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Slain Couple's Safe Had Jewelry, Cops Say

By BILL KACZOR
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posted: 112 DAYS 20 HOURS AGO
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PENSACOLA, Fla. (July 17) - A Florida sheriff has confirmed that the safe taken from the home of a slain Panhandle couple held only adoption papers and other documents, heirloom jewelry and some of the family's prescription medication.
Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan would not say Friday if the killers of Byrd and Melanie Billings expected to find other items in the microwave-sized safe. Morgan said investigators have not yet determined whether the killers even managed to open the safe, which was found buried in a Pensacola-area backyard with bricks piled on top.
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The sheriff's news conference came the afternoon after the Billings' funeral. The couple was known for adopting 13 special needs children.
They were shot to death in their nine-bedroom home west of Pensacola last week.
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2009-07-17 03:48:18

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Belinda698

08:50 PMJul 19 2009

All I can say about this murder spree is that the killers must not have known what was really going on in the home. All they see is this huge expensive home with lots of acreage. They must have thought wow, we hit the jackpot.So sad. I hope that the kids all get to stay together.

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CartwrightFlight

07:29 PMJul 18 2009

Berloi 08:56 AMJul 18 2009 You can thank all the hollywood Arnold Schwarzenegger type of movies that brainwashes our youth, and to think you might become a Governor some day for doing it amazes me. It must take hollywood stars to hoodwink the ignorant I guess.>>>> Nope. Obama never stared in anything, in fact, never actually did anything...

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Dido248834

08:11 AMJul 18 2009

it just doesn't make sense to me. But then again..maybe they're dealing with a bunch of degenerates! I have no clue as to why the blood shed was necessary in this robbery. =========== The reason it doesn't make sense to you is probably because your IQ is not only 3 digits, but you aren't sharing your brain with 7 accomplices.

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Kelectrick007

07:56 AMJul 18 2009

These people who sought to rob and kill these people sounded as if killing was their main objective. Why else would they be in ninja outfits..it isn't as if these poor people had guards surrounding the premises! There is a much more profound reason for these killings. The safe being buried under rocks w/o being opened? If the safe was all they were after..they would have opened it up and took the loot...which doesn't sound as if there was much to be had anyway! Why didn't they kidnap one of the children and ask for ransom or something that would guarantee them money..instead of a safe that they could have taken without having to kill...I don't know..it just doesn't make sense to me. But then again..maybe they're dealing with a bunch of degenerates! I have no clue as to why the blood shed was necessary in this robbery. Those people would have opened the safe at gunpoint..even at knife point..even a candy bar pointed in the jacket pocket would have worked for me..sheesh!!!

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Dido248834

07:55 AMJul 18 2009

WHY DO DEMOCRATS WANT AMERICA TO BE CASHLESS AND USE IMPLANTED MICROCHIPS??? =============== Because they get totally amused watching wackjobs like you suck it all up and then running around playing Chicken Little with the it... ROFL.

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seashell2625

06:36 AMJul 18 2009

AOL should get rid of comment voting, or let people turn it off for their own. It's just turned into a way for nitwits to amuse themselves.

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Shortspike50

06:11 AMJul 18 2009

JS DUWILCO - who is white trash? The whites or the blacks. My guess is you were talking about the whites. What a DISGUSTING comment!! Can you say BIGOT?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Sonja7039

06:08 AMJul 18 2009

Maybe it is harder for the truly good to protect themselves. How could this wonderful couple ever have thought that anyone could do anything so evil, to them, and leave so many orphans? This is so horrible it is almost impossible to believe even after the fact.

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Sonja7039

06:03 AMJul 18 2009

Based on the information released so far, it may be the case that one of the suspects worked inside the home, and then hatched this plot. Whether this turns out to be true or not, you ALWAYS have to be SO careful of who you allow into your home. Remember Elizabeth Smart. That was a handyman, too. People who come to your home learn things about you that no one who hasn't been inside your house can ever know. It is pretty scary.

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