A three-year old, a one-year old and a 2 and 1/2 month old baby.
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?.
Sorry, I had to let that out. I’m so fucking tired of reading stories like this.:mad: :mad: 
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Well, better get used to it. There has always been fucked-up people. In all seriousness, these two sound insane to me. I doubt they’ll just go to prison. I’ll bet they’ll get a one-way ticket to the funny farm.
They’re in Texas, we already know where they’re headed, and it ain’t no funny farm.
Dig a hole. Toss them in and throw dirt in their faces. End of story.
I say we shoot them first. They cannot live by the rules, so don’t try to make them. Just stop them from hurting others. Permanently.
What’s going on?
What’s going on is that the same sick shit is happening that has always happened, except our international media network has gotten ever more efficient about bringing it to us, now that it knows, based on the Laci Peterson and Elizabeth Smart cases, among dozens of others, that we have an insatiable appetite for this non-newsworthy shit.
What’s going on is that human beings are wired to be more interested in what’s wrong than in what’s right. It’s a necessary survival trait from way back: It’s nice to know about the edible flowers and the pretty waterfall and the comfortable grass, but if you can’t recognize a saber-toothed tiger sneaking up on you, you’re dead. This translates, in our modern world, to a perverse fascination with disturbing bad news, and an inappropriate generalization therefrom that the world is going to hell.
Or, in other words, nothing is “going on,” at least with respect to sensationalized stories of victimized innocence like this one. Turn off the fucking television, read some actual crime statistics, and get a sense of perspective. Sheesh.
I agree with Cervaise. I think the media is just reporting this type of thing more, because people react to it and ratings go up.
I’m all for the death penalty for these two though. There’s other options if you can’t take care of your own kids.
Nah. The pattern is clear. The base is beginning to crack. The end is coming sooner than we thought.
Check in with this site daily, and you will see. 
Wierd shit has been happening in the Brownsville/Matamoros area for years. I think the first one was about 20 years ago, when some wierd lady started a cult that involved ritual sacrafices. She’d still be doing it today if she hadn’t screwed up and kidnapped an American college student. Before she did that, she had managed to pile up a nice amount of lower class Mexicans without arousing the suspicions of the bribe hungry Policia.
My Sis in law is from Matamoros, and she has no shortage of cult stories and superstitions. This surely isn’t the first strange bit of gore I’ve read about the area.
It all comes together nicely with a 60 minutes/48 Hours/some similar type show, I don’t recall which one. They did a nice little story back during the NAFTA debate about American companies dumping massive amounts of chemicals and other nasties on the mexican side of the border.
Huh. Who’dathunkit. It really IS something in the water.
They just waited 3 years, 1 year, and 2 1/2 months longer than a whole lot of people (give or take a couple of months…)
Life is worthless, dontcha know??
Yes there are sick people everywhere, not just Texas. Of course we did have that damaged woman drown her whole family not long ago, and there have been reports of ritualistic sacrifices near Brownsville (wasn’t there a TV movie about it??).
From what I heard of Texas you don’t want to live there if you are a criminal or the potential of being one.
You may get the book throwed at you.
Some very stiff sentences.
I agree with the substance of what Cervaise has to say – the media’s just making a bigger deal of this lately, and parents murdering their children isn’t statistically all that common.
However, could you please show a bit more respect for the families of murder victims?
Alternately, live with the memory of your dead children, siblings, nieces, nephews, cousins, etc. every day for the rest of your life. It might be rare, it might be overplayed in the media, but it does happen. They are real people, and as such it is quite offensive to the families of such victims to imply that they are distant from reality.
Get a sense of empathy, would you?
There are some sick people in this world.
Are you talking about Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo and his followers, the murderous, insane cult that practiced palo mayombe and earned money by “protecting” drug cartels with their magic? Sounds like it. What a sad, sad story. This world really sucks sometimes (especially the Brownsville part of it, apparently).
Actually, while Texas is portrayed as the 'hang ‘em high’ state, the death penalty is unevenly distributed here. I think Harris County (Houston) alone has sent a lion’s share of people to the death chamber. Meanwhile my county (El Paso County) has 700,000 people, and maybe 4 or 5 inmates.
Yep. For some reason I had always thought that La Madrina was the driving force behind it, the link you provided is one of the best synopsis of it I have read. At least so far. I’m putting off reading the rest until my breakfast is slightly more, um, settled.
In this case, that’s a good thing.
You also don’t want to live there if you may be mistaken for a criminal and are poor.
First we tattoo them, then we hang then and then we kill them.
I guess I thought it was obvious that what I meant by “nothing is going on” is that “the increasing proliferation of these sensationalized stories does not mean society is falling apart.” I re-read my post, and I can sort of see how a sloppy misreading might cause it to be interpreted to say that these murders are meaningless for everybody, victims and families included. That wasn’t the intent at all, obviously.
I mean, by definition, the simple fact that something like this is news means it doesn’t happen very often, that it’s unusual. You never see Dan Rather leading off the newscast with the story, “A drunk driver in Schenectady put a family of four in the hospital when he crossed the center line and drove them off the road,” because that sort of incident, sad to say, is so common it’s no longer news. You never see Aaron Brown even mention, “Today, X thousand people died of smoking-related illnesses.” The lack of national attention to all of those deaths and injuries doesn’t make them any less tragic for the people directly involved, does it?
But a teenage girl, kidnapped from her own bedroom while her younger sister lay terrified and her parents slept yards away? Parents who slaughter their three children to save themselves the effort of raising them? If those things were happening right and left, why would the news even notice? It’s unusual, which is why it gets attention. It is outside the norm.
Which is why I said that nothing, in the global, macroscopic sense, is going on.
Is this clear now?
Yes, it’s clearer now, thank you.
Statistically, random kidnappings and familial murders aren’t all that common. On my part, I simply should have stated that I feel that while these things are statistically uncommon and often overplayed in the media, that fact alone does not make them any less tragic. Certainly it is tragic when a drunk driver kills people, or when people die of smoking-related illnesses, but it is also tragic when someone is kidnapped or murdered.
I agree that it isn’t any sort of big sign that anything new is happening now that the more sensationalistic events are simply getting more media time.