When LaVonne Collette\u2019s adult daughter, Tamra, needed a place to stay during the pandemic after being evicted, Ms. Collette let her live in a rental property she owns in Los Angeles not far from Venice Beach. That didn\u2019t go well.<\/p>\n
Tamra began hoarding, stuffing the house with clothing and other items collected from charities. Ms. Collette saw signs of drug use and growing paranoia, and Tamra said she believed she was living among ghosts.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was telling me that my house was haunted and showing me pictures, and I would hear her screaming,\u201d said Ms. Collette, who recounted her daughter\u2019s behavior in documents filed in court.<\/p>\n
Sensing in 2022 that the situation would only worsen, Ms. Collette asked her daughter to leave the house and bought her an R.V., in which she lived for a time near a creek on the west side of Los Angeles. That was better, Ms. Collette figured, than her daughter living in a tent or cardboard box. But the troubles continued. Last year, Tamra carjacked her mother outside a convenience store, her mother said in the court documents.<\/p>\n
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