When the news of a new crime breaks, media and public alike tend to focus upon the perpetrator(s) and their victim(s). Various individuals, including the authors of this blog, proffer opinions that range from psychological aspects to attempting to identify patterns regarding the who and why.

With each newly reported horrific crime there will always be those who are poised to exploit the victims for this cause or that as they play the inflation game while engaging in argumentum absurdem. These same individuals unabashedly (and unashamedly, I might add) seem to have not a problem providing gruesome details of a child victim while displaying same said visage thus evincing a very public and very powerful emotional sense of righteous outrage.

On October 22, 1989, 11 year-old Jacob Erwin Wetterling of St. Joseph Minnesota was abducted by a masked man. The case remains unsolved and neither he nor his abductor have been found.