Was out walking my dog before with my husband when I mentioned how ridiculous this whole circus has become. He laughed and recalled how fixated I had been back in the day when Raol Moat had gone on the rampage before hunkering down in the woods.
I remember being obsessed with all the Sky News coverage and staying up all night to watch grainy night vision footage.
I told him it wasn't the same. Shit was actually real time happening back then and reporting in that way was in its infancy. It then struck me what I think the issue is here.
We have become a nation of greedy drama feeders. You can access click-bait "watch the end" clips where Karen's cause chaos in seconds and "real-life footage that will shock you" is just at our fingertips.
It's hard to accept she may have just fallen in so every Tom, Dick and Harry are pouring over every single detail: the dog, her partner, her friends, her social media, her kids, her habits, her finances and on and on and on.
I worry how disappointed people will be when she floats up to the surface. But then I guess there is always the next mystery to solve.