Nov. 3, 2025

Bad Teachers: Angela Comer

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Transcript

In this episode of the “Bad Teachers” Series, Jim Chapman brings you into the case of Angela Comer, a Kentucky teacher who went on the run with her 14 year old student and made it all the way to Mexico.

Timestamps:
09:29 Teacher's Suspicions
19:20 The Search for Justin and Angela
26:42 Angela Comer's Legal Troubles
28:37 A Disturbing Case

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Hey everyone, and welcome back to Exposed Scandalous Files of

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the Elite. I am your host, Jim Chapman, and today

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I am bringing you another episode in the Bad Teacher series.

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Now we're gonna start off in Tompkinsville, Kentucky for this one,

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and I'm gonna tell you a little bit about angela

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comer who in two thousand and six, at the age

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of twenty six years old, fled the state of Kentucky

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with her fourteen year old student she was having a

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sexual relationship with and escaped to Mexico. Really unbelievable story here,

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and I'm gonna start it off by telling you a

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little bit about Tompkinsville, Kentucky, where this incident took place. Now,

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Tompkinsville is a small town of a little over two

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thousand people. It's on the southern border of Kentucky, but

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it's in the center of the state on that southern edge,

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and it has a little bit of history with both

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the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. Now, it's definitely

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not the type of place where you would imagine something

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would occur like the story I'm about to tell you about.

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So let's go back to two thousand and six, and

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I'm going to tell you about a math teacher by

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the name of Angela Comber. She taught at Monroe County

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Middle School. She was an eighth grade teacher. Now, Angela

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was twenty six years old, and she was very attractive,

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blond hair, five six, kind of statuesque female, certainly noticeable

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to any fourteen year old boy. So at the time

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of this incident, Comber had taught at Monroe County Middle

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School for about a year and a half, and prior

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to that, she had taught at what's known as Baron

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County Middle School. That was for about two years. So

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despite the fact that she was only twenty six years old,

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she had already had nearly four years of teaching experience.

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She wasn't new at this, not that that necessarily would matter.

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And despite the fact that Comber was known as a

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creative and enthusiastic teacher, she did have some performance issues

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according to the school administration, which means that her students

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they were not scoring on a level expected on test, etc. Apparently,

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whatever her style of teaching, if you will, whatever that was,

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her students were not learning as she should and that

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was reflecting in their test scores and I would say

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that could have something to do with what was going

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on behind the scenes in Comer's personal life, which was

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just absolutely a mess. Just two years prior to the incident, now,

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in two thousand and four, Angela Comber filed petitions against

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her own parents, claimed that her father had bruised her

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arm and that her mother had abused her verbally, mentally,

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and physically. She also said at that time in two

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thousand and four, that her parents had threatened to take

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custody of her young son. So then, three months prior

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to the incident taking place that I am about to

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tell you about, Angela Comber filed for divorce of her husband, David,

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saying he was abusive. However, just a few days after filing,

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she rescinded that filing. She essentially changed her mind. Now,

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right after rescinding those papers, she abruptly quit her teaching

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job at Monroe County Middle School. This was in November

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of two thousand and five. So interesting that when I

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researched this case, I had to refer to a lot

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of old newspaper articles. Usually when I I go back

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more than about five years to ten years, the articles

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that I can find online pretty tough to find. I

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have a subscription to a service that actually brings together

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all these old newspaper articles and sometimes you can dig

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up some really good information. That's what I had to

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do here in this case. A lot of these old

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newspaper articles were from Kentucky, where all this went down.

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And one thing that stood out to me was that

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way back in two thousand and six, they didn't protect

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the victim's identity like they do today. I mean, this

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kid's first name and last name, fourteen year old kid,

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mind you, his name was everywhere when all of this

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came out in the media, which is very strange these days.

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Usually they'll use initials, they'll give an age, but there's

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no way that the media is going to report the

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name of a victim. A lot of people say that

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revictimizes the person. I think it also speaks to the

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fact that even back then, well I would say, especially

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back then when you were a guy and you were

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fourteen and your teacher was twenty six, like in this case,

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it didn't really look at you as a victim. It's

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just facts. It's why I do this series. So getting

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back to it, I'm not gonna use his full name

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I'll just use his first name, and his first name

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was Justin, And I'm going to tell you a little

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bit about Justin. Now, Justin in two thousand and five,

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and in two thousand and six, and even prior to that,

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he lived with his grandmother, who was his legal guardian.

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And she was also no stranger to education herself. She

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had been a supervisor of education before her retirement, and

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even after retiring, she still worked as a substitute teacher. Now,

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in addition to that, she also took care of the

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grounds in dig gardening in a large apartment complex in

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the area, not because she had to, but because she

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wanted to. Now, Justin had lived with his grandmother for

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six years, since he was eight years old. This poor

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lady was sixty eight years old when all of this

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went down that she had to deal with sixty eight Now,

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apparently Justin he didn't have an easy early childhood. It

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was very unsettled. As a matter of fact, he stayed

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with several different relatives before settling in with his grandmother.

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And it's kind of surprising to me because when I

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researched his family name, well, it was a very powerful

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name in the Monroe County area. His father, as a

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matter of fact, at one point was the most powerful

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attorney in that county. Justin's mother and father, however, they

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never got married. Apparently she got pregnant, she had Justin,

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and I don't know, maybe they weren't in love or whatever,

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but they never got married, and drug abuse plagued his father,

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that high powered attorney, so much so that in nineteen

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ninety seven, Justin's grandmother she files charges against Justin's dad, which,

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by the way, that's her own biological son. She said

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that he threatened to kill her, and she blamed drugs

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for her son's demise. Probably pretty good and accurate description,

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mayor of why he turned out the way he did

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and was threatening to kill his own mother. This was

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just shortly after her son had been accused by her

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of stealing a five thousand dollars boat from her. And

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that might not sound like much, but remember the timeframe.

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That was way back in nineteen ninety seven. Five thousand

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dollars gives you a nice boat. Surely after that, Justin's

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dad life spiraled even more. He eventually lost his license

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in the state of Kentucky to even practice law. So

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let's get back to two thousand and five. And as

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I said, this grandmother she knew the education system. She

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also knew what would be considered appropriate and not so

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appropriate when it came to teachers and students. And it

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was in November of two thousand and five when she

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became really suspicious. So shortly after Angela had left her

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job at the school. Remember she got divorced, or she

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filed for divorce, then she rescinded that, and shortly after

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that she ended up leaving the teaching profession completely, just

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quit her job. So shortly after that, Justin's grandmother started

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hearing ramblings that Justin had had an affair with this

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teacher comer. Now, initially, Grandma she chalked this up to

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Justin lying to his friends because she was hearing a

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lot of this from other kids that went to school

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with Justin, and she's thinking, Eh, he's just trying to

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become more popular at school. As I said, this is

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a very pretty teacher, and so in her mind, he's

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just trying to be a big man on campus. And

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now that that teacher's not teaching there anymore, she can't

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really defend herself to the other students. So that's what

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she chalked it up to.

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Jim, did you see what happened in Texas today?

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Wait before you tell me that, let me tell you

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what happened in New York.

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It cannot be as crazy as the case I told

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you about yesterday in Louisiana.

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in the description of this podcast. She just couldn't believe

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the idea of this beautiful, married, twenty six year old

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teacher with a son of her own incidentally having any

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interest in her fourteen year old grandson. And these were

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other kids saying it, and they lie right, or he

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lied to them, whatever. But things would change when parents

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would start to notice. They would also hear kind of

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these ramblings going around that Justin is messing or did

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mess around with this teacher. And then they would go

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to basketball games and lo and behold, Angela would show

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up and she would bring food to Justin these basketball games. Now,

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one thing I had not mentioned was the size of Justin. Now,

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he was only fourteen years old, but he certainly looked

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like a grand man. He was actually six foot two

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and two hundred pounds at fourteen years old. Now doesn't

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excuse anything that was done here, but it's important for context,

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and you'll see why ledter on. So at some point

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in November of two thousand and five, his grandmother, she

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has a conversation with one of Justin's more trusted friends,

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and that friend he tells the grandmother that he knows

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for a fact Justin's not lying about sleeping with this teacher.

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She says, well, how do you know that for a fact,

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And he tells Justin's grandmother that one day he listened

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in on the telephone while Justin called Angelo to set

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up one of these hookups, if you will, and he

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asked her if she had taken her birth control. And

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that was totally in an effort to prove to his

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friend that what he was telling him was legit. All

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of this was set up by Justin. So the grandmother

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at this point, she starts digging in even deeper into

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her grandson's emails, et cetera. Now, this is two thousand

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and six. Texting wasn't a thing back then like it

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is now. I mean, back in two thousand and six,

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you had. It took like forty five minutes to text

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a sentence in two thousand and six, because you had

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to go through each individual key. And for example, if

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it was the number one on your telephone, on your

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on your cell phone back then your flip phone, if

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you will, it would have ABCD and you'd have to

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if you wanted that sentence or that word to start

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with D, you would have to hit the one button

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four nine and the D would pop up. Then you'd

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have to go to the next letter. It was horrible.

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So there wasn't texting really back then like there is now.

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But there was emailing and a lot of it. And

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she goes through her son's emails and she discovers that

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Comer and her grandson had been having an affair. There

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was just these emails weren't that blatant, but they were

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enough to where you knew something was not right. She

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also discovered that they were accomplishing this in a unique way.

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So grandma. She had trouble sleeping. She suffered from insomnian

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She would take medicine, sleeping medicine to help her go

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to sleep. The problem was she would take it and

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she'd wake up two hours later and then you know,

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it was just a nightmare from there, trying to fall

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back asleep. Now, her grandson knew she had a pattern

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like this. He had memorized her pattern, so he would

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wait until she popped that pill and then he would

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tell his teacher, you can come on over to the

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house and they would actually have sex in the house

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while the grandmother was sleeping, and she would get out

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of the house before the grandmother woke up. So she

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has a conversation with Justin after discovering these emails, even

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though they weren't one hundred percent clear of what I

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just told you, that was the inference that you could draw.

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She has that conversation and Justin tells her Luck, you're

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being ridiculous. You're building this up in your head. Me

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and Angela Comer were just friends, which she knew it

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was BS, but regardless, She tells him, you need to

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stay away from her from now on. And she tells him,

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I'm gonna be watching in my radars up and I'm

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gonna throw this bitch in jail basically if this can now.

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Two weeks after that, she also files charges against Angela

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because although she felt that she couldn't prove any sort

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of sexual relationship was going on with her grandson and

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Angela Comber, she felt like she could prove another law

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in Kentucky, and that law is known as unlawful transaction

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with a minor. And what that is in Layman's term,

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it basically means that Comer was causing Justin, who is

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a miner, to disobey his grandmother. She's coersing him into that,

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and that's a law, or was a law then in

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two thousand and six, So she files as charges. You

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get a coordinate, et cetera. So all of this, everything

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I've just told you thus far leads us to January

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six of two thousand and six and Justin's grandmother she

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confronts him again on this alleged of that he's having

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with his teacher because another friend, one she really trusted,

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one of Justin's friend his father actually goes to the

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grandmother and he tells her that something is still going

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on with Justin and Angela Comber, his now at this

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time former teacher. So she has another conversation. Justin denies

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everything as you would expect, but she tells Justin, if

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I got to bolt these doors to this house when

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I go to sleep, I'll do it now. Interestingly enough,

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this conversation took place just a week before the courtdate

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for that unlawful transaction charge that I just told you about.

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So the pressure's on, I'm sure with Angela Comber anyway,

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and the time is ticking. So Justin he kisses his

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grandmother on the head. He tells her he loves her.

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She goes to bed, and while she's asleep, he packs

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up his clothes. He packs up his iPod, which I

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didn't say iPad iPod. This is two thousand and six.

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iPads didn't exist, but iPods did. It was just basically

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like a think of it, like a cell phone that

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didn't make calls. All it did was download music. So

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he packs that up, and he also takes her purse.

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He actually steals her purse. Now in her purse was

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eight hundred dollars cash. He takes his pillows, he piles

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them under his blanket, sort of Ferris Bueller style. If

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you're from my time frame, you'll know what that means.

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And he did that to make it appear as though

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he was sleeping, and he leaves the house. So the

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next morning, Grandma she wakes up and she needs to

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make a run to the post office. She gotta get

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some stamps whatever. Maybe she's meiling a package. She notices

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her perse is not where she left it. She's searching

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all over the house for this purse. Finally she can't

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find it anywhere else, says, she goes into Justin's room

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to look, and that's when she discovers Justin ain't there.

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So at this point she calls the Tompkinsville Police Department

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and they quickly figure out within just a very short

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period of time that not only is Justin missing, but

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Angela Comer is missing, along with Angela Comber's four year

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old son. And they have a really good idea that

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these people are no longer in the state of Kentucky,

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and they contact the FBI. So the FBI gets involved

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because there's a big suspicion they've crossed state lines. It

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becomes a federal crime, right and the first thing the

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FBI does is they search Justin's computer, which was left

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behind because it wasn't a laptop, it was a desktop computer.

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You couldn't bring that thing with you. These were big

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bubble back monitors back in those days, and the computers

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weighed a thousand pounds, so you aren't taking that with

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you on any sort of trip or to make a

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quick getaway. So they search his computer and it's not

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long before what they find on it gives them a

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pretty good indication that Justin and his teacher were headed

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to It may already be in what was known as

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Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, which that's right across the border, y'all,

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from Laredo, Texas.

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In the sultry heat of Louisiana, where the Bayous whisper

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secrets and the air heavy with the scent of magnolias,

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a darkness lurked beneath the surface. Dereck Todd Lee was

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a man whose charm masked a sinister reality. He was

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a monster. Lee, a seemingly ordinary man with a disarming smile,

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led a double life that would unravel in a series

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of murders in the capital city of Baton Rouge and

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the surrounding areas. As the first reports of disappearances and

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murders began to surface, South Louisiana was thrust into a nightmare,

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igniting a frantic search for answers. The true horror was

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just beginning, and the hunt for a serial killer eventually

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known by just three letters, would reveal not only the

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depths of Derek Todd Lee's depravity, but also the resilience

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of those most affected by his evil acts, the families

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and the survivors. This is DTL.

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DTL can be found by Searching Unspeakable, a true crime

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one dropping November three. So the plan for these two

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was to cross the border into Mexico and get married

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due to the lacks of marriage laws in the country,

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I guess you can. You know, in Mexico you can

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marry a fourteen year old when you're twenty six. They

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also had keep in mind Comber's four year old some

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with them. So the FBI they figure this out. They

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contact the Mexican authorities and they asked them, Hey, we

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need y'all to canvass the hotels all throughout the area

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and lo and behold they find them in a hotel.

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Justin his teacher, Angela Comer, as well as Comber's four

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year old son. They're all taken into custody. They're actually

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brought to Texas and then they are transported back to Kentucky. Now,

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at the time, Comer is charged with felony custodial interference

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because police determined that Justin did indeed go willingly with her.

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Of course, they interviewed him and he he said, you know,

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she didn't force me to go, So no kidnapping charge

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was filed, and on January nineteenth of two thousand and six,

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Comer is formally indicted by the state of Kentucky. Now,

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when the indictment came out, the charges kind of changed.

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She got indicted for two counts of third degree sadomy,

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four counts of unlawful transaction with a minor, and one

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count of custodial interference. So she goes to court and

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she enters a plea of not guilty, which everybody enters

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a not guilty plea in their initial court appearance. That's

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when bond is set, et cetera. And you got nothing

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to lose by entering a not guilty plea. At an arrayment,

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she gets a fifty thousand dollars cash bond, which she

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eventually does bond out of jail, and time passes, and

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a lot of time actually passes, and she eventually cuts

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a deal like they all do, right, she pleads guilty.

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She does this on May tenth of two thousand and seven,

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a year and a half later, and she sentenced to

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ten years in jail after pleading guilty to just one

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count of sodomy and she got five years for that count.

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In one count of custudio interference which she gets an

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additional five years for. Now at the time when all

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that went down and she took that plea and got sentenced,

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Justin at that time was only sixteen, and this was

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a year and a half after all this went down.

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She did also admit to having sex with Justin several

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times in open court. Then a month later, Angela Comber

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comes out with this absolutely wild claim and she claims

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that she was kidnapped and she was forced to drive

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to Mexico with this fourteen year old teen y'all a gunpoint.

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She said that the student was allegedly trying to get

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away from his horrible home life and was considering suicide,

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so he called her. He's depressed. He says, hey, I'm

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gonna kill myself, and she tells him, oh, well, I'm

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gonna pick you up and i'm gonna take you to

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the courthouse. She doesn't tell him that over the phone,

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she said, because she was worried about what would happen.

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So she inferred that she was gonna pick him up

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and they were gonna run off together, which is why

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he had all his ship packed. But really she was

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gonna bring him to the courthouse. So she shows up, He

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gets in the car, and that's when she tells him, look,

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we're gonna go to the courthouse. This is her story, right,

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But she said rather than do that, he reaches into

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her glove compartment. He knew that she carried a gun

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in her glove compartment, and so he pulls the gun out,

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points it at her, and tells her to drive. She

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said that she attempted to get away twice. She said

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once at a gas station and another time that she

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tried to get away. He allegedly busted a guitar over

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her head. This is her story. She also said she

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was going through a difficult time and she was drinking

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a lot, and that everything she did with this fourteen

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year old was totally out of character for her. Everybody

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that knew her and knew that this would never occur

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if she were in her right state of mind, et cetera.

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She went on to say that she is pissed at

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herself for pleading guilty and that the only reason that

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she plagued guilty was she did it to avoid the

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stress of a public trial. And something that I did

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not tell you occurred between the time that she posted

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bail in the time that she took that plea, which

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totally blows all this you already know it's bullshit, but

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blows it all out of the water is even when

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this lady was out on bail, she was caught sending

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two nude pictures to this kid out on bail for

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this relationship with this kid, and she can't help herself.

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She takes two new pictures and emails them to this kid.

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Bad Teachers: Angela Comer

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