She Drew a Map of Her Grandmother's Body From Her Jail Cell

Sometimes the most damning evidence in a murder trial doesn't come from forensic labs or crime scene investigators. Sometimes it comes from a jail cell. And sometimes the person who creates that evidence is the defendant herself.

In the capital murder trial of Uriah Urick, accused alongside his girlfriend Tara King of killing her 61-year-old grandmother Tammy King, the prosecution introduced something I've rarely seen: a hand-drawn map of the crime scene, created by Tara King while sitting in the Galveston County Jail awaiting trial.

An anonymous inmate turned her in.

Deputy Raymond Tyler, a nine-year veteran who works the night shift at the jail, testified about sorting through inmate mail when he came across an anonymous request form. The tip was specific: Tara King, bunk four, had a layout of the crime scene drawn out. It described the naked body covered with towels on the floor. It was folded in a clear baggie. There was also a letter to her boyfriend where she wrote that she "stands behind what he did," kept in a tortilla bag.

Tyler went to search the bunk himself. What he found was exactly what the anonymous tipster described.

The Map

The hand-drawn diagram shows the layout of Tammy King's home in Bacliff, Texas. Tara labeled the rooms. The carport. The living room. The kitchen with the stove. A bedroom she marked as "my bed." The back porch. A utility room.

But the notations are what make this evidence devastating.

At the carport: "where we were waiting."

At the utility room leading to the back porch: "back door barricade before we left."

And in what appears to be the victim's bedroom, a circle with an arrow pointing to it, labeled "head." Next to it, in Tara's handwriting: "Percy covers her with towels so I didn't see her."

Percy is Uriah Urick's nickname.

Think about that for a moment. Tara King, sitting in jail awaiting trial for her grandmother's murder, drew a diagram of the crime scene. She labeled where they waited. She noted that they barricaded the back door before fleeing. And she wrote, in her own hand, that her boyfriend covered her grandmother's body with towels so she wouldn't have to look at it.

Tammy King raised Tara since she was two years old. She adopted her. She took in Tara's boyfriend and let him live under her roof. According to prosecutors, the couple repaid her by shooting her in the head during a robbery, then fleeing to Mexico.

Now Tara sits in a jail cell documenting it all.

What This Means

The defense didn't ask Deputy Tyler a single question on cross-examination. Not one. When evidence is this damaging, sometimes there's nothing to do but let it pass and hope the jury forgets. They won't forget this.

This is Uriah Urick's trial, not Tara King's. She'll be tried separately. But her map, her words, her documentation of what happened in that house implicates him directly. She used his nickname. She described his actions. She drew where he covered the body.

Co-defendant evidence is always complicated. The jury has to consider that Tara has her own motivations, her own case to worry about. But this isn't testimony where she could be angling for a deal. This is a drawing she made and hid under her bunk. This is a letter another inmate found so disturbing they reported it anonymously.

This is evidence she created for no one but herself.

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Watch the testimony yourself. See the map. Read the notations. And ask yourself what you would do with this evidence if you were sitting in that jury box.