Saruti

We'll get into, like, kind of how the TV stations continued to, like, ramp up this narrative.

But I absolutely think it was ingrained in that sort of classist element to it.

Yeah, it really feels like it was hitting at that peak moment in the 90s where we were all watching like outrage chat shows like Maury and Jerry Springer.

Was Jerry Springer a bit earlier than that?

I don't know.

I feel like I've lost track of like time.

But you know what I mean?

That sort of overly sensationalized battle.

And this has it all.

Custody battles, sexual abuse allegations, parental alienation, a missing child.

It's just the dream scenario for these media outlets.

Yeah.

So as the days passed, the media frenzy raged on, with Linda and Marilyn busy locking horns in a fierce battle of the mums, both tearfully showing off handwritten notes and drawings of love hearts that Katie had supposedly scrawled for each of them, with both claiming that Katie loved her the most and wanted to live with her.

It all got so intense that Marilyn and Linda even started parading self-professed psychics around in front of the cameras,

all of whom claim to have insight into Katie's location.

And this is just so grim.

There's one particular prediction that led to a very bizarre scene that was, again, shown on TV, like rolling news, all of this, of bloodthirsty hacks digging up a freshly dug grave that turned out to contain nothing but the remains of somebody's dead pet dog.

Oh, my God.

It was also bonkers that it would almost have been comical.

It almost would have felt like a Jerry Springer, like, watch it and laugh along situation if it wasn't so serious.