Small town evil
In a past converstion with Twinkie I mentioned that I am am suprised by the amount of horrific crimes that happen in this All-American small town. While the crime rate is low here(compared to a major city) the crimes we do have are so brutal and bizarre. We are only 20 miles outside of Raleigh, but most of the outlying towns still look and feel like samll town America with main streets lined with small stores, trees and landscaped yard, and kids out riding bikes and playing in the park.
Maybe it is just my perception but I don't remember hearing about so much evil when I lived in the 'ville. Maybe I just didn't pay attention becuse there was more crime but it really feels like there is some sick undercurrent running through this area.
Last night about 10 miles from my house a woman comes home to find her 4 year old daughter decapitated. The pepertrator? It was the childs father.
Then this week's people magazine features a story about a local pregnant woman who was beaten to death in her home while her small child was there. #1 suspect, husband of course.
4 comments:
It's the devil's playground. Maybe you should leave while you still can.
The ironic twist is the crime rate was almost non-existent before you moved there. Hmmm.
Hey, don't laugh - my wife works in a neighborhood that's called "The Devil's Playground"... If you think it's bad where you live, just try to imagine what kind of rep a neighborhood has to have to earn that moniker.
I've actually seen your area - my mother lives nearby. Yes, it's quaint, peaceful, people are friendly - and just like anywhere else in the world, there's domestic strife by the bucketload. It's just that in years gone by, "polite people" didn't talk about such topics, figuring it was between a husband and his wife, and none of their business. The violence was probably always there - just hidden better, and never treated or tended to in any way, causing it to fester and breed.
On the occasions that things like that did escalate to newsworthy violence, it was often too late - or some male relatives of the woman would step in and take care of it, with no public record of the event, out of fear for familial embarrassment, much like how so many rape cases used to go uninvestigated and unsolved - and sadly, still do.
Aren't you glad we live in a more sensitive society? Where these kinds of crimes are more out in the open, and not swept under the rug or tended to "frontier justice" style?
PS: please update your link to my blog:
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I had to abandon the old one - lost the login account password and Blogger/Google can't seem to recover it after over two weeks so I made a new one. I keep telling them to check under the rug on the back porch, but do you think they listened? ;-)
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