So, this girl is about to unalive her own mom because mom found her vape pen. Let me explain. Now, the girl, her name's Carly, and she's from Mississippi, and she's a good kid.
She does well in school; she was apparently Student of the Year. She's so smart that she skipped a grade. But Carly has a problem: she's been dealing with some mental issues, and she's been hearing voices in her head since she was six.
Now that she's 11, the voices have only gotten worse. So, how does she deal with all this? Well, allegedly, she's been hurting herself, and her mom finds out that she's been doing that to herself.
Of course, mom freaks out, 'cause who wouldn't? So, they put Carly in therapy, and they get her formally diagnosed with major depressive disorder and adjustment disorder, and they get Carly on some meds. Carly starts taking these meds, but unfortunately, the meds don't seem to be helping; she's still having mental issues.
So now, what is she going to do? Well, at some point, Carly gets introduced by some of her friends to a little Zaza, so she starts hitting that Zaza, and it turns out that she really likes how it makes her feel. She's like, "Damn, this is kind of nice.
" However, she's still really struggling with the mental illness stuff, and this is the only thing that seems to help. So, she starts doing Zaza a lot; I guess she's really into those vape pens. This goes on for a while; I guess Carly's hitting that Zaza daily.
Here's the thing, though: she does this so much that her friends start to notice that she's high all the time, and some of them start to get worried 'cause this isn't like her. So, fast forward to around the time Carly is 14 years old. She's still having mental issues, and these problems seem to be getting worse.
They take her off her old meds and put her on some new, different meds, but still, none of these prescriptions seem to be helping, and the voices in her head continue. Now, here's where things get crazy. One day, she wakes up, and she has to go to school.
Her mom, who we'll just call Mom, drives them both to the school because Mom's a math teacher at that same school. So, Carly gets to school, and while she's there, she meets up with her friends. One of her friends is really concerned about all the Zaza Carly's been smoking lately and about all those burner phones she has because apparently, Carly has a bunch of burner phones linked to secret social media accounts.
I guess she doesn't want her parents knowing she has social media accounts, so she creates them with burner phones and uses them to message boys and stuff she knows her parents don't approve of. Anyway, so this friend confronts Carly 'cause I guess he's worried about her. He's like, "You're smoking too much Zaza, Carly.
" And Carly, she gets mad, like he's all up in her business, and they get into a big argument. It escalates, and Carly ends up cussing the kid out. So that friend, in turn, gets mad and goes and sends an email to Carly's mom, and bro tells her everything about the stuff Carly's been smoking, about the vape pens, about the burner phones she's got.
Mom reads this email, and she's like, "Oh hell no, vape pen and burner phones! " She is not going to let this slide. So, at the end of the school day, boom!
Mom confronts Carly about the email and about all the things Carly's friend told her. Mom is of course super mad. Like, no one knows what was really said between them, but it's safe to assume Mom goes off on her.
On the drive home, she's all mad, and Carly's mad too, but she's also panicking 'cause she knows Mom is probably about to search her room and find her stuff. So, they get home, and Mom goes straight to Carly's bedroom. She starts investigating, tossing the room, going through her stuff, looking for these alleged vape pens and burner phones.
This is where Carly flips, and she gets a terrible idea that's going to affect her life forever. Carly lowkey sneaks into her mom's room, lifts up the mattress on the bed, and grabs her parent's gun. Then she creeps back toward her bedroom, and you can see her walking by on their home surveillance system, and you can see that she's got the gun behind her back.
So, then Carly goes into her bedroom where Mom is, and Mom actually just found four of her vape pens. So, things are about to get tense, but before Mom can say anything to her, Carly points the gun right at her face and pulls the trigger. Blam!
Blam! Mom falls to the floor, and Carly fires one more time. Blam!
This unalives Mom. But then it's almost as if she had this planned because she goes back into the kitchen and grabs her mom's phone off the counter, and you can see the phone in her hand here. So, she texts her stepdad, who we'll just call Stepdad.
She texts Stepdad and pretends as if she's her mom, asking him, "When are you coming home, honey? " Stepdad replies, "Just finishing some things up at work. " Now Carly wants to know when he's coming home 'cause when he gets there, she's about to unalive him too.
Strangely, after she texts her stepdad, Carly starts singing to her dogs as if she didn't just murder someone. Weird. Now, I'm not a doctor, but when you look.
. . At all this—the hearing voices, the cutting, the sudden murder of her own mom, and then randomly singing to her dogs—during all this chaos, I'm thinking Carly was misdiagnosed early on.
I think the mental issues she's dealing with extend beyond major depressive disorder and adjustment disorder, and I definitely think that smoking all that Zaza all the time greatly exacerbated whatever mental issues she's dealing with. But that's just my opinion; tell me if I'm wrong. Anyway, then while she's there waiting on her stepdad to get home, she suddenly decides to text a friend of hers, and she's like, "Come over, it's an emergency.
" So sometime later, this friend comes over, and we'll just call her Friend. So Friend comes over, and Carly's like, "You want to see a dead body? " and Friend's like, "All right then.
" Carly leads her friend to the bedroom and shows her her unalive mother lying on the floor. I don't know if the friend freaked out or if the friend is cool with seeing a dead body, but Friend doesn't leave, so I guess she's okay with all this. Instead, Carly tells Friend to wait outside 'cause when her stepdad gets home, she's going to unalive him too.
So Friend goes outside and chills while Carly sits inside, waiting for her stepdad to arrive. Soon enough, Stepdad pulls into the driveway, and he has no idea anything bad has happened in this house. He walks in the front door, and right as he walks in, Carly is waiting there, and she's got that pew pew.
She points it right at his head and pulls the trigger—blank! Luckily, somehow Stepdad moves out of the way at the last second, and Carly misses his head; the bullet just grazes his shoulder. Then, boom!
Stepdad lunges toward her and grabs the pew pew, and blam blam! It goes off a few more times, but luckily, no one is hit. Stepdad overpowers Carly and wrestles the pew pew out of her hands.
She freaks out and exits the house, fleeing. You can see her here on security footage running away quickly, and you can see her friend following her. Stepdad is injured, and he's totally flipping out.
He calls 911, and then the police get there. He tells them everything that happened, and pretty quickly, there's a whole ass manhunt looking for Carly with a police helicopter and everything, but it doesn't last long 'cause soon enough, they find her not too far away, hiding in one of those big drainage pipes. So bam!
They arrest her. Here's her mug shot; also, here is some footage of her detained in the back of the police car. Anyway, Carly goes to trial, and she pleads not guilty due to insanity, but the jury doesn't buy it.
They find her guilty, and she's sentenced to life in prison.
