Not long ago, a foreign netizen who had been adopted for more than 20 years found his native family and couldn't help but share his bizarre life story in a post on Reddit - "What is the darkest family secret you found in the investigation", which triggered a wave of discussion...
According to the narration of this netizen, he knew since he was a child that the parents who raised him were not his biological parents, and he has always been curious about his background...
When he was just over 1 year old, his birth mother was arrested and imprisoned for sexually abusing a girl, and he and his brother were placed in protective custody...
He was only officially adopted by his current adoptive parents when he was 4 years old, so he entered the new family with some childhood memories...
Although he has always been curious about his native family, it was not until 2020, with the support of his adoptive parents, that this netizen had the courage to go back and trace his life and try to reconnect with his biological parents...
After a difficult investigation, he discovers that his biological father has died, only his biological mother is still alive, and agrees to meet him...
In the process of chatting with the biological mother, netizens obtained some new information, such as the names of their grandparents and their hometowns.
After returning home, he continued to look up his family background, wanting to trace the roots, but he did not expect that in the process of investigation, he accidentally discovered a dark secret about the family - his native family was related to a famous "murder and fraud" murder case...
His step-grandmother, who killed her own children with her own hands, was also filmed in a documentary...
Originally, netizens only wanted to simply share the outrageous results of his investigation... But this murder is quite famous, with only limited information, someone guessed it in the comment section ...
"It's a familiar story, I think I saw it on a show 'Deadly Women'?"
Netizens immediately admitted that their step-grandmother was Ellen Boehm, a well-known murderer in the United States.
In the 90s, her murder caused a sensation in American society, and it was subsequently written into several books...
In everyone's exclamation, netizens told everyone in detail the story of his grandparents' generation...
The netizen's biological grandfather is named Paul, who was a bus driver in the late 70s of the last century, when he was married to the netizen's biological grandmother, but he cheated on Allen in marriage and divorced Allen...
The two bought a house in Missouri, loved and loved, and gave birth to a daughter and a son...
But just when Allen was pregnant three times, his grandfather Paul changed his mind and cheated on a young girl, eloped with her to Arizona, and never returned home.
Alan who is eight months pregnant can only work while taking care of two children alone...
After the child was born, Paul completely lost contact, he never sent alimony, Alan simply could not afford the huge living expenses, and fell into financial difficulties...
Eventually, she filed for bankruptcy, mortgaged her house, moved into a cramped affordable house, raised her children and worked as a pizza delivery shop, but her income could not even pay her utility bills...
On Thanksgiving Day in 1988, Allen, who was in financial distress, became murderous for the first time...
That night, she couldn't stand the crying of her youngest son David, casually covered his face with a sofa cushion, and despite his desperate struggle, she pressed hard for nearly a minute... When she removed the sofa cushion, David was already purple and unconscious...
But Allen immediately calmed down, she pretended to call and chat with her friends, and suddenly exclaimed "David had an accident" on the phone, in fact, asking her friends to prove this "accident"...
David tragically died shortly after being taken to the hospital, and it was Allen who advocated for the closure of the life support system... But Allen received $5,000 in insurance money for David's death, solving his financial needs.
She was overjoyed, and on the way back from the funeral, she couldn't wait to call her friends to watch a wrestling match, and took the opportunity to take funeral leave to go out for fun, without half a grief... All this seems very strange to outsiders...
In July of the following year, Allen's wallet was empty again, and she began to frantically buy life insurance for her remaining two children in preparation for a new murder plan. By the end of August, the two children had six insurance policies at three different companies, each totaling $100,000...
This means that when two children die, Allen will receive $200,000 and live a prosperous life from then on...
In mid-September, Ellen's eldest daughter Stacy had an "accident" as scheduled, and while she was taking a shower, the bathtub fell into a working hair dryer... But the screams alarmed the neighbors, and Stacey was taken to the hospital for treatment with dilated pupils, out of life-threatening danger.
More than ten days after the failure of the plan to kill the woman, Eren was impatient to strike again... She used the same method of killing David, holding her sleeping second son Steven with a sofa cushion, and just like last time, she called the clinic to pretend to be innocent after killing someone, crying that his symptoms were exactly the same as David's before he died.
A month after Steven's death, Allen couldn't care about pretending to be sad and used insurance money to buy a new car...
It's just that Allen didn't notice that the frequent accidents of the child had already made the forensic doctor and the police target her...
The medical examiner called up Steven's medical records and autopsy records to 7 experts for joint analysis to investigate whether it was suffocation, and the police chief also collected information on Allen's past financial status, consulted the FBI, and listed her as the number one suspect.
And father Paul knew that his sons had died, and also called the local police and child protection services, verbally urging them to investigate...
In 1991, the police officially opened a case with a death report issued by an expert team, Allen was taken away for questioning, and soon broke the defense and confessed... She told the officer that she knew her actions were a crime, but as a single mom whose ex-husband ran away, she desperately needed money and needed it to the point where she couldn't overcome the urge to kill her children...
For murdering his 2 biological sons and deliberately murdering his biological daughter, Allen was eventually sentenced to life imprisonment without parole, and to this day, she is still serving a prison sentence in Missouri...
Netizens also found out that his grandfather Paul died in 2015, and it is said that he later broke up with the third elopement and married a fourth wife...
And his biological mother told him that she and his biological grandmother were bystanders from beginning to end and had no feelings for Allen ...
This is also why he was able to share this matter without emotion, because it was unbelievable to find out that he and Alan Bom had a kinship intersection...