Needle Work: Battery Acid, Heroin, and Double Murder(62)
“I got the kids up and dressed for school. Tim was in my room while I got the kids ready. Sent them out to the bus at 7:50. Then I went back to the room with Tim. He was smoking (crack) when I came in. He said, ‘Sit down.’ I sat next to him on the bed. He said, ‘I’ll take Nancy for a ride. Everything will be alright.’ I said, ‘Tim, I’m scared.’ He said, ‘Just remember, look them in the eye and say you don’t know anything. If you look them in the eye, they’ll never know.’
“I just sat on the bed while he smoked. Time just went … on by. He said, ‘come on.’ We went down stairs [sic]. He untied Nancy and wraped [sic] the blanket around her. I just stood there. He said ‘come and help me.’ I couldn’t. I just stared at him. He pulled her by the legs and started toward the stairs. Her head hit the door and she didn’t scream. I almost cried out. He pulled her up the stairs. He pulled her to the garage. He put her in the trunk of my Sable (I guess because it was parked in the garage).
“Tim acted real nervous. Fidgety. He kept smokin’ (crack). ‘I’ll get rid of all the evidence and the body. They’ll never know [he said].’ He always talked a lot when he got high. He mostly talked about the passed [sic] when he was younger. Talked about the gangs and fighting. Says your [sic] not a real man if you do a drive by shooting. Told me of stories of when he was in jail. Says if two people get caught doing a crime or murder they’ll use one against the other. That [sic] how come he’s not in jail now because of all the murders he’s done, they could not be connected to him.
“I was scared but I didn’t want to show him I was scared because I knew he’d kill me. He always said, ‘if you do someone, never leave witnesses. Because without witnesses, the courts don’t have anything against you.’
“I carried on the day as if nothing happened. I just blocked it all out. I helped him put the mattress in the attack [sic] of the garage so no one would see them before we could get rid of them. Tim and I had a little spat (I told my friend on the phone that I went to California with my friend instead of my boyfriend and Tim was upset). I was scared then. I tried to apologize. I didn’t want him to be mad at me. I told him I loved him, I’d do anything for him. I just wasn’t thinking. I shouldn’t have said it. He told me it hurt his feelings that I didn’t love him enough to tell someone he was my boyfriend. He said he would die for me that’s how much he loved me.
“I didn’t know what to do. He said he excepted [sic] my apoligy [sic] but if I ever did it again (it being disrespect him,) he didn’t know what he’d do. We were talking for about 2-3 hours. I went out into the living room and helped the kids do their homework. It’s about 8:30 P.M. Thursday. Tim’s in the room and sometimes he would come out and look out the window on the front door. I put the kids to bed at 10:00.
“Tim was talking to his mom on the phone and laying across the bed. I was laying next to him watching T.V. I was dosing [sic] off to sleep. He woke me up about 12:00 and said he was going to Flint, he’ll be back in a little while. I said ‘ok.’ He kept asking me why was I looking at him like I was. I said ‘like what? It’s the only way I know how to look.’ He looked at me funny. I smiled at him and kissed him. I didn’t want him to know I was scared of him, I sat on my bed, my back to the headboard and the .32 pistol in my reach under the pillow (just in case he come back to do anything). I kept dosin [sic] off. I didn’t want to sleep. Had to watch the kids. Couldn’t let anything happen to them. They’re all I got.
“Tim came back about 6:30 am Friday. He packed a bag of clean clothes and said he was gong [sic] to Flint. He took the Cadillac. He put Nancys [sic] things in the trunk. He said he’ll call later. I told him if I didn’t answer the phone, I’ll be asleep (I hadn’t slept very much since Sunday. Hard to sleep on a Greyhound bus). He left about 7:00 am and I woke the kids up about 7:10 and got them ready for school. When they left at 7:55, I layed [sic] on my bed. I didn’t wake up until the kids got home, at 3:30.
“Lit’l Man (Jesse) was playing outside and Jesseca was waiting for her Aunt to pick her up so they could go to the mall. I looked on the caller I.D. I didn’t see any number that looked like it might have been Tim calling. The kids and Stephie came about 3:50. She took Jesseca and Lit’l Man with her to the mall. I think I fell asleep again.
“It was around 5:00 or so when I talked to Tim. He told me to meet him in Pontiac. I went and met him that’s when he told me they found Nancys [sic] body and he was real scared. He wanted some dope so I was to get it. He’d call me at 7:00 and then we’d go from there.
“He called me and I met him on my way to Rochester. He washed my car and we talked for a few minutes. After I went to Rochester if the kids were going to stay the night with their aunt, then I was going to meet him at his uncles [sic] in Flint. If I wasn’t coming, I would talk to him later. If they were sleeping the night, then I would come up there. If I wasn’t there at 10:30, he would call me at 11:00. If I didn’t answer the phone, then he knew I was on my way. If I didn’t answer, then I apparently was coming because the kids would be home.
“When I talked to him at the car wash, he told me to go back home and get the battery acid and needles from the basement and bring them to Flint when I came. That’s why I was at the house when the police came. I was getting the acid and Hennessy [sic] to take with me to Flint.”