Robbers take couple's life savings
David MacAnally/Eyewitness News
Anderson, September 28 - Tuesday should have been closing day for a couple planning to buy a house, but instead a jail door closed on a troubled teen duaghter.
Police say 18-year-old Kelli Troxail is a drug user and now is charged with using her mother and her mom's 64-year-old boyfriend to score dope and dollars.
"I don't understand how someone could do that to their own parent. Those guys could have killed me," said her mother.
When two armed men got in their apartment at four o'clock Tuesday morning, they didn't break down the door. They had a key.
With a gun found later in a dumpster, the two masked men ordered the victims out of bed and demanded cash.
"I begged them not to kill us. I said, 'Please don't kill us,'" said the mother
At first the victims, who asked we protect their identies, gave them some cash. But the gunmen knew there was much more.
The amount taken was $48,000 in cash," said Anderson Detective Terry Sollars.
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The victims withdrew the money Monday to make a cash downpayment on a house Tuesday.
"According to the couple, there was only one other person who knew the money was there and that was the woman's daughter," said Sollars.
"I'll never live long enough to make that up. He'll never get that money back even. For her to do this, I hate to say this, I have pretty much disowned my own child. My daughter, she set us up," her mother said.