Death Caught Up To Columbine Survivor

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AZCentral- Tiffany Lien survived the shootings at Columbine High School, but she didn't survive the strip-club subculture in Phoenix.

A jealous husband kicked in the door of the room where she was sleeping with another man and shot the lovers to death.

On Thursday, a Maricopa County Superior Court jury sentenced Rodney Hardy to death for the murders.

Hardy and Lien had lived together for more than two years. Hardy, 47, was an ex-con with a successful limousine service, and in his off hours he was a regular at more than one Valley strip club. Lien, 21, was a stripper, and Hardy said he had rescued her from the streets when she was pregnant and hooked on drugs. In his court testimony, he said he tried to take her home to suburban Denver, but she had refused to return to her family after they got there. He even took her to Vegas to marry - though he was still married to another woman at the time.

On Aug. 26, 2005, according to police records, Hardy smacked Lien. He hit her again the next morning and she left, spending the weekend partying with a stripper girlfriend and Don Stanciel, 32, who was another strip-club regular. Police records said Stanciel had recently moved to Phoenix from California to look for a job.

Over the weekend, Hardy called Lien repeatedly to ask her to come home. Stanciel took the phone once and told Hardy that Lien was with him.

In the early hours of Aug. 28, 2005, Hardy drove to the Tempe apartment complex where Lien's friend lived. When she came out of her apartment to buy water from a vending machine, he grabbed her and forced her to take him to her apartment. Then he kicked in the door of where Lien and Stanciel were sleeping.

As they scrambled to their feet, Hardy shot them both in the head and left them dead on the apartment floor.

Two days later, he turned himself in to Tempe police.

In his closing arguments, prosecutor Jason Kalish alluded to Lien's emotional tailspin in the wake of the 1999 Columbine shootings in which two teen gunmen killed 12 students and a teacher and wounded 21 more.

According to Arapahoe County, Colo., sheriff's reports, Lien, then a 15-year-old freshman, was eating her lunch with a friend outside the school cafeteria on April 20, 1999, when they heard popping noises as if from firecrackers. They saw students fall to the ground and roll down a hill.

They told investigators they thought it was a production by the school TV station, until two kids sitting near them were shot and they saw the blood on their clothes.

Lien told investigators she looked the shooter in the eyes for at least 25 seconds, a skinny kid she did not recognize with long curly hair, wearing a long black coat, black jeans and baseball cap. He was later identified as Dylan Klebold, who killed himself after the attack along with his accomplice, Eric Harris.

Lien and her friend ran for their lives and hid, standing on a toilet in a stall in a girls bathroom. One of the gunmen shot into the room, shattering mirrors, though no one was hit. Lien listened as the shooter screamed "I hate you" to no one in particular, and when the shots seemed to be far enough away, the girls ran out of the building to safety.

Sometime around 2003, Lien moved to Phoenix with a boyfriend. She was pregnant when he dumped her.

And then she met Hardy.

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