A Little Lindsey Humor/Shoals Crime

From one of many concerned Muscle Shoals citizens who have contacted us:

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Crime sells. Is that just a plain fact or a sad fact? Look at the numerous crime magazines of old available at any bookstore or supermarket until 20 or so years ago. In the 21st Century, we have two or more cable channels devoted to true crime...usually murders...and more Internet sites than we can enumerate, including our own Shoals Crime. All attract numerous viewers/readers.

For those who don't know, Pen-N-Sword will be installing new software in a matter of days or at most weeks. That site's crime articles will be lost if not transferred, and so far we've published (with its permission) two articles in Shoals Crime that were taken from PNS. We plan to publish at least one more before New Year's. 

Now for the second time in the history of the site, Shoals Crime has received criticism for "dredging up" old stories that simply hurt innocent families. Really? It's odd that in both these cases, the bad guy was a relatively young male who harmed a woman. Most, if not all, of the criticism came from women in this same age group. Are we seeing a pattern here, gentle readers?

And in case anyone isn't sure, it's not the press or the police or the victim who hurt the families of killers, it's the killer or perp himself who brought all this upon his family. That shouldn't be a hard concept to follow, but apparently it is.

We don't care if the victim stole from, cursed at, or cheated on the killer/abuser. No one is entitled to kill an unarmed individual. It's easy to swear what the victim did in life when she (or he) is not around to respond. It's apparently much harder to accept that your family/lover/friend was a royal jerk who deserves to spend his life in prison.

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