Thanks, AC. What I’ve appreciated most about FR has been the respectful debate and willingness to listen to others. Even though there’ve been plenty of other threads that get heated and a bit nasty at time, overall this has always been one of the best and most balanced, and certainly most intelligent, websites I’ve ever come across.
Part of me has been puzzled at the outrage sometimes expressed against folks who may not see HKS as a murderer, sociopath, creep, etc. And you see this phenomenon on all the other websites, too. Probably most who haven’t hung Howard out to dry are good and decent people who would never want to live the way Anna and her friends did, nor approve of that lifestyle. I’m pretty sure most of these same people will be glad if it’s determined crimes have been committed and those responsible are punished. Of course, there have been some heated feelings regarding other parties in the ANS case, too. Perhaps one day this could serve as a chapter in a social psychology book, as well as a study in mass media :) Now I’m going to smoke my last cigarette(for good, I hope) and go to bed when I should be waking up!
I’m sorry, but given what we know about HKS, I just cannot understand how ya’ll can see him in any other light. Are you saying that you do not see any psycopathic behaviors or that it’s not possible, in spite of everything, that he may have planned or been complicit in the deaths of Anna and Daniel? I believe he is, on all counts, and am outraged at him (perhaps for personal reasons), so I don’t understand feeling otherwise. I’d really like to understand where you’re coming from....right now though, I get the impression that you have issues (perhaps on some personal level) with Virgie and need to find ways to place blame on her, giving HKS sort of a ‘pass’? it might be helpful to the rest of us,well, at least to me, if you could explain further.