The Moment I Lost All Sympathy
March 30th 2009 21:00
In 1987 two teenage boys in Arkansas were murdered and then their bodies were placed on train tracks, covered with a tarpaulin and later run over by a train.
The mysterious circumstances surrounding their deaths were covered in Unsolved Mysteries, an American TV show where viewers with any information on unsolved crimes are encouraged to call in.
It was a terrible way to die and at first, I felt a lot of sympathy for the grieving families of the boys. That was until halfway through the segment, when one of the boy’s parents happened to mention the boys were spotlighting on the night of their deaths, a form of hunting which was outlawed in Arkansas where one person shines a spotlight into the target animal’s eyes, transfixing it, while his partner shoots the animal.
All I could think of from then on was the number of animals they had killed. Did they hunt the animals for food or their hides or did they simply leave them there to die? What kind of person gets kicks from killing animals for sport? It also made me wonder why the parents would allow their children to participate in such a cruel hobby. The father said he was unaware at the time that spotlighting was illegal but still…
The episode is shown below:
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