Kamille
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The Tim Bosma murder was BIG NEWS in these parts. Hamilton/Ancaster has somewhat of a small town feel. A murder here is a big deal. Add to that, the Social Media coverage and the manner in which Tim disappeared all created a perfect storm of "notoriety" of this particular crime. It just seemed to have all the lurid and unbelievable components that drew people in to follow what was happening. Tim was just the same as you and I and it scared us. Tim's murder sold newspapers.
By contrast, no one really knew Laura was missing. She was from Toronto and people go missing all the time. Unfortunately, her circumstances at the time of her disappearance led everyone to believe that she wasn't in peril. She was living a risky lifestyle and no one thought twice about her being missing with the exception of family and a former boyfriend.
At the end of the day, Laura's disappearance wasn't considered "newsworthy" and therefore no one knew.
At this point it just seems that, with the exception of Laura's family, her former boyfriend and us here at WS, no one is interested. Laura is just one more Toronto statistic which is extremely sad. Covering her trial is a non event and the news folks have "better" stories to file. TBH it seems that people are more interested in DM as his own attorney vs. what happened to Laura.
We know what happened, or we have a pretty good idea. The drama for the news folks is not the trial but DM.
MOO
Sadly I agree with you here Tealgrove. This is still about the "heir" to the Millard "dynasty" and his downfall as far as the Toronto news is concerned, if they choose to bother with it at all IMO. DM's arrogant refusal to use the Millard millions to pay for an attorney are probably going to take centre stage as the main source of the news being generated from this trial. Even in the TB trial, every stupid thing he did in that courtroom, from waves to facial expressions, made front page news. Can you imagine this trial?!
MOO