In a message dated 2/7/2001 7:24:55 AM Pacific Standard Time,
maxjoyce@IPA.NET writes:

> Not sure who's funding this campaign, but it does have tourism implications
> for sure.  Novel method of crimefighting for sure. Wonder if Briscoe and
Green are behind it!

The family of Kristin Ann Laurite, the 25-year-old young woman who was
brutally murdered and raped in broad daylight at the Arkansas rest stop, is
funding the campaign with their own money and privately donated funds.
Probably doesn't seem so novel when it's your own daughter.

"America's Most Wanted," as mentioned in the previous post, is helping in the
search for clues and witnesses by covering the story which is tentatively set
to air February 23, 2001.

For those who don't know the story, and how it originally ended up on the
Vanagon list; Kristin was a member of our sister list, the type2 list, and
was driving her VW bus from New Jersey to California this past summer where
she would have started her new job as a school teacher. She had stopped in
the Arkansas rest area to call her mother back in New Jersey and tell her of
her progress in the journey. She was raped and murdered in an overgrown area
near the rest stop after that call.

Information is available on the Internet at:

http://www.kvom.com/lauriteflyer.htm

http://www.yourvw.com/Kristin/

Jeff
83.5 Westy
LA, CA