Buena Vista Township, MI: Woman whose website tracks police violence, including the Kenneth Bluew case: "It's a different kind of afraid"

Published: Tuesday, September 13, 2011, 2:22 PM
By Kathryn Lynch-Morin | The Saginaw News

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Suspended Buena Vista Township police officer Kenneth Bluew is charged in the strangulation death of Jennifer Webb and her unborn son. Photo courtesy of Saginaw County Jail
Suspended Buena Vista Police Officer Kenneth Bluew charged in Jennifer Webb's death gallery (5 photos)
Even though she suffered violence at the hands of her law enforcement officer husband, she didn't start blogging about the situation until the police chief in her hometown killed his wife and himself.

"I didn't know know her, I didn't know the police chief, but all I could think was 'How long had she been afraid?,'" said Cloud Writer, a woman whose blog features media reports on domestic violence, homicide and abuse cases involving law enforcement officers from across the country.

Cloud Writer is a pseudonym the woman writes under to protect herself.


Her most recent entries feature Buena Vista Township Police Officer Kenneth Bluew and how he facing charges in the death of an eight-months-pregnant Jennifer Webb.

"It's a different kind of afraid, because you can't go to the police," she said from her West Coast home.

Since she began the blog, her site has featured nearly 20 fatal cases involving law enforcement officers in Michigan alone.

But, she said, it's not a rare occurrence, as shown by the thousands of blog entries on her website, Behind the Blue Wall, which the author said she hopes will shine a light on officer-involved domestic violence.