That can't be good!
It seems like there are quite a few of us in the general geographic area posting here. Sometimes it's hard to believe a monster like this can be in our own backyards. I couldn't get Sierah or her family and friends out of my mind all weekend. I had to ask my family members to keep me away from my phone/computer this weekend because I was just consumed. My brain gets very graphic sometimes. It's just terrible and it makes me physically sick. It's like I want to make sense of it, but it's so senseless. I struggle to find any sort of good in the situation, but if this guy is the monster we all fear him to be, I hope and pray that Sierah has stopped anyone else from being hurt by him. She will never be forgotten and while it is a terrible, awful message, we have all learned something from this.
Smalfry345, great post..and thanx for joining the forum. It is always helpful to have locals contribute to the threads. It is not uncommon for these monsters to hide in a community or small town's backyard. Predators have a chameleon-like ability to blend in with virtually any community, large or small, without detection. Many are very effective con-men.
Know what you mean about being consumed and asking family members to time out your pc/phone, and applaud your ability to do this. Many of us here at websleuth are consumed, yet in denial and do not ask our families for a reprieve. They offer this advice anyway.. I am confident that JDW has left many shattered lives in his wake. Guess, time will tell, huh?
I agree that JDW's trail of terror was likely brought to an abrupt halt due to the valiant actions by Sierah Joughin, that tragic day. She courageously sacrificed herself so that others may live...many others, imo.
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Originally Posted by Spellbound View Post
los, I appreciate how hard you work and all the threads you start for our missing. You have alerted me to many that tug my heart and force me into action in some way, be it sharing on FB, following threads, sharing posters, etc.
Michigan/Ohio border has lost too many young people. My heart just pounds when I think about them and their loved ones. How do they disappear so easily these days?
Temps will be nearing 100 degrees this afternoon :-( A hard day for the searchers.
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How do they disappear so easily these days? Spellbound, that is a great question. It is not only happening on the
Michigan/Ohio border, but in small towns all across the US and beyond. When a loved one goes missing and becomes a victim of this silent epidemic, their families, friends, and loved ones are involuntarily inducted into the fraternity of the new life's normal. A fraternity that grows each year, yet no one wants membership in. A fraternity member's life will never be the same as it was the day before their loved ones vanished..
Fortunately there are many professionals and volunteers that lend their full support to this fraternity.. Many, if not most are members of this involuntary fraternity
An excellent national SAR and advocacy org that is CUE<Community United Effort> out of Wilmington, NC.
TOGETHER... WE ARE CUE (Community United Effort)
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