[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

That poor girl.

Rodriquez should have been done away with years ago. It makes me ill that his sister is blaming the judicial system for not giving him support since his release.

[JustAnAmerican]

Slow painful torture is what this scum should receive. And the ones who let him out deserve the same.

[jdege]

I continue to be astounded at the level of professionalism that the police and prosecutors are showing, up there.

As contrasted with the media circuses we've been seeing in high-profile cases in LA and DC.

[EggsAckley]

When does torture become pertinent?

[maggief]

Ping...

[najida]

This just breaks my heart. My prayers are going out to her family and loved ones.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

I believe in the American system of justice, but there are times like this that almost make you wish we could cut out all the trial and appeal stuff and go right from arrest to execution.

[ZULU]

We have all watched with anger and repugnance at apparently ONE MORE case of another victim falling prey to a repeat sexual predator.

Dru Sjodin, a young, beautiful, loving woman with a loving family and an full life ahead of her, has apparently fallen victim to Carlos Rodriguez, an individual with a long record as a sexual predator, an individual who refused "treatment" for his obsession while incarcerated, an individual who was, ONCE AGAIN, approved for release by YET ANOTHER psychiatrist who should have know better.

My prayers and sympathy go out to the family and friends of Ms. Sjodin, and I hope and pray by some miracle she is still alive and the Father of us all is protecting her.

While this heart-wrenching tragedy is unfolding in the upper mid-west, one of far too many instances of this kind, what, pray tell are our elected Congresspersons up to??????

Well, they passed a law requiring a special license to transport tigers, lions and big cats across state lines.

Thats right. They took the time to pass a law requiring a federal permit to move a lion or tiger, etc. across a state line. And why, pray tell? Becuase one idiot in New York was keeping a tiger and a crocodile in his apartment.

My point is not to argue the merit of a special permit to transport tigers. My argument is time, perspecitve and efficiency. How many Americans have been killed by tigers or lions or crocodiles in the past few centuries, aside from those actually handling them?? I can't recall ONE.

How many Americans, like Dru Sjodin, have fallen victims to violent sexual predators or paedophiles?? Countless numbers.

So what interests our overpaid, over-benefitted, practically-tenured Congressmen?? Tigers and crocodiles.

If you don't want to address a complicated, serious problem, generate a non-existant one and then provide a solution. It looks good in the papers. There is more croc in Congress than croc moving across state lines.

Sexual predators and paedophiles, people who have served notice on society that they are below a ravvenous beast on the scale of rationality, should NEVER get a second chance to re-enact their crimes. They should be locked up for life. It should be a FEDERAL CRIME to commit an act of sexual predation on another human being, using the same assumption that applies in cases of simple kidnapping - that the felon may very well cross state lines. And the penalty should be death or life in prison without parole.

Congress should start dealing with real issues, and leave tigers, lions, corcodiles and law-abiding gun owners ALONE.

[VadeRetro]

I doubt any state involved up there (MN or ND) has the death penalty. Can I hope that somehow some Mondale-country federal prosecutor will go after this guy on a federal kidnap-murder statute? Somehow some Mondale-country jury will do the right thing, even if as now there's still no body? No Mondale-country appeals court will throw it all out?

I fear there will be no justice on this one.

[BlessedBeGod]

Fry him.

[Ispy4u]

This pretty much blows my previous hypothesis away.

Good, now if they just find Dru alive everything will be perfect.

[spectre]

We've all been around the campus with this type of crime on the forum..

Assuming they have POSITIVE DNA of hers, and other factors, it appears he did this awful thing.

They need to find the body. If they don't, he is in the drivers seat and could force a plea bargain for ""life"" in prison if he tells them where her remains are located.

Housing him with the general prison population will be a swifter death sentence than a formal execution, which will be stalled for years. Either way, he is a dead man walking, but would be safer on death row.

sw sw

[Lucky2]

This scum should suffer the way poor Dru must have suffered.
For the life of me I can't believe that this creep was let out of jail into society. Too bad he's in a cell by himself reading a book! He should be out with the rest of the prisoners. We'd know where Dru is by now!

[Tamzee]

Adjust setting to "slow roast".

[SkyPilot]

www.finddru.com

[cupcakes]

Oh dear. I had my doubts this young woman was still alive and the evidence in the car just seems to be confirming those doubts. I just think a 22 yr old girl with what seems to be the strength, health, and determination this girl had would have found a way to free herself and find help by now if she was bound somewhere, dumped, but still alive, etc.
I just hope if she is gone, they find her remains soon so her parents can bury their daughter appropriately. What a shame.

[Newbomb Turk]

Release the Bastard ASAP. But be sure to notify the public of the time and place of the release.

The see if the bastard wants to talk.

Thats how the DA gets the mafia to talk.

[Vicki]

I will never understand why these Level 3 sex offenders who are the most violent and most likely to re-offend are allowed back in society. Especially those that refuse treatment (not that it works).

It's like waiting for the next victim and everyone wondering whose loved one will be kidnapped, raped or murdered. It's just plain crazy.

[yarddog]

Assuming they really have found her DNA in the blood in his car, in addition to the other things which are known, there is basically zero chance he is innocent.

If I were his lawyer I think I would tell him to be completely cooperative and tell everything about the murder/kidnapping. That is the only chance to maybe save him from the Federal death penalty.

[Hildy]

A sane society would start plucking out his fingernails until he told them where her body is. It's outrageous that family and friends are still searching while the one person who can stop the madness is sitting in a warm cell, eating food we pay for.