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IN 2021 WE TRIED TO CONTACT CORONER JOSH POUNDERS VIA PHONE TO ASK HIM TO CHANGE TARA’S DEATH CAUSE TO UNDETERMINED, BUT HE WOULDN’T TAKE OUR CALL. WHEN WE SENT HIM AN E-MAIL, HE BLOCKED IT. HE DID THIS BEFORE THIS WEBSITE WAS CREATED. RATHER UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT BY A COUNTY CORONER.
UPDATE :
IN MARCH OF 2025 WE RECEIVED TIPS TO THIS WEBSITE AS TO WHOM MAY BE INVOLVED IN TAKING TARA’S LIFE. THEY CLAIM IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A CIVILIAN MEMBER OF THE SPD
MARRIED TO AN SPD OFFICER.
WE GAVE THESE TIPS TO THE MBI AND SPD, BUT BOTH AGENCIES CHOSE TO IGNORE THEM.
Narrative:
TARA was in her home, alone with her pets. She had been shot in the non dominant side of her head.
Her body showed signs of tampering, shortly after receiving the fatal head wound -post mortem.
The coroner attended the scene and marked Tara’s death cause as Pending. He wanted to see the results of toxicology sampling which would take about a month, and did not mark Tara’s death as a suicide on Oct. 2, 2016.
However, after he left, SPD officers Thomas Jones, Stephen Hodges and Detective Brad Hylander took it upon themselves to sign off Tara’s death case as a “SUICIDE”
Closed and Cleared Exceptionally.
(Images of this form are on this site.)
WHO GAVE THESE OFFICERS THE POWER TO OVER RIDE THE CORONER’S DEATH RULING?
So, Thomas Wolf called my husband and I at 3:05 am stuttering and stammering, before crudely blurting out, “Uhhh…Tara’s dead…, Uuhhhh …she shot herself with my fu*king gun.”
What a horrible way to tell us our beloved Tara had died!
Tara’s death case was open a total of four hours.
There was no investigation: no victimology sourced, no collection of evidence, no canvassing of neighbours, friends, colleagues and relatives. Wolf didn’t have to prove his alibi and he refused Tara’s body to undergo autopsy.
In following days helpful, confidential information we provided to Brad Hylander went straight to Thomas Wolf who had been behaving quite suspiciously.
Wolf would call us and repeat
what we thought had been a private conversation.
It was also VERY concerning to have Brad Hylander quip,
“well at least she wasn’t raped.”
My daughter’s death cause was written up as a suicide, so why would sexual assault be mentioned?
We ruminated about his quip.
Was Hylander hinting that the perp was a female?
We waited anxiously for the toxicology and pathology results and were devastated to learn absolutely nothing had been done! Too late. And on Wolf’s orders Tara’s body had been directly cremated
by Wells Cremation within hours.
We were anxious for what Brad Hylander’s investigation turned up. After total silence I called Hylander in February of 2017 and asked him the case status. He seemed surprised, “What investigation? I’m not doing one. Her case is closed. Just because you have your suspicions …doesn’t mean I have to do an investigation.”
We live in Canada and he thought we would have no idea of MS laws. Wrong. Despite his dishonesty Hylander was rewarded by the SPD and promoted to rank of Master Sergeant (!?) before quitting the SPD on January 28, 2018, allegedly to run his family’s electrical business in Walls, MS with his brother, Bubba Hylander. Stephen Hodges quit the force claiming PTSD and took his service dog with him. He has entertained as “Stephen Michael” in coffee houses as part of a group called “Mississhippie.” Officer Thomas Jones’ incident reporting was error filled. It’s amazing Jones got this far in life. Poorly educated, Thomas Jones doesn’t know his geography and claimed throughout his signed report to have attended at the scene with another officer
THAT WASN'T EVEN ON THIS DETAIL.
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In 2021 we learned Brad Hylander
“wished he had not got involved.”
At the time we had no idea what this meant.
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As of this reading, the Southaven Police STILL insist my daughter took her own life despite a peer reviewed forensic bloodstain pathology report published by a well respected former Mississippi Bureau of Investigation crime lab agent
Grant Graham
SHOWING IRREFUTABLE PROOF Of HOMICIDE.
This is a clear case of incompetence, deceit and stupidity combined. The Southaven Police Department
thought we would never figure things out. They were furious when esteemed MCIR journalist Jerry Mitchell used his press status to get us Tara’s case file, Dec. 2019.
Police chief Steven Pirtle (2016) resigned under cloudy circumstances just before his actual retirement date.
Deputy Chief Mark Little, the most vocal in disparaging my daughter and insisting her death a suicide despite having ZERO proof, retired in 2021.
Coroner Jeffrey Pounders and crusty, rude DA John Champion are deceased.
Chief Macon Moore refused to speak with Second Look.
Brent Vickers, present at the death scene
was promoted as chief after Moore retired.
We tried to communicate with Vickers but he too ignored us.
May 20, 2025 * Seth Kern was made SPD chief. We hoped he would be the honest one and break the chain of deceit. He was sent Second Look’s bloodstain and victimology reports showing irrefutable proof of Tara’s COD being a homicide yet Kern maintains the SPD’s status quo
that Tara’s death was a result of suicide.
He says Second Look’s opinion is NOT credible. We have posted Kern’s policing credentials on this site. He has ZERO working forensic pathology experience.
He does admit he has NO PROOF of this to show us.
Kern blames all this on the DeSoto County Coroner’s office. Does he not realize the police and coroner had to work together?
https://www.google.com/search?q=Mississippi+death+investigation+Coroner+and+Police+need+to+work+together&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-ca&client=safari
*Kern needs to educate himself on suicide antemortem behaviours. Perhaps he should take the course offered by Second Look Training and Forensics on this subject. It’ll make him a smarter, more aware team leader.
AND INSULT TO INJURY…
IT’S A FACT THOMAS WILLIAM WOLF AND HIS NEW WIFE TESSIA LANE nee WEBB / MAHAN WOLF HAVE BEEN USING TARA’S EXCELLENT CREDIT TO ACQUIRE MORTGAGES, HOME-GOODS, STUDENT LOANS, MOTORCYCLES AND VEHICLES
AS THEIR CREDIT HISTORY IS POOR.
THAT’S CALLED IDENTITY THEFT.
AKA FRAUD. A FELONY, FOLKS!
WHO CAN HELP US
DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS?
PLEASE APPLY WITHIN.
Thomas Wolf refused to allow Tara’s mother “or anyone” access to Wells Cremation documents.
Thomas Wolf Misdirected the Death Scene.
MANY FORMER cruise ship colleagues of Tara and Thomas were shocked, stunned, to hear that Tara had taken her own life. No one believed it. As it turns out, they were right.
*It was well known amongst the crew that Wolf would lie or ask others to lie for him as to his whereabouts.
Thomas Wolf ef
Thomas Wolf Misdirected the Death Scene.
MANY FORMER cruise ship colleagues of Tara and Thomas were shocked, stunned, to hear that Tara had taken her own life. No one believed it. As it turns out, they were right.
*It was well known amongst the crew that Wolf would lie or ask others to lie for him as to his whereabouts.
Thomas Wolf effortlessly makes up fantastic stories he believes to be true. He is a narcissistic pathological liar. This is not name calling. It is what he is.
When we visited them in Las Vegas and Wolf worked in casino surveillance as supervisor, he would regale us with stories of how if he simply didn't like an employee, he would fire them …for no good reason. Just because he could. He would be very pleased with himself and laugh about it! We were horrified with the callousness showed by Wolf‘s admission and on many other occasions and were afraid for Tara. What had she gotten herself into, with marrying such a heartless bastard who presented himself to others as charming? These were men, with families to support, and Wolf didn’t care. However, it is interesting that when Wolf is countered, or doesn’t get his way, he will actually cry and whine like a small child. But look close; there are no tears. He has severe psychological issues. We couldn’t see what was going on in their relationship as once married, Wolf insisted on them moving far away from us. This is what domestic abusers do. They isolate their victim.
HE HAS NO CONSCIENCE, PEOPLE! THOMAS WILLIAM WOLF AKA “TOMMY” IS AS COLD BLOODED AS THEY COME, WITH NO CONSIDERATION FOR OTHERS, ONLY ABOUT HIMSELF.
He cruelly poisoned his own parents, all Tara’s friends, her bio father & paternal relatives, her workplace colleagues at DeSoto Diagnostics in Southaven, police, journalists, ANYONE - against her mom and stepfather . Wolf especially spins VICIOUS LIES ABOUT HER MOM TO CREATE HATE AND DISTANCE FROM OTHERS AS SHE SEEKS ANSWERS AS TO HER DAUGHTERS SUSPICIOUS DEATH.
WHY DIDN‘T THOMAS , AS TARA’S HUSBAND, MAKE ENQUIRIES TO THE POLICE FOR JUSTICE FOR TARA FROM THE VERY BEGINNING? WHY HASN'T HE CONTACTED SECOND LOOK FORENSICS AND ASKED FOR COPIES OF THEIR DEATH INVESTIGATION?
WHY HASN’T TARA’S BIO FATHER CONTACTED SECOND LOOK AND ASKED FOR A COPY OF THEIR FORENSIC FINDINGS? THAT’S BECAUSE RAYMOND KLIMEZ HAS BEEN CONVINCED BY WOLF THAT TARA TOOK HER OWN LIFE.
Of course anyone can see that Wolf orchestrated all this in order
to deflect suspicion from himself.
We don’t know for sure who arranged her death or the persons that assaulted Tara before putting the weapon to her head (which had been held upside down) and pulled the trigger,
BUT THOMAS WOLF KNOWS.
The Southaven Police had likely never dealt with someone like Wolf before. They were simple minded, falling hook, line and sinker for his crafty lies, which has allowed Wolf (thus far) to evade scrutiny for any knowledge as to what happened to his wife. Thomas claimed he was with his brother Robert J Wolf of Clayton, NC golfing and visiting with their parents in N. Myrtle Beach SC when Tara was killed but this alibi has not been proven. James A. Wolf and Barbara (nee Dymond) Wolf had moved there a few years earlier from Howell, New Jersey.
Thomas Wolf always had his and Tara’s homes rigged with cameras in every room so he could view their household from apps on his phone anytime he wanted. He had numerous burner phones. He used VOIP. He had just installed an expensive doggie cam in their kitchen days before her death. His voyeuristic behaviour over the years was very disturbing to Tara who knew she was watched all the time.
Mere hours after her death Thomas removed Tara as his wife on his FB profile status, replacing her image with a plain grey basic avatar.
We find it very strange that the police would attend to a welfare call only on the bidding of someone when there was no emergency. Cops in a city are too busy to do that. There was no mention in the Police Incident Report of any sign of Tara being in any sort of distress so why would cops break down their front door? No one called us, her parents, to ask if she was out. The large windows on her house were open, screens on. Why not cut the screen and walk in? Why bash down a door? It is our gut feeling that at least one of the attending officers assisted Wolf. Detective Hylander betrayed our confidence and was not very forthcoming with information.
Capt. Mark Little’s actions have also been very very suspicious.
Tara adored her in-laws, James A. Wolf and his wife, Barbara. They had treated Tara kindly, yet they never reached out to her mom and step dad with condolences on Tara’s loss.
Strange behaviour.
Wolf began co-habitating with Tessia Lane Webb Mahan, “Tess” his mistress from work at Hollywood Casino Tunica, shortly after Tara died. Tara had no idea of her husband’s clandestine relationship with Mahan or she wouldn’t have been planning to use her entire savings to purchase a house with Wolf. He had pursued Mahan using sexual innuendos at their common workplace.
Wolf collected Tara’s accident award monies plus other monies from Tara’s estate and purchased cars, furnishings plus motorcycles and a large brick house in Southaven where he moved Tess Mahan and her three children in. This house on Champion Hills was very close to the house of Tara’s death scene on N. Hartland Drive! They all then enjoyed the things we had gifted Tara and Thomas over the years. We wonder what lies Wolf told Mahan and her kids about what had happened to his wife? Thomas and Tess married in a splashy ceremony at Hollywood Casino but that didn’t last. She caught him cheating on her. Distraught, she tried to overdose but a relative of hers intervened. Wolf never attended to her side until the end of his work shift. He didn’tneed to as that house too, was loaded with c.c.cameras…so he was remotely monitoring the drama in the house anyways. You can see Tess’s booking mugshot from the DUI from that day in 2021 she found out, on this site. Wolf split up with her and sold this house and moved to work at King’s Mountain -an aboriginal casino in NC. We heard he left his rental house at Crowders in a shambles and didn’t get his damage deposit back when he exited that house to move into a new built house a few miles away. It is very modest: a far cry from the very beautiful custom built home he had owned with Tara when they lived in Las Vegas. Wolf has imploded. He has free fallen to nothing by his own dirty deeds.You can say he has lost everything…that’s because things given to him that he hadn’t worked hard for, or even the love Tara gave him, he didn’t respect. They are all gone.
Easy come, easy go. WOMEN BEWARE.
The Wolf family know their son’s devious habits very well.
THIS IS WHY THEIR SILENCE SPEAKS VOLUMES. JAMES A WOLF AND BARBARA WOLF ARE COMPLICIT IN WITHHOLDING HELPFUL INFORMATION ABOUT TARA’S DEATH THAT COULD LEAD TO SEEING JUSTICE FOR TARA.
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Tara’s staged death case is examined in Arthur Chancellor’s book ‘EQUIVOCAL DEATH‘ the latest in his series to help train law enforcement when processing death scenes. Chancellor’s books are well researched and written so they sell out fast. Order your copy on Amazon today and witness for yourself the scene anomalies the Southaven Mississippi cops ignored. It’s shocking.
TARA LOVED TOMMY.
4 DAYS BEFORE HER DEATH WAS WOLF’S BIRTHDAY. THE MANY PRESENTS FOR HIM WERE CHOSEN WITH LOVE.
COLLEAGUES IN LAS VEGAS, MEMPHIS AND SOUTHAVEN TOLD US THEY DIDN’T BELIEVE TARA TOOK HER OWN LIFE, AND WOLF HAD BEEN QUITE ABUSIVE TO TARA. SHE COMPLAINED TO US THAT WOLF ABUSED HER FINANCIALLY, TAKING HER PAYCHEQUES FOR HIM
TARA LOVED TOMMY.
4 DAYS BEFORE HER DEATH WAS WOLF’S BIRTHDAY. THE MANY PRESENTS FOR HIM WERE CHOSEN WITH LOVE.
COLLEAGUES IN LAS VEGAS, MEMPHIS AND SOUTHAVEN TOLD US THEY DIDN’T BELIEVE TARA TOOK HER OWN LIFE, AND WOLF HAD BEEN QUITE ABUSIVE TO TARA. SHE COMPLAINED TO US THAT WOLF ABUSED HER FINANCIALLY, TAKING HER PAYCHEQUES FOR HIMSELF, LEAVING HER WITH NO MONEY. SHE HAD TO ASK FIRST IF SHE COULD BUY THINGS EVEN FROM DOLLARTREE.
WOLF EXHIBITED OTHER SICK BEHAVIOUR. WE WITNESSED HIM CRYING LIKE A CHILD IF HE DIDN‘T GET HIS OWN WAY.
WOLF WORKS IN CASINO SURVEILLANCE. LAS VEGAS, HOLLYWOOD CASINO TUNICA, KINGS MOUNTAIN NC, HE ENJOYS BEING A VOYEUR. HE‘D INSTALLED CAMERAS IN ALL THE HOUSES HE‘D LIVED IN WITH TARA SO HE COULD WATCH HER AND ANY GUESTS FROM HIS PHONE. TARA VERY MUCH DISLIKED THIS.
SO, IT’S ODD WOLF SAID HE HADN'T SEEN TARA IN THEIR HOUSE FOR 10 HOURS …
HE ALWAYS KNEW WHERE SHE WAS.
TARA HAD FUTURE PLANS!
SHE BROUGHT HER VIOLIN BACK TO SOUTHAVEN AFTER HER VISIT HOME IN CANADA, PLANNING TO TRADE IT UP AND RESUME LESSONS. AS A YOUNGSTER, SHE’D BEEN THE WINNER FOR HER AGE GROUP IN THE ADJUDICATED KIWANIS MUSIC FESTIVAL.
TARA WAS RAISED CATHOLIC. SHE WAS A NATURAL IN HELPING PEOPLE AS SHE GENUINELY CARED.
TARA WAS A LONG TIME BLOOD DONOR AND HAD VOLUNTEERED IN HOSPICE CARE. SHE HELPED PATIENTS WRITE LAST LETTERS; BRINGING THEM BLANKETS, ICE CHIPS, COMFORTING THEM. SHE HELD THE HANDS OF THOSE WHO DIDN’T HAVE CLOSE FAMILY OR FRIENDS AS THEY BEGAN
TARA WAS RAISED CATHOLIC. SHE WAS A NATURAL IN HELPING PEOPLE AS SHE GENUINELY CARED.
TARA WAS A LONG TIME BLOOD DONOR AND HAD VOLUNTEERED IN HOSPICE CARE. SHE HELPED PATIENTS WRITE LAST LETTERS; BRINGING THEM BLANKETS, ICE CHIPS, COMFORTING THEM. SHE HELD THE HANDS OF THOSE WHO DIDN’T HAVE CLOSE FAMILY OR FRIENDS AS THEY BEGAN TO TRANSITION FROM THIS WORLD AND DIDN’T LET GO UNTIL THEY WERE PRONOUNCED DECEASED. TARA BELIEVED NO ONE SHOULD LEAVE THIS EARTH ALONE.
SHE DIDN’T. THE PERPETRATOR(S) WERE IN THE ROOM WITH HER.
SINCE TARA’S DEATH IT HAS BEEN SAD FOR US TO SEE PEOPLE THAT OUR DAUGHTER HAD REGARDED AS HER CLOSE FAMILY AND FRIENDS
LET HER DOWN.