What if we are shocked in another way, because the real story turns out to be nothing like the narrative people expected?
If it were really that shocking and horrific, I don't think the bail would have been granted for her, personally.
Isn't the whole point of the publication ban to prevent the rumour mill from tainting people's opinions before trial? I imagine that it works both ways.
I agree: I think she found herself in a situation where she knew something, but while she cut out LE she also cut out DM. (LE said right up to her arrest that she was not cooperative, and while MS faces breach of recognizance charges because of contact between MS and his gf, DM and CN apparently did not make the same mistake.)
After CN's hearing there was no flurry of articles pondering is DM might be innocent. I think CN's hearing was an assurance that DM was involved, and that they have the right people.
If it were really that shocking and horrific, I don't think the bail would have been granted for her, personally.
Isn't the whole point of the publication ban to prevent the rumour mill from tainting people's opinions before trial? I imagine that it works both ways.
Even places like this.
Even places like this.
It's not entirely clear to me what you mean, but if you are referring to violations of the PB, there have not been any posts here which have done so. If you or anyone else thinks there are violations, please alert on them immediately. Thanks.
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Remember it is a publication ban
It is not a .... do-not-say-anything-to-anyone ban.
There is always the possibility that associates of the arrested people know a lot , and there is nothing stopping them from discussing it in a coffee shop with whomever they want
It would not be illegal to listen to those rumors or hearsay , but it would be illegal to publish them.
As a teen growing up in a small Canadian town, CL could hardly have been more typical, blending in as a likeable and occasionally rowdy jock.
From a well-to-do family known to many in Fort St. James, B.C., CL was the kind of no-trouble kid to make a parent proud.
Police say he murdered four women between 2009 and 2010, but to those who knew him, there was nothing to suggest a poisonous mind or a soul sick with murder.
Rumour? I hear LE has no evidence
What makes opinion blow up into rumour?
This is a discussion site so it is a war of opinion vs. opinion, not fact vs. fact.
I think it's been shown that LE only shares the information that suits them, and even contradicts the truth if that what they need to do. (E.g., when DM was arrested, they announced that they were still looking for him, an unidentified man with an "Ambition" tattoo.) So we cannot turn to LE for facts or the truth.
Many people are suspicious of the media and suggest they are untruthful. Newspaper articles conflict in the details. So we cannot turn to the media for facts or the truth.
There is now no one close to the case posting here. There are no more verified insiders to provide facts or truth (that even then, others won't accept).
DM wrote to friends and family that he is not guilty of the charges against him. Should we believe him? (LOL it is too bad DM never wrote/contacted CN all that time...DM can tell people that weren't there that he's not guilty but what would he write someone who had firsthand experience showing that he was involved? Lies for friends and family but alternative reality for the gf...)
It may explain things for some people I guess. I would need a lot more to go on. JMOI wouldn't call them rumours but I think there are persistent ideas that hang around because they seem relevant. E.g., early on the chop shop suggested organized crime and DM's protestations of innocence suggested that he was a pawn controlled by powers greater than him. Now wouldn't that just explain everything.
I think its about this (bold)... rumours can spread just by the power of suggestion. Placing a JMO or IMO or MOO after a rumour or potential rumour doesn't necessarily quell the germination of such rumours FWIW. Not saying it happens here but that, like much else, is subject to interpretation.
My thinking was not about rumors or suggestions , more like "hints"
For example: one policeman said .... " what they did to TB would make your hair curl " (paraphrased)
So when a fairly knowledgeable reporter says ... " when everything comes out about the Millard story, people are going to be stunned ... I take it as a hint ... a hint that as bad as this murders already look .... it could be even worse than we now imagine.
And it adds to the mystery , we are all here because of the mystery surrounding this unusual case , we have long ago dealt with the shock of the killing itself.
My thinking was not about rumors or suggestions , more like "hints"
For example: one policeman said .... " what they did to TB would make your hair curl " (paraphrased)
So when a fairly knowledgeable reporter says ... " when everything comes out about the Millard story, people are going to be stunned ... I take it as a hint ... a hint that as bad as this murders already look .... it could be even worse than we now imagine.
And it adds to the mystery , we are all here because of the mystery surrounding this unusual case , we have long ago dealt with the shock of the killing itself.
I think simply people are going to be morally disgusted by DM's lack of respect for the lives of others. I think it is going to be a moral shock when people see how blatantly and coldly that he killed. IMO.
There's you thinking that, and me thinking something completely different. I guess one or both of us will be in for a surprise.