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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.
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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?"
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