GUILTY SC - Devon Epps, 7, murdered, Greenville, 12 Aug 2007

[Bilas]

I also can't believe there has been no arrest yet!

Lets get some justice for this poor little boy!

 

[mollymalone]

Brought over from Greenville Online forum:

Apparently Amanda Reagan Smith's life was marked by violence from an early age (which is no excuse IF she's the one who killed Devon). From posts I've read at the forum there, ARS's mother (according to those who know the family) was a "crack head" and was treated violently by the stepfather and was running from him after an encounter with him, and was in a car wreck and killed. Amanda met CHAD EPPS (father of Devon) at the funeral of the stepfather, who was "reportedly" Chad's uncle.

Some of ARS's upbringing could become a factor by a defense in a trial, IF she is the one charged.


Mon Oct 22, 2007 10:35 am
Amanda's dad is in prison. Well the guy she "THINKS" is her dad, but then again that is how her and Chad met, at her "dads" funeral.


nascarchick926
Mon Oct 22, 2007 10:37 am
no they said chad's uncle was Amanda's "dad" but then a few weeks later a man's mugshot appeared on tv and she said THAT was her dad.

nascarchick926
Mon Oct 22, 2007 12:10 pm** *
I have no clue which one is her real dad. Chad's uncle is dead, and the one she said was her dad is in jail.

babybrea01
Mon Oct 22, 2007 12:51 pm**
The guy that died was Amanda's stepfather, who was Chad's uncle. He was NOT her real father.(thank God cause that would of meant that Devon was a product of incest.) Her real father is still Alive and he has had nothing to do with her her whole life. He was basically a sperm donor



babybrea01
Mon Oct 22, 2007 1:07 pm**
I'll give her one thing she has had some bad things happen in her life. Her mom was in a car wreck and was practically decapitated, she died instantly. Her stepfather was hit by a train and killed. Her real father has never been around. That is why her grandparents raised her and her brother.

Dee
Mon Oct 22, 2007 3:57 pm** *
Did Amanda and Cory have the same father? I knew their mom ran under a truc getting away from their father who was chasing her and got her head cut off. I never knew what happen to the father.

nascarchick926
Mon Oct 22, 2007 4:01 pm**
No they didn't have the same father. Sonia and Brucie WAS married but the Smiths changed her last name when she died


nascarchick926
Oct 22, 2007 12:20 pm** *

No one has been named a "suspect" there is no BHS. You can't verify anything really because there is basically a GAG ORDER on the whole case. The mom is a nut case----I know b/c I used to hang out with her.


MarchHare
Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:36 pm
So ARS lost her mother, violently, at the age of 8?

I'm imagining, compounded by a sense of abandonment (which likely started long before her mother died through living around violence and drug abuse, possibly damaging her ability to form attachments) that ARS's ego was buoyed by the extra attention she probably received, the sympathy, the petting she got from others at that impressionable age during her "mourning". That disasters, far from being bad things to her, actually gave her a spotlight, and attention she craved.

Nascarchick, let me ask you or anyone who knows....has ARS, since her mother's death, always had mini disasters, dramas, and crisises that she would go running to people over? Was there always some story that put her in the center of attention? Did she always need to have the focus on her in a dramatic way? I heard from another forum that she would behave bizarrely in church for attention too so it just seems to be a pattern she may have adopted from the time her mother died. I notice that on her first myspace she had a little memorial corner for her mother...which I can bet gave her some of attention in a small way.

I can't help think how it looked like she was basking in the aftermath of the "accidental" fire.

This is all armchair, but this kind of attachment disorder, disasters being her only positive attention, might have spelled doom for Devon.

It could also be totally unconscious to ARS, but Devon dying at 7 may have been more then coincidental, but that by killing him before he turned 8 was more like killing a rival for affection. She is still, emotionally, the 8 yo looking for attention and she wasn't going to have another 8 yo in the house vying for what was hers.

Sorry, like I said this is all armchair speculation, but it boils down to a recipe for a sociopath.

Not an insanity defense, NEVER an insanity defense, a sociopath KNOWS what they do is not allowed by society, they just don't care in the pursuit of what they want.
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MarchHare *O!!

The response:
nascarchick926
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 9:06 am

March, for as long as I can remember ARS has ALWAYS been a drama queen , always something going on to where she needs to run to someone for help.

 

[hipmamajen]

From Greenville online forum:

nascarchick926
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 8:45 pm Post subject:
Nope sorry CG no news on an arrest, I have heard that it was promised to a family member to be within the next two weeks.
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Let's hope!

 

[mollymalone]

Let's hope!

Hopefully that means all the forensic testing is back, and the investigation of both the fire and the death are nearing completion.

 

[philamena]

What a tangled web of people...good lordy. Justice for little Devon.

 

[mollymalone]

What a tangled web of people...good lordy. Justice for little Devon.

Yes. The locals who knew Devon was bounced between grandparents and his father when his mother was in school, working or partying. But from all who've spoken, Devon loved his mother very much. It indeed would deepen this tragedy for the families if his own mother is the one who killed him. Without any trace of a bushy haired stranger and from her own report that night, her actions are very suspicious.

If she is indeed on the forum over there under various nics playing games with the posters, I can't imagine how someone could be doing that just a month afterwards, if their child had been murdered by a stranger.

 

[philamena]

Yes. The locals who knew Devon was bounced between grandparents and his father when his mother was in school, working or partying. But from all who've spoken, Devon loved his mother very much. It indeed would deepen this tragedy for the families if his own mother is the one who killed him. Without any trace of a bushy haired stranger and from her own report that night, her actions are very suspicious.

If she is indeed on the forum over there under various nics playing games with the posters, I can't imagine how someone could be doing that just a month afterwards, if their child had been murdered by a stranger.

Surely the mother isn't that brazen (or that stoopid) to be posting on a forum?? :furious:
You're right about the bushy haired stranger. That story sounded like a bunch of caca from the get go. Precious Devon deserves justice and if his mom killed him, she needs to be punished to the nth degree.

 

[mollymalone]

Surely the mother isn't that brazen (or that stoopid) to be posting on a forum?? :furious:
You're right about the bushy haired stranger. That story sounded like a bunch of caca from the get go. Precious Devon deserves justice and if his mom killed him, she needs to be punished to the nth degree.

Actually, from those who know the mother, they say she IS on that forum posting and she is that brazen. That's mind boggling to me. If it were my child I'd still be blotto about now.

 

[CaliKid]

It sounds as if she believes she can get away with this and is just daring someone to arrest her.

 

[SadieMae]

Actually, from those who know the mother, they say she IS on that forum posting and she is that brazen. That's mind boggling to me. If it were my child I'd still be blotto about now.

It sounds as if she believes she can get away with this and is just daring someone to arrest her.

I don't understand her behavior either. If it truly IS her posting, something is realy wrong with her. I just hope LE is gathering enough to make the case the case air tight against her. My hinky meter has been right too many times...

 

[Reannan]

I think the arrest is slow in coming because LE wants to make sure they get evidence for everyone involved...not just ARS. I truly believe there are others involved in this - either in the murder of Devon, or by participation in the staging of the alleged carjacking.

 

[angelmom]

I think the arrest is slow in coming because LE wants to make sure they get evidence for everyone involved...not just ARS. I truly believe there are others involved in this - either in the murder of Devon, or by participation in the staging of the alleged carjacking.

Really? I hadn't thought of others being involved. That's a good point, though. I just assumed she did this alone.

Who do you like for a co-conspirator?

Why do you think she would need help?

In my mind there was no second car. She killed Devon at home, drove out to the scene, staged the "carjacking" and then called 911.

I guess I thought if she had help, then the partner would have taken her car and dumped it somewhere to make the carjacking seem more believable. Maybe even with Devon's body inside. Come to think of it, she's pretty stupid. She could have dumped her car and then walked back to "the scene" and claimed the BHS took her car and Devon, and that would have been a better story.

Or at least have a witness! :doh:

I need to go back and read up to see how another person might fit in.

 

[KatK]

I think the arrest is slow in coming because LE wants to make sure they get evidence for everyone involved...not just ARS. I truly believe there are others involved in this - either in the murder of Devon, or by participation in the staging of the alleged carjacking.

I agree. Doesn't mean I can't growl about the fact that ARS, and her helper(s) are still free. :furious: :behindbar :furious:

 

[Reannan]

Angelmom, ARS supposedly had a girlfriend who shared her bed with her, and did not like Devon. Of course, this is all based on statements that were made by people on the greenvilleonline forum, and therefore, may be nothing more than rumors. I would not be a bit surprised to hear that Devon was killed during a fit of anger from this other person, and ARS is now protecting her "friend". We have all seen boyfriends, girlfriends, husbands, and wives, cover for abuse and even murder of a child. I also would not be surprised to hear that ARS killed Devon and this other person helped stage the carjacking. ARS doesn't seem like the kind of person to do much of anything on her own. If she acted alone, I don't see why an arrest hasn't already been made. There HAD to be DNA under Devon's fingernails. He was a big, healthy boy, and I am sure didn't just sit quietly while he was being strangled to death. If the DNA belonged to ARS, wouldn't you think an arrest would have happened by now? If it didn't belong to ARS, then more time would be needed to tie up the loose ends as to who it belonged to, and how they were related to Devon and ARS.

 

[mollymalone]

Angelmom, ARS supposedly had a girlfriend who shared her bed with her, and did not like Devon. Of course, this is all based on statements that were made by people on the greenvilleonline forum, and therefore, may be nothing more than rumors. I would not be a bit surprised to hear that Devon was killed during a fit of anger from this other person, and ARS is now protecting her "friend". We have all seen boyfriends, girlfriends, husbands, and wives, cover for abuse and even murder of a child. I also would not be surprised to hear that ARS killed Devon and this other person helped stage the carjacking. ARS doesn't seem like the kind of person to do much of anything on her own. If she acted alone, I don't see why an arrest hasn't already been made. There HAD to be DNA under Devon's fingernails. He was a big, healthy boy, and I am sure didn't just sit quietly while he was being strangled to death. If the DNA belonged to ARS, wouldn't you think an arrest would have happened by now? If it didn't belong to ARS, then more time would be needed to tie up the loose ends as to who it belonged to, and how they were related to Devon and ARS.

There's been speculation that it could have been her brother or the girlfriend who "helped" her. From the description of both, it's possible either or both may have. If ARS did it alone, even if there was dna on him to prove that it was his mother, they'd still do the investigation to dot the t's and i's in order to ensure she paid fully for it. If they can prove that the fire was a first attempt to kill the child, that will show premediation, and, with a circumstantial case for the second incident, the faux carjacking, they're going to want to make sure all the ends are tied that they can.

I wouldn't rule out her doing it alone. However, since she has a history of dramatics and has to run to others to help her out of her screwups, I would guess that she'd go to those she knew would help her.

 

[Bilas]

Any new news?

Bumping for Devon and the justice he deserves!!!

 

[mssheila]

Any new news?

Bumping for Devon and the justice he deserves!!!

I was looking for news- and I couldn't find ANYTHING! I still wanted to give this thread a bump, though. I cannot believe there has been no arrest(s) yet.

 

[dkitty]

I was looking for news- and I couldn't find ANYTHING! I still wanted to give this thread a bump, though. I cannot believe there has been no arrest(s) yet.

I can't believe it either!!

 

[Taximom]

I can't believe "the real killer" is still running around free!

 

[T-Rex]

Well, according to someone on the Greeneville forum (who seems to have more info than most--I think she is a friend of Chad's family), Devon was killed in his sleep.
If true, I'm glad he didn't see what was coming, but that makes it even more coldblooded. I'm shocked.