I do get the feeling that she looked down on being a mother with several children and how would forever change a lifestyle she enjoyed. I think she wanted out but I really don't think this is the type of situation she would have left in. She may very well have been looking for a temporary escape with drugs and I don't know anything about her or what she would do but there is some dangerous heroin going around mixed with fentnyl in it that has killed and there is quite a bit of marijuana laced with formaldehyde that is messing up brains so bad they cannot function normally any more. Also you're in the moonshine capitol in Kentucky and every other farmer probably has a jar. If they didn't know how to take off the methanol in the early runs something like that ends up killing people sometimes in groups. I've seen where as many as up to 50 people dying in India due to methanol in their home brew. I'm with the jULIA_BEE on that where I hope she ran off and is found safe but I don't think that is likely. We have only 2 good found safe scenarios, 1. Ran away 2. Held hostage
You're making an awful lot of assumptions here, some based on things that I've never heard of.
For starters, Garrard County is not the "moonshine capital of Kentucky." You'd have to go much further east and about 60 years back in time for that. The idea that "every other farmer" has ajar socked away is based on Hollywood stereotypes that date back to the Hatfield and McCoy feud (which was in West Virginia, not Kentucky). I live on a farm, my neighbors are farmers, and my family goes back as farmers for 5 generations in eastern KY. Despite popular belief, we don't all sit around our coal stoves at night, talking about our stills and taking fake engines out of our cars to do a midnight run. I've had moonshine exactly one time in my life and I wouldn't know where to buy it. Quite unfortunately, it's become a lost art-something that's dying with the older generation. It's a pity. It's becoming SO much of a lost art, in fact, that down in Tennessee people are getting grants to make moonshine before the skill is lost completely. Even when moonshining WAS popular around here, it's not like everyone did it. Even then, only a few people had the skill-that's why they were respected and feared. It wasn't a community project.
I hate to burst anyone's bubble, but we here in KY mostly just buy our alcohol at the Liquor Barn or, in a pinch, Wal-Mart.
Richmond, where Savannah is from, isn't even a farming community anymore. It has a major university right in the middle of downtown and every other week a new subdivision with McMansions that all look just alike pop up over what were once hills and fields. Not too many farms left and the rest of Central Kentucky is looking the same. You'd have to actually try and look hard for someone who still farmed. Even the people who live on farmland no longer really farm the way they used to. They work university jobs, at Amazon in Lexington, at the Bluegrass Army Depot, etc. Finding an actual "farmer"around here is difficult. It's sad.
Yes, there IS a problem with heroin laced with Fentanyl. Heroin is a big problem facing our communities. Thanks to so many restrictions put on pain pills, heroin is simpler easier and cheaper to get. But that's a problem all over, not just in Kentucky. We have no idea if Savannah has ever been on any illegal substances.
Formaldehyde-laced marijuana is a new one to me. Not anything I've heard about around here. In fact, KY is in line to pass a marijuana bill and soon it may at least be legal for medicinal purposes, if not recreational. We here tend to take marijuana very seriously and have been lobbying for it for a long time. It's not a substance we tend to mess with because we WANT it legalized.
I think it's possible that drugs *may* have played a part here. What part and what drugs I have no real opinion on. I think it's possible, too, that they had nothing to do with this whatsoever.
