It was the news that I was hoping not to hear. For the past few days, I have been reading about Emma Agnew, a deaf woman from New Zealand. She went off to meet someone about selling her car and was missing for nearly two weeks. Christy Smith, a deaf participant on the Survivor show, posted information about Emma on her blog: The Search for Emma. Jamie Berke from About.com also urged readers to help find Emma.
This has a terrible, sad ending: Emma was found murdered. A 35-year-old man has been arrested, his identity has not been released. More can be found here: Deaf Community in Mourning.
My heart goes out to the family and the Deaf Community of New Zealand.
An interview with the family can be found here: Emma Agnew: Living Life to the Full.
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6 responses to “Emma Agnew, A Life Ended Too Soon”
This is so sad day for all of us. My heart goes out to her family.
-SG
I had a bad feeling about this. I was hoping that she wasn’t murdered, but unfortunately I wasn’t surprised. It’s very tragic. I feel for the family and the community.
A very sad day. 🙁
I had a bad feeling too, Mishkazena, but I was so hoping for good news…
Our heart goes out to her family for her family that Emma is not deserved of her life was too short for her.
Our prayer to her family,too.
My heart goes out to her family and friends.
Christy Smith was holding back. Emma Agnew had been one of her primary Ambassadors to New Zealand. The day she left the South Island for the North Island was the day that Liam Reid lured Emma to her doom, responding to her ad to sell her car over the internet.
People didn’t want her to respond to Reid’s offer alone, but Emma insisted on doing it herself, being the proud, Deaf individual she was. Reid raped her and murdered her, leaving her body naked in a perk outside Chistchurch and burning her car 20 miles away.
Reid had been ACQUITTED of Raping and trying to strangle his girlfriend in 2001.