Why Do Men Kill Their Wives?

Boston Globe Article

From the link:

A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, LISA HARTWICK WAS RIDING IN AN elevator in Boston when she overheard a conversation between two men. One of the men was going through a divorce, and he was venting to his friend about lawyers and child support payments. At that point, Hartwick recalls, the man suggested, within earshot of everyone, that maybe he should just kill his wife, that it would be cheaper and easier that way.

Cheaper...how? Easier...than what?

What scale are these men using for comparison? Do they all think they are smart enough to beat the system?

I'll tell you what, though. Some of them, when they really think it through, seem to be doing a lot better that Scott Peterson and Mark Hacking.

New Rule: Lawyer up immediately, refuse to talk to police, and stay out of the media.

Almost a year from the murder of pregnant Michelle Young, there has been no arrest. The husband has not spoken with police, and media coverage has been curiously minimal, even in the early days. There is no headstone on her grave, and there has been one appeal to the public, months after her death, sponsored by Progress Energy, her employer. Her mother and sister held two vigils, one on what would have been her birthday, and another involving planting a tree in her memory. Her husband? Not so much.

Because of the dearth of facts in this case, rumours abound, and, after almost a year, those discussing the case have trouble distinguishing rumour from fact. The only undisputed truth seems to be that a beautiful pregnant mother was horribly bludgeoned to death in her bedroom in the early hours of November 3rd of last year, and her two-and-a-half year old daughter left alone with her mother's body until the early afternoon, when Michelle's sister went to the house. Seems she got a call from the husband, who was out of town on business, requesting her, with a lame excuse, to go over there.

Never mind the million dollar insurance policies the Youngs had on each other, the huge and expensive home, the "relationship" Jason had with Michelle's married sorority sister, and the extreme brutality of the crime. All of these things point to the husband, who was, supposedly, alone in a hotel room two and a half hours away during the time of death.

I am still hoping for justice in this case, but right now, I'll settle for a bit of news.