CA CA - Phuong Le, 24, Fairfield, 25 April 2010 - #2

[cluciano63]

it's all about the scoop...sad to say...all news is.

 

[aprilshowers]

Sorry, what I was trying to say is that it's not a straight road, but a windy back country kind of road that is also very remote. Why be up there? A person certainly wouldn't have to get that far out of Fairfield before it gets mighty quiet on those roads. KWIM? Makes me think the person knows the area and was up that far for a reason. Maybe because of one of the many little dirt roads?

Perhaps they lived in that area?

 

['Ailina]

May not be anything to this, but I found this poster's comments alarming as well. On Fairfield's Daily Republic article regarding the discovery...scroll down to comments by "william."

http://www.dailyrepublic.com/story.php?id=701.0

 

[i.b.nora]

I don't think there is anything for anyone to apologize for. The police really did manage to keep it on the q.t. for almost all day. That is phenomenal, imo. The family deserved to know. Afterall, they were planning quite a search for today and much of the preliminary organization was going on yesterday, right up to early last night. I called it a night last night at about 10, just before the first news announcements came out. The last view I had of the Facebook page, was a little poster in the corner with a $10,000 reward announcement. It isn't there today. So, they really did need to know, imo.
And, they seem pretty cool to me, they aren't leaking a whole lot of stuff.

 

['Ailina]

I don't think there is anything for anyone to apologize for. The police really did manage to keep it on the q.t. for almost all day. That is phenomenal, imo. The family deserved to know. Afterall, they were planning quite a search for today and much of the preliminary organization was going on yesterday, right up to early last night. I called it a night last night at about 10, just before the first news announcements came out. The last view I had of the Facebook page, was a little poster in the corner with a $10,000 reward announcement. It isn't there today. So, they really did need to know, imo.
And, they seem pretty cool to me, they aren't leaking a whole lot of stuff.

I agree, i.b.nora, that the family really did need to know. However, I think it's deplorable the media took it upon themselves to inform the family. That's just not their place. It's true -- if LE had waited too long to share any information with the family, that would be wrong, too, but I don't feel the media should decide when it's been long enough.

Then again, I would've rather the family had known before the public even if the information did come from a journalist. Still...I don't think it was right. I think the journalist who made the call was outta line. (shrug) But...can't correct the past.

 

[BeanE]

May not be anything to this, but I found this poster's comments alarming as well. On Fairfield's Daily Republic article regarding the discovery...scroll down to comments by "william."

http://www.dailyrepublic.com/story.php?id=701.0

Must be a full moon

 

[i.b.nora]

I don't think the journalist was 'out of line'. Deplorable?, naw. I think there is too much judging going on these days in how people should do their jobs. What an interesting world this would be if everyone got fired from their jobs because 'all the other people' demand their firing. (That's just an aside).
Maybe the journalist called the familly for a comment, not knowing the family didn't know. I just can't get my feathers ruffled about stuff like that. It really doesn't matter.

 

[kissdegirl]

I am just catching up on all this, I hadn't heard that a body was found until just now. I am so sorry for Phuong's family, they've been so tormented these weeks. I pray it's not her, but I feel it is. Whomever she was, I am sorry about her death, and for her family. I hope they find the clues they need and figure out who did this quickly.
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_15046055

 

['Ailina]

Thanks for the link, kissdegirl.

The article says:

The area where the body was found is described as a roadside covered in thick plant growth. The body was located some 30 to 40 feet from the roadway.

This is the first time I've read such specific information about where the body was found. In the presser last night, LE just described the area as "remote." I wonder where the newspaper got this information?

P.S. Also, at the presser, LE said the body was found 30 - 40 YARDS from the roadside, not feet. Shoddy reporting?

 

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[kissdegirl]

Thanks for the link, kissdegirl.

The article says:


This is the first time I've read such specific information about where the body was found. In the presser last night, LE just described the area as "remote." I wonder where the newspaper got this information?

P.S. Also, at the presser, LE said the body was found 30 - 40 YARDS from the roadside, not feet. Shoddy reporting?

ETA: This one says yards too, I would go with the majority on this one, and that being yards.
http://cbs13.com/local/missing.nurse.boss.2.1682960.html

In a press conference Friday, authorities said the body was found in a rural area about 40-50 yards from the road. Following an autopsy, the Solano County Coroner's Office will release the identity of the body.

 

[BeanE]

Thanks for the link, kissdegirl.

The article says:


This is the first time I've read such specific information about where the body was found. In the presser last night, LE just described the area as "remote." I wonder where the newspaper got this information?

P.S. Also, at the presser, LE said the body was found 30 - 40 YARDS from the roadside, not feet. Shoddy reporting?

So far I've seen everything from 10 feet to 50 yards :banghead:

 

[BeanE]

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Thanks so much!
BeanE

 

['Ailina]

ETA: This one says yards too, I would go with the majority on this one, and that being yards.
http://cbs13.com/local/missing.nurse.boss.2.1682960.html

Is it just me, or is a difference in range of 10 yards a fact that should be correctly reported? I'm no journalist, so I don't know if it's normally okay for figures to vary like that. But I find it unsettling.

 

[i.b.nora]

According to the KTVU News report last night, the body was found by a woman who had stopped her car by the side of the road to let her dog out. The body was about 30 feet from the road. So far, for me, this is the only report that has made any sense.

The video is here: http://www.ktvu.com/news/23493530/detail.html

 

[nursebeeme]

Is it just me, or is a difference in range of 10 yards a fact that should be correctly reported? I'm no journalist, so I don't know if it's normally okay for figures to vary like that. But I find it unsettling.

early reports are often fast and furious and riddled with errors. We do know the general area. And at least THAT has been reported (jmoo)

 

['Ailina]

I have so little experience with pressers and reporting, but I tend to think the information straight from the source (LE) via pressers should be the info we take at face value, is that correct?

If that's the case, then yards would be correct, since that's what Moody from Fairfield PD announced on camera.

But these other details...the area covered by thick growth...the woman who found the body was driving and not walking her dog (Moody said "walking her dog")...can we safely assume this info may have come from other firsthand sources?

 

[panthera]

So far I've seen everything from 10 feet to 50 yards :banghead:

Big difference, imo, in how the woman walking her dog discovered the remains. At 50 yards, I'd suspect the dog scented on the body, but at 10 feet the woman herself could've seen her. MOO

 

[panthera]

According to the KTVU News report last night, the body was found by a woman who had stopped her car by the side of the road to let her dog out. The body was about 30 feet from the road. So far, for me, this is the only report that has made any sense.

The video is here: http://www.ktvu.com/news/23493530/detail.html

Thanks ~ I hadn't read that one yet, but if it's correct, how ironic is it she'd stop the car near where the body was. Oh my!

 

[i.b.nora]

Well, you know sometimes I think some things are just meant to be.

Also, the most important thing regarding where the body was dumped is that the person who dumped the body there will know how far it was and how they got there.