Hi Dancin' I live in Atlanta so I am not new to the headlines on this case from way back - though I didn't seek out Web Sleuths at the time. This case still bothers me.
So, let's look at the illogical, makes-no-sense, random side-of-the-coin for a minute here with the Dermond case. I am reminded of a horrifically awful triple murder at
Faria Beach in 2009. The link is in the last sentence, but I will summarize here.
- Well-liked, upper-middle-class family is watching American Idol in the Faria Beach oceanfront home (the mother is visibly pregnant)
- Intruder appears at sliding glass door dressed in all black and motorcycle helmet and demands money
- 9 year-old offers $1000 from mom & dad's wallets
- Intruder refuses the money, takes parents into the back bedroom. Assaults the mother and viciously stabs (30x times) all three (including unborn) with a knife retrieved from their own butcher block
- Intruder exits without money
- Senseless, Barbaric, Illogical, Evil
- Much speculation that it was a disgruntled ex-employee or business partner, and a personal attack due to the overkill. But... Why murder if robbery? Why murder if no weapon brought to house?
- Similarities to Dermond Case: Unlikely victims, Upscale neighborhood, no clear motive, vicious M.O.
- Differences: DNA was left at the scene (but initially no match), unorganized.
- A subsequent robbery eventually led to a DNA match a year later. To this day, the murderer in the Husted case has offered no motive for the escalation of the crime
Is it
possible (not probable) that the Dermond case is equally as illogical (though more organized) and, truly random, therefore the puzzle pieces just won't fit together??
