Lady Chopped Up ‘Money Cow’ Girlfriend Who Tried to Depart, Then Lived as Her for Years: DA

Now, they’re pointing the finger on the sufferer’s girlfriend on the time, Angel Thompson (above left). She’d been arrested already in 2024 for allegedly concealing the sufferer’s loss of life and stealing her identification to rake in tens of hundreds of {dollars} from authorities packages. Now, she’s accused of killing her, too.

Thompson was booked into Fulton County Jail on Monday, with a homicide warrant dated the identical day the stays have been discovered. She is being held with out bond.

Troup County Sheriff’s deputies first grew to become concerned on December 6, 2007 once they obtained phrase of a suspicious black bag on hearth on a avenue nook in Hogansville. Contained in the bag, they recovered a number of physique elements.

“They discovered 13 items of her physique, however they weren’t capable of establish her,” mentioned Fulton County District Legal professional Fani Willis at a press convention on Wednesday. “The explanation that they weren’t capable of establish her is as a result of, till today, we nonetheless haven’t been capable of finding her arms, her ft, or her head.”

Describing the case as “grotesque,” Willis advised reporters per The Unbiased, “This case entails what are simply horrific info.”

It wasn’t till DNA proof was despatched to labs in Virginia and Texas in 2023 for superior testing that authorities have been lastly capable of put a optimistic ID on the stays. The sufferer was Nicole Alston, 24 (above proper), who had just lately — as of 2007 — moved to Atlanta, Georgia from Manhattan, New York with Thompson “to begin her life,” per Willis.

In response to Willis, forensic family tree linked their sufferer to an Ancestry.com search carried out by the sufferer’s sister, which is what helped make them Alston’s identification.

The sufferer’s mom, Sylvia Alston, was additionally readily available Wednesday, telling reporters that her daughter “got here to Georgia with this one that advised her she was going to assist her. Nicole mentioned, ‘She’s going to assist me. I will be okay.'”

Previous to Alston’s disappearance 18 years in the past, she had been dwelling with Thompson in a relationship that Willis described as troubled. Sylvia mentioned that her daughter advised her on the time that Thompson had grow to be “abusive” towards her.

“She needed to return house,” Willis mentioned within the press convention, “however mentioned she had it underneath management. That was her final telephone name.”

With a sufferer and a doable suspect, investigators started digging into doable motives. They found that Thompson had warrants for theft and identification fraud in New York, based on Atlanta Information First, and was nervous about shifting again there. In addition they imagine she was involved about dropping Alston — as Alston was the first monetary supplier of their family.

“This entails basic home violence, the place the younger woman was mainly not going to permit each her lover — and I hate to say such a nasty time period — however actually ‘money cow,’ the individual that was bringing her cash, to go,” mentioned Willis. “And it ended tragically.”

The way of Alston’s loss of life was decided as “homicidal violence by undetermined means,” per officers. However the story did not finish with the sufferer’s loss of life and dismemberment. An in depth paper path uncovered by the course of the investigation revealed that Thompson allegedly began utilizing Alston’s identification.

At first, per police, she assumed Alston’s identification to promote her automotive and hire out her condo. By the point police discovered the sufferer’s burning stays, investigators found, Thompson was “already on courting web sites, making an attempt to satisfy individuals, hire the room, promote the automotive.”

Investigators alleged that Thompson opened e-mail accounts and financial institution accounts in Alston’s identify, and used her identification to steal her advantages from the federal government. “She did it very nicely and I imagine did it alone,” mentioned a police detective on the press convention.

“It is past the pale of what it took to do that,” mentioned Troup County Sheriff’s Investigator Clay Bryant. “It took a real sociopath.”

Finally, investigators imagine that Thompson took in $60,000 from social safety, $17,000 in meals stamps, and $60,000 in HUD housing help, all by Alston’s identification. Native NBC affiliate WXIA experiences the full, together with non-specified advantages, ran to greater than $200,000, and included Thompson allegedly utilizing Alston’s identify to safe housing and providers, with all of it solely ending when the Social Safety Administration tried to re-qualify Alston for advantages in 2015.

One detective, who mentioned he’d by no means seen something so “calculated and meticulous” as this, per the outlet, mentioned that when Alston’s driver’s license got here up for renewal in 2010, Thompson went by with it, and even changed Thompson’s photograph together with her personal.

Willis is satisfied that Thompson wasn’t simply on this one “money cow.” On the convention, she mentioned, “Instantly after this younger woman went lacking and we now know is deceased, the suspect was making an attempt to recruit different victims. We imagine this ties on to trafficking different ladies.”

Willis hopes that this case will assist result in different doable victims that will have encountered Thompson within the years since Alston’s loss of life, based on WXIA.

“We’re going to take our time in order that we are able to put collectively an indictment accurately,” Willis mentioned, “however it should contain human trafficking, in addition to this homicide as a result of we imagine that this sufferer was trafficked previous to her homicide.” An indictment is predicted by the tip of October, per The Unbiased.

“She did not deserve this, and I want I had by no means let her come to Georgia,” Sylvia mentioned of her daughter on Wednesday. She referred to as her bubbly, creative, and the lifetime of the get together by tears. “She was pleased, and thru all of her trials and struggles, she all the time made every part appear okay.”

She went on to say that Nicole was a really trusting individual, which she thinks is why she was allegedly taken benefit of by Thompson. “I by no means stopped searching for her,” she mentioned.