Post by Jeanne Sager
I can't help but wonder if the murder of Starbucks barista Whitney Heichel has haunted so many of us because we look at her and see a young woman newly married, ready for life's big adventures. I know that's what I see. It's the same thing I think when I look at photos of Amanda Holt, wife of Jonathan Holt, the neighbor accused of murdering Whitney after asking her for a ride. Amanda is a young wife too. She too had her whole life ahead of her with her husband, with friends like Whitney. And now that's been taken all away. She is a victim -- not in the same way as Whitney's widower Clint Heichel and his family -- but a victim all the same.![]()
I can't help but wonder if the murder of Starbucks barista Whitney Heichel has haunted so many of us because we look at her and see a young woman newly married, ready for life's big adventures. I know that's what I see. It's the same thing I think when I look at photos of Amanda Holt, wife of Jonathan Holt, the neighbor accused of murdering Whitney after asking her for a ride. Amanda is a young wife too. She too had her whole life ahead of her with her husband, with friends like Whitney. And now that's been taken all away. She is a victim -- not in the same way as Whitney's widower Clint Heichel and his family -- but a victim all the same.