All in a news conference same day, father discovered bodies in a trunk next door all along, this not right. Sick bastards killing 3 poor innocent little boys. Just give me 2 minutes with the murderer.

saintsation said:

Wow. What a informative thread...

HamsterHuey said:

I wish all news were like that

"3264 killed in africa, I bet from an earthquate of an earth quake. Now let's go back to Tom cruise, what water exactly did they use, was it Avian? how much did they pay for the the bottle? these details are very important for our future's sake"

Heavenly said:

Is Saintsation just another Heavenly account?

HamsterHuey said:

There's only one Heavenly
And a few alters
But no, that is definitely not my account. I can be creative at times, but not THAT creative.

Well, I just read that they aren't ruling out accidental suffocation yet.

The boys could have gotten in the trunk and then not been able to get out.

http://www.nytimes.com/20...amden.html

3 Boys' Deaths Are Called an Accident

By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN and JOHN HOLL
Published: June 26, 2005

CAMDEN, N.J., June 25 - The three missing boys who were found dead on Friday after an enormous two-day search died accidentally, suffocating in a car trunk that the police had failed to check, the Camden County prosecutor said Saturday.
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The police believe that the three boys, ages 5, 6 and 11, climbed into the trunk while playing on Wednesday night, and that the lid then slammed shut behind them, trapping them inside, said Vincent P. Sarubbi, the prosecutor.

"There were no signs of trauma, no signs of assault," Mr. Sarubbi said. "This was a horrible accident."

Police officials began an investigation why none of the 150 officers assigned to the search checked the trunk of the car, a battered Toyota Camry parked just feet from where the boys were last seen Wednesday evening, licking Italian ice under a tree beside the oldest boy's home.

Chief Edwin J. Figueroa of the Camden Police Department said that officers did search the car - which belonged to the grandmother of one of the boys - on the night the boys were reported missing, but added that he did not know why the trunk had been overlooked.

"I can't guess what went on in the individual minds of the police officers out there," Chief Figueroa said.

The oversight, which the police concede may have led to the boys' deaths, has outraged residents of Camden, where out-of-control drug crime has claimed the lives of many young people. The city, one of the poorest and most dangerous in America, always seems to have an image of despair hanging over it, residents said. This week, however, they defied that by bonding together to help find the boys.

Now, many feel let down.

"It's so frustrating, because maybe something could have been done sooner," said Maria Rivera, a Camden mother. "Maybe this didn't have to happen."

According to what investigators have pieced together, the three boys - Anibal Cruz, 11, Daniel Agosto, 6, and Jesstin Pagan, 5 - were playing in the side yard of Anibal's home in the Cramer Hill neighborhood around 5 p.m.

Anibal's mother, Elba Nelly Cruz, was watching the children from the front porch and then went inside to cook dinner. When she went back out a half-hour later, the boys were gone.

One of the boys - Mr. Sarubbi would not say who - liked to "play with the knobs and switches" in the car, which had been parked in a bed of weeds next to the house for several weeks because it had a brake problem.

The car also had a trunk problem. According to police, the trunk lid would not stay up after it was opened, and instead slammed shut.

The police believe that during the few minutes when the mother took her eyes off the children, the boys scampered into the trunk, and it locked behind them. Either the trunk was ajar or one of the boys pulled the release latch inside the car to open it.

The family immediately started canvassing the neighborhood, calling out the boys' names in panicky voices. Three hours later, they contacted the police, who began an extensive hunt.

The search involved bloodhounds, helicopters, boats, police divers, military-grade heat-seeking equipment and the combined efforts of hundreds of residents and safety personnel. Many people thought the boys had wandered down to a nearby riverbank, where it was thought they might have slipped into the water and drowned.

What is curious is how the three could have been trapped in a car in the yard of the house where dozens of relatives had gathered, with no one hearing a thing.

"There's much to this situation that defies explanation," Mr. Sarubbi said.

Mr. Sarubbi declined to say whether there was any evidence that the boys had struggled to escape from the trunk. He also said that the medical examiner could not determine the exact times of death.

On Friday evening, Daniel's father, David Agosto, went to the car with a relative who was looking for jumper cables.

As soon as he opened the trunk, he shouted out in horror. Cousins, aunts, uncles and others ran to him. They tried to pull Mr. Agosto away, but he kept screaming. The neighborhood soon shook with wails and sobs. Some people writhed on the sidewalk, pounding the concrete with their hands.

On Saturday, Cramer Hill was quiet. Most of the TV news trucks had left. Down the street from where the bodies were found, mourners left candles, balloons, notes and more than two dozen stuffed animals in a memorial against a chain-link fence.

Jose Martinez, 41, of Camden, stopped by the memorial and placed a white teddy bear on the sidewalk.

"I don't know the family, but I wanted to help them search, to find the kids," he said. "Now, I can just leave this small tribute."


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that's horrible. The thread title threw me off and I almost skipped over it.