With
[ame="http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showpost.php?p=628646&postcount=1"]this post[/ame], as my previous WS nick misterallgood, I began the Websleuths discussion of this case in 2005. I have always been convinced Raven was getting away with something and frankly dropped out of the discussion after a while both because I was getting a lot of work writing about other crimes and also because I found it too depressing to revisit this case.
Last fall, I virtually stopped crime blogging all together, which is part of the reason I haven't posted much on this site since then (ironically, I knew it was time to quit after I received the best blogging opportunity of my career so far and wasn't really interested). I still blog and even cover crime from time to time, but I also write about politics, pop culture, the media, gossip - everything but sports.
Recently - like, last weekend - I felt moved to start another crime blog, which was surprising because when I quit my job (and it was a paying job) writing for Village Voice Media's True Crime Report, I was so relieved - you don't even know. I didn't even care about losing money; I just wanted to stop doing the true crime all the time thing.
I just felt like it was time to do my own little thing again. I have to fit in true crime blogging with the paying work, which isn't always easy, but I committed enough that I bought a new URL and went to some effort to design an easy-to-use, simple site.
Hearing this morning that Raven had been arrested gave me almost an eerie feeling - like,
this is why I started this back up again. So here's the post I put up at my new crime blog, CrimeSlam.com, about the arrest:
Raven Abaroa Arrested for the Murder of Wife Janet
Easily one of the most satisfying blog posts I've ever written.
Those of you who have continued with this discussion for nearly 5 years now amaze me. Writing and thinking about crime all the time is rough, psychologically-speaking. At least for me it has been. I have to detox from it. It's even rougher if you feel that a killer has been on the loose all along and even kind of rubbing other peoples' faces in it - which I think Raven has done.
All I'm saying is today is a good day. A very good day. Raven's wings have been clipped. Perhaps that murder of 13 crows in my back yard on the day I began the new crime site were telling me something after all.
You never know.
Steve -
http://crimeslam.com/