A fresh TikTok posted by a slain Detroit stripper’s daughter is resurrecting allegations surrounding one of the city’s most infamous unsolved murders yet.
Ashly Jackson, the daughter of Tamara Greene, posted a video on the social platform that’s garnered nearly four million views in which she details her estimation of why and how her mother was murdered.
Tamara Greene’s name became widely known in the Motor City after she was killed in a drive-by shooting months after a rumored 2002 party at former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s Manoogian Mansion. Jackson claimed that Greene, who also went by Strawberry, was having an affair with Kilpatrick at the time.
It’s widely speculated that Kilpatrick’s wife assaulted 27-year-old Greene at the party after she spotted Greene giving Kilpatrick a lap dance. Greene was reportedly beaten so badly that she had to be picked up by emergency first responders.
Then, in April 2003, Greene was shot to death while sitting in a car with her boyfriend. The gunfire that struck Greene allegedly came from a .40 caliber pistol, which was a standard-issue gun for Detroit police officers.
“Things got messy, and the mayor of Detroit’s wife actually assaulted my mother,” Jackson said. “Instead of paying my mother hush money, the mayor decided to pay off cops in the city to murder my mother.”
Greene’s death was the talk of the town for more than a decade and was the center of a protracted legal battle that her family initiated to prove that Kilpatrick purposely obstructed the murder investigation.
However, the cover-up was hard to prove since Kilpatrick vehemently denied that a party took place at his mansion and it was never proved that one did. No one has been charged with Greene’s death.
In 2019, the popular podcast “Crimetown” covered Greene’s death, drawing national attention. The episode featured interviews from people who knew Greene, a retired EMS lieutenant, and…
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