Bianca Devins was seventeen years old when she was killed in Utica, New York on July 14, 2019. You probably already know how she died. What you probably don't know is who she actually was — the ukulele, the anime art, the YouTube videos she made at eleven where she hated being on camera, the way her grandfather sang "Puff the Magic Dragon" to her and she passed it down to her baby sister. The fact that she had been through depression, anxiety, borderline personality disorder, and PTSD — years of it, in and out of hospitals — and came out the other side with a plan. She was going to study psychology. She was going to help adolescents who had been failed by the same mental health system that had failed her. She was seventeen years old and she had a plan. Every piece of coverage about this case starts with the internet. This one starts with Bianca.

Before we talk about how they died, we talk about how they lived.

Sources: Rolling Stone — Bianca Devins: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/bianca-devins-viral-death-murder-926823/ CBS 48 Hours — Bianca Devins: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bianca-devins-murder-violent-images-psychological-terrorism-48-hours/ Wikipedia — Murder of Bianca Devins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Bianca_Devins WKTV — Brandon Clark sentencing: https://www.wktv.com/archive/brandon-clark-sentenced-in-murder-of-17-year-old-bianca-devins/article_d1bdf090-7932-11ec-8d73-77f82ffcca9c.html Rome Sentinel — Appeal denied: https://www.romesentinel.com/news/utica-devins-clark-appeal-denied/article_b6b933bf-d166-441c-98b9-368614a40fe8.html Observer-Dispatch — Sentencing hearing: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/man-sentenced-for-murder-of-utica-teen-bianca-devins/ar-BB1eEeso

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