Not that I live in a cave, but who is Gabby Petito, and why is her demise broadcast with such fervor? What makes her case so special? Was she wearing ruby slippers?
There’s a name for it: missing white woman syndrome. For every one case like Petito there are dozens of disappearances/murders that go uncovered at all. I suppose an attractive young woman’s life is more valuable than that of an older white male with dementia.
She was quite attractive.
Also, she is not Kabul, or inflation, or the border, or a useless vaccine, or unemployed due to firing because of the useless vaccine, or a shunned ally, or …
“What makes her case so special? Was she wearing ruby slippers?”
Funny that you ask that... It’s a very relevant question. Little girls go missing Every day... 10 yrs olds... 12 yr olds... All over the country and nobody seems to care. They’re just a statistic. What makes this girl so special that we initiate a global manhunt for her and her killer.
Well there was that whole 911 call with them slapping each other around. And the girls parents reported her missing after the boy came home without her. And then his parents shipped him off to Antarctica to hide out while she was being eaten by bears.
But other than that...
The Gabby Petito case is a distraction the media are using to keep the public’s eyes off of the 15,000 Haitians at the border - that the feds are quietly releasing into the country.
Not that this isn’t an important case, it is, but it has been headline news 24/7 for at least a week where as the “crises at the border” is off of the front pages (along with other things the treacherous Biden admin is doing).
Missing White Chick. Common distraction the media uses when far more important things should be on the front pages, like voter fraud and deaths by covid jabs.
I think the broad interest in this case is that it reads like a crime novel with so many strange turns which just keep coming. I didn’t take an interest until I read that the fiancé returned home without her and immediately lawyered up. It will no doubt be a movie someday.
This makes her incredibly news-worthy to the Mainstream Media, and, apparently, a lot of FReepers.
Yes, she wore Ruby slippers that Joe Biden and his fawning media gave her partway through her trip, so that all the negative attention that was starting to go his way was deflected and turned towards her.
The parents of the missing young lady likely got some advice on how to make the case of their missing daughter go national. Nothing wrong with that. It led to some vacationers to review their cell phone videos that placed a time stamp on the whereabouts of the missing van ..