That's what I said to my husband on the first night we heard the story of the Northwest Indiana serial killer unfold. We had both been following the happenings through the day in the local papers, The Northwest Indiana Times and the Post-Tribune. Then, there it was on the CBS Evening News. We watched the details of the story being reported a mere 20 miles north and an entire world away from our comfortable and safe family room. First there was one girl, not actually that unusual a report from a Motel 6 in the north part of the county. But then there were two, the next a woman with an address in the next town north of ours. Still not unheard of. And then there were seven. Names not yet even released, women not yet even identified. And I wondered, who has been missing these women? Who mourns their loss when they are finally identified? What mother, sister, daughter, girl-friend said, "Gee, I haven't heard from ... in a while?"
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