She’s a FAUAD

Connie who has been supposedly missing for the past 3 months has been spotted in Canada. Connie was taken from her home by a man named Arnold and was believed to abducted but a friend from Connie's school who moved to Canada a year earlier says she has seen Connie within the last week. “She was walking into a coffee shop when I approached her and asked how she was doing? She said her name wasn’t Connie and that it was “Sharron” so I decided to look her up on the Internet and it said she was missing. I have seen her a couple of times after that first interaction with her.” says Connie’s friend. I found this to be very interesting so I decided to interview her friend to see if I could get a better understanding on what was going on. I flew to Canada and sat down with Connie’s friend who I will be calling Kala to protect her identity.
Q: Kala what was Connie’s home life like?
A: She had a great mother and sister but they didn’t always get along with each other. Her mother was always putting Connie second behind her sister so that lead Connie always searching for attention. She was constantly spending time with older men to fill that void.

Q: Do you think that she was the type of person to run away?
A: Maybe, she sometimes would say that she wondered what life would be like if she could start over, but i never really thought she would actually go through with it so I tuned her out whenever she would say something like that.

Q: If Connie did in fact run away do you this she could have devised a plan and story as good as this one? I mean she has had everyone convinced that she was abducted by this man named Arnold but no one has ever heard of this person.
A: It is very possible she had a wild imagination. Sometimes when she was late to class she would always make up these elaborate stories that were very convincing. The teacher always believed her so it’s not really surprising if I start to look at it that way.

Q: My last question is from seeing her do you think she looked happier? I know you haven’t really had a conversation with her but just by looking at her body language how was she?
A: She for sure looked a little happier. She seems to have more confidence in her appearance. From what I see from afar and as crazy as this might sound but I think her running away she became a new person, someone who could have never been back in her home town.

After talking to Kala I stayed in Canada to see if I could find Connie and talk to her but I have yet to see her. I plan on staying here until I can find more information. I think it is very possible Connie was not abducted and she made up this story to get away from her old life. I’m not sure why she would have done this because I don’t have her take on her doings but when I find her the first question I ask her will be “Why?”

The Rose That Never Was

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Before the death of Emily Grierson I was able to sit down and talk to her. I had been talking to Emily for about 3 years so I had come to know her very well. Now when I first met Emily she was 71 and in a really terrible state of mind at the time, I was very surprised that she let me talk to her for as long as I did. She was very paranoid with everything around her but I believe she let me into her life because I reminded her so much of her dad who she loved dearly. As we all later learned Emily never buried her dad. He was laid up in the upstairs bedroom decaying. But why would she not give him the proper burial? From what she indicated to me was she couldn’t let her dad go. Once the townspeople started to come after her about not having to pay taxes she had no idea what to do. For years her dad had done everything for her, she didn’t have a job that paid enough to pay the taxes, she had no idea how to pay taxes, so I believe that the pressure finally got to her.

After her father's passing she met a man named Homer Barron. To her Homer was the start of something new. After the people of the town were frowning upon the relationship she was having with Homer. The wedding that she planned on having started to become less likely everyday. She began to stay inside. Not talking to people can make anyone go crazy especially someone as vulnerable as Emily was at the time. When the Minister of the town decided that something was seriously going wrong with Emily he paid her a visit to her house. From what I have heard from folks that lived in the town there was a bad odor coming from the upstairs. He supposedly snuck upstairs to find Emily’s father in a decaying state. Now people had seen Homer go into the house the day before the minister came to pay Emily a visit but no one ever saw him leave. Emily had bought some arsenic (which is a very strong poison) to supposedly kill rats. The Minister had said something about Emily using the arsenic to kill Homer, but why would she do that? He was the love of her life. No one believed him at the time, so he swore not to tell anyone of what he saw.

After she died and sometime was passed I was allowed to go see the sealed upstairs room for myself. It was very scary, the way the room was set up was like a time capsule everything was old and looked like it hadn’t been touch in about 30 years. Homer was laid across the bed with a suit on like he was going to a wedding and a long strand of Emily’s hair next to him. I believe that Emily thought that she was bound to lose Homer at some point in time and the only way to make sure she didn’t was to kill him and pretend like he was still alive. The mind of Emily had been messed up since she was little and from the information we have on Emily’s autopsy she was said to have a multiple personality disorder. Which would explain a lot when it came to the decisions that she was making and why she did what she did. I wished that I could have started talking to Emily a lot sooner in her life so I could have helped her but since she was at such an old age and at the most intense stage of her disease I wasn’t much help to her.