Thinkoflaura said:
WHY are people not hot on this case? Call me Baffled. It fits.
Color me the same. I was struck by the fact that while a certain shoplifting, breast-augmented, "runaway bride" was on a Greyhound that same Tuesday night, sending her fiance and eventually the nation on a wild goose chase, this very real and horrible murder that appears to not be solved yet was taking place just down the road, making it only to local papers and news. There are thousands of such inequities in news coverage every day, as reporter Samiha Khanna pointed out to me in an e-mail other than the one from which I quoted earlier in the thread, but I chose to look at this one because I was struck that here was another young woman, a younger woman, actually, a new mother, brutally and as yet inexplicably stabbed to death the same night the "runaway bride" started the chain of events that would turn her story into a giant black sucking hole of news coverage. The only element missing from this case that has been present in other high-profile cases -- except the Jennifer Corbin murder, which I also have written about a great deal, and know some of the principle players in it -- is the disappearance.
Now that I've just written that, it occurs to me that this case
is following the Corbin model if nothing else, save the attempt to make her death look like a suicide. And look at that, willya? The Corbin case is already slated to be an Ann Rule book. I just e-mailed her the link for the Gwinnett County court calendar page the other day, and she e-mailed me advice for getting a press pass to Corbin's Gwinnett trial.
I really got fixed in my interest in Janet's death after reading Raven's
blog, though... the frequency of the personal pronoun "I" in that one long blog entry was startling, and telling. Yet he is depicted mostly in the press as a deeply grieving husband. It's true -- narcissist or no, he could be just that, and unlucky that he unwittingly laid his personal foibles bare on those sites. If he is truly an innocent widower with an infant to care for, I pray for him.
But you know, it could very well be backlash against the furor over the runaway bride that is keeping this one quiet. Who knows. Screw it, though. I'm e-mailing Greta V. after I post this.
About the websites -- that's actually a great positive for us "amateur cybersleuths." Think about how little we would have had on this 10 years ago. One reason I decided to do a "true-crime" blog was that with the flourishing of the internet and world wide web have created a publicly accessible element any of us with some web savvy can investigate. I wrote an entry back in December on a different blog about Rachelle Waterman, the teen in Alaska who had a Livejournal (blog) -- the 16-year-old masterminded her mom's very brutal murder and it was executed by her
two 24 year-old boyfriends. One of whom has a rockin' case of man-
, but I digress -- that blog entry was my most popular ever at the time. Now I examine many cases with an eye towards the internet element, if any. This one has a larger-than-usual flock of websites to gather up and present, and they give a fascinating portrait of the person who is, as is always the case with spousal murder, the most logical person to first examine.
Like I said, I'm e-mailing OnTheRecord. Let's see what happens. Probably nuthin', but at least I tried.
Mr. A/Steve
