Katherine Hobbs was murdered on the evening of July 23, 1987. She was 16.
She was reading a romance novel in her bedroom of her home in a Las Vegas suburb. At 11 P.M. She told her mom that she was going to the supermarket a block or so away to buy another book and talk to her friends that hang around there. She never returned.
Her family reported her disappearance to the authorities and also mentioned something interesting. As a child, Katherine had frightening premonitions, several of them that she would die at an early age. As she got older, she became even more specific, telling her friends that she would not live past the age of 16.
“She got very teary-eyed one night and told me, ‘Mom, I don’t want to get any older. I want to be a little girl.’ And I told her, ‘Kathy, we all have to grow up, it’s not the easiest thing in the world to do, but we all do it.’ And she told me, ‘I’m not going to.’ She didn’t think she’d make her 16th birthday.”
Due to this fear, Katherine refused to leave her house until after her 16th birthday (3 months before her murder) when she claimed the curse had been broken.Her body was found in the desert a few days after her disappearance.
After Kathy’s death, several letters were found in her room addressed to each member of the family. They were dated one month before her 16th birthday. The one to her mother read: “Dear Mother: In the event of my death, you shall get this letter. I hope you live happily and I don’t want you or anyone else to dwell on my death. I love you all very dearly. You were good to me and nobody else could have been a better mother. Keep me alive in your heart and don’t ever forget me. Love always, Kathy.”
Eventually a serial killer named Michael Lee Lockhart was named the key suspect in her death. He has since been executed and the case has been closed.
i know ive talked about this before but we literally have no reason not to bring the original gay flag made in the 70s by gilbert baker back to regular use!
the pink originally symbolized sex and the turquoise was for magic/art and it would just be really cool if we could bring both the stripes back into regular use again since there wasn’t any significance behind the removal of the stripes and we’re perfectly capable of mass producing flags with all the stripes again!
if anyone is interested, in 2017, shortly before he died, gilbert baker added a 9th stripe in lavender to represent diversity, partly in response to trump’s election. while i dont expect it to gain any kind of widespread usage, it is an interesting fact!
