Cameras Captured 'Chilling' Break-In at Fla. Home

[steven johnson]

There are some really evil, predatory humans with no conscience.

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) -- Byrd and Melanie Billings had a growing brood of adopted children with autism, Down syndrome and other disabilities, and took care to make their nine-bedroom house a safe place for them, wiring it with surveillance cameras in every room.

It was those cameras that captured images of the masked men who shot the wealthy couple to death in a break-in executed with chilling precision.

The video from last Thursday showed three armed, masked men arriving in a red van, entering through the front of the house and then returning to the vehicle. Others dressed in what the sheriff called ''ninja garb'' went in through an unlocked utility door in the back. They were in and out in under 10 minutes.

Tips from the public led police to the van on Saturday. Day laborer Wayne Coldiron, 41, turned himself in on Sunday, and Leonard P. Gonzalez Jr., 35, was arrested the same day in a neighboring county. They were charged with murder and home invasion.

Cameras Captured 'Chilling' Break-In at Fla. Home

[Hepburn]

1. Why, why in the hell....

....:cry:

[MadMaddie]

2. Now they are saying that more than 8 people were involved

I want them prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. Was it a robbery? Something else?

[MadMaddie]

6. The police are keeping a tight lid on motives but they have

been hinting that is going to be pretty big.

[zbdent]

3. Rush's suppliers got the wrong address?

[DefenseLawyer]

7. Sounds like they owed the wrong person money

or were potential witnesses against someone who didn't want a trial. This is no robbery.

[Deja Q]

4. They deserve execution.

If/when found guilty.

And thank goodness for cameras; we all know the cynical reasons, but this couple - who did far more for humanity than the BASTARDS who murdered them - at least helped make it easier for the pigs to be caught thanks to visual evidence.

Not much left to say.

[Number23]

8. This story breaks my heart every single time I see anything about it

Why would someone do this to these people?? There is so much hate in the world.

Even though these people went out of their way to care for children that had been thrown away, the fact that they were wealthy was in some people's minds all the reason they needed for them to be hated.