reinstated her six-year sentence. thank you. but shanoltzer said she had taken her recovery into her own hands. i got clean and sober. got my first job. a member of my church. i m learning how to drive. i m 30 years old. i don t know how to drive. i m going to school and i m doing everything i can, and i finally got sick and tired of being on the run. so i turned myself in. i turned myself in with 36 members of my church with me, and i still got six years. shanholtzer s latest troubles paled in comparison to some of her past run-ins with the law. in her early 20s she befriended members of a notorious street gang. i hooked up with them because i did drugs. and you do drugs you meet all kinds of walks of life. so you weren t in the gang? no. you were just doing drugs? dating a couple of them. one night some of her friends from the gang told her to take a
ride with them in the truck, in the back was one of their victims, a decomposing 3-day-old corpse. shanholtzer says she was used as a prop to make others in the truck look less suspicious. i was asked to get in the truck because i don t have tattoos. i don t look the part of the white supremacy gang. and i did. i got in the truck. somebody tells you some guy with tattoos all over the place tells you to get in this truck and you smell the body, you know it s in there. you don t go no, never mind, i don t think so, i m going to go home. no, you just go and you say okay and you pray to god that there s going to be a chance for you to get away from it. i kept spraying perfume in the back so we didn t smell it. i didn t look in the back. i didn t want to see the body. a month later shanholtzer was arrested for murder. the charge was eventually reduced to accessory after the fact. she pled guilty and served a 16-month sentence at the orange county jail.
personality with her past, which included prior incarcerations, drug use, ties to a notorious gang, a brush with murder, and motherhood. i have three daughters that are adopted by their grandmother. and i have a beautiful little boy. how long has it been since you ve seen your daughters? it s been nine years since i ve seen my daughters. why is that? because i can t stay out of jail for over a year. i will not be a yo-yo mommy. once i m out of jail for a year, then i will slowly try to work myself back in to their lives. this is not who i wanted to be. this is not what i wanted to be, but addiction is a gnarly, gnarly thing. open the door. a year earlier, shanholtzer was given a six-year suspended sentence, placed on parole, and required to go to a drug treatment program after pleading guilty to possession of a controlled substance. when she failed to attend the drug program, the judge
gang members. now she fears that if she has to serve her six years in state prison, her life will be in jeopardy. those people are not nice people. they re murderers. and it s not just one. it s multiple people. and they want to kill me. at the time of our shoot in orange county, shanholtzer was appealing her six-year sentence, and requesting that if she did have to serve the time, she do so at the orange county jail, where she felt more protected. that s one of my saints. with my name. st. therese. very nifty. she also made a few good friends in the jail and developed a constructive daily routine. i m not surprised that people that can t necessarily get it together out in the real world come in here and function very well in a controlled environment. many people do in here. hey there, handsome. thank you.
she stood out. because she seemed very at ease in her environment. you re not allowed to shower unless i m in the shower with you. yeah. they re only taking and that prompted us to go and speak to her. you look like a california girl. you look like a beach bunny. that s what i want to be. one day. i don t dress weird. i dress like a mom. i want to be going to school to be a pastor. i found that drive in me now, and i m so happy and proud of myself that i haven t changed my appearance. i think i ve gotten used to seeing the girl next door coming in. they make mistakes. they can t function out there. i ve been a deputy for nine years, and i ve known inmate shanholtzer for about my whole career. she s been in and out for various crimes. and now she s in for a