Alisa D. Betts and Lauren M. Gash
Well.
This is pretty sick.
19-year-old Lauren Gash wanted a baby. She wanted one really, really bad.
She wanted a baby so bad that she told everyone that she was pregnant, that the dad had run out on her. As proof, she had sonogram pictures with her name in the corner.
To celebrate the imminent arrival of Lauren’s fictitious baby, her family threw her a baby shower.
Now she HAD to have a baby, and soon.
Why she couldn’t get one the old-fashioned way, I don’t know. She had posted online that she had been diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome. Maybe she was worried about that.
Maybe it was just that nobody would touch her, but I doubt it.
Some people will touch anyone.
She even joined mingles.com, a matchmaking site, looking for love. Here’s Lauren Gash’s profile there.
You never know. Maybe there she would have found Mr. Right, or at least a sperm donor.
Instead, she responded to 18-year-old Clinton, Missouri resident Amanda Howard’s ad on Myspace requesting baby clothes. Amanda was nine months pregnant and due to deliver her baby boy at any time.
On July 30th, Lauren Gash and her friend Alisa Betts met with Amanda Howard at a gas station in Clinton, Missouri.
Lauren suggested that they drive Amanda to get some baby clothes, then drive her home. This sounded like a good idea to Amanda, so she jumped into the car and they were off.
While they were driving, something Lauren Gash said spooked Amanda, who pulled out her cell phone. Lauren was quicker on the draw, pulled out a can of mace and sprayed the pregnant girl in the face with it. While Amanda was gasping in pain, Lauren told her that if she calmed down and did what she was told, her and her baby would be ok.
Lauren and Alisa stopped at the Interstate Inn in Blue Springs, Missouri and went to room 1105 – the hotel room that they had been staying at for two days. Why Amanda went with them at this point, I don’t know. Nine months pregnant, she probably would still have been able to run faster than those two.
Once they were all up in the room, Alisa and Lauren gagged Amanda with a rag and duct tape, and then tied the pregnant woman’s hands behind her back.
Then Lauren straddled Amanda’s chest, put her big ol’ meathooks on either side of the girl’s head and tried to snap her neck by twisting her head back and forth.
Fortunately, other than a few popping sounds and some pain on Amanda’s part, nothing happened, which is to be expected. It’s very hard to snap someone’s neck.
While Amanda was having her neck twisted, 17-year-old Alisa Betts decided that this might not have been such a hot idea after all. She left the room and called the cops, telling the 911 dispatcher that there was a woman giving labor and screaming in room 1105.
Blue Springs Police Officer Brandon Shrout arrived. Alisa Betts opened the door, telling him that her friend was having labor pains. Officer Shrout, looking at the scene, didn’t quite believe the story.
Why not?
Well, for starters, the woman with supposed “labor pains” was in the bathroom with duct tape around her neck and rope marks on her wrists. That and she was telling Shrout that she had been kidnapped.
A quick search around the room by Officer Shrout turned up duct tape, scissors, a tarp, a syringe of insulin and, most interestingly, a birth certificate from Center Point Hospital with the name “Johnny Gash” on it.
Out came the handcuffs, and Alisa Betts and Lauren Gash were in custody.
While Gash and Betts were being carted away, Lauren’s father Donald arrived and told police that she had called him to tell him that she’d had her baby and named him Johnny.
Amanda Howard was rushed to the hospital, where a sonogram showed her baby was ok. She gave birth on the first of August, 2007.
When Gash had arrived at the police station an officer asked her if she was pregnant, because she was wearing maternity clothes. She replied, “Not anymore.”
During interrogation, Alisa Betts told investigators that Gash had told her that two men – “Jonathan and David” – were going to cut the baby from Amanda Howard and leave her there to die.
This is a much different story than the one Alisa had told Officer Rob Olson while she was being handcuffed. She had told him that they were keeping Howard in the hotel room so the baby’s father could come take the baby when it was delivered.
Weird how the stories differ.
Alisa Betts was charged with assault and felonious restraint.
Laura Gash was charged with kidnapping, two counts of assault, and felonious restraint.
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Random place to link to me. :P
Thanks, I think. *confused*
Do not question the linkage.
Roll with it.
MyNewHustle will, indeed, touch anyone.
I’m rolling with it…Keep rollin’ rollin’ rollin’…
Anyways, much appreciated.
Gosh, the things some people will do. Well, at least Ms. Gash didn’t succeed. That’s horrible, how someone would try to take another woman’s unborn child.
there both sick. at least one of them called the police cause who knows what she would of done
Just so you know, you have alot of that mixed up, but unfortanutly until the case is over, I cant tell what happened…
im glad you and your baby are ok amanda
Haha. I know soo many of these damn girls that say their pregnent, who would have thought they would try to do something like this?!?! lol…How stupid.
I may have been too hasty saying they both should go to hell. Alisa DID have a conscience and called the cops.
This is reminiscent of the Annette Williams murder case in 1995. Sickos
Fitting last name, she is a Gash!
What a bunch of dumb ass’! This story is really shitty but I can’t help but laugh at tweedle-dumb and tweedle-dumber.
I think the thing that is the most sad about he whole thing. I went to high school with her. My senior year and her junior year our Superintendent’s cousin WAS Bobbie Jo Stinnett the lady who was murdered in Skidmore, MO. Lisa Montgomery drove from Kansas to Skidmore, Killed Bobbie Jo and cute her unborn little girl from her. Our school was shocked and was deeply touched by the murder. What hurts the most is that we were friends and she was one of the nicest people and she was very caring. I will never understand people and the things they do.
I went to school with Lauren not the other chick.
Thanks for your comments Emily. I’m sure this wasn’t easy for you or anyone else to go through. None of these people every think about the emotional wreckage they leave in their wake when they commit their crimes. Thank God these 2 weren’t exactly master criminal material or things could have been much, much worse.
wow thats so fucked up one of my fucing friends is dating lauran gashes sister, Jesse Gash…
Tell him to run far, far away while he still can LOL
Amy!! Shame on you!! I thought they taught you people downunder to use your imagination more.
I think you need to go out and pet a dingo. I have no idea why but sounds cool.
But the dingo STOLE MY BABY!!!!!
Sorry…its an Aussie thing:p
Sure it wasn’t a kangaroo? I heard they do that and eat the tender young flesh slightly cooked with a hint of lemon and pepper.
OH wait thats me. Um OK it was a dingo I saw. Really I did!……You don’t believe me?!?!?!
DON’T JUDGE ME!!!!!!!
LOL…your terrible Muriel…sorry, Mulch!
how do u delete comments?
hey admin can you please delete my comment… comment number 14… Thx… I realized i should not have posted that
Dont worry Brent, we womt hold it against you, and my comment was just a bit of harmless ribbing.
I reakon your mates girlfriend will be kinda pissed tho….and she’ll give your mate a hard time, which means your gonna be in the shit from both of them.
Glad im not you right now mate….
Dunno if it was posted elsewhere on here, but Gash was sentenced to 23 years back in August:
http://www.kctv5.com/news/17304661/detail.html
…while Betts recieved probation last month, as per Amanda’s request, as she (rightfully) believes Betts’ actions saved her life:
http://www.kctv5.com/news/17981605/detail.html
Thanks for the info Chuck, we’ll work on an update asap.
No prob…but before you do, unlike me, make sure you have the date right, LOL…that “23 years” was a typo on KCTV’s page, Gash actually got just 8 years.
Anyone else think this is WAY too lenient, considering her crime?
that’s not the way that happend… you all need to get your story stright before you judge people..
Ailsa Betts, come and inform us of the facts. We love to hear from supporters of POS scum, they really bring such joy to my day.
Yes Alisa, if you want to have your side of the story heard, this is the place to do it. Th guarantee anything you write up will get posted, word for word. I’ll even allow you to post a story, just like the one that was posted about you here. One thing were are here is even-handed, no matter how things might appear to you. When I research a story, I include all the information I dig up, whether it favors one side or the other.All I ask of you is that anything you post is verifiable as true. I’ll just be holding you to the same standards as all my other writers. If you do decide to go this route, submit your rebuttal to editorpysih@comcast.net and I’ll post it ASAP. I’m serious about this Alisa.
Max The Cat
Editor, PYSIH
Whats the bet ya dont hear from her…
I hope she does…I will be very interested in hearing what exactly she has to say.
Well, Alisa can you enlighten us please? IF that is your real name….
So I can’t say I know what happened but her and I had been off and on the last few years before this had happened. She was one of those people that wanted to act like she’s a lot tougher than she really is. I truely believe she knew what was gonna go down but when push comes to shove her even crazier fat friend was down to do some murder shit, she was like “Ok I act tough but this is real” then made the call that saved Amanda’s life. Amanda I’m glad you and the baby are ok but I truely believe she had every bit of knowledge of the plan to get you. She just chicken out last second, I’d thank her for chickening out. Not for what was doing what was right.
I know its so childish, but everytime i read the last name ‘Gash’ i cant help but have a giggle. Can you imagine the names she got called as a kid? Lol.
I know, right? This story was just on TV and I was cracking up the whole time.
It’s funnier when you consider the name Gash had given her nonexistent newborn: “Johnny Gash”!
How does this even come up? I mean, seriously, your friend says, hey you know this weekend lets get together, go shopping, cut the baby out of a pregnant woman, get a pedicure…..Someone said that to you and you just say, OK, hope the pregnant thing doesn’t take too long…WTF? What is wrong with these freaks!
Well I’ll have to read everything again and then I’ll let you know the parts that are wrong. I’ve gone through several sites that say i was maced and duct taped then driven to the motel but I was actually maced after they picked me up and then once we got to the motel was ducted after alisa left. I know some people don’t think i should of gave alisa so much care but she did save my son and i. If it wasn’t for her I wouldn’t be enjoying my 9 month old daughter nor been able to experience marriage nor be able to follow my dreams to massage therapy to help others. Thank you alisa for saving us. much gratitude! but I’ll bookmark this website and give you the corrections. plus if you all would like an update on how this has affected me in more ways than one ugh I will. Ethan is getting so big. to read all this makes me cry due to the fact i’m the only woman to survive anything like this and be able to see my son grow up plus to be able to tell my story and give guidance and suggestions for young women that are doing this alone of what resouces are out there for them.
Both of these psychos deserve hell.