You must admit this case tugs at your heartstrings, just like it does mine. I hide behind the façade of the stoic cop – and you behind your “just the facts” media approach. It’s going to take more than “just the facts” to make this one work, and I appeal to your (and your heartless editors!!!) sense of humanity to give this case a face – and a heart.

I think Chau (the alleged short timer) said it well – “This case makes me sick to my stomach.” Cynthia had a comment something to the effect this was a sad case. They’re both right.

I cannot help but emphasize we are dealing with a little girl, not just an unidentified body. To us, she isn’t unidentified – we simply don’t know her name. She has an identity to the lives she touched – and there are likely more than just a few of those, including every one of us involved in this case and has come to know her, in our own way, during the past couple of days. There is someone out there that is missing her in both the literal and emotional sense, and it is absolutely critical that we hear from that someone. That’s where you come in, getting that message to that someone.