BULLIED TO DEATH-Judith A. Yates
True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers
Dan Zupansky
4 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2018
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
No one likes me.
I hate my life.
I wish I had a friend.
It was the mantra of fourteen-year-old Sherokee Harriman, who in September 2015 faced her alleged bullies in a small Tennessee public park and pulled out a concealed kitchen knife. She drove the knife into her stomach as the horrified teens watched.
Local media focused on sensationalism rather than truth. The word “bullicide” was used, meaning bullying drove Sherokee to kill herself.
The story of Sherokee’s death flew through social media, broadcast for all to see. Sherokee had shared her secrets online where privacy disappears with a slight movement of a computer mouse.
A product of a family doing their best with little resources, Sherokee was passed through the mental health system as far as it would take her, shuttled through an overworked and underfunded education system supervised by government agencies with no real answers. She was sent to “Stop Bullying” school programs unprepared to assist, exasperating the problems.
Sherokee Rose Harriman November 7, 2000 – September 5, 2015
A community began to question the laws and definitions regarding “bullying.” Should schoolyard bullies be held legally responsible for causing a suicide? Can a rough family history guarantee a tragedy? And just what is bullying, anyway? Perhaps Sherokee’s death was an accident … perhaps there was a sinister truth that has yet to be told. BULLIED TO DEATH: A Story of Bullying, Social Media and the Suicide of Sherokee Harriman-Judith A. Yates
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| 0:00.0 | Love talks about you. |
| 0:10.6 | You are now listening to True Murder, the most shocking killers in True Crime History |
| 0:16.0 | and the authors that have written about them. |
| 0:18.6 | Gacy, Bundy, Domer, The Night Stalker, DTK, every week, another fascinating author talking |
| 0:26.8 | about the most shocking and infamous killers in True Crime History. |
| 0:31.0 | True Murder with your host, journalist and author, Dan Zufanski. |
| 0:45.4 | Good evening. |
| 0:46.4 | Do you think I'm pretty? |
| 0:48.8 | No one likes me. |
| 0:50.0 | I hate my life. |
| 0:51.5 | I wish I had a friend. |
| 0:53.7 | It was the mantra of 14-year-old Cherokee Haramon, who in September 2015, faced her alleged |
| 0:59.8 | bullies in a small Tennessee public park and pulled out a concealed kitchen knife. |
| 1:05.6 | She drove the knife into her stomach as the horrified teens watched. |
| 1:10.6 | Local media focused on sensationalism rather than truth. |
| 1:13.7 | The word bullicide was used, meaning bullying drove Cherokee to kill herself. |
| 1:19.3 | The story of Cherokee's death flew through social media, broadcast for all to see. |
| 1:25.0 | Cherokee had shared her secrets online where privacy disappears with a slight movement |
| 1:29.1 | of a computer mouse. |
| 1:30.9 | A product of a family doing their best with little resources, Cherokee was passed through |
| 1:36.5 | the mental health system as far as it would take her, shuttled through and overworked |
| 1:40.9 | an underfunded education system, supervised my government agencies with no real answers. |
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