IDAHO: We look after each other

As the trial of the Moscow case inches closer with each passing day, I was reflecting back on various cases I’ve observed over my lifetime. While criminology is not my field of expertise, child and young adult safety is a passion of mine. It grew out of my teaching career.

I feel that the trauma of being a 7-year-old child in 1959, and realizing a fellow Blue Bird named Candy, aged 9, was kidnapped and murdered selling mints in her Spokane neighborhood, as I was in mine, never left me. To be honest, we were all in shock.

Then there was the Manson Case in 1969 in Los Angeles.

It seemed far away, and yet it wasn’t. Before I became a teacher I typed insurance policies in Seattle. Our branch manager, a former LA resident, used to get his hair cut by Jay Sebring, one of the Manson victims.

Before that, I worked in downtown Seattle with two ladies who worked with Ted Bundy, at an attorney messenger service. Their stories of him were chilling.

Once while walking home, laden with groceries, a Volkswagen slowed down and a very friendly man wanted to give me a lift. I politely said, “No thanks, I need to walk.” Not till later, did I realize that was Ted Bundy’s modus operandi.

Here’s where Idaho can be so proud.

If you hurt one of us, you hurt all of us.

We look out for each other.

We don’t care about wild theories and spin.

We want facts, which lead us to the truth, and ultimately Justice.

Idaho cares, that’s who we are.

SARA FERRIS

Coeur d’Alene