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A wall street line, shackle change, Oh weesome, gird, it's
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calling my name. There is no mercy and it's been
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a tentery juice as the huge stream game Rango three,
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come here by.
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Me to die.
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Inside these walls, inside the wild, hadn't went the girl
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as I.
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Hey everyone, and welcome back to Bloody and Gola, a
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podcast one and forty two years in the making, the
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complete story of America's bloodiest prison. I'm Jim Chapman. And look,
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last week I brought you the story of what many
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consider the most dangerous male prisoner ever in the history
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of prisons in the United States, and that was the
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story of Thomas Silverstein, otherwise known as Terrible Tommy. So
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after I finished up that story, it got me curious
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on who would be considered the most dangerous female prisoner
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in the United States. But I wanted to cover someone
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that was still alive and still incarcerated in prison, and
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one stood out.
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To me more than others in my research, and.
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That was an inmate currently incarcerated in Florida for the
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murder of an elderly couple after kidnapping and robbing them.
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And so today I'm going to tell you the story
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of Tiffany Coal. And she had some co conspirators that
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I'm going to touch on as well, but the majority
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of this all about her. So in order to tell
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you why Tiffany Cole ended up where she ended up,
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we have to start at the beginning and her upbringing,
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her background, if you will. And as is common with
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a lot of people that end up where Tiffany Cole
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ends up, it usually starts with a traumatic childhood. Not
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all cases, but a lot of cases that I see,
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and this story will be no different. So Tiffany Cole,
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she was born on December third of nineteen eighty one
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in Charleston, South Carolina. And Charleston, South Carolina, y'all, a
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very historic coastal city known for its cobblestone streets, its
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Southern charm, and historically speaking, it was a major port
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back in the day, featuring Antebelle homes, plantations, and significant.
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Civil War sites.
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Fort Sumterter, for example, is in Charleston, South Carolina. There
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are a lot of beautiful beaches there, they have great food,
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just an amazing place to live and visit. As a
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matter of fact, Charleston attracts millions of visitors each year
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to its downtown area and as beautiful as Charleston, South
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Carolina is where Tiffany Cole grew up. Unfortunately, her family
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life was a stark contrast to that beauty, and from
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the beginning her life was difficult. Her mother, Shirley Duncan,
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was sixteen years old when she had Tiffany. She was
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unweeded at the time, and the father was a guy
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named David Duncan Senior, and he was in prison at
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the time of her birth, So you can imagine the
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amount of instability that comes with that. Now, Initially, she
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would live with her mother and her maternal grandmother, and
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the family would frequently move to different areas of Charleston,
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South Carolina, and they would rely heavily on government assistance.
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They just never had any money. Man, they were struggling. Now,
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sometime in the early nineteen eighties, during her toddler years,
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her parents would eventually marry. After her father got out
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of prison. He would provide some financial support, but it
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was strictly financial. He showed very little emotional interest in
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his daughter, according to Tiffany, So with all of this turmoil.
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It wasn't long.
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As a matter of fact, it was nineteen eighty six,
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when Tiffany was just five years old, that her parents
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would divorce, and, as is common in a lot of divorces,
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she's going to be shuttled back and forth between her
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father and her mother, and you know a lot of
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instability with that. He was also around this time that
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her brother, dj was born, and things were so unstable
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in their households that she would become kind of like
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a surrogate mother to her younger brother due to all
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this instability, even at the young age of five. Now,
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in the late nineteen eighties and early nineteen nineties, during
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her childhood, the environment would get even more turbulent for Tiffany.
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She would witness physical abuse toward family members, including her
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brother getting physically beat by her stepfather allegedly, and she
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would even describe an incident later on in life where
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her stepfather broke a puppy's neck by throwing it against
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the wall, and she would characterize that as a time
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in her life where that was extremely traumatic because she
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had such an affection toward animals like a lot of
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us do now. It was during this time that her
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family lived next door to a couple, and the couple's
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name were Carol and Reggie Sumner and her father would
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become friends with this couple, being that they were next
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door neighbors. Right now, this couple, of course, is going
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to come into play heavily, very heavily later on in
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this podcast, but for now, moving on in Tiffany's life.
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In nineteen eighty three, at the age of twelve, her
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mother gets in a relationship with a man and his
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name is Rick, and Rick would become Tiffany's stepfather and
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this would lead to the birth of a younger brother. Now,
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it was at this time that twelve year old Tiffany
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would also hit a pretty tough time in her life.
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She would start running away from home and would really
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spiral into just a awful world of substance abuse with
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some hard drugs. I'm not talking marijuana, hear, I'm talking
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cocaine xanax. And she would also start drinking heavily, and
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it blows my mind. Twelve years old. How the fuck
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do you get cocaine at twelve years old? I have
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no idea, but Tiffany figured it out.
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How do you drink heavily at twelve?
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I understand if you sneak into your mom's kitchen cabinet
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or something and steal alcohol, but drinking to her extent.
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Now.
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Surprisingly also during this time, she still managed to stay
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in school and she actually had really good grades and
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would participate in a lot of extracurricular activities like band
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and girl Scouts. But in the tenth grade, she dropped
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out of school and she runs away from her mother's
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home permanently and she moves in with her first boyfriend, Steven.
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Now she was sixteen at this time in her life,
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and that relationship would last for about two years, but
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she would be abused often by this guy, and later
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she would say he completely destroyed her self esteem, along
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with another incident that would occur at just the young
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age of sixteen, when her father, David Duncan, allegedly would
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start sexually abusing his own daughter.
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For a period of the next two years.
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So around nineteen ninety nine, she is I'm as eighteen
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years old and she confides in her mother about this
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sex abuse that was taking place at the hands of
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her father, and this is all Tiffany alleging this, and
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later she would say her mother did not believe her
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and basically accused her of lying about all of this,
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and she really didn't know what to do at that point,
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but at the age of eighteen, Tiffany Cole would move on.
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She would actually earn her ged work several jobs at
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that time in her life, including being a waitress, a cashier,
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She was an administrative assistant a woman's health clinic. I mean,
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she was trying. And it was also at this point
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in time, the year two thousand, that Tiffany would meet
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and start exclusively dating a guy by the name of Wayne,
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and Wayne was the son.
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Of a sheriff.
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Now, Wayne, much like her prior relationship choices, very violent.
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God.
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There were allegedly situations where he would hit her with
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an axe handle, he would break her car windshield. I mean,
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according to her, this dude was violent. She also became
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a mother between the ages of eighteen and twenty three. Now,
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the details of her daughter very limited. Not much as
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known about who the father is or the exact year
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birth of the child, and it's really not important to
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this story. It's only important to know that she did
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have a child. The big details on that not as important.
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And I would imagine Jennet, that's to protect the daughter.
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And so that's why there's just not much out there
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now at the age of twenty three, in early two
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thousand and five, Tiffany learns that her father had terminal cancer,
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and she moves into his home to take care of him.
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And when I read that aspect of this case kind
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of surprised me. She must have some sort of heart there,
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at least for her father, because the same guy that
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was molesting her for years and she still moved into
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his home to take care of him when he had
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terminal cancer. But it brings up the next part of
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this story, and the most important part of this story.
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So if you remember in the beginning of this one,
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I told you about a couple that were her neighbors,
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Carol and Reggie Sumner.
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I mentioned him earlier.
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Well, they always maintained touch with Tiffany and her father,
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but in the summer of two thousand and five, they
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decide to move to Jacksonville, Florida.
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Both had become ill.
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Reggie had inmphysema and several other problems.
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He could barely walk.
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At this point. They were sixty one years old, both
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of them. His wife Carol at the time, had lever
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cancer stemming from hepatitis sea. So they tell Tiffany about
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this move, and Tiffany says, what are you going to do?
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You know you've got two cars. I guess they only
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needed one. What are you going to do with that
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green Chevy Lumina. And rather than Tiffany paying cash because
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she was interested in buying it, they knew she didn't
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have much cash.
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They agreed. They said, look, here's what we'll do.
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If you want to buy our green Chevy Lumina, will
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charge you a certain amount per month. They'll basically self
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finance it to her, and you can either mail us
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some money or you can come see us, come visit us,
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and pay us at that time. And she agrees to
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do that. Everybody's happy now out Jacksonville, although it's in
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a completely different state than Charleston, South Carolina, tell me
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about three and a half hours away. So Tiffany, who
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they really cared about, she could visit them to make
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those payments if she wanted to, and she would make
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several trips their way. This couple really looked at Tiffany
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as their own granddaughter, really cared for her. They knew
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she had a tough life and they wanted to help her.
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So let's get into a little bit of who the
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Sumners were, and I think it explains why they kind
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of took a liking to Tiffany, especially in the case
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of Carol Sumner. So Carolyn Reggie, they originally met each
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other in high school. This was in the late nineteen fifties,
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and they began dating in high school. But after high school,
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for whatever reason, after graduation, they break up and it
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would not be until much later in life they reconnect.
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They would fall in love and they would get married.
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Now in the meantime, Reggie Sumner would join the Navy,
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then he will work for the railroad. He would get
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married and then divorced. And Carol would also have two
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prior marriages which would lead to the birth of two children.
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But her marriages were difficult. The first one ended in divorce.
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The second one was extremely abusive, so abusive in fact,
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that Carol would file a restraining order just to have
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the second husband show up at her house and.
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Shoot her six times.
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Police would chase him down, they would corner him, and
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then he would shoot himself.
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He would die.
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Carol, however, would survive. And I think that's why she
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had kind of a ken ship with this young girl Tiffany,
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was because maybe she kind of felt like that was
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her at one point in her life. So after all
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of that went down, so many years would pass before
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Carol and Reggie would meet again. And at that point,
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Reggie worked for a telephone company. You got to hear
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how they kind of got reconnected. Literally, he worked for
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a telephone company and he got a call from Carol
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about telephone, sir, she was having some issues. She's calling
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the telephone company and saying, something's wrong my phone right,
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And he says, what's your name? She says her name,
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and he's.
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Like, oh, I know you. We used to date.
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That total chance encounter would cause them to rekindle their relationship,
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and a year after that this couple would get married.
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So life goes.
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On, and as I told you, they end up moving
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to Florida, Jacksonville, and that's where we're gonna pick up
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and Tiffany, she gets involved in a relationship with a
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guy in his name is Michael James Jackson. You can't
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make that shit up. Michael Jackson, whose name was Michael Jackson.
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Michael Jackson was not a good guy at all. This
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dude had a long history of felonies throughout his life
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and was actually just released on parole when he and
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Tiffany met, and this was on May fourteenth of two
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thousand and five, and it was in a hotel lobby