Reggie and Carol Sumner....Buried Alive

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 21 June 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Murdered in a uniquely gruesome and prolonged series of events; Reggie and Carol Sumner are the helpless victims of a month-long plan carried out with the help of a familiar face. Buried alive in a pre-dug hole near the Florida/Georgia line, these two high-school sweethearts suffer their terrible end at the hands of Tiffany Cole, her boyfriend Michael James Jackson, Alan Wade, and Bruce Kent Nixon, Jr.

Tiffany Cole buys a vehicle from the Sumner family and travels to Jacksonville regularly to pay down her debt. That is, until her new boyfriend, Michael James Jackson, hatches a plan that ends in the Sumners' deaths.

After being buried alive, under hundreds of pounds of dirt, an autopsy determines that the couple's cause of death is mechanical asphyxiation (i.e. physical interference with breathing and or circulation). In this episode of Body Bags, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan and Jackie Howard take a closer look at these horrifying deaths.

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0:00.0	We face health issues often on and you never know what's really going to kind of finally
0:28.1	knock you to your knees. But the beauty part of that is that sometimes when we're struggling
0:36.0	with our health we have an unintended angel that kind of enters into our life and promises to
0:41.2	be with us to the day that we die. Well that was the case with the regime carol summer. They found
0:50.1	one another. They found one another and they held on to one another very very tightly and they were
0:57.9	enjoying their retirement. But they were both faced with great obstacles and the greatest
1:04.1	obstacle was yet to come. It ended in their deaths. The day we're going to talk about the double
1:10.8	homicide of Reggie and carol summer. I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is Body Bags.
1:19.5	Jackie Howard, executive producer of Crown Stories with Nancy Grace is joining me today. Jackie,
1:31.4	what can you tell us about Reggie? Carol and Reggie Sumner reportedly met in high school and
1:37.1	rekindled their relationship later in life. They found each other. They wanted the same things out
1:42.6	of the rest of their life and they wanted to spend time together. Yet this couple was suffering
1:48.8	through some health issues. Reggie had diabetes and he had also had some injuries to his ankle which
1:55.6	required him to need the assistance of a wheelchair or a cane on occasion. However, Carol was
2:01.9	suffering through liver cancer as well as hepatitis as a result. It's this combination of health
2:08.2	issues that will come into play a little later Joe. So let's talk about how their health issues
2:13.9	are impacting their life right now. Their quality of life. Cancer, health injuries and diabetes.
2:21.7	Yeah, it's a horrible set of circumstances to be faced with. You know, there were not like
2:27.4	really, really elderly people. This couple was only 61 years old and they had a lot of years
2:33.1	in front of my. I think that that's what they thought at one point in time. They had made this
2:38.1	really this really warm promise to one another. It really struck me when I was doing the research
2:42.8	on this case. How they would be with one another until today they died that they had promised to
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