“Lonely’ Mother Who Shòt And Kill husband Infront Of Children, Makes Shameful Request From Prison
EXCLUSIVE: We can reveal that an infamous mum who shot her husband dead in front of horrified children is begging men to help support her in prison – because it is a ‘lonely’ place
Kayla Giles
Kayla Giles moaned about prison life being ‘lonely’
A mum who gunned down her estranged husband in front of children at a supermarket car park is making bizarre requests – from her prison cell.
Kayla Giles, 36, is serving a life sentence for second-degree murder and obstruction of justice after shooting Thomas Coutee Jr in the chest in September 2018.
She did so on what was their daughter’s second birthday and she was meeting Thomas so he could collect her two other daughters from a previous relationship for their little girl’s party.
At the time of the fatal shooting in Louisiana, they were embroiled in a divorce and a custody battle over their daughter.
Giles was found guilty of the murder in 2022 and we can now reveal that she is spending her time behind bars begging for donations on a dating site.
Writing on her online profile on Wire of Hope, she said she was looking for a ‘long term friend’ before adding: “As you can imagine, prison life is lonely. I believe the time I have left in here would be much easier if I had someone on the outside that I could count on.
“Yes, financial support would be nice, but there are small things like receiving funny pictures or videos that would make me smile just the same.”
Giles then described herself as someone who ‘would only vote Republican’ and was a ‘health fanatic’ who believes ‘men were made for women only and vice versa’.
The shameless killer signed off her bio by giving blokes information about where they can ‘donate’ if they were ‘feeling generous’.
During her murder trial, her defence team tried to argue a case of self-defence, but this was rejected by the jury.
And after the verdict, Thomas’s mum, Cathay Pearson, said: “My baby got the justice he deserved. She’ll never be able to hurt anybody else”.
Giles must now face life without the possibility of parole but she is hoping to write to strangers on Wire of Hope in her spare time.
Wire of Hope
The penpal site was started by two friends who are striving to help change the lives of incarcerated people.
A statement on the website reads: “A prison correspondence helps them escape the daily monotony and darkness, feel human again, appreciated, and sometimes even loved. To sum up, by writing to an inmate, you could brighten up someone’s day, week, month, even, Actually, you could change a life.”
One of the founders is a woman called Sigrid who herself began sending letters to a killer before moving from France to live closer to the Union Correctional Institution in Florida.
Alan Wade
Sigrid is a long way from her native home of France, where she once had a large support system of family and friends
The man she fell for was Alan Wade. He was sentenced to death after the robbery, kidnapping and murders of retired couple Reggie and Carol Summer who he – along with accomplices – buried alive in 2005.
She later had a baby with Alan behind bars and said in 2021: “I started writing to Death Row inmates because I was against the death penalty. I believe in second chances and rehabilitation.
“When I started to realise I was having feelings for him and him for me, we both got scared. We took a step back and we tried to stop writing to each other and we were both miserable. And after six weeks he wrote back – his first words were ‘I love you’.”
She added that her family were angry at her decision – saying they thought she was the “worst person ever”.
But Sigrid said Wade, whose death penalty sentence was overturned to a life sentence, was the man who makes her happy and she therefore does not see why it bothers other people.