Cynthia Sommer and human nature

[lady_kishiria]

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20080418-9999-1m18sommer.html

The article is pretty bad, as I said, but the comments are what I'm pointing to.

Mrs. Sommer behaved horribly after her husband's death. In fact, she was being a disgusting dirty slut. LAST I CHECKED, THIS WAS NOT ILLEGAL. Yet people are screaming that she should still be in jail--and remember, her sentence was 25-to-life. Obviously because she's a filthy whore, she MUST have killed him, even though there's no evidence at all. People don't just suddenly drop dead, right? We've never heard of that ever happening.

Comments

[soldiergrrrl.livejournal.com]

How sad. The whole thing was sad. His death, her behaviour, her trial, all of it.

A young Marine dropping dead should not be dismissed, but assuming the wife offed him isn't right, either.

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

I'm not "dismissing" it, but the fact is, young people do drop dead suddenly. The autopsy was botched, obviously, so he may have died of a congenital defect or the like.

One reaction I'm seeing is, "We still don't know what killed him, so blame her!"

[soldiergrrrl.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, not you. I meant there should be a medical investigation as to why a healthy young man keeled over.

Sorry that wasn't clear.

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

Someone posted a comment saying that his aorta was deformed, but I don't know how reliable that is.