SALISBURY, Md. (AP)- In December 2007, Christine Miller-Mathis, 33, finished her last criminal justice class at Wilmington University.
On Dec. 13, the next night, she got home from a 16-hour shift at work, took a shower and went to bed.
When Miller-Mathis' phone vibrated after 11 p.m, she pushed the silent button. When her aunt kept calling back, she realized something was wrong.
"Christine, you need to come home," she remembers her aunt saying. "It's your mom. She passed away."
Miller-Mathis and her husband made the two-hour drive from Delaware to her mother's Salisbury apartment, mostly in silence. She couldn't believe her 51-year-old mother was gone.
GO HERE to read more, and trust me, it's well worth the read. It proves everything I have been saying for YEARS about Chief Webster and the Leadership at the SPD! Great Work WBOC!
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I realize the young lady was more familiar with what her mother should have looked like. But she recognizes right away that her mother looked "beaten" and SPD people thought she looked peaceful and died in her sleep??????????
ReplyDeleteI'm glad for that young woman that the killer was caught. Thank heavens for her own intervention!
I'm glad she took it upon herself to find the killer....
ReplyDeleteFrom the Story:
ReplyDelete"Shirley Ann Smith's death was Salisbury's only homicide that year, according to Capt. Mark Tyler, who heads criminal investigations for the police department."
I guess the dead prostitute in the industrial park was not in city limits and thus was not technically a homicide in the city.
And the prostitute must have come from Delmar, and the gangs, they are not in Salisbury...
Bumbling as usual
ReplyDeleteBased on what I read in WBOC's article, I suspect the police classified the death as questionable until the autopsy revealed the cause of death. Sounds reasonable and prudent to me.
ReplyDeleteIt's time to get serious, when will Wilbur and Webster be let go?
ReplyDeleteIf Webster's contract is the problem, hire another administration head and put the chief on the beat. he's never really known what it's like to work.
I don't care how much it costs get rid of him, raise my taxes if that is what it takes!
not that it isnt a great story but it is an old one. they posted this same article last year at some point cuz i have already read it. just an fyi. but it really was a hell of a story
ReplyDeleteIT IS A GREAT BIG CITY WE LIVE NEAR! THE PROBLEM IS THIS GOES ON EVERY DAY SOMETIMES YOU JUST DON'T HEAR ABOUT IT
ReplyDeleteDamn the police are bad at their jobs! THEY DIDNT EVEN TRY!
ReplyDeleteIf the chief is going to remain cief he should wear a uniform and walk the streets. I wont hold my breath tho.
ReplyDeleteThe Daily Times did this story months ago.
ReplyDeleteWBOC had nothing to do with this story. It was reported by the Associated Press - note the "AP" at the beginning. WBOC just pirated it for their web site. Seriously, you didn't know that?
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