Man's Murder Caught on Home Surveillance Camera

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PHOENIX - A Maricopa County Superior Court judge sets a Phoenix woman's bail at $1 million in cash after learning the murder she's accused of was all caught on tape.

Phoenix police had responded to a disturbance call at the Mellon's Encanto home. When officers arrived, they found 46-year-old Donald Mellon, Jr. dead, and his wife, 31-year-old Rebekah Mellon was saying little about what happened.

Mellon appeared for the first time in court today, and that's when prosecutors revealed the murder was caught on video cameras rolling in the home.

"There's video of the actual murder occurring, defendant obtaining a weapon, a handgun from a cabinet, walking into the room where the victim is sitting and shooting him in the head," said a Maricopa County prosecutor via speaker phone.

Mellon's defense attorney said the evidence wasn't in the initial report, and that this was possibly a case of self-defense citing Rebekah Mellon was caught in a violent relationship.

"There's a significant history and past of domestic abuse and violence that has gone on in this relationship by the alleged victim including concussions, broken bones, bruises, multiple contact with police," said Mellon's attorney.

Rebekah Mellon is charged with first-degree murder for the shooting death of her husband. She will appear in court again next week.

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wow am I really the only one? I feel awkward now :/

You're not, there are sites with all sorts of stuff like that, the videos that appear nowhere else. If you thought 4chan's /b/ was bad you should have a look at those sites, they have all sorts of horrible murder videos of the worst kind. I believe Goregrish is one of them. I highly recommend you don't visit it though, it shows the absolute worst things a human could do.

(just to clarify, I'm not interested in that sort of stuff, but I can see why people would be - curiosity is not a bad thing)

*edit: found where I read about these sites, The Verge had an excellent article about them a while ago: http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/13/3076557/snuff-murder-torture-internet-people-who-watch-it

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You're not, there are sites with all sorts of stuff like that, the videos that appear nowhere else. If you thought 4chan's /b/ was bad you should have a look at those sites, they have all sorts of horrible murder videos of the worst kind. I believe Goregrish is one of them. I highly recommend you don't visit it though, it shows the absolute worst things a human could do.

(just to clarify, I'm not interested in that sort of stuff, but I can see why people would be - curiosity is not a bad thing)

I used to know a guy who was obsessed with all of that stuff.

Back on topic: I wonder how you prove battered spouse and how much it would help your case.

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kind of hard to prove battered spouse when you are caught on tape committing cold blooded murder.. :/

Not really. It depends on how much info is gathered of the abuse. If she had been admitted to the hospital many times, then she has a case. If there isn't anything documenting injuries, then she's screwed. Literally. As for seeing that vid. No Thanx! I've seen enough while I was serving. Not that it would bother me, just why should I voluntarily view such footage?

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You're not, there are sites with all sorts of stuff like that, the videos that appear nowhere else. If you thought 4chan's /b/ was bad you should have a look at those sites, they have all sorts of horrible murder videos of the worst kind. I believe Goregrish is one of them. I highly recommend you don't visit it though, it shows the absolute worst things a human could do.

(just to clarify, I'm not interested in that sort of stuff, but I can see why people would be - curiosity is not a bad thing)

*edit: found where I read about these sites, The Verge had an excellent article about them a while ago: http://www.theverge....le-who-watch-it

I agree. Curiosity certainly isn't a bad thing. Watching some of those videos can help one learn how to be safer and more alert in society, too. The only problem for me is that I can't bring myself to watch them, and I can't stomach such gore :p :/

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:/ Dunno if I would suggest those vids are somehow educational.

It depends which videos. Some of the videos on those gore/shock sites show accidents that happened because the person being harmed did something without thinking or something that was silly. I believe being made aware of such actions can be educational to some people. It can influence them to start being more careful in life, I think.

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It depends which videos. Some of the videos on those gore/shock sites show accidents that happened because the person being harmed did something without thinking or something that was silly. I believe being made aware of such actions can be educational to some people. It can influence them to start being more careful in life, I think.

Err... maybe. I still don't see why you'd need to see some dying, graphically.

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Err... maybe. I still don't see why you'd need to see some dying, graphically.

I don't think anyone needs to and I'd rather no one see it (sometimes, seeing such videos can influence people to do terrible things). I was just mentioning that even if someone seeing such a video is undesirable, it could be educational to them.

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