If a picture tells a thousand words, what can we glean from this pair of pictures?
Are you able to discern that this is a very sad article to pass along?
Hopefully, though, there is a lesson to be learned here and one family’s despair will be another family’s note of caution.
A 22-year-old who was eight months pregnant was decapitated in her home by her ex-boyfriend, who now faces murder charges, police said.
This from msn.com.
Liese Dodd, eight months pregnant, ex-boyfriend Deundrea Holloway beheaded her and threw her head in a dumpster.
Deundrea Holloway, 22, has been charged with murder, intentional homicide of an unborn child and several other crimes in connection to the June 9 murder of Liese Dodd.
Dodd’s mother went to her home to check on her last week and found her dead, police in Alton, Illinois, said.
Police Chief Marcos Pulido said the couple were in an ‘on-again off-again relationship’ that lasted two years. Dodd was expected to deliver her child in late July.
Holloway has also been accused of abandoning Dodd’s head in a dumpster, court records show.
Dodd’s mother, Heidi Noel, told KMOV-TV4, St. Louis, MO, how the family was planning a baby shower for the end of the month.
Noel said:
I had just sent out invitations the prior Saturday for the baby shower. We were just excited and gathering the items you need to have a baby.
The mother said:
She wasn’t set on a name yet, ‘my little bean.’ So, we essentially were calling the baby, “baby bean.”
Instead of planning the shower, she now has to plan a funeral after finding her daughter’s decapitated body.
It’s not something I wish on anybody.
Dodd had attended college and was planning on entering the medical field, taking after her mother, who is a nurse.
The slain woman’s mother also said she was relieved Holloway was in custody.
Noel said:
Because of the nature of the relationship, I made contact with her every day to check in, so there was quite a time span that she hadn’t responded to me. So that’s what prompted me to check on her.
She added:
I’m glad that he’s off the streets, and that is my big hope is that he’s no longer able to do this to anyone else.
Holloway is being held in custody on a $2million bond.
What say you Def-Con News readers? Any words of wisdom to offer?
