Sgt. Sean Bradley’s service ended in March 2007. The couple returned to Independence and moved in with Debbie’s dad. But Sean couldn’t find a job and struggled in the civilian world, Hazel says. A 2008 news article says he was arrested for discharging a weapon; he told police he was suffering from war-related stress.
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So it is him then? I thought the posters determined there was another SB it could have been, with different middle initials. Did the reporter confirm this with Hazel ? or just read the same article we saw?
It is good to see that her ex-MIL has good things to say about her as a mother but did she ever observe her interacting with her children while drunk?
And her father? Has he seen DB being a great mother for the children after emptying a box of wine?
JMO but being a great mother while sober does not tell us very much about all the things that may go wrong when intoxicated.
I am sad because it sounds like DB's son has completely lost all contact with the paternal side of his family, grandparents included.
Debbie talked of getting her G.E.D. and insisted that her youngest brother, Phillip, graduate. But she didn’t go back to school. Instead, she started leaving the house at night, taking Hazel’s truck without asking when the family slept.
“I never knew for sure where she went or what she did,” Hazel said. They had words. Debbie was again asked to leave.
“It’s just immature things,” she says. “I kept thinking she would settle down.”
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So she can drive then? Wonder what she did. It's probably not relevant but interesting anyway.
The dog bite incident sounds a bit irrelevant to me as well. Her father brings it up as proof that she would not have covered Lisa's death up but it is no such thing IMO. The boy bitten by a dog was not dead, he would be fine after getting some care, it does not seem like it was DB's fault in any manner and she wasn't facing any serious legal consequences for an accident, there were even witnesses to the accident and the boy was probably also old enough to say what had happened to him. So there was nothing whatsoever that anyone would have needed to cover up. It's hardly comparable to any scenario in which a baby could have ended up dead in the intoxicated parent's bedroom and the parent would think it's better to stage a kidnapping than to face the music.
