Here’s a local story that’s just taking shape:
A Maine woman whose body was discovered in a New Hampshire pond — near where her toddler daughter was found unharmed in a running car — was killed during a drug robbery, authorities said in court documents released Wednesday….Dittmeyer was lured to Michael Petelis’ Ossipee home on April 22, according to the criminal complaint. Sometime after 9:45 p.m., Anthony Papile struck her on the head with a rubber club so he could steal drugs and money from her, authorities wrote.
Papile and Petelis bound her with duct tape and put her in the trunk of her own car, authorities said. Papile drove Dittmeyer’s car to the Cranmore ski area and put Dittmeyer in the pond, investigators said.
Dittmeyer’s 14-month-old daughter was found the next day, unharmed, in the car. The woman’s body was found in a nearby pond April 27.
Clubbed and dumped in a pond over drugs and money. And Momma was engaging in such trade with young children in tow.
When people concentrate on “Gun Death” they are ignoring the real problems. Problems where a man murdered a mother with young kids over drugs. Problems where a woman with young kids was dealing with illegal drugs to dangerous people in unsafe settings.
This case has ZERO to do with guns, none were used. So this isn’t a “Gun Death”. Let’s pretend it was one of the Antis cherished “Gun Deaths”, and this woman had been clubbed, dragged into the woods and shot execution style in the head, rather than dumped in a pond. What difference would it make?
These are the questions we need to think about when dealing with those who spout the metric of “Gun Death”.
