Recent content by ErinC

It's also relatively common for people to move to Athens for college and just...not leave. (That's how I eventually wound up here, as did my husband.) So it isn't super unusual to run into someone who's lived in Athens for 40 years, and still has the Cleveland (or wherever) accent that they...

Athens accents are somewhat affected by the university, so the Appalachian accent is often less notable or nonexistent. I am from the local area (born one county over) and I do have it, but I have noticed that, for example, a lot of the professors' children, while they still grew up here, do not...

There's really not a stretch of Route 33 that's uncrowded/doesn't pass by businesses until you get to the Lancaster bypass, and even then, there is a pretty steady stream of truckers and such coming through. You're absolutely correct, there would have been way too many potential witnesses for...

There are absolutely exceptions, but this was also my experience with my SIL's now-deceased golden doodle. The dog was dumber than cement, and while there was a decent chance of its injuring an intruder by knocking the person down in an attempt to get pettins, it would then lead the intruder to...

From what I have been hearing locally from folks who were his patients, I think that was A LOT of it. 💔💔

That probably was a lot of the initial alarm. At that point, I'd still be thinking "medical issue which has somehow befallen them both" as opposed to "crime"- that just isn't what one jumps to first if for no other reason than that the brain doesn't want to think it. Unless, of course, the...

He's about an hour and fifteen minutes from his office. It was more time-efficient to just have CPD send a unit over, and at that point they were likely thinking more a medical issue (carbon monoxide, seizure, whatever) which might be very time-sensitive, than that a crime might have occurred...

Medical workplaces can be a different beast tbf. I worked at a group home for the intellectually/physically disabled for many years. I can name right now at least two coworkers, probably more, who would have gone flying up the highway loaded for bear if I hadn't come to work and they hadn't been...

From Athens where the dental office is located here- this seems to be the case down here also. I had an appointment earlier today and no one there had heard of it- most people who have heard of it are people who went to Dr. Tepe for their dentistry. The Athens Messenger ran an article about it...

FWIW regarding crime/safety of the area. I don't live in Columbus but the piercing studio I use is a couple blocks from the area that this happened in. I have, and likely will again, driven up there by myself. While I don't dawdle on the walk (which is true of anywhere in Columbus) I also don't...

I skipped several pages so forgive me if this has been posted- I wonder if the perpetrator showed up dressed as/purporting to be LE and got the Tepes to open the door that way. "CPD!! We just chased a prowler through your yard [happens often enough to be plausible] Is everyone ok in there?"...

Diane Downs. THAT'S who she reminds me of that I couldn't think of. Calmly putting rounds into their children, not a single fk given. The only thing different is that Diane had an observable motive (i.e. a man) and we haven't seen anything straightforward like that with AB. It will be...

The one and only consolation here is that Melodee is now in a place where that...creature...can never hurt her again.

It sounds melodramatic, but I am a bit...nervous about... the fact that we already have an unknown shooter attacking an educational institution in New England, and then this also happens. Completely MOO.

So there WAS an actual baby! Did not see that coming.