Weekend Review
By. Brian Russell. Busy day Friday on both The O’Reilly Factor and AC 360, all about the Dugard case. If you haven’t heard about this case yet, see my previous post. It’s both heartbreaking and fascinating on many different levels. As I predicted on Thursday night’s Campbell Brown, some are already saying they see signs of Stockholm Syndrome in this case, but I think it’s too early for us, as outside observers, to really know that. The victims can’t really be expected to have wrapped their minds around the concept of being truly safe from these monstrous perpetrators yet, so it’s tough to know exactly how the victims will feel about the perpetrators a week, a month, and a year from now. Even if it looks like a victim has some kind of an emotional “bond” with a perpetrator at this point, once the safety concept sinks in and that victim has a chance to reflect from a place of psychological and physical safety on what happened to her, she may agree with me that there’s no punishment harsh enough for these perpetrators (husband and wife). Speaking of punishments, I’m really not that worried about the perpetrators not facing the death penalty — given my study of other heinous child abusers’ prison experiences, I think that what could happen in prison, at least to the male perpetrator, could be some even harsher justice, and if it is, I won’t lose a moment’s sleep over it. Yesterday’s additions to the story seemed to center around the involvement of law enforcement at various stages. I’ve already written about how the male suspect was released early from prison after being convicted of a rape and kidnapping that should’ve kept him locked up for at least 50 years (he was out in about ten). Then about three years ago, it looks like cops were called to the home where all of this happened to investigate a report that people appeared to be living in the backyard, yet no one seems to have searched the area in which the victims could’ve been discovered. Of course we don’t want a cop who went out there and missed the victims to commit suicide or anything like that, but we can’t just let it go either because somewhere in this country, right now, there’s someone in a similar situation, so it’s about lessons learned: 1) keep these violent offenders locked up, and 2) if they’re going to be freed, at least don’t do it until we can guarantee the kind of monitoring that would make another Dugard situation impossible. And any discussion of law enforcement’s involvement in this case would be incomplete without once again giving props to the officers whose good old-fashioned cop intuition made them suspicious enough to contact the male suspect’s parole officer and report that the convicted sex offender had kids with him, which broke the case wide open this week after 18 years!
Jackson update: The coroner’s report in the Michael Jackson case is now public, and as we reported earlier this week on Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell, “homicide” is listed as the cause of death. (See my previous post for an explanation of what I think that really means.)
On a potentially-similar note, someone known as “D.J. A.M.” — he’s apparently a well-known deejay — has been found dead in his New York apartment under apparently drug-related circumstances. Doesn’t sound like there was any apparent foul play. There reportedly was a past suicide attempt, but authorities haven’t indicated that this looks like a suicide either. Prescription drugs reportedly were in the mix found in the apartment, so it looks like another potential Ledger/Smith/Jackson-like case of what I’ve called “Hollywood Health Care” (a celebrity taking prescription drugs — either alone or in combination with other drugs and/or alcohol — obtained from some starstruck doctor). This guy did suffer some injuries in a plane crash about a year ago though, so we’ll have to wait and see exactly what role the prescription drugs played in his death (initial autopsy results reportedly are inconclusive, so once again, we’ll have to wait for definitive toxicology) and how legit those prescriptions were at this point.
Portions of the chilling security-camera video of the home invasion at the Billings home in Florida (in which the Billingses, who had adopted numerous special-needs kids, were murdered) have been released. The video is grainy, but what’s crystal-clear is that I was right on target about the perpetrators in my post dated 7/12/2009!!
Before I go, seven people are reported dead and two others wounded at a mobile home located in a Georgia trailer park. This just happened, so details are extremely sketchy, but it sounds like a multiple shooting intended to take out an entire family plus maybe some affiliated non-family-members. I’m sure we’ll have more on this on t.v. this week.
Jackson update: The coroner’s report in the Michael Jackson case is now public, and as we reported earlier this week on Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell, “homicide” is listed as the cause of death. (See my previous post for an explanation of what I think that really means.)
On a potentially-similar note, someone known as “D.J. A.M.” — he’s apparently a well-known deejay — has been found dead in his New York apartment under apparently drug-related circumstances. Doesn’t sound like there was any apparent foul play. There reportedly was a past suicide attempt, but authorities haven’t indicated that this looks like a suicide either. Prescription drugs reportedly were in the mix found in the apartment, so it looks like another potential Ledger/Smith/Jackson-like case of what I’ve called “Hollywood Health Care” (a celebrity taking prescription drugs — either alone or in combination with other drugs and/or alcohol — obtained from some starstruck doctor). This guy did suffer some injuries in a plane crash about a year ago though, so we’ll have to wait and see exactly what role the prescription drugs played in his death (initial autopsy results reportedly are inconclusive, so once again, we’ll have to wait for definitive toxicology) and how legit those prescriptions were at this point.
Portions of the chilling security-camera video of the home invasion at the Billings home in Florida (in which the Billingses, who had adopted numerous special-needs kids, were murdered) have been released. The video is grainy, but what’s crystal-clear is that I was right on target about the perpetrators in my post dated 7/12/2009!!
Before I go, seven people are reported dead and two others wounded at a mobile home located in a Georgia trailer park. This just happened, so details are extremely sketchy, but it sounds like a multiple shooting intended to take out an entire family plus maybe some affiliated non-family-members. I’m sure we’ll have more on this on t.v. this week.
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