double murder
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Michelle Renee Kidwell
@Michellekidwell (29953)
• Sonora, California
1 Aug 22
I’ve written about the double murder of Neal and Brendan Abernathy, long time family friends before, and I’ve actually written several articles on the subject, always worried that the work I did on the case would actually open old...
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Michelle Renee Kidwell
@Michellekidwell (29953)
• Sonora, California
25 May 22
I have spent much the day off researching for essays and articles, that will be included in With A Little Help, and somehow that led me to research the murder of Neal and Brendan Abernathy of February.19.1997, which led to a...
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Michelle Renee Kidwell
@Michellekidwell (29953)
• Sonora, California
21 Feb 22
I've had a busy few days, but on the 19th, (Saturday) the 25th anniversary of a tragic double murder, that of Neal and his 12 year old Son Brendan wad marked. Neal was a kind soul who is missed to this day, and Brendan was an...
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Michelle Renee Kidwell
@Michellekidwell (29953)
• Sonora, California
29 Oct 21
It almost
Broke me
Shook me
To the core
Nineteen,
Life was free
Full of possibilities
And then
A darker reality
Came knocking
On my door.
Family friends
Murdered
Like something
Out of a movie
But this was real.
What kind...
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Michelle Renee Kidwell
@Michellekidwell (29953)
• Sonora, California
20 Jan 21
I’ll never, forget the rainy day in February of 1997, that our friends were murdered Neal 44, and his twelve year old son Brendan, just months prior Neal had given me my first laptop out of the generosity of his heart, telling me...
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Michelle Renee Kidwell
@Michellekidwell (29953)
• Sonora, California
14 Apr 20
No this isn't a mythological tale of some made up murder, sadly this happened and is very real, I wrote this nearly two decades ago, for a creative writing class, the assignment to write about something that changed your life...
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Michelle Renee Kidwell
@Michellekidwell (29953)
• Sonora, California
7 Apr 20
I can't help but think about Neal and Brendan, Neal and my Father were lifelong friends, Brendan was Neal's 12 year old son, he and his wife Suzanne lived in a beautiful upper middle class home in Hercules California, on February...
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Michelle Renee Kidwell
@Michellekidwell (29953)
• Sonora, California
15 Oct 19
On February 13,1997, our friend Neal Abernathy and his Twelve Year Old Son we’re brutally murdered in their home in Hercules, I had just turned nineteen a couple of months before and before that Neal has given me my first laptop...
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Michelle Renee Kidwell
@Michellekidwell (29953)
• Sonora, California
3 Aug 19
I was nineteen when I learned that murder doesn’t only happen to those we don’t know!
At nineteen
I learned
That life had a way
Of tearing
The pages
And ripping open
Wounds.
When innocent lives
Are taken
Without rhyme
Or...
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AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
4 Jul 19
Atleast in some circumstances...
Like when you are going in for an electrolysis appointment to get rid of pesky chin and chest hairs.
Kathleen Egan was set to be wed and determined that she'd go to her honeymoon without those...
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Michelle Renee Kidwell
@Michellekidwell (29953)
• Sonora, California
6 Jun 19
I have managed to get a book review done, not on the book pictured, that’s the one I’m currently workin on but on Becoming Beatriz, it was a really good YA book but won’t say much more than that!
I also posted another poem on...
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celticeagle
@celticeagle (189838)
• Boise, Idaho
23 Nov 10
giving your life to god?! I was just watching Oprah today and she is showing different types of marriages. One woman married a guy who is prison for double murder and was sentenced to life without poral. Then she showed young...
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