In true chismis fashion, I first heard about the murders via the UP Diliman chatroom. One of the chatters said that actress Nida Blanca was found stabbed inside her car that morning. True enough, there it was in the Inquirer's late breaking news. It was all over the newspapers, the radio, the tv news every hour. In the afternoon, while I sat in a theatre fully packed with students lounging in the aisles, the trailer for a forthcoming Joyce Jimenez movie was shown, and murmurs spread like bees around me: Nida Blanca is dead, and in a gruesome, truly horrifying way. My sympathy to all her friends and family.