[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Tiawaz:
Here's my where i got a monkey wrench thrown into my lap. Maybe someone with some more knowledge can help me out.

Got old phone from girlfriends dad.

Old phone hadnt been used in forever.

Brought it into the verizon store for new sim card and to add it to her plan.

Dude in store put the sim card in and while we were waiting he was doing things on the phone.

Handed phone over and said that he restored the phone and it was like new ready for me to use.

got phone home, checked about and noted 4.4.2 version.

immediately checked for root at minimum. Towelroot came up.

Used towel root and rooted the phone. Added SuperSU, BusyBox and Titanium Backup, Disabled KNOX with SuperSU on first launch.

Proceeded to identify crap i didn't need and started uninstalling it with titanium backup.

Rebooted.

Constant popups saying "Phone is Missing Component bla bla bla".

Determined the bloat wasn't too-too bad only 1gb or so.

Powered off

Powered on+VolUP+Home - into recovery.

Wiped Cache

Wiped Data and factory restored device.

Reinstalled SuperSU, BusyBox, Titanium Backup, Disabled KNOX with SuperSU on first launch.

Noticed ISIS Wallet - Freaked the hell out. Immediately removed it with TB.

Downloaded App-Hider and just hid the apps i didn't want in my app drawer.

Phone was working fine till today.

Decided to download Pokemon GO! - i know... bad 33yr old.

Wouldn't download onto the s3 ( firmware not compatible)

Looked into Cyanogen like i have on every other one of my devices.

Saw it was supported and offered a 5.1 cyanogen rom. i got excited.

Went to CWM to see about installing CWM on this device.

CWM said to install on my device i had to use EZ-UNLOCKER to unlock my bootloader.

Downloaded the tool version 1.2 because it said in the release notes that 1.2 was advisible.

Installed

Opened and granted SU permissions

Status was <UNKNOWN>

Pressed UNLOCK, got a "That was easy" soundbyte and rebooted.

On reboot i saw SAMSUNG with an unlocked lock briefly.

Phone booted up normal.

This is where i think i messed up.

Powered off phone

Pressed Power+VolDN+Home then continued with VolUP

Installed Samsung Drivers + Kies

Got ODIN 3.07 ready and got the CWM file to load.

followed the guide and it refused to push it to the phone.

Googled - found that 4.4.2 has a locked bootloader so i couldn't load CWM.

Although i saw the SAMSUNG with Unlocked Lock apparently my device didn't unlock with EZ-UNLOCKER.

did a factory restore again figuring i did something wrong.

Installed SuperSU,BusyBox,Titanium Backup and Disabled KNOX with SuperSU on first launch.

At this point my spidey senses as a tech were tingling.

I installed ONLINE NANDROID BACKUP

Made a TWRP Backup since I already knew that CWM wasn't an option at this point.

Backed it up off the phone to my desktop.

Installed Terminal Emulator and followed the tutorial here to make a backup of my IMEI info and it completed without a hitch after it rebooted.

I proceeded where i figured it failed last time.

Installed EZ-UNLOCKER and clicked UNLOCK

Rebooted.

Phone was Bricked.

went to this thread. Got the 4.4.2 file, formatted and wrote it to the SD card. pulled battery and booted the phone up. Knowing i had a backup, i got ROM BACKUP MANAGER *ROOT* and after loading the backup onto the phone from pc i went into it and went to recovery from backup and picked the TWRP file and clicked ok and it did nothing..

Here's where i can identify having to get creative. The 4.4.2 file does not have the .bin file to restore the bootloader.

so I got poweriso and used the .img file as a source and converted it to a .BIN/.CUE file. and moved it to the phone while the phone was booted and did the command after installing terminal emulator.

It took forever and then the phone crashed with the buttons at the bottom lit.

the phone booted but automatically launches into recovery and i get:

E:Can't mount /cache

E:Can't mount /data

E:Can't mount /system

E:Can't mount /recovery

E:Can't mount /recovery/log

so i said OK screw it, I'm hosed. I've had an android before and i remember ODIN was my savior. So I rebooted the phone into ODIN mode using the unbrick SD. Downloaded the I535VRUDNE1_I535VZWDNE1_I535VRUDNE1_HOME.tar.md5 for my phone and put it in AP on ODIN 3.09 and it flashes it to the phone. This is the stock image for this phone and should in theory overwrite anything and restore the 4.4.2 stock verizon rom on the phone. However it goes through the paces and when it reboots to the android configuring gif, it goes for 4 seconds and then fails out to the dead android with the exclamation point.

I still have a complete backup in TWRP of when it was working. I can get into ODIN Mode and Stock Recovery mode.

i just dont know what the hell to do at this point and google is no help. Is there a way to restore the TWRP backup from a PC to the Phone?