Quote Originally Posted by mkemse View Post
His wife helped deliver the babie, rembmer I send that he told neigbhors that his daughter had left home and then asked to come back 24 years later ... Yea Right, anyone want to buy the bridge I own on the outskirts of Tempe Arizona??
Did she? I neer saw that piece of info... last I heard she was claiming to be totally unaware of the whole thing. I suspect however that she knew more than she claims and is trying to distance herself. After all, I find it hard to believe that he was able to construct such a complex set up in his cellar without his wife or even his neighbours knowing about it. Most people, if told not to investigate a particular area of their own house, would at the very least be curious. Especially when strange noises of construction happened.

I think part of the reason this sort of thing appears more common these days is greater and more reliable reporting of crimes. Its the old argument used against expanding the police force - 'see, you increase the force and the crime rate goes up! Therefore more police = more crime and we should reduce the police force." But of course, all it means is more police means more resource to detect and record crime rates. There is always going to be a pool of undetected crime out there which will never appear on statistics. After all, everyone is guilty of something under the modern legal system (speeding, not picking up dog poo, loitering, drunk and disorderly, littering, driving while using a mobile phone, and lets not forget the classic crime of 'looking at a policeman in a funny way' which I did see someone do once and get into trouble for... )