Dark Web Kingpin’s Plea to Save His Girlfriend | Locked up Abroad

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Tristan Nettles 0:00
So I decided to use the school that I was teaching at as the import destination for the packages that I got off the dark with. When the postman brought it, he asked Ashley to sign for it, even though it wasn't in her name. And bless her heart. She did. On the day of her trial, he didn't even call me. I just got an email that said she was sentenced to death. It's only twenty one years old.

How did Tristan’s difficult childhood shape his later choices?

Tristan Nettles 0:21
She'd never been in trouble in her life, so I was born with a s ruptured eardrum, so I had a I learned to speak. as if it sounded underwater and so I had a terrible speech impediment that precluded me really being socialized when I was young. Uh, that led to a lot of issues, speech classes until I was like fifteen and whatnot, and it led to uh behavior stuff, you know, 'cause uh after you get picked on for so long. then eventually you realize you know, whether it's right or not that violence becomes a possibility to stop the uh the bullying. And yeah, pretty normal life except that until eight. And parents divorced and then overnight. Just whole situation changed went from four bedroom house in the gated community to uh
Tristan Nettles 1:13
Sharing an apartment with my mother's sister and sharing a bedroom with my brother and my sister in a bunk bed. And uh that was the first time I lived in a place where, you know, when I went outside the kids didn't look like me. And actually the first weekend that we went outside. Uh on Saturday my brother and I to scope out the neighborhood we found a group of those kids playing football. My brother finagled it for us to play. I didn't really talk much because of my impediment. And we were playing uh in the street and some minutes passed and eventually the ball came to me and I realized I didn't really understand the rules of the game, so I kind of froze and stood there. And a little black boy came up uh and stripped the ball.
Tristan Nettles 1:52
And in my defective manner, you know, I'm like, hey, who cheated, you know, something like that. And uh yeah, this little boy, I just never forget. He just stopped jogging back to the other group of kids, dropped the ball, came back. looked at me, he was shorter than me, so I was looking down at him. I didn't know what was happening or what to do. I just Was staring at him. And then suddenly without warren, he punched me in the face. And that was the first time I'd ever been hit uh, you know, like in the face or anything like that before. So I didn't really know what to do. I just kinda stood there shocked. And he stood there for another moment moment or two. And then boom, he just started. laying into me with his fists, backed me up into the gutter, fell down on the gutter, started kicking me.
Tristan Nettles 2:31
And then as suddenly as it started, he just immediately stopped and turned around and started jogging back over, picked up the ball, and they started playing the game like nothing happened. And my brother was just over there on the other side of the street just looking at me laying there in the In the gutter, and that was the first time we'd ever gone outside to play in my new neighborhood. And so understandably, I got a pretty quick education on the difference between where I had been living right and the new environment where I was at now. So, you know, that led to Five middle schools and seven high schools.
Matthew Cox 3:05
Uh from what, just from moving or just fist or just fighting?
Tristan Nettles 3:08
Yeah, I had a lot of because I was usually one of the only white kids. Right. And so there was a lot of people that would try to uh you know, pick on me because of that. And I I wasn't uh I don't know. You had multiple issues.
Matthew Cox 3:24
Yeah.
Tristan Nettles 3:24
Well, I don't really know if I had issues. I mean the fur
Matthew Cox 3:27
Well, you're w you're white. I'm saying you're white and you had the speech impediment. So it's it's not like they don't already have a reason. It's not like you're already not already different because you're white, but you're you're dwight and you've got another issue.
Tristan Nettles 3:37
Yeah, no, it was it was definitely a a big issue. Uh, you know, 'cause most of my friends were all black and Hispanic, pretty much all of them. So I dressed, spoke, listened to that kind of music, hung out with those sorts of people.

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