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NBC and ABC chose this light day of news to follow up on a couple of sad, tabloid true crime stories--the sort that would normally be covered on Today or Good Morning America or during daytime on the cable news channels, but rarely warrant the attention of the nightly newscasts.
ABC offered a couple of follow-ups on George Sodini, the gym member in suburban Pittsburgh who killed himself and three aerobic dancercisers. John Berman dug up YouTube videos made by Sodini in which he shares his fantasies about dating young women; in hidden code on his blog Sodini imagined canceling his murder plan if he could get "night time action" with a gym member who occasionally smiled at him. Pierre Thomas filed A Closer Look at the reason why Sodini's blog posts planning his murders failed to attract police attention. Police "do not typically look at the Internet postings of tens of millions of individual Americans" and even if they did "apparently Sodini intended his password-protected writings to be seen only after he died."
On NBC, Rehema Ellis filed an In Depth recap on the 36-year-old minivan driver who drove for two miles into oncoming traffic along the Taconic Parkway in suburban New York City before crashing head-on into an SUV, killing herself and seven others. Ellis reported that Diane Schuler had been driving "erratically" for 60 miles before the crash, having told her brother that she felt disoriented. "Police recovered a broken vodka bottle from Schuler's car and say she had also smoked marijuana." The coroner's toxicological analysis found she was drunk.
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