Recent content by toscaxyz

Thanks for reviving the thread. I continue to check in on this case because it seemed to simple at first but got more and more complicated.

I think the GJ questioning of Bilal about the hotels was a way for the prosecutors to signal to him that they knew about his activities with underage boys, that they had specific places and dates. It was supposed to scare him so he wouldn't provide backup for Adnan's alibi. If so, it eventually...

Arrests in Barbara Rowan case: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20151003_2_arrested_in_1984_rape__slaying_of_Bucks_girl__14.html#gutkFyWot5LDc2A8.99

The new podcast goes into a lot more detail about specific pieces of evidence than Serial did. They seem to be trying to do the job that Adnan's attorney should have done in the first place. I found the comments of the woman from LL2 particularly interesting because she is pointing out some of...

This blogger has written several long pieces examining the inconsistencies and changes in Jay's story: http://viewfromll2.com/2014/12/02/serial-more-details-about-jays-transcripts-than-you-could-possibly-need/...

The fact that it was a recent purchase also didn't help is case. If the lab had routinely used cyanide (which some do) and had it around all the time, it would be easier to understand how he couldn't account for all if it.

It's LA, too, zwiebel. Confusing, isn't it?

I think this is unduly harsh on the family, especially since whether they did or didn't try to get her treatment is a private matter that they may not wish to reveal to the public. The fact is that it is extremely difficult to get a mentally ill adult into treatment against their will. It...

Last fall sometime I listened to a radio interview on Fresh Air with Terry Gross with the woman who writes and draws the popular Hyperbole and a Half blog. She had put the blog on hiatus for a while because she was going through major depression, but before the hiatus she had tried to describe...

Delurking here to post some thoughts on the Belgium and eyeglasses connections since I know Annandale pretty well. First, this is an area where there are a lot of American Foreign Service and military employees and dependents. Many rotate through for short periods of time between overseas...

The area of Philadelphia were the boy was found had a large German population up through the 1970s or 80s. There are still places there where older people meet to speak German.

In this brief news item, the woman is described as "elderly" http://fox43.com/2014/01/20/body-of-elderly-woman-found-in-lancaster-co-field/#axzz2qwTwsZOP

Next she's going to sue them for not telling her that she'll get wet if she goes out in the rain.

There is a Wrightstown in Bucks County, not far from Buckingham where Shaun Ritterson was found. Wrightstown is, even today, not densely populated, so I assume it was even more rural in 1975. It is, however, near the intersection of two roads -- Rtes 413 and 232 -- that are major cross-county...

I am never going to the bathroom at work without my phone again!