Shed Booby Trap = Murder One Conviction

2LaneCruzer · Sep 15, 2019

MossRoad said:
You're close on the facts... that was Katko V Briney. The property owner had to sell 80 of his 120 acres to pay the judgement. 3 of hi neighbor bought the property for $1 more than the minimum bid. In a weird twist, the property owner and the shot burglar joined together in a lawsuit to sue one of the 3 purchasers who sold his share for a profit.

Read about it here...
Katko v. Briney - Wikipedia

I read the case as a Freshman law student in 1976...I'm surprised I got as close as I did.

oosik · Sep 15, 2019

There is a very specific place on my property where everything that dies is placed. The coyotes will have it slicked up in a couple days. I DON'T have a backhoe. Originally, I would dig a hole and bury whatever died. Coyotes would dig it up & slick it up. The "specific place" save both of us a little effort.

Jstpssng · Sep 15, 2019

RickB said:
Everyone has a Hoffa story and nobody knows the truth.

I've long believed that he had plastic surgery along with a sex change, and now is hosting a TV talk show.
Until I read this...

oosik said:
There is a very specific place on my property where everything that dies is placed. The coyotes will have it slicked up in a couple days. I DON'T have a backhoe. Originally, I would dig a hole and bury whatever died. Coyotes would dig it up & slick it up. The "specific place" save both of us a little effort.

Now we know what happened to him.

Industrial Toys · Sep 15, 2019

That's boring and so unimaginative. It's way more interesting when the serial killers put their victims all over the place.

Molalla1 · Sep 15, 2019

RickB said:
Everyone has a Hoffa story and nobody knows the truth.

That's because a top of the line pro did the deed . . .

OldMcDonald · Sep 15, 2019

I am sure it is not a true story, but many, many years ago I was told of a case where the body was cut up by the murderer, boiled, minced and fed to meat breed chickens. The chickens were then slaughtered, similarly boiled and minced and then fed to pigs. The pigs were duly slaughtered in their turn after having been sold to a big operation that made sausages, pies etc. The knife used in the murder, the mincer and all other contaminated items were burned/melted down in a forge and used to make some ground engaging pieces of equipment that the murderer then wore out on his farm. The problem I had with believing the story was - how did anybody come to find out what had been done?