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Originally Posted by TonyB06
While I generally always enjoy your posts and your reasoning behind them, I found the bolded sentence odd. I don't think you meant to imply that the murder/death would have been any less tragic had it was someone from Detroit, did you?
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It would affect the fear factor in a different way. This is a town with a population of 5000 and the woman was found in a creek immediately behind her condo. That makes for a very fearful community. It wouldn't have been less tragic, but it wouldn't have instilled the kind of fear that this has. We wouldn't have been as worried about our teenager daughters going to school 1/4 mile down the street. We wouldn't be as afraid for ourselves.
It is tragic either way, but when you know there was a murderer who could do this in your own backyard, it's more unsettling. I think we all tend to have a sense of security in our neighborhood, even if it's not well founded in statistics. In this instance though, it IS founded in statistics. This is the fourth homicide in this city in the history of the city, which was founded in 1837.
So, we expect murders in Detroit. We don't expect them in Gibraltar. It doesn't make the murder any less tragic. It does affect how afraid we are.
ETA: PM_Mama: She is from Wayne originally.
Whoever did this really didn't want her to be able to be identified. Reports are now saying that not only were her head and hands missing to make identifying her more difficult but her tattoos were removed also. Given all of that, I am more convinced that it was not the brother because he is the one who told the police that it was her. If he didn't want her identified, he could have taken that suitcase and tossed it into the Detroit River with some cement and it would never have been found.