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Our weather turned warm all of a sudden, it's 65 degrees today with light breezes. Our trees out back are in bloom with tiny green-yellow flowers that smell nice. I know this picture must look odd to those of you in the snow/ice belt. It looks odd to me, and I'm right here seeing it out the window.
Tonight Dateline NBC is supposed to air a 2 hour show about crime with a segment about a murder investigation in Las Vegas, not the recent dancer on the strip one, it goes back further than that, to 2009. We don't get that channel, so maybe they'll re-run it sometime when I'm in Colorado and I can see it then.
British national, self-styled spiritual healer, and con man Michael Lane was charged with Ginger Candela's murder. In 72 hours, detectives gathered enough incriminating evidence to bury Lane, who was picked up Dec. 3, 2009, in Ventura, Calif. It's an interesting case because of the audacity of the murderer as he used his victim's car, cell phone, credit cards, and bank accounts for about a month after he'd killed her. Her body wasn't discovered for about a month after the murder so he had plenty of time. The arrest report is available online:
Michael Lane Arrest Report
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Our neighbors across the street have been having garage sales every weekend, selling all their furniture. I finally got around to looking online, and it's in foreclosure. They bought that house in 2002 and a couple years later obtained a second mortgage that must have been their downfall. We hate to lose good neighbors this way.
There is a house behind us that was foreclosed on, and it sold in April 2010 as a short sale, but nobody lives there. Whoever bought it is waiting for the market to turn around so they can sell it. I wonder how many of these properties are around town, quietly waiting to turn into gold mines for the investors, and how soon that will occur.
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On a good note, one of the local casino chains is going to hire 1000 employees. This is a good sign for the unemployment picture that maybe things are getting better for the economy here. Gasoline is over $3 a gallon, and I remember a couple years ago when it got up there all the people interviewed on the news talking about how they were going to cope with it, and now it's not even mentioned.
