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Super Wabbit · Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 9:59 am Post subject:

At this point, should we perhaps change the title of this thread?

JR · Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 11:20 am Post subject:

What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;

Super Wabbit · Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 11:40 am Post subject:

I would just hate to have someone Google search this guy and find their way to our forums where we have a thread with a title that our hopes and prayers are with a murderer.

JR · Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 1:31 pm Post subject:

I have no objection to the thread subject being changed. However, I don't know how to change a thread subject.

JR · Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 1:45 pm Post subject:

Maybe Butter can change it in the database.
Feel free to cull it down to:
groo (Matt Dion)

Super Wabbit · Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 2:18 pm Post subject:

Done!

JR · Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 2:22 pm Post subject:

You do good work, Butter! Happy

Butter · Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 8:42 pm Post subject:

I can edit thread titles in my sleep. And in this case, I think that happened.
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JR · Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 1:45 pm Post subject:

Today Groo waived arraignment. Jury selection starts the week of Jan 19.

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20151013/NEWS03/151019750

JR · Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2015 12:06 pm Post subject:

Matthew Dion, 40, is set to plead guilty to two counts of second-degree murder (reduced from first-degree murder) and one count of arson.
Possession of child pornography to be dropped as result of plea.
Matthew Dion is set to plead guilty on Dec. 3

http://www.wmur.com/news/matthew-dion-files-intent-to-plead-guilty-in-deaths-of-parents/36540670

Super Wabbit · Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2015 12:16 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the update JR.

JR · Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2015 1:59 pm Post subject:

"Under the terms of the deal, Dion would be sentenced to two consecutive sentences of 30 years to life. The arson sentence of 7½ to 15 years would run concurrent with the other sentences."

http://www.wmur.com/news/matthew-dion-files-intent-to-plead-guilty-in-deaths-of-parents/36540670

JR · Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2015 5:36 pm Post subject:

Matthew Dion was sentenced to 60 years in prison today.

http://www.wmur.com/news/matthew-dion-expected-to-be-sentenced-thursday/36772390

Dynamite Dan · Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 5:23 pm Post subject:

I guess that is the end of that then.

From a friendly community member whom we all have shared many an hour with.
To a Man who murdered his parents then burned the house down to try and cover it up, and will now spend the rest of his life behind bars.

It goes to show how easily people can choose the wrong path in life. I beg anyone reading this, if they are having any troubles in life they feel they cant cope with, there is always somebody out there to help you, no matter what.

Be safe people, share the good times in life with the people you love. But don't forget to share the bad times too.
Peace.

Dan

JoeSwindell · Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2015 12:05 am Post subject:

Sadly Dan, in America, it's never the end. There will be years of appeals and challenges.

JR · Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2015 3:26 am Post subject:

In most cases I'd agree with you Joe, but in this case I don't think groo has any grounds on which to appeal. He plead guilty in a plea bargain. The judge even asked him, point blank, "are you pleading guilty because you are guilty?" and he answered "yes, your honor." Loud and clear in open court. It's difficult to appeal that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxmOyZk9SYw

And, Dan, as much as I applaud your sentiment, and, as much as I have personally enjoyed your support, and, as much as I don't want to hijack my own thread into a nature vs. nurture debate, I have to say, in my experience, I fine that people as far off base as groo, were born unsalvageable.

DogShxtTaco · Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2015 7:39 pm Post subject:

I know it's not very reasonable at an intellectual level, but I share Joe's pessimism. It seems like the assholes in the world always manage to find a way.

Mac · Deputy Joined: 01 Jun 2004 Posts: 588 Location: Sweden

Death would be just in this case. Groo i hope u suffer as much as ur victim did u S.O.B
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JR · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 12:51 am Post subject:

Manchester police officers honored for work
Awards given for saving lives, cracking big cases

Published 6:48 PM EDT Apr 04, 2016

...
Some of the officers were rewarded for their work in major cases, such as the capture of murder suspect Matthew Dion.

"Just knowing he was in custody was an extreme relief for me," Lt. Joe Mucci said. "And to know it would bring closure for the Dion family was very important."

Dion was suspected of strangling his parents and setting their home on fire in 2014. He was on the run for more than a year before he was arrested, and Mucci and Houghton worked together to interview him. They ultimately got a confession that elevated the charges to first-degree murder.

http://www.wmur.com/news/manchester-police-officers-honored-for-work/38863934

JR · Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2016 9:51 pm Post subject:

Portions of Matthew Dion's video confession have been made public.

http://www.wmur.com/special-reports/in-taped-confession-dion-shows-little-remorse-for-killing-parents/40424062