Hi, Crime Junkeys. I'm your host Ashley Flowers, and I'm Britt.

And today, I'm going to tell you two stories about two mysterious deaths. One death that

at first many saw as a terrible accident, and another that many saw as an unexpected

suicide. But when you take a closer look, that might not be the whole story. These are

the stories of Tamala Horsford and Joseph Smetley.

On the morning of Sunday, November 4, 2018, in coming Georgia, police get a 911 call

at 8.59am. The call is from a woman named John Myers and her boyfriend Jose Barra,

saying that John's friend is in the backyard lying face down on the ground. John says that

they've been partying the night before, doing some drinking, and she thinks her friend

might have fallen off the balcony and into her backyard. First responders from Forsyth

County Sheriff's Office hurry to the scene and arrive in less than 10 minutes. There,

just like John and Jose said, they find the body of 40-year-old Tamla Horsford. Tamla

is fully dressed, still wearing the fleece paw print onesie that she had on the night

before. She's face down in the grass with her head pointing away from the house, and

her feet pointing towards the house. Arms splaid out pointing at different angles, and

with her laying face down, one of the only immediate visible injuries is on one of her

wrists, which is swollen and looks like it might even be broken. Right away, police start

talking to John and Jose and the other women who spent the night there trying to piece

together what the heck happened. John tells police that Tamla was one of a group of friends

that she had over to celebrate her birthday with like an adult sleepover. She says that

there were eight of them total, eight women, and from a video I saw of the sleepover on

Atlanta Black Star's website, it looked like they were having a great time. I mean, Tamla

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