blow it out your bohonkus.
If hookers wouldn't charge so much there would be less rape. It's hard for a rapist to raise $300 a night.
in all seriousness, I am not sold that this kind of junk happens more now that it used to. This junk is considered newsworthy (the shock value Mercury talked about,) so it makes the news more often than it used to- in some ways that is good, and in some ways it is bad.
It's good that it raises awareness, but bad that it desensitizes us over time to the point where these stories no longer affect us like they used to- unless we know the person.
on that note, I haven't heard much about serial killers lately.