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I'm open about this because I had nothing to do with the crimes. I can't let what my brother has done, define my life. Also with the internet, when ever someone Google's my name his crimes come up. I just have to accept it. There is nothing I could ever do to make up for what he's done. It's not my burden to try to atone for his actions. To try to do so would make me another victim.
Technically a serial killer needs to have killed 3 people. My brother has been only linked to 2 but is still being investigated for several others.
Article of his crimes
First, I must say I wish my brother had taken his own life before acting on the impulse to take the lives of the two women he killed.
To answer a question from another thread why have I changed from saying "He's an easy target. It seems like the media and the public wants to have a boogey man to go after, and he's an easy target." in an interview. To where I am no that he did it.
The reason is this. My brother's attorney, Kirk Osborn (the same one that represented the Duke Lacrosse players), had told my family that the large amounts of DNA that the prosecutor claimed to have was actually only a speck. Osborn said the DNA wasn't enough to get an accurate result and that the timeline that he was provided by the prosecutor from when they acquired my brother's DNA to when he was arrested, wasn't sufficient to acquire an accurate result. Osborn and his partner who I think was a former police officer or PI were emphatic that from their review of the evidence and crime scene reports that they didn't think my brother could have done it.
Osborn told us to do the interview and coached us on what the gist of our message should be in our own words. He didn't give us a script so we wouldn't sound rehearsed or stilted. There is some gamesmanship played by the attorneys. Do I think Osborn lied to get me to think my brother was innocent? I think he omitted or downplayed details. I understand because that was the best thing for his case.
Months after that, as more came out, the evidence is there and I feel that it shows my brother killed Stephanie Bennett and Rebecca Huismann.
Comments on the news articles, the book, the episode of Cold Case Files and another show that was on the ID network as about the type of parents he had.
I'm the youngest of 4 boys from the same parents. My brother was the 3rd son, 17 months older than me. My mom is great. Ran a daycare center and after my parents divorced when I was 12, she went back to college and eventually got her law degree. Years before my brother's first murder, my mom had co-founded a domestic abuse shelter that continues to help women today.
My dad was a jerk. He never hit my mom. I think the reason for that was, he was very good at keeping my brothers at odds against each other and if he were to raise a hand to my mom, that would unify us against him. Our dad used to hit us, but it was mostly spankings and didn't seem that different from what other parents in the neighborhood did to their kids. We just seemed to get spanked for more of the minor stuff, like if the toilet wasn't flushed. It was probably a neighbor kid, but that wasn't good enough. He'd spank us all till one admitted they had done it, and that kid would usually get grounded from TV watching for a month.
Another question is could my brother have been molested? I think it's unlikely. I was younger, I'd think we'd both have gotten approached if there was a molester in the family. The way my brother was, I'd think if there was a family member or family friend that started touching him in uncomfortable ways, he'd have said something or been blatantly obnoxious to that person. There was a time when we were kids that maybe something more happened than my brother would admit. When My brother and I would get off the bus from grade school, my parents and oldest 2 brothers would be gone at work. Once we were home, we rarely locked the door. I left to go to a friends house. According to my brother, shortly after I left someone started ringing the doorbell and knocking on each of the three exterior doors. My brother says he didn't answer the door. Eventually the person entered the house through the unlocked door and began ransacking the house. Drew hid behind a door till the person left the house.
Do I think he was raped that day? I don't think so, but I can't be certain. He seemed to have personality issues prior to that. He'd hold grudges and was really mean to me. I'd try to avoid him, but he seemed happiest when he was able to make me angry.
He did get bullied a lot at school. But he was also friends with some of the most popular kids in school. Though he was very quiet and not popular himself. Ironic thing is, people started joking around in middle school that he had a list of people he planned to kill.
There's too much to write in one sitting. Feel free to discuss.
Technically a serial killer needs to have killed 3 people. My brother has been only linked to 2 but is still being investigated for several others.
Article of his crimes
First, I must say I wish my brother had taken his own life before acting on the impulse to take the lives of the two women he killed.
To answer a question from another thread why have I changed from saying "He's an easy target. It seems like the media and the public wants to have a boogey man to go after, and he's an easy target." in an interview. To where I am no that he did it.
The reason is this. My brother's attorney, Kirk Osborn (the same one that represented the Duke Lacrosse players), had told my family that the large amounts of DNA that the prosecutor claimed to have was actually only a speck. Osborn said the DNA wasn't enough to get an accurate result and that the timeline that he was provided by the prosecutor from when they acquired my brother's DNA to when he was arrested, wasn't sufficient to acquire an accurate result. Osborn and his partner who I think was a former police officer or PI were emphatic that from their review of the evidence and crime scene reports that they didn't think my brother could have done it.
Osborn told us to do the interview and coached us on what the gist of our message should be in our own words. He didn't give us a script so we wouldn't sound rehearsed or stilted. There is some gamesmanship played by the attorneys. Do I think Osborn lied to get me to think my brother was innocent? I think he omitted or downplayed details. I understand because that was the best thing for his case.
Months after that, as more came out, the evidence is there and I feel that it shows my brother killed Stephanie Bennett and Rebecca Huismann.
Comments on the news articles, the book, the episode of Cold Case Files and another show that was on the ID network as about the type of parents he had.
I'm the youngest of 4 boys from the same parents. My brother was the 3rd son, 17 months older than me. My mom is great. Ran a daycare center and after my parents divorced when I was 12, she went back to college and eventually got her law degree. Years before my brother's first murder, my mom had co-founded a domestic abuse shelter that continues to help women today.
My dad was a jerk. He never hit my mom. I think the reason for that was, he was very good at keeping my brothers at odds against each other and if he were to raise a hand to my mom, that would unify us against him. Our dad used to hit us, but it was mostly spankings and didn't seem that different from what other parents in the neighborhood did to their kids. We just seemed to get spanked for more of the minor stuff, like if the toilet wasn't flushed. It was probably a neighbor kid, but that wasn't good enough. He'd spank us all till one admitted they had done it, and that kid would usually get grounded from TV watching for a month.
Another question is could my brother have been molested? I think it's unlikely. I was younger, I'd think we'd both have gotten approached if there was a molester in the family. The way my brother was, I'd think if there was a family member or family friend that started touching him in uncomfortable ways, he'd have said something or been blatantly obnoxious to that person. There was a time when we were kids that maybe something more happened than my brother would admit. When My brother and I would get off the bus from grade school, my parents and oldest 2 brothers would be gone at work. Once we were home, we rarely locked the door. I left to go to a friends house. According to my brother, shortly after I left someone started ringing the doorbell and knocking on each of the three exterior doors. My brother says he didn't answer the door. Eventually the person entered the house through the unlocked door and began ransacking the house. Drew hid behind a door till the person left the house.
Do I think he was raped that day? I don't think so, but I can't be certain. He seemed to have personality issues prior to that. He'd hold grudges and was really mean to me. I'd try to avoid him, but he seemed happiest when he was able to make me angry.
He did get bullied a lot at school. But he was also friends with some of the most popular kids in school. Though he was very quiet and not popular himself. Ironic thing is, people started joking around in middle school that he had a list of people he planned to kill.
There's too much to write in one sitting. Feel free to discuss.
for when I have time to read later.
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