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EL34x4

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6. Life ain't like the movies.

Reply to Nitram (Reply #3)

Thu May 21, 2015, 10:28 AM

May 2015

Round-the-clock police protection is expensive. Cops might've blamed her for entering into a relationship with this man in the first place. Looks like the guy went to prison for kidnapping and various sex crimes back in the 90s. Served 13 years, released and did the same thing again.

Who knows the whole story? Maybe they offered her protection or a safe house somewhere and she turned them down?

Clearly, mistakes were made somewhere along the line.

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How awful. Borchkins May 2015 #1

Did she not get any kind of protective detail? nt okaawhatever May 2015 #2

Why wasn't she under police protection? Nitram May 2015 #3

Life ain't like the movies. EL34x4 May 2015 #6

Yeah, in the movies cops care. lark May 2015 #7

Because she wasn't important to society Kelvin Mace May 2015 #8

In real life... Xithras May 2015 #9

I imagine there is an unofficial "shoot to kill" directive for this guy Tom Ripley May 2015 #4

Heart breaking. nt Stellar May 2015 #5

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Thanks U.S. District Court Judge W. Earl Britt... jtuck004 May 2015 #11