White supremacists used severed hand to brag about slayings in Hingham, court documents allege

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2007/09/white_supremaci.html

John R. Ellement and Andrew Ryan, Globe Staff

The two homeless men found dead in a Hingham park in 2005 were beaten to death with bats and mutilated by two white supremacists who later used a severed hand as a prop at a party to brag about the killing, according to documents filed today in Hingham District Court.

The decomposing bodies of William P. Chrapan, 44, and David P. Lyons, 46, were found May 9, 2005, in an abandoned military bunker outside Bare-Cove Park. Eric Jeremy Snow, 25, and James Scott Winquist, 23, battered the two homeless men in April 2005 and cut off Chrapan's right hand as a souvenir that they showed off at a party on Rhodes Circle in Hingham, two unidentified witnesses told State Police.

"Mr. Winquist told the witnesses that this hand was the hand that had been cut off from a homeless man who they had killed at Bare Cove Park," Sergeant Leonard Coppenarth wrote in the police report filed today in court. "These witnesses told me that they had seen and heard Eric Snow and James Winquist mock the two murder victims by making gurgling sounds to imitate the death of the two homeless men."

Winquist and Snow were arrested Aug. 31 and charged with murder. They pleaded not guilty today in Hingham District Court, and Judge Patrick Hurley ordered them held without bail.

so many levels.

They showed the hand off at a party- at a frickin party and bragged about what they had done. Yet, no one at that party came forward before this?

about survival of the fittest this is not surprising. Too many people have zero compassion for homeless people, they are barely seen as human and are seen as responsible for their predicament. In a society that blames the victim for their plight, this is the end result.

survival of the fittest, but more like survival of the cruel-ist.

It would be interesting to see how long those 'white supremacist' big shots would have lasted living without "shelter" as their victims did-

I'm not sure i can name a society that doesn't blame those in difficult situations for being there- I think it may be because the truth of recognizing how vulnerable everyone is to walking the same path is just too frightening, and that makes 'us' feel helpless and angry.

The fact that our society shows such little respect for the welfare of all human beings, lets life become 'meaningless' and right from the very 'top'-



And serves to drag us down to the bottom