2 Grilled in Murder of Parents Who Adopted Disabled

By Mary Papenfuss,  Newser Staff
Posted Jul 12, 2009 11:51 AM CDT
2 Grilled in Murder of Parents Who Adopted Disabled
The murdered couple had 16 children, 12 of whom were adopted and several who were disabled.   (©bagaball)

Police are interrogating two men they say were caught on videotape in the home invasion-murder of a wealthy Florida couple who adopted 12 children, several of them disabled, reports the Pensacola News Journal. Eight of the children of the murdered couple, Byrd and Melanie Billings, were home at the time of the killings, but were unharmed. Investigators tracked down two of three men believed to be the images captured on a surveillance camera in the wealthy couple's Beulah home.
(More disabled stories.)

Get the news faster.
Tap to install our app.
X
Install the Newser News app
in two easy steps:
1. Tap in your navigation bar.
2. Tap to Add to Home Screen.

X