Women Behind Bars - Season 2, Episode 9 - Angela and Sharon - Full Episode | Forensic Files

on this episode of women behind bars one woman is found guilty of murder in the stabbing death of a friend
antoinette was sitting in a chair and angela just reached up on the wall of the shed
and pulled a knife turned around and stabbed her in the chest i asked him did i do that and he said
yes he just kept holding me down then sharon mabry tells her story she was convicted in the robbery and
murder of her pimp and ex-boyfriend she comes up with this scheme and she says blackie
he always has money on him he was holding me against my will it was making me run the brothel
and he was telling me if you leave the brothel you're never going to get back in
two women two brutal crimes these are the stories of angela turner and sharon [Music]
mabry on christmas eve 2004 a 9-1-1 call reported the vicious stabbing of a young
woman in wicksburg alabama police found the perpetrator 26-year-old angela turner
drunk and trying to flee the scene while her 18 year old friend was bleeding to death
she collapsed on top of the stairs there was a big puddle of blood i don't think she had any idea that
angela was going to stab her angela claimed the stabbing was an accident but evidence contradicted her
story it was hard to imagine her as a cold-blooded murderer she was in a lot of ways a disaster waiting to happen
was angela turner guilty of intentional murder or had she caused a senseless and deadly
[Music] accident [Music] angie was outgoing full of life she was everybody's sweetheart everybody
loved angie angela denise turner was born in southern alabama the only child of wanda and clayton
nichols her parents divorced after she was born and angela's mother remarried several
times my grandparents pretty much raised me um i was in and out with my mother she's been
married six times angie had a lot of stepdads her mom was more of a friend to her than a
mother under the care of her grandparents angela grew up with a fun-loving nature
angie loved to be the center of attention she just wanted to be noticed and she was noticed because she
was very beautiful she was a prankster a joker she would do crazy things like go through the drive-thru backwards but
the popular teen's wild streak led to underage drinking my alcohol use started when i was younger just partying
and having a good time angie grew up knowing that her mother drank and i drank there was always alcohol
around drinking and hanging out was just the thing to do i didn't realize that it
could later lead to bigger problems angela dated her high school love mark for nearly three years until 1995 when
his life was tragically cut short in a car accident it took me about two years to accept
that he was really gone he was up my world he really was when he was killed it it broke me
grief-stricken 17-year-old angela dropped out of high school looking for comfort she rushed into a
marriage two months later and soon gave birth to a daughter celeste went from one extreme to the other
angela embraced her role as a new mother she gave me a new purpose in life i wanted to be there for her you know
because my mother wasn't always there for me but the marriage lasted only 16 months i
done the wife and mother thing until he decided he didn't want a wife and daughter the young mom worked
in bars to make ends meet dated a string of boyfriends and gave birth to a second daughter miranda in
1999. i was looking for love again you know and i believe i found it angie fell in
love all the time when she met somebody that was halfway decent to her she was in love
on christmas eve 1999 angela again lost someone she loved to tragedy her current boyfriend robert died in a
house fire after robert was killed i was drinking a half a gallon every other day
[Music] what was helping me cope the single mother of two spiraled into regular alcohol benches
and self-destructive behavior brought on by severe mood swings she would go from
feeling very down in the dumps to high energy level with significant anger and outbursts of
energy i have gotten in a couple fights at the bars i'm not going to deny that it was
drinking being angry angie was always a hell raiser but she was a very lovable person i had my first dui in
2001 and then my second dui i still didn't realize it was a problem i told her the way she was doing was not
right and i told her she was making wrong choices it was hard watching her make all the
bad decisions we kind of lost contact for a few years at age 25 angela's emotional problems
led her to attempt suicide it was an elongated cut up her arm i didn't want to be here anymore the
girls would be better off without me everybody would be better off without me when she tried to hurt herself
it was just devastating to me i was diagnosed with major depression and borderline
personality disorder individuals with personality disorders have a tendency to continue to make the same type of
mistakes and engage in the same types of negative behavior over and over angela was
prescribed medication for depression but she continued to abuse alcohol on a daily basis
the dangerous combination caused friends and family to become increasingly alarmed at her erratic behavior
she had shaved her head at one point and i thought geez ange what's going on you
know and think that she was losing it because of a dare i shaved my head i had drank about a half bottle of vodka and
it was a casual dare [Music] days later angela showed up at her neighborhood convenience store
completely nude i had been drinking and it was a joke i just walked in naked and stood at the
counter and talked i don't know if she was drunk or high but she was naked for sure she was looking
for attention she wanted somebody to care angela attempted suicide a second time
and checked herself into the behavioral medicine unit at southeast alabama medical center
it was there that angela met another patient 18 year old antoinette jobson who went by the name tony the two women
struck up a friendship that would end in disaster she told me that she had moved from florida to
take care of her brother's children and that they had gotten an argument and that was why she was on the streets
tony was the adopted daughter of ken and janice jobson tony had very big dreams she loved to
sing she had a beautiful voice her parents worried that their beloved daughter sometimes struggled with
depression antoinette did have a depression problem we noticed like manic's side she'd get
real active and then drop we were attributing a lot of it to some problems she was having in her new high
school due to the fact that she was biracial then they put her on some medication
because they felt that she was probably bipolar shortly after moving to alabama in 2004
to help take care of her brother's kids tony jobson checked herself into the hospital for depression
she was very aware that she had problems and she was starting to work her way out
of them tony grew close with a fellow patient angela turner she said the first thing
she heard from me was go in and leave me the f alone i just want to sleep because
i had taken a bunch of sleeping pills and drank before i admitted myself in the hospital
again she found it funny so we just started hanging out they had been in the unit together and
both of them were unhappy in their life and were desperately reaching out for something
to attach themselves to angela was hospitalized for only three days before being released
she invited tony to live with her this hospital had a halfway house they were ascending and that's where we
thought she went i told her that she could come with me but they don't let one crazy person
check out another crazy person so my friend michael he went checked around the hospital for me
angie was a people lover she would bring anybody home with her that she thought was going down
the wrong road and she was right down that road with them the two girls stayed together that month
in the home of angela's grandfather like angela tony was eager to support others
according to tony's parents the 18 year old wanted to help angela and her two little girls
she loved kids it was very calm and very natural for her to take care of children
tony was very much of a caregiver she took care of her friends when angela decided to take her kids on an impromptu
road trip to visit a friend in maine tony jobson went along she was concerned with angela because angela drank
and she wanted to drive instead of letting angela drive with the children the one-month-old friendship became
strained over angela's drinking problem they refer to people sometimes as being time bombs
she was in a lot of ways a disaster waiting to happen when women behind bars continues i
remember seeing the blood coming out of her mouth and freaking out number one what's your
emergency in november of 2004 26 year old angela turner was an alcoholic mother of two
struggling with suicidal depression while at a mental facility she befriended a fellow patient
18 year old antoinette jobson known as tony the two women checked out of the hospital and lived together as roommates
for one month but angela's frequent alcohol abuse began to cause problems when she talked about angela and the
kids should express concern over the kids well-being i think that's why she's stuck there
more because tony thought she could help the world tony jobson had planned to move back to
florida after the holidays she was coming home for new year's but she wanted to stay
with angelo because of the kids for christmas but she had no idea that by christmas
eve angela turner's drinking would escalate to a point of no return i'd already been drinking whiskey all
day long because of what it was it was robert was on my mind all day long he is every year
angela says thinking about the christmas eve death of her boyfriend five years earlier made her depressed that day
at around 5 p.m angela turner and antoinette jobson drove together to wicksburg to visit
angela's friends rocky mclean and his son shane rocky mclean he was a security guard per se at the
peanut company he was living in a small building it was kind of like a storage building
it was just a shed it didn't have a bathroom didn't have a telephone and he had his
collection of knives there was probably 25 knives that he had up on the wall of various shapes and sizes there are
rare or novelties type knives meant for one thing and that is definitely striking killing or inflicting serious
injury i remember walking in the door shane hadn't seen my shaved head yet and i grinned at him and took my wig off
and he was like you're crazy the girls sat across from each other and according to the two men
in the room were arguing about the car keys tony wanted to drive because angela had
been drinking too much tony wanted the car keys and angela told her nope what happened next was very sudden and
unexpected i remember bickering arguing but as far as what it was really about i still couldn't tell you
it just happened in a split moment i have no idea what let me grab the knife antoinette was sitting in a chair angela
just reached up on the wall of the shed and pulled a knife turned around and stabbed her in the chest
tony was taken completely by surprise it happened so quickly that she didn't have a time to put her hands up in front
of the knife it was a extremely sharp knife with with the double blades it went in through the chest through the
bone and caused massive damage inside the chest cavity i don't remember saving her i remember
hearing the knife drop [Music] and then seeing the blood come out of her mouth according to shane mclean right after
angela turner stabbed antoine jobson she pulled the knife out of her she stood there for a second rocky then
took the knife away from her and angela then ran out and shane mclean chased her down
angela says she was running to her godmother barbara's house which was just across the highway
i had to get to her phone and get a barber because i knew barbara wouldn't get help shane mclean chased angela
turner coming outside the door running around just on this driveway right here and he tackled her
close to where those yellow gates are over there she started begging for him to release her and let her go so she
would not get in trouble angela was crying and screaming i want to spend christmas with my kids
let me go shane i want to spend christmas with my kids i asked him did i do that and he said
yes you didn't know and he just kept holding me down and then rocky went and called
while 911 was being held by shane in the driveway the dying teen stumbled out of the shed antoinette
jobson stepped outside walked down those steps there she came out a few feet turned around
went back up the steps and collapsed on top of the stairway there and was bleeding to death
[Music] police arrived to secure the scene while paramedics attended to the victim
there had to be some type artery that was severed by the amount of blood that was at the
scene and we were 20 miles from the hospital antoinette was rushed to the nearest emergency room
but she died in route police stayed at the crime scene to question angela when i first talked to angela she was
she was definitely upset and she was frightened i can tell that she had a few drinks she
was real fidgety real hyper she was talking extremely fast i give them the wrong name
i knew i had worn out on me for dui it took us a little while to figure out who her real identity was
angela admits she also lied to police about what happened she told me that herself and antoinette
jobson grabbed a couple knives and they were fencing and just playing around and then she
lunged at antoinette and stabbed her in the chest and basically she was telling me that it was
accidental forensics revealed the stab wound to be nearly three and a half inches deep
it was a high impact wound to go that deep for the direction and the penetration of
that knife there was no it was no accident other evidence at the scene made detectives
question angela's version of events there's only one knife removed from the wall
so it takes away from her story where she's saying that there was two knives out and they were fencing
authorities gave turner a breathalyzer test to see how much she had been drinking
that night her blood level was .247 that is about three times the legal limit but police maintain that angela's
behavior after the crime indicated she was not too drunk to be responsible for her actions
she wasn't a totally incapacitated drunk she knew what she was doing she was impaired but not that impaired
she did talk since she even had enough to try to be deceptive to us the fact that
she did try to elude so to speak and run from the situation is an indication that she was aware
that something is wrong here something is bad and i need to get out of this situation
authorities took angela to the houston county sheriff's department she was arrested and booked for murder
that christmas eve i cried it was hysterical crying i would never take somebody's life on
purpose next up on women behind bars the idea of using drunkenness as a defense is ludicrous she was screaming
and hollering at the top of her voice oh my god my life is over with and later it was
not my attention to hurt him or anything like that they duct tape his mouth and they're going
through his pockets but he gets up and starts to run and there's a shot fired in the rural town of wicksburg alabama
detectives spent christmas eve at a gruesome crime scene 18 year old antoinette jobson had been
fatally stabbed by her 26 year old friend and roommate angela turner the killing appeared to be fueled by
angela's binge drinking she claims she does not remember stabbing her friend i remember a couple flashes but i don't
that's all it is i remember seeing the blood coming out of her mouth antoinette's parents in florida got the
terrible phone call about the murder of their daughter that christmas eve it was around two o'clock in the morning
and he he told me that she was had been murdered rips your guts out i mean i i can't put
it any other way she was so afraid of knives i think she was stuck news of the homicide spread quickly
through the small town community where angela had lived i don't know i wasn't there but i didn't
think angel had a dinner to kill anybody it wasn't the answer i knew at all my heart just
went to my feet i could not fathom angie doing any harm to anybody angela turner was held at the houston
county jail awaiting trial in january 2006 she got her chance to face the jury we saw a very troubled young woman
before us marriage problems relationship problems she had been in and out of hospitals
there was some mental problems there the defense was hammering that she was drunk and too intoxicated to form the
requisite intent to commit murder voluntary intoxication is not a defense in alabama
you're responsible for every action you do whether you're drunk or sober the prosecution argued that despite the
high alcohol content in angela's system she acted with intent to kill the fact that she was evasive and lied to the
police about her reasons and what what actually happened all of that went toward intent
the prosecution made me look like that it was absolutely cold-hearted just flat-out murder she got so
intoxicated this night that she did something stupid and crazy all those things that totality of
circumstances led the jury to believe that she was just mean she was not psychotic um
she was not out of touch with reality she knew the differences between right and wrong
i expected to see some emotion and didn't see any i don't even think she shed a tear
watching her in a courtroom listening to the testimony she killed tony as if she walked over
and stepped on a spider and there was no more remorse than that angela claimed she told her defense
attorney eric davis she wanted to testify i did want to take the stand because i
wanted her parents to know that i did not mean to do this that i did not mean to take her life
but turner says her lawyer convinced her not to take the stand by no means did angie get a fair trial
i had given mr davis a list of 25 people that would speak on my behalf to show when i was drinking i would do crazy
stuff like running naked through a convenience store the idea of using drunkenness as a
defense is ludicrous the defense attorney decided not to call any witnesses and the trial was over in one day he
said they didn't prove intense so they proved our case for us when they come back with a guilty
verdict it was it was shocked i still can't believe it guilty was the right verdict you kill
someone you have to pay after the verdict was read cindy lewis was the last juror to leave
the courtroom she says she will never forget seeing angela taken off to jail as a convicted killer i saw them chain
her legs and her hands they were escorting her and she was screaming and hollering at the top of
her voice oh my god my life is over with [Music] all her tears were for herself i didn't
feel she had any remorse the only thing she was ever interested in was getting free
and getting rid of this whole situation with all my heart and soul i do not believe that angie would ever hurt
anybody not intentionally i've loved angie from the get-go and i really do i really do feel
responsible i always think that if me and angie would have stayed friends that maybe i
could have controlled helped her control some of the things angela turner is incarcerated at a
medium security facility in montgomery alabama i feel like my children are paying for
my crime it tears me up makes me feel worthless every day i know she thinks about it and
wish you could do everything all over again when individuals go out partying and
drinking and using drugs they are taking those risks and they're taking the lives of other people
very often in their own hands if you even think you may have drinking problems get help you just never know your life
can change and literally like the blink of an eye i'm a different person today i look at
life differently i respect life a lot more it's easy when you're sitting in jail to
be a good person tony's family is convinced that angela is exactly where she belongs
the main thing is she stays where she's at so she does not destroy anyone else's
lives she destroyed our daughters she destroyed her own she destroyed her two children
that's something i have to deal with every day i've prayed i know i know that i'm forgiven
by god you know by her parents i don't know i hope that one day they can find that in their hearts
for the jobsons christmas will forever be a painful reminder of their daughter's death
she loved holidays even putting decorations on a tree i don't think we've done it
since her death you never get closure over losing a loved one and it doesn't get easier but you do
know that the person that did it was responsible for it that's being punished it is a tragedy on both sides i didn't
mean to i did not set out to take her life [Music] i'm sorry as a child tony always looked at a sunset and she'd
say oh mom the angels made a beautiful painting tonight look at the sunset she's an angel now pinning
next up on women behind bars it was an execution-style murder it seems that he went to the door to
open the door for someone and they pushed their way in for more information about women behind
bars go to wetv.com on the evening of january 9 1997 police responded to the scene of a savage
murder at a brothel in queens new york the victim was the brothel owner a notorious pimp known on the streets as
blackie he was duct taped around the head the nose the mouth detectives zeroed in on the victim's
40-year-old ex-girlfriend sharon mabry as their main suspect mabry had been a madam and a prostitute
at the brothel but had also worked undercover as a police informant she has put herself in dangerous
situations her entire life after hours of intense questioning sharon confessed to soliciting
accomplices to carry out the botched robbery of her ex-boyfriend i wanted to get in and um and get the
money that was owed to me but at the trial she claimed her confession was falsely obtained through
police brutality cops started threatening me they put a gun to my head they made me make false statements she
is a bit of a con artist she tries to connive everybody that she dealt with was sharon
mabry the mastermind behind the killing of her pimp and ex-lover or did she take the fall for a crime she
did not commit i come from a christian background they're very strict in raising us
to abide by bible principles sharon regina mabry grew up in a middle-class community on detroit's west
side with two younger brothers and a mother who was a devout jehovah's witness sharon was so smart and
i had high hopes for her she decided that she would like to be in missionary work
and she started off real good doing that for a while but as the young teen grew older
she rebelled against her religious upbringing my mother couldn't control me as a
teenager she wanted to try what the world had to offer i started looking at the subliminal messages i was
getting from the tv and going find prostitution and drugs and i thought that was
a way to make a life for myself by the time she graduated from high school sharon was already committing crimes i
just picked up on different angles of hustling shoplifting credit card fraud and eventually i wound
up working in a massage parlors masseuse and that's when i really got into the world of prostitution
by the time she was 17 she was working for a pimp in detroit i was fascinated he showed me
closets full of furs and women with cars and they had a lot of jewelry and but i like to work for
him and make money you know he's making two to three thousand dollars a week at 18 years old
it's a lot of money for a young girl while working in the sex trade sharon was offered drugs by her pimp
she soon developed a cocaine addiction my drug habit escalated to every day and all day
sharon's mother worried about the type of men in her daughter's life she was gullible as far as relationships
were concerned as a woman we always look for someone to love us but she was looking in the wrong places
in 1982 sharon met 34 year old dennis levy they married and moved to new york where levy
devised a plan to help her create income selling herself for sex he said that i no longer
could make any money in detroit as a prostitute and he bring me to new york show me how it was done and how i could
make a lot more money after four years sharon left her husband to run her own escort service
by 1986 she had ascended into the top tiers of the underground sex trade in new york
sharon was working as a madam and she was operating out of an apartment in the area known as west harlem new
york i was dating another guy at that particular time and uh he was into the pornography business
according to court documents on december 14 1986 mabry and her boyfriend committed a
brutal assault on a 23-year-old woman named lisa dickerson lisa was tied to a bed and tortured for
quite a considerable period she was tortured with a blow torch with cigarette lighters razors it was a
real masochistic type experience sharon insists it was her boyfriend who tortured the girl
and that she never took part in the crime at the time that the sexual assault was going on i was
out cold in the other part of the apartment on drugs i never even knew she was there when the
boyfriend left their apartment lisa tried to escape she's able to call that she's been 911 she's a kidnap
victim the police show up at the apartment uh sharon is so intoxicated that she forgets lisa was actually tied up in the
bed sharon mabry pled guilty to kidnapping in the second degree and served five years in prison she
claimed she refused to testify against her boyfriend because his family threatened her he was
never charged in 1992 mabry was released on parole division of parole was making a deal
with me to go back in the streets they needed information she knew the ins and outs of the flesh
trade stephen ipolito was sharon's parole officer and he set the ground rules for
her stent as an informant we didn't ask it i went to prostitution we asked her to give us information
i had to not only report to parole i also had an fbi agent that i was reporting to most of her information
that she gave us had to do with prostitution and organized crime figures and some
official corruption she could move with fluency throughout the whole of the underworld
it was in this underworld of crime that sharon met herbert horton in 1993. he had been considered a local pimp in
the area he had a brothel one of the most notorious ones in collins county at that
time he was known on the street as blackie we became romantically involved and i started running his place getting him
different girls according to sharon she was the madam of the brothel but also worked as a prostitute we
didn't have a lot of girls that did work i would fill in financially as a mother i felt very sad
about it because i was expecting a phone call saying sharon was gone because of that
lifestyle by 1995 she quit showing up for parole meetings and no longer provided
information to police after spending three years with horton at the brothel sharon's drug addiction
had overwhelmed her in addition her relationship with blackie took a turn for the worse
he began to be very abusive he was an alcoholic sharon says she felt trapped because blackie controlled the money
it was holding me against my will at that point making me run the brothel he was telling me if
you leave the brothel you're never going to get back in sharon left blackie anyway in december 1996 to work as a
prostitute in connecticut she returned to new york weeks later but did not reunite with her ex-boyfriend
i went to a drug house and i spent my holidays there she laid up in that crack house and she was smoking crack
and she's running out of money the people will run the crack house were asking her
for money she comes up with this scheme and she says i know who has money blacking
he always has money on him when women behind bars continues he was duct taped around the head the
nose the mouth and was shot numerous times in the head it's not my tissues to hurt him or
anything like that in january of 1997 40 year old sharon mabry was a former police informant who
had absconded from parole due to heavy drug addiction she recently dumped her pimp boyfriend
blackie who she claims cheated her out of money holed up in a nearby crack house
sharon was broke and in debt to her drug dealers they were feeding you know crack cocaine
and she basically now owes them money according to police on the evening of january 9th blackie was attacked at his
brothel by armed intruders it was an execution-style murder it seems that he went to the door to open
the door for someone and they pushed their way in i believe he was fighting and trying to run he was
duct taped around the head the nose the mouth and he was shot numerous times in the
head one of the victim's employees heard the murder from upstairs and called 9-1-1
sharon claims news of blackie's death came as a shock i didn't even know he was killed i was
still in the drug house sharon went to the police precinct and identified herself as blackie's girlfriend
she wanted permission to enter the brothel which was now a crime scene supposedly to retrieve her belongings i
wanted to get into the premises and get my furs and my jury out of there she came in she was strung out you could
tell that she she was she was addicted to drugs i mean she was a crackhead she was high as a kite
she had on a a long wig cowboy hat cowboy boots two suitcases detective andrew capertino sat mabry
down for interrogation once they found out that i had a parole warrant it turned from a good cop to a
bad cop threatening me telling me that i knew who committed the murder i was crying he wouldn't let me go to
the bathroom they wouldn't let me have anything to eat she was coming down from her high
i would go get potato chips pretzels soda i want to put some sugar into her system anyway i don't want to fall
asleep on me after hours of interrogation sharon confessed to planning the robbery of her
ex-boyfriend blackie her version was blackie owed her so much money he never paid her he would abuse her
verbally physically and just treat her like a dog i wanted to get in and um and get the
money that was owed to me he usually carried anywhere between a thousand to fifteen between eight to
fifteen hundred dollars in his pocket sharon agreed to give her confession on videotape for the
assistant district attorney in that statement sharon revealed that she was at the crack house when she
hatched the idea of robbing blackie i spoke about lacking being an easy person to get money from
it was not my attention to hurt him or anything like that she named three people at the crack house
who helped carry out the plan they said they were going over to blackies and they did that they would be
right back based on sharon's confession police rounded up the three individuals she
claimed committed the crime but detectives quickly determined that they were not the murderers
the alibis check out we know for sure we are 100 satisfied that they were not involved in this
detectives were convinced sharon gave them decoy names to protect the real killer
there was no way sharon did this by herself then detective capertino got a mysterious phone call
is this detective cappuccino yes it did the twins did it and the person hung up the twins did so i kept that in the back
of my mind it took two months for that vital clue to fall into place in april 1997 25 year old robbery
suspect anthony ogaro was arrested and taken to the 105th precinct detective capertino overheard a
colleague mentioned that aguero had a twin brother suddenly the missing puzzle pieces in
the horton murder began to materialize oguero confessed to being involved in the crime he basically
said that he was there and that shaman had arranged this and that another individual was the
actual shooter anthony ogaro insisted the robbery was sharon's idea because sharon came up to me and another
friend of mine and she wanted money from blackie as soon as the door opened our job was
to push through really quick hold him down and grab the money out of his pocket and run
but according to aguero the robbery did not go as planned they tackle him they duct tape his mouth
and they're going through his pockets he gets up and starts to run and there's a shot fired blackie goes
down although aguero gave up mabry he refused to divulge the identity of the shooter
we personally believe it was his brother who was twins he never gave up his brother in this
case you could tell he's very loyal to his brother in no way he's giving him up but i know deep down was his brother
there was no direct evidence that linked her to the crime the main evidence was was
the statement so we had to try to discredit that as being obtained through through police misconduct the defense
tried to prove that mabry only confessed because the police were physically and emotionally threatening her
sharon would tell me they used the psychological methods to get her to say what they
wanted her to say police deny the allegation we knew that she knew more than what she was telling
us it was my job to get that that truth i would take a soda can and throw it across the room
so tell me the damn truth and i would be nose-to-nose with her sharon claims her interrogation went to
extremes he kept saying do you know what kind of gun he was killed with and i kept saying i don't know i wasn't
there he kept using tactics to make me say that this is the gun that was used right and he pointed it at my head and i
was just i just saw my whole life flash between my eye i said okay okay i'll tell you whatever you want
coppertino admits he was tough on the ex-informant but says mabry's life was never
threatened different methods work with everybody if she didn't respond to me at all i
would send in another detective the court ruled sharon's confession was legally obtained
and it was the prosecution's biggest weapon without any forensic evidence tying mabry to the crime
the state built their case on the videotape confession along with the testimony of one of sharon's friends
a woman who had seen sharon hours after the murder according to sharon's friend sharon
admitted to her that she was involved she set the whole thing up she corroborated my false confession to
the police that i had knowledge of mr horton's murder it was her testimony that sharon
admitted to her that she killed blackie so that was very damaging the defense argued that sharon's friend
had pending legal cases of her own and testified against sharon in exchange for leniency
but the jury was not swayed i just couldn't believe it i just couldn't believe that i would be
convicted on a false statement it was her friend's testimony and the confession that's what
did her in sharon asserts that she did not get a fair trial and that blackie had many
enemies who wanted him dead i believe that the people that had a grudge against him
conspired with mr olgaro and had him killed maybe sharon didn't really want this guy
to get killed just wanted him to get robbed but the fact is that they killed him
sharon is not a killer she doesn't have that in her heart to hurt anyone even though she was on drugs i think
they had to frame or put it on somebody and solve a case could she have been totally framed well
yeah i guess it's possible too that uh a flying saucer landed in roswell new mexico do i think the police went out of
their way to to frame her no i don't think so sharon mabry is incarcerated at bedford
hills correctional facility in new york being here for something you didn't do is just horrible
[Music] i tried to look at the better side of it to say well i'm not on drugs i've cleaned up my life
i'm an educated black woman but just to be here away from my family and my friends it
takes a toll i'm very proud of at this point she's trying to help and talk to so many
people to turn their lives around and don't go down the road she did refusing to give up her fight to be
exonerated sharon also hopes to influence young women to make better choices it's not worth it all the money you
could get for exchanging your body for economic gain it's just not worth it it puts you in
positions where you don't even see the train coming you

Brief Summary

Angela Turner and Sharon Mabry share their stories of murder and the consequences of addiction and mental health struggles.

Key points

Angela Turner's Tragic Night. On Christmas Eve, Angela Turner fatally stabs her friend Antoinette Jobson during a heated argument.
The Aftermath of the Stabbing. Angela's chaotic escape and the frantic response to the stabbing of Antoinette.
Guilty Verdict Shock. The jury's guilty verdict leaves everyone in disbelief, yet it feels justified.
The Execution-Style Murder. A notorious pimp is brutally murdered in an execution-style attack.
Sharon's Confession. After intense interrogation, Sharon confesses to planning the robbery of her ex-boyfriend.
Sharon's Life in Prison. Sharon reflects on her life behind bars for a crime she insists she didn't commit.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I asked him did I do that and he said yes.

Angela's realization after the stabbing.

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Tension

75/ 100High tension

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