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Four Charged in Murder of Couple Buried Alive

Thursday July 21, 2005
A Florida couple, both 61 years old, were abducted from their Jacksonville home and buried alive in South Georgia, police said, and four young people have been arrested and charged with their murder after the bodies were discovered Saturday.

Carol and James Sumner, of Jacksonville, were reported missing by family members July 10. A former neighbor of the couple, 23-year-old Tiffany Cole, was arrested in South Carolina after she used the Sumner's ATM card.

Police also arrested Michael J. Jackson, 23, and Allen Wade, 18, when they arrested Tiffany Cole. Information from the three lead police to Bruce K. Nixon, Jr., 18, who confessed to police that he kidnapped the couple, killed them and buried them in Georgia.

Cole, Jackson, and Wade are being held on financial fraud charges in Charleston, S.C. and face murder charges in Jacksonville. Nixon is being held on murder and kidnapping charges in Duval County.

Police said the Sumners met Cole when she lived near them when they lived in South Carolina.

See Also:
Police: Florida Couple Buried Alive

Comments

March 24, 2007 at 9:53 pm
(1) cathie duncan says:

I am the Aunt of Tiffany Ann Cole. She was arrested July 2005 for the murder of Reggie and Carol Sumner whom were buried alive in Florida. The state of Florida is seeking the death penalty. I am interested in your opinion of this story. Anyone interested in contacting me may do so at SaveTiffanyCole@aol.com. Thanking you in advance for your time and consideration concerning this matter.

June 12, 2007 at 3:19 pm
(2) Liz says:

I tried the email address and it didn’t work, I’m an old friend and would like to help however I can email is tootslil@yahoo.com

June 21, 2008 at 4:52 am
(3) Irving Schmelnick says:

Are you kidding with the “savetiffanycole@aol.com” email address? I hope they have executed that bitch twice by now. I’m sick of people like you who forgive your relatives for anything they do, no matter how horrific it was. She killed two innocent, elderly people in a torturous way. She deserves to die, too.

October 14, 2008 at 8:24 pm
(4) mizopine says:

Fry her.

October 15, 2008 at 1:34 am
(5) to cathy says:

Clearly your love for her is unconditional. The only way to save her now is through GOD himself. Guide her with the word, and if or when she accepts Jesus will she ever be saved. This my new friend is the Only way you will see her in the after life otherwise she will burn in Hell with all the others before her. Good luck, unfortunately hun she is where she belongs. Everyone deserves to be loved the way you love her. If only she knew ‘Love thy neighbor’. So sad!

October 16, 2008 at 4:05 pm
(6) crazi says:

Tiffany Cole helped kill 2 people & you want to save her. Family or not you people need to face the facts, she a murderer & has to pay for her actions.

October 17, 2008 at 10:51 am
(7) leslie says:

I think she should pay for her crime, she is an adult she knows better. Those poor helpless people, did they get a second chance no she does not deserve one either. She needs to be done to her what she done to them.

October 17, 2008 at 10:58 am
(8) elaine says:

I dont think she deserves a second chance she helped kill those people, did they want a second chance yes they did. Fry her she knew what she was doing.

October 19, 2008 at 3:26 am
(9) carol says:

i agree with irving completely. How could you name your email address savetiffanycole?? I hope she burns in the pits of jail and if she gets the death penalty…i will dance

October 20, 2008 at 1:31 pm
(10) Raina says:

I am also tired of people committing these horrible crimes and getting away with it. Now, I would easily forgive someone in my family but I would stand firm in my belive that if you commit the crime you gotta do the time. She deserves whatever a jury of her peers gives her. But I can almost guarentee that she gets off the death penalty. She might not even get life. But I hope she does. They were someones family and did not deserve what those people did to them. I am appauled!

October 22, 2008 at 2:45 pm
(11) Clementy says:

cathie duncan is obviously a troll.

October 22, 2008 at 10:23 pm
(12) Finnian says:

The aunt, Kathy (?) wants this monster forgiven!!!!!

Sit for a few minutes and imagine yourself underground and unable to breathe. Imagine your terror and the struggle to get up above ground just to get air. Imagine your husband doing the same thing. Smell the damp earth which fills your nose and mouth and eyes. Wonder why this happened? Imagine your chest and lungs burning to get air……

I don’t know how long it takes to die this horrible way. But I do know this

This monstrous woman will die more quickly and humanely if executed. Or…she will be killed in prison by a bunch of overweight dykes sitting on her face and keeping her from breathing. She will struggle to get free and to get air…..desperately. Until, like the couple she tortured, the struggling stops…..

October 22, 2008 at 10:47 pm
(13) Daisy says:

…and then she meets her God

Good comment Finnian ( are you a writer? )

October 23, 2008 at 6:09 pm
(14) tessa says:

you have got to be kidding me?!! Buried alive? there is no website to save the buried couple oh thats right they are no longer alive, and when they were no one could help them because they were underground. Anyone capable of doing that is inhumane and is not “wired right” you know a cou
ple french frys short of a happy meal?

October 24, 2008 at 11:42 pm
(15) Sick of all the Crap says:

Yeah, I’m in agreement with the other posters who are in shock about the aunt trying to get a save Tiffany movement going. Well, you have the right, but you are so in denial and someone needs to slap some sense in you. Are you thinking of what the victims went through? When I first read your post, I couldn’t believe it and had to read it again, and then thought wtf? Think, Woman, THINK!! I’m thinking of the victims not the ones who committed such an atrocious act. Burying someone alive to kill them is one of the most horrible, inhuman ways to kill someone. Geez, are you that stupid that you can’t think of the poor victims?

October 26, 2008 at 1:42 am
(16) LA2RK says:

BANG! x 4

December 8, 2008 at 3:12 pm
(17) James says:

I was at the prison Sunday.
I saw Tiff and her a visitor, I guess maybe her aunt or sister, not sure, and a little girl.
My heart goes out to anyone on death row.
Because I’m human.
I would not want to be there.
Although the crime was committed and the sentence read.
Tiff…make peace with God…please.

January 22, 2009 at 9:40 pm
(18) pepper says:

GEE!!! HOPEFULLY SHE WILL BE HAVING A ROOMMATE ON DEATH ROW REAL SOON CALLED, CASEY ANTHONY..!!!
MAYBE WE COULD DO A 2 -4 -1 SPECIAL …
I SURE DONT WANT THEM TO SET IN WHILE WE PAY THE HOUSING BILL …
GOD BLESS CAYLE ANTHONY AS YOUR LIFE WAS SO SHORT !!

January 26, 2009 at 1:37 pm
(19) DC says:

Yea Tiffany needs to go she was tried by her peers and they gave her what they felt was a just punishment so own up to it. As far as for that murdering mother Cayce Anthony she will get hers soon. Personally I think they should bring back OLD SPARKY and execute them the right way. The lethal injection way is to easy, make them suffer like they make the victim and families suffer.

January 28, 2009 at 8:46 pm
(20) Darlene says:

I understand the family still loving their family members even after committing such a horrific crime. What I don’t understand is how you go on a public forum and ask for support in doing so.
Casey and Tiffany should be terminated as soon as they are sentenced to death. I wish they would put the death penalty back on the table for Casey Anthony because my heart felt belief is that any human being who violates a child in any way, is proven guilty beyond a doubt, should have 30 days and be fried. I don’t think injection is horrendous enough for these kind of people. They should suffer by being electrocuted or even better…hang em and let em hang till they die!!

February 23, 2009 at 4:27 pm
(21) Lisa says:

FRY THAT PIECE OF TRASH!!!

March 1, 2009 at 10:19 pm
(22) David says:

Fry that ignorant bitch. she killed 2 innocent people. Florida should kill all 4 of these ignorant losers today.

March 7, 2009 at 11:03 am
(23) concerned mother says:

um… cathie, are you a stupid,psycho bitch like your niece.. I otta back hand you so hard for your “savetiffanycole” email. Now I know why your niece is so dumb, it ran in the family.

Your “Precious” little niece took 2 innocent lives. Gave them a suffering death you moron. Not only that, she tried to use the couples ATM card a few days later. I don’t sympathize in your sitiuation what so ever. She’s a grown woman who should’ve know right from wrong and should have gotten her lazy ass up and got a job. Even if no one taught her from right & wrong, she is old enough to know better. No excuse or reason for what her ugly ass and her ugly boyfriends did. I don’t want my tax dollars paying for her living. Stick that bitch in a small hole so that she can’t breath and let her starve to death.

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