Fred Lanes wife

[Miaoww]

She must have a great lawyer.

[PowerlessDan]

I lived in Fred's neighborhood, he wasn't abusive, he ripped her necklace off one time, and she called the cops on him, her and her brother were trying to collect on that $5 million insurance policy.

Fred was a nice guy, he was a great father figure to her older son, which wasn't his, he was nice to her brother, John was a dick head, he was robbing banks since forever, Deidra was sticking it to the credit union getting money off of them, never should have happened.

Deidra is a monster, she should have gotten an identical sentence to her brothers.

Her brother got like a hundred years for bank robbery. Pretty amazing how our judicial system handles things.

[Zaximus]

Law favors women

Ding ding. Correct.

Especially in NC

[raleigh-panther]

There are an awful lot of women in battered women sheltersand a lot of women who get killed by their boyfriends and husbands when restraint orders are not enforced.

If that's being favored by the law, I suspect most women would choose to not be so favored.

In Diedre Lane's case, it is very sad that a bank robbery nets more than a manslaughter, but, money is money and a life's a life, and if the law favors anything its money. Go to Las Vegas, try to steal from a casino. Get caught. You will never see the light of day. Kill someone however, most likely 13 years, and time off for good behavior, out in 9-10.

Fred should have left her or she should've left him. We all know these stories and they never end well. No one should die because of a freaking relationship, male or female.

[MadHatter]

As I remember...there was some evidence of domestic violence on his part. He had some probs....or would not have been traded....

But...she had some problems too. She was a thief.... and.....the evidence did seem to show that she ambushed him....at least from what we know. Two troubled people = disaster.

I think it is interesting that she took a life....but her brother will serve his entire life [in prison].

Wonder why the prosecution settled for the low sentence????

Bottom line.....tragic that a life was lost.

Fred Lane was close friends with one of my old neighbors. He and his wife came over to our neighborhood gatherings many times. So, I got to know him pretty well. He was a really nice guy. She was an absolute bitch. She got into arguements with tons of people. There were fights between them, but she provoked him every time.

[rippadonn]

Fred was a friend of one of my close friends. I've never heard anything bad about him only good things like how generous he was and what a good friend he was. I also heard the same from people on the street. He was known to be a great tipper.

The news said at the time was that he had come to the house only to get a motorcycle he was going to sell and that he had left Diedra for someone else. You can pretty much put the rest of the story together. It's just really f*cked up how she can walk now after shooting him in cold blood over jealousy and money lust.

The system is f*cked!!!

[chollar8]

What a scumbag bitch.