Remember that Digital Bulletin I mentioned yesterday? I was just making a cute comment on how sensational some of the first reports can be. It turns out, though, that this was the first hints at an awful and tragic story. A by all accounts stable and successful guy (who, however, lived with a 20 year old girlfriend 13 years his junior) strangled his girlfriend to death at his home. Then, gruesomely, he cut her head off, put it in a plastic bag which he put in his car, and called a friend and asked to meet her, telling her he had "something to give you." Confronted by police at the meeting place, he sped off, beginning a high speed chase which ended in Cranston after his car struck a jersey barrier and two other cars. Upon being approached by the police, he shot himself in the head, denying us any answers as to what the hell happened. Is there any way to fathom this sort of thing? It makes me really sad, for everyone involved. That reminds me of another suicide recently (without the awful surrounding events). At URI last month a man struck a pedestrian with his truck and in a panic fled the scene. The girl he hit was bruised but ok, but he didn't know that. Fleeing into the surrounding woods, the man, a father of a little girl and described as shy, rigged up a rope to hang himself. His body was discovered days later. It's frustrating and saddening that these tragedies occur among our neighbors. I don't really know what to say.

Horrific

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