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on this episode of women behind bars
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one woman is found guilty of murder in
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the stabbing death of a friend
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antoinette was sitting in a chair and
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angela just reached up on the wall of
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the shed
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and pulled a knife turned around and
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stabbed her in the chest
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i asked him did i do that and he said
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yes
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he just kept holding me down then sharon
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mabry tells her story
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she was convicted in the robbery and
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murder of her pimp and ex-boyfriend
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she comes up with this scheme and she
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says blackie
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he always has money on him he was
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holding me against my will it was making
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me run the brothel
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and he was telling me if you leave the
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brothel you're never going to get back
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in
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two women two brutal crimes these are
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the stories of angela turner and sharon
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mabry
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on christmas eve 2004 a 9-1-1 call
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reported the vicious stabbing of a young
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woman in wicksburg alabama
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police found the perpetrator 26-year-old
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angela turner
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drunk and trying to flee the scene while
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her 18 year old friend was bleeding to
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death
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she collapsed on top of the stairs there
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was a big puddle of blood
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i don't think she had any idea that
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angela was going to stab her
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angela claimed the stabbing was an
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accident but evidence contradicted her
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story
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it was hard to imagine her as a
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cold-blooded murderer she was in a lot
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of ways a disaster waiting to happen
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was angela turner guilty of intentional
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murder
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or had she caused a senseless and deadly
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accident
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angie was outgoing full of life
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she was everybody's sweetheart everybody
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loved angie
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angela denise turner was born in
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southern alabama
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the only child of wanda and clayton
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nichols
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her parents divorced after she was born
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and angela's mother remarried several
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times
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my grandparents pretty much raised me um
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i was in
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and out with my mother she's been
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married six times
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angie had a lot of stepdads her mom
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was more of a friend to her than a
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mother
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under the care of her grandparents
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angela grew up with a fun-loving nature
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angie loved to be the center of
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attention she just wanted to be
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noticed and she was noticed because she
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was very beautiful
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she was a prankster a joker she would do
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crazy things like
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go through the drive-thru backwards but
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the popular teen's wild streak
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led to underage drinking my alcohol use
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started when i was younger just partying
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and having a good time
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angie grew up knowing that her mother
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drank
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and i drank there was always alcohol
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around
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drinking and hanging out was just the
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thing to do i didn't realize that it
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could
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later lead to bigger problems angela
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dated her high school love mark
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for nearly three years until 1995 when
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his life was tragically cut short in a
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car accident
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it took me about two years to accept
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that he was really gone
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he was up my world he really was
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when he was killed it it broke me
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grief-stricken 17-year-old angela
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dropped out of high school
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looking for comfort she rushed into a
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marriage two months later
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and soon gave birth to a daughter
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celeste
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went from one extreme to the other
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angela embraced her role as a new mother
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she gave me a new purpose in life
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i wanted to be there for her you know
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because my mother wasn't always there
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for me
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but the marriage lasted only 16 months i
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done the
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wife and mother thing until he decided
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he didn't want
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a wife and daughter the young mom worked
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in bars to make ends meet
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dated a string of boyfriends and gave
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birth to a second daughter miranda in
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1999.
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i was looking for love again you know
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and i believe i found it angie fell in
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love all the time
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when she met somebody that was halfway
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decent to her she was in love
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on christmas eve 1999 angela again lost
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someone she loved to tragedy
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her current boyfriend robert died in a
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house fire
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after robert was killed i was drinking a
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half a gallon every other day
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what was helping me cope the single
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mother of two
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spiraled into regular alcohol benches
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and self-destructive behavior
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brought on by severe mood swings she
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would go from
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feeling very down in the dumps to high
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energy level with
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significant anger and outbursts of
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energy
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i have gotten in a couple fights at the
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bars
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i'm not going to deny that it was
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drinking being angry
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angie was always a hell raiser but she
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was a very
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lovable person i had my first dui in
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2001
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and then my second dui i still didn't
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realize it was a problem
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i told her the way she was doing was not
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right and i
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told her she was making wrong choices
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it was hard watching her make all the
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bad decisions
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we kind of lost contact for a few years
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at age 25 angela's emotional problems
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led her to attempt suicide
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it was an elongated cut up her
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arm i didn't want to be here anymore the
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girls would be better off without me
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everybody would be better off without me
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when she tried to hurt herself
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it was just devastating to me i was
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diagnosed with
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major depression and borderline
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personality disorder
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individuals with personality disorders
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have a tendency
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to continue to make the same type of
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mistakes
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and engage in the same types of negative
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behavior over and over angela was
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prescribed medication for depression but
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she continued to abuse alcohol on a
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daily basis
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the dangerous combination caused friends
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and family to become increasingly
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alarmed at her erratic behavior
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she had shaved her head at one point and
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i thought geez ange what's going on you
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know and
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think that she was losing it
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because of a dare i shaved my head i had
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drank about a half bottle of vodka and
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it was a casual dare
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days later angela showed up at her
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neighborhood convenience store
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completely nude i had been drinking and
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it was a joke
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i just walked in naked and stood at the
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counter and talked i don't know if she
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was drunk or high but
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she was naked for sure she was looking
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for attention
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she wanted somebody to care angela
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attempted suicide a second time
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and checked herself into the behavioral
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medicine unit at southeast alabama
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medical center
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it was there that angela met another
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patient 18 year old antoinette jobson
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who went by the name tony the two women
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struck up a friendship that would end
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in disaster she told me that
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she had moved from florida to
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take care of her brother's children and
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that they had gotten an argument and
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that was why she was on the streets
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tony was the adopted daughter of ken and
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janice jobson
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tony had very big dreams she loved to
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sing she had a beautiful voice
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her parents worried that their beloved
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daughter sometimes struggled with
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depression
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antoinette did have a depression problem
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we noticed like manic's side she'd get
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real active and then drop
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we were attributing a lot of it to some
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problems she was having in her new high
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school
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due to the fact that she was biracial
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then they put her on some medication
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because they felt that she was probably
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bipolar
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shortly after moving to alabama in 2004
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to help take care of her brother's kids
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tony jobson checked herself into the
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hospital for depression
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she was very aware that she had problems
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and she was starting to work her way out
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of them tony grew close with a fellow
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patient
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angela turner she said the first thing
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she heard from me was go in and leave me
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the f alone i just want to sleep because
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i had taken a bunch of sleeping pills
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and drank
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before i admitted myself in the hospital
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again she found it funny so we just
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started hanging out
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they had been in the unit together and
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both of them were unhappy in their life
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and were
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desperately reaching out for something
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to attach themselves to
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angela was hospitalized for only three
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days before being released
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she invited tony to live with her this
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hospital had a halfway house
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they were ascending and that's where we
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thought she went
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i told her that she could come with me
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but they don't let one crazy person
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check out another crazy person
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so my friend michael he went checked
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around the hospital for me
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angie was a people lover she would bring
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anybody home
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with her that she thought was going down
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the wrong road
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and she was right down that road with
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them
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the two girls stayed together that month
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in the home of angela's grandfather
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like angela tony was eager to support
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others
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according to tony's parents the 18 year
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old wanted to help angela and her two
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little girls
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she loved kids it was very calm and very
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natural for her to take care of children
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tony was very much of a caregiver
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she took care of her friends when angela
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decided to take her kids on an impromptu
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road trip to visit a friend in maine
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tony jobson went along she was concerned
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with angela because angela drank
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and she wanted to drive instead of
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letting angela drive with the children
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the one-month-old friendship became
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strained over angela's drinking problem
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they refer to people sometimes as being
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time bombs
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she was in a lot of ways a disaster
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waiting to happen
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when women behind bars continues i
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remember seeing the blood coming out of
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her mouth
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and freaking out number one what's your
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emergency
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in november of 2004 26 year old angela
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turner was an alcoholic mother of two
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struggling with suicidal depression
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while at a mental facility she
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befriended a fellow patient
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18 year old antoinette jobson known as
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tony
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the two women checked out of the
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hospital and lived together as roommates
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for one month
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but angela's frequent alcohol abuse
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began to cause problems
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when she talked about angela and the
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kids should express
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concern over the kids well-being i think
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that's why she's stuck there
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more because tony thought she could help
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the world
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tony jobson had planned to move back to
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florida after the holidays
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she was coming home for new year's but
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she wanted to stay
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with angelo because of the kids for
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christmas
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but she had no idea that by christmas
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eve angela turner's drinking would
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escalate to a point of no return
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i'd already been drinking whiskey all
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day long because of what it was it was
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robert was on my mind all day long he is
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every year
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angela says thinking about the christmas
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eve death of her boyfriend five years
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earlier made her depressed that day
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at around 5 p.m angela turner and
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antoinette jobson
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drove together to wicksburg to visit
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angela's friends rocky mclean and his
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son shane
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rocky mclean
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he was a security guard per se at the
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peanut company
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he was living in a small building it was
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kind of like a storage building
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it was just a shed it didn't have a
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bathroom
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didn't have a telephone and he had his
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collection of knives
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there was probably 25 knives that he had
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up on the wall
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of various shapes and sizes there are
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rare or novelties type knives meant for
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one thing and that is definitely
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striking killing or inflicting serious
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injury
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i remember walking in the door shane
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hadn't seen my shaved head yet
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and i grinned at him and took my wig off
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and he was like
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you're crazy the girls sat across from
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each other and according to the two men
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in the room were arguing about the car
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keys
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tony wanted to drive because angela had
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been drinking too much
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tony wanted the car keys and angela told
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her nope
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what happened next was very sudden and
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unexpected
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i remember bickering
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arguing but as far as what it was really
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about i still couldn't tell you
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it just happened in a split moment
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i have no idea what let me grab the
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knife
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antoinette was sitting in a chair angela
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just reached up on the wall of the shed
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and pulled a knife turned around and
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stabbed her in the chest
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tony was taken completely by surprise
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it happened so quickly that she didn't
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have a time to put her hands up in front
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of the knife
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it was a extremely sharp knife with
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with the double blades
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it went in through the chest through the
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bone
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and caused massive damage inside the
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chest cavity
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i don't remember saving her i remember
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hearing the knife drop
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and then seeing the blood come out of
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her mouth
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according to shane mclean right after
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angela turner stabbed antoine jobson she
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pulled the knife out of her
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she stood there for a second rocky then
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took the knife away from her and angela
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then ran out
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and shane mclean chased her down
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angela says she was running to her
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godmother barbara's house which was just
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across the highway
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i had to get to her phone and get a
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barber because i knew barbara wouldn't
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get help shane mclean chased angela
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turner coming outside the door
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running around just on this driveway
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right here and he tackled her
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close to where those yellow gates are
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over there she started begging for him
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to release her and let her go so she
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would not get in trouble
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angela was crying and screaming i want
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to spend christmas with my kids
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let me go shane i want to spend
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christmas with my kids
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i asked him did i do that and he said
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yes you didn't know
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and he just kept holding me down and
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then rocky went and called
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while 911 was being held by shane in the
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driveway the dying teen
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stumbled out of the shed antoinette
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jobson stepped outside walked down those
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steps there
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she came out a few feet turned around
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went back up the steps and collapsed on
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top of the stairway there
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and was bleeding to death
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police arrived to secure the scene while
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paramedics attended to the victim
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there had to be some type artery that
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was severed
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by the amount of blood that was at the
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scene and we were
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20 miles from the hospital antoinette
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was rushed to the nearest emergency room
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but she died in route
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police stayed at the crime scene to
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question angela
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when i first talked to angela she was
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she was definitely upset and she was
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frightened
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i can tell that she had a few drinks she
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was real fidgety real hyper
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she was talking extremely fast i give
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them the wrong name
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i knew i had worn out on me for dui it
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took us a little while to figure out who
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her real identity was
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angela admits she also lied to police
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about what happened
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she told me that herself and antoinette
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jobson grabbed a couple knives and they
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were fencing
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and just playing around and then she
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lunged at antoinette
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and stabbed her in the chest and
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basically she was telling me that it was
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accidental
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forensics revealed the stab wound to be
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nearly three and a half inches deep
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it was a high impact wound to go that
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deep
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for the direction and the penetration of
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that knife
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there was no it was no accident other
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evidence at the scene made detectives
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question
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angela's version of events there's only
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one knife removed from the wall
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so it takes away from her story where
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she's saying that there was two knives
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out and they were fencing
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authorities gave turner a breathalyzer
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test to see how much she had been
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drinking
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that night her blood level was .247
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that is about three times the legal
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limit but police maintain that angela's
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behavior after the crime indicated she
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was not too drunk to be responsible for
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her actions
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she wasn't a totally incapacitated drunk
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she knew what she was doing she was
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impaired but not that impaired
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she did talk since she even had enough
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to try to
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be deceptive to us the fact that
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she did try to elude so to speak
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and run from the situation is an
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indication that she was aware
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that something is wrong here something
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is bad
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and i need to get out of this situation
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authorities took angela to the houston
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county sheriff's department
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she was arrested and booked for murder
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that christmas eve
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i cried it was hysterical crying
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i would never take somebody's life on
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purpose next up on women behind bars
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the idea of using drunkenness as a
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defense
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is ludicrous she was screaming
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and hollering at the top of her voice oh
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my god
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my life is over with and later it was
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not my attention
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to hurt him or anything like that they
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duct tape his mouth and they're going
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through his pockets
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but he gets up and starts to run and
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there's a shot fired
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in the rural town of wicksburg alabama
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detectives spent christmas eve at a
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gruesome crime scene
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18 year old antoinette jobson had been
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fatally stabbed by her 26 year old
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friend and roommate angela turner
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the killing appeared to be fueled by
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angela's binge drinking
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she claims she does not remember
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stabbing her friend
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i remember a couple flashes but i don't
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that's all it is i remember seeing the
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blood coming out of her mouth
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antoinette's parents in florida got the
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terrible phone call about the murder of
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their daughter that christmas eve
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it was around two o'clock in the morning
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and he he told me that she was
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had been murdered
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rips your guts out i mean i i can't put
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it any other way
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she was so afraid of knives
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i think she was stuck
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news of the homicide spread quickly
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through the small town community where
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angela had lived
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i don't know i wasn't there but i didn't
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think angel had a dinner to kill anybody
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it wasn't the answer i knew at all my
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heart just
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went to my feet i could not
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fathom angie doing any harm to anybody
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angela turner was held at the houston
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county jail awaiting trial
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in january 2006 she got her chance to
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face the jury
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we saw a very troubled young woman
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before us
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marriage problems relationship problems
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she had been in and out of hospitals
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there was some mental problems there
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the defense was hammering that she was
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drunk and too intoxicated to form the
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requisite
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intent to commit murder
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voluntary intoxication is not a defense
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in alabama
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you're responsible for every action you
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do whether you're drunk or sober
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the prosecution argued that despite the
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high alcohol content in angela's system
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she acted with intent to kill the fact
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that she was evasive and lied to the
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police about her reasons and what
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what actually happened all of that went
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toward intent
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the prosecution made me look like that
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it was absolutely cold-hearted
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just flat-out murder she got so
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intoxicated this night
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that she did something stupid and crazy
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all those things that totality of
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circumstances
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led the jury to believe that
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she was just mean
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she was not psychotic um
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she was not out of touch with reality
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she knew
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the differences between right and wrong
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i expected to see
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some emotion and didn't see any
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i don't even think she shed a tear
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watching her in a courtroom listening to
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the testimony
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she killed tony as if she walked over
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and stepped on a spider and there was no
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more remorse than
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that angela claimed she told her defense
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attorney eric davis she wanted to
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testify
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i did want to take the stand because i
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wanted her parents to know that i did
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not mean to do this that i did not mean
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to take her life
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but turner says her lawyer convinced her
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not to take the stand
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by no means did angie get a fair trial
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i had given mr davis a list of 25 people
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that would speak on my behalf to show
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when i was drinking i would do crazy
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stuff like running naked through a
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convenience store
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the idea of using drunkenness as a
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defense
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is ludicrous the defense attorney
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decided not to call any witnesses
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and the trial was over in one day he
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said they didn't prove intense so they
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proved our case for us
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when they come back with a guilty
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verdict it was
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it was shocked i still can't believe it
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guilty was the right verdict you kill
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someone
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you have to pay after the verdict was
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read
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cindy lewis was the last juror to leave
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the courtroom she says she will never
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forget seeing angela taken off to jail
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as a convicted killer i saw them chain
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her legs
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and her hands they were escorting her
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and she was
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screaming and hollering at the top of
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her voice
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oh my god my life is over with
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all her tears were for herself i didn't
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feel she had any remorse
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the only thing she was ever interested
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in was getting free
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and getting rid of this whole situation
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with all my heart and soul i do not
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believe that angie would ever hurt
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anybody not intentionally
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i've loved angie from the get-go
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and i really do i really do feel
00:24:03
responsible
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i always think that if me and angie
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would have stayed friends that maybe i
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could have controlled
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helped her control some of the things
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angela turner is incarcerated at a
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medium security facility in montgomery
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alabama
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i feel like my children are paying for
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my crime
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it tears me up makes me feel worthless
00:24:24
every day i know she thinks about it and
00:24:26
wish you could do everything all over
00:24:28
again
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when individuals go out partying and
00:24:31
drinking and using drugs
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they are taking those risks and they're
00:24:36
taking the lives of other people
00:24:38
very often in their own hands if you
00:24:41
even think you may have drinking
00:24:42
problems
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get help you just never know your life
00:24:45
can change and literally like the blink
00:24:46
of an eye
00:24:48
i'm a different person today i look at
00:24:49
life differently i respect life a lot
00:24:52
more
00:24:53
it's easy when you're sitting in jail to
00:24:55
be a good person
00:24:57
tony's family is convinced that angela
00:24:59
is exactly where she belongs
00:25:01
the main thing is she stays where she's
00:25:03
at so she does not destroy anyone else's
00:25:05
lives
00:25:06
she destroyed our daughters she
00:25:08
destroyed her own
00:25:10
she destroyed her two children
00:25:14
that's something i have to deal with
00:25:15
every day i've prayed
00:25:17
i know i know that i'm forgiven
00:25:21
by god you know by her parents i don't
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know i hope that one day they can find
00:25:25
that in their hearts
00:25:27
for the jobsons christmas will forever
00:25:29
be a painful reminder of their
00:25:30
daughter's death
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she loved holidays even
00:25:36
putting decorations on a tree i don't
00:25:38
think we've done it
00:25:40
since her death you never get closure
00:25:42
over losing a loved one
00:25:44
and it doesn't get easier but you do
00:25:47
know
00:25:48
that the person that did it was
00:25:51
responsible for it that's being punished
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it is a tragedy on both sides i didn't
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mean to
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i did not set out to take her life
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00:26:02
i'm sorry as a child
00:26:05
tony always looked at a sunset and she'd
00:26:08
say oh mom the angels made a beautiful
00:26:10
painting tonight look at the sunset
00:26:13
she's an angel now pinning
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next up on women behind bars it was an
00:26:21
execution-style murder
00:26:22
it seems that he went to the door to
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open the door for someone
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and they pushed their way in
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for more information about women behind
00:26:33
bars go to wetv.com
00:26:43
on the evening of january 9 1997 police
00:26:46
responded to the scene of a savage
00:26:48
murder at a brothel in queens new york
00:26:51
the victim was the brothel owner a
00:26:53
notorious pimp known on the streets as
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blackie
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he was duct taped around the head the
00:27:00
nose the mouth
00:27:01
detectives zeroed in on the victim's
00:27:02
40-year-old ex-girlfriend sharon mabry
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as their main suspect
00:27:06
mabry had been a madam and a prostitute
00:27:09
at the brothel
00:27:10
but had also worked undercover as a
00:27:11
police informant
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she has put herself in dangerous
00:27:15
situations her entire life
00:27:17
after hours of intense questioning
00:27:19
sharon confessed to soliciting
00:27:20
accomplices to carry out the botched
00:27:22
robbery of her ex-boyfriend
00:27:25
i wanted to get in and um and get the
00:27:27
money that was owed to me
00:27:29
but at the trial she claimed her
00:27:30
confession was falsely obtained through
00:27:32
police brutality cops started
00:27:34
threatening me they put a gun to my head
00:27:39
they made me make false statements she
00:27:42
is a bit of a con artist she tries to
00:27:44
connive
00:27:45
everybody that she dealt with was sharon
00:27:47
mabry the mastermind behind the killing
00:27:50
of her pimp and ex-lover
00:27:51
or did she take the fall for a crime she
00:27:53
did not commit
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i come from a christian background
00:28:04
they're very strict in raising us
00:28:06
to abide by bible principles
00:28:10
sharon regina mabry grew up in a
00:28:12
middle-class community on detroit's west
00:28:14
side with two younger brothers and a
00:28:16
mother who was a devout jehovah's
00:28:17
witness
00:28:18
sharon was so smart and
00:28:21
i had high hopes for her she decided
00:28:24
that she would like to be in missionary
00:28:26
work
00:28:26
and she started off real good doing that
00:28:29
for a
00:28:30
while but as the young teen grew older
00:28:32
she rebelled against her religious
00:28:34
upbringing
00:28:35
my mother couldn't control me as a
00:28:36
teenager she wanted to try
00:28:38
what the world had to offer i started
00:28:42
looking at the subliminal messages i was
00:28:44
getting from the tv and going find
00:28:47
prostitution and drugs and i thought
00:28:48
that was
00:28:50
a way to make a life for myself by the
00:28:53
time she graduated from high school
00:28:54
sharon was already committing crimes i
00:28:57
just picked up on different
00:28:59
angles of hustling shoplifting
00:29:02
credit card fraud and eventually i wound
00:29:04
up working in a massage
00:29:06
parlors masseuse and that's when i
00:29:08
really
00:29:09
got into the world of prostitution
00:29:13
by the time she was 17 she was working
00:29:15
for a pimp in
00:29:17
detroit i was fascinated he showed me
00:29:19
closets full of furs
00:29:21
and women with cars and they had a lot
00:29:24
of jewelry and but i like to work for
00:29:26
him and make money
00:29:26
you know he's making two to three
00:29:28
thousand dollars a week at 18 years old
00:29:30
it's a lot of money for a young girl
00:29:33
while working in the sex trade sharon
00:29:35
was offered drugs by her pimp
00:29:37
she soon developed a cocaine addiction
00:29:40
my drug habit
00:29:41
escalated to every day and all day
00:29:43
sharon's mother worried about the type
00:29:45
of men in her daughter's life
00:29:47
she was gullible as far as relationships
00:29:51
were concerned
00:29:52
as a woman we always look for someone to
00:29:55
love us
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but she was looking in the wrong places
00:29:59
in 1982
00:30:01
sharon met 34 year old dennis levy they
00:30:03
married and moved to new york where levy
00:30:05
devised a plan to help her create income
00:30:07
selling herself
00:30:08
for sex he said that i no longer
00:30:11
could make any money in detroit as a
00:30:14
prostitute and he bring me to new york
00:30:17
show me how it was done and how i could
00:30:19
make a lot more money
00:30:21
after four years sharon left her husband
00:30:23
to run her own escort service
00:30:25
by 1986 she had ascended into the top
00:30:27
tiers of the underground sex trade in
00:30:29
new york
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sharon was working as a
00:30:34
madam and she was operating out of an
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apartment
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in the area known as west harlem new
00:30:40
york
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i was dating another guy at that
00:30:43
particular time and
00:30:45
uh he was into the pornography business
00:30:48
according to court documents on december
00:30:50
14 1986
00:30:52
mabry and her boyfriend committed a
00:30:53
brutal assault on a 23-year-old woman
00:30:56
named lisa dickerson
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lisa was tied to a bed and tortured for
00:31:01
quite a considerable period she was
00:31:03
tortured with a blow torch
00:31:05
with cigarette lighters razors it was a
00:31:07
real
00:31:09
masochistic type experience sharon
00:31:12
insists it was her boyfriend who
00:31:13
tortured the girl
00:31:14
and that she never took part in the
00:31:16
crime at the time that the sexual
00:31:18
assault was going on i was
00:31:19
out cold in the other part of the
00:31:21
apartment on drugs
00:31:23
i never even knew she was there when the
00:31:25
boyfriend left their apartment
00:31:26
lisa tried to escape she's able to call
00:31:31
that she's been 911 she's a kidnap
00:31:33
victim the police show up at the
00:31:34
apartment
00:31:35
uh sharon is so intoxicated that she
00:31:37
forgets lisa was actually tied up in the
00:31:39
bed
00:31:40
sharon mabry pled guilty to kidnapping
00:31:43
in the second degree
00:31:44
and served five years in prison she
00:31:46
claimed she refused to testify against
00:31:47
her boyfriend
00:31:48
because his family threatened her he was
00:31:50
never charged
00:31:52
in 1992 mabry was released on parole
00:31:56
division of parole was making a deal
00:31:57
with me to go back in the streets they
00:32:00
needed information
00:32:01
she knew the ins and outs of the flesh
00:32:03
trade
00:32:04
stephen ipolito was sharon's parole
00:32:06
officer and he set the ground rules for
00:32:08
her stent as an informant
00:32:10
we didn't ask it i went to prostitution
00:32:11
we asked her to give us information
00:32:13
i had to not only report to parole i
00:32:16
also had an fbi agent that i was
00:32:19
reporting to most of her information
00:32:21
that she gave us had to do with
00:32:23
prostitution and organized crime figures
00:32:24
and some
00:32:25
official corruption she could move with
00:32:27
fluency throughout the whole of the
00:32:28
underworld
00:32:30
it was in this underworld of crime that
00:32:32
sharon met herbert horton in 1993.
00:32:35
he had been considered a local pimp in
00:32:37
the area
00:32:38
he had a brothel one of the most
00:32:40
notorious ones in collins county at that
00:32:42
time
00:32:43
he was known on the street as blackie we
00:32:45
became romantically involved and
00:32:48
i started running his place getting him
00:32:49
different girls according to sharon she
00:32:52
was the madam of the brothel
00:32:53
but also worked as a prostitute we
00:32:55
didn't have a lot of girls that did work
00:32:57
i would fill in
00:32:58
financially as a mother i felt very sad
00:33:02
about it because i was expecting a phone
00:33:05
call
00:33:06
saying sharon was gone because of that
00:33:10
lifestyle
00:33:11
by 1995 she quit showing up for parole
00:33:14
meetings and no longer provided
00:33:15
information to police
00:33:17
after spending three years with horton
00:33:19
at the brothel sharon's drug addiction
00:33:21
had overwhelmed her
00:33:22
in addition her relationship with
00:33:24
blackie took a turn for the worse
00:33:25
he began to be very abusive he was an
00:33:27
alcoholic sharon says she felt trapped
00:33:30
because blackie controlled the money
00:33:32
it was holding me against my will at
00:33:33
that point making me run the brothel he
00:33:35
was telling me if
00:33:36
you leave the brothel you're never going
00:33:37
to get back in sharon left blackie
00:33:39
anyway in december 1996 to work as a
00:33:42
prostitute in connecticut
00:33:44
she returned to new york weeks later but
00:33:46
did not reunite with her ex-boyfriend
00:33:48
i went to a drug house and i spent my
00:33:50
holidays there she laid up in that crack
00:33:52
house and she was smoking crack
00:33:55
and she's running out of money the
00:33:57
people
00:33:58
will run the crack house were asking her
00:34:00
for money she comes up with this scheme
00:34:02
and she says i know who has money
00:34:05
blacking
00:34:06
he always has money on him when women
00:34:10
behind bars continues
00:34:11
he was duct taped around the head the
00:34:14
nose the mouth
00:34:16
and was shot numerous times in the head
00:34:19
it's not my tissues to hurt him or
00:34:21
anything like that
00:34:28
in january of 1997 40 year old sharon
00:34:31
mabry was a former police informant who
00:34:33
had absconded from parole due to heavy
00:34:35
drug addiction
00:34:36
she recently dumped her pimp boyfriend
00:34:38
blackie who she claims
00:34:40
cheated her out of money holed up in a
00:34:42
nearby crack house
00:34:43
sharon was broke and in debt to her drug
00:34:45
dealers
00:34:46
they were feeding you know crack cocaine
00:34:48
and she basically now owes them money
00:34:50
according to police on the evening of
00:34:52
january 9th blackie was attacked at his
00:34:54
brothel by armed intruders
00:34:57
it was an execution-style murder it
00:34:59
seems that he went to the door to open
00:35:00
the door for someone
00:35:02
and they pushed their way in i believe
00:35:04
he
00:35:05
was fighting and trying to run he was
00:35:08
duct taped around the head the nose the
00:35:11
mouth
00:35:11
and he was shot numerous times in the
00:35:14
head
00:35:16
one of the victim's employees heard the
00:35:17
murder from upstairs and called 9-1-1
00:35:20
sharon claims news of blackie's death
00:35:22
came as a shock
00:35:23
i didn't even know he was killed i was
00:35:25
still in the drug house sharon went to
00:35:27
the police precinct and identified
00:35:28
herself as blackie's girlfriend
00:35:30
she wanted permission to enter the
00:35:32
brothel which was now a crime scene
00:35:34
supposedly to retrieve her belongings i
00:35:36
wanted to get into the
00:35:37
premises and get my furs and my jury out
00:35:40
of there
00:35:41
she came in she was strung out you could
00:35:43
tell that she she was
00:35:44
she was addicted to drugs i mean she was
00:35:46
a crackhead she was high as a kite
00:35:48
she had on a a long wig
00:35:52
cowboy hat cowboy boots two suitcases
00:35:55
detective andrew capertino sat mabry
00:35:57
down for interrogation
00:35:59
once they found out that i had a parole
00:36:00
warrant it turned from a good cop to a
00:36:02
bad cop
00:36:03
threatening me telling me that i knew
00:36:06
who committed the murder
00:36:07
i was crying he wouldn't let me go to
00:36:09
the bathroom
00:36:11
they wouldn't let me have anything to
00:36:13
eat she was coming down from her high
00:36:16
i would go get potato chips pretzels
00:36:19
soda i want to put some sugar into her
00:36:20
system anyway i don't want to fall
00:36:22
asleep on me
00:36:23
after hours of interrogation sharon
00:36:25
confessed to planning the robbery of her
00:36:26
ex-boyfriend blackie
00:36:28
her version was blackie
00:36:31
owed her so much money
00:36:35
he never paid her he would abuse her
00:36:38
verbally
00:36:39
physically and just treat her like a dog
00:36:42
i wanted to get in and um and get the
00:36:45
money that was owed to me
00:36:46
he usually carried anywhere between a
00:36:48
thousand to fifteen between eight to
00:36:50
fifteen hundred dollars
00:36:52
in his pocket sharon agreed to give her
00:36:54
confession on videotape for the
00:36:56
assistant district attorney
00:36:57
in that statement sharon revealed that
00:36:59
she was at the crack house when she
00:37:00
hatched the idea of robbing blackie
00:37:03
i spoke about lacking
00:37:06
being an easy person to get money from
00:37:09
it was not my attention
00:37:10
to hurt him or anything like that she
00:37:12
named three people at the crack house
00:37:14
who helped carry out the plan
00:37:16
they said they were going over to
00:37:17
blackies and they did that they would be
00:37:20
right back
00:37:21
based on sharon's confession police
00:37:23
rounded up the three individuals she
00:37:25
claimed committed the crime
00:37:26
but detectives quickly determined that
00:37:28
they were not the murderers
00:37:29
the alibis check out we know for sure we
00:37:32
are 100 satisfied that they were not
00:37:34
involved in this
00:37:36
detectives were convinced sharon gave
00:37:38
them decoy names to protect the real
00:37:40
killer
00:37:41
there was no way sharon did this by
00:37:42
herself then detective capertino got a
00:37:45
mysterious phone call
00:37:47
is this detective cappuccino yes it did
00:37:50
the twins did it and the person hung up
00:37:54
the twins did so i kept that in the back
00:37:56
of my mind
00:37:57
it took two months for that vital clue
00:37:59
to fall into place
00:38:00
in april 1997 25 year old robbery
00:38:03
suspect
00:38:04
anthony ogaro was arrested and taken to
00:38:06
the 105th precinct
00:38:08
detective capertino overheard a
00:38:10
colleague mentioned that aguero had a
00:38:11
twin brother
00:38:12
suddenly the missing puzzle pieces in
00:38:14
the horton murder began to materialize
00:38:17
oguero confessed to being involved in
00:38:18
the crime he basically
00:38:21
said that he was there and that shaman
00:38:24
had arranged this
00:38:25
and that another individual was the
00:38:27
actual shooter
00:38:29
anthony ogaro insisted the robbery was
00:38:31
sharon's idea
00:38:33
because sharon came up to me and another
00:38:36
friend of mine
00:38:37
and she wanted money from blackie
00:38:41
as soon as the door opened our job was
00:38:43
to push through really quick
00:38:45
hold him down and grab the money out of
00:38:47
his pocket and run
00:38:49
but according to aguero the robbery did
00:38:51
not go as planned
00:38:53
they tackle him they duct tape his mouth
00:38:55
and they're going through his pockets he
00:38:56
gets up and starts to run
00:38:58
and there's a shot fired blackie goes
00:39:02
down
00:39:03
although aguero gave up mabry he refused
00:39:05
to divulge the identity of the shooter
00:39:07
we personally believe it was his brother
00:39:10
who was twins
00:39:12
he never gave up his brother in this
00:39:13
case you could tell he's very loyal to
00:39:15
his brother in no way he's giving him up
00:39:17
but i know deep down was his brother
00:39:32
there was no direct evidence that linked
00:39:35
her
00:39:35
to the crime the main evidence was was
00:39:37
the statement so we had to try to
00:39:39
discredit that
00:39:40
as being obtained through
00:39:44
through police misconduct the defense
00:39:47
tried to prove that mabry only confessed
00:39:49
because the police were physically and
00:39:50
emotionally threatening her
00:39:52
sharon would tell me they used the
00:39:54
psychological
00:39:57
methods to get her to say what they
00:40:00
wanted her to say
00:40:01
police deny the allegation we knew that
00:40:04
she knew more than what she was telling
00:40:05
us
00:40:06
it was my job to get that that truth i
00:40:09
would take
00:40:10
a soda can and throw it across the room
00:40:12
so tell me the damn truth
00:40:15
and i would be nose-to-nose with her
00:40:17
sharon claims her interrogation went to
00:40:19
extremes
00:40:20
he kept saying do you know what kind of
00:40:22
gun he was killed with
00:40:25
and i kept saying i don't know i wasn't
00:40:26
there he kept using tactics to make me
00:40:30
say that this is the gun that was used
00:40:31
right and he pointed it at my head and i
00:40:33
was just
00:40:34
i just saw my whole life flash between
00:40:36
my eye i said okay okay
00:40:38
i'll tell you whatever you want
00:40:40
coppertino admits he was tough on the
00:40:42
ex-informant
00:40:43
but says mabry's life was never
00:40:44
threatened different methods work with
00:40:46
everybody
00:40:47
if she didn't respond to me at all i
00:40:49
would send in another detective
00:40:51
the court ruled sharon's confession was
00:40:53
legally obtained
00:40:54
and it was the prosecution's biggest
00:40:56
weapon without any forensic evidence
00:40:59
tying mabry to the crime
00:41:00
the state built their case on the
00:41:02
videotape confession along with the
00:41:04
testimony of one of sharon's friends
00:41:06
a woman who had seen sharon hours after
00:41:08
the murder
00:41:09
according to sharon's friend sharon
00:41:11
admitted to her
00:41:12
that she was involved she set the whole
00:41:15
thing up
00:41:16
she corroborated my false confession to
00:41:18
the police that i had knowledge of mr
00:41:21
horton's murder
00:41:24
it was her testimony that sharon
00:41:27
admitted to her
00:41:29
that she killed blackie so that was very
00:41:31
damaging
00:41:32
the defense argued that sharon's friend
00:41:34
had pending legal cases of her own
00:41:36
and testified against sharon in exchange
00:41:38
for leniency
00:41:40
but the jury was not swayed
00:41:56
i just couldn't believe it i just
00:41:57
couldn't believe that i would be
00:41:59
convicted on a false
00:42:01
statement it was her friend's
00:42:04
testimony and the confession that's what
00:42:06
did her in
00:42:08
sharon asserts that she did not get a
00:42:10
fair trial and that blackie had many
00:42:12
enemies who wanted him dead
00:42:14
i believe that the people that had a
00:42:15
grudge against him
00:42:17
conspired with mr olgaro and had him
00:42:19
killed
00:42:21
maybe sharon didn't really want this guy
00:42:23
to get killed just wanted him to get
00:42:24
robbed
00:42:25
but the fact is that they killed him
00:42:27
sharon
00:42:28
is not a killer she doesn't have that in
00:42:30
her heart to hurt anyone
00:42:32
even though she was on drugs i think
00:42:35
they had to
00:42:36
frame or put it on somebody and solve a
00:42:38
case
00:42:39
could she have been totally framed well
00:42:42
yeah i guess it's possible too that uh a
00:42:44
flying saucer landed in roswell new
00:42:46
mexico do i think the police went out of
00:42:48
their way to
00:42:49
to frame her no i don't think so
00:42:52
sharon mabry is incarcerated at bedford
00:42:54
hills correctional facility in new york
00:42:57
being here for something you didn't do
00:43:00
is just horrible
00:43:04
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00:43:05
i tried to look at the better side of it
00:43:09
to say
00:43:10
well i'm not on drugs
00:43:13
i've cleaned up my life
00:43:16
i'm an educated black woman
00:43:21
but just to be here
00:43:24
away from my family and my friends it
00:43:28
takes a toll i'm very proud of at this
00:43:31
point
00:43:31
she's trying to help and talk to so many
00:43:34
people
00:43:35
to turn their lives around and don't go
00:43:37
down the road she did
00:43:40
refusing to give up her fight to be
00:43:41
exonerated sharon also hopes to
00:43:43
influence young women to make better
00:43:45
choices
00:43:46
it's not worth it all the money you
00:43:48
could get for
00:43:50
exchanging your body for economic gain
00:43:56
it's just not worth it it puts you in
00:43:58
positions
00:44:01
where you don't even see the train
00:44:06
coming
00:44:09
you
