Saturday, April 12, 2025

Mommy Dearest: Ethan & Jennifer Crumbley

Yesterday, I watched the motion for James Crumbley. He’s the father of Ethan Crumbley who killed four promising teenagers at Oxford High School. Karen McDonald felt it necessary to prosecute both his parents for manslaughter. She felt they should have known that he was both suicidal and homicidal. One mental health professional called him a “feral child”. You know the word “feral" spoken about concerning cats in the neighborhood. They wander the streets looking for food and some permanent security. Of the cats in my neighborhood, you can tell the ones who have been part of a household, versus the ones that have been feral all their lives. The ones that have had a home want attention and once you feed them, they do what a pet cat will do. They will rub up against your legs, asking to be petted. For those ferals that have been on the streets a long time, it will not allow you to get close. If you’re feeding them and stand too close while they are eating, they will keep one eye on you and one eye on their meal. They do not trust people! If you want to know what kind of feral cat Ethan is, he at some point had a home. James Crumbley’s attorney, Alona Sharon, concluded that Ethan had a home at one time, so he was not feral. I say as he got older, he became feral. His parents started viewing him as a person that they couldn’t understand or looked at him as someonethey couldn't wrap their minds around. A stranger in their own home. When you look at their home and what a perfect mess it was, you know there was little nurturing in that house. A woman that has a loving home creates an atmosphere of love, she takes care of her home, how did Jennife take care of her home; she didn’t. Just like she took care of her son; she didn't, Now, if she needed a dish or plate, she would wash one or two, or if she needed a space on the counter, she would shift the things on the counter to another space. Shifting one mess to another place but never doing a thorough cleaning of her home. She just didn’t care. It was the same for her son. As he needed, she took measures to help. If there was no problem there was nothing, she did for the day-to-day responsibilities of raising her child. The father was worse, all he did was work. We know that a man wants to make money. Any man worth his weight, wants to always make money. If he provides for his family all the days of his life, his purpose in life is done. He really couldn’t take his son’s mood swings and cries, men just aren’t the emotional type, who wants to know what you feeling. They want to know what you need. A mother does and wants to know what will make you happy. The feelings are important to us, but for Jennifer Crumbly, it was on an as needed basis. When Ethan was feeling down and anxious in the days leading to the shooting, he convinced her a gun would make him feel better. He knew she could persuade his father to do things. With that, she told her husband to get him a gun. For her it was in hopes it would make him be “different”, let’s face it, Ethan is a weird kid. For his father, it was more of a transaction. I buy my kid a gun and it will stop whatever it is that makes him be so “different”. An exchange, one action and one result; you see?

So, when we ask who was wrong, we would have to say they both were, but for different reasons, and action. I think they needed more psychotherapy than Ethan did. They needed some parenting classes, too. Karen McDonald in all their 83 years of lawyering could see everything I see. These people were suffering, due to problems in their lives that they had to be reconciled. It’s hard raising a child, when you have not put yourself first. Self-preservation and self-help are two entirely different things. Not being able to see what your child is capable of is one thing but not showing him the way, is an all together different situation. Even if his father never cared about how he was feeling, he knew what he capable of, because he went straight home and looked for that gun when he heard there was a shooting at the school. There is no way he should have let that boy be there if you knew he was capable of a mass shooting; none! The mother in all her emotional treachery was using the school as a babysitter. Most parents do that when their children are very young, in elementary school,and they can’t take care of themselves. When I was 12 years old, I took care of my 2-year-old niece. I made her food, played with her and put her down for her nap. My sister. Who was just in high school herself, trusted me with those duties. If you don’t want your son at home alone, because he could kill himself, how about the hundreds of teens in his path. That’s unforgivable to me, but I care deeply for others. Jennifer Crumbley only cares for herself. She doesn’t care about her son, after what he did. She doesn’t care for her husband; she was having an affair. An affair doesn’t mean you don’t love your husband. It means you don’t love him right. Another reason she needed help. Nobody has ever shown her how to love and she uses manipulation and fierceness to get what she wants. I need to know more about her childhood.He's smittened with her. Coming into court mouthing "I love you" and she ignored the gesture. She had already started prostituting then and was separating her self from him. Watch the glances she and the judge make, Judge Matthews wants to help her, and knows what she is doing, but thos kids and their families. Her hands are tied.

When she got to Oakland County Jail and discovered that she was able to have sex and get favor from the deputies who run a prostitution business out the clinic, she saw her chance to go free. For Jennifer it was a way to get out of the mess her son had gotten her into. In her mind, if she could talk to him, she could turn this whole thing around. Now, Tate, the deputy that usually works in the clinic, walks in with Ethan on his right side, when he enters court is a pimp. He was there to let Ethan feel his precense, to make sure he didn't say anything about what was going on. He was very important, always pointing to the obvious. He was always trying to put someone in my cell, when he needed to make more money. He was the one talking to Jennifer about what to say when she went to talk to Ethan. What to say to the people at the Forensic Center that will make her not look guilty. They get people off murder cases at OCJ. Amy Burdette killed a “john” in a hotel on Telegraph. Sarah Gaynor in a drug and alcohol stupor ran into the back of a car driven by a young man down 94. Both women guilty of murder one “Open Murder” and the other “Negligent Homicide”, but both did less than six years in mental institutions and never went to prison. Sarah was deemed in record time, because the man she killed family was screaming “bloody murder”. Even now when I tagged his brother in my blog about her, people came on calling her bitches and murderers, say “She killed my brother. Sarah was a party girl that did drugs, had sex and gave fellacio as something she just did. Amy was a prostitute who worked in Detroit. She had done what most deem against the rules in Wayne County. She crossed eight-mile road and ended up in Oakland County. A true crime, because they don’t play fair. Amy spent her days butt naked in her cell. She would vanish for days, and they would roll up her bam-bam blanket like she was in her cell sleep. I was at the Forensic Center with Amy twice. She is a smart woman, Sarah, not so much. I don’t know if Jennifer tried to get a deal like that for Ethan, but Tate in all his racist and pimping mentality probably never even gave her that choice. He led her down the path where Ethan would go to prison, forever, and she would abandon her husband in the end. She would make him the scapegoat for all of it. He had killed four exceptional students out of jealousy. The young men whom he resented, because he wanted to be him and the two young women, he knew would never date him. Covetousness, and Hanibal Lecter said it best, we don’t seek out things to covet. We covet what we see every day. To them he was invisible, and he wanted so badly to be seen by them, to be their friend and belong in the same circles they did. He is mentally ill, no matter what his mother told him to say to the psychiatrist. Tate and the other deputies felt that he should go to prison; forever. His mother went down there and did what Tate, and them told her to say. It would make the people of Oxford happy to know “The Monster” was going away forever. They even fed Ethan. He gained a considerably amount of weight, too.

Now, Sarah and Amy had killed Black men. For a bunch of racist, they had done them a favor. They decide who is worthy and who is not, and how much time they get. And how they do it. The Forensic Center is a beautiful place to live, and if you’re going to do time, it’s better than doing time in prison. You wear your own clothes, have classes and have visits where your family brings you food. Once, I sat and talked to her about what she had done and what she was doing. I said she should talk to someone about her folly, and she said that she would think about it. An hour later, she stood in front of me talking to another patient and said, “I’m not doing anything stupid. I won’t get my visit my Bubba is bring my favorite dish.” That was all for that. I can remember the time we were looking for a movie to watch and Sarah went into the drawer and pulled out “Men in Black”. I gave a look of disgust that scared Sarah so bad, she lied from that day on, telling the staff that I was going to beat her up. Matt, the FSA that night came to her smiling and took the movie from her seeing my facial expression. “No”, he said. “We better not watch this one.” I want you to know that when Sarah hit that man from behind, that Black man, his car had exploded, and he burned up in his vehicle. Men in Black could have been making a reference to his race, or the fact he had burned up in the crash. Either way, Sarah became my least favorite person that day. No one really liked her, not even Amy. She despised Sarah’s privileged upbringing. Although they were both White, Amy’s background was different from Sarah’s, and she had struggled most of her life. Sarah did not, and Amy found her ungrateful for what she had. It was like Ethan Crumbley.

Ethan went to school everyday with other White kids and didn’t have their privilege. His home life was horrific in his eyes, and they probably were safe at home. When his mother came down to talk to him, he felt like she finally saw him. Killing those kids finally had gotten her attention. She finally was caring about him and who he was, instead of going through the motions. You better know as children we know when we are just options. He was lonely in that cell. When he got the chance to speak to her, he had been elated. He had not thought it through, about how he would feel and how people would feel about him. I tell my mother at 55 years old that she knows me better than anyone else. She can make my day or make it the worse day of my life. It took me 50 years to come to that conclusion. Ethan was only 15 years old. He took his mother’s words as love for him and would do whatever she wanted. That includes pleading the Fifth to make her seem less of a monster than the one she and his father created; him. They must have a new trial where Ethan is allowed to testify. In his testimony lies the truth about who his parents are and who they were in his life. Not what Tate and those pimps at OCJ feel about who and what he is. I told you for all that follow me, there were always deputies that looked out for me. The ones that believe that prostitution is bad and wrong. They have told the “Powers that be” what Tate was doing, letting Jennifer Crumbley go down there and speak to her son at crucial times in this case. Telling him what to say and do and disrupting the process. That alone is cause for a mistrial and James and Jennifer Crumbley new trials. But Ethan must be able to be there and testify to make it fair. Jennifer gained significant amount of weight, and that could be nerves or the lack of illegal substances, or the hot food their whores get in jail. She is a star to them. Who wouldn’t want to get fellacio from the “Oxford School Shooter” mother? I'm still on the fence if Ethan was having sex. He got LIFE. That's not a lighter sentence, but he is trying to take his plea back. That going through could be a reason to prostitute. Tate, can have it all figured out. They own lots of judgesthat includes Cheryl Matthews. She took Colleen O'Brien's place. When Synder advanced her to a higher court. That means they have one nup there. She made a lot of money for them. She has no problem going back to jail. James was forced like me to be locked up 23/7. Only let out for an hour a day. He wasn’t with their games, wasn’t homosexual, didn’t want to be pimped out for a lighter sentence or hot food and chips, He didn’t even want to come back to jail for the motion on Friday. That means they treated him badly, while they were pimping his wife out for sex.

I don’t know if they asked him or if they just got the vibe, but they didn’t treat him right. In his sentencing hearing, he said there is more to the story that hasn’t been told and needs to be told. That would probably be the deputies who were interfering in the case and Ethan’s actions during the trial and his time in that holding cell. The idea that his mother resented him for doing it all to her and ruining her life, justified in her mind telling her son to go to prison FOREVER. “They eat their own”. I remember growing up, my father told us that cats will eat their kittens if they smell a human scent on them when they are first born. So, it is ironic that that professional called him a feral child. The cat my father spoke of was feral from our neighborhood. She had run passed my brother one day to our basement to deliver her kittens. One night we went down to pet them, and he cautioned us of her feral nature to kill her babies, because their scent was not hers. I think Jennifer Crumbley feels that Ethan is not hers, not after what he’s done to her, himself and the families in Oxford. That helped her ease her conscience about telling him to plead guilty and get LIFE without the possibility of parole. Then she told him to plead the fifth so he couldn’t tell the truth about her. James Crumbley has peace in prison. The way I was treated, having been to prison and jail, I would rather be there than the heathenish deputies at the Oaklan County Jail. We, the public, must hear from him. It is the only way. It must be from a new trial for both his parents and done separately. I pray for all three of them. We are not always responsible for what our children do. All parents make mistakes, but not all parents’ children shoot up a school and take four bright stars from the sky and leave so many broken hearted. Not many parents buy their son a gun to make them better or act better. Karen McDonald knows this, and I believe another jury would also see the same. I don’t think they will be acquitted. Having a new trial will do two things, expose the influence the deputies of OCJ have on the judicial process in Oakland County, and secondly, we will know how and why Ethan went on that spree for real. Those two things will be ideal. Ethan will stay where he is. That was the one thing his callous and manipulative “mother” got right. Ethan deserves LIFE. He has never done anything in life to deserve any less.

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.”

Isaiah 49:15

James Crumbley's sentencing. Watch the way Jennifer Crumbly wait in anticipation that he will expose her. It is written all over her face.