Why did the Scott Peterson murder trial get so much attention? Certainly he wasn't the first asshole to kill his wife, or even his pregnant wife.
Turns out Steve Lopez from the LA Times wondered, too, and wrote:
The morning after the death penalty verdict came in, I called the Los Angeles County district attorney's office with a question: How many men have killed their wives around here lately?
As I write this, they're still counting the number of cases filed in the last two years.
"We have at least 50 cases in which men have been charged with killing their wives or significant others," says Sandi Gibbons, a spokeswoman for the district attorney's office.
[...]
[T]he next case on the docket in L.A. County involves a man charged with the stabbing death of his live-in, pregnant girlfriend, as well as the murder of their unborn baby.
Anyone ever hear the names Roger Marquez or Noelle Chagolla?
Of course not. And you may never hear them again.
"I was wondering the same thing about why the Peterson case got a lot of notoriety," says L.A. County Sheriff's Det. Rich Ramirez.
He's the veteran investigator who took the call on the Chagolla slaying on April 14, 2002, drove out to the 21-year-old woman's East L.A. home and found her body wrapped in bloody blankets. Marquez, now 25, claimed he had come home and discovered his girlfriend's body, but he later was arrested.
"In all the years I've been doing this, it was probably one of the more gruesome cases I've handled," says Ramirez, a homicide detective for six years.
Ramirez gets a new domestic homicide case every four or five months. He says he didn't want to sound cynical, but he has an opinion about why some murders get press and others don't.
"We weigh the value of the victim and the defendant, in my estimation," he says. "And that's a sad commentary."
To put it even more bluntly, certain segments of society are expected to kill their loved ones now and again, so when it happens, it's no big deal.
Turns out Steve Lopez from the LA Times wondered, too, and wrote:
The morning after the death penalty verdict came in, I called the Los Angeles County district attorney's office with a question: How many men have killed their wives around here lately?
As I write this, they're still counting the number of cases filed in the last two years.
"We have at least 50 cases in which men have been charged with killing their wives or significant others," says Sandi Gibbons, a spokeswoman for the district attorney's office.
[...]
[T]he next case on the docket in L.A. County involves a man charged with the stabbing death of his live-in, pregnant girlfriend, as well as the murder of their unborn baby.
Anyone ever hear the names Roger Marquez or Noelle Chagolla?
Of course not. And you may never hear them again.
"I was wondering the same thing about why the Peterson case got a lot of notoriety," says L.A. County Sheriff's Det. Rich Ramirez.
He's the veteran investigator who took the call on the Chagolla slaying on April 14, 2002, drove out to the 21-year-old woman's East L.A. home and found her body wrapped in bloody blankets. Marquez, now 25, claimed he had come home and discovered his girlfriend's body, but he later was arrested.
"In all the years I've been doing this, it was probably one of the more gruesome cases I've handled," says Ramirez, a homicide detective for six years.
Ramirez gets a new domestic homicide case every four or five months. He says he didn't want to sound cynical, but he has an opinion about why some murders get press and others don't.
"We weigh the value of the victim and the defendant, in my estimation," he says. "And that's a sad commentary."
To put it even more bluntly, certain segments of society are expected to kill their loved ones now and again, so when it happens, it's no big deal.
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