# April Jones murder: Mark Bridger found guilty **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 30, 2013, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-jones-murder-mark-bridger-found-guilty/659699 "2013-05-30T11:46:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nancarrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c37758/32.png) [@Nancarrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nancarrow)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-jones-murder-mark-bridger-found-guilty/659699/21 "2013-06-02T22:27:03Z")
> [@](#): > > Fragments of bone consistent with a juvenile human skull were found in ashes in the wood burner, with a number of knives nearby including one that was badly burned. But when fragments of bone consistent with a juvenile human skull are outlawed, only outlaws will have fragments of bone consistent with a juvenile human skull. Well, and kids too I suppose, but then they’re already pretty much outlaws. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2013, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-jones-murder-mark-bridger-found-guilty/659699/22 "2013-06-02T22:30:16Z")
I’m guessing this thread didn’t really go as you hoped, Quartz. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-jones-murder-mark-bridger-found-guilty/659699/23 "2013-06-03T10:46:42Z")
I think I read somewhere that people who mistreat knives as a child are 18 times more likely to become serial killers as adults. Or was it 18 times _as_ likely? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-jones-murder-mark-bridger-found-guilty/659699/24 "2013-06-03T11:08:25Z")
> [@Eliahna](#): > > I’m guessing this thread didn’t really go as you hoped, Quartz. > [@Quartz](#): > > I’m sure all Brit-dopers have been utterly appalled Wee, have any Brits chimed in? Maybe _they’re_ appalled, utterly. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-jones-murder-mark-bridger-found-guilty/659699/25 "2013-06-03T11:12:05Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Wee, have any Brits chimed in? Maybe _they’re_ appalled, utterly. At minimum, their cows are. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-jones-murder-mark-bridger-found-guilty/659699/26 "2013-06-03T12:48:42Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Wee, have any Brits chimed in? Maybe _they’re_ appalled, utterly. Yep, I did with a joke. I am, of course, appalled by what happened to the girl, and pleased that the murderer has been jailed for life - and that it will mean life for him. I consider these feelings so obvious and uncontroversial that there was no need to mention them before. Joking about tragedy doesn’t mean one isn’t appalled by it, but that there’s nothing one can do about it, or say about it that will change anything, so one may as well joke. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-jones-murder-mark-bridger-found-guilty/659699/27 "2013-06-03T13:09:19Z")
Well. This is odd. I think Quartz’s comment about Britdopers was referencing the fact that this case is very well known over here, but not so much elsewhere. Not saying that it’d be A-OK in America. The search happened when I was staying very near Mold, and I used to date someone from Machynlleth and spent a lot of time there; it’s the kind of town where everyone would think it was OK to let their child play out with friends. Pretty much everyone knew each other, employment is relatively high, the residential roads were quiet, it was surrounded by mountains and had a big hippy contingent, and there was just an air of happy calm over the whole town. That’s why it’s a bigger story than you might expect - it’s like something from a horror movie. ---
**Author:** ![GomiBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@GomiBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GomiBoy)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-jones-murder-mark-bridger-found-guilty/659699/28 "2013-06-03T13:47:57Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > At minimum, their cows are. An American expat in Britain, I must reply to this - the cows are not appalled, they are mad. Big difference. Hearty second to ‘raping then sticking knives in children before chopping them up and burning them’ is bad. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-jones-murder-mark-bridger-found-guilty/659699/29 "2013-06-03T15:00:50Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > That would be an altogether too obvious attempt for an insanity defense. When my wife gets fed up with all the time I’m spending here, I’m going to show her threads like this and use _The **Inanity** Defense_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-jones-murder-mark-bridger-found-guilty/659699.md?page=1)