I can't believe this happened to me. At midnight Saturday, December 6th I was having a nice conversation with Marshall as I was folding laundry. Suddenly the doorbell rang. I thought it was Harriet and that maybe she lost her key or something. I flipped on the light and standing there were about six federal marshals at my door, badges and all of them armed, the other four marshals had billy clubs in hand. My heart started beating a million miles an hour. The main guy says, "maam, I'm Federal marshal so and so and we'd like to talk to you, will you please let us come in? We have some questions to ask you. My first thought was, "oh, what did my business partner do, given the circumstances we were in at the time," then I thought, "has Kirk been living a double life?" then the agent said "You were featured on Americas Most Wanted this evening, do you watch the program?" I said "no". "How many children do you have? I said "6 but I have one extra tonight, he's a cousin". How long have you lived at this address?" I said "about 5 years". "I swear I haven't hurt anybody!" While this was going on, I told Marshall to run upstairs and get his dad. Marshall ran back downstairs and said that his dad didn't believe him and won't come downstairs. I said, "Marshall, tell dad there are six cops down here", the federal marshal broke in and said, "tell him there are 12 marshals here and maam, you may want to get dressed, there may be some media following us". I didn't even hear him say that I was too focused on getting Kirk to come downstairs. I continued to say "tell dad I need him". Marshall came back downstairs and said "dad, still doesn't believe me, mom". So by that time Maggie was up and had heard what was going on and told her dad to get downstairs because they were going to haul mom off to jail.
After the federal marshal got answers to a few questions, he told me that someone turned me in as a possible suspect of a lady that had abducted her three step children and two of her own and has been missing since 2005. He went on to say that her kids are about the same ages as my kids and when they get a tip like this, they have to move quickly.
When Kirk finally came downstairs they hauled him off into another room to question him. Then they questioned Marshall, Maggie and Ally. They asked for my drivers license, my kids names and dates of birth and realized they didn't have the right woman. The gal they were after had blonde hair, kind of plump and had five kids.
We looked it up on the internet after the marhals left and read the story. There was a picture of the woman and Marshall says, "mom, you're a lot cuter than her." I thought that was so sweet. I guess a neighbor or someone that doesn't know me real well gave them my address.
The other six marshals had my house surrounded in case I tried to escape. Marshall saw them at each of the back doors and he says he thinks there were two at the garage because Kayla was barking like crazy plus the marshal mentioned there were twelve of them. Kinda freaky huh? The link below is the story about the women. Tawynia Brown.
My kids were quite excited, to say the least. Maggie and I sat on the stairs and laughed histercally for a 1/2 hour while we calmed down . Kirk had already gone back to bed. What a night ! The kids can't wait for "show and tell" at school.
