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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: PegLeg45 on March 26, 2011, 06:47:41 PM
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Police: Killer invoked Old Testament in 'stoning' death
A Delaware County man has been arrested and charged with murder in the beating death of an elderly Landsdowne man who had befriended him and made him executor and sole beneficiary of his will.
John Joe Thomas, 28, of the first block of Sunshine Road in Upper Darby, allegedly told police he killed Murray Joseph Seidman, 70, because the older man had made sexual advances and that the Old Testament spelled out stoning as the punishment for homosexuality.
"I stoned Murray with a rock in a sock," Thomas said to police, according to court documents.
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"I killed a man," Thomas allegedly told the witness. He then described how he placed batteries and rocks in a sock, and hit Seidman in the head at least 10 times. Thomas then returned to Seidman's apartment several days later and called police, saying he had discovered the body, according to court documents.
When police interviewed Thomas on Wednesday he said Seidman had been making advances toward him over a period of time. Thomas said he read in the Old Testament that homosexuals should be stoned in certain situations.
http://articles.philly.com/2011-03-18/news/29142081_1_stoning-death-court-documents-police
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A rock in a sock ?
Guess it was more tactical than a Cat in a hat ?
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I guess NO means NO actually means f#$K off or I kill yo ass!