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By the time she was just 24 years old, she had another failed marriage and was stuggling as a ing l mom trying to raise two boys, cody and nathan. that had to be tough, keeping your household going, huh? yes. and things went from bad to worse. bambi started popping painkillers. the old story, huh? yes. gobbled them down. i liked the way it made me feel. bambi was a single mom hooked on pills and sitting on a piece of land worth a small fortune. diane decided it was time to intervene before, say, another whirlwind husband du jour got half the property. mama said if you put it in my name it will be protected. and so, she signed the deed to her property over to her mom. and then bambi signed over her heart. sending cody and nathan to be raised by their grandparents. she calls it her lowest point. i didn t want to do it but i knew it was the right thing. ....
So out of hand that diane called 911. the responding officer arrived with his dashcam rolling, just moments after bambi had stormed away. i m sorry to bother you. you re not bothering me at all. diane explained the argument to the officer. she usually just does what she wants to do. picks them up when she wants to. she doesn t provide anything for them. diane went on to say she felt threatened by her daughter. she scares me. she got in my face and jerked the phone out of my hand when i was calling. then came this chilling pronouncement. if anything happens to me, you ll know that she s the reason. responsible person. how telling is that? she was in fear, grave fear. humphries by now suspected bambi was somehow involved in her parents murders. but he was skeptical she could commit a double homicide on her own. so the prosecutor turned his attention to bambi s boyfriend. rick gagnon. he s aligned with bambi. he was extremely faithful to bambi. ....
my mom was like freaking out. rick tried to comfort bambi. young cody turned to him, too. then i remember rick, he was near me, and i was crying on his shoulder. and everybody was just kind of it was a madhouse that day. in those moments it seemed the whole county had gone mad. the murders of diane and charlie came hard on the heels of two other vicious killings nearby. the suspect, a man all over the news, named steven stanko, was still at large. they were looking for steven stanko when charlie and diane were discovered. vivian was charlie and diane s neighbor. she runs a flowershop nearby. is this the kind of thing that you could feel in the air? you could feel it in the air. i was at the flower shop. probably not too thrilled with the idea of getting in your car and driving away. i didn t even want to go home. it was pretty bad in horry county that day. when i first arrived, what i m looking at is an opportunity to get oriented to the crime scene. ....
Then she had to, you know, do something about the pills. by the spring of 2005, bambi felt she had turned the corner. she and rick found a home of their own in myrtle beach. after a long struggle, she was ready to be a mom to her boys again. i was getting on my feet and i just i wanted cody and nate there with us. grandparents charlie and diane agreed very reluctantly to let the boys move in with bambi and rick. but no sooner had the boys moved than diane was making the case to get them back. mama was concerned. did she want to hold on to the boys? she said that she would like for them to, you know, to continue to stay with her. boyfriend rick thought bambi couldn t catch a break with her family. everybody pretty much treated bambi like crap. it stemmed from, you know, issues that diane and charlie and bambi had. those issues were simmering into an angry family drama. and then just a few weeks after the boys were turned over, it ....
and according to humphries, willing to do anything for her. you ve got the daughter and boyfriend who seem to be in some sort of conspiracy? the theory goes. an agreement to accomplish a goal. the alibi bambi and rick gave detectives that they were at home during the hours leading up to the murders was difficult to prove. each gave the other as a witness. she said, we were at home. you know, rick was there, i was there, my boys were in the other room. the prosecutor began to wonder, could those mysterious blood droplets at the crime scene be linked to rick and bambi. dna results did not come back. you knew somebody else was in the house. it could have been rick. as humphries waited for the results, he obtained a search warrant and took another look at some of rick and bambi s belongings. including their shoes. there s blood on the shoe. what did the lab analysis say about that? it was big charlie s blood. the prosecutor didn t buy rick s story about having ste ....