Delayed Justice

Well, at least it seems that way.  The news this last month has been nothing short of amazing when it comes to instances of delayed justice.  At the top of my list of wonder is the case of little Lativia Johnson.

And the Grand Rapids Press gets it right in a recent editorial assigning credit for the renewed investigation.  The police were and are committed to solving murders, and the murder of an innocent, and eight-yar-old child beggars the imagination: what kind of thinking could possibly lead to such a crime?

And there is another case of delivered justice in the murder of Eiljah “Todd” Butler some 4o years ago.   Friday the 13th, a jury decided that, yes, indeed, Richard Frank Thomas did it.  Here’s the Grand Rapids Press account.  Richard Frank Thomas shot and killed the young Marine who had spent only four days with his young wife.  That young woman is now older, and she says in the article that

“It’s been 40 years since Todd was killed, but this started when I was 13 and now I’m 60,” said Butler referring to Thomas’ relentless obsession with her.

Part of this is now over.  But the missing goes on for ever.