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CHAPTER 18

Tabby’s Boyfriend

According to a family member, Tabby met the man who was to become her boyfriend, in “an establishment.” Kevin said Tabby met Richard Oliver (pseudonym) in Nookie’s Tavern (pseudonym), a strip joint in Henrietta.

It makes sense, because Richard worked right around the corner. The circumstances of that meeting are sketchy, but it is difficult to imagine them in a wholesome light. No matter what Tabby and Richard’s relationship became, it probably started in a somewhat sordid fashion. Eyewitnesses described Tabby as an “amateur lap dancer” at Nookie’s Tavern, a description that is open to interpretation.

Suffice it to say that, in early 2003, Tabatha Bryant began seeing Richard Oliver. A beefy blue-collar worker with a “Mr. Clean” shaved head, he was in his late forties, even older than her husband. He was even older than her mother. She had been forced to visit Kevin’s world of vice. She had been stripped of her role as suburban lawyer’s wife and mother and had been forced to fulfill a threesome with her husband and a hooker. Now she would make something of her latest visit to Kevin’s world. She met a guy that she liked. The irony must have pleased her. While being systematically degraded by Kevin Bryant, she had discovered the man who might very well replace Kevin in her life.

Richard worked the night shift as a machine operator at a local factory. His job was at Schlegel, where they made industrial brushes, conveyor rollers, gasket seals of rubber or silicone, and various kinds of locks. Richard worked the night shift, midafternoon through eleven.

Tabby’s teller job at the M & T Bank was only part-time. She had Tuesdays and Thursdays off. It was during those days—before Richard Oliver went to work in the middle of the afternoon—that he and Tabby would get together. Most often she would go to his place.

The affair heated up even further on Valentine’s Day when Richard told Tabatha that he thought he was falling in love with her. After that, the frequency of their romantic trysts increased.

While Tabatha was seeking romance outside the home, things inside the home were kinkier than ever. February 22, 2003, was Kevin’s forty-fifth birthday, and there was a party on Pennicott Circle. According to a “Notice of Intent” later filed by Monroe County prosecutors, Kevin “partied with a dominatrix stripper, two escorts and approximately twenty guests.... His two young sons were in the house at the time.”

According to a co-worker at Tabby’s bank, Tabby herself hired the women for Kevin’s party. But Tabby wasn’t home for the dominatrix party. She and Richard Oliver were out having dinner.