Quote From: answer_seekerI was wondering whether or not to post my thoughts on this incident, since everyone seemed to be willing to overlook what I thought were some pretty significant discrepancies. After reading a little more and seeing there were some others who also had doubts, I decided to take a chance.
First of all, I agree - there are definitely some things about this story that don't add up:
- the intruder knew his way around the house (this was stated by the husband).
-if my children were in the house under these circumstances, regardless of the danger to myself, I would fight through hell and back to make sure they were safe. I would not shut myself in the bedroom while some lunatic was loose in my house and leave my children at his mercy.
-it's interesting also that the intruder broke into a neighbors house to steel the weapon he wanted to use. It pretty much seems like this individual knows the neighborhood - he might even live there himself.
-the husband sustained the most serious injuries and, (amazingly)), when he went out the window to get help, the intruder decided to leave.
-when the husband left to get help, instead of running to check on their children, the wife is yelling out the window? Her daughter was awakened by her screams. I don't know, but if it were me, again, my first priority would be to get to my children.
It's interesting that the private investigator was leaning toward a gang initiation or just a random incident and neither one makes sense, especially if you go back to what the husband stated about the intruder seeming to know his way around the house. If the attack were random, that would certainly not be the case. If it were a gang initiation, for someone to have known where to go and get the tool and then get around inside the house without any problem, would have taken some serious planning. Do they go to that much trouble for gang initiations? I really don't know, I'm just asking.
There is definitely more to this than meets the eye.
I completely agree about feeling something was either not right with the story, or that something was being overlooked, which has prompted me to post when I normally do not.
First of all, I must admit with others {preparing for slam} that the thought continually crossed my mind about why, as a parent, you would push someone out of your room and closer to your children. I would have died trying to bar him from getting anywhere near my precious kids.
Secondly, I admit that I probably watch too much CSI, Criminal Minds, etc., but my personal first thought was that the attacker had lived in that particular home before. I thought the house was laid out rather oddly and the attacker knew EXACTLY how to go around the house, which door, and to break though a glass door and around to the master bedroom. Following the camera tracking the attacker's route, I kept thinking, "I would NEVER have known how to get through the twists and turns of that house layout".
THEORY: The attacker had lived there as a previous owner with his wife and children -- his "happy family" in their "happy home". He had been friends with the neighbor from whom he took the weapon (knew what tools were there, having been in the garage there with this friend/neighbor before -- otherwise, why not grab a weapon at a closer neighbor's home/bring a weapon with you, etc.). His wife ended the marriage (possibly because of his anger/abuse/mental problems) and was granted a divorce he vehemently did not want. He felt his "happy family/happy home" was ripped from him and now, there is this "happy family/happy home" where HIS should have been.
Lastly {preparing for another slam}, it kept nagging at me that, of the two parents that were attacked, the wife acted as though she were the one most brutalized/traumatized by the incident when I never heard (or just missed) of her sustaining any injuries of any kind. If someone should be traumatized, etc., it should be the husband who was brutalized and, very literally, almost lost his own life and continues to take medication every single day to avoid seizures from his injuries and only reminding him of the incident. With her sustaining no injuries, who knows if she would have been harmed at all? The husband said that he just instictively lunged over her to protect her -- no one said she was about to receive the blows and not him. I just found myself being angry that she apparently just stood there in her room screaming at the window while her husband, already severely bleeding and brutalized, is the one that goes to get help and a murderer possibly heads to her childrens' room. I would have fought like a wildcat to protect my husband and my children. It just seems as though she did NOTHING and yet claims to be the most traumatized and most in need of comfort and help. Her husband PROVED to her what a great protector of her family he can be -- HE's the one that has the right to worry if he'd ever have to protect his family in such a way again.
I'm just saying ....
On a quiet night in mid-May in beautiful Orange County, California, Greg and Estela Becker were viciously attacked by a man with a hatchet as they slept in their bed. Despite sustaining head and neck wounds from their attacker, they were able to push him out of the room, and Greg ran for help. Their attacker escaped, and police are still working to locate him. In the meantime, an entire community struggles to find peace in what once was a safe neighborhood. Greg and Estela's twin 9-year-old daughters saw their parents covered in blood, adding to the trauma of this event. Their next-door neighbors, Anne-Marie and Billy Linas, were shocked by what they saw when Greg ran to their house for help. Dr. Phil meets with this community to discuss how they can move forward and feel secure again. Talk about the show here.
