What better way to pull yourself up by your bootstraps when you are homeless than to murder and rob someone? That was this winner’s grand plan for financial independence. Unfortunately for her, the law got in the way. This loser does look a little disappointed in her mug shot.

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Tiffany Wise is trading her homeless digs for a jail cell.

Tiffany Wise is trading her homeless digs for a jail cell.

A woman who lived at the Albany Rescue Mission is now charged with murdering a woman who ministered to her at the homeless shelter.

88-year old Mabel Berry was the first Women’s Director at the Rescue Mission. She spent years counseling and ministering to the women there.

Police say one of those women beat Berry to death at her home on West Highland Avenue yesterday.

The Founder of the Albany Rescue Mission says Sunday’s murder of 88 year old Mabel Berry totally shocked him. Police say 33 year old Tiffany Wise, who lived at the Rescue Mission for more than a year, beat her to death in a robbery attempt.

Brother Larry Hample said “Such a sad thing. Nobody should have to die like that. Let along an 88 year old woman, that’s just given her life for these people.”

Sunday afternoon about 1:30 neighbors on West Highland called Police, reporting screams from Berry at her house. Officers spotted blood on her front door knob, and then saw through windows more blood inside her home. Officers broke in the home,but found Berry dead in the backyard. Investigators say it was a very violent murder that deeply disturbed them, but would not say what the murder weapon was…

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