Mother Lies That 12-Year-Old Autistic Son Is Dead
We still don’t know why Vanessa Blanchard lied.
5 min readMar 1, 2022
Most true crime stories cover the grief and horror experienced by victims’ families. We read about mothers weeping at the loss of their only child and of families losing the apple of their eyes. This story is different: in this one, a Tennesse woman named Vanessa Blanchard covers up her son’s absence…
