How is it that a missing person’s case grips the entire nation? Is it because of who the victim is? A little–in the type/trope model of the situation. However, it can also be said that our collective national conscience loves a whodunnit. SPOILER ALERT: The boyfriend did it. My guess is that he got fed up and struck out in anger. I am not justifying his actions or even approaching anything resembling understanding, but I am laying out what it seems the facts do indicate. Now he’s on the run and that too is newsworthy, because maybe the channels can catch a glimpse of him being brought to justice and further appease the American conscience. However, if he kills himself it becomes a conspiracy and is less rewarding, though it does get to live on. This is the stuff we think about here in our nation. We can alleviate our larger fears of the direction our nation is headed in by thinking about one man and one woman and what must have happened for them to fall apart so dramatically that a life was lost.