A little girl finally sleeps
10 long years.
It feels like yesterday when the news broke, when for the second time my world felt unsafe and dangerous. When a home was no longer a haven.
So it seems silly to fear when the real victims were 3000 miles away, but when I was 12, I learned to lock my window after Polly Klass and when I was 17, I cried for the news of JonBenet Ramsey.
Today, I can smile a little. A suspect in JonBenet's murder has been arrested and confessed to the crime. It seems so silly to care about people I don't know, never knew and never will know. But in part I do feel guilty. Like everyone else, I looked at the evidence and pinned the murder on the mother (in large part). Based on the information I read and heard, she seemed the most obvious choice.
I was wrong. We were wrong.
So tonight a little girl long laid to rest can finally close her eyes and truely sleep. Rest well JonBenet.
It feels like yesterday when the news broke, when for the second time my world felt unsafe and dangerous. When a home was no longer a haven.
So it seems silly to fear when the real victims were 3000 miles away, but when I was 12, I learned to lock my window after Polly Klass and when I was 17, I cried for the news of JonBenet Ramsey.
Today, I can smile a little. A suspect in JonBenet's murder has been arrested and confessed to the crime. It seems so silly to care about people I don't know, never knew and never will know. But in part I do feel guilty. Like everyone else, I looked at the evidence and pinned the murder on the mother (in large part). Based on the information I read and heard, she seemed the most obvious choice.
I was wrong. We were wrong.
So tonight a little girl long laid to rest can finally close her eyes and truely sleep. Rest well JonBenet.