how horribly sad!
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lkjandersen — 15 years ago(September 12, 2010 04:20 AM)
Nothing impulsive about this. This was planned into the last detail. She actually wrote a script to be read by whoever took over her anchorspot, detailing what her research had told would likely be happening over the next 12 or so hours. Yes, she researched suicide, ostensibly for a story. She brought the gun to the studio and hid it exactly where she could get it when sitting at the anchordesk. She changed the format the morning, going directly to the desk instead of to the interview. She had it planned for a while. In fact, it was so calculated that I am tempted to call her a selfish cow for very intentionally bringing ev1c84eryone into her suicide. It was not fair to the innocent people watching in the homes.
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shakesphere1-geo — 15 years ago(September 20, 2010 12:44 PM)
I just recently found out about this. I didn't hear about it locally since I was only two years old in 1974. She must have been very upset with her life to do what she did. From what I read she didn't know how to relate with people very well. She tried but she couldn't do it. I saw a color photo of her and she was attractive. It's to bad that no one she was close to her could see the signs that she was in trouble. Who knows if it was some sort of neurological problem or just simple depression.
I would guess that there is no footage left of her suicide. The only copy was taken by police and then eventually turned over to her family. If it was a member of my family I would have burned the video to keep it from being duplicated. -
ElectricWarlock — 14 years ago(November 12, 2011 04:49 AM)
By committing suicide on live television, it's obvious that she WANTED people to see her death. And now she won't get what she wanted, not even after death.
"Come, fly the teeth of the wind. Share my wings."
That would not save her, just a half-selfish desire to connect.