I haven't had a bizarre story to
report on in a while, which makes this story all the more inviting for its
gruesomeness, and also due to who it involved.
About three
years ago, Jennifer Mee, then a 16 year old girl, made national headlines when
she could not stop hiccuping. Mee's hiccups, at about 50 a minute, could not be
stopped by any remedy. She appeared on the "Today" show and met some
famous people who learned of her plight and wanted to know that they supported
her.
After
several weeks of hiccuping, they stopped, all by themselves.
But Mee's
life spiral evidently started. She ran away from home twice, and the teenager's
mom said the girl had not lived with her in over a year.
In the
meantime, Mee has become a felon. She, and two others, have just been charged
with first degree murder in the death of Shannon Griffin, a man she met online.
Allegedly, she and her accomplices lured the man to a house, robbed him, and
then fatally shot him.
Concurrently,
her family has sued a hiccup cure company for allegedly using Mee's image for
profit without permission.
What a
story! I can see a TV movie coming out of this, can't you?
Did the
hiccups make her crazy, or did the lack of hiccups drive her insane?
Maybe the
hiccups--or lack thereof--had nothing to do with Mee's behavior since she
stopped having them, but somehow, this girl moved into a downward spiral that
might had led to murder.
Evidently, although
she lived with her mother in Florida, she pined to move to Vermont, where her
estranged father lives.
We have all
had hiccups, and depending on the length of the episode, they can drive you
crazy.
But for most
of us, the episode lasts a few minutes, and then it is gone.
But for Mee,
the episode lasted several weeks. I have heard of others who have had hiccups
for months at a time. It does happen.
But what
drove the teenager to allegedly commit this heinous act?
Who knows,
but she probably won't be able to hiccup this one away as quickly as she got
rid of her hiccups, that's for sure.
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