Okay, so I got this idea to dig into what happened with Benjamin Harris Todd today, you know, the whole story that got pretty famous a while back. So, I started off by just browsing around, seeing what I could find online. I wanted to get a good grip on who this guy was and what went down.
First thing I did was to piece together his background. From what I gathered, this dude, also known as Harris Todd, was a stockbroker, but also a poetry lover – quite the mix, right? I read about how he met his ex-wife, who was a flight attendant at the time. Sounds like the start of a movie or something.
Then I got into the real meat of it all – the custody battle for their daughter, Savanna. This was the tough part. Apparently, things got really heated, and his ex-wife, Dorothy Lee Barnett, ended up taking their little girl, who was just a baby then, like 10 months old. I mean, can you imagine? I felt like I was reading a thriller novel.
- I started to write down dates and events.
- Found out that all this drama started back in 1994.
- Noted down that Barnett even fled the U.S. just weeks after a divorce and custody battle in February 1994.
I kept digging, and it turns out, this wasn’t a short-lived thing. The whole ordeal lasted for years. I found articles mentioning that it wasn’t until July 1999 that Savanna and her mom were even mentioned as ‘missing’ after a contentious custody battle. By then, Savanna was 2-and-a-half months old, but they had vanished years after. It’s all so dramatic, I thought.
The story takes another turn, learning that Barnett was eventually caught. Reading about Todd’s reaction when Barnett was released was something else. He said something along the lines of, “I don’t care if I ever see her ever again.” That’s some heavy stuff right there.
Wrapping My Head Around It
After going through all this, I just sat back for a bit, trying to process everything. It’s one thing to read about these things in the news, but when you really dive into the details, it hits differently. I made a timeline, just to see it all laid out. It helped me understand the sequence of events better.
The last thing I found, and it was kind of a relief, was that Savanna, now grown up, mentioned she recently spent time with her birth father. It’s good to know there was some sort of closure there, after all those years.
Honestly, the whole thing was a rollercoaster. It made me think a lot about how complicated family situations can get and how these things can impact people’s lives for years. That’s my deep dive into the Benjamin Harris Todd story. What a day!
