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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/md-mil...man-he-hired-to-dig-tunnels-beneath-his-home/
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A Maryland millionaire will soon be out on bond as he fights charges of "depraved heart" murder in a bizarre chain of events that led to a 21-year-old man's death. News outlets report that a judge set day trader Daniel Beckwitt's bail at $100,000 in the death of Askia Khafra.

Beckwitt had hired Khafra to dig tunnels beneath his Bethesda home. Prosecutors say the tunnels were supposed to be part of a bunker Beckwitt wanted to create because he was worried about nuclear war with North Korea.

In September, officers responding to a fire at Beckwitt's residence found Khafra dead in the tunnels. His cause of death was listed as smoke inhalation and thermal injuries.

The 27-year-old defendant is expected to soon be out on bond. His lawyers have describe Khafra's death as a tragic accident.

the tunnels beneath Beckwitt's home were discovered approximately 20 feet down from a hole cut into the basement's concrete floor, and branch out approximately 200 feet in length.

The station also reports that court documents reveal Beckwitt told police he would pick Khafra up at his home in Silver Spring, Md., drive him to Manassas, Va., make him put on black-out sunglasses, and then drive back to Beckwitt's home in Bethesda, Md. Beckwitt reportedly told Khafra that he was taking him to an undisclosed location in Virginia. Once in Beckwitt's basement, Khafra was allowed to remove the glasses and would dig the tunnels for intervals of days at a time.

Montgomery County officials reportedly ordered the demolition of the home in January, saying that the tunnels threaten the "support and stability" of the home. And investigators said that the home had "hoarding conditions," with the home containing human excrement, discarded items, saturated materials and piles of garbage.

These conditions, according to investigators, made escape from the home difficult as the hoarding conditions led to maze-like pathways throughout.
"The substantial electrical needs of the underground tunnel complex were served by a haphazard daisy-chain of extension cords and plug extenders that created a substantial risk of fire," said Montgomery County Detective Michelle Smith in a court affidavit.

In March, Montgomery County sued Beckwitt and additional homeowner David Beckwitt after officials say they failed to safely demolish the home, as well as deal with the tunnels and hoarding.

Daniel Beckwitt was arrested in May.
 
Dude should not be let out on bond. Nope not even.
But hey when you are rich I guess that doesn't matter. Get that man admitted to a psych hospital stat and let him fling shit at the walls. I'd rather he be anywhere but out on his own damn recognizance
 
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For a fucking millionaire, Daniel sure does have a mediocre house. I can understand the need to expand, but really, if your actually believe your country may be attacked with nuclear weapons in the near the future, don't fucking live in the suburbs of the capital city, dumbass.
 
. Beckwitt told police he would pick Khafra up at his home in Silver Spring, Md., drive him to Manassas, Va., make him put on black-out sunglasses, and then drive back to Beckwitt's home in Bethesda, Md. Beckwitt reportedly told Khafra that he was taking him to an undisclosed location in Virginia. Once in Beckwitt's basement, Khafra was allowed to remove the glasses and would dig the tunnels for intervals of days at a time.
That poor kid really wanted to work.
 
Whod this nutter inherit a fortune from?

Not sure why he should be held responsible though. He hired someone do do some construction on his home, any safety precautions that were or werent undertaken are the responsibility of the guy doing the work, not him.
 
Whod this nutter inherit a fortune from?

Not sure why he should be held responsible though. He hired someone do do some construction on his home, any safety precautions that were or werent undertaken are the responsibility of the guy doing the work, not him.
I don't know about other states, but that's not how it works in Maryland. Anyone legally allowed on private property that become injured is responsible by the property owner, unless a contract signed by a licensed and insured business and the homeowner states otherwise. That's why its unwise to hire unlicensed, uninsured businesses for work in one's home, if the worker becomes injured or killed, the home owner is the hook for the cost of it.
 
If this guy was paranoid enough to build a bunker, then he was also paranoid enough to kill the person digging the tunnels so he could hide their existence. Poor Khafra, he must have been a hell of a worker if he dug enough to destabilize the house.
 
"Jurors deliberated for approximately 12 hours before convicting 27-year-old Daniel Beckwitt in the September 2017 death of Askia Khafra, 21. Beckwitt faces up to 30 years in prison at a sentencing set for June 17."

 
"A millionaire stock trader was sentenced to nine years in prison Monday in the death of a worker he'd hired to dig tunnels beneath his house in suburban Washington, DC, as protection from potential North Korean missile strikes.

Daniel Beckwitt, 28, had been found guilty in April of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter in the death of Askia Khafra, 21, who was found "naked" and "charred" in the burnt-out basement of the Bethesda, Maryland, residence."

 
"An appeals court has tossed the murder conviction of a Maryland millionaire previously found guilty in the burning death of a 21-year-old man he hired to dig out tunnels to a secret underground nuclear bunker beneath his mansion.

Daniel Beckwitt was sentenced in 2019 to nine years in prison after he was found guilty of second-degree “depraved heart” murder and involuntary manslaughter for the death of Askia Khafra, who was burned beyond recognition in a 2017 fire at Beckwitt’s home.

A three-judge panel from the Court of Special Appeals on Friday ruled there was not enough evidence to sustain Beckwitt’s murder conviction. Their ruling did however, let stand a lesser conviction of involuntary manslaughter under a theory of gross negligence, the Washington Post reported.

“Although the circumstances in this case were dangerous enough to sustain a conviction for gross negligence involuntary manslaughter, they were not so egregious as to indicate that death was the likely, if not certain result, so as to satisfy the malice element of depraved heart murder,” the court wrote in its decision. “Accordingly, the evidence was insufficient to support the conviction for depraved heart murder.”

More: here.
 
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