The past couple of weeks, I have been reading about the man in Prairie du Chien who walked into the police station and confessed to killing his girlfriend in 2006. My first thought was how could a woman disappear in a small town and nobody saw anything. I know this happens quite often now and it has me thinking. What happened to the days when we didn’t have to lock our doors? I miss the days when we knew our neighbors, and everyone looked out for one another. Now people are so busy, they have no idea who their neighbors are. I remember when I was a child, I could walk the 9 blocks from school to home with no problems at the age of 6 or 7. Now you don’t even want your 6 year old to walk 2 blocks unsupervised. Somebody might take them or harass them.
We never really had to worry about drugs and murder like we do now. Almost every day I read in the paper or watch on the news that someone was arrested for drugs or someone was murdered. I have always lived in a small town, because they are supposed to be safer. Now even the small towns have the crime that the larger cities have. Prairie du Chien is a small town and according to the LaCrosse Tribune today this guy killed his girlfriend and hid her body because he thought that she had stolen his meth. To take a life is wrong. To take a life because of drugs, I just don’t understand. Maybe people are being raised differently? I think we should go back to the “old days”. If respect is taught like it used to be, these crimes would not be happening.
As for the Prairie du Chien story, the man was charged. He says that he choked her until she was dead, than hid her body in the closet for 2 days. He then dumped her body in a garbage bin behind his building. I can’t believe that nobody found the body in the trash, or that the police did not check his apartment when she was reported missing. What has our world become? I really miss the old days!
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