Tony Camacho Burns Himself, Kids to Spite His Wife
Tony Camacho always told his estranged wife that one day, she’d come home and he and their kids would be gone. Well, the son of a bitch was true to his word. Weeks before his ex, Jennie Carter, was slated to take possession of their former marital home in Fort Worth Lake, Florida, Camacho told his kids to come into the house to open early Christmas presents. But there were no presents - just Camacho, a series of dead bolts, and a crapload of kerosene. Camacho died during the fire; his 10-year-old son Nelson and 8-year-old daughter Crystal succumbed to their injuries in the ensuing days. Inside of the house, investigators found empty gas canisters, as well as full containers of gasoline configured like Molotov cocktails.
What’s galling is that there were numerous signs the train wreck that was Tony Camacho was about to derail. Outside of the threats reported by Carter in her divorce proceedings, a witness came forward after the fire and reported that, days earlier, Camacho threatened to kill Carter. Too little, too late.
Camacho should obviously have never had access to his kids given his history. Mom is no doubt raking herself over the coals for letting Camacho see his children that one last time. Amazingly, though, not everybody agrees. One anonymous father’s rights commentor on a Sun-Sentinel article about the case declares:
Another tragedy caused by faulty “custody” laws. Default custody should be 50-50. Take away the aggravation, game playing and stress and these incidents will diminish in quick fashion.
Um. Yeah. Something tells me that the last thing society needed was for the likes of bastards like Tony Camacho to spend MORE time around kids. If anything, this is evidence that “50/50 by default” is a horrible notion that will take away the discretion of the courts and keep kids trapped in abusive homes. Good parents don’t torch their children, regardless of how “stressed out” they are.
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13 opinions for Tony Camacho Burns Himself, Kids to Spite His Wife
Mercurial Georgia
Dec 24, 2006 at 5:30 pm
// One anonymous father’s rights commentor on a Sun-Sentinel article about the case declares:
Another tragedy caused by faulty “custody” laws. Default custody should be 50-50. Take away the aggravation, game playing and stress and these incidents will diminish in quick fashion.//
*Does an impression of The She-Hulk*
Sinthyia
Dec 24, 2006 at 10:25 pm
Another tragedy caused by faulty “custody” laws. Default custody should be 50-50. Take away the aggravation, game playing and stress and these incidents will diminish in quick fashion.
Who do they think they are kidding??????? If he hadn’t done it for this reason it would have been over another. It has nothing to do with the kids or custody but the mentality of if I can’t no one will. MORONS!
Teri
Dec 26, 2006 at 12:13 am
What’s also wrong is you saying equal parenting should always be discounted just because this one guy was disturbed and one father supporter chose poor words for his comment.
Most parents are good. Most parents of both genders make fine parents. That doesn’t end just because there is a divorce.
The Zero Boss
Dec 26, 2006 at 12:22 am
I didn’t say it was wrong, Teri. I said it was wrong to impose it as the default, and take away the discretion of family court judges.
And I agree - in most divorces, both parents are usually fine parents in their own right. And dads too often get the short end of the stick in custody proceedings.
Family and Friend
Dec 26, 2006 at 7:11 am
Tony loved his kids just as much as Jennie and and wanted to raise them Tony was a great father and wanted to spend all of his time with them there was nothing he wouldn’t do for them or his family you would have had to know him the way his friends and family knew him i’m not saying that what he did was right but when your kids are your must pride possecion and you know that they are going to be taken away from you because of gride and selfishins that can cause one or the other parent to be pushed over the edge and in this case it was Tony
Melissa
Dec 26, 2006 at 1:00 pm
Sorry FAmily and Friend but what you are talking about isn’t love, it is posession. When you love something you can’t imagine harming it, much less setting it on fire and killing it, because you put that person above yourself. Tony didn’t do that. He was only thinking of himself and his own anger and rage at the situation. Remember the story of the two women who came to king Solomo9n both claiming to be the mother of a baby. The king said that they would cut the child in half to solve the problem. One woman agreed and the other said that she would rather give up the child then see it harmed. That is how he knew the second woman was the real mother. Because parents would rather lose their child then see it harmed. Not this man. Sorry. This isn’t a case about custody laws or about parents pushed over the edge. It’s about someone who mistook posession for love (ssomething that seems common these days) and would rather break all his belongings then see someone else have them.
Confidant
Dec 26, 2006 at 11:48 pm
Family and Friends made a good point. Tony loved his kids dearly and showed it. However Melissa is right, during the process of the divorce Tony transformed himself into a possesive person blinded by hate. Tony was a good man but that good man was nowhere to be seen once the divorce ordeal became very heated, because his kids became a possesion for him. Tony knows that I loved him but I cannot condole what he did because I also knew his kids and wife. Bottom line, the good old Tony himself would not agree with the horrible thing he caused.
Family and Friend
Dec 27, 2006 at 9:31 am
Tony was not a bad person. He loved his kids more than any thing in this world. I know his whole family including Jennie. I understand what he did was wrong, in no situation is that the right thing to do. But most people on these things don’t know him. Many people are making it as he was always this way. If he hadn’t of done this he wouldn’t of have done anything so now think about who the MORON is. P.S if you don’t have anything desant to say don’t bother. Please respect freinds and family on both sides. We all lost here!
The Zero Boss
Dec 27, 2006 at 11:26 am
“if you don’t have anything desant to say don’t bother”
But then I’d have to shut down this blog. :(
Confidant’s tone sounds like the right one here. This sounds like an otherwise decent man who took a powerful descent into darkness in recent years. A damn shame.
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Nicole
Jan 7, 2007 at 12:56 am
It doesn’t matter how Tony “used to be”; he was obviously a good person at one time in his life for someone to want to commit their life to him and pro-create with him. What does matter is that this so called wonderful father murdered his children and as most cowards do, took himself out as well. There is nothing in this world that could possibly justify to any means what this monster did and to suggest not bothering with a comment if you have nothing decent to say is absurd; for every action there is a reaction and quite frankyl, it is unfathamable for something like this to even happen and then it’s expected that nobody comments on it? Family or not, this shit effects people. You can love anyone, that doesn’t mean that your a good person. What is this world coming to?
The Truth
Jan 30, 2007 at 8:21 pm
I knew Tony very well and even though he seemed to be a passive, wonderful person that everyone talks about, it erases everything good that he was when he deliverely committed this crime. It was a pre-meditated murder and he erased all of the good father role that he portrait to be. The moment that he planned to hurt his kids whom loved him and trusted him so much, he became a Monster, a Murderer and a Sick Bastard. People get divorced every day and they go on with their lives, they don’t hurt those they love, specially not your children, if you have a lot of stress you seek help. Those children did not deserved what happened to them, I feel very sorry for Jennie who has to live everyday without her children, she was left with nothing, her beautiful babies are not here just because that son of a bitch decided to do it the cowardly way and take them from her. Those babies are two little angels in Heaven while he is burning in hell where he belongs. AND THAT IS THE TRUTH!!!
I heard Jennie Carter speak herself
Apr 3, 2007 at 8:51 pm
Tony did NOT do this out of love for his children. Jennie Carter told us her story at my college university and told us the emotional abuse he had given her for way too long. This didn’t stem from it just not working out between the two of them, it stemmed from the crazy man Tony was and how he tried controlled Jennie’s life 100% and her not letting him. She wanted nothing more but to get him out of her and her childrens’ lives. She thankfully had the divorce finalized but unfortunately was stalked and harassed by Tony, telling her that he was going to take the most important things from her and that he was going to harm Jennie herself.
Jennie was about to leave for a Disney trip with her kids on December 17th, 2006 when Tony talked to the children, telling them that he had great Christmas presents for them. Naturally, the children wanted to receive these gifts so he took them for a while to do so. Jennie began to become worried when she tried to contact him to pick them up and the phone lines weren’t working. Her and her parents went over to the house that would soon be hers to see ambulances and police cars outside of the house. She was going crazy and was finally told that Tony and her 8-year-old daughter were dead and her 10-year-old son was in the hospital who soon after died as well.
If ANYONE thinks that Tony did this out of love so that he didn’t have to lose his prized possessions, you are WRONG. Any person, male or female, that burns their children alive and stabs their daughter in the back with a butcher’s knife is a SICK and DISGUSTING animal. There is NOTHING to justify his actions.
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