Somethings are just beyond disturbing
So, on October 16, I went to Station 4 with Megan and Hunter. And while there, I saw a billion people. One of those people, happened to be this guy Brandon, who I hadn't seen in a while. (I met Brandon for the first time at a random apartment I went to with Brandon Weunsch before going to S4) Anyway, Brandon hugged me and talked to me a bit and I asked how he was, etc. And then we danced for a few minutes and went separate directions. Well! Guess what I found out! Here, I'll just show you the article:
Suspect's portrayal: sensitive, disturbed
Friends, affidavit differ on Rockwall teen held in parents' deaths
02:08 PM CST on Sunday, October 30, 2005
By MARGARITA MARTIN-HIDALGO / The Dallas Morning News
ROCKWALL - Those who knew him recall many sides of Brandon Dale Woodruff.
Wild and funny Brandon played pranks on friends, wore girls' cheerleader outfits and orange hair for pep rallies at Rockwall High and had been known to ride through the McDonald's drive-through on his horse.
Gentle Brandon shared his mother's love of animals, bred rabbits and raised a lamb that followed him around like a puppy. He was president of FFA his senior year and enjoyed the adoration of children in the Clovers 4-H Club in Rockwall.
An outgoing boy who was often the center of attention, Mr. Woodruff was voted the student with most school spirit in May.
So friends find it hard to believe that the 19-year-old they know could be the same person who police say shot and repeatedly stabbed his parents on Oct. 16.
Dennis Woodruff, 43, and his wife, Norma, 42, were found dead two days later in their gray manufactured home in the country northeast of Royse City.
Today, Brandon Woodruff sits in the Hunt County Detention Center, charged with two counts of capital murder. Bail for the Abilene Christian University freshman is set at $2 million. Mr. Woodruff declined to be interviewed, and a sheriff's deputy said he didn't know whether the suspect had an attorney.
While some family friends describe Mr. Woodruff as caring and sensitive, and his parents as loving and kind, an arrest affidavit filed with the case last week carries a more ominous tone. It portrays Mr. Woodruff as a disturbed young man who killed animals, physically abused his sister and secretly despised his parents.
Mr. Woodruff's sister, Charla, a 20-year-old college student in Arkansas, couldn't be reached, and other relatives declined to be interviewed.
Since the double shock that came first with the slayings, then with the son's arrest, friends have struggled to grasp what happened.
"My initial reaction was disbelief," said Rita Fechtel, a close friend of Mrs. Woodruff, speaking of the arrest. "I still think, 'Couldn't there be someone else that did this?' "
Those close to the family said Dennis and Norma Woodruff were devoted parents in what seemed to be a loving family.
Mrs. Woodruff was on the board of the Rockwall Youth Fair and was involved in 4-H and the Komen Race for the Cure. She was also a volunteer with Equest, said her friend Lili Kellogg, an instructor at the therapeutic horseback-riding center near Wylie. Her husband worked at Flextronics in the Dallas area.
The affidavit used to obtain the arrest warrant, however, sketches a darker picture, one that included borderline physical abuse and strained relationships between parents and children.
During interviews with police, the affidavit says, Charla Woodruff told police that her brother "would physically abuse her with a horse whip" and would force her to "to lie to their parents continually while they were growing up" to hide his misdeeds.
She said that her father had undergone anger-management treatment and that her brother "had inherited their father's temperament," the affidavit says.
Mrs. Fechtel said Norma Woodruff had complained that her son had become increasingly defiant in his late teens, but she said her friend seemed more exasperated than concerned.
Brandon Woodruff's friends from high school said he had changed his appearance radically during his senior year, trading his jeans and Western shirts for designer clothes. He had also dyed his dark hair blond.
Still, they said, he was the same old Brandon.
Chief Deputy Robert White of the Hunt County Sheriff's Department wouldn't discuss a possible motive for the killings.
A childhood friend, Emily Hensley, 18, said Mr. Woodruff and his parents had the typical disagreements about his staying out past curfew and spending too much time with friends, but she said he got along well with them. "He never talked about any strain or stress," she said.
He apparently showed it, however, on his profile on the blog site myspace.com, according to the arrest warrant affidavit. Authorities wrote that a high school friend who has known Mr. Woodruff since grade school saw an entry saying that he "hated his ... [expletive] parents and wished they were ... [expletive] dead."
The entry apparently was changed later to say he got along with his parents "ALL THE TIME .......LOL...... NO, Really, I LOVE THEM," the affidavit says.
The same friend told police Mr. Woodruff had a sinister side.
According to the affidavit, the friend said that several animals in Mr. Woodruff's care, including a horse, a lamb and dogs, had died mysteriously. The friend also said he knew Mr. Woodruff had used a shovel to kill a cat, then dropped her kittens from an overpass, the affidavit says.
Mr. Woodruff and his sister had both visited their parents - who were in the process of moving from Heath to Hunt County - on the weekend they died.
Police allege that Mr. Woodruff killed his parents sometime after 9 p.m., using a Colt .45 stolen from the parents of a girlfriend.
The girl's mother told police Mr. Woodruff had visited her family's home Oct. 15 and knew where the gun and ammunition were kept. The arrest warrant affidavit says bullets recovered from the Woodruffs' bodies and the crime scene were consistent with the stolen gun.
Investigators found no forced entry into the home and said valuables, including televisions, jewelry and a laptop computer, remained in plain view.
Tests for blood indicated the killer washed and showered in the bathroom, the affidavit says.
Chief White wouldn't say how many times the Woodruffs were stabbed, or with what, but the affidavit says the wounds were concentrated on the couple's heads and necks.
That was indication, the affidavit said, that whoever committed the crime was "enraged at the victims."
Yeah, so, apparently, I hugged and danced with a crazy murdered the night he murdered his parents. That is amazingly disturbing.
Suspect's portrayal: sensitive, disturbed
Friends, affidavit differ on Rockwall teen held in parents' deaths
02:08 PM CST on Sunday, October 30, 2005
By MARGARITA MARTIN-HIDALGO / The Dallas Morning News
ROCKWALL - Those who knew him recall many sides of Brandon Dale Woodruff.
Wild and funny Brandon played pranks on friends, wore girls' cheerleader outfits and orange hair for pep rallies at Rockwall High and had been known to ride through the McDonald's drive-through on his horse.
Gentle Brandon shared his mother's love of animals, bred rabbits and raised a lamb that followed him around like a puppy. He was president of FFA his senior year and enjoyed the adoration of children in the Clovers 4-H Club in Rockwall.
An outgoing boy who was often the center of attention, Mr. Woodruff was voted the student with most school spirit in May.
So friends find it hard to believe that the 19-year-old they know could be the same person who police say shot and repeatedly stabbed his parents on Oct. 16.
Dennis Woodruff, 43, and his wife, Norma, 42, were found dead two days later in their gray manufactured home in the country northeast of Royse City.
Today, Brandon Woodruff sits in the Hunt County Detention Center, charged with two counts of capital murder. Bail for the Abilene Christian University freshman is set at $2 million. Mr. Woodruff declined to be interviewed, and a sheriff's deputy said he didn't know whether the suspect had an attorney.
While some family friends describe Mr. Woodruff as caring and sensitive, and his parents as loving and kind, an arrest affidavit filed with the case last week carries a more ominous tone. It portrays Mr. Woodruff as a disturbed young man who killed animals, physically abused his sister and secretly despised his parents.
Mr. Woodruff's sister, Charla, a 20-year-old college student in Arkansas, couldn't be reached, and other relatives declined to be interviewed.
Since the double shock that came first with the slayings, then with the son's arrest, friends have struggled to grasp what happened.
"My initial reaction was disbelief," said Rita Fechtel, a close friend of Mrs. Woodruff, speaking of the arrest. "I still think, 'Couldn't there be someone else that did this?' "
Those close to the family said Dennis and Norma Woodruff were devoted parents in what seemed to be a loving family.
Mrs. Woodruff was on the board of the Rockwall Youth Fair and was involved in 4-H and the Komen Race for the Cure. She was also a volunteer with Equest, said her friend Lili Kellogg, an instructor at the therapeutic horseback-riding center near Wylie. Her husband worked at Flextronics in the Dallas area.
The affidavit used to obtain the arrest warrant, however, sketches a darker picture, one that included borderline physical abuse and strained relationships between parents and children.
During interviews with police, the affidavit says, Charla Woodruff told police that her brother "would physically abuse her with a horse whip" and would force her to "to lie to their parents continually while they were growing up" to hide his misdeeds.
She said that her father had undergone anger-management treatment and that her brother "had inherited their father's temperament," the affidavit says.
Mrs. Fechtel said Norma Woodruff had complained that her son had become increasingly defiant in his late teens, but she said her friend seemed more exasperated than concerned.
Brandon Woodruff's friends from high school said he had changed his appearance radically during his senior year, trading his jeans and Western shirts for designer clothes. He had also dyed his dark hair blond.
Still, they said, he was the same old Brandon.
Chief Deputy Robert White of the Hunt County Sheriff's Department wouldn't discuss a possible motive for the killings.
A childhood friend, Emily Hensley, 18, said Mr. Woodruff and his parents had the typical disagreements about his staying out past curfew and spending too much time with friends, but she said he got along well with them. "He never talked about any strain or stress," she said.
He apparently showed it, however, on his profile on the blog site myspace.com, according to the arrest warrant affidavit. Authorities wrote that a high school friend who has known Mr. Woodruff since grade school saw an entry saying that he "hated his ... [expletive] parents and wished they were ... [expletive] dead."
The entry apparently was changed later to say he got along with his parents "ALL THE TIME .......LOL...... NO, Really, I LOVE THEM," the affidavit says.
The same friend told police Mr. Woodruff had a sinister side.
According to the affidavit, the friend said that several animals in Mr. Woodruff's care, including a horse, a lamb and dogs, had died mysteriously. The friend also said he knew Mr. Woodruff had used a shovel to kill a cat, then dropped her kittens from an overpass, the affidavit says.
Mr. Woodruff and his sister had both visited their parents - who were in the process of moving from Heath to Hunt County - on the weekend they died.
Police allege that Mr. Woodruff killed his parents sometime after 9 p.m., using a Colt .45 stolen from the parents of a girlfriend.
The girl's mother told police Mr. Woodruff had visited her family's home Oct. 15 and knew where the gun and ammunition were kept. The arrest warrant affidavit says bullets recovered from the Woodruffs' bodies and the crime scene were consistent with the stolen gun.
Investigators found no forced entry into the home and said valuables, including televisions, jewelry and a laptop computer, remained in plain view.
Tests for blood indicated the killer washed and showered in the bathroom, the affidavit says.
Chief White wouldn't say how many times the Woodruffs were stabbed, or with what, but the affidavit says the wounds were concentrated on the couple's heads and necks.
That was indication, the affidavit said, that whoever committed the crime was "enraged at the victims."
Yeah, so, apparently, I hugged and danced with a crazy murdered the night he murdered his parents. That is amazingly disturbing.