Brothers charged in Dillon woman’s slaying waive bond hearing
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The two brothers who are among three teens charged in connection with the death of a 75-year-old Dillon woman reported missing Aug. 18 will remain in jail until their trial, having waived their bond...DILLON — The two brothers who are among three teens charged in connection with the death of a 75-year-old Dillon woman reported missing Aug. 18 will remain in jail until their trial, having waived their bond hearing Thursday morning.
THE SUSPECTS
Damian Inman
Lorenzo Inman
Brothers Damian Inman, 17, and Lorenzo Inman, 18, are charged with murder, first-degree burglary, armed robbery, kidnapping and grand larceny, Dillon County Capt. Cliff Arnette said in a previous interview.
A 15-year-old is charged with murder, but also might be charged with kidnapping pending the ongoing investigation, Arnette said. Authorities are working to have him charged as an adult in the case.
The Inmans appeared before 4th Circuit Court Judge Edward Cottingham at 10 a.m. Thursday in Dillon.
The state also requested that DNA samples be taken from the brothers because law enforcement officers found fluid evidence in the course of their investigation.
The body of the woman discovered Aug. 18 on a rural dirt road was positively identified Aug. 19 as Mary Alice Stutts, Arnette said.
Stutts was reported missing from her West Calhoun Street home by a friend who came to check on her, according to a Dillon Police Department incident report.
Stutts’ friend tried to reach her several times by phone before arriving at the house to find its side door open, her car missing, and Stutts nowhere to be found, according to the report.
Later that day, two of the suspects were seen by Dillon police driving Stutts’ White 1999 Toyota Camry.
A vehicle pursuit that ensued turned into a foot chase after the suspect lodged the car on some nearby railroad tracks, Dillon County Sheriff Major Hulon said in a previous interview.
One of the two suspects taken into custody led authorities to the body, just outside of Little Rock on S.C. 9.
Investigators said that same suspect, a teen boy, told them the identity of a third suspect, who was taken into custody at Dillon High School where he’s a student.
One of the suspects told police the teen went to school as usual after the suspects kidnapped the victim, shoved her in the trunk of her car before shooting her at close range and leaving her body on the dirt road.
Autopsy results indicating the cause and manner of Stutts’ death are not yet available.
The teen told police they turned up the volume on the car radio to muffle the sounds of the victim screaming and struggling in the trunk of the car.
Investigators said that at some point, the three suspects drove the car to a scrap yard, where they tried to sell it.
Employees at the scrap yard would not buy the car because the suspects didn’t have the proper paperwork showing they were the owners.
Investigators have not released a motive for the attack or why Stutts was targeted.
— Morning News Staff Writer Jamie Rogers contributed to this report.
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Posted by ( scarecrow457 ) on August 29, 2009 at 12:51 pm
DNA samples taken. The very reason I have been holding back my own comments on this developing story. Please tell me this absolutely cannot be what I have been thinking. Monsters already, how much more monstrous can we find them to be?
No, I didn’t say anything about forced sterilizations, and it’s people raising emotional red herrings like that that makes a rational discussion of the problem next to impossible.
Newt Gingrich ran into that when he started trying to open a discussion on it a few years ago. People who want to maintain the status quo of absolutely no restraints on reproduction always go that route.
A first step is to stop subsidizing large families, by limiting child dependent tax deductions to two. Then, there are lots of other ways to encourage responsible family planning. What needs to happen is a change in the basic culture.
Possibly another aggravating charge may be forthcoming. SLED is ordering a DNA sample taken from each suspect. Guess what for. At some point, society will conclude that in order to survive, it MUST exterminate such vermin.
While it’s true that the ignorant, uneducated and irresponsible are breeding at a much higher rate than the general population, there is little that can be done about it. Do you think forced sterilizations are the answer? A little too Hitleresque to me.
We are heading as a nation where the unskilled and uneducated cart riders outnumber the cart pullers. And once the politicians who pander to them become the only ones elected, this experiment called the USA will be effectively over. This shift has already started.
In the words of St. Paul, “What, then, shall we say to these things.“
There are large and growing areas of this country, especially in the South, where the very fabric of society has unraveled to the point of reaching Third World equivalency. Even Andy Rooney addressed this issue on “60 Minutes” many years ago.
He stated that we have a large and rapidly growing underclass that is completely unreachable and out of control, and which is multiplying at a much higher rate than the population as a whole.
It is not a racial issue, it is a cultural issue. It is not an economic issue, the missing wealth is in moral values, not money. There are plenty of white people in the underclass. There are plenty of financially well-off and powerful people in the underclass. And there are certainly a great many black, hispanic and poor people of all races who should never be considered a part of the underclass.
Everyone, and I do mean EVERYONE, has at least a little bit of trashiness in them. There’s nothing wrong with that, it what makes us colorful, interesting people. The hard part is being intellectually strong and honest enough to retain a sense of proportion, taste, and discernment. A little trashiness goes a long way.
The problem with the underclass is that they have built their ENTIRE lifestyle around trashiness. The idea has gotten somehow firmly established in our society that anything and everything is equal. The truth will not be denied, which is that virtually nothing identifiable in this world is fully equal to anything else.
In a world where trashiness rules, things like this senseless murder happen. We all bear a tiny little bit of responsibility for it, for allowing our culture to get this much out of control. Now, what can we do to get it back under control? That is beyond me. God only knows. But I’m afraid it won’t be easy or pretty.
Look at the human capacity for tolerance of deprivation: Somalia, Darfur, Calcutta, Cambodia, Latin America, and a host of others.
There is ONLY one problem in the world: Overpopulation. That is the underlying cause of any other problem you can name. A solution to that problem WILL ultimately take place. The only question remains the method. We can either solve it for ourselves, painlessly, or Nature will solve it for us, at an infinitesimally higher price.
It is up to us to use the Spirit of Wisdom promulgated to us via the active presence of the Holy Spirit to achieve that solution, and God’s ultimate plan.
+ His Eminence Has Spoken
I agree with everyone. These three should never see the light of day again, but at the same time, my daughter attends Dillon High. I have a problem with the police going to the high school to arrest one of them. What if he had a gun on him (cause I’ve been told of students having them out there) and decided not to go down without a fight. My child or someone elses child would be caught in the cross fire. I’m sure there could have been another way of getting him. Prayers to the Stutts family.
if it were my mother I would KILL them anyway it took!! They should not even have the chance to have a bond hearing! ANYONE who is sure to have done these type of crimes should be killed at once! BUT we will continue to go down this same road that will surely lead us to ruin!!!! BUY YOURSELF A GUN AND PLENTY AMMO!!!!!!!
And I really and truly hope and pray that one day you will learn how to turn off the ALL CAPS on your keyboard.
I DID NOT GET TO VOICE MY CONCERN WHEN THIS FIRST HAPPENED B/C THEY STOPPED ACCEPTING COMMENTS CONCERNING THIS MATTER. I HAVE A VERY BIG PROBLEM WITH THE FACT THAT MY SON ATTENDS DILLON HIGH AND TO KNOW THAT HE COULD HAVE BEEN SITTING BESIDE SOMEBODY THAT IS CAPABLE OF DOING THIS TO ANOTHER HUMAN BEING IS VERY DISTURBING. PARENTS PLEASE WAKE UP AND REALIZE THAT YOU CAN NOT BE A FRIEND TO YOUR CHILDREN YOU HAVE TO BE A PARENT!!!! THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH DISCIPLING YOUR CHILD WHEN THEY HAVE DONE WRONG, CORRECTING THEIR ACTIONS AND LETTING THEM KNOW THAT YOU CAN NOT MISTREAT OTHER PEOPLE, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY LETTING THEM KNOW THAT THERE ARE CONSEQUENCES FOR THEIR ACTIONS!! MY PRAYERS AND THOUGHTS ARE WITH THE STUTTS FAMILY AND I REALLY AND TRULEY HOPE AND PRAY THAT JUSTICE IS SERVERED FOR MRS. STUTTS
Where are these three being held? When will they go to trial?
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