Trista Winterton

Trista Winterton, 23, of Richmond, died Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007. She was born March 19, 1984, in Riverdale, Ga., to Susan Winterton and lived in this area most of her life.

[Mike Kearney]

Susan Winterton while living in Salt Lake City UT,in june 1984 gave my sister Mary Kearney,Trista to raise. Susan was involved in various relationships and traveling alot, couldn't be bothered. Trista was a beautiful and loving girl. Everyone just loved her. She was an accomplished equestrian rider and avid skier. At one time, she was a ball-girl for the Utah Jazz. She has a basketball with all the players signatures. At fourteen she left SLC to meet her birth mother..rest is history!

[Mary Bishop]

This is a sad day for Richmond and Hagarstown, IN.
You have lost girls due to drug addiction. A sweep of 39 people in these towns due to drugs and their stealing to support their drug habit. They were sent to prison, released with no drug rehab program. And they were off to more of the same as they now had a prison record. Their choice of drugs became heroin. Everyone knew. What responsiblilty does your communities have to save these children? Who is selling them the drugs? No they are just drugies. They do not matter. Except they are someones daughters, someone's Mother, someone's sister. They are loved. There was no reasonable help available. And now they are gone. And we mourne their loss.

[Nicole Hackworth]

Trista was my very best friend in the whole world. I grew up with her mother, her, and brother. She had family but noone she could turn to for help. I had just spoken to her a week before the tragic incident and she'd told me all that was going on in her life and that her mother had "washed her hands of her". I told Trista to come to MO to live w/ me and I even bought her a bus ticket. She never made it and I'll not see her again until my time to. I mourne her every day. I also dispise anyone who COULD have helped her and DIDN'T! Sincerely;
Nicole

[Sue]

Her 'real' family accepted her for who she was and loved her deeply all of her life.
And I am saddened by this ugly attempt to 'change the facts' to suit you and your guilty conscience.
You should be ashamed of yourself Mike.

[Jeanine]

If you really loved her Susan, you wouldn't have left her with us for the first 14 years of her life. I'm the one who potty trained her, I'm the one who sat with her when she had the chicken pox. Then when she went to Indiana to confront you, you lied to her. You made us look like we were keeping her from you. You made only feeble attempt to keep in contact with her. You would call her ask her what she wanted for her birthday and then wouldn't send the gift. You are the one responsible for damaging her emotionally. Where were you? It is you who should be ashamed of yourself.

[amber]

i was with trista the day that she died...it was the most horrible day of my life...she was an amazing woman and just made bad decisions in her life, just like many of us have. she felt she had no other way to turn....she was loved by so many people and i miss her dearly...my daughter and her were very close..

[Mumzy Hagerstown IN]

Can anyone tell me how Trista died? Now that the Hagerstown area has lost more young people to heroin, we should revisit what we didn't do for Trista. We must learn from the deaths of Trista, Josh and Danielle and many others.