The Chanda Turner Reform Act (SB250) has been signed into law, and will go into effect Nov. 1, 2011! Families can now appeal their loved-ones' death certificates!

Tabatha Tollers, mother of three, was supposedly found shot to death by her husband on January 29, 2010 in Dibble, Oklahoma (McClain County).

That same day, the couple had argued, the husband claims he left Tabatha home alone in the middle of an ice-storm - without electricity - while he took the children to a motel for the the night.  Also that same day, Tabatha's neighbor reports that Tabatha had asked for the paperwork from an emergency room visit in June of 2010 - the neighbor had taken Tabatha to the ER that June after Tabatha's husband (the same man who "found" her dead six months later) had brutally beaten her.  This paperwork from the ER visit was found torn in half on the couple's bed the day Tabatha was discovered dead.  There was no suicide note. 

Also that previous June, the family reports Tabatha had told them if anything happened to her, her husband had done it.  She told them she found porn on his computer, and when she went into the internet history, found searches for "How to Commit the Perfect Murder" and other alarming inquiries.  Tabatha had become extremely sick between June and her death only 6 months later in January, losing an alarming amount of weight.  The family feared her husband was poisoning her. Tabatha had plans to go to the doctor the next day to determine the cause of her weightloss, excessive bleeding, and illness.  Her death prevented this hospital visit, which friends and family firmly believe would have uncovered foul play.

During Tabatha's funeral, bruises on her hands were noted by friends and loved ones, further fueling their belief that she was murdered.  Also noteworthy was the life insurance policy the husband kept paying on in case of Tabatha's death, despite the fact that every other bill they had was in arrears.  Nor did the husband even bother to buy Tabatha a headstone after collecting on the life insurance policy.  Her family pooled together the money to order one just this year.

Despite this history of marital abuse and the strong suspicions of Tabatha's friends and family, Dibble police prematurely closed the case as suicide, relying solely on the word of an abusive husband that he found his wife dead in his detached workshop.  True to form, the ME's Office rubber stamped this ludicrous determination with NO AUTOPSY.  No toxicology was run for drugs or poison despite friends and family reporting this tragic marital history to authorities.

Tabatha's family will not stop until this miscarriage of justice is corrected.  Tabatha left behind three (3) children who need to know the truth - their mother did not leave them intentionally.  The bruising on her indicates that in fact, she fought to stay alive for them.

Victims should not be victimized twice by a system that ignores evidence of foul play and smears their memories.

SB250,

THE CHANDA TURNER REFORM ACT,

ALLOWS FAMILIES LIKE TABATHA'S PRESENT EVIDENCE AT AN APPEAL'S HEARING TO CORRECT WRONG AND HURTFUL MANNER OF DEATH DETERMINATIONS LIKE "SUICIDE" IN CASES WHERE THE EVIDENCE CONTRADICTS IT.