The saddest story of the day

It's slow. I'm sure there will be more lit stuff tomorrow, but for whatever reason -- my brain is mush, the Paris Hilton hacking story is so incredibly over, you name it -- I seem to be seeking out more crime stuff today, like this story of the mother and son murdered in Texas a few days ago:

DALLAS, Texas (CNN) -- A Texas man arrested for the slayings of a pregnant woman and her 7-year-old son told police he suffocated Lisa and Jayden Underwood in their home, police said Tuesday.

Stephen Dale Barbee, 37, was arrested early Tuesday in Tyler, about 130 miles east of Fort Worth, and then transferred to Fort Worth, said Lt. Gene Jones, a Fort Worth police spokesman.

Jones later confirmed to reporters that Barbee confessed to the killings and led police to a makeshift, shallow grave where two bodies were found.

Jones said that the bodies could not yet be positively identified, but that their ages were consistent with those of Lisa Underwood, 34, and her son.

Horrible, no question, and since this is Texas, it's a fairly good bet that the death penalty will be strictly enforced so long as Barbee doesn't plead out. But here's the big inconsistency:

Barbee, who police said earned a living clearing trees, said there was blood throughout the living room.

"During this fight Barbee held Underwood on the floor where she was suffocated and died," Gallaway said. When her son entered the room screaming, Barbee placed his hand over the child's mouth and nose and suffocated him, the detective said.

He said the police officers who went to the empty Underwood home Saturday night found "a large amount of blood in the living room on the carpet, furniture and walls.

"The amount of blood inside the residence was indicative of a person or persons suffering serious bodily injury," the affidavit says.

So...noses bleed that much? Since when?

In related news, I made the mistake of turning on the TV as I exercised last night and there was Nancy Grace on her new show on CNN Headline News. Somehow, I had managed to miss the woman's charms, and now I wish I could have kept my purity intact. Especially as she had a habit of baiting her guests and milking this story for all it was worth, especially by having the kid's grandfather on at the same time. Yikes.

Comments

[m.j. rose]

I can't agree enough about Nancy Grace, she just really annoys me. (Just had to say that and now I feel better already.)

[Thoth]

CNN Headline News Ruins its own Brand Image - NANCY GRACE...Are you kidding me?

I used to be the biggest fan of CNN Headline News. It WAS great. I used to tune in a couple of times a night…at least before they butchered the show.

Their new format is shameful. Have any of you seen Headline News Prime Time or Showbiz Tonight?

No these are not new CNN channels, instead they have turned a once respectable CNN Headline News into a pretty much gossip news station at night…it is just awful.

Basically, rather than having real news, they have this night-time format that focuses on entertainment news and gossip. It is awful...worse than FoxNews...Actually it is more like The Enquirer meets FoxNews.

I refuse to watch this garbage. They have even given NANCY GRACE (talk about trashy, she is the queen of trash) a legal show to ramble on about Hollywood trials and everything else that you would read in a Hollywood Gossip column. She is about as news worthy as page 6 in the New York Post.

This is the opposite of real news. Remember when CNN Headline News focused on the economy, politics and international affairs? This was when they used to focus 95% on real news on only about 5% on fluff. How can they think that people will now tune in to CNN to see only 5% real news and the rest gossip about entertainment or celebrity trials.

And what in the World were they thinking of giving Nancy Grace her own hour long show. There are so many great anchors at CNN and they give Nancy Grace a show straight out of Court TV or the Enquirer or the Gossip Channel or wherever she crawled out of.

CNN Headline News used to be a channel that I could see being left on in the press room of the White House, but you think they would leave it on this channel now...hell no people would think they were watching Entertainment Tonight.

Please, if you have not yet seen prime time tonight...check it out tonight. It is usually on later in the evening. After you have seen this garbage, try telling me that I am wrong.

The fact that Larry King has Nancy Grace on his show and that CNN Headline News gave her an hour-lonng show has really tarnished the CNN brand image for me.

[Claudia]

Duh, lemme see how many jealous people are posting here. Hmmmmm
Nancy is great! What more can I say!