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    Amateur Sleuth Solves Murder, Lives Murder, She Wrote Dream

    262 Children Neglected, 12 Girls Sexually Abused At Polygamist FLDS Ranch

    Do Liberals Have To Wrap Themselves In A Flag To Get Some Retribution?
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    Image of samethingwedoeverynightpinky samethingwedoeverynightpinky
    04/27/09

    In reply to Amateur Sleuth Solves Murder, Lives Murder, She Wrote Dream
    Now I'm super fascinated by this case, but it seems like there are still a lot of unanswered questions and issues, including conflicting wtiness testimony and posible police misconduct/involvement?: [www.helpfindthemissing.org]


    [www.theage.com.au]

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    Image of barb95 barb95
    04/27/09

    In reply to Amateur Sleuth Solves Murder, Lives Murder, She Wrote Dream
    OMG, make this into a procedural crime drama, like NOW! I LOVE THEM! The Mentalist, Castle, Bones, L&O SVU, and hey even Life counts! I watch them all!!!
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    Image of AtomiClash: humanitarian misanthrope AtomiClash: humanitarian misanthrope
    04/27/09

    @barb95: I love love love Life. I want to do very naughty things wiht Damian Lewis. And the story's good, too!
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    Image of mepo - Robert Cornhole invented it mepo - Robert Cornhole invented it
    04/27/09

    In reply to Amateur Sleuth Solves Murder, Lives Murder, She Wrote Dream
    Best crime series?


    Law and Order: SVU (Munch), Hercule Poirot (the tache/clothes/era), Inspector Morse (location), Quincy (for the moralising)


    Twee Classics:

    Barnaby Jones, Diagnosis Murder

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    Image of SituationVacant SituationVacant
    04/27/09

    @mepo - Robert Cornhole invented it: It's not the best but I liked Inspector Lynley Mysteries. Because he is pretty. I don't require a lot from my television detectives.
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    04/27/09

    @SituationVacant: Hey that's no mystery, dude is hot.
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    Image of MarissaExplainsItAll MarissaExplainsItAll
    04/27/09

    @mepo - Robert Cornhole invented it: No Heart to Heart? No Nancy Drew?
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    Image of AuntieBee AuntieBee
    04/28/09

    @mepo - Robert Cornhole invented it: Murdoch Mysteries. Best.
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    Image of mepo - Robert Cornhole invented it mepo - Robert Cornhole invented it
    04/27/09

    In reply to Amateur Sleuth Solves Murder, Lives Murder, She Wrote Dream
    My Mom has read every Agatha Christie book and watched every crime series ever made in the US and UK (seriously, I can list them). She's either going to solve a crime or kill one of us and get away with it. I better go apologise for my messy room as a teen and for her spending countless hours searching for that A La Carte Kitchen that Christmas.
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    Image of erinoherin erinoherin
    04/27/09

    In reply to Amateur Sleuth Solves Murder, Lives Murder, She Wrote Dream
    im currently watching veronica mars (AGAIN) and now i have an even stronger desire to become an amateur detective. i trace it all back to my obsession with nancy drew when i was younger.
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    Image of PhillyLass PhillyLass
    04/27/09

    @erinoherin: I, too, loved Nancy Drew. But mainly because of her blue convertible and her apparent freedom from parental restraints of any kind.
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    Image of zombie.nancy is a godess of fierce zombie.nancy is a godess of fierce
    04/27/09

    @erinoherin: ZOMG! Nancy Drew and Veeronica Mars RULE. I couldn't get enough Nancy Drew mysteries growing up & nowadays, I frequently rewatch episodes of Mars Investigations.
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    Image of MarissaExplainsItAll MarissaExplainsItAll
    04/27/09

    @erinoherin: Same here! I wanted to be a dress-wearing teenage detective as a kid!
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    Image of morethanrain morethanrain
    04/27/09

    In reply to Amateur Sleuth Solves Murder, Lives Murder, She Wrote Dream
    Who hears about a dead body and thinks, "gee, I'd like to get a look of that myself"? I mean, good for her for solving the case, but what an odd compulsion she had.
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    Image of PhillyLass PhillyLass
    04/27/09

    @morethanrain: Seriously. I love shows like Bones, but the scary images are safely contained in a little box on my entertainment center. I don't want to get up close and personal with real-world depravity.
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    Image of rhymeswithfeather rhymeswithfeather
    04/27/09

    In reply to Amateur Sleuth Solves Murder, Lives Murder, She Wrote Dream
    I'm going with Josie Bisset, from Melrose Place, with Jason Priestley, from 90210, as the veteran reporter/love interest. Thoughts?
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    Image of BabyJane BabyJane
    04/27/09

    @heatherwritesstuff: That's better than Lisa Rinna and Ian Zeiring!
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    Image of PhillyLass PhillyLass
    04/27/09

    @heatherwritesstuff: Wait-- we need a Brit in that role. I nominate Clive Owen.
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    Image of rocknrollunicorn rocknrollunicorn
    04/27/09

    In reply to Amateur Sleuth Solves Murder, Lives Murder, She Wrote Dream
    I think I will start small-time, with petty theft and mail fraud.


    And... I'm actually kind of nervous about those investigations.

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    Image of TheEternalOptimist TheEternalOptimist
    04/27/09

    In reply to Amateur Sleuth Solves Murder, Lives Murder, She Wrote Dream
    That's one brave chick. I don't think I'd have the balls to pull that off for a number of reasons.
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    Image of Triana Orpheus Triana Orpheus
    04/27/09

    In reply to Amateur Sleuth Solves Murder, Lives Murder, She Wrote Dream
    I want to say "Kudos" and "What the fuck were you thinking?" at the same time. I guess this is what parent's feel.
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    Image of JerkoftheMonth JerkoftheMonth
    04/27/09

    In reply to Amateur Sleuth Solves Murder, Lives Murder, She Wrote Dream
    This is, like, my dream!


    Aaand that's why I'm doing a PhD on crime fiction.

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    Image of willwriteforfood willwriteforfood
    04/27/09

    @JerkoftheMonth: I am late to this party, but that is fascinating! I love murder mysteries. I'm in the process of rereading all of Martha Grimes' Richard Jury novels right now.
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    Image of JerkoftheMonth JerkoftheMonth
    04/28/09

    @all: Thanks, you guys! Unfortunately, I'm not studying exclusively women crime writers, which I would like to do at some point. Thesis is on LA/S. CA-based crime fiction; historio-cultural examination of hard-boiledness developing in S. CA 1920-present day. Thanks for your interest! Kisses to my fellow crime lovers.
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    Image of bananaprincess bananaprincess
    04/28/09

    that would be my dream PHD. But it would all have to be on Dame Agatha. If this was one of her books, this lady would be the 2nd body in many cases. @JerkoftheMonth: Mmm PHD in crime writing thanks for new dream.
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    Image of stealthird stealthird
    12/24/08

    In reply to 262 Children Neglected, 12 Girls Sexually Abused At Polygamist FLDS Ranch
    The more I see things like this, the more it occurs to me that many people have one of two ways of viewing religion: a blanket "it's their faith and we have to respect it" or a reductive "all religion is cultish bullshit." And I think it kind of sucks that joyous modes of spiritual expression like Sufism get written off as cults while others are allowed to harm innocent people in the name of religion.
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    Image of PaintedTrollop PaintedTrollop
    12/24/08

    In reply to 262 Children Neglected, 12 Girls Sexually Abused At Polygamist FLDS Ranch
    The Mormons spent millions on Prop 8, to ensure gay couples can't marry - yet they do NOTHING for the victims of the FLDS. A woman trying to find shelter with 10 kids isn't going to have an easy time of it. Then there are the boys who get thrown out of the cult - yet the Mormons, from whom the FLDS sprang, don't lift a finger.


    I would also point out that the states where polygamy flourishes do nothing. John McCain and the state of Arizona have turned their backs on those women and children. Utah, Texas - all turn a blind eye to it. After all - it's only women and children. The men of the cult have built a huge financial empire. Money = power=above the law.

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    Image of sportz.star sportz.star
    12/24/08

    In reply to 262 Children Neglected, 12 Girls Sexually Abused At Polygamist FLDS Ranch
    The legitimate Mormon church begrudgingly agreed to no longer engage in polygamy so Utah could become a state and they could get the benefits of statehood. Ironically its the polygamists who continue to take the most financial rewards: welfare, health care, etc. as a result of that.
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    Image of angryblackgurl angryblackgurl
    12/24/08

    In reply to 262 Children Neglected, 12 Girls Sexually Abused At Polygamist FLDS Ranch
    Child abuse is child abuse whether you use religion, or any other obstacle as a decoy to distract from what is plain and simple sexual abuse. From the begining I had no pity for the mothers, and this further justifies my lack of pity for these mothers.
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    Image of theysaidwhat theysaidwhat
    12/24/08

    @angryblackgurl: I think it's more complicated than that. The mothers were immersed in this culture while being isolated from any real knowledge of the outside world. Whether or not they were equipped to make better decisions for their children is a very murky subject.
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    Image of O RLY? O RLY?
    12/24/08

    @theysaidwhat: repeating what squidproquo said (below)....the mothers were most likely the same young girls 10 years ago. Where do you draw the line where a woman/girl brought up in these conditions should start being blamed? When she's 13 after her first child? Some of these girls were married at 12, potentially having a kid soon after. That means at 24, her daughter may be forced to marry. It'll take a lot more than a young 24 year old woman (married to a much older man) to struggle with the situation.
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    Image of angryblackgurl angryblackgurl
    12/24/08

    @theysaidwhat: The murky subject is what bothers me, I am talking just plain common sense. I have no hate against their religious beliefs, but a mothers job is to protect her child. This is a loss for everyone involved!!!
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    12/24/08

    @O-RLY: @angryblackgurl: Yes, I get that. If this is the only life you've ever known and what was used to excuse the abuse you suffered and the only remedy available for it, then how could you make a different decision for your own children. I'm with you there.


    It's devastating to see how such abuse passes from one generation to the next.

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