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

[mollymalone]

I've been checking the other forum, too, in hopes of finally seeing the words stating that she has been taken into custody. I think quite a few posters over there think that she has been posting on those boards, at times. Wouldn't shock me, if she did...

A friend or two, reportedly former friends now, were posting as well, although they seem to have stopped for the time being.

edited to add: Has anyone thought of doing a timeline with details of this case? Something we can compare with the evidence as it gets released?

 

[KatK]

Reannan, have you quit following on the forums, or just been busy lately? ETA: NM, I missed some posts on page 16. :blushing: Can you make up a timeline?

 

[Lady_Ford]

So, bumping to get it back on the front page, wish someone would just arrest her already!!!

 

[CaliKid]

So, bumping to get it back on the front page, wish someone would just arrest her already!!!

So do I. It seems so obvious she's guilty.

 

[Reannan]

Greetings, KatK and everyone else! Yep, I have been busy lately....really busy. :boohoo: I haven't forgotten any of the cases that haunt me in my sleep, and this is definitely one of them. I do check in and read the greenvilleonline forum, but they are just as frustrated with no news. I will try and work on a timeline. It would be helpful to see the facts as we know them placed in a definite order.

 

[mollymalone]

Apparently the concern over Devon Epps' murder, and the speculation that it was his mother's hand who caused it provides said mother with amusement.

A poster on the Greenville Online forum asked whether Amanda Reagan Smith was aware of the forum and posters speculation. Another poster, who is close to the families replied:

nascarchick926
No I have talked to her about this very thing and she told me she thinks it is funny as hell. As for the attention, she craves any kind of attention as long as it is focused on her and her only.


nascarchick926
Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 9:31 pm
she has laughed about it since day one. I have not let her know I think anything of it, I try not to talk to her unless I have to. It sickens me to even think of her face and her in general. Let her have her little laugh karma is a and so is she. But she will get what she deserves in the end.

 

[angelmom]

nascarchick926
Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 9:31 pm
she has laughed about it since day one. I have not let her know I think anything of it, I try not to talk to her unless I have to. It sickens me to even think of her face and her in general. Let her have her little laugh karma is a and so is she. But she will get what she deserves in the end.

:sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick:

 

[Samiya]

tap taptap tap taptaptaptap

still waiting......

Sami

 

[calidreamin]

tap taptap tap taptaptaptap

still waiting......

Sami

I am still waiting too. When is this little angel going to get the justice he deserves? It is so clear that the "mother" did this yet she is still free to roam about, I just can't believe it!:furious:

 

[Samiya]

I am still waiting too. When is this little angel going to get the justice he deserves? It is so clear that the "mother" did this yet she is still free to roam about, I just can't believe it!:furious:

yeah it's BS

Hey mods, can we have an emoticon of a skeleton with the words "still waiting"?

Guarantee it will get used a lot.

Sami

 

[Al_B]

I haven't read everything to catch up but does this woman have Münchhausen by proxy or what

Apparently the concern over Devon Epps' murder, and the speculation that it was his mother's hand who caused it provides said mother with amusement.

A poster on the Greenville Online forum asked whether Amanda Reagan Smith was aware of the forum and posters speculation. Another poster, who is close to the families replied:

nascarchick926
No I have talked to her about this very thing and she told me she thinks it is funny as hell. As for the attention, she craves any kind of attention as long as it is focused on her and her only.


nascarchick926
Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 9:31 pm
she has laughed about it since day one. I have not let her know I think anything of it, I try not to talk to her unless I have to. It sickens me to even think of her face and her in general. Let her have her little laugh karma is a and so is she. But she will get what she deserves in the end.

 

[calidreamin]

I haven't read everything to catch up but does this woman have Münchhausen by proxy or what

We think she does, there was also a fire a few months before Devin was murdered where his bedroom caught fire.

 

[Al_B]

thats awful and she probably blamed him for it.But I am sure it got her some attention

 

[calidreamin]

thats awful and she probably blamed him for it.But I am sure it got her some attention

Oh it sure did Al and if I remember correctly she bragged to everyone how she ran in and saved him but he told people she was sleaping and he had to wake her up. Then a few months later the poor kid is killed.

 

[Al_B]

that's just awful.
some people just don't deserve to be parents.

 

[CaliKid]

No, she didn't deserve him. I know LE has to make sure the charges they file against her stick, but I just don't know what they're waiting for. And laughing about it makes her look doubly guilty.

 

[mollymalone]

This is part of a list of information/opinions gleaned from those locally who know the families regarding Devon Epps and his mother Amanda Reagan Smith that might help people understand issues preceding this case (these are opinions, some are rumours, and others are allegedly first hand knowledge):

nascarchick926 "ARS was actually a pretty good mom up until about 2 years ago when she really got into the partying life style. Once she started that Devon was nothing but a incovience for her and her lifestyle."

"Devon had ADHD but that was it, if you told him no he knew what that meant. She wouldn't just talk to him like you would your child to get them to stop doing something she would call him all kinds of degrading names and cuss him almost non-stop UNLESS she was around Mr & Mrs. Smith."No Devon didn't argue back with her, he knew better, I guess he done it before and what ever she did to him he was scared. She wouldn't cuss him in front of anyone, if you talked to her on the phone she would be cussing him and yes i have said something to her about it on numerous occasions. She would lighten up just a lil bit, but who knows what he went thru when we got off the phone. She did, everytime she was on the phone she would cuss him and tell to get the f*ck outta her face. That was no way to talk to a child."

"A lot of the thing with Devon, he lived so many different ways. He was made to live one way at home, one at the Smith's, one and the Epps's and any where else he went he had a seperate set. And that gets hard after a while."

"ARS was out and about last night partying it up. Icehouse, you was totally right on everything you said about the way she disiplined Devon, but she wasn't the only one who did it. Her grandparents would whip him with wooden spoons and things of that nature. The Epps family couldn't tell him no, but who could blame them looking into those big ole brown eyes.
Ok first of all I NEVER said beat I said whip, much like you would with a belt or hickory."

"He was on meds. But the Dr. told ARS something and she didn't like it and stopped taking him to the doctor. And after the fire they was gonna get him free help and she wouldn't do that either."

"She still in her sick twisited mind thinks that there is one out there and she has got herself convinced of it and it shocks the hell outta me how someone can be that sick and twisted. I in all honestly think she has convinced herself that she didn't do it and I think she is gonna be shocked as hell when they get her."

In response to a query regarding whether ARS abused drugs:
nascarchick "The pain pills and weed was the only thing I knew of."

"FreeThinker "ARS got rid of a puppy before it was six months old!!!
That says a lot about her focus, or lack of focus. But sure was good for the puppy."

nascarchick926 "The sad part is it wasn't even ARS'S dog, it was Devon's he went somewhere one day and came home and she had gotten rid of it."

Icehouse "well i know her brro is a big drug dealer.thats for sure"

catt4ever "Yeah I've heard about her brother being a big drug dealer."

"usa native "Dee- Didn't you say Devon was over at grandpa Smith's sunday afternoon before he was killed. If so appx. what time was that?"

Dee " I'm not sure what time I saw him. He was riding his bike down the road. I couldn't believe when I heard he was killed. I told my neighbor that I just saw him earlier that day on his bike and she said she did too."

 

[mollymalone]

This more information/opinions gleaned from those locally who know the families that might help people understand issues preceding this case (these are opinions, some are rumours, and others are allegedly first hand knowledge):

**(I apologize to Websleuthers, I inadvertently copied these without the names of those who were making the posts, they are from different individuals)

Regarding polygraph tests & whether Chad Epps and ARS were married:

" i did hear that she failed both test also so thats why she has lawyered up! lol and i do know from a friend of hers tha her gpa and gma do alos think she did it!" "no they were never married."


"I am new to this site - but have a very close friend that is a family member of Amanda's- she DID NOT take the polygraph test yesterday and she HAS lawyered up!!!! And the majority of her extended family believes she killed Devon"


"she did take the poly, and she failed. They are suppose to give her another one, not sure if they already have, or what the results are."

"as far as her polygraph test this was her 2nd time she failed it."

"I just watched the news and it said that they saw a white lincoln towncar from one of the cameras near where they found Devon and it said that whomever was just driving was not a suspect but may have saw something, and not know what that were seeing. The news made it clear that the car is not a suspect just someone that may have saw something!!!!!!"

"Dad didn't have custody when a fire was started in Devon's room from a blanket over a lamp."

"I do not have to be told by anyone he was in jail I saw his picture on the jail roster."

"CHAD WAS AN ANGEL!!!!! HE MAY HAVE A RECORD, BUT HE LOVED HIS CHILD AND HE ONLY GOT TO SEE HIM WHEN AMANDA WOULD LET HIM!!!!! HE NEVER LAID A HAND ON HIS CHILD!!!! AND HE WAS IN JAIL AT THE TIME OF DEVON'S DEATH, FOR CHILD SUPPORT!!!! AND 7 DAYS AFTER HE GOT LOCKED UP HIS CHILD WAS MURDERED!!!!! "

"I personally know Chad was incarcerated at this time, The police know he was in jail. They had to get him out of his cell to tell him his son was murdered. He got out on August 13,2007 around 5:00 pm!!!!!!!!!!"

"THERE WAS A MEMORIAL SERVICE HELD FOR DEVON WHERE SHE KILLED HIM THIS PAST SUNDAY NIGHT,AND SHE NORE ANY OF HER FAMILY SHOWED FOR IT. SHE IS SUPPOSEDLY MOVING BACK INTO HER GRANDPARENTS HOUSE."

 

[mollymalone]

mitha70 "I actually went to Nursing school with the mother. I was not her friend, but I guess you could say an acquittance. I do not know if she ever graduated. From my understanding she failed too many times and got kicked out. When I had class with her she had failed twice before and that is a fact, (three fails and your out). Now as far as compassionate-I did not see that in here. She was also not very professional. I know of a few times that she was put on probation and she had a few problems with some of the teachers. I only heard her speak of her son once-she merely stated that she worked third shift and it was hard being in school with a kid and working full time."

erikssweeti: **(friend of ARS who at first was posting in support of ARS until primarily the 911 call requesting cpr instructions when she was in fact a nursing student and a few different stories told about ARS's phone or lack thereof and she began to question ARS's actions)

"For everyones info, the vigil is held by Amanda. So she will be there. If you don't want to see her or be around her, maybe you shouldn't go. This is her familys vigil. This vigil is not about Amanda or the way she reacts. It is about remembering Devon & his life that was cut so abruptly short. Also, she held a memorial two days after it happened. Several of her friends & family members went. The news was not notified, b/c they didn't want to be on camera.
hat is how the poster board & ribbon around the tree got there."

babybrea01 "I love Devon, and miss him vey much. I have been by the sight several times and taken several things out there and It was out of love for Devon. I haven't seen you or Amanda there, or any of her family any time I have been there. My family will be there Sunday because we want to be, her family had a chance to come last time but no one came. Who's fault is that????????????"

erickssweeti "I have been to the site also & the only people that I've seen were Amanda, her friends, her family, a cop, a investigator, & a couple of cars that pulled up, got out, & placed something at the memorial. I don't know if I've seen you. I don't even know what you look like, so how do you know you haven't seen me? I'm sure I haven't seen you if you say you haven't seen Amanda b/c I was there at the memorial she had. Her family may not have even known about the vigil Chad had. From what I hear they didn't. And if they did, they probably didn't come b/c people wouldn't leave them alone & asking questions. don't think the vigil needs to be about anyone but Devon. That is what a vigil is, remembering the person that has passed on. I hope Sunday is not out of control, I'm sure there will be plenty of people there like cops & investigators to make sure that doesn't happen."


babybrea01 "The other memorial was all about Devon it was beautiful. No cops had to be there because they weren't worried about what was going to happen. Is Amanda so scared she needs cops there? Were the cops there last time? Maybe they were just there to watch Amanda?"

erickssweeti "The "little buddies" have been here the whole time. We have been watching the posts. I thought 2 days after was a little quick too, but I went to be supportive & so did several other people. I don't know if she was nervous about being attacked again, but I was looking over my shoulder & around me the whole time. Being out there was very eerie. I don't know why it's being held at mcdonalds either. I thought it was going to be held at the site, guess someone needs to clarify."

"No, I haven't gotten a flyer. Just a text telling about it. I heard that on the news though, that just sounds wierd.... I think with everyone stating their opinions about what they would do to her, not particularly you, but some posters have said that. That is probably why they will be there. I mean, I don't know for sure that they will, but I have a feeling they will. Yes, they were there last time before we got there, but again this was 2 days after. There was a cop & investigator, they left right after we got there though. They didn't stick around to watch her or anything."

worldsgreatestnanny "I ride by the memorial 2 or three times a week and i never see anybody out there.... different times of the day and sometimes at night."

 

[KatK]

Hey mods, can we have an emoticon of a skeleton with the words "still waiting"?

Guarantee it will get used a lot.

Sami

Well, will these do?

Here:

and here.