ziggy
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Hello, I just wanted to thank you all for your amazing detective work on this case. I am a former student of Dr. Kelly's, and I still reside w/in an hour of Farmville. This case has been so disturbing and very frustrating b/c we have not been able to get much information on what really happened. It is so hard to understand how this could have taken place. There are so many questions, and I truly hope w/ the indictments being handed down this week that this is the start of finding out what really happened. This case has haunted me and kept me up at night, as it has so many others in the Longwood/Southside VA community.
I just want to let you all know as well that even though Dr. Kelly is being criticized for what she let her daughter do, she was a wonderful person. She was an extremely popular professor at Longwood and was beloved by her students. My friend used to babysit Emma when she was about 6-7 years old and I remember her being on campus alot, such a sweet girl. My heart breaks when I think about what happened to them.
The only conclusion I can come to as to why she let Emma slip into all this is twofold. On one hand, she was trying to let Emma find her own way and be her friend (I am sure she felt guilt about her divorce), and on the other, she must have been studying the violence of horrorcore. She would have been your best poster on this forum-she loved criminal justice, and was instrumental in making it a major at Longwood. I of course can't say what happened, but I have not been able to shake that feeling from the beginning that she was studying the whole horrorcore scene on a academic level ie, sociology and violence. It is the only way I can figure this highly intelligent woman who loved her daughter would let this kind of thing get so close and into her home.
Anyways, your forum has been a wealth of information and I thank you all for your hard work!
Hi LoveVA and welcome. I'm sure you are haunted. I'm haunted and I'm on the other side of the country.
I think you are right; and you're making me believe even more that is why she consented to have Sam come and stay at the house and why they went to the concert. Do you ever wonder if she was coming to the conclusion that there may be no causal connection to that little underground community and violence? That would be weird. I'm sure they will uncover any research material she would have started to gather. If not officially researching, she may not have been able to help but be professionally curious as hell.
Much more may start to come out now. For me, I just want to know what happened, how it went down and what caused him to become so brutal that day and continue to be depraved. Why? How? All the basics.
It freaks me out too because if you take away Syko Sam, he looks pretty soft, doughy and harmless. Yikes.