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Mysterious Murder of a 2-Year-Old Girl: (Part I)
Ria was a magnificent-looking 2-year- old girl. She had a bush of curly, nut brown hair, large, bright blue eyes decorated with curly eyelashes like sprinkles casting painted shadows over a cupcake, to be comically poetic, and a perfectly chubby and cuddly, petite physique.

It wasn't just her looks that stood out to serve her glory ....even though she was, in a sense, barely old enough to be considered a toddler. She was very active and intelligent for her age; always curious, high-spirited, merry and friendly.

She could walk, or rather, wobble, a mile in a day, to visit the neighborhood houses - alone - to great distress of her 33-year-old mother, Linda. And she knew quite a few words, phrases, clauses and sentences already, though her first included: "I love you, Daddy," "friendly," "yummy," "adorable," "jelly," "kitty," "panty," "aunty," "lily," "thank you," and "forever, or always."

Like when Ria requested Linda to offer her another spoonful of cotton candy cake dough ice cream and her mom responded with the reminder "to say thank you," and Linda then told her, "Always." She may "always" have another spoonful of cotton candy cake dough ice cream. Or, as Ria put it, "cottie doughy cake cold cweam."

She loved bubbles and play dough; splashing in the mud, having the kittens and puppies take a bubble bath with her, making mud cakes, roasting marshmallows and a ton of other fairly normal 2-year-old girl activities.

Ria had a dad and two elder siblings. Her sister, Amanda, was 13, and Andrew was her 11-year-old big bro. Amanda tended to be rather short-tempered with the toddler, but only when she "made a silent invasion of" her royal bedroom, by which she responded to fend her off verbally.

But otherwise, she rather enjoyed her little sis' odd jokes and quirky made up tales, like the one about floating in marshmallow castle ships to the fruitful land of Canaan and then ending up dying by drowning on the way. Or: "water overdose" the way Ria put it.

Amanda was only 5 inches shorter than her 5'7 mother, who was beautiful with her long, straight, black tresses, pale complexion, and bright green eyes. Such things made her - Amanda - rather arrogant and patronizing to Ria at times, but she never used her superior size, speed, strength and intelligence to hurt her. She resembled her dad, Paul White...
red-brown hair, hazel brown eyes.

Andrew was a gamer and though he spend far more mall shopping trips, group homework projects, beach vacations, movie nights and mealtimes with his family than other kids his age, he seldom had much to say.

He was very patient, rather soft hearted and also broad minded. Neither of the two "big" kids were prone to sad emotional outbreaks, neither was their father; though the same could probably not be said about Linda.

Paul, the father, was a real estate agent and didn't work far from home. His personality was like a more aggressive and dominant version of Andrew's. He was 5'11, thin, serious, and more dark headed than Amanda.

Linda was a painter working from home - who used to be a high school Math teacher. But she wasn't fond of housework and often preferred tea parties and charity champaigns with her many female...