It has been 11 years... dare I say hello to old friends?
There's a new crime, a new missing person, a new murdered woman, a new victim. Nothing has changed. All these years and still - its all the same.
Gabby Petito
She's just one of countless pretty white blonde girls that the main stream media has paraded in front of us, capturing our attention as they lay out the plot that will play across our TVs and phone screens as we wait... first for clues as to where she could be, then for the news she was found, we wait for the reports that it was a homicide, detais on her last encounters... we want to know the cause of death. More than that we want to know where her #vanlife sharing and who most of the world believes was her killer, boyfriend Brian Christopher Laundrie is.
How do they pick which missing person will make the best headlines? How do they determine that Gabby will bring more views than Mary Johnson? or Dulce Maria Alavez? Why not Arianna Fitts - a beautiful 5 year old girl who went missing in 2016, days later her mother was found murdered and buried in a public park- where is her massive news coverage ? Why did the murders of Crystal Michelle Turner, and Kylen Carrol Schulte stop being headlines once police denounced the possibility of a connection between their gruesome murders and Gabby's disappearance? Where is the manhunt for their killer?
11 years... I've often wondered what sort of crime would be the one that grabbed my attention enough- that left me scrolling through search results at 3am - that became dinner table talk - that forced me to pull up a map - that haunted my thoughts while I laid in bed - that caused me to open up this old blog and ramble about a crime only heinous, pitiful excuse for a human would commit....
Gabby's case is in the news... and statistically that improves the chances that the case will be solved. But once it is, once you have heard all the details and can finally tell the story from start to finish like an old movie you have seen a hundred times- perhaps your interest will turn to demanding the same justice for another family with a lost little girl.... I promise you there are hundreds to choose from.
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