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Stupid is as Stupid Does

By David Lohr

While researching the article that you are now reading, I found it difficult to determine who possessed the least amount of intelligence - the victim, 43-year-old Cynthia Lynch, or those who allegedly recruited her into their group, claiming to be members of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Normally I would never censure or be reproachful toward a homicide victim, but in this case, as you will see, I have to call into question the mental reasoning that led Lynch, who was from Tulsa, Oklahoma, to allow herself to be recruited - over the Internet, no less - into the ranks of a Louisiana hate group. The bad decision ultimately cost Lynch her life. Nonetheless, it is just so difficult to understand why a normal, reasoning adult would want to associate with a group as despicable as the KKK, or even with one of its offshoots...continue to full post

Full post as published by Bizarre Crimes of the Week on December 27, 2008 (boomark / email).