So otherwise a guy in a rubber raft 200 km off the coast wouldn't have seemed strange?
I post it to offer an example of bad journalism. This story is lacking a couple facts that should be obvious in any story...
Where did Nathan and Linda Carmen hail from?
Where did their boat depart from before it sank?
They mention this... "The Hartford Courant newspaer(sp) reported that Chakalos' estate was worth about $40 million US, and his four daughters, including Linda Carman, were beneficiaries of about $21 million."
So I guess I could deduce that they came from Hartford Connecticut, but news stories are not supposed to leave the reader needing to deduce facts... It's supposed to print the facts.
They never let 'facts' get in the way of a good murder mystery................
Sorry, no time for those things in today's Journalism curriculums - left wing indoctrination classes have replaced them.
This is exactly what the readers of Pravda had to deal with when reading the official news back in the USSR. The truth was printed in Pravda, but in a very roundabout and incomplete way. The discerning reader had to sift through he story and decipher the coded message to get to something close to the truth, and never the whole truth. That had to be deduced from the pattern of all news stories. An astute reader could do it, but it required effort and critical thinking skills.
Americans are not accustomed to doing this, but they need to learn, especially now at the dawn of the age of the censored internet. Our news is going to given to us the same way Soviet citizens received theirs, and from mainstream outlets, it has been that way for at least a generation.
Many of the wealthy who are not public figures fly under the radar to avoid becoming targets for robberies, kidnappings, beggars...
The Asperger syndrome part is left out as well.
A suspect in the shooting death of his grandfather, the death of whom resulted in $21 million left to his aunts and mother. Now this boating thing resulting in the death of his mother.
This smells bad.
Scrap iron for Turkey reminds me of scrap iron for Japan. I wonder if they will have the same return policy.
What struck me even more was that the first half of the story offers no explicit hints, at least in my reading, about the revelations in the second half. For example, my impression was that the media interest, which is first mentioned at the very beginning, concerned just the "stunning rescue" and not the "twists in the story."
So otherwise a guy in a rubber raft 200 km off the coast wouldn't have seemed strange?
Big story here in Connecticut where mom was from. The kid had a house in Vermont.
Last person to see gramps before gramps was killed. Now he takes mom fishing, but only he returned.
He was also in the news back in 2009 when he was 15 as he had run away. Was finally found in Virginia.