If you've been following the case of missing sisters Ashley Key and Britny Haarup, you probably found yourself hoping for something unusual. I was hoping their family was wrong. I was hoping that Britny Haarup up and left her two infants alone in their Missouri home on purpose. As awful as that sounds, it would have been better than what may have really happened to these young women.
Police in Missouri now say that they have found two bodies in a rural field. Although they haven't specifically said the bodies are those of Britny Haarup, who was just 19, and her 22-year-old sister, according to all the media reports, the sisters are likely dead.
Police say they found the bodies because of information they received while interviewing a suspect in the sisters' disappearance. That person is now in police custody and is being considered the only person linked to the women's disappearance.
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Haarup's family said all along that they didn't believe she would up and leave her little girls. They thought it was foul play from the get-go, and there were a lot of markers pointing to it. How many times have we heard that mothers are vulnerable to crime because they will put their children's safety ahead of their own? I have to wonder if that's what happened here -- if Britny and Ashley gave up their own lives to protect these precious infants.
When Britny's fiance, Matt Meyers, returned home to find the girls alone in their home, he also allegedly found a comforter soaked in blood. The family also said guns kept in the house were missing. Not to mention both women's purses were there, and Ashley's shoes had been left behind.
It looks like two little girls will now likely be raised without a mother. See why I almost wished that their mom had really up and left willingly? It would be so much better than this heartbreaking alternative.
Have you ever been in a situation where you took the danger to spare your kids?
Images via Platte County Sheriff’s Office
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THIS is horrible.
Horrible..
I think having the knowledge that your parent, mother or father, simply chose to walk out on your is more horrifying than thinking that (s)he possibly gave up their life to protect yours.
One screams " I loved you and wished for you so much that I gave my life up so that you could keep yours" and one is "I didn't love you enough and never wished for you."
Hmm...which one would really be better...?
You really think it would be better for those two little girls to think their mother willingly walked out on them? So sad.
i think its worse in a way but I think both are pretty awful for the infants, either way they do not have a mum, a mum who would up and leave may as well be dead for all the good she would do, so yes it is worse that she wanted to be there and died protecting them than if she had just left because nobopdy got to choose anything in the situation where the mum got killed
So sad, but most mothers would die protecting their children without even thinking about it. There are a few exceptions to the rule but this is not the norm. I would die to protect my own child or my niece and nephew without a second thought.
Considering the blood, the purses and shoes left behind, etc., it was pretty clear form the start that this wouldn't end well. Terribly sad.