CMPD sources tell Cedar Posts that they have not uncovered any signs of foul play. Based on the CSX engineer's comments and other evidence it seems that only one conclusion can be made, suicide.
Mainstream media doesn't report on suicides, but as horrific as it sounds these two girls may have had a death pact. The engineer's statement that he saw one person not moving suggest both girls on the tracks together.
A review of Rigley's Facebook page revealed nothing out of the ordinary at first glance, a young woman, into tattoos and piercing, somewhat goth in nature.
But then there is this photo.
Troutman's Facebook page is much the same, more or less unremarkable.
Except this photo.
Both girls, both with photos of train tracks leading off into the forest.
Sadly for the CSX crew the image of the photos is a harsh contrast to the reality of what happened in the early dark hours of March 17, 2013.
In the weeks leading up to their deaths Hanna is arrested on a felony charge of "Peeping" since the arrest was made by a Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Deputy it appears individual signed the warrant before a magistrate.
In the last six hours of their lives they both offered clues via twitter that they had decided to end their lives together.
On the afternoon of March 15, 2013 at 2:25 p.m. Hanna using the Twitter handle @0ccltism Tweeted "I'll kill you if I can't have you."
At 8:47 p.m. Arielle Tweets: "A song to say goodbye - placebo" perhaps referring to the UK Alternative Rock Band of the same name.
At 10:52 p.m. Arielle's final Tweet: "Why don't I ever throw up."
At 11:21 p.m. Hanna Tweets: "I'm drunk help"
11:26 Hanna's final Tweet: "I'm really fucking dead."
Most disturbing is this photo on Hanna's Twitter feed posted a few days before her death:
In the weeks leading up to their deaths Hanna is arrested on a felony charge of "Peeping" since the arrest was made by a Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Deputy it appears individual signed the warrant before a magistrate.
In the last six hours of their lives they both offered clues via twitter that they had decided to end their lives together.
On the afternoon of March 15, 2013 at 2:25 p.m. Hanna using the Twitter handle @0ccltism Tweeted "I'll kill you if I can't have you."
On the morning of March 16, 2013 at 10:52 a.m Arielle using the Twitter handle @ElleNeDitRien Tweets: "I get to see my best friend @0ccvltism today <3." A message that Hanna re-Tweets a minute later.
At 8:47 p.m. Arielle Tweets: "A song to say goodbye - placebo" perhaps referring to the UK Alternative Rock Band of the same name.
A few seconds later Arielle Tweets: "It was nice to visit the tracks.", suggesting that the tracks were a place she went to on more than one occasion and that they had left the CSX tracks early in the evening.
At 9:29 Arielle Tweets: "I think I just got my best friend fucked up for the first time lol."
An hour later at 10:30 p.m. Arielle Tweets: "I want someone to be in love with me."
At 10:52 p.m. Arielle's final Tweet: "Why don't I ever throw up."
11:26 Hanna's final Tweet: "I'm really fucking dead."
Most disturbing is this photo on Hanna's Twitter feed posted a few days before her death:
It is difficult to understand everything that young women deal with. On Friday March 15 Arielle Tweets:
"Me: I get called a whore bc I'm pretty
Dad: you're pretty?".
There seems to be a tremendous amount of peer pressure among young women to be either straight or gay. There are huge cliches that revolve around homosexuality at high school that did not exist 20 years ago. It is a new form of "Bullying" that Cedar Posts has witnessed on several occasions.
The pressure to be "out" and not embarrassed and to make a choice, to determine who your friends are and how you are accepted and perceived has never been greater.
Hanna's obsession with death, the goth lifestyle, "I collect dead things" and her instagram page "Suicide is Simple" may have been more for shock value than anything else.
Hard to say. But not talking about it won't make it go away.
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