Live Blog from the Anchor Desk 5/21/08
We start tonight with fighting words from Sen. Hillary Clinton and perhaps a new endgame. Today she told the Associated Press she'll take her campaign all the way to the convention. She's now talking about a floor fight to seat delegates from Florida and Michigan if she loses a party ruling late next week.
Down in Eldorado, Texas, child welfare workers were turned away from Warren Jeffs' Yearning for Zion ranch. They were trying to investigate reports that children remain inside the polygamist compound but sect members said the agency didn't have a search warrant. David Mattingly was allowed in through and he's keeping them honest. You can read about what's going on in court in this dispatch.
Forty dead young men across the country. Smart, popular, promising students found drowned and at place where they fell into the water a smiley face. Is it coincidence or the sign of a team of serial killers? Randi Kaye investigates. Check out her blog for a sneak peek.
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Good Wednesday evening..It's a fish flying end to a busy day...up , up and away flying the wild blue water..Night all.
The film of the flying fish is fishy.
Thank you 360 Bloggers and anchors! Have a great day tomorrow!
It's horrible to lose loved ones through murder. How terrible for the families to try to imagine what happened to their children . There is never closure even in the truth,but I pray that they find peace,courage, and hope to continue living gracefully.
Good night guys!
The rules have been changed before...they will change again and Obama won't be the nominee. His victory lap last night made me ill.
Good night Anderson and everyone! See you all tomorrow.
Linda from LA, you are correct....too many similarities to ignore the alleged Smiley face murders. Thank you Kevin Gannon for taking the time out of retirement to work these tough cases.
Is that like one of those flying pirannhas (sp) in that movie that flew out of the water and starting attacking people in a resort? Between Smiley Faces and flying pirannhas I'll be hard pressed to sleep tonight!
Good night Anderson, Erica and Bloggers (all) !
See you tomorrow night!!!! get sleep tight!
These Smiley Face crimes sound like they could have been committed by a fraternity of murderers.
Looks more like the Rocket Man shot than a fish.
Good show, great discussion. Nite all!
The flying fish are cool, and it's for real. Interesting to watch.
Really good show tonight as usual. Have a lovely night, Anderson, Erica, and all!
Good night all.
Ian clever caption
I love Bill Clinton's white hair in that picture.
Jo Ann, Ohio>I think you're right about the high intelleigence level of the "abductor(s)." If they are persuading kids they must have good social skills and be relatively articulate (maybe my imagination is just too vivid).
How often do oil execs get hauled in front of this committee or that to answer the same questions with the same answers? It really is ridiculous to hear this "news" every couple months.
Eldorado, Texas where the Warren Jeff's children they will need special counseling. There is a program called A.M.A.C. means Adult Molestated As Children. Here in Califorina it is still kind of new but it does work it is a rough program thou.
i wish they would find that missing girl and be able to put peterson where he belongs.
If it is true that these homicides are done by one person or a group, that must be scarely and I feel they are in like cult...
How many states have this smily face thing shown up in?
How can they not think they are linked–smiley faces and dead bodies? Doesn't make sense that they wouldn't be connected.
The smiley face murders are very erie....to think that it could be a gang of serial killers, it's crazy!
usually the sign for serial killers chosen is something representing evil or something forboding in some way, a smiley face? oh, wait, they are not all the same smiley faces, looks like the emoticons and variations thereof. hmmm...a secret group using the internet to communicate their evil schemes and do it in so many different places or actually one moving around, very interesting.
I have three questions for the Det first when did the smiley face theory first become public knowledge? Were these boys un a fraternity? Or club? And what proximity were their residences to the bars they attended?
Mike Syracuse>YIKES Mike! I'm going to go hide under my bed, as soon as I close my closet doors. I'll leave the light on tonight!
Xtina, you are right.
Change is good....... but tell us how you are going to change it, tell us more than speeches
I find it rather amusing how Obama supporters continue to insult Clinton and her supporters, seeing as how Obama will need Clinton's supporters in order to make him president. This divisive language on the part of Obama supporters (which, by the way, they constantly and rather hypocritically accuse Clinton of), will only further ensure that many Clinton supporters WON'T vote for Obama.
There's a growing movement to write in Clinton on the general election ballot, and this movement will only grow with the continued hypocritically divisive language/accusations by Obama supporters and the media.
Too much similarity not to be true.
It really makes me wonder why some of Hillary's supporters are so rabidly against voting for Obama if he becomes the nominee and I'm thinking that there's more at play here than concerns about his supposed lack of experience.
This smiley face killer stuff is scary and erie...
AC360, keep us updated about this Smiley Face serial killer. As a parent of two college kids, it is frightening.
Sexsism and raczim is only there if you see it when you look in the mirror.
Last I checked we are not white america or black america but the united states of america.
Obama should tell voters what he's planning on "changing" - he wasn't known in IL as having "changed" anything!
Jolene I raised raised with the slogan "change or be left behind...change is good."
"This smiley face thing makes you wonder how many serial killers are out there right now that we don’t even suspect."
I think its around 25-30 at any given time. I think those were the statistics a few years ago.