Piper Roundtree
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I suppose it was the classical case of a student falling for their professor.
He is very witty and very different. He is very, very bright.
One of the brightest men I think I've ever met. I've always looked up to him. He was exceptional. He was one of the best teachers. He also had a very quirky side to him, as I've been described as having myself. I think those two qualities between us meshed a lot.
It was a really nice, warm relationship. We worked really well together. That's probably our strength.
I really didn't know that he was barking at school as well. Oh, you did it at home, huh? Yeah, yeah. He was... He used to get the dogs barking in the neighborhood. It was one of those things that he particularly was proud about.
I was a prosecutor for a little over a year, and then from there I went and worked for the school districts in Texas.
I'd be in the courtroom, and I'd be looking at my watch thinking, I've got to go pick up my child at daycare. There were times when the kids were sick, and I'd take the kids into the court with me, and the judge would be bouncing them on his lap in the middle of a hearing.
Right after we moved up here, within two weeks, I had a ruptured atopic pregnancy and almost died. And so I had a completely revised outlook on really what was important. And after that, the doctor told me that I would never have children again. It was just not going to be possible. And within about six months, I became pregnant with my third child, Callie. And she was a gift from God.
Yeah. And we had... pretty much two separate lives once we came to Richmond.
I was in Texas. I was about ready to go out to a Halloween party with my sister. And I got a call from a good friend of mine. She was just very, very upset. And she said, Fred, Fred's been killed. I was just stunned. My name's Piper Roundtree. Fred Chaplin and I were married for 19 years. She was devastated because of his death.
It was just incredible, the total lack of interest that anybody had.
Melissa, can you come here just a second, please?
She will go out to save people and do things for people that no other person would ever do.
Fred never understood what the problem was in the marriage or why we needed to go through divorce, even though we'd been through counseling three times before and it, you know, just, it wasn't working.
Well, yeah, naturally it did. I was very, very upset.
As much as they were able to. The littlest was, you know, it's just very difficult.
It was very difficult to begin with, just starting out as sort of a new attorney because I couldn't really step back into the field that I was in after 10 years of being out of the field. And so I started back into working just doing any type of case that walked in. I had three kids to support.
The money that I was making in Texas, I was fine. It was comfortable. I was able to make enough to pay the child support, to have a very nice lifestyle, and see my kids and be with my kids. I didn't have any wants, except seeing my kids a little more maybe.
I'd got a phone call from a friend of mine who had heard about it and nobody knew what had happened.
It was very sad. He's the children's father. The children need two parents. They need a mother. They need a father.
And he said all the immediate family was under suspicion, Michael Javelin and me.
Amazonian. That's usually the first word.
Yes. There's no one out there like Tina. She is able to do anything that she sets her mind to doing.
She's just incredible. You walk around the village, the area where she lives, in Houston, and most people have a story about Tina, one thing or another.
I was married to Fred Jablin. We have three children.
No, it doesn't look good. I certainly concede that. You know, my mouth fell open when I saw these things. Like, oh my God.
I would tell them I didn't do it because of all the things that I stand for. I believe in truth. I believe in God.
Well, I don't remember a whole lot of the rest of the evening.
Yes, it was not an easy divorce, but I had no right to take away the children's father. The children need both parents.
It was an answer to my prayers. We were doing very good.
He said, Steve, initially. And then he said, call him Jerry.
Starfleet is here to make sure no one commits murder.
I don't know what it was. It was a gun.
I'll pay the extra money, isn't that right? Yes, sir.
I didn't know what had happened to the card.
I'm telling them that I didn't have the phone from probably that I remember. Last time I remember, it was Tuesday before that.
I hope so. That's all I can say is I hope so.
I hope so. I'd be happy to talk to them.
I just love them and miss them and would want to talk to them.
They could have taken this from a scene from a gangster movie. The police just jumped out with, it seemed like, machine guns and dragged me off to tell me that they were arresting me for the murder of my ex-husband.
I don't think I would be intelligent if I weren't worried or concerned, but I have an incredible amount of faith
And I trust God. God's put me here for a reason.