Comments on: I Know Who Killed Wendy Hile

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By: tallsuziek

tallsuziek — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 04:55:19 +0000

I also went to the same high school and graduated in ’73 and my sister knew both Wendy and Mark. We were just sitting here remembering how sad we felt when it all took place.

I recently saw a documentary about a woman whose husband was murdered. She shared the story of her hatred of the man who killed her husband and how she could never forgive him for what he had done.She had been robbed of the man she loved. Her children had been robbed of their father. She spent years letting her life waste away with hatred. She talked about all the reasons she had and her “right” to hate the way she did. And she did!!

She shared her journey of going to meet the mother of the man who killed her husband. She was prepared to hate her for raising such a foul man. She found instead a sad and broken woman grieving for what her son had done. She then went to the prison to face the man who had murdered her husband. She asked him Why? She let him talk. Nothing he could say would ever really satisfy her grieving heart. She told him how much she hated him for what he had taken from her. And she cried. She told him she couldn’t forgive him yet, but that she would. And later she did. And she began to rebuild her life.

Her story left an impression on my heart…….

By: David W. Boles

David W. Boles — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 23:39:54 +0000

Thanks for sharing your memory, Marc. I was about ten years behind you and I remember the terror today as if it were yesterday. What was it like living it all in real time with it all happening around you every day?

By: Marc Nagele

Marc Nagele — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 23:24:42 +0000

I went to the same high school and graduated in ’73 although I was still living in the neighborhood when this happened in ’74. It was a long ordeal that dredges up a lot of memories reading about it again

By: Evangelical Christians Resurrect the Son of Sam | Carceral Nation

Evangelical Christians Resurrect the Son of Sam | Carceral Nation — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:00:05 +0000

[...] was recently attacked by a “redeemer believer” after I published my, “I Know Who Killed Wendy Hile” article, and the fakery and the artifice of the argument that we should celebrate [...]

By: David W. Boles

David W. Boles — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:55:25 +0000

kvrtiska –
Thank you for your genuine and heartfelt comment.
I appreciate the fear and terror you describe — wondering about Wendy and what happened to her was foreign and uncertain and it obviously marked those of us who lived through the murder and the lies. The Midwestern innocence was lost.
We must remember Wendy. I hope you will tell your children about her — and precisely what Mark did to her — and then your children must pass down that known wickedness to their children and grandchildren and so on forever so we will always have a common touchstone of a warning against just how low some of us can go as a being… but never as a human one.

By: kvrtiska

kvrtiska — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:44:48 +0000

I knew neither Wendy or Mark but was growing up in Table Rock at the time this horrible crime occurred. All I knew as a young boy was that something awful had happened and was very frightened seeing my father on the TV news helping in the search for remains. It was at this time that my parents starting locking the doors at night with the fear that was rooted in this act. I recently went back and read the old local newspaper from the time period as I wasn’t totally educated on the crime at the time. I often wondered to myself what happened to Mark or what his sentence was. Thanks for that info. I often wish that my children could have a childhood like I did but I know that crimes such as this one and dozens of others have brought us to where we are today

By: David W. Boles

David W. Boles — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:34:20 +0000

It was my honor to introduce you to Wendy Hile, Anne. You make an excellent point that Wendy’s rape and murder would fit perfectly in a cable channels niche like — Discovery/TRUtv/History — and their series of True Crime stories. What a wonderment it would be if they rediscovered Wendy’s story and then updated it with a “Where are they now?” update intercut shots of Wendy’s grave? People would be sickened and outraged by the facts of the case.

By: anne90210

anne90210 — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:10:22 +0000

Bravo, David! Standing ovation here. Don’t let the snide people stop you. Keep up the good work here as you have everywhere you go with your blogs. Thanks to you, I now know Wendy Hile and, I too, can remember her and remember who did what to her. Speaking of a wider audience, do you think the cable TV crime shows might show some interest?

By: David W. Boles

David W. Boles — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:53:26 +0000

Dear “Archangel Stein” –
What a curious username to employ in defense of a rapist and murderer! I’m surprised you are standing with Mark instead of Wendy today.
What is your real name? We do not allow anonymous comments on the blog unless we can publicly identify precisely who we are speaking to in total — so if you want to continue this conversation, you will have to verifiably reveal who you are to our readers. Your IP address is with Charter.com and it appears you are coming to us via Scottsbluff, NE. If that isn’t the right town, then our next best guesses are Kearney or Grand Island. Which town are you from and what year did you leave Lincoln?
Having this sort of public discussion about Mark’s rape and murder of Wendy is important and we thank you for contributing for the discussion. Everything helps remember her and condemn him. Perhaps the local media in Lincoln will wake up and write a follow-up article about Wendy and Mark after all these years. I hope at least one person a day for the rest of Mark’s life will ask him, “Why did you rape and murder Wendy Hile and will your rape and murder again?” Let him publicly own his crimes and address them every day he breathes.
The Nebraska media are currently going crazy writing about Jerry Ewing — who was recently pardoned after spending 44 years in prison for first degree murder when he didn’t kill anybody! The man who actually pulled the trigger was released 20 years ago. I believe that story pales in comparison with Wendy Hile’s rape and murder.
http://www.ketv.com/news/21576900/detail.html
I also find it wildly fantastic that Bill Ayers was dis-invited from speaking at UNL because of his political connection to President Obama while Mark Goldsberry allegedly stands in the UNO registrar’s office signing student transcripts as a university employee. That, to me, is the definition of disconnected madness.
Should people like like Mark Goldsberry be required today to register with the State Patrol as a sex offender?
http://www.nsp.state.ne.us/SOR/
I wonder if there’s any trepidation in the notion that Mark Goldsberry is propagating his DNA into the future while Wendy Hile moulders in her grave. In 1881, Henrik Ibsen wrote, “The sins of the father are visited upon the children” — and so one must be concerned for the sowing of past wrath into our now and our overlong tomorrows while also wondering what sort of woman would open herself to giving life to a rapist and murderer’s seed.
Starkweather didn’t live in my neighborhood, so my visceral connection to him isn’t the same as Mark Goldsberry’s rape and killing of Wendy Hile.
In 1970, Lincoln’s population was 149,518 not 200,000 — but a child’s world isn’t the city — a child’s world is a subset of the neighborhood.
There were certainly pockets of cornfields. Perhaps you weren’t looking in the right places. I understand you’re trying to attack my memory to press away the intention of my article that I know Mark Goldsberry killed Wendy Hile — and while I understand the effort, I don’t respect the intention.
In what way has Mark Goldsberry redeemed his rape and murder? Has he done work with rape victims and the families of murdered children? Or has he only spent his life reconstituting his personal wants and wishes? Imprisonment of 14 years can never be enough of a human punishment for the magnitude of his crimes. He may have “paid his debt” to society under the law, but he owes so much more on the human scale of compassion and understanding ruled by a grander, social, notion of what is right and wrong.
I have no interest in the redemption of Mark Goldsberry.
I only want to remember Wendy Hile.