Marty Puccio on Trial in Broward County, with no particular expression of remorse. Courtesy of The Miami Herald.

 

The ill-fated Bobby Kent, who paid with his life, for bully Crimes that were never proved.

 

STABBED & BLUDGEONED - LEFT FOR DEAD IN THE EVERGLADES

This heinous crime, has confounded experts for almost a decade, and it still haunts Broward County.

After scouring Police Transcripts, and Court Records, there seems no tidy answers or dramatic motive for the killers' actions. And let's face it, the Broward County Seven bear no resemblance to Beverly Hills 90210, Survivor - or the Cookie-Cutter Killers of any recent reality-based TV Show.

It is alledged that these Seven young people banded together and killed Kent in a most brutal way because he bullied a couple of them, including his best friend, Marty. Many writers who covered the trial could find little better to say than "these were f**ked-up kids, and sh*t happens..."

By all accounts, Bobby Kent was supposed to be a Bully. But to this day, the presiding Judge still points to the lack of physical evidence. Some said (especially at the Trial), that Bobby Kent pushed his best friend Puccio around, as well as others involved in the murder. It was Puccio's girlfriend, Lisa Connelly, who came up with the idea to kill Kent. Connelly, who at the time was two months pregnant with Puccio's baby, blamed Kent for Puccio's own abusiveness toward her.

A ragtag gang of youths (a couple of whom barely even knew Kent) wound up joining the plot to kill Kent. When the time came, they took turns stabbing and beating Kent with a baseball bat while the victim screamed out that he was sorry. When Kent yelled for Puccio to help him, Puccio instead plunged a knife into his buddy's gut. After the killing they threw Kent, who was still breathing, into a pond. When they were caught, the killers showed no remorse for what they'd done - so Police sources have said...

Now is the time for us all to question, "How Could This Happen?"