Student Murdered 31 Years Ago Found Alive

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  1. L_B

    L_B Well-Known Member

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    I find this entire story fascinating. She disappears never to contact anybody again. He confesses to a murder he didn't commit. She surely heard all the news stories over the years and she had to know what was going on. I believe that there is so much more to this story then we will ever know.
     
  2. mooray

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    I don't think the death penalty should be considered when there is no confirmed body.There should be no room for the slightest doubt on capital punishment and sadly, a confession is not enough for conviction. The woman should be face charges too or sued since her actions of self-disappearing and changing her identity caused other people to pay for her actions.
     
  3. nissi

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    Yes it definitely does make you wonder how many are actually "missing"! She obviously just wanted to get away and start a new life. I wonder what her parents thought about all of this. How devastating for them I imagine. That's not right that she lied like that and the guy that falsely confessed to killing her. They should be prosecuted somehow.
     
  4. Alex

    Alex Senior Investor

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    It's sad she didn't come forward to prevent the man from being convicted earlier, but people do pretend to die and to escape to have a new life. It is illegal to falsify a death, (but she didn't, they all assumed she was dead) and to take on a new identity. People can do that legally, but the way she did it was all wrong.

    Maybe if family members left her alone she wouldn't have had to do what she did? We don't know why she did it, but clearly she doesn't want contact with her family. Many people that do go missing, may still be alive and just want a fresh start without having to explain themselves to anyone. Trying to get people to understand that can be hard, so they do just disappear.
     
  5. knitmehere

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    I did a huge report on the death penalty in high school. It's astonishing the amount of people who have been convicted and sentenced to death that have later been found innocent. The death penalty also costs more than just giving someone life in prison. Most of those people spend 12 years on average locked up before they are killed anyway.
     
  6. kgord

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    Yes, the death penalty is often unfairly enforced due to prosecutors and their unreasonable ideas on backing down even if they know they are wrong on a case. It is not right or fair for the individual suffering the reprercussions.
     
  7. gmckee1985

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    I'm in favor of the death penalty but only in cases that are really heinous and where the guilt of the accused is never really in doubt. Situations like this show why there is some justified skepticism towards the death penalty. Putting innocent people to death is not something any country should condone or tolerate.
     

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