In season 2, episode 8, Black Pearl is the love story of Tammy Ellis and David Gatlin. This does not end well for Tammy Ellis as they end up dead at the hands of David Gatlin, in the state of Mississippi. The show is described as: The quickie marriage of Tammy Ellis and David Gatlin heads for a terrifying and bloody confrontation.. David Gatlin is sentenced to Pardoned by Govenor. David Gatlin is elligible for release on . According to the Jackson Free Press , David Gatlin drove nine hours from Macon, Ga., to kill his wife in 1993. Tammy Ellis Gatlin had left him when she was a few months pregnant. David couldn't or wouldn't find work, and the couple was living out of their car. David was abusing Tammy, her sister Tiffany Ellis Brewer told the Jackson Free Press Monday. He did turn himself into police claiming he had killed two people. Gov. Haley Barbour granted Gatlin a full pardon. Her family was outraged and is pushing for changes to the legislature. ...