I know I should care, but I find myself saying who gives a f*** with so much in my Boston Globe these days. I'm sorry, readers.
"Body of Marine’s missing wife found in mine shaft" Associated Press August 19, 2014
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — The body of a missing wife of a Marine has been found deep in an abandoned mine shaft in Southern California, where her husband had been stationed, and Alaskan authorities have arrested her alleged lover on suspicion of homicide.
The remains of 20-year-old Erin Corwin, who was pregnant, were found Saturday 140 feet down an abandoned mine shaft on federal land near Twentynine Palms after authorities spent nearly two months searching 300 square miles in the remote area east of Los Angeles, Sheriff John McMahon of San Bernardino County said.
Her remains were identified Sunday through dental records, he said.
Her alleged lover and former neighbor, Christopher Brandon Lee, was arrested around 9 p.m. Sunday in Anchorage, on suspicion of homicide on an extradition warrant from California, said Jennifer Castro, a spokesman for the Anchorage Police Department.
Corwin was in the early stages of pregnancy when she disappeared in Twentynine Palms on June 28. Her husband, Marine Corporal Jonathan Corwin, reported her missing the next day.
The investigation eventually focused on Lee, who was the Corwins’ neighbor, according to court papers.
Erin Corwin’s friend told investigators that Corwin and Lee were having an affair and that the unborn child might be Lee’s, the papers show.
Corwin told her husband when she left that day that she was going to scout out hiking trails that she and her mother could explore when her mother visited a few days later. But the friend showed authorities text messages that said Corwin was planning to go on a special hunting trip with Lee the day she disappeared.
Now she has been found, and WTF do I care about some Army affair or tryst or whatever shallow and superficial treatment this story is getting?
I'm not trying to be insensitive, readers, this just isn't something I give a shit about.
Nothing more important happening in California yesterday? At all?
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