He killed his mama.
By AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
United States
July 4, 2018 5:00pm CST
In the spirit of "urban legends" which I've discussed recently, I thought I'd post this. Now this is something I wrote several months ago. However, it is also something that has been passed down in the family as truth. I believe that this happened sometime in the late 1800's
**EDITED** I just found out this happened in the late 30's and early 40's.
From the Journal of Jebediah Bradford Dated January 10th 1894
Lord, I'm so sorry.
All I could see was red. I let my anger at her betrayal cloud my judgement and I acted without thinking. I shouldn't have stayed up. I should have just gone to bed and dealt with it in the light of day.
I was tired and angry. Tired from the long journey home from West Virginia, and angry that I had to find out about my wife's betrayal from my own mama.
My pride was tarnished, my heart hurt. I didn't care about my name. Anybody worth knowing, knows the kind of man I am.
I should have known she'd come to check on me. I should have waited and made sure before I readied my prizeed Remington. I should have hesitated before I pulled that trigger.
I should have recognized her gay song, the melodic humming that always announces her arrival.
I didn't hesitate though. I didn't think. I heard the lilt of a lady's voice and I reacted. The door knob turned, swung open and in that same second I pulled the trigger.
The image of her falling to the floor will always haunt me. The way her eyes widened, her mouth gaping open as the projectile hit her. The way the pain must have seared through her for that brief instant. The crimson that soaked the floorboards.
I held her for a long while, humming her favorite tune, rocking her and crying.
My wife found me still holding her, still rocking her, a day later.
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@Jessabuma (31696)
• Baguio, Philippines
5 Jul 18
This is very sad story. Sounds horrible.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
5 Jul 18
He told the police that he thought it was a burglar. Of course he had the intention of killing his wife. His mother had the misfortune of being the one coming through the door. No one knows why she was coming in at 3 am or why she was using the backdoor.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
5 Jul 18
@Jessabuma The man who killed his mother was my great grand uncle.
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@Jessabuma (31696)
• Baguio, Philippines
5 Jul 18
@ScribbledAdNauseum ohh I see. Poor mother.. is this a non fiction story?
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@Starmaiden (9308)
• Canada
5 Jul 18
You are on a roll with these urban legends aren't you?
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
5 Jul 18
I guess so. This one just so happens to be true. The man was my great grand uncle. The papers reported it as him defending himself as he thought it was a robber.
The reality is he knew who he was intending to shoot (his cheating wife) but of course nobody but the family knew that. It destroyed him, he was never the same man.
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@Starmaiden (9308)
• Canada
5 Jul 18
@ScribbledAdNauseum Every family has it's skeletons. 
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
5 Jul 18
@Starmaiden I've been told of some skeletons I wish could stay in the closet. Now that I know about them, I really wish I didn't.
I should also clarify that I didn't ASK to know about some of these skeletons.
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@marguicha (230351)
• Chile
4 Jul 18
Every day, unfortunately, people kill their parents or their children.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
4 Jul 18
This happened in the late '30's or early '40's. The wife was cheating and the man had the intention of killing his wife. It was very early in the morning, around 2 or 3 am and his mother didn't normally come in the back door.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
5 Jul 18
@marguicha Yes and it's quite sad. Especially when the person didn't intend to shoot or kill their loved one.
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@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
5 Jul 18
This is a very sad story and he had to live with that for the rest of his life.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
5 Jul 18
Yes he did. I am not sure what kind of a man he was before that. I know his intention was to kill his wife and so I know he had a lot of anger and resentment over her adultery. I wish I could find the article that was written up in the papers about it but I'm not even sure what year it was or quite where it was.
My family has a lot of mental illness in it and there's every indication that it could have been something that touched the lives of my ancestors as well. I wonder if this uncle (great grand to me) already had trouble with his mentality before this?
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
5 Jul 18
i don't know how to respond in this discussion. i hope the man, or your distant relative, should have been certain and sure who the person opening the door is.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
5 Jul 18
It was my great grand uncle. He was pretty upset and probably a little angry and wasn't thinking straight. It was around two or three in the morning as well. No one knows why his mom was coming in the back door, and especially at that time of the morning.
He didn't get in trouble for it because he told the law that he thought it was a robbery. Of course, he was really intending on killing his wife. I'm sure he would have used the same excuse.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
5 Jul 18
@ridingbet He never went to court over it so he was never acquitted. He was simply never charged with anything in the first place. The cops of the time ruled it as self defense and tragic.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
13 Jul 18
Yes it was his mother. This was my great grand uncle. My grandfather's uncle. He didn't spend any time in jail from what I've been told. They ruled it an accident as he claimed that he thought he'd heard someone trying to rob him. This was in the 40's, somewhere in Georgia.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
13 Jul 18
@RubyHawk Oh he did. That's the whole thing. He had every intention of killing his cheating wife and telling everyone he thought it was a robber and oh boo hoo he's so grieved over it. Atleast that's what I understand from what I've been told.
It was 3 AM and I don't know whether his mom lived with him or not, but apparently no one knew why she was coming through the door so early.
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@RubyHawk (99367)
• Atlanta, Georgia
13 Jul 18
@ScribbledAdNauseum Things were lax back them and don't you imagine he thought it was his wife?
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
5 Jul 18
This was "real life"
It was my great grand uncle who unintentionally killed his mama.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
5 Jul 18
It also happened to be true. Of course they told the law that he thought it was someone come to rob him. It was around three am when it happened. No idea why the mother was going in the back door or why that early in the morning.
This was my great grand uncle (My grandfather's uncle).
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
4 Jul 18
Yes. As far as I can recall, the man who killed his mother would have been my great grand uncle or such. To simplify, I think it was my grandfather's uncle. I need to go ask him to tell me the story again so I know for sure.
