I think you're getting the Smart case and the case of the girl in San Diego (or that area) mixed up. I don't recall ever hearing anything about that in the Smart case.
Dammit!!! You're right...that was the CA case...my bad. OK...so that explains the Westerfield case. The Smart case is explained by a 14 year old girl being abducted from her bed at gunpoint. THAT does not happen everyday folks.
No worries, I've been called worse in the forums. It's all part of the new Net vocabulary, like L33T. There is similar murder case in Northern California. A pregnant woman's body found sans fetus. No leads, no publicity. She was a poor Hispanic woman. http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5676031.htm The Jessica Lynch story got lots of coverage for a few days. The fact that she's cute and white had nothing to do with it. One of the show I remember watching a few years ago was "The New Detectives". There was one murder case in which they got a conviction without a body, which was pretty startling. They also talked about the true life story of the Mexican drug dealer who killed a woman and her child and fed their corpses to a woodchip machine. They found pieces of the body later scattered in trees and around the area, months or years later IIRC, one of the perps talked I think and they did DNA matching, sort of the genesis for one of the ideas in the movie (SPOILER)..... Fargo.
Mormons are kick ass, but they don't deserve any more extra treatment then some poor kid in the ghetto.
