Gorgeous bronzes! Glad to see them, and glad to see this good action.

This is why we ski cross-country rather than downhill.

Tragic! :(

True but still forget the idiots. We need the protections in place for those of us who aren't idiots. If a small amount of idiots can get as powerful as they clearly have with the NRA etc, we could surely assemble those who care and put up significant pressure.

He was a gun and drug runner to different cities. It would have been easy to pick up women from a variety of places on his runs and bring them back.

Thinking more about this, I mean, if a kid told me something like this, I sure as hell wouldn't want to have to deal with it. And I'm very ethical, and have done shit pretty regularly like jump in pools to save a kid, yoink an attacking dog off a smaller one, etc. So I'm likely among the more-likely to respond types. Yet still if a kid told me this, I'd be terrified to act, and beyond that terror, I'd simply have no idea what to do. Call the cops and report? But then I'd worry I'd be getting the kid killed...

Anyone know what we actually do if someone does tell us about serious, needs-intervention crime?

>"Every time I went to the well or into the hills, I didn't think I was coming down. I thought he would kill me because I wouldn't keep my mouth shut."

She was a brave-ass girl. Despite this indeed told people.

You know, with the Dahmer case etc folks always tell about how no one believes black folks. Which I don't doubt. Yet here was a white family in the middle of a white-ass state. And she still wasn't believed. I'm sure some was that she was a kid, and some that she was a girl rather than boy. But I'm thinking what's up is people just don't want to believe these things, either from horror, fear, not wanting to have to deal with it, or the simple surprise-disbelief when we see something absolutely insane and our minds can't process it, especially not quickly. And all these factors become excuses to look the other way.

A lot of it is that these are relatively transient lifestyles anyway. When they're killed, if there's not a body appearing somewhere, it can look like they just up and left. If there are people who know them well enough to know they didn't take their stuff etc, these are often the types of people who will generally avoid law enforcement: fellow prostitutes, pimps, etc.