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The 27-year-onetime woman granted a new trial terminal twelvemonth later she was convicted of the 2009 death of a Chattanooga man when she was 13 years old has taken to social media to say the man who paid her bond wanted to be paid back with interest.

She recorded a message on TikTok in advance of the broadcast this calendar week of an A&E documentary on her case, the 2d such episode on the network's "Defendant: Guilty or Innocent?" programme.

In her TikTok post, she recalled her Nov bond hearing, at which businessman Kenneth Adams -- a stranger -- stood upwardly and said he would pay the bail for her release from jail awaiting a second trial.

"At the fourth dimension, I did not know what was going on, just this random stranger simply said they wanted to pay for my bond, because they had proof that they had millions of dollars from their business," Angel Bumpass said in the TikTok video. "Turns out, he wanted to be paid back ... with interest, but information technology's OK, he got paid back."

Bumpas was tried and bedevilled in 2019 of the decease of 68-twelvemonth-quondam Franklin Bonner in his Washington Hills home.

Bonner was plant lying on the floor duct taped to a kitchen tabular array and chair past his wife, Linda. Bonner had duct tape effectually his hands, feet, arms, head, nose and oral cavity. A Hamilton County medical examiner afterward determined Bonner died of suffocation and ruled his death a homicide.

Two fingerprints from Bumpass, xiii at the time, were found on the duct tape used to restrain Bonner.

In the original trial, her grandfather, Balis Smith, testified that as a young girl Bumpass loved arts and crafts and would work on some projects that included duct record in his garage. Further, he said, he was a handyman who had been to Bonner'south house -- and may have brought duct tape there with her fingerprints on it.

An online petition signed past 875,000 cast doubt on the confidence, saying information technology was far-fetched to retrieve such a young girl could overpower and kill Bonner.

Staff photo La Shawn Pagán / Chattanooga man of affairs Kenneth Adams sat downwardly with the Chattanooga Times Free Press on Nov. fifteen to speak most what motivated him to post the bail for Angel Bumpass.

In response to the TikTok video, Adams -- the human who posted Bumpass' bond -- told the Chattanooga Times Complimentary Press he now regrets doing and then.

"I would have expected the outset words I heard from her to be thank you for helping her, not to slander me," Adams said in a text message. "When I offered to pay it, I didn't know I was getting my money back, my heart was right! To portray me as someone that had an calendar is dead wrong!"

Bumpass has been out on bond since November, after Hamilton County Criminal Court Estimate Amanda Dunn set up her bond to $100,000.

Cordela Bumpass, Angel'south aunt, would have had to pay 10% -- or $x,000 -- in accord with Tennessee law. However, equally Cordela Bumpass was facing scrutiny from the prosecution because she didn't have a re-create of her pay slips to show the court where the bond coin was coming from, Adams -- who was in the gallery during the hearing -- stepped upward and offered to pay.

Adams said he was paid back the "exact amount they would take paid the bondsman, and nothing more."

"I've never talked to her, then a thanks would have been dainty," Adams said, calculation that while Cordela Bumpass thanked him, he hasn't heard from Angel Bumpass since her release.

Bumpass has since deleted the video, which had hundreds of views, and said in a bulletin to the Times Free Printing that she is thankful for Adams' help.

Bumpass has made several videos and posts on her social media platforms recently thanking her supporters and those who believe she is innocent as well equally one with her visiting her two daughters in Kentucky, whey they live with their father.

In the most recent post, Bumpass urged her followers to not be quick to believe what they were going to see during the A&E program, which aired Thursday night.

"Please keep in mind that everything you lot come across on television is edited," Bumpass said. "Everything is edited by a team of people, and then take information technology with a grain of common salt."

Bumpass likewise said if anyone wants "legit information" they would have to become information technology from her and asked people to follow her on Facebook.

Neither Cordela Bumpass nor Affections Bumpass accept returned inquiries by phone, text or social media messages from the Times Free Press.

A status hearing for the case is scheduled for March 29.

Contact La Shawn Pagán at lpagan@timesfreepress.com or 423-757-6476.

Source: https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2023/feb/24/angel-bumpass-bail-tfp/