About Me

Childhood
I grew up in Boone County West Virginia in a small town called Ottawa. My Mamaw and Papaw lived next door to us, I had a sister named Karen. My Dad was a coal miner. The coal mines blacklisted him and when he couldn’t find work it became a problem within the marriage. My mother was seduced by another coal miner named Gary Marvin Chandler. Gary claimed to be a “white” and that he was generally up to “the white thing”; Gary said “A nigger is someone that doesn’t care about religion, education, the law, work, or family.” Gary abducted me from Ramage Grade School when I was 11 years old and forced me to live up a hollow in Ashford, West Virginia. There he subjected us to psychological abuse and involuntary intoxication; often attempting to turn us against each other. A characteristic I see in the behavior of Darrel Carter of the West Virginia National Guard who is a conspirator with Gary Marvin Chandler and Paul David Mitchell in the murder of Franklin Delbert Mitchell, my Father.

Teenage Years
Gary Marvin Chandler changed his work so that he worked at Sherman High School while I attended. Gary pretended to be a remedial math teacher in the adjacent but connected Junior High School. Gary Marvin Chandler and Paul David Mitchell at one point worked with the MEPS (Military Enlistment Personnel) to hold a child sex party; they drugged us and got us naked, I don’t know how we got home. I got in some pretty big fights with Gary Marvin; he would set things up just to create problems and arguments. I moved to Ohio and lived with my father Franklin Delbert Mitchell during my senior year of High School. My brother Paul David Mitchell lived up there and was out of prison; he attempted to murder me. I graduated high school, worked at an ice ream shop, a burger house, then I joined the United States Air Force.

Early Adulthood
In 1996 I joined the Air Force as an Electrical and Environmental Systems Technician; I was stationed at Ellsworth AFB in South Dakota on the B-1 Lancer. I married a girl by the name of Shelia May Copen, it was a sorted affair of three years. The test results of a BAC one night while I was designated driver came back .052 a test upon which two demotions and extra duty where assigned indefinitely. The extra duty destroyed any possibility of having a constructive marriage. I believe the person in charge of our squadron was working with Gary Marvin Chandler and Paul David Mitchell to place me under undue influence. I never once felt a moment of guilt or that the punishment was warranted in any way. I remained on active duty for 6 months after my contract; I felt that I needed time to mentally prepare for civilian life.

June of LIfe
After the Air Force I went to Salt Lake with a guy I went to CCAF (Community College of the Air Force) with, he was also stationed at Ellsworth with me in my flight. So I poked around there for a few years and worked for a couple companies there, Office Depot and Costco. When my Grandmother became ill I transferred my work with Costco to Cincinnati, Ohio. I had always planned on coming back to Appalachia, to my family; however, I had always imagined returning in a bit more of an organic fashion rather than being forced to return by the emergence of critical circumstances. I lived in Cinti for a couple years then moved into an apartment with my brother in Nitro. Mom moved to Rand. My sister had a baby. I enrolled in college. I was back home.

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