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Thanks to Mat for sharing this. I somehow missed it.

Overton Park Body identified as woman, 47
Memphis police said Tuesday that a woman found dead in Overton Park last week is Teresa Durene Oursler. Oursler, 47, was found beside a seldom-used path near the golf course in the park Thursday evening. Police found clothes and blankets by her body, indicating Oursler had been camping out. Police said they found no signs of a struggle in the heavily wooded area. They are still awaiting a ruling on the cause of death from the Shelby County Medical Examiner’s Office.

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So today, there was an earthquake in Arkansas. Aaron and I are sitting here trying to work out what was going on at the time it happened this morning. We can’t remember if there was anything particularly memorable. I remembered a feeling that there was sort of a rumbling feeling/sound recently, but then I remembered that was just Jeepers the cat playing in the foyer with her baseball. EJ blogged today about being able to feel the quake, and I think he’s in Midtown, too, so maybe I just took it as another airplane or rumbling truck. My apartment is loud in so many ways that I easily could have incorporated the feeling and sound into one of my version of “normal” here.

The newspaper had the below picture on the front page, and apparently this is the picture of that medical examiner after his antics a while back. The quesion is whether he actually faked this whole thing for attention. If he did, that is so messed up!!

If you want to read the whole story, log into the Commercial Appeal using BugMeNot.

Do what?!

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I just woke up to Mike’s blog post about the recent events in Midtown. It reminded me that my response to these events have not been reasoned or critical. They have been purely emotional. I don’t expect anything less given where I live, but it’s important to remember. I posted a comment on his blog, and here’s what I said:

Because I’m so close to the park, my response to these events has been all emotion. I haven’t had the calm disposition to be my usual critical self, so I’m glad you posted this. It’s important for me to keep perspective.

The reports have basically played into my fears. There is a very tall man "on the loose" in my neighborhood whom a police officer couldn’t even catch. A white woman (of which I am one) was found dead across the street. Everyone else is freaking, too. These reports together are enough to keep me scared. No, I haven’t thought of getting a gun, but I have thought there must be some cheap way to put an alarm on the back door or at least one of those fake security stickers.

I’m still not going for a late-night walk in the park! Not that I would have anyway.

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Addendum
To review, here are all of my posts on this topic:

• Gotta Question For the Memphis Bloggers
• Body Found in Park
• Another Picture
• Something Just Ain’t Right Here
• Oddly, This Makes Me Feel A Little Better…

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To know that other people are freaked, too:

… For folks who live right across the street it is the second scary incident in just a few days.

"Siren after siren, cops, you know, coming, here comes one… and so we thought what in the world and so we finally got up cause we can’t sleep through that. And looked out and thought well, the cops are back over there where they found the body the other night." Jeff Zuber says.

Elise Pugh live near Overton Park.

"I kind of thought it might freak me out a little bit but really it’s been more like watching it unfold right outside the windows."

One building over, Jeff Zuber is reacting very differently to this week’s "excitement".

Jeff Zuber is also a concerned neighbor.

"It’s just kind of a feeling of unsafe, unsafeness, and it’s this feeling we’ve had cause we just moved here from Texas and I’ve never considered having a handgun before until we moved here."

Two separate incidents have shaken up this part of midtown this week. First a body found in woods Thursday night. Then early Sunday morning, a Memphis policeman shot, the gunman still on the loose…

Just watch that video (Firefox users: You’re gonna have to open Evil IE for this one). I feel more like the guy in the video than like the woman. And I’m telling you, I couldn’t be closer to where this happened. There is honestly no building closer than mine, which is why I saw it all happen outside my window. I am freaked… definitely, but I’m hanging in there. Just feeling awfully "on alert."

Shit, I hope the "shooter on the loose" isn’t the killer returning to the scene of the crime. Jeezy creezy. Just jeezy creezy.

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Hubba Hubba!

Irish actor Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and New York actress Camryn Manheim strolled across the lawn of Graceland Saturday with her tossing out feed for the chickens and him trying to soothe her ruffled feathers.

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