C.S.I.
This morning the papers showed a grizzly headline. Some of us had heard it in the late news. The story was that a recently married couple had been at home, when they'd seen from their window two men breaking into their car parked on the street. The man had gone out to dissuade the would-be burglars, but instead the men had rushed into the couple's home. The man had fought, but had been knocked unconscious in the bathroom, and his wife had been struck down and had died (though I immediately wondered at tha wording, since.... how would he know if he was unconscious?) and when he woke up he'd found his wife dead in the bed, and immediately he alerted emergency services and the police.
Several people have made statements concerning this already. Especially comments along the lines of "earlier burglars would run away if they were seen, now people have become so hardened that they'll attack instead". I and many of my colleagues read the newspaper on the way to work, and we were all shaking our heads at how terrible it was.
And just now I hear on the news that the forensic technicians have worked their magic once more. Apparently there may not have been any burglars at all, though the police will not rule them out entirely. What forensics have also found is that a prime suspect for the woman's murder is her husband. Mainly because the woman had not been struck down, but had been strangled. The man's injuries are so far unexplained to the public, the papers' websites are currently speculating whether he had injured himself, though I expect that we may at some point hear that they've found some of his DNA under her finger nails, perhaps on her knuckles.
Either way, like a classic case on CSI and all the other crime shows, this case appears to be yet another femicide where the murderer is a close relation, who even calls the police with a fake report of attackers.
I hope that whatever evidence forensics found at the scene are enough to prosecute the man. No, he hasn't been found guilty just yet, but he has been arrested, and since most violent attacks on women happen between close relations I'm inclined to believe him guilty. But we shall see.
As it is, I'll be following the development in this one.
Several people have made statements concerning this already. Especially comments along the lines of "earlier burglars would run away if they were seen, now people have become so hardened that they'll attack instead". I and many of my colleagues read the newspaper on the way to work, and we were all shaking our heads at how terrible it was.
And just now I hear on the news that the forensic technicians have worked their magic once more. Apparently there may not have been any burglars at all, though the police will not rule them out entirely. What forensics have also found is that a prime suspect for the woman's murder is her husband. Mainly because the woman had not been struck down, but had been strangled. The man's injuries are so far unexplained to the public, the papers' websites are currently speculating whether he had injured himself, though I expect that we may at some point hear that they've found some of his DNA under her finger nails, perhaps on her knuckles.
Either way, like a classic case on CSI and all the other crime shows, this case appears to be yet another femicide where the murderer is a close relation, who even calls the police with a fake report of attackers.
I hope that whatever evidence forensics found at the scene are enough to prosecute the man. No, he hasn't been found guilty just yet, but he has been arrested, and since most violent attacks on women happen between close relations I'm inclined to believe him guilty. But we shall see.
As it is, I'll be following the development in this one.