Fear Section 2. Random Homicide and Murder
Whenever there’s a shooting or killing somewhere in the U.S. it’s always all over the news for days. But after said days are over everyone stops watching. Coincidently after the days are over and everyone stops watching the true story will eventually emerge. But it won’t emerge on the T.V. It’ll emerge somewhere where it will most likely be ignored. Like a website i.e. Yahoo,WRAL…. The truth after most of these stories is that they aren’t random they are actually planned. I’m not saying we shouldn’t be worried, but we seem to have gotten mixed up with the true nature and the extent of these problems.
For example. A Soldier had just returned home to Detroit and was shot dead outside of his apartment building. The front page story in the Washington Post depicts the situation this way.
Conley Street, on this city’s northeast side, is a pleasant looking row of brick and wood homes with small, neat lawns, a street that for years was the realization of the American dream for middle income families. But in the past few eyars, Conley has become a street of drugs, crime and occasional bursts of gunfire. And at 2:15a.m. Monday, the bullets killed Army Spec. Anthony Riggs, something that all of Iraq’s Scud missiles could not do during his seven months with a Patriot missile battery in Saudi Arabia.
“His mother described him as a man who deeply loved his family and his country. Anthony wrote home from Saudi Arabia saying “There’s no way I am going to die in this rotten country. With all of God’s grace and his guidance, I’ll walk on American soil once again.” But before that letter had even arrived, while Riggs was moving his wife and their three year old daughter into a new apartment, five shots had rung out and witnesses heard the sound of screeching tires. Some thug had shot Riggs and he was found dying in the gutter by his wife.” the Post reported.
So right around here is where people normally stop watching and don’t want to hear anymore about it.
Wait I’m not telling the actual story. To editors and journalists and ideal crime story is one like this one. The only problem here though is that a small portion of this crime story is actually true. The truth is he was actually shot, but it was not random. While police were going through garbage cans around the Conley Street neighborhood, an officer found a hand guyn that turned out to belong to Michael Cato, who was the brother of Riggs’s wife, Toni. Michael was ninteen years old and was currently serving a life sentence for murder, Michael said in a confession that his sister had promised him a share of $175,000 in life insurance benefits. Does this sound like a set up to you? Reporters can’t be blamed for failing to possess this information prior to its discovery by the police officer, but had they been a bit skeptical or made a few phone calls they almost certainly would have come fallen on at least some aspects of the truth.
For example they could’ve learned that Toni, Riggs’s wife, had been making noises about dumping Anthony for some time, or possibly that she arranged a hefty life insurance policy for here husband before he went off to war. The reporters could also have checked into Mrs. Riggs’s past and discoverd previous irregularities, such as the fact that she had not even yet divorced her previous husband when she married Anthony.
Journalists also might’ve discovered a letter Riggs wrote to his mother from Saudi Arabia saying “Toni has wrecked my car. She is now bouncing checks… She is never home 2:30A.M., 4A.M…. I would put my head through the neck of a hot sauce bottle to pleace her, but now I need happiness in return” People magazine, the only major publication that ran a full fledged account of the true story.
Reporters, Editors, Journalists normally don’t go into that much detail about the actual stories only that someone was murdered, what the family has to say, and how they died.
I’m not saying all murders are planned, but a great percentage of them are.
How many of you guys actually read these?
