What’s the most important advantage of being rich? Big houses? The envy of your high-school classmates? Household servants?
Nope. The most important advantage is that society allows you to kill at least one of your lovers.
You’ve probably heard about the Susan Cummings murder trial. The daughter of billionaire arms dealer Sam Cummings, Susan Cummings lives on a 300 acre estate called Ashland Farm, not far from Outrage HQ.
Roberto Villegas had as different a background from Susan Cummings as can be imagined. Born to rural poverty in Argentina, he began playing polo at age 15. Five years later he came to the US, working as a horse groom in the hope of parlaying his skill as a polo player into better things. According to Bill Ylvisaker, founder of the Palm Beach Polo and Country Club, Villegas “pulled himself up by the bootstraps. In every sense of the word he was a self-made man.” But despite his success as a polo player, Villegas never earned a lot of money.
Eventually, his polo playing skills brought Villegas to Virginia, where he was widely known for his warmth and outgoing personality. Susan Cummings, 35, also noticed the good looking 38 year old Argentinean. The two, both single, became lovers.
Cummings was no sugar-mommy to Villegas. When the polo player’s father died in Argentina, Cummings did not buy her boyfriend a ticket to go home. Instead, he sold his polo horses and truck to Cummings in order to raise the money to pay for the trip. Cummings and Villegas were living together at her estate, but she refused to allow him to install an answering machine, insisting that the machine would obligate them to return expensive long-distance phone calls. When the polo season ended, Villegas continued to support himself by working in an apple orchard.
Villegas did not seem to object to his rich girlfriend’s penny-pinching ways, but he did make the mistake of trying to use a small bit of her money to help one of the estate’s employees. Cummings employed an elderly woman to sweep the leaves from the estate’s long, winding driveway. Villegas purchased a leaf-blower for $108 to lighten the old lady’s burden. Cummings was reportedly furious over the expense, saying that the woman’s broom was a perfectly adequate tool.
Sometime in late summer and early fall of last year, the relationship started to sour, although the two still lived together. Cummings became more possessive of her lover. It’s possible that Villegas was growing tired of the relationship and wanted out.
On September 7, 1997 Cummings pumped four bullets into Villegas, killing him on the spot. Forensic evidence and expert testimony provided a huge amount of evidence that Cummings premeditated the killing, perhaps in an OJ style fit of jealousy. Prosecutors argued that Cummings loaded her semi-automatic weapon in her upstairs bedroom, walked down to the kitchen and shot her lover as he ate breakfast.
Cummings said the shooting was in self-defense, although overwhelming evidence suggests that Villegas was seated at the breakfast table when Cummings shot him to death. Cummings defense attorney, Blair Howard, urged the jury to disregard “cold photographs and scientific theory” and focus on “human emotion.” In other words, disregard the facts and forgive the killer for shooting her boyfriend to death in cold blood.
On May 13 the jury in tightly knit Faquier County listened to Blair’s plea, finding Cummings guilty of voluntary manslaughter, rather than first-degree murder. The sentence? Sixty days in the county jail and a fine of $2,500.
Not surprisingly, Cummings described herself as “deeply appreciative” to the jury that slapped her wrist after finding her guilty of killing Villegas. “I feel very happy” Cummings said. Sure, just the way OJ felt after the criminal jury let him walk. You might call the elation that Cummings and OJ felt “relief of the rich” – the realization that, yes, wealth really does provide a license to kill.
Even Cumming’s attorneys were stunned by the lightness of the jury verdict. “I have gotten manslaughter verdicts before, and I have never received a sentence comparable to this one” a broadly smiling Howard said. Howard went on to say “We’re stunned but we’re grateful.” He must have been laughing inside when he said “we want to emphasize there will be no appeal of the verdict.”
Even attorney Howard admitted his client’s guilt as he plead for leniency. “She’s made a mistake. That doesn’t make her a bad person. That doesn’t mean she should be removed from society.” Of course, if premeditated murder is not reason for removing a person from society, we don’t know what is. Some of the women on the jury wiped away tears as Howard made his closing plea.
But that’s not the end of the story. Not only was Cummings sentenced to only sixty days for killing Villegas, but the jail where she is currently serving her brief sentence was emptied out so she could have privacy during her stay. Six prisoners were moved to other jails so that Cummings could have a dormitory section to herself.
Apparently the local sheriff, Joe Higgs, was concerned that the other prisoners, who were serving longer sentences for lighter crimes, might take offense at the sort of “justice” meted out to the rich. Higgs was afraid that the other women serving time might try to inflict some jail-yard justice on Cummings. But not to worry; the sheriff has promised that the dorm will remain vacant as long as “Miss” Cummings is in residence.
In a few short weeks Cummings will be released from jail. She’ll be free to return to her estate, to live as she wants. Perhaps
she’ll want to have dinner with OJ. But regardless of what she does, Roberto Villegas will still be very dead. But what the Hell; he was just a working man.
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For more about the Cummings case see the Washington Post Story
This story is sickening. I hope Ms. Cummings is sleeping well at night. The ghosts of wrongs not righted have a way of bringin hell to the perpetrators of injustices.
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Anyone out there who knows more details in regards to Susan Cummings please contact me. Does Susan Cummings still live in Virginia. I have just stared to research this and believe that she may be living in my neighborhood!
The woman living next door goes by a diffent name but everything seems to match up.
The age thows me…this woman seems and looks older. I am currently looking for photographs..more recent than the trail photos. if anyone has any information please contact me.
Thanks, Lynn
I watched part of this story on TV last night but didn’t get to see the end. I searched the internet today so that I could see what happened to Susan. I can’t believe that anyone in their right mind would let such a horrible person who committed such a terrible crime go more or less free. What has this world come to. Money must make you different from everyone else because no laws pertain to them. There aren’t even any moral standards when it comes to the rich. If ever someone needed to be sent to the gas chamber or die from lethal injection, it is Susan Cummings. Instead she gets a fun few months at the local jail. All the jurors at her trial should be ashamed of themselves – I guess they don’t have any concept of justice. They’d better hope they don’t do anything to make her mad because she might just get her gun and shoot one of them. Now that would be justice.
Susan.. You go Girl!
I have followed this story from when it originally happened and was quite sure that Ms.Cummins committed murder. Having just watched the court tv program tonight I thought I would see what was on the net regarding Susan Cummings. After reading the comments on her on your site, I now question why if she was so heartless and cold, did he stick around. Also, where is the outrage with the extremely poor decision making on the part of the prosecutors? Everyone is complaining about the rich and their defense attorneys, yet the prosecutors are the ones whose arrogance about their easy win is were most of the blame for this injustice should be directed, and who also took no responsibility for the verdict. Cummings is a murderer, but money was not totally her ticket out in this case.
I too just watched the special on Susan cummings last night and am still outraged. It was so obvious that she commited a pre-meditated murder. According to the news show, she lived, (and still does)a very secluded life. I strongly believe that Susan Cummings is not capable of living among “normal” society. Why was she living all alone in that great big house, that was barely furnished? Her main companions were animals.This sounds like a dysfunctional person to me. She could not deal with the pressures that sometime arise in relationships. Due to her secluded life of priveledge, she simlpy “got rid of” Mr. Villegas when she grew tired of him. Why would she go to the police to complain about her lover, yet decline the offer of having him removed from her home. She certainly had the money for personal and home security if she truley feared for her life. Going to the police was simply and obviously her alibi for a murder she knew she was about to commit. Some don’t believe that it was Susan’s money that got her off. I think it had everthing to do with it. Her peers, the jury who descided her fate, all had money as well. At least one jurur said she could “relate” to Susan and what she may have gone through. But who on that jury, I’d like to know, could relate to Mr.Villegas? All too often, money and priveledge are equated to class and decency. Who could believe someone of her background could commit such a heinous crime? Susan Cummings counted on no one believing that. She felt herself and her life more “valuable” than her lover and was confidant that the law would also. The best defense that money can buy, that’s what Susan Cummings got. How dare she get away with murder with a slap on the wrist. A private prison cell and a whole wing to herself. Where is the justice in that? I can only hope that for the rest of her life, Susan remains a recluse in her grande home, and that the memory of the murder she commited plays on, over and over in her head. That she becomes her own warden. Her conscience being the life time prison sentence that she should have no doubt be given.
I truly believe that there is a special place in hell for Ms. Cummings. I hope the old woman that was cleaning the driveway comes back with that electric leaf blower and drops it (accidentally of course) in the pool as Ms Cummings swims. Just another example of a rich bitch walking in to a courtroom and walking out with a smile. Then, this bonehead sheriff, clearing out the other prisoners so Ms Bitch does not have to be around “common folk”. Gawd…
I just watched this case on Court TV and was infuriated that she can just kill a human and be sentenced to such a light sentence. There was no doubt as was cast in the OJ case by Furman. My she die a slow and agonising death from some sort of cancer or progressive disease like Alzeimer’s
miss cummings got aways with murder and thats a damn shame. I hope she knows that pulling the wool over humanities eyes is no big feat.However pulling the wool over GODS eyes is an impossibility. MISS CUMMINGS you will be judged again and next time your money will not help you!!!
The Jurors were all rich priviledged arsholes. The Jury should have been from the general working public. You know, fair, hard working people who actually have character? One juror said herself, “I can identify with her because I come from money too” well, ooooooh! translated that means, “I come from money and we are better than the poor stable boy and we have a right to blow someone away in cold blood because we are rich and we are better than anyone and we should be able to get away with murder” Susan Cummings is a loney, ugly,(REALLY UGLY! I MEAN INBRED FXCKING UGLY! MAN!!) frigid hag and I am disgusted with these lying crooked attorneys getting these rich people off. This ugly wentch really deserves to be alone and miserable the rest of her life. Why the was she even educated? She never had to work. She, like all these spoiled rich ugly women go to these exclusive schools and get the best education just to become rotton, snooty, spoiled coonts who don’t have to work at all. She will never use that college degree, when kind decent people in this country can’t even get an education to support thier families without owing thousands and thousands of dollars in loans. Then, it takes years of working your way through school. This country and its preoccupation with the rich has become nauseating. I am so glad that I am from decent hard working people. I hate the rich. I really do. Now more than ever. I can’t wait til that ugly wentch hangs herself in that grotesque mansion from lonliness. May Suzzaahhhnn Cummings rot in hell forever. Oh and Blair Howard or whatever his name is can go with her.
screw you both!
Of course I’m outraged, though not surprised. The system is skewed to favor the rich in every way. AND, the rich are getting richer, while the poor are getting poorer, until America completely loses its middle class and we revert to some kind of feudal anarchy. You can see this happening all over as corporation after corporation falls because of these greedy executives, who don’t mind screwing thousands of the “little people”. May God save us all!
The person who thinks Susan Cummings is her next door neighbor: take a photo, and send it to Dominick Dunne, or Court TV and they could probably tell you if it’s her.
I spent 6 months in jail for writing a bad check, and had practically NO defense from the so-called public defender. He didn’t even know who I was until I had to show up in court, and he had NO IDEA of my case, either. So don’t even write a bad check unless you’re rich!!!
And this is the so-called “justice system”, belying even our sacred Pledge of Allegiance, which promises “liberty and justice for all”…
One thing I can tell y’all: if high and mighty Ms. Cummings had been in OUR cellblock, she would have got the crap beat out of her so bad she would never have been able to use even her trigger finger! So the suck-up sheriff was probably smart in keeping her away from the population, although of course it wasn’t RIGHT to do so.
Again, I pray to God to save us all…
Like father, like daughter.
Check THIS out:
Arms Dealer Cummings in Public Spotlight
By Michael Isikoff
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, December 22, 1986; Page F24
Interarms, an arms dealership with headquarters in Alexandria, sells an estimated $80 million worth of pistols, submachine guns, rifles, hand grenades and other weapons each year.
While the Reagan administration was secretly selling arms to Iran, arms trader Samuel Cummings was quietly building his own bridges to the government of the Ayatollah Khomeini.
As president of Interarms, which has headquarters in the heart of Alexandria’s Old Town, Cummings says he has maintained regular contacts with Iranian military officials, who have frequently visited him seeking weapons for their war with Iraq. The Iranians’ “buy orders,” submitted to Interarms’ offices in Manchester, England, have included TOW antitank missiles, the same weapon they were purchasing from the U.S. government through the assistance of former National Security Council aide Lt. Col. Oliver L. North.
“The Iranians contact us on an average of once a month and visit us once every 60 days,” said Cummings in an interview last week. “I meet with them because I never know what might happen. . . . One day the Ayatollah Khomeini might even be a guest in the White House.”
U.S. and British laws forbid arms exports to Iran, and Cummings (a Philadelphia native, a British subject, and a resident of Monte Carlo) said he has never consummated any sales. But his eagerness to keep in touch with the Iranians illustrates the business savvy and long-range outlook that have helped make Cummings the world’s largest and best-known private arms merchant.
For more than 30 years, Interarms has dominated the shadowy world of global arms trading, selling an estimated $80 million worth of pistols, submachine guns, rifles, hand grenades and other weapons each year. The company offers sporting rifles and handguns to enthusiasts in the United States, stocking tens of thousands of them in a row of inauspicious, converted tobacco warehouses along the Alexandria waterfront. Its larger inventory of military items (about 250,000, which is enough to equip more than a half-dozen infantry divisions) are stockpiled in Manchester, England, and, marketed through a network of commissioned agents, are sold to armies around the world without regard to color, creed or political affiliation.
Over the years, Cummings, a former Central Intelligence Agency arms specialist who is the brother-in-law of former Texas senator John Tower, has supplied arms to some of the era’s most notorious right-wing dictators: Somoza in Nicaragua, Batista in Cuba and Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. But these days, he says he is excited about his latest business partner, the People’s Republic of China, from which he is buying 35,000 22-ATD semiautomatic sporting rifles, which are worth about $2.5 million. The Chinese guns are being offered to the American public in Interarms’ 1987 catalogue: “Brand new to the U.S. market| . . . as elegant as any little .22-caliber semiautomatic you’ve ever seen,” it reads.
“He’s a very shrewd businessman,” said Patrick Brogan, a British journalist who coauthored the 1983 book “Deadly Business: Sam Cummings, Interarms & the Arms Trade.” “He always takes the long view. . . . In his view, he doesn’t sell death, he sells small pieces of machinery, sort of like sewing machines.”
The Iranian arms scandal recently thrust Cummings into the public spotlight, mainly because, unlike almost everybody else in his line of work, Cummings likes to talk about his business. Journalists have flocked to his Alexandria headquarters, on the corner of Prince and Union streets, seeking guidance into the byzantine and often mysterious ways of the gun trade.
“We’ve been absolutely inundated with the media,” chuckled Cummings as he relaxed in a second-floor, walk-up office stocked with an imposing 19th-century French cannon, a Revolutionary War sword and racks of guns (Kalashnikov, Uzis and a Thompson “piano special” submachine gun used by the Chicago mob in the 1920s). “We don’t hold ourselves out to be all-knowing, but I guess in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
Cummings’ standard line on Iran is not unlike ones from other commentators: The arms-for-hostages deal was a botched operation run by amateurs who didn’t know what they were doing. And, he says, Interarms could have handled the whole thing a lot more efficiently for a lot less money.
“It’s almost a classic lesson in how not to do something,” he said. “Who needs Adnan Khashoggi? Who needs the Israelis? . . . If the U.S. government wanted TOW missiles moved to Iran, I would have said, move the TOWs to Interarms’ warehouse in England. I will notify the correct Iranian people — and these are people I know a lot better than Khashoggi does — and I would have invited them to take a look at them and inspect them.
“At that point, I would have said, ‘send me the hostages, and once the plane lands, you can load it up with the TOWS and off you go’ . . . And I wouldn’t have charged any multimillion-dollar commissions because that would have been a service.”
Cummings, an amiable, heavy-set man of 59, offered this advice in a good-humored voice that is vaguely reminiscent of the cartoon character Mr. McGoo. But it is a voice that turned more serious when he discussed what is for him a more pressing concern: a severe economic downturn in the arms market brought on by new international competition and a worldwide proliferation of surplus weaponry.
“The decade of the ’80s has been the worst decade for the arms trade since World War II,” he said. “The ’50s and ’60s were great. But in the ’80s, the bottom has dropped out of the market. . . . The market has been saturated with overproduction and these arms don’t become obsolescent overnight. . . . The pipleline has been filled. It’s not like world peace has finally arrived.”
Cummings’ analysis is backed up by government figures showing that total U.S. arms exports alone have slipped from $23.7 billion four years ago to $15.6 billion last year. To be sure, most of this trade involves the sale of high-tech weaponry — combat aircraft, missiles, radar equipment — that is dominated by the U.S. government. (General Dynamics Corp., for example, exports its expensive F16 fighter jets through the Pentagon’s Foreign Military Sales program, which is why these are known as “government-to-government” transactions.)
But Interarms, which dominates the private trade in “low-tech” weaponry, has felt the repercussions of the arms slump. Cummings estimates his business has declined 14 percent since the early 1980s. Last year, he was forced to shut down the company’s Midland, Va., pistol factory, which cost 115 employes’ jobs. (Another Interarms plant that makes German Walther pistols near Huntsville, Ala., is still operating.)
Another problem plaguing Interarms is the political roadblocks thrown in its way by the U.S. and other governments. Cummings has made no secret of his willingness to sell guns to just about anyone. (He has drawn the line, he says, at Libya’s Gadhafi and a few other African dictators, such as Uganda’s former ruler Idi Amin, whom he considers bloodthirsty.)
In recent years, Cummings has carved a growing niche in the Far East, selling arms to the Philippines (for its war against a communist-backed insurgency) as well as the armies of Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. But many others with whom Cummings would be happy to do business are off-limits. He can’t sell to private guerrilla armies (ruling out the Nicaraguan “contras” to whom he says he would sell “in a minute.”) He can’t sell to Iran, the biggest buyer on the world market.
And, he says he regrets, he can no longer sell to South Africa, where more than 20 years ago he once maintained an Interarms office that the U.S. government forced him to shut down. “I would sell to South Africa if I could ever get approval,” he volunteered. “I think the blacks are better off in South Africa in terms of rights as opposed to theoretical liberties . . . than they are elsewhere in Africa.”
But for all Cummings’ complaints about such impediments, others, such as biographer Brogan, have noted his historic ingenuity in circumventing government restrictions. The classic example is the passage of the 1968 Gun Control Act, which prohibited the importation of military weapons into the United States. Anticipating the ban before it went into effect, Cummings went on a worldwide buying spree that had his Alexandria warehouses bulging with military firearms and kept his U.S. operations thriving for years afterward.
“At one point, we had 700,000 rifles, machine guns, pistols and submachine guns stored in our warehouses in Alexandria,” recalled Cummings. “That was in 1968 when the gates slammed shut. At that moment, we could have instantly overwhelmed the American armed forces. We could have armed 700,000 mercenaries that could have goose-stepped right over the Memorial Bridge and even taken over The Washington Post.
“We also had 150 pieces of artillery, ranging from 25 mm to 150 mm,” he added. “So, if I didn’t like a particular piece of legislation in the Congress, I could have phoned up the speaker and I could have said, ‘My armies will be rolling over to the Capitol, if you don’t do something about that.’ ”
Cummings burst out laughing and said, of course, the scenario is a “fantasy.” But one thing, he noted, is no fantasy: No matter how bleak the market may look today, the demand for guns will not go away.
“The military market is based on human folly — not normal market precepts,” said Cummings. “Human folly goes up and down. But it always exists — and its depths have never been plummetted.”
© Copyright 1986 The Washington Post Company
Arms Dealer Samuel Cummings Dies
By J.Y. Smith
Special to The Washington Post
Saturday, May 2, 1998; Page D06
Samuel Cummings, 71, a former Central Intelligence Agency employee who became one of the world’s leading arms merchants and who founded Interarms, a dealership based in Alexandria, died April 29 at his residence in Monaco.
A spokesman for Interarms said he did not know the cause of death, but recent press reports have said Mr. Cummings had suffered a series of strokes.
Mr. Cummings began Interarms in 1953 and soon was playing an important role in the global arms trade. Interarms had a number of subsidiaries and maintains extensive warehouse facilities along the Alexandria waterfront in Old Town and in Manchester, England. At one time in the late 1960s, it had an estimated 700,000 weapons in storage in Alexandria.
For years, the company had estimated annual sales to foreign governments totaling $80 million, mainly of relatively low-tech items such as rifles, pistols, machine guns and hand grenades. Customers ranged from the regime of Fulgencio Batista, the president of Cuba who was overthrown by the Castro revolution in 1959, to the government of the Philippines, which bought arms to fight communist insurgents.
Interarms also supplies rifles, shotguns and pistols to sportsmen in the United States and other countries.
Unlike many operators in the often-shadowy world of arms deals, Mr. Cummings loved to talk about his business, and he became something of a media celebrity. During the unfolding of the Iran-contra scandal in the mid-1980s, he was widely sought by news organizations for his expertise.
Although he never sold weapons to Iran — it is prohibited by U.S. law — he told interviewers that he had kept in touch with Iranian arms buyers for years so that he would be in position to do business with them should the political situation change.
The guiding principle of Mr. Cummings’s business strategy was the idea that “the military market is based on human folly — not normal market precepts. Human folly goes up and down, but it always exists — and its depths have never been plumbed.”
Mr. Cummings was born in Philadelphia. He spent part of his boyhood in Washington, where he attended Sidwell Friends School and the old Central High School. He served in the Army for two years at the end of World War II. After graduating from George Washington University, he studied briefly at Oxford University.
His next stop was the CIA, where he was a specialist in weapons. He remained with the agency until he started International Armament Corp., which became known as Interarms. He later started subsidiaries in Great Britain, Canada and elsewhere.
Among his most profitable deals was the U.S. franchise for the Walther company of Germany, makers of the kind of pistol favored by the fictional James Bond as well as by many real-life police officers, recreational shooters and collectors. In the 1980s, the U.S. Customs Service conducted a three-year probe of the way in which these pistols were marketed but dropped all charges.
After the mid-1960s, Mr. Cummings lived primarily in Europe, and he became a British citizen. The headquarters of his enterprises remained in Alexandria.
Mr. Cummings had an early marriage that ended in divorce.
Survivors include his wife, Irma Cummings, whom he married in the early 1960s, and their two daughters, Diana and Susan Cummings, both of Warrenton.
Susan Cummings was charged with murder last year in the shooting death of Roberto Villegas, her lover. She has pleaded self-defense, and the case has not yet been tried.
It’s a shame someones life is only worth $2,500 and 60days! The biggest shock of it all is he was a minority and was murdered during the Clinton years! I’m sure there is more to the story than we will ever hear!
I saw this story on Court TV about a month ago and it made me really angry. Now, I attend Shenandoah University and go through Warrenton to get here from home. Every time I go through Warrenton, I think of Susan Cummings and what a bitch she is. Honestly, I am not really that suprised that she got away with what she did because our judicial system in this country is so messed up. Maybe if I decided to kill my boyfriend when I get sick of him, my daddy’s money will get me out of trouble…
no thanks,i would rather remove the comment then conform to your hitlarian dictates.never heard of FREE speech?
I believe that Kharmic debt will eventualy catch up with the likes of Susan Cummings as well as with Regan Vaughn Coultas (the biggoted hatemonger)
I think an awful lot of the commentary I have read here is based on “rage at the rich”. Well Dears there is NOTHING wrong with being rich,,,and being rich by in no way makes you a bad person. In fact when the rich harness thier wealth for good instead of evil,,,everyone applauds. By the same token,,,EVILNESS in ones soul knows NO income boundaries. Poverty does not make a person more sainted. This act of MURDER is VILE reguardless of income or lack there of.
I just finish watching Dominic Dunes episode on this. It truly sickens me to see how a person can get away with cold, calculated murder because of wealth. Defense attorney’s should have a special place in hell for the murders they get off in exchange for new Porcshe and mansion. One thing is true though… WE ALL HAVE TO ANSWER FOR THE WRONGS WE DO IN THE END. No amount of money will buy your way out!
I watched this show when it originally aired and once again today and am more outraged than before. As I watched it for the 2nd time I learned that it was the wealthy high class snob aristocrat jury, like her that saved her skinny ugly ass! It was her type of people on the jury who couldn’t “break ranks” and look at the real truth….this jury was 100% partial to the bitch! Just like the old saying goes “birds of a feather flock together”. It’s like the Ku Klux Klan being on the jury for one of their own members for killing a minority! How do you expect to get a fair trial there? I am more outraged at the jury than this bitch who killed him! The anger should be directed to the jury!
I would like to hear Susan’s own words now about this if she is interested in airing her opinion or sorrow. Can I ask if anyone has an address in Northern Vermont or where ever she is living now? Phone number or email? She may need a friend and someone to talk to. Sorry for all of you who think I am insane,but have you ever heard of forgiveness? Don’t you think that she has gone through enough pain and suffering? It won’t stop until her days come to an end. Sure she has money and that is why you all are even interested. Leave her alone. If this gets posted, I’ll be suprised.
It really breaks my heart that people care no more for human life than this. Rich or Poor! Roberto was still a person. I know it will be hard but I hope his family and friends are able to come to terms with his death. As hard as it may be under the circumstances. God Bless!
To Fred Matthews who asks “haven’t you ever heard of…forgiveness?” You’re damn straight I have. It’s Susan Cummings, that heartless spoiled animal, who hasn’t. Or maybe she forgot when she shot Roberto 4 times with his back turned. Use some common sense people.
Though I would have to agree that justice favors the rich, as it always has, I will say that I was not on the jury nor was I a witness to the murder,so I will follow what the Bible says, “Judge not lest ye be judged”. For those of you who are so sure of her guilt and that God shall punish her, did it ever occur to you that it might have actually have been self-defense? Or that Mr Villegas was not the perfect golden boy of the poor as you have made him to be. Remember what Jesus said about eye for an eye, that it should not be.
Oh yes before I finish let me tell you about a guy I know who grew up poor and black and had all the disadvantages in life. The young man fell into the wrong crowd and became a petty thug and criminal. When he was 20 he approached a young white woman and demanded her money, while she fumbled to follow the order the young man’s hand slipped and fired instantly killing the woman. Because it was the South the young man expected to spend the rest of his life in prison, but somehow he was found guilty of a lesser charge and sentenced to 5 years by an all white jury.The man could never understand how this happened, he wasn’t white or rich and his lawyer was a barely competant bafoon. Yet somehow the jury was merciful. It is now 26 years later and the young man is now middle-aged with wife and kids of his own, working at the business owned by the woman who he murdered husband ,who forgave him and gave him the job when he was released 21 years ago. That man is very sorry and contrite for that horrible mistake so many years ago ,but he is grateful for the mercy he was shown along the way, how do I know this? I was that petty thug. I should still be in prison or worse still on death row, my victims family should despise the are I breath. Yet free, alive and forgiven by her family who have even helped me rehabilitate my life. What is the point you may ask to this? The point is we wii never know for certainty what occured on the day of that murder. And of course we know that being rich places you at a distinct atvantage, fairly and UNfairly,but we should also recognize that in the end it does not matter our PUBLIC perception of guilt or innocence, what matters is the actions and deeds we have committed in our lives…the deep dark ones we try to forget…and the fact we will be judged, wether you acknowledge His existance or not, by One who shall be completely unpartial either to the rich or the POOR, the white or black, american or argetinian. Thus I take solace in the words ,”Blessed are the merciful for they shall have mercy”.
I was Roberto Villegas fiance for over 5 years and the mother of his only child. I was forced to watch a high paid attorney like Blair Howard make the State Attorney look like he was still trying to complete junior high school. Roberto was a wonderful man and will be dearly missed by many. It has taken me several years to come to terms with the small sentence that Susan Cummings received. However, I know that she must have to think about what happened everyday that she walks into her kitchen. Roberto knew that something was about to happen. He had been planning to leave and return to Florida, he had also requested several time that I was to get Life Insurance on him in case of something happening. Of course I did’nt realize how bad it was because he was the type of person that would not complain. I still think that one of the reasons he had dated her was because he felt sorry for her. I appreciate all the comments that I have read and some day when our son is older he to will appreciate the same. Thank You.
What a spoiled rotten, selfish bitch!!! I guess it just proves…money CAN buy happiness.