Never trust a monster

 Parolee Charged With Murdering 17-Year-Old Girl

LOS ANGELES AP http://cbs2.com/local/Body.Downtown.Homicide.2.1103873.html

Lily Burk, 17, was found dead in her car near Alameda and Fourth
Street in downtown Los Angeles.

The last hours of Lily Burk's life were spent trying to get money for
a kidnapper who later beat the 17-year-old to death and left her body
in her car in a downtown parking lot, police said Monday.

Burk was found dead Saturday in her black Volvo.

A 50-year-old parolee, Charlie Samuel, was booked Sunday for
investigation of murder after fingerprints in the car linked him to
the killing, Deputy Chief Sergio Diaz said at a news conference.

Samuel was arrested a half-hour after the killing -- and before Burk's
body was discovered -- for an unrelated drug crime.

He got a pass to temporarily leave a drug rehabilitation center just
hours before he allegedly abducted Burk, Department of Corrections
spokesman Seth Unger told the Los Angeles Times.

The suspect had been staying at a residential treatment facility since
June as part of his parole after serving prison time for petty theft,
Unger said. Samuel did not return to the home Friday evening as
scheduled.

Samuel was arrested April 23 in North Hollywood on a parole violation,
according to police records.

Samuel remained jailed Monday and on Tuesday was charged with capital
murder. He was also ordered to remain jailed without bail.

The district attorney's office says the 50-year-old also faces one
charge each of kidnapping to commit robbery, robbery and attempted ATM
robbery.

Prosecutors will make a decision about whether to seek the death
penalty when the case moves closer to trial.

His arraignment is scheduled for Aug. 20.

The teenager crossed paths with "one of these monsters that
unfortunately we have living amongst us," Diaz said.

Burk, who was about to begin her senior year at Oakwood School in
North Hollywood, left her Los Feliz-area home Friday afternoon on an
errand to the downtown Southwestern University School of Law,
according to police and neighbors.

She went to pick up exams for her mother, Deborah Drooz, 54, who is an
attorney and an adjunct professor at the school.

About 15 minutes after she arrived at the school, Burk was approached
by a man and abducted, Diaz said.

The teen and her kidnapper then drove to an automatic teller machine
where she tried several times to get money, according to a police
statement.

The attempts failed because her credit card was not set up to be used
as an ATM card.

Over the next hour, Burk called both of her parents to ask how to use
the card and was told by her father that it could not be used at an
ATM, police said.

"She didn't tell them that she was in distress," Diaz said.

She said she needed money to buy shoes and was told to come home, her
parents told the Los Angeles Times.

"Burk then made arrangements with her father to go to their home to
pick up an unspecified amount of money," the police statement said.
"She never made it home."

About two hours after Burk was kidnapped, Samuel got out of the Volvo
and left it in a downtown parking lot, with Burk's body in the
passenger seat, Diaz said.

Burk suffered head injuries, apparently from striking the passenger
side of the windshield, and there were signs of a struggle, according
to police.

Less than a half-hour later, Samuel was seen drinking beer on a Skid
Row street and arrested for investigation of possessing narcotics
paraphernalia because he allegedly had a crack cocaine pipe, Diaz
said.

He was still jailed when Burk's body was found.

"We are grateful that the police apprehended someone so quickly and
that this man is off the streets," said a statement issued Monday to a
local television news station from her mother and her father, Los
Angeles Times freelance music writer Gregory Burk.

"The thing we want people to know about Lily is that she was a
beautiful person and that she was looking forward to her life. She was
funny, warm, kind and empathetic. She was deeply and widely loved,"
the parents said in an earlier statement.

Samuel, originally from San Bernardino County, was in Los Angeles to
complete a program he was ordered to take as a parole condition for
previous crimes, police said.

"We believe he's not homeless, he has a place to live," police
spokeswoman Officer Rosario Herrera said. She did not know where he
lived, however.

 
Most people mellow out by age 50.  This crime may be statistically unusual.

Datesfat

 wrote:

Why do you keep giving these sickos the attention they're seeking, you
stupid fuck?

 wrote:

In most cases, I agree with you that they are sick.  But in this case ...
the question of how often it happens that someone murders at age 50 is
relevant.  It is a valid topic of discussion.

You are too easily polarized.

Even in the nastiest most offensive racist and sexist post, there may be
something interesting.

Datesfat

 wrote:


You're way out in left field here. What's "racist" or "sexist" about
the tragic story of a 17-year old girl being kidnapped and murdered by
a monster who's on parole from prison and out of his halfway house on
a pass?

A lot of people in Los Angeles were horrified by this murder, but I
blame other people besides the killer.

I blame the girl's mother for sending an inexperienced 17-year old
into a dangerous area on an errand by herself when a motorcycle
messenger service could have handled the job.

I blame the parole board for releasing the monster back into society.

I blame the staff of the halfway house for letting the monster run
loose on the streets.

The monster isn't a monster because of his skin pigmentation, he's a
monster because of the evil that lives inside his soul.