Quill
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What it means the way I understand is that she violated her probation. She was charged with and convicted of felony welfare fraud and got probation. I just spoke with my mom who had various positions with MS DHS ( county & state) for nearly 30 years, including food stamp eligibility, county social worker,& fraud investigator. Of course, she has been retired for the last 12 years or so. She says the most common charges of felony welfare fraud come from unreported income for the household. Also, if there is another wage-earning adult in the home that is unreported, this constitutes fraud. Those are the first things that came to her mind. In her opinion, being a felony means the fraud met a certain $$ amount but since she only got probation it might have been on the lower end of the spectrum of that amount. Just her own speculation, of course.
We discussed the possibilities of what might have happened to Myra. Some of those I'm not sure I can go into here due to TOS. What I think I can say is that the element of dishonesty is a known fact due to the welfare fraud conviction. Not in any way convicting of a more serious crime, but still present. IF something happened at the home between family members, then there was already a sense of fear of getting into further trouble, in other words, someone going to jail. This could, hypothetically, cause someone to hide the truth.
She also added that the door-to-door searches, the stopping of cars on Saturday, together with the fact that LE is yet again searching the surrounding woods, leads her to think they have not ruled out some involvement of someone else in the community. The searching has not been only at the home. She reminded me of how private and secretive a community such as that can be at a time like this. These are opinions only and I hope I've stayed within the rules.
tia
