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Angel Bumpus was born March 3rd, 1995 to her mom, Tamika Bumpus. According to Angel, her father was not around too much and her first time meeting her father was when she was like 10 years old.
Her mother was born in 1985 to her grandmother, Shirley Bumpus, who was also really young when she had her. In 2002, when Angel was six years old, her mother was sent to prison for forgery and identity theft. She was on her way to a hearing and her mom tells like, you know, they're in those transport vans or whatever. So her mom tells the jailer, the guard, oh, it's hot in here. Can you roll that window down? You know, like...
In the limousine when you have the, between the driver. Yeah, the partition. So can you roll that down? The jailer does. It's a woman. She does. Tell me why Angel Bumpus' mom goes, slithers a little hand up there, grabs the gun, shoots the jailer in the chest, and then goes and carjacks a car and escapes. Yeah.
The jailer, the prison, the guard did not die. She didn't get charged with murder. However, she got added on charges. I heard she had up to like 40 charges. She's at Arendelle with Tiffany Moss. And we just looked it up. You scroll. Keep on scrolling. It's just charge after charge after charge. They added on like 20 more charges on top of her forgery on identity theft. And...
So she was sent away for 40 years. And was it worth it? Because you didn't even really get away. Right. So, I mean, this had to be pretty hard for Angel. But, like, the bumpest family name where they're from in Chattanooga, law enforcement knew them. Mom, of course, like we just told you...
Her uncle had a murder charge. Her daddy had a murder charge. Her brother's in jail. Mm-hmm. Grandma's had a few charges. She got a couple mugshots out here, but most of her charges have been dropped. So the bumpus name was well known. After her mom's arrest, Angel went to go live with her grandparents. And she was like, you know, these people are not a very loving bunch of people.
Um, that didn't phase Angel too much. You know, she had a lot of company because she had a lot of siblings. She was the oldest of seven. Right. She spent a lot of time helping them, you know, older siblings. They do the raising, doing the homework. Especially the older female sibling. Right. And she's the oldest. Mm-hmm. Um...
She was a star pupil when she was in middle school. She loved arts and crafts and fashion. She had aspirations of going to New York and having a career in fashion design. Angel soon found out that she was pregnant and she had two girls that were very close in age.
And she was kind of like, okay, I need a career where I can guarantee that I'll be able to provide for my kids, you know? So she's like, okay, let me go be a nurse like my aunt. She went to school and applied for a nursing program. Which like nursing school is really, really hard. Yeah. It's not. I think people are like, oh, you can be a nurse. No, nurses do everything. And a lot of science. A lot of science. And that is not for everybody.
Her first semester in the nursing program was in 2018. Things were really starting to look up for Angel. Yes, she had kids young like her mom and her grandmother, but you can tell that she was actively working to try and break these generational curses.
Right. She's like, I'm going to go get an education. I'm going to hold on a steady job. Right. She kept her nose clean and out of trouble until one day she got a speeding ticket, which is no big deal. Story of your life. Oh, my God. I pay way too much money to the state of Georgia.
We all get speeding tickets. We've all had at least one, right? Yeah. So, you know, you pay the fine or you go to court and you try to appeal it. You can do a no-lo. I can tell you all about traffic court. That's good. I guess Angel maybe forgot about her ticket and... Which I have done. I have too. And then that means you have to go to no-show court. Or you have a bench warrant. Right. Because one time I went to...
I called to pay a ticket. I was like, I just found this. They were like, yeah, girl, there's a bench worn out for you. So like, if you go, if you go and miss it that same day, you can go to no show court the next day and be like, I missed my thing. But yeah,
I guess if she remained oblivious, then there's a warrant out for you. Mm-hmm. Which is what happened to Angel. So she's arrested. She's fingerprinted. Mind you, the year is 2017. Right? She's got her fingerprints in the system. She's got this unnecessary arrest record. You know, nobody was hurt in this process. Right. Then,
you know she goes about her business and i'm sure she thought nothing more about it until one day in 2018 when angel was 23 years old angel gets a knock on the door and they're like it's the police and she's like damn what the police want with me and they're like yeah ma'am you're gonna have to come with us you're under arrest for the murder of franklin vonner she's like franklin who they're like yeah the murder that you did in 2009 one who is franklin vonner and two 2009
That means I was 13 years old. What was I doing murdering somebody at 13 years old? Now, we know, we have heard on this podcast of 13-year-old killers.
but to angel she's like what the fuck but franklin barner was from chattanooga where she was from and he was known by many in the area as cookie he was a 68 year old man and he had been married to his wife linda barner for 20 years he had retired from the chattanooga public works and was known around town as the lottery man so you know he ran the numbers real old head type shit especially for like 2009 like running the numbers and stuff so he and his wife also sold you know a little bit of
a little bit of weed on the side, you know, a little dime bag here, a little eighth there, you know, small, small fry,
So on January 16th, 2009 at 5.20 PM, Franklin's wife, Linda walks into their home and finds her husband bound to the chair and unresponsive. He was bound to the chair by duct tape and the duct tape was not just around like his legs and his arms. Like you would expect if you're bound to a chair, uh, the duct tape was taped all over his face in all different types of directions. And so, you know, it was not like a,
I need you to shut the fuck up so I'm gonna tape your mouth type of thing. Right. It was a, like...
I'm going to keep taping and keep taping around and around everywhere I go. Taped around his nose, mouth, everything, like literally looked like a mummy. So his wife jumps into action and she cuts the tape off of his face trying to let him breathe, but he was still unresponsive. So she calls 911. They find Franklin laying on his side with his ankles and hands bound to the table leg and the chair. He had lacerations on his body and signs of blunt force trauma on his head and other body parts.
The police searched the scene and they're collecting the evidence and, you know, they have to peel off all of this duct tape and send it in for evidence. And they were able to find some partial fingerprints on the sticky side of the tape. But there wasn't much else evidence left around the house. The house was ransacked and the police first mind is that it was a robbery gone wrong. They searched the scene and collect evidence and they find duct tape with some partial fingerprints on the sticky side of it. But not much else evidence was left there.
So they scan the duct tape and they end up finding a total of nine partial fingerprints and a strand of hair. One single strand of hair. They check his phone records and it turns out the last person on his call log was Miss Shirley Bumpus, Angel's grandmother. She's like, yeah, oh, I just called him for a little bit of weed, you know, nothing else. And...
She then became the initial suspect, but she was soon taken off the suspect list. There were no matches to the fingerprints in the investigation system and with no matches and no other DNA, the case quickly went cold. And that's what his case was doing, was just sitting there pretty much collecting dust until one day Franklin's granddaughter requested that the case be
kind of be reopened, reinvestigated. It was never officially closed, but cold cases just kind of sit. Yeah, they said the family, every few years, they'd be like, look into it again. Anything new? Can you open it again? And that's how all these cold cases, like missing family members or cold cases, that's how they get reopened. It's because somebody's nudging them, not because the police are actively... Franklin's granddaughter, like we said, requested for the case to be poked around, looked at again, and she hits up the
police on January 16th, 2018. And she's like, hey, my granddad has a cold case. How about some retesting? How about a little, you know, looking at again, see what pops up. They do. And lo and behold, they just had Angel Bumpus' prints put in the system from her arrest. And on March 25th, 2018, they found that two of the partial prints were a match for Angel
Those partial prints were found on the sticky side of the duct. They contacted the local authorities on June 12, 2018. Now, these are the local authorities. They found everything in Chattanooga, but they had to contact the local authorities in Kentucky because Angel had moved to Kentucky when she was like 16. She hadn't been back to Chattanooga in a hot minute.
She had them kids and got on. Right, exactly. So even like, even the speeding ticket arrest that she got, that was in Kentucky. That wasn't even in Chattanooga, but once your prints are in the system, your prints are in the system, you know, they contact the local authorities on June 12th, 2018. They're like, yeah, our number one suspect for murder is in your jurisdiction. Go get her. And two days later, uh,
She got that knock on the door and was arrested for a murder that happened when she was only 13 years old. When Angel was arrested, initially her identity was not revealed because the crime happened when she was a minor. So you can't reveal the identity of a minor even if they're an adult now when the crime happened at that time. So she waited to see if she was going to be tried as an adult.
But she was not the only one arrested. A man named Mallory Vaughn was also arrested. Now Mallory was 35 years old at the time of the arrest.
which made him 26 years old at the time of the crime. So twice her age. Yes, that's math. Yes, twice her age. But the thing that Mallory had on him is that maybe there was some buzz about this case being reopened, this buzz about this case going into trial. And Mallory had a cousin that was in prison. And this cousin was like, you know, my cousin Mallory sure as hell did confide. He confided in me about, uh-huh, duct tape and a murder.
and a numbers man a lottery man oh that sounds real familiar so the police were like yep Mallory arrest him too so Angel started off with this one attorney and you know he said he was doing the best he can and then this guy Garth Best comes in he was like I can do better he's like not only can I make sure that your case stays in the juvenile court system but I can also get your
Bond lowered. So that you can go home and spend this time with your family while you're waiting up for the trial. He did get the bond lowered. So she was able to go back home and she started working. And she's like, I'm just trying to soak up the...
This time, I'm just trying to soak up this time I have with my kids because I honestly don't know what's going on, right? She bonds out and she prepares to work with her lawyers, which is this whole thing because the case is happening in Chattanooga and she lives in Kentucky. So she has to drive 300 miles to Chattanooga every time she wants to meet with her lawyers. She's going back and forth between the states. She maintains that she did not commit this crime.
She said she's never been to Franklin Bonner's home and she actually didn't even know who Franklin Bonner was. She also said she had no idea who Mallory Vaughn was, who was supposed to be her co-defendant. So she's like, I'm kind of not seeing how I play into any of this. I don't know your victim. I don't know your other suspected murderer. I don't know nobody involved in this. And I'm a 13 year old child. What do you mean? You know what I mean? Like life is really not making sense to her at this point. So her lawyers are trying to look for the link between
Her and the victim, Franklin Bonner, right? Like, because her fingerprints are at the house, so there's got to be some link. Well, it turns out her grandfather, who was a handyman, actually used to work at Cookie's house all the time. He said, like, two times a week he'd be over there fixing stuff. And, you know...
In any real nigga's handy box, they got some duct tape, you know. You can fix anything with duct tape. When they talked to her grandfather, he was saying, you know, as a child to keep her busy, you know, she would hang out with me in the garage. And I'd pull the ticky side of the tape out and throw it at her so she could catch it. And, you know, she'd play with it, you know. And I guess not unheard of. Yana was obsessed with sticky stuff when she was younger. She would take the labels to the VHSs.
The sticker on the front, peel them off. We never knew what the movies were because Kiana has taken all the... If there was tape or sticky stuff around, Yana got... And that lasted a while, you know? Kids do like sticky shit. I can also see, like, it's duct tape, right? And so sometimes shit gets a little messy and you have to undo it, you know? You know what I mean? Like, it starts sticking together and you gotta... I throw it away. Okay. You know, some people don't like to challenge. I, you know, I've unstuck some stuff.
some duct tape and tried to put it back or whatever but you know that was her grandma he was like if I had to guess that's the only way I could you know say that her hands got on the duct tape right Angel is super upset and she's just like I don't steal I don't hurt nobody I'm a nice person like this is not me I don't do bad things I try and live a morally correct life so the fact that I'm
I'm on trial for murder. It's just baffling to me. So her lawyers in court are trying to push the idea that she was a good student, that she was literally 13 years old. And if you look at her, she's an itty bitty thing. Like, I feel like we say that a lot on this podcast. Like, I have to be supposed to be itty bitty. And the mugshots that you see, this is her at 23. And I was definitely confused because I was like...
The one with her hair is messy. I thought that was her 13-year-old mugshot, and I was like, I thought she didn't get caught then. That's her 23. Yeah, she's a small little thing. So when she was 13 years old, she barely stood 5 feet, and she weighed about 80 pounds. And, okay, this is what they were working on. The medical examiner said that the time of death...
death had to have been between 2 15 p.m and 4 p.m on the day of the murder and remember his wife found him at 5 20 p.m on the day of the death it was a school day and angel was marked present that morning so the school bus would have dropped her off at home around 3 45 the bonner house is two and a half miles away from the bus stop where she would have gotten dropped off if she would have walked to the house that would have been about 44 minutes so which
Which would leave her a 15 to 30 minute window for her and Mallory Bonner, whomever, to rob, tape up, and suffocate Robert Bonner. The fence is light. Look, this timeline makes no sense. Also, why would a 26-year-old man be friends and committing murder with a 13-year-old girl? There was never any evidence on...
how they were connected, why they knew each other, what family ties or social ties they have together. And the prosecution never really gave any. And they were like, you know, that walk, that 44 minute walk, that walk is hardly safe for anybody. There's no sidewalks, it's straight street. I feel like you even have to go through the highway to get there.
Right, like why would a 13 year old be walking this? Still, this whole time Angel was like, I know nothing. I've seen nothing. Nothing at all. Don't know anything. Then, one day, a prison phone call was intercepted that came between Angel's brothers. And here it is. Hey, you heard about how many, uh, I ain't just kidding. What happened? There's some case that happened nine years ago. A murder and an aggravated robbery. And they did, they took that for us.
It's the uh-oh for me. Like, uh-oh. Right. Like, what y'all know that y'all not telling? First of all, why are you on a prison phone call talking about some uh-oh? Because that's all he got to say and they don't know no one else. And that was the main one. He was like, think about it.
Think hard. So that wasn't a good look at all. The last thing I want you to say is, uh-oh, when you saying anything with my name and murder. Especially if you're not clarifying, nigga. Right. Uh-oh, who fucked up? Because it's not me. Right. Uh-oh, why would they ever think she doing something like that? We need some clarifying details. Right.
So the prosecution, they also point out the fact that there was so much duct tape. So for them, that states that there was clearly some type of struggle from the person who was duct taping them, right? Like they were afraid of the duct tapes coming loose or something. Right. Like, we really got to secure this nigga down. Because he's a big guy. And even, you know, he's 68. He's still a big guy, still active. He could definitely overpower anyone.
A 13-year-old. Mm-hmm. So for Mallory Vaughn...
They put his cousin to the stand to tell his story, and he kind of changed a couple of times from when he initially talked to the police. But, you know, Mallory's team cross-examines trying to prove that he's an unreliable witness, and, like, he's just making it up to get his sentence, you know? Right. It's hard to believe prison witnesses. Sometimes you get somebody and you get really useful information, but sometimes you get somebody that just wants to work the system. And wants to get the fuck out, which, I mean, I get. I get it. Tell me what I got to say.
But I wouldn't lie on my family, though. I guess it depends on which one. The one big thing that Angel's defense needed to explain to the jury is how her fingerprints got on the sticky side of the duct tape. And it wasn't on just like one piece of tape. So one of the partial fingerprints were found on the duct tape that was found on the leg of the chair.
And the other fingerprint was found on a piece of duct tape that was taped horizontally across his face. But they still brought light to the situation of what Angel's grandfather said. Look, she played with that duct tape all the time. She was a crafty kid. She was a kid. She got into my shit. And I was over there all the time. So they were like, that is a good...
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So Angel's like, okay, my lawyer knows best. I'm just going to do what she tells me to do. And she was like, you know what? They have nothing against Mallory. Y'all are co-defendants. So, you know. He was an adult at the time. And you were just a child. So if he goes, you go. And they have nothing to hold him. So I'm feeling pretty confident. I don't feel the need to put you on the stand. Right. She's like, okay, I'm going to listen to my lawyer and I'm just going to go with it. So on October 3rd, 2019, after four and a half hours of deliberation, the jury has a verdict.
Mallory Vaughn was found not guilty on all counts. Now, this had Angel's lawyers really excited. They were sure that they were going to find Angel not guilty too because, well, she was the minor. They were wrong. And the jury found her guilty of first-degree felony murder and attempting to commit especially aggravated robbery. Her guilty verdict was a shock to her lawyers and to the onlookers. Now, when Angel heard these guilty charges, she didn't, like...
stand around like everybody else did. Yo, she was like, fuck this shit. She was like, take me, take me now. Her lawyer was like, it's not time for you to go yet. She was like, why? Why do I need to be here? And the judge was like, she could go. She was like, I'm not going to see my kids again. I don't want to be here. Just take me out now. And they took her out. Yeah. So the picture, the picture that you'll see, like with her hands behind her back,
She wasn't cuffed. No. She like instinctively put her hands behind her back and walked. And they were just like, they grabbed her arm and like were escorting her. But no, she was not cuffed when her hands were behind her back. So after this, of course she wants a whole new team because... Y'all fucked up the first time. Y'all fucked it up. She's like, I didn't even feel good about this shit. And y'all like, ah, trust me, trust me. I trust you. And look at me. I'm in jail. I'm in jail and convicted.
She gets her new team and she puts in a motion to appeal. Turns out that her DNA was nowhere else on the crime scene. Which I feel like is a huge thing. And so it's just a matter of the only evidence you have for me is on an item that is not a fixed object in the house. It's not furniture. It's not the floor. It's not the door. It's something that could have gone in and out the house. But I think the big thing is that technically the duct tape was the murder weapon. I get it.
But I also feel it's very plausible that her grandfather, who was over there twice a week, took some duct tape that she might have just touched. And even not even to say that that means her grandfather is involved. You forget shit all the time. You tell him you couldn't put a little duct tape down and maybe forget to pack it in your box and not really care because you'll be back over there later that week. I understand that. But it was on the chair leg and the face. It's not on one strip.
What do you mean? Like, it's a whole bunch of fingers. Like, different. It wasn't next to each other. Right. If it was on the same piece of duct, same strip, you'd have me. However, my thing is, like, it only needs, like, 12 line matches to be considered a match in the state of Tennessee. There's, like, what, 150 lines in a fingerprint? There are so many. Your fingerprint is like a snowflake. Nobody has it but you. Ain't that what the fuck they say? Mm-hmm.
I feel like 12 out of hundreds of lines or hundreds, however many lines are on my prints, I feel like 12 might match somebody else. I think it's possible. I think it's very unlikely that, you know what I mean? It's a rare chance that y'all are both. Is it feasible? Yes.
But the chances are very, very slim. They also say some of the investigators were shady in how they did it. Like, there was no chain of custody for the tape. Right, like, with evidence, you have to sign in, sign out. You need to know all the hands that touched it. At all times. There was none for the tape with her fingerprints on it. And the hair that was found at the scene was never tested. Which is crazy. Yeah.
I feel like you might have found a winner there. And then...
The duct tape disappeared. Like, they had it and they tested it. But after that, they don't know what happened to it. So it's not like the duct tape could be retested or anything. You know what I mean? I don't like those. See, it's those shady police practices. Like, how do you lose duct tape? How do you lose evidence? If you're following, by not following the chain of evidence and not doing things the way you're supposed to. By not doing your job. Oh, yeah, that's right. So, um, so this appeal that she put forth was set back a couple of times because of COVID. Okay.
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Alrighty, y'all. It is time for... I ain't do it, but if I did, this is how I would've got away with it. I ain't do it, but if I did, I would've had gloves. I also just like... Gloves and tape? You'd have been there all fucking night trying to get that shit off. Like them thick gloves, not the medical exam gloves. Like gardening gloves. Okay.
Like, thick gloves, nigga. So, like, also, I don't know. I mean, I wouldn't have thought to not get a speeding ticket. Damn sure. I think that every time after I get a speeding ticket. Unless, like, I knew that I committed this crime. Because I'm just not convinced that she never knew who this man was. You didn't know Cookie at all. Yo, granddaddy be... You live with your grandparents. Your granddaddy be over there. Your...
grandmother buys weed from him i'm not convinced that you don't know who this man is but you know how like you'd be younger and people be like dude your grandpa used to take you over to my house all the time she was 13 you'd be surprised what people don't remember maybe i'll be talking to chris and she'd be like i don't know what story you're talking about i mean y'all be like you really don't remember and i guess i am that person i don't remember anybody you don't
And they'll be like, I know you. It'll be middle school, Mariah. And you were 13 in middle school. And you'll be like, I have no idea. And I'm like, they're telling me this whole conversation with you. Sounds like me. One conversation with me versus the person that my mama used. I remember my mama's coworker in...
I don't remember people that I went to school with. I've talked to people who said they've had more than one conversation with you. Quite meaningful conversations with you that they can still remember. I'm an approachable person. People can have meaningful conversations with me and I will never know your name. It's not some big place. It's just middle school.
And I went to a small school too. Right. Just middle school. I mean, I literally only hung out with two people. You know, I'm just saying, you know, people can, so I mean, I'm just saying there's definitely people in the past that you can just not recall because that person was not important to you. You know what I mean? And if her grandpa was the handyman, this probably was not the only house that he frequented. Probably not, but I feel like, and how many times was she really there? She's probably at home watching them six kids.
Which I'm thinking, if you're in middle school, don't middle school get out the latest? Every state is different. I was going to say, she probably had to be home with them kids. Yeah. I feel like there's enough reasonable doubt there. I'm not convinced that she didn't do it or that she wasn't at the scene of the crime. But there is enough reasonable doubt there that I would not convict her to a life sentence for murder.
I'm going to leave it at that because I definitely, the tape doesn't make sense to me, especially because it's on two, two different pieces of tape. Yeah. Oh, sorry. Go ahead. Them brothers, they know something. Them brothers know something. I ain't do it if I did. I have to find out what my brothers know. Okay. I have to find out what they know. She know what they know, but does she? Yes, I think so.
She definitely did not know enough. She was like, they was like, we think you're covering up for your grandma. Like, and she was like, ah, me and my grandmother were never close. My grandmother's not going to come to me and say, hey, take the fall for this murder I did. But also, you know, you don't have to be close to ask for a favor. It'd be the most distanced of niggas that I come and ask you for $5 to feed their kids. Because we've been home.
in this pandemic and I swear I get paid on Friday but if you you you you and you could just give me five dollars I had a cousin I had a family member call and it seemed like they really wanted to know what was happening in my life that's how they get you like really was concerned told me I updated me
got my spirit lifted was like you know can I get ten dollars I was like didn't I just complain about you about how I need to pay a bill but what I heard was that you found a way and uh what is ten more dollars
Yeah, niggas do not have to know you to ask you for a favor. They don't even have to like you to ask you for a favor. They sure don't. You swallow that pride or you just don't give a fuck. And it'll happen. She could have easily been like, I raised you and took you from your little mama who... You know, you gonna do this. Who knows? Could have been her brother setting her up for something. Or her brother's done got into some shit, you know. It's not enough answers for me. But it really just goes to like...
What the fuck does beyond a reasonable doubt mean? Because this is, I'm too fuzzy on the details to be able to say anything beyond a reasonable doubt. Parole or no parole. Like I said, there's enough reasonable doubt that I would go ahead and let this go back to trial. Yeah, it definitely needs to be retried. I really hope that her appeal goes well tomorrow, today.
It's tomorrow right now, but it'll be today when y'all listen. Okay. I do. I think she should at least get a retry. She definitely deserves a retry. She needs an appeal so she can get a retry and start this whole thing over with...
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