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I was not suggesting that the adultery contraindicates the murder but that the whole message, if sincere, does. This was in response to someone taking the "escape" as a reference to murder, I believe. Of course the prosecution can and probably will argued that his desire for an escape...

I agree that that particular statement, assuming it's sincere, actually contraindicates the murder charge. It sounds like he's trying to justify a little adultery. He's obviously not going to intentionally murder his son if he loves him. On the other hand I wouldn't place much trust in a man...

I read in an article online that the wife filed for separation the *day* that the baby died. (I'm not sure what "separation" means in a legal context, I guess it's a first step toward divorce). If true doesn't that seem quite unusual? Regardless of what she thought of the husband's actions...

From googling a bit I found out that this exact same topic has been broached more than once on Websleuths. Someone will start a thread about one of the cases I listed and then it will turn to speculation that it is connected to some of the others. There was a thread from 2008 about Amanda Fravel...

Unfortunately I couldn't find any Las Vegas newspapers online going back that far. I would like to know if the possible of a serial killer was at least discussed. I don't like feeling like a crackpot but the number of apparent stranger kidnapping/assaulting/killing cases of similar types of...

I hadn't noticed how close together those two cases were. Pretty remarkable. One was discovered five months later and the other 22 months later so the connection might have seemed less obvious at the time (both initially being possible runaways). I wonder if the newspapers connected them at...

<modsnip> Basically there are seven unsolved cases from 1971 to 1989 of girls aged 13-18 seemingly abducted off the streets, sexually assaulted, murdered, and disposed of in the nearby desert. If we exclude the one from 1989 the range narrows to six cases from 1971 to 1983. I have not looked...

But her parents do in fact make the rules and she does not in fact have complete control of her body. If she did there would be no need for sex crime policing. These fantasies of "empowerment" don't do anybody any good and if taken seriously can do a lot of harm, in my opinion.

Thanks for these responses. I had a certain picture of the crime in my mind based of very sketchy details but it seems that those of you that have followed it more closely have a different understanding. Maybe there will be a big writeup on Wikipedia if there isn't already.

Or is the idea that he was crazy in an impulsive way but not crazy in the sense that he had delusions about what he was doing? Sorry for the double post.

But he couldn't have thought he was going to get away with it, right? So the truck motive seems not to make sense, unless he wanted one joyride.

I haven't followed the trial at all. For those of you who think the verdict was right (not just legally correct) what's your general theory of motive?

I think the Constitutional guarantee of due process means the government can't incarcerate someone without first convicting them in a trial (or receiving a voluntary guilty plea) unless public safety or the interests of justice require it. Obviously in retrospect the court erred but the bar...

If they were Indonesians immigrants in the HK sex trade I would say it is very likely they were supporting relatives back home and very likely they looked forward to retiring to their home villages. (If they follow the Thai model the overwhelming majority of the demimonde are poor girls from the...

Zwiebel - Thanks for the reply. Incidentally does anyone know if it's possible to give thanks in the Tapatalk mobile app? I have not noticed the specific phenomenon you mention but to the extent that it holds true I would suggest another explanation. In newspaper speak it seems to me...

Thanks for the responses. They sound quite different from US elite schools. Here being a "legacy" helps a lot at the smaller and more traditional Iveys but there is very little demand for poshness or whatever it's called. I have the feeling the other commonwealth countries are more like the...

Zwiebel - I don't understand why so many posters on this forum make a point of asserting that they don't believe prostitutes deserve to be murdered. Against whom are you defending yourself? This seems to occur in almost every thread concerning the murder of a prostitute. And a second question...

I wonder about some of these cases of very young children being murdered. Presumably these people didn't have any particular motive to do it and don't want to suffer the legal penalty. So were they just Beaton the girl out of irritation without realizing how easy it is to cause serious harm...

I live in Las Vegas and have been to the remodeled downtown several times in the past 6 months. I think the project was an impressive attempt at planned gentrification but it could not overcome the scuzziness and poverty and non-hipness of old Las Vegas. They've got the right look with the...