This is True 1475: The Ten Commandments

Plus a Small-World Story

Confession: A sheriff’s deputy in Cochise County, Ariz., said a man flagged him down along a road at 1:00 a.m. “Are you OK?” the deputy asked Jay Albert Stevens, 52. Stevens said he had killed his stepfather after an argument, and said where the body was. Deputies advised Stevens of his right to remain silent, but Stevens said he wanted to talk. No one liked his stepfather, he said: he was an alcoholic who also had “brainwashed” his mother into drunkenness. As for the body, “I was gonna bury him, but I’m too lazy to dig a hole that big,” he told them. He then considered chaining the body to the back of his pickup to “drag him out into the desert,” but then thought better of that. The argument started when the victim taunted him, Stevens said, so he went and got his gun and pointed at the man. His stepfather’s reaction: he told him to “[F--k] off.” Stevens says he shot him in the chest with a .40 caliber pistol. When he didn’t fall dead he shot him again, and then punched him in the face several times. Stevens was booked into jail on suspicion of first-degree murder. So what was the argument about? Stevens was angry because the victim accused him of not understanding the Bible. (RC/Sierra Vista Herald/Review) ...Thou shalt not taunt.