Posted on 08/18/2014 12:43:21 PM PDT by dware
The body of the pregnant missing wife of a U.S. Marine based in Southern California has been found and her alleged lover has been charged with homicide, police said.
Christopher Brandon Lee, 24, was arrested in Anchorage, Alaska and charged in the murder of 20-year-old Erin Corwin, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said Monday.
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West Pac widow.
Didn’t she text a friend to say she was going to share with her boyfriend that he was going to be a father.
I hadn’t heard that, just that she was planning the hike to scout out a future family trip. Such a heartbreaking situation all around. My heart goes out to the child and the cheated husband.
I’m retired Army and have the same wife I did when I was active.
I take offense to your blanket statement.
SunTzuWu didn’t say your wife or all military wives were unfaithful or regarded their husbands as meal tickets. Obviously there are many, my mother among them, who are fiercely loyal and supportive. But the “dependapotamus” phenomenon is indeed common. Many have tried to prey on my Marine son and his friends. Stop being offended. It wasn’t about you.
Three names again!
Lee Harvey, John Wilkes....UGH!
LE always uses a perp’s middle name. Just makes then sound guilty, doesn’t it?
We're geographically close by, and Lee's been the suspected "connection" from about a week in. I guess the police needed to find the body; local media rumor was that Lee's wife had quite a bit of knowledge and probably cut herself some type of deal.
It'll be interesting to see how it all pans out. I found it most fascinating he was located in Alaska.
That was his "home"...he'd just gotten his Marine discharge days before Erin disappeared, and shortly after he and his wife moved from 29 Palms back to Alaska.
Too bad. She was a pretty enough girl, albeit a bit on the white trashy side. Nothing good ever happens when these kids go around like cats in heat.
No need to take offense - it’s a very, very common thing and has nothing to do with you or your wife personally. I saw it all the time when I was in the Navy - townies with bleak futures trying to hitch their wagon to lonely and unsuspecting kids barely out of bootcamp. The wonder is how many fall for it. I saw way too many 19 year old E-2s becoming fathers...
Common theme
Yeah, and folks wonder why FR has a such hard time making the budget each quarter.
It’s been getting slower and slower the last 6 years. About the same pace some have been increasing their insults to everybody and every post.
After the great election purges folks have been slipping away from Free Republic and it looks like the remainder aren’t going to support it with their wallets.
Active Duty ping.
I take offense to your blanket statement.
Except it's true and if you're retired Army, you know it as well as this active duty Sailor does.
I see it all the time. The divorce rate in the military is horrible. Infidelity during deployments by one or both spouses is rampant.
You're married to the same women as when you were active duty? Congrats! So am I. But let's be honest. The military sets their service members up for failure when it comes to marriage. First and foremost by adding a financial incentive to get married. I see it all the time. Guys barely out of high school marry girls barely out of high school so that they can get dependent BAH and move into an apartment out of the barracks. Long deployments away, long working hours at home, money in the bank an independence and freedom for a young spouse who has yet to sow her wild oats and we all know what happens.
I see it all the time. All the time. I could write a book on marriage disasters I've seen during my 11+ years so far in the U.S. navy.
Blanket statement? Sure. And for the most part, an accurate one.
Same in the Air force.
After I took command of an organization with 164 troops I was warned about some women who preyed upon my troops as they had four year controlled tours. These women lived in the little dump of a town outside the main gate and would do what it took to get some lonely, just away from home Airman to marry them then when they got orders four years later they would file for divorce and seduce another. The "Sugar Daddy" writ small. They lived in enlisted housing while married and got all on-base privileges until the divorce and would then rent a trailer outside the gate until they married again.
Instead of letting this crap happen (I was prior enlisted and wanted to really protect my troops) I became the only officer on base, and in recent history, to do what was needed to stop this garbage. The end result was all these women were declared Persona non Grata on base and they all ended up either going to jail for threatening me or just moving away.
The one good thing about these women was they had no intention of getting pregnant for some reason. I guess the vagaries of trying to get smallish support checks from airmen was too much of a hassle so no children were harmed or created. They also seemed to like hanging out at the local dive bar and get free drinks from the airmen all night so kids would interfere with their partying.
No one on this thread has insulted any other Freeper. No one has been uncivil. It is unjust to suggest that pointing out an indisputable issue in military life has some bearing on whether FR meets it’s quarterly financial goals.
I am retired Air Force too. I think maybe I was a little naive about what was going on. I have a feeling there were some good women, right along side the bad ones. I know, and I think you do too, that most enlisted people hate living in the barracks. I know I hated it. I heard rumors, though I never knew for sure if the rumors were true, that some enlisted men married enlisted women on paper only, so they could move out of the barracks. If this is true, it should show people how much the guys hate barracks living, and may also contribute to young guys marrying the first woman who came along.
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