Hello Albert Einstein here. Today I've popped into Dev's cafe. He's one of many business owners

who are already using a smart meter to feel more in control of their budgeting. A smart meter helps

you track your energy use and costs over time so you know how much you're spending on your energy

bills, meaning less time guessing and more time to focus on the other important... Do you want milk

with that? Bits of your business. Such catasmart meter today, eligibility may vary consumer action

required. Hey everyone and welcome back to Big Mad True Crime where we get Big Mad over true crime.

I'm your host Heather Ashley and today's case is yet another one where the system frankly just failed.

Small talk sucks so let's dive in.

Jeanette Mabel's never really had it easy. Her mother Angela came from a dark past of murder and

abuse Angela's own mother was murdered when she was five and her father would reportedly abuse

her and her siblings by withholding food and if he ever caught them sneaking any he would beat

them. When Angela graduated high school she got the hell out of dodge as quickly as she could

but that meant running off with a carnival worker which resulted in getting into some pretty heavy

drugs. Soon Angela met Anthony who would wind up becoming Jeanette's biological father. The pair

had three kids together, two boys and then Jeanette. Nothing was ever really calm or peaceful in

that house and in 1995 when Jeanette was only one and a half California DHS was called and all

three kids were removed from the house due to neglect abuse and drug use. Anthony went to jail for

some time while the three kids went into foster care but Angela maintained some form of normalcy when

it came to the reunification process with Jeanette. She stuck to her scheduled visits moved out of

her car and got a job and in 2001 after spending five and a half years in foster care Jeanette was

reunited with her mother and her sister who was three years younger than her and had been born a

few years after Angela's other three kids had been taken away. Jeanette was the only of the

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