Busby before the attack. After getting out of the hospital. 1st Pic from http://www.dailynews.com, second from an ABC Video It was two years ago that I started reporting on the Tarzana dancer who was doused in gas by an unknown assailant and set on fire. We found out that the dancer was Roberta Busby a…
Story & pictures from KTLA.com & LATimes.com Roberta Busby, burn Victim Rianne Theriault-Odom, Convicted A 28-year-old Tarzana woman was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for setting a nightclub dancer on fire. Rianne Celine Theriault-Odom was found guilty last month of aggravated mayhem and torture in connection with the February 2009 attack on Roberta…
Finally something is happening in this case! Remember the dancer Roberta Busby who was doused with something and then set on fire outside of the Babes & Beer Club in Tarzana? She was in the hospital for months with severe burns. She has since undergone several surgeries and at least is back home with…
From The LA Times by Catherine Saillan Tarzana- Roberta Busby’s daughter Gabriella turned 5 recently. But the 27-year-old single mother of two couldn’t join the family celebration. Busby remained secluded in an intensive care ward at the Grossman Burn Center in Sherman Oaks, recovering from second- and third-degree burns over 40% of her body. Nearly…
Story and pic from http://www.ktla.com/ Prosecutors have charged a Los Angeles woman with attempted premeditated murder of an exotic dancer who was doused with flammable liquid and set ablaze outside a club. The district attorney’s office says 27-year-old Rianne Celine Theriault-Odom was also charged Wednesday with mayhem and torture. Theriault-Odom allegedly exchanged words with Roberta…
Sophia writes- My friend says that the reason that this chick(suspect) poured Patron on her (mia) and set her(mia) on fire, was because Nathanial introduced her(suspect) to Mia as his girlfriend and Mia said eww, like she(suspect) was gross and then she(suspect) didn’t get hired. A friend of hers (?) says, that the girl (suspect)…
Police in a joint effort with the U.S. Marshals took suspects Nathaniel Petrillo, 22, and Rianne Celine Theriault-Odom, 27, into custody on Monday at about 5 p.m. at a hotel not far from the Babes and Beer nightclub where the attack took place. Looks like they will be charged with attempted murder. We still have…
Fund For Exotic Dancer’s Children CBS 2 / KCAL 9 If you would like to help the children of dancer Roberta Busby, who was recently set on fire outside the club where she works, bring a check in to any Washington Mutual branch, made out to "Rodrigo Busby For The Benefit Of The Children Of…
NL-I talked to Sophia Mounds who knows Mia (aka Roberta Busby), the dancer that was set on fire. They worked together. Sophia tells me that one of her friends was at the club when the incident occurred. Here is what Sophia told me about it- My friend was at the club and he saw Mia…
photo from http://www.dailynews.com/ Story from www.inlandnewstoday.com TARZANA–A single mother ( of two young children) who returned to exotic dancing full time after losing her job as a bill collector was doused with gasoline and set on fire outside a bikini bar Thursday. Police were searching for a man and woman in their 20s suspected of…
