LOL great minds think alike. I too would have to buy a new shovel for the task.
However later today on my way to work I remember a story very much like this when I was a teenager. This must have been around 1975 or 76 here in Ohio just one town over from where I grew up. The girl was 17 and she and her boyfriend killed the mom and two brothers. She shot them and I remember they didn't die right away so they decided to set the house on fire. I think the boys were about 7 and 9. Mom's name was Donna, I do remember that. Dad was out of town. Not to be racist but the boyfriend I remember was black. My dad was a cop at the time and everyone was looking for them. A salt and pepper couple is what the cops called them in private. They were stopped on their way to Canada, easy to spot of course. I remember a comment from the neighbor, she looked out her kitchen window and saw her friends house on fire. Her comment was "I hope Donna's ok". The interesting part about all this was that the father was later accused of molesting the daughter, which made such perfect sense. You don't get that kind of anger, hatred and revenage unless something else is going on. Perhaps the parents of this girl also had something to hide. Things are never as easy as they appear. There had to be something sinister going on at her house for her to seek the company of someone so old. Now that 30 years have passed I sometimes wonder what happened to that 17 year old girl. I am sure she is free. I wonder if what she did has ever registed with her. I wonder if her father felt any guilt. This is a sad sorry all the way around.

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Whether or not it was against the law for the 23 y/o to be dating the 12 y/o, my conversation with the "man" in question would have been very short and one sided. To paraphrase a line from an internet list ("Rules for dating an NCO's daughter"), I'm own weapons, and I have 2 1/2 acres of land with a pond surrounded by 600 acres of farmland. Your choice........