You will see how many coping skills are required, the many discouraging ups and downs. All who care about someone with mental illness do.įiguring it out is like this - come take my hand and walk through the maze with me. He lives with the challenges of the maze, too. Imagine the emotional, physical & psychological energy expended to work through the maze for someone who can never escape but tries their best to navigate it & appear "normal". And it is an inescapable maze for most sufferers even with adequate to good treatment. High functioning people with mental illness are so puzzling to those not caught in the maze.
If depression was logical & dependable in its presentation across the spectrum of sufferers, it would be much easier to treat - just find the right med & poof! you're "normal." The same is true for many other mental disorders. Murder On The Line airs Thursday at 8/7c on Investigation Discovery.I have to say that from some of the comments, it is clear mental health issues are very puzzling to the high percentage of the population that has never faced trying to manage life with one (or more). They were carried out by teenager, Christain Olsen, with at least one murder done at the behest of his older girlfriend, 39-year-old Kelly Sifuentez. Over ten years later, son Michael along with his wife and young son, were brutally murdered by their cousin over an argument regarding inheritance.Īlso on ID, the quiet Texan street of Hollow Oak Drive was traumatized by two murders in the space of a few months. In her wildest dreams Self-confessed Dateline fan Taylor Swift met the NBC Show’s correspondent Dennis Murphy backstage at her concert in Miami on Sunday, August 19. This family had already suffered heartbreak in 1994 when the patriarch of the family was killed in a robbery. Last week on ID, the tragic case of the Hargon family from Mississippi was profiled. More from investigation discoveryįollow the links to read about more murders profiled on ID
MICHELLE REYNOLDS DATELINE FULL
In 2013, he had an appeal denied and was ordered to serve his full sentence. Larry Scott Reynolds was convicted of first-degree murder and was sentenced to a lifetime in prison. The jury ignored his pleas and found him guilty. Reynolds’s defense lawyer argued that Barger was an unreliable witness and that there was no physical evidence to link his client to the crime. Prosecutors reasoned that Reynolds, on realizing he was going lose custody of Lucas, went into a rage and murdered Atkin. On the witness stand, Barger told how Reynolds hated Atkin and just couldn’t stand her any longer. In four taped conversations, Reynolds never directly admitted to the murder, but he did discuss aspects of the case, which included stating he had wiped fingerprints from the murder weapon. On one of the telephone calls to Reynolds, he could be heard expressing fear that he would never see his sons again. When she asked him what was wrong, he said he’d just killed Melissa.īarger urged Reynolds to turn himself in, but he refused, saying, “I can’t do that.” Reynolds would later repeatedly talk of turning himself in “after Christmas.”īarger agreed to help the sheriff’s detectives by recording her conversations with the murderer. Reynold’s girlfriend at the time, Eve Barger, told investigators that she found her boyfriend sobbing on the morning of December 16. Larry Reynolds told his current girlfriend what he’d done Daniella told Dateline that sometime during the week of June 20, their mother. The two have been dating for about a year and a half. The 36-year-old had been shot three times in the head. Michelle moved in with her boyfriend in Phoenix in October 2021. She was naked from the waist down, and her hands were tied behind her back with black plastic ties. On December 16, 2007, Melissa Atkin’s parents found her body lying face down in her home. The relationship between the pair became further strained when Reynolds argued about payment of child maintenance and demanded that no one could come between him and his son. Atkin retained custody of the child while court proceedings continued. In 2006, Reynolds packed his bags and moved out, which triggered a brutal custody battle for their 5-year-old son, Lucas. Melissa Atkin and Larry Reynolds from Tenessee had been together for approximately a decade and had had a son together in 2001 when cracks began to appear in their relationship. Pic credit: Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office Larry Reynolds murdered his ex-girlfriend Melissa Atkin over a custody battle for their son.
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