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Social cooperation
People from northern New Jersey are brought up believing this sort of thing happens frequently:
LOGAN, W.Va., Sept. 11 — A 20-year-old woman was held captive for more than a week in a mobile home, where she was raped, stabbed and tortured by at least a half-dozen people, the police said...
[There are further truly gruesome details, which I will spare you, but see the link if you must]
Six people, including a mother and her son and a mother and her daughter, have been charged in the case.
The bottom line?
The Brewster family and their trailer has a history of violent crime, the police said.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on September 12, 2007 at 06:18 AM in Current Affairs | Permalink