Yorkieabroad

The company made 52mill last year and they were planning on a 20 grand ransom. Isn't it nice to see that even the criminal element have come a long way from the greed and excess of previous decades.....

Kaffy Mintcake

Rusty's wife just sent the following message via Facebook which is breaking my heart: "Please please. The person is likely not in Georgia anymore. Look everywhere."

Updated article with sketch here:
http://www.ajc.com/news/dekalb/polic...of-745489.html

Please feel free to share this information with anyone you're comfortable sending it to.

meauxna

Oh I'm glad you've added, Kaffy. I wasn't sure I should. There is also a facebook group; all this attention *does* help. And it certainly helps the family.
Hopefully Rusty's brother will manage some of this stuff and your friend can grieve with her children.

Kaffy Mintcake

Please feel free to add, Meauxna. I can't imagine what she's going through, especially with a 2 year old and 4 year old at home. I really can't. She's been on my mind non-stop since I heard and is doing all she can to see that this man is caught.

meauxna

Helping keep Rusty's case in the public eye is the best thing you can do for them right now.

Kaffy Mintcake

All you Facebook folks, please consider "liking" this page and sharing it with your friends.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Help-U...43516919034084

Kaffy Mintcake

Here's one DailyMail article that I will post.

Daily Mail

mellybrown

That was about 2 mins from my work, in a pretty nice neighborhood - scary stuff!

Kaffy Mintcake

Update! They arrested a suspect in Rusty's murder last night.

http://www.ajc.com/news/dekalb/buckh...in-795253.html

Kaffy Mintcake

Adding on to this ... there are some horrible people in this world, and I'm not talking about the murderer, that goes without saying. (The latest is that he was my friend's boss ... unbelievable.)

Do you ever read the comments at the end of online articles? Don't. They come from the most unintelligent, nasty people on the planet. Here's the problem. It's easy to read a story and think of those in the story as mere characters ... when you don't know them it's like they are a cast put there to act out a drama for your enjoyment. When you do know them ... comments like these make your blood boil ...

"She worked with the dude in the same department. Next report will be her arrest. She has been too quiet in all this.

If she is in on it, may she rot in hell!"

"I think that the wife had something to do with this murder. Just a feeling that I have."

These are people speaking about something and someone they know nothing about ... but hey folks, don't let that stop you. I realize this rubs me raw because they are essentially calling a girl I've known over 20 years a murderer when I know she's at home mourning her husband and trying to come to grips with being a widow with two small children. Now it turns out her boss was the killer. Clearly there is more to this story, but whatever it is, this man didn't deserve to die the way he did.

Needless to say I blasted the people who made those comments and hope they think twice before they start spouting off in the future. I won't hold my breath.

Rant over.

Sally Redux

Just an awful situation and as you say, people don't think before they write.

Kaffy Mintcake

Honestly, it's because these people aren't real to them. It's a whodunnit mystery. I laid down some pretty harsh words in reply. Ordinarily I wouldn't bother.

I keep wondering ... will this bring her closure or make things 100x worse? There's clearly more to this story ... when I saw that he had worked at GE and so had she, I wondered if they had known each other, but never in a million years would I have thought that he was her direct supervisor. I just hope the motive, etc. doesn't bring more heartache to the family.

Sally Redux

It will be very painful but I imagine she will want to know what happened and the motive.

Once again so sorry about your friend.

Juswus

I'm glad they've arrested someone

They use your FB page as a source of information?? Holy crap, I'd better tidy mine up a bit, just incase like



I try to never read the online comments at the end of news articles. They are usually so vicious and mean I can't stand it, even when it's about someone I don't care about.
recent example: I read about Lily Allen having a miscarriage. I don't care 2 hoots about her but I thought "that's sad". Then a colleague pointed out the comments after the article where people were saying she deserved it because she used to drink a lot

Kaffy Mintcake

J - skipping the comments is wise. I'm sure I got nasty replies to my equivalent of "shame on you", but whatever.

Do you think there are so many evil, nasty people out there? I really think, in your case, that they don't think of Lily Allen as a *real* person, just a star in the movie that's their life. It pays for us to remember that every time you come across someone, you come across someone with their own story, their own hopes, dreams and aspirations, their own accomplishments and fears. I think we're all guilty of forgetting that sometimes.