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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

MY READERS ARE always the hardest to thankbecause nothing I can say will extend to each the gratitude I feel in my heart for returning, book after book.

Kensington Publishing Corp. and Michaela Hamilton are, by far, the only publisher and editor in the business for me at this time in my career. Weve worked on over twenty books together now. I am entirely grateful for their support.

I also would like to give my sincere appreciation to everyone at Investigation Discovery and Beyond Productions for being responsible for my television career. We have some things in the cooker now that I am really excited about!

For my entertainment lawyer/business manager, Matthew Valentinas, a continued thanks.

I would also like to thank Deb Allen, Jasmine Fox, Donna Dudek, and Dave Lane from Jupiter Entertainment. They helped me out tremendously with research for this book.

I interviewed scores of people for this book, conducting well over one hundred interviews with those sources. They know who they are and I thank each and every source that took the time to talk to me. John Trevena was open and honest, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. Betty Long, supervisor, Records and Identification Division, St. Petersburg Police Department, was incredibly helpful.

Rachel Robidoux made herself available to me anytime I needed, and I thank her immensely for her time and honesty. I have a place in my heart for Rachel that I cannot explain. She has been through so much in her life, beyond the hiccups and the murder her daughter was involved in. I dont know how many other people could ever manage what Rachel has and come out of it.

Jennifer Mee is still, in my mind, a paradox. I need to say a thank-you to her because she did help; but, on the other hand, I do not believe she was as totally honest and open with me as she could (or should) have been. Prison will destroy this fragile soul and my hope is that she can get out of prison and get involved in some other type of program. However, I also realize that is highly unlikely and that Jennifer has a debt to pay society for what she did.

Heres what needs to be said: When you are involved in taking someones life, you can never take it back. As much as you wish like hell you had made better decisions, there are no do-overs in murder. Jennifer never planned on that man being slain. But he was. And she was part of it. That canand willnever change.

The last word of this book should be that a good man, Shannon Andre Griffin, is dead and is greatly missed by his family.

Also By M. William Phelps

Perfect Poison
Lethal Guardian
Every Move You Make
Sleep in Heavenly Peace
Murder in the Heartland
Because You Loved Me
If Looks Could Kill
Ill Be Watching You
Deadly Secrets
Cruel Death
Death Trap
Kill For Me
Love Her to Death
Too Young to Kill
Never See Them Again
Kiss of the She-Devil
Bad Girls
Obsessed
The Killing Kind
She Survived: Melissa (e-book)
She Survived: Jane (e-book)
Id Kill For You
To Love and To Kill

EPILOGUE

LOOKING AT THIS case, studying all aspects of it for over a year, its easy to see how Jennifer Mee bought into the myth and disillusionment that a celebritya Dance Mom, Teen Mom, wealthy duck call inventor(s), Real Housewife, tattoo artist, Big Brother, Master Chef, Gold Digger, king crab fisherman, hot rod mechanic, antique hunter, pawnshop owner, etc.that was created by what is a short-attention-span, merciless, pop culturedriven, i-everything society, becomes something more than he or she was before being plucked out of obscurity and put on display without any direction. The idea, essentially, that being on television can change ones life is a fantasy. Celebrity used to be earned. It was special. Real life has become a carnival, and certain freaks of society are the main attraction. Reality television is a vacuum; its stars sucked up into a black hole and disposed of when ratings fall. I find it appalling, actually.

Jennifer Hiccup Girl Mee was stripped of her dignity and privacy by a common ailment that turned her into a household nickname. She and her parents, in part, allowed some of that to happen. But, in truth, Rachel reached out to a newspaper in desperation, hoping to get her daughter the help she needed. That led to a firestorm of coverageRachel could have never seen comingprecipitated by a celebrity-driven cult of media today that determine what is and is not so-called news.

Now Jennifer is a convicted murderer. She did that herself. A twenty-two-year-old man, a good human being with a future ahead of him, was killed for nothing three youngsters in their early twenties locked up for the remainder of their lives.

That, alone, is the only reality here.

* * *

I wrote to Jennifer Mee in 2013 asking if she would be willing to talk about her case. I was interested in Jennifers case for a number of reasons, mainly to take a look at the rise and fall of an Internet/reality/pop culture celebrity and how we as a society treat disposable celebrities. I wanted to chronicle how those celebrities react to the instant fame, and then afterward, where their lives go, and how they manage the crash. (Go back and look at my dedication in this bookthat list, within this context, becomes remarkable.)

I reckon a comparison can be made to some lottery winners. Weve all seen the reports of rags to riches: Someone hits Lotto. They immerse themselves in the lap of luxury and then go down in a ball of flames from all the debt theyve amassed. Their lives turn out ten times worse than before it had all started.

I wanted to know how Jennifer Mee had gone from the Hiccup Girl to convicted murderer. What happened in between? And what did the backstory of her life encompass? Was she, in fact, guilty as charged?

Jennifer didnt write back to me right away. Her parents called. We had long chats. They spoke from their hearts, believing that Jennifer was not guilty and that shed been drawn into something she had very little to no part in.

Jennifer is no killer, Rachel and Chris told me.

I agreedshe was not like the sociopaths I generally write about.

At the time I spoke to Rachel and Chris after sending that first letter, I was skeptical. I had not seen much of the evidence and had not yet read through Jennifers trial or interviewed many of the players. I was going with my gut. I am familiar with Florida law. Florida is not a state where you want to be around anyone who has killed another human being for any reason. A small role in a crime that results in a murder can, as you have just read, put you in prison forever.

After a long discussion and an agreement that Rachel and Chris would open up their lives to me and provide me with unfettered access to Jennifer and the case records, including medical records and everything in between, I agreed to go into the case with an open mindas I try to do with every case. I promised to listen to what they had to say and look for those holes in the investigation and prosecution of Jennifer Mee that Rachel and Chris were certain I would find.

This will not be your typical true-crime book, I told Rachel Robidoux, speaking of my vision for the book I wanted to write about Jennifer Mee and her ordeal. What I meant was, I would approach it differently: from a perspective of knowing that Jennifer Mee was unlike the typical female psychopaths I write about.

Thats all we ask, Rachel said.

I cannot promise anything, however, I told Rachel. I am going to report what I find.

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