Missing Mother, Revealed to be a Murder

The News story that I paid the most attention to while watching news broadcasts this break was the story of the missing mother, Karla Villagra, originally reported missing February 23^rd by her husband Abayuba Rivas.  As of March 20^th broadcasts, however, it turns out that she had been murdered.  Her body was found in an abandoned log cabin 11 miles from her home.  After closer investigation of the murder, it turns out that the husband’s story did not add up, saying that after a fight the night that she went missing, she walked to a pharmacy a mile and a half away in order to purchase medication for their daughter.  Turns out that evidence proves that was not the case, and the husband was arrested and charged for her murder.

The first News Broadcast that I watched at 11pm on March 20 was News 4.  Aside from straight up telling about the updated news on this story, they proceeded to interview a neighboring woman of the family, who found it suspicious that Karla walked to the pharmacy considering the family owns two cars.  She said that Karla was such a sweet and loving mother, and she can’t believe that anyone would want to do harm to her.  Overall this broadcast took a very informative and general look.

As for my other news broadcast, Eyewitness News @ 11 on March 20 told the same story but was a bit more opinionated about the story.  Instead of just outright saying that the husband was charged with her murder, the anchorman gave a personal reaction to it.  The major difference between the first news channel and this was the interviewees.  This broadcast used an interview with the husband, Abayuba Rivas as well as another neighbor who said that the night she went missing, Rivas came by and asked if he had seen his wife, but he had acted as if nothing were wrong.

Both broadcasts used this picture, but they went separate directions in interviews and in how the information was delivered.  News 4 gave information without opinion, but Eyewitness News was much more abrasive when it came to the emotion that they were trying to bring about.