Monday, June 16, 2008

MACCLESFIELD, NC: McMILLANS TIE SON TO TREE, CHARGED WITH MURDER

Brice and Sandra McMillan tied their son to this tree until he died!



This undated police handout, shows 36-year-old Sandra Elizabeth McMillan, who along with Brice Brian McMillan, have been charged with murder and felony child abuse Friday, June 13, 2008, after the Macclesfield N.C., couple, allegedly tied their 13-year-old son to a tree for two nights as a punishment for disobedience.
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Couple Charged With Tying Son To Tree
N.C. Parents Charged With Murder For Leaving Son, 13, On Tree For 2 Nights
TARBORO, N.C., June 16, 2008


(AP) A couple accused of killing their 13-year-old son by tying him to a tree for two nights for punishment appeared in a North Carolina courtroom Monday to face charges of murder and felony child abuse.

Attorneys appeared Monday with Brice Brian McMillan, 41, and his wife Sandra Elizabeth McMillan, 36, of Macclesfield.

"It's a sad case," defense attorney Allen Powell, who represents Brice McMillian, said after the hearing. He declined any further comment, and the two did not enter a plea.

The county sheriff's office has said Brice McMillan told a deputy the teen was being disobedient and was forced to sleep outside last Tuesday while tied to a tree. The teen was released Wednesday morning, but again tied up that night for bad behavior.

Sheriff James Knight has said the boy was left tied to the tree until the following afternoon, when his stepmother found him unresponsive. Authorities believe the boy was bound to the tree with plastic ties and possibly other kinds of material.

WHERE DID THE McMILLAN'S LEARN THEIR PARENTING SKILL?
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/16/national/main4184323.shtml
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CHARLOTTE, NC: DID BETTY NEUMAR KILL 5 HUSBANDS?

Betty Johnson Neumar is shown at her booking. She is charged with hiring a hit man to kill her husband.

Police investigate wife for five dead husbands
CNN.com / July 16. 2008

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (AP) -- Police may have ignored a warning years ago that a woman with five dead spouses was trying to hire a hit man to kill one of the men, investigators in North Carolina said Monday.

Authorities charged 76-year-old Betty Neumar last month with one count of solicitation of murder in the July 1986 death of Harold Gentry. Gentry's brother had begged investigators for two decades to take another look at the case.

Stanly County sheriff's investigators believe Neumar tried to hire several people to kill Gentry. Lead detective Scott Williams said Monday his office is looking into the possibility that one of those would-be hit men went to authorities before Gentry's death, but no one took him seriously.

"That's another aspect we're looking into," Williams said, declining to elaborate.

Former Stanly County sheriff Ralph McSwain, who was in office when Gentry was killed, is recovering from a stroke and said he doesn't remember much about the case. He said the sheriff's detective who handled the investigation of the case is dead.

"This was a long time ago," McSwain said. "Could someone have come forward with information before it happened? Sure. I just don't know."

Neumar has been married five times since the 1950s, but each union ended with the death of her husband. Investigators want authorities elsewhere to look into the deaths. Williams said investigators have uncovered a common link among the victims: They all had military experience.

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