Don't Anger The Princess

Bryant, Arkansas, is a small town in Saline County, about twenty minutes from Little Rock and very much a suburb of it. At the time of the story it was far more rural than it is now. this part of the story is covered for now By all accounts James was a decent, involved father, and the household was a stable one. details of the account remain covered until revealed

On March 1st, 1997, sixteen tornadoes were spawned in Arkansas and twenty-five people were killed. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it The house in Little Rock was destroyed except for the bathroom, and the family moved to Bryant because they had nowhere else to go. this part of the story is covered for now She later said the change was like another world. Within a short time she was smoking weed, then taking pills, stealing money from her parents and skipping school.

In January 2002 her parents sent her to the Baptist Recovery Team Center, a religious rehab, for two weeks. It did not work. Later that year she took her parents' car without permission, smoked a joint she said was laced with PCP and woke up thirty miles away in a Kmart car park, soaked in her own urine. In October 2002 her parents filed a FINS petition in court describing her as out of control, habitually disobedient, truant and a marijuana smoker. As a result she was admitted to the Pinnacle Point Behavioral Hospital in Little Rock for six months, where Dr Gary Hogan prescribed her Prozac and sleeping pills. Her parents separated around this time, and she went to live with her mother and then with her father in a rural trailer outside Bryant. She said she got on better with her father, whom she called daddy, and that he never hit her or abused her, though he told her off for using drugs and skipping school.

details of the account remain covered until revealed She later said she saw a blackness forming in the hallway and felt an evil presence, and that a thought came to her: kill your dad. She took his deer rifle from his closet around half past one, loaded it, put on earmuffs and test-fired it in the backyard. When he came home from work they made small talk and he sat down in a chair to watch television. She fetched the loaded rifle and the earmuffs, asked him to come to her bedroom and had him turn his back to her. She shot him in the back, then chambered another round and shot him again where he lay. She took his keys and wallet, drove off in his truck, stopped at Harvest Foods to take $150 from his account at the ATM, and then passed her mother on the road, telling her that someone had broken in and hurt dad. She lied to the police at the house, but eventually admitted the killing at the station, saying, 'He pissed me off.'

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it The judge sent her to adult court. this part of the story is covered for now The judge gave her the maximum on both counts: forty years for the murder and twenty for the theft, sixty years in total. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed She was pregnant and said she would name the baby Addie James after her father, and she began speaking to teenagers about her story.