Custody Death Trap

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🗓️ 14 June 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In early February, 2002, Alan Bates and his wife, Terra Bates, pulled up to a home in Birmingham Alabama to pick up Alan's two young daughters from their mother’s house so Alan could spend time with them. They were, maybe, a little nervous and ready for a fight… because at this point, the relationship between Alan and his ex-wife, Jessica McCord, had been rocky and incredibly confrontational for years.
But Alan loved his daughters. He wanted to see them, so he wasn’t letting the issues with their mother get in the way. He and Terra had actually flown out from their home in Maryland to do just that… and they weren’t going to go back without Alan seeing them and being able to spend some time with them. So when they saw the note on the front door saying that the McCord’s were having problems with their front door and asking them to come around to the back one instead, they did just as instructed.
Btw, Things were incredibly tense between both couples because the Bates’s were also in town to testify against the McCord’s… so that they could get custody of the two girls and this was going to be the climax of a story that had gone on for years and years.
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0:00.0	In early 2002, Alan Bates and his wife Tara pulled up to a home in Birmingham, Alabama,
0:08.4	to pick up Allen's two young daughters from their mother's house so that Alan could spend time with them.
0:13.4	They were maybe a little nervous and ready for a fight because at this point,
0:17.6	the relationship between Alan and his ex-wife, Jessica McCord, had been
0:22.1	rocky and incredibly confrontational for years. But Alan loved his daughters. He wanted to see them,
0:28.8	so he wasn't letting the issues with their mother get in the way. He and Tara had actually
0:33.2	flown from their home in Maryland to do just that, and they weren't going back without
0:37.5	Allen seeing them and being able to spend some time with them. So when he saw the note on the
0:42.3	front door saying that the McCords were having problems with their front door, and asking them
0:46.8	to come around to the back one instead, they did as instructed. By the way, things were incredibly
0:52.2	tense between both couples because the Bates were also in town to testify against them accords so that they could get custody of the two girls.
1:01.1	And this was going to be the climax to a story that had gone on for years and years.
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