Comments on: Is Missing Pregnant Marine Another Military Oversight, Part Of Growing Epidemic Of Violence Against Women?

By: T

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:23:15 +0000

Considering the Military never handled this as a criminal case, the information coming out that she was bipolar and a liar. This young lady was forced to work with her attacker daily. Wolf was allowed to run the lamb out from underneath her cloak of protection, when she moved off base was the moment she became the sacrificial lamb.

By: T

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:11:49 +0000

Actually the police report made by her mother stated that she was bipolar and a compulsive liar. So there was a lot of things that went wrong in this case on both sides. Later on in another statement made by her uncle was that she did have a tendency to stretch the truth just a bit under stress but she was in no way a compulsive liar.

By: Elaine

Elaine — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:09:24 +0000

I disagree that only “white, young and pretty” females are given the highlighted media attention… Samantha Runyon, the HISPANIC child that was kidnapped, raped and murdered in Riverside Cty, California a couple of years ago comes to mind right away. She got extensive media attention when she was grabbed off the street in front of her own apartment building where she was playing in the front yard. I lived in that area during that time, and I firmly remember the widespread, almost non-stop media attention it gained both regionally and nationally both during her missing status and even after her body was found thru the hunting down of and conviction of her killer.
I am a wife of a military member also, and in the discussion my husband and I had about this missing and presumed dead pregnant Marine, we both agreed that there will be several probably Marines losing their careers over the poor handling of this case. While the military does have its faults, they do not hesitate to correct such mistakes when they are discovered by terminating the careers of those that mishandle such events. Unfortunately, while mishandling does occur OCCASIONALLY, most times things do proceed properly. Consider the vast number of military members and the few cases you do hear about ending out being handled incorrectly. Sadly it appears that this situation has ended tragically, I feel confident that those Marine members who handled the investigation will be scutinized to the “n”th degree, and most probably the careers of anyone who even came close to this investigation will feel the sting of the mishandling of it.
Unfortunately, if it was true that she was indeed a “compulsive liar”, sometimes liars do tell the truth. This just happened to end badly because she wasn’t taken seriously because of any reputation she may have had.

By: Amrita

Amrita — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 06:33:56 +0000

Well, they just found her grave with her charred remains in it. Wait for the explanations to explode all over the place.

PS - totally agree with crazymom.

By: k

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:14:55 +0000

I’m not a fan of microchipping people. I mean, to me, that’s just another way to be followed, and we have too much of that in our lives now.

Just my .02.

By: D

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:04:36 +0000

I totally concur. Another issue which pisses me off is you only hear about white kids gone missing. Rarely are children of any other ethnicity given any media attention. It’s wrong and it’s sick. Our media and culture should be ashamed. I gravitate to those articles because a. I am female and b. I have kids. It doesn’t matter to me WHO they are, just that they are missing.

We really need to come up with a better system of keeping this kind of crime from happening so often. I personally wish they had microchips for kids like they do animals. Sounds cruel, but better that, than having your child go missing.

By: crazymom

crazymom — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:36:40 +0000

Don’t get me wrong, I am incredibly sorry for whatever may have happened to this young woman, and for what her family (and the families of all missing women) is having to deal with right now. I cannot even begin to imagine the pain they must be feeling.

But, I have to say, having worked in journalism for nearly 15 years, you’d be inclined to think that the only women who go missing in this country are young, pretty and white.

There are many women missing, kidnapped and murdered in this country, not all of them are given hours and hours of media coverage. Just check out http://blackandmissing.blogspot.com/ All of these missing women are someone else’s mother, daughter, sister, or friend.

As women, we should be appalled by the violence that is committed against ALL women, no matter their color, ethnicity, or social standing.

This article was written in 2005, and unfortunately, it’s just as relevant three years later — http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20050821/ai_n15807965

Sorry for going off like this, but this is a subject that has bothered me for years.

By: D

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:42:08 +0000

Sadly, they are now reporting she has been murdered and they are currently searching for her grave. We will hear more I am sure in the next couple of days.

By: D-Bomb

D-Bomb — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:12:00 +0000

sounds as if the usmc is either trying to shut her up, or cover up something that will more than likely have a grim outcome. i hope this young girl and her baby turn up unharmed very soon.

By: Josey2006

Josey2006 — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:53:53 +0000

“Police: Missing Marine bought, never used bus ticket” - http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/01/11/missing.marine/index.html

“Police: Mom told us pregnant Marine is a ‘compulsive liar’” - http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/01/10/missing.marine/?iref=mpstoryview

I guess we’ll find out soon if this is another case of a runaway mommy [not unlike the case of the runaway bride whose fiance Nancy Grace excoriated and was ready to waterboard had it not been for the good work of the New Mexico police.]