It's an old church and smells like a museum - in a good way, a survived-lots-of-shit-and-still-standing kind of way. Something about the stained-glass windows works for me too. If I were to get all deep on you, I could say the idea of all those broken pieces being made into something so damn pretty appeals to me. Good thing I'm not that profound.
Martha Wes Dunn (15) - She was last seen at her home in Dangerfield, Texas on September 5th 1990 around 2:20pm. She was reportedly unhappy with the start of the new school year (that started the day before) and got into an argument with her parents. Around 10pm that night, Dunn talked to her 17-year-old boyfriend, Eric Owens, on the phone. The next day, both the teens were gone and Dunn’s father, John, reported his daughter missing. They were reportedly seen several times in Hayworth, Oklahoma where Owens’ aunt lived but she denied seeing them. Another theory was that they had hitchhiked to Kansas where Owens’ mother lived, but that also proved to be false.
On September 30, John called the police and told them that he got a call from a friend in Durant, Oklahoma, who told John that he had seen Dunn and Owens looking “dirty and hungry.” He allegedly got them cleaned up and fed. Dunn’s father told all of this to the deputy, but the authorities never found them. There was also a much darker theory that Dunn’s father suggested: maybe Owens, who was involved with drugs in Oklahoma, had been targeted by a drug dealer who kidnapped them both. However, there were never any signs or a ransom demand that would point to foul play of that nature.
By the time Runaway Train aired on MTV, the case was cold. Even the extremely popular video didn’t move the needle much in the Dunn case. There was the one tip that Dunn was working as a waitress in New Boston, but it wasn’t true. Dunn is one of only two long-term missing children cases in Morris County over the last three decades.
no idea if it's my hormones, what I've seen in the news lately, the weight of living the past few years, or just because it's Judi Dench...but this impromptu performance really made me cry for a good ten minutes, no kidding.
listen there really was just something about how in the book, snow’s 3-page descent from hesitant lover boy to deluded psychopath happens entirely in his mind. lucy gray gives him no indication whatsoever that she suspects him, that she’s going to leave or betray him. he’s just sitting quietly in the cabin waiting for her to return when that seed of calculated suspicion, which he has needed to survive the capitol, takes a hold of him and chokes the life out of any goodness left inside him. it really drives home your terror as a reader that “oh my god did he kill her? did she escape? what happened to her? why would he even think that?” in a way that when the movie had to adjust for visualization it lost some of that holy shit this guy has lost it emphasis.
Patrick “Shawn” Betz (11) - Betz was last seen on January 20th 1988. According to the Charley Project, Betz was with his mother and sister at the Pizza Chalet in Upland, California having a late dinner around 9pm. He asked his mother for some quarters to play arcade games with a friend and then came back to his table a little while later and asked if he could go to Upland High School with this friend to watch a basketball game. His mother said okay and Betz ran off with an unidentified teenage boy and was never seen again. (One article I read said there wasn’t a game at Upland that night, it was in Chino).
It was initially thought that Betz had run away. He had been in a fight with another student at the Sierra Vista Elementary School and was due to appear before juvenile court so authorities believed that he could have run away to avoid that but Betz’s mother disagreed. In a video by Crime Hound on YouTube, family members were interviewed directly and it was said that on the morning of his disappearance, an older-sounding woman called the school to tell them that Betz had moved to live with his grandmother in Washington state. This was very weird because first of all, he hadn’t and second of all, his grandmother had lived in Washington state for a time, but she had recently moved to California. The family considered the idea that Betz had been taken by someone and given them this false information in order to tip off his family that something was wrong.
It took police 4 months to truly begin a search for Betz and when they did, a lot of the focus was on the Betz family themselves. Betz’s 15 year old brother was apparently coerced into saying he had harmed his brother despite the fact that he was over 400 miles away at the time (witnesses confirm). An anonymous tip was called in, accusing the family of having buried Betz in their yard. The yard was consequently searched and nothing was found.
His friends described him as street smart and not someone who would be lured away easily. He liked video games, baseball, and hanging out with friends.