I’m always amazed at how quickly stories come and go.
They explode in the headlines for a few days, then slowly fade out of sight, if not out of mind.
I was reminded this again when I saw the photo of Ernest Rayfield. He’s the 88-year-old Springfield man who has been charged in the murder of his ailing 87-year-old wife.
She had been battling Alzheimer’s and was in failing health for years. They had been married 63 years. Rayfield apparently resisted efforts to move his wife out of the home they shared for more than half a century.
He’s been in jail since his arrest on Aug. 29.
“From everything I’ve heard and seen, he really loved his wife,” said defense attorney J. Scott O’Keefe.
One thing about this story has not changed. It remains just unbearably sad.
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