Darlings, The Monsters Aren't Just On Maple Street!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                          Something about last night's "Unusual Suspects" program, "A Bike Ride To Murder," struck me as familiar. The minute I heard the name Amanda Gaeke, something clicked. And the minute I saw and heard the name David Webb Kim, I knew I had seen this case done before on some other program.

                           Amanda Gaeke was a sweet, innocent nine-year-old girl, going about the business of being a child in the North Park section of San Diego, California. On October 3, 1991, she never returned from a bike ride she set out on.  Eleven days later, in an outdoor area, her decomposed body was found--wrapped in a blanket. Examination showed she had been tortured, and sexually assaulted.

                            This case went cold for about 8 years.  Then, in 1999, a neighbor of the Gaekes tipped investigators off to another neighbor, David Webb Kim, an unsavory character, who was 16, at the time of the murder.  With no remorse, David told investigators calmly how he apprehended Amanda on her bike, brought her into his house, kept her prisoner under his bed for two days, drugging, torturing and assaulting her, before deciding he had to kill her. He strangled Amanda, then got rid of the body.

                                Oh, and while Amanda was imprisoned, though alive, David went about his business of going to school, just like any other 16-year-old.   What I want to know, girls, is where were the parents in all of this; because, let me tell you, if anything of a suspicious nature was going on in my bedroom, my parents would certainly have sensed it, most likely picking up on it from changes in my behavior.  It makes me wonder if the Kim parents should be charged too.  But hold on, because, remember, this is painfully familiar..

                                  On October 13, 1997, six years after Amanda, in Jackson Township, New Jersey little Eddie Werner, then 11, was murdered by his dangerous 15-year-old neighbor, Sam Manzie.  Eddie was selling products for his Scout troop, and, when he got to the Manzie house, Sam invited him in, where he raped, sodomized, and killed Eddie.  Then, like David, he dumped the body, in a suitcase, in the woods.

                                     In both cases, if people had been wise to the mental instability of the perps, these tragedies could have been avoided.  As well as the murder of Megan Kanka, on July 29, 1994 by sex offender Jesse Timmendequas.  Whose history no one had a clue to, and which resulted in the formation of Megan's Law.

                                        Yes, the monsters are out there, girls, but if they are not recognized in time, these senseless tragedies occur.  Poor Amanda.  How could she know of such evil, but why didn't David's parents recognize signs, and do something about him????????   Maybe they should not have been charged with Amanda's death, but I am sure, to this day, it rests on their consciences!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                           Jesse, Sam and David are now incarcerated.  Society is safe from them.  Why did it take sacrificing three children's lives, to get them to that point?????????????????

                                              Watch out, darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!