Microentry #9: Whoa

[sleestak]

Christine just clicked on this headline concerning the horrific story of a Michigan woman found dismembered after being missing for 15 days. The woman, it turns out, was her senior year roommate at Michigan State

Comments

[parallel_botany]

Oh my God...I can't even get my mind around it. It's just too horrible. How's Christing doing?

[stoof]

Oh God, what a horrific and terrifying story.

It always makes me angry when the media releases the names of victims of crimes like these. The news anchors might as well just call her children and scream "Hey kids, your mother was cut up into little pieces and put into trash bags!"

[tesseractor]

Good God that's horrible. I have no memory of Tara at all, but no one deserves that. Those poor kids.

I'm thinking there's a far greater chance at b than a. People are sick of the media and I like to think that most would not want to participate in the spectacle, though there's always someone that obliges.

[teencake]

It is very uncomfortable and upsetting when the macabre enters the actual sphere of our lives and becomes more than just something that happens on TV or in movies. It happened to me once watching Forensic Files, although the victims were childhood acquaintances, not a close roomate/friend.

I hope you guys are handling this okay. It's gotta be particularly hard for Christine. :(