It's a long story, but I will give you the
shortest version I can.
On december 4, 1999 tiffaney and left.
Tiffaney was going to do a little shopping
and go see her mother at her beauty shop.
Then she going going to take kaitlyn to
the win*dixie in n.Augusta, south carolina
to have her picture taken with santa
clause. Josh was going to go, but
decided against it. He had just worked
a 12 hour shift at a plant and was tired.
He was goingto lay down and rest.
At 3:00 tiffaney called josh. Told him
she was leaving her moms shop to go take
the pic now and that she'd pick up some
food for supper and be on her way home
after that. Josh fell asleep.
At 11:00 p.M. Josh woke up. He was
sleeping in the living room. He looked
around. Tiffaney hadn't woken him up
when she got home. He got up to go meet
her in their bedroom. She and kaitlyn
wern't there..... He looked outside.
The car wasn't there. He immediatly
paged her and called her mother. He
called friends. He paged her again.
He called her mom again. He called
everyone they knew...... No one had
seen her.
Tiffaney's mom came get josh about 1 a.M
to go look for tiffaney. She had been
in their only car so he had no other way
to leave. They happened to pass in
front of the win*dixie that tiffaney took
kaitlyn too and there in the deserted
parking lot..... Was their white
lumina..... While this was wierd, the
still didn't report her missing..... At
3 a.M. (this is not the 5th of
december) josh called us here in louisiana
to see if we had heard from tiffaney.
He asked us to pager her and put in our #
and 911. We did. Over and over.
But 4 a.M. They repported her missing.
Because she had an infant with her and
even though she was married, she was only
17...So the search started immediatly.
The phones were constantly ringing.
Ours, joshs, everyones.
On the 5th of december in the afternoon
the police informed josh that a baby had
been found unharmed at the georgia welcome
center. They went down to the hospital.
And identified kaitlyn. She hadn't
been hurt or anything. She was fine!
They released her into the coustody of
tiffaney's family because josh was a
suspect in the dissaperence of tiffaney.
Josh became the prime suspect. He was
treated horribly. To this day almost 5
years later..... He wakes up with cold
sweats and night mares of sitting in a
small room with cops telling him we know
you kil led your wife, now tell us where
you put her body.
anyway, to make a long story short. All
of tiffaney's family turned on josh.
They didn't even let josh see kaitlyn or
anything for almost all of the 24 days
that tiff was missing. We stay with him
from dec. 6 - dec. 13. Adn then
my dad went to stay with him thru the
28th.
On december 28, 1999 (my little sisters
birthday), tiffaney's body was found in
the woods by 2 deer hunters. That
night, she was idintifed as tiffaney
through hair and dental records.
We buried her on jan 1. New years day.
Closed casket, because of the
decompistion of her body. They didn't
even let josh hold kaitlyn at her own
mothers funeral...... For that, we'll
never forgive them.
10 months later on october 10, 2000. A
woman in her home, was brutally attacked
and unlike tiffaney, she survived. On
the 13th reinaldo j. Rivera was
arrested and charged with her attempted
homicide and rape. Upon arrest, he
willingly confessed to the homicide of
marni glista (21 year old army sargent, a
few months after tiffaney) tiffaney
wilson (10 months before), melissa dingess
(17, a year before tiffaney), and tabitha
bosdell (18, a few months after tiff).
His story for all the girls isn't exactly
what happened. What happened to all the
girls isn't exactly known. They were
all raped, stabbed, and strangled. But
this is what happened to tiffaney.
Dec. 4, 1999. Tiffaney went in a
took kaitlyn's pic with santa. Went
outside to the car. It wouldn't start.
Rivera see's her..... And knows she
has car trouble and offers her a ride.
Her mother lived about 2 blocks up the
road, so I guess tiffaney thought it was
safe to go with him..... She never
makes it to her mom's house. He pulls
into some woods..... In the
neighborhood where her mom lives......
And stabs her and hits her over the head.
Locks her in the back of his van.
Turns around, goes to the georgia welcome
center and proceeds to take kaitlyn out of
the van and go set her in front of the
welcome center. Why did he not just
kill kaitlyn? We don't know..... But
he didn't. He leaves her and her infant
seat in the doorway of the welcome
center.
He then takes tiffaney to the woods off of
bettis academy rd. And rapes,
strangles, and stabbs her.
He leaves her body and goes home.
24 days later, her body is found.
A break in the case~at the trial it comes
out that not everything was as peachy as
rivera first told authorities. A
wintess (philiph henscial) recalls that
evening at teh ga. Welcome center.
He recalls seeing a girl and a hispanic
male. The girl seemed to be running
from the hispanic man. She wasn't
screaming....... She was too far away
for him to really see how she looked
expression wise. Next time he looks
up....... The "couple" is gone.
He sees tiffaney's picture on the news
that she's missing. Dosen't pay much
attention. 10 months after her
homicide...... Rivera picture is up on
the news. When philiph sees the
picture...... Before it's even linked
to the death of tiffaney, philiph puts it
together in his head. The girl who was
running, was tiffaney wilson. Her
face.... Pain and fear. Her hand...
Over her left breast. He said rivera
was chasing tiffaney. She must have
woken up in the van and got out to go get
kaitlyn. He said now that he sees her
face, he see's pure torture. At teh
time though.... He didn't pay
attention.
We know now, why she didn't scream.
Rivera had punctured her lung when he
stabbed her just over her left breast.
Which is why she wasn't screaming and she
was holding her chest......... Philiph
to this day.... Almost 5 years later,
has yet to forgive himself for not
realizeing at the time that she was in
pain and hurt.......
So, there you go. It took forever to
type this. It's hard to type. She
suffered before she died. She was in
pain. She didn't know if her daughter
would be ok....... But, kaitlyn is and
I know tiffaney is watching over her
everyday of her life...........
i forgot to mention, after we buried
tiffaney. On jan. 13, 2000 kaitlyn was
given back to josh. Josh was finally
cleared as a suspect. He was free to
leave south caolina. Mom and josh packed
up and he was back here the 14th. With
our baby girl.
its so sad and it
pisssses me off so much that their are
such devils in this world....
