Billie Jean's family also dates the relationship to Sharp's death. Harp suspects that her long-term affair with Rusty Cain developed after the death of Randy Sharp and continued throughout Harp's two-year marriage to her. She could cut you so low it would take a stepladder to climb onto a match box." "She was good to look at, and she'd flirt around and make me jealous. "She could play me like a drum," Harp said. Roger Dale Harp, her second husband, concedes holding a gun to Billie Jean's head after a fight in which, typically, she questioned his manhood and bragged of outside relations.
Soon after they separated, Sharp shot himself in a motel room while Billie Jean watched. Sharp tied her up and locked her in a closet for hours while he gambled with his friends. The relationship was "tempestuous," one family member said. The first was Randall Wayne Sharp, who took his vows with 19-year-old Billie Jean McKnight on the diving board of a family friend's swimming pool. That drove at least two of them to violence. She flaunted her other romances to whichever man she was with at the time, say friends and family. Her later lovers included both the local prosecuting attorney, Howard "Rusty" Cain Jr., and his son, Trey. But the sporadic affair continued until Billie Jean was 23. Her father caught them getting out of a patrol car and punched him. At 15, she took her first lover, a state trooper. Those who were close to her say her sexual encounters began in her mid-teens and included boys even younger than she. And then you get a family that's peripherally involved in drugs, which opens up hundreds of more possibilities." You have somebody that's got a lot of potential enemies. "Over the years, she developed a long line of people that probably weren't too happy about having her around. "She would call them up on the phone and let them know what she was doing and anger them. "She lived a lifestyle that tended to antagonize the spouses of people that she went out with - girlfriends and wives," Jones said. Phillips' sexual activity has helped confuse the three-year effort, says Prosecuting Attorney Terry Jones of Fayetteville, who has been in charge of the official investigation. Those who have investigated it have centered their inquiries on the Madison County drug trade and on the men who loved her. 2, 1994, a Friday night, beaten and strangled in her bedroom. She was petite, pretty and tough, a scrapper with connections to the drug-dealing underbelly of Huntsville and the ability to move freely among the town's most prominent citizens. Death seemed to trail in her wake.Īt 35, her reddish-brown hair flowed to her shoulders. HUNTSVILLE - Billie Jean Phillips rode life like a sexual Jet Ski.
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