My morning's email contained a link to an editorial column on
the child's murder.
In addition to containing a number of chilling statistics, the author notes, "The Justice Department concluded there were 115 kidnappings of this type in the United States in 1999. That's about one every three days, meaning that if every Carlie Brucia-type abduction were caught on videotape, cable networks could broadcast two a week. As it is, most go unreported nationally.
It simply isn't big news anymore when a predator takes a kid." (emphasis added)
What's been unclear from the coverage is how quickly the information was released to the local news media ... since it's unlikely for someone to be transported great distances under these circumstances, local coverage has got to be a more effective crime fighting tool than national ... why spend manhours chasing down leads that the child may have been seen in Manhattan?