GUILTY WV - Riley Crossman, 15, Martinsburg, Morgan County, 7 May 2019 *arrest*

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I am waiting for more info to be released as some things don't add up to me here. I'm not blaming Mom here, these are sincere questions:

1) Did Mom know about AM's criminal past? I'd have to guess the answer to that question is Yes. Seems like everyone knew.

2) Mom comes home from work at 10:30 and Riley is texting her boyfriend that AC is in her room and she's scared at 11:00 pm. Where is Mom? She walked in the door from work, went straight upstairs and fell so deeply asleep she didn't hear or notice anything all in 30 short minutes? Sounds strange to me.

3) Did she not hear or notice AM moving about the home, leaving to dispose of Riley's body and coming back in? He would have had to get her from the house and into his truck where cadaver dogs hit, drive to dump her, return home, shower, show up at a 'dealers' home to purchase pills and get to work by 5:00 am.

ETA: DBM
JMO
 
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julieandcj said:
Snippet from the article below. It is infuriating to know that her grandmother, Debra Ditto, left Riley alone with him that night! She left at, i believe, 730pm. Knowing that her very own husband was dealing drugs to this addict. And Golden has not been charged with a drug distribution charge. Things that make you go HMMMMM!

"The investigation also revealed that the defendant apparently purchased drugs from the husband of Morgan County Magistrate Debra Ditto in the early-morning hours of May 8. Ditto was Riley's grandmother.

Edwards testified that Ditto's husband, Bobby Golden, told police that the deal involved two suboxone strips, but the trooper also noted that McCauley indicated that the deal involved a different drug.

The trooper testified that Golden said that McCauley's hair appeared to be soaking wet, and the defendant seemed as if he was in somewhat of a hurry.

Ditto's husband has not been charged, James said after Wednesday's hearing."
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Generally speaking, a suboxone strip or two is definitely not going to send someone into a murderous rage. It's a maintenance drug used for people trying to get off an opiate addiction. It actually blocks opiates from attaching to the receptors in you, so if you were to take suboxone, and then go and do some opiates you wouldn't feel them whatsoever. If you don't wait until you are in withdrawal before taking suboxone, it can cause precipitated withdrawals which are A LOT worse than regular withdrawals.

It does make mention of another drug not named, and this being WV, that could be a lot of different things.
 
JRW said:
I find it concerning that coworkers feel comfortable working at a worksite with him while knowing he has drugs in his possession and is going to leave to go get more... i would think this could cause a safety hazard on the jobsite... i find it interesting in this case how casualy drug use and possession is talked about by everyone as if ther is absolutely nothing wrong with it.
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See this article about drug abuse in WV being so prolific the National Guard was called in by LE: "....Huntington, West Virginia, a place so consumed by the opioid epidemic it has been crowned "the Overdose Capital of America." At its worst, people here were dying from drug abuse at a rate eight times the national average."
Cops bring addiction counselor on drug raids to fight opioid crisis
 
I had thought that the local LE were alluding to the movement of the body when he brought the work truck to the house after 10am? Does anyone know if that was mentioned as fact? I had originally thought that her younger brothers were AM’s kids but according to a local resident they have been dating for two years.
 
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Playing catch-up.
Just saw this. Please forgive if it's a repeat:

Girl, 15, Texted 'I'm Scared' When Mom's Boyfriend Entered Her Room Before He Allegedly Killed Her

Riley Crossman's mother's boyfriend is charged with first-degree murder

By Chris Harris
June 20, 2019 01:26 PM
It would be the last text message she’d ever send, and it was received the night of May 7 by her boyfriend: “I’m scared, babe.”

Twelve minutes earlier, West Virginia teen Riley Crossman sent a text, indicating her mother’s 41-year-old boyfriend had entered her room.
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Officials have said cadaver dogs led investigators into the bed of McCauley’s truck and signaled that a dead body had recently been there, reports WDVM-TV.

RELATED: Dogs Smelled Human Decomposition In Truck of Stepdad Accused of Murdering 15-Year-Old

According to The Journal, additional testimony revealed alleged inconsistencies between what appears on surveillance footage obtained by police and what McCauley told investigators.
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Girl, 15, Texted 'I'm Scared' When Mom's Boyfriend Entered Her Room Before He Allegedly Killed Her
 
Twistinginthewind said:
See this article about drug abuse in WV being so prolific the National Guard was called in by LE: "....Huntington, West Virginia, a place so consumed by the opioid epidemic it has been crowned "the Overdose Capital of America." At its worst, people here were dying from drug abuse at a rate eight times the national average."
Cops bring addiction counselor on drug raids to fight opioid crisis
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I live in this area. I was in the psychiatric hospital there a few years ago. (I have severe PTSD and things overwhelmed me to the point I basically had a nervous breakdown. Btw, PTSD therapy by a specialist saved my life. Highly recommend it to anyone with any amount of PTSD.) While I was there, I had the opportunity to speak to a few patients who were homeless. They’d been inpatient for a LONG time because the hospital was reluctant to release them with no living arrangements. 1 was in there for a heroin overdose. He’d been there 8 months. He enlightened me so much. There’s a huge homeless population in Huntington. The shelter can’t even take all of them in. Heroin use in particular is rampant in the shelter. He made me want to protect him, when I clearly cannot. It’s a cycle: a person can either use heroin and end up homeless or the stress of being homeless leads them to use heroin to try to escape the horrible situation. He told me that he literally had no family and nowhere to go. They were getting ready to release him with placement back into the homeless shelter. He did not WANT to use. He’d been sober 8 months! But, he understood that relapse with heroin is very very high. By having to go right back to the environment he had been in, with heroin under your nose in all directions, he acknowledged he’d try really hard, but likely end up right back on the drugs. It’s so so heartbreaking. I actually cried for his situation, and I’ve never forgotten it. Add to that the fact that they’re finding more and more heroin unknowingly cut with elephant tranquilizers, which results in more ODs and deaths. Lots of these drugs are brought in from Detroit, MI. It’s impossible to completely stop the flow. It truly sucks.
 
StarEyes said:
I live in this area. I was in the psychiatric hospital there a few years ago. (I have severe PTSD and things overwhelmed me to the point I basically had a nervous breakdown. Btw, PTSD therapy by a specialist saved my life. Highly recommend it to anyone with any amount of PTSD.) While I was there, I had the opportunity to speak to a few patients who were homeless. They’d been inpatient for a LONG time because the hospital was reluctant to release them with no living arrangements. 1 was in there for a heroin overdose. He’d been there 8 months. He enlightened me so much. There’s a huge homeless population in Huntington. The shelter can’t even take all of them in. Heroin use in particular is rampant in the shelter. He made me want to protect him, when I clearly cannot. It’s a cycle: a person can either use heroin and end up homeless or the stress of being homeless leads them to use heroin to try to escape the horrible situation. He told me that he literally had no family and nowhere to go. They were getting ready to release him with placement back into the homeless shelter. He did not WANT to use. He’d been sober 8 months! But, he understood that relapse with heroin is very very high. By having to go right back to the environment he had been in, with heroin under your nose in all directions, he acknowledged he’d try really hard, but likely end up right back on the drugs. It’s so so heartbreaking. I actually cried for his situation, and I’ve never forgotten it. Add to that the fact that they’re finding more and more heroin unknowingly cut with elephant tranquilizers, which results in more ODs and deaths. Lots of these drugs are brought in from Detroit, MI. It’s impossible to completely stop the flow. It truly sucks.
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Heroin and stuff like oxy is being laced with a bunch of crap, which makes it way worse.
 
So many towns are going/have gone this way. My hometown is a victim. No real opportunities for HS grads -- except in some areas. Farming is still offers a few jobs in some areas; livestock offers a few opportunities, but not in big numbers, and those are dwindling, too. Not that many jobs for returning college grads either, except for medicine, teaching, LE, law, retail, restaurant or hotel, religious-related positions, local/county/state/fed positions and other miscellaneous positions -- but the number of these type jobs is lessening by the day. Such a familiar scenario for so many places, no matter the size of the population nor the location.
I was born in a town (pop. 20,000 or so) that was a nice place to grow up, to raise a family, to work, but by the time I had graduated college, the factories and other good business-type opportunities were closed and gone, etc., and those closures led to less jobs in all areas. So I, and many others had no reason to go back home, or to remain in the area after HS, to look for a good professional career there.
Then came the drug trade and all of its offspring.... :( :oops: :mad:
 
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Elliot_Alderson said:
Generally speaking, a suboxone strip or two is definitely not going to send someone into a murderous rage. It's a maintenance drug used for people trying to get off an opiate addiction. It actually blocks opiates from attaching to the receptors in you, so if you were to take suboxone, and then go and do some opiates you wouldn't feel them whatsoever. If you don't wait until you are in withdrawal before taking suboxone, it can cause precipitated withdrawals which are A LOT worse than regular withdrawals.

It does make mention of another drug not named, and this being WV, that could be a lot of different things.
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Golden "claimed" he had sold him suboxone strips. Golden was a heroin & coke/meth dealer, has been arrested for that in the past. I think he lied saying it was suboxone when it was heroin and/or cocaine/crack/meth.
 
MimosaMornings said:
What in the *$#! was this guy doing in Riley’s bedroom while her mother was in the next bedroom?
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Having struggled a bit with this... I think Riley's mom knew damn well what was going on and turned a blind eye to keep him in the house, or worse, condoned it.

People know just from footsteps and doors opening/closing , what's going on in their own home.
 
happyday said:
I agree. People from the area have said there probably wouldn’t be accountability, and I so hope that’s not true. :( This case is very messed up
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I’m curious about why you feel that the case is “ quiet” and “messed up”.

The defendant is under arrest, he’s in jail, the grand jury only meets twice a year in these rural counties, so the system will play out like it’s supposed to.
 
Falcon500 said:
I’m curious about why you feel that the case is “ quiet” and “messed up”.

The defendant is under arrest, he’s in jail, the grand jury only meets twice a year in these rural counties, so the system will play out like it’s supposed to.
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Sorry I realize that my post wasn’t very clear at all. It’s not the legal case that I find messed up, it’s what happened to Riley that is so completely sickening.
I was just agreeing with another poster that this thread is quiet. Maybe it’s just the slower pace of rural counties that makes it seem like nothing is happening, but I just hope justice is served.
 
happyday said:
Sorry I realize that my post wasn’t very clear at all. It’s not the legal case that I find messed up, it’s what happened to Riley that is so completely sickening.
I was just agreeing with another poster that this thread is quiet. Maybe it’s just the slower pace of rural counties that makes it seem like nothing is happening, but I just hope justice is served.
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Ita.

There are others who should be held accountable; imo.
So many questions about the mother and others who knew what this man was.
There is no way they didn't know he was unstable at best.
 
JMO. I doubt it was the first time Riley had been “scared” or “afraid” of him.

He’s asleep downstairs at 10:30pm when her mother gets home. She doesn’t wake him or the boys up. Her mom sees Riley’s light on but doesn’t pop in to say goodnight on her way to her own bedroom.
Suddenly he’s awake and in her room around 11pm.
 
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