Online Community Fills Up Coronado Patch Bulletin Board With Shacknai Discussion

This article on the Coronado Patch has around a thousand comments, an ongoing discussion on the Shacknai case and the July death of Rebecca Zahau.

UPDATE 10/14/11: The article referenced above was removed; however, the Patch has put up another article with nearly as many comments at this point.

It's interesting that public scrutiny can work both ways---in this case, people are curious and outraged that what seem like obvious, legitimate questions are going unanswered, and are turning out (online) in droves to ask why.

In the Peterson case, public focus on Scott Peterson (aided by media) kept a force of blame and ridicule on those who asked questions about the evidence that pointed away from Peterson, effectively silencing the people who were asking them.

Rebecca Zahau's death has been called a suicide by San Diego County Sheriff's investigators, but there are questions about the evidence, including common-sense questions of whether a suicidal person would have plans for the next day, would be able to bind her own hands and feet, whether a message painted on the door was in her handwriting, what it meant--in any case, up and down the Southern California coast, and across the world, in fact, people are looking into a dark occurrence in San Diego and wondering what it means.

If something happened to someone I loved that was this troubling, this violent, this sudden, I doubt I would be able to go on the computer and read the silent text comments by ranting strangers. But most of the comments, it appears, are supportive, and say the obvious: more investigation is needed.