The Janesville murders →[More:](now international news) have affected us a little. The teenaged girl victim was an acquaintance of my niece, and they lunched at the same table just last week. We had about five days of no real news in the case except three bloody bodies and no suspects, so having it resolved this quickly (apart from the trial, obviously) is good.

We certainly have gotten used to big-city crime, from gunshots right on my block to drug houses to a guy breaking into my dad's surgeon's house through the ceiling. And when I was a kid, there was a really weird murder up the street that they eventually convicted three people for. And then there's the guy we knew who chopped up his wife because he believed he was God.

But this was already being called the worst murder in our county's history.

Just felt I needed to share that.