UPDATE: Miami cat killer (19cats) arrest made (18 years old) PIC-mug shot

[underpants]

In this Sunday, June 14, 2009 police mug photo released by the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office, Tyler Weinman, 18, is shown after his arrest in connection with a series of cat killings and mutilations in his Miami-area community. Horrified owners have been finding their cats killed and mutilated for the past month in Palmetto Bay and another nearby community. Weinman is charged with 19 counts of animal cruelty, 19 counts of improperly disposing of an animal body and four counts of burglary.
(AP Photo/Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office)

Suspected Miami cat killer caught, police say
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE55D1AY20090614

Tyler Weinman, 18, of Cutler Bay, Florida, was charged with 19 counts of animal cruelty, 19 counts of improperly disposing of an animal body and four counts of burglary.

Police have said more than two dozen pet and stray cats were killed at night in the Palmetto Bay and Cutler Bay neighborhoods during the past two months. In some cases, the cats were skinned or gutted and the corpses left on the lawns or driveways of their owners.

[kestrel91316]

1. He has just been arrested for torturing cats. WHY IS HE SMILING?

[devilgrrl]

2. Because he's a sociopath and doesn't care

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[Amerigo Vespucci]

52. That says it all...

...he doesn't care, and without the proper treatment (and maybe even with it), he'll do it again, and he still won't care.

[JanMichael]

32. Sociopath. Like Bundy was.

They enjoy it.

It's a game for them. Hopefully this kid/man will be removed from society forever.

[FarPoint]

41. My thoughts were of

Jeffrey Dahmer..........:scared: Didn't he kill animals as a young boy?

[Deja Q]

45. A person who sexually molested me also got off by being cruel to animals...

particularly cats.

I remember telling him not to do it, and he kept on... (about the cat; when it comes to issues like molestation, who needs the details - we all know what it's about. x( )

[Pool Hall Ace]

4. Oh G-d, please,

nobody say "But he's just a chiiiiillllld! It's not like he killed people!" I will go batshit crazy on them.

[underpants]

11. He is 18

past the legal limit

prepare to have the book thrown at you you miserable little punk*

*if convicted

[jesus_of_suburbia]

23. "But he's just a chiiiiillllld! It's not like he killed people!"

Same here... I don't like people who belittle animal cruelty.

He's not 5... he's 18 (even though any 5 year old who would do such a thing is still VERY disturbed and needs to be put in a mental hospital till the problem is helped)!


Also, I can't stand people who say that it's "just" an animal.

[BuelahWitch]

25. I'm waiting for the 'You kill lobsters & eat them" contingent to arrive.

:eyes:

[malaise]

30. My question is how come so many other disturbed youngsters

in other developed countries do not end up in prison.
This youngster was screaming for help for ages.

[dorkulon]

5. Actual mugshot here, that's his driver's license photo.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sfl-cat-killing-arrest-061409,0,5653275.story

[Frustratedlady]

13. He still doesn't look too scared.

It will be interesting to see what his background/family history is. That is just too bizarre.

There was a story earlier this week about several boys who stole a lab pup out of the owner's yard, took it to a shed or cabin and tortured it in all kinds of ways. They left it for dead, apparently, and it laid there for 24 hours before it was found. A vet took it in and treated it. The dog is going to live. They caught the kids who did it.

Why? Why would anyone even think of doing something like that? Sick!

[emilyg]

35. I'd like to punch and kick him.

[girl gone mad]

47. lock him in a cage with 19 hungry tigers. n/t

[Shell Beau]

51. Oh! Still almost a smirk there. But not that creepy ass grin.

Sick sick man.

[mitchum]

6. Enjoy jail, you little motherfucker

[undeterred]

7. Cute kid, probably just getting warmed up to be a serial killer.

I guess you never can tell.

[underpants]

12. that is, as you probably know, the first act of these types

[undeterred]

17. yup, bush used to torture animals

and so did Jeffrey Dahmer

[Arugula Latte]

49. And Bush went on to slaughter tens and tens of thousands of innocent people ...

Many more than Dahmer ever did.

[Brigid]

8. Sick little punks like this one is why . . .

my kitties are inside kitties. I hope he does some serious time. Not that it's likely to do much good. :grr:

[MrsMatt]

9. glad they caught him

The descriptions were gruesome - horrifying for the victims and their families. Poor trusting kitties.

[Brigid]

18. Interesting comment because just the other night . . .

I was out walking in a nearby neighborhood, one of my favorites, and an adorable tabby and white kitty was lying in a driveway. The kitty came right up to me and meowed and stretched up to be petted. Then he (or she) tried to follow me as I went on. The cat had a collar and looked well care-for, so obviously it had a loving home. But I was thinking how easy it would be for some psycho to hurt or even kill it. Awful world we live in these days, when a friendly kitty just wants some attention and you can't even just enjoy petting it without thoughts like that coming to you. then this story. :(

[MrsMatt]

34. Isn't it? Just yesterday

my husband & I were at an architectural salvage place, where they had a shop cat. Said cat had just adopted them about a week or so ago - they tried to discourage him, but he was so very insistent that he needed to belong to them (he was likened to a door to door salesman, who once he had his foot in the door, refused to leave). He'd obviously been on his own for awhile, as his face & ears were beat up a bit. But he was sure grateful for attention.

The owners are animal lovers (they've had a shop cat before, in addition to bringing their dog along too), but it made me think about what could have happened if they'd been less welcoming, and this cat's trust had been betrayed.

[Reader Rabbit]

10. If he's found guilty, I hope law enforcement keeps tabs on him ever after.

Don't many serial killers start off with animal torture?

[Berry Cool]

14. They sure do. And I don't like being an armchair psychologist without a diploma

but when you look at a smiling mug shot like that, how can you not think...sociopath.

[Brigid]

15. That's what I hear.

Little psycho. But I doubt anything much is going to happen to him until he kills someone. :grr:

[malaise]

I actually feel sorry for this young man

I see years of Ridalin in his eyes. His parents probably thought that was easier than helping him resolve his issues over their divorce.

No doubt he'd probably have moved on to murdering young women.

One more angry young man heads to prison - there must be a better way to save this kids.

[Canuckistanian]

20. Ritalin? You think Ritalin turns adolescents into psychopaths?

I assume you have access to studies proving that.

My son takes Ritalin. and believe you me, it certainly has the opposite effect of turning a child into an amoral animal abuser.

[malaise]

21. Yeh Ritalin

There are lots of studies about the side effects of ritalin/ridalin.
None speak of amoral animal abusers but they do address worse depression than when the kids began using the drug.

[Canuckistanian]

27. Well, actually, our case is different

My son is autistic, and Ritalin has helped him enormously, especially with his behaviour at school.

But then studies have shown that Ritalin has shown many benefits for autistic kids.

I have no experience with non-autistic kids.

[malaise]

29. One of my friends has two autistic sons

and she also says it has benefits.

[SoxFan]

40. Mostly sponsored by the Scientoloists and other fringe groups

Methylphenidate is a very effective form of treatment for ADHD when properly administered and monitored.

[jmowreader]

56. The last five words in that sentence are highly critical

Remember, this is Florida. Is Ritalin on the list of drugs a pharmacist can legally prescribe? If it is, what's the odds that the school guidance counselor told the parents, "he's acting up, get him on Ritalin" and they just took him to Walgreens? Or to a really overworked MD who just handed over a script, if it's not on the pharmacist-prescribe formulary? In either case, there wouldn't have been much monitoring beyond "he's not acting up any more, doctor."

[Deja Q]

44. If misdiagnosed, giving out a medication can have atypical effects.

And believe you me, I was misdiagnosed with all sorts of shit before finding somebody competent and qualified in 2005. And once you're misdiagnosed, trying to communicate with the idiot doctor is hard enough, not to mention the stigma that goes along with it. Going on the medications, some of them made me do some nasty things... one almost killed me.

So take you blanket and give it to Linus to suck on, thank you very much.

[Canuckistanian]

63. OK, I'll take that under advisement

Thanks.

[JVS]

46. It turns kids into attentive and highly focused killing machines.

Highly focused killing machines that don't fidget. :silly:

[Canuckistanian]

62. My bad

Excuse me, I've go to go down to the basement. My kid says he's working on a "science experiment".

Funny, he doesn't even take science.

[SoxFan]

39. FAIL

Can you read his palm or the bumps on his head while you're at it?

[malaise]

53. Huh? n/t

[Codeine]

58. You can't even spell the name of the drug

and yet you're presuming to diagnose it's effects on a boy you've never met and who you have no real reason to believe to be on the stuff at all?

Way to go, Senator Frist.

[malaise]

16. I actually feel sorry for this young man

I see years of Ridalin in his eyes. His parents probably thought that was easier than helping him resolve his issues over their divorce.

No doubt he'd probably have moved on to murdering young women.

One more angry young man heads to prison - there must be a better way to save this kids.

[sub.theory]

24. Do you have an MD? Is that your professional opinion?

Who in the hell are you to go around saying you see Ritalin in his eyes? Are you kidding me? You clearly don't have the first clue what you're talking about. You think parents put their kids on Ritalin to abuse them? Are you one of those anti-vaccination nutcases?

[malaise]

71. I've worked with young adults for decades

I've dealt with thousands of kids. You'd be surprised how many of them are on a variety of drugs.

Do I think parents put their kids on Ritalin/Ridalin to abuse them?
No but a lot of kids needed parental attention and not drugs. Parents too are brainwashed with the non-stop advertisements for drugs.

I have no problem with medicine but an awful lot of it is unnecessary.

[NMMNG]

36. You're talking out your backside

You can't discern from a photo what medications a person is or has been taking, and you certainly can't extrapolate their family history from it. Next thing we know you'll be telling us about all the past lives he had that made him the pitiable creature he is today--all from the look you saw in his eyes.

[Confusious]

43. Is that a diagnosis from the Bill Frist medical school? n/t

[Shell Beau]

55. That is a whole lot of assumption there.

[LisaL]

57. This is too funny.

How on Earth can you see "years of ritalin" in someone's eyes by looking at the photo?

[Pavulon]

67. I,m sorry he did not resist and catch a beating

few licks with a baton would wipe the smile right off his face. I guess you are kidding, i mean Ritalin has been common for 20 or more years and i see no spike in random cat murder.

[tabbycat31]

19. rot in hell you little shit

[flvegan]

22. If he's guilty, I hope prison is brutally cruel to him.

Enjoy your new world you worthless pile of shit.

[Tim01]

28. Best case would be he dies in prison.

[izquierdista]

38. Yes, cruelty solves everything

I hope you have not procreated, as your attitude should have died out back in the day of Hammurabi. That's the asymmetric thing about violence, torture, and cruelty; you can't beat it out of people, only in. But as long as vengeful SOBs like you call for retribution, there will be an endless supply of people as psychotic as this very disturbed kid.

[flvegan]

60. Not that kind of cruelty, Prince Assumption.

I don't believe in violence. The mental cruelty doled out by prison is far worse than the physical in my opinion, thanks.

As for procreating, I hope you don't pass along your judgmental assclown assumptions to YOUR kids. Seek to understand before being understood. That advice is free.

[Selatius]

65. A bad prison environment may actually make him even worse when he emerges from prison.

Our prison system is built too much on punishment with little attention paid to rehabilitation. It's why our prisons generally have high recidivism rates. The point of prison should not solely be to punish the individual for a crime committed but also to try to reshape the individual into a productive member of society. If that fails, then the individual should be kept away from society for everybody's safety.

[malaise]

70. And we wonder why 2 million people are in prison

I swear eight years of Bush destroyed everyone.
This kid has serious problems.

[BlooInBloo]

26. False subject line.

[underpants]

37. Okay I should have used ""s or accused?

:shrug:

[SOS]

31. The next Dahmer

:(

[MrScorpio]

33. Future serial killer right there

It usually starts with defenseless animals

[hyphenate]

42. He's a psychopath

and he needs to be charged and convicted as an adult, and sentenced to whatever the maximum is allowed. He'll do fine in lock-up--there are likely many animal lovers who love raw meat.

I heard recently as a reminder that most serial killers abused animals when they were younger. I only wish he could be sentenced to death for all the pain he afflicted. In my eyes, he's a monster.

[Bravo Zulu]

48. He might be a future republican politician?

[Pool Hall Ace]

69. Yikes! That image gives me chills.

I had forgotten about Senator Cat-Killer. :scared:

[Shell Beau]

50. He looks 12. And smiling? What a shithead.

Good God. What is wrong with people? He is a sick sick man. I hope he really gets the full amount of time possible for this. I can't imagine where he would have gone next when the cat killing wasn't fun anymore.

[rogerballard]

54. This also happened in the Denver Metro area

Police quit giving the details, don't know if the person was caught. Last count was 40 cats.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/2305361/detail.html

[grantcart]

59. someday we will read about him after he is released and graduates to guns

[JHB]

61. It ain't guns that'll mark his "graduation"...

...it'll be the species of his victims.

Here's to hoping I'm never proved right about this.

[soothsayer]

64. Paging Dr. Frist, your new intern has arrived

[Bravo Zulu]

66. Cat killers!

[applegrove]

68. I hope they monitor that freak for the rest of his life. He is obviously a sadist.

[Blue_Tires]

72. his parents must be proud....

[Joe the Liberal]

73. There's a future Republican.....

I also heard abusing and killing small animals at a young age is one of the early signs of a potential future serial killer.