The Tragic Story Of George Jodoin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                When I saw this on "Murder Comes To Town," I knew immediately what was coming.  I should.  I grew up in a small town, too.

                                   George Jodoin was the third of ten children, all of whom lived near one another, and were all over each other, in and out of each other' houses, like locusts. Typical small town behavior that arts oriented folk want to get away from as soon as possible, but the Jodoins were not artistic. They were just, so AVERAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                     But, there was something about George I caught on to.....real fast.  He had a multitude of interests--boating, car racing, music, and he had a successful real estate, pawn shop business.  Those who talked, and who in small towns does not, suggested George was not always on the up and up, but that was never proved.

                                       What caught me was, here is George, living in his childhood home, family nearby, in this repressed town.  Through more than half of the program, nothing was mentioned about him being married, divorced, seeing anyone, which caused me to think..Hmmmmmmmmm.........

                                            Could George have been gay????????  I bet he was!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                             And I turned out to be right. Because, years later, when the police finally caught Arthur Collins, a handy man who had worked for George, he confessed George came on to him, trying to kiss him, and get into the bathroom, for some oral sex!

                                             Georgie, baby, you were killed by some homophobic fuck!!!!!!!!!!  How disgusting!

                                              But, really, you should have known better. If I could see right through you, George, so could others, and while they may have been discreet, it does not mean they were approving. You should have headed off to the nearest large city--even Boston is more tolerant of gays than Auburn and Manchester, New Hampshire.

                                               All George's story does is point to the tragedy of someone gay living in a small town.  And that Grace Metalious was not off the mark in setting "Peyton Place" in New Hampshire. Hell, Grace, things are still that way, decades after your passing.

                                                 I hope Arthur Collins gets corn holed in prison.  He looks like Ned Beatty in "Deliverance," and who could forget that????????????

                                                   Learn from George, you young ones!  If you are gay and stuck, get the hell out!!!!!!!!!  Fast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                    Because, to paraphrase, Jeannie C. Riley, "This is just a little 'Peyton Place,' and you're all Auburn, NH hypocrites!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"