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"Fla. suspects up to 8 involved in couple’s slaying; Cameras set up for child care saw chilling break-in" by Melissa Nelson, Associated Press | July 14, 2009
PENSACOLA, Fla. - Byrd and Melanie Billings had a growing brood of adopted children with autism, Down syndrome, and other disabilities, and took care to make their nine-bedroom house a safe place for them, wiring it with surveillance cameras in every room.
It was those cameras that captured images of the masked men who shot the wealthy couple to death in a break-in executed with chilling precision. Authorities made three arrests over the weekend, but the mystery around town only deepened yesterday, when Sheriff David Morgan said that as many as eight people in all may have been involved and that the crime appeared to have “numerous motives,’’ though robbery was the only one he would mention.
The video from Thursday showed three armed, masked men arriving in a red van, entering through the front of the house, and then returning to the vehicle. Others dressed in what the sheriff called “ninja garb’’ went in through an unlocked utility door in the back. They were in and out in under 10 minutes.
The sheriff would not say what, if anything, was stolen. Some of the nine children in the house at the time were sleeping, but several others saw the break-in, authorities said. One left the house and went to get a neighbor, who called 911.
“I think you’ll find this particularly chilling and here’s why: We have a team that enters at the rear of the home and another that enters at the front of the home,’’ Morgan said. “It leads me to believe this was a very well-planned and methodical operation.’’
Morgan said, however, that there was no indication anyone had unlocked the door for the intruders. “I believe it was a matter of course in this community that they felt comfortable enough to leave the door unlocked,’’ he added.
The Billingses owned several local businesses, including a finance company and a used-car dealership. They lived in Beulah, a rural area west of Pensacola, near the Alabama line, in a house set deep in the woods. They had 16 children in all - 12 of them adopted. The surveillance system was installed to help the couple keep track of their children as they wandered through the large house and yard, said Susan Berry, principal of Escambia Westgate School in Pensacola, which some of the children attended.
There is something more to this that the media and government is not telling us.
Tips from the public led police to the van Saturday. Day laborer Wayne Coldiron, 41, turned himself in Sunday, and Leonard P. Gonzalez Jr., 35, was arrested the same day in a neighboring county. They were charged with murder and home invasion. Authorities also jailed Gonzalez’s father on a charge of evidence tampering. Police said the 56-year-old tried to paint over and hide damage on the van.
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Then the case gets even weirder:
PENSACOLA, Fla. - An ex-convict who taught self-defense to children. A day laborer who served prison time for killing a man in a fight. An Air Force staff sergeant attached to an elite special operations unit.
What's that?
Somehow, authorities say, they ended up part of a loosely connected group of seven men charged in the shooting deaths of Byrd and Melanie Billings, a wealthy Florida Panhandle couple known for adopting children with special needs.
The suspects, some dressed as ninjas, stole a safe and other items during the break-in Thursday at the sprawling Billings home west of Pensacola. Some of the masked men entered through the front door, while others slipped in through an unlocked utility door in the back. They were in and out in under 10 minutes. The crime was captured by an extensive video surveillance system the Billings used to keep tabs on their many children.
“It was a very well-planned and well-executed operation,’’ said Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan. The last three of the seven suspects were arrested yesterday, though Morgan said there still might be more arrests. State Attorney Bill Eddins said robbery was the main motive for the crime.
What were the others?
The suspects ranged in age from 16 to 56, and several were day laborers who knew each other through a pressure washing business and an auto detailer they worked for. One, Donnie Ray Stallworth, was with the Air Force Special Operations Command with an aircraft maintenance squadron at Hurlburt Field near Fort Walton Beach. It wasn’t clear how he knew the others.
And the MSM sure as hell ain't gonna investigate!
Morgan called suspect Leonard Gonzalez Jr., 35, a “pivotal person’’ in organizing the crime, but stopped short of identifying him as the mastermind. He was charged Sunday with murder.
Gonzalez, a former National Guard member and martial arts expert, taught self-defense classes for women and children. But records show Gonzalez, who was arrested Sunday in the Billings case, served time in Florida State Prison on burglary and forgery charges in the mid-1990s.
His father, Leonard Gonzalez Sr., was also arrested. The 56-year-old was charged Sunday night with evidence tampering after authorities said he tried to cover up some damage on a red van seen on surveillance video pulling away from the house. Officials said the damage was unrelated to the crime.
Then WTF?
The elder Gonzalez owned a pressure washing business and may have visited the Billings property once before. Another man arrested and charged with murder Sunday, day laborer Wayne Coldiron, 41, sometimes worked for him and also may have visited the property, Morgan said. Coldiron served two years in a Tennessee prison in the early 1990s after killing a man during a fight. He also served nearly two years in prison in Florida on an aggravated assault charge.
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Yeah, okay. So WHAT is with the Air Force guy?
PENSACOLA, Fla. - The accomplice assigned to turn off surveillance cameras before an elaborate, deadly break-in at a sprawling Florida Panhandle home never did, but the seven people accused in the crime apparently did not know that, authorities said yesterday.
Morgan said investigators have been pondering “the huge gap’’ in what was otherwise a precise, methodical crime for which the suspects had trained 30 days. They were a loosely connected group of mostly day laborers who knew one another through a power washing business and an auto detailing operation.
Investigators have not said what was in the safe or what else was taken from the house. Morgan said they also do not know why the camera system remained on. He speculated that maybe the person who was supposed to turn it off had an attack of conscience. “Who knows?’’ he said.
Yup, AmeriKa's cops hard at work! So WHY the STRANGE SILENCE?
Meanwhile yesterday, Morgan said police in Orange Beach, Ala., had found a real estate agent named Pamela Laverne Long. Authorities had earlier sought the public’s help finding her, saying they were concerned about her safety because she hadn’t been heard from in about two days.
WTF?
Police in Orange Beach, about 30 miles from Pensacola, found her at or near a marina yesterday afternoon, Morgan said. He said she was not in custody and was returning to Florida voluntarily. He said investigators believe she has “significant and substantial information’’ needed to conclude the case. Morgan said Long is friends with and rents property to 35-year-old Leonard Gonzalez Jr., whom Morgan described as a “pivotal person’’ in organizing the crime.
Curiouser and curiouser, huh?
Morgan also said authorities are looking for another person of interest who may have been assigned to turn off the surveillance system, possibly remotely, though he did not identify that person.
Why not? Forgive me for thinking it but Jewish?
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So WHY didn't the AIR FORCE GUY get a mention?
The MSM starts runnning with this Long lady?
Update:
PENSACOLA, Fla. - Investigators have found the safe stolen during a deadly break-in at the home of a wealthy Florida Panhandle couple, authorities said yesterday.
Melanie and Byrd Billings, who were known for adopting 13 children with special needs, were fatally shot last week. Surveillance cameras captured footage of masked men - some dressed as ninjas - slipping into front and back doors of their home near Pensacola.
Eight people have been charged - seven with murder and one with being an accessory after the fact. State Attorney Bill Eddins would not say where the safe was found, what was in it, or what else might have been taken from the home. He also said investigators have found several guns, including at least one they believe was used to kill the Billingses.
Eddins said the case was mostly wrapped up. “In our opinion this was a home invasion robbery where the people stole a safe,’’ he said. “It was as simple as that as to the motive.’’
Translation: WE GOT OURSELVES a COVER-UP!!!!
Surveillance videos led investigators to a red van used as a getaway car and eventually to the suspects, a loosely connected group of mostly day laborers who knew one another through a power washing business and an auto detailing operation, police said.
On Wednesday, deputies arrested the eighth suspect, 47-year-old Pamela Long Wiggins, charging her with accessory after the fact to murder, which carries a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison. The other seven - six men and a 16-year-old male - each face two counts of murder.
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Nothing about the AIR FORCE GUY in that SCRUBBED REPORT, MSM?
Once again the MSM of AmeriKa is engaged in DISTORTIONS and OMISSIONS!
