Recent content by jrporter

I agree with your last statement, but wanted to point out that there are vast differences between Crabtree Falls & White Oak Canyon, and the degree of preparedness/seriousness of the folks who would go to each. Not to say that accidents can't happen in the backcountry, but reckless behavior is...

Unfortunately there are more monsters out there....

Red Onion is a "supermax" prison, intended to incarcerate "the worst of the worst". Critics of the prison have alleged that many inmates are sent to Red Onion not because they have committed severe crimes but because they broke rules at other facilities. Some 55% of Red Onion's prisoners have...

Yeh, that was a recent revelation. I thought that he was given his sister's car in which to escape; but it sounds like he just took it...

Stripes are no longer worn in Virginia prisons, but he'll be incarcerated for the rest of his days nevertheless....

Perhaps part of the difference in the time periods was due to the fact that JLM was ostensibly working the night of Morgan's disappearance, and he didn't feel he could afford to spend any additional time off of the radio. In addition, given that he was "on duty" driving a cab, he was not...

Thank goodness that there are those like the courageous Karen Monk of Sour Lake, TX who are willing to step up and do the right thing despite the risk to themselves...http://wtvr.com/2015/05/05/karen-monk-jesse-matthew/

From Coy Barefoot, Inside C'ville: “LJ came into Blue Light by himself, I guess it was around 11:45. I recognized him coming in through the door.” LJ Matthew would be hard to miss at 6’2” tall, 270 pounds, with long dreadlocks. “I introduced him to my friends who...

Maybe these are part of the reason that I don't frequent bars, nor ever did much, even in my younger days. In addition to removing one woman's sock and caressing her foot and being so creepy that women left various bars just to get away from him, JLM physically picked up one guy that he'd just...

Charlottesville is not exempt from rape culture, and I don't believe it's a magical place where all harassment charges are treated with the utmost respect until actual victims confirm that it is. Nor do I, but as we've seen with the ill-conceived article from Rolling Stone, the opposite is not...

Having participated in the Charlottesville Citizens Police Academy during the time of Hannah's disappearance and recovery as well as having done several police ride-alongs in C'ville, I would disagree with your assessment of the priority or lack thereof that such a report would have taken. Also...

I think that these are excellent questions/concerns....

Add to that the numerous people who were targets of his way over the top sexual/physical advances throughout the evening as well as those who observed his behavior and did nothing to report it.....

Read the "Statement of Facts" recently published along with JLM's plea arrangement, and you'll see that "during the evening of September 12, 2014, and the early morning of September 13, 2014, the defendant visited a number of local bars and began a pattern of physically invasive and...

After reading the "Statement[s] of Facts" I'm most concerned that those who observed and were victims of JLM's pattern of overt sexual touching and grabbing that night did not report him to law enforcement. It sounds like he cut a wide swath with women scattering to get away from him in at least...