31 Year Later Men Confess to Awful Crime
Posted By
Editor on Mar 26, 2010 5:33pm PDT
Thirty One years ago a group of five teenage boys left their homes to go play a game of basketball in the park, they never
returned. Now a ring of three men have come forward to confess to the brutal, horrifying night of their death.
Allegedly, Lee Evans, now 56, and his cousins, Philander Hampton, now 53, and Maurice Woody-Olds, who died at 48 in 2008, thought the boys had stolen a pound of marijuana from them and when they found the boys on the basketball court they decided to end their lives.
The men took the boys to a house where they tied them up and then they set it ablaze. All five boys died in the fire. Further details haven't become available but apparently Evans contacted the brother of one of the boys as well as the police to confess to the crime.
Both Evans and Hampton are being charged with murder and arson and are being held on %5 million dollars in bail.
A crime such as this, while horrible, can mean your life in the state of California. Defense Attorney Robert Michael Helfend can help you stay alive and argue in favor of life in prison or perhaps even help in getting charges reduced in a case like this. Although it is clear that the perpetrators feel guilty and want to in some tiny way make amends by serving their sentence, they should also think about the very real possibility of the death penalty and hire Robert Helfend to try and help them both avoid it.