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...What they're engaged in is one of the most perplexing cases of serial murder this country has ever seen - and one of the largest media stakeouts since the Chandra Levy case broke. Moose, who served for 27 years (including six as chief) on the Portland, Oregon police force, has some experience with the media, but nothing that could have prepared him for the blunt force of the cameras and microphones that confront him, sometimes four or five times a day, during his 20-hour shifts...
...story to be a novel." It is: The Lovely Bones is free of any veiled autobiographical traces, and that's both a personal and an artistic triumph. If Susie's breezy, wisecracking voice sounds eerily familiar, that's because it could belong to a Martha Moxley or a Chandra Levy or a JonBenét Ramsey or any of the other little girls lost whose faces haunt billboards and photocopied flyers and whose stories we play and replay obsessively on the 6 o'clock news. "Murder had a blood red door," Susie tells us, "on the other side of which...
...Susie's breezy, wisecracking voice sounds eerily familiar, that's because it could belong to a Martha Moxley or a Chandra Levy or a JonBenet Ramsey or any of the other little girls lost whose faces haunt billboards and photocopied flyers and whose stories we play and replay obsessively on the 6 o'clock news. "Murder had a blood red door," Susie tells us, "on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone." In The Lovely Bones, Sebold takes us behind that red door; she imagines the unimaginable and in doing so reminds us that those missing girls...
...fielded up to 80 tips a day. The media, incited by the discovery of her affair with Congressman Gary Condit, churned out endless stories. But then the nation's attention turned elsewhere. Last week a man hunting turtles in the city's Rock Creek Park found the remains of Chandra Levy, reviving fascination--and raising new questions...
...been only 10 months since the Levy-Condit scandal broke. Although Chandra Levy came into the news for tragic reasons she quickly ceased to be the impetus for investigation. Instead, journalists reported on Representative Gary Condit’s (D-Calif.) past extramarital affairs, again taking up countless hours of precious news time...