2/28/2023 0 Comments Thelma and louise logline![]() “The girls aren’t criminals,” he said in September during month four of his search. After sightings started coming out of Canada, authorities from two countries became involved in the hunt.īut the man who was the most consumed by the chase was bail bondsman Romeo who not only had a lot of money on the line, but who also admitted that he had become “intrigued” by “the girls.” The two appeared on “Unsolved Mysteries” and “America’s Most Wanted.” Local newspapers across the country reported on new developments and new leads in the case. It was during their months on the run that their case became widely publicized. Turford and Stevens repaid their love ones’ generosity by immediately skipping town. Their families, who expressed resounding shock and disbelief that the two women could have done anything like what they were accused of, paid it. It was that same amount that the judge set for each of their bail after they were caught in May 1995. Their haul was around $250,000 for just a few months of “work.” It is believed that during their initial run, they had at least 10 victims between Houston and Las Vegas. The “date” always ended the same way: Turford and Stevens walked away with the man’s cash and credit cards. Later, police would find wigs, ropes, a stun gun, and a regular gun in an apartment they had been using. Sometimes they stripped and humiliated their victims, sometimes they threatened them with a gun. In both cases, the man would quickly be restrained. In the second, the women would both show up to the man’s house later in the day after a date claiming to be police officers investigating dating service clients who were suspected of targeting women. In the first, Turford would lure her date to a private place where Stevens would join them. Once they determined that their mark was financially promising, they would use one of two tactics to get him right where they wanted him. Later, police would find wigs, ropes, a stun gun.” “Sometimes they stripped and humiliated their victims, sometimes they threatened them with a gun. ![]() Using dating services and personal ads, the two would find dates and then vet their potential as targets either by researching the names and information they received from the services or planning an initial exploratory meet-up to check them out. But they should have been because that’s where the “real-life Thelma and Louise” saw an opportunity. Its hard to imagine that the men who were using dating services in the mid-1990s were similarly concerned about their safety. Women today are well aware that some caution is needed when using dating apps-meet new romantic prospects in a public place, beware of catfishing and worse. I think Carolyn was able to weave a web.” Romeo would later say that he think Carolyn was inspired to create Avery by the book-turned-film The Magus, in which an unassuming teacher falls prey to a wealthy man and his companion.Īs bizarre as the atmosphere in the Turford house must have been during this time, it got even more wild when the real crimes began in January of 1995. “Carolyn is Avery,” Romeo told the Washington Post. But whether that was the case and, if so, to what extent Turford was a victim of Stevens’s fabrications or an active player is unclear. When questioned, she blamed the wounds on a man named “Avery,” who was allegedly threatening not just her, but the entire Turford family as a way of coercing her into doing whatever he wanted.Īt trial, Turford’s lawyers portrayed Stevens as the mastermind behind the crime spree, saying she lured her friend into joining her bad behavior. ![]() People began to notice bruises and other evidence of injury on Stevens. It was there that a mysterious third player entered the scene, one who most likely never existed. The portrait of propriety began to fray in early 1994 when Stevens moved in with the Turford family. Stevens was single and characterized as the “timid and mousey daughter of a Texas preacher.” Needless to say, the collective response to what happened next was shock-how could these “girls” (as they were infuriatingly referred to) have broken so bad? She was the picture of a respectable late-20th century woman. She lived in the suburbs of Houston, was married to a computer executive, and was portrayed by those who knew her as a stereotypical baseball mom to her three young sons. ![]() Turford was the older and more settled of the duo-when they were finally caught, she was 37 to Stevens’ 30. In 1992, Turford accepted a nursing job at a psychiatric hospital in Houston where Stevens was working as an aide. So much of our lives in America is spent at the office that it’s no surprise that work is where many of us have met best friends, life partners…and criminal accomplices. “I think Carolyn was able to weave a web” ![]()
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