Juan Gato has a take on one of the more horrific crimes to occur in my neck of the woods in some time:

According to police, Sweeney's girlfriend lured him to a vacant gravel path by the Delaware River (search) where three teenage boys were waiting. They attacked Sweeney with a hammer and hatchet until his heart stopped, authorities said.

The four teens — after a group hug — then robbed the victim, dividing up the $500 that Sweeney had earned at his construction job and went on a drug binge, police said.

"We took Sweeney's wallet and split up the money, and we partied beyond redemption," Dominic Coia, 18, told detectives, according to a transcript of his June 3 confession.

Beyond redemption. No truer words have been spoken. The one parent claims her kid only did it because the brothers made him, the girl to me is just evil. I hope they rot for fifty years each but they'll be out in 10.