In today’s PI the experts explain our recent 9 homicides as “just coincidence and bad luck” [P-I]. They go on to point out that it wasn’t the heat that made people want to kill anyone, seeing as how there was no heat yet. They are also probably not the fault of the moon. (In usefulness, this article ranks right up there with the much-hyped Huff report that explained what we already knew.)

The article goes on to further state that if these had been nine separate killings, rather than three of them with multiple victims, they wouldn’t be gathering so much attention. King County can’t provide a tally of homicides so far for the year, which suggests that they don’t have a whiteboard in a back room somewhere where they mark them off.

image, via wikipedia

I was with them with the whole no obvious reason for all the killings thing until I read about the squid. Squid are usually a bycatch catch, something that gets caught in your net when you’re really fishing for something else. And right around the same time all these killings started, the squid bycatch quadrupled [Times].

Bycatch is managed by Sea State Inc., of here in town, and they’re trying to keep fishing boats–most of which are from Seattle–out of the area where all of the squid is being caught so that no one goes over limits on squid and has to pay fines. And that might be just what the squid want. All these murders might not be because of the heat or the moon, but they could also very well not be because of the squid. Anyway, that’s my new position on the whole thing.

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