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Thanksgiving is supposed to be a time of gathering with family and friends, celebrating your

relationships and giving thanks for the many blessings in our lives. But what if you've

been cut off from your family and friends? What if all you have is someone who hits you,

a little's you, has isolated you from everyone and everything you love? What would that

day mean to you? A doubt it would still be a day of celebration. For Ashley Scott, it

would be her final day on the surf. And the night before, when other women are scurrying

around, preparing dishes to share with their loved ones, Ashley was desperately trying

to run away from the monster in her life and ultimately taking her final beating.

This is the story of Ashley Pittman Scott, beloved teacher, daughter, sister, and friend,

his life slipped away from her while she was lying battered, cold and alone on her own

garage floor.

And thanksgiving day, November 23, 2006, Memphis, Tennessee, 911 Dispatcher, Paula Heygood,

received a call from a man named Jeffrey Scott. She would later testify that she quickly

alerted her supervisor that she had a possible homicide call. Not from what Jeffrey

Scott was reporting, but from someone else she heard in the background. Jeff Scott was

calmly explaining that his wife was unconscious and could not be roused, but that she was

still breathing. But Paula Heygood heard a man in the background say, no, no, she's not

breathing, she's dead. Memphis police officer Sloan LaDelle was the first

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