A young woman goes on a one mile run
on the side of a country highway,
24, beautiful, a nurse tending the sick
in a small rural town, population 300.
A safe haven, hardly ever any crime.
The young women never returns home
from her run.
A search is conducted. She is not
found.
A man reports to the police that he
saw her running at a specific location
on the highway.
Days later, her body is found buried
under some leaves without her clothes.
A day later, the police have a suspect.
The man who reported seeing her on
the highway.
He’s from a respected family in the
community, has a wife and 3 kids.
At first he said he accidentally hit her
with his car and buried her out of fear.
His alibi proves false. He knocked her
out, violated her and murdered her.
And he gets put in prison for life.
Sadly in this world, that the Catholics
call the veil of tears, nowhere is
completely safe.
It’s heartbreaking and beyond tragic
that so many women and girls are
brutally taken out of this world.
An estimated 140 daily.
Bob Boyd