Crossbow, bat, car and fire

Trench Reynolds — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 01:27:35 +0000

Minnesota

Andover man shot with crossbow, beaten with bat, run over, burned:

Reason to Blow Up the World…

Andover, Minnesota - When authorities arrived at the farm in rural southwestern Minnesota at 1 a.m. Thursday and asked Elizabeth Hawes about a large illegal fire, her response was: “That’s not my brother.”

But dental records indicate that the skeletal remains in the fire pit did belong to her brother, Edwin Hawes, 46 — the same brother whom siblings Elizabeth and Andrew Hawes talked about killing several times in front of Elizabeth’s husband, according to court documents released Monday.

In a plot allegedly involving accusations of embezzlement from the family business, Elizabeth and Andrew Hawes left little to chance, according to a complaint filed in Anoka County District Court. Before Edwin Hawes’ body was burned, Anoka County authorities believe, he was shot in the chest by a crossbow at his Andover home, beaten over the head with a baseball bat, run over, and then taken across the state, where his charred remains were discovered at Andrew Hawes’ and his girlfriend’s Westbrook farm.

Elizabeth Hawes, 43, and Andrew Hawes, 36, were charged Monday with aiding and abetting second-degree murder. So was Andrew Hawes’ girlfriend, Kristina Marie Dorniden, 29, who, like Andrew and Elizabeth Hawes, was found by authorities at the fire. The three are being held in the Anoka County jail. If convicted, each could face a maximum 40-year sentence.

The blood found in Edwin Hawes’ driveway, on his home’s exterior and on the undercarriage of his Volkswagen Passat was fresh when discovered by authorities last week. But the tension between the Hawes siblings was several years old, said Mark Miles, Edwin’s employer for the past 18 months and his friend for nearly 20 years.

Elizabeth and Andrew Hawes believed Edwin had embezzled funds from the family landscaping business, said Lt. Paul Sommer of the Anoka County Sheriff’s Office, a claim Miles substantiated.

This murder plot is almost as convoluted as the ones the rednecks had about Senator Obama. If it wasn’t for the fact that a man was brutally killed this would almost be comical. It makes my head hurt just reading the article. Not because of the way it was written I just have a hard time following it. I must have wasted too many brain cells in my younger days. How much money could they have possibly embezzled from a landscaping business to warrant killing Edwin Hawes?

One point for the crossbow, one point for the baseball bat, another for running him over, another for burning his body, a point each for greed (3), and even though it lead to everybody’s arrest one last point for being such a dumbass for saying “That’s not my brother.” That’s eight.

Nod of Doom to Tony.

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