What happened to Tamla Horsford?

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Tamla Horsford born October 10, 1978,  mother of five was found dead on November 4th, 2018.

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Horsford reportedly attended a “football moms” party at a friend’s home in Cumming, Georgia, but she never made it home. Horsford’s case has raised eyebrows because she was the only woman of color at the party. Forsyth County’s history with black people isn’t the most favorable as it was a popular gathering of white supremacists as recent as 1987.

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A frantic 911 call captured women and men reporting an emergency in the home’s backyard a little after 8 a.m. the next morning where her body was discovered the next morning by law enforcement. On the 911 call, one of the men who report the death is heard saying she has “a cut on her wrist” and offers whether it was “self-inflicted.” The death certificate went on to state that Horsford had “acute ethanol intoxication” as a contributing factor, meaning that she was drunk. The autopsy pointed to death “by an accidental fall from a residential deck.” But despite the sheriff’s office and coroner’s account,, the details of the case have never been fully disclosed.

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Adding to the already significant suspicion surrounding the case, Forsyth court employee Jose Barrera was fired after it was learned that he illegally accessed documents related to Horsford’s death. Compounding the case, it was learned at the time that Barrera was dating the woman who owned the home where Horsford died. The coroner’s report said that Horsford’s body had evidence of “blunt force trauma,” many people speculating on the case said that those injuries were inconsistent with someone who fell accidentally.

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Horsford’s best friend, Michelle Graves, told TV station WSB-TV “I do believe that her life was taken from her. Yes.” More recently in early June 2020, the attorney hired by the family says in a letter obtained by WSB-TV that “The review reflects that a homicide is a strong possibility.” The letter goes on to say: “A remarkable fact is that there were no photographs taken during the autopsy of Tamla’s body.”