I think most of us understand that most of the sickos out there used to have some potential to be decent humans. In some cases it’s substance abuse that breaks them and in other cases it’s internal demons – maybe from neglect or abuse as a child – that kills their good side and lets the evil come to the surface. And a very few seem to just be “born bad.

I read something wise not too long ago (it may actually have been on PYSIH) – that we don’t get credit for the things we are SUPPOSED to do, and that is so true. If your former friend had gotten a diploma, if he hadn’t assaulted and raped that poor woman, if.. if.. if… no one would tell him how wonderful he was – but we certainly will talk about how horrible he was for what he did. That is similar to the definition of “character” – how we act when no one else is watching.

I appreciate the fact that you didn’t try to tell us how great he was, and shared how disgusted you are with him. Since we don’t usually get credit for the things we are “supposed” to do, I am going to break the tradition and give YOU credit for doing the right thing. Take care.

I know exactly which lady this was too. Patrick and I had seen her when we were younger and skated at Santiago High together. She collected the cans out of the dumpsters near the autoshop. I can’t say how disappointing it was to find out that he had done such a brutal and disturbing thing.

Yeah, I’ll go ahead and say he was a good person when we were younger. Rough around the edges, but a good kid. As a twenty year old man…pretty fucked up. Last time I saw him, I was asking him to leave my mom’s house when I was visiting on leave. He was drunk and started trying to tell me that I was wasting my life in the army and that it would never do anything for me…drunken ramble…etc. etc. Disappointing.

Pat messed up during his freshmen year and ended up getting sent to a continuation school. We still skated pretty much everyday together. I can’t tell you how many times I told him to get back in normal school with me. Most of you see this as a brutal act and think that he was just a bad apple from the begginning. I was there the moment it started though. Stopped going to normal school, hung out with the dumb shits from continuation school, then it was all down hill. I didn’t know he was working at Mcdonald’s, but it doesn’t surprise me one bit.

I found this website tonight just by typing in his name on yahoo. I wanted to see how much time he got, since all I heard was rumor. He’s lucky that they gave him consecutive sentences in my opinion.

He needs to do a lot or “right things” for the rest of his life.

I don’t think any of you who commented above will argue anything I’ve said.

I’m telling you people, it’s fucking amazing to find out that someone who was your best friend ended up doing something as evil as this.

-Ryan