Murder, Mystery & Makeup - Tragic accident or betrayed by her "friends"?? The unknown answers with Tamla Horsford's case

Episode Date: April 15, 2025

Hi friends, happy Tuesday! The story of Tamla Horsford is a really unsettling one. Like so many of us have done before, Tamla thought she was in for a cute weekend get together with her girls. But what started off as a lowkey drunken game night ended in Tamla's fatal "fall" from her balcony. Was her death just an accident, or as the only Black woman in this friend group, was there a sinister murder motive at play? Either way, Tamla did not deserve the ending that she got. Also, let me know who you want me to talk about next time. Hope you have a great rest of your week, make good choices and I'll be seeing you very soon xo Bailey Sarian I sometimes talk about my Good Reads in show. So here's the link if you want to check it out. IDK. lol: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/139701263-bailey ________ FOLLOW ME AROUND Tik Tok: https://bit.ly/3e3jL9v Instagram: http://bit.ly/2nbO4PR Facebook: http://bit.ly/2mdZtK6 Twitter: http://bit.ly/2yT4BLV Pinterest: http://bit.ly/2mVpXnY Youtube: http://bit.ly/1HGw3Og Snapchat: https://bit.ly/3cC0V9d Discord: https://discord.gg/BaileySarian RECOMMEND A STORY HERE: [e-mail] Business Related Emails: [e-mail] Business Related Mail: Bailey Sarian 4400 W. Riverside Dr., Ste 110-300 Burbank, CA 91505 _________ Shop SKIMS Ultimate Bra Collection and more at https://www.skims.com and SKIMS LA Flagship on Sunset Blvd. After you place your order, be sure to let them know I sent you! Select "podcast" in the survey and be sure to select my show in the dropdown menu that follows. Discover your inner detective when you download June’s Journey for free today on iOS and Android. Get up to 10 FREE meals and a free high protein item for life at https://www.hellofresh.com/makeup10fm. One item per box with active subscription. Free meals applied as discount on first box, new subscribers only, varies by plan. HelloFresh: America’s #1 Meal Kit.

Hi friends, how are you today? Hi, how's it going? My name is Bailey Sarian and today is Monday, which means it's Murder, Mystery, and Makeup Monday. If you're new here, hi, my name is Bailey Sarian and on Mondays I like to sit down and talk about a true crime story that's been heavy on my noggin

and I do my makeup at the same time. If you're interested in true crime and you like makeup, I would suggest you subscribe. I need to just jump into this one because this, this, this has kept me up for days, days, hours. I deep dived, I downloaded all of like the court documents, all of the interviews. I highlighted, I labeled. I took many, many notes. Many, many notes. This one has just gripped me. I was familiar with this story, but I never got a chance to like do a deep dive. And boy,

it's just one of those stories or cases that has so many legs to it. It's confusing, overwhelming. And at the end of the day, it was closed and determined to be an accident from falling off of a balcony. But there are so many signs that point to that not being the case. I believe that because, girl, let me tell you. Let me tell you. Today we're talking about Tamela Horsforn and what the fuck happened?

So when it comes to this case, there are so many different theories, theories, let's just say that. There's a lot of different theories and there's so many things to weed through where it's like, you almost don't know what's true and what's just kind of speculation at some point. So I'm gonna like just tell the story

based off of the police interviews and police reports and shit like that. And then towards the end, start weeding in the theories. And then towards the end, I am gonna share my personal theory as to what happened and i think like i might be on to something i'm not sure i'm not trying to like toot my own horn or anything it's just like kind of making sense let me not get ahead of myself because you probably just want to know what the hell the story is so it's november 4th 2018 and about a dozen or so friends are getting together to watch a football game between LSU and Alabama.

The party goers are mostly moms who know each other because their children play in the same football league together. But the game isn't the only reason they're getting together. The hostess, her name is Jaune Myers, was also celebrating her 45th birthday. And she wanted it to be a girls night slash slumber party, because you know she wanted everyone to come over, watch the game, drink, and have a place to stay so they didn't have to worry about driving that night. So some of her friends put together the guest list

and planned the party at Jaune's house in Forsyth County, Georgia. It's worth mentioning Forsyth County, Georgia is mainly white. It's a white region with a very long history of racism. Fact. For about like 75 years, black people were not allowed to even live in this county. And if they did, they were met with hostility violence and even murder there were

many public hangings held here or like 5,000 to 8,000 residents would show up and watch the public hangings mind you the community was like 10,000 people when this was going on. So you could say like a lot of fucking people from the community showed up. According to the 2023 census, only 3.75% of the population there is black. The vast majority of residents are mainly white. And I mean, just a couple of years ago, a man was not allowed to vote simply because he was wearing a Black Lives Matter shirt.

And he caught it on video. It was just a fucking shit show. And then even before this, many indigenous people were forced out of this area, which was their land, because white people had heard that there was gold there and wanted the land. So this was actually called the Trail of Tears. And if you want to know more, I did an episode of Dark History about it. It's all worth mentioning because ignorance and racism doesn't get washed away overnight.

I'm hopeful you're aware of that. You know, most of the time, a lot of the time, it gets passed on from generation to generation and it's probably not the ideal place to be if you're a person of color and need help from the people in charge. Like many of the local police throughout the years and even in this case had been caught or have been caught saying racist things some were fired some were simply relocated and it just sounds like a real shit show you know just to give you some background here I really could do like a whole episode of dark history on just this county honestly I was

like holy shit but I'm giving you that background because it plays a lot with how this case was handled. Okay, well, Jean's party. Her party was gonna be pretty tame. So in addition to watching the game, the plan was for the gals to play games like card against humanity. You know, again, drink, eat, watch the game, hang out.

Jean really didn't want anyone to drink and drive, so she told her guests to spend the night at her place. She had children, and for her party, they were away at their father's house, so she had plenty of spare rooms for her guests to sleep in. And she lived in, like, a pretty big house. It was, like, three stories and lots of rooms okay so I'll try to describe what the house looks like sorry if it's confusing but when you walk in the front door to the right was like a formal dining area and then

if you walk down the hall straight down the hall it would open to like the living room area and to the right of the living room area was the kitchen area with another seating place to like eat at and then in the living room area there was a back door which led you to the outside patio slash balcony and this balcony area was like 14 feet off the ground. There were stairs back there that led you down to the grassy backyard area. So on that lower level where the grass is at in the backyard, there's also a door.

You could access the basement through that door. And this basement was like fully furnished, redone. It was like another entertainment room. And also where Jean's aunt was living. Her name is Madeline. Yes, Madeline or living. Her name is Madeline. Yes, Madeline or whatever. Her name was Madeline. So she was living there.

And Madeline wasn't Jaune's like biological aunt, just a close friend of the family who she referred to as her aunt, you know? So originally, like I said, girls night. No guys were supposed to be there. Her boyfriend, like I said, girls night. No guys were supposed to be there. Her boyfriend, Jose Barrera, made plans with his guy friends to go out that night. So, you know, they wouldn't like cramp the girls night at all, right? So the guys decided to like meet up at Jean's place first.

And then they were going to take off, get out of their way. So as Jean's friends are arriving for her birthday party, so were a couple of the dudes. I don't know how long Jaune and her boyfriend had been dating at this time. But I will say, you know, Jaune was turning 45 and her boyfriend Jose was 27. I mean, usually when it's the other way around like the man is 20 years older everyone was like oh my god ew. So I thought I'd mention it to be fair. So once the guys had arrived it was said that they were quote not feeling too hot like the flu was going around or something. So they decided to just stay in at Jean's house and they decided like okay let's just hang out in the

basement area where Madeline lived and keep separate from the girls' party upstairs. That way we're out of their way like they wanted because they wanted to watch the game as well. They're doing their things, right? Whatever. During halftime, the guys decided to come upstairs

to get some food and before you know it, these guys are part of the party. So in total there are about 10 people at the party, that's not counting Jean and Jose the boyfriend, so 12. 12 people in total. Now I wasn't sure if I should mention everyone at the party because it could get really confusing but I'll drop names as I go. But it's worth spotlighting two people

who become important or who are important, first of all. We have Jean's good friend and a guest at the party. Her name is Bridget Fuller. And then there's Miss Tamela Horsform. The story's about Tamela. So it was said that Tamela was not particularly close to Jean. Like she knew Jean because they both had sons who played in

the same football league and they had met and bonded during practices and games and the weekend before Tamela was invited to Jeanne's house for a pumpkin carving party with the kids but the at this point like the friendship was still very new so I guess you could say like this sleepover slash birthday party was kind of like a step forward in their friendship. Tamla who also went by Tam was an extremely busy mother of five kids four of them being young boys okay she had her hands full. Tam was born in St. Vincent and the Grenadines in 1978 up until her her parents had moved or her whole family had moved to the Bronx in 1989. Tamla then met her husband in Florida at some point and her husband had a daughter from a previous relationship, but the two of them would go on to have five sons together.

Yeah, five boys. Oh, poor thing. Her youngest was only four years old, where like her oldest was 15. So being surrounded by boys all the time, this was like a chance to let loose with the girls and have a little fun you know. At the time Tam was a stay-at-home mom who really supported whatever her kids activities were. Like she was always there for them. She was on top of them always making sure that they got

everything done like their homework done. You know she's always being present for them supporting them in any way possible. She was just a very involved parent. Love to see it right? Beyond that Tam's friends would say that she was fiercely loyal the sort of person who would stand up for you have your back or be there for you like for whatever you needed. Her best friend Michelle Graves said that Tam would like give you the shirt off her back if you mentioned you liked it and it's worth noting that again all the friends at this party are white. Tam was the only black woman there. So the first guests show up around 7 at Jean's house but Tam didn't make it until about 8 30 p.m. and Tam tells the group that she was behind because she was making dinner

for her family and then she needed to make a pit stop before arriving but Tam makes it to the house when she gets there she sets her overnight bag like right behind the living room couch and is like the first one to get into her pajamas. Tamla puts on like these cute white onesie pajamas that have dog prints all over them. It even has like a hood with ears attached to the hood which is cute and like she was having some fun. It was said that once Tamla had arrived, at that point, everyone had started drinking. And I just have to say that these ladies drink, okay? There were some interviews I was listening to where they were talking about putting vodka in their cups at the children's like football games and stuff.

And I was like, what the fuck are you guys doing? But like they loved alcohol so much these ladies oh it was just I don't know so they like to drink okay so they had already started drinking by the time Tamla had gotten here so when she first gets there I guess there's alcohol out so she poured herself a shot of fireball you know takes it and then she pulls out a bottle of tequila that she brought she had gotten it from Mexico on like a recent trip and it was her birthday gift to Jean she's like here you go happy birthday you know whatever so Jean when she gets a tequila bottle she like announces to everyone who's listening like that she doesn't like tequila she's like I don't like tequila and then she actually went on to say that the smell of the

tequila made her throw up in her mouth a little. Tamela then tells Jean like no you don't understand it's actually really good like you have to try it this is different it's not like the normal tequila you try but once again jean just denies she's like no thank you i don't want it and then um passes it around like to see if anybody else wants the tequila and everyone is like smelling it they're like ew how does anyone drink this ew Oh my god. And it was just, I was just like, oh my god, these people are so fucking rude. It was a gift, bitch. Shut the fuck up. You say thank you. And then you set it down. These are grown ass women. They know better. And they're from the south. So I was like, where's the southern hospitality, huh? So yeah, nice friends, aren't they? So the other day I was at the store standing in line, minding my own business, when all of a sudden I hear a snap and I realized that my bra,

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you. Select podcast in the survey and be sure to select my show in the drop down menu that follows. So Jean tells Tamela like this is all yours. You can have it. And Tamela is like, I'm going to drink it because I don't want it to go to waste. That was her drink of choice that night. It was said that Tamela was like mixing the tequila with Mountain Dew. That's how she's drinking it and according to the other guests she was really the only person who touched the tequila all night. There were later police interviews where two other guests said they tried a bit of the tequila but that for the most part Tamla was the one drinking the tequila. So during the party it was said that occasionally Tamla would go out on that patio deck area outside the living room and like have a cigarette and one of the other party guests and one of Jean's good

friends Bridget said that either she would go outside with her to smoke or like someone else would go out with her to smoke like she was never left alone out there to smoke by herself. Again at some point during the night like the timeline is very unclear here. Everybody that got interviewed literally gives different timelines, things that happened. But what we do know is that at some point, Tamela like pulls out a little bit of weed she had brought and she rolled a blunt, sat on the back patio with the aunt Madeline.

And the two of them sat back there for a bit, smoked, you know, whatever. And then John came outside a little upset because her boyfriend Jose, he worked as a pre-trial release services officer with Forsyth County Superior Court. And she was upset like he can get in trouble for being around controlled substances. So she asked Tamla and Madeline to, like, please not smoke. I think she said it a little bit more aggressively. But it was said in return that, like, Tamla was very apologetic and completely understood. And she was like, oh my god, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry. Like, I wasn't even thinking, you know?

And then she put it out and like didn't bring the weed out again in the police interview that Jean had with the police she she said she went out on the back deck thing and was like oh my god damn you're like the female Bob Marley. Just like a stupid ignorant fucking thing to say but okay. So okay they go back inside. Everyone continues drinking and watching the game and by 10 30 p.m two of the guests they leave but by the sounds it, they really didn't even plan on staying for the slumber party or anything. Like they had childcare or pet care needs. So these two, they said their goodbyes and then they head out.

I'm starting to think the whole smoking thing probably happened after this. Anyways, it doesn't matter. According to Jaune, she said around 12 a.m., everyone, guys included, sat around the living room table and played cards against humanity. If you don't know what's a card game, you laugh, you giggle, you cry. It's funny.

And that the game had continued for like about an hour, right up until the whole game kind of stops because Tamla takes a FaceTime call from her husband and kids. And one of the other attendees films this situation on their phone. And in this 14 second clip, you can hear people like cheerfully encouraging Tamla to wrap up the call and take her turn. And others seem just like legit frustrated with her. They're shouting like, is she gonna read it? And it's like, calm your tits.

It's a freaking game, relax. The time is unclear when this part has taken place. It might've been before the cards of humanity started, which would actually make sense because there's like that gap. But at some point again there were a few of them on the back patio area trying to get the fire pit lit but it wasn't lighting yeah this back patio area was pretty big and like they had a lot of outdoor furniture back there like a little hangout spot, and a fire pit. So they're trying to get it lit because it's cold that night

and they thought it'd be fun to have a little fire, but nothing's happening. According to Jaune, she said that Tamla stepped in and tried to switch out the propane tank. Like she was trying to help, right? But Jaune, it just sounds like I'm saying Jaune. Jaune, at one point she's like, I could smell gas. So I was like, nope, and went back inside.

I guess they couldn't get the fire pit lit and eventually like gave up on that idea. So, you know, the night is coming to an end. People are cleaning up and getting ready for bed. Jaune said that Tamela wanted to, she wanted to stay up. She wanted everyone to stay up. That she was very social and kept wanting to just hang. Tamela was like I never get time with the girls you know let's stay up. Let's live a little. Let's have some fun and like on top of that she was

drinking Mountain Dew. So that kind of like makes sense right? Like Mountain Dew gives you energy but Jean was like I wake up. Sorry I keep doing these accents because they just get me. Gotta drop it. Drop it. Jaune was like, I get up at 5.30 in the morning. You know, like I can't stay up. I'm dead. And at some point, Tam tells Jaune and one of the other guests,

Stacey and her husband, Tom. Two of the other guests, I should say. Stacey and her husband, Tom. the other guests I should say Stacy and her husband Tom she told them that she was thinking about going home you know she's like I just want to go home I think and John said like no no no no and then the other two chimed in saying absolutely not like promise us you won't drive because she had been drinking a lot like she made a big dent in the bottle of tequila they're like like, hell no, you're not drinking. They didn't want her out there being stupid.

In a later interview, Jaune would say it was actually kind of confusing for her. Because Tam didn't appear drunk at all. She was like her same old happy self. Hugging people. Having a conversation. Clear and straight. Like she wasn't on her ass. Like you would expect someone who was like really drank a lot would be, you know?

So she almost was like, maybe I should say yes to let her go because she doesn't seem drunk. But they asked her to not drive and just to stay. And that Tamela, you know, respected respected what they said please don't drive home and she was like okay I won't I won't but while everyone is brushing their teeth laying down going to sleep Tam stays in the kitchen area with the girl Bridget and has a bowl of gumbo while they're in the kitchen or just downstairs at some point Bridget calls her husband to come and pick her up. I guess she had like had enough with one of the friends that was there

her name was Jen and I'll talk about later but like Bridget was like annoyed with this Jen lady and she's like I just want to go home but Tam would say like at this point she was very affectionate giving Bridget a hug and kiss and when it was time for her to leave Bridget said that Tam walked her to the front door hugged her and said goodbye but Bridget's husband though he would say that when Bridget came to the door Tam was not with her he was pretty insistent about this like it Tam wasn't there it was just uh Bridget came to the door. Tam was not with her. He was pretty insistent about this. Like Tam wasn't there. It was just Bridget. Okay, so the next morning.

Well, it's about four in the morning. And one of the ladies that slept over got up and left because she had to go to work, you know. And then following that, it's like everybody else from the party seemed to trickle out. But at this time, it was said like when they were leaving. None of them saw or interacted with Tam. So about 8 45 a.m.

According to Madeline. The aunt who lives in the basement. She gets up and starts her morning routine. She was in her kitchen area in the basement. Standing making her coffee. And as a habit. She looks out the door window to see like what kind of day is it today is it raining out whatever and that's when she noticed Tam in the backyard laying face down on the grass. Now she said she knew it was her because

of the pajamas she was wearing and she she was thinking, this is so weird. Why is she laying on the grass? So according to her, she runs up to Jean and Jose's bedroom. She knocks on the door. And I guess nobody hears her at first. So she runs back downstairs to the basement to look out the window again. Thinking that maybe Tam had like gotten up and moved. You know, maybe she was meditating. But instead, when she looked, she was

still in the same position. So she ran back upstairs and knocked on the couple's door again. Someone said, come in. And Madeline said, right away away I need to talk to Jose. Jean said based off her voice and her face she could tell that something was seriously wrong and that's when Madeline said this is a quote your friend from the islands is in the backyard laying on the grass. Okay, all right, okay. So Jose pulled on his shorts, went downstairs, telling Jeanne to grab her phone. That's when they go outside down those stairs and they find Tam, according to Jeanne,

laying face down on the grass, almost like she had just face planted. Her toes were perfectly pointed towards the house. Her legs were like together, perfectly pointed. And her hands were down by her side, palms facing up. Jaune said she remembers this because like the image was burned into her head because of like how surreal the whole situation was so jean immediately calls 9-1-1 the 9-1-1 call is placed at 8 59 a.m which is 15

minutes after madeline first found tam there are some theories as to what happened from when Madeline finds her to when the 911 call happens. But honestly, if she was running up and down those stairs, I'd believe it. I'm gonna mention that part towards the end, the theories, so we don't get everything confused. So Jean is the one who makes the initial 911 call. And instantly, she asks for police and ambulance.

Then Jean tells the dispatcher what happened that night you know the rundown she had people over they were drinking most of them went to bed one of them stayed up on the balcony to smoke she was drinking they came outside to see her laying face down then she said quote i guess, it looks like she fell off the balcony. She jumped off the balcony, but she goes on to say like she's stiff. The dispatcher asked, is she breathing? But Jaune said she didn't know because Tam was face down. Now this in itself is odd, right? Because if this is your friend and they are laying face down in the backyard

and appear to like maybe be hurt or something, wouldn't your first instinct to like flip them over, maybe like slap their face a little and be like, wake up, like, are you okay? Are you okay? But nothing, nothing. They just left her as is. Then Jean hands the phone over to her boyfriend, Jose. When Jose gets on the phone, he tells the dispatcher,

hey, this is Jose. And the dispatcher seems to know who he is. Like, it seems like they know each other because she's like, hey, Jose. It just sounds like they recognize each other. Jose tells the dispatcher that she's not moving one bit. She's not breathing. She's stiff.

Once again, the dispatcher asks, is she breathing? Like, have you checked to see if she's breathing? Then the call breaks off. At least the 911 call I listened to completely breaks off. It goes silent as if he said something that they didn't want the public to hear. So when they released the 911 call like they cut it out. Suspish. Because then it picks back up to Jose mid-sentence talking about her having a small amount of blood on her sleeve. Then the dispatcher asked Jose like do you know who it is and Jose said uh I think her name is uh Tam or something

like that and that he had only met her one other time. He was like dude why don't you just spend the whole like night with all these people? Like, okay. But he's playing stupid. Still, at this point, nobody had checked to see if Tam was breathing. They just left her as is. But Jose, on the phone, again, gives the theory to the dispatcher.

I think maybe she fell off the balcony. He mentions on the call that the balcony was about 20 feet from the ground and that the railing on the balcony was about four feet high. Kind of a weird thing to mention. Maybe it's not, but I was like, weird. Why is he mentioning this? Like, okay, whatever.

Jose then on the call goes to say that they actually have security camera on the back deck and that they could check to see what happened and he then mentioned that Tam had a small cut on her wrist that might have been self-inflicted this was a part that I found later on not in the 911 call and I think this is the part that was maybe cut out of the 911 call I listened to when it went silent. Do you know what I'm saying? Because he was suggesting that she may have like cut her wrist, like, you know, like as if she wanted to do that.

Do you know what I'm saying? Pretty much as soon as the call ends, the police arrive. It's like within eight minutes from the 911 call. They check out the scene and they find that Tam's body is not quite exactly how Jose and Jean described it. The main thing that was different was that Tam's left arm was like bent out to the side in a wide v-shape or bent at an obtuse angle at the elbow placing the hand away from the body with her palm facing the grass and her fingers curled in. It was not straight down with like the palms up like they initially said. I kind of think of the description of her body being like Superman style,

initially how it was described, like palms up, feet perfectly pointed, like you, sounds stupid, but like are flying, you know? But when police got there, it was not like that. Her hand was up. Yeah, you get it. Now her hand being up and stuff would make sense if Jose had followed instructions and took Tam's pulse. Like if he had to like pick up her arm to get to her wrist and

set it back down you know. But Jose said in every interview he did that he never checked her pulse or moved her body. Not once he said it. And he was very adamant about that. And same with Jean. Weirdly, he does admit that in order to see if Tamla was alive, he tried to lift Tam's leg and then he tried to bend it to see if she's alive, but that the leg was stiff and that rigor mortis had set in.

This is a side note, but who in the hell lifts the leg first to check if someone is alive i think we could think of numerous ways to check if someone is alive like wouldn't you flip them over wouldn't you flip them over wouldn't you flip them over check for a pulse why the leg that's what he said though sure i mean i think i don't know whatever i'm gonna save my thoughts and stuff until the end let me not so police noticed that her left arm was up and moved the police also noticed that her right arm was extended down the side of her body palms down on the grass not up like they were described now her wrist bone was actually visible poking through the skin and there was some blood on her sleeve but it was just a

little drop. It was way less than you'd expect given how badly the bone was broken. But here is also another thing on the crime scene photos of her right hand, there are imprints of grass on the top of her hand. Like her hand had been resting palm up on the grass for a while. Like there were grass imprints. There were also specks of grass left behind on top of her hand in the crime scene photos.

So like, it appears that her hand was definitely palm up, but at some point it was moved and like nobody has come forward and said that they moved it. It's just straight up bizarre. Jean and Jose were insistent that they did not move her body, that when they found her,

that her hands were down by her side with her palms up. And again, they stuck by this throughout all of the interviews. It's just like so fucking bizarre. Cause it's obvious someone moved her hands, arms, and it's such a weird thing for anyone to lie about, right? So I guess a ghost did it. Okay.

Now at this time, there were no other obvious injuries. Okay, another odd thing was that no ambulance ever showed up to the scene. On the 911 call, you know, at the very beginning, Sean was like, I need an ambulance and police, keep the address, blah, blah, blah. And usually the ambulance will show up like around the same time as police.

They're very quick, but they never did. And it was said at some point the police called off the emergency medical services and told them that they were not needed. But it's very unclear when this conversation happened, but it must have happened very quickly. And this also has drawn a lot of criticism. Like it looked like Jean, Jose, and the police were not interested in getting Tamla potentially life-saving help in a timely manner, right? It just seemed like that there was a huge lack of urgency.

They literally left her lying face down on the grass. So police declared Tamela dead and they arranged to have her body transported to the coroner's office. Never an attempt to resuscitate her or roll her fucking over or something. Right? What the fuck? Well, there's lots of odd things throughout this case and you will notice. So another thing, there were officers on the scene who were also personal friends with Jose. One of them even talks about it at the crime scene and his comments were recorded on his body cam. He says, quote, I know Jose very well. I've worked with him for quite a while. And quote, another officer's wife had worked for the same company

as one of Jean's friends who was at the party. This friend had come back this morning to give a statement and she was like worried that she was going to be late for work. And the officer joked about how she would be fine if she was late because he would be able to smooth everything out with his wife or through his wife I should say. They all seem to be be very friendly with each other have each other's back like the police officers Jose. Okay police jump right into treating John's house like a potential crime scene but honestly not really. They go inside the house. They like use the crime scene tape to block off the living room and they note Tam's overnight bag behind the living room couch with her jacket placed on top

of it and it seems that's the only thing they got or they noted at the crime scene. They're like, great police work, everyone. High five. We got it. Yeah. It's like, all right. Well, the police do want to talk to witnesses, everyone who was at the party.

So they asked John to call everyone and they asked her to tell them like to come back and give a statement. They also tell John not to tell them like to come back and give a statement they also tell jean not to tell anyone the real reason they need to talk to the police they don't want jean to influence anyone in other words don't tell anyone tamela's dead so she just tells the other women that like tam was in a bad accident that they're dealing with and that's's about it. And like everyone does return to the house to give a statement. During the investigation, they asked Jaune about the security cameras

to see if they could get the footage, right? It was on the back patio. Great, let's get it. But surprise, surprise, you know, Jaune told them that her security camera batteries were dead. Oh, what a bummer. That always seems to happen, doesn't it? But you know what she did have?

She was able to provide the police with her security system notifications. I'll tell you what that is. Here I go. At Jeanne's house, she has those sensors on all of her doors that would note which door opened at what time. And then it would send a notification to Jaune's phone. Like, back door opened at 12 p.m. Back door closed at 12.01.

You know, that. So Jaune was like, I have this. And instead of like sharing or getting all of the details, she just shares a screenshot of the notifications from her phone. But that screenshot started at 1 40 AM. So there's like no record of anything before that. But police thought this is great, this is enough. So I'll tell you, here's what the screenshot said. So there's like no record of anything before that, but police thought this is great, this is enough.

So I'll tell you, here's what the screenshot said. Garage door opened at 1.40 AM, never closed after that. Side note, garage door, meaning the door from the house to the garage, not the physical car garage part that opens, the one in the house, okay? Front door opened at 1.47 a.m., closed 1.47 a.m. This was explained as one of the guests,

Bridget, leaving that night. Back door opened 1.49 a.m., closed 1.50 a.m. Jean said that this must have been like Tamla stepping outside for a smoke before heading to bed. Back door opened at 1 57 AM. Doesn't close after that. Jean said that maybe this was Tam again. And like maybe she didn't close the door behind her.

Then nothing, no doors go off, nothing. Everyone's sleeping until the next morning. Front door opened at 4.10 a.m. This was explained as one of the guests leaving early for work. And then that was it. That was all Jean gave to the police. We'll circle back because I built a timeline off of this as to what I think happened. When I want a mental break, my first reaction is to doom scroll. But you know,

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When they get there, she's there with some gifts. It was Dunkin' Don donuts gift cards that she had picked up for the officers now there's a recording of this police interview and in the beginning he says something along the lines of like thank you for the gift cards but we can't accept them because it would look bad if we did and john John is kind of like, oh, okay. When this police interview became public, obviously this whole Dunkin' Donuts thing did not look good, right? John didn't help the situation because she went to Facebook and she posted a photo of her and two friends wearing face masks

with the Dunkin' Donuts logo printed on the front of the mask. Her and her three friends. Facebook. The caption said, the best masks ever. If you know, you know. Girl, what are you doing? Come on, get it together. What are you doing? What are you doing? Jaune was like in all of her interviews. She's like, I'm innocent.

I'm like, I didn't do anything. She was so upset, whatever. And then she posts stuff like this. And it's like, what are you doing? What are you doing? What are you fucking doing? You want people to think that you're innocent? You don't fucking do that.

Dumbass. So now what? I know. So if that wasn't bad enough, all these officers report to a new sheriff in town. I'm a new sheriff in town. His name was Ron Freeman. So Ron, before he took this position, he got fired for mishandling a case against another officer. And this other officer had been accused of being racist as hell. Basically one of his officers, one of Ron's officers, a guy named Chris Shelton, said some racist stuff online.

Chris got fired for this. Then afterward, Sheriff Ron went into Chris's personnel records and tampered with them. Nay nay, you can't do that. So Ron got fired, just like Chris. They both got fired, just like Chris, they both got fired. And afterward, Ron and Chris both went on to get positions in Forsyth County because they get fired, but whatever, they just find a new job in a different county and nothing applies.

So I think it's safe to say that there's like a lot of red flags going on here. There was also another officer working on this case. He too posted racist stuff on Snapchat. He actually had like two girlfriends and he would communicate with them through Snapchat and he got caught like fucking them in his police car while on the clock when he was supposed to be like serving and protecting or whatever the fuck. He had posts, not posted, but he shared photos of tam's body with one of the girls he was seeing and was like giving her

all this like information that he shouldn't have been giving her he referred to her as the quote porch lady fucking shit show and i'll talk about this more a little bit at the end because there's more another thing that was alarming was that police never requested data from any of Jean's friends phones like the people who were at the party. A bunch of people who were at the party said that they took photos and videos throughout the night. You'd think maybe they'd gather all this check everyone's phones to see if anything weird was going on but they didn't instead they were mainly focused on witness testimonies only and that backfired because pretty much all of them were inconsistent

so I'm not going to go through all of them and I mainly focus on broochette statements because I think that bitch was involved I'm just saying that now that's my personal opinion so Madeline remember the aunt that lived downstairs she gave a statement right please come back and ask her a state like for information again and there were inconsistencies in her like situation remember Madeline was the aunt that lived in the basement who found Tamla's body first she originally said she woke up made her coffee whatever looked out the window ran upstairs that whole story but then there was another version where Madeline said she woke up she actually went outside to feel the weather what kind of day is it today that's when she saw Tam and said something like hey then she ran back

inside washed her face because she thought she was saying things. And then she got on her knees and she pried. Mm-hmm. Then she said she went upstairs, knocked on Jean and Jose's bedroom and asked for Jose specifically. Then they go on to find Tam, et cetera, et cetera. Okay. So police interviews, right?

We're still on police interviews. Don't worry, we're getting to everything. Probably like what happened to Tam, I'm gonna tell you. Let's talk about Bridget because Bridget is a very interesting person. I listened to her many interviews and she is a talker. Bridget is allegedly a close friend to Jean and some of the other women who were at the party that night. In my personal

opinion I think these friends keep her around because she has the Xanax. Bridget in her interviews was very open about taking her Xanax. She said it was very precious to her because she has a bad anxiety problem and I'm not making fun of you if you of you if you take Xanax or anything. It's just this woman is out there. Her Xanax was so precious to her that she even carried the pills around with her in a necklace that she wore all the time. Have you seen the movie Cruel Intentions? It's giving that. Like I bet this bitch watched Cruel Intentions and it was heavily inspired. And if you see a picture of Bridget she looks like she would be a fan of girl intentions you know I'm saying like whatever but she wears a Xanax

and a necklace but there are rumors saying that she doesn't just take the Xanax herself she actually shares her pills with her friends oh yeah Bridget denied, denied, denied this. No, I never would do that. Like she's just, she's a lot. So she denied, denied, denied. She does not share her Xanax. After the police do a little bit more digging, they uncover more and more evidence that Bridget had indeed been giving out Xanax

that night of the party. And actually even the next day. So police put like more pressure on Bridget to come clean. They're like we actually saw the text messages where you were offering pills to some of the ladies and I love these moments when you get they get caught in a lie because they just go silent and try and come up with something really quick and she was like okay like yeah I did share pills with one of the women at jean's party jean's house and after the party because this friend was on the verge of a mental breakdown but it wasn't tam it was not tam that i gave xanax to she was like super adamant about that she did not give any

drugs to tamla she kept saying it during the interview they didn't even ask that. She just came out like I didn't give Tamla any. They're like okay. Then Bridget does another police interview and this one was real questionable to me and um this one kept me up at night. I was like girl she's a fucking mess. So the police interview starts with the officer asking her like tell me from the beginning what happened that night. Bridget starts by telling the officer that everyone loves her because she's great with kids and that she works as a babysitter for all of her friends because they just love her and they think she is so incredible that she is the mother hen of the group and then she goes on to say that she's like the best friend

everyone would want around because she's always cleaning up around the house, just cleaning in general because she's quote OCD about that kind of stuff, end quote. You know those people who clean, like to organize and they're like, I'm so OCD. And you're like, no, you're just like, you're just tidy. You know? Tam was very appreciative.

I can't tell you how many times that woman grabbed me and goes, I love you, you're, like, incredible. Can we take you home for a while? Because I'm a neat freak, too. I mean, my OCD, I'm a super neat freak. I'm that perfect friend. I mean, I'm not boasting or anything, but I'm that perfect friend.

You want to be there at a party. Again, the police asked her to start from that night. Nobody asked her this. Then Bridget goes on this long ramble about how she's not very trusting of grownups, that she loves children, but not so much adults. With that being said, she didn't want to spend the night at Jean's house because she didn't feel comfortable around people she didn't trust. She said like if she

did sleep over that night she'd be sleeping with one eye open because she doesn't trust anyone. I don't sleep at strange people's houses. I will stay up all night long. You know that whole sleeping with one eye open thing. Sure. You're just not comfortable. I just, I have trust issues. I mean according to Bridget, these were her close friends. So a little weird thing to say. Bridget then goes on to say that Tamela was so loving and fun that night, giving hugs, and even at one point jumped on her lap and grabbed her boobs. And she followed that with, this is a direct quote, My DNA will be all over them jammies. Now, isn't that such a weird thing to say?

Her DNA will be all over those jammies. That's weird. Then she said that everyone went to bed and it was just her and Tam in the kitchen. Tam was eating gumbo and she seemed perfectly fine. Didn't seem drunk at all. Bridget said that she was talking to Tam about how sick she was of Jen. This was a girl, another party guest. I guess Jen was just driving her nuts. She told Tam that Jen's just too needy and how annoying she was and how Jen was going on and on that night about how nobody liked her. And it was so annoying.

Again, it was like, so what happened that night? You know, like, okay. okay Bridget said while in the kitchen Tam mentioned to her that she too was thinking about going home because remember Bridget wanted to go home she called her husband to go home so Tam had mentioned to her like I'm thinking about going home and then Bridget said that she was the one who told Tam not to go because she had been drinking. And instead, she needed to just stay at the house, relax for a few hours, lay on the couch, and to let her body mend before trying to leave. That there was no reason to do anything stupid. That's what Bridget said.

Now, Jaune's statement, she said that this conversation with Tam did happen. Don't drive, don't drive. But Bridget wasn't there. Are you taking notes? Because I hope so. You're going to need it. Bridget then goes on to say that Tam was a seasoned drinker. That she could spot it.

But she wasn't like sloppy or on her ass like their friend Jen. She talks about like Jen again being super negative. Jen Jen Jen she sucks. And to me this is a side note she seems like she's looking to like point the finger at someone else. That's what I was gathering. Bridget goes on to say that she called her husband to pick her up and when he arrived Tamela walked her to the front door, gave her big hugs, gave her a kiss on the cheek.

Then Tam told her, quote, you know, I just really love you. And that she, Bridget, responded to Tam by saying in a sweet, like, church lady voice, no, no, you just love the things I do. I'm the mother hen. and then that tam responded to that and said no you're just a good person and bridget said thank you now take yourself in the house and finish your gumbo this is what she saw in the officer happen like that was the conversation between them.

Again my own opinion here it sounded like she's trying really hard to prove to this policeman that like see everyone loves me so much even Tam loved me she was kissing me and telling me how much she loved me. Bridget said she then left hopped in the car with her husband and they took off and this happened around 1 45 in the morning. Brid husband and they took off. And this happened around 1.45 in the morning. Bridget's husband, like I mentioned earlier, said that it was just Bridget he saw. That Tam was not with her. Bridget swears.

Bridget said in another interview that the Xanax she takes makes it impossible for her to lie. So she's not lying. Because the Xanax makes it impossible for her to lie she's like i can't lie i was like okay girl shut up then without police asking she goes on to state what happened at jean's house next even though she just said she left at 145 In the interview she says that she's like at 1 55 or so. Tam I gotta stop the accent. She said that at 1 55 or so Tam walked out onto the back deck to have a cigarette and that the back door opened but never shut. That there was a cigarette and a lighter left on the back porch that hadn't been smoked. This is when the officer cuts in, kind of stops her and says like,

who told you this? And Bridget starts to say, this is a quote, Jose had meant, she stops herself. And then it continues. I did pick up the lighter. She stops herself and then continues. I did pick up the light. She stops herself. What happened was that he picked up the cigarette and light and put it on the fireplace. The fuck are you talking, you know, like, huh?

Then she went on to describe exactly how Tam's body was positioned when she was found. Even though Bridget was long gone by the time anyone saw Tam's body. She even went on to say that she thinks she might have an idea of how Tam fell. She suggested that Tam may have climbed on top of the propane tank that was on the balcony, then jumped off of it on purpose saying quote there was a gas propane tank sitting there and what possessed her to use it as a step stool she had no idea end quote what what are you talking about what are you talking about now this is the part that drove me nuts because unfortunately the officer who's questioning her stops her from perhaps incriminating herself and tells her like I need you to tell me what you did not what you heard what we're possessed to reuse as a step stool on no idea okay

well let me redirect you because... I'm getting off topic. I need what you know, what you did, not what you heard. It's like, no, no, no. Let her keep going. She's obviously saying too much. Anyways, so he's like trying to get her back on track. Then she said to the investigator, referring to herself, quote,

You're going to tell people I never want to talk to her again. She still doesn't have her story straight. Kind of being like jokey about it. And then she ended it with, quote, I will do my best to be as respectful as I can, but I damn sure am not going to say I did something that I didn't do. I'm a pretty clean person outside of some speeding tickets end quote. Huh? The officer who was interviewing her ends it at this point and does not ask further questions. He just cuts it off. In my personal

opinion when listening to this interview Bridget sounded like she was on some of that you know, is there any? And like the police guy was just over it like he got what he needed and then he just got the hell out of there. And it's unfortunate because I believe, I mean you heard what I just said maybe if he would have pushed a little bit harder and asked like how do how do you know the timeline of of Tam's night when she left and maybe dug a little bit deeper on this whole jumping off the gas propane tank story like hello keep rigid in your mind because you will see why we are not there yet yet. Anywho, so that really stuck

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Not only did he work within the sheriff's department, he had many friends within. He had many friends. And one of them was the lead investigator of this case. His name was Andy Callen. Callen? Callen? Andy. Supervisor over the investigation.

Many believe the morning Tamla's body was found. Before dialing 911, Jose made a phone call to Andy asking what to do or like giving him the story first and again, what to do. Both of them have denied that this call took place and because everyone is friendly with Jose, nobody asked for phone records or dug deeper into this. Okay. Which I think we can agree they should have. Many believe that Andy was biased. Were you right?

Yeah. And did not handle the case as he should have. I know, it's just like, what in the cover-up is happening? Well, in the interviews with Jose, he's very like matter of fact and doesn't have loose lips like some others. One of Tamla's friends, her name is Michelle Graves, she was pushing hard looking for answers as to like,

what happened to my friend? She wanted answers. What happened? And this seemed to be upsetting Jose. So at work, he used his power to access the official police records of the investigation, which is not his job. And when he did that, he also looked up Michelle's personal information. Also, not his job.

Like he looked up her address and stuff. What he did with it, we don't know. But many of the people who were speaking out, asking for more answers surrounding Tamla's case, said that they were being harassed afterwards. So of course like Jose didn't admit to any of this, he's just a big denier and kept his story straight the entire time. Like he was good at that and in my opinion I feel like he was because he works with law enforcement, like he knows how it goes. He would be the guy who would be able to like keep the fucking story straight.

Jose ended up getting caught for looking up the records as well as Michelle's information. And he did get fired for violating the law, which is great. But you know, it doesn't give us answers, which fucking sucks. Personally, I think Jose was the ringleader. When neighbors were questioned after Tamla's death, some reported that that same week as the party, everyone from the party was over at Jean and Jose's place like every day. Many believe they were all there because they were trying to all get their story straight.

I believe that they were trying to get their story straight from Jose because again he works in law enforcement. If you're gonna look for guidance on what to say and what to do it would be the guy who works with the sheriff's department. You know also when you think you think about it, he took charge of the 911 call. To me, it's him giving information to keep the story straight from the beginning. I mean, he would know how to keep things in line, in my opinion. Okay, so interviews, whatever.

Autopsy. We haven't gone to the autopsy. Get out your notepad. Okay, so Tam's official autopsy, which was done by, what are their names? The GBI. This is the one that the police had put out to the public, okay? And on this autopsy report, it said there were blunt force injuries of the head and neck. There was a faint superficial abrasion on the right side of the forehead.

There was an abrasion on the left upper eyelid, an abrasion on the bridge of the nose, an abrasion on the right temple, another abrasion on the left side of the chin, a linear cut on the right side of her heart internally. Her right wrist was dislocated with a cut on the right wrist. There was a superficial cut on the inside of the left forearm, a cut on the tip of the left index finger, a cut on the right lower leg, another cut on the lower left leg. There was a transparent fluid coming from the nose and mouth and in her stomach she had 300 milliliters of partially

digested food. Period. That's that. But this got me thinking specifically the food. Shouldn't this help them find a time of death the food thinking of the Jean Benet Ramsey case and the pineapple in her stomach remember it helped determine the time of death so on her official death certificate the time of death was listed as 10 45 a.m but there's another section that says time of injury. And that is listed as 1 30 AM. Time of injury means like a time where she occurred these injuries, but it's not necessarily like the time of death from my understanding. That's what it means.

I feel like if they could actually figure out her time of death, if they actually tried, this could potentially throw off everyone's timeline and really uncover some truths, right? But of course they didn't, because why would they? So the toxicology, you ready? The toxicology report said that she had a high blood alcohol content, which was around 0.23 BAC, blood alcohol content,

that she had THC in her system, and get this, Xanax was in her system. Interesting, very interesting. They concluded that this death was an accident as a result from a fall consistent with the height of the deck and railing to the ground below. Now, another odd detail. Usually during a post-mortem,

the medical examiner will take a lot of photos as like evidence of like the scratches, the cuts, everything, they know everything. But this time around, of course they didn't. Only five photos were taken and there was no explanation as to why this was. It just seemed that this was one more instance where nobody was taking Tamla's case seriously. Now I know some of you are rolling your eyes like, but like whatever.

Like this is what they came up with. Like what's the problem? I'm gonna tell you. Hold on. Okay so Tamla's family obviously haven't even touched on that. Completely shocked, devastated, heartbroken. I couldn't imagine. She had so many boys and like this was a major loss they said that she was not the sort of person to get messy drunk she had a high tolerance for alcohol and it was pretty

unlikely that she had like gotten wasted on accident I mean to get this drunk she would have to be knocking back shot after shot, which was said she would never do at a party full of people that she didn't know very well. She's an adult, right? Like it's, this is something immature kids do. Get sloppy drunk, whatever. Her family would say that Tamela felt uncomfortable getting drunk around people she did not know that well. She also did not take pills for fun. She was not one to like take pills. She didn't have a prescription of Xanax, you know? So it's not like it was hers.

So no one could explain why she would have Xanax in her system. And the family was asking questions, as they should, because none of this was making sense to them. She jumped from a balcony? What? Her family insists that there was something more to the story. They believe that there was foul play

and they demanded a second autopsy be done. And guess what? They got a second autopsy done and this one had different results that contradicted the sheriff's department's findings. Uh-oh. So the family had the second autopsy performed. And here is what they came up with.

Take notes again. of significant traumatic injuries to the skull bones, base of the skull, or the cervical vertebrae. The things that would appear if you jumped from a fucking balcony. Her wrist wasn't dislocated like originally stated. It was actually broken. I mean, even in the crime scene images the wrist is clearly broken so why they originally said it was dislocated just completely discredits like fucking everything the bone was popping out multiple cuts on the left wrist parallel linear cuts on the right upper arm. She also had an impacted nasal septal fracture.

Her nose was broken like if you hit it upwards. Broken. A scrape on the right frontal scalp. A faint bruise on the left frontal scalp. Red bruises on the upper left and right eyelid, also bruises on her upper nasal bridge, and on the left side of her chin. Linear cut on the left big toe, a cut on the lower, I'm not laughing at this, I'm just thinking about this drawing. I did a drawing to like help me. So sad.

Don't laugh at me. I'm trying really hard because I was like, this is hard. A cut on the lower third of the right thigh, linear cut on the upper one third of the left thigh and a horizontal cut on the upper third of the left leg. So what essentially they're saying is she had a, according to this very accurate drawing, what they're saying is she had a lot of cuts, scrapes, bruises, broken nose, broken wrist,

right? So the examiner goes on to say that the absence of blood around the broken wrist, right? So the examiner goes on to say that the absence of blood around the broken wrist is because the break most likely happened near the time of death or after the death. Like once you die, your blood becomes very sluggish. Plus the alcohol, the weed, the Xanax would make the blood just kind of very sluggish so all of that you know that's why there's literally just a drop like it's wild he then went on to say that the absence of bleeding and the absence of like lacerations of the scalp does not line up with the cause of death being falling from a second story of a building period police like they have to come out like make a

statement or whatever a cause of death whatever you know so their theory was that on the very early morning of November 5th 2018 Tam went out onto the balcony to smoke then she either slipped or jumped off of the balcony and hit the ground hard enough to kill her. Jumped or slipped. Sure, they don't try to explain why or how Tam's body got moved based off of that initial 911 call, right? And the police interviews. They also don't bother to speculate on why she got so uncharacteristically drunk. Or they don't even try to explain how she got her hands

on Xanax which I'm sure we all can guess who provided that. So another theory that police had come up with was that Tamela had tripped. She tripped. Yeah, this is some great fucking police work, if I ever saw it. Tamela's body was found like right on this grassy area and by her was like a little divider that separated the grass from the mulch on Jean's lawn. The initial investigators speculated that Tam might've like tripped over the divider,

which they believed would explain like the cuts she had on her shins, but this literally made zero sense to anybody with a brain. The divider itself is so tiny. If she did trip over it, her legs wouldn't even touch that divider and get scratched. Plus it doesn't explain how her body was positioned. It doesn't explain anything. I think positioned, it doesn't explain anything, I think they were just looking for an answer and they're like she tripped, she tripped, yeah. Basically no one's entirely sure how it happened, but again Tamela's relatives are convinced that

someone did something that got her killed, but the case was closed after this. Tamela's family, they haven't been the only people who think this whole situation is suspish. When the Black Lives Matter protests took off in 2020, Tamela's case was brought back into the conversation. Like pretty soon, tons of people online were posting about her story, talking about her story and demanding answers. Over 700,000 people signed a change.org petition demanding for another proper investigation be done. Eventually enough people

spoke out that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation reopened Tamla's case in 2020. The problem was that it had now been two years since her death. People's memories, not as fresh. People moved, okay? They got the fuck out of town. The original evidence, it just didn't exist anymore. I mean, most notably, they were like, there's a lot of people from the party. They got new phones. Things had been deleted. Text videos, photos were all now gone. They asked Jaune for security footage and the door chimes that were recorded on her phone. But they were all gone as well.

So just like not much to work with. So this time around the GBI they were canvassing John's neighborhood trying to gather like new statements maybe someone just didn't have an opportunity to talk so they're talking to the neighbors and many of the neighbors they believe that something happened that night. Some of them went on to say that like Jean and Jose were acting odd afterwards, that Jean seemed to be faking her emotions. They all thought, like all her neighbors thought something was up. The downside, they all thought something was up and no one had evidence of anything. It was all just thoughts and talk. There was one neighbor who said that John had told him that she checked her security cameras

and found a clip of Tamela's fall on the night of the party. She went on to say that Tamela actually wasn't on the balcony, but she was on the ground level. Honestly, like I call bullshit. I think you probably do too, because we're not idiots. But like John said her her batteries were dead they probably weren't for all we know but that footage you know is long gone I personally think like she told this neighbor this so people in the area would stop questioning her Jean had

complained that she was sick of all the gossip in the area It was a small town and she was being targeted, harassed. People thought she was a killer and she like was really frustrated of it. Oh, so sad. And I feel like she told the neighbor this just to like get this person off her back. You know what I'm saying? Like she was sick of people believing this.

And she's like, no, actually I found the footage. She wasn't on the balcony. She was on the ground and she fell. Yeah, so all the stuff you heard is actually fake. I mean, I didn't even want to fancy this because it doesn't explain anything. Like Tam, if she fell on the ground level, it doesn't explain all the bruises and cuts.

And let's say this was true. Why would Jaune lie about the security footage? Like when she found this footage of Tam, wouldn't she want to hand it over to prove her innocence? Like, oh, like this would be like, see, it wasn't me, you know? You wouldn't delete it. I would save that shit so hard

and send it and be like, look here. But she didn't because I don't think it's true. Okay, but like none of these questions and answers were pressing enough for the GBI to think that this might have been a homicide. And the GBI released their findings. And once again, they concluded that Tam's death was an accident due to falling slash jumping

off the balcony. Again, still many were left with unanswered questions and to this day Tamla's family is still demanding answers about how she really died. That's all they want and to think that they're like not getting these answers because these friends I don't even want to use the word friends these stupid ass people are all covering their own asses, is infuriating. The last set of findings were so dissatisfying. I mean it's reasonable to keep demanding a clearer, more believable answer as to what happened to Tamla Worsford that night. My god. So there's so many theories and speculation as to what happened. I'll mention some.

At least the ones that I kept seeing over and over and over again. But there are a ton out there. First one. Some believe that like this may have been an unfortunate accident. Based off the toxicology report she had a ton of alcohol in her system. As well as weed and xanax if that was the case many think that she might have fallen from the balcony if she was too drunk or stoned to react before she hit the grass that could explain like why her arms were at her side

and not breaking her fall and this theory i mean it could be true who the fuck knows I don't think so and I'll tell you why I don't think so because it doesn't explain the scratches all over her body or the broken wrist also if one falls over the balcony let's just say she fell over the balcony balcony like you would flip forward over the balcony and not land face down in the grass if you fell forward you would either hit directly your head and like feet would be facing the the fence or if you jumped off of the balcony, your arms would be just more out, your head would probably be to the side and not fucking face down in the grass. Like falling off the balcony in that specific position she was in,

like perfectly pointed toes towards the house, face down. It just doesn't make sense. And then if it were truly an accident, then why was everyone so weird afterwards and trying to keep their story straight? If there's nothing to lie about, you know, why be concerned with keeping anything straight? Just tell your truth, right? But someone was trying to control the narrative. I mean, I could be wrong. I'm not saying like I'm right. I'm just telling you what I was thinking. There's another theory out there that Jose or maybe one of the other men at the house came on to her at some point. Maybe she denied and they whoever it was got angry with her. Got angry with her because she denied and And when the autopsies were done, there were no defensive marks to be noted on her body

because the way that this whole case has been handled, so that's could be why, like who even knows if anyone was looking for them. Some say that they didn't check under her fingernails to see if she fought back. And also like nobody knows if anyone at the party was checked for like scratches and wounds and like defensive wounds. In both autopsies, it was noted that her fingernails were checked and they were clean. But again, this case was obviously mishandled.

So who the fuck knows, right? And many believe that Tamela was murdered. One motive has been proposed, racial animosity. The argument has been that Jeanne or one of her white friends objected to having a black woman in the friend group. So they instead like got rid of her by either perhaps spiking her food, maybe her drink.

The family did ask to have the tequila bottle tested for poison to see if like someone messed with it or something, but it was never performed. Okay, can I tell you my theory? Okay, so I listened to like many interviews. I read everything I could about this case. You know, I'm not a detective.

I'm just a person on YouTube. Hi. So this is all just my personal opinion, but here's what I think. Bridget and Jose were in cahoots, maybe even meddling. So I am basing this off of the timeline that we do have, which was the doors opening and stuff, okay? So Bridget said that she left around 1.45 a.m.

and said that Tamla walked her to the door, blah, blah, blah, which would make investigators believe that Tamla was alive at the time, right? But let's go with Tamla's death certificate where her time of injury was listed at 1.30 a.m. And also using those door sensors to give us a timeline. Again, that sensor evidence that was handed over started at 1.39 a.m. So we're not sure what happened

or like what doors opened and closed before that, right? It's all just based off on everyone's word and they were all fucking drunk except for Jose he was said to not be like drinking Bridget who the fuck knows okay so Bridget had mentioned that Tamla was never alone when she went outside to smoke so I think sometime around 1 a.m Bridget and Tam were on the back patio together. Tamla had her cigarette and lighter with her because she was going outside to smoke. And Bridget was like coming along too.

Tamla mentions to Bridget that she's like wide awake. This is my theory, reminder. Tamla is like mentioning to Bridget that she's wide awake. She wants to stay up, you know, like girls night. Come on, let's have fun, stay up. Or maybe she even mentions that she's wide awake. She wants to stay up, you know, like girls night. Come on, let's have fun. Stay up. Or maybe she even mentions that her heart is racing. She's like, oh my God, I'm pounding. Because remember, Tamla was drinking tequila with Mountain Dew and she had a few drinks, which would equal a lot of Mountain Dew. If you don't know,

Mountain Dew gets you fucking going. You are jazzed up, baby. It's got a lot of sugar in it. Okay, so she's drinking that. Plus, Tamla had smoked some weed a little earlier, which can also make your heart race. So maybe she expressed just in conversation to Bridget, like, whew, my heart is pounding, or something like that. Like, there's no way I'm going gonna be able to sleep tonight. Bridget being the lovely mother hen that she is offers her one of her Xanax pills from her necklace.

Bridget's like here girl take this. It'll calm you down and you'll be able to sleep in no time. So Tamla sets her cigarette and her lighter down then takes the pill. Something happens. Maybe Tamla was like standing too close to those balcony stairs that led to the downstairs or maybe there was a push, a nudge from Bridget. Something. Maybe Tamla was feeling dizzy from the Xanax. Again something that sends Tamla tumbling down those stairs. The patio stairs are wood. They're rough. They're thick. And there's a ton of them. So Tamla's falling. She puts out her hand to catch her fall. It breaks. She hits her head on one of the stairs. It breaks her nose. Boom. Boom. Hitting her head on the way down. Scrapes her legs. Scrapes her arms. Scrapes her chin. Eyelids bruised. Like

nose broken. Did I say that? I think I did. Okay. Tumbling down these stairs. She finally lands at the bottom of the stairs either unconscious or dead. A quick google search told me that on average 12,000 people die a year from falling down the stairs. So it's possible. Time of injury like on her death certificate 1 30. So let's say it's 1 30. This this shit just happened. Bridget panics. She's she's panicking. She doesn't want the police to know she gave her the Xanax and potentially be responsible for this. I mean, she doesn't know what to do.

So she runs inside looking for Jose. He works with law enforcement. So if anyone knows what to do, it's him. So she's like, fuck, I need Jose. In Jean's police interview, she mentioned that she and Jose went to bed around 1 a.m. Again it was Jean's birthday. She was drinking a lot so she's knocked out in a drunken slumber and doesn't notice when Bridget peeks in peeks into their room and

whispers for Jose. Or maybe even Jose was like outside of the room in the house somewhere. Either way, Bridget gets Jose and tells him something happened. She's panicking. So they go out back. They see Tamla. They don't call the police because Jose works in law enforcement. And if there's foul play at his house, potentially drugs involved. I mean, that's not a good look. He doesn't want to lose his job. So maybe he asked what happened. Bridget tells him and maybe they quickly come up with the story then. She jumped off the balcony.

She jumped, she fell off the balcony. Great. Now this is when the door sensor evidence starts. Follow me. Jose or Bridget, one of them runs to the garage door to grab something, right? And remember, it's the garage door that is from the house to the garage.

It's that door. The garage door sensor notes door opened at 1.39 a.m. He or she grabs something. Garage door sensor notes door closed at 1.40 a.m. Boom, closed. Whoever it is was like, shit, I forgot something. Reopens the garage door at 1.40 a.m. Grabs whatever and doesn't close the door behind them because panic.

That's the last thing you're thinking about, right? You're just panicking. Remember, it was noted that the garage door did not close for the rest of the night. They're doing something. Maybe this is the point when they're coming up with their story. I was thinking in the garage,

maybe they're getting gloves, maybe something to kind of clean up, just something from the garage. But then it's now around 1.40, 1. 145 ish Bridget's husband arrives to pick her up he texts her like hey I'm here I'm outside and Bridget's inside like oh fuck my husband's here to pick me up Jose tells her to go he's like go I'll handle the rest front door sensor opens, 1.47 a.m. Bridget leaves, door is closed behind her at 1.47 a.m. This is why in Bridget's police interview, she made it clear that Tamela was with her,

walked her to the door, bleep-blop-bloop, to make sure police believed that Tamla was still alive at this point. But really, she wasn't, in my theory. Jose, now alone, he maybe goes back into the garage. Maybe at this point he remembers, like, the door sensors. So he's like, shit, I probably shouldn't close it so the sensor doesn't keep going off. He's doing something. But heads out the back door.

Sensor notes back door opened at 1.49 a.m. Mind you, if I didn't say it, back door was the door that led to the patio. Okay, the balcony, the patio. So the sensor notes back door open 1.49 a.m. He closes the door behind him. Sensor notes closed at 1.50 a.m. He closes the door behind him. Censor notes closed at 1 50 a.m. Jose moves Tamela's body, places her on the grass, positioning her so she lines up with the balcony above. Okay now this is

a side note but there have been numerous cases about killers who cover their victims faces because it rids the guilt of the crime. I bring this up because like maybe Jose is having this feeling and that's why he keeps Tamla's face down on the grass. He doesn't want to see her because then it becomes real. Maybe it was Bridget, I don't fucking know. Face down. He positions her how he does, palms up,

feet perfectly pointed towards the house, keeps her face down. And again, lined up, so it makes sense. Jose then goes back inside, back door sensor notes it opened at 1.57 a.m. and doesn't close after that. Maybe not closing the door was intentional like to keep it open just in case he needed to go back outside and like do something else really quick and he again was aware of the door sensors and he didn't want it to keep tracking him because there would be more questions he works in law enforcement he He would fucking know, right? Or maybe he was just

done and just didn't fully close the door behind him. Once everything was said and done and in place, Jose goes back to bed and waits until somebody finds Tamla's body, not him of course, someone else, and goes from there. there the next morning party guests wake up and leave for work hence the 410 front door being opened when tamela's body is discovered the next morning he purposely does not want to touch her or move her because he wants police to find her as is. So they come up with the, maybe she jumped off the balcony, you know? He doesn't wanna move her. He wants the police to come up with that conclusion.

Again, Jose wants to control the narrative. That's why he takes over the 911 call to keep the story straight and how he wants it to go right either that night maybe in the early morning he contacts Bridget maybe he meets up with her for all we we know because they're like paranoid about records but he fills her in on what their timeline is and what their story is. This is why during Bridget's police interview, she comes with the information

as to what happened after she left that night. This is why in Bridget's interview, she's got this majorly guilty conscious. She's painting herself as this really good person that Tamela loved. She's pointing the finger at someone else like this bitch Jen. Okay, she's clearly like.

This is why she made sure to mention that, so my DNA is gonna be all over them jammies. Yeah, it probably was because you probably moved her or something, you know? I think a lot of people think Jeanne was involved. I mean, maybe she was for, I don't know don't know but like okay and everyone was wasted that night and I think they all wanted to come up or be on the same page was because Jose was like a part of the sheriff's department or whatever and they were afraid. Maybe Jose before John called 911.

Maybe Jose told her like don't move her body. Don't move her body. And that's why nobody moved the body. But that's the theory. I was thinking makes the most sense. Especially with her cuts everywhere. Her falling down the stairs. I don't think like it might have been an accident or

something but like Bridget has such a guilty conscience. It just you know it just seems like she was there and we know what how she got the Xanax. I can tell you that much Bridget. We know we know. She can deny all she wants but she's a fucking idiot. So that was a theory I was thinking about as to what happened to Tamela Horsford. It would explain the cuts, the bruises on her body, the broken wrist, the scrapes, the broken nose. These steps are hard, steep, thick wooden stairs. Bridget knows.

I don't know if you've ever fallen down some stairs but I have luckily my reaction um when I fell down the stairs to cover my face and like go limp and bitch I left like so scratched up and shit I'm not saying like I know what it's like I'm not saying that it's just I think it's possible it just with that time I don't know I just wanted to share because it's sitting heavy on my chest I I'm like, it's got to be those fucking stairs. And then obviously she was moved and placed. It was obvious. There's no way someone could just land like the way she did. She was placed like that. It's just a shame because whatever evidence was on Bridget's or Jose or Jean's or any of the friend's phones, like phone calls, texts, whatever evidence,

maybe was even on the balcony stairs, like broken pieces of wood or something, is probably long gone or it was cleaned up. But also if they just tried to get Tamela's time of death based on the last time that she ate and the food that was left in her stomach if they could get that time of death it could unravel everyone's story i don't know how it works it might be too late now but like that could unravel everyone's fucking story but because jose was friends with everyone within the sheriff's

department I mean they didn't feel the need to do any of that or push harder for questions and answers and just push harder oh that's just a theory right and there's so many out there and a lot of people are like want answers because what the fuck happened she did not just fall off of that balcony some people suggest that maybe they threw her off that balcony and maybe right maybe but what about the scratches and shit what about the scratches the broke like what about all that if you know what happened if you got facts come forward send something anonymously come on at the end of the day tamla has this whole family that is left with no answers no justice just so many questions and a bunch of shitty people who just didn't seem to care, right?

You only wish them love and happiness in life, but it's so hard when you can't get answers. I just feel so bad. I think I'm done. Today was, this was long. Was it long? Well, we'll see. But other than that, I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day.

Thank you for hanging out with me today. You make good choices. Make good choices. And I'll be seeing you guys later. Goodbye.