Murder?

Last night I ate dinner with some buddies from high school. Apparently, a guy we all knew from high school, a stoner pacifist who was living in a hotel in San Rafael with his father ended up killing his father and cutting of his balls. I tried looking it up on google to find a news story, but could not. The story is too fucked up to even analyze. Why is it that the people from my high school that I hear about are all sad, sad stories....

1. A girl ends up in Hustler magazine
2. A friend shoots himself
3. A girl disappears on the Golden Gate bridge (she presumably jumped)
4. A guy impregnates a girl, who proceeds to murder the child
5. John Walker Lindh is identitified as the American Taliban
6. A different girl ends up on internet porn sites
7. And now a guy is caught having murdered his father and cutting off his balls.

I mean, at least we could have one big success story to counter-balance these....why do you never hear about this type of crap when you're growing up? All you hear about is, oh Robin Williams graduated from your school, or Pete Carol, blah, blah.