No, wait, that's one of his old girl friends. Nevermind.
No, wait again. That is Demi Moore after they removed all the plastic inside of her.
No, wait again again! I think this is Demi Moore:
Posted on 12/20/2002 4:40:59 PM PST by Minutemen
Posted on Fri, Dec. 20, 2002 Dr Laura's Mother Apparently Murdered in L.A. BY DAN WHITCOMB Reuters
LOS ANGELES - The badly decomposed body of a murdered woman, identified as the mother of popular radio talk-show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger, has been found at a Beverly Hills home, police said on Friday.
Though police said they had not yet confirmed that the elderly woman found on Monday was Yolanda Schlessinger, the talk-show host issued a statement addressing the death of her mother and alluding to their bitter estrangement.
"I am horrified by the tragic circumstances of my mother's death and so sad to learn that she died as she chose to live -- alone and isolated," Laura Schlessinger said in the statement.
"My mother shut all her family out of her life over the years, though we made several futile attempts to stay connected," she said. "May God rest her soul."
The body believed to be that of Yolanda Schlessinger was found by police after concerned neighbors said they had not seen her in several weeks. An autopsy revealed that she had been murdered, said Beverly Hills Police Lt. Gary Gilmond.
"I cannot confirm that it is in fact (Schlessinger's) mother but we are operating on that assumption," Gilmond said.
Although the body was found in Yolanda Schlessinger's home, it was so badly decomposed that identification was not yet possible, he said. Gilmond said the state of the body and home suggested that the woman had been dead for a "substantial period of time," possibly several months.
Gilmond said coroner's officials were working to positively identify the murder victim.
A spokesman for the Los Angeles County Coroner's office said further tests were required to determine the cause of death and that medical examiners had not yet issued a report.
Schlessinger hosts one of the country's most popular syndicated radio programs, which according to her Web site is heard by 12 million listeners on 315 stations across the U.S.
Schlessinger, who has a doctorate in physiology from Columbia University, dispenses advice to her listeners and is known for her brusque persona and emphasis on personal responsibility.
According to a Vanity Fair profile in 1998 and other press reports, Schlessinger was estranged from her mother, and had not seen her in 14 years. Schlessinger had told People magazine four years earlier that her mother was "filled with negativity."
The former Yolanda Ceccovini was an Italian war bride who was divorced from her husband, Monty, who died in 1990. Their other daughter, Cyndi, was also estranged from Laura, according to Vanity Fair.
Doesn't look like they know to me.
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001.
black humor
in literature, drama, and film, grotesque or morbid humor used to express the absurdity, insensitivity, paradox, and cruelty of the modern world. Ordinary characters or situations are usually exaggerated far beyond the limits of normal satire or irony. Black humor uses devices often associated with tragedy and is sometimes equated with tragic farce. For example, Stanley Kubrick’s film Dr. Strangelove; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963) is a terrifying comic treatment of the circumstances surrounding the dropping of an atom bomb, while Jules Feiffer’s comedy Little Murders (1965) is a delineation of the horrors of modern urban life, focusing particularly on random assassinations. The novels of such writers as Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Joseph Heller, and Philip Roth contain elements of black humor.
No, wait, that's one of his old girl friends. Nevermind.
No, wait again. That is Demi Moore after they removed all the plastic inside of her.
No, wait again again! I think this is Demi Moore:
It sounds like that's how the mother wanted things.
She held up pretty well because she didn't care. She hadn't seen her mother for fourteen years because her mother was filled with "negativity."
Let me tell you a little secret....as anyone that is in recovery will tell you.....when a person comes out of a dysfuntional enviroment on their own road to recovery....one of two things will happen to their prior relationships.....those people will either move closer to the new healthier person....or they will move away.....being in recovery myself....i can attest to this. Dr. Laura is brash with some of her callers....but she is right on in family relationship advice..... and because of what i know about her "prior" life her mother most likely left her with no choice but to move own......sometimes we have no choice but to move own.....regardless of who the person is.....
Indeed, and it must have been fairly grusome for it to be so obvious after 3 months. Even a bullet hole could be a suicide, although not a easily as in Arkansas, where folks have been known to off themselves with a shotgun blast to the back of the head.
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