I watched "Circle of Friends" on NBC Saturday night, and frankly, I wasn't surprised by any of the details of Adrianne Reynolds death, or the fact that Sara Colb and Cory Gregory ended up being convicted of her murder. I have been following this whole story since the very beginning, because I live in the Quad Cities too. I cried along with the murdered girl's father and step-mother, and even felt sorry for Cory's Folks. You raise your kids with the best of intentions,and hope for the best, but when something like this occurs, what can a father do, but cry?
What did surprise me, was Sara Colb's parents. Or, shall I say, the lack thereof? They weren't mentioned. No names. No pictures. No interview.Not even a word as to why they were not going to be talked about...as though they never existed. Why? I could understand it, if they simply said, Sara's family is so mortified by what she has done that they refused to be interviewed,but the NBC reporter didn't even give us that much. Just a blank space where that should have been.
I'll never forget how they wound up the piece. Shots of both Cory and Adrianne's fathers in tears, weeping for their children. One because he will never see his son outside of prison for the rest of his life....and the other, reading a poem he wrote to his daughter, whom he will never see again,as the tears ran down his face. A lovely 16 year old girl whose major crime was to like a boy that Sara Colb had decided to keep for herself.
But isn't there another parent? A Mother or a Father whose life is also shattered because their little girl has done something terrible? I feel sorry for them. And, perhaps the reason they didn't come forth and talk about Sara, is because they are so heartbroken, they can't bring themselves to even acknowledge what has happened.
And, if that is the case, we will probably never know, the rest of the story.
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