Latasha Pulliam And Dwight Jordan
A little girl is one of the most precious gifts a person could be blessed with. After having two boys, I was ecstatic to have a baby girl of my own, and although I love all of my children, my daughter holds a special place in my heart.
Most mothers would die to protect their children. Most mothers (and many women in general) would die to protect the life of a child who isn’t even their own. Latasha Pulliam is not one of these mothers and if there is a hell, I know the devil won’t hesitate to snatch her up and take her there.
The first time I heard about Latasha Pulliam, I could not believe that this depraved, sadistic monster didn’t have her own page on my favorite true crime website. I have been haunted by Latasha and the unthinkable crimes she committed for more than six months trying to find the words to write that would do the victims justice.
I knew I had to write about it, but actually getting out the words about what this sick monster did was a lot easier said than done. I tried for a long time to find the words that would fit in with the many excellent writers at PYSIH, but I couldn’t. So, after many long months of sitting on this story waiting for it to write itself, here goes…
In spring of 1991, Latasha Pulliam was a 19 year old crack addict who had already given birth twice and lived through a kind of hell on earth that most people don’t even know exists. Although the 21st of March began like any other spring day, it ended in a tragedy that would shake a small Springfield, Illinois neighborhood and forever alter the lives of one innocent child and the people who loved her.
Before I tell you about that fateful March day, it would probably be best to go back in time to when Latasha Pulliam was two years old, sometime in 1974, the year her mother and her mother’s boyfriends began raping and beating her. Although I have unfortunately learned that this is not all that rare, it is devastating nonetheless and undoubtedly led to the crimes Latasha Pulliam would eventually commit.
At the tender age of five, Latasha Pulliam’s mother began forcing the little girl to perform oral sex on her; she also brought random men into her home and forced her daughter to watch them engage in various sexual acts. It is not known whether or not these men had their way with Latasha, but I would be confident in assuming that some of them did.
When Latasha Pulliam was 14 years old she was living in a group home for troubled youth. That year she befriended another 14 year old girl in the home named Claudia. The two girls left the home one day and went to the home of Latasha’s 27 year old boyfriend.
Once there, Latasha Pulliam held her friend down while her boyfriend raped her vaginally, anally, and orally. Claudia was also forced to perform oral sex on Latasha. For her help in Claudia’s rape, Latasha was paid $20.
Later Latasha Pulliam recounted the event to her social worker and did not understand why everyone was so concerned about what happened. She reportedly told her social worker that she could have taken Claudia to a much worse place where even worse things could have happened to her.
A year later, Latasha was impregnated by her mother’s 37 year old boyfriend. She gave birth to a little girl whom she named Antoinette. Latasha Pulliam’s father was granted guardianship when Latasha had no desire to take care of her infant daughter. Sadly, being abandoned by her mother was probably one of the best things that could have ever happened to Antoinette.
Two years later Latasha Pulliam found herself pregnant once again, also by another one of her mother’s boyfriends. In 1988 Latasha Pulliam gave birth to another little girl, Patrice. Patrice was born with mild cerebral palsy and addicted to crack cocaine. In the first two years of her young life, Patrice was subjected to horrors that no human being should have to endure.
In March 1989, at five months old, Patrice was taken into a hospital with second degree burns on her buttocks consistent with the baby being submerged in scalding water. Latasha Pulliam claimed that she was trying to give Patrice a bath but didn’t realize the water was boiling hot until she had dipped her daughter into it.
But instead of taking her baby girl to a hospital immediately, Latasha Pulliam put little Patrice in a diaper and laid her down to sleep. She left her helpless infant in the same diaper for 16 hours with urine and feces seeping into the fresh burns before taking her to a hospital.
Second degree burns are said to be the most painful and having her burned buttocks sit against urine and feces for 16 hours would be, according to the ER doctor, the “equivalent of pouring acid on a scraped knee.” Patrice was hospitalized for a month after this incident.
Patrice was brought to the hospital again, less than a year later on February 16, 1990, where doctors discovered several injuries to her little body including two black eyes, cigarette burns on her arms, fingernail marks in her thighs, and two fresh tears in her hymen. The burns on her buttocks were still scabbed over and on top of the scabs was an injury consistent with Patrice being hit on the bottom with a hard object.
In case there was any question as to how Patrice came to be so injured, doctors indicated that the injuries could not have been self inflicted, meaning they did not believe that 15 month old Patrice gave herself the two black eyes, burned herself with cigarettes, or tore her own hymen. Patrice was eventually taken out of her mother’s care.
Fast forward to March 21, 1991, the day that 19 year old Latasha came across six year old Shenosha Richards, a neighborhood girl whom she and her boyfriend, 47 year old Dwight Jordan, knew. Little Shenosha had been warned recently by her mother never to go anywhere with Latasha, but Shenosha was lured away by Latasha Pulliam with promises of candy and a trip to see a movie.
Latasha Pulliam took the six year old to the apartment that she shared with Dwight Jordan. Once Shenosha Richards was in the apartment Latasha put her in a room alone with Dwight Jordan while she used cocaine in the next room. When she went back into the bedroom she found Shenosha crying on the floor with her underwear pulled down and Dwight Jordan behind her trying to achieve an erection.
Latasha Pulliam joined in attacking Shenosha Richards. While Dwight Jordan inserted a bottle of shoe polish into Shenosha’s rectum Latasha simultaneously put the handle of a hammer into her vagina. This caused tearing between her vagina and rectum, which would be similar to getting an episiotomy with a blunt object without anesthesia.
The rape continued for ten minutes; after the pair was done sexually assaulting the little girl, Latasha went to the front room, brought back a television cord and began strangling her. Latasha Pulliam and Dwight Jordan then took Shenosha Richards to another apartment where they claim she fell on a board with a nail causing two holes in her chest.
Later doctors would say that the holes were consistent with a nail being thrust into the girl’s chest, not her falling onto a nail. According to Latasha Pulliam’s confession, Shenosha would have had to fall on the board with the nail twice in order for her to have two holes in her chest.
In the apartment kitchen they started a fire to scare Shenosha Richards, a tactic that worked. According to the confession Shenosha then told Latasha “Don’t hurt me. I love you. I like the places you take me to, the things you buy.” Latasha Pulliam assured Shenosha that she wouldn’t hurt her or kill her.
Shenosha Richards told Latasha Pulliam that she wouldn’t tell anyone what happened at the apartment, but that she would have to tell her parents. This may have been when Latasha decided that Shenosha could not leave that apartment building alive. Dwight Jordan, possibly scared himself by the torture his girlfriend was capable of inflicting, left the scene. Shenosha was led by the cord around her neck back to Latasha’s apartment where she was thrown in a closet like a pile of dirty laundry.
Latasha Pulliam heard a knock at the back door so she closed the closet door and threw the little girl’s white tennis shoes out of a window. After getting the person on the other side of the door to leave, she went back to the closet and found that Shenosha Richards was no longer breathing.
Probably to ensure that the girl was dead, Latasha Pulliam then took the same hammer that she raped Shenosha with earlier and hit her three or four times on the head. She then put Shenosha Richards’ body into a garbage can outside of the building and hit her once more with a two by four.
During the attack, Shenosha’s mother discovered that her daughter was missing and began frantically searching for her. A neighbor told her that they had seen Shenosha leaving a corner store with Latasha earlier.Shenosha Richards’ mother went to Latasha’s apartment and searched for her daughter there. When she didn’t find her she left and came back a short time later with one of her older daughters.
After searching the apartment again without finding Shenosha, Mrs. Richards and her daughter left the building. As she was walking out the front door she saw an elbow of what she thought was a doll hanging out of a garbage can. She touched the arm and found that it was a human body.
The raped and battered body of her six year old daughter lay crumpled in a garbage can, still warm. When Mrs. Richards took her baby out of the dumpster, she found the television cord still wrapped around Shenosha’s neck. She was bleeding from her head, chest, buttocks, and vagina and she had vomit in her mouth. The little girl’s mother, who had to have been in a state of utter shock, tried to clean Shenosha Richards’ mouth and perform mouth to mouth while neighbors called 911. Upon arriving at the hospital doctors tried to revive Shenosha for over twenty minutes before she was pronounced dead.
A neighbor who saw Latasha trying to flee the scene chased the woman down before she could get away. She was arrested and almost immediately offered a full, albeit understated, confession of the atrocities that she committed in the apartment building that day.
Afterward, she would claim that the confession was the only evidence pointing to her guilt, however Shenosha Richards’ blood was found in the apartment Latasha Pulliam and Dwight Jordan shared and Latasha was seen shaking blood off her hands as she fled the scene. Dwight Jordan was later brought in and on April 17, 1991 they were both indicted on 131 counts of murder, aggravated criminal sexual assault, aggravated kidnapping, and aggravated unlawful restraint.
Dr. Fauteck testified on behalf of the State. He stated that, based on both his examination of defendant on October 7, 1991, and his review of the facts of the case, it was his opinion that defendant did not suffer from a mental illness at the time the crimes were committed.
Instead, he testified that defendant was a “sexual sadist” with borderline intellectual functioning and antisocial personality disorder. He described a sexual sadist as a person who sexually enjoys inflicting pain and suffering on another person. He noted that in its severe form it tends to get worse over time and is “virtually untreatable.”
Latasha pleaded criminally insane although the defense’s own psychiatrist testified to the fact that Latasha did not have mental illness, but was a malingerer. Dwight Jordan and Latasha Pulliam were tried simultaneously and convicted in 1994 of first degree murder, two counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault, and two counts of aggravated kidnapping.
Because Dwight Jordan was not present in the apartment when Shenosha’s life was ended, he did not meet the criteria for the death penalty and instead received life in prison. Latasha Pulliam was given a death sentence for the rape, torture, and murder of Shenosha Richards.
In March 2003 the Governor of Illinois granted clemency for all 167 people on Illinois’s death row, including Latasha Pulliam. Her sentence was commuted to life in prison without parole.
To See Latasha Pulliam’s Illinois DOC Inmate Profile, Click Here
I have read almost all of the stories on this site and been personally affected by several. Crimes against children who are unable to defend and protect themselves are the most heinous in my eyes. Latasha Pulliam is the epitome of evil, considered by some experts as a female John Gacy, who finds sexual satisfaction in hurting others weaker than she is.
Although the crimes that Latasha Pulliam committed are unthinkable, detestable, and without a doubt hell-worthy, I was devastated to learn that the murder of Shenosha did not even make the local news in Springfield, Illinois. To me, that is a slap in the face of the victim and everyone who loves and misses her.
I was the same age as Shenosha when she was murdered, I never knew her or her family, but I want her to be remembered because all victims of people such as Latasha Pulliam deserve to be remembered, to have their stories told. I will never forget Shenosha Richards, and now I won’t be the only one.
This story was written and submitted by nicolenumbertwo. Congratulation Nicole on your first article for PYSIH. I found it one of the most moving, yet Infuriating, Stories I’ve ever edited and published for this website.
I just have one thing of my own to add. One of the best places for an amateur journalist like myself to get the facts of a particular crime, without fear of media hype or bias, is in the “Fact Of The Case” section of the defendant’s appeal
The decision is almost universally available online, in almost every state, and as far as I’ve found, a PDF is always free. Anyways, that’s where I found this summary of the “42 distinct injuries” that were found on Shenosha Richards during autopsy:
She sustained two puncture wounds to her chest which damaged her lungs and coronary artery. The examiner testified that these wounds were consistent with being struck by a board with a nail. Shenosha had six lacerations on her head, three of which penetrated through to the skull. These injuries were consistent with being hit with a hammer, or a board such as a two-by-four. She had injuries under her chin which were consistent with ligature strangulation. She sustained lacerations to the skin of her anus which were consistent with a traumatic penetration or sexual assault. Injuries caused by the penetration were at least eight inches deep, consistent with the handle of the hammer or the shoe-polish bottle. She also had lacerations alongside her clitoris and on the lower surface of her vagina extending to her anus which were consistent with penetration of the hammer or the shoe-polish bottle.
Yeah, right. I think I have an idea how nicolenumbertwo felt when she wrote this article.
I apologize for the lack of pictures and video – I looked for a solid two hours, and I came up with nothing. Fortunately, the story itself is so well written, and the material so gripping that pictures and video really weren’t necessary
Do Latasha Pulliam And Dwight Jordan Deserve Hell?
- Yes, they both do (98%, 645 Votes)
- Yes, but only Latasha Pulliam (2%, 13 Votes)
- No (0%, 2 Votes)
- Yes, but only Dwight Jordan (0%, 1 Votes)
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i saw that movie “precious” and was gagging at the scene where the mom make her give oral sex.. this is beyond disturbing..
That movie made me sick. Yuck!
They (oprah) made such a big deal about that movie, so i was keen to watch it, but found it extremely disturbing. I agree with you 100%!!
First of all – kudos to Nicole, this was seriously good writing. IMHO a perfect balance of emotion and cold hard facts.
Second of all – Jesus Fucking Christ, what a story. I can well understand how it was so hard to find the words. The more I read, the more I just wanted to scream.
Third of all – I don’t give a shit that this all happened almost twenty years ago. Some may complain, and – with a yellow tinge in their eyes which reflects the liquid their heads are full of – wonder if you couldn’t have found something, you know, a little more recent. But evil has no concept of time. Neither do evil deeds. And this story is a perfect example of that. (And fuck me if Iron Maiden’s “The Evil That Men Do” didn’t just come to mind.)
How many others like Latasha Pulliam are out there?
Which leads me to my fourth point – some will say that she’s also the victim here. And they have a point. With an upbringing like that, who can blame her for turning out completely and utterly fucked in the head? And she is not the only one to have lived in such utterly heinous conditions, nor the only one to think that it’s okay to keep the ball rolling and “punish the world” for all the wrongs she’s suffered in life. There’s a lot of evil out there, and a lot of souls who get lost through no fault of their own.
This is one of the reasons why this story is so good. There’s more than one victim here.
But to all you defenders of people like this – and all you bible-thumpers out there – knowing the circumstances which made her into what she was, and understanding that she never even had a chance to develop into a reasonable, sane human being, DOES NOT EXCUSE HER BEHAVIOR. She carried a lot of hate in her chest asshole (thank you, VCBecky, for that gem, I hope it’s okay that I borrow it for a while ;-), hate she nurtured and used to feed her own demons. You may want to forgive her if you honestly believe God would do so, you may want to see her as someone who needs to be loved by Jesus and who would suddenly become a good person if she’d only see the light of divine truth.
But I know which victim gets my sympathy here. And it’s not that useless waste of skin.
Had she been sentenced to death for the murder of her worthless mother and the succession of live-in penises who raped her, her deeds would have been somewhat understandable. But sexually molesting and murdering a 6-year old girl just because she could?
You can try to explain that away any way you like. But for me, it changes nothing. Had it been up to me, I would not have granted her any clemency. Fuck that. She should burn. And so should that asswipe of a boyfriend of hers.
Thanks Homer! I also wonder how many more like her are out there. Of all the people that are raped, sexually abused, and molested as children how many end that cycle of abuse and turn out half-way decent? I would like to think most, but then people like Latasha Pulliam remind me that the world is not what I once hoped to believe it was. I just don’t understand it.
Although her abuse does sound traumatic, it is still a personal choice to continue on with the abuse. I have a very close relative, and a very clsoe friend both whom were sexually abused throughout most of their childhoods… when they recount their stories to me I cry because they sound so horrible and scary and I just cant picture a poor child going through what they went through, however if you were to meet these two ladies.. they are the sweetes kindest people on this planet, you would NEVER
think that they were subjected to such horrible abuse. They have both gone on to become extremely productive members of society and have children of their won whom they protect with all they can. They are living proof to me, that just because someone was abused as a child it does not automatically give them a green light to go on and do it to someone else and blame their own abuse as the reason why they did it.
I come from an abusive background and so did my mother. But, I always vowed the cycle stopped with me. My son is now 2 years old and is the most precious thing to me. He will never know the abuse and pain I’ve suffered. This bitch decided to keep on the cycle of abuse. Her horrible background is not an excuse or reason to do what she did to not only her own children, but to this little girl. Too bad she did not get to fry, but I hope some of the lags in prison will give her a good seeing to throughout the years.
Homer, you’re always welcome to borrow anything from my Crazy Closet that fits you. ;)
I am seriously fucked up over this story. I was hungry, but now I am not. I think lunch will go uneaten. That’s one other thing PYSIH is good for – my diet.
Just can’t post what I’m thinking, because I simply cannot think yet.
I have a beautiful chicken and avocado salad in front of me that I simply can’t touch. This story effectively killed my appetite as well.
-I finally got through it….bits at a time, and now I feel physically ill again.
Like many of you here, it’s the stories involving children that I can barely stand to read….much less think about. Because in some ways I think that perhaps I’m hyper-empathetic, and I not only dwell on the more gruesome aspects of these cases, but find myself trying to place myself in the shoes of the victim. Now, of course, I’m left with the sound of that innocent little girl pleading for her life, wondering where her momma was, suffering in incredible pain and agony, confused beyond all belief, and most likely wondering what she did wrong. – Children are like that sometimes….they very often blame themselves.
It’s too much to bear, and though I am no big fan of the Death Penalty, I would personally have liked to have flipped the switch on this sadistic aberration that only externally resembles an actual human being.
She should have been rescued by social services and gotten a lot of therapy early in her life.
But she did what she did
“Latasha simultaneously put the handle of a hammer into her vagina. This caused tearing between her vagina and rectum, which would be similar to getting an episiotomy with a blunt object without anesthesia.”
This is the first story that has ever been featured here that I simply can not finish reading. I can’t do it.
I got to the episiotomy part, and had to quit. – I’ve had an episiotomy, but fortunately I am a grown woman, and had mine performed by a doctor with anesthesia. After 2 weeks, it healed just fine, but let me tell you….during that 2 week interim, I was in some serious pain.
The thought of that happening to a child…nope. I can’t read it.
I want to vomit now, after I cry, and sleep for about a week.
While I wish this site could be devoted to people that kept overdue library books and skipped on fines, reality is that the world is a much worst place.
So in our present reality, I like this story because it brings up the past and also follows the perp. I don’t care how bad one’s childhood is, it’s no excuse to bring harm upon future generations.
Today it seems that there is a fork in the road, parents are either too leinant and the kids are shitheads or parents are downright abusive.
Pullman deserves hell and I don’t think Satan will care about time served here on Earth. Also some children who have been abused grow up to be people who want the abuse to stop.
The fact that she grabbed a neighbor’s kid to me makes it all the more worst – why not just grab one of her group of fucked up friends.
While I’d love to do some horrible things to some people, it would be an act of revenge / turn about….
The governor that changed the death sentences to life is a pussy and needs to be in jail with her – then Old Sparkey will be back in action.
I’ll bet Miss Pullman is having a better life in prison than the mother of Shenosha………
RIP little Shenosha. I am so sorry for the pain and fear you felt at the end of your short life. I’ll never forget you. Thank you for the well written write up, Nicole. After reading some of the damn fine writing on this site, I can imagine that it may be intimidating to submit a story. Thanks for doing it anyways. Great first story. I look forward to reading more of you. :)
I literally just had to leave the computer to throw up. That’s one of the most horrific things I’ve ever read, and I’ve been following this site for a year or so now.
That poor, poor little girl.
That poor family.
I can’t stop crying.
Here’s hoping she burns.
Congrats to nicolenumbertwo, it was really well written.
I feel your pain! I wanted to slap that smug smile off of the face of Latasha Pulliam! The nerve of her blaming her man for the crime! DId she try and protect this child? NO! She is one evil bitch! I wish I could dig up her evil boyfriendm take him from his cofin, and shoot him dead again, and then cremate him! That is how angry I felt reading this article again, and I am not a violent person, by no means, but when you rape, torture and hit a little girl over the head with a hammer? You deserve no mercy, no excuses…NOTHING! The bitch made a choice to continue the abuse. In fact, she is the one who murdered this little girl! She was angry, and jealous of this little girl. This little girl was loved by her family. Accoring to my cousin who lives in Chicago’s south side, she said that this crime destroyed this little girls family. Her mom moved from the neighborhood and they don’t know where she lives now. She was a shadow of herself. She stopped eating and sleeping and practically had a nervous break down. She cried all of the time. Poor thing! She blamed herself for her child’s death until her friends convinced her that she was not the blame. She has other children and tried to go on for those children, but her life was ruined and destroyed. This little girl was one beautiful child with a pretty smile too! I want to remember her by the photo I viewed. If I focus on that bitch and her ugly man, I will shoot my computer!
This was truly at the top of the most disturbing stories I’ve ever heard. It seriously made me sick! I just want to curl up and cry for that poor child. At the risk of sounding stupid, I do feel bad for Latasha because of what she went thru growing up. This doesn’t mean that she should be excused or forgiven for her actions at all. But, if you take out the horrific acts she committed, everyone on this site would be feeling her pain. Because of that, while I feel she most definately deserves hell–maybe just a notch or two below Satan…….she’s only ever known hell in her lifetime.
Thanks, nicolenumbertwo, for the article. It was like watching a horror movie, for once the little girl said she’d have to tell her parents, I was like “don’t do it!” cause you know what’s coming, and you know it’s bad. Truly disturbing.
And her own mother finding her still warm body? Ugh.
I am survivor of sexual assault myself. But at no point did I ever want to inflict that pain on others. Being a survivor? I want to be an avenging angel to those who were harmed.
Good for you, Jay !!!
I commend your efforts in that area, and wish you the best.
The cycle can be broken, and people like you give me great hope every day. :)
How does it just occur to you to torture, rape and kill a child – no matter what happened to you in your life? Is it like wanting potato chips or something? One day it just sounds good to kill a kid?
Truly had a hard time finishing this story too… but excellent write-up.
The Bosses…. I think that this was one disturbed, fked up individual who was a victim herself. Let me clarify that I am in NO way justifying what she did nor do I think that her punishment should be diminished… at all… she’s a danger to society and needs to pay for what she did. But what I am saying is that I think that she was following a pattern somehow, whether or not she was aware of it. She was raped by her mother and countless men starting when she was 2 years old… physically abused as well… therefore obviously emotionally abused too…and was perhaps never treated for any of the abuse. Perhaps she turned into a soc iopath with no feelings in order to merely survive her childhood… I dont know. But I do wonder what makes the difference between victims who recover and in turn do good, and those who fall into the same vicious cycle.
Another question I have is: Where was her father during all of her childhood? He stepped up to the plate and took custody of her first daughter, why did he fail to protect his own daughter throughout her abusive childhood?
(I know this probably won’t be found online, just wondering out loud).
I can tell you that in my experience, it’s a conscious decision. You either succumb to inner demons and allow yourself to suffer for the rest of your life, or you pick yourself up and make the choice to get better.
I’m not saying it’s like this for everyone, but that is my personal experience. I realized that I was angry and bitter and I had never really come to terms with all I had been through. That is the day I sought help. I made the decision to help myself before it was too late. I wanted to reclaim the life that had been stolen from me.
Whether or not this applies to Latasha…who really knows? But I can say that she always had the option to help herself up until the moment she stole the innocence and ultimately the life of a beautiful little girl who had an entire lifetime ahead of her.
Thanks Diana, for your input. I think one of the reasons I come here is because when I hear of these things on the news or read about them in the paper, I get so angry and upset, but can’t do anything about those feelings. Here I can vent about it and get some comfort in reading the posts from others that reflect my sentiments.
Another reason I come here is because I learn from a lot of the posts that people make. What you said makes a lot of sense Diana. I gave this woman too much of an excuse… when there really isn’t one. I’m really sorry that you had to go through whatever trauma you went through, but clearly you have worked through it and though yes it’s never forgotten, you’ve moved on from it and many people can’t say the same.
If this post was a person, I’d hug it. Thanks, Diana.
I hardly ever leave comments here, but I’ve been following this site for well over a year now and this is one of the most horrific, yet well written stories I’ve ever read here.
Though my stomach is turning and I’m becoming increasingly angry over this worthless pile of shit that could do this to a young child, another thought on my mind is that I really hope nicolenumbertwo keeps writing for this site. Great job on your first story. :)
GOD please forgive me…
I was in the cook county jail with this pile of shit and when they told her that it was time for her to go deathrow she stood there and shitted on her self.. what she did was really wrong
I honestly couldn’t stomach that story. VERY well written but OMG, I am just mystified at the unbelievable amount of dysfunction that led to tis horrific crime. I wonder where/how the little girls mother is now, so many years later. I would be in a grave for sure. No way I could take another breath after finding my baby like that and knowing what she endured. How are these perpetrators still alive?? No prison justice on their sorry asses?
Very well written, What a horrible way to leave this world, I truely feel for this little girls mother, I can’t imagine her pain.
I wish I could write this well, I have AT LEAST 2 people I would love to see on this site.
Max did a wonderful job of editing one of my stories that I submitted, so put your heart into it and let it go.
Edit it only for clarity, (have another person look at it for confusing points – like pronoun abuse).
Max can take a lump of coal and find the diamond.
Also don’t measure your work to someone else’s.
If your heart is in it, Max will find it and make it shine!
Yes, please submit something Lexi – you’ll be surprise how much talent people have that they never exercise. Fred’s a great guy, but the truth is I’m not that good and editor. If the story is good,it’s good. All I do it dress it up – clean up the grammar and spelling errors and add pictures and video. In rare cases, I might add some text, anonymously, if I find some important detail that the write may have missed.
Max made one of my articles shine so well that another website call for us to be shutdown!
http://tommydevine.blogspot.com/2009/07/raipher-on-trial.html
haha! wow i dont think that guy likes this website ( ;
I can understand why this story was so hard to write. I couldn’t even make it halfway through before I had to excuse myself to cry in private.
While what happened to LaTasha as a child is horrifying and brutal, it’s not an excuse. I too, as I have shared before, was a victim of repeated sexual and psychological abuse. While it took me years to come to terms with what had happened to me, never, not even once have such sadistically evil thoughts even crossed my mind.
While I know that Latasha was certainly damaged emotionally as a result of her childhood trauma, it shouldn’t be considered as an excuse or even a mitigating circumstance. She made the conscious decision to seek out this precious little angel, as she made the decision to brutally rape and murder her. She has free will, this was her choice, and she should suffer the consequences as such. I find it reprehensible when the abuse card is used when someone has committed a crime. These people can control themselves. They just don’t want to. It sickens me.
My only consolation is the knowledge that Latasha will burn in the fiery pits of hell for all eternity.
Thank you for proving my point that just because one was abused, such does not absolve the abuse that one inflicts.
We can all piss and moan about something in our childhood.
I am a survivor of profound abuse; the first of many therapy groups I was in was for survivors of torture…4 ‘Nam vets, 1 from the Korean war and me. I felt right at home! I have never, to the best of my memory, raised a hand in anger or violence to any living creature; I remember too well the pain, fear and helplessness I felt. Why would I want to do that to anyone or anything? Hell, if I could get a cockroach to speak English I would persuade it to go outside!
I am sickened and saddened by this story; I can’t imagine how hard it was to research and write. LWOP is a fitting punishment for these walking bowel movements; locked up with scum, all freedom taken away, told when to get up, when and what to eat, boredom and misery for the rest of their lives. Death is too merciful, I want them to suffer for years and years.
That’s it exactly. You KNOW how it feels. You KNOW how much damage it did to you, what would ever motivate you to harm another life like that? After KNOWING like that, how could anyone? That’s like a burn victim setting fire to someone on purpose.
I never understood the whole ‘she had a crappy childhood herself, so it’s not her fault’ angle. I understand it might warp your sense of right and wrong, but it wouldn’t warp your sense of what suffering is. If anything, shouldn’t it magnify your understanding? For most people, a history of abuse is just a convenient excuse. They don’t take into account that humans have suffered this way for as long as we’ve been in existence. Some, like you, suffer more than their ‘fair’ share it’s true. But those people, like you, should learn MORE from their experiences.
Most abused people are like you, carolinablue. I am one to, but not to the extent that many other posters are. With my comparatively benign experience, with what I know of rape and suffering, I’d rather kill myself than inflict that kind of suffering on an innocent person. There is no excuse for this.
That’s exactly what I mean. People can overcome trauma. I’ll never forget what happened to me…and because of that I would never perpetuate the cycle of abuse that I was forced to endure. I could never inflict that on another human being. I would rather save others from the life I was forced to lead. Latasha could have done the same. She just didn’t want to.
Any instance of abuse is life altering. You’re very courageous to speak up, and I thank you for that. It’s important that we can discuss these situations and not be made to feel ashamed for what we’ve been through. If can remove that stigma, maybe more people will seek help, and maybe we prevent tragedies like this one from happening.
~Diana
That was for you vcbecky. I realized it appeared as if I was speaking to myself ;)
Oh wait….shit, I do that all the time.
Scary thing is when I answer myself.
Huh ?
See what I mean ?
I figure if I’m not going to listen to me talk to myself, who will? :D
The real shame is that there are so many abused people out there. I honestly don’t have one friend who wasn’t at least molested as a child. Not ONE friend, male or female, and we’ve all talked about it. Yet some children are still made to feel ashamed, and that they somehow instigated the abuse or had some control over it. It’s such a helpless feeling, and so horrible especially when you’re a child who has been taught to obey and trust your elders.
I think we’re so very much on the same page that we’re starting to recite in unison. ;) HOW could anyone do such a thing to another person when they KNOW like that? Shouldn’t it count against, rather than for, them in court? I will never understand that mentality, and that honestly makes me feel good about myself.
I read this story this morning and had to put it down and walk away. I’ve read a lot of crime stories that have included torture and child rape in the past and while they are very sad this is the first one that has made me cry.
I still can’t get the images and thoughts of what was done to that precious little girl out of my mind. How can anyone be so sadistic? I will never understood what causes these monsters to act in this heinous way. Being sexually, mentally or physically abused is NEVER an excuse to repeat the behavior, neither is having a mental deficiency. This little girl obviously begged for her life when she told them she would not tell anyone. All I can think of is how could anyone hurt an innocent child? I don’t understand, I will never understand.
I couldn’t imagine the mother finding her poor baby battered, bruised and bludgeoned in a trash can, still clinging to the hope that she was still alive as she performed CPR. As parent’s we should never have to bury our children. I used to panic and cry every time my children required stitches or sprained an ankle when they were growing up.
I will never forget little Shenosha Richards and I know she is in better place now but her life should have never been taken the way it was. No child should ever be made to suffer. Children are put here to love, cherish and guide into becoming our future. People like Latasha and Dwight should be exterminated like the varmints they are.
LaTRASHa
My coworker told me that she doesn’t allow her kids out the door without her, her husband, or her mother watching them (JUST these three people, not aunts or uncles or anyone else). I thought she was a little off her rocker, but this story made me realize that she’s not that far into the deep end. You may think you’ve educated your child and that they’re smart enough to follow your directions, but they’re still kids and they make mistakes. And, unfortunately, that’s what happened to poor Shenosha. RIP, little one.
And Latasha and Dwight- burn in hell. I really hope that they’re treating you like all the other child molesters in prison. Give the general population five minutes alone after explaining exactly what they did. You wouldn’t need to waste a needle.
Omg I knew I shouldn’t have come on here tonight. I’m sick right now. Usually after reading about child abuse, I’m angry enough to wanna punch something, but right now I’m just too weak to do anything other than go to sleep with a vision of what this little girl went through. Holy shit. The scariest horror flick couldnt come close to the thought of what this little girl went through. I’m really fucked up over this
I have watched a show about this I think it was “women behind bars.”
This shit makes me want to throw up too and usually i have a pretty strong stomach. A freakin hammer and shoe polish WTF?!?
BURN BITCH BURN!!!!
I am one of the several people that cannot finish this story. It is very well written, but I’m too hurt and infuriated. Well done, nicolenumbertwo! I don’t think I’ve read a story on here, in quite some time, that has effected me like this.
OMG WHO would vote… NO!!!! either your a sadistic PIG!! just like Latasha Pulliam and Dwight or a real DUMBASS!
I saw this story on Investigation Discovery. What a mean, vile, vicious bitch. Her mother should also burn in hell because she created this monster with all of the abuse and with failing to protect her when she was an infant and child. I want to know who in the fuck voted no???
This story was the first to make me cry and to make me reconsider being a forensic pathologist…I would not be able to handle anything like this. I had to take breaks while reading it and didn’t think it would get much worse, unfortunately, it did.
Well written by the way.
It takes a super-human amount of self-control and psychological strength to be a forensic pathologist, or anyone involved in collecting evidence/solving/prosecuting violent crimes. VERY FEW people have that strength, Britt. If you don’t have it, that’s not a personal failing.
If you can’t read a story like this and separate yourself from it, you honestly might want to consider a different field. People get emotionally destroyed in the field you’ve chosen. Good luck to you, I hope you have the Superman-ness required to succeed! I certainly couldn’t do it!
Forensic pathology would have been my ultimate goal had I not gotten knocked up at 19. Now I just get to be a mom to my kids, but I have a deep admiration for people who can be in this field. A few years ago I never really thought about the fact that things like this actually occur in the world-it’s such a scary thought to comprehend and it’s much easier to not acknowledge it. But, I am glad I know now because it makes me glad that I did not go into that field. I think that the forensic pathologist (or ANY person) who had to deal with this case was probably scarred for life. It’s just something I could never stomach and I would absolutely be emotionally involved.
I noticed the link to Latasha’s inmate doc wasn’t working anymore, I found the other one: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/58379636/Illinois-DOC-Inmate-Info-for-Latasha-Pulliam
I have nothing to say about this story, it horrified me. Poor, poor girl.
This woman looked rather normal to me when I first saw her picture. She does not really even look like a crack head to me. That scares me. You can’t read a book by its cover for sure. She is the scum of the earth. She was a mother and she tooks someones child. Worse than that was the manner. Thos baby was tortured by someone she trusted. For what? Why? She abused her own baby and then raped and killed someone elses. I guess I really would not call her a mother then because no mother that I know could do something like this. And the person that saved her from her death sentence really should have thought twice about this bitch life in prision is too good for her. With any luck some mother in prision thats already serviing life will kill her for whats shes done. That would be justice.
Horrible discusting inhuman It is my wish too that this Latasha bitch gets whats coming to her…. a hammer, a 2×4 and an extention cord.
I follow a lot of crime stories, and this was very disturbing and sick to read. So many of us do not know, or want to know the torture people have to tolerate. I don’t even know what else to say. I am sorry for the pain that was caused. My heart goes out to all that have been abused.
I swear-to-god I am at school reading this right now and when I got to the description of the crime I quivered and shook and felt my face frown with agony. My class mates looked at me like “OMFG are you okay????
I showed them this article, and they were silent the rest of the period.
totally sick, perverse, horrible…
I’ve read about child molesters who say they molest children because they themselves were molested as children, and I know that it’s believed and accepted by most people.. But this shit is fuckin ridiculous.. I didn’t read the entire story, (sorry Max), but She or her lawyers are probably using that excuse, right? She was abused so she couldn’t help herself or whatever? That is complete fuckin bullshit. Nothing justifies this kind or any kind of torture committed against children.. Fuck her ass all they way to hell
Prison is definitely too good for some people.
She deserves to rot in hell for all I care! Better yet, she should be set on fire and die! This bitch makes Charles Manson and Ted Bundy look good! She knew exactly what she was doing. She was an angry and hateful woman who enjoyed every bit of torturing this little girl, and this little girl pleaded and begged for her life and yet, that didn’t move her heart and soul but she has no heart and she has no soul. I live in New York and we have our share of sickos too but Chicago is a quick second! I have two daughters and I canot imagine losing them in this manner! If I did, I would pay someone in prions to murder this bitch and gladly do 25 to life for the life of my girls! That is how much I love them! She is evil personified!
The chilling facts of the case aside, here’s something weird I felt -
When I first began reading about the details of HER abuse, I kept scrolling up to Pulliam’s pic and feeling sympathy for her. But after reading what she DID, I scrolled back up again, and saw nothing but the face of pure evil. Strange how my opinion changed based on the actions she chose to take.
I think that’s about all I can say without crying… I have two small daughters of my own, and can’t bear to think of that poor child’s suffering without thinking of them and wanting to weep.
i was her roomate in dwight prison… i would have to say some things are missing from this story as things are twisted just a tad bit …but its ok.. i guess everyone gets the idea… and the story reminds me of the precious movie …..
I heard about this story when I saw Latasha being interviewed on television and even then she didn’t accept responsibility for the crime but blamed it all on her boyfriend who is now dead and cannot give his account of the story. This despicable woman made a conscious choice to torture and murder this child. I believe that Latasha was a time bomb ticking. She saw this little girl and inflicted all of the anger, hurt and pain that she endure all of her life on this little girl who was so loved and so precious to her family. Latasha could have stood up, and protected this child, but she is one sick individual. She deserves the death penalty I am sorry. She deserves to be shot and tortured and I hope the woman in her prison whip her black ass every night! Yes, she was abused but I cannot forgive nor will I forgive what she did to this little girl. Her mother also should be shot to death for abusing Latasha. She is the reason her daughter is so f^#&#R up in the head!! She is no mother. At least Latasha’s children have some chance of a life and making this world a better place. Thank god she didn’t have them to mess up their lives so they could turn out as misereable as she is. I hope Shenosha’s face tortures her every single night of her life. Very soon, she will be joining her boyfriend in HELL where she belongs and where he resides right now!
Deborah, not only did Latasha & Dwight hurt this poor baby. Latasha also hurt her own children! Her baby Patrice was beaten & raped & burned with cigarettes! In the reports, it states that she herself (Latasha) did these things to her own child! No one else was implicated!!! I think you need to watch the story again, or maybe read the reports & see what you are missing!
I’m STILL not certain how we are sort- of justifying the behaviour by looking back at rthe terrible childhood? It’s about choice- we choose the be the people we become. There are plenty of people out there who were horribly abused as children and have made the decision to be better than that, and lead fairly productive lives and raise their children well without harming a hair on another soul’s head. I don’t give a shit if her mom made her go down on her- bullshit excuses! YOU are in control of who you become, nobody else. If you choose to perpetuate negative behaviour, you’re simply too weak to be allowed to live.
you know shes a very private person,very quiet, sticks to her self.. in jail and no the woman arent beating her up and no shes not on death row anymore since they lifted that… and she walks around like a normal person in jail as they call it g.p genral population .. within the jail… if anything i would think the c/o down there would end up killing her before the inmates….
Well, that’s just a crying shame, isn’t it? “no the woman arent beating her up and no shes not on death row anymore”- well, someone clearly isn’t doing their job properly, are they? Clemency? Bullshit. Nobody spared this baby’s life! Not being beaten up on? FuckSAKES! Don’t the media over there report the extent of the injuries this tiny child suffered? Surely that in itself is enough to incite being mauled to death in the showers? Very quiet? I would be, too, I certainly wouldn’t go around advertising my fucking existence to ANYONE! It’s also atrocious that she’s in GP- does that mean that white collar criminals- people who get locked up for fraud or tax evasion ( and who don’t rape and murder children) have to be around her when they eat and shower? It’s bad enough that the rest of us have to share oxygen with her! Seeing as she spends her days as a useless amoeba, drifting around the prison “keeping to herself” and “being quiet” and shit, I think suicide is the kindest thing she can do for herself, the tax payer and the victim’s family. People like this bitch make me terrified for my daughter- there would not BE a chance for prison, I would have blood, first.
I was not in jail with this woman, but I was locked up a decade ago with a couple killers. One of them solicited her dumb nephew to kill her husband infront of thier childs daycare. He succeded, shooting him a bunch of times while kids and moms screamed… (custody thing) The ANGRY wife and her mom were in jail together, and they were pretty confident, and if anything, all the women kissed thier asses for some reason… I think maybe it was because they were in GP, and deep down the women arent’ down to fight, especially a pair of huge ugly broads, lol… not to mention the stone cold personna,…. pretty scary. These two got life.
As for the other killer, it was a whole different story. This woman had thrown her 2 kids off the freeway overpass, blaming it on Meth- and never accepting responsibility, really annoyed the other inmates. The baby died, and the toddler lived. This chick never had a moment of peace. I am even guilty of intimidating her. She was in protective custody, but with all the pods being glass, and facing eachother, it was a given, that if she strolled out of her cell, into the dayroom, it was on. The insults and threats flew… She went to court, and they gave her like 5 yrs, with the “chance for reunification” when she got out,… Can you believe that??? That easy sentence got her slapped a couple times in the court holding cell…
The last one that people berated and slapped the crap outta, was a broad who had a 6yr old (if i remember correctly) that her and her pedo father had chained to the bed, and let her marinate in excrement her whole life… Grr….
I was in jail for having over 5 pot plants, and a record that I’m too embarrassed to write about…
Precisely, Smilee. It’s been a very, very long time since I heard of anyone smoking a plant (that makes you feel a little silly, kinda hungry and a tad saucy) going all Meth crazy and killing their children.
A very private person? No she is not a private person. She lost that right when she raped and tortured a 6 year old little girl who did nothing to deserve such a fate! She is also a scardy cat coward sick bitch who deserved the death penalty and was spared by a bleeding heart govenor who does not care about the life of a child because if he did, Latasha would be burning in hell right now! The women in prison want nothing to do with her! They are just as disgusted by her and her henious crimes but do not mistake them ignoring her. One day, one of them is going to get her when she is very comfortable and she thinks they all have forgotten about her. Mark my words: They have not forgotten about her crime and one day she will pay for what she has done!
I……don’t even know what to say……R.I.P. Shenosha :*( I am so, very sorry.
i knew tasha and dwight matter of fact i believe to this day that i stopped her from hurting someone that i loved very much..i was in the right place at the right time..she is truly evil..dwight was not an evil person until he met that whore
Really? Do you really expect anyone to believe that she “influenced” him to get off on torturing little girls? Don’t be so naive- people are either inherently peadophiles, or they aren’t. I don’t believe for one second that if he had been with anyone else, that the tendency wouldn’t have been in him. Nor do I believe that a “better” childhood would have helped her story much at all. Everyone has a choice in this life, Molly, and your friend chose wrong, which makes him a shitbag, and not someone I would ever admit to associating with- online or otherwise.
Dear Molly,
Please stop making excuses for Dwight Gordon and Latasha Pulliam. Dwight Gordon was not he least bit :influenced” by Latasha Pulliam! They both had the choice to say to one another, we will not harm this little girl. Let’s bring her back to her home. We may abuse drugs, but the one thing we will not do is to hurt his little girl. Latasha could have made the choice to see what her life was like and give someone else a chance at the life she never had. That was the problem. The bitch was sick! She and that man made the choice to abuse, rape and kill this little girl! In fact, Dwight Gordon, started the abuse first! Latasha could have done something to get this child away from him. Instead, she joined in the evil that took place! They both are sick monsters who both deserved to be thrown into an alligators swamp for the despicable and horrific crime that they both participated in! They were both evil, and the devil personified! Latasha Pulliam needs to be in prison until she comes out in a pine box!
This story is truly disgusting. BUT, I would like to point out that my hometown, Springfield, IL, was insulted. They did report on this story after her conviction…IN CHICAGO, 200 miles away. This did NOT happen in Springfield…All reports show it happened in CHicago and if the Springfield paper had enough room to report on every Chicago news item, I’m sure they would.
It’s stories like this one that made me take a break from coming here (no disrespect meant, Oh Mighty Max.)
What I would love to see happen, and become standard in criminal trials, is for the person or persons who CREATED these monsters to be held accountable as well. If Latasha’s mother hadn’t raped, molested and abused her child, Shenosha would still be alive. Period. Latasha is not suffering from any mental illness that would have caused her to behave like this – she was just continuing on down that same path that her own mother put her on. If we checked into the mother’s past, most likely we would find that she was abused or raped or molested or tortured too.
Something needs to be done to break the chain of abuse and neglect. This will continue until someone stops it. Since we can’t force people to receive treatment, since we can’t force them to stay away from drugs/alcohol, since we can’t force them to NOT have children, since we can’t even force them to get jobs and become productive members of society, I say round up all the people who were part of the chain that led to Shenosha’s death and throw them all in prison. At least in there, they will not be able to create or destroy any more innocent lives.
Anybody agree with me?
It’s hard to argue with your logic keeblie, except for this; I know people who have been through all forms of abuse, incest, rape, domestic violence, etc, etc… and have grown up to become the finest adults I have ever had the pleasure of interacting with. Some of these folks are my closest friends.
I believe it’s always an individual’s choice to be a good person or another Latasha Pulliam. On the other hand, punishing the people who created Latasha Pulliam sure sounds good too. In fact, I don’t see any reason why we both can’t be right…LOL
Max, you are 100% right that not EVERYONE who is abused, neglected, etc. will grow up to do the same things to others. Of all the people in the world, you would think they would be the LAST ones to hurt others, having suffered through it themselves, but for some reason some of them do CHOOSE to do these things.
If the abusers were themselves raised with love and kindness, would they be doing these terrible things? Maybe just knowing that THEIR abusers will finally be held accountable, and publicly identified as abusers/molesters would help them in some way. I hate to write people off, and would like to believe that some people can be rehabilitated, but I don’t see how that is likely to happen the way things are now.
How many of these abusers lose custody of their kids, who are then given to grandma and grandpa to raise? If the grandparents did such a bang-up job raising THEIR kids, how did they turn out the way they did? So the poor abused children go from the frying pan into the fire! I admit I worry whenever I read “the children were removed from the home and are now being raised by family members”.
If someone’s vicious dog bites me, the dog’s owner is at fault. If you beat and starved a puppy until it becomes vicious, and the dog hurts or kills someone, aren’t you to blame? If a child is abused and mistreated until he/she becomes vicious, how are the parents not responsible?
Supposing little Shenosha survived, but 15 years later we are reading about HER here, now the abuser – would we still feel sorry for what happened to her? If none of us ever heard of Latasha Pulliam and Dwight Jordan, would we care how Shenosha became a monster?
I read about these people, like Charles Manson or Henry Lee Lucas and my heart breaks for them, AS CHILDREN, for the horrible abuse and neglect they suffered at the hands of their parents. Manson said he was a “product of society” – no, he wasn’t! He was a monster created by his mother. I would LOVE to have seen her brought to justice at her son’s trial. Lucas’s mother and father too. If we can sit here and say that bystanders that didn’t report abuse have blood on their hands too, then the monsters that create people like Latasha Pulliam are DRENCHED with blood. IMHO, of course.
Very cool site – it is keeping me from sleeping well at night but for some reason I keep coming back. I guess I like hearing about THESE people, because they were caught. I like happy endings.
Lucas provided the justice for his mother. He stabbed her to death. Edmund Kemper also executed his mother with a claw hammer, iirc.
Kemper’s mother never killed anyone, though. Viola, Lucas’s mother, was very, very violent and that she hadn’t killed anyone was merely a matter of luck.
I was in Dwight for many years for a burglary / Forgery case. In that time I was in Segregation, right next to the death row wing. I am a hippie at heart and believe no one deserves to die……..or thats how I USED to feel. Being on that wing and seeing how they lived back there, They got extra everything, never had to go anywhere, Tv’s radios, Whatever they wanted. Singing…….dancing, talking out the doors to other inmates….and now there is no death row. They walk among the 1500 women that are in Dwight. They have normal lives, they go to school, they have a room with heat, hot showers, hot meals. They should be in a grave somewhere.
I Met Latasha Pulliam personally and was actually got to know her, I never knew she committed such a horrible crime and this case happened in Chicago, IL, Not Springfield
I had the privalage to meet Patrice Pulliam. She was a student in my class awhile back. The poor girl was so broken. She would tell everyone what her mother did. It was so painful to see the damage the evilwomen did to her not just physically but mentally. Patrice wanted to be loved and to have a family. She wanted to find her sister who at the time had run away she was only 14. The last I heard patrice was placed in a foster home. I pray she found that calm loving place she seeked.
That poor girl. Some people should never be allowed to have children.
I hate Latasha Pulliam with every fiber of my being. Iam sorry for what happened to her when she was a little girl.No child deserves that but some how some way god saw her through it, and she became an adult one day where she knew better. She new what she was doing every time she hurt those kids.I have 3 kids . I was enraged and sad when I read this about this poor child. I pray that Shenosha Richards visits her at night and torture her mentally and emotionally. Latasha does not deserve any remorse I hope some ones does the same to her in prison. I would love to write her in prison and give her a piece of my mind.I had nightmares of this story . Latasha is a sadistic monster . I hope she burns in hell forever .!! REST IN PEACE SHENOSHA RICHARDS WE LOVE YOU!!
I’ve met ‘off’ people in my life, who I have found had gone through horrible things early in their lives, and were still in recovery. I don’t think a single one of them was a true danger, but I could tell at times they had to fight to keep a hold of their temper and themselves. My husband was molested as a young man, and at times he gets so mad when hearing about what has happened to a child that I know it’s best to leave him alone for a while to let him cool off, but he’s not a real danger to anyone except people like Latasha, if he met her.
I cannot forgive someone based on their background. I can’t even say it’s less horrible because of what she endured. We make choices, she made the choice to become a monster. Why she wasn’t behind bars for what she did to Patrice is beyond me, but perhaps there are people out there who need to go be locked up and have the key melted down and buried deep in a hole somewhere.
I totally believe the same. We the American people are being too sweet to Latasha. Our tax dollars to keep her with hot food, bed, heat, all those comforts is very disturbing.
Maybe the new law should allow for her to have a bottle be put in her rear end, and a hammer handle be put in her vagina. Maybe someone needs to do that to her. Let her see what it feels like. I believe that she should be in solitary confinement. Let her drive herself crazy thinking about all those unthinkable acts toward that little girl. Maybe she will self destruct and kill herself. She took Shenosha rights away. It should be allowed that her rights be taken away! It gives me chills to know what that little girl went through, and just how much inocense she had when she trusted those 2 adult psychos. It even hurts me to say they are adult people. But on the other hand, maybe living in prison and being mistreated in prison, maybe that’s a good punishment for her, and him.
Today as closure, I know that that precious little girl, Shenosha is in the arms of our Father God, with a new little body. She has no more pain! She is jumping, running and playing like a little girl should be. She is in a place where she has everything-right!
And Latasha and Dwight and all the other people who are doing these horrible things to God’s precious children are going to be held accountable. God’s wrath is swift and will come in due time. Nothing, no one will escape God’s judgement.
I just watched on BIO Women on Death Row. Latasha’s story was one of 4. As I began to watch, I began to get this tugging, hot feeling inside of my chest. I was questioning whether I should continue to watch the story. I admit I was pulled in. I could not look away. As I continued to watch & hear of this tragic/sick story, I became sick to my stomach. I was crying for these innocent children(gods children) I am still crying as I write this comment. My chest is burning, and my stomach is aching. Nicole, yes I do believe there is a hell for people like Latasha & Dwight. They will be punished. Dwight has already died while serving his crime, in my opinion it was an easy death. He didn’t get what he should have gotten. Latasha;s life was spared as well. I am angry right now! I am hurting. I can’t close my eyes without seeing her 2 kids, and the child they raped, tortured, & killed. I am sure I will have nightmares. I too, was abused by the hands of my mothers in & out boyfriends, from age 3, up to 13. I chose to not let the cycle repeat itself. I have a daughter of my own, and I watch her like a hawk. I am very cautious whom I allow her to be around. If someone were to ever hurt my child, I would be on death row, because I would NOT hesitate in taking their lives into my own hands. I am praying for Patrice (Latasha”s) daughter right now. I pray that child is okay. I pray that she is getting the therapy that she so desperately needs. Thank you for allowing me to comment. Prayers for all the little innocent children, that may be in the hands of a killer, of a rapist, or any type of abuse right now. God please HELP those that can’t help themselves. PLEASE GOD!
It literally took me almost 2hrs to read this post because I had to keep stopping to compose myself. Indeed there are 2 victims here, and while I was extremely sickened by Latasha’s own ordeal, the plight of poor Shenosha leaves me with chest-heaving sobs of misery.
This was a wonderful write up, Nicole and I completely understand why it took you six months to complete.
Most of the things I read on this site cause me pain and anguish, but i admit, I believe this particular story has my heart irreparably broken.