I had to stop reading, Jesse. It was making me gag this morning. I'm glad they found her and I hope that guy goes to prison for the rest of his life. I also hope that she and her daughters can pull some semblance of a life out of this shitty situation.

What made me gag was his assertion that after all the "facts" are out, he's going to be hailed and the story will be seen as "heartwarming."

Fucktard.

He's fucking crazy. But there still needs to be some punishment there. His wife should have said something. I feel badly for the neighbors who suspected there were children living in tents in the back yard but never said anything. I'm sure they feel like shit now.

Babysitting crisis averted. Now I can go tidy up the house.

Oh, I want punishment. Lots and lots of punishment. Starting with cutting his balls off.

If by "heartwarming" he means his heart will be carved out and roasted over an open fire while the rest of his body is torn apart by wild dogs, I'm all for it.

This part is completely random:

In a posting on a blog associated with the God’s Desire church, Mr. Garrido told of his ability to control sound.

"I Phillip Garrido have clearly demonstrated the ability to control sound with my mind and have developed a device for others to witness this phenomena," he wrote. "I have produced a set of voices by effectively controlling the sound to pronounce words through my own mental powers."

The guy is clearly bonkers. But what about the wife?? And the neighbors?? And the people who were supposed to be checking in on him for his parole?@??!

He's fucking crazy. But there still needs to be some punishment there. His wife should have said something. I feel badly for the neighbors who suspected there were children living in tents in the back yard but never said anything. I'm sure they feel like shit now.

Babysitting crisis averted. Now I can go tidy up the house.

Cashmere! It is your own darn fault that those two thoughts ran together in my brain! Because if there were a couple of kids living in the tents next door that WOULD avert your babysitting crisis...

Jackson's drug intake before his death: [link]

According to the document, Murray said he’d been treating Jackson for insomnia for about six weeks with 50 milligrams of propofol every night via an intravenous drip. But he said he feared Jackson was forming an addiction to the anesthetic, which is normally used in hospitals only, and was attempting to wean his patient by lowering the dose to 25 milligrams and adding the sedatives lorazepam and midazolam.

That combination succeeded in helping Jackson sleep two days prior to his death, so the next day, Murray told detectives he cut off the propofol — and Jackson fell asleep with just the two sedatives.

Then around 1:30 a.m. on June 25, starting with a 10-milligram tab of Valium, Murray said he tried a series of drugs instead of propofol to make Jackson sleep. The injections included two milligrams of lorazepam around 2 a.m., two milligrams of midazolam around 3 a.m., and repeats of each at 5 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. respectively.

But they didn’t work.

Murray told detectives that around 10:40 a.m. he gave in to Jackson’s “repeated demands/requests” for propofol, which the singer referred to as his “milk.” He administered 25 milligrams of the white-colored liquid, — a relatively small dose — and finally, Jackson fell asleep.

Murray remained with the sedated Jackson for about 10 minutes, then left for the bathroom. No more than two minutes later, he returned — and found Jackson had stopped breathing.

“There’s no surprise there” that death could result from such a combination, said Dr. David Zvara, anesthesia chairman at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

“All those drugs act in synergy with each other,” Zvara said. Adding propofol on top of all the other sedatives “tipped the balance.”

Also,

A designation of homicide means that Jackson died at the hands of another, but does not necessarily mean a crime was committed.

oh, absolutely...in Simon's book there were a number of tricky cases like that. Mostly kids, tragically.Cops hate them(beyond the human reasons, I should say) because they're hard to close and it's not good for their clearance rate.