Dr Laura's Mother Apparently Murdered in L.A.

Reuters ^ | 12/20/02 | DAN WHITCOMB

[Cicero]

We don't really know that she was murdered. Presumably the police have to look into that possibility if the cause of death is not evident.

[SwordofTruth]

Although the body was found in Yolanda Schlessinger's home, it was so badly decomposed that identification was not yet possible, he said.

Doesn't look like they know to me.

[Plutarch]

You have no class, were you born in a trailer park ?

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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.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Yeah yeah. Trust me, they know, without a doubt. Don't believe everything you read in the papers.....

[BunnySlippers]

It would be nice to know about any life insurance policies ... and who inherits in the estate.

[isthisnickcool]

Hey. Isn't that Clinton's new girl friend? Demi Moore?

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:

[Minutemen]

I didn't post this to get a cheap laugh. I thought it was a tragic thing to happen to anybody, especially 5 days before Christmas.
Dr. Laura grates on my nerves with her domestic issues on her show, but her politics are 100% American.
She has received death threats from the Religion of Peace thugs for her pro Israel-American stand. I think she deserves a little more respect.

[FITZ]

Not talked to her mother in 14 years?....

It sounds like that's how the mother wanted things.

[redheadtoo]

It would be nice to know about any life insurance policies ... and who inherits in the estate.

I would be looking at the building manager and maintenance workers, anyone with a key.

What is suspicious is the fact that Yolanda Schlessinger failed to pay her condo association dues for months and no one did anything about it.

[FryingPan101]

Ouch! Some sort of alert, please. LOL

[FryingPan101]

"I'm no Dr. Laura fan, but I heard her show today and have to give her credit. She held up very well, considering.

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."

[Inkie]

Agree with you totally. She is 100% pro-American conservative.

[Inkie]

As someone who knows what it's like to have a mother reject her, I will not be so quick to blame Laura. We do not know what went into the estrangement. Don't jump to conclusions.

[JusticeLives]

You said:
"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."

Obviously you've lived a sheltered life.
I'm sure there are plenty Freepers here who has an estranged family member. It's really not all that uncommon, and your remark just rubs me the wrong way.

However, you're entitled to your opinion, as I am mine.

Please, raise your hand if you have or are an estranged family member. Thank you.

[is_is]

Not talked to her mother in 14 years?....yeah right, that's who I look to for advice on my private life.

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.....

[Tennessee_Bob]

From Dr. Laura's website:

“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. My mother shut all her family out of her life over the years, though we made several futile attempts to stay connected. May God rest her soul.”

[Pharmboy]

Insightful comment.

[Pharmboy]

I thought she said just the right thing.

[Calvin Locke]

Given how Gray Davis screwed the pooch, and is in desparate need of funds...

[El Gato]

The woman was MURDERED

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.