635.shtml?show=48hours;feat=48hours), “comparatively unserious matter” indeed.

CMC fnord!

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