Divorce sucks. Ask just about anybody.
She gets the kids and the house, he gets the bills.
38-year-old Sean Allen Jennings decided that wasn’t how it was going to work in his case.
No, no, no. He had a special plan.
On the 7th of October, 2007, Sean Jennings started building a haunted house in the garage for his two kids to enjoy on Halloween.
Sean told his wife, who uses a wheelchair on a regular basis, that he needed her to take a few steps up on a ladder and measure a rope he was planning to use to hang a plastic skeleton from a beam in the garage ceiling. Of course he couldn’t just let her walk into the garage, he needed her to go in blindfolded.
He said that it was going to be a surprise.
Because this is People You’ll See In Hell, you know she did it.
She was a few steps up on the ladder, with the blindfold still on when Sean Jennings put handcuffs on her and slipped a noose around her neck.
Sean Jennings’ wife started to cry out and beg her husband to take the handcuffs off, which prompted him to turn on a radio sitting on a workbench and drown out her cries.
The next thing she heard was metal scraping on concrete as the ladder was pushed out from under her feet.
She hung there for a while, crying and begging her husband to help her. Some people don’t realize that it’s not the choking that kills someone when they’re hung, it’s the sudden drop that breaks the subject’s neck.
That’s why you watch the History channel, folks. You learn all sorts of things.
Sean Jennings watched his wife suffer for a few minutes as she choked and tried to keep herself up on the tips of her toes. He kept a running commentary going as his wife was dying in front of him, saying that what he was doing was better than divorce. He mentioned that when the kids found out, it would look like she had been depressed and hung herself - especially after he wrote a note explaining why she would commit suicide and signed her name on it.
Sean suggested that she should really just give up and make it easier on herself, because she was going to pass out soon anyways.
She didn’t pass out, though. Sean had a change of heart just as she started to lose consciousness and helped her down, after she promised him that she wouldn’t get a divorce and wouldn’t say anything about what happened to anyone.
Sean Jennings then told her that he was sorry.
It was all better and they lived happily ever after.
No wait, it wasn’t, and they didn’t.
Sean attempted to cover up his crime by making his wife put aloe vera on the rope burns and having her wear a neck brace to hide the marks.
Although she was terrified of what he would do, on Tuesday, the 9th of October, 2007, Sean Jennings’ wife summoned her courage and called police from a public phone at the local Wal-Mart.
She told the authorities what her husband had done to her. The officers took pictures of her neck injury and the bruises on her hands and wrists.
Jennings was arrested that night, denying his wife’s accusations to the last despite the discovery of the handcuffs, rope, ladder, and bandanna that had been serving as her blindfold.
He has been charged with attempted first-degree murder.
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What Sean did was truly tragic and horrible; but get your facts straight before you post something this heinous. The children in question were not hers and will be raised by his family. This family lived in near literal poverty; there is essentially nothing to divide. None of us are at liberty to interpret the pain of human suffering or the dimentia of the human mind, but the fact the you would have a website like this…well, it says more about the webmaster than anybody else.
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There is right and there is wrong.
Poverty is no excuse for attempted murder.
Divorce is not either.
We need to stop findng excuses for the criminals in this country.
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These are not excuses, this webmaster was attempting to say this was the motivations behind this and it wasn’t - again, get the facts straight before jumping to conclusions
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What Sean did was truly tragic and horrible; but you need to get your facts straight before you assign motives.
The kids in this case were not hers and he had legal custody. And they rented the house. Therefore she couldn’t get the kids or the house!!!!!
This is a very tragic case and the people involved need alot of help! What doesn’t help is when people like this webmaster write things that are as far from the truth as possible. Get your facts straight!
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Oh my Goodness…. the webmaster was trying to be funny, have you ever heard of a lil joke? he was just emphasizing the way things go- yeah divorce is tough-blah-blah-blah….like if i say its raining cats and dogs outside, are you really expecting to see some poodles falling out the clouds? c’mon, stop being so critical. anyway, this is horrible, but thank god he had a change of heart- God was watching over that woman on that day.
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I’m sure that the innocent teenage children of Sean will think the webmaster was very funny. Kind of a sick sense of humor, don’t you think?
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I prefer to refer to it as “a hip quirkiness.”
The innocent teenage children of Sean will have to come to terms with what their father did to this woman. I’m sure that they’ll either develop a sense of humor about it or they’ll start using a lot of heroin.
Either way, more grist for the mill.
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I rest my case about the character of the webmaster and thank you so much for making my point so easy to proove.
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I find your smug self-satisfaction intriguing and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
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I have really prayed about this and the sadness horror that registered when I saw your website yesterday. Not because of the person you posted about, but because of the other innocent, yes innocent, lives that are tragically impacted by all facets of this. The person you posted about really doesn’t care what is said.
Last night on my way home a song came over the radio station I tune to that said sometimes God calms the storm but other times he calms his child while the wind and waves go wild. This is one of those times for my family, yes, you read correctly, when the storm will not calm but we must protect the children in our family and pray for their safety and that God continues to keep them on paths that lead to right choices. This is one of the times when God pulls his children to him and soothes their broken hearts and souls.
I wonder as I sit here what other families in similar situations have felt and how they have managed to survive the storm if they have not had God in their lives and their hearts as many of the members of my family do. My faith in God is strong, he is my king, I do everything I can to live my own life to honor him. I’m sorry for my rather upset posts to you yesterday.
Most families have someone who has gone astray. Perhaps not in such devastating ways, but all the same we travel parallel roads. We have feelings of inadequacy when our countless efforts over the years to help them seem to fail. My family has been in shock this week and heartbroken. For those of us who lead normal lives we cannot wrap our minds around something of this magnitude and I don’t think God intends for us to be able to do that.
I will never be able to comprehend this, but I do know that God can use this in my life as a testimony to the strength he has given me. I know he can use it as a testimony of a family that must pull together to take care of those left helpless (the children) in the wake of this storm. (To the kids - We love you - I know you’ll probably see this eventually. We pray for you everyday. You are in our thoughts always. You can always turn to us if you need us.)
My tears are many, but I have to continue to be strong for the rest of my family and to show the love of Christ whatever my siblings fate may be.
I love you “the other me” - hang in there little sis.
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Wow! You are all so stupid… God had nothing to do with why Cheryl survived, what you need to know is that Sean could never follow through on anything that he did. She survived, not because “god was there for her”, but because Sean could not go through with it. His teenage children have developed a sense of humor about it, it really isnt affecting them that much. For all of you that read these things, I am truly sorry that you have nothing better to do; buy a gameboy or something. These two people did not love each other, they were swingers. She spend most of her time nagging, and he spent most of his time playing video games. This was not a match made in “heaven”. Go find something better to do, you are all sad excuses for human being.
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Amy reply on September 5, 2008:
Its not like he was in the middle of a Do-It-Yourself project that he got sick of a walked away from. He tried to murder his wife. Lucky for her he couldnt follow it through. Im really glad his teenage kids are laughing about it too…says a lot about their family life. Daddy is in prison and the step mum was almost murdered. Yay! Lets all have a giggle.
Man, if we all hung the ones that turned out not to be our perfect match, the population of the world would go down real fast…
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Well I stand corrected. I get it now, if you don’t love someone you should try to kill them. Divorce is such a silly way to deal with these things. Maybe he should have had a “gameboy”, although I prefer a PSP of DS, and he would have kept his hands busy and less “hangy”.
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hey you people, this man who you are all talking about is my father, and yeah he may not be perfect but he is a nice guy at times. yeah we all know he needs some help, and hopefully he gets it. so come on people cut him some slack, i am sure he feels horrible for what he did, i mean look at it, his name is all over the internet for the thing he did. maybe this is a sign from up above. and grandma if you read this, we all love you and grandpa and we’ll see you for christmas.
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yeah….got nothing to say about those comments…or the story. maybe he did love her. maybe he sobered up and took her down. who knows.
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let’s face it - this guy’s a sick pig and a total moron. i hope he rots in jail.
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