Off-Topic -- more Coincidences #5

[Fishface]

Two in one day, in one book.

I set aside The Serial Killer's Apprentice because the stuff about the child trafficking ring was getting a bit much. I went to Reddit and there was a post about the same child trafficking ring, right at the top.

The book then pivoted to talk about the Ranes brothers, mentioning a crime one of them committed on July 5th. I started reading this book yesterday: July 5th.

[Fishface]

I was at Reddit and someone asked for song recommendations. The song I suggested was "The Passenger." Then I got in my car to leave and the very first song that came on, out of my 82-hour playlist, was "The Passenger."

[Fishface]

Half an hour ago I was at Reddit and someone asked for a movie recommendation. I said they should watch GREEN ROOM which stars Anton Yelchin. Then I went to my news app and found this story staring me in the face:

Star Trek actor's agonizing 'lingering' death after disturbing accident at his home - The Mirror US https://share.google/AznKhIQBFdetW2kDw

It was a retrospective on the untimely death of Anton Yelchin.

[Fishface]

OK, this morning I finished a book about the murder of a woman in Essex, New York. The town was mentioned many times in the book. So I moved on to the next book and the first place they mention is Essex, England.

[Fishface]

There's no getting away from it. Right now the ONLY news story I am seeing is about the demands to release the Epstein files and the flailing attempts to avoid doing that.

So I opened a completely unrelated TC book and immediately started a new chapter about a guy named Maxwell falling off the back of his yacht, called the Lady Ghislaine.

[Fishface]

Fishface wrote: "There's no getting away from it. Right now the ONLY news story I am seeing is about the demands to release the Epstein files and the flailing attempts to avoid doing that.

So I opened a completel..."

It just got weirder. I mentioned this to a friend at Threads who informed me that the guy who fell off his yacht -- Robert Maxwell -- was Ghislaine Maxwell's father. 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

[Koren]

Reading in the car as hubby is driving. At the same moment he told me my car had turned over to 60,000 miles I read this in my book...sixty thousand acres of hay fields and cattle ranges...

[Koren]

Reading The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy. There were no pictures in the book and I kept reading about the killers 'pop eyes' so I googled a picture of him. We were staying in a hotel and the next morning I saw a guy that looked a lot like the killer, only 40 years older but had the same 'pop eyes'.

[Fishface]

Cool 😎

[Koren]

Fishface wrote: "Cool 😎"

I would post it if I knew how, but probably shouldn't post some random guys pic

[Fishface]

Koren wrote: "Fishface wrote: "Cool 😎"

I would post it if I knew how, but probably shouldn't post some random guys pic"

well I do it all the time lol

[Koren]

Fishface wrote: "Koren wrote: "Fishface wrote: "Cool 😎"

I would post it if I knew how, but probably shouldn't post some random guys pic"

well I do it all the time lol"

I know you told me how to do it but I couldnt get it. I can text them to you if you like

[Fishface]

Koren wrote: "Fishface wrote: "Koren wrote: "Fishface wrote: "Cool 😎"

I would post it if I knew how, but probably shouldn't post some random guys pic"

well I do it all the time lol

I know you told me how to ..."

Hmm, but that would force me to overcome me my discomfort in posting my phone number on the Net

[Fishface]

I am reading a book that has an important character named Covey. Then I noticed online just now that I really enjoy the snarky online posts of a guy with the Internet handle Covie.

[Fishface]

Added two new crimes to my anniversary book in the last 2 days. They both happened on August 10th.

[Fishface]

I am in the middle of the 2nd book I have read on the Children of God, and Jerry Pence -- former Fleetwood Mac guitarist who joined the cult and disappeared -- has now been mentioned in both of those books.

Well, I was just reading my weekly news magazine, which always has a few obituaries in the back. One of them is for a high-powered attorney named -- you guessed it -- Gerry Spence. Only instead of being a religious weirdo child molester, this guy has defended the Ruby Ridge guy, Randy Weaver, and Imelda Marcos in their court cases, and also won a hefty judgment against Kerr-McGee in the death of Karen Silkwood. Among many others.

[Fishface]

Tonight at work I listened slack-jawed as a co-worker told me about how they haven't been able to get justice for a murdered relative, because of a problem with the evidence. She told me the guy is already in the slammer for a very similar crime and I looked him up. The date of the offense they got him on was Sept 4th. Tomorrow is also Sept 4th.

[Fishface]

Here's a gobsmacker. I learned about a survivor of Tony Atkins in THE CRACK CITY STRANGLER: The Homicides of Serial Killer Benjamin Atkins. Her name is Margie. It says here that the friend who introduced Margie to crack cocaine -- the reason Margie crossed paths with Atkins in the first place -- was later found dead on the East side of Detroit and is thought to be a possible victim of DeAngelo Martin, a different serial killer.

AND. ALSO. Annetta Nelson, the woman killed by DeAngelo Martin and later dragged out to the curb by a homeless guy who wanted to sleep in the crime scene -- Annetta is Margie's cousin.

(shudder)