Given what has developed so far in the murder of Stacey Burns, would you cast yourself as an optimist or a pessimist? Are you confident that her murderer will be arrested and convicted or do you doubt that anyone will ever pay the price for this horrendous crime?
In less than a week, Stacey Burns will have been dead for five years! Think about that then ask yourself this question: What am I doing to help solve this crime? If you are a police investigator, have you retraced every step of this investigation, including re-interviewing the major players and possible witnesses? If you are a friend, have you stayed the course and continued to honor her memory with your efforts to keep the case in the forefront? If you are a family member, have you continued to express your outrage that the murderer walks free? If you are a member of the Wolfeboro community, have you done all you can to make certain the police are protecting the general public from a psychopath in their midst?
After three years and a few months of working on my “book” about this case, I sometimes find myself drifting into a sad funk, wondering if this murder is just going to disappear under the sheer weight of time. Please, someone in any of the groups mentioned above, tell me that I am wrong about this!
FIVE DAYS and Stacey will be dead for five years!
Duke
The first thing I told those detectives was “you get him or I will” Sinse then I understand that “vengeance is mine !” said the lord. N.H. Will never even try, that I’m very sure of, but Ed is going to get his….. I’m most optimistic about that.
I am the Optimist…..and let Me explain.
I have been working on the Maura Murray Missing case now for ten years and although I have had My doubts at times I remain optimistic. Some days it seems as if there in never a chance that Maura will be found but then the smallest piece of information comes in and it gives You hope.
In Stacey’s case there are a lot more factors that make Me remain optimist that the sadistic killer will be caught. IF Jim vittum or Ed Burns did this to Stacey, human beings who knew Stacey, loved Stacey, had children with Stacey then one would hope that their conscience will lead them to do the right thing and come forward. IF one of them did this it is unfathomable how they can live within themselves after committing such a horrific crime. Each day must be such a burden to think of Stacey, to think what they had done, to think about the children, to think about her friends, her relatives and walk UPRIGHT LIKE A MAN, HUMAN.
The person who killed Stacey IS NOT A HUMAN BEING, they somehow became the most ugly, disgusting, demented, sadistic entity created by who knows what. Has this person always been like this and they finally exploded into a rage, have they done something like this before, have they the urge now to do it again.?
Should people have to live in fear of what might lurk in their neighborhoods, not be able to look at Jim Vittum or Ed burns without thoughts of guilt, look at any person You don’t know as suspicious, someone buying a knife at a store, just everyone.
This is how the community of Wolfeboro must feel, trapped in their own little perfect bubble which has the potential to burst at any moment. Truly a sad way to live.
Be the OPTIMIST……and Stacey will have justice.
John Smith
I try to be an optimist regarding Stacey’s murder. The fact that this crime has so greatly affected my family gives me no choice in that the alternative, this never being solved, is too much to bear thinking about. Unfortunately over the past 5 years I have noticed that the majority of people think that slapping a “justice for Stacey” magnet on their car or joining in on the walk for Stacey around the anniversary of her death is enough. It is NOT enough. I can honestly say that not one day has gone by that I have not thought about this. If it was a family member of mine or if I was in a position as a friend, I would have a regular weekly appointment with our attorney general. People NEED to talk about this. Not the rumor and speculation crap, not what they “heard” but what they know. This will never be solved if her friends and family stop talking. Just my opinion.