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What I also found odd was that I think the last time SM was likely in Church this year would have been prior to biking weather and/or trail conditions suitable for riding. SM would not have been present in Church since at least March when Church services were required to move to video streaming for social distancing per COVID-19 mandate.
I believe the bike trail prior to March would probably still have snow and just beginning winter break-up as I think is evidenced at the property where the walkway and stream crossing are being repaired and/or rebuilt.
Fire Chief's comment to the effect of SM being too nice and/or talks to everybody sounded close to victim-blaming. Do you think SM going biking prior to Church services would have been something the husband would have offered and not SM?
MOO
ETA: According to their website, their Church is still not holding services.
Welcome to Grace Church
Grace Church services are being held online at 9:00am. There will not be any on-site services until further notice. View the livestream on our YouTube
While I agree the pre-'Rona lockdown weather would not have been conducive to trail riding, maybe she just always did that, in decent weather?
I guess maybe if someone asked BM "does she have a routine, what does she normally do on Sunday?" he might have said she likes to go for a ride before church.
I mean, if she really did normally do that, and someone knew it, well, my my, what a coincidentally brilliant opportunity to have her suddenly disappear on a perfectly normal outing for her.
I don't think the fire chief saying she's too friendly was victim-blaming at all. I think that phrase is tossed around far too liberally, and folks don't really mean that at all when they make comments like that. Of course being too friendly is never the victim's fault if it's what got them into a dire situation, it's that some piece of human trash used that, to hurt them. I think that's more along the lines of what folks mean when they point out something about the victim that might have had some hand in the situation that they're in. (I hope that makes sense).
His comment about church: "Bertram went on to say that Suzanne and Barry were both well-respected members of the community, and active in their church. He said Suzanne was known to go for a bike ride on Sunday mornings before church, and said he did not believe she attended church on May 10, though he could not be certain."
Leads me to believe that he does not attend the same church since clearly, they're still having online streaming, and he didn't seem to know that.
And just going to leave this here, but whenever I read "well-respected members of the community, and active in their church" in any case,
I immediately think "Dennis Rader".
jmo
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