How A 16 Year Old Lost Her Life Over A Petty Issue

Mary Holman
8 min readDec 21, 2021

On the 29th of September 2003, 16-year-old Kimberly Holton lost her life over something that needed talking and an apology. However, we should all learn from it.

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16-year-old Kimberly Holton was born on the 4th of November 1986 in Kent County, U.S.A. At first, she lived with a drug addict mother and constantly moved from one family member to the other in search of better living conditions until a Dover, Delaware couple Ronald and Laura, took her in.

Since they had their own daughter Heather, they expected the two to bond perfectly and be inseparable, but that wasn’t the case. Kimberly and Heather bickered a lot and were constantly on each other’s throats. Nonetheless, they were times when the family was happy and enjoyed each other’s company.

However, everything changed when Kimberely mysteriously vanished on the 29th of September 2003. According to her parents, though she had always been a runaway teenager, Kimberely always found her way home, and when she didn’t, they knew something was wrong. Heather also commented that even though the two were not best friends, she could feel the pain and worry of not seeing her again.

The Search and gruesome discovery

That following day Laura called the police and reported her missing. Though a…

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