As if Ennis’ Audrey Merritt needed any more suffering. Here’s the latest from the mother who lost loved ones to an Ennis Lions superstar football player several years ago:
July 2, 2007...1:52 pm
Sickening Ennis SOBs
Fact: On Nov 29th 2000, Chrystie Windiate and her girlfriend were killed by a hit abd run driver
Fact: The driver ” Marlon Jones ” plead out with 5 yrs defered
Fact: In 2001, I formed Chrystie’s Kids ” who help with domestic violence victims, child abuse, and families in need
Fact: In 2005, we had grown to where the board members felt we needed a P O box at the Post Office, so I went down and got one.
Fact: Two days after I got our P O Box I received mail in it for ” Marlon Jones ” and “Anthony Lawrence”
Fact: I was so devestated but I asked for a new P O Box and was told they didnt have another one but they were be careful and not put anymore of their mail in my PO Box
Fact: Two years later, and notifing proper authorties, Post Master, Post Master General, several times,, MADD has tried to explain that it throws me in a tail spin everytime, and again we will watch, and a postit note was put up on the back of the box stating not to put Jones, or Lawrence mail in this box.
Fact: It continued and I went to the Police Department, at this time I felt I was being Harrased, because they have to go pass the note on the back to put the mail in the PO Box again we will be more careful.
It has been 2 years, and many tears, and it still is happening, I got a piece of mail for ” Marlon Jones” Saturday.
It has thrown me so much it is like throwing salt in an open wound over and over. I cant do this anymore.
Its bad enough that I live with the fact that he got by with killing the girls, after 5 yrs the whole crash was wiped off his record as if the girls never existed, and to have the contant reminder
What are the odds of this happening
This kind of thing, maybe not the PO Box but Victims are RE-Victimized more and more everyday with things
This is just my nightmare
Audrey Merritt
972-875-1597
26 Comments
July 2, 2007 at 10:43 pm
Should have gotten that Marion Jones identity and get some credit cards for Christie Kids. If they caught you you would surely get a light sentence for being distressed and Marion Jones credit would be ruined forever. JOey would do it for you! He believes in that Libertarian justice!
July 2, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Can’t you have someonelese get the mail?
July 3, 2007 at 10:22 am
To the first anonymous
Two wrongs don’t make a right ! I just want the post office in Ennis to do their job.
There is a note on the back of my P O Box that clearly states do not put anything in this box except Chrystie’s Kids mail, they have to go pass the note to put the mail in the box.
To the second anonymous:
No I am the only one that can go all my board members have other jobs, and we sometimes get things that are marked “Urgent” from police departments, and agencies that need to be dealt with fast.
Audrey
July 4, 2007 at 1:53 pm
This is no different from any mother that loses her child in for any reason that has constant reminders. My sister lost her son his junior year and continued to get mail for class rings, from colleges and still from credit card agencies. I suggest that the pain of losing a child never goes away and there will be unfortunate reminders. I suggest therapy and prayers. The fact is you are dealing with government workers and you need to return everything with a big “not at this address”. The mail situation will probably improve, but not your grief. Humanity and the flaws that come with it will be with anyone you deal with.
July 4, 2007 at 3:24 pm
I’d talk to the postal clerk named Frank. He is real nice. Larry is a sedistic weirdo. Throws a little fit everytime you don’t have your insurance ticket already filled out or if you inconvience him. I don’t think the Postmaster lady is very helpful either
July 4, 2007 at 4:22 pm
I have talked to everyone I think in this post office. Dallas. and the postal inspectors office in Ft. Worth.
This is not me getting mail for my daughter, that I handle with a little note stating she died, and I never get anything from them again. The mail I am getting is for the one who ran over my daughter left the scene, never went back, got special treatment because he was a football player, no remorse, no ” I’m Sorry for your loss” Killed my daughter on Wednessday and was back on the footpall field on Friday, NO I do not think I am not asking the postal service to do anything but their job, Its been two years of fighting with them. Enough us enough.
Audrey
July 4, 2007 at 11:25 pm
This is sad and ironic but you are taking it too personally. “Phishing” lists are compiled via the web, and anything linking your organization to your daughter then through how she died is the reason this is happening. There is not a conspiracy against you. Get some therapy.
July 5, 2007 at 11:55 am
I find it amazingly ironic that you would be assigned the mailbox previously held by the person who killed your daughter… very incredible actually. However, it has been SEVEN years since their death, and if a letter intended for him still sends you into a “tail spin” I highly suggest you seek counseling as soon as possible. Grief is immeasurable, and I understand this… but mail can be thrown in the trash and forgotten. You should have numerable contacts through your charity to counseling, therapists, and organizations. How about utilizing it to HELP YOURSELF instead of looking for attention. Oh, and there is not a waiting list for PO Boxes, there are several available. I just called to verify. 7/5/2007 at 12:50pm
July 5, 2007 at 2:15 pm
waaaaa….waaa….waaaaa
July 5, 2007 at 6:28 pm
Anonymous #4, give me a break. This is obvious harassment. This woman has been vilified because her child had the misfortune of being hit and killed by a small town football player. This is justice at it’s worst and small town politics as usual. Everyone should pray that this sort of thing never happen to them. Until it does you will never know how this woman is feeling. Ellis County has a track record of punishing it’s victims instead of the criminal. This behavior is reprehensible. There are NO EXCUSES!!!
July 5, 2007 at 7:38 pm
This Marlon Jones fella ran over the two girls on purpose and got away with it? If not was he drunk? Is that why he ran from the scene? I’ve heard that some people have hit something at night and not realized it was Human. Like maybe something was in the road that fell out of someones truck. Waited until they got home to check the damage. Who was the judge who presided over the case?
July 5, 2007 at 9:17 pm
This is for anonymous 7, 8 , & 9
Aparently you dont have the ” TRUE” facts of the crash, so until you know, you shouldnt repeat anything.
You might go to the court house and get copies of the deposition and read it, its interesting reading, and under OATH.
For axample did you know after the police got notified that there were 2 dead bodies on the side of the road, he got asked what did you do then, his answer was ” I rooled over and went back to sleep ” If you ask any other police chief what they would do most would get up and get dressed and go to the scene. Like I said if you dont know something dont state it til you do.
” Phishing” is via the Internet, not the US Postal Service.
I do return them with NOT AT THIS ADDY printed on them, but the postal service still continues to put them in there. Let me ask you a question, what if you were expecting a check and the post office put it into someone elses mail bos and you didnt get it for 3 or 4 days later, would you say oh wellor Sh– Happens. I didnt think so.
# 11
He did not kill them on purpose, we do not know if he was drunk they never tested him.
The Judge was Gene Knize
He stated that he was medding with the radio when he hit them and do=idnt see them til the last second. My guess he left the scene because he did not have a drivers lic or insurance, and never should of been behind the wheel in the first place.
As far as the counsiling, you obviously havent lost a child, or someone you love by an act of violence.you dont know how you would feel or what you would do until then.
July 6, 2007 at 8:22 am
There is a point at which you must forgive the man who killed your daughter.
2 Corinthians 2:7
Now instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.
Colossians 3:13
Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
It was wrong the way your daughter’s death was handled. But WHAT IF
He wasn’t drunk or messing with the radio and just did not see them walking down the service road at night.
WHAT IF
He was an adolescent, who was not supposed to be driving, and left the scene because he was SO SCARED that he’d just hit two people and did not know what to do.
WHAT IF
Your daughter and her friend were walking in the middle of the road instead of on the shoulder.
WHAT IF
He is permanently psychologically affected by the accident, and it ruined his life too.
My point is, it was an accident. No matter what happened and how botched the investigation and punishment was, there is still ONE TRUTH. YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY PERSON AFFECTED BY IT.
Mail sorting goes as such, computerized routing… and a human sorter sorts the mail in order from box number 1 up to the highest number.
Then ANOTHER human goes IN ORDER placing the mail in each box.. trained to ONLY look at the box number and shove mail in. This person does not intentionally put the aforementioned mail in your box… he DOES HIS JOB.
Good luck with your illness Audrey. There are other ways to find peace.
J
July 6, 2007 at 11:12 am
Let’s not forget the girls were wearing dark clothing at night walking in the road. Marion Jones’ crime was failure to stop and render aid-not manslaughter or any “killing” crime. I think you do your daughter an injustice and come off a bit like a lunatic. Have you come to terms with the facts that walking in the road at night in dark clothes is what caused your daughter to be hit? (I checked the facts on that, too!) How about raising awareness at that? Lots of walkers out there could benefit from that info. And to your “check comment”…I would think Jones’ would be complaining about not getting his mail. I get other people’s mail ALL THE TIME and simply return it. If I am missing something, I call the sender. You can throw the stuff away. Get a new po box and quit whining. I think this is a grieving mothers way of keeping her daughters name in the paper. Justice has been served through our court system, regardless of your determination of “good” justice. Have you filed a civil suit? If not, why? If so, has it gone anywhere? Have you done anything but whine?
July 6, 2007 at 12:09 pm
The travesty is that the “botched” investigation is the first stab in the back to an already grieving mother. And for every jab her wounds grow larger and larger. Who are these people who say get over it. I guarantee they have never lost a child. This woman’s pain comes from all the small minded people who think they can have their say or get their “I told you so in”. In the end they are mindless cruel drones whose only purpose is to back up a senseless judicial system. Did this woman sue the boy’s parents? If this kid was without the power of reason and good judgement how did he get the keys. This is as if the parents left a loaded gun lying around the house. According to all the drones this woman has grounds to sue the parents or guardians in civil court for reckless endangerment and the death of her child.
July 6, 2007 at 1:11 pm
According to all the drones this woman has grounds to sue the parents or guardians in civil court for reckless endangerment and the death of her child.
Good point if Audrey feels this kid deserves more punishment how come she doesn’t take him to civil court and sue the football star for his Championship Ring. That would be a nice little trophy!
July 6, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Where I can I see the public accounting records of a non-profit such as yours?
What you don’t trust Audrey? Don’t you think Joey would be exposing her on his web-site if she was corrupt? I mean that is Joey’s creed right?
July 6, 2007 at 1:16 pm
You guys playing around with this issue are disgusting. You’re supporters of Gene Knize and all that is wrong in that God-forsaken town.
All of you who are putting Audrey Merritt in more grief deserve to be taken out into a public street and beaten to death.
That’s how it should be.
-Joey
July 6, 2007 at 1:52 pm
so Joey, you are telling me I am supposed to sympathize with and coddle a woman with a shady agenda just b/c Gene Knize might have botched another case….
July 6, 2007 at 1:54 pm
hmm.. so I get beaten to death for questioning the agenda of a possible con woman.
NOW THATS JUSTICE!
July 6, 2007 at 2:20 pm
First of all I am guessing that no one know the facts of this case better than my mother or I considering the fact that my sister was wearing a green and WHITE coat the night that she was killed. I know this because unlike most of you I have seen the photos of that night myself. It seams to me that no one in this town wants to hear the truth they just want to say that my sister’s foundation is a con. I hope that you are never in need of help because if you run Chrystie’s Kids into the ground there is not another organization like it here. I have personally been at 5 out of the 7 Christmas parties that we have had and believe me those kids did not have any complaints. I also have been woke up to drive when a family needed assistants to get away from an abuser. I also have to see what it does to my mother everytime that his mail is in her box. It not only hurts her but this whole family as well. I have kept my mouth shut when I see him in town doing things with his family that Chrystie should be here doing with us. I am sick and tired of this town changing the facts around so that you can sleep at night believing that “this is just a grief stricken mother” who can not let go when in fact it is you the town that has continued this. Just sit back and think about how you would feel to be in our shoes. Instead of allowing us to grieve you have done nothing but state that we are crazy.
July 6, 2007 at 3:37 pm
I am NOT saying that Audrey has not done good things for people in need. But I NEED to know… how many of her bills has the foundation paid? How many things donated and intended for the needy has she used for herself?
Is the telephone number listed to Gary Merritt, but given as the contact number for Chrystie’s Kids, NECAAP, and Love on -4- Paws paid for by one of these organizations.
July 6, 2007 at 5:07 pm
For your information none of the personal bill get paid for by My organizations.
I have used nothing for my personal use. You are welcomed to come in my home I do NOT have anything other than normal stuff that is probably not as nice as most people I even help.
If I was paying the bills with donated funds then why am I in bankrupsy.
When we ask for donations, we usually have a situation or family in need of it before we even ask.
I wish we had an abundant of funds but most people see us the most at Christams time, most people dont know that I help people just passing through town, with lodging, gas, food. I would love people to come with me when I talk to first offenders for DUI’s. I would love someone to go to the homes of women and men that have been beaten up, and sit with them, listen to them and help them get their lives back together. I will go to court with them, if they ask.
Most victims leave their home with out anything but the clothes on their back. We put them up in a safe place feed them, get them clothing, baby items, for up to 3 days until they can get into something more perm. We work with many organizations. Right now we have delievered 40 fans to seniors or families with small children. Our seniors in Ellis County wont use their air if they have it because they cant afford it. As far as the animal rescue, I am still getting calls and I never turned a senior or someone who needed help with their companion pets down. If they needed food or flea and tick products, or medical for their notice I said their pet I furnished it.
No one has every paid for our services or products, on either.
Audrey
July 6, 2007 at 5:43 pm
Does your organization hold 990 status with the IRS? Why are you not listed in Publication 78? Do you pay income tax on cash donations?
July 12, 2007 at 9:44 am
As a mother who as also lost her child by someone who should not have been driving, I am shocked that you people are judging someone who has been through hell and beyond. Having someone you don’t know enter your life and create the total devastation that parents go through when they have their children killed and for them to show absolutely no remorse or then make excuses for what they did and then have the county screw the case up and then have the court system treat you as if you are the criminal is just plain stupidity!!!! When your child is killed you loose part of yourself, and you will NEVER be the same again. NO you don’t get OVER IT, nor do you Recover from IT, you learn to live with IT. But the pain is there every single day for the rest of your life. And for you people to add to this never ending pain is horrible. Just imagine if it were your child.
We must live our lives without our family member but the person who took our child is going on with their lives and their family, how fair is that? And then to have it shoved in face time and time again is just like someone stabbing you in the heart. Are we human or are we cold hearted assholes?
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