And depression over all the assets she shared with her husband that she will no longer be entitled to now that the investigators are closing in on the truth.

Hello, Deborah, and welcome to Dan Te and THE INSPECTOR.

Gee, how do we join this “common sense club” of yours, is one of the requirements for membership to be a complete idiot? LMAO

And neither of them even bothered to call 911. Seems they left that to the neighbors.

Take a good long look in the mirror, “Deborah”. The only troll here is you, insulting anyone who dares to disagree with you.
This was an accident, and tragic for all involved. But since you don’t share that opinion, I expect you will call me a troll or say that I must be a family member because God forbid someone should dare to disagree with you.

Deborah, perhaps they are taking a page from the mother’s own PR release? in it, she said her children had begged her to remove the burning embers from the fireplace, which was tantamount to blaming them for their own horrific deaths. Minimizing those deaths by chalking them up to a bad judgment call, or the equally wrong “just a stupid mistake,” sounds like more garbage from the same garbage can.

Hi, Francis! Thanks for posting the above link. I think siites pick up some of the same news feeds.. Is this what you were wondering?

Guess she’s realizing the jig is up.

And how would you know “these are not evil people”? Post a link to the tea leaves telling you that. The pesky FACTS surrounding this case show those two in a highly unfavorable light.

Jason this was not one bad decision but many bad decisions occurring over months not just Christmas eve. That is why the police are investigation. The reason for the public interest IMHO seems to be the persistent feeling that things don’t quite add up in this fire story, and that several (not just one) measure could most probably have prevented some of these deaths. To know there are five dead bodies, three of them young children, and no good answers regarding the fire, but a lot of obvious mistakes made over a period of time is very disconcerting. To see that the evidence was “removed” so quickly (the house tron down immediately and w/o police knowledge) is baffling beyond belief. There is also incredible tragedy here and grief as well which no one reading this story can help but feel.

Do you also run around defending those who are drunk and kill people on the road as mere “bad judgement,” and don’t believe they should be held accountable? That’s why there’s something called Negligent Homicide. This is the same thing as driving while drunk and killing innocent people, even worse, since there are multiple times this tragedy could be prevented. It’s a string of negligent choices by both Badger and Borcina, especially Badger, that led to the deaths of those five poor individuals.

Unlike folks like you who prefer to keep your heads buried in the sand and spew cliches, many of us are seeing the chain of events and who should be held responsible extremely clearly, and want justice to be served.

If you find our insightful comments so “heartbreaking,” take a hike.

Yep. Evidently, “Dutch” has had several incarnations on this site.

Yes! Read the newspapers! Surf the web! Watch TV! They all tell the truth (just like they did with DSK and that poor maid!).

What a clown you are, Deborah.

yes, i was wondering why he didn’t have a death grip on the girls he lead downstairs.

Is that you again, Borcina?

may i ask how he saved your life??

Well, B might have been a good and kind and gentle man in your personal case, Dutch, but the newspaper reports paint a very different picture Mr. Borcina and his former clients have nothing good to say about him! Mr B owes several people money and has been impossible to find when it came to serving him with papers. This is hardly” ignorant slander” but rather, recently reported news stories by well known media outlets (unless you want to accuse them of slander too). You can look these things up easily yourself to read what people have to say. Personally, I am very glad Matthew Badger, who is undoubtedly suffering a tremendous amount of grief in these weeks, has had the presence of mind to hire a private investigator. I also hope he gets some answers very soon about this fire as he so deserves some! To me, he is the unsung hero in this story who had to stand right next to the man who improperly disposed of ashes that led to the deaths of his three children at their funeral no less, and arm in arm with his wife. How he did that is beyond me.
I do not believe I could have been so kind or gentle as Matthew Badger was that day to Mr. Borcina.on the day of bis little girls’ funeral.

Haha! Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

I do feel really bad for her though. In a very short span of time, Madonna has lost her title of ‘mother’ and sadly, of ‘daughter’ too. I really don’t think she meant for all of this to happen. Borcina, on the other hand,,,,,,,,,,

wow – not sure what happened in your life to make you hate people that you do not even know so much – sad Deborah – I bet you attend church regularly and are an absolute pillar in your community – better go back to the scriptures and re-read the passage regarding the judgement of others lest you will be judged….. perhaps you have guilt issues since you are so vehement about these people – it would be interesting to see what’s in your closet!

You are an ass, plain and simple.

Why haul smoke detectors and extinquishers, of all things, to the garage? Why, indeed?

Chilling. I’m so glad the father has hired his own investigators.

I think all of our comments are based on the ‘fact’ that there is more to this story than meets the eye…which is why the police are now investigating it and a why a private investigator has now been hired. And while I personally don’t want to see Madonna go to jail, I do believe that she was, in part, responsible for bringing that goon into her family home (or bringing her contractor into her bed, however you look at it). That error in judgement cost her dearly. I feel most sorry for Matthew Badger…his wife’s poor judgement cost him his only children.

ps. I don’t mean to be ‘hurtful’ as you say…just calling ‘em like I see ‘em.

Well, then, kevin, you should leave immediately. Fly away on your pink cloud of “empathy” for the two responsible for five horrific deaths, including three children. Go fill up the rose bowl with roses for the negligent duo, if you like. But keep in mind this is a respected public website, where people have the right to comment on the news articles printed here. This is what we will continue to do.

Excellent idea!

That would be fabulous! I’m female too, btw. Maybe we should start a FB page or something in case CBS stops posting new threads on this story. I’d hate not to be able to find you guys.

I read one crackpot post where Badger was called a “hero” by some unknown blogger, who weaved a strange, descriptive tale of Badger and Borcina sharing Christmas Eve dinner with the soon-to-be-dead family. Later, she posted, Badger and Borcina snuggled at the fireplace, sharing one single thought. That Santa would burn his boots on the burning embers. So according to the blogger, “somehow” the embers ended up in “another area of the house” and caught on fire! Sure, they leaped into the bag then ran out to the mudroom by themselves. Needless to say, the writer of this tale was monitoring all comments. Plus, she was trying to link her post to every outlet on the Internet. She looked and sounded as if she was missing a few neurons in the accompanying photo and description of herself which she posted on the site. This may be typical of anyone who call that mother a “hero.”

And I also can’t believe how she’s often referred to as a “strong woman.” A “strong woman” would never give her sociopath BF ultimate power over the safety of her family. A “strong woman” would double-check to make sure dangerous fireplace ashes were being disposed of in HER home. A “strong woman” would make sure all the permits were in place before allowing her family to sleep even one night in a home without a Certificate of Occupancy. A “strong woman” would have bought battery operated smoke detectors once she realized the contractor BF failed to activate the hard-wired one. A “strong woman” wouldn’t allow a man she hardly knows with a dubious reputation to sleep in her bed in front of her young daughters before her divorce was final.

I could go on.

Yes, those smoke detectors would have saved their lives! Plus, the fire extinquishers (today is the first we heard about them) may have kept the fire contained to the mudroom and kitchen – if they had been handy, that is, instead of being tossed in the garage before the fire.

I agree both of them need to be charged with reckless manslaughter.

Good obeservation, lauralee. Maybe she has barred the door to Borcina, though it wouldn’t suprise me if that isn’t the case. As you said, kudos to Matthew Badger for hiring the investigator. And thanks, CBS, for being the first paper to print it.

I have been reading through all of the comments here, and want to thank you and the others for expressing so well what I have always thought. I have so many questions about this tragedy and hope that Borcina is charged, as he should be.

This story is completely full of holes. Borcina and Madonna were never on the upper floors during the fire. They had to have been on the ground floor. I have always felt that not grabbing the phone upon waking in horror as I ran to rescue my kids while simultaneously dialing 911 was highly suspect. I also don’t like the Dad’s death perhaps being due to a blow to the head.

What grown man sees a little girl in front of him in a burning house, and doesn’t instinctively GRAB her?

Their story is total BS.