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Tampa Mother Says She Killed Her Teen Kids for Being ‘Mouthy’

CNN:

A mother in Tampa, Florida has admitted in detail to killing her two teen-aged children, police said.

Tampa Mother Says She Killed Her Teen Kids for Being Mouthy

Police checking on the family at the request of a relative found Julie K. Sch

enecker, 50, on the back porch of her home Friday morning, dressed in blood-covered clothing, according to a police statement.

They found her son, Beau Powers Schenecker, 13, dead in the family’s SUV, which had been parked in the garage, the statement said. Calyx Powers Schenecker, 16, was in an upstairs bedroom, also dead.

“She did tell us that they talked back, that they were mouthy,” Tampa police spokeswoman Laura McElroy told CNN affiliate WTSP.

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  • John 1776
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 7:56pm

    Spooky. She kind of looks a bit like Hillary Clinton…..

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  • UlyssesP
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 7:54pm

    Planned Parenthood, delayed.

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  • NickDeringer
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 7:53pm

    Don’t worry, gang, NOW will come to her defense. She was the victim of a Chauvinistic, patriarchal society, etc.

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  • Enuff Zenuff
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 7:51pm

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    I nominate this lady for the 2011 DARWIN AWARD
    The Darwin Awards honor Charles Darwin by commemorating those who yield to natural selection and “remove” themselves from the gene pool…(usually by doing something idiotic) – thereby ensuring that the next generation is smarter by one. In her case she removed her own progeny which will have the same effect. Let‘s hope she doesn’t get another chance to reproduce.

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  • Fabian_Hunter
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 7:50pm

    Wtf? Stfu!!

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  • royalstar
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 7:47pm

    There is no logical explanation to insanity and or pure evil. I guess she believes abortion is legal at any age.

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  • Cobra Blue
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 7:43pm

    Oh well that explains everything. People have lost their conscience. Sad..sad.

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  • mrmikejohnson
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 7:42pm

    I’d like to introduce this woman to Bill Maher and see if she has the same response.

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  • mossbrain
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 7:40pm

    What is this wrong doing that you people speak of?

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  • Nick84
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 7:29pm

    I wonder what the comments would be like if she was black or Muslim.

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    • 82dAirborne
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 7:38pm

      My attitude wouldn’t change a bit.

      Why do you ask? Would yours? How could race/religion change anything about this horrible event?

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    • Nick84
      Posted on January 30, 2011 at 4:25am

      Have you seen any of the comments on stories involving violence from minorities on this site? I just find it a bit funny that when a white person does something wrong, it’s a messed up individual, but if she was black, people would be making comments about her race as a whole.

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  • 82dAirborne
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 7:29pm

    @cnsrvtvj – You are slipping! No link to the website????????

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  • APatriotFirst
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 7:27pm

    At 50, this woman may have some change of life issues going on. It does strange things to a womans thinking.
    No excuse, but a possible.

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  • xm-1774u
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 7:26pm

    thanks mom and dad for raising me right

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    • neverending
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 9:50pm

      Amen to that – my 7 brothers and sisters all thank my parents for raising us right!

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  • cnsrvtvj
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 7:23pm

    I forgot about him hk94dude. :-)

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  • HK94dude
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 7:18pm

    Bush’s fault

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  • Mainer forever
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 7:17pm

    Add your comments

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  • Mainer forever
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 7:16pm

    Such a sad story. …..What IS going on?

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    • Showtime
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 7:53pm

      Well, one thing’s for certain: “She ain’t right.” There’s something wrong with her, and I hope she is dealt with appropriately. If she’s not insane, well, two murders will get her the death sentence, won’t they? If she is insane, she should be hospitalized for a LONG time.

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    • Diane999
      Posted on January 30, 2011 at 12:09am

      So sad. My guess is this is some sort of impulse control disorder. Most of us today are guilty of failing to control our actions and blaming it on other or on society. But in reality we have two minds, the executive frontal lobes, and our limbic system is emotional and reacts without thinking. If we don’t train ourselves to stop and think before we do this can be the outcome… and this is the end result of needing instant gratification all the time. It takes work to be a thinking moral person. It is easy to not think, react, and lash out. She just happened to have a gun handy.

      But here’s the thing. You have to be brave enough to look at your own dysfunctional stuff before you can begin thinking about it and controlling it. It is hard, hard work and not filled with the promise of any gratification much less instant gratification.

      What did Glenn say? “The truth will set you free. But it will make you miserable first.” Truth is freedom from this kind of insanity. But it isn’t easy.

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  • RogueAmeritarian
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 7:15pm

    Death Penalty !!!

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    • CatB
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 9:53pm

      Multiple killing in Florida ..just might qualify if she doesn’t get some kind of insanity … btw .. if people killed teens for being mouthy we would not have any 20 year olds.

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    • independentvoteril
      Posted on January 30, 2011 at 12:13am

      CatB..we wouldn’t have any 15 year olds..LOL..

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    • silentwatcher
      Posted on January 30, 2011 at 12:20pm

      Once she really realizes what she did, when it all sinks in,,,,,,,she WILL be dead, emotionally and spiritually. She will never recover from that…sitting in the cell 24/7.

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  • taskmaster78
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 7:14pm

    Now your comment lightens up this sad story. LOL

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  • taskmaster78
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 7:13pm

    This a story of a truly disturb woman and should be put away for life.

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    • firstHat
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 11:51pm

      She looks sad and disturbed. Obviously something is wrong here. God help her and her family. Too many lives shattered in one terrible day.

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    • So
      Posted on January 30, 2011 at 7:37pm

      @ Firsthat, I thought so too.

      What she did was horribly wrong. She couldn’t be in her right mind. Her own mother knew she was depressed and called on her everyday (per news reports). Why didn’t the woman seek medical help? How could she hide her deep depression? So terribly sad.

      My heart breaks for the children and the father.

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  • Young Patriot
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 7:13pm

    Ironic part is, they talked back because that’s how she raised them. So instead of blaming herself, she kills her kids. Wonder if there were any indicators before this happened that could have saved the kids.

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    • P C BE DAMNED
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 8:50pm

      I hate kids. They are oppressive and even if a parent does everything they know the children take up with others who will teach them disrespect. Maybe they will come in wearing black clothes and black fingernails. You know the goth types. Maybe they will do drugs and in this world if you don’t get busy building up you will not survive unless you call living under a bridge surviving. Our society teaches so many awful confusing things like its OK to kill unborn children or maybe an operation can make a man into a woman like a woman is really just a man with a few extra stitches. The lunacy is maddening. I do not blame the mother. We live in an insane world and there is more of this every day.Yes she will have to pay and somehow I feel she already has. I may be all wrong but I have seen much suffering brought by just plain mean children and the stupid world they live in. Lets fix this world right here in America.

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    • Charles Hopewell
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 9:13pm

      PC

      I hope that you never have children to abuse. Children are nothing like you say, unless you are a lazy rotten parent. Children that do not respect you, will indeed make your life miserable. They feed off of your inadequacy as a parent. They also inherit the sins of their parents, like alcoholism or gambling.

      Children are a reflection of the parents willingness to think of, and care-for another life other than their own. Very rewarding.

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    • TIRED OF THE MADNESS
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 9:40pm

      You are taking the word of a deranged woman that said the reason she killed her children is that they “talked back”? She bought the gun 5 days earlier, shot her son in the car while coming home from a soccer game, then her daughter while she was doing her homework. Do they sound unruly to you? Oh, by the way, they were both excellent students with no history of “bad behavior.” The mother had just emailed her own mother about her depression a few days before… Come on, she had some issues! People on here seem to be blaming these kids who never thought their own mother would hurt them. Additionally, their poor, poor father lost both of his kids while he was serving in the middle east and is now coming home absolutely devastated. Get it together people.

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    • BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
      Posted on January 30, 2011 at 1:06am

      Some points I would like to make.

      1. I do not believe that children are always a reflection of their parents. Perhaps it was this way years and years ago when children actually spent time at home, around their parents etc., but now a days there are more external influences than there are internal influences.
      2. A normal/healthy parent could never do this to their child. Just at the thought of losing one of my kids makes my heart ache. BUT- my husband (although not military) had to serve with an Apache unit in Iraq for a year. His company moved us to a new state (away from all of my family and friends) just weeks before he had to leave. I did okay for the first few months. But, as we were not military I did not have the support that military wives have when their husbands deploy. I became very depressed. Nothing like this woman- BUT, I had never been so depressed before and my doctor even said I was suffering from panic attacks. I can definitely see how the husband‘s absence might have played a role in this woman’s mental decline.
      3. None of us are perfect. Man, woman, or child, we all have are faults. I can not blame the kids in this. I blame the mother, father, school system, and the necessary evil of war.

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on January 30, 2011 at 11:03am

      I agree with you, Tired.

      Something as simple as a child saying, “But, Mom!” could be interpreted as back talk rather than clarification, such as “But, Mom, I can‘t go to Aunt Lisa’s house if I have soccer practice.”, however inappropriately it may have been expressed. We’ll never know exactly what was said, to whom and what tone was used since both kids are dead.

      And I don’t blame the father, either, since he was doing his job, which happens to involve the U.S. Military. There have been hundreds of thousands of military couples in our country who have survived without killing each other or their children. That man has lost his entire family in one day.

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    • timber wolf
      Posted on January 30, 2011 at 3:46pm

      @ P C BE DAMNED,
      You support the murder of teenage children?

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  • cnerd
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 7:11pm

    Sad. I used to say I wanted to send my teens back to where they came from, but now that they are grown, I sorta miss those days. I do not understand it anymore. It’s like people have a programmed berserk switch. There is NO excuse for doing that! Is this where society is headed!?

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    • click4cheapandeasyweb
      Posted on January 30, 2011 at 12:46am

      God I hope not!

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    • WhiteFang
      Posted on January 30, 2011 at 12:47pm

      Disobedient, rebellious, disrespectful, mouthy teenagers need serious discipline from their parents. Even then, sometimes the kids just will not cooperate. They are the ones who wind up in prison’s with ruined lives. The consequences of rebellion is never good.

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  • TruthTalker
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 7:11pm

    go do your trolling elsewhere.

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  • cnsrvtvj
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 7:10pm

    I heard about this earlier today. What a horrible story. So are they going to blame this on Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, and Glenn Beck too? There have been way too many stories this week depicting a major decline in our society. Look at all the police officers that were shot this week. Very sad.

    http://www.donsmithshow.com – conservative news

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  • Curator_JDR
    Posted on January 29, 2011 at 7:10pm

    If this was a Muslim father or brother doing an “honor Killing” — as least I could understand that. What is the breakdown in society that people don’t take responsibility for their action? Whats the matter with the mother? She has the same look in her eyes, as Wanda B., the “wife” of the guy who kidnapped Elizabeth smart. Sick.

    http://www.marcrubin.com/dada.ivnu

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    • DagneyT
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 7:27pm

      How could an honor killing be understandable? A parent killing their child for ANY reason is inexcusable and sick. This picture of the mother tells me, “She is SICK and EVIL!”

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    • 82dAirborne
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 7:34pm

      @Curator_JDR – An “honor killing” is when you kill someone assaulting you or your family. NOT killing a member of your family.

      I do understand what you are saying about the world’s most peaceful religion. Wait a minute… That might be another honor killing: Shoot the father who killed one of his children!

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    • AmericanSoldier
      Posted on January 29, 2011 at 9:00pm

      All who curse their father or mother must be put to death. They are guilty of a capital offense. (Leviticus 20:9 NLT)

      American Soldier (Separated)  
    • liberal-pubic-hair
      Posted on January 30, 2011 at 4:34am

      Americansoldier, what was your mos? 88M? Did you do a real job, or sit in a AC building hiding out while the real people worked? Just hoping to get easy money for college? A left wing nut has not a spot in the military because they are for everything that’s against what the U.S. military stands for.

      Since you quote the bible, I’ll quote your holy book the Quran.

      “Believers, make war on the infidels who dwell around you. Deal firmly with them.” (Surah 9:121-)

      “Forbidden to you are…married women, except those you own as slaves.” (Surah 4:20-, 24-)

      “Seek out your enemies relentlessly.” (Surah 4:103-)

      All from the holy book of Islam.

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    • TIRED OF THE MADNESS
      Posted on January 30, 2011 at 1:21pm

      @ liberal pubic hair: um, did you know that 88Ms get blown up all the time driving convoys? I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt that you did know that, but were just having an “off” day when you made that post.

      But, 82nd is wrong about honor killings. Woman are killed when they are raped because of “honor” killings….same for adultery, and just recently in the US, a man killed his daughter for being too “western” – he claimed honor killing. Unfortunately, this goes on inside families and it is not reserved for outside offenders of Islam.

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    • gobluebuckeye
      Posted on January 31, 2011 at 7:36am

      @Curator

      I dont get your comment at all. You can find an Honor Killing justifiable??? What the heck is wrong with you?? I dont think you have any point at all if you can find ANY logic in Honor Killings!! You think its ok for fathers or brothers to kill their own family members because they are becoming westernized, or because of any dumb reason they might find to KILL their family. You make me sick

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    • chazman
      Posted on January 31, 2011 at 4:38pm

      Is she related to the idiot, Jared Laughner (sp)?

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    • chazman
      Posted on January 31, 2011 at 5:00pm

      God … I just killed my kids … that’s what the look on her face says. Geez …

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