Posted on 11/10/2015 4:10:19 PM PST by BBell
The call Jeannene Anderson always dreaded came on a day in March.
A New Orleans homicide detective across the line barely finished the words "death investigation," when Anderson fell to the floor thinking of her daughter's peregrine life.
Julia, who for years had lived as a transient, would not be coming home. New Orleans police found her in a McDonald's parking lot the evening of March 19, clutching her neck from a stab wound authorities say was inflicted by another transient, 38-year-old Christopher Hutsell. She was rushed to surgery but died several hours later.
"People in this situation, where you've got somebody in this lifestyle for so many years, you think you're prepared for this call," Anderson said of her daughter's vagabond lifestyle a few weeks after her death. "It goes through your mind thousands of times. But the actual feeling is so different, to know that your child is dead."
Perhaps it was the romantic allure of "freedom" that led a teenage Julia Anderson to pursue life as a modern-day nomad. But after five or so years of hopping freight trains and squatting in abandoned homes across the United States, the 23-year-old known by her road name, "Zoe," arrived in New Orleans in February 2015 with her eyes set, again, on a more settled life.
She never got the chance. Hutsell, who last week was ruled competent to stand trial, is set to face a jury Tuesday (Nov. 10) in Orleans Parish Criminal Court. He has pleaded not guilty to killing Julia.
"You thought she was getting her life together," Anderson said. "It might have been a long road before she got her life together, but she never had that opportunity. Her life was taken ... I won't ever be the same."
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soooooo.....do you have kids/young adult children?
To me it sounded like a spoiled girl who didn’t want to grow up.
Simple as that.
Wow.
Thanks for explaining it all for us.
Consider yourself blessed if you have raised children...esp young women...and they are perfect. Go you.
Short version:
I had what I call a “lost year”. I once woke up by the sea wall in New Orleans after my so called friend left me to get a chick.
Literally drove off and left me on the street. I lived on the street for two days before someone I barely knew wired me the money for a bus ticket back home. I never called my parents for help.
Finally got my crap back together and got a job.
All that sounds like enabling to me.
She had no worldview, lacked hopefulness, no understanding of who she was and where she was in the scheme of things. Received love but apparently never gave it. In short, a secular death devoid of any belief system, credo or code. Millions of others like her out there.
“Yes. And the drugs they give you for mental illness.”
Poor girl probably needed to be confined until they could get her sorted out.
“Sorry-ââwonderfulâ family/ not. But I do have sympathy for the girl and family, but they are NOT âwonderful parentsâ if they raise such children.”
Nonsense !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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She was only interested in the next adventure/high/pleasure.
A study in extreme selfishness.
Her heartbroken parents did not deserve this nightmare.
She was a very cruel person and my heart goes out to her poor parents who only wanted to love her.
Stabbed by a subhuman in a fast food parking lot . . .
Yes. True.
When we have that march for all the whites killed by blacks, I’ll be there.
You have no idea what you are talking about.
Anderson had no interest in anything but screwing up her life and making her parents miserable.
and calling someone a "sad excuse for an adult" is also a judgmental post. She was someone's daughter...making bad choices...as we ALL have. She is still someone's daughter. Sadly her bad choices ended up sooo badly. "there...but for the grace of God...go I (or my daughter").
I don’t find anything wrong with a single thing you wrote. Good post.
Dead street trash. Don’t care.
There used to be hippies all over New Orleans but they decided to clean themselves up a bit and became hipsters.
How many street people are living in your house? We both know the answer.
Or do you just...feel?
It isn’t a coincidence that it’s mostly women on this thread calling for empathy for a piece of street trash that lived at the expense of others.
They’re good examples of why people end up this way. Feel how good it feels to feel. No consequences, man.
Notice they have no sympathy for the many, many victims of the young piece of street trash.
She was a victimizer and a user, and anyone who defends this piece of garbage is her enabler.
You should open up your homes to these poor, misguided people. Show us how it’s done.
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