College Student Murders Her Own Mother - The Sydney Powell story

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Who is Sydney Powell and what is her background?

Narrator 0:00

So this girl is having such a hard time keeping her grades up in school. She literally unalives someone over it. Now her name is Sydney and Sydney's in high school. She's a really good student. She gets good grades. She's a high achiever. She mentors other younger students. She is absolutely killing it.

How did Sydney Powell's university experience begin?

Narrator 0:18

So it's no surprise when she graduates high school and gets an academic scholarship to a nearby university about an hour away from where her family's house is. But then in the fall, when school starts, she moves into the university dorms and starts going to classes. And pretty quickly, she discovers that university is much harder than high school. The workload is more, the expectations are higher, and poor Sydney is having trouble keeping up. And she's not used to this. Failure at school is not her thing. And sometimes she goes back to her family home to visit her parents, who will just call her mom, mom, and will call her dad, dad. She goes back to visit, and mom will ask her like, hey, how are you doing in school? And Sydney lies.

Narrator 0:58

She's like, I'm doing great, mom. And this goes on for months. She struggles, and then she lies to her parents about it. And by the end of her freshman year, things still haven't improved. In fact, at this point, she's doing so terrible, she's failing some of her classes, which puts her scholarship at risk.

What challenges did Sydney face in her academic life?

Narrator 1:14

But still, she bottles it all in and goes home for the summer and doesn't tell her parents that anything is wrong. Then it gets worse. Fall semester starts. Sophomore year, Sydney goes back to college and goes back to living in the dorm. But at this point, the school has put her on academic probation. And soon enough, she's falling behind in her classes again and she can't keep up. And of course, when her parents ask her how school's going, she continues to keep it from them. She's just too afraid to admit that she's struggling. She just doesn't want to disappoint them. And then, pretty quickly, the semester ends. And boom, Sydney has failed three out of the four classes she took that semester.

How did Sydney handle her academic struggles?

Narrator 1:54

And that's when she gets an official notice from the school saying her enrollment has been suspended and she has lost her scholarship. And Sydney, she doesn't know what to do. She's never disappointed her parents before. So she goes home for the holidays and she still refuses to tell them anything. And she keeps pretending as if nothing is wrong, like school's going great. In fact, she doesn't tell anyone about her suspension. Not her parents, not her best friend, no one. And she keeps this lie going. And a month later, when school's back in session, she just goes back. Even though she's been suspended and is no longer enrolled, she returns to her dorm and acts as if she's still a student and just keeps on living there.

What actions did Sydney take after her suspension?

Narrator 2:36

And she attends sorority meetings and she attends classes sometimes as if nothing ever happened. And then eventually the school admins find out she's doing this. Like they just straight up kick her out of the dorms. Like they evict her and they deactivate her key card. And so poor Sydney, she doesn't know what to do.

How did Sydney continue to live the lie?

Narrator 2:52

I mean, she can't move back home because then her parents will know she failed college and they'll be disappointed in her. So instead of going home, she decides to keep the lie going. And she rents out a room at a nearby hotel and she just starts staying there. All the while, her parents have no idea any of this is going on. Until one day, Sidney's dad is at work and he's trying to log in to the university's online portal so that he can take care of Sidney's tuition. But oddly, he can't log in. So he reaches out to a school admin and they get on the phone and the school admin drops a He says, sir, you can't log in because Sydney is no longer enrolled. And dad is straight up shocked. Oh, how could our honor student be suspended from school? Now, their whole family uses one of those 360 location sharing apps. So he looks at it and he sees that Sydney is at his house, the family home. And dad decides to go home and confront her and figure out what's going on. So he does. He drives home and he confronts her and he tells her what the school told him.