Not-guilty pleas in grisly slaying:
From the "You've gotta be fucking kidding me" Dept. comes the story that both Zarate brothers have pleaded not guilty in the murder and dismemberment of 16-year-old Jennifer Parks. So let me get this straight. They invited Jennifer to their house, beat her and stabbed her to death, dismembered her body so that they can store the body in a trunk, stored the trunk in a Jeep for 24 hours and attended a kid's birthday party, then got caught trying to dump her body in the Passaic River, and then they plead not guilty? What possible defense could they have? I guess they figured since the death penalty is off the table they'll take their chances in the trial.





http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17790066&BRD=1918&PAG=461&dept_id=506888&rfi=6
These guys were actually caught WITH the trunk ON the bridge. With the clean-up was chewing gum with the younger one's DNA, for God's sake. Not guilty? Get me on this jury, please. (I shouldn't say that, because I am local to the case...)
There was a "case"on a TV show years ago (L.A. Law?) where two parents were charged with killing their disabled child and each testified that the other had done it; neither was convicted. The of course they were in collusion. Could this be what they're trying to do?
Like the older one acting lke that in jail and then charging that THEY mistreat HIM.
Gag.
And if nothing else, this story reaffirms my conviction that the DP should not be "off the table" for murderers.