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Wisconsin woman missing for more than 60 years found ‘alive and well’.
(www.theguardian.com)
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Woman: fears for her life and the police do nothing so she disappears for 60 years Cops: "Women can be so flighty!"
How to tell people you were born after 2000 without telling them you were born after 2000.
What do you expect the cops could even do in the 60's to help the woman? Press charges or arrest the husband? Oh wait the first comprehensive domestic abuse laws weren't even made until the 1970's.
Ok well I assume you would then want the cops to take her to a battered women clinic? Oh wait that wasn't a thing either at that time either!
Have the cops advise her to get a divorce? Ha, only gays, whores and hobos didn't marry for life back then.
Cops wouldn't have even investigated the abuse part of the complaint, they wouldve investigated the threats of murder that were made but its not like they could obtain any physical evidence like text message transcripts or emails or phone logs. They wouldve gone to the house, asked the hisband if he threatened to kill his wife and he would say no and that would be the end of it.
I apologize if im off in my assumption you are under 25y/o but the context of your comment jumping to the cop's incompetence throws enough flags to assume you didn't experience much of what the world was like before the internet.
The real take away from this article should be the absolute balls on this woman for taking action into her own hands and never turning back. I respect the fuck out of this woman.
Yeah you are wrong. And your long lecture seems to miss the point.
Of course shit was aweful then. The woman took care of herself, because the cops, and society in general didn't give a fuck then and barely do now.
I wasn't even pointing fingers at those cops back then, I was pointing out the absurdity of the current detective/investigator/whatever he is when he so flippantly dismissed the whole ordeal as....
"I think she just was removed and, you know, moved on from things and kind of did her own thing and led her life … She sounded happy. Confident in her decision, no regrets,” Hanson added."
How fairytale.