Scott Reynolds <sar@gol.com> wrote in message news:<beis0u$jbi$1@newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp>...
> On 7/9/2003 10:11 PM, Eric Takabayashi wrote:
> 
> > What is scary is not the fact a 12 year old is
> > admitting to the crimes, what is scary is all the
> > acquaintances saying that the boy is "no different"
> > from other boys.
> 
> I wonder if I'm the only one who finds the similarities between this 
> case and the notorious James Bulger murder in Britain to be absolutely 
> eerie.
> 
The Times agrees with you:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-740799,00.html