KCRG, engaging in the usual hand wringing about Collin Richards

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Of course since Ms. Barquin's murderer was a white dude we're now getting subjected to the usual bullshit about what a troubled young man Richards was.

Police in Ames had repeated interactions with a troubled drifter in the weeks between his release from prison and his alleged killing of a star student golfer from Spain.

Ames police reports show that 22-year-old Collin Richards struggled with drug and alcohol abuse, mental health problems and homelessness after he got out of prison in June.

Records released to The Associated Press show that Richards' name also came up in a criminal investigation in which several officers served a warrant at the home of one of his associates in August.

I don't seem to recall all this hand wringing going on after Mollie's killer was taken in to custody from KCRG or any other media organizations here in Iowa.