Rather Go Watch Wrestling Then Be with Your Children

In 1986 St. Louis Missouri. 26-year-old Ellen is married to an older Vietnam veteran. After 5 years of marriage, Ellen could not handle it anymore. She had two children and had another one on the way.

She had a passion to watch pro wrestling with her friend Deanna. Deanna would go with her husband and realize that Ellen and she share a great passion for wrestling. They got along great and went as often as they could.

So Ellens’s husband was not happy with her going out all the time. He had other plans. He told Ellen while she was in the hospital having their baby, he will be going to a different hospital because he had agent orange. Which was a lie. He had another woman and was not planning on returning to Ellen. He left when she was 8 months pregnant.

July 25th, she gave birth to a baby boy she named David. Despite her working 2 jobs to support her three children, she did not want to be there. She just wanted to go watch wrestling. So she spent all her free time and extra money on watching wrestling, instead of taking care of the children. Wrestling finally consumed her. So much so she did not want to be with her children anymore. The children seemed like a burden to her now that she knew what she wanted to do and none of that involved the children. They stopped her from her enjoying her free time.

Thanksgiving 1988, David fell asleep, and she put a pillow over his face to suffocate him. She thought he was dead. They rushed him to the hospital and ended up on life support. Ellen did not want him around so not long after being rushed to the hospital she decided to pull the plug.

She received a 5,000 life insurance payout for David. Now with the taste of money in her hands, she decided to go shopping for more life insurance for her other children.

September 13th, 1989, Ellens 8-year-old daughter was taking a bath before heading to bed, and all of a sudden, the plugged-in hair dryer fell into the tub. Her daughter felt the shock but was able to get the dryer out of the tub with minimal damage to her. Everyone thought it was an accident.

12 days later her oldest fell asleep watching tv. So, Ellen took a pillow and repeated her actions, and this time she ended his life. Now people were not looking at accidents happening.

Her friend called the police on her. She couldn’t imagine these being accidents anymore. The police did an investigation. Ellen knew the police were narrowing in on her, so she confessed.

1993 she pleaded guilty to 1 count of 1st-degree murder and 2nd-degree murder. Ellen received 2 life sentences with no possibility of parole.

I for one am glad she will never see the light of day again. I wish death penalty was something she recieved. Woman like this have no right even living if she can have it in her to murder her own children. For money for the second makes it even worse.

There could never be any amount in the world I could do any harm to my children. I know any loving mother out there also could never do the same. Just sickens me that she could do this.

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