From s UK GUARDIAN report today on a particularly gruesome true crime in Texas:
A man charged in the deaths of a couple and six children at a Houston home has professed love for one of the victims – his son – but said he thought the children were “growing up to be monsters”.
David Conley, who was being held without bond Wednesday on capital murder counts, was formerly in a relationship with the children’s mother, Valerie Jackson. Authorities say the two had a 13-year-old son together.
So as a result he handcuffed them all together and shot them in the head..
He told media he loved them to death. And now they are dead.
He proclaimed they were becoming monsters, so he became an immoral and unforgivable monster himself and killed those he should have protected and loved the most…