Brendan Dassey’s Mom Got A Suspect Tattoo Just Minutes Before Finding Out Her Son Will Be Released


Grief is the father of questionable decisions. Barb Tadych had to undergo the agony of her son being wrongfully ripped away from her at the tender age of 17, under the pretense that he would not even have the opportunity to venture outside prison walls until 2048.

Dassey has spent nine years in prison after being found guilty of the first-degree intentional homicide, second-degree sexual assault, and mutilation of a corpse of photographer Teresa Hallbach in 2005. My mother probably would have probably taken a dump on prosecutor Ken Kratz’s doorstep every day I was wrongfully imprisoned, if I know my mom like I think I know her.

But poop can be cleaned up, a temporary turd is nothing compared to an irreversible decision. Like Barb Tadych’s ‘Justice for Brendan’ tattoo she got inked on her leg just a half an hour before a judge ordered the 26-year-old’s release. Timing, Barb. Timing.

Barb reportedly told TMZ that she doesn’t regret her decision and she it acted as a “good luck charm of sorts” and “contributed to Brendan’s sudden good fortune.” We all justify our decisions in our own ways.

Regardless, what matters here is that Barb is getting her son back and justice has been served. Thanks solely to that deplorable tat.

I guess I’m not one to speak on horrible tattoos…


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Matt’s love of writing was born during a sixth grade assembly when it was announced that his essay titled “Why Drugs Are Bad” had taken first prize in D.A.R.E.’s grade-wide contest. The anti-drug people gave him a $50 savings bond for his brave contribution to crime-fighting, and upon the bond’s maturity 10 years later, he used it to buy his very first bag of marijuana.