Gee Whiz...If I can think back, the first I HEARD of it was from media...then TS confirmed it....slept since then....but I live a ways away...my new news may be old news....tgotta know more if you will...
Tammi Peters Smith- Background
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Gee Whiz...If I can think back, the first I HEARD of it was from media...then TS confirmed it....slept since then....but I live a ways away...my new news may be old news....tgotta know more if you will...
Does this cat live in TX ????
Where does CC live now? AZ or TX?
BeanE
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Troubled pasts of women in 'Baby Gabriel case
March 5, 2010 - 8:36PM
Here's everything Smith related from the article:
For eight weeks, the Tribune has combed through police reports and court records from numerous jurisdictions across the country and conducted interviews with more than a dozen people related to the case and the pairs pasts.
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Smith once worked as an exotic dancer in New Orleans, aspired to be a country music singer pursuing fortune and fame in Nashville, Tenn., and at one time was married to two men at the same time, according to police reports and court records.
In 2001, she paid to give her three children up for adoption to her ex-husband and his wife after a costly 2½-year custody battle, according to Smith and the second of her five husbands, Kieth Facio. More recently, Smith tried to adopt children from China and Africa, according to her MySpace page, which has since been blocked from public view and Facio.
Shes trying to fill a gap, said Facio, who lives with their three teenage children near New Orleans. Tammi knows she screwed up with her own children and is trying to make up for it. Shes tried to adopt other children for several years, but it always falls through for some reason and she cant. Its likely because of her past.
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Smith is facing charges of forgery and conspiracy to commit custodial interference and is free on $15,000 bond. Smith and her husband, Jack, who were interested in adopting Gabriel, were named by Tempe police as persons of interest in the case because authorities believed the Smiths withheld information that could have led to the whereabouts of the boy.
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The Smiths have maintained their innocence and have been adamant that all they tried to do was talk Johnson into returning to Arizona with the baby. They have never been suspects in the babys disappearance.
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Investigators said it was Tammi Smiths desperate attempts to adopt the child that hindered the investigation. Police allege that the Smiths had a plan in place to adopt Gabriel or were developing a plan to somehow pick up the child in Nashville, Tenn., and her contradictory statements to police and to the media led to her arrest. Jack Smith, a former pedal steel guitarist in the Grand Ole Oprys House Band in Nashville and a former studio musician for country music singer Whisperin Bill Anderson, was cleared in the case.
Smiths attempts to acquire custody of the boy included trying to persuade a Maricopa County Family Court judge into letting her adopt Gabriel as she told the judge during a recorded phone message that she believed Johnson would bring the child back to Arizona if she knew he would be safe.
Smith also researched the possibility of changing the jurisdiction of Johnsons custody hearing and the possibility of adopting both a child and an adult so she could adopt Johnson and Gabriel in order to have custody of her child, according to court documents.
Smith also wrote the name of her first cousin, an ex-convict named Craig Cherry, as being a potential father to Gabriel on a paternity-test petition before she drove Johnson to the courthouse, according to court documents, which lead to the forgery charge against her.
In late 1996, Smith was arrested in another forgery case for stealing checks from Facio and signing his name to them, according to St. Bernard Parish District Court documents in Louisiana. Smith was not authorized because her spending habits had put the family in financial straits before, according to a police report. The charges against Smith were later reduced to attempted theft, misdemeanors, and she was ordered to repay Facio $1,149 in restitution, according to court records.
Hey, the money was mine, too, Smith said in a brief telephone interview with the Tribune.
She claimed that the fourth man she married Michael Edwyne Riddle forced her into marrying him at the Davidson County Courthouse in Nashville on Nov. 30, 1998, according to court records. Smith said Riddle beat her so badly that she knew she was at the courthouse but didnt realize she was getting married, the documents state. When Smith married Riddle, she became married to two men at the same time Mikel Sikora of Phoenix was the other, according to court records.
When Sikora was contacted by the Tribune, he replied, I think Ill stay out of this one.
Smith, who said she could not track down Riddle, had the marriage annulled in Maricopa County Superior Court in 2001, according to court records.
When Smith was asked by the Tribune about Riddle or if she has been in contact with him, she said, Whos Mike Riddle? And why would I want to contact him?
During 2006 and 2007, Smith operated a colon-cleansing business in Nashville for 15 months without a license before the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners ordered her to close and fined her, according to a document from the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners.
Neglect and silence
Smiths oldest daughter, Gabriele Victoria Facio, 19, recently wrote in a Facebook message to a Tribune reporter that she only considers Tammi her biological mother and not her real mother.
She neglected us, Gabriele Facio said. She took us, sorta kidnapped us, right before I turned 6. After that, my dad had enough and divorced her. She wanted money and fame. She didnt like working or taking care of children. It was never her thing. She wanted to make an album, be a country singer. Thats when she met Jack and left her guy.
In the end, it was us or him. She chose him.
Gabriele also said she helped raised her siblings.
I remember being mom, she said. I helped my dad raise my brother and sister. I cared for them even when Tammi was around. She neglected us, didnt always feed us, didnt always change diapers. She spanked us for crying or doing something little. We were children.
Although Smith does not express any regrets for giving up the rights to her children, she said, I love my children very much and I always will.
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/151556
March 5, 2010 - 8:36PM
Here's everything Smith related from the article:
For eight weeks, the Tribune has combed through police reports and court records from numerous jurisdictions across the country and conducted interviews with more than a dozen people related to the case and the pairs pasts.
snip
Smith once worked as an exotic dancer in New Orleans, aspired to be a country music singer pursuing fortune and fame in Nashville, Tenn., and at one time was married to two men at the same time, according to police reports and court records.
In 2001, she paid to give her three children up for adoption to her ex-husband and his wife after a costly 2½-year custody battle, according to Smith and the second of her five husbands, Kieth Facio. More recently, Smith tried to adopt children from China and Africa, according to her MySpace page, which has since been blocked from public view and Facio.
Shes trying to fill a gap, said Facio, who lives with their three teenage children near New Orleans. Tammi knows she screwed up with her own children and is trying to make up for it. Shes tried to adopt other children for several years, but it always falls through for some reason and she cant. Its likely because of her past.
snip
Smith is facing charges of forgery and conspiracy to commit custodial interference and is free on $15,000 bond. Smith and her husband, Jack, who were interested in adopting Gabriel, were named by Tempe police as persons of interest in the case because authorities believed the Smiths withheld information that could have led to the whereabouts of the boy.
snip
The Smiths have maintained their innocence and have been adamant that all they tried to do was talk Johnson into returning to Arizona with the baby. They have never been suspects in the babys disappearance.
snip
Investigators said it was Tammi Smiths desperate attempts to adopt the child that hindered the investigation. Police allege that the Smiths had a plan in place to adopt Gabriel or were developing a plan to somehow pick up the child in Nashville, Tenn., and her contradictory statements to police and to the media led to her arrest. Jack Smith, a former pedal steel guitarist in the Grand Ole Oprys House Band in Nashville and a former studio musician for country music singer Whisperin Bill Anderson, was cleared in the case.
Smiths attempts to acquire custody of the boy included trying to persuade a Maricopa County Family Court judge into letting her adopt Gabriel as she told the judge during a recorded phone message that she believed Johnson would bring the child back to Arizona if she knew he would be safe.
Smith also researched the possibility of changing the jurisdiction of Johnsons custody hearing and the possibility of adopting both a child and an adult so she could adopt Johnson and Gabriel in order to have custody of her child, according to court documents.
Smith also wrote the name of her first cousin, an ex-convict named Craig Cherry, as being a potential father to Gabriel on a paternity-test petition before she drove Johnson to the courthouse, according to court documents, which lead to the forgery charge against her.
In late 1996, Smith was arrested in another forgery case for stealing checks from Facio and signing his name to them, according to St. Bernard Parish District Court documents in Louisiana. Smith was not authorized because her spending habits had put the family in financial straits before, according to a police report. The charges against Smith were later reduced to attempted theft, misdemeanors, and she was ordered to repay Facio $1,149 in restitution, according to court records.
Hey, the money was mine, too, Smith said in a brief telephone interview with the Tribune.
She claimed that the fourth man she married Michael Edwyne Riddle forced her into marrying him at the Davidson County Courthouse in Nashville on Nov. 30, 1998, according to court records. Smith said Riddle beat her so badly that she knew she was at the courthouse but didnt realize she was getting married, the documents state. When Smith married Riddle, she became married to two men at the same time Mikel Sikora of Phoenix was the other, according to court records.
When Sikora was contacted by the Tribune, he replied, I think Ill stay out of this one.
Smith, who said she could not track down Riddle, had the marriage annulled in Maricopa County Superior Court in 2001, according to court records.
When Smith was asked by the Tribune about Riddle or if she has been in contact with him, she said, Whos Mike Riddle? And why would I want to contact him?
During 2006 and 2007, Smith operated a colon-cleansing business in Nashville for 15 months without a license before the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners ordered her to close and fined her, according to a document from the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners.
Neglect and silence
Smiths oldest daughter, Gabriele Victoria Facio, 19, recently wrote in a Facebook message to a Tribune reporter that she only considers Tammi her biological mother and not her real mother.
She neglected us, Gabriele Facio said. She took us, sorta kidnapped us, right before I turned 6. After that, my dad had enough and divorced her. She wanted money and fame. She didnt like working or taking care of children. It was never her thing. She wanted to make an album, be a country singer. Thats when she met Jack and left her guy.
In the end, it was us or him. She chose him.
Gabriele also said she helped raised her siblings.
I remember being mom, she said. I helped my dad raise my brother and sister. I cared for them even when Tammi was around. She neglected us, didnt always feed us, didnt always change diapers. She spanked us for crying or doing something little. We were children.
Although Smith does not express any regrets for giving up the rights to her children, she said, I love my children very much and I always will.
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/151556
BeanE
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Please keep in mind that CC is not a POI or suspect in this case.
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What juicy dirt....wow!
Sorry for posting this here but I can NOT get the TS Background thread to open and this seemed the next best place..
It's a non -trivial thing that this woman's history is loaded with all forms of deception and paying to give her childrent to their father (KF)??? What is up with that? I also would love to know if anyone can provide any clarity on the fact that I keep seeing it stated that EJ and TS met in a Boston airport while in interviews of TS, I have heard TS say that they met in the Indianapolis airport.
It's a non -trivial thing that this woman's history is loaded with all forms of deception and paying to give her childrent to their father (KF)??? What is up with that? I also would love to know if anyone can provide any clarity on the fact that I keep seeing it stated that EJ and TS met in a Boston airport while in interviews of TS, I have heard TS say that they met in the Indianapolis airport.
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Poor Gabriel, the mother he was born to is heartless and mental, then this woman who appears to have preyed on her in order to get him by any means necessary, poor Gabriel, he didn't stand a chance. I wondef if they will have charges for interfering with Gabriel's father's parental rights, or for attempting an illegal adoption, filing false info in their court records, perjury, interfering with the investigation of a crime, asseccory to a crime yet unknown, trafficking, etc???? Is Child Protective Services investigating them for the welfare of their daughter? Wasn't she adopted too? Yikes......hinky hinky stuff here.....insert woeful emoticon here...
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Ruminating over the Casey Anthony motion to be declared indigent.
Listening to tapes of that fruitcake PI [who werked for Jesse's dad & then got himself hired in the Haleigh case] talk to an even loonier woman named Barb.
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I can proudly say that I am FAR from being an expert. I think it's pretty much the same thing just different labels. If anything, girls who dance in clubs may be labeled exotic dancers while girls who answer calls (hotel rooms, bachelor parties, etc) might be labeled strippers???
Forgive me if that is an ignorant observation.
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I think it might be the difference between "janitor" and "sanitary maintenance engineer."
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Definitions of exotic dancer on the Web:
stripper: a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music
Not a good visual.
stripper: a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music
Not a good visual.
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Yeah, one and the same...stripper = exotic dancer. College girls and single mother prefer exotic dancer.
Then there are totally nude clubs too....let hope it was only a topless bar.
Then there are totally nude clubs too....let hope it was only a topless bar.
Well last night I did a bit of searching via MS on one of TPS's old accts and I found a pinch of smut here and there. There was one site in particular that I was cracking up pretty hard because I just do not want to imagine. Even on her business MS that JS's picture is on, he likes his EXOTIC and its not TS.
Too funny BeanE...had a comeback, but thought better of it! I am in the music business, so I have a very musical mind if you will!
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