IL OCT-16-2004 Peoria body victim of serial killer

[AmyStrange]

http://www.lincolncourier.com/news/04/10/16/b.asp



What is the point of my post, you may ask, since it so clearly seems not to be political, and thus not really DU material in any way, shape, or form?

What is the point of ANY post, but to inform and/ or create discussion. Missing persons and the wrongly accuused deserve as much democratic consideration and justice as any other person.

Personally, I think they deserve it more so, because their voices (unless they are a young white college kid or white clean-cut mostly female rich person - for example, Smart, Sjodin, Levy, Peterson, Hacking etc.) are rarely heard from or written about or acknowledged in any way shape or form.

Do you know how many persons went missing in California at about the same time as Laci Peterson? Two that I know of specifically. One was hispanic (and also pregnant and also found murdered not too long AFTER Laci) and another was a prostitute, but guess which was talked about incessantly by the media?

And finally, missing persons and serial killers and miscarriages of justice are an example of why the budgets of LE (both here in the U.S and abroad) should be raised (and NOT just for homeland security) which is A VERY POLITICAL subject - in my opinion,

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[sam sarrha]

1. there are 5000 people missing in Jurez mexico, the locals say there are

500 to 700 young girls missing....about 300 bodies have been found of girls from 16 to 20 years old. they refuse help from the FBI.. the cops there say they were not investigating because "They were just Prostitutes any way".

[madrchsod]

2. but these ladies were not a

young white middle class pregnant attractive lady..the national media doesn`t a shit about the down and out`s cause their stories don`t sell soap.

[barb162]

3. it amazes me how much air time the Peterson case has gotten

when other people around this country go missing and get killed and end up on p. 15 with one paragraph of the local paper. Somewhere a few months ago some cop said on some TV station that it is fairly common for pregnant women to get killed by their husbands.