I share your concerns and wouldn't be at all surprised if he is feeling suicidal already. If he is, hopefully he's getting some form of treatment, but somehow I rather doubt it. He has no-one in his life now at all. The fact that no-one in the family contacted him at the outset when the teens were missing shows how fractured the family really is. To learn this via the media and then that BS was a suspect would have been devastating. To now have to live with the knowledge that BS confessed to one or more of the murders could easily push him over the edge.
Whether people like it or not, let's face it, who else does he have to turn to but the media. Keeping his grief bottled up inside will only make him more unstable than he already is. We only know his side of the story and it doesn't sit well with a lot of people here.
We don't know why his marriage broke down in the first place, and that could have been at the root of his mental problems. I haven't read that he was a bad husband or father prior to his divorce. Many fathers commit suicide after a marriage breakdown and they lose access to their children. There are always two sides to every story and we've only heard one.
All I can say is, people are always talking about empathy on WS, so I'm surprised at the lack of empathy for a man who's so obviously badly broken. It's just sad.
I absolutely agree about your points regarding empathy. Absolutely agree.
I'd also like to add that nobody really knows much about AS
OR these two teens or their families. It is absolutely impossible to formulate a 360-degree, fleshed-out profile of
anybody based on the pointed and focused amount of info that has been in the MSM.
When people are tragically killed, others canonize them. When people do bad things, others vilify them. It is human nature and I myself have the same inclinations. We are moved by the news, and we tend to create a complete picture in our minds out of snippets of info.
I guarantee that if a tragedy befell me, all of my friends and family would be gushing over how wonderful I was. If I did a horrible thing, every person I know, (who may actually know more GOOD things about me than BAD things) would be talking about all of the
other bad things I have ever done. They would be digging deep into their memories, telling about something random that happened when I was in, say, sixth grade, as though to say, "See, even then the writing was on the wall".
The reality is that nobody can say "I think" or "I know" or "I'm sure" or "I can pretty much guess" about
anything where any of these peoples' personas are concerned, whether its the victims, the perpetrators, or the perpetrators' families.
I have a love/hate relationship with MSM; I'm a news junky, but at the same time I can see how peoples' thinking can be manipulated by what gets reported and what doesn't. Granted, it isn't always a matter of a skewed report on the part of MSM and they may just be presenting what they can find, which may or may not be much.
Just my two cents, which by now, with all of my other posts about empathy probably equal something more akin to $1.78.
