Amy Ridenour on the bias of the media coverage:

Although the Kansas City Star reported Thursday that a sister of the dead woman was “scared to death” that the husband might mistreat the woman, while another sister said the alleged killer “seemed pretty unstable,” few media outlets included information about a possible motive other than, or in conjunction with, health care costs.

Likewise, few readers outside of Kansas City were told that the couple had options. The wife had been living with her mother before her husband showed up to visit, the Kansas City Star reported. The husband told her family he was going to take her to dinner, but then “took her away and never came back.”

If the bills were overwhelming, he could have returned her. Even divorced her; divorce being less dishonorable than murder.

(via David Hogberg)