Deadly Women

Her father was deeply affected and died at the age of 53 in 2005 from alcoholism.

In an interview with the Discovery Channel series called Deadly Women, Shanda's mother said that he did everything he could to kill himself because he was so distraught.

He drank himself to death and died of a broken heart.

Shanda's mother, on the other hand, became an outspoken advocate for her daughter's case and started a scholarship in Shanda's name, which ended in 2018.

Bernadette is a fucking sweet name, dude.

It's from Deadly Women, from that source.

Quote, Bernadette was born on September 20th, 1968 to Elaine and Raymond Pratty.

She had several older sisters, including Virginia Pratty, who is later known as Virginia Varela.

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All righty.

Back to the Deadly Women site, or whatever it was called.

Was it Deadly Women? yeah it is deadly wood okay um while kirsten nope that's not it where was i sorry i gotta find my spot okay the crime went unsolved for six months all of the bobettes were questioned and bernadette appeared normal even passing a lie detector test and claiming she'd been babysitting on the night of the murder so we're going back over this real quick investigators initially suspected a goth girl named Nancy Kane who Kirsten had allegedly bullied yeah let's blame you know the girl that had nothing to do with it that the girl bullied yeah just fuck she did it I mean that really is an easy escape though yeah Nancy's parents refused to let her take a lie detector test no my daughter didn't do anything you're not bringing her in to take a fucking lie detector test yeah so that's just gonna make them think she did it even more And then she had claimed that her alibi, her original alibi, was proven false.

And somewhere along the way, Krista also became a Buddhist, and her case became a true crime staple.

It was featured on Deadly Women, Snapped, Killer Couples, Killer Kids, and plenty of others, and there's even a book about it, A Love to Die For, by Patricia Springer.

I think I've fallen asleep to every single one of those documentaries in the last, like, week.

There's a good chance.

Yeah, so it was, uh...

Back, it was when Lifetime was playing stuff like Unsolved Mysteries and Deadly Women and stuff like that, my mom was watching that.

So, uh, even though this is very occult-forward, all of my books have a, uh, a tr- almost like a true crime undercurrent to it.

You know, there's about murders, there's cults.

in like 2000.

[laughs] Listen, hon- to this day, like n- I mean, and then they switched it over to Oxygen, if you remember.

So that's where they were playing, like, Deadly Women-

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