This is just too rich.
The background: A reporter for the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinal interviewed, in jail, a suspect in the murder of two people and got a confession. The newspaper ran the story in January. Well, of course the defense and the prosecution wanted the taped interview to make their cases. The Sentinal did them one better, they posted both the full taped interview and written transcripts on their Web site.
It’s an interested move, but it’s not why this interests me. On Sept. 6, the Sentinal ran a story explaining why they were going to post this information. In this story is this little ditty:
“The tape begins with (reporter Mark K.) Matthews asking (suspect Quawn) Franklin which part of (victim Jerry) Lawley’s death he was responsible for.
‘The part that killed him,’ Franklin replies.”
(You may chuckle now.)
Franklin goes on to blame his 13-year-old female companion for much of the violence, saying “she lit ‘the fire’ that ‘inspired’ him to go on ‘a rampage.’ “
Maybe this guy should get a pet. No, wait. David Berkowitz tried that.