A comment to an article in the wake of the heinous Kavanaugh kill yesterday stood out to me:
“The poet W.H. Auden wrote: ‘Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so society must take the place of the victim.'”
No one has taken the place of Mark Stebbins, Jill Robinson, Kristine Mihelich or Tim King. The “investigation” created a vacuum that no one has been able to fill since it was shut down in December 1978.
It highlighted for me a recent comment sent to me by a reader:
I’ve thought often about your point about being a voice for your brother. That voice gets muted in so many of these media presentations (e.g on YouTube)—they tell a story, but they don’t give an account. To do the latter, the facts have to be in place. If it’s nothing more than a story, then the invitation is there for people to add to it, subtract from it, selectively remember, etc. and the victims are effectively silenced. I love novels that feature unreliable narrators. I do not feel the same about “true crime.”
No voices from the abolished. Not from 1976, 1977, or January 7, 2025. Just unreliable narrators and gaslighters.
Don’t forget that as this 50th year of “unsolved” begins.
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