WP: Hostage Gave Meth to Atlanta Fugitive

[kskiska]

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.

(snip)

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.

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[onenote]

1. maybe its just me, but I find this to be hilarious

[neuvocat]

10. Same here.

That's hysterical.

[tk2kewl]

2. Maybe God gave the meth to her

:shrug:

[ElectroPrincess]

11. The Nazi *killers* love those amphetamines ...

Same buzz produced with paranoid side effects. This is just too f**king sick for me to focus on. Damn this woman, she's a sick witch of a human being. :puke:

[Sannum]

3. how generous of her

:crazy:

[WildClarySage]

4. Why does this fail utterly to surprise me?

[Debi]

5. I thought she was clean and sober?

Maybe just like the pResident?

[hopein08]

6. Somebody should see what Rick Warren thinks of this...

His book and meth. Now that is an interesting and powerful combination:nuke::nuke:

[TallahasseeGrannie]

7. And she thought this would mellow him out? n/t

[ElectroPrincess]

8. I can't even begin to put my mind around this concept?!?

IMO, to hell with this b*tch and her opportunistic attempt to make money. :puke:

[Tomee450]

18. I've never accepted her story.

I believe she had met him before.

[RepublicanElephant]

31. i've always believed this too...

...did you notice how far he had to drive from downtown to get to her apartment in far north fulton county, in a stolen federal agent's pick-up truck? not to mention her apartment was waaay in the back of the complex. and why would she follow him down a major street to dump the pick-up, then take him back to her apartment? and then he let her go to get her kid from the babysitter?

can't wait to hear nichols' side of this story.

[rocktivity]

34. Nichols might have known her late husband.

According to her book, at least, he was stabbed to death in a brawl.

But yes, this revelation does knock her "angelicness" out of the ring. I'm glad she got out of it alive, but she honored neither her god nor herself by concealing the drug information.

:headbang:
rocknation

[Scurrilous]

9. What chapter...

..of "The Purpose-Driven Life" advises to keep a meth stash around?

[Mabus]

24. Actually the "chapter" had been hollowed out

so she could keep her stash hidden in the book. It's like an alcoholic hiding booze. Who'd think to look there?

[alcibiades_mystery]

28. LOL

Well played!

[Catherine Vincent]

32. Have you ever seen the movie "Buck and The Preacher"?

with Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier....The preacher hid his gun in his bible. It was a life savior.:-)

[DS1]

12. Smoke Meth - Find God - Why it's a Heartland problem

[hatrack]

13. Shouldn't that be "The Suction-Driven Pipe"?

Just asking . . .

[tonekat]

14. LOL, just mention god and the media laps it up!

"Oh, she mentioned god, we have to put that in the first paragraph of the article!" Love seeing them get suckered on this!

[kenny blankenship]

15. And all this time I thought the power of prayer spared her life.

Live and learn, I guess.

[WildClarySage]

17. Prayer and Meth.

[Oreo]

16. Beautiful!

I think I just saw something about a TV movie about her. Another fucking hypocrite fundie. Anybody know where this movie is showing? I think I saw the ad last week. It may have been on already

Of course now she's saying she doesn't use anymore and all is forgiven. Just like shrub... I claim to be saved so therefor anything I do wrong doesn't matter.

She's on Oprah today or tomorrow. Dya think Oprah knows about the meth?

[TomInTib]

19. "The Meth-Driven Life"

[MissB]

20. .

:spray:

[AlCzervik]

25. i have to clean up my keyboard now.

:rofl:

[Hell Hath No Fury]

21. There were DUers...

at the time who called her drug use and background correctly, and were harshly criticized for speaking ill of the heroic woman who stopped a killer.

My, my, my...what a little time will tell...

[henslee]

22. Ha... and she was the goodly good Godly poster girl. Trust no one.

[henslee]

23. Wonder if she gave him a back rub.... too.

[MN ChimpH8R]

26. So Jeebus likes meth?

:shrug:
:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[RebelOne]

27. On the radio this morning, it was said that she gave him

the meth to keep him calm. Keep him calm? Meth is a stimulant, not a relaxant.

[Mabus]

29. Maybe it helped take the edge off

her crack binges? :shrug:

I once represented a client who was arrested while out looking for meth after smoking crack for a couple of days. It didn't make sense to me then but now... Who am I to question the rationale?

[kskiska]

30. As I remember, she cooked him pancakes, too.

Then she collected a fat reward for turning him in.

[bluedog]

33. aw.come on. Bet ya they knew each other

aw.come on.


the media talking heads went on and on about how this God loving woman was so brave to get this man to turn himself in....She was a Saint in their eyes.she got a reward ....her minutes of fame went into hours of praise......now she writes a book......for petes sake..this woman was a druggie......a freaking Meth druggie.she had drugs..how do WE really know that she didn't know this man?.......Come on..do we really know the truth about this?....Did they know the same people?.....Did they deal ......we know they used!
Good Christian God fearing woman..I am so sick of these right wing religious people.who turn out to be crooks and liars!