209: The Disgraced Hero & Fugitive: Mario Centobie

When Officer Keith Turner pulled over a car in Moody, Alabama on June 25, 1998, he thought it was a routine traffic stop. The 29-year-old husband and father had no idea that the men in the car were two escaped convicts, Mario Centobie and Jeremy Granberry. In the span of two days, the armed and dangerous fugitives had already attacked one officer and nearly killed another. As Officer Turner walked toward them, Mario stepped out of the vehicle. He reached through the window as if to retrieve his license, but instead he pulled out a gun and fired three times.

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Episode Transcript

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Southern Fried true crime covers cases thatare not suitable for young listeners, and
there may also be some explicit languageused. Listener discretion is advost. On
Thursday, June twenty fifth, nineteenninety eight, Officer Chris Long was having

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a normal hot summer night. Hewas patrolling Moody, Alabama in his police
car, and he was keeping anair to his radio, just like he
always did so. When Chris heardhis colleague, officer Keith Turner, send
a radio transmission to central dispatch,he listened like he always would, but

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it wasn't anything special. Keith waspulling over a vehicle for a routine traffic
stop. Automatically, Chris headed towardsKeith's location. Later, Chris would testify
that this was out of habit.He said, anytime he stopped a car,
I backed him up, and viceversa. Even when Chris had Keith's

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patrol car in sight, he didn'tthink anything was off. He heard a
few pops, but it was Junetwenty fifth, The Fourth of July holiday
was only a week away. Peoplewere always setting off firecrackers early, especially
in rural Alabama. But when Chrisheard additional pops followed by screaming. His

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stomach dropped as he realized it wasn'tfireworks. Welcome to episode two O nine,
The Disgraced Hero and Fugitive Mario SentobiOfficer. Keith Ashley Turner was born

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in November nineteen sixty eight to hisparents Dot and Pat Turner in pel City,
Alabama. He had two brothers anda sister, and although Keith was
born in pel City, he primarilygrew up in a town called Ragland.
Ragland is located in Saint Clair County, Alabama. It's about fifteen miles north
of pel City and fifty miles eastof Birmingham. Ragland is your typical rural

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small town. Its population sits atabout two thousand plus or minus several hundred
people depending on the year. WhenI say this is the kind of place
where everybody knows everybody, I meanit. Everyone in Ragland is just about

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on a first name basis. Howcould they not be. They're filling up
their cars at the same two gasstations, They're going to the same grocery
store, and when they want anight out, they're all headed to the
only restaurant in town, which,if you're wondering, serves barbecue. Keith's
family was from Ragland. His mother, Dot was a lifelong member of the

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Ragland Methodist Church and attended Ragland HighSchool. Keith's father, Pat, was
a military veteran. He had servedin the U. S. Navy during
World War II as a machinist mate. Pat operated and maintained ships, and
it's likely his military status was abig part of the Turner family. In

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fact, before Dot passed away intwenty twenty one at the age of ninety
four, she was a member ofthe local VFW Auxiliary. Keith was a
member of his mother's Methodist church,and in nineteen eighty seven, eighteen year
old Keith graduated from the same RaglandHigh School she did. On June twenty

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seventh, nineteen ninety six, twentyeight year old Keith married a woman named
Brandy. She was about twenty yearsold at the time. A year later,
in the spring of nineteen ninety seven, Brandy gave birth to the couple's
first and only child, a littlegirl. According to Brandy, Keith was
a fantastic father. The Birmingham PostHerald reported that Brandy said he was a

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wonderful man. He lived for her. The summer after Keith's daughter was born,
he hit another big milestone. Hegraduated from the University of Alabama's police
academy. Keith had wanted to bea law enforcement officer for quite some time.
I imagine this was an especially excitingaccomplishment for him. Keith began his

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police career with a southside police departmentnear Gadsden, Alabama. In March of
nineteen ninety eight, he switched toa new position at the police department in
Moody, Alabama. Moody, likeRagland, is also located in Saint Clair
County, and while Moody is alsoa small rural town, it is slightly

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bigger than Ragland. In the latenineteen nineties, approximately eight thousand people lived
there. In June of nineteen ninetyeight, Keith was twenty nine years old
and thriving. He had a lovingwife, a young daughter, a supportive
family. Plus. Keith had startedhis dream career, a dream career that,

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as it turns out, he hada knack for. Moody Police Chief
Robert Clement said of Keith, Iwish I had a dozen more just like
him. Others who knew Keith remarkedon how kind and generous. He was.
A previous supervisor told the Birmingham PostHerald he was an outstanding young man.

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He always had a smile on hisface and was ready to help anyone.
On June twenty seventh, nineteen ninetyeight, Heith's anniversary. He was
on duty in his marked Moody policevehicle. At ten thirty pm. He
pulled over a nineteen on Mercury GrandMarquis for a routine traffic stop. The

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marque parked in a residential driveway.Before Keith exited his car, he radioed
Central Dispatch to let them know hehad stopped this vehicle. As I mentioned
at the top of the episode,Officer Chris Long heard the transmission and made
his way towards Keith's location. Meanwhile, Keith walked toward the Marquee he pulled

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over. Suddenly a man got outof the car. Keith called out,
Hey, what are y'all doing.The man leaned into the car's window and
said, give me my license.Then the man leaned down and reached through
the window, but when he straightenedup he did not have his license.
Instead, he had a gun.Without warning, the man shot Keith three

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times. The first bullet was stoppedby Keith's bullet proof best the second hit
his hip, and the third wasfired directly into the back of his head.
Twenty nine year old Officer Keith Turnerdied immediately. He did not even
have time to draw his weapon.When Officer Chris Long pulled up, the

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two men responsible for Keith's murder ran. The man who was inside the car
went one way and the shooter wentanother. The two hit among the swampy
wooded areas in Saint Clair County.Almost immediately, a massive manhunt began.
No one had laid eyes on thesemen yet, but the authorities were damn

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near positive they knew exactly who thesefugitives were. Thirty two year old Mario
sent Toby and nineteen year old JeremyGranbury. They had both escaped from a
Mississippi prison two days earlier. I'mgoing to pause now freshwort commercial break.

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Mario Giovanni Sentobi was born in nineteensixty six to his mother, Tracy Wolfe
and his father John Arden sent Tobyin Biloxi, Mississippi. His gravestone indicates
he was born on January twenty sixth, but according to an FBI wanted poster,
Mario's birthday is actually October twenty sixth. That same FBI wanted poster explained

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that January twenty sixth was just analias birthday Mario used, probably to help
avoid detection. When Mario was aroundfour years old, his biological father left
his family. Mario's new stepfather wasRichard O'Connor. When Tracy and Richard were
wed, Mario would have been approximatelyseventeen years old. By the time Mario

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was grown, he had at leastseven siblings. Some of them were full
siblings, while others were half siblings. Mario spent the bulk of his childhood
in and around two Mississippi cities,Biloxi and Long Beach. They're about seventeen
miles apart from each other on theMississippi Gulf coast. In nineteen eighty four,

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eighteen year old Mario graduated from LongBeach High School. He had played
football there. By the time hewas about twenty years old, he still
lived in Long Beach. At nineto fifteen pm on Sunday, June first,
nineteen eighty six, Mario was involvedin a gun related accident. He
was cleaning his twenty gage shotgun whenit accidentally discharged. He was taken to

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the hospital where he underwent emergency surgery. At the time, authorities told the
Sun Herald that the accident was underinvestigation. In fact, the Sun Herald
article that reported on this event usedthe words supposedly when referencing the incident.

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It seemed people weren't sure that Mariowas telling the truth. But as far
as I can tell, no additionalnews reports came about this incident. When
Mario was in his twenties, hebecame a firefighter. According to his obituary,
he was a valedictorian of his classat the State of Mississippi Fire Academy,

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and as reported by The Sun Herald, twenty five year old Mario was
working for the Orange Grove Fire Departmentin Biloxi. By March of nineteen ninety
one, he appeared to be doingvery well there. In fact, Mario
was sometimes chosen to be the firedepartments and formal spokesman, and by that
I mean when local newspaper journalist neededa quote from a fireman on the ground,

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they would go to Mario. Forexample, when a local grass burning
got out of control and spread tomore than three hundred acres of land,
Mario told the Sun Herald it wasthe largest woods fire I'd ever been in.
Nobody would heart. I found severalsimilar quotes from Mario published in the
Sun Herald. He was usually explainingwhat may have caused a recent fire and

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giving an estimate of the damage.According to his obituary, in nineteen ninety
two, the twenty six year oldwas named Firefighter of the Year. Newspapers
reported that by August of nineteen ninetytwo, Mario had risen to the rank
of captain. He was also sometimescited as being a training officer. Months

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later, in December of nineteen ninetytwo, Mario completed a five week training
program at the State Fire Academy.The next year, in nineteen ninety three,
Mario was dubbed Fireman of the Year. I'm not sure if that's the
same as the Firefighter of the YearMario received in nineteen ninety two. Sometime

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between nineteen ninety two and ninety three, Mario also worked for the Dieberville Fire
Department, but in December of nineteenninety three he had resigned from that position.
In addition to being a fireman,Mario was a lifeguard, a CPR
instructor, a rescue diver, anda rope rescue specialist. Mario received nine

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Green Cross Awards for rescuing trapped andinjured victims. On July twelfth of nineteen
ninety four, twenty eight year oldMario and another rescue professional, Norman Barnum,
were recognized for helping with the Amtraktrain disaster near Mobil, Alabama.
You may have heard of it.It's sometimes called the Big Bayou Cannot Rail

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accident. On September twenty second,nineteen ninety three, a towboat pulling along
heavy barges ran into a bridge.The collision knocked the bridge's train track out
of alignment, and eight minutes later, an Amtrak passenger train carrying two hundred
people was derailed. The train wastraveling about seventy miles per hour. In

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total, forty seven people died morethan one hundred were injured. Mario was
a volunteer for the Long Beach Diveand Rescue Team, so he was helping
clean up the scene. Afterward,he repeatedly dove into the bayou to help
recover bodies and other items. Mariotold The Sun Herald the devastation of the

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crash was almost unbelievable. Norman,the other recognized man, had helped on
the surface. For their work onthe accident, Mario and Norman were presented
a certificate of merit from the MobileCounty Sheriff's Flotilla. But despite Mario's long
list of accomplishments as a rescue worker, he was not a good guy.

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There's no other way to put it. He just wasn't. This was a
man who might have been a herofor some good portions of his life,
but by the end of this episode, you're going to understand that all of
Mario's good deep could never outweigh hisbad ones, and it's time we talk
about those. At some point inthe late nineteen eighties and early nineteen nineties,

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Mario married a woman named Cheryl LynnStanley. There isn't much information available
about Cheryl's past, but she waslikely a Mississippi native born around nineteen sixty
nine. She was in her lateteens or early twenties at the time that
she had began a relationship with Mario. Cheryl and Mario had one son together,

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named Dominic, and for a whilethe family of three lived together in
Gulfport Mississippi, which is just fourmiles to the east of Long Beach.
Cheryl worked as a teacher's aide ata local elementary school, and Mario,
of course, was a rescue worker. But soon the couple began having serious

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problems. Mario was abusive. Onat least one occasion, he admitted to
slapping Cheryl. Afterward, she gota restraining order against him, and by
September of nineteen ninety five, twentysix year old Cheryl and twenty nine year
old Mario were separated. Cheryl andher son Dominic lived in a Gulfport home

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together and Mario was on his own. Mario and Cheryl's separation may have been
a shock to Mario's family. Laterthey would say they didn't believe Mario would
hurt his wife, but this separationprobably wasn't a shock to Cheryl's family.
Her father later testified that for twoyears it had been painfully clear that Cheryl

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feared her husband. Her father toldthe son Harold, the whole family is
still worried about her. It's rough. She has been plumb scared to death,
and the authorities would later confirm Mario'sdomestic violence as well. Police chief
George Payne of the Gulfport Police Department, said Mario was violent and abuse to

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Cheryl repeatedly. Hain also indicated thatboth Cheryl and their son, Dominic,
were scared to death of Mario,and that Mario was known for using fear
and intimidation to control them. Onthe evening of Saturday, September sixteenth of
nineteen ninety five, Mario cut thephone lines to Cheryl and Dominic's home.

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Then he kicked open her front door, violently pushing into the house. At
the time, Cheryl and little Dominic, who was between five and seven years
old, were watching television. I'msure they were terrified to see Mario burst
in while wielding a gun. Marioused the gun to force Cheryl and Dominic

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into his rented four probes of Danand Mario told Cheryl that he would kill
their son if she didn't follow hisorders exactly. For four days, Mario
held his estranged wife and son captive. He took them from Mississippi to Louisiana
to Texas, all the while Mariosexually assaulted Cheryl repeatedly while their son was

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present. When they were near SanAntonio, Mario wanted to force another man
to sexually assault Cheryl. She testified, we went to a truck stop,
but he couldn't find a man thatwas by himself. He got back in
the car and put the gun tohis head. He said he just didn't
want to live anymore, and thenhe put the gun down. Eventually,

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Cheryl commenced Mario that she would notdivorce him, and she agreed to retract
her previous allegations of abuse. Honestly, what else was she supposed to do?
Stand her ground and die. WithCheryl's agreements in mind, Mario decided
to return to Mississippi. He neededto go to the city of Pearl anyway,

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he had to make a court appearanceto pay a one hundred dollars fine
and do six months of probation foran unrelated shoplifting charge. And now that
Mario felt he had his wife andson back under his thumb, he felt
comfortable showing up. Afterward, theywould go back to their Gulfport home.

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In his mind, things would returnto normal. So Mario threw away his
gun at a convenience store, andon Tuesday, September nineteenth, nineteen ninety
five, he had Cheryl drop himoff at the Pearl Courthouse. Cheryl took
the rental car to wash it,and then she and Dominic waited for Mario
in a wal Mart parking lot.It was near the courthouse. Later,

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it would be pointed out by Mario'sdefense attorneys that Cheryl could have simply driven
away, obviously ignoring the amount ofcontrol Mario had over Cheryl. He had
terrorized her and her child for fourdays. She was terrified to defy Mario.
When Mario arrived at the Pearl Courthouse, someone had the wherewithal to realize

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he was out on bond. Hewas facing charges of sexual assault and domestic
violence against his wife, and witha little more digging, they realized that
same wife and Mario's son had beenreported missing. Thankfully, the court officials
and other authorities put things together,and as Cheryl and Dominic waited for Mario

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to finish his court proceedings, twoFBI agents approached them, and those FBI
agents told Cheryl that Mario had beenarrested for kidnapping. I'm going to pause
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terms for details. The authorities hadbeen on the lookout for Marios shortly after
he had abducted his wife and sonon Saturday, September sixteenth, and that's
because Cheryl's father and her stepmom hadgone to Cheryl's home on Sunday, September
seventeen. They saw that her frontdoor was kicked in, the house was

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unusually messy, and the phone wasn'tworking. Even the television had been left
on. Clearly something was wrong,so Cheryl's father reported his daughter and the
grandson missing, and due to Mario'shistory of domestic violence, he was the
police's number one suspect. When Mariowas arrested four days later. He was

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taken to golf court and held ona fifty thousand dollars bond. Two days
later, on September twenty first,Mario's bond was increased to one million.
Needless to say, he couldn't payit, so he remained in jail.
Mario was indicted that November. Hischarges were kidnapping, aggravated assault, burglary,

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and sexual battery, and one countof sexual battery related to an earlier
incident, and his trial began thenext year, on October fourteenth, nineteen
ninety six. By this point,Cheryl had successfully divorced Mario. During the
trial, Mario's defense team argued thatCheryl had agreed to go on this quote

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trip. They suggested that it wasa family vacation, not a kidnapping.
Mario's defense attorneys said their marital issueswere typical. They pointed to how,
despite their separation, Cheryl and Mariohad recently interacted a church, the movie
theater, and restaurants. They hadwitnesses to prove as much. One of

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Mario's acquaintances thought Mario and Cheryl weremaking up, but that same person also
testified that Mario had recently been suing, and then he had mentioned getting a
gun. The defense also cast outon the police investigation. The authorities had

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let Cheryl drive her son home afterMario's arrest, That in and of itself
wasn't the problem. The problem wasthat Cheryl drove home in the same rental
car that Mario had kidnapped her in, and she had removed trash like fast
food wrappers from the car before turningit over to the police to be searched.

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The defense was alleging that Cheryl mayhave tampered with evidence. By the
time the four vehicle was searched,detectives found blood on the passenger side seat
belt. Cheryl testified that this wasbecause she was bleeding while sitting in that
seat. Mario had pistol whipped herin the head and there was a lot

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of blood. She had had towrap her head with a shirt to staunch
the bleeding. When those two FBIagents found Cheryl, she did have a
head injury. However, this seatbelt blood was never proven to be Cheryl's.
The authorities had intended to send samplesto the state crime lab for testing,

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but for unknown reasons, though sampleswere never sent. Also, the
shirt Cheryl had used to wrap herhead was never found. Another issue with
the investigation was that they had notsent Cheryl to the hospital to complete a
rape test, and they didn't checkCheryl or Mario's clothing for seamen. The

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defense team also had proved that whena Gulfport police officer had interviewed Cheryl immediately
after the kidnapping, she had saidshe had gone on the trip of her
own accord, and they pointed outhow Cheryl wrote letters to Mario while he
was in jail. She had evensigned them with a word love, but
this again was due to Cheryl's fearof Mario. While on the stand,

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Cheryl test as to how terrified shewas of Mario. She explained that she
had written him letters because she didn'tknow if he was getting out of jail.
She said, I didn't want himto be mad at me. He
will kill me. Cheryl testified toher story in detail, and officers explained
to the jury that they found wirecuttersin Mario's personal vehicle, which was a

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truck that had been abandoned in acasino parking lot. The prosecution claimed these
wirecutters were what Mario used to cutCheryl's phone lines before he kidnapped her.
The prosecution also called to the standCheryl's seventeen year old neighbor he had seen

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Mario peeking into the windows of Cheryl'shome days before the kidnapping, and a
bank worker testified that Mario had stoppedby the bank a day before the kidnapping.
He had seemed upset and had withdrawnfive thousand dollars that's just under ten
thousand today, but when asked abouthow he and Cheryl were doing, Mario

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said they were fine. Cheryl andMario's elementary school age son, Dominic,
also testified. He verified that Mariohad a gun on him, saying he
kept it in a pouch in ared car, and Dominic confirmed that his
father had beaten his mother in frontof him. On Friday, October eighteenth,

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nineteen ninety six, the jury convictedthirty year old Mario cent Toby of
aggravated assault and burglary. He wasacquitted of all sexual battery charges. It's
likely the jury made that decision becauseCheryl had not undergone a rape test and
the lack of testing for Mario seamen. Ultimately, Mario was sentenced to forty

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years in prison, twenty years forkidnapping, ten years for aggravated assault,
and tend for burglary. The juryhad considered life in prison, but they
couldn't make a unanimous decision on it, so it was off the table.
This wasn't an extremely high profile case. In fact, the authorities didn't disclose

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any information about the case to newsreporters until after Cheryl and Dominic were recovered.
That was a purposeful decision, meantto keep them safe. However,
for those who did follow the case, Mario's convictions were controversial. On the
one hand, Mario's family maintained thatthis whole situation was blown out of proportion.

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Mario's stepfather, Richard O'Connor said tothe Birmingham Post Harold, they went
on this vacation and didn't tell eitherparents, and the next thing I know,
the police are around here looking forMario. Richard referenced how Mario took
Cheryl and Dominic to Texas beeches,and how Mario's original shoplifting charge was for

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stealing his son a birthday present,which is strange if he had five thousand
dollars in the bank. But anyway, the authorities obviously thought this whole story
was bullshit. The police chief ofGulfport said to the Sun Herald, this
is a classic case of an abusedwoman where it appears the system failed her.

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Additionally, I'm not sure how Mario'sfamily is rationalizing Cheryl's broken door,
cut phone wires and bruised face.But it doesn't matter what I think the
jury thought. Mario was guilty andthat was that or that should have been

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that, because unfortunately this was onlythe beginning. I'm going to pause now
for a short commercial break. Innineteen ninety eight, thirty two year old
Mario Centobi was incarcerated in the MississippiState Penitentiary. It's located in Parchment,

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Mississippi, and is often referred toas Parchment Prison. That's where Mario met
nineteen year old Jeremy Granberry. Jeremywas serving six years. He would have
only served five years, but inNovember of nineteen ninety seven, Jeremy and
another inmate, twenty one year oldChristopher Wally, attempted to escape from Parchment

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Prison. The pair had just walkedaway while on work detail at a nearby
pig and chicken farm. They werecaught by that afternoon and Jeremy was sentenced
to an additional year in prison.On Thursday, June twenty fifth, nineteen
ninety eight, Mario and Jeremy wereto be transported from Parchment Prison to Laurel,

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Mississippi, for court proceedings. Thesehearings were directly related to Jeremy's case,
so it made sense that he wasgoing, but Mario was not supposed
to be going to these court hearings. He had asked Jeremy to put his
name on the witness list because thiswas the first step of Mario's plan.

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So Mario and Jeremy climbed into avehicle with Sheriff Maurice Hooks of Jones County
and Ray Butler. Ray was aformer lawman and a friend of Sheriff Hooks.
Later on, Hooks would explain thathe had brought his buddy Ray along
because he thought he was only transportingone inmate, Jeremy. Mario coming was

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news to Sheriff Hooks. That's alsothe reason why Hooks arrived in an unsecured
vehicle. It was supposed to havea divider between the front seat, where
the officer sit, and the backseat where the inmates sit, but this
vehicle did not have that, andas you'll soon learn, this lack of

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divider was going to make all thedifference. And it's important to note here
that Mario and Jeremy's ankles were shackled, but their wrists were not. It's
unclear why the trip from Parchment toLaurel would take nearly four hours, so
a little over two hours in thegroup of four made a pit stop in
Richland, Mississippi. Sheriff Hooks letMario and Jeremy use the restroom, and

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he and Ray got some coffee.As Hooks went to get back into the
vehicle, all hell broke loose.Sheriff Hooks later testified, opened the front
door, got into the driver's seat, put my coffee into the holder,
and closed the door. Granberry reachedover the seat, grabbed me by the
neck and pulled me into the seatbackwards. Sin Toby went from my gun

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and hit me with it on thehead four or five times. Armed with
the sheriff Hooks's forty five caliber automaticpistol, Mario forced Hooks and Ray to
an old barn in an isolated area. He and Jeremy tied up the sheriff
and his friend to a post.Then they left them there. Mario and

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Jeremy fled in Sheriff Hooks's vehicle.Sheriff Hooks and Ray Butler stayed tied up
in that barn for approximately twenty hours. They were found on Friday, June
twenty sixth by a couple visiting anearby cemetery. The two men received treatment
for cuts, swollen limbs, anddehydration. They both made a full recovery.

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After Mario and Jeremy stole the sheriff'scar, they stopped at a Walmart
twenty five miles to the north inLivingston, Mississippi. They walked inside while
still wearing their prison uniforms. Theuniforms consisted of white shirts with ms DOC
for Mississippi Department of Corrections printed onthe back and dark pants. And Walmart,

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the two men purchased black T shirts, a compass, water purification tablets,
and other items. Mario and Jeremyalso found fai plastic sheriff's badges and
Hooks's car. Hooks would give theseout to children. Mario and Jeremy pinned
them to their shirts, probably inthe hopes that they might fool someone into

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thinking they were supposed to be inthis marked law enforcement vehicle. With new
clothes, fake badges, and someprovisions, the two escapees were prepared to
go on the run, just likethey had planned all along. Seven hours
later, Mario and Jeremy were nearTuscaloosa, Alabama, and it just so
happened that forty seven year old CaptainCecil Lancaster of the Tuscaloosa Police Department was

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coming home late. He had beenheld up by a meeting at work.
Lancaster saw Hooks's marked patrol car driveby on I three fifty nine, and
although Lancaster had no idea that twofugitives were on the loose, he noticed
that something was off about the car. First off, he saw that the

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sheriff's car was missing its rear bumper. As luck would have it, this
was not actually related to Mario orJeremy's fugitive status. The bumper had been
dislodged during a previous accident Sheriff Hookshad been involved in. Still, it
gave Captain Lancaster pause. Then healso noticed that the car had no tags.
Plus, the two people inside thecar didn't acknowledge him as they passed

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by. As a precaution, Lancasterpulled the sheriff's car over. As Captain
Lancaster walked toward the driver's side ofthe car, he got a good look
at Jeremy Grandberry. Jeremy was inthe driver's seat, so he was easy
to see, but Lancaster was unableto see Mario in the front passenger seat.

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Before Lancaster made it all the wayto the driver's side, Mario leaned
back behind the front seat. AlthoughLancaster didn't have a clear vision of Mario,
he could see that someone was pointinga gun at him. According to
later testimony, the first time Marriotried to shoot Lancaster, the gun only
clicked. There was no shell onthe gun's chamber, so Mario cocked the

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gun and fired again. He shotthrough the back window on the driver's side
and hit Lancaster twice. The firstshot struck Lancaster's gun clip on his police
belt, and the second hit himin the torso. Lancaster suffered two broken
ribs and the bullet's exit wound wasnear his tailbone. He was a very
lucky man. After being hit,Lancaster fell to the ground. That's when

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he saw the Sheriff's vehicle begin tomove forward. He realized they were going
to try and run him over.He testified, I saw the reverse light
come on, and that shocked meback to reality. I pulled out my
gun and fired a shot into therear window in the high left side.
A second shot shattered the back window. Jeremy and Mario decided it wasn't worth

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it to run over Lancaster and fledthe scene. As they sped off,
Lancaster kept fire, but they weregone Soon after. A fellow police officer
saw that Captain Lancaster was hurt.On the Interstate. That officer, Sergeant
Jeffrey Elmore, used his shirt anda piece of cardboard to slow Lancaster's bleeding.

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Other concerned bystanders had also stopped tohelp. Eventually, Captain Lancaster would
make it to a hospital. Hewas reported as being in fair condition the
day after the shooting, but hedid have to undergo surgery due to his
injuries. Following their run in withLancaster, Mario and Jeremy abandoned Sheriff Hooks's

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patrol car in the backyard of amobile home in South Tuscaloosa after nearly killing
Captain Lancaster. They probably realized thatmarked car was drawing unnecessary attention. That's
when they stole the nineteen eighty oneMercury Grandmarquis I'm mentioned in the opening.

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By this point, the local authoritieswere aware that Mario and Jeremy were on
the run. The two fugitives wereconsidered armed and dangerous, and law enforcement
officers were going door to door tocheck on locals and advise them to stay
inside. On Saturday, June twentyseventh, Jeremy and Mario stopped for food

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near Leeds, Alabama. Jeremy stoppedat a McDonald's while Mario went to a
Taco Bell. Security footage was laterrecovered showing Mario making his Taco Bell order.
Later that day, Officer Keith Turnerpulled over Jeremy and Mario for a
routine traffic stop. After Mario murderedOfficer Keith Turner in cold blood, Jeremy

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turned their stolen car into a driveway, and per later testimony, Jeremy looked
at Mario and said, well,this is it, and Mario responded,
you can give up if you wantto, man, I ain't going back
to Parchment. Then Mario got outof the car shortly after Jeremy did too.

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He fled across a baseball field andhid in a swampy wooded area,
and immediately after Mario did the samein a slightly different direction. When Officer
Chris Long arrived on the scene,he fired at Mario. Mario fell to
the ground as if he had beenshot, so Chris thought he had made
contact. This was further reinforced whenMario began crawling towards the woods. Later

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investigators would realize that Mario had notbeen shot. There was no blood on
the ground where he had fallen.Mario was either trying to mislead Officer Long
or he was avoiding more gunfire.But thinking that Mario was somewhat incapacitated,
Chris turned his attention toward Keith.He felt around Keith's chest, searching for

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a wound. It was ten thirtyp m. And dark. Chris couldn't
see that Keith had been shot inthe head. But then Chris shined his
light on Keith and saw the blood. His neck and collar were covered in
it. Officer Keith Turner was killedin the line of duty on his two

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year wedding anniversary. His funeral washeld three days later at one pm on
Tuesday, June thirtieth, at theRagland Methodist Church. He was laid to
rest in the Garden of Memory Cemeteryin Ragland, Alabama. His father was
also buried there, and his motherwas laid to rest there too, at

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the age of ninety four in twentytwenty one. At the time of Keith's
death, his mother had seen hima few days earlier. She told the
Birmingham Post Herald the last thing hesaid to me was I love you.
There couldn't have been a better wayto say goodbye. The year after his
death, in May of nineteen ninetynine, Keith was posthumously rewarded the Medal

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of Valor and a stone memorial wasdedicated to his memory. The Moody Police
Chief, Robert Clement, said ofKeith, he had tremendous potential. He
was a fine, fine man.It was just our bad luck that those
predators happened to come through our town. I'm going to pause now for a

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short commercial break. Following Officer KeithTurner's murder, a huge manhunt for Mario
and Jeremy began. Detectives primarily focusedon a ten square mile area in Saint
Clair County. The Cross Baptist Churchbecame the headquarters for all search activities.

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Roadblocks were put up, helicopters circledthe air. Hundreds of federal, state,
and local officers were put on thecase, and numerous law enforcement agencies
help. Some of them were theFBI, that Alabama Bureau of Investigation,
the Alabama State Troopers, multiple countysheriff's departments, and multiple city police departments,

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including the Moody Police Department where OfficerKeith Turner was employed. Jeremy was
captured at two pm on Sunday,June twenty eighth. It was less than
one day since he had ran.Bloodhounds had found him hiding in a sewage
ditch not far from where he hadinitially fled the scene. He was charged

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with capital murder for Officer Keith Turneran attempted murder for Captain Cecil Lancaster.
As the police apprehended him, localswatched, They clapped and cheered. The
authorities, high fived, and honkedtheir horns. Many onlookers heard Jeremy screaming
that he was not responsible for killingOfficer Keith Turner. He was held at

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the Saint Clair County Jail. Eventhough Jeremy was quickly recovered, Mario escaped
the authority for several days. Hesurvived by stealing vegetables from people's gardens and
breaking into homes for food. Hewould take items from the back of people's
refrigerators and the hopes that they mightnot notice he had been there. Law

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enforcement officers were optimistic that the hotweather might exhaust Mario. It was about
ninety degrees most days. Alabama StateTrooper William Rogers told the Birmingham Post Harold,
we think the heat will work inour favor. That's why we want
to keep continuous pressure on him.On a hot day, it's hard to

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keep moving. But the heat didn'tseem to FaZe Mario because on Monday,
June twenty ninth, law enforcement hadno clue where he was. Jeremy did
not provide them with any helpful information, and the leeds coming in from locals
were largely incorrect. Still, thepolice were pretty sure Mario remained in this

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area. As a precaution, residentswere encouraged to lock their doors and stay
inside. A special agent for theFederal Bureau of Alcohol tobacco and firearms.
Told the Birmingham Post Herald, heis very cunning. He's desperate to do
anything to not be incarcerated. He'son the extreme violent end of the criminal

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subculture. And a different officer toldthe Birmingham Post Harald, now's not a
good time to take a walk inthe woods or go pick berries. June
turned into July and Mario sent Tobywas still nowhere to be found. A
local fireworks company called Crazy Bill Fireworksshut down business to help with the investigation.

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They urged everyone in the area tonot shoot off any fireworks. They
didn't want the sound or sights tointerfere with the investigation. On July fourth,
Mario escaped the authorities search perimeter,undetected due to rain and dense fog.
He went to a Moody, Alabamagas station. There he carjacked a

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man named Daniel Alexander at about ninethirty PM. Daniel wasn't even from Alabama.
He was from Arkansas visiting relatives,but he had the misfortune of being
in Mario's path. Mario forced Danielto drive him to mobile Detectives later revealed
that they believed Mario was on hisway to Cheryl and Dominic's home in Gulfport.

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Fortunately, the authorities had seen thatcoming. They had already put Cheryl
and Dominic in protective custody. Asthey crossed the state lines from Alabama to
Mississippi, Mario and Daniel stopped atthe Mississippi Welcome Center. Mario must have
been driving at this point, becauseDaniel was pretending to be asleep. When

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Mario went inside the welcome center,Daniel quickly drove the car away. He
called the police immediately and told themMario's location. That Daniel had escaped,
Mario knew right away that his locationwas compromised, so he hitched a ride
with a van full of tourists tothe distance between himself and the Mississippi Welcome
Center. The van documents later confirmedto the authorities that Mario was indeed headed

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to see his wife and child.Fifteen year old veteran Lieutenant Obie Wells was
at the Ocean Spring Sheriff's Department buildingwhen he received a call. The caller
informed Wells that escaped fugitive Marios andToby might be traveling in a van on
iten, So Wells set out tofind the van and Mario. Through sheer

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luck, he spotted them right away. He started telling the van and radioed
for backup. Once Wells felt comfortablethat he had support, he pulled the
van over near Pascagoula, Mississippi.Mario got out of the van right away.
He wouldn't listen to the lieutenants orthe other officer's commands, and he

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was still armed with Sheriff Hooks's gun. But when Mario realized he was outnumbered
by officers with no place to go, he finally surrendered. He emptied his
clip from his gun, held outhis arms, and positioned himself spread eagle
in the van. Throughout his capture, Mario did not say a word,

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and at about seven twenty am onJuly fifth, nineteen ninety eight, thirty
two year old Mario Sentobi was arrestedafter eleven days of being on the run.
He was charged with capital murder forOfficer Keith Turner's death an attempted murder
for officer Cecil Lancaster. The MoodyPolice Department, where officer Keith Turner had
worked, was disappointed that they werenot the ones to catch Mario. Their

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police chief, Robert Clements, toldthe Birmingham Post, Harold, that will
be a regret for every member ofthe Moody Police Department forever. He destroyed
one of us, and we wantedto get him. Although Mario's case was
not high profile back when he wasfirst tried in nineteen ninety six, it
certainly was now, and for goodreason. This manhunt involved at least one

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thousand hours of overtime for authorities.In total, about six hundred law enforcement
officers were involved, and more thanone hundred and thirty agencies had played a
part in Mario's search and capture.By the end of it all, catching
Mario had cost taxpayers a modest estimateof one million dollars. It would be

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almost two million today plus. Coverageof the case was especially popular when three
different people filed three separate lawsuits againstSheriff Maurice Hooks and other Jones County officials.
Keith's widow, Brandy Turner, theofficer who was almost killed, Captain
Cecil Lancaster, and the carjacked manDaniel Alexander all wanted ten million dollars each,

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thirty million dollars from a county withless than seventy thousand in population.
Brandy, Lancaster, and Daniel feltthat it was an oversight by Jones County
that Mario and Jeremy had escaped inthe first place. One lawsuit specifically cited
that missing divider that should have barricadedMario and Jeremy from sheriff Hooks. Eventually,

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all three settled their lawsuits for undisclosedamounts of money. Following his arrest,
officers questioned Mario for four hours ina Pascagoula jail. He confessed.
By July eighth, Mario was transferredto the Edawa County Jail. They couldn't
hold him in the Saint Clair Countyjail because they were worried for his safety.

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Mario had killed a police officer incold blood. In a small town,
there was worry about vigilantes. Atthe time that Mario arrived at the
Ediwa County jail, Officer Keith Turner'swidow, Brandy, was also at the
same jail. She was trying toget more information about her husband's murder.

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She had no idea Mario was goingto be there, but once she saw
her husband's killer, she asked tospeak with him. According to court documents,
Brandy was escorted to Mario's cell.Then Mario asked the present officers to
leave. They did, leaving Brandyand Mario alone for a private conversation.

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For days, Brandy did not tellauthorities what Mario said to her during this
time, but eventually she revealed thefollowing Brandy asked Mario, why did you
murder my husband? And Mario hadresponded that he did not murder Keith,
he merely shot him. He toldBrandy that he had to I'm going to

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pause now for a final commercial break. You might have thought I was about
to wrap up, that we werealmost at the finish line. That's probably
what every person following Mario's case hadthought too, But Mario wasn't done yet,
and in October nineteen ninety eight,three months after being taken into custody,

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Mario successfully escaped jail again. Thistime, Mario escaped by charming forty
four year old Donna Hawkins. Donnawas a prison guard at the Ottawa County
Jail, and while Donna and Mariowould not have been able to interact in
person, they did communicate via writtenletters. Other jail workers suggested they also

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could have spoken via the prison's speakersystem. Donna had left Mario's maximum security
cell and cell block unlocked, soon Thursday October eighth, between eight and
ten pm, Mario walked out thefront door of the jail. He had
fashioned a silhouette of a person inhis prison bed using sheets, pillows,

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and hair clippings, so no onerealized Mario was gone until breakfast the next
morning. By that time, Mariohad disappeared. He had arranged for a
former inmate who was out on bondto help him find a ride out.
That inmate, twenty eight year oldBrent Andre Paris, was later charged with

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hindering prosecution. As Mario fled oncemore, the authorities posted wanted flowers all
over the southeastern United States. Theyfocused primarily on service stations and rest areas
along major highways. On Tuesday,October thirteenth, five days after Mario escaped,
Alabama Governor Bob James offered a tenthousand dollars reward almost sixteen thousand dollars

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today for any information leading to hiscapture or conviction. After the reward was
put out, the number of callsabout Mario's sightings increased. They had to
install more phones at the command andcenter just to take them all in.
By October fourteenth, the authorities hadissued an unlawful flight warrant for Mario.

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Investigators suspected Mario would continue to tryto make his way back to his ex
wife Cheryl and his son Dominic,but honestly they had no idea where he
was, not until Mario contacted awoman named Phronsie Owens. Phronsie was a
longtime friend of Donna Hawkins, thejailer who had let Mario escape. Mario

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wanted Phronsie to deliver Donna some lettershe had written to her, but instead
of delivering the letters to Donna,Phronsie delivered them to the police. As
a direct result, Mario was caughtat eight forty five am on October twenty
first, nineteen ninety eight. Ithad been thirteen days since he had escaped.

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He was apprehended at a Sitgo conveniencestore in northern Atlanta, Georgia.
He was sitting in the passenger seatof a red Ford pickup. The driver
of the pickup was a twenty fouryear old truck driver. That truck driver
was out of the vehicle and onthe phone when the officer surrounded Mario.

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Apparently, the truck driver had beenletting Mario stay at his apartment, but
he did not know who Mario was, so he didn't face charges. Once
again, Mario surrendered peacefully. Hehad to. There were seven law enforcement
officers with guns pointed at him.Mario was carrying a stolen three fifty seven

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caliber revolver in his backpack, buthe couldn't get to it in time.
According to present officers, Mario appearedincredibly surprised when they found him. He
later confirmed that he had no ideathey were on to him. Jailor Donna
Hawkins had been arrested on Friday,October ninth, the day after Mario escaped.

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She was released on bond a fewmonths later. By the end of
it all, Donna was sentenced toeighteen months in prison for helping Mario.
According to her defense attorney, Donna, who was married, had not engaged
in a romantic relationship with Mario.Nope, she had supposedly just made an

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honest mistake. At the very most, Mario had tricked her. But this
theory falls a little flat when youconsider it was Mario's continued correspondence with Donna
that led to his second capture.This whole ordeal brought a huge amount of
criticism to the Ottawa County Jail's securitymeasures. A sheriff told local papers that

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there was nothing wrong with the jailsecurity, but he suggested that they might
start implementing psychological screenings before hiring guards, you think. Following Mario's second capture,
he was held at the Federal CorrectionalInstitution and Talladega after a stop in
Gadston. This was a maximum securityprison. They later transferred him to Saint

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Clair Correctional Facility. Due to rampantpublicity, Mario and Jeremy's trials were both
moved from Saint Clair County to ElmoreCounty, and although the two men were
to be tried separately, their trialshappened to be in the same building at
the same time. This was becauseMario and Jeremy were extreme flight risks.

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The court was trying to mitigate theirsecurity costs. After all, Mario had
two escapes under his belt and bythis time Jeremy had three. In April
of nineteen ninety nine, while awaitingthis trial, Jeremy had broken a window
of the Saint Clair County jail.He was trying to escape again. The

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authorities suspected he was going to usebedsheets to climb to the ground. On
Monday May tenth, nineteen ninety nine, both Mario and Jeremy's trials for the
capital murder of Officer Keith Turner began. Both men faced the death penalty.
Barely a week later, both menwere convicted. There really was no question

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about their guilt. Jeremy's only defensewas that he was not the mastermind of
this operation, just a follower,and both Sheriff Hooks and Mario's account of
the situation corroborated that, and likelyfor that reason, the jury voted seven
to five that twenty year old JeremyGranbury should be sentenced to life without parole,

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not death. Today Jeremy is aboutforty five years old and incarcerated in
the Saint Clair Correctional Facility. Hewill never receive parole and he has never
appealed. Mario, on the otherhand, was facing the death penalty.
He was obviously the shooter in Keith'smurder, and against the advice of his

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lawyers, Mario testified in his owndefense. On the stand, Mario admitted
to killing Officer Keith Turner. Hesaid that he wanted to tell the jury
he wasn't a terrorist, mad dogkiller. He explained, if I had
that in me, then the bodycount would be big. So on Friday

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May fourteenth, nineteen ninety nine,the jury deliberated for less than two hours
before convicting thirty three year old Mariocent Toby of capital murder. That Sunday,
he was sentenced to death less thana month later, on Thursday,
June third, nineteen ninety nine,officials searched Mario and they found he had

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a makeshift plastic handcuff key hidden inhis mouth. He was planning to escape.
Yet again, he wouldn't spit outthe key until the authorities shocked him
with an electric belt he was wearing. Jeremy and Mario still faced charges in
the attempted murder of Captain Cecil Laneand Castor in the year two thousand.

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Twenty one year old Jeremy Granberry pledguilty. He was sentenced to three consecutive
life terms in addition to his previoussentence. Mario went through the motions of
a jury trial, but the resultwas the same. He was sentenced to
three consecutive life terms. The prosecutorswere not willing to drop this case against

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Mario because they feared his death sentencemight be overturned in the appills process,
and Mario did appeal once in Augustof two thousand and one, but by
November it had been denied and afive to zero decision. He soon dropped
all efforts for remaining appills. OnApril twenty eighth, two thousand and five,

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thirty nine year old Mario sent Tobyate his final meals. For lunch,
he had chili and rice, okraand corn tomato soup, cornbread,
gingerbread cake, and fruit punch.For asus snack, he ate pizza,
a poor Boy and a Philly cheesteaksandwich and three sodas. And for dinner

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he ate barbecued chicken egg noodles withbutter, turnip greens, candied sweet potatoes,
and a strawberry soda. At fourten pm, he was served communion
by a Catholic priest from Birmingham.He said in an affidavit he preferred death
over life in prison and that hewas ready to die. He also denounced

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a Montgomery attorney who filed an unsolicitedappeal on his behalf, claiming that he
was mentally ill. The only kindof mental condition I may be suffering from
is depression, which is just acondition of being on death row. The
crimes I have committed have also causedme to have some depression. At six
pm that day, he was executedby lethal injection. Multiple Moody police officers

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were present to witness his death.Mario Giovanni, sin Toby, killer and
escape artist, smiled slightly and gavea thumbs up before he was executed that
night for the nineteen ninety eight murderof Moody police officer Keith Turner. He
said nothing. He didn't acknowledge hismother or brother sitting in a witness room

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to his right, or the relativesand co workers of Turner in a separate
witness room straight ahead. Though hehad been divorced for ten years, sin
Toby still wore his wedding ring.He was pronounced dead at six twenty two
pm. Any of those hoping foran apology did not get one. I

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never saw any remorse. Patrick Turnersaid he did not even apologize to his
own mama for what he put herthrough. He didn't care. It was
an ignominious, shameful ending for aman who had once been held a hero
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