The Only Witness Was Her 7 Year Old Daughter | The Kelley Clayton Case
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this is a story about love a fairy tale type of love and a beautiful family created by that love it's about success and living out your wildest dreams but it's also about all of that coming to an end on a fall night when a loving mother is in the right place at the wrong time
Today's video is going to be a sad one. Whenever there's a... Today's video is going to be a sad one. Whenever there's a family involved or children, it just makes it very difficult for someone like me anyway to tell these stories. I want to start off by introducing you to Thomas Clayton. Thomas was born March 17th in 1978 in upstate New York. It's a really nice place to grow up surrounded by rolling Hills. It's also the carousel capital of the world, which I thought was really interesting. It's the home to six of the last remaining hand carved vintage carousels look at some of these they're so beautiful and there's also nature all around including parks and you can take a nice little stroll nature preserves hiking trails and then there's a downtown area and that's where the nightlife is hookah bars dance club breweries
and a lot of college students hang out in this area. As Thomas was growing up, he developed a passion for ice hockey. So right after he graduated from high school, he attended Niagara University playing for their ice hockey team, the Purple Eagles. Then the year that Thomas graduates from college, He gets recruited to Elmira Jackals. They are a professional minor league ice hockey team based in Elmira, New York. It was also in the early 2000s when the Jackals were founded as a member of the United Hockey League. And this was an exciting time for Thomas and of course the city of Elmira. And Elmira was even a smaller town. It had less than half of the amount of people living there than his hometown. And hockey was a pretty big thing there.
There wasn't that much for people to do. and the local hockey fans were so excited to have a new team, especially when they have a local team to go out and support. And if ice hockey wasn't popular in Elmira, Thomas Clayton definitely was. He was a very likable guy, especially with the ladies because he was cute, he was funny, he was charming, and he was a hockey player, and that helps. But he also had that bad boy appeal, and I'll tell you why. Because hockey is known to be a pretty tough sport. And Thomas Clayton was a badass. Thomas was the team's instigator. Yes. This means that he's the one who starts fights on the ice and he does it purposely. This is a strategy in hockey. And this is what the fans come to see.
This is the excitement. If you've ever watched ice hockey, there's fighting. You can punch someone. You can body check someone. Threaten them. With verbal threats, you can taunt them, chase after them, not to say that you won't get a penalty depending upon the severity, but that's up to the referee. But when I say strategy, well, the more excitement, the more ticket sales. But not only that, it can throw off your opponents. It can make them flustered and it can divert their attention off of the game, which in turn can make an opening for your team to score. So all this to say, that Tom was a very valuable player on his team and he got a lot of attention on and off the ice. Here's a little clip of Tom talking about it.
You can get one of their top guys off the ice for two minutes, five minutes, you know, it's a job done.
there were many gorgeous women clamoring for his attention that's a fact and he wasn't afraid to act a little crazy as well i think that was just part of his personality he had a loud personality center of attention there was actually a night that i was reading about where he got on top of some tables at a bar and started his own chippendale show if you know what i mean he started to take off his clothes and there were some people there that were not very happy about it specifically some police cadets they were in the area for some training they happened to be at this bar they also acted like tough guys so they were trying to pull him off the tables and of course whenever there's alcohol involved you know what can happen
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