I was contacted by a producer for KOIN, who heard about my on-going work looking into Amanda's life, the circumstances leading up to her dropping her children from the Sellwood Bridge in May 2009 (lead up as in, decades), how the community responded well and badly, who wants to keep things hidden and why. This will not all be revealed, I am sure, in a two-minute clip, but Amy Frazier, the interviewer, is a super-pro and I am in her good hands. The piece will be part of the 11pm newscast tonight, January 10, KOIN-TV Portland, Channel 6.
Some of you have read the essays I posted in 2009-2011 about Amanda. Those are currently offline as the book, "To the Bridge," is written. We had interesting, sometimes heated conversations on this blog, and I invite you as always to be in contact with me.
You're terrifically appealing on TV Nancy but you've got a slight case of vocal fry. Funny, because that's usually a teenage thing.
Posted by: Stu Harris | January 13, 2013 at 09:09 AM
I tend to speak very fast, sometimes to the point where listeners are making "agh! Slow it down!" gestures. Perhaps I overcorrected for the camera.
Posted by: Nancy Rommelmann | January 13, 2013 at 09:37 AM
BTW I thought KOIN's videographer and editor (plus director if there was such a person) covered the story really well.
Posted by: Stu Harris | January 14, 2013 at 10:15 AM
I don't understand how you can say or believe that "she loved her children." I think you are making something complicated that isn't so. You seem to suggest that those who would call her a "monster" somehow lack understanding, as if we have a problem because we don't know or are simplifying it. You know, a bullet to the head would've been so much more compassionate. The children died painfully. They felt terror beyond imagination. And from their own Mother who should have protected them. Did they scratch her & claw trying to get away or did they fearfully submit. You are right about my not understanding. I don't understand why some people don't understand that she is selfish & unfeeling. She said the killed the children to get back at her husband. I think she is a sociopath. There is no why. That is the answer. Evil exists. She is evil.
Posted by: Brett | March 02, 2013 at 01:05 AM