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John Caudle: 14-Year-Old Kills Parents Over List of Chores
14-year-old John Caudle admitted to local authorities that he killed both his mother and step-father to getting out of doing his chores. According to the affidavit, "Caudle said the reason he shot Joanne Rinebarger was because he did not want to do household chores."
On October 27, 2009 Caudle allegedly first shot his mother, Joanne Rinebarger, with two .22 caliber pistols after an argument over chores escalated, he then hid in the laundry room, waiting for his step father to get home. The 98-pound kid shot his step-father, Tracy Rinebarger, as he walked past.
Court documents state that following the murders Caudle stayed up playing video games and watching movies before driving his step-father's truck to school. Friends and teachers said he seemed particularly friendly and upbeat that day.
Caudle was arrested after being stopped on Oct. 28 in Fairplay, a 3.5 hour drive from the family home in Monte Vista. When officers couldn't get a hold of Caudle's parents they called for a car swing by the house but Rio Grande County deputies were already at the scene after Caudle's grandfather found the bodies.
Caudle is being charged as an adult.
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at 16:42 on January 26th, 2010
A very sad story. Two lives ended and a 14 year old life ruined forever.
at 17:05 on January 26th, 2010
Shocking! How did a 14 year old get access to two guns? Young Turks said it best, "kids are stupid, that's why you don't keep guns around!"
at 22:54 on January 26th, 2010
Or you keep a lock on the fucking case/gunYou honestly don' think he could have done it with a knife?
at 17:37 on January 26th, 2010
This is awful
at 17:59 on January 26th, 2010
Should be an interesting trial.
at 18:10 on January 26th, 2010
The parents are responsible for their own deaths. How does a 14-year-old have access to their gun safe? I suppose as long as there are guns these kinds of crimes will continue. But I'm forgetting, guns don't kill people, children do? The parents were also responsible for his upbringing and training and failed or at least refused to believe they had an unbalanced child. Or maybe they had and he was on some weird medicine. It's wrong to charge him as an adult and I hope this will change before the court case. There is no link to the original story, why?
at 21:31 on January 26th, 2010
i'm sorry dude, but you want to call him a child, he was an adult liberal. How you determine to remove the american's right to be armed against the stupid and evil, it is absurd and i do hope you are killed before your stupidity harms innocent non-liberals. liberals are guilty.
at 23:50 on January 26th, 2010
according to your definition the family must have been republicans because liberals don't own guns!
at 18:55 on January 30th, 2010
No actually the parents are not responsible. I knew the kid personally and there is were absolutely no signs he was a murderer, he seemed as normal as any other teenage boy.
at 19:12 on January 26th, 2010
Obviously, this is not about "chores". This is about someone treated very badly, badly enough to want to kill his parents.
Access to guns is very, very secondary here.
Bravo, Roy.
at 19:46 on January 26th, 2010
What a load of crap. Tragic, but crap. Sounds like he's either spoiled and bratty or out of his head.
at 21:26 on January 26th, 2010
this is liberalism. it's going to get much worse. rape torture and enlavement to sadistic liberal satanist is on the rise. the liberal champions the most wicked. it going to get so much worse.
at 21:58 on January 26th, 2010
$5 says that when FOX News reports this, they defend the paren;t srights to stock guns, but blame the video games.
at 23:25 on January 26th, 2010
Liberalism is running wild in this country. They are taking over this country and must be stopped before it is too late. They will soon reanimate Hitler's dead body and begin a 5 year campaign to take over the world and kill all good god fearing conservatives.
at 23:58 on January 26th, 2010
Oct. 26 at 3:57 p.m. Joanne Rinebarger posted a message on her Facebook account; it was the last message she would ever post.......John Caudle, her 14-year-old son, was due home from school at 4 p.m. According to records in newly released court files, an argument over household chores broke out. Caudle allegedly went to his room, took two pistols he had previously hidden there, and shot his mother, killing her.............. www.alamosanews.com/v2_news_articles.php?heading=0&story_id=15543&page=72
at 00:00 on January 27th, 2010
countries which ban fire arms, especially hand guns have much lower rates of crime involving death by guns. We only have to remember the killings in schools and work places.
at 00:01 on January 27th, 2010
is it possible, since there was a step father that he hated his mother and step father and blamed them for his separation from his own father?
at 01:13 on January 27th, 2010
..no guns don;t kill people...but easy access to guns for people that aren;t right in the head kill people...the murder rate in the US is Way ahead of any industrialized country in the world...why?..most homicides are domestic in nature...easy access to guns...like in this case...this boy is obviously seriously disturbed to do something like this...but if he couldn;t go and pickout a .22 pistol laying around the house...his parents would still be alive...you Americans baffle mw with the awful tragedies that you will tolerate in your so called quest for "freedom and Liberty"...you have neither in your country...only chaos.....from a proud Canadian who has no handguns in his home and doesn;t give a flying fuck that my leberty and freedom may be compromised by the laws of my country...i can own a handgun if I wish but it's a pain in the ass to do so do to government regulations...I'll take infringement on my "rights"...knowing that the worst that may ever happen if my kid doesn;t want to do his chores is tray and beat me with a hockey stick......I'm not liberal in my political views btw...but I do have common sense...guns kill people and are better left out of the home...ever think about your right and freedom to live in asafe society?...no you don;t you just wnat your beleoved firearms...even though you misinterperet the constitional amendment to do so...your founding fathers certainly never envisioned the nightmare that has been created by that amendement...youhad just booted the British out of your country and wanted to make sure the populace was armed and ready ion case they came back,..but you got neo-cons refuse to beleive for the sake of your "liberty"....your all a bunch of morons......you'll never see the forest for the trees in your patriotic blindness.
at 17:07 on April 19th, 2010
yea welll wed blow ur shit up in yer face dick
at 02:38 on January 27th, 2010
This stuff about guns being locked up is BS, so you're telling me that if I had access to a gun at the age of 14 I'd shoot my own mum after having an argument? This kid is screwed up, if not guns maybe he'd have used knives or something else. People scream straigh away : he must have been abused, poor kid cos his parents are divorced. BS! Playing video games all night with his parents dead on a floor, laying in a pool of blood? Being happy and chatty next day at school? That has personality of a psychopath written all over him, lock this little retard and lock him up for good cos no amount of counselling and therapy will ever help to heal his twisted, soulless mind.
at 04:32 on January 27th, 2010
I blame those video games . His head is messed up because of them, he is not realistic at all. He is living in the unrealsitic world of video games, when you kill someone and then they become alive again !He is not right either, he possess a lack of love and selfishness , at 14 he should be more morally responsible!
at 17:05 on April 19th, 2010
OH fuck u asshole video games have nuthin to do with it
at 05:13 on January 27th, 2010
More on this can be fund here, John Caudle, 14, Kills Parents Over Chores, Say Colo. Police ...
at 07:48 on January 27th, 2010
its too bad that for the kid to feel happy his parents had to be dead. some personalities just don't mesh like a kid and their parent, but there is definetely something unbalanced in his brain chemistry in order for him to kill his parents without remorse, no matter how much he disliked them. especially at 14, a psych check should be done before he is criminally punished, it actually wouldn't be fair.
at 10:01 on January 27th, 2010
He could be a sociopath, being that he jus went to school the next day like nothin happen and was happy about it. But its a shame that it wasnt caught earlier that he had problems smh. Such a sad thing
at 13:27 on January 27th, 2010
I am a liberal through and through but I blame the shooter himself. 14 years old is plenty old enough to know the difference between right and wrong and he just didn't give a damn about his mom or his stepdad. I don't buy the "it wasn't about chores, it must have been about him being treated badly" argument at all. Sure, there are lots of parents who abuse their kids but this doesn't sound like one of those cases. I don't think someone who killed his parents because he had been treated badly would act like he did afterward. There are evil people in this world and he sounds like one of them. What the hell does liberalism have to do with this? Some people will take any situation and turn it into a foaming at the mouth rant against liberals. I think it is hilarious that people like Liberal H8ter and sorry dude seem to think they are somehow better than other people when it is clear from their posts that they are just idiots.
at 13:41 on January 27th, 2010
guns don't kill people UH UH I kill people, With guns POW!
at 19:12 on January 27th, 2010
ok, so i am a liberal. but i agree guns dont kill people. this kid was sick. i do blame the video games. they can mess you up at that age when the brain is not mature yet. i think he should be made to do chores for the rest of his life. death penalty is too easy a way out.
at 08:14 on January 28th, 2010
I'm from Poland and I really don't understand why do YOU (Americans) keep a gun at your homes? This is the reason, why things like that happens. We also have many problems with kids, pathological families and so on, and if we gave them a gun, they would probably kill each other in a while! So in my opinion, the access to gun is the main problem.PS. Sorry for my English
at 14:24 on January 28th, 2010
Your English is excellent, Aneta. So is your assessment of human nature and American culture. Shame on us.