Saturday, December 21, 2024

BUTLER, HUGGINS AND ORTIZ, WHO COMMITTED A TERRIFYING CRIME, SHOULD SERVE THEIR ENTIRE SENTENCES AND NOT BE RELEASED ON PAROLE

A kidnapper strapped dynamite to my daughter, 7, and gave me 10 minutes to say goodbye... now he will walk free

 

By Alyssa Guzman 


Daily Mail

Dec 21, 2024


Michelle Renee and her daughter Breea were curled up on the couch on November 21, 2000, when Christopher Butler and two other men broke into their home and held their hostage until morning, where they force Renee to rob the bank she worked at  

Michelle Renee and her daughter Breea were curled up on the couch on November 21, 2000, when Christopher Butler and two other men broke into their home and held their hostage until morning, where they force Renee to rob the bank she worked at

 

California mother and daughter were curled up on the couch when three masked men burst into their home, threatened them at gunpoint and strapped fake dynamite to their bodies.

Michelle Renee had been employed as a Bank of America branch manager in Vista on November 21, 2000, when the attackers held the mother-daughter duo and their roommate hostage overnight.

Kidnapper Christopher Butler and his two accomplices - Christopher Huggins and Robert Ortiz - duct-taped the three victims' hands and feet, leading the little girl to ask: '[Are you] going to kill my mommy?'

Over the next 14 hours, Renee would be forced to rob the bank, shoving $360,000 into a duffle bag and escaping with Butler in her own red Jeep - all while believing dynamite had been strapped to her and her daughter.

Now, two decades on, despite Renee's furious protestations, Butler has been granted his freedom. 

The convict appeared before a parole board for the third time on Friday and convinced them to release him after spending 24 years behind bars for robbery and kidnapping.

The decision bought Renee and her daughter, now 31, to tears. The mother had been looking for deep remorse in Butler over the year and insisted she has not found any. Only recently did he admit to lying about the notion that Renee had helped plan the robbery.

'It hasn't been 20-some years of him doing that deep work,' Renee said. 'It's all of a sudden. I appreciate it's happening. It's not about getting out, it's about getting it right. It has only just begun.

 

Butler and his co-conspirators strapped fake dynamite to the mother, her daughter, and their roommate and told them they would detonate the device if Renee didn't follow the plan

Butler and his co-conspirators strapped fake dynamite to the mother, her daughter, and their roommate and told them they would detonate the device if Renee didn't follow the plan 

Butler appeared before a parole board for a third time on Friday after spending 24 years behind bars and granted parole. Despite the more than two decades that have passed, Renee and her daughter Breea are not ready to allow their captor to be free.

Butler appeared before a parole board for a third time on Friday after spending 24 years behind bars and granted parole. Despite the more than two decades that have passed, Renee and her daughter Breea are not ready to allow their captor to be free. 

 

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