Michael Kruse: The teens hid their bicycles in the bushes and approached the house in the dark on the dead-end road.
The 19-year-old kicked the door in. The 17-year-old followed the 19-year-old. And the 14-year-old, Tim Kane, Timmy to his family, a high school freshman, followed the 17-year-old. It was late on a Sunday night, Jan. 26, 1992, and they were inside the house in Hudson.
The oldest teen ordered a man who lived there onto the ground, held a sawed-off shotgun a quarter of an inch from the back of his neck, and pulled the trigger. The middle teen stabbed the man's elderly mother so violently he nearly severed her head. They chopped off the man's little finger to show off to friends.
Kane first hid behind the dining room table. Then he said he wanted to leave but the teen with the sawed-off told him it was too late. So he stood in the corner, shaking, and looked out the window and heard the begging of the people and the boom of the shotgun blast.
The 19-year-old got the death penalty, the 17-year-old got life in prison with the possibility of parole after 50 years, and Kane, not done growing yet, got life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25.
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