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   Inside a segregation cell in a Houston jail, David Conley waits,   
   passing the time talking to reporters about the tumultuous   
   relationship he had with his on-again, off-again girlfriend over   
   more than a decade. Earlier this week, he was charged with   
   numerous counts of capital murder after he allegedly slipped   
   through an unlocked window at her home and fatally shot her, her   
   common-law husband and her six children — one by one — in the   
   back of the head.   
      
   Authorities said Conley, 49, killed Valerie Jackson, 40, her   
   husband, Dwayne Jackson, and the six children, including his   
   son, 13-year-old Nathaniel.   
      
   “I love Nate. I love Nate to death,” he told KPRC-TV earlier   
   this week. Though, he said, he has questioned for years whether   
   he is the child’s biological father.   
      
   Conley spoke Wednesday about the children who were growing into   
   “monsters” and Jackson whom he blamed for letting them run wild   
   “like they were gangsters.”   
      
   “I understand how it looks, but it’s not like that,” he told the   
   Houston Chronicle. “The Bible says, ‘Thou shall respect your   
   mother and father or your days shall be short.’ I’m not God, but   
   you know, then, I’m the man of the house.”   
      
   [Accused Texas shooter David Conley had troubled past with   
   victim]   
      
   Conley said his attorney advised him not to talk about the   
   allegations against him but in an interview he told a KHOU-TV   
   reporter: “I’m only human.”   
      
   In jailhouse interviews, Conley has instead focused on his   
   relationship with Jackson who, over the years, bounced back and   
   forth between him and Dwayne Jackson. He claimed Valerie Jackson   
   had cheated on him with Dwayne — a “demon” and a “monster” who   
   was “harassing” him.   
      
   “He tried to pimp out over me and take everything, rule over my   
   house. How would you feel?” he told KPRC-TV. “Dwayne was a   
   monster and Valerie, she was no Good Samaritan either. They did   
   evil things all the time.”   
      
   Conley also said Jackson wouldn’t discipline the children so   
   they were “growing up to be monsters,” talking back and refusing   
   to clean up after themselves.   
      
   “They were disrespectful, rude in school,” he told the TV news   
   station. “I’m not saying they’re dead because of that. I’m not   
   even saying I killed them.”   
      
   When Conley met Jackson in 1999, he said, he was “trying to do   
   the right thing in life.” He had been in trouble for auto theft,   
   cocaine possession and evading arrest, according to court   
   records. The next year, the two had a daughter.   
      
   Jackson’s mother has reportedly had custody of the daughter for   
   years.   
      
   Around that time, Conley was arrested and charged in a domestic   
   violence dispute. Jackson told police Conley had cut her neck,   
   punched her in the face and wrapped an electrical cord around   
   the baby’s neck. The handling of that case became an issue this   
   week after he was charged in the murders when local media   
   reported that, given Conley’s previous felony convictions, the   
   prosecutor in that case could have sought the maximum sentence —   
   25 years to life — but opted in 2002 to accept a plea deal   
   instead for five years behind bars.   
      
   Conley said the domestic abuse allegations against him “were all   
   lies.”   
      
   “Basically what happened to that case is what happens with so   
   many domestic violence cases: The victim recanted her story,”   
   Jeff McShan with the Harris County District Attorney’s Office   
   told KHOU-TV.   
      
   McShan said Jackson then blamed the alleged abuse on an ex-   
   boyfriend.   
      
   “We went all the way up to the trial date hoping she would tell   
   the truth about what happened, show up for court, but we   
   couldn’t even locate her,” he said.   
      
   Conley and Jackson then reportedly had a son, Nathaniel, though   
   Conley said paternity was never proved.   
      
   For years, Jackson went back and forth between Conley and Dwayne   
   Jackson. “I never tried to hold her back,” Conley told the   
   Houston Chronicle, “but then she would always try to run off and   
   be with him.” Valerie Jackson had five children with Dwayne   
   Jackson.   
      
   Early on, Conley was reportedly married to another woman. His   
   estranged wife, Vernessa Conley, told Fox News that Conley had   
   abused her years ago.   
      
   “He grabbed me by my hair and dragged me out of the bed and he   
   drug me over the floor and he took an extension cord, the orange   
   ones that you use,” she said, “and he wrapped it around my neck   
   and I blacked out.”   
      
   “If I hadn’t left he probably would have killed me,” she added.   
      
   Conley and Jackson’s troubles came to a head last month when   
   Conley allegedly attempted to discipline Jackson’s 10-year-old   
   with a belt. Police said she tried to grab the belt from him but   
   he slammed her head into a refrigerator. Police issued a warrant   
   for his arrest.   
      
   Conley told the Houston Chronicle he left the house that he   
   claims he shared with Jackson and went to a motel. Ultimately,   
   he decided to move out but, when he realized he didn’t have   
   anywhere else to go, he went back, according to KPRC-TV.   
      
   On Saturday morning, Conley discovered Jackson had changed the   
   locks, police said, so he slipped through an unlocked window. At   
   some point that morning, Jackson’s brother, Earl Yanske, who was   
   in Montana, said he heard Conley was in the house. He tried to   
   call Conley. No answer. Then a family member phoned police.   
      
   Deputies went to the home several times throughout the day but   
   nothing seemed amiss. Finally, about 11 p.m., Yanske said, his   
   cellphone rang. It was Conley, returning his call.   
      
   “‘I need to ask you a question,’” Yanske said, according to the   
   Houston Chronicle. “‘Did you kill my sister?’”   
      
   “He said, ‘Yes, I did.’ . . . There was totally no emotion in   
   his voice.”   
      
   Outside the home, authorities saw a body through the window.   
      
   “Deputies on scene forced entry into the home and were   
   immediately met with gunfire,” Harris County Chief Deputy Tim   
   Cannon told the Associated Press. “The deputies withdrew from   
   the home.”   
      
   Authorities waited for the sheriff’s office SWAT team to arrive   
   and, after an hours-long standoff with police, negotiators   
   finally got Conley to emerge.   
      
   Inside the home, police found the victims. The children were   
   identified as Nathaniel, 13, Dwayne, 10, Honesty, 11, Caleb, 9,   
   Trinity, 7, and Jonah, 6.   
      
   Now the same prosecutor who gave Conley a plea deal in 2002 will   
   face him again and, this time, could seek the death penalty,   
   KHOU-TV reported.   
      
   “We’re talking about a span of three to four months before that   
   decision will be made,” Harris County District Attorney Devon   
   Anderson told reporters.   
      
   Conley is set to appear in court again Sept. 15.   
      
   Comments:   
      
   Hermit1951   
   10:35 AM PDT   
   Six women enter an abortion clinic and kill their children and   
   it's "the law"   
   One man enters a home and kills six children and its murder.   
      
   I hope the ET's aren't trying to figure us out.   
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   WasPsaW   
   10:42 AM PDT   
   The ETs would be able to tell the difference between a   
   caterpillar and a butterfly.   
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   Onrecord   
   10:32 AM PDT   
   This isn't about race, it's about religion. Sick stuff.   
      
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