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The Case of Tami Vance
📻 Episode #344
🎙️ Hosted by Maggie Freleng
📅 Mar 20, 2023
About This Episode
In March 2000, Tami Vance and Leigh Stubbs completed a 60-day drug rehab program. Once discharged, their friend Kim Williams joined them and they went to Kim’s boyfriend’s house. He had been in a car accident and always had an ample supply of Oxycontin to manage his pain. Kim had stolen his pain pills in…
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The Case
In March 2000, Tami Vance and Leigh Stubbs completed a 60-day drug rehab program. Once discharged, their friend Kim Williams joined them and they went to Kim’s boyfriend’s house. He had been in a car accident and always had an ample supply of Oxycontin to manage his pain. Kim had stolen his pain pills in the past and did so again that night. She and Tami took them while Leigh drove to a motel. Tami woke up the next morning violently ill. Kim remained asleep until Tami and Leigh found her overdosing. While Kim survived, doctors determined that she had suffered a severe sexual assault. Tami and Leigh, who identified as lesbians, were blamed. And with the help of junk bite mark science as well as a homophobic narrative, they were sentenced to 44 years in prison. Maggie talks to Tami Vance, Sandi Rabalais, Tami’s mother, and Valena Beety, Tami’s attorney.
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00:04:15“Speaker 1: Eventually, Tammy's father got clean and went into recovery for Speaker 1: about eight years. Speaker 2: And it was like the best eight years of my Speaker 2: life growing up. I actually had my father, you know Speaker 2: what I mean. I actually had my father at home,”
00:17:00“Speaker 3: And what was Kim doing at this point? Speaker 2: She was still passed out on the other bed, fully dressed, Speaker 2: shoes and awe and snoring like she was in like Speaker 1: By then, it was the next day, March sixth, around Speaker 1: four pm, and Kim was still asleep. Tammy says Kim”
00:29:46“Speaker 1: These FBI analysis results were never disclosed to the defense Speaker 6: What we are actually seeing is a blurry image because Speaker 6: it's a surveillance video of Lee getting up into the Speaker 6: flatbed of the truck, opening up the toolbox that is Speaker 6: in the back of the flatbed, and taking out these”
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