I was pregnant with my last child in the summer of 03 when I
heard about Fallon Tallent. I was working online for a records retrieval company
when I heard the live news report of the police chasing her at high speeds down
I-40. I stopped working and stared at the screen with interest. It seemed it
was a young girl, barely a woman, racing down the Interstate not 60 miles from
my house.
Reports say Fallon Tallent was on the tail end of a seven
day crack binge that day. She was racing through Mt. Juliet and caught the
attention of the police. Her speeds reached over 100 mph and they attempted to
stop her using sting strips – the spiked strips police unroll across the road
to puncture tires of absconding cars.
Fallon had been caught in this manner before and when she
saw the strips go down she swerved, killing two policemen that day, Sergeant
Jerry Mundy and Deputy John Musice.
Fallon is big news in the convict writing world. Her
romantic entanglements with Tennessee death row diva, Christa Pike, often make
headlines and her artwork and poetry turn up for sale online occasionally.
I have thought many times about Fallon. How could a girl so
young end up careening down the interstate at top speed? Where did she come
from? Where was she going?
She will have to serve 102 years before being eligible for
parole.
As Fallon's cousin I know the answers to the questions you ask. She isn't what she was portrayed to be by the media at all. I love her unconditionally. I could tell stories about what she endured at the hands of her own mother that would make a Hells Angels member cringe.
ReplyDeleteAmen, blue....... I DON'T CARE what someone went through. There is NO EXCUSE, NO EXCUSE for doing the kind of crap this girl did. I went through hell growing up, along with three other siblings. We ALL learned the lesson those experiences were supposed to teach us. IT HURTS so don't do anything to cause anyone else that same hurt. So SIMPLE!!! She deserves to be where she is....
DeleteEvery thing that happen that day could have been avoided if the police had of just waited and let her stopped wherever she was going.I always thought that...
DeleteLeah thank you for clearing up the truth with my mother Donna did a lot to hurt my mother but she was condemned the minute she hit the court room with all the coverage and everything yet at the end of the day Dorothy cash walks free to this day yet my mother is in jail never had the best relationship with her but she didn't deserve what she got 102 and 2 years maybe 2 25 year terms would be realistic my mother is not the devil she's a person who was sent down a bad road from the moment she was born she was forced into under age prostitution at a young age and the only way she could cope was drugs she was forced into the life she didn't chose it
DeleteI got to know Fallon a few years ago. I was her cellmate for a very short time. She was kind to me during my time there, and I appreciated that kindness. I believe we are all god's children, and we aren't supposed to judge other human beings, that's up to what ever Deity we believe in. Good luck Fallon, I think kindly of her from time to time, and send out a prayer or two when I do. I hope she is well.
ReplyDeleteIf pictures and photos can tell a story, personally, I see nothing in her eyes that even slightly represents someone with empathy or concern for the deaths of those officers, hopefully her indifference to all those who have suffered at her hands serves her well when she meets her maker.
ReplyDeleteIf you knew anything about prison is that you have to look and be tough to survive my mother knew she killed people and she felt bad but she also knew to survive for how long she has to be in prison that she can't show remorse or that she's weak you don't survive in any situation being incarcerated by crying in your mugshot you become a target
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