911 caller arrested in Georgia mobile home slayings

[Akoto]

Source: CNN.com

BRUNSWICK, Georgia (CNN) -- Guy Heinze Jr., the son of one of the victims of last week's killings of eight people in a southeast Georgia mobile home, has been arrested on eight counts of first degree murder, police said Friday.

Investigators obtained an arrest warrant Friday evening for Heinze, 22, just hours after he had been freed from jail on charges of tampering with evidence and making false statements to a police officer, Glynn County, Georgia, Police Chief Matt Doering said.

"I can assure you that this person is responsible," Doering said at a news conference Friday evening.

The bodies were discovered last Saturday at New Hope Plantation mobile home park, north of the Atlantic coastal city of Brunswick. Seven died in the mobile home, and the eighth died Sunday at a hospital. Doering refused to reveal how the victims were killed or the suspected motive.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/04/georgia.killings/index.html

[Christa]

1. I wonder what his motive was.

I wonder how people can be so cruel. :banghead:

Many years ago a good friend's brother killed his wife, their 5 children and then himself. We could never find out why, but it destroyed the lives of so many people.

[imdjh]

2. Wow, that just brought up a memory, of the act and my reaction.

It's a reaction I have never examined closely, perhaps not at all. When I was a teenager, a kid my age in the neighborhood killed his biological grandparents who were his operative parents. My reaction was something like, "Wow, how could he do something like that? He must be nuts." and I never thought about it again, until now. It's a shallow and evasive intellectual process which permits a person to simply not deal with that which is beyond immediate comprehension. But then, I have read some case studies where people have spent a fair amount of time and effort trying to understand why a criminal is a criminal, and the result was not conclusive by any measure.

[Christa]

4. Thank you for this

I think the moment someone decides to act and then do it; that moment the person is insane. He may come out of it again, but I do believe a sane person cannot do it.

[John Q. Citizen]

3. I wonder if he did it or if it was someone else? To me, being arrested doesn't equal guilt.

[caseymoz]

5. Chief Doering's professionalism just fell in my eyes.

I thought maybe he was being very disciplined by not allowing his department to say how the people were murdered. But then he makes this statement, "I can assure you that this person is responsible."

I guess he saves us from the sensationalism and uses the press only the way justice meant it to be used: for the trial.

[marshall]

6. It should have been obvious what law enforcement thought

They wouldn't have arrested the person if they didn't believe he was responsible.

[WinkyDink]

7. He wants to calm the community.

[funkybutt]

8. Sad. I had a feeling about the caller

CNN has a video up that shows all the caskets in the funeral home. This is truly awful. Prayers for the surviving family members.