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What I don’t understand about the Relisha Rudd case

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I posted this in another thread but wanted a more thorough discussion.

I was watching a video about her earlier and what I don’t understand is there was footage of Tate leaving the hotel room without Relisha. The ex wife was found shot dead in the hotel room. Tate was found dead in a park so either:

A. Tate carried Relisha out in a bag or something like that- if that’s the case where’s the footage?
B. Someone went in the room and took her- but again where’s the footage??
C. Is she still in the hotel?? highly doubt it

Am I missing something? Its upsetting.
 

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That's what I don't get either!!!! Did someone delete that portion of the footage or was it never released to the public?
 

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That's what I don't get either!!!! Did someone delete that portion of the footage or was it never released to the public?

That part wasn’t released to the public. I‘ve only ever seen them walking in. She had to have left somehow. I wanna say he dumped her at the park but with no mention of him leaving with something or her it’s very confusing. Obviously the wife knew something. It’s a very sad case all around.
 

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This case haunts me to this day. That poor little girl. I hope she will be found someday.
 

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Sometimes feels like when criminals kill themselves law enforcement just let it go. People deserve closure.

However in this case I do think they haven't ruled out the mother's involvement. So they waiting for her to slip up.
 

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this has always bothered me because i'm familiar with those areas. so many unanswered god damn questions.

why would she let her daughter go with this felon guy?
why would she allow her daughter to miss school?
was he the father?
was he abusing her?
 
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Yep, this is one that has messed me up for years. I think about Relisha all the time. I’ve said in other threads when she went missing I was pregnant with my one and only daughter. I had already loved her so much that I could not imagine letting her go for months with some janitor, lie to the school and not report her missing for months! Relisha lived a terrible life and most likely met a horrible end. I hope we get answers some day.
 

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Are you sure the wife was found dead in the same hotel relisha was in? I thought they found his wife dead at his home.
 

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On the documentary “Black and Missing”, on HBO they show him walking out alone, with luggage one last time.
 

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Are you sure the wife was found dead in the same hotel relisha was in? I thought they found his wife dead at his home.

Yup

Tatum's wife Andrea was found shot in the head in a motel in Prince George's County, Maryland on the same day Rudd was reported missing (March 20). Surveillance tapes showed Kahlil and Andrea Tatum entering the hotel room the night before. Khalil Tatum was last seen 2 March, the day after Rudd was last seen, while buying a shovel, lime, and 42-gallon trash bags. DC police obtained an arrest warrant for Kahlil Tatum in his wife's murder, but on 31 March, Tatum's body was found in a shed in Kenilworth Park, dead of apparent suicide, by the same gun that killed his wife.[6]
 

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On the documentary “Black and Missing”, on HBO they show him walking out alone, with luggage one last time.

Another font in another thread told me the same. So she had to have been in the luggage. He also bought a shovel, lime, and trash bags you don’t do all that if you’re just gonna kill yourself.
 

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Why did he go through all that trouble to hide her but kill his wife leave her in the motel then kill himself?
I don't believe she is alive but its just weird.
Maybe he threw her in a garbage bin or in water. I thought maybe the park in which he killed himself.
 

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Yep, this is one that has messed me up for years. I think about Relisha all the time. I’ve said in other threads when she went missing I was pregnant with my one and only daughter. I had already loved her so much that I could not imagine letting her go for months with some janitor, lie to the school and not report her missing for months! Relisha lived a terrible life and most likely met a horrible end. I hope we get answers some day.
She is Trash, the mom probably had a sh!tty life/childhood herself. So she didn't think anything of giving away Relisha. Some do better and vow to be a better others perpetuate the cycle. He probably gave her money.
 

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If the wife was in the hotel I wonder why she went there?

I feel like DC metro really dropped the ball on this case.

They lived in the area so what purpose did she have to be at that hotel in their same city? Did she follow him there? I doubt it was a staycation. I read also that the Killer first took Relisha to a motel across the street from the hotel. Then the next day they went to the Holiday Inn Hotel where she was last seen.

Were they planning on meeting up with someone to sell the girl to someone? That is what I always suspected.

I just feel like there should have been some dna/blood spatter from Relisha or something in that room from Relisha if she was killed there.
 

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That was a really good documentary.
That was an excellent documentary and very moving! I suggest watching it to anyone that hasn't seen it. I really wish that they would make a series out of it. It really shows how little cases of missing black girls and women are covered by the media. I watch Vinnie Politan's show on Court TV because he covers these cases and cold cases.

God bless those women that started the foundation because they're doing great and selfless work!
 

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There’s a podcast “Through the Cracks” it’s an 8 part series focusing on Relisha.
 

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this has always bothered me because i'm familiar with those areas. so many unanswered god damn questions.

why would she let her daughter go with this felon guy?
why would she allow her daughter to miss school?
was he the father?
was he abusing her?

My guess is the mama was selling her daughter/kids to people.
The man had no relation to her or her family. The moms sister didn’t even know the man that was supposedly her “god father”. The aunt knew Relisha’s actually god father, though.
Her mama needs to talk cause she knows more than she has let on. Only thing is, I don’t believe she thought the janitor would murder her daughter.
 
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There’s a podcast “Through the Cracks” it’s an 8 part series focusing on Relisha.
yes that podcast was very good. I think we all have an idea of what happened to relisha unfortunately we don't have any proof. what could the mom be charged with? i dont think she killed her but she definitely let her daughter go with a janitor felon. she let relisha go with him because of a common issue with all single moms-she got a break from one of her kids! it ook some weight off of her. the janitor spoiled relisha which in turn spoiled the mom. she probably enjoyed the 'freedom' of having one less child around. she definitely knows more than she's saying but i think she will never tell, the police and detectives will have to do their jobs with this one.
 

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yes that podcast was very good. I think we all have an idea of what happened to relisha unfortunately we don't have any proof. what could the mom be charged with? i dont think she killed her but she definitely let her daughter go with a janitor felon. she let relisha go with him because of a common issue with all single moms-she got a break from one of her kids! it ook some weight off of her. the janitor spoiled relisha which in turn spoiled the mom. she probably enjoyed the 'freedom' of having one less child around. she definitely knows more than she's saying but i think she will never tell, the police and detectives will have to do their jobs with this one.
Some sort of neglect resulting in death would be nice.
 

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yes that podcast was very good. I think we all have an idea of what happened to relisha unfortunately we don't have any proof. what could the mom be charged with? i dont think she killed her but she definitely let her daughter go with a janitor felon. she let relisha go with him because of a common issue with all single moms-she got a break from one of her kids! it ook some weight off of her. the janitor spoiled relisha which in turn spoiled the mom. she probably enjoyed the 'freedom' of having one less child around. she definitely knows more than she's saying but i think she will never tell, the police and detectives will have to do their jobs with this one.
If a man is spoiling your little girl he's a predator. I cringe thinking what that man did to that baby
 
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If a man is spoiling your little girl he's a predator. I cringe thinking what that man did to that baby
Me too, smh!! Her mom knew something had to be going on but She liked the time away from her daughter I believe. that's the only way I can wrap my head around it
 

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There's also the theory that she was a victim of trafficking (I hope not) and Tate sold her. I hope there's finally closure and her case is solved.

Her mother is trash for neglecting her child and pawning her daughter off to a predator.
 

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