1 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:06,800 Speaker 1: In the vibrant city of Cleveland, Ohio. A remarkable and 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:11,080 Speaker 1: fiercely determined young woman is poised for greatness with her 3 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:16,720 Speaker 1: vivacious spirit. She skillfully balances multiple jobs while pursuing her education. 4 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:20,400 Speaker 1: Just as her life seems to be unfolding in a 5 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:25,840 Speaker 1: promising way, she suddenly disappears. Could her disappearance be related 6 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:30,240 Speaker 1: to a love triangle? Her family and friends are determined 7 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 1: to uncover what happened to their loved one. What happens 8 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 1: when love becomes fatal. This is the Fatal Attraction podcast 9 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:42,680 Speaker 1: with the Buried Truth. 10 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 2: March thirty, first, twenty fifteen. It's Tuesday in Cleveland, Ohio, 11 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 2: an industrial city that's undergone great revitalization in recent years. 12 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:04,400 Speaker 3: Cleveland is a smaller city, but it can feel bigger 13 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:07,680 Speaker 3: at times. We have really great food, we have fun 14 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:11,199 Speaker 3: sports teams, lots of art and culture. 15 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:14,280 Speaker 4: Life in Cleveland. When I think of it, I think 16 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 4: of family. It's a family city. 17 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 2: But on this cold spring night, the family and friends 18 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:25,680 Speaker 2: of one young Cleveland resident are facing a crisis. 19 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 5: I can help you. 20 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:29,560 Speaker 6: At about ten PM, a young woman named Regina Flemy 21 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:31,959 Speaker 6: walked into a police station in the Cleveland suburb of 22 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:33,039 Speaker 6: Middleburg Heights. 23 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 7: I need to found a missing personal support for my 24 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:35,840 Speaker 7: friend TIERA. 25 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:39,400 Speaker 2: Bright Regina explains that she hasn't heard from her friend 26 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:42,679 Speaker 2: Tierra Bryant in over twenty four hours. 27 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 8: She was very concerned about her whereabouts. 28 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:49,160 Speaker 9: Has there been anyone else that talked to her since then? 29 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 7: I've been calling everybody. I just spoke to our mother. 30 00:01:57,040 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 5: Hey, Regina. 31 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:02,240 Speaker 10: Regina called me and told me she thought something was wrong. 32 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 8: Tier's mother had no idea where Tier was. She hadn't 33 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 8: heard from her either. 34 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:12,080 Speaker 4: I feel like that's instant panic, coming to the realization 35 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:15,800 Speaker 4: light she might be missing and might be in trouble. 36 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 10: I started questioning her friends, her roommates, and asking her 37 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 10: where she was. 38 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 2: Trying to while Tierra's mother continued making calls. Regina had 39 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:31,400 Speaker 2: gone to the police to start the missing person's report. 40 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 8: This was totally out of character for Tierra, and they 41 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:37,840 Speaker 8: decided that it was time to contact the police. 42 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 7: I just know something terrible's happened to her. 43 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 10: As a mother, I never felt so helpless. I knew 44 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:45,359 Speaker 10: something was really bad. 45 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:46,800 Speaker 4: I just know her. 46 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:54,120 Speaker 2: The firstborn child in a large family, Tierra Bryant was 47 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:56,799 Speaker 2: the light of her parents' lives from the moment she 48 00:02:56,919 --> 00:02:57,359 Speaker 2: was born. 49 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:01,640 Speaker 10: Tierra was kind of like a minute mean. She's very 50 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 10: protective of her younger brothers. 51 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 11: She was just always there for me, very supportive. It's 52 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:10,119 Speaker 11: always I gotta go back, you got my back. 53 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 2: But at the age of four, Tiera's tight knit family 54 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 2: was torn apart. 55 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:21,240 Speaker 10: Her father went to prison, which was really hard on 56 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 10: her because she was really close to her dad. 57 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 2: With her father gone, Tiera worked hard to help her 58 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:30,560 Speaker 2: mother look after her younger siblings. 59 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 12: Some young girls can be kind of silly. She wasn't 60 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 12: that way. 61 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 11: When my mom couldn't do certain things for me, she 62 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:40,200 Speaker 11: always stepped up to the plate. 63 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 2: As she got older, Tiera could be both a helper 64 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 2: and a handful. 65 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 10: Raising daughter can be hard, especially if you're a single mom. 66 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 10: And of course when she was a teenager, because they 67 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:56,720 Speaker 10: think they know everything and they don't want to listen anymore. 68 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 7: I'm gonna get my grades, I don't work. 69 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 2: For a while, Tiara's struggled in school. 70 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 10: She had failed because she was going through regular teenage. 71 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:07,760 Speaker 2: Stuff, but she never gave up. 72 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:12,160 Speaker 10: She turned herself around after we went through some therapy 73 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:15,840 Speaker 10: and got all her grades up. She made me Proude. 74 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:22,400 Speaker 2: After graduating high school, Tiera set her sights on a career. 75 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 10: She was a hustler. She worked several jobs. 76 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 6: She got a job, she did it with so much pride. 77 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 2: Between shifts at work, Tierra also found time to take 78 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 2: business classes online. 79 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:38,599 Speaker 8: She decided to go back to school. 80 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:41,800 Speaker 10: She knew she wanted to have her own business one day, 81 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 10: so she was very determined. 82 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:48,840 Speaker 2: But she also knew that accomplishing her goals would be 83 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:51,840 Speaker 2: even sweeter with a partner by her side. 84 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:54,719 Speaker 5: One of Tierra's jobs was a server at a local restaurant, 85 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 5: and one day in twenty fourteen, a young man named 86 00:04:57,080 --> 00:04:58,279 Speaker 5: Harvey Welch came in. 87 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,599 Speaker 9: He hit it off. He was really charming, So maybe 88 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 9: it'll be free Friday. 89 00:05:05,279 --> 00:05:08,159 Speaker 7: I get off early, so yeah, I should be. 90 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:12,280 Speaker 2: Harvey seemed like exactly what Tiera was looking for. 91 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:16,120 Speaker 8: Harvey was not looking for a serious relationship and neither 92 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:19,359 Speaker 8: was Tiera. But the more time they spent with one another, 93 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 8: it grew into something, and then they moved in with 94 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 8: one another. 95 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:28,520 Speaker 2: Tiera was away from her family for the first time. 96 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 10: She wanted to show him that she could be independent. 97 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:33,600 Speaker 7: Nineteen. 98 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 3: It's an age where people feel like they can be 99 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 3: free and start to make their own decisions. 100 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:44,800 Speaker 2: Tiera was pursuing her dreams and Harvey did everything in 101 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:46,280 Speaker 2: his power to help her. 102 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 6: He was very supportive of her goals and education. 103 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:53,480 Speaker 8: She was coming into her own, she was coming into adulthood. 104 00:05:56,320 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 2: But now, less than a year after branching out on 105 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:02,799 Speaker 2: her own, Tiera has been reported missing by her friend, 106 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:04,120 Speaker 2: Regina Fleming. 107 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 8: Regina hadn't heard from Tiera for over twenty four hours. 108 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:09,839 Speaker 9: Come with me. 109 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 8: She was very concerned about her whereabouts. 110 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:17,480 Speaker 2: After filing the report, the officer takes Regina to speak 111 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 2: with investigators. 112 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 13: After the report, then it's referred to the detective Bureau, 113 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:24,280 Speaker 13: who in most cases start with the person who made 114 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:24,760 Speaker 13: the report. 115 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:26,040 Speaker 14: Can you tell us what's going on? 116 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:32,560 Speaker 2: And according to Regina, she knows something Tiera's family doesn't. 117 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,360 Speaker 15: She lives with her boyfriend, but she's been seeing this 118 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:37,040 Speaker 15: guy on the side. 119 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:41,479 Speaker 8: Regina thought that he was just a friend. They spent 120 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 8: a lot of time together playing video games, hanging out. 121 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 7: Usually he'd pick her up, but last night I gave 122 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:48,320 Speaker 7: her a ride. 123 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:52,560 Speaker 10: She had dropped Tierra off at a motel. 124 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:58,039 Speaker 4: Their relationship was what we might call a sneaky length 125 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:09,160 Speaker 4: they were having, so. 126 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:09,800 Speaker 1: Stay tuned as this tragic story continues to unfold. This 127 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:11,920 Speaker 1: is the Fatal Attraction Podcast. 128 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 2: In Cleveland, Ohio, nineteen year old Tierra Bryant had moved 129 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:25,160 Speaker 2: out of her mother's house and was working hard to 130 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 2: put herself through college. 131 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 10: She wanted to be independent and she wanted to have 132 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:32,680 Speaker 10: her own business. She is very determined. 133 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:37,600 Speaker 2: She'd also found her first serious, long term relationship with 134 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:40,600 Speaker 2: a young man named Harvey Welch. 135 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:41,920 Speaker 8: At age nineteen. 136 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:44,840 Speaker 3: If you're in love with somebody or in a relationship, 137 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:48,160 Speaker 3: it can feel like a fairy tale. 138 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 2: But now nobody has heard from Tierra in over twenty 139 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:55,920 Speaker 2: four hours, and her friend, Regina Fleming, has filed a 140 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:57,320 Speaker 2: missing person's report. 141 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 8: When she didn't hear anything, she went to the police department. 142 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:05,840 Speaker 2: Regina tells detectives that the night Tierra went missing, she 143 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:08,320 Speaker 2: was meeting another man at a motel. 144 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 5: Regina explained to the police that even though Tierra was 145 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:15,640 Speaker 5: happy with her boyfriend, she just wasn't ready to settle 146 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:16,160 Speaker 5: down yet. 147 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 7: She sees some guys on the side sometimes. 148 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 5: And this was one of them. 149 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 3: Yes, Regina didn't know much about the person that Tierra 150 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 3: was with. 151 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:30,120 Speaker 8: She knew that he was a thirty something year old 152 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:33,320 Speaker 8: black man that she had been hanging out with him. 153 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:36,600 Speaker 7: Do you have a name? Just his first name? 154 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:40,640 Speaker 2: She says. His name is Rashon. 155 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 16: Regina told investigators that on Monday night, Tierra asked her 156 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:46,679 Speaker 16: for a ride to meet Rashwan. 157 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:51,960 Speaker 2: At a motel, but some time later, she received a 158 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:54,160 Speaker 2: strange text message from her friend. 159 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:58,200 Speaker 3: Tierra reached out to her because she wanted her to 160 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:02,960 Speaker 3: come and get her. She said that she wasn't feeling comfortable, 161 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 3: so Regina went to the hotel. 162 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:06,600 Speaker 8: To pick her up. 163 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:11,760 Speaker 2: Regina says she let Tiera know as soon as she arrived, 164 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:16,520 Speaker 2: but Tiera never came outside. 165 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:20,240 Speaker 15: I waited for about an hour, so I thought she 166 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:21,599 Speaker 15: decided to stay. 167 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:24,080 Speaker 14: What did you do? Then? 168 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:25,439 Speaker 7: I just went home. 169 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:30,280 Speaker 2: But the next day she still wasn't able to reach Tiera. 170 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:32,959 Speaker 17: Do you have a reason to believe that Shan may 171 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:34,559 Speaker 17: try to harm her? 172 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:41,680 Speaker 15: I mean no, no, they were friends before. I'm just 173 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:43,440 Speaker 15: worried about it, you know, I'm just scared. 174 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:49,880 Speaker 2: After talking to Regina, detectives had to the motel. 175 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:52,880 Speaker 6: They found out that the room Tierra was in was 176 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:54,360 Speaker 6: checked out to a Rashon hunt. 177 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 2: Once inside, the room, detectives don't find anything. 178 00:09:59,559 --> 00:10:02,480 Speaker 11: Suspend those sides of foul plate. 179 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:05,480 Speaker 2: SA security camera over here. Do you think we can 180 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:07,200 Speaker 2: get that footage? 181 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:09,280 Speaker 5: I'm sorry, we're not going to catch anything off of that. 182 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 8: Because a hard drive was full, it stopped recording, so 183 00:10:13,559 --> 00:10:15,160 Speaker 8: there was no video footage. 184 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:16,480 Speaker 6: Thanks anyway, Okay. 185 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:16,559 Speaker 5: Thank you. 186 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:23,040 Speaker 2: Despite the setback with the video, detectives have now identified 187 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:25,840 Speaker 2: a person of interest in Tiera's disappearance. 188 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 16: The police tracked down a cell phone number for Rashawn 189 00:10:28,679 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 16: Hunt and he agreed to meet them in a public 190 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:31,840 Speaker 16: park the following morning. 191 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:33,000 Speaker 7: Can you tell us about. 192 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:34,800 Speaker 17: I'm gonna be as true foreign hon as to you 193 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:35,800 Speaker 17: guys as possible. 194 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:39,360 Speaker 6: Rashaun told the detectives that he met Tiera the year before, 195 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:41,920 Speaker 6: in twenty fourteen, and they quickly hit it off. 196 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:46,359 Speaker 2: But he makes it clear that the relationship wasn't serious. 197 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:48,840 Speaker 18: We were just really cool friends. 198 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:50,679 Speaker 12: We would have sack, that was it. 199 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:56,320 Speaker 2: Rashawan says he and Tiera would get together every few weeks. 200 00:10:56,840 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 8: He would pick her up because she didn't have a car. 201 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:01,280 Speaker 8: They would meet at hotels. 202 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:03,760 Speaker 2: But they never went out in public together. 203 00:11:04,559 --> 00:11:06,640 Speaker 5: They were trying to be discreet because Tierra had a 204 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 5: relationship with Harvey, and Rashaan was engaged, cared about it. 205 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:12,520 Speaker 14: Yeah, but I love my fiance. 206 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:19,280 Speaker 2: Rashawn tells detectives that the night Tierra disappeared was just 207 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:22,959 Speaker 2: like all their previous hookups. 208 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:23,920 Speaker 14: Us nothing unusual. 209 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:30,160 Speaker 4: We're coming together for a good time, not a long time, 210 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:32,520 Speaker 4: and that's it meant. 211 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:35,079 Speaker 17: After that, we talked a little bit and she said 212 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:36,120 Speaker 17: she wanted to go home. 213 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:38,839 Speaker 16: Rashaan said the last time that he saw Tierra it 214 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:41,600 Speaker 16: was when he dropped off at a restaurant near her house. 215 00:11:45,559 --> 00:11:49,480 Speaker 2: After his rendezvous with Tierra, Rashawan says he went home 216 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 2: and got into an argument with his fiance Jasmine. 217 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 14: She's pssed off at me. 218 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:58,440 Speaker 17: She was all out, all she pushed because I had 219 00:11:58,480 --> 00:11:59,480 Speaker 17: come home when she wanted me. 220 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 14: To come home. 221 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 2: To detectives, it seems like Rashaan is being upfront with them. 222 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:09,960 Speaker 4: He is being forthcoming, he's cooperating with the interview. 223 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:13,960 Speaker 2: But one thing he says doesn't fit with what Tierra's 224 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:15,560 Speaker 2: friend Regina told them. 225 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:19,520 Speaker 6: Regina Fleming claimed to have received text messages from Tiera 226 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:22,400 Speaker 6: saying that she felt uncomfortable at the motel that she 227 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:23,320 Speaker 6: wanted to leave. 228 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:26,480 Speaker 5: If the worst had happened, and someone had killed or 229 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:30,040 Speaker 5: kidnapped Tierra after Rashaan dropped her off. Maybe that person 230 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:33,000 Speaker 5: has sent those texts to shift suspicion on someone else. 231 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:41,600 Speaker 2: As investigators. In the interview, Rashon offers one last piece 232 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:45,840 Speaker 2: of information that could be a clue to that suspect's identity. 233 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:50,320 Speaker 8: He mentioned that they should look into Tierra's boyfriend, Harvey. 234 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:56,479 Speaker 2: According to Rashon, things weren't going well between them. 235 00:12:56,720 --> 00:12:59,120 Speaker 8: They were having difficulties in a relationship. 236 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:02,640 Speaker 7: She was hates to break up with him. 237 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:03,560 Speaker 14: We were in love. 238 00:13:11,559 --> 00:13:15,880 Speaker 2: Detectives in Cleveland, Ohio, looking into the disappearance of nineteen 239 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:20,400 Speaker 2: year old Tierra'bryant have just spoken to Rashaan Hunt, a 240 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:23,079 Speaker 2: friend with benefits she hooked up with on the night 241 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:24,200 Speaker 2: she disappeared. 242 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:27,600 Speaker 8: He was very candid about the relationship, but. 243 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:30,840 Speaker 2: Rashan was adamant that he had nothing to do with 244 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:35,040 Speaker 2: Tiera going missing. He was genuinely concerned. 245 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:36,600 Speaker 17: I mean I cared about her. 246 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:42,240 Speaker 2: What's more, Rashan informed detectives that Tiera told him her 247 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 2: relationship with her boyfriend, Harvey Welch, was in trouble. 248 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:49,360 Speaker 13: She was talking about leaving her boyfriend. 249 00:13:49,559 --> 00:13:51,040 Speaker 7: All right, appreciate it. 250 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:52,520 Speaker 14: Thank you, take caay. 251 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:57,600 Speaker 2: Detective's next step is to speak to Harvey at the apartment. 252 00:13:57,640 --> 00:13:59,439 Speaker 2: He shares with Tiera. 253 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:02,080 Speaker 5: Thanks for spaking with its Harvey, no problem. 254 00:14:02,679 --> 00:14:06,440 Speaker 3: There were no evidence anywhere in the apartment that there 255 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:09,040 Speaker 3: had been any type of foul play, and. 256 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 2: According to Harvey, there aren't any problems between him and Tierra. 257 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:17,720 Speaker 8: He says, we have a good relationship. Everything is going well. 258 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:21,400 Speaker 5: I've even been thinking about proposing to her soon, like 259 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:21,960 Speaker 5: real soon. 260 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:26,360 Speaker 8: That's when police inform him that they were told that 261 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:29,520 Speaker 8: Tierra was actually considering leaving him. 262 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:32,120 Speaker 2: Harvey is shocked by the news. 263 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:33,680 Speaker 14: I don't get it. 264 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:36,960 Speaker 5: We were in love, Harvey. 265 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:40,040 Speaker 2: Did you ever consider the possibility that she might be 266 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:41,000 Speaker 2: having an affair? 267 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:42,200 Speaker 4: What? 268 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:43,440 Speaker 13: No? 269 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:48,760 Speaker 2: Never did Tierra keep her feeling secret from Harvey? Or 270 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:51,160 Speaker 2: is he lying about their relationship? 271 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:54,160 Speaker 5: When was the last time you talked to Tierra? 272 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:55,280 Speaker 14: Monday? 273 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:58,280 Speaker 5: When she went out she was gonna go hang out 274 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:00,000 Speaker 5: with Regina and then stop by her mom's house. 275 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:02,000 Speaker 2: And where were you Monday night? 276 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:02,600 Speaker 17: Oh? 277 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 14: Sure, just trying to catch up on some sleep. 278 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:07,160 Speaker 5: Harvey said he was at home at the apartment all night, 279 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:10,000 Speaker 5: but since he was alone, the detectives didn't have any 280 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:10,880 Speaker 5: way to verify him. 281 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 2: When Tierara didn't come home, Harvey says he assumed she 282 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:17,560 Speaker 2: spent the night at her mother's. 283 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:21,920 Speaker 8: He was used to Tiara going to her mom's house 284 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 8: and stand over there. 285 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:26,680 Speaker 16: He figured there wasn't any reason word, because why would 286 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:29,480 Speaker 16: anybody hurt Tierra be in touched. 287 00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:31,960 Speaker 5: You can think of anything else let us know. 288 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:39,080 Speaker 2: After interviewing Harvey, detective's file a subpoena to get access 289 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:40,400 Speaker 2: to his phone records. 290 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:45,480 Speaker 8: Police wanted to check into Harvey's alibi of him just 291 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:49,080 Speaker 8: being home the entire night that Tiara came up missing. 292 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:55,520 Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Tierra's friends and family had begun their own desperate search. 293 00:15:56,680 --> 00:15:59,960 Speaker 10: We started making flyers and putting it on the face 294 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:00,600 Speaker 10: the book. 295 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 3: People were spreading the word to inform everyone that she 296 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:05,320 Speaker 3: was missing. 297 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:10,120 Speaker 2: As new information comes to light, Tierra's family reaches back 298 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:12,320 Speaker 2: out to detectives with a possible lead. 299 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:16,240 Speaker 3: Tierra's friend brought up this idea that there was another 300 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:19,960 Speaker 3: person that the investigators should be talking to. He was 301 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:22,880 Speaker 3: an ex and he still seemed to be interested in her. 302 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:26,480 Speaker 3: It was somewhat of a stalking situation, or at least 303 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 3: that's what they felt. 304 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:31,760 Speaker 8: She never mentioned who this ex boyfriend was, but they 305 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:33,080 Speaker 8: assumed it was Curtis. 306 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:37,680 Speaker 2: Curtis Yates was Tierra's high school sweetheart. 307 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:41,360 Speaker 6: It was puppy love type of relationship. 308 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:42,800 Speaker 7: It was very innocent. 309 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:48,280 Speaker 2: After high school, Tierra broke up with Curtis and he 310 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 2: didn't take it well. 311 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 11: Russiaster had end updating someone knew. 312 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:55,320 Speaker 9: Curtis was not happy about it. 313 00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:58,880 Speaker 2: The drama came to a head when Curtis picked up 314 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:02,280 Speaker 2: fight with Tierra's new boyfriend's. 315 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:06,159 Speaker 11: He was very passionate about my sister to go and 316 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:08,560 Speaker 11: fight for her. It was just a crazy situation. 317 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:15,240 Speaker 2: Stops, you need to go whatever. Given his history of 318 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 2: getting violent over Tierra, investigators know they need just speak 319 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:20,560 Speaker 2: to him. 320 00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:23,679 Speaker 8: Police reached out to Curtis to find out if he 321 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:25,159 Speaker 8: had been in contact with Tierra. 322 00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:28,400 Speaker 2: So, when was the last time you talked to her? 323 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:30,840 Speaker 1: Honestly, I can't even remember. 324 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:34,359 Speaker 8: They had broken up, He had went on his life. 325 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:38,000 Speaker 6: Curtis insisted he had no idea how a rumor had 326 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:40,440 Speaker 6: gotten started that he was talking Tiera. 327 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:44,240 Speaker 2: Curtis also says he has an air tight alibi for 328 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:45,960 Speaker 2: the night Tierra disappeared. 329 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:50,080 Speaker 16: I was at work all day and then afterword some 330 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:51,760 Speaker 16: of us went out to a club. 331 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:53,920 Speaker 9: You can call him, they'll tell you. 332 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:58,680 Speaker 2: Two detectives, it looks like another dead end. 333 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:03,399 Speaker 5: Well, if you should hear from Tyr or anything about. 334 00:18:03,119 --> 00:18:09,520 Speaker 16: Her gifts, car, have you looked into anybody named Ashley Holliday? 335 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:10,879 Speaker 12: Who's that? 336 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:14,400 Speaker 8: Curtis said that there was a young lady reaching out 337 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:16,920 Speaker 8: to him on Facebook by the name of Ashley. 338 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:20,840 Speaker 12: She's been sending weird messages like like old pictures. 339 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:25,199 Speaker 7: Old pictures are what me and Tierra. 340 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:32,160 Speaker 2: Curtis says that lately the messages have become even more bizarre. 341 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:36,840 Speaker 8: Ashley seemed to know a lot of details that only 342 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:38,119 Speaker 8: Curtis and Tierra would know. 343 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:40,760 Speaker 5: He had no idea who she was. 344 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:43,560 Speaker 14: She was even saying she was here. 345 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:53,640 Speaker 1: Stay tuned as detectives dive deep into the mystery. One 346 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:58,199 Speaker 1: cover the truth of what happened to Tierra Bryant. This 347 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:00,400 Speaker 1: is the fatal attraction pots. 348 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:10,880 Speaker 2: Detectives investigating the disappearance of Tiera Bryant have looked into 349 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:17,400 Speaker 2: three potential suspects. Her boyfriend Harvey Welch, her ex Curtis Yates, 350 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:20,800 Speaker 2: and a man she would hook up with occasionally, Russ 351 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:21,679 Speaker 2: sean hunt. 352 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:25,520 Speaker 16: When a young woman disappears with the possibility of foul play, 353 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:29,080 Speaker 16: police typically regard any man she had a relationship with 354 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:30,240 Speaker 16: as a person of. 355 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:36,600 Speaker 2: Interest, but now Curtis has pointed the investigators in a 356 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:38,320 Speaker 2: surprising new direction. 357 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:42,320 Speaker 6: Curtis had been receiving disturbing messages on Facebook from a 358 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:43,840 Speaker 6: woman named Ashley Hollander. 359 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:49,040 Speaker 8: Ashley seemed to know a lot of personal information about 360 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:51,160 Speaker 8: Curtis and Tierra's relationship. 361 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:55,160 Speaker 2: In one message, she claimed to be Tiera. 362 00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:58,280 Speaker 11: Would you be willing to give us access to all 363 00:19:58,320 --> 00:19:59,760 Speaker 11: of your communications with us? 364 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:01,000 Speaker 14: Yeah? Sure. 365 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:10,879 Speaker 2: After interviewing Curtis, investigators try to track down the mysterious 366 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:12,119 Speaker 2: Ashley Hollander. 367 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:15,119 Speaker 5: The detectives ran a background check on the name Ashley 368 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:17,639 Speaker 5: Hollander and they reached out a Facebook for information on 369 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:18,320 Speaker 5: the account. 370 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 8: They find out it's a dummy account and they can't 371 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:25,080 Speaker 8: even find anyone in the city of Cleveland with that name. 372 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:30,400 Speaker 2: When investigators get access to the social media profile, they 373 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:34,120 Speaker 2: learn that Curtis Yates isn't the only person Ashley as 374 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:35,840 Speaker 2: contacted online. 375 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:39,800 Speaker 16: She actually told several people that she really was Tiera Brant. 376 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:44,200 Speaker 2: But when detectives reach back out to Tierra's family. They 377 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:47,640 Speaker 2: say that the posts and messages don't sound like Tiera. 378 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:51,120 Speaker 3: She does have the information, but as far as her 379 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:53,639 Speaker 3: tone her personality, something seems off. 380 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:59,520 Speaker 2: Detectives conclude that Ashley isn't Tierra in disguise, but an 381 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:01,840 Speaker 2: internet troll trying to get attention. 382 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:06,600 Speaker 3: There's no evidence that she actually is her. 383 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:09,480 Speaker 8: It turns out just to be another FOSSE lead. 384 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:15,640 Speaker 2: Now a week into their investigation, detectives are now closer 385 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:20,240 Speaker 2: to finding out what happened to Tierra Bryant, until a 386 00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:22,520 Speaker 2: phone call changes everything. 387 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:25,920 Speaker 8: Homicide police received an anonymous tip. 388 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:28,639 Speaker 18: No, you don't have to tell me your name, just 389 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:29,480 Speaker 18: tell me what you know. 390 00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:42,479 Speaker 6: Sandusky, Ohio is a town of Lake Erie, about an 391 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:43,640 Speaker 6: hour west of Cleveland. 392 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:48,400 Speaker 2: Did someone kill Tiera and drive to Sandusky to dispose 393 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:52,600 Speaker 2: of her body? Detectives are now certain it wasn't her 394 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:56,399 Speaker 2: boyfriend Harvey or her ex Curtis Yates. 395 00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:59,960 Speaker 5: Detectives have received Harvey Welch's phone records and the location 396 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:02,680 Speaker 5: showed that he was home all night, just like he said. 397 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:06,480 Speaker 16: They called Curtis's friends in the all back up his 398 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 16: claims that he came out with them after he got 399 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:09,200 Speaker 16: off work. 400 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:09,560 Speaker 9: That night. 401 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:13,399 Speaker 8: Both alibis checked out. 402 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:16,359 Speaker 2: So investigators decide to take a closer look at the 403 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:19,159 Speaker 2: man Tiera hooked up with the night she went missing, 404 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:21,280 Speaker 2: Rashon hunt. 405 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:24,600 Speaker 6: Rashan claimed he went home and got into an argument 406 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:27,960 Speaker 6: with his fiancee, Jasmine after he dropped Tierra off, but 407 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:29,840 Speaker 6: that was far from an anti alibi. 408 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:33,719 Speaker 2: When they checked for a criminal record, they make a 409 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:35,240 Speaker 2: disturbing discovery. 410 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:38,560 Speaker 8: They find out that he has a history of being 411 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 8: a very well known drug dealer. 412 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:44,000 Speaker 2: He also has a history of violence. 413 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:48,880 Speaker 5: Fifteen years earlier, Rashan committed an arm robbery and actually shot. 414 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:52,080 Speaker 8: Somebody, and he also had served time in jail for 415 00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:53,120 Speaker 8: attempted murder. 416 00:22:56,440 --> 00:23:01,480 Speaker 2: That means Rashan is capable of killing someone one, but 417 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:02,920 Speaker 2: did he kill Tiera. 418 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:07,560 Speaker 16: The investigators brought Rashawn's fiance, Jasmine in for an interview, 419 00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:10,399 Speaker 16: both to check out his alibi and she is she 420 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:12,680 Speaker 16: knew anything about Tiera. 421 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:18,000 Speaker 2: Jasmine quickly makes it clear that she's now Rashaan's ex fiance. 422 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:22,080 Speaker 6: Rashawn had come clean to Jasmine about his relationship with 423 00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:24,919 Speaker 6: Tiara after the detectives had interviewed him. 424 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:26,200 Speaker 14: He said, I just. 425 00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:27,720 Speaker 18: Talked to a detective and I wanted to be the 426 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:31,920 Speaker 18: first to tell you once having an interfearing you and 427 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:32,560 Speaker 18: the girl. 428 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:34,080 Speaker 14: Is missing and missing on the last press and be 429 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:34,880 Speaker 14: seen with this girl. 430 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:38,720 Speaker 5: Jasmine had been in a relationship with Rashan for years 431 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:40,680 Speaker 5: and she always suspected he was cheering. 432 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:44,480 Speaker 2: Tiara was the last strong. 433 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:47,680 Speaker 14: I sacrificed so much in our relationship and it turns 434 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:49,359 Speaker 14: around on you. M nineteen year old. 435 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:55,640 Speaker 2: Rough She's through ignoring his behavior and through protecting him. 436 00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:59,160 Speaker 16: Jasmine told the detectives that Rashawan had lied to them. 437 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:01,160 Speaker 9: He didn't come home at all the night that Tara 438 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:01,880 Speaker 9: went missing. 439 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:05,840 Speaker 18: And probably about four o'clock in the morning, as was 440 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:07,760 Speaker 18: my last time calling him before I went to sleep. 441 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:10,640 Speaker 14: I called any stiff, telling me on my way out, 442 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:11,080 Speaker 14: be there in. 443 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:16,520 Speaker 2: A second, Jasmine tells the police. He finally showed up 444 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:17,760 Speaker 2: the next morning. 445 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:21,159 Speaker 14: She was just covered in mud, thick mud all on 446 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:23,720 Speaker 14: his space. What what is going on? 447 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:28,040 Speaker 6: Jasmine said that instead of telling her, Rashan threw his 448 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:29,919 Speaker 6: clothes in the washing machine and took a shower. 449 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:31,840 Speaker 14: I was like, I don't wanna know him, do it? 450 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:40,280 Speaker 12: He was like no, He was like you don't. 451 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:42,200 Speaker 2: Whatever Rashaon was up to Jasmine was over it. 452 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:45,639 Speaker 8: She had had enough and she decided to kick him out. 453 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:50,240 Speaker 2: But as Rashon was leaving, Jessmine says, he said something 454 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:52,600 Speaker 2: that caught her off guard. 455 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:54,520 Speaker 5: It came out of nowhere. 456 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,400 Speaker 14: He asked me, he said, do you think Sandusky's brother enough? 457 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:00,960 Speaker 9: Did he mean far to bury a body? 458 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:03,600 Speaker 14: I didn't. That's why I didn't want to know. 459 00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:13,399 Speaker 1: Stay with us as we uncover the truth This is 460 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:15,080 Speaker 1: the Fatal Attraction podcast. 461 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:24,720 Speaker 2: Investigators in Cleveland, Ohio have learned from Rareshawan, Haunt's ex 462 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:28,320 Speaker 2: fiance that he was gone all night after hooking up 463 00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:31,000 Speaker 2: with a n eighteen year old Tierra Bryant on the 464 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:32,480 Speaker 2: day she disappeared. 465 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:35,040 Speaker 14: The girl went missing the same day. He didn't come home, 466 00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:37,200 Speaker 14: not sleep, and I'm putting all this stuff together. 467 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:43,720 Speaker 2: Desmine says that when Rashwan finally arrived the next morning, 468 00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:47,680 Speaker 2: it was clear that something unusual had happened. 469 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:51,920 Speaker 8: He was covered in mud, he had scratches on his face. 470 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:56,320 Speaker 2: And something he said to her was even more suspicious. 471 00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:59,359 Speaker 14: He asked me, he said, do you think Sandusky's further up? 472 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:03,080 Speaker 6: The police had already gotten an anonymous tip that Tierra's 473 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:06,200 Speaker 6: body had been buried in Sandusky. If the tip was true, 474 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:09,119 Speaker 6: Rashan's question was practically a confession. 475 00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:16,720 Speaker 2: For detectives. The next step is to subpoena Rashon's phone records. 476 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:18,800 Speaker 5: They were able to use the records to track the 477 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:21,439 Speaker 5: location of his cell phone the night Tierra disappeared. 478 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:24,800 Speaker 16: They see that after leaving the motel, he drives around 479 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:27,359 Speaker 16: for a while and then goes to a local grocery store. 480 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:32,360 Speaker 2: When detectives received video from the store's security cameras, they 481 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:35,840 Speaker 2: see their suspects car pulling into the parking lot. 482 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:39,160 Speaker 6: A camera showed Rasham's car pulling up and a man 483 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:40,879 Speaker 6: getting out and going into the store. 484 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:44,359 Speaker 8: There's a guy coming in and out of the store. 485 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,000 Speaker 8: He had purchased a huge plastic van. 486 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:52,800 Speaker 2: There's only one problem, the man isn't Rashon. 487 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:55,720 Speaker 5: They were trying to figure out who this guy is 488 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:57,040 Speaker 5: that was hanging out with Rashaan. 489 00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:01,160 Speaker 2: Rashon's phone records give them a possible answer. 490 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:04,639 Speaker 16: The record showed that before he was at the store, 491 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:07,560 Speaker 16: Rashawn had called a man named emmittt Love, who turned 492 00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:08,840 Speaker 16: out to be Rashawn's cousin. 493 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:15,600 Speaker 2: Detectives immediately bring Emmett in for an interview. 494 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:19,639 Speaker 6: He said, yes, Rashaun stopped by my house around eleven 495 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:21,120 Speaker 6: o'clock that evening to pick me up. 496 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,040 Speaker 2: Rashawn said he'd just broken up with his fiance. 497 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:29,840 Speaker 8: He told Emmett that Jasmine kicked him out of the house. 498 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:33,119 Speaker 5: Emma said they drove around talking about it for a while, 499 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:34,320 Speaker 5: and Rashaan took him home. 500 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:42,159 Speaker 2: Suspecting Emmett isn't telling the whole truth, detectives press him 501 00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:44,760 Speaker 2: he saw one murder. 502 00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:49,640 Speaker 14: Thing that I did not mention that night. I asked 503 00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:54,760 Speaker 14: him myself, what happened? What wrong? I remember what I'm saying. 504 00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:57,240 Speaker 14: Somebody possibly tried to. 505 00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:01,200 Speaker 16: Rob Rashawn had told him that someone had tried to 506 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:04,199 Speaker 16: rob him and that his eyes were rid like someone 507 00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:05,639 Speaker 16: had tried to Mason. 508 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:09,720 Speaker 2: But detectives think the robbery story was an attempt to 509 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:11,480 Speaker 2: cover up what really happened. 510 00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:15,440 Speaker 9: I think your cousin killed this girl, and I think 511 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:16,240 Speaker 9: I'm filling it. 512 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,520 Speaker 14: He threw you right in the middle of this, But. 513 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:22,959 Speaker 8: How can you throw the police? Let Emmitt know we 514 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,600 Speaker 8: saw you in a surveillance camera, and that's when Emmett 515 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:27,280 Speaker 8: opens up. 516 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,639 Speaker 2: He admits that Rashan asked him to go into the 517 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:34,080 Speaker 2: store to buy a large storage bin. 518 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:37,400 Speaker 8: He said he needed a plastic container so he can 519 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:39,360 Speaker 8: carry his clothes from Jasmine's house. 520 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:44,160 Speaker 2: But the detectives don't believe the ben was four Rashon's clothes. 521 00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:47,000 Speaker 6: Jasmin had no idea about the affair at that time, 522 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:49,959 Speaker 6: so they hadn't even split yet. This was an attempt 523 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,880 Speaker 6: by Rashan to explain why he needed such a large toad. 524 00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:56,320 Speaker 14: I wonder what could fit in that container. 525 00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:04,360 Speaker 2: Certainly wasn't closed still, and it insists Rashaan never told 526 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:05,560 Speaker 2: him he killed Tierra. 527 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:10,720 Speaker 14: He just was destroyed by his slipper situason. 528 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:13,600 Speaker 5: To beliese it looked like Rashan was the man responsible 529 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:15,560 Speaker 5: for Tierra's disappearance. 530 00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:18,600 Speaker 2: But they aren't ready to make an arrest. 531 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:22,480 Speaker 8: Without a body, without any proof, it's hard to actually 532 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,960 Speaker 8: pin it on them. The case goes cold for about 533 00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:27,000 Speaker 8: two years. 534 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,840 Speaker 2: But detectives never stop looking for evidence. 535 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:37,479 Speaker 16: The detectives were still trying to convince the Cayahoga County 536 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:41,720 Speaker 16: prosecutors to actually move forward with the case and prosecute 537 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:42,080 Speaker 16: or Sean. 538 00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:46,440 Speaker 13: They talked to anyone else who had any kind of involvement, 539 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:49,000 Speaker 13: and then they compile their evidence and take it to 540 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:49,800 Speaker 13: the DA's office. 541 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:53,480 Speaker 2: Eventually, their persistence pays off. 542 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,880 Speaker 6: Prosecutors agreed to move forward with charges against Rashan. 543 00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:01,520 Speaker 2: The detectives now have a warrant for his arrest if 544 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:03,280 Speaker 2: they can find him. 545 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:06,440 Speaker 5: Detectives talked to Rashawan's family in Friends and they had 546 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:09,000 Speaker 5: learned he had left Cleveland not long after he was 547 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:12,000 Speaker 5: questioned about Tierra, and he moved. 548 00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:18,400 Speaker 8: To Sacramento, California. 549 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:21,240 Speaker 2: And on the night of June twentieth, twenty seventeen, Sacramento 550 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:23,840 Speaker 2: police take Rashawan into custody. 551 00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:26,320 Speaker 16: The local police had tracked down the car he was 552 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:28,720 Speaker 16: driving and they made the arrest while he was sitting 553 00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:30,080 Speaker 16: in his car in an alley. 554 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,600 Speaker 5: Driver, step out, put your hands over the air. 555 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:37,880 Speaker 1: It's all right, be cool, Step to black of the car. 556 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:45,640 Speaker 2: While Rashawn's extradition to Ohio makes its way through the courts, 557 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:49,840 Speaker 2: Cleveland detectives fly to California to interrogate him. 558 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:53,160 Speaker 6: The investigators laid out for Rashwan the evidence they had 559 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:54,720 Speaker 6: against him. 560 00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:57,920 Speaker 13: Everything that they had was circumstantial, but they thought they 561 00:30:57,920 --> 00:30:59,800 Speaker 13: would push the envelope and see what happened. 562 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:05,240 Speaker 2: Under questioning, Rishawn sticks to the same story. He told 563 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:06,640 Speaker 2: two years earlier. 564 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:11,960 Speaker 8: They interrogate him for several hours and nothing. 565 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:16,960 Speaker 2: But Detective send something behind. His answers weremorse. 566 00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:20,320 Speaker 13: He knew that he had done something wrong. 567 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:23,680 Speaker 8: They decided to give him a break just twenty minutes 568 00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:28,320 Speaker 8: by himself, and when. 569 00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:31,760 Speaker 2: The interview resumes, everything changes. 570 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:36,200 Speaker 10: They finally got him to admit to what he did. 571 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:40,840 Speaker 2: But it's not what they expected to hear we have 572 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:41,880 Speaker 2: said or whatever. 573 00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:46,640 Speaker 17: So I proceed into the restaurant and as I'm walking out, 574 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,760 Speaker 17: she comes from behind here. Who I turned right into 575 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,760 Speaker 17: it and her hand was up as I'm turning, she 576 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:55,120 Speaker 17: makes them. 577 00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,800 Speaker 7: He tells the police that it was an accident. 578 00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:01,720 Speaker 14: I did rapper by Anit all right, but it was 579 00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:04,800 Speaker 14: the only thing I knew how to stop this intact. 580 00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:07,240 Speaker 5: He said he was just trying to protect himself. 581 00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:10,320 Speaker 3: He tells the police that was self defense. 582 00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:12,240 Speaker 9: What are you doing? 583 00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:21,960 Speaker 1: Stay tuned as this tragic story continues to unfold. This 584 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:24,040 Speaker 1: is the Fatal Attraction Podcast. 585 00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:33,760 Speaker 2: After two years of investigating the disappearance of Tiera Bryant, 586 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:39,000 Speaker 2: Cleveland detectives have traveled to Sacramento, California to arrest rashon 587 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:43,200 Speaker 2: hunt for her murder. But now Rashaan has told them 588 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:45,720 Speaker 2: that he killed Tiera in self defense. 589 00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:53,160 Speaker 16: Rashaan said he went to a motil with Tierra and 590 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:55,880 Speaker 16: after they had sex, she suddenly attacked him. 591 00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,720 Speaker 8: He goes to the bathroom and he comes out and 592 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:05,880 Speaker 8: amazes him when she makes. 593 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:07,760 Speaker 14: Me and one in my mouth and one in my eyes. 594 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:12,600 Speaker 2: And what Tiera said was just as alarming. 595 00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:17,800 Speaker 14: She said, we here to rob. I pushed her back 596 00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:19,280 Speaker 14: and I'm just trying to stop her. 597 00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:29,000 Speaker 8: Now he can't see. He's struggling with Tiera. She's hitting him. 598 00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:33,600 Speaker 8: He grabs her and holds her in a choke hold. 599 00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:38,200 Speaker 2: And he kept squeezing until she stopped struggling. 600 00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:42,040 Speaker 5: Fore Sean's told detectives that once Tierra stopped fighting with him, 601 00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:44,000 Speaker 5: he went back to the bathroom to try to wash 602 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:45,000 Speaker 5: the mace out of his eyes. 603 00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:49,560 Speaker 14: I grab all the towels and I'm wiping in cold water. 604 00:33:52,680 --> 00:34:00,200 Speaker 2: After he recovered, he went back to confront Tiera. 605 00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:02,960 Speaker 14: Sir, er dear, wait up. 606 00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:06,360 Speaker 8: He realizes she stopped moving and. 607 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,200 Speaker 17: Trying to wake her up, like Tierha, wake up now 608 00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:12,319 Speaker 17: at this point I see that she's like gone. 609 00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:16,080 Speaker 2: He also realized he was an ex khan in a 610 00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:18,080 Speaker 2: motel room with a dead girl. 611 00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:21,640 Speaker 8: He freaks out. He's pretty sure no one is gonna 612 00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:27,560 Speaker 8: believe this story. 613 00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:29,920 Speaker 2: So he decided he had to get rid of the body. 614 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,719 Speaker 8: That's when he gets in contact with his cousin Emmett 615 00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:36,880 Speaker 8: to go to the store pick up the plastic bend. 616 00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:41,239 Speaker 16: Rashaan insisted that his cousin Emmett loved didn't know the 617 00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:43,600 Speaker 16: real reason he needed the story's band, and he took 618 00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:45,840 Speaker 16: emmittt home before he went back to the motel. 619 00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:50,560 Speaker 2: Rashaan says he then put Tierra's body into the bend 620 00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:51,640 Speaker 2: by himself. 621 00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:52,360 Speaker 14: Is that. 622 00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:58,000 Speaker 17: Yes, it was one of the hardest, toughest things I 623 00:34:58,120 --> 00:34:58,960 Speaker 17: ever had to do. 624 00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:03,920 Speaker 6: Rashon loaded the band into his car, drove to an 625 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:08,439 Speaker 6: isolated location between Cleveland and Sandusky, dragged the band out 626 00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:10,560 Speaker 6: of his car, and buried her. 627 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:17,360 Speaker 2: Investigators find his story suspiciously convenient. 628 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,680 Speaker 5: The detectives knew from experience that a suspect who can 629 00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:23,800 Speaker 5: no longer deny the responsibility of a crime will often 630 00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:26,360 Speaker 5: try to blame the victim. 631 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:30,640 Speaker 2: But one thing does support Rashon's account, something his cousin 632 00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:33,000 Speaker 2: Emmett told the police. 633 00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:35,880 Speaker 16: Emma has said Rashaan mentioned that he had been maceed 634 00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:37,400 Speaker 16: and his eyes were red and watery. 635 00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:42,200 Speaker 2: Could Rashon be telling the truth? Did Tierra try to 636 00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:47,480 Speaker 2: rob him? Investigators hope her friend Regina Fleming can give 637 00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:48,280 Speaker 2: them the answer. 638 00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:52,080 Speaker 8: When they returned to Cleveland, police reached back out to 639 00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:55,120 Speaker 8: Regina to find out more about what happened that night. 640 00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:59,719 Speaker 2: And they're shucked by what she tells them. 641 00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:03,440 Speaker 6: She did admit to police that Tiera's intentions were to 642 00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:05,920 Speaker 6: rober Sean because he was a well known drug dealer, 643 00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:08,120 Speaker 6: he carried thousands of dollars on it. 644 00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:12,760 Speaker 2: Regina tells the detectives she tried to talk her friend 645 00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:13,319 Speaker 2: out of it. 646 00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:16,839 Speaker 7: I called her, He said, Tiera releasten to me. 647 00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:19,040 Speaker 11: Do not go and try to ride that dude, because 648 00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:21,360 Speaker 11: a person will kill you for trying to take something 649 00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:24,160 Speaker 11: from him. And she giggle on left and said, ah, 650 00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:25,560 Speaker 11: you not gonna do nothing to me. 651 00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:34,440 Speaker 2: Despite her misgivings, Regina agreed to meet Tiara after the robbery. 652 00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:38,520 Speaker 8: Regina only wanted to pick Tiara up from the hotel 653 00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:40,480 Speaker 8: to make sure that she was safe. 654 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,279 Speaker 2: Regina says that when Tiara failed to show up, she 655 00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:45,759 Speaker 2: wasn't sure what to do. 656 00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:48,960 Speaker 11: He calling the police, telling the police oh there, my 657 00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:49,719 Speaker 11: friend is in there. 658 00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:51,440 Speaker 5: She told me she was going around, but now she 659 00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:52,080 Speaker 5: ain't answered. 660 00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:55,399 Speaker 14: They kicked down Noah Land. They're having say, I'm gonna 661 00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:56,200 Speaker 14: be looking stovey. 662 00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:00,440 Speaker 2: And there was another reason she wasn't completely honest with 663 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:01,960 Speaker 2: the police in the first place. 664 00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:05,520 Speaker 5: Let me ask you this, why did you want to 665 00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:07,799 Speaker 5: tell us just I was here? 666 00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:09,799 Speaker 14: I'm for our actions. 667 00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:17,840 Speaker 2: Thanks to Regina's statement, the central element of Rashn's story 668 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:22,040 Speaker 2: is confirmed by the time he's extradited to Ohio, so 669 00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:25,279 Speaker 2: there's only one thing left to do before detectives can 670 00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:26,200 Speaker 2: close the case. 671 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:30,600 Speaker 8: Police asks him where Tier's body was located. 672 00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:35,280 Speaker 2: Rashaan reluctantly takes detectives on a search for the spot 673 00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:36,399 Speaker 2: where he'd buried her. 674 00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:42,760 Speaker 14: It's tough, guys, it's tough. We need this. 675 00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:48,520 Speaker 2: After two years. It's not just tough emotionally. 676 00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:52,000 Speaker 5: No, it's a days of searching. 677 00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:59,920 Speaker 2: In the end, detectives fine the overgrown mound that marks tears. 678 00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:04,080 Speaker 8: Great police were able to go back and tell Tierre's 679 00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:06,640 Speaker 8: family that Tier's body had been located. 680 00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:11,400 Speaker 10: It wasn't the answer I wanted. That some people have 681 00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:14,960 Speaker 10: children that are missing and never get to find out 682 00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:18,880 Speaker 10: where they are I was able to find my daughter 683 00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:20,920 Speaker 10: and have closure. 684 00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:26,520 Speaker 2: With a body and a confession. The district attorney is 685 00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:28,960 Speaker 2: able to bring the case to a close. 686 00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:32,719 Speaker 8: Because he had cooperated with police, telling them where her 687 00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:36,160 Speaker 8: body was located in what happened the night that tier disappeared. 688 00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:42,120 Speaker 8: He was able to plead guilty to a lower charge. 689 00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:44,759 Speaker 2: But the reduced charges still carry a stiff penalty. 690 00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:50,840 Speaker 8: He was convicted of voluntary manslaughter, obstruction of justice, and 691 00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:54,640 Speaker 8: abuse of a corpse. He was sentenced to twenty three years. 692 00:38:55,760 --> 00:39:01,480 Speaker 12: We were able to accept that it's justice. 693 00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:06,960 Speaker 2: Still, it's a small consolation for all that her family 694 00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:07,960 Speaker 2: has gone through. 695 00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:11,560 Speaker 13: They could have given him a thousand years and that 696 00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:13,440 Speaker 13: wouldn't have brought Tierra back. 697 00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:18,040 Speaker 2: At nineteen, Tiera Bryant had made the kind of bad 698 00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:20,560 Speaker 2: decision that teenagers often make. 699 00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:22,600 Speaker 14: At such a young age. 700 00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:26,320 Speaker 3: There's so many different things that will influence a person's behavior. 701 00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:30,160 Speaker 16: Like most teenagers, Tierra probably admired the girl she saw 702 00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:33,080 Speaker 16: on social media who had money and the freedom money 703 00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:33,520 Speaker 16: could bring. 704 00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:39,320 Speaker 8: You think that you're invincible, and you're not. There's repercussions 705 00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:40,560 Speaker 8: for your actions. 706 00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:45,720 Speaker 2: There's consequences, and she paid the ultimate price for trying 707 00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:48,000 Speaker 2: to take advantage of Rashwan Hunt. 708 00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:51,360 Speaker 4: Bad choices shouldn't be a death sentence. 709 00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:57,479 Speaker 2: Instead of her mistakes. Tierra's family remembers the beautiful young 710 00:39:57,520 --> 00:39:58,799 Speaker 2: woman she was. 711 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:01,960 Speaker 11: I want people to know that my sister wasn't a 712 00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:05,520 Speaker 11: bad person. My sister was loved, she was carried. 713 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,920 Speaker 12: She loved her family, and I believe she would have 714 00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:13,200 Speaker 12: wanted to make us proud. But she did. Even though 715 00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:17,879 Speaker 12: she didn't cross the finish line to full adulthood, womanhood, motherhood, 716 00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:20,480 Speaker 12: she still made us proud. 717 00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:29,319 Speaker 1: The hearts breaking story of Tiara Bryant serves as a 718 00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:33,080 Speaker 1: powerful reminder that many people wear a mask to conceal 719 00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:37,600 Speaker 1: their true selves from the world. The tragedy that unfolded 720 00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:41,120 Speaker 1: has left her family and friends and deep mourning over 721 00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:45,160 Speaker 1: the profound loss of a brilliant and resilient woman who 722 00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:49,200 Speaker 1: was filled with dreams and aspirations. Her loved ones will 723 00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:53,120 Speaker 1: always cherish her in their hearts and inspire those she 724 00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:57,120 Speaker 1: loved to reach for greatness. Coming up on the next 725 00:40:57,160 --> 00:40:59,719 Speaker 1: episode of the Fatal Attraction podcast. 726 00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:07,920 Speaker 2: She was a busy single mom raising four kids. 727 00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:12,520 Speaker 7: She loved her kids, she loved being a monk. She's 728 00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:14,520 Speaker 7: responsible for everything. 729 00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:18,080 Speaker 2: Until she found the right partner. 730 00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:21,400 Speaker 7: This police officer just sweeps her off her feet. 731 00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:23,839 Speaker 9: It was an instant chemistry. 732 00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:28,799 Speaker 7: This seems to be the wind. She was anticipating being 733 00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:29,480 Speaker 7: with this man. 734 00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:31,960 Speaker 2: But it wasn't meant to be. 735 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:37,040 Speaker 7: There was a single gunshot wound to her head. 736 00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:39,600 Speaker 9: She had blood all over her. 737 00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:42,840 Speaker 6: Who would do this to her? 738 00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:45,960 Speaker 1: In the blink of an eye. Love can strike when 739 00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:50,800 Speaker 1: you least expected. It often arives at surprising moments. Even 740 00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:54,360 Speaker 1: when you believe that life is moving in a positive direction, 741 00:41:54,840 --> 00:42:00,000 Speaker 1: a sudden twist can change everything. Could this be what happened. 742 00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:02,080 Speaker 14: To thirty year old mother living in a. 743 00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:07,719 Speaker 1: Vibrant college town of Oxford, Mississippi. What unfolds next is 744 00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:12,440 Speaker 1: a story of unexpected turns and revelations. Tune in to 745 00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:16,800 Speaker 1: the next episode of the Fatal Attraction podcast. We will 746 00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:18,759 Speaker 1: see you in the next episode.