True Crime Stories

Andrew and Alecia Schmuhl ***If you have recently seen a documentary show based on this story you may find some things that may seen drastically different than it was portrayed. Please note that as always I will point out things that were unclear in my research but the conclusions and facts that I make her are based on Internet searches and when I find inconsistencies I will search deeper in attempts to settle them.*** This case, although it was not a murder, simply by pure luck, interested me on several levels. First there is the common stupidity that criminals think that they can get away with a crime and think they are “so smart.” Then there was the main idea that the perpetrator was a “common” drug addict and yet in my opinion not only was that not proven, but even if it could have been it is another example of doctors handing out pill after pill without any real consideration of what the affects of those medications could cause. If you have ever dealt with VA do...

I have compiled nearly 450 blogs on this site at this point. Without a doubt the most difficult have involved the deaths of children, which I have done many. It is even more difficult, emotionally, in cases such as this one. Any death of a child, criminal or not, is sad. We will never see what that child could have done in life; we will never see if those who had horrible childhoods could overcome things. I have a relative who lived the life of having an addict for a parent and while none of us are perfect in any way, the one thing that I admire most about her is the fact that she overcame her childhood; she learned lessons and broke the cycle. She has gone on to have a productive life and has been the parent to her children she did not have. That being said, not every child has that opportunity and in the worse cases one has to wonder which situation is worse, death or the continued abuse that they suffered when it seemed clear no one was saving this child. On June 2...