Hers was a marriage from hell. So on the morning of December 9, 2008, Amber Cummings woke up and decided to kill herself. She had very good reasons. She went to her bedroom and stuck a gun in her mouth, but then had second thoughts...
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| When police searched James Cummings' home, they found radioactive material and instructions on how to make a dirty bomb |
If she was dead, her 9-year-old daughter Claira would be left to the care of her husband, James Cummings, and that wouldn't do. So she walked into her husband's bedroom, put two bullets in his head while he slept, then fled with her daughter to a neighbor's house and called police.
The Cummings had moved from California to Belfast, Maine just two years before. But theirs was anything but a conventional marriage. They slept in separate bedrooms with guns under their pillows, and James was a particularly rapacious pervert.
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| Amber's husband forced her to join online chats in an attempt to lure other women to Maine |
He forced his wife to go on online chats and attempt to lure other women to Maine. He talked often with her about his fascination with child porn, and she felt he was starting to turn his desires toward their daughter.
He was also a Nazi bastard with a fondness for Hitler, collecting Third Reich memorabilia along with a whole lot of weaponry. When police searched the house, they found a load of guns, radioactive material, and instructions on how to make a dirty bomb.
It seems our little Nazi had been freaked out over since a black man had been elected president, and he often talked about how the world was coming to and end.
One might conclude that Amber did the world a good turn when she decided to shoot the creep. But prosecutors didn't see it that way. They originally asked for an 8-year-sentence.
Yesterday, a judge decided otherwise, giving Amber a suspended sentence and allowing her to go free.
For a brief moment in Belfast, Maine, all was right with the world.
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