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The Byrd and Melanie Billings homicide occurred on or about July 9, 2009, in Pensacola, Florida, United States. Byrd and Melanie Billings were found shot to death on July 9, 2009. The suspects, dressed in "ninja garb",Link stole a safe and other items during the break-in Thursday at the sprawling Billings home west of Pensacola. Many of the couple's adopted children were home at the time, but were not hurt by the intruders. Authorities would not say what was in the safe or what else was taken.
The wealthy couple were known for adopting children with special needs. They had a total of 16 children, 12 of whom were adopted.link Byrd Billings owned several businesses in the area.
Originally posted by VitalOverdose
The Byrd and Melanie Billings homicide occurred on or about July 9, 2009, in Pensacola, Florida, United States. Byrd and Melanie Billings were found shot to death on July 9, 2009. The suspects, dressed in "ninja garb",Link stole a safe and other items during the break-in Thursday at the sprawling Billings home west of Pensacola. Many of the couple's adopted children were home at the time, but were not hurt by the intruders. Authorities would not say what was in the safe or what else was taken.
The wealthy couple were known for adopting children with special needs. They had a total of 16 children, 12 of whom were adopted.link Byrd Billings owned several businesses in the area.
Just what could be in the safe that the police are not talking about?
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — Byrd and Melanie Billings had a growing brood of adopted children with autism, Down syndrome and other disabilities, and took care to make their nine-bedroom house a safe place for them, wiring it with surveillance cameras in every room.
It was those cameras that captured images of the masked men who shot the wealthy couple to death in a break-in executed with chilling precision.
Authorities made three arrests over the weekend, but the mystery around town only deepened Monday, when Sheriff David Morgan said that as many as eight people in all may have been involved and that the crime appeared to have “numerous motives,” though robbery was the only one he would mention.
“Mr. Billings was well-to-do. He was an entrepreneur and he opened his home to the community. You are asking me to speculate on a motive. That could have been one reason,” Morgan said, likening the killings to the 1959 slayings of a Kansas farm family that were chronicled by Truman Capote in the book “In Cold Blood.”
The video from last Thursday showed three armed, masked men arriving in a red van, entering through the front of the house and then returning to the vehicle. Others dressed in what the sheriff called “ninja garb” went in through an unlocked utility door in the back. They were in and out in under 10 minutes.
The sheriff would not say what, if anything, was stolen.
Originally posted by MrRahey
reply to post by The Killah29
I take offense to that statement. I think you should retract it. haha just joking, I am Canadian Funny though