I can still remember how taken aback I was by the sheer brutality of these murders, when I first saw it on the news some years ago already, that once again made me realize, how this had become such a violent and lawless nation, in more ways then one. (Especially, with the unprovoked attack on Iraq still looming in the background). As well as, other things that also seemed to indicate a serious, intrinsic problem (and pattern) - which especially shocked me in relation to this particular heinous crime; such as the fact that the police did not arrive at the scene until something like 30 minutes after the 911 call. Nor, had they even attempted to do anything, such as try to enter the premises for instance, until the killers brutalized, raped, and strangled the mother, tortured and raped at least one of the young girls, dosed them with gasoline and burnt the house down - killing everyone inside! Except, Dr. William Petite, who (seriously beaten himself) manged to narrowly escape, while the cops waited outside...
It seemed so obviously and deliberately callous, indifferent, and negligent, that it had even prompted one viewer to remark in horror, in relation to an excellent video documentary about the story posted to YouTube (with embedding disabled, so I was unable to share it here), called: 'The Cheshire Murders', by posting such a cynical (yet pretty understandable) statement (in light of it all), such as: "Lesson: don't rely on police to save your family when in danger." -My email Wow!
Some other interesting YouTube viewer comments: "the police should have gone to the house immediately, and gone inside, and rescued the family. instead, they waited around outside..the police inadequacy can't be smoothed over at all by the da's lame words, but he says them nonetheless." -Jane Doe "If some fucker had $10 of dope rhey would have been there" -arrgh garry "So what is the actual update on this case??Please do tell me these mongrel's fired??" -Sammy Lane "Monsters" -Barbara E