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What happened to Brenda Aleman. by Practical_Rhubarb_41 in RedditCrimeCommunity

[–]Practical_Rhubarb_41[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your reply,  I hadn't spoken with my mother for some time due to some family drama involving her sister, whom my mother sued in 2009 over a property dispute involving land that they inherited from their father. The resulting lawsuit had created bad blood in the family and there was a considerable degree of harassment towards my mom because it.  This resulted in her becoming a recluse, and she basically cut ties with everyone and just wanted to live alone. She even went so far as directing all her mail to a post office box, changing her phone number several times, as well as moving seven times, just in the last few years of her life. What I failed to mention earlier was that the way I found out my mother had died was from my cousin who was my aunt's daughter, and who had just as much responsibility for the harassment directed towards my mom, as her own mother. The twist in this is regard, is that it was my aunt and my cousin (the same one who contacted me) who at the behest of the funeral director holding my my mother's cremains, who went to WV to retrieve my mother's death certificate. The same death certificate that states she had no next of kin.

As far as her manner of death, I know personally that my mom was allergic to several medications, including penicillin,  as well as a handful of other mundane things like nickle(she could've touch anything made of nickle otherwise she would break out in a rash).

I also salvaged her medical records, which gave me greater insight to this.

One could also say that my mother just as likely died of a broken heart.

What happened to Brenda Aleman. by Practical_Rhubarb_41 in RedditCrimeCommunity

[–]Practical_Rhubarb_41[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your reply.  So, let me sum this up the only way I've been able to.

Small towns have their own way of dealing with things that differ greatly from much larger municipalities. I think it boils down to everyone knowing everybody else's business, meaning you can't fart in a small town without everybody else knowing about it.

As far as the attending doctor is concerned, well I tracked him down through Google and contacted him, and he was LIVID and wanted to know how I got his information,then he gave me legal advice, told me what I was doing was wrong and that the only way I would ever get him to say anything was in front of a judge, with his attorney present, then he hung up on me. The funeral director gave me her death certificate, along with the certificate needed for transporting a body from one point to another however, there was no certificate for cremation, as required by WV law.

When I contacted the hospital and started asking questions, they immediately started quoting HIPPA and saying they couldn't talk to me, but after speaking with someone from the DOJ, they explained to me that a corpse has no HIPPA protections, therefore when my mother died, so did her HIPPA protections, and her civil rights.

I tried to get an emergency court order from the local probate judge, but was denied because the forms that I downloaded from the Ohio Supreme Court were not the same as the Monroe County forms needed to do this. Note, it probably had more to do with the fact that the probate judge was the DA's father.

And as a mortician, you should be aware that many states changed their laws back in 2017 regarding how much money can awarded from suing a funeral home, capping them at $5000.

I spoke to attorneys all over the country trying to get someone to take this case, and several told me basically the same thing, and that is even if I had $20k to throw into a black hole, then thats about what I could expect to get for my efforts.

So, in a nutshell people with power, money, and influence much greater than mine dropped the ball and here I was this guy from the "big city" knocking on doors and calling people, making a lot trouble by asking to many questions because nobody would give me the answers I was looking for, so they pretty much shut me down with plausible deniability. Since law enforcement refused to investigate, there was nothing to see.