Posted on 01/18/2022 11:09:03 PM PST by nickcarraway
When Wendy Poulsen’s teenage daughter, Dani, began acting out — running with the wrong crowd, using marijuana and dropping out of high school — the worried mom began to secretly monitor her whereabouts.
The office manager invested in a tracking device and hid it in the trunk of the 18-year-old’s car. As she told The Post: “It gave me a bit of peace of mind.”
She had more reason than most to resort to such a measure – Poulsen’s younger brother, Scott, suddenly vanished at the age of 25. It took police more than two years to find some remains of his body. The investigation is now a cold case. Tragically, despite Poulsen’s best efforts to rein in her daughter, Dani’s life also came to a distressing, premature end. She died of a fentanyl overdose on Sept. 1, 2019, shortly before her 19th birthday.
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I’m sorry the mother couldn’t teach her to stay away from the criminal element.
This is not a happy ending.
Getting involved with criminals never does.
Yeah, but they act like everything was swell because they had a tracking device.
When you have a strong-willed child who goes wayward, there isn’t much a parent can often do. Unless the mother can be shown to be neglectful, I’m not going to criticize her.
We all do the best we can, but it doesn’t always work out.
When you have a strong-willed child who goes wayward, there isn’t much a parent can often do. Unless the mother can be shown to be neglectful, I’m not going to criticize her.
We all do the best we can, but it doesn’t always work out.
It’s too bad she didn’t find a good guy to get her back to living right before this.
Yup, raising kids is not like baking a cake - you add in all the exact ingredients and presto, out pops the perfect cake. They have a free will and WILL USE IT. Horse led to water and no drinky scenario.
Must be devastating to this mom to lose two kids like this.
Where did this happen? I found 1 picture of a ‘Dani Poulsen’, but it is a mugshot (would match the mother’s description of her personality), but won’t post it if it’s not her. (The mugshot is from Idaho)
Nevermind, it is not her.
Where was Dad ???
The story does mention ex-husband.
She was prone to drug use.
People who are prone to drug use end up in bad ways.
The woman lost her daughter. A few years prior, the poor woman lost her brother, not her son.
An unbearable loss. May God comfort the poor woman.
The girl’s parents were divorced. The mother remarried.
“They have a free will and WILL USE IT. Horse led to water and no drinky scenario.”
Don’t I know it!
I’ve made some decisions so bad even alcohol tried to talk me out of it. But did I listen? NO!
Fortunately I survived.
Truer words never spoken
It would havee been worse. The mom had some closure due to that. Others families wish they had any amount of closure on murders/missing cases.
Not sure I’d be smiling....
So the headline says the daughter was murdered, but the article says she died of a fentanyl overdose. Sounds like the typical sensationalist crap you usually find in the New York Post.
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