Google product boss cuffed on suspicion of murder after his Microsoft manager wife goes missing, woman's body found, during Hawaii trip Sonam Saxena, a product manager at Google Cloud, was arrested in Hawaii this week on suspicion of second-degree murder. The Hawaii Police Department said Saxena, 43, was cuffed in conjunction with an investigation into the death of a woman, who was found Wednesday morning near Anaehoomalu Bay in the district of South Kohala on …
You're maybe haven't been here long.
There is a reason the top of the page is red.
And, yes this is newsworthy, yes it is related to tech companies. It might not be a story about the latest windows vulnerability (bad choice of words, my bad) but that doesn't mean it should be on here. Are you only after the stories that are less human?
I think El Reg has done good job of sticking to the facts as they are presented without descending to the depths of true Red-Top journalism.
For my part, I found it informative about how Microsoft and Google have similar cloudy roles but are not so paranoid about eachother that a couple couldn't each be working for the other's 'enemy'.
Seriously? I get that you're desperate to be an edgelord and all, but take shitty comments like that to 4chan where they belong.
If he did it, murder is no laughing matter. If he didn't, then grief is no laughing matter. Either way, two young girls have lost their mother and that will hugely affect them for the rest of their lives.
I sincerely hope that you never have to deal with any emotional trauma even slightly like this.
The old adage is that comedy = tragedy + time. Just what the lower bound on time should be accepted is something that varies wildly per person; for some that lower bound happens to be zero(which doesn't necessarily imply callousness).
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>belt tightening one must no succumb to the temptation to become just another tabloid rag.
I'm glad the Reg is a tabloid rag, it's why we are all here. Many centuries ago when I was a young paperboy delivering to the poshest houses in my area, they all loved a copy of the News of The Screws delivered with their Sunday Times or Observer, so please put your snobbery away, you know you really love the gutter.
El Reg's core mission is the enrichment of the planet with the most groanworthy puns and cleverest wordplays in their headlines and subheads.
Alas, tech-related tragedies also play their part.
Google employees are all-too-human too.
This seems to be a fairly common mistake killers* make when trying to appear traumatised by the disappearance. They aren't genuinely traumatised, so don't usually think like someone who is and little (or not so little) signals begin to slip through the facade.
*Yes I know this one hasn't been proven. Just making a generalisation.
See also Tears of a Crime
It's amazing how obvious the little tells are once the experts point them out...
“ I never met someone with asthma going anywhere without their inhaler ....”
I’m a former Paramedic and also asthmatic.
I regularly went out for emergency calls where someone had forgotten an inhaler And was having an attack. I also find myself going to my pocket for mine only to realise is still on my bedside cabinet (nightstand for our occidental readers).
It happens way more than you realise.
Based on a _mountain_ of evidence, such as this story here: https://theregister.co.uk/2020/01/10/alphabet_drummond_quits/
...I think it is safe to conclude that young attractive women should not consort with anyone employed by google. They are much better off seeking out the warm embrace of bald middle-aged Norwegian dudes.
Because statistics.
It might not be there core mission but.......
http://femicide-watch.org/products/2019-study-global-homicide-gender-related-killings-women-and-girls-unodc
"Killings by intimate partners or family members 2017: A total of 87,000 women were intentionally killed in 2017. More than half of them (58 per cent) ̶ 50,000 ̶ were killed by intimate partners or family members. This means that 137 women across the world are killed by a member of their own family every day. This amounts to some six women being killed every hour by people they know."
There are around 1000 people a day dying of asthma. That’s over 40 people every hour.
Nobody is doubting the impact of femicide globally, but congratulations on belittling the impact of a disease that kills without concern of race, age or gender. Let’s not pre judge this case or would you rather be judge and jury before the facts?
Most people who are killed, are killed by people they know. Killers are far less likely to have a beef (real or imaginary) with strangers. I don't doubt that women come out on the wrong side of killings by intimate partners/family members, though.
Obvious the plods are not releasing details or at least all the details. I am not sure how they determined it was a homicide without information from the autopsy being released. What most fail to realize is in any suspicious death the ME and the plods will be looking for details that confirm or deny the story they have. And there is a lot little details that can contradict a plausible sounding story either from the scene or the autopsy.
"I am not sure how they determined it was a homicide without information from the autopsy being released."
To some extent it's their job to assume the worst. At the very least a missing person is something to be investigated as is a sudden death once the body turns up. As there is at least the possibility of homicide arresting the most likely suspect would be a precaution. Note also that he was released, suggesting that until the full PM results are in it's an open case.
On the subject of dodgy media coverage, the Science Channel just broadcast the predictable death of Mad Mike Hughes.
He was trying to prove the Earth is flat, and he certainly made it a little bit flatter.
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