6 troubled teens from eastern Kentucky take a road trip and do the unthinkable.6 troubled teens from eastern Kentucky take a road trip and do the unthinkable.6 troubled teens from eastern Kentucky take a road trip and do the unthinkable.
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Charles Berkeley Bell
- Self - Assistant DA
- (as Charles Berkeley Bell Jr.)
Jason Blake Bryant
- Self
- (archive footage)
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Slandering A Town & Satanism Turning Kids Into Killers
Man, if ever a Chamber of Commerce could sue a TV network over slander (or whatever) I would think the town of Pikeville, Ky., could do that with this program. The writers here are brutal against this town, quoting a couple of kids who want to get out because it's a dead- end town with no decent jobs, etc. They hammer that point at the beginning of the episode, several times during the middle part and once more at the end.
Regardless, the crime story here - the real tragedy - is a group of a half-dozen kids who decide to get "the hell out" of town and wind up killing a really innocent family in Tennessee. The latter, the "Lillelid" family (mom, day and two young kids, one of whom survived), were shot to death simply so the teens could take their van which would be a better vehicle and would more likely be able to get them to New Orleans.
The kids met this family at a rest stop. The Lillelids were Jehovah's Witnesses who had just come from a convention. The father, seizing an opportunity to witness to these Gothic-dressed kids, began a conversation about God.....and a short time later, the punks took his family and their van, killing three-fourths of them and then getting arrested the next day while trying to cross the border in Arizona. (Apparently, the murders made them change their minds about heading to New Orleans.)
The program delves mainly into these kids, their background and the town of Pikeville. One girl, "Natasha Cornett," (there were two girls and four boys in on the crime) is interviewed from jail and one of her good friends also interjects comments a half dozen times. That was one bias in this show I thought was glaring: few, if any people interviewed, except the district attorney who made general comments, gave the opposing view. There was too much sympathy for the teens, although if only one did the shooting it seems a little harsh all would get life imprisonment. Nonetheless, you can feel the usual slant of blame-others-and-don't-take-responsibility- for-your-own-actions mentality.
As it is shown here, these kids got into Satanism and the evil that seems to go with it. They pumped 17 bullets into those innocent people, trying to form a pentacle, a devil symbol, with the bullet holes. Nice, huh?. I found it hard to feel too sorry for them, although this program tries to do that in a few spots.
Regardless of what percentage of the blame is designated to whom and what, the whole affair was ugly and this "City Confidential" left you with a sour taste in your mouth. It was a horrible crime.
Regardless, the crime story here - the real tragedy - is a group of a half-dozen kids who decide to get "the hell out" of town and wind up killing a really innocent family in Tennessee. The latter, the "Lillelid" family (mom, day and two young kids, one of whom survived), were shot to death simply so the teens could take their van which would be a better vehicle and would more likely be able to get them to New Orleans.
The kids met this family at a rest stop. The Lillelids were Jehovah's Witnesses who had just come from a convention. The father, seizing an opportunity to witness to these Gothic-dressed kids, began a conversation about God.....and a short time later, the punks took his family and their van, killing three-fourths of them and then getting arrested the next day while trying to cross the border in Arizona. (Apparently, the murders made them change their minds about heading to New Orleans.)
The program delves mainly into these kids, their background and the town of Pikeville. One girl, "Natasha Cornett," (there were two girls and four boys in on the crime) is interviewed from jail and one of her good friends also interjects comments a half dozen times. That was one bias in this show I thought was glaring: few, if any people interviewed, except the district attorney who made general comments, gave the opposing view. There was too much sympathy for the teens, although if only one did the shooting it seems a little harsh all would get life imprisonment. Nonetheless, you can feel the usual slant of blame-others-and-don't-take-responsibility- for-your-own-actions mentality.
As it is shown here, these kids got into Satanism and the evil that seems to go with it. They pumped 17 bullets into those innocent people, trying to form a pentacle, a devil symbol, with the bullet holes. Nice, huh?. I found it hard to feel too sorry for them, although this program tries to do that in a few spots.
Regardless of what percentage of the blame is designated to whom and what, the whole affair was ugly and this "City Confidential" left you with a sour taste in your mouth. It was a horrible crime.
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- Apr 14, 2008
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