In a rural County in Missouri, a young mother is killed and the case is overlooked. The county has been full of crime and chaos since the wild west days. homicides are immediately labeled as self-inflicted or as overdoses. And they never seem to receive the in-depth investigation that they deserve. Today I’m going to tell you a story of another strange death in Madison County, Missouri.
October 8, 2021:
A 35-year-old mother of five was found hanging from the shower curtain rod in her RV camper. She was held to the shower curtain rod by a woman’s belt. She wasn’t a tiny woman, and Lord knows those shower curtain rods can barely hold a wet shower curtain.
She had been beaten and bruised before being hanged by her belt. If investigators had studied even elementary-level science, they would understand that a curtain rod holds an average of 20 lb of weight. There is no way it could have held up a full-grown woman. But investigators immediately closed the case as self-inflicted. In all 500 cases that I have written about, I have never seen someone beat themselves up before ending it all.
To come to this conclusion, investigators had to ignore many details. No one took into account the strange text messages that her mother received in the days leading up to her death. Nobody took into account the fact that she was trying to kick someone out of her camper because she didn’t want them to live there anymore.
No one wants to take into account the strange behavior of her husband, who was nowhere to be found when the body was discovered. Why was he online selling all of her stuff within days of her death? While that is not a criminal offense, it does seem strange for a grieving husband to sell all of his wife’s belongings within days.
You would think all of these questions would make the police want to investigate the strange crime. From the research I have found, there was no investigation. Did they do DNA swabs under her fingernails? No. Somebody beat her up before she died. I guarantee you she didn’t do that to herself. How much evidence was lost when the police determined this was self-inflicted without doing a thorough investigation
Will Ashley Lunsford ever receive the justice she deserves? Will her five children ever know the truth about what happened to their mother?
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Madhouse Madison County
Chaos rules in a small Southeastern Missouri County. Madison County spans 500 square miles and has a population of approximately 13,000 people. The county seat is Fredericktown with a population of approximately 4,000 people. This rural county should be a safe place in beautiful Americana, but it hides a dark secret. Fredericktown is one of the most dangerous places to live in America. Check out this quote from neighborhoodscout.com.
“With a crime rate of 31 per one thousand residents, Fredericktown has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes – from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One’s chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 32.”
I started researching one case sent to me by a desperate grandmother. That case led me to fifteen more. Then I realized this county has had murder, corruption, and chaos since before the Wild West days. This book will start with a lynching by a Fredericktown mob in 1844. Hold onto your seats when you read this one. You’re in for a wild, chaotic ride through rural Missouri.
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