Crime Time with Samantha Leary—When Existence Becomes Threatening

From the archives of Samantha Leary’s Crime Time Blog

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~Samantha Leary

Some people move through the world as though it owes them something.

Not attention, not kindness, not even acknowledgement—something more. Something claimed.

And when someone appears in the path of that claim, even without action, even without provocation… they become an obstacle.

I’ve seen it in interviews, in survivor accounts, in the quiet tension of a crime scene.

The target isn’t loud. She doesn’t provoke. She exists.

Her presence alone triggers justification. I deserve this. She is in the way.

Entitlement creates danger long before hands touch or voices raise.

It manifests in the way someone watches, calculates, waits.

It lingers in rooms, in pauses, in choices made or withheld.

And the people who survive it? They carry it in subtle ways—how they enter spaces, how they speak, what they leave behind, what they never quite turn away from.

Crimes often end, files close, investigations wrap.

But the pattern—the way someone believes they are owed, the way they see others as obstacles—remains.

I watch for it. I note it. Because understanding it doesn’t stop it… but it explains why some things, some people, never should have been in the way at all.