The difference in these photos is 2.5 years.
Posted on 09/27/2005 10:11:33 AM PDT by Stone Mountain
Hostage Gave Meth to Atlanta Fugitive
By GREG BLUESTEIN Associated Press Writer
September 27,2005 | ATLANTA -- The woman who says she gained the trust of suspected courthouse gunman Brian Nichols by talking about her faith in God discloses in a new book that she gave him methamphetamine during the hostage ordeal.
Ashley Smith did not share that detail with authorities after she talked her way out of captivity.
In her book, "Unlikely Angel," released Tuesday, Smith says Nichols had her bound on her bed with masking tape and an extension cord. She says he asked for marijuana, but she did not have any, and dug into her crystal methamphetamine stash instead.
Smith, who has been in a mental hospital and has flunked out of drug rehabilitation programs, says the seven-hour hostage ordeal led her to stop using drugs. She says she has not touched drugs since the night before she was taken hostage.
"If I did die, I wasn't going to heaven and say, `Oh, excuse me, God. Let me wipe my nose, because I just did some drugs before I got here,'" Smith told the Augusta Chronicle.
Police said Nichols took Smith hostage in her apartment March 11 after a shooting rampage at the Fulton County Courthouse. Nichols is accused of killing four people, including a judge.
Smith's 911 call to police when she was released led authorities to Nichols. She said she read him passages from author Rick Warren's "The Purpose-Driven Life" to gain his trust.
She was later bombarded with offers for books, movies and speaking engagements.
Financial details of the book have not been released, but she pledged to donate an undisclosed portion of the book's proceeds to a memorial fund for the victims.
© 2005 The Associated Press.
You have a vivid imagination.
Oh Yeah - if you dont happen to have a quart of OJ sitting in your lap when the plunger finishes you will have a dirt nap.
Wonder if Peggy Noonan is going to gush/squish about this development??
As I recall, the only reason for "conversion" is the errant belief that it may somehow complicate their execution.
When I first saw her picture I had her pegged for a coke-whore or a meth-whore. Her kid was living some where else and she was going out in the wee hours of the morning to get her nico and meth fixes.
Are you OK?
Are you OK?
The difference in these photos is 2.5 years.
Of course this scum bag criminal converted to islam. He hates whitey and this is just one more stab he can inflick on man kind. He will be well protected from harm with his new friends.
"He hates whitey"????
From the pictures of his victims it looks like he hates not only "whitey"but "blackey"as well!
I'm fine! And you?
Didn't you like my goofy little story?
It had the precise amount of facts in it as the one the other guy concocted. Did you ask him if he was OK?
The other guy did use facts. He then just speculated on what might be the conclusion from those facts.
Sorry to see that caused you such heartburn. Maybe some pancakes, meth and Rick Warren reading will help.
Thanks, spycatch. You saved me from dignifying that with a response. Next one's on me!
That's the one! Yikes.
As to your bizarre suggestion, you do that? You eat pancakes, take meth and then read a Rick Warren book?
And here I thought he was weird. All this time it was you.
How long have you been taking that meth?
You fellas better stick together. Maybe you could start a fiction club. Your little buddy seems to take meth though, so his stories will probably reflect that.
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