A Crime in the Country (or Murder in the Meadow)

Here's the promised story--a true-life crime story.  We will let the prosecutor tell the story.  You, dear reader, are both judge and jury.
  

Exhibit 1 is a photograph of one of the victims.  Note his wide-eyed innocence, completely unsuspecting of the fate that is about to befall him.
Exhibit 2 shows both the crime scene and the defendants.  This bucolic setting will soon become the scene of a grisly massacre perpetrated by these seemingly normal, but completely sociopathic, people!

Exhibit 3 shows defendant Herb Lea actually committing one of 23 counts of homicide, two of which he committed himself.  This is no paltry crime.  No, it is a poultry felony!  Note the weapon in the defendant's left hand and the use of a barbaric restraint to prevent the victim from struggling.

Exhibit 4 shows defendant Herb Lea scalding a victim in 130° water in an attempt to destroy DNA evidence.  You must not be misled when you hear his ridiculous defense that he was trying to make it easier to pluck the victim's feathers.  How many victims has he fleeced, like hapless sheep to the slaughter?  (Objection!  That's the wrong kind of farm!)  (Sustained.)

Exhibit 5 actually shows the headless victim being plucked of its feathers as the defendant holds it against the battering fingers of an electric plucker.  Does this not constitute cruel and unusual treatment?

Exhibit 6 shows defendant Susan Lea stripping every last feather from another victim.  Note the lack of emotion on her face.

Exhibit 7 shows defendant Herb Lea again, also with a complete lack of remorse (evidence of his sociopathic personality) about to eviscerate a victim.  Note the running water to wash away evidence of the crime.

Exhibit 8 shows the feet of one recently murdered victim awaiting the butcher's knife, while defendant Susan Lea, in the rear, evinces a rare moment of emotion as she guts another victim.

Exhibit 9 clearly displays the hardened nature of the defendant as he mockingly eviscerates another victim.

Exhibit 10 shows defendant Susan Lea, void of all humanity, actually smiling as she washes away the last trace of blood from a victim.

Advisory:  Exhibit 11 is graphic and violent.  A triumphant criminal hoists the butchered corpse of a victim aloft.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, in the face of this shocking and incontrovertible evidence, we ask you to find both of these defendants guilty on all counts.

The verdict for both defendants:  Guilty on all counts!

The sentence:
Hard labor for life, served concurrently.  In other words:
"The family that slays together, stays together."

The moral of this case, United States v. Chickamauga Chicken Massacre, is:

When your mother told you to be careful about sticking your neck out, she knew what she was talking about!