Tiffany Sneed told jurors Tuesday her ex-boyfriend, Chad Massengale, who occasionally supplied her with methamphetamine, had scared her into participating in a murder.
Just a few hours into the trial of Massengale, the 33-year-old woman said she helped Dekota Burchard and Roy Henderson load Tony Rector’s body into a white pickup truck – minutes after the 51-year-old was beaten with a tire iron on Dec. 28, 2015. Sneed said she hadn’t done the beating – but she watched Massengale and Henderson each take turns on Rector, a caretaker who had recently become a nuisance to several drug users who lived in a home on Dallas Hollow Road.
Earlier that night, Rector had tried to comfort Burchard’s girlfriend during a fight. Burchard then called Massengale, and the Hixson man pulled up around 9 p.m. with two acquaintances, moving the fight indoors to the living room, where Rector was beaten severely.
Chad Massengale“After the living room, [Henderson], Dekota and myself moved his body to the truck,” Sneed explained on the stand in Hamilton County Criminal Court.
“Why?” prosecutor Cameron Williams asked.