When a Mother Lays Dead on the Stairs After Her Daughter Started a Dark Blog

The horrendous story of Ashlee Martinson

Lioness Rue
6 min readNov 15, 2023
Photo by Bence Halmosi on Unsplash

Ashlee posted a poem on her blog.

They say one of us is to blame
You’re holding that knife covered in blood
I’m laughing off the pain
Wondering which one of us is guilty if we’re both totally insane

The police received many 911 call attempts afterward.

It would go like this — Dispatcher: 911. What’s your emergency? Then, the caller would hang up.

The police found Ashlee’s mother lying dead on the staircase. She had been stabbed beyond recognition.

Ashlee Was a Seventeen-Year-Old

Ashlee Anne Rose Martinson was a seventeen-year-old teenager born in Kansas, USA.

She was shy, quiet, and a loner.

Ashlee was born to Jennifer and Jeremy Martinson. But her parents soon went their separate ways in 2005. Ashlee was just seven.

Ashlee and Jennifer moved into a trailer home near a sewer plant in Kansas.

Ashlee’s mother couldn’t live without a man in her life. So she invited an old boyfriend, Jerry, to come live with them. Jerry lived with Jennifer and Ashlee for two years.

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