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CHAPTER 20

A Legal Problem

In early June 2003, things were volatile on several fronts in the house on Pennicott Circle. Kevin saw Tabby as a threat that needed to be dealt with soon; Cyril began to hit Cassidy; Tabby had had enough of Cyril and Cassidy in her house.

She had agreed to take Cyril in because he was family, and he needed a break. But she hadn’t banked on Cassidy being in the house, and the two of them were strung out most of the time.

The situation finally exploded when Tabatha kicked Cyril and Cassidy out of the Bryant home. One version of the story was that Tabby accused Cyril, now out of his head with coke addiction, of stealing $2,000.

Right around that time, Kevin began to think of Tabatha more coolly than ever. The situation was simple. He was a cuckold. She had to go. She was a legal problem, a problem to be taken care of. She was a problem that needed to be “disposed of.”

She couldn’t be allowed to take the kids. Perhaps she had already told him that she and the boys were going to split. Maybe she thought there was room for her and the boys in that house near Hilton that she had been visiting regularly.

She felt no guilt over her infidelity. She knew enough about Kevin’s lifestyle, before and during the time that she became a part of it, to know there was no way she was doing anything to her husband that he hadn’t already done to her—repeatedly.

On weekends Tabby still put the boys in the car and drove down to Greenwood. On Saturday nights Tabby, Samantha, Essie, and the boys would go to the local quarter-mile track for the stock car races. The driver Sam had been dating had become her fiancé, and one of Woodhull’s winningest drivers.