“Hiccup Girl” Faces Murder Charges

Jennifer Mee

It looks like people from Florida become famous for their strange crimes or for their odd achievements. So, now they are not known just for building the biggest rubber-band ball in the world but also for their heinous crimes.

In 2007, Jennifer Mee, 19 was known as the “hiccup girl”. Mee is a teenager from Tampa who caught the attention of the entire nation with her 50 times a minute hiccups for six weeks in a row. Now, Mee is once again in the spotlight, but this time with a different “sensation”. He was charged of murder.

The police from St. Petersburg said that Mee lured Shannon Griffin, 22, to a house where two men tried to rob him. Apparently, Laron C. Raiford, 20, and Lamont Newton, 22 are the two male accomplices who were involved in the robbery. Griffin tried to resist them, but the two men shot him four times. The police said that he eventually died.

All three suspects are charged with first degree murder. They are all being held in prison without the possibility of bail. Although the three revealed that they were involved in the case, the police did not say who pulled the trigger and who was arrested for it. Rachel Robidoux, Ms. Mee’s mother, said in an interview on the “MJ Morning Show” on WFLZ in Tampa that she does not think that Jennifer “knew what was going to happen, because that’s not Jennifer. She’s not out to hurt anyone.”

Mee’s mother also said in the interview that she does not know what wrong her daughter did. She said that the hiccup fame was a curse and it may have led to the wrong friends. People knew Mee’s name and she talked to them on different sites. People were acting like they knew her but they didn’t. Robidoux said that her daughter is very naïve, she did not know what she was doing wrong.