When a mother leaves her child in the care of others, she only does so when she’s certain that her little one will be safe with whoever is looking after them. That’s a mother’s responsibility and one most take seriously.

Lindsey didn’t think twice about leaving Kane with her boyfriend. They were close already and Lindsey had no reason to be suspicious about anything. Then again, accidents do happen, although sometimes they aren’t really accidents…

Role Model

Gyasi said he adored Kane and he often played with with him when the little one was bored. While Kane was just a touch past his second birthday, his mom’s boyfriend was a real father figure in his life, and was even considered to be a “role model” for the toddler after his mother and father divorced soon after his birth.

Responsible Babysitter

Lindsey worked a lot and often needed to keep unsociable hours due to the nature of her job. Fortunately for her, and for Kane, her boyfriend Gyasi had a more flexible schedule and was always happy to step in and babysit Kane when Lindsey was at work or running errands. It was no trouble at all for Gyasi as he loved Kane and always found something fun for the two of them to do together, despite their age difference…

Dinner Time

Mom was out the house and it was just the boys at home. Well, there was a girl there too; Kane’s baby half sister who was sound asleep in her nursery. Gyasi prepared some food for an early supper as he and Kane communicated about what they would play after they had eaten.

What To Play?

Whatever they had decided to play never actually happened though, after Kane apparently fell over somewhere in the house. He sure was crying and making a big deal of it, and as soon as Gyasi heard the ruckus he rushed upstairs to locate the boy, treading carefully so as not to wake the baby girl who was sleeping. He found Kane, worse for wear, sprawled out on the bathroom floor…

What Happened?

Gyasi claimed his instincts kicked in as his adrenaline pumped, trying to multitask a few different things at once. He alleges that after Kane fell and had some sort of accident, he carried him to his bedroom to let him lay down. He then went straight to check on the baby who he assumed would have stirred by now with all the noise in the house.

‘Very Tense’

According to Gyasi, Kane was “very tense” when he carried him to his bed to rest, whatever tense means in this case. He then went to check on the baby girl who, amazingly, was still asleep in her crib. When he returned to Kane’s room, the situation took a serious turn for the worse…

Not Moving

Now Gyasi was panicking, at least according to his version of the events on that fateful night of babysitting gone wrong. When he returned to check on Kane, he alleged, the boy was unresponsive and not moving. Gyasi was no doctor by any means but he knew he had to do something to help Kane.

Trying To Help

Gyasi said that despite his panicked state he rushed over to Kane and began shaking him in order to revive him. When that didn’t work, he took Kane to the bathroom and held his head and face under cold running water. However, nothing was helping to revive the boy whose condition was getting worse and worse moment by moment…

Straight To Hospital

It was at this point that Gyasi called Lindsey and told her what had happened. With that, she rushed home and arrived just as her boyfriend and a family friend were headed out the door on their way to St Elizabeth’s Hospital in Belleville. Kane was now vomiting violently and was losing color in his face and body rapidly.

Mother Shocked

Lindsey said that she was in total shock when she saw what state her son Kane was in. She soon followed to the hospital, thoughts rushing through her head all the way there about what had happened to her little boy. “I’ve never been in a situation like that before,” she said. “I’ve never seen a child hurt like that before in my life. I’ve never seen this before in my life. So it was just too much for me, after I held Kane.”

Special Treatment

Medical services afforded Kane the very best treatment possible, airlifting him from St Elizabeth’s to Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital in St. Louis for specialist treatment. However, whatever happened to Kane back at the house was enough for him to be pronounced dead soon after paramedics arrived. The staff at the hospital then contacted the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, who notified the sheriff’s department about the tragic incident.

No Injuries

Despite what investigators thought, Lindsey said she didn’t believe in her heart that her boyfriend hurt Kane in any way. As she said to reporters, “There was no physical injury on Kane at all —there was nothing on him. No bruises, no blood — nothing. He was just acting funny.” But why did police suspect foul play on behalf of Gyasi?

Just Happened

For his part, Gyasi promised Lindsey that he was innocent of any wrongdoing, “He swore up and down that it had just happened and he was getting ready to call me,” Lindsey said. During interview, Gyasi told police that while he didn’t see the child fall, he did hear a thud on the ceiling. When he found him, he claims, Kane was lying on his back on the bathroom floor, indicating he may have hit his head on the side of the tub or sink.

Forensic Contradictions

Suspicions that Gyasi had done something to hurt Kane were raised after the forensic pathologist working the case told police that “the bleeding on the brain could not have been caused from a fall onto a flat surface.” With that, Gyasi further raised suspicions when he texted his girlfriend saying, “they are accusing me” and “I’m already at the county.”…

No Killer

While Gyasi was questioned by police at the time he wasn’t formally charged. Gyasi has no history of violence and had no good reason to hurt Kane. The fact that when Lindsey returned home he was lovingly holding the boy in his arms on a reclining chair would not be the behavior one would expect from a child murderer.

Criminal Charges

For their own reasons, and reasons that will only become clear when the trial takes place, detectives feel they have a case to suggest that Gyasi did purposefully injure Kane on that night. While Lindsey told reporters, “Everything has been ripped away from me,” adding, “I’ve never really had much except for him and my kids,” she wrote to the judge on the case to request that Gyasi’s bail be significantly reduced.

Bail Request

Judge Zina Cruse originally set bail at $1 million for 24-year-old Gyasi Campbell. However, with that kind of figure for bail, Campbell wouldn’t be getting out of jail any time soon. Lindsey clearly doesn’t believe he’s guilty as she wrote a heartfelt letter to Judge Cruse, pleading with her to reduce the bail set for Gyasi.

Bail Reduced

For her own reasons, Judge Cruse saw fit to severely reduce Gyasi’s bail – from $1 million to just $150,000. That means that he would need to come up with at least $15,000 to get himself out of jail for now. And that would need to be $15,000 in cash…

First-Degree Murder

Prosecutors seemed pretty confident that they could secure a first-degree murder against Campbell, although they aren’t giving up the evidence they have against him easily. But Lindsey feels that the charge is a step to far, as she wrote, “I am not saying I think he should be free. I believe there is a proper charge & sentence for the death of my son. And I do not believe 1st degree murder is that charge.”

Living In Hope

It’s totally understandable that Lindsey wants closure by knowing for sure what happened to her son Kane on that night. In fact, it seems that the main thing she needs in order to move on with her life is closure, and that won’t come until her now-ex boyfriend Gyasi’s trial comes to court. For the time being, Lindsey said, “I feel like there are people that he knows and talks to that know what actually happened. And I feel like they should tell me.”

Grieving Mother Forgives Ex-Boyfriend Despite First Degree Charges is an article from: LifeDaily

Not everything in life is as straightforward as some people would like it to be. Sometimes we need to read between the lines to find hidden messages that we may otherwise have missed.

One teen from Texas soon learned this lesson after she failed to notice a message her mother left her in an old book. When she finally tracked the novel down, it finally made sense to her…

Gone Without A Trace

When Christine took her own life in a jail cell, she left no message and no explanation for her family whatsoever. This hurt Christine’s daughter the most as she couldn’t understand why her mother did what she did. It not only hurt her but the family she left behind, which included Christine’s son.

Struggling With Drug Addiction

Christine, 41 at the time, had struggled with drug addiction, crystal meth in particular, for many years prior. The only thing she left for her daughter was a bag of old books…

Fond Memories Of Her Mom

Sarah-Raspberry Epiphany Farmer believes her mother’s drug addiction contributed to the downward spiral. Still, Farmer, 19, had only good memories of her mother. Her earliest memories were formed along a creek in Joshua, Texas, where she spent every day with her parents.

Creek In Joshua, Texas

“Every day for 10 years, that creek bed in the middle of nowhere [consisted of] peace…Just utter happiness.” Farmer remembers both of her parents as loving and nurturing, instilling in her a love for books and art. This probably explains why she was named Raspberry…

Hippies

“My parents were hippies…They loved anything that was uncommon.” However, Farmer’s great-grandmother said that there was no way she was ever going to call anyone “Raspberry,” and that’s why Sarah was added to the name…

Fallen On Tough Times

But after Farmer’s parents divorced in 2010, her mother started doing meth and was in and out of jail a couple of times. Having grown up in a small town, Farmer knew everyone did drugs, but parents always kept it hush-hush around the kids. Then, there’s Farmer’s father, a tattoo artist.

Troll

He was otherwise known as “Troll,” and he died on New Years Day 2018. This tragedy came only a few months after he was diagnosed with colon cancer. Losing both of her parents was very difficult for Farmer and she held onto anything that would remind her of them…

“House Of Leaves”

That bag of books that Christine left for her daughter consisted of classics like “To Kill A Mockingbird,” House Of Leaves,” and a series of young adult novels written by Elle Hopkins. Not surprisingly, many of the books dealt with the ravages of crystal meth. Farmer read all of them after her mother’s death in 2013 but she couldn’t seem to tackle “House Of Leaves.”

Stained The Book’s Cover

It was an unconventional novel written by Mark Danielewski in 2000 and had remnants of paint left by her mother. Being an artist, Christine must have left flecks of a bluish-teal paint on the book’s cover…

Sold The Book

After becoming frustrated with the book and being unable to understand it, Farmer sold the book in 2014 to Half Price Books. However, after her father passed away, she started regretting her decision.

Searching For “House Of Leaves”

Having very few tangible memories of her parents, Farmer went out in search of the “House Of Leaves” book. She knew her chances of finding it were slim, but if she didn’t try to look for it, she would never really know…

Half Price Books

Farmer, now lived in Fort Worth, Texas, with her fiance and she began mentioning heading to a few bookstores in the area. Being that they were in Arlington one weekend, she saw a Half Price Books there and immediately went in.

Only One Book Left

An employee at the bookstore took Farmer to the only copy of House Of Leaves in stock. Farmer grabbed the book and she and her boyfriend headed home. Then, she examined the book and flipped through the pages…

It Was The Same Book

At that very moment, she knew she had just found something special. The upper right corner was torn just like she remembered and on the cover, there were bluish dabs of paint! Farmer couldn’t believe it was the same one. She cried for hours.

The Manager Of The Bookstore

When she visited the Half Price Books in Arlington, a woman named Sarah Weslow had been managing the store for just a couple of weeks. She never interacted with Farmer that day, however, Weslow wasn’t surprised by what happened…

“The Magic Of Books”

Weslow was so glad Farmer found the book and said, “She was obviously going through a very difficult time…You just wonder how many times it got bought after she first sold it until it got to us, that’s just the magic of books. But, the novel isn’t for everyone as the writing is really hard to follow. Farmer, however, was determined this time to give it a second chance.

Trying Again

After Farmer purchased the book, she decided to give it another go. Maybe the second time around, the book would have more meaning to it and resonate more with her. Shortly after that day at Half Price Books, Farmer’s fiance noticed something in the book: passages outlined in pink highlighter…

Hidden Message

Christine always made notes in the books she read and the passages she highlighted were things she thought were relevant to her life. The other books that she left are highlighted throughout, but, “House Of Leaves,” only has a couple of passages like that.

Was This Her Mother Speaking To Her?

One of them was near the end and says: “I took my morning walk. I took my evening walk. I ate something. I thought about something. I wrote something. I napped and dreamt something too, and with all that something, I still have nothing because of so much of sum’things has always been and always will be you. I miss you.”

Farmer Found Comfort In The Book

To Farmer, this passage spoke volumes. Deep in her heart she felt like her mother was speaking to her and maybe this was her way of saying goodbye. “It may just be coincidence however I’m going to believe that somehow she knew I needed comfort. And somehow she got this book back to me,” Farmer said.

Teen Finds Cryptic Message Hidden In A Book Her Late Mother Left Her is an article from: LifeDaily

When investigating a murder, police normally look for the person who had the most to gain, from revenge to wealth, from the victim’s death.

After Linda, a successful celebrity Realtor in New York City, was found murdered in her apartment, investigators found she had just as many enemies as she had loyal employees. However, no one had any real reason to have her killed. But then police found a major clue when they saw what Linda’s assistant did to her pants…

October 30, 2007

Just before 10:30 p.m. on October 30, 2007, Mandy Stein came home to her mother’s Upper East Side penthouse. She expected to find her mother, 62-year-old Linda Stein, awake in the living room, but what she found instead still haunts her to this day.

A Tragic Discovery

When Mandy stepped into the $3 million New York City apartment, she found her mother dead on the floor. The 62-year-old was laying face down in a pool of her own blood and her legs were twisted in an unnatural position. At first, Mandy couldn’t process what she was seeing…

The 911 Call

“I came home and my mom is in a puddle [of blood],” Mandy screamed to a 911 operator. “Oh my God. Please! Please! I need an ambulance! My mom! She’s dead, I think! I don’t know! Help me! Help me! Help me! Send somebody! Send somebody! Send somebody! Please. Please.”

A Force of Nature

Anyone would be shocked and horrified to discover their mother’s dead body, but for Mandy, it was especially blindsiding. In Mandy’s eyes, her mother, a multimillionaire who started out as a school teacher in the Bronx, was an invincible force of nature…

Agent to the Stars

Linda’s intelligence and her brutal honesty catapulted her from school teacher to being an agent for punk rock legends The Ramones, and later as a successful Realtor for celebrities like Madonna, Sting, Angelina Jolie, Sir Elton John, and Steven Spielberg.

The Diagnosis

In the weeks before her daughter found her dead in her own apartment, Linda had been diagnosed with a brain tumor. However, her 2 daughters and her close friends had no doubt she would beat the cancer the same way she had beat breast cancer in the 1990s…

A Haunting Memory

However, Linda’s life was unexpectedly cut short, which is why Mandy still couldn’t believe what she was seeing on the night of October 30. “I am haunted by the images of what I saw that night as well as what I felt – my mother’s body, hard as a rock and cold to the touch,” Mandy said.

The Cause of Death

According to the investigators, Linda died from several blows to the head with a ‘blunt instrument’. At Linda’s funeral on November 2, 2007, Mandy and her sister, Samantha, vowed to get justice for their mother and make sure her murderer pays for what they did…

Justice Will be Served

“I had to see what this bastard had done,” Samantha said in a statement during the funeral after watching the mortician for 3 hours trying to cover up the brutal wounds he mother sustained in the attack. “We stood there and we promised, ‘Justice will be served.’ We won’t stop until justice is served.”

The Search for the Suspect

Like the investigators from the NYPD, the sisters couldn’t figure out who would have any reason to kill the 62-year-old. At the time of the funeral, Mandy and Samantha still had no idea that their mother’s murderer was listening to their words that day…

The Investigtion

The police had immediately started an investigation into the murder the night Linda’s body was discovered and reported by her daughter. In just hours, investigators interviewed about 60 people who had been in or around the building that day, including a former boyfriend and Linda’s assistant, who was the last person to see her alive.

The Personal Assistant

At first, the police didn’t think Linda’s assistant, Natavia Lowery, fit the profile of a murderer. Like her boss, Lowery had come from humble beginnings. She grew up in Brooklyn and had fallen into the assistant position when a temp agency assigned her to the position, which was vacant because Linda had fired her last assistant…

The Tabloid Story

Lowery was one of the first personal assistants Linda ever liked, which is why no one suspected she had anything to do with the murder. But on November 7, Lowery agreed to meet investigators after a story about her was published in a tabloid, that revealed her questionable past and former friends claiming she was a pathological liar.

A Confession

While in an interview room, Lowery confessed to murdering Linda without a lawyer present. According to Lowery, she just snapped that afternoon after Linda started yelling at her, blowing smoke in her face, and waving a wooden yoga exercise bar at her…

The Murder

“So I snatched it from her,” Lowery said about the exercise stick. “So I took it and I like hit her with it.” According to Lowery, she hit her boss about 6 times and she fell to the ground after the first strike.”I didn’t see blood on anything. Her eyes were closed,” Lowery said.

Bad Intentions

“I just stood up. I was like in total shock. I was, like, ‘What?!’ I just stood there. I called her name so many times. I shook her so many times. My intention was not to hurt her not to kill her. It was like, ‘Leave me alone. LEAVE ME ALONE!’,” Lowery added…

Rescinding The Confession

Lowery later rescinded her confession, which was taken without her lawyer present, and claimed she was innocent. Some even doubted the legitimacy of the confession since police were never able to find the murder weapon and multiple aspects of her confession were wrong. Linda was hit about 12 times, and there was no marijuana in her system even though Lowery claimed she was smoking pot and blowing smoke in her face.

The Verdict

However, a jury took just 5 hours to deliberate before finding Lowery guilty of all charges. According to the jury, their decision was largely swayed by what the security cameras in the building caught Lowery doing the day Linda was murdered and by what Linda had caught Lowery doing the weeks before that day in October…

The Facts That Swayed The Jury

In the weeks before Linda’s death, she discovered her 28-year-old personal assistant had stolen about $30,000 from her. Instead of going to the police about the theft, she thought she could handle it herself when she confronted Lowery about it on October 30. Security cameras also caught Lowery walking out of the building in her pants that she had turned inside out to hide blood stains. She then withdrew $800 from an ATM using Linda’s debit card. “The pants were huge,” juror Kelly Newton said. “It cemented dots for us. It solidified the arguments.”

The Sentence

Lowery was found guilty of all murder and theft charges. In addition to being sentenced to 25 years to life for the murder plus 2-⅓ to 7 years for the theft, Justice Richard Carruthers ordered Lowery to pay back the money she stole. He also recommended she never be released for parole. “I’m just really grateful that my mom’s getting justice,” Mandy said. “Nothing will bring her back, but we are grateful for justice.”

Personal Assistant Sentenced To Life In Prison After Being Caught On Security Camera is an article from: LifeDaily

Professional poker players appear to live lavish lives of luxury as they travel around the world competing in exclusive poker tournaments.

In 2008, however, a California man realized that achieving lasting success as a professional poker player was a lot harder than it looked as he racked up massive amounts of debt. So when police discovered he tried to dig himself out of that debt with the help of some discounted Nike goods, he was sentenced to life in prison…

The Upcoming Vacation

In March 2008, 60-year-old Ernest Scherer Jr. and his wife, 57-year-old Charlene Abendroth, were preparing to go on a family vacation to Hawaii with their adult children, Catherine Sherer and Ernie Sherer III, on the 15th of that month.

Last Minute Details

About a week before the trip, Catherine tried calling her parents, who lived in the Castlewood Country Club in Pleasanton, California, to sort out last minute details for the vacation. However, the couple never answered Catherine’s calls or called her back, which was highly unusual…

A Concerned Daughter

After a few days of unsuccessfully trying to get in touch with her parents, Catherine started to fear something might have happened, so she called Castlewood Country Club and requested that they check on the residents. When they failed to get in touch with Ernest or his wife, they contacted the police.

A Grisly Discovery

Police arrived at the home shortly after on March 14, 2008, and discovered Ernest, a real estate investor, and Charlene, an accounting lecturer at California State University, East Bay, were both dead. Not only were they dead, but it appeared that they had been brutally murdered…

The Victims

Ernest and Charlene had both been stabbed and beaten, and by the time cops arrived at their house on March 14, their bodies had already started to decompose. After examining the bodies, police suspected they had both been murdered about a week earlier on March 7.

The Last Meal

The older couple had last been seen alive at the Castlewood Country Club restaurant at around 6:30 p.m. on the night of the 7th, and police believed they were killed sometime after they returned to their 4,000-square-foot home inside the country club…

The Crime Scene

After opening an investigation, detectives collected as much evidence from the home. At first, it appeared the home had been ransacked and the burglars killed Ernest and Charlene when they realized they were home. However, the more police examined the crime scene, the more they felt that the killer staged the scene to make them believe that scenario.

The $9,000 Cure

Not only was there no sign of a forced entry, but the killer left $9,000, which Ernest had won that day at a local casino, that was sticking out of the 60-year-old’s pocket. Based on that evidence, police believed the killer must have been someone that the couple knew…

The Suspects

Detectives started by investigating Ernest and Charlene’s friends and family members and were able to rule out almost everyone as a suspect. The only person they couldn’t entirely rule out was the couple’s son, Ernie, whose alibi wasn’t strong.

The Victim’s Son

Ernie had graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in economics and married fellow BYU graduate Robyn Scherer shortly after. Instead of getting a stable job in business, Ernie chose to become a professional poker player, which forced him to travel around the country for tournaments and spend a lot of time away from his wife and their young son after they started a family…

Life as a Poker Player

In the beginning, Ernie was relatively successful and actually earned more than $100,000 in winnings. Despite the success, a bank wouldn’t loan him any money when he and his wife wanted to buy a home for their family in Brea, California, so Ernie turned to his dad for help.

The Loan

Ernest loaned Ernie $600,000 to help him buy the home and set up a payment plan. Each month, Ernie was supposed to pay his parents $3,850, which he always paid on time. However, Ernie’s success as a professional poker player didn’t last…

The Debt

In addition to the $616,000 Ernie owed his parents, he ran up over $100,000 in gambling and credit card debt. By March 2008, he could no longer make the payment to his parents, who had been pressuring him to pay them back since the real estate market had taken a downturn.

The Motive

While investigating, police became suspicious when they found out that just days before Ernie’s parents were murdered, he tried to get a copy of their will, which stated that he was set to receive his $2 million inheritance on his 30th birthday that was only a few months away…

The Alibi

When detectives brought Ernie in for questioning, he claimed he was at home and asleep by 6 p.m. the night of his parent’s murder. According to Ernie, he was tired after spending the previous 2 days playing poker and his wife had taken their son to visit her parents in Sacramento. Since no one could confirm his alibi, Ernie told the police to check his cell phone records and credit card use to prove his location. However, when they did, investigators found a gap of 17 hours, which they suspected was the time he was killing his parents.

The Killer’s Footprints

Ernie also told police his shoe size was 10. At the crime scene, they found a set of bloody footprints from the killer, who wore size 12 Nike sneakers. However, police didn’t rule Ernie out because they believed the killer intentionally staged the bloody prints to throw them off. The footprints were too perfect with no smudging on the slippery, polished tile and there were no signs that the killer tried to clean the footprints up…

Looking for the Proof

Police knew Ernie had motive to kill his parents, mysteriously had a 17-hour gap in his phone and credit card records at the exact time of the murder, and even found surveillance of the exact kind of car that Ernie owned entering and exiting the country club that night. However, the video was too blurry to make out a driver or the license plate. Even though detectives were sure Ernie was the killer, they didn’t have the concrete evidence to convict him. They did, however, have enough proof to arrest him…

The Arrest

On February 23, 2009, police arrested Ernie in Las Vegas, where he had been staying with a girlfriend after splitting up with his wife. Once he was in custody, prosecutor Mike Nieto reviewed every last piece of evidence in hopes of linking Ernie to the crime…

The Murder Weapon

In a photo of the crime scene, Nieto noticed a bloody piece of paper that was a warranty card for a child’s baseball bat, which was the murder weapon. Detectives then found a receipt from a Nike outlet store, where Ernie purchased a child’s baseball bat, soccer gloves, and a pair of size 12 sneakers in cash.

Life in Prison

After the trial, Ernie was found guilty on March 23, 2011, of 2 counts of first-degree murder. The judge sentenced him to 2 consecutive life sentences in prison without parole in order to ensure he would never get out of prison. “Dreams were lost, promises were broken and our lives will never be the same,” Catherine said after her brother was convicted of killing their parents.

Pro Poker Player Sentenced To Life In Prison After Making Purchase At Nike Store is an article from: LifeDaily

The world we live in is hardly what most people would consider fair. Indeed, even those who believe they have everything they need, may often find themselves besieged by the fickle whims of fate.

In this sordid tale, one young woman finds herself not only in the midst of a horrific personal tragedy, but one that the whole world believed was her fault. Despite all this, Susan’s path to redemption would be one that, though full of roadblocks, would ultimately lead her and countless others to salvation…

Humble Beginnings

Right from the start Susan was a strong, independent little girl with a strong sense of ambition. She was born in the small cattle-farming town of Masaka in Uganda, where she lived with her parents and eight siblings. Despite what appeared to be very humble beginnings, Susan’s family lived a traditional middle-class upbringing, centered around a close-knit, religious community.

Happy Family

A bit of “daddy’s girl”, Susan and her three brothers and five sisters enjoyed a happy, if a little sheltered life amidst their small community. They ate together as a family and were allowed to play in the fields most days. Susan’s ambition was to work at a bank when she grew up, to be successful enough to take care of the people she loved. Unfortunately for her, fate had other ideas…

Love Finds Them

When she was 18, Susan found herself working at a small gift shop in Kampala. Then one day, as can happen in stories like this, she was visited by a tall, dark, handsome stranger. Constantine may have been ten years older than her, but he was charming, kind, and good-looking. The two fell in love before they knew what hit them.

Love in Sync

They moved in together into a small, two bedroom apartment. Constantine’s young son lived with them and before long, they even had a daughter of their own. The happy couple always seemed to be on the same page, never looking to the negative and finding solutions to any problem that arose. Life was good. They may have not been rich but they were happier than anyone could be…

Normal Night

One July night in 2000, everything changed. As usual, the family ate dinner together and settled down to bed. The whole family slept together in one bedroom, while their housemaid, Patience, slept on a mattress in the living room. It was 2:30 am when Susan Kigula awoke to a painful blow to the back of her neck.

Blood and Confusion

Susan could feel hot blood oozing out of the back of her neck. She struggled to move and rolled over to find that her sheets were wet with blood. The lights were out and she couldn’t see for the pain and darkness, but she knew that something was wrong. She sat up and the light from security lanterns outside threw the dreadful scene into sharp relief…

Husband Down

The worried mother jumped out of bed to check on the children first. They were awake and terrified, but seemed completely unharmed. Her husband Constantine however, was on the floor. He was trying to get words out, but his neck had been cut. A moment later and Patience ran into the room. She’d just seen two strangers run from the apartment.

Running and Passing Out

Unsteady and still reeling from whatever had struck her, Susan scrambled outside to get some help from some of her neighbors. She saw the two figures running away, but wasn’t able to make out anything but shapes. After a few minutes, she made it to a nearby restaurant and was given a blanket to cover her nakedness. Her vision blurred from loss of blood, and she passed out…

Waking to Dread

Susan Kigula awoke hours later, still in a daze. Her neck throbbed and she could see from her surroundings that she was in a hospital. The next thing she knew, doctors were telling her that her partner, Constantine Sseremba, had died from his injuries. As for her children, her parent’s had taken the one-year-old daughter, and Constantine’s parents had taken his three-year-old. Her family had been torn apart.

Joint Obituary

In all of this, Susan still had no idea who had wanted to try and murder them. The couple was nice to everyone, they had no enemies. Some things became clear on her way back from the funeral however, when Susan overheard a radio announcement that froze her blood cold. The announcement was a joint obituary for Constantine Sseremba and Susan Kilgula: the killers had arranged for a pre-emptive obituary…

Arrested

Three days later, police arrived at her door, bringing with them charges of murder and taking the still-suffering Susan to a maximum security prison to await trial. Apparently there had been a witness to the crime. Constantine’s three-year-old son had seen both Susan and the housemaid, Patience, kill his father: or so Sseremba’s family told the police anyway.

Put Away

Susan couldn’t afford a lawyer, so she didn’t hire one. Indeed, she was so confident in the justice system that she believed they would find her innocent. Two years later and many trial hours later, Susan Kigula and Patience Nansamba were found guilty of murder. The conviction was based solely on the clearly coached testimony of Sseremba’s now five-year-old son. Both women were to be put to death…

Kindred Spirits

Prison was not easy for Susan. Everyone in her section would talk incessantly about their impending death at the hands of the state. Yet in that shared trauma, it seemed that the women find common ground. Many of them were like Susan, accused of crimes they didn’t commit. Others were guilty, but admitted to having committed crimes of passion or retribution against abusive partners.

Prison Luminary

It would come as no surprise that a woman as ambitious as Susan Kigula eventually became a sort of leader amongst her fellow death row prisoners. She began with herself, forgiving those who wrongfully accused her and cleansing her soul. She started a choir, wrote songs, played netball, and even joined the prison dance troupe. She kept her spirits up and she encouraged her friends to do the same…

Ugandan Andy Dufrain

She wanted to help her fellow women not only to get better treatment, but better education as well. When she learned that the men in the neighbouring wing had access to education and they did not, she went directly to the prison administration. Susan asked if a small group of them could take courses in History, Economics, Divinity, and Management at secondary school level. When they chided her for making a school without teachers, she volunteered to teach herself.

Class Expansion

Like the titular character from the movie “The Shawshank Redemption,” Susan and her ladies used textbooks donated by their families in order to learn. They held classes under trees and worked their butts off. The prison wardens were so impressed by their tenacity for learning, they allowed for more classes and even connected them to the school in the men’s prison, who started sending them study notes to help…

Fighting Injustice

By 2011, Susan and her group of lady prisoners had become the first Ugandan prisoners to take a correspondence course with the University of London. In this course, they studied law. Indeed the course was such a success for Susan and her friends that when it was all over, prison staff started coming to her for legal advice. Before she had even completed her law degree, Susan decided she wanted to petition Uganda to get rid of its mandatory death sentence.

Sad Ruling

Unfortunately, the process would take years: years that Susan might not have. When the Supreme Court of Uganda eventually gave its ruling on the issue, they didn’t abolish the death penalty. Nevertheless, the did rule that it shouldn’t be mandatory in cases of murder and also that no condemned person should be kept on death row indefinitely. If they haven’t been executed within 3 years, then the sentence is commuted to life. Susan was now serving life in prison…

Admitting Regret

Still, she wanted to try and fight for her freedom. She was not guilty, she hadn’t killer her beloved Constantine and she wanted the world to know. Eventually, the court allowed her to be retried. She proclaimed her innocence and plead not guilty, but neither the court nor media were convinced. Still, her sentence was reduced to 20 years, and she was released in 2016. She was free.

Her Dream

Susan Kigula’s work is far from done, however. Her goal now is to get the authorities to reduce the sentence of the remaining death row 417 inmates on her petition. Today, she works with members of the African Prisons Project, trying to establish the world’s first prison-based legal college and law firm. That way people like her can be afforded educated prisoner lawyers to represent peers who can’t afford it.

Accused Of A Terrible Crime, One Woman Fights To Change An Unfair System is an article from: LifeDaily

Parents trust that the people hired to teach and coach their kids genuinely care about their well-being. Which is why it’s especially painful when they find out that that’s not the case.

In 2015, a Tennessee high school football coach offered to take in 1 of his players and the teen’s brother and mentor them to keep them out of trouble. The boys’ mother was touched that the coach cared so much, and was understandably blindsided when she discovered what had really been going on under the coach’s roof…

A Devoted Coach

Like most teachers and coaches, Justin McCarter only ever wanted the best for the high school students he coached on the South-Doyle High School football team. The assistant coach from Tennessee always took his job seriously since he knew his role as a coach gave him the opportunity to influence a young person’s life for the better.

Worrying Behavior

So when Justin noticed that 1 of his players wasn’t acting like himself and was suddenly getting into trouble, he took it upon himself to try and help the teenager, in an attempt to stop the high schooler from going down a bad path…

Reaching Out

Justin became extremely worried about his player when he started skipping school and was starting to have behavioral problems when he did make it to class. Rather than just ignore the issue, Justin got in touch with the boy’s mother and offered to help.

The Kindhearted Offer

Since the woman seemed to be struggling to raise the sophomore student, whose name has not been released to the public, and his older brother on her own, Justin offered to help her out by having the boys come live with him and his wife…

Potential Consequences

Justin explained that he really didn’t want to see the teenager get involved with the wrong crowd and waste all the opportunities he had. If his behavioral issues continued, Justin believed the boy would eventually get kicked off the team and possibly expelled from the school.

The Mentor

Justin told his player’s mother that he would be happy to have him and her other son come live with him in his home along with his wife, Kelsey McCarter, so that he could mentor the boys and help them get back on the right path before it was too late…

Putting Her Sons First

The mother of 2 didn’t know what else to do with her sons since she was busy trying to provide for them. She knew she was struggling by herself and was willing to let them live with another family if it meant they would be better off, so she agreed to let Justin try and mentor the boys.

A Promising Start

At first, the boys seemed to be responding well to the change of pace and the more structured schedule that Justin and Kelsey gave them to help them stay out of trouble. They stopped skipping school and their behavior started to improve…

1 Year Later

The teenage boys moved into Justin’s home in Knoxville in early 2015, and for the next 11 months, they seemed to be living happily with their mentor and his wife. However, just about a year later in January 2016, the truth about what was going on inside the home was revealed.

The Photographs

On December 31, 2015, the 2 brothers abruptly moved back home with their mother. Justin couldn’t understand what had gone wrong with the living arrangement until the football player came up to him one day with graphic photos of himself with Justin’s wife, Kelsey…

Blackmailing the Coach

The teenager started blackmailing his football coach, who only ever tried to help him. Justin didn’t know what to do at first, since the nude photos would have serious repercussions for Kelsey if they were ever made public or anyone found out about them.

The Truth Comes Out

For about a month, Justin tried to keep the situation under control, but couldn’t put up with the blackmailing any longer. On January 27, Justin finally told the assistant principal, Clark Duncan, about the affair his wife had had with the student and the photos he was using to blackmail him with…

Incriminating Photos

Not only were the photos incriminating, but they were dated from December 23, which proved that the statutory rape was happening while the boys were in their care. Duncan immediately notified Principal Tim Berry about what the football coach had told him.

The Investigation Begins

Berry contacted the Department of Children’s Services the following day on January 28, 2016, to report the abuse. Officials from DCS immediately contacted the police and an investigation was opened about the reports of the sexual abuse between the football coach’s wife and 1 of his players…

The Evidence

When the detectives contacted the 16-year-old student about the photos and the abuse, he denied everything. Despite what he told them, the investigators found evidence that the abuse happened several times between February 1, 2015, and December 31, 2015.

A Year-Long Affair

According to the investigation, the abuse occurred mostly in Justin and Kelsey’s home when the boys were living with them, as well as in the car when Kelsey was driving the 16-year-old back to his mother’s home. According to reports, there was no evidence, however, that Kelsey had any inappropriate relations with the boy’s older brother…

The Consequences

As a result of the scandal, Justin was forced to give up his job as the assistant coach of the school’s football team. When the investigation was finished, Kelsey McCarter was arrested and charged with 6 counts of statutory rape by an authority figure and 1 count of exploitation of a minor by electronic means.

A Plea Deal

McCarter faced 38 years in prison if she went to trial and was found guilty on all charges, which was extremely likely because of the ample evidence the police had against her. In order to get a minimum sentence, McCarter accepted a deal with the prosecutors…

The Sentence

In exchange for pleading guilty to all the charges, McCarter was given the minimum sentence of 3 years in prison. Despite everything McCarter did to betray and hurt her husband, Justin still stood by her side at her sentencing hearing in September 2017.

Paying for Her Mistakes

“She made a mistake. She’ll move past it. She’s young, and as you saw, her family is here in support of her. Her husband is strongly supportive of her,” McCarter’s lawyer said. “She’s very sorry about what happened, she’s sorry she put her family through this. It’s tough and it will continue to be tough.”

Scandal Erupts When Cops Learn What’s Going On Inside Home Of High School Coach Who Was Mentoring A Player is an article from: LifeDaily

It’s every parent’s worst nightmare that their child might become the subject of abuse. Worse still, that abuse may occur without a parent knowing about it for years, meaning there’s nothing they can do to stop it, or to comfort their child.

When one Florida mother found out what happened to her daughter, rather than give in to feelings of powerlessness, she decided to take matters into her own hands…

A Helping Hand

In July of 2016, 41-year-old Connie Serbu was driving in a car with her 29-year-old, intellectually disabled brother John Vargas. The two were on their way to pick up Xavier Sierra, a friend. Serbu had offered Sierra a little bit of cash if he could lend a hand putting together a bunk bed and he agreed.

Ulterior Motive

Unknown to Sierra, Serbu had no intention of enlisting his aid to build a bunk bed. Serbu had uncovered the secret that Sierra had kept hidden for years, and she was going to do something about it…

Not the Right Way

When Sierra got into the car, Serbu began to pull away. Everything seemed normal at first but as time went by, it started to become clear that they were heading somewhere other than to Serbu’s home to put together the bunk bed.

I Know Your Secret

Serbu decided the time was right to tell Sierra what she had learned. A couple of months prior over Memorial Day weekend, Serbu’s daughter told her about something that Sierra had done to her…

Child Monster

Serbu’s daughter told her mother that 7 years ago, Sierra had sexually assaulted her – twice – when she was just 6 years old. She hadn’t fully understood what was happening to her when it happened. Sierra, on the other hand, was eleven at the time.

Aggressive Questioning

While Serbu’s brother was intellectually disabled, it’s clear that he had some idea of what was going on. During the ride, he angrily questioned Sierra. He wanted to know why the teen had assaulted his niece all those years ago…

Premeditated

After her daughter had told her about the assault, a couple of months before she picked up Sierra, Serbu told her husband that “she was going to do something.” She said that he may have to raise their children alone…

Can’t Be Talked Out Of It

Serbu had repeatedly discussed murdering Sierra with friends. Her daughter asked her again and again not to hurt Sierra. Some of her friends had urged her to go to the police. But Serbu was intent on taking matters into her own hands…

Ready for Action

Serbu had told her brother John Vargas what Sierra had done and convinced him to come with her to exact revenge.They’d brought with them a pair of guns, two stun guns, a potato (to use as a silencer), an ice pick, plastic gloves and paper towels.

Into the Woods

From the aggressive verbal confrontation, it became clear to Sierra that this day wasn’t going to end well for him. What also became clear as Serbu continued to drive, was that instead of driving the car to her home she was taking them into the woods…

Panic Mode

Sierra’s mind must have been racing as he tried to come up with a way to get out of his situation alive. As soon as the car stopped, Sierra bolted out of the door and tried to make a run for it.

Life-and-Death Struggle

Vargas and Serbu took their weapons with them and chased after Sierra as fast as they could. Vargas was apparently the fastest of the three. He was able to catch up to Sierra and stop him. In a last ditch effort to save his life, Sierra tried to wrestle Vargas’ gun away from him…

Shots Fired

In the course of the struggle shots rang out through the forest. The first one hit was Vargas, who was struck once in the abdomen. He continued struggling with Sierra and his gun went off several more times.

Exchanging Fire

Serbu caught up with with the other two and began to fire her gun as well. While it’s not clear exactly how many times each gun was fired, between the two, 6 more shots besides the one that hit Vargas landed…

Two Down

Of those 6 more shots that landed, they all hit Sierra. It’s not clear how many bullets came from each gun. Regardless, Sierra and Vargas both lay there on the forest floor, severely wounded.

Emergency Call

Serbu then called 911 herself. In order to get help for her brother and, apparently not wanting to hide from what she’d done, she told the dispatcher what went down in the woods and exactly where to find them…

Grisly Scene

When police arrived, they found Serbu’s blue, four-door Hyundai parked at the end of a dirt road. Sierra was already dead and Vargas was put into an ambulance to be treated for his wounds. He would die a short time later.

Guilty Conscience

Serbu was distraught over the death of her brother. She said that it was all her fault that Vargas had been killed. She had convinced the intellectually disabled man to go along with the murderous plan that ultimately got him killed…

Remorseless

But as far as killing Sierra goes, Serbu had no regrets. She confessed immediately to her crimes and told police to arrest her.

Vengeance

She explained that her only motivation was getting revenge for what happened to her daughter and, for that, she would not apologize. “I don’t care,” She said. “He raped my daughter … she told me everything that happened.”

Florida Mother Takes Local Teen On ‘Friendly’ Drive, Before Revealing True Motives is an article from: LifeDaily

All across America, millions of people are sitting in thousands of restaurants, from mom-and-pop diners to chains, to the fanciest, most expensive steakhouses. People from all walks of life, of all faiths, creeds, races, and political leanings, dining together.

Of course, not all of these situations end as harmoniously as the sentiment would indicate. Indeed, when Rosalynd, a 25-year-old waitress from D.C., found herself waiting on three individuals with very different political views, she had no idea what to expect…

Dancing Queen

Rosalynd had always loved to dance. She loved it so much that when she grew up, her dream was to be a professional dancer. Finally, at twenty five, she became one. Unfortunately, dancers, even talented ones, rarely make enough money to pay the bills and Rosalynd needed a day job to supplement her passion.

Waitressing Gig

So she took a job at the restaurant Busboys and Poets in Washington, D.C. It was a good job and it definitely helped to pay the rent, but the struggle was still there. The place was named after African American jazz poet Langston Hughes, who himself was a busboy at one point in his life. It attracted quite a crowd as well…

Important Location

The restaurant, which is open to everyone, seems to embody a strong sense of community. Art, culture, and open political conversation are constants in the place. Frankly, anyone wandering in would be unsurprised to find that the space is as liberal as they come. But that’s a good thing for the restaurant’s regular patrons, who enjoy having a space for themselves.

Famous African Americans

Inside of busboys and Poets, massive wall paintings of famous African American icons and leaders like Obama, Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman adorn the walls. Rosalynd, who herself is both African American and Liberal, was completely unprepared for the three individuals who wandered in one Monday morning…

Trouble Brewing

On Monday, January 23, 2017, three men walked into Busboys and Poets, each one sporting a bright red, somewhat inflammatory, “Make America Great Again” hat. It was a clear indication to anyone looking that these men supported the Republican side of the debate and the newly-elected Republican president, Donald Trump.

Inauguration Trip

The three men had actually flown into DC from their homes in Texas to attend the impending inauguration of their Republican hero, Donald Trump. While visiting our nation’s capital, they stopped at all the well-known landmarks and destinations, including Arlington Cemetery and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. 37-year-old Jason White, was the defacto leader of the group and had suggested the restaurant for lunch….

Women’s March

It was clear as day that the men were Trump fans, if only based on their hats. It was clear that they’d come for the inauguration three days earlier and not the Women’s March, the largest single-day protest in U.S. history allegedly aimed at President Donald Trump, due to the offensive statements he’d made about women: a protest Rosalynd herself attended.

Strange Sight

It must have been a strange sight indeed to see Jason and his Republican friends enter the overtly Liberal establishment. But the three men were seated in Rosalynd’s section and she was destined to provide them with the same amount of service and courtesy that she would any other patrons. Though it wasn’t gonna be easy…

Judgment Aside

Anyone could see that these four people, the African American waitress and the three presumably conservative white, male patrons, came from very different walks of life, and that they had very different political views, specifically when it came to Trump. Despite this, Rosalynd put her judgment away and smiled politely as she did her job.

Stiffed on Tips

All in all, the men were pleasant enough customers. They didn’t cause any trouble or raise any ire. When the bill came, though, Rosalynd fully expected the men to stiff her on the tip. It was a petty thought of course, but it wasn’t unheard of in her line of work and she assumed that White and his friends were the type to do it…

Incredibly Generous

Her assumptions, as it turned out, were entirely misplaced. Jason White footed the bill for the group and left the dancing waitress an astonishing $450 tip. She couldn’t believe her eyes at first. Maybe it was a mistake, she hadn’t given them any special treatment. Then, before she could try and chase after them, she read the attached note.

The Note

White’s note read, “We may come from different cultures and may disagree on certain issues, but if everyone would share their smile and kindness like your beautiful smile, our country will come together as one people. Not race. Not gender. Just American. God Bless!” The gesture was remarkable, incredibly altruistic, and just what the doctor ordered for poor Rosalynd Harris. But why had he left it?

Inspired

Jason White admitted afterwards that the main catalyst for the generous act was the inspiration he felt while walking around and visiting all the landmarks in Washington D.C. Indeed, spending time in a Liberal restaurant and being served by a kind young woman who treated them the same as anyone else, had moved him to be kind in return.

Much Appreciated

Jason White’s random act of kindness only solidified Rosalynd’s mentality to not judge a book by its cover; even if that cover is a “Make America Great Again” hat. She admits that at first, she didn’t think much of serving those men, but she refused to judge them by who and what they supported. It was a challenging moment, but one where goodness and respect won out over hate.

Don’t Judge a Book

Jason White’s random act of kindness only solidified Rosalynd’s mentality to not judge a book by its cover; even if that cover is a “Make America Great Again” hat. She admits that at first, she didn’t think much of serving those men, but she refused to judge them by who and what they supported. It was a challenging moment, but one where goodness and respect won out over hate.

Reshaping Herself

“This definitely reshaped my perspective. Republican, Democrat, and Liberal are all subcategories to what we are experiencing. It instills a lot of hope,” she explained afterwards. “The simple fact that he didn’t want to create a scene but just wanted to let me know that this was a great experience and this is what he hopes for people in general – it was very touching.” So touching in fact that she decided to share the story online…

Viral Story

The restaurant was similarly impressed by Jason White’s kindness and tweeted about the unique encounter. In a matter of minutes, they received a veritable wave of positive feedback, comments, likes, and retweets: from both Liberals and Conservatives alike. Pretty soon Jason recognized the restaurant and the waitress and weighed-in.

White Sparks

“As I sat there I thought about the entire weekend and I thought I don’t know her, she doesn’t know me,” White said afterwards. “But if most Americans have a preconceived perception about people then we’re never going to get better.” Indeed, Jason White is what many would consider a rare breed of Trump Supporter. He’s a man who believes in America itself…

Americans are Americans

In the end, White wanted his act of generosity to speak for his experiences in the capital that weekend. His point was that Americans are all Americans, despite our differences in race, religion, and in this case in particular, in personal and political beliefs. His main point was respect. Rosalyn showed it to him, so he paid it back.

Respect

“We have to think about being better Americans, we have to look into ourselves and how we treat one another,” he added. “If everyone did a little something to show respect… we can love one another.” It’s an important lesson to cling to in these troubling times, where civil unrest and divergent beliefs are threatening to tear our great nation apart.

Liberal Waitress Seats 3 Rowdy Conservatives And Gets The Surprise Of A Lifetime is an article from: LifeDaily

They say that there’s someone out there for everyone, that when two people meet and fall in love, it’s written in the stars. Often, these people seem very different at first, too different to be together, but they soon bond because of certain shared loves.

Tina and Gabe shared one of those loves: scuba diving. Indeed, once they finally tied the knot, they decided to take a honeymoon trip to one of the most beautiful diving locales in the world. Sadly, their new love would soon face an unexpected setback in the form of an unforeseen tragedy…

Featured photo credit: www.heraldsun.com.au

Tina from Alabama

The beginning of Christina’s life was not an easy one. She had been born in Germany but found her way to the United States as a baby, though a baby alone. Luckily for her, she was discovered and legally adopted by two loving Americans from Walker County, Alabama. There, “Tina” and her younger sister, were given every opportunity to succeed.

PSVT

As she got older, Tina began to experience a number of worrying symptoms. She would feel lightheaded, have heart palpitations and shortness of breath out of nowhere. When she started to feel chest pains as well, her parents took her to get tested. She was diagnosed with paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, but it wasn’t about to slow her down…

College Lovers

When Tina got to college at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, she met up with a young man named David Gabriel Watson, but everyone called him Gabe. The two hit it off right away and by the following January, were dating in earnest. One of the things that the two of them learned to share with one another was their love of diving.

Love of Diving

Despite being diagnosed with paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, Tina loved the idea of diving and even began to take beginning diving lessons. Her parents weren’t exactly happy about it, they worried that her condition would put her life at risk, but in no time at all, she earned her diving certification…

Dual Divers

Gabe was also a qualified certified rescue diver and had gained most of his diving experience in Oak Mountain State Park. When college was done, they stayed together and before long, he popped the question. By the time they were married, the diving couple had a total of 60 dives between them, Gabe had 55 and his new wife, five.

Scuba Trip

It was because of their love of diving that the newly-minted Watsons decided to plan a honeymoon in Queensland, Australia, complete with a scuba trip to the Great Barrier Reef. The trip would take the newlyweds all the way across the globe and would end up being more life-changing than either of them ever imagined it could be…

Honeymoon

Despite the purported difficulty of the dive, the Watsons chose to scuba dive at the popular wreck of the SS Yongala, a passenger ship that sank in 1911. This was particularly dangerous for two novice divers for several reasons, least of all because they refused an orientation with a guided divemaster. It also happened to be the first dive either of them had done deeper than 9 meters.

Strong Current

Nevertheless, Gabe and Tina went to the dive site. Their scuba tour of the SS Yongala started out as the life-changing experience they had hoped it would be. Beneath the ocean’s surface, the happy couple found an underwater world they could never have experienced back home. suddenly, disaster struck. The current around them started pulling them deeper…

That Look…

Gabe noticed the look on his wife’s face. She felt the current too and she was beginning to get worried. The two moved closer to him and in a moment of panic, she accidentally knocked his mask clean off. Gabe couldn’t breathe and he couldn’t see…he was also 9 meters beneath the water’s surface.

She’s Sinking

Thankfully, he managed to get the mask back on quickly. Once he had his bearings, he looked around for his wife. Christina was nowhere to be found. He looked down, gazing in horror as he watched his new bride sinking to the bottom of the ocean. She was falling fast, far too quickly for him to try and swim down to get her…

Couldn’t Help

There was a reason he couldn’t go get her. Gabe Watson also had an ear problem that prevented him from going any deeper to help her. He also couldn’t seem to remember anything in his rescue diver training “about how to get somebody” in trouble to the surface. It was, the other divers and authorities noted, not much of an excuse.

Bear Hug

Another diver who had been present that day was Dr. Stanley Stutz. He remembered the situation very differently. In fact, he recalled seeing Gabe giving Tina a “bear hug” as she was flailing in the water. She was clearly distressed and the next time he saw her, she was being hauled out of the water but another rescuer…

Try to Save Her

Gabe had climbed aboard the diving vessel to alert dive instructor Wade Singleton, about his wife. He dove down as fast as he could but it was another 10 minutes before he was able to haul Tina to the surface. She was taken aboard the nearby dive boat and doctors tried for 40 minutes to resuscitate her, to no avail.

COD

It was too late. Christina Watson was dead. An autopsy performed the next day revealed that the real cause of death appeared to be an air embolism, not her degenerative heart disease. She had drowned, and it may very well have been her new husband’s fault. The police just had to prove it…

Guilt

The unexpected nature of Tina’s death, and the strange and conflicting statements of her husband and the other divers gave the police pause. The State Coroner’s office began the investigation but meanwhile, Gabe Watson flew back to the United States. He gave evidence to the Queensland police only through his lawyers.

Grim Scene

A few weeks later, another diver, Gary Stempler, got all of his diving pictures developed. He noticed that he had a particularly grim one which showed Christina lying on the bottom of the ocean and that it seemed to imply that whatever had happened during that dive, it certainly wasn’t part of the story Gabe was telling…

Inconsistent

The inconsistencies were enough to see David tried for murder. He was sent to Australia for trial and during the proceedings, it became revealed that he had told no less than 16 separate stories about the events of that fateful day. As if that weren’t enough, it also seemed that not one of them matched any of the other witnesses versions of events.

Theories

The prosecution alleged that it was Gabe who had turned off Tina’s air regulator and then held her until she was unconscious, before turning the air back on and letting her sink. As to why he did this? They believed it had to do with Tina’s father asking him to increase her life insurance and making him the sole beneficiary, shortly before their wedding…

Guilty in Australia

Watson had been charged with murder, which was then changed to manslaughter when he eventually pleaded guilty to the crime. He was sentenced to a term of life imprisonment for the crime and was originally incarcerated in Australia before being Extradited to Alabama to be tried in an American court.

Extradition and Acquittal?

Australian authorities returned Gabe to the US on basis that he wouldn’t be given the death penalty if found guilty in Alabama. As it happened, he wasn’t. In fact, Alabama judge Tommy Nail ended up dismissing the murder case due to lack of evidence. Gabe Watson was free to go and no one would ever know if he had indeed killed his wife or if it had been an accident.

Alabama Couple’s Dream Honeymoon Ends Abruptly When Suspicious Tragedy Occurs is an article from: LifeDaily

They say that you can’t judge a book by it’s cover, but sometimes that particular idiom isn’t easy to live by. Sometimes, when someone’s draped in fine jewelry and designer clothes, it’s hard not to assume things about their lifestyle.

People assumed quite a lot about Christine’s lifestyle thanks to the way she presented herself. What they didn’t know, was the criminal secret she was hiding and what it might eventually cost her…

Living the Life

Christine was the type of girl who, in recent months anyway, had really become a sort of fashion phenome lately around campus. She would go to class wearing Christian Louboutin heels, carrying brand name designer handbags, and even had a Moschino case on her smartphone. The Hermes Birkin Bag she held was worth about $1,1500.

In a Day…

It seemed unusual that a college student could spend so much on a single purse, but as far as her friends were concerned, she was being bankrolled by a pair of very wealthy parents. They must have had quite the personal fortune, because on one trip to a Christian Dior shop in Sydney, Christine spent over $220,000. Of course, Christine had a secret…

Sydney Student

At only 21 years old, Christine was already way into her college career. A native of Malaysia, Christine had travelled to Australia to study Chemical Engineering at Sydney University. And while it was true that her family back home was supporting her, they certainly weren’t sending her hundreds of thousands to spend on high end merchandise.

Extravagance

Christine’s extravagant purchases were beginning to pile up and get noticed. How could they not? Her dorm room had become overstuffed with designer handbags, elegant clothes, expensive jewelry, the newest mobile phones, and a top-of-the-line vacuum cleaner. The question remained though: how could she afford it all?

Unlimited

At first, she didn’t even realize anything was wrong. When the funds in her accounts seemed to extend a fair bit further than they had previously, she believed that her parents had been secretly helping her out by transferring more into her account surreptitiously. She didn’t bother to ask them. A few months later, when the money kept coming, she began to realize something was up…

Mad Money

Over the course of 11 months, Christine Jiaxin Lee went on a multimillion-dollar spending spree, the likes of which beggared belief. She bought Herme, Chanel, and Dior products of every kind. If it had a name brand on the front of it, Christine bought it. In the end, she spent a whopping 4.6 million dollars of someone else’s money.

Bank Error in Your Favor

What had actually happened was that Christine’s bank had accidentally given her a bit of an extension on their overdraft limit: an unlimited extension. For nearly a year, the college student ran roughshod over the bank error, buying everything she could and hoping that they might not notice.

Picked Up

Of course, no good thing lasts forever, especially not when it costs a financial institution almost $5 million. The bank picked up the error in April of the following year, but by that time, quite enough damage had been done. One of the senior managers called Ms. Lee demanding to know what she’d done with the missing millions. He would not like her answer…

Time to Go

Christine refused to talk to the bank. Instead, as soon as she heard the jig was up, she made every attempt to get her butt back to Malaysia. She arranged for herself to be granted an emergency Malaysian passport, but before she could leave the country undetected, the bank had the police come looking for her.

Arrested

They caught up with Ms. Lee just in the nick of time too. She was arrested in May of 2015 at Sydney’s Kingsford Smith Airport, trying to board a flight to Malaysia. She had almost made it, but just wasn’t fast enough. To be fair…it must have been difficult with a bunch of designer bags packed into her suitcase. Now the officers had to assess the true extent of the damage…

Authentically Seized

While she was in custody and being questioned by investigating officers, police went to Christine’s home. There, they found an assortment of designer gear fit for a queen. They could tell it was all the real thing too, mainly because more than half the bags seized were accompanied by certificates of authenticity.

Big Fat Problem

Senior banking officials had the culprit in police custody and they were confident that she’d be dealt with properly, but now they had another problem. The story had hit the media airwaves and all they could do was confirm that the situation was in fact a “big, fat banking error.” As it turned out though, they did manage to recover some or the millions stolen by Ms. Lee…

Dishonesty Dollars

Christine Lee was no fool, she wasn’t going to spend 4.6 million on shoes and bags, she actually had the foresight to transfer some of it into different private accounts. The bank found $1.3 million of it in these accounts, but not the rest. Now they had direct proof that she knew what was happening and willingly allowed it to continue.

Flaunting It

Ms Lee arrived in court wearing ripped jeans, white canvas shoes, and a black singlet. Her wrist and ankle tattoos were visible and she had a pink, fluffy keychain attached to her light brown backpack. She was flaunting not only her guilt, but her flagrant disregard for the proceedings about to begin. Despite all this, the trial did not end as anyone expected…

Confident

Christine’s lawyer, Hugo Aston, spoke to the press prior to the court date that despite their absence at the proceedings, her family is very supportive of their daughter. He added that, “We feel confident our client will be acquitted…” and that “We are very much a united team.” It was a bold statement to make concerning the evidence against her.

Charges Dropped

The scurrilous student’s main defense was that there had been no deception at all. As far as she was concerned, her parents were giving her the money. In the end, the attorney for Westpac bank, decided to have the criminal charges dropped. This was merely so that a future civil suit could be secured. That wasn’t the only reason…

Similar Verdicts

It wasn’t just that they thought they would have more luck in civil court either. Indeed, prosecutors dropped charges against the chemical engineering student because of a similar case. This one involved a man being charged with fraud for withdrawing $2.1 million from ATMs. His case was thrown out of court, so how could they win the case against Christine Lee?

Moving Home

In the meantime, while Westpac bank tries to figure out how to get their $4.6 million back, Christine Jiaxin Lee is moving back to Malaysia. Free of the criminal charges, she is happy to put this period of her life behind her and move on. It is not clear whether or not the police will be returning her confiscated items. There is one thing that’s crystal clear…

Bank’s Fault

Based on the fact that the prosecution threw the charges out, it gives the whole thing the appearance that it was the bank’s fault this happened in the first place. It’s clear that the bank should adopt better policies when it comes to overdraft and especially when it comes to account monitoring.

Remaining Questions

After all, what if had been someone else and not Christine who’d overspent on her account? Despite the overwhelming amount of evidence to the contrary, there are some out there who believe that Ms. Lee was the target of some sort identity theft and that the bank is not following up because of a leak in security. What do you think?

Police Discover That Outlandish And Affluent College Student Is Not At All What She Seems is an article from: LifeDaily

When medical emergencies happen on commercial flights it has the potential to send passengers into a panic and even force the plane to make an emergency landing. If there’s no doctor on board on a long-haul, the results can be devastating.

When Thomas took a flight from Geneva to New Delhi via Moscow, he was sure he had his vital medication in order. However, a few miles up in the sky and Thomas realised he had a problem; a very serious problem…

Vacation Time

Thomas lived a quiet life in Amsterdam, Holland but found himself getting bored as spring turned into summer. For him, while he loved the beauty of his home town, the weather was still cold and Thomas felt like he simply needed a break, a change in his daily routine. He wasn’t sure exactly, he just knew he needed a vacation…a long one.

Making Plans

Thomas was the highly organised type, so it wasn’t long before he was at his computer sipping his morning coffee and looking for cheap flights to India. He had always wanted to travel there and particularly wanted to visit India for a few months. Thomas had saved some money and was ready to go but flights weren’t cheap…

Cheapest Flight

Thomas knew the flight would be long. A stopover in Geneva then Moscow; how he wished he could afford to just fly direct. Then again, he also wished he was flying first class, but people can dream all they like. Either way, one thing was for sure: Thomas was in for a long flight or three, a few stopovers and a lot of duty free shopping over the next 24 hours.

Diabetes Sufferer

Having suffered from type 1 Diabetes for many years, Thomas was always sure his life-saving medication was in order no matter where he went. He needed to spend some extra time arranging his medication doses, which he did effortlessly as it was second nature for Thomas. It was a royal pain in the neck mostly, but he just did it without thinking too much about the inconvenience…

Meet Kart

Karttikeya Mangalam, or Kart as his friends call him, is a senior undergraduate student of Electrical Engineering in IIT Kanpur. That basically means that he is really smart, and especially when it comes to anything to do with electrical or technical things. But who is Kart and what does he have to do with out story about Thomas and his trip?

Paths Cross

Sometimes in life you find yourself in just the right place at exactly the right time; and that’s what happened here. In fact, Thomas really has Kart to thank for saving his life, and that happened way up high in the open skies, somewhere over Afghanistan. It’s just as well Kart was on the same flight as Thomas, otherwise the flight would have been a total disaster for everyone on board but especially for Thomas…

Exchange Program

As part of his studies, Kart had been on an exchange program at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, so he got a connecting flight back to India which he conveniently picked up in Geneva. He was already in his last year of studies and knew a thing or two about electrical engineering. But how was that going to help Thomas?

Doctor On Board

Kart noticed a commotion at the back of the plane, and when his curiosity got the better of him he unbuckled his seat belt and went to see what was going on. It was then that he met Thomas for the very first time, albeit not under the best of circumstances. Thomas had forgotten something vital back at the airport and needed a doctor. Luckily for Thomas, there was one on board…

Back At The Airport

It was back at the airport where things started going wrong for poor Thomas in the first place. He was tired, and delayed and the 24 hour ordeal to India was taxing. When he went through security he inadvertently left his insulin injector inside the deposit tray of the security area in Moscow. That was a big issues, and not one that even a doctor could solve easily.

Specially Calibrated

Without wanting to get too technical for now, the device was specially calibrated to deliver just the right amount of insulin that Thomas needed. As five hours had passed since he had taken his last shot, his blood sugar levels spiked badly and he was on the verge of passing out…

Diabetic Doctor

The irony here is almost too much to bare; not only was there a qualified doctor on board, he was also a diabetic himself and had a bunch of insulin on board with him too. However, as it wasn’t calibrated properly it was totally useless to Thomas. Just as well Kart was there to help.

Doesn’t Even Fit

As if that wasn’t bad enough, the insulin cartridge that Thomas did have didn’t fit into the insulin pen that the doctor had. Only some ingenious type of modification could possibly help here, and ultimately save the life of Thomas. By now Thomas had actually passed out and the situation was looking dire…

Emergency Landing

To the doctor’s mind, the situation was so serious that he asked the crew to tell the pilot to execute an emergency landing at the nearest airport if Thomas was to live through this ordeal. But it would take at least an hour for the pilot to land anywhere, and by that time, according to the doc, Thomas could be dead.

Hero Kart

It’s truly amazing but Kart stepped into action to save the day. Firstly, he asked the flight crew to give him premium Wi-Fi access, a privilege reserved usually for first class passengers only. Once online, Kart found the manual relating to the specific insulin pen on board. With that, he started to dissect the insulin pen, drawing on what he had learnt in engineering school.

But How?

Kart sure is a smart cookie as we already mentioned. In his own words, “I realised that somehow there were only 12 parts in it, while the diagram clearly showed 13 different parts. On cross-checking, I realised that it was missing a spring that coiled before the cartridge and was essential to transfer the push motion from the back to the needle in front. To troubleshoot this, I searched around Thomas’ seat and in the aisle area nearby to find the spring but in vain.” But instead of panicking, Kart kept his cool.

Get Pens

Kart was on a roll, and he wasn’t about to stop now. He immediately instructed the crew to ask all the people on the aircraft for their ballpoint pens. He wanted the springs from them in order to adapt the insulin pen for Thomas. Within a few minutes Kart was in possession of 5 ballpoint pens, and he found a spring that matched…

Going Blue

By this stage Thomas was turning blue, foaming at the mouth and totally unconscious. Kart noted the look on the doctor’s face and it wasn’t good. But again, instead of panicking, he simply did what he did best; fix things.

Job Done

Within another minute or two Kart had adapted the pen and handed it to the doctor who adjusted the dose, changed the needle and stuck it into a prominent vein in Thomas’ arm. Sure it was a touch and go 15 minutes but thankfully Thomas awoke soon after and looked a little better.

Safe Landing

The doctor told the crew to inform the pilot that an emergency landing wouldn’t be necessary as Thomas was on the road to recovery. When the plane finally landed in Delhi, Kart accompanied Thomas off the plane and all the way to the Medanta Hospital in Gurugram so he could be checked out.

Free Beer

Kart took the whole thing in his stride, and said he was looking forward to visiting Thomas in Amsterdam one day, “On the stretcher in the ambulance, he thanked me a lot and told me to come visit him in Amsterdam where he owns a restaurant and brewery. I supposedly will receive as much free food and beer as I want when I come,” Kart joked.

Student Uses Engineering Skills To Prevent Fellow Flyer From Coma is an article from: LifeDaily

Animals are incredibly intelligent and instinctual beings, and people spend their lives studying them to try and figure out what they’re capable of and why they do what they do.

After decades studying humpback whales, a marine biologist thought she knew everything about the massive creatures. However, during a routine afternoon out in the water, she experienced something that she never thought was possible…

A Life Calling

For the past 28 years, 63-year-old Nan Hauser has dedicated her life to observing, learning, and protecting humpback whales. From July to October, Nan spends every single day of those 4 months out on the water with the magnificent animals.

A Demanding Schedule

Nan and her team spend a minimum of 8 hours each day on the water of the Cook Islands in the South Pacific watching the whales from a safe distance, collecting samples, and recording as many whale songs as possible to try and understand 1 of the biggest animals in the ocean…

No Time To Waste

“You can’t take a day off because the whales don’t take a day off,” Nan explained. “For 4 months you’re on the water all the time- you’ve got to be; otherwise your data set is incomplete. The payback is the whales. There’s nothing better than being next to whales from morning to night.”

The Off-Season

“For me, the most meaningful part of my life is exchanging an eye-to-eye glance with a whale,” added Nan, who spends the other months of the year mostly on land reviewing all the data they captured that year, writing scientific papers, tutoring marine biology students, and lecturing at universities around the world…

Spreading Awareness

As if that wasn’t enough, Nan is also the president of the Center for Cetacean Research and Conservation and tries to spread awareness about the conservation and harassment of whales through her papers and by appearing on TV programs aired on Animal Planet, National Geographic, and the Discovery Channel.

The 2017 Season

While all that work is important and rewarding for Nan, it pales in comparison to actually being out on the water with the whales. So when July 2017 came along and Nan got the call that the first Whale of the season had been spotted off the Cook Islands, she was thrilled to get and onto the boat and into the water…

The Final Weeks

For the next 4 months, Nan and her team spent every day working just like they do every other whale season, and had successfully managed to capture recordings and take countless samples. By October, the team was getting ready for the end of the season.

A Dangerous Job

However, during 1 afternoon out diving in the water that October in 2017, Nan had an extraordinary encounter with a humpback whale. At the time, she believed it was going to be her last. “I’ve always said I’d be killed by a whale,” Nan explained…

Following Protocol

That day, Nan got in the water and started swimming toward a humpback whale that was in the area. The 63-year-old, who was being followed by a camera crew for a documentary that day, knew to keep a safe distance from the 25-ton creature.

A Close Encounter

Even though humpback whales aren’t usually aggressive, their sheer size and strength can be deadly to humans if they accidentally get bumped or hit. So when the whale swam towards Nan and started to nudge her with its head, she was stunned by what was happening…

10 Minutes Of Terror

The whale started nudging Nan and pushing her through the water and wouldn’t stop. “I wasn’t sure what the whale was up to when he approached me, and it didn’t stop pushing me around for over 10 minutes. It seemed like hours,” Nan said about the extremely unusual encounter.

An Ironic Realization

“I never touch the whales that I study unless they are sick or stranded on the beach,” Nan added. “In my head, I was a bit amused since I write Rules and Regulations about whale harassment – and here I was being harassed by a whale…”

Unusual Behavior

“I’ve spent 28 years underwater with whales, and have never had a whale so tactile and so insistent on putting me on his head, or belly, or back, or, most of all, trying to tuck me under his huge pectoral fin. I tried to get away from him for fear that if he rammed me too hard, or hit me with his flippers or tail, that would break my bones and rupture my organs. If he held me under his pectoral fin, I would have drowned,” Nan said.

Staying Calm

The 63-year-old had never experienced anything like it, but she knew the whale would be able to sense her fear if she started to panic so she tried to stay as calm as possible. “I stayed calm to a point but was sure that it was most likely going to be a deadly encounter. I feel a very close kinship with animals, so despite my trepidation, I tried to stay calm and figure out how to get away from him…”

No Way To Help

Meanwhile, the rest of the team and the camera crews were watching from the safety of their boats nearby. As incredible as it was to be so close to the whale, they were horrified because they couldn’t do anything to save Nan from being killed by the creature.

Nan’s Final Moments

With no way to help, the team turned the drone off that they had been using to film Nan because they didn’t want to have footage of her being mauled. However, the whale never started to attack. “His eye was so wide, I was just waiting to get whacked,” said Nan. “But it was clear it was trying to communicate something…”

10 Minutes Later

For those 10 minutes, the whale kept pushing and guiding Nan through the water. She didn’t realize it at first, but it was bringing her closer to the boat. “It was trying to be gentle, but this is a 50,000-pound mammal,” said Nan. When she was close enough, Nan took her eyes off the whale for the first time to swim carefully to the boat.

The Real Threat

When Nan turned toward the boat, she finally realized that the whale wasn’t trying to attack her, but protect her from a massive 15-foot tiger shark, 1 of the most aggressive kinds of sharks known to attack humans. “I never took my eyes off him which is why I didn’t see the shark right away.” After climbing onto the boat, the whale came to the surface 1 more time. “It was checking on me, making sure I was safe…”

Protecting Their Protector

“I was a bit bruised up,” said Nan, who was grateful she walked away with bruises since both the whale and the tiger shark could have easily killed her. “Other fishermen and divers have seen this same shark nearby the reef and say that it is as big as a pickup truck. Some say that it is 20 feet long,” she added. “I’ve spent the past 28 years protecting whales, and in the moment, I didn’t even realize that they were protecting me.”

An Unbelievable Story

Humpback whales are known to exhibit altruistic behavior and protect smaller animals like seals from predators, but in the almost 3 decades of her research, Nan has never heard of 1 protecting a human. While Nan is sure the whale saved her life and was protecting her from the massive predator, other scientists are having a hard time believing it. “I’m a scientist, and if anyone told me this story, I wouldn’t believe it,” Nan said in response to critics.

25-Ton Whale “Attacks” Diver But All Is Not What It Seems is an article from: LifeDaily

Police officers dedicate their lives to protecting the innocent and serving justice by putting away the bad guys, but sometimes that’s not always what happens.

When police officers from West Virginia found a woman covered in blood after surviving a violent assault, they ended up having to arrest her and not her attacker when she wouldn’t cooperate. Hours after she made a delusional comment, however, the investigators realized the real victim was still out there…

Easter Sunday

On April 1, 2018, a family from Lerona, West Virginia were celebrating Easter Sunday when woman covered in blood showed up at their home. The woman wasn’t making sense and when she refused to leave their property, the family had no choice but to call the police.

The Police Arrive

Within a few minutes, police arrived at the home on Eden Valley Road and tried to figure out what exactly was going on. As the family told the 911 dispatcher, the woman was covered in blood and was wearing 1 glove when police showed up at the home…

An Assault Survivor

At first, the woman seemed to be cooperating with the police and gave them her name and told them that she had cut her fingers and the blood was her own. Soon after, however, the woman changed her story and told the officers that she had been attacked and thrown through a glass door.

A False Name

When police looked up the name the woman had given them, however, they realized she had lied as no one under that name existed. Police didn’t know what to believe, but they suspected the woman was either drunk or high on drugs…

Erratic Behavior

The officers at the scene just wanted to get the woman some medical attention and figure out if she really had been attacked or if she accidentally cut herself with the pocket knife she was holding in her hand. But when police asked more questions, her behavior only got more erratic.

Talking To ‘Daddy’

Police tried to determine exactly what happened by asking more questions, but it didn’t get them very far since the woman seemed to be having a conversation with an imaginary person who she called ‘Daddy.’ When she stopped responding to their questions, officers tried to tell the woman that she had to get off the family’s property…

Ordered To Leave

“I continued to inform the subject that she must go with the rescue squad or leave the property,” a deputy said about the bizarre situation. When police told the woman, she “became very irritated and began to scream at the squad workers on scene.”

An Uncooperative ‘Victim’

While the officers first believed the woman was a victim of assault, they didn’t know what to believe after speaking with her. Since she wouldn’t cooperate, they had no choice but to take her away in 1 of their squad cars and back to the Mercer County Sheriff’s Department…

A Violent Tantrum

Police needed to figure out if the woman was under the influence or mentally unstable and whether or not a crime had been committed. Once the police got the woman in the back of the police car, she started getting violent and started kicking at the security partition.

Insane Ramblings

“You have to take me back and let me get my heads,” the woman screamed at the deputies during her violent tantrum as they drove her back to the sheriff’s department. Ordinarily, that would have made the officers pause, but they dismissed it as just more incoherent rambling…

Roena Cheryl Mills

When they arrived at the sheriff’s department, the officers searched the woman and claim they found narcotics on her. They also searched records and determined that the woman’s real name was Roena Cheryl Mills, a 41-year-old from Rural Retreat, West Virginia.

Another 911 Call

While Mills was in police custody, other officers on duty were dispatched to a home near Clover Lane, which was less than a mile away from the house on Eden Valley Road where police picked Mills up earlier that day. They didn’t know it at the time, but the 2 cases were connected by more than just geography…

Connecting The Dots

When investigators arrived at the house, they went inside and discovered a headless body. Some of the officers immediately thought about Mills’ bizarre demand earlier that day to go get her head. At the time, they thought she was delusional, but now, they had chills.

The Real Victim

Police identified the body as 29-year-old Bo White, and while searching the home for more clues and White’s head, they discovered a lone glove in the bedroom that matched the glove that Mills had been wearing earlier that day when she was arrested…

The Evidence Adds Up

Police were confident that Mills had something to do with the White’s murder, and according to the police, they had more proof that the 41-year-old was involved when they found another severed body part that belonged to White at the home where they found Mills.

The Missing Head

Later on, investigators managed to find White’s detached head in the woods that were nearby the home where the crime was committed. According to the police, witnesses claimed they saw a woman that matched the Mills’ description walking out of the woods that morning…

Devastating News

When police contacted White’s family to tell them what had happened, they were devastated and his father told investigators that White had been dating the 41-year-old. According to his family, they called him the ‘miracle child’ after he fought for his life when he was 15 and underwent a rare kidney transplant.

A Criminal History

Soon after, police charged Mills with second-degree murder. Police also found Mills had a criminal history and had previously been charged for assaulting an officer, indecent exposure, and public intoxication. Mills’ ex-husband also had a protective order against her after she threatened to kill him. “I told them to get dressed and come with me,” Mills’ ex-husband said of the day he tried to pick up their kids. “Roena Mills said she would blow my f—ing head off before I got them…”

Facing Decades In Jail

If Mills is convicted, she can face decades in jail. According to West Virginia law, “murder of the second degree shall be punished by a definite term of imprisonment in the penitentiary which is not less than 10 nor more than 40 years. A person imprisoned pursuant to the provisions of this section is not eligible for parole prior to having served a minimum of ten years of his or her sentence.”

Fit For Trial

Because of Mills’ erratic behavior, the judge ordered her to undergo a psychiatric evaluation to see if she is competent to stand trial. After a court-appointed forensic psychologist evaluated Mills, she was determined to be competent to stand trial, and she was officially charged with first-degree murder, which carries an even heavier sentence if convicted. Her fate will be determined by a grand jury in June, and until then, she is being held on a $210,000 bond in Southern Regional Jail.

Police Arrest Assault Victim After She Screamed ‘Let Me Get My Heads’ is an article from: LifeDaily

Becoming a doctor isn’t easy. Even if you’ve got the smarts for it, you’ve got to go through 4 years of college, 4 years of medical school, then 3-7 years of residency training before you are even eligible for medical licensing. But for those who want to devote their life to saving lives, it’s worth the work.

On top of that, being a doctor comes with perks. With that little “MD” on your license plate, you never have trouble parking around hospitals. And, oh yeah, if you look at any list of “top paying jobs,” the top spots are all different kinds of doctors…

High Salaries

While you’d be hard pressed to find a medical doctor pressed for cash, within the profession salaries can vary a lot, usually depending on how specialized the doctor is. While the average pay for a general practitioner is around $185,000, most dermatologists make somewhere north of $300,000.

In the Middle

Somewhere between the two are rheumatologists, the doctors who deal with immune related disorders like arthritis, osteoporosis, and lupus. On average, they live well on a salary of around $220,000, though a doctor with an especially large practice can make a lot more than that…

Doing Well

Dr. Zamora-Quezada  was one of those rheumatologist with a thriving  multi-office practice in southern Texas. Like most specialists in his field, the majority of the physician’s patients were older people with the fairly common afflictions that pop up after you can no longer count your decades on one hand.

Living Large

He was an apparently skilled doctor and the fact that he was Latino and spoke fluent Spanish in an area with a large Spanish-speaking population didn’t hurt his number of patients at all. Because of the money his practice was bringing in, Dr. Zamora was living high on the hog, even for a doctor…

Real Estate Riches

To prove it, Dr. Zamora owned a number of expensive homes in exclusive locations throughout the United States and Mexico as well as a number of expensive commercial properties throughout Texas. While he would sometimes use them as vacation spots, he helped cover the costs by renting them out when he wasn’t around.

Expensive Toys

The good doctor also drove between his multiple offices in his custom Maserati, monogrammed with his initials “ZQ,” and that car was just one of several luxury vehicles in his collection. But what really pushed his lifestyle into the realm of “international superstar” as opposed to “wealthy doctor” was probably his million-dollar private jet, also sporting the monogrammed “ZQ” and which likely cost over a million dollars a year just to maintain…

Pattern of Complaints

Dr. Zamora was clearly making money in amounts far beyond that of a typical doctor, there had to be a reason for that beyond just having a great bedside manner. And when a number of his patients came forward with similar complaints, authorities began to look into his practice.

Arthritis Injections

One of those patients was a woman named Maria Zapata. The 70-year-old had gone to Dr. Zamora because one of her knees had been bothering her. The doctor diagnosed her with rheumatoid arthritis and started giving her injections “to strengthen the cartilage” in her knee…

Worse, Not Better

But after several injections, Maria’s knee didn’t get any better and what’s worse, her legs were becoming discolored. Other doctors raised concerns about the treatments and her general practitioner told her she didn’t even have arthritis.

Worried Mother

In a similar instance, a 16-year-old named Roselie Ibarra was sent to Dr. Zamora by her pediatrician after her mother voiced concerns about the popping sound her knees would make when the teenager squatted down…

Arthritic Teenager

Despite her young age, Roselie was also diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis as well as slight scoliosis and anemia. Dr. Zamora prescribed vitamins, a pain patch and hydrocodone and had her come in for regular blood tests and X-rays. He also wanted to give her regular injections but Roselie only allowed it once, saying “I wasn’t in pain and didn’t feel like I needed them.”

Second Opinion

4 years later, when she moved out of state to join the military, a follow up with another doctor showed absolutely no signs of arthritis. Maria and Roselie were far from the only patients of Dr. Zamoras with stories like this. He’d even been reprimanded by the Texas Medical Board in 2009 for conducting excessive tests without basis, but this was on another level…

Unbelievable Fraud

What started as a local investigation uncovered so many complaints and possibly illegal actions that the authorities brought in the FBI to form a joint task force and properly investigate the doctor. What they uncovered was a staggering $240 million worth of fraud.

Unnecessary Treatment

To bolster his income, Dr. Jorge Zamora-Quezada had not only done excessive and unnecessary testing on his patients and submitted fraudulent claims to health care benefit programs, he’d been giving people treatments — some of them potentially dangerous — for conditions and diseases they never had, according to the task force…

Harmful Medicine

In addition to unnecessary vitamins and injections, he’d also gone so far as to give some of his patients chemotherapy and other toxic and damaging treatments.  The 61-year-old was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, five counts of healthcare fraud, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.

International Crime

Out of the $240 million bilked from patients, insurance companies, and the taxpayer, roughly $50 million of it went directly into Dr. Zamora’s pocket. He then passed that money through an extensive international money-laundering scheme operating out of the US and Mexico and used his cut to live his extremely lavish lifestyle…

Taking It Back

Like all good things, Dr. Zamora’s big-spender, jet setting lifestyle may be coming to an end, if the Department of Justice has its way. They are seeking forfeiture of his million-dollar jet, his fancy cars, his luxury properties, the works…

Heavy Penalties

Those forfeitures would go towards covering the hundreds of millions of dollars in fines he would owe if found guilty. On top of the fines, Dr. Zamora could be facing some serious prison time. Should the judge choose to make an example of him, he could be locked away for life on the health care fraud charges alone…

All Too Common

While Dr. Zamora’s actions and the amount of money he stole from his patients and the public is staggering, that kind of crime is unfortunately far from uncommon. According to the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association, health care fraud costs the American taxpayers about $68 billion dollars annually, and that’s a conservative estimate.

Breach of Trust

Perhaps worse than the money stolen are the people whose health were directly impacted by his malpractice. “It makes me feel bad, because you go to a doctor trusting in them,” said one former patient. “I felt bad because he was practically inventing things.” Not only did he violate his patients trust, some of them were even made less healthy by his bogus treatments.

Authorities Launch Investigation Into Doctor’s Lavish Lifestyle After Numerous Patients’ Complaints is an article from: LifeDaily

It’s estimated that there are currently 100,000 minors in America being forced to trade sex for money. Perpetrators target the most trusting or vulnerable teens to fill out their stable of working girls and lure them in with promises of riches, love, or in the most extreme cases, brutal force.

A twisted couple would exploit a 16 year old runaway as bait to fuel the desires of sexual predators, forcing her into a life of unimaginable torture and abuse…

Small Town Values

Sixteen-year-old Kimberly had a wholesome upbringing in a quintessential small town in Eastern Michigan. (Her real name is not being used to protect her privacy.) Like most children growing up in rural areas, Kimberley spent a whole lot of her days in the open fields, embarking on adventures with children from the neighborhood. As a child, Kimberley had been shown an immense amount of love and affection by her parents, but sadly, like countless children nowadays, her happy life would turn into a living nightmare…

A Sudden Change

When Kimberly was in elementary school, her entire world had fallen apart. Once an outgoing child, filled with energy and life, she had suddenly become withdrawn, quiet, and somewhat lethargic. Teachers who had once seen the spark in Kimberley were now fully concerned at the sudden change in behavior. It didn’t take them long to understand why…

Constant Bickering

Although Kimberly’s parents expressed their love towards her and her siblings, it was still difficult to ignore the elephant in the room. Often, like most parents, Kimberly’s had their occasional spat, but in the recent months it had increased drastically. During the day, her parents often bickered about everything, but the issue of money, or lack thereof, became the core of the sudden tension, turning a normal family into a dysfunctional mess….

Dealing With Financial Woes

Kimberly’s parents were financially strapped, were battling debt, and the bills were still piling up. But, when Kimberley lay awake at night, thats when the arguments transformed into intense shouting matches. The house had turned into a playing field, with each parent on one side, trying to out win one another with verbal assaults. Slowly, one by one, the family was dissolving…

She Had Enough

As she laid in her bed, the sounds of screaming and glass breaking became the norm in Kimberley’s life and her siblings’. Slowly, her parents had become almost emotionless, depriving them of the love they used to show the children. And as years passed, the children had forgotten about their once happy childhood and only became accustomed to a home filled with anger and rage. Shy of her 16th birthday, that’s when Kimberley realized she had had enough….

Where Should I Go?

Feeling like a burden on her family and consumed with resentment towards her parents, Kimberly decided she needed to go. Not exactly sure where, but anything seemed better than the life she had known. As she sat on her bed, contemplating not if she should go, because that had already been certain, but a place she could stay for awhile until she could make it on her own. But, little to Kimberley’s knowledge, she would soon be victim to vultures searching for their next prey….

Someone She Hardly Knew

Kimberly had a few friends from school, but she knew she would probably be sent back home, to the place she never wanted to return to. She decided she would ask someone she had met from the town, a woman she vaguely knew, but seemed exceptionally nice. This would be a big chance, but she was willing to take it…

The Couple Got Exactly What They Wanted

When no one was home, Kimberly packed her things in a small bag, left her house, and never looked back. When she arrived to Meleney’s house, she was hesitant that she would turn her away, but surprisingly, Meleney and her husband seemed elated, and welcomed her with open arms. Kimberley at their doorstep was exactly what they were looking for….

A Plan Was In The Making

In the beginning, Kimberly was happy at her change in scenery. Meleney and her husband, Marvin, told Kimberly she could stay for as long as she needed to get on her two feet, but would have to pay her share of the rent every month. Kimberley didn’t have a job, but Meleney did not seem to concerned, she already was brewing a stomach turning plan to solve that problem…

A Deal With The Devil

A naive and vulnerable teenager who had recently became a runaway, Kimberley would become the perfect target for the twisted couple. Knowing Kimberley was desperate for money, in order to pay her rent and other necessities she could not afford, Meleney told Kimberley she could make easy money in the comfort of home, without doing much. The idea seemed too good to be true, but Kimberley trusted the woman she barely knew, and told her she was interested, even if it would rob her of her innocence..

An Indecent Proposal

Melanie told Kimberley the job was a computer based job that she could do on her own time, while cashing in on big bucks. Well, the only catch would be that Kimberley would have to send strangers nude videos and pictures of herself. Kimberley was shocked at the indecent proposal, but Meleney insisted she would never have to meet any of these perverted men. Kimberley had become bait to a manipulative and sick couple eager to exploit her body for more money in their pockets…

Only Just Started

With Marvin working as the cameraman, Kimberley started her “job” and began sending explicit photos and videos of herself to countless men on the internet. She felt violated and disgusted with herself, but when she suggested she go back home to her family, Meleney convinced her that money was much more important and that at the end of the day, it’s not like she was really doing anything wrong if she hadn’t met the men. But, Kimberely’s situation would become even more sadistic and disgusting. This was only the beginning…

A Life She Never Imagined

Being behind the lens of the camera, completely naked, doing things she would have never imagined, in front of a man she barely knew, had become too much to handle. She thought she could just shake it off and eventually get used to the process, but throughout time, she had become depressed and wanted out. But, the couple would never allow this to happen. Melanie suggested she had a cure for her sadness, something she herself had been using for years…

A Remedy

Melanie introduced Kimberly, a 16 year old teenager to crack. This would be the remedy to all her problems she insisted.  Meleney told her that the drug would make her job much easier and the pain would cease. A foolish child that had fallen prey to vultures, Kimberly took her first hit of crack…

No Turning Back Now

A house with three people heavily addicted to crack, with the couple also addicted to heroin, the money Kimberly was making was not enough to fulfill all their habits. Meleney then forced Kimberly to continue taking nude photos, but this time, she would place them in ads for prostitution. Kimberly refused, even while under the influence of crack, but Meleney and Marvin threatened her with physical force if she wouldn’t oblige.  And when she still refused, thats when the beatings began…

A Loss Of Self Worth

Kimberley gave in to their demands. She had come to a point in her life where she just didn’t care anymore. Kimberley’s self worth had equated to absolutely nothing, truly feeling that she had no reason to live anymore. Kimberley had acquired a long list of despicable men who would have sex with her in trade for drug money. Certainly, these men could clearly see that Kimberly was still only a child, but that meant nothing.

A Sad Story

But, the appetite of these men was raging, they were not satisfied with just sex. They offered to pay more if they could torture and abuse Kimberley to their liking. And they did. Kimberly would endure severe beatings at the hands of these monsters. On countless occasions, she would be urinated on.

The Escape

For almost a year, Kimberly endured the sexual and physical torture at the hands of countless men. Kimberley couldn’t handle another minute of the abuse, so one day when the couple had left the house, knowing it had been a very rare occasion for her to be left alone, she knew this would be the only chance. Kimberly opened the front door and ran as fast as she could….

Thrown Them In Jail

Meleney and Marvin were arrested in March 2017 at a motel in Bridgeport Township, Michigan after police received an anonymous tip. They were charged with the sex trafficking of a minor. It did not take long for the jury to sentence them to nearly 20 years in prison for pimping out the young girl for drug money. They gained Kimberly’s trust as a runaway and then exploited her by prostituting her out for sexual activity and utilizing that money to further their drug habits

Light At The End Of The Tunnel

In court, Kimberly faced the woman who had destroyed her life. But, surprisingly, Kimberley said she forgave her even though she “took away my happiness and my will to live.”  Kimberley said, “As of today, I will no longer be carrying this burden, I’d like to end this letter by saying I forgive you, from a survivor.” Kimberley has reunited with her family, using their support to to cope with the trauma she had endured in the previous year, while also planning to enter a rehab facility for her crack addiction.

Twisted Couple Turn Out Young Runaway To Fuel Drug Habit is an article from: LifeDaily

We often don’t stop to think about how lucky we are to be living the lives we do. We are fortunate enough to have been born in a period of unprecedented advancement and, compared to times in our past, relative peace and security. But for the many things that are great about our world, it’s not perfect.

Some of the same problems that were present at the dawn of civilization still plague us. With more than enough space to live and the means to put an end to it, perhaps homelessness is the persistent problem that makes the least amount of sense. There are those out there who feel the same way and have devoted their lives to solving this problem…

Rough Start

Donald was a young man who had grown up in hardship. As a child, he never received the support he needed to advance in life, which isn’t much of a surprise, considering there was never any certainty about where the next meal would come from.

Gotta Get Out

As a consequence of the economic hardships, Donald was exposed to a lot of things that children from better-off families never have to deal with. “I was around people that did a whole bunch of illegal things and I didn’t want to be a part of it no more,” he said…

Limited Opportunity

But being a teenager, Donald was unable to just get a job and move out. Still, he decided no situation could be worse than what he was currently going through so he decided to take action “I just left and started becoming homeless,” he said.

Awful Life

As you can imagine, being homeless is a terrible thing, especially for a young and vulnerable person. Living on the streets of Michigan, Donald was unable to sleep at night because it was too cold. Instead, he would walk the night and sleep for a few hours in some tucked away corner once the sun came up…

Limited Opportunity

In order to feed himself, Donald had to rely on begging to get enough spare change for a meal. He would have liked to get a job but even if he could get past the problems of having no previous work experience and no address, no one would be willing to hire a dirty kid in raggedy clothes.

Worse for Youth

The problems of homelessness are even worse for a young person. Within 48 hours of being on the street, 1 in 3 young homeless people are approached by a human trafficker and 20% will become a victim of violent crime. “There’s people out here who are homeless who’d literally rather be in jail than be homeless… it’s terrible,” Donald said…

Helping Hand

Then one day, someone reached out to help. Donald met Stephanie Taylor and Marquise Williams of Covenant House Michigan. Covenant House was a non-profit shelter specifically for young people between the ages of 18 to 24.

Tireless Efforts

Taylor had done outreach for Covenant House for the last 2 decades. The majority of her job is spent traveling the streets of Detroit in the organization’s minivan, reaching out to young people and teaching them about the shelter, letting them know that there’s help available to them if they need it…

Nowhere to Go

“Usually when young people are homeless and they don’t have anywhere to go, they might sin in emergency rooms,” said Taylor. “They might go there and play like they’re sick,” or sit inside train and bus stations, fast food restaurants, or coffee shops, “and things like that until they figure out what their next step is going to be.”

Exploitative ‘Help’

Sometimes, things are even worse than that. “Sometimes they’ll be at their so-called ‘boyfriend’s’ house” Taylor said. Those “boyfriends” would allow a vulnerable young homeless person to stay in their home in exchange for things, like performing sex acts, selling drugs, or working as a prostitute….

Trafficking and Abuse

For people in those sorts of situations, those exploited people are “not even considered homeless,” by themselves or by some organizations that help the homeless, said Taylor. “They’re thinking it’s love and it’s not. They’re being trafficked and they’re being abused and we see that.”

Heard From A Friend

Like so many of the other young people they’d helped before, Donald had heard about the Covenant House through a third party and called their number asking for help. Taylor and Williams got into their van and came to him right away. “Every day I think about the day they come and got me,” Donald said. “I’ll never regret that day.”…

Off the Streets

Thanks to Taylor and Williams’ efforts, Donald found a way off the streets and moved in to the shelter. For the first time in his life, he had a safe place to live and was afforded an opportunity to build a life.

No Worries

“I don’t have to worry about where I’m going to sleep or when I”m going to eat or anything,” Donald said. “They have these groups and everything where you can talk and express how you feel. They help you with anything that’s on your mind.”…

Education and Training

On top of the counseling services, Covenant House offered educational programs for young people who needed to finish high school, vocational programs to teach job skills, as well as employment and interview classes to teach people, some of whom have never worked before, how to get — and keep — a job.

Employment

The classes — on top of having an address to put down on applications — worked like a wonder for Donald. Just a short time after he moved in to the Covenant House, he was able to get a job at the airport and began saving up so he could move out and get his own place…

Still Work To Be Done

While Donald’s story is one of success, there are plenty of people without homes, many of them young people, still in need of help. There are so many people currently homeless — or even at risk for homelessness without knowing it — that Taylor and Williams see no end to their work.

Living On The Edge

Homelessness can become a problem for young people who don’t even suspect it, Taylor said. “Sometimes our young people work and then they lose their job or they just don’t make enough to afford ‘affordable’ housing.”…

It Could Be Anyone

Taylor wants to emphasize that young people, people from any sort of background, can find themselves suddenly in need. “This could be your child. This could be your sister, your brother. And I tell people all the time we’re not immune from something happening to us. Who’s going to be out there to approach your kid if their family members turn their back on them?” he asked.

There is Help

Thankfully, people like Taylor, Williams and the other people of Covenant House are working hard to be there. If you or a young person you know is in need of help, please go to covenanthouse.org. If the person in need is older, please go to nationalhomeless.org.

Young Man In Despair Finds Help Through Woman’s Tireless Outreach Efforts is an article from: LifeDaily

Most of us go about our days without giving much thought to the fragility of life. After all, we go along through life, some for decades at a time, some for their entire lives, without the kind of immediate health emergency that instantly reminds us of our mortality.

But if and when the day comes that we feel the icy hand of death brush against us, our minds race to the telephone, secure in the thought that a caring person who will direct emergency medical care to us is only a phone call away. Or at least, we’d like to think so…

Something’s Wrong

Just a few days before New Years Eve in 2017, a young woman named Naomi wasn’t feeling well at all. The 22-year-old from Strasbourg, France was experiencing some kind of stomach ache like nothing she’d ever felt before.

Quickly Growing

At first, she just had a little bit of discomfort, nothing she couldn’t handle. But within just a few minutes the pain grew immensely, so intense that it doubled her over and took her breath away. Something inside Naomi was very wrong…

Life or Death

The pain was so severe that Naomi only knew one thing: if she didn’t get help soon, she was going to die. Unfortunately, she was home alone, which meant her only hope was to call for an ambulance.

Samu

At this point, even getting to the phone was a monumental task. Naomi was no longer able to stay upright from the pain and essentially crawled over to her phone. She dialed the number for Samu, Strasbourg’s ambulance service, and waited seconds that seemed like an eternity for the operator to pick up…

Help Me

“Yes, hello?” said the operator. Naomi’s voice was barely a whisper as she replied “Hello… help me, ma’am.” When the operator asked her what was going on, she could only weakly reply “help me.” The operator, seemingly annoyed pressed Naomi, saynig “Well if you do not tell me what’s going on, I will hang up.”

Fragmented System

There is one important thing to know about emergency services phone calls in France. In addition to a general emergency services number — 112 — that can be called for any kind of emergency, France also has a fragmented system of other emergency phone numbers that are used for specific problems. If a person calls 112 with a problem that’s not time sensitive, they are instructed to call one of the more specific numbers…

‘I’m Gonna Die’

But the problem here was that Naomi Musenga was in so much pain that all she could really say was that she was in so much pain. The operator, not picking up on the state Naomi was in simply told her to call a doctor. Desperate for the woman on the other end of the phone to understand, Naomi gave her assessment. “I’m gonna die,” she said.

One Day…

In response, the operator said something you’d never expect to hear while in need of life-saving help. “Yes… you will die, certainly, one day, like everyone else,” she said. The operator’s musings on the inevitability of death were as shocking as they were callous…

SOS

It’s not that she wasn’t trying to help Naomi, though. The next words out of her mouth were to “call the SOS doctors,” France’s emergency medical service that sends a doctor directly to a house. But an SOS response is for non-immediate medical problems and it typically takes several hours for the doctor to arrive.

Boneheaded

Naomi tried again and again to convey the seriousness of her situation, but could only say things like “Please help me” and “My stomach hurts a lot” in a barely audible voice. But over the course of the 3 minute call, the operator simply kept telling the wounded woman to call SOS. Eventually, the operator hung up on Naomi and made the call to SOS for her…

Critical Condition

It took 5 hours for the doctor to get to Naomi and when he arrived and assessed her situation, he immediately called for an ambulance to get her to a hospital as quickly as possible. Once she was at the hospital, it became clear that her condition was even worse than the doctor had believed.

Catastrophic Problems

She was rushed to the intensive care unit after she suffered a stroke and while there, suffered 2 heart attacks. Despite the best efforts of the hospital staff, Naomi Musenga died of multiple organ failure apparently caused by massive hemorrhaging 6-and-a-half hours after she’d called emergency services…

Blame

It’s almost certain that the doctors would have had a better chance of saving Naomi’s life if an ambulance had gotten to her in minutes rather than hours. With the way she was treated, it would be easy to place the blame for her death entirely at the feet of the emergency services phone operator.

Defense

For her part the operator, who remains anonymous, expressed some regret at how she’d handled the call, saying “In the conditions… let’s say it was inappropriate,” she said. Still, she offered some defense, saying “we are constantly under pressure… I can be 2 or 3 hours hanging on my phone, I have no time to get up.”…

Difficult Conditions

“There’s so much demand everywhere,” she added. “We hang up and we pick up.” On top of the heavy work rate, only around 10 to 20% of the calls they get are real emergencies, with the majority being people who are drunk, anxious, or just people who want someone to talk to. Under those circumstances, some legitimate calls can seem like “time-wasters.”

First Impression

France’s emergency call operators “answer calls 12 consecutive hours a day,” said Jean-Claude Matry, head of the emergency service workers union. “When you hear ‘I have a stomach ache,’” said the operator’s lawyer, “the first reflex is to think that there is no absolute emergency and that one has to go and see their [doctor].”…

Public Outrage

For her mishandling of the phone call, the operator was suspended indefinitely and the Strasbourg authorities opened an investigation for “failure to assist a person in danger.” But those measures weren’t enough to stop public outrage. In addition to calls for changes to the way emergency numbers work in France, numerous emergency services operators throughout the country received death threats.

Legitimate Complaints

The criticisms about the complexity of French emergency numbers has some merit. Government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux admitted that most French people were more familiar with the American 911 number than their own long list of numbers. There are also legitimate grievances about the understaffing dispatchers, first responders, and medical staff…

Justice

It’s a shame that it took the death of Naomi Musenga to bring these problems to the forefront. Though nothing can bring her back, “we are waiting for justice to be done, to make sure this doesn’t happen again,” her father Policarpe said. “Whether it was bad will or dysfunctions, it is a serious error.”

Double Death

Hearing the recording of the emergency call was “like hearing Naomi die again,” her sister Louange said. “Naomi was a great girl, strong and courageous. She wanted to go back to school. She was raising her little daughter alone. We don’t understand how she died in one day.”

Public Outraged By Operator’s Callous Response To Young Mother’s Life-Threatening Emergency is an article from: LifeDaily

Internet dating, regardless of what some websites tell you, isn’t an exact science. You can’t always weed out the crazies when everyone is putting their best face forward.

It was supposed to be a real love connection between two lonely hearts. But this Arizona love match turned out to be much different and much more dangerous than either of them could ever have anticipated…

Miami Girl in Phoenix

Jacqueline had come to Phoenix quite by accident. Originally from Miami, Florida, she had left her home state on a road trip that ended her up in Arizona. Strangely enough, she decided she liked the arid state and would stick around for a while. She figured that fate had stepped in and brought her there, and she might as well make the best of it.

Looking for Love

She had been living in Phoenix for a while when Jacqueline decided she wanted to find companionship in her new city. She was thirty one and looking for love when she chose to join an online dating website called Luxy: a dating site where actual, verified millionaires could meet pretty girls…

Soul Mate

Sure, Jacqueline was aware of the connotation such a site would have. If she did meet anyone, she might end up little more than arm candy. Then again, who knew, maybe she might meet even meet a real decent man: the man of her dreams. As it happened, as soon as she met her millionaire match, she felt as though she’d met her soul mate.

Love and Marriage

Jackie was in love, more in love than she’d ever thought she could be. But love can make people do crazy things. “I thought we would just do what everybody else did, and we would get married, and everything would be fine.” she explained. Unfortunately, Jacqueline and her beau would be anything but fine…

Things Change

What followed was a year’s worth of bizarre encounters between the two part-time paramours. What was once a beautiful blooming relationship had become a twisted mix of stalking, threats, and anti-semitism. And it all started with an innocuous text message, but it became so much more.

Text Me…

After their initial first date, things began to get very serious very fast. The millionaire didn’t know it at the time, but Jackie was a big fan of the text message: a real big fan. Within a few hours, Jacqueline’s prodigious amount of messages went from annoying to disconcerting. As the days drew on, the messages began to pile up in the thousands…

A Multitude of Messages

The man’s inbox was now full of thousands upon thousands of text messages. Jackie was sending upwards of 500 messages a day. If that sounds excessive, it’s because it really is. It wasn’t just the sheer numbers that were worrying to the man, it was also that many of them were laced with threats.

Obvious Threats

Some messages said things like: “Don’t ever try to leave me…I’ll kill you…I don’t wanna be a murderer.” Then of course, there was the message that presumed she did eventually lose her cool and kill him. “Oh, what I would do w ur blood!” she wrote. “I’d wanna bathe in it.” Definitely shades of famed murderer, Elizabeth Bathory…

Security Cameras

He never called her again, hoping things would blow over over in time…they didn’t. If anything, things only got worse from there. One evening, while the man was away on business outside the country, his security cameras caught a rather interesting sight at his home in Paradise Valley. Jacqueline was there, just taking a bath in his house.

Knives

Police arrived and took her into custody. When they checked her car, they found an enormous butcher knife on the passenger side seat. As she was being dragged away, Jackie tried to tell them that she never had a butcher knife of any kind in her car. Though she did say she bought one of those flippy knives on her road trip across America to keep her safe…

Charge and Release

Jacqueline was ultimately charged with first-degree criminal trespassing and released on her own recognizance, but her obsession only grew after that. Her response to the man that was repeatedly spurning her? Why, send more text messages of course. Threatening, manic, disturbing text messages…

Lady Hitler

Her texts became more and more psychotic and deluded. “I hope you die…rotten filthy Jew…lololol Im like the new Hitler…man was a genius,” she wrote to him. On another occasion, she threatened to, and I’m quoting here, “Wear ur fascia n the top of your skull n ur hands n feet.” Obviously, he had to get the police involved again…

Cops Called

As a businessman, the would-be boyfriend was used to the occasional harassing customer of business partner, but this was all too much. He was out of the country again on business but was so unnerved by her texts that he told police he was legitimately concerned for his safety when he finally returned home.

“I’m His Wife”

The situation escalated even more a month later when Jacqueline Ades showed up at the man’s office in Scottsville, Arizona. When asked who she was, she told the staff that she was his wife. They of course knew this wasn’t true and sent her away, but it was the last straw. Four days later police arrived at her door to take her in…

Crazy Person

While she was being held in prison, the news story broke and Ms. Ades found herself besieged by requests from reporters to tell her side. In her interview, she rambled on from topic to topic, talking about things like Einstein. astrology, Atlantis, and even the illuminati. When asked whether her texts were excessive she countered with, “Love is an excessive thing.”

Negative Energy

Ms. Ades didn’t like being pressed about her actions, about the stalking or masquerading as his wife. She refused to discuss any allegations about her saying, “I don’t want to talk about that…” She then accused the interviewer of having “negative energy.” Then again, when it came up that she threatened him, her tone changed…

No Threat at All

Ades said she was no threat to the man she loved. Frankly, she doesn’t actually think she’s a danger to anyone. “No! Oh, my God, I love him so much,” she said. “I just want to love him so much, that’s it. And if he doesn’t like it, I’ll go home, and I’ll love my ex-boyfriend.” She may not have a choice in the matter.

Being Held

Today, Jacqueline is facing charges of threatening, stalking, harassment and failure to appear in court. She is being held without bond and while she doesn’t have an attorney, she seems intent on pleading not guilty despite the 65,000 text messages that speak directly against that plea. Jail aside, she wasn’t done talking…

Jail for My Lover

Strangely enough, Ades doesn’t actually blame the man for sending the cops after her. Indeed, she has said she never meant to hurt anyone and that she would go to jail for him if he wanted, if only to show how dedicated she is to him. “He’s the meanest person I’ve ever met,” she said and then in the next breath, added, “He’s my soulmate.”

Love is What Matters

Ultimately, Jacqueline Ades, crazy as it sounds, only wants us all to love each other. She recognizes, in some ways anyway, that love is a pipe dream and that is’t not easy. “When you’re finding love, not everything is perfect. This was a journey, and I want to apologize because nobody could never be more sorry.” she added.

Things Take A Dark Turn After Woman Finds Millionaire Soulmate On Dating Website is an article from: LifeDaily

If you asked any of his fellow klansmen, they would tell you that Ron was the perfect member of the Ku Klux Klan member. By all accounts, he was a loyal, enthusiastic white supremacist whose good service had even garnered him a chance to lead the Colorado chapter of the KKK. He didn’t win, but he had been considered: and that’s what really counted.

How in the World?

If Ron had any failing, in terms of Ku Klux Klan membership, it was that he was notoriously hard to meet up with. Oh sure he attended meetings and he was always available to talk on the phone, even at all hours of the evening. But there was a good reason for his unavailability, one that the KKK was not aware of. You see, Ron was black.

Texas to Colorado

Ron had grown up in El Paso, Texas and lived there most of his life. By the time he was heading into his late teens, however, his family decided to move up to Colorado Springs, Colorado. It was a place they believed might be a bit more understanding towards a black family just trying to live their lives without trouble.

Dedicated

Of course, wherever you went in those days, racism was still fairly prevalent. Still, Ron’s family made the best of it. As it happens, it was in Colorado Springs that Ron took a keen interest in a future career with law enforcement. He quickly made his way through the academy and eventually became the first African-American police officer in the Colorado Springs Police Department…

Undercover Dreams

Even as a police cadet, Ron had wanted to be an undercover officer. The allure of surreptitiously cornering criminals was too great to resist. His superiors, happy with his performance, helped foster this desire and soon enough he was given his first undercover assignment. He was sent to witness a speech by Stokely Carmichael at a black nightclub in the city.

Eager Acceptance

Ron went to the nightclub undercover and witnessed the speech, taking careful notes and reporting them to his superiors. After a few of these successful missions, Ron was accepted into the intelligence section of the department. Soon enough though, his prowess as an undercover officer was soon to be tested…

Infiltration

In 1979, Ron was reading a newspaper when he came upon a pretty bold advertisement in the back. It was an ad seeking like-minded citizens to join as members of a new chapter of the Ku Klux Klan starting up in Colorado Springs. Ron Stallworth had an idea, he would call the number in the ad and find out more about what this hate group was up to.

Consideration

The gentleman on the other end of the phone explained the situation to him. The Klan was indeed starting a new chapter in the area and needed new members pretty badly. Jumping right on it, Ron Stallworth explained that he hated blacks, Jews, Mexicans, and Asians. But that wasn’t all he told the guy…

The Spiel

Detective Stallworth added that he thought the white man hadn’t gotten a fair deal in this country. He even made up a story about a fictional sister that dated a black guy and how offended he was that his black hands had touched her white body. He wanted to join the KKK to help put a stop to “all this nonsense.” The man told him he was exactly what they were looking for.

A Soldier

During the course of the phone interview, Ron learned that the founder of the new chapter was actually a soldier at Fort Carson, a military base nearby. He arranged to meet with the man at a local bar and discuss matters in more detail. Of course, now he had to figure out how he, a black man, was going to go undercover at the KKK for a face-to-face meeting…

Deep Undercover

Ron called in the help of one his friends in the department, a caucasian narcotics officer. The man would become his face for all the in-person meetings and would be wired to record any conversations. He would stand in for him and pretend to speak for him while Ron would handle all telephone conversations. Amazingly, the subterfuge was a success.

Leader of the Pack

For the next nine months, Ron Stallworth successfully posed as a member of the Colorado Springs chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. He was so deep in their inner circle that at one point, Stallworth was even in direct contact with former head of the KKK, David Duke. He had called Duke at the Klan’s headquarters in New Orleans to ask about the status of his membership application. He got quite a response…

Personal Attention

Mr. Duke looked through his paperwork, then apologized for the delay in getting it processed. He then promised to personally see to it that his application was sent back to him. Before long, Ron received his official Klan certificate of membership, personally signed by David Duke. He kept it framed in his office for years afterwards.

No Fear

This wasn’t the only conversation he had with Duke over the years either. Indeed on one occasion, he even posed the question about an undercover black police officer infiltrating his organization. Duke replied that he wasn’t afraid of such a thing at all because he could always tell when he was talking to a black person. Of course, he didn’t use the term “black person” but a much more vulgar word…

How Can You Tell?

When Ron asked how he could tell if he was talking to a black person, he explained that he knew how to tell the difference based on the way black people pronounce their words. Ron asked if he was sure he was a white man, and he explained that of course he was, because he spoke like “a very smart, intellectual white man.”

Secrets and Retirement

Eventually, the investigation was closed and Ron was forced to keep it a secret. The police didn’t want anyone cottoning on to the scheme if they wanted to do it again. Over the next 20 years, he worked for the Utah Department of Public Safety as an investigator. He retired in 2005 and then, in 2006, he gave an interview in which he revealed everything about the case…

Startling Revelations

Stallworth revealed that the undercover investigation had turned up multiple Klan members who were also active members of the US Armed Forces. This list of members included two men who worked at NORAD, the department that manages control triggers for nuclear weapons. The pair were both subsequently reassigned as a result of the investigation.

Telling the Story

Several years after the revelation, Ron Stallworth published a book entitled “Black Klansman.” The book detailed his experience investigating the KKK and it proved to be so interesting that it was picked up by QC Entertainment to be turned into a movie. Famous director Spike Lee has been signed on to direct and co-produce it…

Today and Yesterday

It must be remembered, that while times were different in the late 1970s, that hatred has not ebbed away from the world today. Indeed, modern white supremacy movements are much more violently oriented than they were in those days, especially when it comes to getting their point across. It is up to everyone to be mindful of hate and to practice racial tolerance and acceptance in order to keep this country the amazing place it is.

Movie

The movie, which has been titled “BlacKkKlansman” is supposed to be released in August of 2018. It is an American crime comedy-drama starring John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, Topher Grace, Jasper Pääkkönen, Corey Hawkins, Paul Walter Hauser, and Harry Belafonte.

Retired Police Officer Reveals His Daring Unorthodox Plan To Infiltrate KKK is an article from: LifeDaily

When Kieran met Adams, he was two years her junior and Adams already had a child of her own. While this was a lot for him to take on, Kieran was enamored with Adams and they soon learned how much they shared in common.

Fantasy Novelist

Kieran, 17, was a fantasy novelist, having written and published a dark fantasy novel called “Ascendance.” Adams, 19, also had a love for the dark side and often shared her fantasies with Kieran via text message…

Blossoming Love

The two lived in England, and Kieran spent a lot of time at Adams’ Wigton, Cumbria home. There, he shared a copy of his book with Adams and although he feared she would find it too dark, she actually enjoyed him.

Ascendance

A description of the book reads: “Teenagers. Demons. NEVER combine the two. Savannah has led a relatively normal, easy life…but that is all about to change…her best friend, Lauren, introduces her to a whole new world of demons, celestial beings, power, undead armies and most of all…death.” The book was actually more sadistic than the description led on…

Under The Influence

One day the couple went shopping and then went back to Adams’ home where they unwound. Kieran recalls that they drank an excessive amount of alcohol and also smoking marijuana. He drank so much that he actually threw up.

Was This Adams’ Idea Of Fun?

Then, at around 8:30 p.m., he was in bed when Adams came upstairs, with her face covered in clown makeup. Kieran recalls sharing with Adams how much he was afraid of clowns and he didn’t appreciate this joke she was playing on him…

His Worst Nightmare

In fact, Kieran’s worst nightmare was a barefoot clown and he remembered sharing this with his girlfriend. While he was scared to death, Adams, with her hands behind her back, asked, “Does this scare you?” Kieran replied, “No, [but] go and wash it off.”

A Fear Of Clowns

It was only the day before that Kieran shared with Adams via text message that he was afraid of clowns, and her response was: “A barefoot clown, the ultimate Kieran killer.” Maybe Adams didn’t take Kieran seriously since he was a fantasy writer and into all of this dark and sadistic stuff, but in reality, he was pretty scared…

A Determined Woman

Then, about thirty minutes after Adams confronted him with her clown makeup, she called him downstairs and asked if she could tie him to the bed. He said no and went back to bed, only to discover Adams back in the room at around 10 p.m.

Compromise

But, this time, she was carrying duct tape, determined to tie Kieran to the bed. She asked again and he refused, but soon, the two began kissing and things were getting hot and heavy. Adams asked him if she could put a pillow over his head, saying, “Cuz it’s kinkier that way.” He said as a compromise he agreed…

“Just Trust Me”

While they were messing around, Kieran’s phone went off and Adams grabbed it and put it beside the bed. She then asked Kieran, “Do you really love me? Do you really want me?” When Kieran answered “yes,” Adams told him, “Put the pillow back over your face- trust me.”

Stabbed By His Girlfriend

Kieran did as she asked and the next thing he knew he was being stabbed. It took him a few seconds to process what was going on, and then things got blurry. Kieran had knife wounds on his arm, hand, and leg, but he still ran downstairs to escape, where he found Adams in the kitchen with the knife still in her hands…

Fleeing The Scene

As Kieran left the home, he asked Adams “Why?” Her response was simply a shrug of her shoulders, looking extremely cold and calculated. Wearing only his boxers and socks, Kieran ran across the street and begged for help from Adams’ aunt, who was outside her house smoking a cigarette. He uttered to the woman, “Zoe’s stabbed me.”

Adams’ Aunt

The aunt took Kieran inside her home, cleaned his wounds and called an ambulance. Then, Kieran began to think of all Zoe Adams had shared with him. He wondered if there was something leading up to this message that he could have missed. Then, he recalled a text message from Adams a weeks prior to the attack…

“Human Sacrifice”

“I don’t think about males unless said male is strapped up and being used as a human sacrifice- you should be grateful you are not part of it,” the message from Adams read. Kieran believes he brushed off the text as being something more of a fantasy of Adams’, but not something she would ever actually act on.

Did Keiran’s Novel Give Adams This Idea?

What was ironic was that an excerpt from Kieran’s book read: “I knelt on Greg’s chest, with my blade positioned carefully at his heart.” Did Kieran plant the seed in his girlfriend’s to do this to him?

This Must Have Been Planned

After taking some type to think about it, Kieran was convinced that Adam’s planned the attack. While he suffered life-threatened injuries, Kieran recovered from the attack and took Adams to court.

Suffering Emotional Distress

In his victim impact statement, Kieran said that he struggled to sleep since the attack, which left him with an injury to his lung and pneumonia. He said in court, “I struggle with the knowledge that someone I genuinely cared about would do this to me.” During the hearing, Adams claimed…

Pleading Her Case

Adams said she could not remember stabbing her lover and said the attack was brought on by him kissing her neck. “I did stab him,” she told the court. “But I overreacted.” The judge dismissed her version of the events and sided with Kieran.

Adams’ Sentence And Recovered Text Messages

Zoe Adams was sentenced to 11 years in jail for stabbing Kieran five times in the chest, arm and thigh, with a 10-inch knife and collapsing his lung. After the court seized Adams’ phone, they saw images she saved on the device, which included a blood-soaked woman with the caption, “Murder is like a bag of chips: you can’t stop after just one.”

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