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A road to paradise paved in misery: 4 Pepperdine students are just the latest to die on Malibu’s broken highway
CNN ^ | December 18, 2023 | Jason Kravarik

Posted on 12/18/2023 12:07:04 PM PST by Red Badger

Malibu, California CNN — Bridget Thompson says she should be dead.

If not for a late cheer team meeting on a Tuesday night in October, the Pepperdine University senior would have been with her four best friends — three were her roommates — heading to an off-campus mixer.

“I should have been there and I usually would be there,” Thompson said. “I can just picture them in the car on the way there. I know they were listening to music and I know they were singing along.”

The girls parked and were walking along the Pacific Coast Highway when prosecutors say a BMW going 104 miles per hour slammed into several parked cars before hitting and killing Niamh Rolston, Peyton Stewart, Asha Weir and Deslyn Williams – all Pepperdine seniors.

Thompson was on her way to meet up with the girls when a friend texted to say they couldn’t be found.

“I couldn’t get past where the police were,” Thompson said. “I just stood out there till 3 a.m. that night just calling any hospital.”

The next morning an email from the school confirmed the news that “literally crushed my world,” she said. “It feels like four huge holes in my heart.”

Deslyn was Thompson’s “first friend” at Pepperdine; Niamh “was like my other half”; Asha was “wise beyond her years”; and Peyton was “the most selfless person I ever met,” Thompson told CNN. “I cry all day… I really feel alone because it’s literally just me,” she said. “But I’m thankful that I could be here to make a change for them.”

Clockwise, from top left: Niamh Rolston, Peyton Stewart, Deslyn Williams and Asha Weir.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: History; Local News; Military/Veterans; Travel
KEYWORDS: california; malibu; pch; pepperdine; pepperdinedeaths
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To: logi_cal869

God himself will ban the Left soon enough...but not yet.

He will use them for his purposes coming up soon enough.


21 posted on 12/18/2023 1:18:30 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Red Badger

So a wealthy drunk punk ran into these kids and killed them. What does that have to do with the highway being “broken?’


22 posted on 12/18/2023 1:28:54 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: dragnet2

I see it happened on the PCH near “Dead Man’s Curve.” Do you know where that is?


23 posted on 12/18/2023 1:55:59 PM PST by sphinx
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To: dragnet2

Never mind. I found it.


24 posted on 12/18/2023 1:58:03 PM PST by sphinx
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To: sphinx

Frm GoogleMaps street view, it doesn’t look like a bad stretch of road. Of course, alcohol, other drugs, speeding and generic stupidity can turn I-70 across the flatlands 100 miles east of Denver into “dead man’s curve.”


25 posted on 12/18/2023 2:05:58 PM PST by sphinx
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To: DesertRhino

Fraser Michael Bohm, 22, of Malibu, was re-arrested Tuesday and is charged with four counts of murder and four counts of gross vehicular manslaughter in the crash Oct. 17 on scenic Pacific Coast Highway, officials said.


26 posted on 12/18/2023 2:06:59 PM PST by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: Irish Eyes

They added the murder charge, and arrested him for that, plus the vehicular homicide charge.


27 posted on 12/18/2023 2:09:35 PM PST by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: DesertRhino

Pigmented Protected Person?


28 posted on 12/18/2023 2:13:20 PM PST by MayflowerMadam ("A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once.")
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To: MayflowerMadam

He is a blondy.


29 posted on 12/18/2023 2:59:44 PM PST by arthurus ( covfefe dlb)
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To: arthurus

Ah ...


30 posted on 12/18/2023 3:09:38 PM PST by MayflowerMadam ("A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once.")
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To: Red Badger

Well...looks like they all got an A+ in “head tilt”.


31 posted on 12/18/2023 3:17:48 PM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Irish Eyes
"Police (re)arrested and took Bohm back into custody on October 24, 2023, and booked him for four counts of murder and four counts of gross vehicular manslaughter. The bail amount set by the court is $8 million but was reduced to $4 million, as per ABC7.
32 posted on 12/18/2023 7:03:36 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Red Badger

One could drive oneself to insanity by dwelling on the “What ifs”.


33 posted on 12/19/2023 1:10:55 PM PST by granite ("It's a Barnum and Bailey World, Just as Phony as it can be.")
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To: granite

“What ifs” are for children and old people.................


34 posted on 12/19/2023 1:13:52 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while l aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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