The woman who disappeared inside her own home

Mental illness is a bitch.

Very well done story. Heartbreaking, but an easy read. Another reminder that the stories are out there. It's up to reporters to find and tell them.

Was surprised to learn at the end that it wasn't suicide.

On a side note, I hate that the link is to Tampabay.com. While I think it's smart of them to have grabbed that domain name, it's stupid to make the St. Petersburg Times brand subordinate to the Tampabay.com brand.

Boston Globe does the same thing and it makes no sense to me.

 

Good lord, that is incredible storytelling.

 

The best part of this story was the decision to pursue it.
How many papers still put in the necessary resources and then turn over their 1A Sunday cover to tell an out-of-market tale like that?
Ten?
That's the beauty of the Times. They still care about the story.
(They also had a small special section today on the history of the Shuttle program.)
I need to change my handle to 4901ASGrad. Good job, fellas.

 

Agreed that Kruse is great and definitely stands out even at the SPT. This isn't his most in-depth or flashiest story, but for some reason it stands out as my favorite: http://www.tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/growing-segment-of-america-worries-about-going-hungry/1166330

 

Nouns and verbs. Nouns and verbs. Nouns and verbs. Forever and ever, Amen.

 

These are the kinds of stories newspapers should be doing, instead of a lot of the crap that is being produced, printed, put online and promoted.

 

Thanks for posting, DD.

And thank you, St. Pete Times, for existing. My favorite newspaper in America, perhaps, for championing this kind of narrative journalism.

 

That story never gets done if

a. Kruse doesn't pitch it and
b. The paper has a writer such as Kruse with the pull to do as he pleases.