http://www.toledoblade.com/article/20101101/NEWS02/11010307
This article consists of a triple homicide. Early sunday morning 3 bodies were found in a local barn. The 3 bodies consisted of a father, a mother, and a son. Early sunday morning one of the other came home from a friends house thinking it was a halloween prank from the night before (the family had a barn party saturday night). After soon realizing his family was murdered he called the police. Not to long after the police found the other son in a local hotel. It didn't take long before they found out that he had murdered his own family. The son had countless run-ins with the law prior to this murder. The police were quoted saying, "he had violent past". Motives are still unknown along with the weapon.
Does the media use Halloween as an excuse to influence ratings? In essence does the media stretch stories to help connect a reason to an action? In my opinion I believe they do. Im sure there is an influx in homicides during Halloween because of the costumes. Im sure there are days where there are just as many murders as Halloween accumulates that dont get the same publicity because of the randomness. Being able to provide speculation with causality has to help media ratings without a doubt.
I heard a story today about a concerned citizen calling the police after seeing a foot in the trunk of a car...it was a Halloween decoration.
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ReplyDeleteI feel that Halloween definitely gives more of an opportunity for people to commit crimes, and the media feeds of of this
ReplyDeleteMaybe the son thought he was more likely to get away with it because it was Halloween and they did in fact have a party. With many people in their barn, perhaps he considered that police wouldn't think he was the prime suspect.
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