I actually found this before seeing on WbS and I was shocked. I havent had a lot of time to keep up with the cases but THANK YOU to everyone for the updates and theories. My mind is whirling.
As I have followed the case from the beginning my feelings about all of the "characters" involved have fluctuated some but for the most part there has been this gut feeling that EVERY one on Brittney's maternal side of the family knows what really happened with the children- How could you not?
I had a younger distant relative who I long suspected was harmed- she was extremely sexualized very young (think Toddlers & Tiaras but worse) and was always acting out/showing off to appear older- to the point of having sex with two (much older) guys at once at 13 then bragging about it. Although she is far overweight, she always made her FB etc photos focus on her breasts and (beautiful) but EXTREMELY made up face. She claims over 100 partners. She got pregnant in her teens from a guy 14 years older than her who had been in prison several times and she was diagnosed w Borderline Personality and addiction issues, and frankly is spiteful- but I have seen her vulnerability, caring, and loving side as well. Her parents divorced when she was 13 bc her father had sex with a 16yo. He was always creepy to me and my family avoided contact unfil he was gone...She confided eventually that she was molested by her father but she still has contact and allowed her baby around him. (She lost custody within 6mos). I never understood why she would let her baby around such scum when she herself was hurt by him- but I can draw a lot of parallels from Brittney's life and relationship to DH to her pretty easily. It's almost like Stockholm Syndrome?
This relative finally sought help and was abused sexually at the center she went to by a male attendant. She now refuses care and I'm sorry to say I have cut her out of my life until she does.
My family never really knew what was up, but we avoided him and any get-togethers we had, he was NOT welcome at bc he had abused his wife. Oddly the (ex)wife/mother works w troubled families but chose to stay until he was caught with the 16yo. She ignored it and his behind appearances. I think this can be said for many of the women in Brittney's family- yet how can you NOT know when your child has been harmed? I'm not a mother- but I think I would be able to see the signs. However, if it were my partner i must admit that love DOES blind.
IMO Chessie absolutely freaking knew. And knows. Her attitude towards the abuse-communicating with the Twins after Brittney's disappearance and the arrests, trying to get into Brittney's phone with WWH, accessing her Facebook and her lies on social media all point to damage control to me. She was/is covering her own *advertiser censored* but as the investigators said, MORE arrests are coming. I honestly don't see how she still has custody of her younger children after all of the issues her older children have faced (I hope that TJ wasn't a victim but the odds aren't pretty). Her toddlers seem to be her "make-up" children and I pray that if she does keep custody (and I don't think she should) that she really does protect them. But those shifty eyes tell another story. And her "husband" missing Brittney's "looks".. Seriously?!
I do believe DH was the "ringleader" but I believe most of the men involved were more than eager participants. I also believe that RSW knew the (stuff monkeys fling) was about to hit the fan and wanted to put himself in a place where he seemed like the good guy when the investigation started. Let's face it, he seems like one of the brighter bulbs on the Charlie Brown XMas tree that is the Wood pile- yet he joined in to something so sick. He seems like he has something of a split-personality or he was living a giant lie.. Well, they all were, but his was the most believable. Derek's case is hard for me as he has likely been so warped by the years of torment that he grew to accept it as "okay" as a defense mechanism/feeling of "power". Brownlee, I guess was just joining in the "fun" with the guys. Something about Dustin Kent just disgusts me and I suspect that if Donnie was indeed the "ringleader" than he was most certainly the sideshow host in that dark carnival. I cannot get the scene that was described with him and Donnie's child out of my head. Pure evil. And Wendy.. IMO she is THE sickest of them all; words can't even describe how I feel about her but to me the words "sexual torture" stand out in my mind. And I will go ahead and say it but I wish I didn't feel it, but I think she either lured, killed or helped cover up Brittney's death herself.
Brittney, whatever she knew or didn't or did or didn't do, deserves to be found- she never had a chance. She never knew a "normal". And most importantly, like AstroKitty said, Brittney's daughter deserves the chance to know the truth and to be able to visit her mother. She WILL wonder. I wish the father and his family the strength and hope and courage and wisdom to be able to tell P when she is ready the right way. I am so glad she is in good hands, it seems.
I was so.. I don't know how to describe it, but ultimately happy- to see Brittney's case covered like it so deserves to be- with DIGNITY- and I hope it picks up nationally. Theirs cannot be the only family with such dirty secrets and as hard as the subject matter is, if it causes one person to come forward about what they suspect or know or have experienced.. it could save lives.
I still think there is a LOT that LE is withholding and I wonder why these disclosures are finally being made NOW if they expect to come forward with more arrests? They said half a dozen, right? I, too, am having trouble viewing part 2 (I am using my iPad) Hoping for a Youtube upload. Thank you to everyone for keeping this case up to date. I like to think that maybe, just maybe, this forum and its awesome members are a part of the reason her case is being kept alive and in the spotlight.
I hope the upcoming arrests and trials answer some questions and I do hope that a plea bargain is struck (yes, I hate it in this case, but these people are so selfish I think it is only way the truth will ever get told and even then it will be distorted) that allows for some closure for Brittney's true family.
A bit of dark humor before I end this novel I didn't intend to write.. If Chessie were to pick her lie detector questions I am sure the only question allowed about Brittney would be "Is she your daughter?"
