South Carolina man slow cooks two people he kills and gets bail

[indo80]

Early in the morning on March 5, James Edward Loftis found himself facing two men in his South Carolina home. The men were demanding cab fare for the ride Loftis had just received.

“I’ll get your money,” he told them, according to his own account given to police and recorded in an arrest warrant soon after.

Instead, the warrant said, Loftis retrieved a .45-caliber semi-automatic handgun, returned to the living room and fired off eight shots, striking both men.

He then went to get gas, cleaned his home with bleach and burned the two bodies, along with his clothes and towels, in the back yard, according to the document.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...er-he-shot-buried-and-slow-cooked-two-people/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...er-he-shot-buried-and-slow-cooked-two-people/


He evades paying cab fare and his victims are in his living room. He gets a gun from the bedroom and shoots them both dead. He slows cooks the two and buries them in his backyard. The judge gives him bail.....White privilege?

 

[Michaelangelo]

lol at his lawyer

“He’s a human being,” defense attorney Stephen Harris said, according to the Post and Courier. “He freaked out and thought he was going to prison, so he tried to hide the bodies. Nobody knows how you’re going to react when you kill two people.”

 

[Primitivo]

 

[dontsnitch]

lol at his lawyer

You mean when you panic after killing two guys, you don't methodically clean your home and burn the evidence in the backyard? Classic panic reaction.

 

[Seano]

Misleading thread title.

 

[TheStruggle]

lol at his lawyer

Well if he was really high....

 

[indo80]

Misleading thread title.

In what world is that title misleading your highness?

 

[dontsnitch]

In what world is that title misleading your highness?

By your title, I thought the murderer put the two victims in a slow cooker, with the intention of eating them or some such. Seems like he was just trying to burn the evidence.

Not sure it's a big deal, as I imagine it wasn't your point.

 

[HereticBD]

Wait, he killed them before slow cooking them?

Disappointing.

 

[Seano]

In what world is that title misleading your highness?

It doesn't reflect the actual story. The story sort of explains why he got bail too.

Not saying I condone his crime. Just saying the thread titles conjures a different image of what the story says.

 

[Satsui Ryu]

This thread title made me think this was an episode of Barbecue Pitmasters gone horribly wrong.

 

[jefferz]

Why was there 2 cabbies there? Something doesn't add up.

 

[indo80]

By your title, I thought the murderer put the two victims in a slow cooker, with the intention of eating them or some such. Seems like he was just trying to burn the evidence.

Not sure it's a big deal, as I imagine it wasn't your point.

eating them did not come to my mind, you guys watch too many

It doesn't reflect the actual story. The story sort of explains why he got bail too.

Not saying I condone his crime. Just saying the thread titles conjures a different image of what the story says.

Early in the morning on March 5, James Edward Loftis found himself facing two men in his South Carolina home. The men were demanding cab fare for the ride Loftis had just received.

“I’ll get your money,” he told them, according to his own account given to police and recorded in an arrest warrant soon after.

Instead, the warrant said, Loftis retrieved a .45-caliber semi-automatic handgun, returned to the living room and fired off eight shots, striking both men.

He then went to get gas, cleaned his home with bleach and burned the two bodies, along with his clothes and towels, in the back yard, according to the document.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...er-he-shot-buried-and-slow-cooked-two-people/



i'll add this to the main post as well and let people decide

 

[dontsnitch]

eating them did not come to my mind, you guys watch too many

It's not a big deal either way.

 

[indo80]

It's not a big deal either way.

I wonder if the south carolina judge would have granted bail even if there was a taste test done

 

[Fawlty]

No recipe in this thread, I'm out.

 

[dontsnitch]

I wonder if the south carolina judge would have granted bail even if there was a taste test done

I'd say no. I don't know much about how law works down in your slice of paradise, so I'm not fit to offer any meaningful commentary here.

 

[RerouteToRemain]

In what world is that title misleading your highness?

I legit thought(from your title) he kidnapped and slowly cooked them in/on something.

Not that he burned two dead bodies to hide evidence.

 

[Pelosi2020]

Glad they caught this cannibal before he slow cooked more people.

 

[IDL]

He did pepper and smoke them with shots first