Strange Emails From the Distant Past

[jamesq]

Long time readers may remember this post that alludes to a murder in my neighborhood when I was a child. Today I got the following email:

While looking for some very old information from 1980 on the murder of "Kimberly Thompson" I came across your blog. In this entry you said you wondered what had become of the murderer of Kimberly Thompson. If your prepared for the answer I have it for you...

If you do not wish to be contacted further please reply stating this and I will never bother you again.

I think I will sleep on this.

Comments

[laughingmagpie.livejournal.com]

I am spooked out by this email you got - I can well imagine how you might feel the need to sleep on it.

And having just read your original post - heavy stuff. Wow. I know I can't really feel what that must have been like for all involved (thank heaven) but it sure made me feel anxious nevertheless. And relieved for Dylan. I think I might have grown a grey hair or two just reading about it.

[jamesq]

The email does have a cloak-and-dagger feel to it that makes me anxious.

The significance of what happened in my neighborhood in 1980 didn't really sink in until i was much older. I simply didn't have the mental tools necessary to comprehend all the implications of a child abduction/murder back then. Now it's the sort of thing that makes me thankful I don't have kids. I'd lock them in the basement to keep the world away - and that's not a good solution either.