This is a big story around here, and it has been giving me a LOT of blog-fodder.
On Sept. 8, Donald Rudolph appeared in Quincy District Court charged with attempting to commit a crime and possession of burglarious tools. At the time of this court appearance, Rudolph was free on bail, awaiting trial on charges that he shot two people with a pellet gun in Quincy Center in April 2011.
At the Sept. 8th arraignment, a Norfolk County prosecutor asked Judge Diane Moriarty to revoke Rudolph’s bail in the pellet gun case.
The prosecutor also outlined the new charges, alleging that Rudolph was harassing a Quincy mother and daughter in an effort to collect on a drug debt. The prosecutor told the court that the family found its cat killed with a screwdriver driven through its head, screens cut open in the rear of the family home, and Rudolph beating on the doors trying to break in.
The prosecutor also revealed Rudolph kept a hammer on him. “He was found to have thrown what the victims initially thought to be a knife. But what turned out to be a hammer, which he admitted he carried in case he needs it. And in case he runs into the police.”
So we have violent assaults, Breaking and entering, killing animals, Drugs, and carrying of weapons for the expressed purpose of harming the police.
And they Let him go!
The defense lawyer also revealed that a state psychiatrist indicated Rudolph should be treated for “bipolar disorder, ADHD, PTSD, and paranoid schizophrenia depression.”
She added, “Your Honor, I just don’t think for Mr. Rudolph to be in Dedham (jail) for the next 60 days is going to help him at all with any of the underlying issues he and his parents have told me he has.”
So he’s also mentally ill, which includes psychosis (ADHD, PTSD, and Depression are a pain and can make life very difficult, but when your mental illness creates hallucinations and terrifying fantasies that’s when people around you start being in danger)
His folks posted bail…63 days later his Mother, sister, and Mom’s Boyfriend were found killed with a hammer and a knife…he was arrested at the scene.
What good do ANY laws do when dangerous people like this are allowed to wander freely? What would he have needed to do to get locked up BEFORE he committed a triple murder?
This is a system we need to fix.
And people, don’t trust the Justice system to keep you safe. Carry your guns!
He killed the people who bailed him out? Darwin award time! I have absolutely no sympathy. Maybe it comes from having enough criminals in my family who’ve been coddled all of their lives, and gone right back to their criminal behavior at the first opportunity after being bailed out, etc., but if one of your family members is a criminal and you all pull together to help that person out, well…
Yep I’ve seen such self-destructive (and family destructive) behavior first-hand myself.
I have some empathy for it….but its the same empathy to the person who REALLY wants to pat the tiger at the zoo.
I get it, they’re SUPER soft and pretty….but they’ll fucking eat you, not because they’re hungry, but because they’re BORED.
Yeah I get its your kin, and in a healthy family you’d all love each other. But Charles Manson and Hitler had a mommy too. Some times you just need to pull the plug.
I don’t understand why he wasn’t committed to a mental facility.
He had already proven himself to be dangerous.
While a great deal of people with mental issues are simply ill, there are some (like this thug) that are dangerous — we need to stop acting if there is no difference.
Because we lock up guns, and let the monsters walk free. Its the Bleeding Heart Liberal way.
This is also one for the “Gun Death” files.
As a triple homicide somehow counts less if a gun isn’t used.
Yep, It was already there last weekend…also I have another reference to it coming up on Friday.