Jury selection begins in 'burned boy' murder trial
By Harvey Rice | February 2, 2015 | Updated: February 2, 2015 4:20pm

GALVESTON – Attorneys began paring a pool of nearly 200 potential jurors Monday to find 12 who will decide whether Don Collins is guilty of capital murder for setting a boy ablaze in 1998, causing burns that led to his death four years ago.

Mills, now 29, of New Caney was 13 when he allegedly poured gasoline on 8-year-old Robbie Middleton and set him on fire to silence a victim of a sexual attack two weeks earlier.

Middleton survived until age 20, but a medical examiner ruled his death to be a homicide because he succumbed to a cancer caused only by repeated skin grafts. Collins, a convicted sex offender, maintains he is innocent.

Although the attack took place on a wooded path near Splendora in Montgomery County, state District Judge Kathleen Hamilton moved the trial to Galveston County after ruling that the crime was so well-known in Collins' home county that a fair-minded jury could not be chosen there.

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Or psychological recognition of the feeling of revenge in wanting the same to be done to him...in public.
Or an opportunity to remind myself it is NOT about what he did, it is about who we are, who I am...shit, hell, piss, damn...that other feeling was attractive.

it says "Collins, now 29..." Don't know how anyone named Mills got in there.

The corrected version:

Collins, now 29, of New Caney was 13 when he allegedly poured gasoline on 8-year-old Robbie Middleton and set him on fire to silence a victim of a sexual attack two weeks earlier.

Middleton survived until age 20, but a medical examiner ruled his death to be a homicide because he succumbed to a cancer caused only by repeated skin grafts. Collins, a convicted sex offender, maintains he is innocent.

Although the attack took place on a wooded path near Splendora in Montgomery County, state District Judge Kathleen Hamilton moved the trial to Galveston County after ruling that the crime was so well-known in Collins' home county that a fair-minded jury could not be chosen there.

Legal experts have said prosecutors may face an uphill battle trying to link Middleton's death in 2011 to the earlier attack.

The prosecution will call its first witness Tuesday.

What kind of monster could do this, especially to a child? That poor, sweet boy.

Poor little boy. He had to have suffered so much. His whole life destroyed by a monster.

Knowing that the suffering continued for years, then finally overcame him is unspeakable.