So here I am....... after all this time. I moved to Arkansas in January, and life has went to hell from there. (not that it was too good back home either) I have moved to a place that has only one job I can do, no healthcare for adults awaiting disability...
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So I get a phone call from my son's school this morning. He is a 7-year-old 1st grader. He is being suspended for a day for bringing a knife to school. What? We do not own any pocket knives, so I was confused. Apparently, a little boy on the bus gave...
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Where do we go when we are sad beyond belief? What happens when life as we knew it is over, and we are left trying to pick up the pieces and move on? What happens when we feel like this is the end? After all my years of studying, there is only one common...
"You won't ever make it out of this car alive you fucking bitch" were the words he used to let me know his plan. "My homegirl already told me she'd help me fuck you up and get rid of you- you wont ever see your son-fuck you. You're dying today, and I'm...
It has been thought for a long time that people become violent because they are “crazy”. Other people have thought that people become violent because of a horrendous childhood that included abuse, neglect, and rejection. Which is it? Researchers have...
Normally, I write about other people. I like to research murders, murderers, and people who are just off the beaten path that most of us ride daily. However, I was once a victim- actually, more than once- but almost lost my own life and my son on this...
I remember the weekend prior to the July 12, 2002 horror. I was almost seven months pregnant. I was a mess- broke, depressed, and unsure what I was going to do, or how I was going to take care of my son when he came. I never thought of giving him up,...
All of us have heard of the BTK killer. His psychopathy spanned decades, although he took a very long break. Even after the media frenzy and the national headlines, most of us still did not realize what a monster this man, Dennis Rader, truly was. It...
Predators aren't always the ones who end up in jail. In some very sad cases, the victims of the predator stop him the only way they know how. In this case, a teenage boy ended the rampage of his psychopathic grandfather by murdering him in his sleep....
Being a student of psychology and criminology, I have studied predators in our society. I took up this study as a hobby when I was in my freshman year of high school; I became obsessed with the Jeffrey Dahmer circus. However, I was not obsessed in the...
