(No, the victims weren't photogenic young women, why do you ask.)
Even without the fact that she was young (so there's a kind of understandable sense that more potential life has been lost) and pretty (so there's a totally screwy sense that something more valuable has been lost), the Geeson case had the added sense of something that could have possibly been prevented, in that she'd apparently sent text messages asking for help before her phone had run out of batteries.
This also gives you the potential news angle of "In the end all this modern technology doesn't actually protect us from the Bad Man." Which is not really news, but.
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Date: 2005-01-19 01:30 pm (UTC)Even without the fact that she was young (so there's a kind of understandable sense that more potential life has been lost) and pretty (so there's a totally screwy sense that something more valuable has been lost), the Geeson case had the added sense of something that could have possibly been prevented, in that she'd apparently sent text messages asking for help before her phone had run out of batteries.
This also gives you the potential news angle of "In the end all this modern technology doesn't actually protect us from the Bad Man." Which is not really news, but.
Even legit taxis can be risky
Most murderers have a day job...