Who was Tia Landers, the ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ mum?

THE Facebook profile of slain “Bonnie and Clyde” mum Tia Landers reveals a woman who spent her life struggling to stay on the right side of the law.

THE still-active Facebook profile of slain “Bonnie and Clyde” mum Tia Maria Jayne Landers reveals a woman who spent her life struggling to stay on the right side of the law.

Police ended weeks of agony for the 28-year-old’s family yesterday when her body was found dumped in a Queensland forest.

Landers was one half of a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde duo, accused of abusing drugs and participating in a violent home invasion. She suffered from schizophrenia and had fallen victim to the 2011 floods in Ipswich in which she lost most of her belongings.

She leaves behind four young children and her longtime lover, Wade Bartz, a notorious gang member who is in prison.

Police will allege a couple dumped Landers’ body in a forest.

Landers’ Facebook page shows her love for her four children and her passion for tattoos, photos of which fill her timeline.

“Just bout to sit down for another session of ink yeah yeah should have sleeve finished tonight,” reads one status update.

But the expletive-laden page also reveals she had trouble staying on the right side of the law.

“Working my ass off trying to stay out of jail,” her employment status reads.

Tia Landers.

“I just wanna be wild ... What am I on bout I know wild just got to get there (sic)” she says in one post. In another, she brags about using a fake name on her ID.

“Cant believe the grassy deadset let me finally get my licence after almost tens yrs of using other c***s name. f***ing paranoid i will give them the wrong name if i ever get pulled up touch wood (sic),” she posted in September.

In the same month, she uploaded two photos of herself with the caption, “Few selfies before court”.

“Few selfies before court.”

Landers’ jailed partner, Wayne Bartz, declared Landers was “my girl” in May, and his Facebook profile lists his relationship status as “engaged”.

But on her own page, Landers said her relationship status was “complicated”. Many of the posts on her wall suggest she was open to meeting new men.

“How was I ment to know that’s ya wife lol or that ya even had one oh well hehe (sic),” she asks in one update.

“Where are all the real men,” reads another.

Landers clearly loved tattoos.

When Landers disappeared, her family set up a page called Tia Landers Missing Person, pleading for information from the public.

“Regardless of what has happened in the past ... You are our sister, daughter, mother and friend!” her sister wrote.

Now that Landers’ body has been found, her family and friends have been paying tribute to her in comments on the page.

“RIP cuzie u will be missed. My love & thoughts go out to the Landers family,” reads one post.

“I don’t know what to say. Loved her to bits, feeling so lost and sad for u all,” says another.

Originally published as Who was Tia Landers, the ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ mum?