I don't know about any of you but we are outsiders and boy have we all been on one heck of a roller coaster ride, can you all imagine the parties that directly involved in this case how they must feel? I feel as though I need an IV drip and sleep for a week or more. The emotions I went through! We are all going through the same emotions as one would go through when grieving because we are!
That is the down side of attaching oneself to any case here! This case I can say is unusual in that it was fast, and a lot of our questions have and are being answered. Not all but a big chunk are. When you think of all the cases on this forum that doesn't have much info at all but the basic information. TO have a case closed so soon quiet frankly has put me back. I'm starting to not trust a lot of it. Is this because I'm not use to a case being closed so soon? It seems so scripted...Helps the family move on, puts the guilty away, LE has satisfaction, and the community can rest. Why then do i have pause that I or We have been spoon fed not the whole truth?
It must be just me...part of the grieving process still. I must move on.
Lera, I think you are right about us sort of being catapulted through a whole range of emotions by the (relatively speaking) rapid movement of this case. And when you think of it, first we had that long "dry" spell, when LE was saying little, Mickey had not been found, there was little to do but speculate and talk about the DWT, etc. -- then, wham, so much happened so quickly. And such sadness, relief, anger, near-disbelief -- all mingling. No wonder a lot of us have been maybe a wee bit "touchy" (or so it seems to me), me included.
I was thinking just last night as I went to sleep about how the Shunicks might feel, with the resolution, if you want to call it that, coming quickly. I know they must be reeling -- it must still seem almost surreal that Mickey is gone, and yet here is her confessed killer already in prison for life.
Brandon's family has also been plunged through a rapid-speed nightmare, I feel. I can't imagine how they are coping, either.
For the Pate family -- well, it's different. Sure can't say it all came quickly -- but the events of recent weeks have. I'm sure some part-healed wounds were opened for them -- but now maybe any future healing can be more real and complete.
I don't necessarily feel the "we've not gotten the real truth" thing -- but I do find myself with lots of questions. The answers to some of them are probably not a bit of my business -- but sometimes, when I have become so emotionally invested in a case, I feel an intense desire to know.
This is only the second case I've followed really tightly on WS (my 2006 join date is deceptive -- I've really only been active on WS for a little more than a year); the other is still pending trial. But I have less intensely followed a couple of others that "resolved" quickly, with some real shockers -- and they, too, were jarring.
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