20TH CARAVAN TO CATCH A KILLER BEGINS- TULSA STORY-NOW IN OMAHA

What a great send off with Vincent Hill from Channel 2-Tulsa

SAN DIEGO/ CHANNEL 8, YOU WILL FOREVER HAVE A PLACE IN MY HEART

What a unbelievable gift San Diego has given me. This story was unbelievable. Reporter/Photog Karen Kelley you were great and easy to talk to. San Diego you will always have a place in my heart. CBS News 8 - San Diego, CA News Station - KFMB Channel 8

MY HEART HURTS

Heading to Bowling Green for last chance story in Kentucky. People in cities, on road great but no media contact from multiple attempts to contact. Home for a week or so to work, replenish funds, then back out to Northeast states. Still trying to get Brittany's name on our DNA at Arrest bill that passed after eight years hard work. Starting at year 4 of fight, I asked every year thereafter. Just received email from ProTem,...too late??. 1) I asked prior to the bill being drafted this year but somehow the Assistant didn't ask until too late. 2)I didn't do these 8 years for the name on the bill but it hurts they didn't think of it anyway. ..**Yes the law being passed is most important, but over years I watched at least 5 of my "family" of murdered children get a)their murder nationally publicized, then solved and their murdered child's name on their States law. I am only human and want that legacy for my child...And now I sit here with 1 story in 1.5 weeks........152000 miles and 152 stories but no national overage, no solving and now no name on law.........my heart hurts

Less than week from CARAVAN TO CATCH A KILLER#15 to NE…. of course.....sh...t hits fan to possibly delay or cancel. No… not car (6 out of 9 years it was) Trying to sell Chandler, OK home, I tried to get ROOF wind/hail damage fixed by home owners insurance –(paid into 11 years w/no claims). Told this week, they’re not renewing homeowners at anniversary Aug 8th. NAtional LLyodds says not because of claim but because house is empty. Won’t do just dwelling coverage because too big & empty? (Duh trying to sell) Yet filing roof claim in June they didn’t tell me, nor July or August when talked on phone?? My agent said trying other companies but roof may have to be done before insurance covers. If I don’t get coverage, my mortgage Company, Chase, may set high fine! REALLY?? Roof cost 1$0-14000, probably must be here to fix. CARAVANs cost $3000 which saved after waiting a year, after layoff Dec 29th, after car dying Jan 28th , after waiting for WRAP end of July.Yes ........make it through but REALLY????

Clock is ticking

Beautiful drive to Casper. Now it has been Lincoln Nebraska and Denver /Cheyenne area with more than 20 emails sent out in each city, no responses to multiple emails I sent out every night. Have dropped off flyers at PD and such. My queries/emails are the same (better edited) to ones that got m 10-14 stories on a CARAVAN but 4 days out and no response, not one response. To make it more difficult, my Computer is freezing up. Makes it slow to get emails out --up late every nite to do the emails(hotel computer always in use) Cell Phone having problems, hope calls weren't thwarted. Year 10,11, harder than others=detective is almost non communicative, media local and regional more quiet. Getting stories always made the rest of the year better. Now it feels like one more thing taken. All the things that helped me over the years to keep the strength,recharge me, one by one are gone. Slowness would be okay if I had more weeks out like I used to= but clock is ticking....and then I'll have to wait another year, another year older--twisting my heart. I can handle anything--- Don't mind the aloneness on the road, the long hours of email work or silence in the hotel................when a story is the end result. MORE SO THAN EVER, PLEASE EMAIL WRITE CALL NATIONAL NEWS. Create a call event....??? Her story, many womens' stories are dying without more exposure. Th

is will become ice, not cold. If yu do write natl, please let me know so I can follow up. 2 people so far, from last post said they did or will. Yes seeking tips but about educating people that all DNA at arrest will do is save lives......I ask so little all year...BUT Thanks to those in Ft Collins who came up, including the infectous disease doc and the man who moved his family to the US from australia and who shed a tear...the young photographer, the mother who lost a daughter to drunk driver. You all made my day

9TH ANNIVERSARY WEEK 9/27 THRU 10/4....SOME DAYS I AM NOT AS STRONG............

It feels like everything is slipping out of my hands. Within the last year our lead detective retired, the next one was promoted out of the department, we have a greta one now but I rarely hear from him. It is the 9th anniversary week and even my car leaves me. It is in the shop because the replacement transmission is falling apart and it is 1000 miles away from it being out of warranty so I need to get it worked on even thought it was replaced this past July with 20000 miles on it when it was "pulled out" from another car. It had a 12 year or 12000 mile warranty-what does that tell you.
And even though the transmission keeps slipping no computer codes show there is a problem. Thousands have complained about this but Nissan Consumer department and they say the heads of Nissan refuse to fix anything unless the codes say it is not working----really after 1000 + have the same complaint??.
It breaks my heart to be without the wrapped CUBE on her birth/death anniversary. I want to go and get it. It is my life force. I know that now. It is how I connect Britty to the rest of the world. Below is a vent. I vent and get past. Some days it seems I won't get past this past year....

Post by Brittany Phillips.

BREATHE A LITTLE BREATH OF LIFE IN HONOR OF BRITTANY PHILLIPS...MY DANCING PONY PRINCESS

 

 

 

THE COMING OF A NEW YEAR 2013-TOUCH THE LIFE OF A SURVIVING FAMILY OF HOMICIDE!!

Between now and New Years, if you have read our story, feel our loss, want to do something to help, want to connect, whatever led you to us, whatever had an impact on you, we are glad you are here.

You can never imagine how much it means for surviving families of homicide to know their story touches people. 

If you are so moved, make a committment for 2013 to touch someone who may really need it. We will even give you some ideas. Even if you came here in your searches about the Sandy Hook disaster and families losing loved ones to murder, there are ways you can help them but even more so all the other thousands of survivng homicide families.

Brittany was buried on her 19th birthday 10/4/04 after being raped and suffocated in her 2nd story apartmen right next to the highschool she graduated from. This year she would have been 27.

Pledg to yourself  and to someone else to help make the world safer. There are so many small chnages that can have a great impact.... from getting your neighborhood to all turn on porchlites to writing a lawmaker about needed law change, check with your local police to learn about families of unsolved or solved homicides or abductions. Help them create an event to educate about the risk of others losing loved ones if there are weaknesses in laws for those caught for those crimes help us chnage the sexual assualt and DNA laws....

Impact the world as you step into 2013. Please remember there are many families that are still living the horror of losing a loved one to homicide, a singular one not a mass shooting. Both are such terrible losses but so mnay of these solitary homicides impact families in isolation. As I have travelled 67000 miles across the country on my CARAVAN TO CATCH A KILLER tours, I have met many of these families who live the path of loss in solitary echoes. Yet their horror needs the same supportas the Sandy Hook families do, but often do not get it because their losses are not as publicized (which draws attention to what has happened.

BRITTANY WAS TAKEN FROM US BUT WE CONTNUE TO BREATH FOR HER. WE CAN ALL BREATH THE WORLD INTO SAFER LIVING THROUGH EACH LITTLE STEP WE TAKE.  Touch someone in your community who has experienced such a loss, help us chnage the laws to DNA at Arrest, help us with the next CARAVAN TO CATHC A KILLER  tour. Breathe a little breath for Brittany!