I can't imagine what it would feel like to have killed someone and know that the entire efforts of a law enforcement community are focused on me. As well as the residents.
Being featured on shows on local and national tv.
I couldn't stand up to that kind of pressure for even one hour. Of that I am 100% positive!
(I know, there's always a caseyanthony)
If I'd killed my spouse or neighbor everyone would know it.
Then we have people who go right on with the charade. For years. Forever.
I can only think that they come to a point in their lives where they have committed ultimate evil and they no longer consider themselves to even have a soul.
Killing someone in a rage is a little different.
Not "better" in any way. Just a lil bit easier for us to grasp.
People with profiling experience say that once a rageful perp kills the rage is gone.
In serial killers, it's only gone for a while.
I wonder if in spousal or other types of killings if the rage is so quick to vanish.
If it gets replaced with fear and the caring and love that comes from those around you that truly think you are innocent and grieving.
If that kind of killer begins to believe the lies. Begins to believe that they didn't actually kill their spouse/loved one.
I still don't want to think that Karen's husband killed her.
First of all, there's no proof right now that we know of.
Just suspicion and circumstances that don't seem to add up.
To stalk and kill someone is a dark twisted thing.
Or to always be hunting for the right opportunity to fulfill the need to kill.
I have to say that every now and then I see some young woman out doing something in a remote area totally alone. Like jogging. Friendly and not a care in the world.
And I have to think "if there was a random killer in this area, you'd be the perfect victim". Eeekkkk!
Could Karen have been that perfect victim caught up in a storm of circumstance? Wrong place wrong time?
It's like if you don't watch your step every second you are in danger.
If you spend your time fearful you miss the joy in life.
Given the choice between the two, sometimes there is a perfect storm that leads to murder.
It just has to happen that way. No matter how we try we have to let ourselves focus on living life and not constantly on the evil in this world.
Guess that's why we even do things on halloween in our modern lives. Why adults dress up and go to parties to scare or delight others.
That seems to be what Karen had been doing that evening. Dressed up like a cute cat.
Was there someone there that saw her as easy prey? If so, how could anyone have known she was going to leave her house in the wee hours of the morning? It doesn't make sense.
If there was an evil one amongst the party-goers how was she lured from her house? From the bed she was sharing with her daughter?
JMO
There was something quite mesmerizing about your post. Especially the part I bolded.
I don't blame him, I wouldn't be talking to nosy neighbors either. Everything he says or does is going to be twisted to mean something sinister anyway.
But do you really think you would be pondering how things could be twisted at the moment your wife, even soon to be ex goes missing? I think about how most people would feel at that moment. Scared to death, worried, sick inside, either crying or talking, pleading for answers. Not speeding away so as to avoid questions.
BTW, wasn't it the reporter he refused to answer questions of? Not the neighbor?
In any case, surely the husband is the first to be looked at. Especially when a divorce is in the mix. But it seems they resolved everything and it seems to have been amicable enough. Of course looks can be deceiving. Maybe the husband pondered what he had agreed to, regretted it terribly and saw no other way out.
However, unlike some other cases, like Susan Powell's or Michelle Parker's, in this case, there seems to be a lot more that could allow for a different possible killer. Like the message that she was going back to the empty house early. Was someone waiting for her? Someone who knew her?
And what ever happened with the Hogshooter guy? Was he ruled out as a possibility by LE or logically by posters here?
I think it had to be someone who knew her, especially due to where she was found, where her car was found. The husband is very high on my list but this is one where a couple other possibilities could be logical. What do you all think?
ETA: One other question. Where are her children? Are they with their dad?
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