secret twin::cry for help/answers

i've been spooked!
when was the last time you were spooked by something. whether it was an image, words or just an overall feeling of discomfort.

i have a tendancy to get into crime shows: like City Confidential, Cold Case Files, American Justice, Autopsy....etc. thanks to Mali*smile... tuesday i watched an episode of cold case files, one in particular stuck out "The Secret Twin."

so, i'm watching this story about a young lady raising her 4 kids in brooklyn 1979. it tells the story of how the mother had anger issues and in turn she'd take it out on her children. the age range of the children are the oldest son was 16, she had a daughter that was 8 and a set of twins that were 3(one girl, one boy). she'd beat them every other night for looking wrong. just an overall angry mother living in everyday poverty. you do the math.

the story goes: one morning while all were in the kitchen, the mother's feeding her twins. she's feeding the female twin but for some reason the child didn't want to eat her food. of course the mother starts to force feed the baby until she refuses and the child starts throwing a tantrum. the mother then takes the child out of the high chair and starts to beat her. a 3 year-old child. she solicites her oldest son to help with the beating. two adults beating a 3 year old till she gasped her last breath of life. after realizing that the child wasn't breathing, the mother and son both try to give cpr, but were unsuccessful. as i stated before, all of her children were in the kitchen that morning.

now, after many unsuccessful attempts at reviving life, the mother decides to take her daughters body and wraps it in a trash bag, places the body inside a chest. picture a school trunk that walmart sells at the beginning of the school year. she then places the chest inside the closet.

fast forward, now the youngest twin is 11. with only 3 children alive, the youngest son decides to question his mother about a twin, only after having the seed planted by an aunt he decides to ask not relizing the difficulties ahead. he's been beaten just for questioning about this so called twin.

years later, now as a man, the 23 year old has suffered from haunting images from the past. images he believes have something to do with the alleged twin. they're short flashes of playing inside a babies crib.
he questions his older sister who recalled every moment of that morning. she begins to tell him how her mother and older brother killed his twin. he went to the police after that conversation with information about what he percieved to be a murder of his sister. of course the police were apprehensive because of how long it'd been since. the story had a profound effect on one detective, he decided to do a little research. research turned up with NOTHING. no doctors records, no dental, no school, but what had been found was a certified birth certificate for a LaTanishia Carmichael. records also found that the mother had been receiving social security for this child since she was 1. with these records and a few other things they were able to issue an search warrant on the mothers home. by now at the age of 60, the mother still lives in the same apartment in brooklyn. the police arrive at her door to seach the apartment, sure enough the mumified remains of LaTanishia Carmichael were found, still hidden in the closet of that one bedroom apartment.


what i don't understand is why? the motive was never really presented. the events and story were so eerie till it didn't really matter the motive. what haunted me was the fact that the mother kept this babies body for 23 years in a closet. wouldn't the house smell? wouldn't the building smell of foul? with the son having these visions and not understanding why, i would believe babies soul had been trapped in this apartment all these years and the visions would lead her brother to freeing her.

but it all makes me nervous and i wonder what has gone wrong in the minds of so many mothers in the past 10 years. you have susan yates, the women who drowned all 5 of her babies, there was a recent mexican women in the news last week, whom beheaded all 3 of her children for no reason. i'm not sure what goes wrong in the mind of a mother to make her harm a child that she bared. it saddens me! i feel compelled by these stories of helpless children being murdered. but i'm not sure what i'm supposed to do. not sure of how to lend my hand....i've committed myself to telling these stories to all who'll listen, with hopes of helping someone who's in a similiar situation. maybe that would then lead me to aiding someone.

don't know, i just felt compelled to share.

peace and take care of your families.