1. It's a terrible situation.
On March, 13, 2019, eighteen year old Sarah Zuber left her home in Rainier, OR to take a walk around 11 p.m. Her sister found her dead in a ditch along the road about 400 feet from their home the next morning.
It's an unsolved death.
In season 2 of the podcast, Hush, Leah Sottile tells the story of her investigation into this unsettling story.
I listened to the second episode today.
The episode moves in two directions.
The first direction fascinated me.
Leah Sottile takes her listeners into a professional quandary she's working to sort out.
She wonders what is the difference between the work she's doing as a journalist and the writing and broadcasting others do in the genre of True Crime books and podcasts and television shows and internet videos.
Sottile expresses her devotion to journalistic ethics and how they guide her work in substantiating stories, verifying sources, and to investigate as a way of getting as close as possible to the truth, not concerning herself with being entertaining or fitting her story into a well-established true crime story telling formula.
The second direction this episode takes involves the work of law enforcement as they have tried to figure out what happened to Sarah Zuber that night.
Possibly, the most riddling dimension of this part of the story is the fact that the medical examiner changed her conclusion of Sarah's death from inconclusive to saying Sarah died by alcohol consumption and hypothermia.
I don't know where Leah Sottile will take her investigation into the law enforcement's work or if she'll return to this changed autopsy report.
I know that in Episode 3, she investigates the public's response to Sarha Zuber's death and the investigation.
2. There was a time, not that long ago, when I would have, as they say, binge listened to this second season of Hush, even knowing all the episodes have not been posted yet.
I can't do that anymore, though.
Today, I needed time to digest the two episodes I've listened to and to get away from it for a day or two.
I picked the perfect way to get some distance from this awful story.
I met Ed and Nancy uptown at the Elks for burgers.
I had fun listening to others' stories and doing a little yakkin' myself.
I loved my burger.
The burgers at the Elks are the perfect size for me. I don't know if the patties are a quarter pound or smaller than that and I couldn't tell you the circumference of the bun.
All I can say with certainty is that they aren't huge and by being such a reasonable size, the Elks burger is perfect for me.
The size is perfect and my burger was cooked perfectly and I totally enjoyed my side of fries.
Thanks to my pre and post-transplant caution, I hadn't been to the Kellogg Elks for a burger for quite a long time and I was very happy that it felt right and safe to return and I look forward to going back for the next Burger Night on December 12th.
3. After enjoying our burgers, Nancy, Ed, and I skipped across the street for a short session at The Lounge.
We had a good time joking around about different things with Bob and Tracy and yakkin' some more with each other.
Back home, I continued to relax with a bowl of popcorn and, taking my time, I managed to complete the always challenging, but fair and gimmick-free, Saturday New York Times crossword puzzle.
I also achieved my current goal of 3000 steps a day and just that modest number of steps helped me sleep deeply and peacefully through the night.
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