Who was Tamisha Ridge and how did she die?
A true-crime documentary of the gruesome murder of a 31-year-old mother of three will air on Monday, March 7, 2022.
Tamisha Ridge was a YouTube sensation and used her creative talents to teach her viewers how to sew.
Who was Tamisha Ridge?
Tamisha Ridge was a minor celebrity on her YouTube page, boasting of more than 140k subscribers.
She used her platform to share her knowledge of fashion design with her followers as she taught them to create their own clothes on a budget.
One of Ridge’s followers was Lauren Taylor, a fashion designer from Mississippi who watched the YouTube platform daily.
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Ridge was a vibrant person, according to Taylor who told ABC10 News, “She had a wonderful, beautiful spirit about herself. Always smiling. You got the impression she was a really nice girl that really just loved to sew and wanted to share that with the world.”
But on May 14, 2014, Ridge posted her last video and only hours later was killed in her sleep.
How did she die?
Tamisha Ridge was in an on-and-off relationship with Dameshlo Green for ten years but decided to call it quits and moved to Sacramento County in California.
She and Green shared one daughter together, but their breakup lasted five years before they got back together.
“I knew he was abusive,” Ridge’s mom, Tina Martin, told Fox 40 News in 2014. “But I didn’t know he was crazy.”
Martin claimed her daughter told her that Green was abusing her, and after several months, she ended the relationship.
According to Sacramento District Attorney reports, Green had a history of domestic abuse, but it was taken one step further when, on the night of May 14, 2014, Green entered Ridge’s home.
It was there that he approached her while she was asleep, and shot her in the head with a shotgun.
Green turned himself in for a parole violation and was charged with homicide for the murder of Tamisha Ridge.
Ridge left behind her three children and her mom had an important message for anyone dealing with domestic abuse.
“Be stronger and leave,” Martin said. “Think about your kids. You have to think about your safety and the kids.”
In 2018, a jury found Green guilty of the first-degree murder of Tamisha Ridge and possessing a firearm as a felon. He was sentenced to 75 years to life in prison with the possibility of parole.
Green is currently at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, California, and will be eligible for parole in 2039.
Where can I watch the documentary?
The Tamisha Ridge documentary, Web of Lies: Fatal Follower, will air on March 7, 2022, at 9pm EST exclusively on Investigation Discovery.
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