I used to watch the news before I went to bed or early in the morning before I leave out. I would hear reports on women and children being murdered by their husband or love ones. I used to sit and wonder, "what could make a person commit such actions?" or "what if that happened to me or someone in my family?" Convincing myself that the possibilities were too low. The truth of the matter is it could happen to anybody. No family is ever too perfect, everyone has their "dirty little secrets."
My uncle usually called me every other day, but at that time I was blowing off his phone calls, thinking that the only thing he wanted was to constantly push me into getting my CDL. Which I wasn't sure if I wanted to do or not since it wasn't apart of my previous study in health care. A couple of weeks went by, still not answering the phone, I look at the caller ID and see that it was my cousin Rochelle calling. I had answered the phone before it went to the voicemail. I had received the disturbing news...
"Why didn't I answer the phone?" I had said before hanging up in total shock. "If only I had answered the phone," I kept repeating to myself, rocking while setting up in the bed clinching the phone. I want to see him I said, but I couldn't, I had to wait until his court date. Saying "Why did he do it?" to "What if I could have talked him out of it?"
Calling around for more and more information, I had discovered that my uncle on April 11th, 2009, murdered his children's mother and tried to conceal the murder by lining the trunk with plastic and traveling to Tennessee to dispose of the body. I guess his conscious was eating him up inside, because he turned himself in two days later.
I haven't been able to go see him yet maybe next month in February, his birth month. Maybe I might find out the truth to what really happened. I have provided a link below for those of you who want to find out more information, you can also view blogs/comments, as well as pay respects to the mother of his children by leaving comments in the text box at the end of the page.
Link: http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/04/1m-bail-for-man-accused-of-killing-girlfriend.html
