> They provided additional harrowing details of their experience beyond those disclosed in court documents, which include copies of e-mails and text messages of eBay employees that federal prosecutors say show how they conspired to terrorize the Steiners.
The couple met in the mid-1980s in Western Massachusetts at what was then called North Adams State College and is now called the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.
ARRRGHHH. I want to know what happened, but for some reason the author decided I need to know their origin story. I completely zone out when this BS comes up. Give me signal. This noisy stuff is worthless to me. Keep the origin story for the eventual movie adaption or something.
Why are news like this these days?
This is basically fear porn for the upscale parts of the Boston suburbs. People are interested because they get to self indulge in pearly clutching because even though these were nice people living somewhere nice this still happened to them. If this had happened in Fall River or Lawrence the globe probably would have covered it with a "look at these poors and their tragic plight" tone and the customers would have skimmed it, said "well at least nobody got beat up or shot" to themselves and then clicked the next article.
ARRRGHHH. I want to know what happened, but for some reason the author decided I need to know their origin story. I completely zone out when this BS comes up. Give me signal. This noisy stuff is worthless to me. Keep the origin story for the eventual movie adaption or something. Why are news like this these days?