Man drowns daughter to collect Insurance

[Bushy]

The firefighters who tried to save 3-year-old Ashley McLellan, unconscious after being pulled from a pool on a winter night in 2003, noticed something strange about her stepfather: He was calm, mostly dry and never once asked them if she would live.

She didn't, and Joel Zellmer was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of killing her in an attempt to collect on a $200,000 insurance policy - just one accusation in a string of accidents that investigators say Zellmer concocted to befall the young children of the women he dated.



Investigators say Zellmer has a history of dating single mothers, urging them to take out insurance policies and harming their children, including burning the hands of one and giving another a hot cup that blistered her lips.

[Pele]

That's sick. edumacate;

[mariofreak55]

That is fucking sick.

[6M69I69B9]

That's fucking sad...

[mariofreak55]

That's what you call a very greedy sociopath.

Don't do it to my child Steal!

[Fireman.exe]

Greed is the path to destruction.

[ClassicTyler]

That's sad.
It's amazing what people will do.  dawkins;

[Buffy]

Oh God. What the hell is wrong with people?

[ncba93ivyase]

Either we get lengthy replies, or this is out of serious.

[heltar]

All I can say is that's fucked up.
I don't want to say any more.

[InbredPsychosis]

As sickening as this is, and as bad I feel for the mother and child of the incident, unlike most people I feel no contempt for the evil man behind this. Instead I feel only sadness for him. Such a disturbed man to do this to these poor children. Over what? Some money? Are there not other ways of getting fast cash (if he insists on not working) that don't involve harming some persons child? Or killing them? I mean, the insurance companies being assholes to deal with in the first place should tell him to take another route.

Then again, he's mentally disturbed. I hope he gets extensive psychotherapy.

[Sports1]

This guy needs help.

[Kalahari Inkantation]

How sick can a person be? Killing someone's child for money, just to get arrested afterwards?

[susumu]

Greed is the path to destruction.

We're all guilty of it.

[ncba93ivyase]

How sick can a person be? Killing someone's child for money, just to get arrested afterwards?

I know, they should've fled to Mexico. emo;