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Originally posted by sycamore
I'm curious...where did you hear that information? I did hear that the uncle had been murdered, but that the insurance policy stuff was rumor at this point...apparently the family is saying that they received no money.
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From the coverage in The Inquirer, who did indeed say that was a rumor. Evidently the rumor was belevable enough for the perps to act on it.
I still don't think insisting a seven-year-old stay inside a Philly row house at 9:30 on a super-hot summer evening makes sense. These kids don't have yards to play in, the house was likely not air-conditioned, the sidewalk is their play space. Row houses are unbearably *hot* in the summer. This is a close-knit neighborhood, and a hue and cry was raised the instant these guys made their move.
The very same technique would have worked at a suburban shopping mall with adults around everywhere. In fact, the very same technique works *on adults* in suburban shopping malls.