The most common synonym for speculation is conjecture and that is all that may be offered here. After all, I am only a civilian, not privy to the facts and evidence which the police apparently have in copious amounts (but not enough) in the Stacey Burns murder case. As an uninformed civilian, my speculation likely fits into another synonym for the word as well and that is “risky.” Here is some risky conjecture about the killer of Stacey Burns.
1. He or she must be amoral, a person without conscience and without any sense of right versus wrong. This observation is based on the fact that four plus years have not produced enough guilt to make the killer admit what he or she has done.
2. He or she must possess a psychopathic personality, a personality which by definition is characterized by emotional instability, lack of sound judgment, perverse or impulsive (often criminal) behavior. This observation is based on the methodology of the murder and the killer’s subsequent ability to manage to escape prosecution.
3. He or she (and this is very risky) will likely never have the courage, the intestinal fortitude, or perhaps just the ability to come forward on his or her own and admit guilt for this horrible act. This observation makes sense if one considers again that it has been over four years and the killer continues to interact with other people and to apparently go on with his/her life. The police strategy seems to be to wait for this to happen. One can only hope that my conjecture here is wrong and theirs is right.
Feel free to offer your own speculation in response to this.
Duke
All any of us can do is speculate. It blows me away that the police haven’t collected enough evidence to form an opinion, i.e. an arrest and trial. They say it is an open case, but it’s definitely cold. They’re crazy if they’re waiting for someone to break and confess. I hope they reach a conclusion and follow through, not just for the sake of your book, but for Stacey and her family.
I think that it is anyones right to think what they will and i believe that whoever comitted this horrific crime against not only stacey but the whole family has found a way to tuck it in the back of thier sub concience and go on acting as though it never happened. More than likely he or she has found the ability to act the sadest of anyone. How about the least suspected and someone without an apparent reason ,but someone with more of a reason then anyone .whose life was turned upside down by Staceys presence LETS START WAY BACK THERE?