Hitting Too Close To Home

Sitting in a bar interviewing Dan Lynch from Avenue A Razorfish, I saw that a girl from Kansas was killed after being abducted from a Taget very close to where my sister lives in Kansas City. That night, while talking to friends back home, I learned that several people knew her. She recently graduated high school. And while I have been through the college life, she was just about to start hers. Of course, horrible things happen like this all the time, but we never think that they will happen to us or anyone we know.

CNN has been following the case closely, and even goes so far as to site the perpetrator’s MySpace page, listing Edwin Roy Hall’s interest “eating small children and harming small animals.” It’s sad that there are people like this in this world, but why didn’t anyone take notice and address the issue. Probably because we thought he was joking around, since he seemed to be friendly and have a nice family.