[Tax-chick]

I agree. It may change the story from “grabbed off the street by a total stranger” to “picked up by someone she knew but should not have trusted.” That doesn’t make the murder any less horrible, of course, but it might relieve some of the terror created by the notion that everyone is a potential victim of being grabbed off the street by a total stranger.

[bgill]

https://nypost.com/2018/08/23/mollie-tibbetts-ex-classmate-gave-birth-to-murder-suspects-baby/

Mollie wasn’t the only gal out who was accosted by him. How many others have there been? Has he murdered before?

[Qiviut]

... to “picked up by someone she knew but should not have trusted.”

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She might have run away from a total stranger or called the police if she saw a total stranger following her in a car. She probably recognized this guy & that fact alone damped down any internal alarms going off that she should flee or call police. Gavin De Becker’s book “The Gift of Fear” should be required reading for everyone, especially girls/women - don’t ignore or explain the alarms away, don’t worry about being polite or causing a ruckus. From someone else I know who was stalked (he & wife) in the desert for 3 days while backpacking, your legs are one of your best defenses .... get away when the alarm bells go off or something doesn’t seem right.

[Responsibility2nd]

I agree. It may change the story from “grabbed off the street by a total stranger” to “picked up by someone she knew but should not have trusted.” That doesn’t make the murder any less horrible, of course, but it might relieve some of the terror created by the notion that everyone is a potential victim of being grabbed off the street by a total stranger.

 

I agree also. But unfortunately, there are many who only look at this murder through their anti-illegal immigrant glasses.

And just as the leftists want to ignore this incident now, many on the right want to grandstand on this murder only to further their anti immigrant agenda.