I am totally disappointed and disgusted with the Sun Journal’s March 31 front page. I have lived here all my life and read the paper regularly. That is going to change.

I have no personal relationship to the woman who was brutally murdered in Auburn on March 29, so this letter is nothing more than one human being’s opinion of another human being.

How dare editors write as a caption, for the front-page picture, “The Sun Journal understands the material is graphic and disturbing, but accurately shows the crime scene”? Whose business is it to accurately see this poor woman’s bloody body? The photo editor could have at least blotted out where the body was. At what point did a person or group of people at the Sun Journal approve that story, and most of all, the picture to be used in the paper and on the news?

I think showing a deceased woman sprawled on her front lawn in a puddle of her blood just to “accurately show the crime scene” is tasteless, immoral and disrespectful to the woman, her family and friends. It was degrading, in poor conscience and unnecessary.

All of us, including the people that approved that photo being published, had mothers at one point. Did the editors ever once ask themselves, what if this were my loved one, my mother?

If not, they need to readjust their compass in life.

Tannette Fitzpatrick, Lewiston

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