Thank you, thank you, thank you for saying this. I agree 100%, but thought it was just me who felt this way. My reaction was immediate. I was appalled.
Actually you have worded everything I’m feeling perfectly, and the more I think about it, the worse it gets..I’m just absolutely shocked and appalled to say the least..wowww
They probably should have left out a bit more if privacy was their intention... Virginia has some of the best records available for genealogy, and I was able to find the name and exact same photo provided on the memorial page in Ancestry's yearbook collections.
Where they closely related?
You expressed what I was trying to say better than I did in my original comment. It's chock full of information about her mother's relationships, pregnancies, drug addiction, flightiness, criminal record, etc. Meanwhile, it barely glosses over JD's own criminal behavior, addiction, or spiral into the lifestyle which resulted in her murder. It's like, "Mom this, mom that, by the way I went to rehab for cocaine and apparently danced and lived in these cities and then my ex-boyfriend shot me to death!" The writeup goes into arguably-too-much detail about her mother's life, but it doesn't even mention her "ex-boyfriend" was actually her pimp, or even that she worked as a prostitute at all. It treats her like a side character in her own story, and her mother as the main character! I don't believe this is the story Kelly would want written about her life and death, and to do so "borrowing" her voice takes some nerve.
Maybe because Kelly had such a short life and was not often in touch with relatives aside from mom, many details are missing.
Well, I'm sure her name will come. There is an individual who has been convicted and sentenced to death in her murder. At the very least, I'd think Kelly's true identity would have to be officially appended to his case file for legal purposes and become part of the legal file.
Agreed. I have a feeling this was written by or for her sister and aunts. If they didn’t personally write it, they vetted it. I don’t like to think that they could read here and see some of the negative comments about how her story is told. It’s theirs to tell. We are lucky they agreed to release anything. Rest In Peace Kelly. My condolences to her family.
I literalLy have no idea. All I know is she was born in 1968 in Virginia and her mothers name is apparently Brenda according to that article
What was told in her story and how it was told (the author pretending to be Kelly) are truly two different things. It's one thing to reveal Kelly's information, and as I mentioned, I'm appreciative of it, but it's another to sensationalize it by writing it in the first person point of view, as if Kelly were speaking. You don't find that disrespectful to Kelly at all? For someone to assume what she was thinking and speak for her in such a way? And by pointing that out isn't being negative of Kelly, IMHO, it's a criticism of the author, not of her or the family.
