Alyssa
Appearances
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S22 E9: How Dare You
Because she had the opportunity to bail out before she was sentenced so many times and it never happened. I'd be like, well, why don't you have your mom give me the card? Why doesn't your mom just take your bank card up there and post your bail? Well, it doesn't work like that. I have to be out to gain access to the funds. It was always something.
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S22 E9: How Dare You
There was always a reason that she couldn't access these funds. But if I posted that bail and she got out, she'd be able to pay me back immediately because those funds were there, but only she could access them. With Tom, originally she had asked him to borrow money up front. It was, I need to borrow some money from you. He said, okay, that's fine, but you need to pay me back on this date.
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So that date comes around and she's like, I just need a little more time. But if you give me a little more time, instead of paying you back the amount that I owe you, I will double it because I'm going to get my student loan soon. And so he would give her a little more money. And this kept happening and the date kept getting pushed back.
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It's unfortunate because Tom is just such an amazing person that he really thought he was helping out a friend in need. And she would make the crisis seem so big and it was so tragic and she just needed a little bit of help and she needed someone to believe in her. And he just kept giving and giving. This just kept happening for months on end.
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And she admitted all of this to me on the phone that she had taken all of this money from him and that she had opened a credit card in his name.
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I think Megan at this point was willing to do whatever it took to get out of jail. And there were a lot of times she would call her mom and her mom wouldn't answer. Her mom would go from a couple days to a couple weeks without speaking to Megan. And I truly believe then and now that she had put so much stress on her own mother. I think it led to her mother's demise. That's truly speculation.
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But her mom, it's not like her mom was super old. I don't think her mom had any like really serious health conditions. But Megan had put so much pressure on her mom and then her dad dying, her being in jail, her publicly scamming people, being on the news. I think it caused her mom so much stress that there were times where she was like, I don't even want to talk to my own daughter.
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S22 E9: How Dare You
She was her parents' light of their lives. And her own mom didn't really want to have anything to do with her after she went to jail. Like, she accepted Megan's calls. I think she was paying for Megan's commissary at the time. But Megan was continuously harassing her mom. If she called me as many times as she did, I can't imagine how many times she called her mom.
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And especially if her mom wouldn't answer. And I'll be honest, it is truly debilitating mentally to have someone who is a succubus like Megan calling you constantly and taking energy from you and taking your peace from you. And she is fully capable of doing that.
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S22 E9: How Dare You
Even though I kept her at arm's length, there were times where I truly felt like she was taking every last thing that I had inside of me to just continue conversations with her. When her mom wouldn't answer the phone, she'd be like, Alyssa, can you please call my mom? Can you just tell her I need this or tell her she has to do this now or I need her to pay my bail now?
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S22 E9: How Dare You
And I'm like, I'm not doing that. I'm not calling your mom so that you can verbally and mentally abuse her. There was a couple times where I called Gail and I was like, hey, Megan's trying to reach you. And this was at the very beginning of her asking me. And I could hear the pain, just complete fed up attitude that Gail had towards her at this point.
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And she was like, no, I'm not answering her calls. But I will say this, like Gail defended Megan until the better end. I mean, she never really said anything bad about Megan, but you could hear it in her voice that she was just tired of it. She'd had enough.
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I honestly can't imagine what Gail was going through at this point with the amount of calls, messages, you know, whatever else Megan could do to try to reach out to this woman when she wouldn't respond to her. And this happened for a while. Basically, up until Gail died, Megan was asking people to contact her mom for her.
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S22 E9: How Dare You
After the failed arrest, I told her who I was and she came to the realization that there was no journalist. I was bullshitting her the entire time. My calls would have started with her with September because within a couple of days of her going into the jail, I sent you those messages where I was like, hey, Megan, I saw that you're in jail.
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S22 E9: How Dare You
October 10th or 11th, I was in Kentucky. We were on a family vacation and I had no signal. We were kind of out in the boonies. We went into town one day to go to the store and my phone was blowing up. What happened was is that she told the jail that she needed to be released to go to her daughter's funeral.
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At some point she said her daughter had been adopted and that the daughter and the adopted mother had been in an accident and she needed to go to her daughter's funeral. That someone had reached out to her to tell her, even though it like broke confidentiality because she said it was a closed adoption. So they broke a closed adoption to tell Megan that her daughter had died.
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S22 E9: How Dare You
And so Megan called me that night. We were like still in town. She called me and I answered. She's like, hey, I need to know about that warrant you told me I have. Because she had a warrant that was more important than the dead child. So she keeps asking me, I need to know about the warrant. And I'm like, I need to know about your dead child.
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Alyssa, I need to know about this warrant because I know you're lying to me. My lawyer said I don't have a warrant. She clearly did. I could see it online. I believe it was for probation because I was the one that called the probation officer to tell her that Megan had violated in another county, which violated her probation.
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S22 E9: How Dare You
If you want somebody to talk to, I just wanted her to talk to me. We all wanted to know, like, what are you thinking? What's your mindset going into this? And she called maybe a day or two later. So there were a lot of times where I would just talk to her, like almost like we were friends. Like, how was your day today? What happened?
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The whole call I'm talking to her, I'm like, why are you telling people that your child died? And she's like, well, because I had a child that died. That was probably one of those baffling lies that she told. I don't know why that one stuck out to me more than the others and why it fired me up so badly. Maybe because I have children.
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So it like struck a nerve with me to sit there and say that you lost a child. Like that is so disrespectful to women that have lost children. How dare you? Why is everyone saying that your kid died?
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More than anything, the Megan Stoner story fascinates me on a different level because I've never encountered someone quite like her. And there are a lot of people that probably go through their life and never encounter someone like Megan Stoner. And thank God that they don't because the level of malice that comes with her is insane.
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S22 E9: How Dare You
Oftentimes she was in SEG, which she was like pulled away from the other inmates for issues that she was causing in the block. And she tells me through our calls why that happened. My cousin was actually in the same block as her in the jail. So Megan would tell me a story and then I would go to my cousin and I would say like, hey, is this what actually happened?
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And she's like, no, that's not what happened at all. Megan is giving the officers grief because she keeps pressing the panic button in her cell and they've asked her not to do that if there's not a true emergency, but she continues to do it. Megan would tell me, well, they're just all out to get me. They won't even tell me why they put me in here. I don't even know why I'm in SAG.
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I really did build a relationship with her where she felt like she could trust me and she could tell me things.
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So take that determination that you have to get through this and make sure that you right your wrongs. I'm sharing these calls within the group. So it's not just me listening to them. There's like 15 people listening to these calls. As it progressed, there were times where I would just get so irritated and so angry and I almost couldn't keep my composure anymore.
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But a lot of the reason for these calls with Megan is because the more I talked to her, she was admitting to crimes. On the jail phone, on a recorded line, not only that I'm recording, but the jail is recording. So the closer that we got, the more she's telling me.
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S22 E9: How Dare You
I was definitely trying to figure out if she had money, and not because I was worried she was gonna post her bail, because she kept saying, you know, I'm gonna pay back my victims, I'm gonna do this and that. And there were a couple of times I was like, OK, so if I bail you out, are you going to pay back your victims when you get out? Yes, absolutely.
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That's the first thing I'm going to do when I get out is I'm going to pay back my victims and I'm going to right my wrongs. And so there were so many times where I tried to bait her into telling me she would always say, like, I have an account with all this money in it. I have school loans or grants. Do we think that any of that is real? Absolutely not.