We agree on that. He should have. One of the many issues in the southern US is the assumption that everyone practices a religion, so you get things like being asked which church you go to in a daily conversation like there’s no way you might not be religious.

I can understand your point here, however, his crime was committed when he was 15 years old. While he did indeed hold a gun to his victim’s head, he did not follow through on his threat to kill members of her family, mainly because he was arrested before he could. He was not considered a violent offender but simply a…

This is the compelling argument that I read regarding renting to buying.

The prosecutor failed here, too, by not going for rape charges.

We’re in urban NZ.

Youthful-looking 32 year old here, and it bugs me greatly too. I get that he was maybe feeling all upset and fatherly, but I really deeply dislike the “girl” rhetoric as applied to women. It’s so reductive, even (especially?) in this case. A very hideous and unthinkable trauma was visited on a grown woman. We…

There was literally no connection to him and the victims of the auto shop murders. How do you investigate someone with no ties to a crime?

Oh, yeah- if they hadn’t checked her rapist boss’ property for 2 mos- that’s terrible police work absolutely. There’s no reason for them not to have done that in the very beginning...

I was going to reply to a comment criticizing you for pointing this out but there are so many of them that I’m just going to put this here and hope they all read it.

You can find more than one thing horrifying at once. What’s a commenter supposed to do, spend three hours going “God, that rape prison sounds awful.” Duh. It’s objectively awful, no commenter is gonna claim it’s not. But it’s insult to injury to be infantalized by your “liberator”...like, I know I just saved you, but…

There are Southern female commenters here who will go to the wall defending the right of Southerners to call grown women “girls” and other condescending shit — while totally cognizant of the similar intent of calling adult men of color “boys”. I do not understand the complete acceptance of demeaning terms in Southern…

Head cop, who had a serial killer/convicted rapist living in his town working as a realtor (giving him a chance to pre-case houses and be alone with unsuspecting women) for 10 years, yet still took 2 months to find a missing couple. Fuck that guy.

It was his honest reaction. Unfortusntely those kind of micro things while small on their own usually hint at a bigger problems with gender issues. Like threatening to beat up transwomen for using the restroom.

Yup. He’s definitely a product of a very limited environment.

So if he were talking about a 30 year old male victim, would he say “I’m so glad we found that little boy alive?”

“Listen, I’ve dressed up like a girl to raise money...”

I don’t give a fuck how old or fatherly or how much of a good ol’ boy some *cop* is and nor do I care how young and vulnerable this woman looked when she was rescued: She is NOT a “little girl.”

No, it’s wrong. He shouldn’t infantilize an adult woman because he’s a whopping 20-something years older than her and she was kidnapped and harmed. It doesn’t make him a big bad boogeyman or deserving of losing his job or being called out on Twitter or anything like that. He spoke emotionally and off the cuff. But…

You only chose to comment on another person’s comment. By your logic we can assume you aren’t bothered by anything about this story.

I’ve been reading about this, feeling sick about it. Kohlhepp’s face reminds me of a 13 y.o. boy I knew when I was 12...