Recent content by squareandrabbet

Sometimes people just have runs/seasons of buying the same car, I feel. I live in NYC so don't drive, but I've absolutely had the experience of going to a public transportation station (train, airport, etc.) waiting to be picked up by someone, and to see 8-12 "different" yet identical (one...

Unfortunately I think your last paragraph is particularly true. I mean, there are a lot of health related things that someone of age can hear about and theoretically be like "yeah, uh-huh, makes sense"; but if they have no personal experience in situations, it doesn't "really" sink in (and I'm...

IMO/IME reading about true crime, no, they're not technical or codified statements like points in the criminal code. This would be more usually something to evaluate in terms of an individual speaker's internal lexicon, by which I mean "if we knew how this sheriff has spoken about these things...

I've heard the prevailing theory behind these resultant deaths is that the kidnappers didn't realize until actually taking someone, just how difficult it would be to keep a live sentient person restrained, for any length of time in secret without arousing suspicion. The kidnappers kill them...

Some criminologist should do a study. Who "wants" to get involved?... at this stage, are looky-loos willing to reach out and leave a false tip just for some notoriety/to feel central to some story's beating heart; or is the default assumption that the overwhelming majority of people won't throw...

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What about the blood evidence the sheriff used as evidence for his claim that Nancy was hard done by? You start making a lot of 84-year-olds bleed in quantity, I bet they will do and say lots of things they heretofore thought they would never say. Plus the belief/theory that the kidnapper...

IME the United Cajun Navy is great, and in fact every time I've seen them tapped on threads in Twitter/X they've gone.

yes, many of us learned this from the Golden State Killer; from which we also learned the generic principle that with familiarity and repetition, boundaries decrease, to the point where burglary moves to stalking and hanging out on the couch eating the people's food, etc. You lose your...

Didn't the McDonalds clerk dime out Mangione? Maybe this guy was smarter than to go to places with known cameras.

I wonder if he never planned to take her until she said Savannah was her daughter, after which point he thought he either had to (a), get rid of the evidence; (b), ask for a ransom. A lack of planning might explain the lack of cohesive sense.

Great post! Imo it's a pretty decent call since we were told fairly early in the investigation that Nancy's Ring subscription was not active, meaning the cameras just captured things for their personal use but did not alert (an economy which I expect the Guthries will regret until the end of...

I don't know, if he is the person who abducted her, if he were smarter I think she'd be alive. I realize these are a lot of "ifs" and conditions packed into my above paragraph, but IMO clearly she's deceased, with this much time with no progress, because it's a hell of a lot easier to control a...

Yeah, I didn't like the look of Savannah's eyes in that video/photo where she's wearing the cream colored sweater, which were pinker than a rabbit's and clearly she's been bawling, IMO. I think the police have been stringing her along giving her false hope because of who she is, and suspect...

The suspects in the Rhoden murders (and perhaps the eventual proclaimed killer, but don't quote me) also were allowed to hare off to Alaska... I guess you can't really stop a non-convicted criminal from leaving the area.