Cooter wrote:This thread discusses the Content article: Nothing yet, but family still hopes Kiplyn will be found
Why is the gov't using thousands upon thousands of tax dollars to find a girl who has been dead for 13 years? What difference will it make? The sheriff's office is looking for a simple tooth, because Kiplyn's bones would have decayed long ago. The whole situation is tragic but I think its time to face reality. Richard Davis is a good man and my heart goes out to him and his wife, but I believe this search to be a misappropriation of tax funds.Bones do not necessarily decay in 13 years. Much depends upon the type of soil the body is buried in...and depth it is buried, and whether animals have scattered the bones.
Utah is mostly arid desert. Bones can last much longer than 13 years in that climate.
I would rather that tax dollars go toward apprehending murderers, prosecuting them, and executing them.
However...we're talking about a case in which there is no body.
I hope that this girl's remains are found...not only for the benefit of her loved ones and friends, for the closure it will bring...and the comfort of laying her remains properly to rest...but for the evidence they will surely provide in the case against her murderer.
I have a niece who is missing. She lives in Las Vegas, and worked as a dancer. She is the mother of three daughters. She went missing about 6 weeks ago now.
This woman loves her children dearly. They are everything to her. She has sacrificed much to provide for them.
But it is possible that she had fallen in with the wrong crowd...and she disappeared.
I know for a fact that she wouldn't abandon those girls. In all probability...she lies in a shallow grave somewhere in that vast desert waste-land.
Should tax dollars be 'wasted' to find her? I'd rather see thousands of tax dollars spent searching for missing human beings...then to spend thousands of tax dollars on planting trees down the middle of a street, or on ugly 'urban art'.
