Elbony Weatherspoon was watching the NewsChannel 5 Investigates special Revolving Door last week when she got a call that would change her life.
She expected an update from the Rutherford County District Attorney’s office on Michael Thibodeau, but what she heard left her in tears.
It was the Rutherford County Jail to say Thibodeau was an hour away from being released.
Weatherspoon was shocked.
This is the same man who spent days terrorizing people in Murfreesboro, before barricading himself in her home and threatening her with a gun.
Weatherspoon has since moved in with friends, but worries she could now stumble into Thibodeau at the gas station or grocery store.
Prosecutors had promised Weatherspoon that while doctors found Thibodeau mentally incompetent to stand trial for what happened at her home, they would find a way to ensure he serve the proper amount of jail time.
By then Thibodeau had already spent 228 days in jail, but Rutherford County District Attorney Jennings Jones says what happened next was something he’d never seen before.