Recent content by CuriousCricket

That way of doing things - paying an entry fee and choosing your title is foreign to me. I would guess there are a number of pageant systems, each with its own rules. They may also vary widely from one location to another. What I'm familiar with doesn't seem very cut-throat, but you do read...

Thanks. As I recall from a few years ago, contestants in the Miss America prelims all have "platforms" or areas of community service they work. Perhaps hers had to do with the elderly.

This makes me wonder if perhaps another employee may have been someone from the pageant world. Not another contestant, but perhaps a close family member. From covering that world for years, I observed that it was often the family who was more upset and bitter (or at least who allowed themselves...

So very easy to feel lost. To feel that today is permanent and the way things will always be. I believe it is so important to teach youngsters as they grow about life going in cycles. "Just wait six months". If kids know that things change and can change completely in a few months, somehow that...

Very plausible. Or perhaps it was the father who caused the disappearances of Jennifer and Adrianna? One of the charges was sexual exploitation of a minor. Perhaps Benton Sr. was messing with the baby and Jennifer discovered him. Was that part of why the baby had not been feeling well? Perhaps...

Even more human remains found in Springfield: Oct. 4, 5 and 6, 2025: "The Springfield Police Department can confirm that possible bone remains were recovered in the water located in close proximity to the greenway in Springfield on all three dates listed," (Zachary)Clark said in an email...

Numerous children have killed. You have only to pull a search. Some serial killers start young. My mind went to Tommy Lynn Sells - Wikipedia says he was 15 when he first killed, during a burglary. copilot says 8 is the youngest age for a serial killer, but this article lists younger killers...

I wonder if a condition of pleading guilty might be that he will tell them all the others in exchange for him remaining exactly where he is. It might be lonely in a cell by himself and getting only a half or whole hour out a day, but I'll bet it's cushy compared to the prison life. So, perhaps...

Snipped for focus Would a "No Contest" plea protect the assets he and Asa seem so interested in protecting? Without him admitting guilt but acknowledging the state has enough evidence he would probably be convicted would that move make it more difficult for the victims' families to collect...

exactly. Murder is most likely a solitary "sport" but was it always? Did occasionally some of them work together? Do you wonder how many of the non-killers thought of certain people in the group when body parts were discovered? Did certain snipets of conversation come to mind? In the book...

At first glance, I saw Guiliani's showing up at the Heuermann home for a photo op as an old man with a new TV show to promote, so I cut him a lot of slack. Maybe that was all it was. Then, when I learned that his long time best friend and employee, Msgr Alan Placa, was the next-door neighbor of...

CuriousCricket said: Perhaps LE knows that if the public was aware of what LE actually knows there would be widespread panic. I suggested the wish for LE to prevent public panic as a possible reason for the attempt to shut down discussion because of having read of that being done in other areas...

Perhaps LE knows that if the public was aware of what LE actually knows there would be widespread panic. RH (born in 1964) is accused of the 1993 murder of Sandra Costilla. John Bittrolff has been convicted of 1993 and 1994 murders. Joel Rifkin has been convicted of 9 murders from 1989-93...

That is my hope as well. When he has nothing more to lose, will he talk? Will he want credit for being so smart and getting by with things for so long? Or will he continue with his little games? Even if he does want to talk and chooses to, I'm thinking he likes game-playing too much not to...

Those poor parents and family. And friends and all who loved her. The stress and pain of her going missing and everything following must be unbearable. I think we often go, "If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck . . . " and then a platypus shows up - something so far out none of us...