Removed by time and space

This will be brief but also in "sad but true" realm.
A short talk with a publisher representative provided a harsh reality check a while back as did the horrible event in Aurora. Colorado a few days ago.
The publisher's rep reminded me that the murder of Stacey Burns, as  enormously important it is to that first close circle of family and friends, actually loses its momentum as the story moves outward in distance and time. The general population of Boston is not nearly as attuned to the story as people in Wolfeboro or even all of New Hampshire. In our Tucson paper several days ago, right before the attack in Aurora, there were stories about three murders in one day! Now we have dozens killed or maimed just because they happened to go to a movie!
This is just another reason why I want to keep the Stacey Burns case stirred up. Otherwise, it faces the possibility of  fading away under the numbing onslaught of other daily atrocities that are not separated by time and distance but are in our face over and over again.
Every case is important to someone.
Duker