On Friday night the other half and I had his mom babysit the kids so we could go out. We decided to try a new pizza place that everyone has been raving about. It was totally overrated. It took them about an hour to give us our pizza (and they weren't busy) and the bottom was completely burnt. To top it off, it made the other half really really sick. Anyway, when we went to pick up the kids we were told that the other half's stepdad had received a disturbing call. Apparently his ex live-in girlfriend/practically his wife had disappeared. She had been missing for two days when he was called. All of her cars, cash, etc were still at her home.....and her boyfriend (rumor-whispered to be very physically abusive) had taken off to her birthday trip....in Amsterdam.
Can you guess what I'm about to tell you next?
The other half's stepdad received a call on Sunday morning, what would've been the ex's 50th birthday. She was found. Murdered. Stuffed in the boyfriend's fireplace.
The only reason they found her is because the boyfriend had arranged for someone to feed his fish while they were supposed to be in Amsterdam together. It had been horribly hot in the days that she was missing....and dead bodies already don't smell so great....
I didn't know her, so I'm not sad to lose a friend or anything like that. What makes it sad is how one person could do that another. What is this world coming to? People will argue that she was a smart lady (a doctor, actually), that she should have left. And even though she should have, she didn't deserve to die because of it. And if you've never been in a abusive relationship (physical or emotional), you don't know how hard it is. Its hard to take, but it is very hard to leave.
Its just a sad situation all over.
OMG! This seriously sounds like an episode of Law & Order. How terrible!
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