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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can’t stand how most news articles about this had a headline that referred to a “dentist and his wife” being killed. Is this the 1950s?[/quote]

She was a SAHM. Once he was identified by profession, it made for an awkward way of identifying her.

Headline should have just been couple killed.[/quote]

Certain professions tick boxes for “people whom bad things shouldn’t happen to” where your general reader thinks, see, even if I’m struggling and they had more money than I do, they’re dead and I’m not. Or “maybe I married a construction worker but at least he didn’t murder me”

Rinse and repeat for wealthy actors, musicians, doctors who murder their wives, wealthy wives who murder their husbands (see Betty Broderick), models, beauty queens. People who seem to have their future on a platter, and then don’t.

People have a morbid curiosity when those who seem protected by society have the same bad ends as anyone else, or worse. Sadly it’s one of the reasons the Tatiana Schlossberg story went so viral.

I imagine it was much the same when Henry VIII was going through his wives in his time. “Maybe I’m not Queen, but”[/quote]

I think it makes people feel vulnerable. I don’t think the enjoy it at all - it’s more of a group of people who live largely without fear realizing they aren’t as safe as they thought. If it turns out to be his secret gay lover THEN people can say “oh whew, I’m still safe since I don’t have a gay lover.”[/quote]

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