Brittney Kustes Returns Home Safe; Sex Offender Roy Elwell Still At Large

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• Disgusted but never Shocked umm ahe doesn't have a dad because i know she is my sister and i don't have a dad so don't go running your mouth i tired of it! and i don't like how your calling my sister names umm and at least you get to see your sister if you have one i don't get to see mine but in 3 years i will! So yea get and a life and bermudagold i don't like how your calling my sister a slut! i know she did meth but don't go and call her a meth head! and really your so immature to call someone a whore and i don't care who told you to write it but that was really rude like i said to to Disgusted but never Shocked At least you get to see your sister i dont get to foe 3 years i don't care if you don't have a sister STOP RUNNING YOUR MOUTH BOTH OF YOU! thanks!

• nothing crawled up my ass to date dylan,but if people like you continue to defend the bahavior of little sluts like brittney things will never change and just maybe people who are far more innocent then we are led to beleive will be punished more for the actions someone chose to bring upon themselves.in the beginnng of all this mess i really felt so bad for her and her family but as it all unfolded i realised she is a very pretty girl but just not a very honest one and i discovered long before the media reported she was in jail that she was. i guess being a victim gets you thrown in jail.i know how easy girls become even little pretty ones like brittney if someone has drugs at the end of thier pole.seen it first hand many of times even those little whores who come from well to do families black white and other.people like her would suck a camels dick to get that next high.

• What crawled up your ass bermudagold?

• Stockholm Syndrome at its' worst. This girl needs to be placed with some kind of help or this will happen again and again, if she went willingly to this man she was most definitely not in the right frame of mind. He should be punished, dually, but this girl needs some serious mental help to overcome this Stockholm issue.

• wow very interesting how many twist and turns this case has taken.made for tv haha, her mom makes it appear that she was dragged off into the wilderness leaving me feeling very sorry for her.then i continue to watch this unfold only to see shhe went with him willingly,then i see she is found on the 29th and reports have it that she is in a secret location, then i discover she was put in jail the very next dat. i saw her info and mug shot on the bullitt county jails website.so much for secret location.i think there is much for us to learn from this case.things like this dont happpen here in bermuda

• Moet, I'm with you on that 100%.. and Angry Grandma and Mark.. lol.. this story just gets more unbelievable by the minute.. I mean, more updates from her mom?!Really... Where is lil miss "he made me do it"?? where is her new "witness" ?? I think they're all BANANAS, and her lil bitty lie,turned into Broadway - the singing and dancing.. LMAO..

• It's all fun and games until someone does meth!

• thanks Pete-for some reason it was there one minute then gone the next...really it was.

• I dont think Rehab is going to work for this child. If she left with him willingly to party. then all it would take is another "friend" and a "party date". Maybe she needs to go somewhere she don't know anyone. Meth is a visous drug. Up there with herion and crack. And just rehab isn't going to work with her. She needs deeper help.

• So, the story has changed to she went willingly after all, and the story about her being kidnapped was fabricated. Sounds like a typical meth-head spinning lies to hide her complicity. So the body that was found was an apparent suicide? Well, I guess it shouldn't come as a surprise that a house full of meth addicts and a convicted felon on the run wouldn't call the cops...but why did they just leave him hanging there? Well, the more that comes to light on this story, the more I'm convinced that Meth = Bad.

• She went willingly to "party"? They made it sound as if she was dragged off kicking and screaming. So she went to get high with the guy she was terrified of who "kidnapped" her once before, and then, surprise surprise the sex offender got sexually offensive and kidnaps her... again. Well, my sympathy for her went out the window. Next?

• Why don't you try refreshing, CW. It's showing up on my end.

• hey alexa - thanks for thinking of me...but I don't drink "adult beverages" and the world is a safer place for it. LOL ;D

• cw, shall I forward you an adult beverage? I do believe it is a curative for blindness. =) Well, probably. Ok, no, not at all, but it does render you free of caring about it. *sip*

• k-I'm blind and a dumbass

• hey Pete-am I missing something? your headline mentioned an update but I don't see it here ;D

• Found this article on Brittney that says another woman came forward to say Etwell had harmed her too. http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?S=12905572 Two women (at least) claiming this man is abusive. One body found dead in the house Roy Etwell kept her in. What next? This guy is a bad dude!

• My thing is every artical you read its, "her mother said this and her mother said that" WHat about the girl her self? She is 19 years old and is to old to be shoved behind mommy's skirt. She knows the facts, and she can think for her self. What does SHE say, and what does she think? Thats what I want to know.

• glad she's alive-hope she can stay that way

• Good luck Brittney! I am praying for your recovery and that you find your true worth without drugs and worthless men.

• Burl, I've never tried it but what I've heard about meth is it is a very nefarious drug! A very old friend of mine who I've known for 35 years has succumbed to meth. This man was a Vietnam Vet and Forestry worker. He was well-known and well-loved by our community. I know that he smoked weed and tried many other drugs, but ALWAYS kept his integrity intact through all of his experimenting. He had 2 children who were very well cared for and a 20 year marriage to another old friend of mine. Then along came the meth. About 5 years ago he began dabbling in meth. I believe it was his 17 year old daughter that tried it first and then, turned dad on to it. First came the divorce as mom could not accept dad sharing meth with his daughter. Next their house, which had just undergone 5 years of beautiful renovations and was in the family for decades. It went up in smoke. Now he is just a shaddow of a man living for his next meth fix. SO VERY SAD as this is a good person who has lost his soul! I did hear on a talk show that meth only really gets you buzzed the first couple of times and then you are left with the addiction, but no longer get buzzed. What a waste!

• @jj Thanks for the links that provide better insight into this case. Now I am highly curious as to further follow ups as the details of this case unfold. If she was brutally abused, then it isn't just a spoiled girl going on a drug binge with her ex-bf. Even if she went willingly, rather than being abducted, it sounds like she didn't stay willing. Now if she had to witness a murder too, then I can understand all the more her trauma. Sounds more and more like this wasn't necessarily a case of a girl that cried "Wolf" to hide her predilection for nose-candy.

• Doesn't sound to me like she was having a good time with this man to me "The young woman was seen on Tuesday, by a woman who described her as having black marks, bruises and tears on her face, Kustes said. The woman said that when she approached Brittney, who was in a small gold car, to ask if she needed help, a man yelled at her to get away and they drove off." http://abcnews.go.com/US/cops-fear-missing-teen-brittney-kustes-sex-offender/story?id=11244069&page=1 Since she is a teen, my guess is she went out to confront him at her grandma's house "You stay away from me and my family!". And somehow he got he ~ she's a little woman, not hard to believe. How she got out of the situation alive is a mystery (except not all sex-offender meth-heads are murderers). Then again, a dead body was found inside the home where Roy Elwell had stashed Brittney. http://primewriter.com/news-1246-headlines/?p=8630

• @ Disgusted but never Shocked: You hit the nail on the head. Sounds like a case of another confused little girl with an addiction, who is an expert at playing "victim" and her mother is making excuses for her. Now, if what the report indicates is actually true, then I sincerly aplogize, and this guy needs to be put away. But something tells me theres a whole lot more to this story than we know. "They were spotted around the Greater Huntsville area"? "Kept in a wooded area"? "She was fed meth, and offered little food.."? Not to mention, there is no evidence of a "kidnapping" from her "grandparents house"...hmmmm, this story is fishy and I'm sure the truth will come out in the end.

• Meth is as habituating as really good Chinese food, or maybe excellent sex. But it is not physically addicting. There is something very wrong with this story.

• I agree with ya Soobs... But thats all the more reason she should have stayed with Grandma n' Grandpa, and not taking off down the street with a "friend". Something sounded like a "good idea" to her.. and thats all it took!

• @Tommynix I'm with you on the after he gets sent to jail, who's gonna be responsible for her habit then?? And as far as her mother's dramatization "They're horror stories. They're sickening. Frightening." OMG & SMH is all I got!!!

• The story dont hold water.! I mean I am nobody's judge just entitled to my opinion. When police get reports of missing children, teens , etc.. How do you think they rank that list?! Stories like this make them put certain cases on the back burner...

• If I recall, she was "seen" around town, but he always had a hand on her, and wouldn't even let her go to the bathroom by herself. Ya'll are a bunch of pessimists. LOL

• I would have to agree with "Gods Cop", "illusions", and "Disgusted". it sounds like she never got over her addiction after getting out of rehab, felt the urge to do some more meth and called up "Roy" to get high. She probably was so embarrassed to tell her parents so she lied and said she was kidnapped "again". Sounds like the parents don't want to admit their daughter has a drug addiction. After "Roy" goes to jail what will be her excuse for getting high!

• I want to believe that this girl was kidnapped and forced to take meth and everything, but I agree with the others, there is something about this story that isn't quite adding up fully. Yes this guy did have a motive to kidnap her a second time, but I don't know. I can imagine that if I was kidnapped by this guy and he told me to take meth I'd fight and refuse, but who knows what exactly happened. I guess we should just be thankful that she's ok now and back home and hope that the guy is caught soon.

• I'm with G's cop, disgusted, an illusions on this. People, grown adults go broke paying for their drug addiction, but this guy was just "feeding" he meth? Something isn't kosher with this story. She should be happy she has a family that cares as much as hers does.

• Read between the lines you idiots, yes this guy is a malice to society and needs to be put away, but I am not buying this whole "forced to take meth" bullshit. Of course the mom is going to say she was forced or she did it against her will. I think the comment two above mine by "Disgusted but never Shocked" is spot on.

• I am certainly glad she is safe but I have to agree with disgusted, what is being reported is full of holes.

• Hmmmmm, IDK! I would like to have more info on this story.. I hope this is not the "little girl that cried wolf" scenario.. Because things like "they were spotted around the Greater Huntsville area"?! Thats not hiding.. Kept in a "wooded area"? Could that be a house in the country.. and she was "fed meth", and offered little food..?! If she was high on "Meth" she wouldnt eat it anyways... Somehow I think this story is about a girl who likes to go out on a binge every now and then. And then go back home to Mommy and Daddy.! I would like to hear more about this.. I could be wrong, but........ Also, the girl she just willingly left with?? She didnt bother telling anybody Bye.. Just outa the pool and ran off.. And then another friend happened to save her day, but dropping her back off... Yea IDK about all this...

• Well, I guess my suspicions that she ran willingly ran away with Elwell to go on another drug binge were wrong. However, as she is ultimately safe now, albeit psychologically and physically scared, then I don't mind being wrong as she is at least free, alive, and getting treatment and help. There is a perverse part of me that wants to know the details of the sickening and frightening horror stories about her captivity, but knowing that she made it out alive and is reunited with her family is good enough for me.

• I hear Roy Elwell will be having a Meth overdose...

• I hear Roy Elwell will be having a Meth overdose...

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