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Whitaker gets Death Sentence

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Sugar_Land_Wes
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for killing his family

Crazy - I grew up with this guy

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4612843.html
SJEAg
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Twisted. he seem normal when you knew him? Anyone know where they lived in Sugar Land?
Sugar_Land_Wes
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Seemed very normal - lived in Sugar Creek

I hung out with him often back in the Little League days, not so much after that
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Whitaker gettin' juiced.
SPO_Rat_91
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Sad story. I feel for the dad, what a nightmare.
SJEAg
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Did some reading up on it. Very sad. The murdered brother apparently was a pretty nice kid.
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Sugar_Land_Wes
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My friend works down at the courthouse and said the case is going to featured on 48 Hours
Diggity
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that family lived pretty modestly if they had millions tucked away in savings.
MAROON
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a million$ estate is not all that big .....probably more the norm in Sugar Creek than an exception.
agz win
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It is the norm in Sugar Creek.

Glad he got the death penalty. Hope as much harm and evil happens to him before and after the juice.

Can't understand how his friends who conspired and attempted earlier times to help kill and testified are allowed to still walk the streets, either. Prosecutors screwed up in cutting them such a lenient deal.
Diggity
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ahhh, i see. i think the article i read exaggerated the estate a bit.
Triangle Shirtwaist
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Very sad deal... I interacted with him on several occasions and felt the guy was off from the get go. Guess the first time I met him was in April or May of '03. He just seemed like a guy that would rather spit on you than talk to you. Like you could tell he thought of himself as being very superior to those around him.

Too bad Old Sparky is retired.
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They lived in Sugar Lakes, not that it's all THAT different from Sugar Creek, but it seems a little newer/nicer to me... I do think the houses are worth more over in Sugar Lakes though...

Regardless, this has got to be hard on the dad. I can't even imagine what he's going through - first to lose one son and wife at the hands of the other son, but then to lose the only remaining family he has left as well. Ugh.

Not saying that the son doesn't deserve it though. I think the prosecutor was spot-on when he essentially laughed at the defense's argument that he grew up feeling "isolated". He grew up privaledged - period.

Just a sad situation all the way around...
Omar Little
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This guy was one of my good friends in High school. We lost contact for a while when he got expeeled for breaking into the school. I even visited his sorry ass in the hospital when he was "shot". I sensed something was a bit weird then. The getaway driver dude was hanging out in there too. When we wuld hang out he had the nicest parents and such. Good christian family. I think he is a bona fide sociopath. I knew he was a bit strange sometimes but damn.
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^
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surely they teach spelling somewhere along the way to medical school.
Omar Little
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I dont proofread what I type and I am a horrible typist.
StEdsCOOG
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I thought it was Sugar Lakes. They need to fry this SOB.
elwoosag
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Wes...same reaction...can't believe someone that I went to school with and played little league baseball with is on death row. But you get what you deserve.
Triangle Shirtwaist
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Did Bart Whitaker get around or what???? I find it very strange so many posters on here have associated with -- in some form -- a convicted criminal about to go on Death Row. Is that weird or what?
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I don't find it strange the area where he lived sends a lot of kids to A&M.
agz win
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I think it was Sugar Lakes and it is newer than SugarCreek.

His parents gave him a $4k Rolex at the dinner celebrating his graduation the night just before they went home and the killings began. He didn't graduate and wasn't even enrolled at the time.
Sugar_Land_Wes
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Triangle - believe it or not, Sugar Land used to be alot smaller...people knew the majority of the people their same age, especially the younger ages through sports
Diggity
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it's always weird when you find out you know a killer. i knew a guy in high school that felt it was a good idea to shoot up mardi gras in galveston. can't say i was completely suprised about that one though.
StEdsCOOG
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My neighbor two houses down had his wife killed on Valentines Day, which was also her birthday. He use to come over to our house after her death and tell my parents about how much he missed her and this while the sherriffs department had told us he was the lead suspect. He ended up fleeing Sugar Land and was later arrested in Buffalo. It actually made its way to Unsolved Mysteries before his arrest. What makes it creepy is that we still have pictures of him and her at my parents Halloween party and that I use to go over to his house and watch him shoot arrows into targets in his backyard and I would run down to the target and grab them for him. He was a great guy from what I remember.
Aggiepax
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Diggity,

I went to that mardi gras. It was a spooky feeling after hearing the gun shot.
BMX Bandit
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due to be executed tonight, unless Gov. Abbott gives clemency, which has been recommended by the parole board
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https://www.click2houston.com/news/bart-whitakers-fate-rests-in-hands-of-gov-abbott-as-execution-date-inches-forward
Tom Hagen
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BMX Bandit said:

due to be executed tonight, unless Gov. Abbott gives clemency, which has been recommended by the parole board
It would be bad optics if the Abbott grants him clemency. Q10 would be on the news claiming it is because he is a white boy from the suburbs (and he would be right for once).
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Tom Hagen said:

BMX Bandit said:

due to be executed tonight, unless Gov. Abbott gives clemency, which has been recommended by the parole board
It would be bad optics if the Abbott grants him clemency. Q10 would be on the news claiming it is because he is a white boy from the suburbs (and he would be right for once).


And he'd be wrong.....again.
Al Bula
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And life without parole.
BMX Bandit
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Abbott doesn't give a spit what Q10 thinks or does.
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Sugar_Land_Wes said:

Seemed very normal - lived in Sugar Creek

I hung out with him often back in the Little League days, not so much after that
Buddy of mine played LL with him too....weird.
Liquid Wrench
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There was a lot of movement in and out of SW Houston and Fort Bend County in the 80s and 90s, but it was a slightly smaller world for longterm residents who were active in the community.
Tom Hagen
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BMX Bandit said:

Abbott doesn't give a spit what Q10 thinks or does.
A family murderer deserves to die.
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