Saturday, March 27, 2010

Man says dad's order got him out of accused killer's truck

The case of the "Clinton Avenue Five" may have finally been put to rest. After nearly 32 years Lee Anthony Evans and Philander Hampton were arrested on 5 counts of murder as well as arson. The night of August 20, 1978 Evans came by in his truck and picked up a bunch of teenagers. Roderick Royster was the sixth teen that ended up getting out of the truck because his father told him to. The teenagers later went missing and it was recently discovered that Evans and Hampton had taken the five teenagers to an abandoned building and burned them inside.

This is such a tragic story, but it shows that if you just listen to your parents they might actually be saving your life. Also I think that its good the case was finally solved. It gives the families closure and will hopefully end in the punishment in the doer of the crime. Sometimes it seems a little ridiculous that cases remain open and under investigation for that long but I think its only fair to the family and friends of the victims to solve the case and let them what happened.

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