I’ve gotten tons of hits the past few days from people looking for info about Jared Dion, the Wisconsin college student who was found dead in the Mississippi river last week. I wish to reiterate that Dion’s death was a terrible tragedy and that I wish to pay tribute to him by pointing out that the national media has done him a disservice by refusing to acknowledge him.
One commenter the other day shared that, in the wake of the Audrey Seiler incident, Dion’s family had chosen to not go public with information at the time Dion was missing, because they feared he would be accused of perpetuating a Seiler-like hoax. So great, it’s another wonderful contribution to the annals of kidnap-investigation history by Miss Audrey. Not only did she send the police on a wild goose chase that cost $96,000, but now she’s set the Amber Alert system back by about five years.
Posted by Stephen Silver at April 21, 2004 09:29 PM