GLENDALE - The eerie 911 tapes have been released in the May 30 stabbing of a Glendale family. Police say that 29-year-old Michael Miller stabbed his wife and 10-year-old daughter to death. His 4-year-old son survived being stabbed 11 times.
Michael Miller told police he tucked his son into bed the night before, and said a prayer together asking God to keep them safe.
Then, the next morning, he told a 911 dispatcher, "I just killed my family with a knife. All of them. All three of them."
Miller told detectives he was possessed and he visualized his wife, Adreana Miller, as a demon. Just before stabbing her at 4 a.m., he told police he started screaming lyrics from an Eminem song, saying, "Here comes Satan, I'm the anti-Christ, I'm going to kill you."
Miller admitted to police that when the kids awoke to their mother's screams, he stabbed them too. He said he stabbed his son Brian the most because he loved him the most.
Should we blame the knife and it's easy availability?
Should we blame religion?
Should we blame Eminem and rock/rap music?
Should we blame all having kids and being parents?
Should we blame all of America because its society creates the pressure experienced by this man?
Or should we blame the person that picked up the knife, the person that stabbed and killed his wife , the person that stabbed and killed his daughter, the person that stabbed his son?
In the end, I don't think we can place the responsibility on this crime on anyone other then the person that did it.
It isn't about blame as in finding fault with, it is about placing responsibility.
Every day hundreds of millions of people live in households with knives, but they never kill anyone.
Every day millions of people listen to music (I'm stretching to call rap music - but for the sake of the argument, just go with it) that has anti-social lyrics without killing anyone.
Every day, hundreds of billions of people lead religious lives without killing
anyone.
Every day, hundreds of billions of people have kids, raise them and lead successful lives as parents without killing anyone.
People make decisions, individual people have to be responsible for the consequences of their decisions.
It will be interesting to follow this one and see how it turns out.
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