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Welcome back to your crime army. I am your host Margo and this is Military Murder, a show where I focus on crimes committed by military members and veterans and sometimes their family members.

But don't worry, you don't have to know anything about the military to listen, I promise.

You just have to be a true crime enthusiast and if that's you, welcome home.

In honor of Mother's Day this month, I wanted to bring you the story of Tiktok's most requested case to date. It's the story of Monster Mom Tiffany Klopeek.

I swear when I first joined Tiktok back in late 2021, everyone recommended this case. I covered it in three parts in 2022 and it is one of a handful of cases that I have that has over one million views.

That version is very short and I will be putting it up on my YouTube so you can go check it out there.

But today, I decided to bring you the full story as a podcast exclusive.

Trigger warning, today's case does involve the death of a child, the neglect of various children living in base housing, a cheating spouse and a child protective services department that didn't know their asses from their elbows.

You've been warned, listen at your own risk. Join me today as I tell you the tragic story of little tamer and Klopeek. Now let's dig in.

Deployments are a part of military life and if you accept that as true, which you should because it is, you must also accept as true the fact that many parents are left behind to single parent while the military parent is off in a distant faraway land.

Single parenting is hard AF, especially when you have three kids. Trust me, I should know I have my own three and as a single mom, it's not easy.

Single parenting with three daughters is where 21 year old Tiffany Klopeek found herself in the summer of 2012. Tiffany was a military spouse married to Air Force Military Member Thomas Klopeek.

Together, they had three little girls, a three year old toddler, a 22 month old named Tamron, and a six month old infant.

They lived on base housing at Dias Air Force Base in Texas. Now I don't know a lot about Dias except that it's an Abilene, but I hear that it's kind of in the sticks. I could be wrong, so please don't come at me.

Our story takes us to Tuesday, August 28, 2012. That day, a woman called 911 to report that she found her daughter on responsive with purple lips.

The first responders rushed to 181 Washington, loop, hoping there was something they could do for this little girl.

But when they got to the scene and rushed inside the home, they were taken aback.

The first airman to arrive on scene was Master Sergeant Matthew Jones, a security forces troop, and he said that the smell inside the home was rancid.

Jones described that it was an overwhelming stench of urine and feces that was so bad he literally described it as feeling like he got hit in the face with a tennis racket.

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