The Things We Do For Love

Those crazy college kids. UT-Austin student Laura Ashley Hall was arrested by Austin police yesterday on charges she assisted murder suspect Colton Pitonyak in his flight to Mexico to avoid being arrested. On Tuesday, both Hall and Pitonyak were kicked out of Mexico. U.S. Marshals were waiting on the north side of the Rio Grande and took Pitonyak into custody. The debonair Mr. Pitonyak was thereupon given a free ride in a real police car, all the way back to Austin. He was charged with the murder of Austin legal secretary Jennifer Cave over his missing cell phone.

A police report quotes Ms. Hall as stating that the whole thing is a huge misunderstanding. That her paramour, the dashing young Mr. Pitonyak, a junior at UT majoring in finance, accidentally shot Ms. Cave. We await further explanations from the co-ed on whether her boyfriend also accidentally stabbed Ms. Cave repeatedly and accidentally dismembered her body with a hacksaw. Ms. Hall went on to explain to the police that the trip to Mexico was nothing more than a romantic get-away for two young lovers, not a flight to avoid prosecution.

One might suggest that the next time Ms. Hall goes looking for love, that she set her sights a little higher. Mr. Pitonyak doesn't appear to have been the brightest bulb on the tree. The Austin American-Statesman says a hotel clerk in Mexico remembers the young man asking him upon checkin, "Do they extradite in Mexico?"