37 year Old Cold Case Info Coming

[bobbbiez]

Don't go there Clipper!

[bobbbiez]

Feb 10, 2011 15:19:13 GMT -5 @stoney said:

Really? What do you know, Bobbie dear? (Spill the beans!!!)

NOPE!

[chris]

Could have been devils and angels .............and we should never presume or is it assume? ;D (yeah we knew what you meant)

[bobbbiez]

lol!!! I knew y'all knew what I meant. ;D

But seriously, did you ever try to read or write with a freaking sinus headache? I've been screwing up royally on everything and being in a new house I can't remember where the hell I put anything.

IT'S MAKING ME CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well at least it's giving RJ and my kids something to laugh at.

[stoney]

They've concluded it was John Hopkins, who committed suicide in prison in 2000.

I never heard of him.

[bobbbiez]

Thank God, for D & A (DNA.) ;D

Told ya you wouldn't know him.

[Clipper]

Now if they can solve the Simon's case, two families can put it to rest and see justice done.

Whoever John Hopkins was, he saved the taxpayers the price of a trial and lots of room and board costs. It's too bad that the guilty one's don't choose suicide more often. Appeals are for those that might be innocent.

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I wonder who that guy is myself. It is shame he committed suicide, I mean I would rather see him suffer in prison, provided he would be locked up 24 hrs a day in solation. I would be a bad Prison Warden or Chief of Police.

[Clipper]

Hey, I have escaped to Tennessee, but just think of the population of just the prisons there in the Utica/Rome area and add up how much it costs to clothe, feed, and confine those people. That cost comes out of YOUR tax money. It could be used for something much more productive than confining someone for 24 hours a day for years on end. For those that have admitted guilt or that are guilty beyond ANY doubt, a suicide watch should be a grouping of chairs where those interested, or the victims of the inmate could sit and "watch" him commit suicide.

[stoney]

I have to disagree with you there, Clipmeister. From what I have learned, it actually costs 3X as much if a person is put on death row due to all the appeals, court time, public defender fees, etc. It usually goes on for up to 20 years.

I agree with Alan: Why let them off so easily with death? Let them suffer a little. Death would be a relief, not a punishment.

deathpenalty.procon.org/view.answers.php?questionID=001000

[bobbbiez]

You're right on Stoney. It does cost much more. Besides, why put a mad dog out of his misery so quickly.

Don't forget, more jobs for those hired to watch them. ;D

[Clipper]

You missed the context of my comment. I was only saying that it would be cheaper to let them commit suicide than to house them for years. Nothing about the death penalty or death row. That is an entirely different discussion, and I am sure that Corner and others have opinions about that also, haha. I was simply being facetious as usual.

[bobbbiez]

Either way the scumbag is gone and Joanne's family is spared the agony of having to sit through his trial. At least, he did something right there.

[Clipper]

It's too bad that Ray wasn't alive to see the closing of the case, although he may have known who the case was pointing to before he passed away. Glad the family has closure.

[bobbbiez]

Me too. Now, I hope Kimberly Simon's family can find some closure also, but I'm afraid where that investigation is going the same has happened where the killer is already dead.

This case haunts me as if Kim was my own daughter. I worked with her mom, Cheryl, for years at Faxton and then she went on to be my mom's doctors nurse so we kept in touch until the family moved to Florida.

We use to have so much fun working together. She is a great gal. I would like to see her smile again by having this hunt for her daughter's killer come to an end.