Age 10 now is not the same as when we were 10. The issues and media Kodie had access to are so much more vast and varied than those of us over 25. The news article stated she had a snapchat account, but nothing was found (of course not, that is what the app is good for). But it also quotes LE saying Kodie and her family moved to Wisconsin in April and she was only in school for about two weeks before the coronavirus pandemic forced classes to be canceled. Her mom told police that, “Kodie was happy here,” and even mentioned she was looking forward to a camping trip. If you look at mom's Facebook, it is really clear she presents herself as a great single mom that really loves her daughter, she has several posts of thm doing things together etc and her new boyfriend is praised as a great guy that Kodie loves.
Of course, you only know someone so well after 4 months, but they didn't live together.
What pills has she managed to get her hands on at this age?
regarding her note saying it can’t do this’..... do what?
Kodie's mom is a nurse. They could be anything from tylenol to oxy. She apparently knew enough to know which ones could do the job.
Everyone questioning a 10 year old being suicidal -
I wrote my first suicide note at age 9. My home life was hard, I was diagnosed with a chronic illness, my parents were getting a divorce.
Depression knows no age, no gender, no income level. It can be beyond brutal. It does not discriminate.
Aw Kelsie *hugs*.
This is the thing. Clinical depression and suicidal ideation forms in the brain, its not a fleting emotional response. No one thing tends to determine suicide. It is often a long term decline without treatment mixed with feeling rejected, isolated, worthless or ashamed. At the risk of sounding like I'm blaming mom (I'm not), Kodie seems to have been in a very lonely period of her life. She couldn't hang out with friends, she was home alone a lot thanks to Coronavirus (those of you nurses can attest to what that is like as a single mom) her family lives in another state, its been hot a hell, etc etc and if she was already struggling with biological problems leading to depression (it could be thyroid imbalance, for example, also contributing to her weight) I believe something happened to tip her over, anything from a disagreement with mom or a snapchat with someone that is long gone, or some other interaction only Kodie and that person know about - and she grabbed some pills and left to go take them and lay in a field until she passed out and died. Not having shoes on isn't unusual to me - when your intent is to die or you're escaping something (do we even know if she was alone in the house? Maybe she had a babysitter that was abusive) you just leave, you dont care about shoes or phone or whatever, you're intent is to walk into the woods or a field and that's it. I am sad she chose the field, especially because the crop is so shallow, it just supports the bullying/verbal abuse angle to me (e.g. the thought being something like I'll go die in a field where the birds can just eat me because no one cares.)
Murder is always a possibility, especially when you have a young mom with a new boyfriend. I just don't see this mom as having any red flags or other indications like we see in most cases and why would anyone choose an open field when there are ample wooded areas where the chances of discovery are so low not to mention the river if you're already going to us a car. Its not like someone carried her almost a mile into a field with no one on the road noticing.
