Note... this photo was taken 4/27/2014... 5 months before Christy's death and a month before the baby was born... we were going to Painting with a Twist and realized it was just the 5 of us no spouses just US we went to dinner after painting to my mom's favorite Lone Star... this is the last photo of the 5 of us ever taken.
People don't pay attention to details and just want the bullet points version of life. I have an over analytical brain. I am a Mortgage Auditor so literally I am paid to look at the details.
I really have a hard time with is those that have been there throughout this process that reinvision the events based on how it can look good for them.
Years of emails, direct messages, voicemails and even being turned away when visiting the physical office. One meeting granted after contact was made by the former state attorney general. One meeting in the five years it took for them the arrest my brother-in-law. All levels of government either pointed in the direction of local law enforcement, ignored all together or stated basically, "not their department."
I am not just identifying a single department that did this... it was ALL levels of authority. It was City, County, State, and both law enforcement as well as government authorities like the prosecutor, attorney general, etc.
It is easy to look at death by heroin toxicity as "accidental" except I don't believe it is that easy. If the autopsy is literally unremarkable on every organ system... healthy no evidence of deterioration or negative effects of drug use such as heroin then tell me how it is "accidental" and not questioned by authorities receiving the report prior to its publishing who have received visits from both sides of family suggesting the spouse did something to cause the death. How is that not questioned... how is it not acknowledged that errors were made?
I am the type of person who owns up to mistakes, I correct wrongs, I ask for forgiveness if it is something I did wrong. Why is it ok to knowingly allow someone to spend every dime they have to do the work you are getting a paycheck to do? Why is it ok to not correct that wrong? The evidence used in the criminal investigation that was obtained by the civil case that was funded solely by my parents retirement funds should be reimbursed.
My mother was awarded as Crime Victims Advocate of the Year but really she herself is a victim that the Crime Victims Advocates stated when she contacted them seven years ago that she had done everything they would recommend. Yet no action was taking place.
How do you honor someone you made help their ownself? How do you stand up retell their story to ignore the details? She didn't start communicating four years after the death that is simply when you chose to read one of the correspondences.
Call me negative... call me a cynic... but I call it truthful. Don't give my mother a plaque when you should be reimbursing my parents retirement funds for the investigation and evidence you used in the criminal trial to win the big case you are now using for you political kudos since this is an election year.
Crime Victims Advocate department cannot help in the event law enforcement are unwilling to ask or accept help. The thing that needs to change is the idea of the Crime Victims Advocate department. It isnt enough they provide a list of organizations that can help in the event of lost wages, medical assistance, mental health, and safe place for domestic violence victims. It isn't good enough.
Also, it was commented yesterday ABC 20/20 has shown interest in our story... please note it is considered news so again airing on 20/20 doesn't mean my family has received any compensation for "selling our story".
Telling the truth is the compensation and hoping know one else has to go through this and shining a light to encourage Change to Improve our Broken System.
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