Delawhere Crime Podcast

Episode 16: She Just Wanted To Help Others : The Senseless Murder of An Angelic Hero : Dr. Caroline Ekong


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Dr. Caroline Ekong was full of life in the months before her murder. She was newly married and ready to work less and spend more time with family and on nonprofit work, her daughter said. On October 14th, 2015, she had no idea  or even a clue what her former psychiatric patient, Christopher Frick 21 ,  a man with Schizophrenia and psychosis since he was 4 years of age  was planning. He bought a hunting knife, practiced picking locks and fixated on revenge for being placed  in the Rockford Center, a psychiatric facility in Stanton, Delaware  over  3 years earlier when his parents seeked help  when he assaulted his own family  members and threatened to end his life . She had not treated him or even had any contact with him since 2012. The mentally ill Christopher Frick  knew the lunar phases of the moon and under the cover of darkness  Frick  broke into Ekong's home entered the back door, took off his shoes and went to her bedroom.  He used pepper spray and then brutally stabbed the 55-year-old mother, leaving bloody footprints and stained walls and floors.  Ekong's death also changed the course of her children and stepchildren's lives. Her daughter described her sleepless nights and anxiety after finding her mother dead in their foyer.  And having tell her little brother who was 4 years younger that their beloved Mother was murdered.  "Every time I think about this, my stomach drops, and I want to throw up," she added. "I want to help her, but I can't. I want to make her feel better, but I can't." said Ekongs daughter.  We will always have an empty feeling that she will never be able to attend our weddings or the birth of our children !!  Prosecutors and Judge Ferris Wharton  said Frick knew right from wrong, though, and should not hide behind his mental health as an excuse to avoid  his conviction and so did his defense lawyer and parents. Prosperous reason who was full time student at University of Delaware studying Math & Physics qnde on the Dean's Lists for four years as well as living in his own apartment?? If Fricks and his  incompetent  enabling parents had accepted help from Caroline at Rockford Center, she would still be  alive today.

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