GUILTY MO - Ireland, 2 & Goodknight Ribando, 7 weeks, found dead outside home, Kearney, July 2018 *arrest*

[flourish]

FOX 4 News Kansas City

This is the article from fox News 4 Kansas City's Facebook page.

Both the article and the comments are interesting, imo.

 

[SugarQueen]

asleep? That's pretty late to be asleep with two little ones!

That’s why I’m thinking passed out.
1) can’t find keys.... but then has keys,but says she didn’t go inside, but door was ajar when LE got there
2) woke up and broke into shed looking for gas
3) CPS/DHS didn’t see her sitting in car
4) slept until approximately noon in a hot car
The only way I can see the above happening is if mom was under the influence of something.

 

[kkdj]

That’s why I’m thinking passed out.
1) can’t find keys.... but then has keys,but says she didn’t go inside, but door was ajar when LE got there
2) woke up and broke into shed looking for gas
3) CPS/DHS didn’t see her sitting in car
4) slept until approximately noon in a hot car
The only way I can see the above happening is if mom was under the influence of something.

Something isn't coming together with her story. It doesn't have the right flow.

 

[SugarQueen]

Hold on.... the case worker said the vehicle was running at 9:30. That should mean the babies were still alive IF this was accidental.
I don’t see carbon monoxide poisoning coming into play. Unless her Jeep was very old or had a hole in the floor for exhaust to leak into the vehicle. I’m going with heat death, or abuse.

 

[kkdj]

Hold on.... the case worker said the vehicle was running at 9:30. That should mean the babies were still alive IF this was accidental.
I don’t see carbon monoxide poisoning coming into play. Unless her Jeep was very old or had a hole in the floor for exhaust to leak into the vehicle. I’m going with heat death, or abuse.

The investigator said he didn't think the AC was on as he didn't hear a fan. And as I said before, she was the only one that could get out, which she did. (I'm assuming the 2 year old and the 7 week old were strapped in their car seats.)

 

[SugarQueen]

The investigator said he didn't think the AC was on as he didn't hear a fan.

If the ac wasn’t on it would be even stranger that an adult would stay in the hot vehicle with the windows closed.

 

[dyannaON]

Can you link to the post?

On her FB the first post by a friend that has a few pictures of her and her friends. One of the last comments has 15 or so replies. There is a picture there of who towed the car and what they had to say with a picture of the car. Sorry FB won’t let me link direct to it. No clue why.

 

[kkdj]

On her FB the first post by a friend that has a few pictures of her and her friends. One of the last comments has 15 or so replies. There is a picture there of who towed the car and what they had to say with a picture of the car. Sorry FB won’t let me link direct to it. No clue why.

Plus one of her old friends seemed to indicate she changed.

 

[kkdj]

If the ac wasn’t on it would be even stranger that an adult would stay in the hot vehicle with the windows closed.

exactly!

 

[dyannaON]

Plus one of her old friends seemed to indicate she changed.

Yes. I think that is important.
I really think there is a lot more to the story. Guess we will all see. Poor baby girls.
I hope big sissy is ok.

 

[Razz]

Here's a different scenario: maybe after all the commotion with hubby she went back inside only to find her air conditioning didn't work. So she takes the kids outside puts them in their seats and turns on the car, rolls up the windows and turns on the A.C.

At some point, the car runs out of gas and the air conditioner runs out of coolant. She wakes up at some point to put more gas in the car to keep it running. Could be she zoned out in the car and was so tired from fighting with her husband that she slept through any discomfort and or noise. The children may have passed away way before they were found and maybe never woke up after they were put in the car.
(In other words they died in their sleep.)

Could be when the social worker arrived the car wasn't running and the mother was laid out on the front seat.

Later Mom wakes up and realizes she's in the car and so are the kids. She grabs them, finds neither breathing and runs to the neighbors house.

 

[cass523]

Not sure if this was posted:

When asked about what happened, investigators say the mother said, “My husband left between 3-4 a.m. to get cigarettes and gas. He was in the field with some girl and never came back. I had the babies in the car because I didn’t want them to hear us argue. I dozed off for just a second. When I woke up I saw them and ran them to the neighbors.”

Court records do not reveal if investigators believe Boedecker-Ribando was intoxicated at the time. They did seize Sertraline and Alprazolam pills that can be used to treat depression, OCD, PTSD and anxiety and panic disorders.

Boedecker-Ribando told officers she was locked out of the home but later said she found her key but did not enter the home. When the children’s division worker arrived,l the morning of July 4th, he said the front door of the home was open with the screen door shut.

Court documents provide new details in death of two Kearney girls

 

[kkdj]

Not sure if this was posted:

When asked about what happened, investigators say the mother said, “My husband left between 3-4 a.m. to get cigarettes and gas. He was in the field with some girl and never came back. I had the babies in the car because I didn’t want them to hear us argue. I dozed off for just a second. When I woke up I saw them and ran them to the neighbors.”

Court records do not reveal if investigators believe Boedecker-Ribando was intoxicated at the time. They did seize Sertraline and Alprazolam pills that can be used to treat depression, OCD, PTSD and anxiety and panic disorders.

Boedecker-Ribando told officers she was locked out of the home but later said she found her key but did not enter the home. When the children’s division worker arrived,l the morning of July 4th, he said the front door of the home was open with the screen door shut.

Court documents provide new details in death of two Kearney girls

I had the babies in the car because I didn’t want them to hear us argue. I dozed off for just a second. When I woke up I saw them and ran them to the neighbors.”

Well there you have it!

 

[Confusion]

I had the babies in the car because I didn’t want them to hear us argue. I dozed off for just a second. When I woke up I saw them and ran them to the neighbors.”

Well there you have it!

It's nice that she worried about them hearing them argue, but not about them seeing her crash into his car (from inside hers). Makes sense to me...

 

[MizStery]

Thanks to cass23 post #232
Court documents provide new details in death of two Kearney girls

In the kctv5 article it reads:
July 4th at approximately 9:30 am Social Services paid a visit to the home.

About two-and-a-half hours later around 12:15 p.m., Boedecker-Ribando took 2-year-old Ireland Ribando and 7-week-old Goodknight Ribando to a neighbor’s house for help, documents state.

The neighbors called 911 and tried to cool the children with wet rags and fans. Emergency crews say when they arrived they found the girls had died.

When asked about what happened, investigators say the mother told them , “My husband left between 3-4 a.m. to get cigarettes and gas. He was in the field with some girl and never came back. I had the babies in the car because I didn’t want them to hear us argue. I dozed off for just a second. When I woke up I saw them and ran them to the neighbors.”

It is as many of you have posted Ribando passed out very early in the AM. When she finally came to and suddenly remembered the children it was too late. Both babies had succumbed to the deathly high temperatures in the mother's vehicle.

My Opinion Only

 

[Hoosgirl]

This is sad ... as to why he didn't look closer in the car: the social worker said "he did not want someone thinking he could have been prowling around cars out in a rural area," police wrote.

Also, "Samples of Boedecker's blood and urine were taken as evidence. Authorities also swabbed her mouth."

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article214721185.html

 

[Mountaingazer]

For curiosity's sake I just did a sound test on both my vehicles, one is a similar jeep to the one in this case, mine is a year older though, the other one is a minivan. From outside of both vehicles I could not hear any difference when the ac was on full blast or off (same with the heater).

I also presented the details to my mother, who has worked either for or in conjunction with cps for over 20 years. She says the circumstances (front door of the house open but screen shut, and the car running in the driveway but no answer to his knocking) in her opinion and training would warrant a call to police for a welfare check, which would allow a little leeway in terms of opening doors and doing a more thorough check of the property.

Obviously the investigator did not cause the death of these two sweet girls, but I bet there will be a civil suit and the family will probably get a big settlement.

 

[Inthedetails]

This is sad ... as to why he didn't look closer in the car: the social worker said "he did not want someone thinking he could have been prowling around cars out in a rural area," police wrote.

Also, "Samples of Boedecker's blood and urine were taken as evidence. Authorities also swabbed her mouth."

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article214721185.html

I do not understand why the social worker didn't peek into the car. He was not there as a prowler and it's perfectly legal to look inside a car.

jmopinion

 

[SugarQueen]

Hmmmm, dad said babies were in bed when he left. He said, she said.
Parents had the fight at 11 pm. Why would dad still be there at 3-4 am?
Timeline still doesn’t work for me but I do believe those babies died from the heat.

 

[Niner]

On July 4, between 9:30-9:40 a.m., an on call investigator with the Missouri Department of Social Services Children’s Division drove to the family’s home. He told investigators he saw a vehicle running in the driveway.

He said if there was someone seated upright in the front seat of the car, he would have seen them, but he may not have seen children seated in the back or an adult in the front seat if they were slumped over.

He says he knocked loudly at the front door several times.

After no one answered, he left the home after about five minutes.
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When the children's division worker arrived on the morning of July 4, he said the front door of the home was open with the screen door shut. (Boedecker-Ribando told officers she was locked out of home that morning).

FlossyMay, kkdj & everyone else who mentioned this! - that's what I was thinking - he should have given that car more than a passing glance. The car is running!! No one is answering the door, but it is open with screen shut. I believe I would have walked over to the car to check it out since I'm looking for 2 little kids!! ??!! Strange, eh?

Oh - just noticed in another article that the children's div. worker says he didn't want anyone think he was prowling around... ?? He was looking for 2 kids - would be my explanation if anyone asked! That's "why" he was there for g*d's sake! And he "might" have saved those two babies.... gaah