Anya Cain (23:11)
Here's the thing. I think there's, there's situations that can happen in our system, under our system of, of rules and laws and whatnot that can feel less than ideal or can feel like, oh, I wish they'd done this. Not that, but the alternative is significantly worse. Because the alternative is basically like authoritarianism where the police can do whatever they want, whatever they want, and just bust down your door for no reason. So unfortunately, while you kind of, maybe some of us want police to be aggressive on welfare checks and you know, do something or another, if they're not hearing screaming inside, if they're not hearing sounds inside, if they're not, you know, there's no indication that a crime has been committed, then they should not be busting in anywhere, even a hotel, you know, where someone has some privacy in their room. Right, right. Okay. So they still aren't showing up. And so basically this kind of story almost starts circulating within their, within their group. Family members, people who know them are posting on social media like, what's happening? And the security team at the hotel ends up going up to the room around 2:30pm Several hours later, they enter the room. Now the security team, I imagine it's a bit of a different situation where they're not. It's their hotel. I mean, they work for the hotel. The hotel saying, we need to look into this so they can get more aggressive at that point and kind of like take the consequences. As, you know, they're hearing from all these people saying, where are these ladies? So I, I imagine there's also a bit of a concern about what's going on. They go in, they locate two bodies, and they immediately back out and call 91 1. Las Vegas police comes back and they start an investigation. They find the two bodies and they also find a note. And what they believe happened now is that McGeehan murdered her daughter Addie and then died by suicide. So a murder, suicide is what they think happened here. And I mean, what a horrible thing. So some background because, you know, I think a lot of people I've seen when they're talking about this case, it's like, what would prompt a mother to do that to their own child? Like, and honestly, I mean, I don't, I don't know. I leave that to the, to the psychologists, you know, I leave that to the people who, you know, understand what would go into any sort of like family annihilation type behavior. But we do know that there had been some problems before this in the sense that. So McGeehan had filed for divorce from Addie's father, Bradley Smith, on January 29, 2015. Their divorce was finalized in 2017. But unfortunately, there seemed to be issues that continued to arise. You know, you want a situation, what's best for the children in a divorce is parents who are respectful of one another, not badmouthing each other. That can be very detrimental to a child's self esteem when you're basically badmouthing the other parent. You want to have parents who are at least putting on, even if you're having issues, are not putting that on the child. And in this case in 2020, McGee had actually temporarily lost custody of Addie because she had, quote, you know, acted in ways that could alienate, end quote, Addie from her father. And then the court documents also accused her of committing domestic abuse in front of Addie in 2021. Then McGeehan had accusations of her own. She accused Addie's stepmother of recording the parent time exchanges, which she was not supposed to do. So this all kind of ultimately concluded in May, May 7, 2024, which is when Smith and McGeehan got joint legal custody and physical custody of Addie. They had a one week on, one week off schedule. So that's how it all came down. And you know, I mean, listen, though, the thing is, I will say about this is that, yeah, that. That include that that has some strife. And certainly the thing that really sets off a red flag for me is the. Is the allusion to McGeehan committing domestic abuse in front of Addie. Anyone who's doing violence, especially in front of a child, is someone who, you know, perhaps should not have that child, who should like, because that's just so beyond the pale and that's such a red flag. But without knowing more about what that whole instance was, it's just hard to say. But, you know, people do have messy divorces and they don't necessarily kill their children. There's some other interesting things that came out specifically in this New York Post article. They interviewed Connie McGeehan, who is Tanya's mother, and she claimed her daughter struggled with depression all her life. Again, a lot of people are depressed and they don't kill anybody, let alone their kids. So I don't know. You know, this is. This is information to take but also take with a grain of salt because, you know, I don't know like this. There could be more to this or other stuff going on. But she's. They. She said she was depressed, but she had no idea she was contemplating something like this. And she seemed like she'd been doing well lately. She said that Tanya had been living with her and in a kind of in a large home that she has and that Tanya was in good spirits heading out to Nevada for the cheer competition that she sent her like snaps of Addie doing backflips in their hotel at 5am on Sunday. So the morning of seemingly the murder suicide. And she said, though there was one picture that she got from them that where things didn't look right and she wondered if something had happened. So I don't know what that means or what she's alluding to there. Connie also went into detail about strife between Tanya and other members, other parents on this cheer team. And that seemingly has been confirmed by the New York Post's other sources within this sort of cheer community. But, you know, like, there was. There was strife about that. But again, like, there can be, like, a lot of stuff like that happens, and people don't kill somebody over it, let alone their child. So I just. The whole thing is just so bizarre. And I hope this doesn't get, like, exploited as some kind of, like, oh, crazy cheer parents are fighting with each other. I mean, whatever this is, it goes well beyond some depression or some drama or some bad feelings about a divorce. Like, whatever this is. I mean, this was not a safe parent for this child to be around. And it's extremely unfortunate that things got to this level. And I will be curious to know, were there. Were there red flags in the sense of, like, custody should have been taken away from this woman before she could do this to Addie, or is this something that truly just snuck up on everybody? And I don't know the answer to that. I'm just genuinely curious.
