A tragedy means Amy must take in her nieces and nephews. She and her sisters fight to give them a better childhood than they had.
The last time Kay K called the older sister who raised her, she asked for help.
“I hated she had been through so much,” Marlena, 44, said. “She would go from foster homes to the street to self medicating and being mentally unstable.”
The 31-year-old was pregnant with her tenth child and wanted to straighten out her life.
But she disappeared after that call.
A few months later, her remains were found rolled in a rug on an overgrown Mississippi hillside.
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