Fire in upper NW?

[jsteele]

I am going to ask once more -- but please note that by saying "ask" I am only being polite, I am not really asking -- that we end the speculation about the assistant. Any additional posts of that sort will be removed and posters who have trouble complying with this request may well be asked to stop posting (and again, "asked" is simply being polite).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Something about this story reminds me of the movie six degrees of separation-only the ending for the S's sadly is far more tragic than the Hollywood movie.

Reminds me of the Wire for a lot pf reasons.

For one, I bet SS / AIW was pretty well integrated onto the Dc political machine to get the contracts they did. You don't just get two major contracts for two of the largest construction jobs in the history of the District without being a favored son. And what is always a major bargaining chip for Marion Barry, Muriel bowser, et al..? Jobs jobs jobs. esp jobs for ex-convicts. SS totally checked those boxes and got his contracts.

Sorry to get hollywoodish on this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Something about this story reminds me of the movie six degrees of separation-only the ending for the S's sadly is far more tragic than the Hollywood movie.

It's actually just like The movie Funny Games.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Post is covering this just fine and responsibly. For verified facts read the Post. For rumors read the Daily Mail. For wild speculation read this thread.

This made me chuckle.

As it should, when the PP thinks a 3-day lapse of no mention at all is just fine and responsible for a newspaper in a city in which such a heinous crime occurred; however, I'm sure the editors have their reasons.

I'm gong to go out on a limb and say that maybe that's because there has been no new significant information revealed in the past 3 days. Of course that might be "wild speculation" since this is DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Post is covering this just fine and responsibly. For verified facts read the Post. For rumors read the Daily Mail. For wild speculation read this thread.

This made me chuckle.

As it should, when the PP thinks a 3-day lapse of no mention at all is just fine and responsible for a newspaper in a city in which such a heinous crime occurred; however, I'm sure the editors have their reasons.

I'm gong to go out on a limb and say that maybe that's because there has been no new significant information revealed in the past 3 days. Of course that might be "wild speculation" since this is DCUM.

I'm glad you're satisfied with the coverage, but I view it as lacking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Post is covering this just fine and responsibly. For verified facts read the Post. For rumors read the Daily Mail. For wild speculation read this thread.

This made me chuckle.

As it should, when the PP thinks a 3-day lapse of no mention at all is just fine and responsible for a newspaper in a city in which such a heinous crime occurred; however, I'm sure the editors have their reasons.

There was a story in Saturday's paper, not sure I've seen one since but it's possible. What precisely should the Post have published yesterday or today - the obsessive rantings of DCUMs about the assistant or the prom date or whomever the latest DCUM fall guy is?

And btw there has been plenty of other local news, including multiple shootings, a near-drowning of a child, other tragic deaths and terrible crimes. As well as some really powerful local news stories - the man who was exonerated after serving decades based on false evidence; the young couple (both teachers) who married at a park after one was diagnosed with aggressive ALS. But apparently you only consider this case to be worthy of newsprint. And let me guess, you don't actually subscribe to the Post or any other paper, do you? So you want wall-to-wall coverage, of what YOU think is important, and you don't care about any other damn thing, right? Give me a break.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Post is covering this just fine and responsibly. For verified facts read the Post. For rumors read the Daily Mail. For wild speculation read this thread.

This made me chuckle.

As it should, when the PP thinks a 3-day lapse of no mention at all is just fine and responsible for a newspaper in a city in which such a heinous crime occurred; however, I'm sure the editors have their reasons.

There was a story in Saturday's paper, not sure I've seen one since but it's possible. What precisely should the Post have published yesterday or today - the obsessive rantings of DCUMs about the assistant or the prom date or whomever the latest DCUM fall guy is?

And btw there has been plenty of other local news, including multiple shootings, a near-drowning of a child, other tragic deaths and terrible crimes. As well as some really powerful local news stories - the man who was exonerated after serving decades based on false evidence; the young couple (both teachers) who married at a park after one was diagnosed with aggressive ALS. But apparently you only consider this case to be worthy of newsprint. And let me guess, you don't actually subscribe to the Post or any other paper, do you? So you want wall-to-wall coverage, of what YOU think is important, and you don't care about any other damn thing, right? Give me a break.[/quote]

Your assumptions about me are incredibly off-base, but you go right ahead and think what you want. It's an anonymous forum, and I don't care what you think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Post is covering this just fine and responsibly. For verified facts read the Post. For rumors read the Daily Mail. For wild speculation read this thread.

This made me chuckle.

As it should, when the PP thinks a 3-day lapse of no mention at all is just fine and responsible for a newspaper in a city in which such a heinous crime occurred; however, I'm sure the editors have their reasons.

There was a story in Saturday's paper, not sure I've seen one since but it's possible. What precisely should the Post have published yesterday or today - the obsessive rantings of DCUMs about the assistant or the prom date or whomever the latest DCUM fall guy is?

And btw there has been plenty of other local news, including multiple shootings, a near-drowning of a child, other tragic deaths and terrible crimes. As well as some really powerful local news stories - the man who was exonerated after serving decades based on false evidence; the young couple (both teachers) who married at a park after one was diagnosed with aggressive ALS. But apparently you only consider this case to be worthy of newsprint. And let me guess, you don't actually subscribe to the Post or any other paper, do you? So you want wall-to-wall coverage, of what YOU think is important, and you don't care about any other damn thing, right? Give me a break.

+1 to this. I am sure that is an accurate description of PPs who keep complaining about the Washington Post's "lack of articles" on this case. And I also want to ask those posters, again (already asked previously in this thread), what do you think the Washington Post should be writing about when nothing new has come out about the case? All the articles I've seen in other "news" sources, from CNN to Daily Mail (which I don't really count as credible) are just repeating the same information that has been available for days. Nothing new has come out. What do you want them to write about exactly?

[Anonymous]

I am following this story as much as anyone for a variety of reasons but I can't believe anyone would compare Post coverage to the TV news unfavorably. The POst has published actual news. The TV news has just been milking this. I turned on CNN the other day and they were spending time showing how you extract DNA from pizza.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Something about this story reminds me of the movie six degrees of separation-only the ending for the S's sadly is far more tragic than the Hollywood movie.


Reminds me of the Wire for a lot pf reasons.

For one, I bet SS / AIW was pretty well integrated onto the Dc political machine to get the contracts they did. You don't just get two major contracts for two of the largest construction jobs in the history of the District without being a favored son. And what is always a major bargaining chip for Marion Barry, Muriel bowser, et al..? Jobs jobs jobs. esp jobs for ex-convicts. SS totally checked those boxes and got his contracts.

Sorry to get hollywoodish on this.

Why would you need large amounts of cash to win contracts?

[Anonymous]

I am continuing to tell myself that the articles saying there were signs of the son being tortured were just mistaken. Bad, overzealous reporting. Because if the body was burned beyond recognition, they would have no way of knowing whether he was tortured, right? So the reports were inaccurate.
I just can't believe that a 10 year old boy was tortured. I just can't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am continuing to tell myself that the articles saying there were signs of the son being tortured were just mistaken. Bad, overzealous reporting. Because if the body was burned beyond recognition, they would have no way of knowing whether he was tortured, right? So the reports were inaccurate.
I just can't believe that a 10 year old boy was tortured. I just can't.

[Anonymous]

Do we know if the $40k was a planed thing or just a ransom?

It seemed like posters thought that the killers I knew about the money beforehand but I got the impression that it was a ransom. Does anyone know what accounts it was from or how unlikely it would be for a bank to have $40k in cash?

it seems like knowing that it wasn't a planed delivery of cash would rule out some of the more far fetched conspiracies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am continuing to tell myself that the articles saying there were signs of the son being tortured were just mistaken. Bad, overzealous reporting. Because if the body was burned beyond recognition, they would have no way of knowing whether he was tortured, right? So the reports were inaccurate.
I just can't believe that a 10 year old boy was tortured. I just can't.

Me too, pp, me too.

[Anonymous]

Hines told us, "Well, there had to be some connection between Wint worked there, like, 10 years ago so there has to be some connection to someone that Wint knows that's working there now that was able to give the details to know about the money and that they could get the money delivered to the house."

From WUSA 9 Hines is a prosecuter.