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When we walked in, it was like, "Wow."

She'd cleaned it out.

The amount of jewelry...

it was actually shocking.

[man 2] Six robberies in five states.

And a total of 4.5 million dollars

of jewelry stolen.

[man 3] She went into the stores

and held a gun to people's heads.

[man 1] Looking at her, you would not think

she would do something like that.

[woman] She liked the money.

She liked the rush.

[man 2] They started naming her the Diamond Diva.

[reporter] Caught on camera,

this woman accused of the theft

of millions of dollars of jewelry.

These violent crimes tend to have the ability to go wrong.

We risked having more victims.

[man 2] Where would she be going next?

Where are the next locations?

-[knocking at door] -[agent] FBI.

[man 2] Each day that went by the challenge built.

And I was determined the FBI was gonna win that challenge.

Hi, I'm Special Agent Chad Fitzgerald.

I am Special Agent Lawrence Borghini.

[narrator] This isFEDS.

Panama City is a tourist town,

if you're on the Beach side.

If you live in the city,

it's more of a family-friendly

smaller town, good quality of life.

There's probably the prettiest beaches I've ever seen.

The sand's powder white,

the water's emerald green.

It's just, uh, it's gorgeous.

The beach...

Like, it's sitting on the Gulf of Mexico.

But the area also brings some elements

that are not necessarily...

uh... [clicks tongue],

the best.

[Katy] The majority of crime

focuses around drug use,

um, firearms, that kind of thing.

But I never felt unsafe.

Gangs are not known

to really exist in Panama City.

[Jason] I was sitting in my desk

doing paperwork

and I heard a priority call.

There had been a robbery at Reeds jewelry store.

When we walked in, it was like, "Wow."

They'd cleaned it out.

Watches, rings, diamonds, you name it.

A lot of jewelry.

Store employees had been zip-tied

and put in a bathroom.

They were shocked that they had been robbed.

You could see the victims actually breaking down

telling me what had all occurred.

[woman speaking] Shortly after we opened the store,

the girl came in

like a regular customer

looking for a watch for her boyfriend.

The video has a female come in

wearing black shorts, white tank top.

[woman speaking] I was closing the sale.

I was actually excited,

asking her if she wanted to apply

for one of our store accounts.

We would just need her driver's license.

I thought she was going to get her license,

but she pulls out a gun.

I was like, "You gotta be kidding me."

I guess people put a stereotype

on people that do armed robberies.

She is young, she was very pretty.

She appears well put together.

I mean, clearly, this is not someone

who was struggling for money.

You just looked at her like a regular person.

Just in the store shopping for someone.

You kinda had to ask yourself,

why is this young girl doing this?

[woman speaking] She led us to the back,

she tells us to lie down on the floor

and put our hands behind our back.

And she zip-tied our wrists together.

It was the scariest thing

that had ever happened to me.

I've never had a gun put in my face.

Um...

But in speaking with the victims,

it is incredibly traumatic.

That crime is going to sit with those victims

for the rest of their life.

[woman speaking] She said for us not to say anything.

She was speaking to someone,

and I heard bags rustling.

I started praying.

Would I see my family again?

[Jason] In my career, I have arrested

for robbery and different stuff.

But the extent that we're talking about,

was 679,000 dollars' worth of jewelry.

It was huge, I mean, it was one of the largest robberies

we as a city had ever dealt with.

Once we had secured the scene,

we had sent a bloodhound out.

The dog got a scent

from the Reeds jewelry store.

And it ran down the sidewalk

and went all the way over to Walmart

to an exact parking place

that the suspect had parked in

before the robbery had occurred.

I started pulling video from Walmart.

We found a vehicle.

It was a maroon or reddish color

and it appeared to be a Honda.

You see the female get out of the vehicle.

What she was wearing in the Reeds robbery

was exactly what she was wearing in Walmart.

You could tell that there was an individual

in the passenger seat.

The individual was kinda large

and had a light-colored shirt on.

Once you see that she's with somebody else,

kinda makes you think

that maybe there was more than one person

that was involved in this.

The female walks into Walmart,

she goes back to the automotive section

where the zip-ties are stolen.

She walked back outside,

she gets in the car and she leaves.

And it wasn't five minutes later

that she's robbing Reeds Jewelers.

The only problem was we were never able

to get the numbers off that license plate.

As I reviewed the video,

I could tell she was very comfortable

in her own skin.

She was very matter-of-fact

and she was organized

and she was not nervous.

She was confident in what she was doing.

It was kinda starting to paint a picture of...

this may not have been her first time doing this.

I'm big into searching the internet

and social media sites.

So, I Googled,

"Jewelry store robberies, female robbers,

zip-tie victims."

And I hit enter.

And all of a sudden, the story pops up from Georgia.

Less than a week before our robbery,

there was a robbery that occurred

in Dawsonville, Georgia.

It was a female.

She was using a firearm,

she was taking hostages,

zip-tying 'em, stealing this jewelry.

The MO was the same identical thing that I had dealt with.

And then I found another robbery

that occurred in Woodstock, Georgia.

I'm reading the article,

and it's talking about how

they were trying to identify a possible witness.

And I'd seen the female that they had pictures of,

and I looked at that and I said,

"Well, I don't think that's gonna be a witness.

I think that's gonna possibly be a suspect."

That's my jewelry store robber.

And now I've got three robberies that I know she's involved.

I was really willing to work this case,

but I'm based in Florida.

There are issues with me

doing a search warrant in Georgia.

So, we needed the help.

I knew that if I could get the FBI involved in it,

it would encompass Georgia and Florida,

and we could get all the information at once.

[Larry] The Panama City Beach Police Department

requested the assistance of the FBI.

The fact that those robberies had occurred in Georgia

most likely meant that those individuals

had travelled across state lines into Florida.

That immediately allows the FBI

to open an investigation and become involved.

I reached out to our Atlantan division.

Agents were able to secure snapshots of video

and investigative materials

from the two robberies they'd had in their area.

In the first robbery in Woodstock, Georgia,

the female entered the store,

but then a second individual entered the store,

a large male.

That male pulled his weapon

and ordered the staff to the back.

But the female seemed to take a passive role.

[Katy] She gets on the ground

as he is robbing the store.

But she also then gets up

and walks around.

So, it's very clear

that she is not an innocent bystander.

[Larry] For the second robbery in Dawsonville, Georgia,

the unknown female now is taking a more active role

and actually committing the armed robbery.

And she did a similar type of takeover robbery.

However, a few things occurred

that were different.

The female was the only one who had entered the store,

and there was no presence of anybody outside.

And the third robbery, Panama City Beach robbery,

we noticed that the day prior

the female subject had been in the store.

The staff had already engaged her

and answered a number of questions

and showed her a number of pieces.

So, when she entered the store the next day,

the staff's guard was somewhat down,

in that they thought that she was a regular customer

who was looking to purchase a item

that she had discussed with them the day earlier.

One of the things that caught my eye

was that when she entered the store,

the front door was open.

It looked like an individual

had shut that door for her.

[Jason] The individual that actually walked up

and flipped the door stopper

appeared to be a larger male

and actually matched what I had seen

from stillshots from the Woodstock robbery.

[Larry] I also noticed that the female

had an earpiece in.

And seemed to have been talking to somebody.

The female was very disciplined

in how she conducted her business.

It looked like she knew exactly

what she wanted to take from the store.

She removed diamonds,

she removed the expensive jewelry,

and she removed expensive watches.

My gut was,

the female was not ringleading these robberies.

There was more to the dynamic

of what was happening

than what was on that tape.

[Katy] The first robbery was,

"She's never done anything like this.

We have to show her how to do it.

Is she going to be able to do this in the future?"

And when that robbery was successful

and they were not caught,

you then had the male suspect

remove himself from being on camera.

And now it's only her face.

And she is able to pull it off

without a hitch.

It definitely seemed like

this was now her.

And she's now going to be

the driving force behind these robberies.

[Larry] One thing that stood out to me

is the fact that the individuals

in the Atlanta robberies

were concealing their identities.

They were wearing disguises.

In the Panama City Beach robbery,

the female had no problem

walking into that store

dressed with no disguise.

That led me to believe

that they were from the Atlanta area

or in close proximity to Atlanta.

Up there, they were concerned

about media coverage of the case.

I immediately wanted a poster done

so that that could be distributed.

It was a unique gift

to have the subject

look into the camera as they did.

Somebody was gonna know this female.

I knew that.

[Jason] Even though Larry was taking the case,

I had my ongoing investigation here.

Of course, I was constantly checking the internet.

"Jewelry store robberies."

And all of a sudden,

Bluffton, South Carolina comes up.

Same method of operation,

female entered store,

pulled a handgun,

the employees were zip-tied.

I called Larry, I said,

"Well, Bluffton, South Carolina just got hit."

[Larry] The fourth robbery

turned out to be the largest robbery so far.

927,000 dollars' worth of merchandise was stolen from the store.

They were stealing specific items

as if they had a list

of what they wanted.

They were high dollar value items.

They were not items

that you could go on eBay

or you could go down to your pawn shop and sell.

They had to have had somebody

that they were selling this jewelry to.

The fact that the unidentified female

was communicating via cell phone

was very important to the investigation.

I knew that phone would be pinging off a tower

before it can connect to another cell phone

or connect to a network.

The challenge then became

finding what tower she was pinging off of.

I quickly got our Atlanta field office involved.

Special Agent Fitzgerald

was one of the leading people in the bureau

as far as handling cell phone data.

[Chad] Talking to Agent Borghini,

I learned that zip-tying the victims,

putting them on their knees...

These victims thought they were gonna die that day.

[Katy] What Larry really wanted help with

was to try to identify

the same phone numbers being present

in the areas of each of the robberies.

[Larry] I now have four robberies

in four locations,

and specific times that the robberies occurred.

[Chad] I thought, after talking to Larry,

that it was a slam-dunk.

That not only would we identify the female

that was on the phone doing the armed robberies,

but if the person

that she was communicating with on the phone

was in the area,

we would also identify them,

and the co-conspirators.

When you ask for cell phone data,

each one of those companies give you back the information

basically on their timeframe.

You could be looking at weeks

or months, quite frankly,

before you actually get the data back.

[Chad] It's a waiting game

for them to produce those records.

[Katy] So, while we're waiting to get the information back

from the cell phone companies,

there's actually another robbery.

[Larry] Sevierville is in a touristy area

of Knoxville.

Once again, it was another robbery

where a female went in,

did a takeover-style robbery,

she took specific items,

and then left the store.

But this time,

she used a different disguise.

He hair appeared to be a different color.

[Katy] That is scary.

Because they're not stopping.

As a prosecutor,

I wanted nothing more

but them to catch these individuals.

And by the time that she commits

the Sevierville robbery,

this female suspect and her crew

had stolen a little over

3.5 million dollars' worth of jewelry.

We had, amidst pressure internally,

from within ourselves,

as well as pressure from the FBI

to get these individuals identified

and put a stop to this.

The worst that could have happened was...

she and her crew

are continuing to commit robberies,

and they actually kill someone.

[woman speaking] I didn't wanna do anything

to upset her.

Obviously, we had seen her face.

So I thought, if she decided

she didn't want us to identify her,

maybe she would come back and shoot us.

[Larry] A lot of times the victims have told me

is thoughts that are going through their head is,

"Will I go home and be able to see my family?"

"Will I see my children again?"

"Will I see my spouse again?"

And then thinking that they are going to die.

A pattern had developed

where they were hitting stores

with specific locations.

Always off an interstate,

at an outlet mall.

I started looking at all the major highways

out of Atlanta.

It's a lot easier to go to an outlet store,

rob it and get on the highway,

than it would be to drive to a major city,

walk into a jewelry store,

and walk out with a bunch of jewelry.

I started thinking,

"Where would they be going next?

Where are the next locations

they may be going to target?"

It became important to me

to inform the industry

and push out as much information as possible.

It was determined that the jewelry store owners

and companies needed to be made aware

of what was occurring,

to advise them

that the individuals that may enter the store

and conduct the robberies

were armed and dangerous.

[reporter] FBI are today hunting for a thief

who has robbed millions of dollars'

worth of jewelry

from at least five stores across the South.

[Larry] The fact that we had robberies

in a number of different states

allowed us to reach out

to the national level news.

[reporter] The woman and her partner in crime

could be part of a wider gang.

[Larry] They started naming her

the 'Diamond Diva.'

It caught a lot of people's attention.

And it gave me exactly what I wanted,

which was more exposure.

Unfortunately,

that type of pressure also leads them

to possibly getting desperate in situations

and making bad decisions.

That makes them much more dangerous.

[Katy] And then with the attempted robbery

in Macon, Georgia,

it just kind of reinforced

for Larry and I

that our work wasn't done.

And that this crew was going to keep going.

[Larry] Upon a female entering the store,

the manager immediately recognized her

as the Diamond Diva

and thought they were gonna be robbed.

At that point,

a delivery driver entered the store,

at which point the female decided to leave.

I immediately thought

that in the Panama City store,

they had been in the day before.

And when she entered the store the next day,

that's when she robbed it.

In the past, I had not been in control,

I had been reacting to what they were doing.

But now I figured

that if they were going to come back the next day,

we were gonna be ready for them.

[sirens wailing]

This was the first time

we were the ones on the offensive.

And I would be able to end this

right then and right there.

[Larry Borghini] The commitment to being an FBI agent is a strong one,

you must be available all times.

Even though it was New Year's Eve

I was not going to let that stop me from doing what needed to be done,

and that was find these individuals and arrest them.

I made arrangements to travel up to Macon, Georgia

and there was somebody I wanted to bring with me.

Larry called me, he goes, "Do you wanna go up here with me?"

I said, "Absolutely."

[Larry] We arrived at the store before 10 o'clock.

And then drew up some scenarios as to,

what if they did come, what was our plan?

This is a public market

and you have to constantly be evaluating

the individuals that may wander into a situation.

It also may pose additional risk in that,

if you do engage these individuals

they may try and take a hostage or something like that.

[Jason Jones] Larry and I were in the manager's office

hoping that she would come in and try to rob it while we were sitting in the back room.

We anticipated if they kept to their normal schedule,

within the first 20 to 30 minutes

they were gonna attempt some type of robbery.

We waited, and waited, and as the hours went by

I gradually realized they were not coming.

Eventually, the operation was called.

[Jason] Without a doubt there was some disappointment there because, I mean,

we had traveled all that way, hopefully, to make an arrest.

So, I mean, yeah, it was kind of quiet

because I was just hoping we'd have been able to end all this that day.

It was frustrating to know that we hadn't been able to arrest any individuals yet.

Just kinda of reenforced for Larry and I

they were not gonna stop unless someone made them stop.

By continuing to engage in these crimes their thumbing their nose at law enforcement.

They don't think they can be found,

that has to have a level of arrogance with regards to this crew.

That means, they think they can't be stopped.

It did make us more determined.

[Larry] The sixth robbery in Mebane, North Carolina

is about a 4 hour drive from Atlanta.

This turned out to be one of the key breakthroughs in the case.

In several of the other robberies she had some type of disguise on,

but in this particular case she was not concealing any of that.

That gave us very good surveillance footage of her face.

Good Morning America picked up the story.

[reporter] This morning, new surveillance video

of the young woman now accused in six holdups at jewelry stores across the south.

Police say that here she is just this Monday, in the blue jacket,

calmly using keys to unlock jewelry cases.

Then the national media gave me the coverage

I was hoping we would get on the case.

Film investigators say a man and a woman have targeted stores in five states.

[reporter] This morning, jewelry stores throughout the south are on alert

and offering a reward for this woman's capture.

[Larry] On January 8th,

a couple days after the news report, I received a tip.

The caller wished to remain anonymous,

but they were very sure that the individual in the media reporting

was the individual that she was giving me the name to.

And the caller provided the name

Abby Kemp.

At this point,

I start coordinating with the Atlanta office

on what our next steps should be.

I wanted to verify and vet the information the caller had provided.

However, when I started to make that call

Special Agent Fitzgerald had news for me.

[Chad Fitzgerald] The location data from the cellular providers came in,

and a particular number stood out like a sore thumb.

That number was in all the areas that I had data on.

Well, you're always excited when you, uh, get a solid lead.

I ran it through various databases and they were all reporting

that the phone number, uh, was associated

with one individual named Abigail Kemp.

Immediately started looking at social media.

Abigail Kemp was in the Atlanta area,

she had a maroon car,

and you could tell from her face

that it was the same individual that was in the robberies.

It was obvious that she had a party lifestyle.

She had a good life and she was full of life.

Nothing in her past lead me to believe that she was violent.

Abigail had advantages in life.

She came from an upper-middle-class family,

she was smart, she went to good schools,

she had many opportunities available to her.

Honestly, Abigail was pretty. She's a pretty, nice, Caucasian girl.

The first time I seen her we were all getting together at the club.

Abigail Kemp showed up with one of my best friends.

She was kinda quiet that night.

I guess she was trying to, like, maybe feel the room so to speak or whatever.

That wasn't the only night that she would meet us.

Abigail after the first time, I guess when she felt comfortable with everybody,

she showed a different side.

Long as she was sober, she was Abigail.

When she got drunk, she was Abby.

And then all of a sudden, bam! She might just turn into a nasty individual.

[Larry] The key to the investigation became getting to Abigail Kemp.

She would lead us to the other individuals we were looking for.

This was the first time in the investigation I felt really good

that the information we had was solid.

[Katy Risinger] All of a sudden things were finally happening.

So it was exciting, but it was not time to celebrate.

So this wasn't gonna end until we had everybody in custody.

Agent Fitzgerald, at that point,

starts attempting to determine where Ms. Kemp is living.

The first place we were gonna go is where her family lives.

It was a nice area of Atlanta, not the type of neighborhood you'd expect, uh,

somebody that's going into jewelry stores

and robbing the place, uh, to live.

But the car was not there and there was no indication Abigail was either.

The next place we went to was an apartment that she was associated with.

After talking to the management company there

I determined that she had just recently moved in.

Her car was parked, uh, in a particular area,

so we had every reason to believe she was there.

I started calling some squad mates to come help us.

Once we know there's a warrant in place,

everybody got on their gear and we approached the apartment.

I knocked on the door, announced FBI.

FBI.

Nobody opened the door.

The management company had a spare key

so that we didn't have to, like, ram the door.

I was very nervous,

you never know what's gonna be on the other side of that door.

There could be somebody standing there with a gun pointed at you.

I put the key in, opened the door,

to see what was happening on the other side.

-[knocking at door] -[Chad Fitzgerald] FBI.

So as soon as I open the door

I immediately see two individuals, one female, one male.

I'm giving verbal commands to Abigail Kemp

and the other individual to put their hands up.

Abigail Kemp complied,

but that male was not complying with what I was saying.

I was able to grab Abigail Kemp

while the rest of the team

was able to deal with the individual that was in that back bedroom.

[Larry Borghini] I start getting some messages on my cell phone.

And looking at the pictures

I was able to quickly determine

Abigail Kemp was the female we were looking for

and the male that they had in custody was the male in the first robbery.

[Chad] We were able to grab his identification,

the name on the license was Lewis Jones.

It's always great when you're going after one fugitive and you end up with two.

It's like putting on a pair of jeans and finding a $20 bill in the pocket.

[Larry] At this point,

I was happy that we had gotten the people we were looking for.

The next thing we needed to do was to get somebody to talk.

Abigail Kemp was brought back to Panama City.

When we first met her she did not come across as this cold,

calculating person who would normally be engaged in this kind of behavior.

[Larry] We started from the beginning,

how she became involved.

We knew that if she was honest she could provide really strong evidence.

[Maurice Burke] Abby liked nice things.

She didn't come from a poor family,

he mom was pretty well-off, her dad was pretty well-off.

But for out here they might have been strict about money.

But Abby liked to be flamboyant.

Expensive purses, and, you know, jewelry, things like that.

She wanted the nice cars.

So I think that was her biggest

drive or

what pushed her into some of the things that came about.

[Katy Risinger] She had been in a relationship,

but after breaking up with her boyfriend a switch flips,

and you start to see her partying a lot more.

[Chad] She told a story about how she had met three guys,

a person she called Big Lew,

which was Lewis Jones the other individual at the apartment.

And also she mentioned two other names that we did not know,

Michael Gilmore and Larry Bernard Gilmore.

[Katy] Lewis Jones had been involved, in person, in that first robbery.

But the Gilmore brothers they were ghosts, they were never on camera.

[Larry] She identifies Larry Gilmore and Michael Gilmore,

all as being associated and involved in the robberies.

We were able to find the Gilmores were financing the whole operation.

And Larry Gilmore was the one dealing with the individual

they were selling the stolen property to.

[Katy] Now, we were on a clock in order to get Larry and Michael arrested

because they now know Lewis and Abigail are in custody.

As so it's only a matter of time before they start destroying evidence,

destroying phones, getting rid of weapons.

[Larry] As I sat with Abigail Kemp

I went over all the interaction that she had with the Gilmores.

[Chad] She met them while she was waitressing.

Apparently, they were frequent customers at this restaurant

and they befriended Abigail by always sitting in her section.

[Katy] They were big tippers. They were friendly.

As she went and worked at other restaurants

they started showing up at those other restaurants.

[Larry] Abigail enjoyed spending time

with the Gilmores and Lewis Jones.

[Katy] She would hang out with them, they would kind of party.

And, eventually, she ends up in a relationship with Lewis Jones.

Their motivations were always just money and a lavish lifestyle.

[Larry] The way she described it, it was to be part of something.

Abigail enjoyed the role and attention she received

as being part of that group.

[Katy] And, at some point, Lewis Jones, Larry, and Michael Gilmore

had just kind of broached the subject of

would you like to make some extra money?

It was almost like whatever was missing inside of her

is what opened the door for them to be able to convince her

to engage in this behavior.

My 35th glass.

[laughing]

[Katy] From her perspective,

their discussions of the first jewelry store robbery in Woodstock

she would be there, but would just be present.

She would not be the person with the weapon.

After that Woodstock robbery

they paid her with some of the proceeds.

And Abigail, I think, was able to see just how easy it was.

So when they approached her about taking a more active role

she was interested in it.

She liked the money, she liked the rush.

She fully admitted that she was the one going into the stores

and doing the robberies.

But she said she was being directed or taught how to do these things

from at least one, if not all three of the other guys involved.

[Katy] And then when she tells you that her face starts appearing

and she's concerned because she's now in it.

But she's telling you that these guys are guilt tripping her

and trying to bring back in it, your gut reaction is

that's crap.

You liked the feeling of control

that you had when you went into those jewelry stores

and you put those employees on their knees,

and you were able to take what you wanted.

Most suspects that we arrest, Abigail was no different,

um, they wanna minimize their involvement in any crime that they had committed.

She had a hard time thinking of herself

as a bad person who had done bad things.

[Larry] Eventually, we established that Michael Gilmore

and Larry Gilmore owned a tint shop in the Atlanta area.

Tint shops put tinting on automobile windows.

Ms. Kemp had described that that's where she was trained.

They started having her do things such as holding somebody at gun point,

zip tying them,

and telling her the stuff she needed to do to commit the robberies.

I wanted to get arrest warrants executed as quickly as possible

to get our hands on the Gilmores.

Anytime you make an arrest of armed and dangerous subjects

there's a lot of risk involved.

So when it came to the arrest of the Gilmores, I wasn't gonna miss it.

Michael Gilmore and Larry Gilmore would often meet

at the tint shop in the morning.

We had setup hoping to catch both of them,

Michael Gilmore showed up as expected,

but Larry Gilmore did not show up,

he was at his residence.

We had a team at his residence prepared to make an arrest.

And the call was made to go ahead and execute.

At which point, each team simultaneously hit their targets.

In effecting those arrests speed is of essence.

Michael Gilmore saw the agents coming and knew what was happening.

We're just plowing through the doors knocking them off their hinges

before he was able to get to any weapons.

Larry Gilmore, he was actually in the bathroom.

We told him not to move, leave you hands where I can see 'em,

and do not reach for the gun.

At which point the agents were able to force entry into the bathroom

and take Mr. Gilmore down.

[Katy] After the arrest of Larry and Michael Gilmore,

we charged all four of them with robbery related to the Panama City robbery

on Reeds Jeweler.

We also charged them with an overarching conspiracy

that pulled into the case all of the other robberies that they had committed.

But as hard as I tried, I was unable to locate any of the stolen jewelry.

[Katy] One thing Abigail would say is that after the robberies

she would turn around and go back to Georgia,

while Lewis Jones, Larry, and Michael Gilmore would travel down to Miami

because that is where they were actually fencing the jewelry.

[Larry] We developed the person they were gonna sell it to

and what they could market to him.

We were never able to recover any of the jewelry

because they immediately offloaded it after each of the robberies.

[Katy] Lewis responds the way he responded at the time of his arrest,

he pleads not guilty.

The Gilmores also pled not guilty.

Abigail pled guilty to everything in the indictment.

And then what she hoped for

was that her cooperation would be taken into consideration

by the government and give her a lighter sentence.

Lewis Jones, Larry, and Michael Gilmore were all tried together.

I've been doing this now for 13 - 14 years and I think Abigail Kemp

was one of the best cooperators I've had testify in court.

She was remorseful.

She owned her bad behavior.

She owned what she had done to those victims

and the families that she had destroyed.

So I think she came across very credible to that jury

that she was testifying in front of.

We got guilty verdicts on all counts.

Lewis Jones and the Gilmore brothers

were all sentenced to 32 years in prison.

Ms. Kemp did a lot of bad things and she's responsible for what she did.

She was the one that went into the stores and held a gun to people's heads.

She can never erase what she has done,

but Ms. Kemp did the right thing by assisting the government.

In a case like this a defendants decision to cooperate

can really impact the type of sentence that they receive.

Ultimately what Abigail Kemp was sentenced to was 10 years in prison.

I did think it was lenient.

We were hoping for around 15 years,

but the judge went lower than we had hoped.

Abigail knew how to play her cards.

She played 'em right.

Not only am I the sweet, innocent girl

that was threatened into doing some robberies,

but she says she was forced.

She said, I was guilted into doing it.

Y'all didn't guilt her into doing it, come on.

[Larry] It concluded an investigation

which included six robberies in five states

and a total of $4.5 million of jewelry stolen.

These individuals did a lot of bad things,

they committed a lot of violent crimes.

Fortunately, we were able to take them down.

I just hope the victims got some closure. I really do.

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