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The aftermath of Adam Walsh turned us into a country of informers. Right or wrong, we became a country of watching each other, telling on each other, right or wrong.
I disagree. Adam's father, John Walsh, was a founder of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and later, became host of "America’s Most Wanted," a show that has since assisted with law enforcement officials being able to track down hundreds of fugitives.
For a lot of us, Adam Walsh's abduction was the first time we realized that a world in which children could play unsupervised--the way many of us had grown up--no longer existed.
I disagree. Adam's father, John Walsh, was a founder of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and later, became host of "America’s Most Wanted," a show that has since assisted with law enforcement officials being able to track down hundreds of fugitives.
Call them as I see them....but leave it to horse races here.
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For a lot of us, Adam Walsh's abduction was the first time we realized that a world in which children could play unsupervised--the way many of us had grown up--no longer existed.
Well, where the hell were you when Dean Corll (just as an example) was around?
Without getting into it too much, this is the world I deal with where something happens and the public thinks it is something new....but it is really years old, like 9-11 but what were people thinking in the decades before after Dawson's Field.
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Oba Chandler-crime occurred in 1989. I had his execution date written on my calendar and I celebrated that day after I confirmed he was dead. I would have willingly pulled the switch to fry this guy. A mother and her 2 daughters.
Not a fan of the death penalty, but I didn't shed any tears over this one.
My shelves are still loaded with real crime paper backs. Some, were required reading like Green River while others were support to that like Dahlmer and maybe Bundy...
I read the Green River book long before the perp was caught.
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...For a lot of us, Adam Walsh's abduction was the first time we realized that a world in which children could play unsupervised--the way many of us had grown up--no longer existed.
I used to go wherever I wanted in the tract development I grew up in, including a couple of wooded areas next to it. That was quite some time ago.
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Ann Rule's book ( and later the televison movie with a mesmerizing Farrah Fawcett ) Small Sacrifices.
Diane Downs shot her three beautiful children because her new boyfriend did not want kids . The testimony
by her surviving daughter is heartbreaking.
I couldn't rep you just yet, but yes; the Diane Downs case has haunted me since i innocently picked up a copy of "Small Sacrifices" at a 7-11, while picking up a cup of coffee after the graveyard shift at a psych hospital. My plan to save the coffee for after my nap until 1PM was destroyed.
The thought of reading myself to sleep, was quashed. I was completely drawn into the story and pathology of Diane Downs, her gift for self-reinvention and manipulation. A former aspiring missionary and Sunday school teacher, a surrogate mother, who attempted to start her own surrogacy agency, a postal worker, a high school honor student, By all accounts an intelligent woman who, when intent of having something - made it happen.
She is indeed, a complex, compelling and convoluted woman. Ann Rule's book, brought all if this together. I read it for about 2 days strait.
Also, Susan Smith's drowning murder in South Carolina, of her three innocent little boys. The manner and method of death was just so unbelievably cruel. How could she EVER watch her car sink located with her three kids? I was trying desperately to conceive a second child at that time. My son was a bit younger than the youngest Smith boys.
It all really hit home.
This little girl was abducted in a quiet Cleveland suburb, just minutes from where I live. As a mother of young children at the time, it really struck a nerve and still does today as it is an unsolved murder.
I couldn't rep you just yet, but yes; the Diane Downs case has haunted me since i innocently picked up a copy of "Small Sacrifices" at a 7-11, while picking up a cup of coffee after the graveyard shift at a psych hospital. My plan to save the coffee for after my nap until 1PM was destroyed.
The thought of reading myself to sleep, was quashed. I was completely drawn into the story and pathology of Diane Downs, her gift for self-reinvention and manipulation. A former aspiring missionary and Sunday school teacher, a surrogate mother, who attempted to start her own surrogacy agency, a postal worker, a high school honor student, By all accounts an intelligent woman who, when intent of having something - made it happen.
She is indeed, a complex, compelling and convoluted woman. Ann Rule's book, brought all if this together. I read it for about 2 days strait.
Also, Susan Smith's drowning murder in South Carolina, of her three innocent little boys. The manner and method of death was just so unbelievably cruel. How could she EVER watch her car sink located with her three kids? I was trying desperately to conceive a second child at that time. My son was a bit younger than the youngest Smith boys.
It all really hit home.
Susan Smith had 2 sons.
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