Nothing like this was ever suspected in a small town.

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Welcome to the quiet town of Grandview. Population 1,000 and with the recent on going mystery now a population of 995 people.


Around two months ago new family moved into town. The Jacob's family consisted of mother Allison, daughter Rebecca, son Ronnie, Ronnie's son Jackson, and father Donald. They had kept to themselves except when Rebecca went work at the gas station being 17 years old this is her first job. Allison left to go to bank for her new job as a branch manger for the bank. Ronnie woke up and got Jackson up and ready for school drop him off the Elementary School. Then Ronnie left and headed to his job at the court house as a court bailiff. Donald the last one to leave that morning left for his job at the power company. 


One of Ronnie's coworkers asked him how it was to be a single father and he responded it's not an easy job but at least Jackson is safe from his past. The Jacob's family moved to Grandview to escape their old town after Ronnie won the custody battle against his ex wife Abbie. She was suffering from mental illness and Ronnie took her to court for custody of Jackson because he determined that she was not taking her medication. The courts had a psychiatric evaluation done on Abbie which determined she had Schizophrenia. It had also been determined that the medications her psychiatrist prescribed her and not been in her system for at least 4 to 7 weeks. So sole custody was given to Ronnie. 


The family had to move once Abbie would not stop stalking them. If they left to go to work she would be sitting in front of the house. They would receive hang up phone calls. Death threats in their mail box with no postage stamps meaning she put them in the mail box. The school had called Ronnie to tell him to come get Jackson to take him home because at lunch his mother Abbie had gotten on to campus to try and kidnap him. After this incident the Jacob's family was all granted a permanent restraining order against Abbie.


To got the point that a judge along with Abbie only surviving family member her father had to have Abbie committed to the state hospital (aka the mental institution) so that she could hurt herself or anyone else. She would be given her medication. 


One evening Abbie's father Micheal called Allison to tell her to get her family put of town immediately that Abbie was planning to break out of the hospital. So Allison went home told Rebecca to take Jackson in his room. While the adults talked about something. Usually Rebecca would make the argument that she almost 18 and that adult conversations could be made with her. For some reason this time seemed different so Rebecca listen and took jackson in his room. 


Around 8pm everyone went to bed. At nine am the next morning Micheal Abbie father got a disturbing phone call. Have you had broken out of a mental hospital and was reported missing. It was also found that she stole an employee's credit card and bought a bus ticket to the town where Jacob's family had moved to. They were not for sure what time she actually had escaped as she found a door that did not have a security camera in front of it. At ten am the same morning Allison's boss called and she had not shown up to work and could not get her to answer her cell phone or the house. Jackson School had called that he had not been to school that day for homeroom. Rebecca was 10 minutes late to her shift which was unusual for her. Ronnie had not been heard from and have not called into work sick which was unusual if you was not going to beat make it to work. Donald's car has been found broken into with no sign of Donald around.


This point the cops in Grandview will call to make a wellness check on the Family. When the cops arrive to the family home a gruesome murder scene has been discovered. After a thorough investigation it has been determined did Abby did make it to Grandview. That she had Saw Donald on the street in front of the house. She shot him with a 45 caliber gun handgun and put him in the back of the trunk of the car. She then proceeded to grab his license discover the address of where the family was living. She went into the home first shooting Rebecca. Then shooting Ronnie finally shooting Jackson before shooting herself.


A no I haven't found beside her body. This was later determined to be a suicide note. When the cops did a press release. They had stated that the suicide note contained graphic content and then only some parts of it could be shared to the public. They summarize the note saying that Abby had heard voices telling her to stop taking her medication and that and her son's final moments she would be with him.


A gruesome murder the family of five all because one person was able to escape from a mental Asylum. What a tragic loss for the with the family's friends.


October 18, 2019 15:21

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