Here is the largest study of filicide to date, I posted it on the Aramadz Andressian case.
The rate of children murdered by a stepdad is going up with more blended families.
Domestic violence, jealousy and retribution, are typical of the profile, stabbing and beating as a means stepfathers use to murder? Check.
However, you don't need profiling science to know that guy was a huge risk to that child.
http://www.violenceresearch.ca/sites/default/files/DAWSON (2015) CANADIAN TRENDS IN FILICIDE_1.pdf
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This is so sad but it also makes me angry at the mother. Why did she let him stay there? As others have said she put her needs (which included him) first and her daughter's second. Actually she probably didn't count her daughter's needs at all.
When the pair returned to the building, they pulled up in front and Alexis mother sent the girl to deliver cigarettes to a neighbor. Surveillance cameras show the girl was greeted at the building entrance by Singleton, who pushed her into the entryway and pulled a hammer out of his pocket, Lisuzzo said. Singleton raised the hammer as the 12-year-old cowered on the floor of the vestibule, Lisuzzo said.
Singleton grabbed Alexis by the hair and shoved her up the stairs to the apartment. When they reached the apartment, Alexis mother could see her daughter and Singleton in the window. She called 911, as Singleton began calling her, with sounds of Alexis begging for her life in the background.
Two Chicago cops, short-handed and with calls for service stacking up, arrived at the scene of a 12-year-old girls murder within ten minutes of the first call for help, city records and dispatch archives show.
But the local police district was operating on a shoestring that nightsix units sat idle due to lack of manpowerand now Chicago's left to wonder "what if."
The mother, Misty Stubbs, called 911 at 9:46 p.m. on June 11 to ask for police assistance in getting Singleton out of her apartment,....
The mother, Misty Stubbs, called 911 at 9:46 p.m. on June 11 to ask for police assistance in getting Singleton out of her apartment, according to dispatch records provided by Chicagos Office of Emergency Management and Communications (OEMC) in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.
But the call was not dispatched to officers because the 19th District was in Radio Assignment Pending (RAP) status, which means that there were not enough police units to handle incoming calls for service.
Three minutes after her first call for help, Misty called 911 again, records show. Singleton had armed himself with a knife, she said
Noting that the situation was escalating, a dispatcher read the call out on the air in case there were resources available. But no one took the call, and it sat unassigned for nearly two more minutes.
Finally, at 9:52 p.m. a two-cop unit was able to respond. Within three minutes, one of the two officers broke onto the radio, breathless, calling for EMS and giving out a description of Singleton, who had just fled through the back door with a hammer.
.Alexis and her mother lived in public housing in Uptown, where Singleton was only allowed to visit for a week, Assistant State's Attorney Guy Lisuzzo said during a bond hearing. The deadly argument stemmed from the housing situation and cigarettes, prosecutors said
"If you said 'what do you want do when you grow up?' she said 'I’m gonna be on TV.' ... She meant that. That was her goal. That was her dream. She definitely wanted to be a star," said her cousin .
"She knew she was going to be on TV, and I told her I was going to help her get there. She really believed she was going to be a celebrity,"
Alexis and her mother lived in public housing in Uptown, where Singleton was only allowed to visit for a week, Assistant State's Attorney Guy Lisuzzo said during a bond hearing. The deadly argument stemmed from the housing situation and cigarettes, prosecutors said.
Around Uptown, neighbors recognized her for her having her "own unique little style." She was "a neighborhood kid" still mourning the death of her friend, 13-year-old Tianna Hollinside, who drowned at Rogers Beach in May.
"Lexie was sunshine,"...
The girl in the casket wore a crown of pink roses Friday.
"She loved purses. She loved being pretty. She was definitely a girly girl," (said by a cousin).
Prosecutors said Singleton killed Stubbs in a rage after her mother told him he had to vacate her North Side apartment. He’d been staying there since being released from a halfway house a few days earlier on parole after spending three years in custody for attempting to strangle her back in 2014. Singleton had moved back in but the woman didn’t want him there because her lease prohibited [COLOR=#1B8EDE !important]felons[/COLOR], prosecutors said
Following his arrest, Singleton attacked one of the detectives who had been questioning him and is now charged with aggravated battery of a police officer in addition to kidnapping and murder.
This situation was particularly challenging, though, because Alexis's mother was the one renting the apartment (apparently, she was working and paying for it herself). Singleton, it seemed, assumed he was still welcome at the apartment and moved in over the mother's objections. That's my understanding. He became angry when the mother let him know he wasn't welcome there and his presence violated the lease. Should the mother and Alexis have moved out and gone to a shelter? It may have been difficult finding an opening at a shelter and if Singleton wasn't working, it wouldn't be easy to sneak out with their belongings. Just some thoughts. I really, really wish there had been a way to prevent this. Even if they moved after Singleton went to prison, it's really hard to hide with the personal information that's easily accessible on the Internet. MOOdomestic abuse situations are never fun. it takes a LOT of thought, time, some money, available help (many domestic abuse shelters are full), courage and strength to leave an abuser. it is never easy. prayers for anyone in that situation. please leave before it is too late.
I read a post, ( in the Jury room IIRC), the topic was something like, " What cased do you gravitate toward, and which one's do you avoid and why". A couple people mentioned that they avoid the "Crimes Against Children" cases because the agony of empathizing was just to traumatic to bear, and I fear I have reached the end of my personal endurance also, with this case.
I have not slept, in the last two nights. I lie awake, this case intrudes... I have a 12 yr old Daughter. Almost unbidden, in the darkness of my room, thoughts flash, of her crawling towards me, mortally wounded, and using her last bit of life force to reach me. I felt an overwhelming sense of anxiety, I could not catch my breath, I was engulfed in the most excruciating agony imaginable. I have to get up, to dispel the unspeakable horror... I will need a break, I think, from further info on this, and cases like it, for it is truly more than I can handle I see.
I am sorry that my first comment was so harsh toward Alexis's Mom. I feel ashamed now. Regardless of any choice, or mistake, of any kind, she may have made, I can not hold anything but compassion now, for she was dealt a punishment that is beyond even a Life Sentence". She will see & hear, her child's last moments, ( likely intrusively), for the rest of her life. If I, so far removed, can not even deal with the thought of it, I don't know how this woman will survive, but I will pray for some healing...For her and all of us.
Thank you Spellbound, for your kind thoughts.
The fierce need to understand this world we live in, both the good and the truly evil, and improve it in anyway we can, is something that I find I share with the members here, in ways I can't find elsewhere. The subject matter we do discuss here is not for the faint of heart. Perhaps only professionals working in areas related to homicides, would even understand what compels us is not morbid fascination, but real aptitude for the work. We can help others. We have the compassion, skills, and desire to want to.
But these are dark and soulless area we look into. I have been following a few too many lately, I think, (Katie Rough, Bella Bond ect...), It's wise to learn to pace oneself to avoid too much trauma, I am learning...
There are fantastic members here, like nowhere else. I am sure we will meet up again, I just need to watch Charlotte's Web, ( the original, not the animated), a few times with my little, and practice some Aikido, (The Art of Peace), and I'll be right as rain again, and be along shortly...
My daughter is dead because she was manipulated into calling a psychopath her dad. I went to family court to try to protect her when he first moved in. Family court disrespected me, berated me, and did nothing to protect my daughters. Family court actually changed my custody from 50/50 to zero because the alienating mother had manipulated my daughter into rejecting me and my family for no reason other than her own insecurity and fear of abandonment. I want to know if there was a dad somewhere in the background for this girl. I heard a man describe her as a good mom and how the mother and Alexis were 'like twins'. Well sometimes that isn't healthy. Psychologists call that adultification. Children get caught up in the mother's dysfunctional personality. Psychologists also call it cross-generational coalition. It's not healthy for a child. People think it's cute but it can be child abuse and can rob a child of their own personality and then they inherit the mental illness of the parent and the cycle continues.
I read that there was a CPS report filed for neglect some time prior to this. So WHO made that report?? I want to hear from THEM. We need to stand together and expose this evil. Step fathers need looked at, whether you're a 'good' step dad or not. Mandatory parenting classes before living with children. Custody laws need changed. Judges and Guardian ad Litems and CPS workers and probation officers need educated and held accountable. Step-parents need background checks and home studies before adoption.
My daughter's story and some changes I am starting to work on:
www.AnjelicaMarie.com