Dru Sjodin body found

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[LordMagnusKain]

not to say it isn't sad... but it is all just media hype.

 

[GoPackGo]

Originally posted by: LordMagnusKain
not to say it isn't sad... but it is all just media hype.

Just Media Hype?

What a cold and heartless thing to say.

Hopefully you will never have a loved one go missing.

This is on instance where the media can help do some good by informing the public and in the future a tragedy like this may be averted....

 

[dahunan]

Originally posted by: LordMagnusKain
not to say it isn't sad... but it is all just media hype.

I sincerely hope you have this case confused with a different one... if not, then you are one of the most heartless creeps in here.

Missing North Dakota Student's Body Found


CROOKSTON, Minn. (AP) - The body of college student Dru Sjodin has been found, five months after she disappeared from the parking lot of a North Dakota shopping mall, authorities said Saturday. Sheriff Mark LeTexier sobbed as he told volunteers, "Dru is home." He later confirmed that authorities had found Sjodin's body.

Scores of volunteers had joined the search on Saturday for the 22-year-old University of North Dakota student, who was last seen Nov. 22 the mall where she worked at a Victoria's Secret.

While a handful of Sjodin's relatives continued searching through the winter, official searches had been halted in December because of severe weather and resumed this month.

Bob Heales, a private investigator who has coordinated search efforts for the Sjodin family, said volunteers had been near the spot where the body was recovered "probably a dozen times," but the area was covered with snow.

He said Sjodin's friends and family felt relieved Saturday that Sjodin had been found.

"Dru's coming home and that's what we've wanted from the beginning," he said. "We never wanted to go through life without knowing where she was."

Convicted sex offender Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., 51, of Crookston, has pleaded not guilty to kidnapping Sjodin, of Pequot Lakes, Minn. He was arrested in December and is jailed in Grand Forks on $5 million bail.

At a court hearing last month, investigators testified that blood matching Sjodin's DNA was found in Rodriguez's car. Police said they also found knife in the car that matches a sheath discovered near Sjodin's car.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040417/D820NSG00.html

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: LordMagnusKain
not to say it isn't sad... but it is all just media hype.

What is this? Be-a-Christian-Asshat Day or something?

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: LordMagnusKain
not to say it isn't sad... but it is all just media hype.

Excuse me?

 

[GoPackGo]

Originally posted by: conjur

Originally posted by: LordMagnusKain
not to say it isn't sad... but it is all just media hype.

What is this? Be-a-Christian-Asshat Day or something?

Are you trying to say Christians are asshats?

 

[LilBlinbBlahIce]

Originally posted by: LordMagnusKain
not to say it isn't sad... but it is all just media hype.

Media hype or not, this is really tragic. The one thing I agree with you is that if Dru Sjodin was named Baquanda Washington, you would have never heard about this.

 

[joshw10]

Every year thousands of people go missing, many are never found. The media will pick up on about 2 or 3 of those stories per year and make it the #1 headline in the country...lets see whats happened recently

1) Elizabeth Smart
2) That bitch who faked her abduction (bet she didnt expect to be the #1 news story in the country!)
3) Dru Sjodin

Notice a pattern here? I'm not saying its not sad or wrong, but the media bias is eye-rollingly clear

 

[SuperTool]

Middle America, Now it's a tragedy.

 

[Gaard]

I think the fact that she was apparently on the phone when she was abducted ("Oh my God!") probably had something to do with the media attention it got.

Isn't there a member here who lost a daughter to abduction/disappearance? I wonder how much media attention that got?

Oh yeah, LMK, that was a rotten thing to say.

 

[dahunan]

Originally posted by: LilBlinbBlahIce

Originally posted by: LordMagnusKain
not to say it isn't sad... but it is all just media hype.

Media hype or not, this is really tragic. The one thing I agree with you is that if Dru Sjodin was named Baquanda Washington, you would have never heard about this.

Agreed 1000%

The race based media hype is also very saddening.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: LordMagnusKain
not to say it isn't sad... but it is all just media hype.

Damn, go crawl in a hole somewhere :|

 

[dmcowen674]

Dru Sjodin body found