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The following blog entry was originally posted at Lost in Lima Ohio under the title, “Bernice Joseph.” ~ Editor)
The mobile home that 23 year old Bernice Joseph lived in with her boyfriend accidentally caught fire and burned down, killing Joseph….The boyfriend, Stanley Burson DeHart III told police that he had went outside to smoke, and looked behind him to see the mobile home engulfed in flames.
He claimed that he was unable to get back into the home to save his girlfriend.
At least, that’s the story he was hoping police would believe.
Police however, have come up with a different conclusion altogether.
Bernice wasn’t 23, in fact she wasn’t even Bernice Joseph- she was a 16 year old run away who had been missing from her Hollywood, Fl for more than a year by the name of Talia Ashley.
Police also say that the deadly fire wasn’t the cause of her death:
View Story- At a news conference Monday night, Anderson County sheriff’s deputies announced that Talia Ashley, whose whose body was found in the burned mobile home, died from being hit in the head.The fire started at about 9:30 a.m.
at the mobile home on Beta Street.
Firefighters said it was destroyed within about 10 minutes..
While Talia had been a excellent student, she had begun rebelling as a teen.
Her mother said that she started fighting more, leading to counseling that never seemed to work.
Talia had had...
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