Taking Your Power Back: Updates, Unanswered Cases, and What Comes Next

Season 3, Episode 4 dives deep into what it means to take your power back—emotionally, physically, and in the aftermath of trauma. Tiffany opens up about the realities of domestic violence, the strength it takes to reclaim your voice, and the importance of community support.

This episode also brings major updates on several cases listeners have been following closely, including Anna Kepner, Summer Wells, and the ongoing fallout surrounding Alec Murdaugh. Plus, Tiffany reveals upcoming podcast guests, new advocacy collaborations, and what’s ahead for True Crime with Tiff Kline.

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Hey guys, it's true crime with Tiff Klein giving criminals the disrespect they deserve. And we have a criminal today that I'm going to give much disrespect to. So today's my birthday, and I have some great news to share before I get into it. I have been lining people up on my podcast between now and the end of the summer. And the response I got is amazing. I am just blown away. Last week I got to record Joanne Lowitzer for almost two hours talking about how her daughter Allie went missing. I learned so much more. And I just want answers for her. She comes to Cremcon every year to raise awareness, to see. She has no leads. She has no information. And this happened in spring, Texas of 2010. Her daughter just vanished. So if you want to check out that episode, that was last week. And I do have a GoFundMe up on my True Crime with TIFF Klein Facebook page to get funds raised for her and Maggie, the mother of Brittany Phillips, whose life was taken in 2004 in Oklahoma. They come to CramCon every year. They spend every dime they have to get there to raise awareness. And if you guys can check that out, I'd greatly appreciate it. But I also want to give a shout out to my friend Hope Hootin. Awesome stuff going on, guys. Hope Hooten has a podcast called Voices Against Phillicide. And she also is known for Hope in the Pain on Instagram. Her children, Alec and Lydia's lives were unfortunately taken by their father. And she had a law passed in Arizona to protect other children with domestic violence situations in the court of law. And I just wanted to give her a huge, huge shout out because she has taken her pain, taken her tragedy, taken every ounce of strength, every ounce of love she has for her kids, and turned it into helping other people. And that's what we're all doing, right? We're all trying to just make this world a better place. I am just so unbelievable, I can't even say it, unbelievably proud of her. I've met Hope through um Crime Con with a group of other girls, and she's just amazing. I bought her book. I need to, I need to read it. Um she signed it for me. So I always want to support Hope. If you go to my Facebook pages, you'll see me promoting her. Um, and again, Hope, congratulations on getting that law passed because you're doing amazing things, unfortunately, with your own trauma. Um, but what you're doing matters. And you're doing this so nobody else has to have the same horrors happen to them. So God bless you. Um hope will be on my podcast. I'm actually recording with her this Saturday at noon. It's I don't do my podcasts live, so it will be pre-recorded. Um, I'm gonna try to do video. I don't do them often because it usually takes forever to pull the audio and my video messes up sometimes. But this is why I'm doing this one because I need to work out some kinks. Um, but the the ex the response I got when I put up last week, I would like people to be on my podcast, whether they're, you know, nonprofit foundations, their advocacy programs, their domestic violence survivors and victims, families of um lives who have were taken by domestic violence, other podcasters, people in the true crime world. And I'm blown away with the response that I got. Um I also have another project called Turning the Corner with Clients Corner, and it's more about the missing people, the advocacies, um, and raising awareness on other things, not just true crime. Um, I'm gonna be setting that podcast up, but that's something I've had in my back pocket for a while. And again, I'm I'm already booked through August with recordings, and I'm gonna go down a list and tell you who's coming up on my podcast. Um, I have the dates um on my phone, but I'm just gonna give you some idea of who's coming on and what to look forward to. The the past year I've done a lot of solo episodes and had my friend Aspen on twice and then um Joanne Lowitzer. But I have a I have a cast and crew coming up. So I just want to thank them all for giving me the opportunity to learn more about them and their mission and their goals and to highlight the things that they're working on. Um, but it's an honor to know every single one of them. And starting tomorrow night, I'm actually recording Candace Lowe. She's the family advocate of La Clark's family. Lala Clark went missing in my area, Wilkes Bear PA, in January of 2026. Her body was found in February 2026. Her aunt was taken into custody. Her aunt had a PFA, she was not allowed near Lala, and unfortunately, she took Lala's life. So Candace will be on my podcast tomorrow night. It will air over the weekend. Um, there is a gag order coming up because of the court hearings, and until all that's over, Candace won't be allowed to talk about anything. So we'll do this episode and we'll we'll go start to finish on what happened, how it happened, how this all got started up until today. Um, and I've been in contact with Candace since day one, since January 16th, 2026. And um, I've been riding this journey with her, but um, she's gonna be talking about everything she can that she's allowed to talk about that's not going to, you know, interrupt the investigation. And she's gonna be very cautious of that, so will I. And if you guys go back on my podcast, season two, I did three episodes about La La. Um, and one was reading the 27-page affidavit word for word. I did have permission from Candace to do that. It is graphic, but they want the truth out there, so I did them that favor. Um, but these are the ones I can confirm that I have scheduled. So again, I have Candace Love coming on tomorrow to talk about Lala Clark. I have Jazz from Missing in America, Danny After Dark. She's the true crime book club queen. I love Danny. Heather Lane, the sister of Caitlin Harp, her twin sister's life was taken by domestic violence in my area, June of 2025. I just met her at an event we both smoke spoke at for domestic violence. Um, we I did Joanne Lowitzer already, but I'm still gonna try to get Anna Sully in from kitchen um table research. She was supposed to be on with Joanne and I last week, but she had some personal issues going on. So I think her baby might be coming a little early. I was so amazed that she came to Crime Con eight months pregnant. I was wow. Um, my friend Melissa Velasquez, um, she's a domestic violence survivor. She's ready and open and ready to tell her story, and I am allowed to say her name. She gave me that permission. Um, and she actually dealt with somebody that I dated a year or two before I met him. And um the screenshots match up to mine. So that will be coming. Um, but she has her own her own stories besides that that she wants to talk about. Um, Amy Belcher, a domestic violence survivor from Scranton, she contacted me, wanting to be on my podcast. Again, I have her permission to say her name. Um Greg Schiller of Child Rescue Coalition. I met him at True Um at Crime Con. And he's been following me, and it was a pleasure to meet him. So we set up a podcast for late July, and I'm looking forward to talking to him. He is cracking criminals left and right with tracking devices, um, busting people that are um being predators to children. So I'm looking forward to talking to him. Excuse me. My friend Michelle from Florida. I met her at CrimeCon, Denver. And she said she's ready to tell her story and she trusts me and wants to be heard. And um, again, I have her permission, but she um she's ready to speak, and this will be her first time telling her story. Megan Gillette of Voice is unbroken. She hosted a domestic violence event in Scranton on June 15th that I spoke at. I met her years ago, never knew she was a victim and survivor, and um she'll be on because we want to talk about how the event went and she's gonna tell her story as well. Again, Hope Hooten of Hope in the Pain and Voices of Philippide. Amazing woman. She's gonna be featured. And then I have three anonymous speakers who cannot say their names or locations due to safety. Um, this is what happens when you're in domestic violence relationships and they want to speak, they want to be heard, they just want to tell their story and hopefully that it helps them and other people. So we will keep them anonymous, but they are going to be on an audio podcast. And I had recently just finished an episode two weeks ago about missing man Tyler Doyle of South Carolina. He went missing in 2023. Um, his dad reached out to me and sent me all the information and the facts. I did a podcast, they made a video, and his dad was pleased with that. Um, this this was one of the big cases that went on in this country. I never heard of it. Um, and just because I didn't or that it happened three years ago doesn't mean they don't need the answers. Um, it was ruled an accident, and the family doesn't agree with that. So I'm helping him look into that. Um, Zachary Mallory, he reached out to me. Um, he's a podcast host of Rise Above Justice Movement. We're gonna be discussing topics of the LGBTQ, domestic violence, sexual assault, gun violence, and navigating police. He comes from a line of survivors and working on getting a victim advocate credential. And I'm working behind the scenes with the mother of Adam Leischer, Farah Owen. Um, she requested that I do this solo. She's giving me information behind the scenes. It's a big case, it wasn't properly investigated. She's pleading for my help. So I'm working on that in the background. And I told her it's gonna be a little while, um, but I'm doing my best. I'm also going to have Nicole and Jemmy, pathologist, on my podcast. And I've been following Nicole, oh God, for a very long time. And I finally got to meet her at Crancon, and she's from Philly, and she saw my book, and I got to ask her, like, what was the like weirdest thing you ever found in the human body? And she said it was a gift bag in somebody's stomach, like a birthday gift bag. And I was like, How? How does that even happen? So, like, I'm excited to get her on because I need to know more to this story of how someone's birthday gift bag gets in someone's stomach. She says they were cleaning it off and they didn't know what it was until it was like completely like clean. It was just like black sludge or something. So I'm looking forward to that. Um, Cheryl McCollum, crime scene investigator, hall of fame. You may know her from Nancy Grace, you may know her from TikTok, you may know her from Crime Con. And um, she just wrote a book, Swans Don't Swim in a Sewer, amazing book. She spoke to a woman's father. Her name was Melissa Wolfenbarger, and her father was known as the Flint River Killer, and he needed her help to help solve his daughter's murder. So if you haven't read that book already, I highly recommend it. And she's gonna be on my podcast. But she also um through through mutual connections, a woman named Tina Patton, who is the sister of Melissa Wolfenbarger, the other daughter of the Flint River killer, reached out to me wanting to tell her domestic violence story and also talk about Melissa's story. So that's coming up. I also have Dr. Praya Bandry coming on my podcast. She's a medical examiner. I cannot wait to pick her brain, no pun intended. I got to meet her briefly at CrimeCon Vegas in passing, giving each other stickers, and then that was it. Um, so I'm looking forward to that. She's been a big supporter of mine. My dear friend Aspen Connor. You guys might know Aspen. He's my partner in crime, no pun intended, and he's been on my podcast twice already. People keep asking him to come back. Um, he sat in on the trial of Libby and Abby of the Delphi case of Indiana. He knows their families pretty well, and he just gave us a little bit of insight on who Abby and Libby were, who their families are, and some of the background of the trial. But we have a lot to do. We're gonna do a podcast that talks about our time at CrimeCon and other projects that we're working on. Um and then today, my birthday, one of the sweetest women in the world got back to me on Facebook. And you guys may know her as Kimmy Joe Morgan, the wife, the heart, the soul behind Joe Scott Morgan. He always gives her the credit, credit's due. Um, when I got to Krem Con, Joe Scott is my favorite. He's my favorite podcaster. He's in the entire industry, he's my favorite. I always tell people if you don't like Joe Scott Morgan, which I've never heard anybody say, but if you don't like him, I'm gonna judge your character very strongly. Like, if you don't like Joe Scott, there's something wrong with your character. Because Joe Scott is the most humble, honest, compassionate, empathetic man I have ever met in my life. And he's just full of knowledge. He's a distinguished scholar. He is a forensic professor at Jack State University. He's done over 7,000 autopsies. He's on Nancy Grace all the time, News Nation, sometimes Court TV. Um, and he does have a podcast called Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan. I've met him twice in Denver and Vegas, and I talked to his wife a lot on Facebook. Um, and we Joe and I also exchanged uh engagement, if you will, on Facebook and TikTok and Instagram. And this year when I saw him again at CurringCon, I wanted to introduce him to my mom. And he stopped and he's like, Tiff Clyde. And he like my mom said he looked like he lit up like he saw Santa. And he was so like, he made me feel special. And I was there to see him, you know what I mean? And it it just shows that we're not numbers to these people, we're not just another follower or podcast listener, and they truly appreciate our help. You know, they call us couch detectives or online sleuths, but even Nancy Grace will say um a lot of us have helped solve cases. So they thank us. And we're very loyal. We're very loyal to these people, and they're loyal to us. And um, I am just I don't have words for this one because I I said this three years ago. I said it's my goal to have Joe Scott Morgan, show McComb, Nicole, and Gimme on my podcast in Nancy Grace. I'm working on Nancy Grace. That might be another project off to the side that I'm I can't talk about right now, but um something that may come about because I talked to her assistant again in Vegas, who I'd met in Denver. And her assistant in Denver took my phone last year and put her number in it. And she's like, here, here's my number, blah, blah, blah. So when I approached her this year, she's like, oh my God, that is my number. She's like, I'm sorry. You know, I talked to a million people, and I'm like, no, it's okay. And like, like, she I gave her a case that's going on in my local area, and she copied me on the email to Nancy Grace's producer, and he's looking into it. And that's all I'm gonna say right now. So stay tuned for that. But um, you know, there's more people messaging me that want to be on my podcast just from this area, from all over. My friend Erica works in a prison and she wants to anonymously um talk about her experience working there, but we're not gonna say where, we're not gonna say what she does, we're not going to give any kind of clue on where she is because we have to protect her too. Um, another woman I met through my friend Wendy is her name is Vicky. She's been messaging me because she wants to talk about her sister's murder from my area, who um would be 54 on July 3rd. And it's there's a documentary on YouTube called I Killed Her for $40, the horrific murder of Heather Stigolano. Um she was on her story was on Forensic Files, and there's one on Apple TV and Peacock. It's The Secrets of the Morgue season two, The Beast and the Beauty on Peacock. Forensic Files season two, episode 13, Pressed for Crime. She's featured on that one. Um, so they're right here from my area, and I'll be having her on my podcast, and there's more to come. Just trying to work out the timing to record everybody. Um, let me make sure I didn't forget anybody. Let me look in my phone. So we're looking at oh, Ari said the anonymous, the three anonymous women. Um a girl I know from my area, Rebecca. She wants to tell her story on domestic violence.

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My friend, um well, I can't say that name.

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There's a few other domestic violence survivors that want to talk on my podcast. I just can't name them. Um, and I'm waiting to confirm like about seven or eight more, including Maggie, Brittany Phillips' mom, who does caravan to catch a killer. She's she just completed her 25th trip when I saw her at CrimeCon, and she's driven 340,000 miles to help other people help find their missing loved ones and get answers to cold cases. Um there's a possibility that two women named Holly and Candy will be on my podcast to talk about a missing woman from my area in Wilkes Bear, Amy Joe Ogren. So we're waiting to confirm that. Um and a few others. So it's a good lineup, man. Like I'm I'm impressed, I am honored, I am humble, I I appreciate this, and there's just gonna be a lot of conversation bringing awareness to a lot of things, and it just so cool to know people that work in this field see horrific things every day. Uh it's also an honor to talk to victims and survivors because I am one. Well, I'm a survivor. I don't like to call myself a victim even though I'm still being victimized of uh a PFA that has been violated. But I'm a survivor of two abusive relationships. Um, and I'm going to take the audio off the video that somebody recorded and turn it into a podcast once I get in touch with Megan. Um this is amazing. And I'm booked literally like now until August, at least one or two a week. And it's I'm excited to meet every single one of these people. I mean, I've met most of them, but there's some I've never talked to before. And I always ask them permission to use their name in my advertising if I can tell their, you know, use their name on my podcast, if they want audio or video. So I really try to respect their wishes. Um, but they're that's that's what's coming up, guys, on True Crime with TIFF clients. So I'm sure we're gonna be giving a lot of criminals the disrespect they deserve. Um, oh, and somebody else, Cindy, who is a family advocate for Jason Landry. You guys, I know who go goes to Cremcon, I know you all know who Jason Landry is. He went missing in um Texas on December 13th, 2020. And there's been no tips, no leads, and um he just vanished. So here's another one. Cindy's going to be on my podcast. We're gonna be talking about him, and I'd rather get it straight from like if I can talk to advocates or family, I'd rather have them tell the story than me. Sometimes I just don't feel right telling the story, and I don't want a chance getting things mixed up. So if I Have the opportunity to have them speak. I that's what I've been doing. Um other than that, I mean, we already talked about crime con when I got back. Life's been a little hectic the past few weeks, but um, I finally got off training with my new insurance agent career. Um so I've been focusing on that, and there's gonna be events coming up for that where you guys can come to Free Lunch and Learns and learn more about pet insurance, home and auto insurance, life insurance, boat, motorcycle, ATV, pet jewelry. I'm licensed in the state of Pennsylvania and Ohio. So if you listeners out there need shopping around, I can shop over 50 carriers, and all I do is send you a text, you fill it out, it takes 30 seconds, it sends me your current coverage, and I start shopping for you. It's free. It doesn't hurt to just try and see if I can save you some money because we all know this economy sucks. So hit me up, DM me, email me true crimetiffcline gmail.com or DM me on Facebook or Instagram if you'd like me to shop for you. Again, I'm licensed in the state of Pennsylvania and Ohio. So if you're in either of those two states, I can help you. Again, I do pet insurance, jewelry, boat, ATV, RV, home, auto, um, motorcycle, renters, small business. I mean, if you can buy it, drink it, collect it, or pet it, I could probably insure it. So um keep me in mind for your insurance needs. I would love to try to help you out. Um so let's get to it. So we're gonna start backwards a little bit because I'm a little behind on my podcasts because I just have a lot going on. Um, June 12th was the 32nd anniversary of the murder of Ron Goldman and Nicole Simpson. You guys remember that from June 12th, 1994? It was probably the biggest and first mass media true crime coverage story that the US experienced. I mean, the Mendez Brothers was really the first, I want to say, but like OJ put this, this was like media frenzy. And then, you know, you had John Binet and you had Lacey Peterson and you had KC Anthony and you had Shenan Walks and you had Gabby Petito, and it's just a a line of um mass media chaos. And um, so we, you know, we want to look back on that. The media, it was the media overshadowed who they actually were. And sometimes you know, you gotta strip away the sensationalism and remember who the victims were. And Nicole and Ron were more than just a headline on a tabloid that were murdered in California on a June night. Nicole was more than O.J. Simpson's ex-wife. And um, I did read his book if I did it. And I know for some this could be a very sensitive subject. I read it all in one day, and I said, you know, Rome isn't built in a day. But I read that book in one day. And it what's weird about it is I have had it for almost two years, and I just couldn't get past like the first chapter. I would get distracted, or I was, you know, I just it wasn't getting my attention enough to be able to focus. And then one day I said, you know what, that's it. I'm reading his book, I'm reading it today. And I did, and it was June 13th that I actually did that. So the day after Nicole and Rod were murdered. And um, you know, the whole book is hypothetical if he did it, and he gives his side and says, This is what she did, vice versa. And you know, we never really got Nicole's side, and never, and please don't put words in my mouth. Never have I ever said that she was an abuser, never have I ever said that she just abused him for no reason. However, I'm an honest person, and I will say what I think, and I think she had reactive abuse because I went through it. You get pushed to a boiling point, and you're gaslit and manipulated so much that you literally go nuts, and you have all this anger and rage, and you don't know what else to do. So when you're with an abuser, you pick up language, body language, words, tactics, tools, and you stick them all in your back pocket and you learn to beat them at their own game. I had made a comment and I apologized to the person offended that I said I think Nicole was an abuser as well, but I didn't mean it in a way where she was just abusive to be abusive and did she did not deserve it. No matter what she did, no one's life is worth taking. I was relating it to my own personal reactive abuse, understanding where it comes from, why people act out the way they do, if he said what the way she acted is the truth. And we all we all know it's probably 99.9% bullshit. But let's just say hypothetically, like he does, that her reactions to him, I'm gonna go ahead and say were reactive abuse, not abusive towards him, but just reactive abuse. Um, you know, she knew she knew how to trigger him, she knew how to push his buttons probably, and it seemed a little bit that they were both using the kids as pawns. Um if what he's saying is true. And I I don't think what he's saying is true, but I'm trying to create this hypothetical version like he did in the book of, okay, he's saying this, but let's not say she's just like this. Let's let's explain the other side, which was what I was trying to do, on why she's probably acting this way. Not because she's a malicious person, not because she's an abuser, not because she is just a bad person. It's she got hypothetically, because I've lived it, pushed to a point where you can't think if you want to wear red or blue. You can't decide if you should do the dishes or stay in bed. You don't know how to cash a check because your brain is so mush that your emotions just take over. And that's where I was getting at. Um, I became a person I didn't recognize. I'm sure she did too. And even her close friends and family said they didn't recognize her. Um and I became verbally abusive. I became like always trying to beat somebody at their game because it was a survival skill. I didn't do it to be a bad person, to be a narcissist, to be an abuser. I did it as survival. And that's my intent behind what I said. Um, if she did do anything intentional, it was love her kids and try and move on with her life. But if she did what he said she did, I don't I'm never saying that she did it just to be a bad person. She did it because she was pushed to a point where her body, mind, and soul just probably couldn't take anymore and reacted out of rage, fear, sadness, trauma, anger, confusion, emptiness. And no, it's no excuse to take our life. Um, so I do want to apologize to that person that that was not my intent behind my comment. But I do think talking about reactive abuse is just as important as talking about abuse. Because when you're in it and you don't recognize yourself, you can't eat, you can't sleep. I think I lost like 80 pounds in like five or six months because I didn't eat. My nerves were shot, I was constantly shaking. Thank God I worked for myself because I could just lay in bed all day. Um, and I would get I would just become so mean and angry and irritable and just vulgar with my mouth. Like, and I was, I would always, he would hurt me, and then I would have to hurt him back. Like, and I don't want to be that person. I don't like to be that person, but if you pushed me far enough, I become that person, but I give you years of warning. Don't poke the bear, don't poke the bear, don't poke the bear. And then what do you do? You get a you get an um electric prod and you poke the bear, and then I bite, and then I'm I'm the problem. No, I can only take so much as a human. Our brains and our bodies and our nervous system can only take so much as a human. So if she reacted in ways that weren't favorable to him it was reactive abuse. But I think down deep inside, I think she did love him. And I do think that, well, I don't know, I wasn't there. There is a there is a trauma bond there. Um but it I'm incredibly sorry for the things that happened to her and to her and Ron and for someone taking my context my intent and my um perspective on it out of context because I never put shame or blame on a victim. So I just wanted to say that. Um but reactive abuse is a thing, it's real, and it needs to be talked about because when you're doing it, you might feel like you're going insane. Like you nobody you don't know yourself. And people are just like, you're not who you used to be. And you feel like it's like an out-of-body experience, like you disassociate. But looking back, like I I can remember acting certain ways and doing certain things just to piss them off. Because it was just all this pent up. I mean, I'm talking about my ex from from 2009 and 2018. It was just all this pent-up anger and resentment and jealousy and rage. And I became abusive verbally. And um, I don't like being that way. And then with my second abusive ex from 2018 to 2024, um, he's psychologically abusive. So the class A narcissist, a degree in psychology, but thinks people who get go get help are weak. Explain that one to me. Um plots and plans, studies people, manipulates, gaslights. You can give him proof, and he'll literally look at you and say, believe whatever you want. Or he'll get mad at the person who told you the truth so you don't get hurt, and then he gets mad at them for being honest with me. And it's a whole thing. Um, my reactive abuse to him, I didn't really have any unless I really knew I was right about proving something right that he made me feel crazy for, telling me I was neurotic, I'm a liar, I'm bipolar, I'm this, that, and the other, because he didn't want to take accountability and cheated. And I had the proof and he didn't like it. Oh, believe whatever you want. Guys, when a guy says, believe whatever you want, that is the classic, I did exactly what you're accusing me of. Run if you hear them say that. They're they're shifting the blame on you, they take no accountability, they're gaslighting you to make you feel like you're crazy, and they're not gonna sit and feel remorse about anything. This one was a narcissistic sociopath. And I had reactive abuse in a way where I would scream when I lost my shit. And I don't like being that way. And towards the end, and over a six-year period, I warned him and I warned him, and I warned him, and I warned him, and I warned him don't do this, don't do this, don't do this, don't do this. And it was in one ear, out the other. If you do this, this is what I'm gonna do. If you do this, this is how I'm gonna react. Well, I guess he was calling my bluff and underestimated me, and because everybody in his life looked the other way and never hold this kid accountable, he never had a consequence, he always got away with everything, and then he met me. So, needless to say, he now has a PFA on him that was put in January 2025 for stalking and harassment, and then violated it in July of 2025 and violated it in person for stalking and harassment girlfriend. I mean, that that makes it even better because now, like, she's going along with it, doesn't think there's anything wrong with it, and then shows up to court with him to support him. Yeah, because I'll be going to court to support my boyfriend whose ex is putting a PFA against him. What? Make that make sense! What? I didn't have a lawyer the two times. He did, I didn't. I still won because I had receipts, I had screenshots, I had text messages, I had this, that, and the other. I don't need a lawyer when I know what I'm doing and what I'm saying is 100% the truth. And people made me out to be crazy and victim and oh, you're just a bitter ex until I had the proof. So I changed my locks. I put cameras on my house because things were going weird in out in and outside around my house. And as soon as I did that, everything stopped. So he's starting to shit again. January is flying on my social media. And then yesterday, the day before my birthday, had to start a shit again. So this time I screenshotted his name in my stories, tagged him in it, and said, so and so stalking and harassing me again. I guess it's time for another police report. And I called the cops and filed a police report, and they are in touch with the district attorney. And where it goes from here, I'm not sure. Um, but I sent screenshots, I sent proof, I sent screenshots from the past year of him and his girlfriend stalking me online under fake accounts, under user XYZ2597, and then underneath you can see his girlfriend's name. Like, I'm not dumb. Like, this kid should have known. I pay attention to detail, I watch true crime, I should have been a crime scene investigator. I'm always a step ahead of this kid. And every time I've predicted something, from the time I met him until today, I have been right about every single thing. And people are like, wow, you called that. Wow, you just said that a few weeks ago. Oh man, you were right. You even got the date right. Because when you study people's patterns, they think they're so mysterious, and they think that no one understands them and no one sees. I see right through the bullshit. It's not my first rodeo, and I think those are one of the reasons why he hated me so much because I saw right through his shit, didn't fall for it, didn't look the other way, didn't brush myself under the rug. And even one time he was being so cruel to me, and his mother says, just walk away when he's like that. The rage. I looked at her and I went, the hell I will. I said, My mother didn't raise me to be a doormat. So you could tell it stems from the family. So he's still stalking me. It's just reported again for the third time. Um, and the cop I talked to yesterday is in touch with the DA. And um actually, I also got a call from the senator's office of Marty Flynn. And um they want me to come in and have a nice talk with them to see if they can help resolve my issues I've been having, that enough punishment hasn't been given as a consequence, so to speak. And I wrote them a nice email. It's very polite, very like, this is what's been going on. I've emailed DAs, I've emailed the governor, I've emailed reps, legislatures, police departments. Um, I've gone on my podcasts, I spoke at events about all this. I even got screamed up by a chief of police in another jurisdiction and screamed back at him because he was bullying me. And um, in the end, I gave him proof and he came down a little bit. Um when I'm right, I'm right. But when I'm wrong, I'll I'll take the full accountability. But if I'm right, I'm standing on it. I'm not gonna defend myself. I'm not going to beg for forgiveness. I'm not going to walk on eggshells. I'm not going to look the other way. I'm not going to plead and beg someone. I'm just not. I when I'm right and I have the proof, I stand by it. So I have about two years of proof of screenshots. And um I'll also be talking to the senator's office about getting laws changed for PSPFAs in Pennsylvania, hopefully a worldwide or countrywide thing, where social media stocking surveillance is taken more seriously and there's harder consequences, and getting education on domestic violence for local police departments. Um and just having stricter laws. Like, I think if you violate it one time, that's it. You go to jail. You don't get this, you can violate it two, three, three, four, five, six, seven times, and then we'll do something. Because by the time you do something, it's too late and someone's usually dead. So, my goal, you violate it one time, that's it. You're going to jail for a year. There's no ifs, ands, or buts. If there's a proof and there's legitimate reason that you're making someone feel unsafe, you go to jail for a year. Now we have this thing here where you get busted two, three times, you go on probation for six months, or you go to jail. Most of the time, the first one they give you a fine. The second one, it's usually probation, and then the third one, you usually end up in jail. And when I say probation, that means nowhere they serve alcohol. No bars, no casinos, can't sit at a bar in a restaurant. So I'm just I'm just putting that out there for those who like to listen while stalking me, not always watching me. So I'm making that very clear that it is in the hands of the district attorney right now, because I've had it. And um this PFA isn't effect until January. And my therapist and a few others are on writing a letter to get that extended because it affects my mental health. So I will give you an update when that happens. But that's what I'm working on. My goal is, you know, and I know it might not necessarily help me in this time, but my goal is other people don't have to deal with this. The mental anguish, the constant just, I want peace. Like, leave me alone. Like I broke up with you, and you can't take it because you lost control. I mean, you had a girlfriend who thought it was funny, like those two clowns, like you you both picked a winner, let me tell you. So I could say so much, and it takes all I have not to use names. Ugh. But if you know me, you know. And I'm not trying to convince anybody of what happened because I have the proof and I lived it, but I it goes back to the reactive abuse. I understand why victims can seem and appear abusive, and maybe those are the words I should have said to an outside source because I don't have the full information or understand why somebody's acting that way. So um I just wanted to bring attention to that. And if you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, please call the 24-7 helpline 1-800-799-safe. Moving on, um, there has been updates of Nancy Guthrie, the um letters that the ransom notes saying that she passed away from health or an accident. I haven't really followed that whole case, and people have asked me and asked me and asked me, and there was so much going on with it. It was changing every day. I couldn't keep up. But then Nancy Grace brought everything together um to at CrimeCon to tell us what she thought. And um, so there's been some tips, I guess, with where she possibly could be buried or what happened to her. Um, we have Anna Kepner news. Anna Kepner's stepbrother, who took her life on that cruise ship, was arraigned and taken into custody. And he is looking at charges as an adult, not a juvenile. So he could be going away for life. Um, I'm not quite sure on where that stands, but um, you know, I follow Court TV a lot, and she was reportedly dead November 2025, according to Court TV and all the other sources we've seen on a carnival cruise ship. She was a cheerleader from Florida. She was vacationing with her father's stepmother, or I'm sorry, her father's stepmother, and three step siblings. She has she had made reports that she didn't feel comfortable with him. It was on camera that he was on top of her and her boyfriend saw it on FaceTime. Um, and then they stuck them in the room together and he ended up taking her life. But they found possibly DNA that's not his. So I'm looking forward to seeing where that comes from. Um, obviously, his name's Thomas Hudson. They're trying him as an adult, so that's why they're using his name, even though he's 16. He did plead non-guilty um for murder and sexual abuse charges. So that was the that's the last update I have. There's not a lot, but they think maybe two people were involved, but he definitely. So we're waiting on that update. Um Alec Murdoch's retrial hearing is sentencing or hearing date, I guess, is coming in July in Lexington County, South Carolina. Um we'll be finding out when that date's gonna be. I know that the county clerk asked the court to drop the charges that Alec Murdoch has against her for causing a mistrial. And we're waiting on that. And um what else? The crash has crashed out. I don't think people care anymore about McKenzie Sherilla. I would like to call the Dollar Tree Kylie Jenner version. Um we care about Devon or Davian and Dominic, and their sisters are out there doing big things on the Big Sister Onge podcast, and they're getting laws changed and supporting them that they you know lost their lives because of this little witch. Um, and then she just got denied a parole hearing for the state of Ohio. So kudos to Ohio. Um she's they didn't help her make that documentary, they did not help her case whatsoever. And I don't know what they thought they were doing, but all that matters now is that Davien and Dominic get the justice and laws change, so things like this can't happen. It's the son of Sam Law, where um it was established in Ohio, and people can't make money off victims, tragedies. So someone like McKenzie in prison can't make money off documentaries, can't make money off books, can't make money off podcasts. And if the money is raised, it goes back to the victims' families. So they're trying to strengthen those loopholes in the Son of Sam law. Um, so that's what they're working on. So good for them. Um Summer Wells has been brought back up lately. We've been seeing, I know Brian Enton has been posting um because he's he's covered that case since the beginning, and I love Brian Enton. And there were some tips brought in that maybe they know where she's gonna be. Um I think that's it though. Like, we oh, the maternal instinct documentary, let's talk about that for a second. I to me, I I didn't, it wasn't anything crazy to me. Um, it's what's crazy is that our fiancee didn't know she was pregnant and how many times she lied saying she was pregnant when she had a hysterectomy and everybody knew she couldn't get pregnant, and then the husband just I wouldn't call that true crime, I call that more of just mental health issue. Um, I haven't really watched anything lately, documentary-wise. Crum was a blast, so I came back and I kind of just took a step back from that. Um I'm trying to look to see what's in my feed because I do share things. Oh, how about the um Travis Turner saying that he was that high school football coach that went missing, like Nancy Gray says, and um he's alive and hiding somewhere that there were tips brought in that he is being um hidden and the US Marshall, there's a US Marshall's manhunt, so that's going on.

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Um I'll just go through here.

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Uh, father of Harmony Montgomery, his conviction for murder was overturned. People are pissed. I I'm pissed. That little girl just you know, Harmony, she you always see her on Facebook with the pigtails and the big glasses and the big little smile, and was killed by abuse from her dad, and then he carried her out in a duffel bag and then put her in a sealant tile, and then kept her at work in a bag. And his girlfriend eventually admitted to seeing it and witnessing it, not doing anything about it. So she went to jail, I believe. But less sentence, and um he got he won't be getting out because he has like other charges, but the fact that they overturned that is disgusting. Like it's just um Ohio, even though I just congratulated them, they need a swift kick in their ass. And I'm from Ohio originally, so Ohio Supreme Court just voted six to one to give people convicted of domestic violence a path to regain access to firearms. I'm gonna say that one more time. Ohio Supreme Court voted six to one, giving people that are convicted of domestic violence a path to regain access to firearms. So they're not just dangerous with their hands. Now they're being told, go, go ahead and buy that gun. Because you already have been convicted of domestic violence. We trust you to have a firearm. That's what they're saying. So if they have the right to regain access to a firearm, then we as women and men who are abused should have the right to fucking bury their asses. Sorry, not sorry. So you're giving them permission to go get a gun, but I can't kill him in self-defense or I go to I go to jail. No, no, no, I'm not sitting with that. And I swear if Pennsylvania does that, I'm gonna throw up. Um that's just disgusting. And what gets me is like, I'm so happy that these states are following suit of repetitive um violators of domestic violence, have to register like sexual abuse predators. No, I I don't agree with the repetitive or repetitive actions. I think it's a one and done. You get charged with sexual abuse one time, you're in the system of Megan's law, and you have to register for life. Domestic violence, whether it's emotional, financial, sexual, physical, mental, verbal, it's all abuse, just like sexual abuse, and they should all be considered the consequences the same exact way. So as soon as you lay a hand on somebody, as soon as you get a PFA against you, as soon as the cops are called for domestic violence with proof, they should have to register just like sex sexual abusers. 100% because the first time could be the last time. There's no more cases than not with domestic violence. Yeah, there's a lot that goes on for years, but there's also a woman or man got abused the first time and it was the last time because they took their life. So now you're giving them chances to increase the odds of taking someone's life. That's so I'm hoping Pennsylvania does put this law into effect, but I'm also gonna bring that up to the senators when I speak to them in July about how they should implement the um bill to get passed that as soon as they're convicted, they have to go into a Megan's law. Because we as civilians should be aware of who abuses. And I guarantee you, more so women than men are gonna get on this website when they start dating somebody and they're gonna look them up. Because I know a lot of them who have kids do that for the sexual abuse. So I'm sorry, if I'm gonna date somebody and there's a registry online where I can go look, I'm going. And I'm gonna protect myself. And that's what needs to be done. So that's another thing I am gonna bring up at Marty Flynn's office when I talk to them about all these, you know, PFA um violations and making things tighter and having more consequences. This should be another one. Um, if you get a PFA filed against your ass, you should have to register forever because it just shows your character. And if the judge deems it enough to file you in the court as an abuser and you have a protection of abuse filed against you, that should be enough to have to register. Sorry, not sorry. So that's the things I'm working on because I'm tired of this shit. I am sick and tired of things just going in circles and people looking the other way and people kicking stuff under the rug. And well, don't say anything, you're just gonna start problems. It's not worth it. No, it is worth it because when people's lives are on the line, and I've always been that kid in school who sat with a kid that didn't have anybody else at the lunch table, didn't have anybody to sit with on the bus, were afraid to ask questions, so I asked for them, or maybe afraid to bring something up at work in the group meeting, and I raised it so it was talked about. I don't care. So I'm trying to get laws changed. And you guys know me when I make when I start a mission and I set a goal, I'm tunnel visioned and I work at it until I accomplish it. So this isn't gonna happen overnight, but it starts with a meeting and it starts with brainstorming and having someone hear me. So I thank them for giving me this opportunity to platform to discuss my frustrations, my ideas, and ways we can help everybody in the state of Pennsylvania and hopefully across the country. Um, other things going on. I really don't have any more updates on that. Um just everybody coming on to my podcast. Like, I'm so freaking excited. I'm excited for every single one of them. Not just one, not just the other, not just names. It's I'm excited to speak to every single person that wants to be on. And it's about them, it's their platform, it's their time. I'm just there to be a soundboard and interject with questions to help guide it along. Um I'm just happy they're trusting me to tell their story. And I'm honored. So thank you. Thank you for everybody, you know, supporting my podcast, supporting my missions, supporting my true crime stuff, supporting, you know, me speaking out against domestic violence. Thank you. Because it starts with one person, one voice, but when we all come together to support one another, it's unstoppable. Um, and to have that kind of support, it means the world to me. And um 3,733 downloads on my podcast, seasons one, two, and three. And I remember doing my first one being like, I'm never gonna get to like five. And it's it's not about how many downloads, it's about getting the message out. But when you see that many downloads, it means your message is getting out. So it comes full circle. I don't do it to make to monetize off of it, I don't do it to pay my bills. I do it because I just want people to know that they have a voice and I just like to talk about things. I'd like to meet people. And um, if I can do that for somebody, then that's all that matters. So with that, um, again, tomorrow night I'm recording Candace Lowe, Saturday, Hope Hooten. Um, go buy Cheryl McCollum's book, Swans Don't Swim in a Sewer. Check out Danny After Bark on YouTube if you love true crime books. I'm just trying to think of shout-outs off the top of my head. Um go follow Body Bags of Joseph Scott Morgan. Go file, go follow um Mother Knows Death on Instagram. That's Nicole and Jemmy's podcast with her daughter Maria. And um everybody else that you see me post, go support. Because I share them for a reason. And if I didn't, if I didn't, you know, go go help find Jason Landry. Go help find Allie Lowitzer and donate to the GoFundMe so Maggie and Joanne can get Dib CrimeCon to keep raising awareness on their daughters. Do something good for the world. You know, that's it. Just do something once a day, just one kind, even if it's just a gesture, it's a smile, it's sharing a missing person's flyer. Do that. And I made a TikTok video about sharing missing persons flyers, and I'm like, why don't people share them? Why do you just scroll by them as if they're just another post? That could be your daughter, your son, your grandma, your grandpa, your mom, your dad, your aunt, your uncle, your friend, your teacher, your lawyer, your dentist. If it came down to you knowing that person, you would want every single person who laid eyes on it and share it. Somebody said, Well, they're not from my area. So I said, Well, they're missing, so they could now be in your area. So you have to think in a perspective. When people go missing, they could be anywhere in the world. And you never know if someone's face that you posed was just in the shop right with their abuser or the person who took them hostage, and somebody recognizes their face. So, like, if you see a flyer, please just share it. I don't understand the logic of just scrolling by them. I don't know if it's because people just don't want to mess up their algorithm, which is a stupid moronic way not to share something. Um, maybe they're it's too sad for them because they know people who went missing. I don't know. But please just if you can, please, even if it's one a week, try to help people bring people home. Even if they're not alive anymore, somebody may know something that's gonna bring the parents some kind of closure. I don't really like that word, but some kind of answers and bring their loved ones home, even. So please do that. Please. I'm gonna wrap this up because I've been going on and yapping for an hour. Um, I will post the Lala Clark interview with um Candace Lowe over the weekend. Next week I will be posting the interview with Hope Hooten, so stay tuned. And I have the list of people I'm gonna be interviewing pinned on my Facebook page, True Crime with Tiff Klein. So please go follow my Facebook page. You can also find me on Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat. Um, and then if you want to start following my other podcast, I'm going to have out there. It's called Turning the Corner and Corners with a K. And you're gonna see a big orange ribbon that says hope, humanity, and healing. Um, that's gonna be my second podcast, and that's gonna talk more about missing people, issues in the world, um, and just bringing hope, healing, and humanity to people. More of a lighter topic, you know, than true crime, but I appreciate you all. We're gonna do great things in the year of being 38, because today already started off awesome, like getting a call from the senator's office, getting a podcast booked with Joe Scott Morgan. The restaurant I do a social media for gave me a slice of cake this morning and sang me happy birthday. My parents sent me flowers. My best friend Kim got me these awesome gifts last night and went out to dinner. It's truly been a peaceful day. And I worked, so it's it's it was exactly what I wanted. I just didn't want anybody's bullshit or um drama. I just wanted to be laid low because I was just in Vegas with my mom. So that for Crime Con, I considered my birthday and like my 20th high school graduation trip. Because the last time when I graduated high school was in 2006 and I was 18 in Hollywood. So that's where I spent my 18th birthday. So 20 years later, here I am. Um it's just been a ride, it's been a wild ride of the past 20 years. Where where I started, to what my goals were then, to what I did, to where I ended up is like you can't make things up, and I do firmly believe everything happens for a reason. I do believe that you meet people for a reason. I I believe you go through traumatic events for a reason. I believe that you have certain decisions you make, left or right, up or down, and within a split second, it changes everything. But I I think at the end of the day, it's all pre-planned. And I know, and I've been saying this since 2000, probably 2017. I've been on the right path of my life. Whereas like that synchronosity, everything lines up, and you just know this is what you're supposed to be doing, this is where you're supposed to be, this is the mission you're supposed to have. And yeah, like I don't, I'm not glorifying the success I went through. But if I didn't go through that, I I couldn't be helping other people because I wouldn't understand it. And the doors that it has opened, and I'm trust me, I am not sensationalizing domestic violence. So please nobody put words in my mouth. I'm gonna rephrase that. The things that I had to go through to be able to walk through other doors to help people is the way that I heal and I cope with what happened to me. If I know my voice and my actions are saving somebody else, then it was all worth it. And I think I had to go through it. I just I think everybody's placed on this earth for a reason. And I feel like I really found why I had to go through such bullshit and trauma and tragedy and abuse, and it didn't make sense at the time. But now that I'm out of it almost two years completely from all abuse, it makes sense because where I'm at today, I feel like I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be. And I have had to make a lot of changes in the past two years. I had to cut just about everybody out of my life that that was there, just about. I had to get a new job. I got, I took FMLA, I took four months off work. Thank God I had short-term disability. My therapist helped me get that, and I just relaxed. I slept. I slept so much that my body, it was like it was just in fight or flight mode for so long that it was just like, and I just slept and I slept and I slept. I didn't go to the bars, I didn't go out, I didn't go out to dinner, I didn't nothing. I didn't leave the house until I went home in November and December for the holidays. I stayed a hermit by myself. And sometimes you have to take that time to self-reflect. You have to be able to sit with your demons, you have to sit with your your past history, you have to sit with the thoughts. And that's the only way that that helped me. It got to a point where you couldn't ignore it anymore. And I did the work, I'm doing the work in therapy, on medication, have a good job, have a good support system, have healthy hobbies, and doing things to help change things the world. And but I wouldn't be doing any of this if I didn't go through the trauma. So that's what helps me heal. That's what helps me go, okay, now it makes sense. Because you, when you're in it, you sit there and go, I didn't deserve this. Why did this happen to me? Why did this happen to me? Why did this happen to me? It doesn't make sense. Why? I didn't deserve it. Now I'm like, okay, I know why this happened to me. I'm not happy that it happened to me. And I'm not glorifying or sensationalizing or thinking that it happened to me. So please don't put words in my mouth. All I'm getting at is, I understand now. And I use that to cope, I use that to heal, I use that to be a voice. And I used to have a really big backbone and a voice when I was a teenager. Kind of like where I'm at right now in my life. That's where I was, and I lost myself from 2009 to about 2025. And then one day the light bulb just came on, and I went, I'm back. And I stopped people pleasing. I started saying the word no. Did not matter if it pissed anybody off. I cut people out of my life, didn't care. I set boundaries with people. I told people how I felt. If you didn't like it, F off. I don't care. Uh, I did everything that I needed to do for me to protect myself and bring peace into my life. And um, but I found people to gravitate towards who also understand it. So it was it made it a lot easier to talk when I had people around me that could understand what I dealt with. And after I last left my most recent exes, these girls were coming out of the woodwork. Like, and I'm like, Well, where were you for the past six years? You know what I mean? Well, I didn't want to get involved. Well, maybe if you did, but then people are like, Well, you wouldn't have listened. Valid. When you're in that type of relationship, you don't want to believe what people are saying, and it's everybody else's fault. Valid. Uh now I'm like, give me the receipts, and like I see the And I'm like, this is the same conversations I had with him. Oh my God, this is the same situations I had with him. Oh my God, the exact phrasing, the words, the issues, the arguments, the conniving, the manipulation, the gaslighting, all in writing. And I'm like, and suddenly I don't feel alone anymore. The one before him was the physical abuser, financial abuser. Um, and I made my peace with him. And a lot of people don't understand that because he strangled me and abused me for nine years physically, mentally, verbally, emotionally, financially. And um I made my peace with him, and I think the difference is after a lot of self-discovery, because first I had to ask myself, why am I attracted to these type of people? Why do I keep gravitating towards and until you can sit and ask yourself that question and find the answer, you're gonna be stuck in this loop until you learn a lesson, right? That's what they say. So I gotta do a lot of soul searching and be like, why do I forgive him? But I don't, I'm just the other one who didn't lay a hand on me, I haven't, I just won't forgive and I won't make peace with, and I won't. If I had two of them in the room right now together, and I had to choose because someone had a gun to my head, I'm gonna go with the one who physically abused me before the one that psychologically abused me. If that makes any type of sense, which my therapist understands it, I understand it. Nobody else has to because it's me and my story. But I think the reason why I was able to make peace with it is because the one who physically abused me didn't do it with intent to hurt me. He didn't do it with malicious psychological plotting and planning behind it. He did it in the moment. He didn't sit for days and think of ways he could hurt me and work against me and ruin me and destroy me and lie to me and cheat on me, which he did cheat on me, but he didn't sit and like plan it all out. He acted in the moment, and he had issues too, and that wasn't an excuse. We were also a lot younger, and then you finally took accountability years after I left him and said, I'm very sorry you did not deserve what I did to you. And this is not a poor me, woe is me, come back to me. It was I was wrong for how I treated you, and I I'm fucked up, and you did not deserve any of that. He sent me money to pay off some of the debt he put me in, went on with his life, doesn't bother me. I hear from him once a while in a while, and it's usually only about something that we did together um legally or something like that, where I'm the only person with the answer, but it's I haven't heard from him in a long time. So the other one, the newer one, most recent, I should say, because the newer one, I don't even the person that I I see and talk to and getting to know is not an abuser and he's not a piece of shit. He's not an alcoholic, he's not a drug addict, he's not a deadbeat dad. He's kind, he's patient, he's respectful, he's communicative, he's honest, he's he's him. He's successful, he's he hears me, he doesn't talk down to me, he doesn't um he doesn't make me feel like I'm crazy, he doesn't make me feel neurotic or bad for having feelings, he doesn't make me question my worth, he doesn't make me walk on eggshells, he doesn't plot and plan against me, he doesn't um he doesn't really give me any anxiety. What is that? That exists.

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Um he doesn't make me question my worth, he doesn't shut me out when I'm upset, he doesn't uh doesn't make me feel like alone.

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He doesn't and we're not like serious, yes, but strengthening a friendship is all I can say for right now. And it could lead somewhere, but we're both working on ourselves and we're both um getting both of we're getting ourselves where we both need to be in the meantime, strengthening a friendship and um being open and honest with each other and the whole way, and if it grows into something more, then we're both like okay, this is awesome. But we know in the meantime, right now is not the time because we don't want to ruin each other and ruin a friendship that could remain if nothing grew. But it's not that it's about a romantic interest, it's about it just as a man in general for the first time in my life, doesn't make me feel bad for being me. And I'm rooting him on to get himself good, and he's rooting me on to get myself good, and um we know a lot of things about each other and our demons and the good things. And I just wanted to tell people out there that if you have been with a piece of shit and been abused and been destroyed and walked all over, there are good guys out there. When I left my most recent ex, I hated men. I was on a war path. Any man that just breathed, I was in my man-hating era, someone said. And I because I have a really hard time trusting men physically, you know, romantically, on social media. Um, and this going back to what I was saying, the one that he hit me, I made amends with, I accepted, I moved on from, I've worked through, I've made peace with. I don't think about it. I don't sit and think of all those bad things that he did to me. I think of the things that I have ahead of me. I don't sit and wallow, I don't sit in in self um what's the word, self-uh sabotage. I don't think of the things he used to tell me in my head. Because in my soul, I've accepted it, forgiven him, and used it as power to rise above. The other one, the most recent one, plotted and planned and meticulously was 10 days working 10, 20, 30 days in advance to try to fuck me over, to cheat on me, to get one over on me, to hide the shit he was doing behind my back. He would disappear for weeks to a month, and then I would get mad, and then if I said something, I was neurotic or crazy. Um, I would show him proof of girls sending me messages, and he'd get mad and call them shit starters and then tell me to believe whatever I wanted. And I end up becoming a friend with most of these girls. And I have learned that it's not always the other girl. And I have to say, the ones that have came to me since I left him and shown me screenshots, shown me receipts, told me these stories, ever, and they don't even know each other. Every single story is exactly the same. And I'm like, I don't feel crazy. I'm not making this up because my story matches theirs and theirs matches mine, and theirs, all of ours matches each other, and nobody really knows anybody. So who's the problem? And the fact that I got screenshots and photos and text messages and stories that were identical to mine just validated that I wasn't nuts and that this guy really is a piece of shit. A manipulative narcissist that's a sociopath, an alcoholic gambler who has nothing going for him in his life, uses people to his advantage, only cares about money, preys on vulnerable women, has a degree in psychology, and thinks if you go to get psychology help, you're a weak person. Um has a PFA against him, and I won. I left a piece of shit that saw like served me nothing in my life. Nothing. He offered me nothing. But I had to sit and try to figure out why I allowed that to happen to me. And that came back to my self-worth, my self-esteem, my perspective, my sitting with my thoughts at night by myself when all my friends are out partying, having fun. A lot of them using drugs and alcohol to cover up their voids because they don't want to sit with it. And needless to say, I don't have a lot of those people in my life anymore. Um, but I took the time to sit with myself. I cried many a days and nights. My immune system had crashed from so much stress that I was in the emergency room all the time with these weird things happening to me. Um, but if I didn't take that time to heal, you know, when people are like, don't jump to the next relationship, take your time to work on yourself. And they mean that. Because if I would have jumped from the last one to the next one immediately, I might be in the same situation I was in. And if I I wish I took the time between the last two, because I went from one to the next to fill a void to bury everything that this one did to me, because this new one was giving me everything I've been looking for because he knew how to manipulate a vulnerable person, and then used it all against me in the end. Um and nothing I'm saying is slander. One, I haven't mentioned a name, and two, it's the truth, and I have receipts to back it up. So it's not hearsay, it's not me just talking shit now, like this is real stuff. So um sit with yourself, do yourself that favor between relationships. I'm not rushing what I want with this other person right now because I'm not 100% yet. I'm not ready yet, and he knows that, and he's not ready yet, and I know that. And we're both doing the work separately, but working together at the same time. And if anything, if we just remain best friends. That you don't need to put up with pieces of shit like this. You know, he's a very close friend of mine, but um I look up to him.

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I admire him. I don't think he gives himself enough credit, and um he's a great dad.

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And uh he's a good person. And they exist.

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It's not a fairy tale. But you have to do the work. And you can't rush somebody else's work. You can't speed them up just because you want you wanna you want them to be on your level. It doesn't work like that. And things will happen the way they're supposed to happen when they're supposed to happen, naturally, not forcefully. And you have to respect each other. I don't know why I went off on a tangent on this stuff, but I just felt like it needed to be said. I know someone out there hears me and probably needed to hear it. Um so do yourself a favor and give yourself the time. I'd rather be alone and single than be with a piece of shit. That makes me miserable and sad every day. I'm I'm good with my own company. Like I spend the majority of my time by myself, and I am okay with that. Once in a while, I like to have company. It just depends on what I'm doing and where I'm going and who I'm with. But I'm okay with just me being like by myself. I go to the movies by myself, I go shopping by myself, I go to the beach by myself, I go to New York City by myself. I don't care because I'm on my own time. I don't have to compromise, I don't have to be on someone else's time, I don't have to do what I don't like what I do. I don't have to rush. I hate being rushed. And I don't have to um give up things that I like doing. Now I can compromise. I'm a compromisable person. I'm in sales, I know how to negotiate, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But what I'm getting at is I've been like this since probably 2014, when I just had no support system and really just started doing everything I wanted by myself. Because if I didn't get, if I didn't do it by myself, I didn't get to do anything. So this I got too used to it, I guess.

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I too good at it.

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And um, but it's actually a good thing because I can hop in the car and just go somewhere. I don't need a kid with me. I don't need to wait on someone to say, okay, let's go. I just I'm going. See ya. And you know, that was another big reason why I never wanted kids, because I liked that freedom. Now I love kids. I would date somebody with kids, but I just didn't want to be pregnant. I didn't, I didn't want a newborn, like, God bless y'all. But um, I got good with myself. And I know the intent I have of people and my actions, everything is because I do it with my heart and because I care about people. I'm not a malicious person. I don't plot and plan against people. I'm not a bitter ex. I'm not a victim. I'm not an attention-seeking person. I'm not a um, I don't know. I don't know of the word. I'm genuine. I don't wear a mask. What you see is what you get. If I like you, you know it. If I don't like you, you're gonna know it. And a lot of people don't like that about me, but I went through a lot of shit and I'm no longer taking shit. And if that does, if that makes you not like me, or you want me to stay space silent to make you or somebody else comfortable, it's not happening. Again, I'd rather be by myself than have to change who I am because I know my genuine soul, I do things for the right, the right reasons. So I'm gonna wrap it up. Um, thanks for coming to my TIF Talk. Um, giving criminals the disrespect they deserve. And um, stay tuned for next week for the episode of Lala Clark and Hope Hooten. And if you want to be on my podcast or you know somebody that does because you or them are a survivor, a victim, run an advocacy, run a nonprofit, work in the true crime industry, um, work in the prisons, drug, you know, anything alcohol and drugs related, rehabilitation, or um have survived that and want to tell your story so give to give others hope. That will be on my turning the corner podcast. And turning the corner comes in from um, I ran a food, photography, and social media business for 10 plus years, and it was called Klein's Corner with K's. So I wanted to kind of kind of keep it with the same color and the same K. So I Nikki Nikki Schmidt, Gabby Tito's mom, and my friend Jim came up with the turning the corner with Klein's Corner and um for a better tomorrow or something like that. And um, that's gonna be more for the nonprofits, the advocacy, the missing persons, the um the domestic violence stuff can go on both podcasts. The um, you know, drug and alcohol use and overcomering overcoming addiction. That's gonna be on that type of podcast, unless it somehow ties in with the crime. But um, I'm gonna I'm gonna just try to execute that this weekend, so stay tuned. Um I have a lot of things going. Today was a great birthday. It was great. It was fantastic, I can't complain.

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Um, nothing else coming up.

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