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Why did they kill Sandra Stottler just for a car?


it doesnt make sense, did she put up a fight or something? going in the house planning to killer her just for a camero doesnt make any sense, and then to kill 2 more people, was there actually a reason or were they just crazy?

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Who knows what goes through another persons mind.

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People die for less every day. The world is full of people that don't deserve to be here.

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Gone too soon:
Firefly
New Amsterdam
Journeyman
Life
terriers
SGU
Prime Suspect

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i think the film makes a rather convincing argument about capital punishment, not just as a means of administering punishment to deter violent, criminal behavior, but as an act of old testament retribution. it also acknowledges that it does have an effect on us, especially for those who are more intimately involved in the process. besides, there is very little evidence to support the claim that capital punishment does anything to deter the actions of lifelong, violent criminals. criminal justice and incarceration does more to permeate violent behavior than anything else. some see it as the only real viable solution, especially in a country that incarcerates more people per capita, but it's a short-term solution, and one that advances a systemic problem it presumes to remedy.

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Didn't the cop state that it was a theft that went wrong? I guess that Sandra Stottler found out about it and tried to stop them. Or maybe she did nothing more than see the perpetrators and they killed her in the hope that they wouldn't be perscecuted. The two other boys were murdered because the gates of the compound were closed and they needed a keycard.

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Because they enjoyed it, plain and simple. Just 2 sadistic SOB's.

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I was wondering that too.
As it said in the synopsis -

"an examination of why people - and the state - kill".

It didn't say "why".
I think they should rewrite the synopsis.

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That's what I thought. I mean if they just pointed a gun to her head, she'd give them the keys. And also, if they wanted to get in, why couldn't they just follow the two young boys through the gate? Why did they have to kill them to get the key to the door?

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1. I think they killed her because she saw them and kind of knew them. I'm sure she'd seen them before. Probably would have killed her whether or not she fought.

2. They were too stupid to just follow the other boys through the gate. Plus they killed the mom and left a bloody mess, and they'd have to get back into the garage to get the red car after the other two boys. They would have been intercepted.

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They dumped the mom's body into the lake, right? But yeah I guess they didn't clean up the blood.

It's sooo so sad how three people were murdered in cold blood for a car, a freaking piece of metal.

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Yea they dumped the poor woman before her son and his friend returned. But the crime scene footage showed blood splattered everywhere and signs of struggle that I just assumed were from the mother since they killed the boys in the woods.

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