It’s fascinating how close we are to death and killers daily, and we never know until later if we find out at all. How close do we come to death on a regular bases? Who knows, especially when it is sometimes easier to see if someone is fucked up online and not in real life. I think those people probably hold their masks tighter in public but don’t worry about a slipping online.
There is always so haunting about someone whose identity is lost to the world, someone who is in a grave with no name and only known as John or Jane Doe. I wonder if anyone reported them missing or if anyone cares. In some cases, especially before the 90s, when someone was reported as a runaway, no one cared to look, family or law enforcement. In other cases, they were reported, but nothing was found because of how law enforcement operated. As someone who is critical of police, this is not meant to be critical of them since there was no national database, agencies didn’t work together, and because of DNA and forensic and modern advances, things have gotten better in that regard. Luckily, times have changed, but sadly people have not, and so many people need their names back.
The truth we can spend years and lifetimes with people and never really truly know them. We can think that we know people all we want, but the truth isn’t always that. Recently, I found some alarming information about someone I thought that I knew. The fact is when you find out this information about someone you thought of as a friend, it can be very heartbreaking.
So, I originally planned a different blog post that is currently sitting in my drafts fully done. I just felt like because of current events that I needed to do go a different way this week. My mind really changed within the last few days, so here are my words about things.
I was looking up some cases because if there are two things I have always been interested in, it is true crime and cults. This post is about a true crime case. This one was interesting because I have never heard about it before, and sometimes in watching documentaries, I will see the same case three or four times. So, something new is always interesting.