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“I never suspected a thing. She was the nicest woman. I even let her babysit my cousin when I had custody of him for a little while. She was my neighbor (couple houses down), and everyone loved her; she grew gigantic pumpkins, was always outside, so everyone interacted with her a lot. I moved away and a few years later and was shocked to hear everything from my family and friends who still loved in the area. The story: She was married to a man, and I knew him from my time living there, too. One day, he was just gone. She was all beaten up. She said he beat her up (we always suspected this happened before this incident) and had left her because he got a woman pregnant a few towns over.”
“We never heard from him again, but didn’t really have a reason to. She would mention every once in a while that he was still harassing her and was even beaten up on another occasion after his disappearance. He was self-employed and didn’t really have any family; no one suspected anything. Three years later, she was dating another man. While dating this man, the police had been investigating her for stealing money from the grocery store where she worked. They went to the boyfriend’s cabin, where they both were, to arrest her. She came to the door, said ok, let me go put on some clothes. The police waited at the door (I obviously wasn’t here for this part, so this is what I hear). The police then hear two gunshots. They ran inside, and she had poured gasoline and set the house on fire, then shot her dog, then herself. It took some time to get the house fire under control. Once they did, and began investigating, they found another body in the basement that didn’t die in the fire, but several days earlier. The body in the basement was her boyfriend. Then, they began investigating further and found a blue 55-gallon drum in her backyard that contained her husband. So, she killed two people and her dog, and all she was suspected of was stealing from the grocery store.”
