count on cookeville...

[ktron]

angie was telling me about this last night... last friday, someone found a woman's burning body in a field near baxter. turns out it was a physicist from oak ridge; her son's being charged. (the news story indicates he's probably a fellow TTU grad... wonder if this'll make the year's alumni newsletter...) sad, yet i can't help thinking...

really, cookeville's a very nice, very safe little college town in tennessee. i never heard of much run-of-the-mill murder or violence, rarely even a mugging.

but if it's bizarre and/or grisly, it could happen there... politicians killing their opponents, drug-crazed kids knocking off an old woman to steal a one-dollar bill, a husband slaying his wife, himself, and their child in her divorce lawyer's office... even the story about the dog getting killed when cops mistakenly chased down its owner's car had a cookeville connection...

i always used to walk home at night, safe in the knowledge that the sorts of criminals who prey on single women walking through poorly lit parking lots just wouldn't fit in.

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Re: actually,

[ohthecuteness.livejournal.com]

actually, its always been there. Jared can tell me stories about people who've been shot and killed there or people who've been busted for drugs. Even my car got broken into when we lived in Cookeville, and our apartment too. So, its always been like that, just... you're finally seeing it ;)

Niquie