Twenty-four-year-old Ericka Sharpton was found partially burned on the side of a road in Franklin County, Tenn. last week. On Saturday evening a memorial celebration was held in her honor, but it doesn't appear that much is being released as far as the investigation is going. There have been no arrests in the case, but the details surrounding her life are frightening coincidences when compared to the lives of some of the missing women in the very same state.
Known by her friends as Megan, Ericka Sharpton was a nursing student much like Holly Bobo who vanished last year from her home in Darden -- which is just about two hours west of Erika's home. It's not easy to find what school the girl attended, but could there be any connections whatsoever with the missing nursing student and Ericka, a nursing student who is now dead? It is not at all improbable or impossible, especially since no new information is being released.
It doesn't seem that Ericka was a missing woman, but she was last seen on Sunday, July 1st, a day before her body was found beaten and partially burned. The grass was still burning when a motorist discovered her remains. Cause of death: blunt force trauma, but no other clues!
Kelly Sharpton, the slain woman's mother, said the following:
"She was just honest, she was brutally honest. She was trusting, brutally trusting. She trusted people at face value. She believed that there is no bad, people make bad decisions, but ultimately there is truth in everybody."
Could her trusting and honest nature have led to her murder? It's just not clear right now, and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation isn't releasing any information, which is typical when they are on a case. It would be nice if they addressed this case and let it be known whether they suspect this is an isolated crime or not. Was this woman the victim of a random attack by a stranger she should not have trusted or was it someone who she knew intimately? The fact that she was beaten to death and then set on fire kind of alludes to the possibility that the person who did this acted in a rage. It's an extremely intimate act to beat a woman to death like this.
Crime analyst and profiler Chelsea Hoffman can be found on The Huffington Post, Chelsea Hoffman: Case to Case and many other outlets. Follow @TheRealChelseaH on Twitter or click here to contact Chelsea directly.
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Dear friends, this statement about the ultra-inocency of this young woman, is a behaviour pattern generalized in the whole USA population. Americans have not experienced an awakening. Look, after Bush blew up the Twin Towers people voted for him again 2004. What the hell is happening in the minds of the people of the USA that are so faith-based.
YEAH THE RIGHT WORD IS LACK OF EVIDENCE-BASED THINKING, AND MORE TRUST-ORIENTED BEHAVIOUR. I think religion and preaching has to do with that.
I wanna say something about this place of Tennessee. From my own humble personal opinion about the cities of Tennessee and comparing Tennessee with other cities I've lived like Miami, Tampa, Orlando, New York, Boston. I think that the cities of this state of Tennessee are too lonely, i mean there is a sort of ghost town feeling in many cities of Tennessee, and excess of rurality. I think crowded cities with a lot more people might be safer than many of the ultra-lonely small towns of Tennessee.
According to Machiavelli, Schopenhauer and other thinkers humans are naturally evil and are only good if coerced and forced to be good by fear of punishment. So I think that the extreme of loneliness in many of these cities give a blanck check, a license to rape, a license to rape girls and then kill them to many men, that for economic, social and our political system we have are alienated, rejected, and hated by society.
There are many many causes of crime, but a big factor is our concentration of wealth in a few, and extreme poverty and dispair, alienation, hatred, pain and stress in millions of Americans.
When people feel stress, in pain, in miserable conditions, in extreme poverty they are more vulnerable crimes, than in a socialist democratic inclusive equality ecomomic system where wealth is spread out to the whole society.
There is lots of poverty in Tennessee, this is a Republican Party state, and Republican Party state are capitalists, oligarchic, wealth and luxuries are concentrated in a few in this state. And extreme poverty, misery and pain is producer of crime. I am not saying that poor are criminals. In fact I am anti-rich people and I am in favor of the poor. What I am saying is that we need an economic revolution in USA, because within this neoliberal economic model of blue dog Democrats and neocons republicans, poverty levels will increase. This banking mafia cartel is destroying USA, Europe and other nations as well
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