05/13/2025
It is with regret that I must publicly make this post but it has become necessary due to recent threats, harassment, negative reviews, and smears.
My former office manager, Melissa Michelle Edwards, who worked with me for 13 years, who was my trusted right-hand person and who became a close friend of the family was actually a criminal con-woman that had been stealing from us, forging prescriptions, sabotaging the office, and organizing fraud with her daughter, Katelynn Shelby Hellard, from the day they started.
It is amazing that we couldn’t see it for so long but she was a charismatic and magnetic personality. It appears to have started small but, in the end, both of them were stealing a minimum of about $40k - 50k/year.
We tried to confront her and to allow her to come clean and make amends so that we didn’t need to involve the police. Unfortunately, she denied it and the next day took her own life.
The family and friends, some of whom are our old patients have been attacking using "DARVO" tactics. Because of this, it has become necessary to post the publicly available arrest records as the family and friends are continuing to Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim with the Offender, the (DARVO) against us.
Following her death, the evidence and the extent of her crimes mounted and we learned that she had a, previously unknown to us, criminal record for similar crimes. The investigation led to the arrest of her daughter who is now facing charges of Organized Fraud in Duval County.
We have faith that justice will be done in the courts.
We pray for their healing too, as the whole matter was just a sad waste of life.
