Talk:Murder of Leslie Mahaffy

message: I have removed the reference to bernardo as a "semen smuggling bastard." While it's possible that he was indeed a semen smugggler born without a father, this is still uncalled for and adds nothing to an otherwise objective article.
:I believe you mean it's possible that he was born out of wedlock.  It isn't possible that he was born without a father, unless he's Jesus. —Daelin 14:01, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Objectivity 

message: Took this out:   She had openly rebelled against her parents during the school year and had skipped school, engaged in promiscuous sex, and ran away from home on at least two occasions. Her academic standing had suffered as a result. She is also said to have shoplifted and repeatedly stayed out past her curfew. 
This info is unnecessary and has no bearing on her kidnapping and murder. The last sentence verges on libel (just *who* is saying that she shoplifted??).
:The authors of Deadly Innocence state this around p. 21 of their book.  However, I didn't put it back in during a revision today.  I didn't think it was all that important.  That she ran away twice prior to her murder matters to her final story, but not that she had done some (how much?) shoplifting.  A lot more relevant is that she wore braces, something which helped identify her body.   Regarding libel, the legal rule is that you cannot libel the dead (in other words, you can say whatever you like, but not get sued for libel by the dead person's estate).  Being dead, Mahaffy doesn't fall into WP:BLP, either.  Even so, details of her life should have good verifiable citations. -- LisaSmall T/C 08:16, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shoplifting removed 

message: Did they make any public statements subsequent to her disappearance and murder? I'm wondering how they dealt with their actions the night of her kidnapping.
:Her mother, Debbie (Debby? Debbi?) Mahaffey, is quoted in the MSNBC documentary "To Love And To Kill." -- LisaSmall T/C 03:38, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: "At times struggling to retain their composure while speaking on the CBC's National Magazine, the four - Donna and Doug French, together with Deborah and Dan Mahaffy - addressed many issues ..."
and
"The timing of the Oct. 5 interview, which was followed by a similar appearance the next morning on CTV's Canada AM ..."
http://www.encyclopediecanadienne.ca/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=M1ARTM0010494  AlkaloidMan (talk) 09:44, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Parents

message: The deletion discussion in April 2007 ended with "keep."  I probably would have voted to merge and delete.  The killers' other two victims have their own articles, and possibly all three should be merged onto single subpage of the killer's own pages.  That aside, I've found Mahaffy referred to as both "Mahaffey" and "Mahaffy" and can't tell which is the erroneous spelling yet.  I set up a redirect from "Mahaffey" to the current article and added citations for five books, a documentary, and a biopic. The whole article needs citations.  -- LisaSmall T/C 03:38, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Name spelling, deletion

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thread_title:  I go to the school she went