Thursday, December 3, 2009

Small Town Shattered


Valerie and Michael Miller, both 47, were discovered in their home in Webster Plantation, Maine Saturday. A neighbor called the cops when they became suspicous of a strange woman walking out of their house the same day. The cops arrived and discovered that both of them were dead. At first it was believed that carbon monixide poisoning had killed them, but with a further autopsy, it turned out to be a double homicide. In this little community where everyone knows eachother and leave their cars unlocked and keys in the ignition, people do not know what to do anymore. Since there has not been a murder in town in the past 20 years people wonder if the person who did this are out to get someone else. Can they trust to open their doors to a stranger anymore?


I thik overrall in any situation that this is a terrible act of crime, not only in a small community like Webster Plantation. It may be worst because everyone knows eachother because it is such a small town. The feeling would sink in if my well known neighbor that drives down for gas and coffee each morning is murdered. It would drive into me and I would feel an obligation to do something about it. What I am not understanding is that a neighbor called the police because they reporter seeing a mysterious women come out of the house and they even got a description of her. If they got national news involved in this case, why can't they find the woman that the neighbor clearly saw? This is one of those situations wher I think we as Americans do not use our technology when needed. We have all these fingerprint machines and criminal artists and yet we cannot make a simple sketch of a possible suspect. Sometimes I think stories like these are put on the news and in the papers just because they are rare to happen in the world. Kind of a sick thing coming from people that are not supposed to be like the killer.



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