Kenneth Brunetti and Lois Smyth reconnected two years via Facebook in order to plan and prepare their high school reunion. Several months after their rekindling, on May 29, 2011, Brunetti asked Smyth to meet him with the pretense of arriving together to a cookout, when he took her to secluded area of the woods, where he allegedly shot her in the head, and took her car keys and bank card, withdrawing $700 from an ATM and later appeared at crab fest in her stolen car. Smyth was found dead near a stream, where she had rolled to, by a jogger who made the call at 6:12 p.m.
Ian Duncan makes his position evident by providing extensive details of the situation, such as how they first became rekindled, the exact times in which Brunetti called Smyth on the day of her murder, the time the jogger found the body, and the time Brunetti was caught on video at the ATM. He also includes thorough background on the accused, recounting his first offense at 17, where he was tried for armed robbery in juvenile court, his 2004 carjacking, and that he was on probation at the time he reconnected with Smyth. His placement of each of his facts also allows him to portray Brunetti as guilty. He begins the article by describing the general facts thats outline the case, and includes a quotation by Brunetti's attorney, Margaret Mead, that claims that Brunetti cared about this woman, and there is no possible way he could have done it. Duncan then includes all of his facts and details about the case and the accused's history of crime. This stacks the evidence against him, and discredits anything his attorney might say. Duncan finishes the article, however, by again including a statement by Mead providing one piece of evidence that can potentially clear the charges against Brunetti, saying that the medical examiner sets the time of death to a time in which Brunetti was not in the woods. This conclusion allows Duncan to appear neutral by displaying evidence from both sides, while still maintaining his own beliefs through withdrawing Meads second statement until the very end, minimizing it to two lines.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/blog/bs-md-ci-brunetti-conviction-20130103,0,7473387.story
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