GUILTY IA - Grandson Sought After Couple Found Dead In Their Home on Mother's Day

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Police in Manchester, Iowa are looking for 17 year old Isaiah Sweet, who was apparently their Grandson, and who lived with them. Other family members went to the home for Mother's Day on Sunday afternoon, and found the victims murdered. Isaiah Sweet was last seen outside Manchester, Iowa driving a 2005 Chevrolet Avalanche, but the article doesn't say when. The murders must have happened over the weekend. His twitter account had the following comments from May 12, 2012:

3:10 AM - "Time to live my life"
3:35 AM - he asked someone to text him ASAP
11:33 AM - he asked the same person to text him now

There were some other tweets about strange stuff, and he hasn't tweeted for 22 hours now - since 2:53 pm on 5/13/12. Such a sad waste of lives. I don't think it will take too long to find this kid.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ought-couple-dead-home.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

http://twitter.com/#!/IsWeet37
 
Police in Manchester, Iowa are looking for 17 year old Isaiah Sweet, who was apparently their Grandson, and who lived with them. Other family members went to the home for Mother's Day on Sunday afternoon, and found the victims murdered. Isaiah Sweet was last seen outside Manchester, Iowa driving a 2005 Chevrolet Avalanche, but the article doesn't say when. The murders must have happened over the weekend. His twitter account had the following comments from May 12, 2012:

3:10 AM - "Time to live my life"
3:35 AM - he asked someone to text him ASAP
11:33 AM - he asked the same person to text him now

There were some other tweets about strange stuff, and he hasn't tweeted for 22 hours now - since 2:53 pm on 5/13/12. Such a sad waste of lives. I don't think it will take too long to find this kid.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ought-couple-dead-home.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

http://twitter.com/#!/IsWeet37

What's with these teen murderers? "Time to live my life." Okay, and that means you have to kill your parents/grandparents? Whatever happened to good old fashioned running away?
 
It will be interesting to see the sequence of events that led to the murder of Isaiah Sweet's grandparents, Janet Mae Sweet, 62, and Richard Lee Sweet, 55. Isaiah was arrested and held for a few hours early SUNDAY morning, 5/13/12 in Iowa City because he set off an alarm when he tried to get into a convenience store at 2:41 am Sunday. I think the murders may have happened 24 hours earlier when he tweeted on 5/12/12 at 3:10 am, that it was "Time to live my life".

"According to a criminal complaint, Isaiah Sweet spoke over the phone Friday with a person whom he told he had drugged his grandparents and thought they were dead because he could not find a pulse. Sweet also allegedly called that person Saturday morning and told her he had killed his grandparents."

http://www.press-citizen.com/articl...d-first-degree-murder-grandparents-Manchester
 
What happened in the life of this 17 yr old young man that led him down such a horrible destructive path?? Drugs or mental issues? So sad.


"Multiple neighbors described Sweet as a troubled teen who had fallen in with the wrong crowd after moving to Manchester to live with his grandparents, and said police were called to the home on numerous occasions."

"Sweet entered West Delaware schools as an eight-grader in 2008 and dropped out Feb. 3 as a high school junior, she said. School Superintendent Rickey would not comment on Sweet further due to student privacy laws."



http://www.press-citizen.com/articl...d-first-degree-murder-grandparents-Manchester
 
What happened in the life of this 17 yr old young man that led him down such a horrible destructive path?? Drugs or mental issues? So sad.


"Multiple neighbors described Sweet as a troubled teen who had fallen in with the wrong crowd after moving to Manchester to live with his grandparents, and said police were called to the home on numerous occasions."

"Sweet entered West Delaware schools as an eight-grader in 2008 and dropped out Feb. 3 as a high school junior, she said. School Superintendent Rickey would not comment on Sweet further due to student privacy laws."



http://www.press-citizen.com/articl...d-first-degree-murder-grandparents-Manchester

Not only that, but why were the warning signs not seen? They were all over his postings on the internet. He constantly bragged about doing nothing but getting high and/or drunk. He used lanaugage that was violent, racist, and derrogatory towards a lot of people. If my child was saying those things on Twitter, I would intervene. Sadly, the grandparents may have not even been aware of his on-line presence, and his Mom is in another state, so there are obviously issues there. The thing is, many of his other friends on Twitter and Facebook seem to be living the same kind of life. Where are their parents? Why do they think it is cool to curse, drink, do drugs, have sex etc??? I am sounding like a prude, but believe me - I like to party, and I have done my fair share of it, but I would never post the kind of things these kids post online. The biggest problem I have with it, is that there is NOTHING positive on some of their accounts. :banghead:
 
Isaiah Sweet charged with two counts of first-degree murder
"Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Sweet made his initial court appearance on Tuesday in Clayton County District Court in Elkader....The judge ordered that Sweet's bond remain at $1 million and scheduled a preliminary hearing for May 25."

http://www.press-citizen.com/articl...o-counts-first-degree-murder?odyssey=nav|head

VIDEO of initial court appearance: http://thegazette.com/2012/05/15/wa...court-appearance-in-manchester-double-murder/

This is just tragic! My HS age son knows people who knew him (and new of him)...from what I have heard he was pretty messed up. So so sad...my thoughts and prayers go out to the Sweet family and friends.

Here is a link to court filings:
https://www.iowacourts.state.ia.us/ESAWebApp/TIndexFrm
 
Isaiah Sweet charged with two counts of first-degree murder
"Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Sweet made his initial court appearance on Tuesday in Clayton County District Court in Elkader....The judge ordered that Sweet's bond remain at $1 million and scheduled a preliminary hearing for May 25."

http://www.press-citizen.com/articl...o-counts-first-degree-murder?odyssey=nav|head

VIDEO of initial court appearance: http://thegazette.com/2012/05/15/wa...court-appearance-in-manchester-double-murder/

This is just tragic! My HS age son knows people who knew him (and new of him)...from what I have heard he was pretty messed up. So so sad...my thoughts and prayers go out to the Sweet family and friends.

Here is a link to court filings:
https://www.iowacourts.state.ia.us/ESAWebApp/TIndexFrm

Wow... talk about six degrees of separation! When I first heard about this story, I did a google search for Isaiah Sweet and found his Twitter account immediately. From there, it was easy to find his Facebook, and when I first went to his account, it told me that we "had 1 friend in common". :what: What??? It is a teenage friend who lives close to me, HUNDREDS of miles away from Iowa, and who does not really know IS, she knows one of his friends, etc. etc..... It really is a small world, huh? I feel horrible for everyone involved in this case.
 
He looks young...., but will grow up fast during his trial...and not good for his stay in the prison system.

Just horrible all the way around. RIP Janet and Richard :rose: :rose:


ETA:
DCI: Counselor dropped Sweet off at Cedar Rapids apartments


Link has timeline also, but I am not succeeding at working it.

**Iowa City police Chief Sam Hargadine said Sweet told officers that his grandparents were en route to Rochester, Minn., inferring they were headed north toward the Mayo Clinic.

http://thegazette.com/2012/05/15/iowa-city-police-explain-encounter-with-manchester-murder-suspect/
 
I searched all over that site and couldn't pull up the article. I found this.




Read more: http://muscatinejournal.com/news/st...2ad-5344-bbf0-9d24f7846929.html#ixzz1vMMjoLGI

So I guess no drugging.

awww... why didnt' my link work? :) Sorry I was away for a lil bit. Trying again- the article still comes up for me... testing

http://wcfcourier.com/news/local/en...cle_1edaeb3d-5df6-5968-9bba-baadbc8bed4a.html

ok that seems to work.

Yeah, so his story of 'drugging' his grandparents was BS too-- so terrible, the whole thing.
 
awww... why didnt' my link work? :) Sorry I was away for a lil bit. Trying again- the article still comes up for me... testing

http://wcfcourier.com/news/local/en...cle_1edaeb3d-5df6-5968-9bba-baadbc8bed4a.html

ok that seems to work.

Yeah, so his story of 'drugging' his grandparents was BS too-- so terrible, the whole thing.

thank you! That one worked!

I wonder if this is BS, too.

According to Fisher, Sweet said he hadn't graduated from high school because his grandmother was always in the hospital being treated for leukemia.

"He seemed angry about it," she said


Read More: http://wcfcourier.com/news/local/en...df6-5968-9bba-baadbc8bed4a.html#ixzz1vMgDMG72

Also, in the article it stated that his grandparents were his legal guardians.

Wonder where Mom and Dad are?
 
http://www.press-citizen.com/articl...nancial-squabbles-infighting?odyssey=obinsite

MANCHESTER, IA. — Isaiah Richard Sweet was 4 when he moved in with his grandfather and step-grandmother, and they cared for the boy for the next 13 years.

In 2010, Janet Sweet rented a house in Manchester so that her stepdaughter, Stacy Sweet — Isaiah’s mother — could be a part of her son’s life.
The arrangement ended badly. The lease expired in July 2011, but Stacy Sweet allegedly stayed in the house with her sister, Alysia Sweet, 50 days beyond the lease’s end and ran up a bill of more than $1,800 in overdue rent and repairs to the home, according to court documents filed in Delaware County. Stacy Sweet was eventually evicted. A court ordered Janet Sweet to pay the back rent and other fees.

I was kind enough to give my stepdaughter Stacy Linn Sweet a second chance to get to know her son (Isaiah Sweet),” Janet Sweet wrote. “We’ve raised him since he was 4 and now 16½, but she does not deserve any more chances. Stacy has inflicted much suffering on her son, and I will never forgive her for that.

Stacy Sweet, who lived in Manchester until last year, could not be reached for comment Wednesday. Alysia Sweet, reached by telephone, declined to comment.


http://muscatinejournal.com/news/st...2ad-5344-bbf0-9d24f7846929.html#ixzz1vMMjoLGI

Autopsy results show a Manchester couple died of gunshot wounds, authorities said Wednesday.

Their bodies were found in their home on Mother's Day, and their grandson, 17-year-old Isaiah Sweet, faces two counts of first-degree murder. He is being charged as an adult.

I could not find any information on Isaiah's father in Iowa Court Records.

A very sad case. :mad:
 
So after all that his grandparents did for him, and after being taken advantage of by his mother, this is how Isaiah shows his thanks.

By shooting them dead. Unbelievable :(
 
:mad:

This is additional information concerning the mother that I forgot to post earlier.

http://www.press-citizen.com/articl...nancial-squabbles-infighting?odyssey=obinsite

Janet Sweet also sought child support payments from Stacy Sweet. Janet Sweet asked the court to keep her address a secret from Stacy Sweet because she believed her stepdaughter was dangerous, court documents allege.

Manchester police were called to the Sweet home several times in the past year, Police Chief Bruce Trapp said. He did not have a specific number or nature of calls to the home.


https://www.iowacourts.state.ia.us/ESAWebApp/TIndexFrm

This link to the Iowa court records will take you to a Petition for Child Support filed 12/23/2011 by grandmother Stacy Sweet asking for child support payments from the 17-yr olds mother, Janet Sweet.
 

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