August 7, 2025 • 52 mins
As you guys can see by this point, this week’s episode is named after a man. BUT like most of the cases on our show, it all starts with the death of a woman.
Not just the death, the MURDER… and not a woman, but a teenage girl. We hate it already. JOIN US as we discuss the murder of Phylicia Barnes, and the man convicted of killing her, Michael Maurice Johnson.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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I'm Nikki And this is Black True Crime Forgotten. Yeah,
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We're back. We're super super back and super excited to
be Yeah, let's not talk about the last month that
we were gone. We're just not gonna dwell on it.
I also turned thirty, you guys, So that was a
whole thing. So we had a great time. Missed you
(01:21):
guys so much, honestly though. All right, yeah, let's not
take that much time apart again. Well yeah, at least
without like some notice, that's for sure. Okay, are we
ready to just get started because that's kind of what
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it's our birthday season me.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
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Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yeah yeah, now you guys see you. By the title
of this episode, I didn't do the case updates, like
I told everybody that listened to the Confessions. If you
guys missed the two Confessions episodes that we just released,
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(02:06):
listen to you three dollars because this is on there
and available. So are you guys ready? Yes, We're ready.
I'm ready. Okay, let's get started. As you guys can
see at this point, this week's episode is named after
a man, but like most of the cases on our show,
it all starts with the death of a woman, not
(02:27):
just the death, the murder, and not a woman but
a teenage girl, so clearly we hate it. Already join
us as we discussed the murder of Felicia Barnes and
the man convicted of killing her, Michael Maurice Johnston. No good,
dirty Ray Johnston. Right, a man killing a teenager for what?
(02:50):
Because he's sick. Oh, and let's let's get to know him. Well, actually, no,
we're not going to get to know him. We're gonna
get to know Felicia period.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
She was born on January twelfth, nineteen ninety four, to
parents Russell Barnes and Janice Sallas. Her family called her
by her middle name mostly, which was Simone. Thanks, that's
what she went by, pretty girl. She lived in Monroe,
North Carolina. She skipped third grade because she was so
(03:19):
ahead of the curve. Period. Simone was a straight A
student throughout middle school and high school, and at sixteen
years old, she was already on track to graduate a
year early.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Some so thriving, all, she's so cute, she's beautiful, she
really really is.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I love a girl who can clean up nice. And
so she was going to graduate early and she's going
to graduate with honors. So her parents were obviously extremely
proud of her. Yeah, me too, go Samo. Simone had
plans to go to Towston State University in Baltimore and
wanted to study psychology and early childhood education. Okay, where
(03:58):
was she going and was Towston State University Esmo? Well,
Felicia Simoone I'm gonna go switch between the two, Okay.
I think she likes Simoon better though, so I want
to stick with Simona's much as I can. Samoe was
very sociable. She was involved in activities at school, the
theater program. She loved to talk on the phone. She
(04:21):
loved the shop with her friends. She loved the Lord.
She loved Harry Potter. She was a cute sixteen year old.
She was sixteen. Yeah, child, she's giving it, and she
lost her life way too soon. This is said already.
We are not happy. Look, you guys, the fullness on her,
(04:43):
the happiness, Like that's how our pictures looked when we
were young. Was she born the same year or year before?
She was born a year before me? Yeah, nineteen ninety four,
so same angles? Thin brows, Oh god, I want to think.
Brows so bad. All the things mine were so thick.
Either way, she was coming into her own. She's just adorable,
(05:05):
beautiful smile. Her family included the following at the end
of her obituary quote. Although Felicia graced this earth with
her presence for a short time, she accomplished so much.
Felicia's name and her story will always be remembered. Her
vibrant smile and loving spirit captured hearts and changed the
lives of many she met. And even though she did
(05:26):
not oh I love her, I know I love her too.
Apparently hundreds of people would end up attending her memorial.
I would have went. I never met her, so rest
in peace to Simone and Felicia. Let's get to what
happened to her.
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On Tuesday, December twenty eighth, twenty ten, Samon was reported
missing after taking a trip to visit her half sister
in Baltimore. So she went from North Carolina to Baltimore
as a sixteen year old, right, I read that fully.
Sha had recently started developing a like relationship with her
half sisters because they were her dad's kids. They I
(07:06):
know that they were older than her. I just don't know,
like her parents were together when they were born. I
don't know, you know whatever. But they were described as
like being distant from her her yes, and according to
court documents, Simone had visited this sister twice before, okay,
and had reportedly been given alcohol, Oh, giving her a
(07:30):
little fun, some weed. Yeah, yeah, it was turning her out.
They was introducing her to some things she didn't have known. Right,
So it was usually when she was hanging out with
her sister and like his her boyfriend and his friends
or whatever. But Felicia never returned home from this visit.
(07:52):
This was the third time. Can you imagine the parents
how they feel in North Carolina. I would have never
sent my sixteen year old to go so they could
have come to her, you know. So she hasn't returned
home days and weeks and months go by, yes, before
there's any sign of Felicia until Tuesday, April twenty sixth,
(08:14):
twenty eleven, when officers responded to a call about a
body being found near the Conowingo Damn area of the
Susquehanna Susquehanna River. Yeah, I know that river. The body
was quickly determined to be female, but had been in
the water so long that the victim would have to
be identified like forensically through dental records and hot dogged.
(08:35):
It was simoom baby, somebody dumped her body in the water.
They sure did. Her body was completely naked, bastard, there
was evidence of a sexual assault, and her cause of
death was strangulation. Good Grey, how could you dabbled? Who
would do this with sixteen year old girls? She's not
(08:56):
even from there. The only people that she knows and
the whole city is her sisters discussed and their friends.
You know, so what is going on? I also want
to add that Felicia's body was found in the water
along with another male victim's body, all ones. Yeah, they
(09:16):
just floating together. I mean, I think Christian. I think
in the area right, because when you're searching an area,
she was being searched for. So when you're searching an
they found another body. Wow, And I didn't read anything
else about that victim, So I'm assuming police never like
connected the two cases to each other. But still that's sad.
(09:39):
That person that must have been a dumping ground. Jesus rivers,
you know, attract a lot of bodies. Okay, back to
Simone's case. Simone's family is obviously torn to pieces by
the news. Her mother quit her career as a home nurse,
she sold her home outside of Charlotte, North Carolina, and
(09:59):
moved in with family, and she was just I mean,
her whole life, Yeah, her whole life was broken. Was
that her only child?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
No?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I read that well. I actually I don't know if
she was her only child, but I did read that
Simone had a brother as well, So I'm not sure
who it came by, but obviously daddy had other kids,
you know. But either way, this is her baby girl,
even she has eleven kids, this is still her baby.
Although Simone's body was found on April twenty sixth, her
(10:29):
death wasn't deemed a homicide until May fourth, Okay, so
a week later, so I'm thinking, like that's when they
really started to investigate because she could have died. I
guess in their mind it wasn't visible how she may
have died, so she could have just like drama, an accident.
But she was naked, Let's be real. Naked is a
sixteen year old and they saw sexual assault, right, They
(10:53):
figured that out later, so I did, Okay, yeah, I
did like disclose that earlier, but they found it out later.
And with all teenagers, the phone is probably the best
place to start looking, and you're trying to figure out
what they've been doing.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
And investigators learned a lot from Simone's phone what happens.
For one, they learned that one of Simone's half sisters
named Dina, was dating a man named Michael Maurice Johnson.
He's too old, so this is Mike. Thank you for
noticing as soon as you le eyes. I mean, I
don't know how old her half sisters are. They're older
(11:29):
than her, right, She's too old to be around him,
That's what I'm thinking, because this is a grown man.
He was twenty six years old at this time and
she's sixteen. Disgusting. Apparently, he and Simone had started texting
each other after her trips up there. Oh my goods man?
Sure is Oh no nasty? Yeah, well he's twenty six.
(11:57):
Oh no, this is not good. Yeah, this is half
sis the two, so come on.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
According to investigators, they found about twelve hundred texts between
between the two within like six months. They were even
straight dating. They were dating, they were talking to you
according to According to some claims, the texts weren't like
sexual in nature or anything like that. But at the
(12:27):
end of the day, a twenty six year old texting
a sixteen year old that's grooming one hundred percent. He's
being very careful with his words, you know. But there's
no reason they should be texting. No, yeah, I don't.
I don't know. I know this is that, don't know
going to get to it? Oh she found out we'd
so from the text it was seeming like Michael was
(12:49):
starting to get obsessed with simone. What a loser? What's
wrong with you? He is a loser. It's not even
like he wasn't pulling That's what really he irritates me
about pedophiles, like you're pulling women your age, you still
go after children. Danni's eyebrows look like quotation works yep,
and twenty six year old.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
The fact you said pedophile, right, because like if I'm
twenty four and I'm beating a thirty four.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Year old, okay, cool, but she's six consenting? Yeah, yeah,
like no, you don't do that.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
You guys may be wondering, like mom's here, what the heck?
What's going on? Like does Dina know about these texts? Yeah,
twelve and six months is a lot of text messages.
I'm not going a lot of text messages.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
Two.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I mean, oh, is that that's Diana right there? Sina
cute Dan a little licensement. They must look like they daddy,
They must that. Yeah, they resemble, Yeah they do. So
that's Dina.
Speaker 8 (13:49):
Dina.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
She about that, she's about she's about some she's about
a couple of things. Let's let's get to it. They
look got nice hair. Well. I don't like her because
one of the things that they would find on Dina's
phone is a video of Simone, Dina, and Michael and
Michael's younger brother all drinking together all naked. Ah, you're free.
(14:15):
You turn your little sister out, she's too young for
that and doing some touching.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
This is such a storment. This is an attack.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
What in the world.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
So they're like, have no orgy something of the sort,
but you open up the door girl. Apparently in the
video you can see Michael like try to touch Simone too,
but she swats his hand away. So she's not like
she doesn't want to do that, but her stupid, I mean,
her sister who's supposed to be her protector's supposed to
(14:54):
protect her hazard in these situations, getting high, getting drunk
and getting naked, getting naked in front of men like
almost twice her age. Why I had to take it roll.
So were they doing it? No, they were touching, they
were just I guess they were just being naked. These
(15:14):
are there's levels to this stuff. They're trying to get
her comfortable to do more things. And Dina's a part
of it, Yes she is. She's definitely not stopping it.
And this video was found in Dina's phone and Michael's phone.
Oh man, that's pedophilia right there. You got a child
pornography video. Yep, on your coat. You have an underage
(15:35):
girl on camera and she happens to be your sister.
Like this girl should have been put in jail.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Should have been. She wasn't. No, she wasn't spoiler alert,
because they don't care about like sexuals, they don't care
about sexual crimes whatever. So as the investigation continued, investigators
found that Dina had filed a restraining order against Michael
in early March of twenty eleven. So this is months
(16:01):
after her sister had been missing and one month before
her body was found, and she's still dealing with this
man that was clearly a pedophile, was clearly attracted to
her little sister. So regardless of what you think about Dina,
like girl, you were that slow down, Yeah, she has
she had a hand to play. She didn't play her
(16:22):
hand right. She definitely opened the door for it. She
created these environments and we're gonna I'm gonna show you
guys some pictures of these environments in a little bit.
So at this point, the police have this information, they
have this video, and they're like, Okay, we need to
bring this guy in mm hmm. But they're taking a
chance because yes, the video is disgusting, but there's no
(16:42):
physical contact in it. You know, even though it's pedophilic behavior.
He's not gonna go to jail for her. Let's be honest.
So if they want to get him for Felicia's murder,
they're honestly gonna need a little bit more. Yes, and
they had some more, but not much. They had the
testimony of one of Michael's neighbors who said they saw
him struggling to move a plastic bin. M okay, a
(17:06):
little sketch, A little sketch. So the running theory now
is that Michael sexually assaulted Simone, put her body in
a plastic tub, and then dumped her in the dumb
the tub in the river. Now, my question is like, okay,
well where did her clothes end up? Like where where
you are her belongings?
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Where?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Then in his house or he took them moll over? Well, well,
well I don't know. We'll see, we'll see, I guess.
And coupled with claims that Michael was the last person
to seize Simone alive, because he even mentions it out
his mouth. Mm hmm. Yeah, I'm gonna tell you guys
what happened with that later. But he does say it, Okay,
(17:46):
shouldn't have done that. He doesn't say yeah, I was
the last person to see her alive, but he says
when he saw her last and that was the last
time she would see alive. So definitely. So this this
theory that the prosecution has plosive is but investigators have
zero physical evidence that Michael was ever at the river. Okay,
(18:10):
they don't know, and they had and because her body
was in the water so long, there's no no DNA
evidence left on her. At this point, I wonder how
they knew she was sexually assaulted then, I mean, because
there's trauma that your organ can face, you know, during
situations like that. And she was sixty.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
She probably from where she came from, she probably wasn't
sexually active.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Yet it's possible. I mean it's possible. Yeah, it's possible.
I wasn't it. I mean I was still fresh and sixteen,
still untainted. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
I wasn't.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
About to say something. She tried to say something, but
not trying to say it's what she tries not to
live with. She's also trying, no, I'm not. I I
hadn't been penetrated at sixteen. Okay, you're just doing other stuff.
I wasn't doing. Again, Well, that's not what your little head, bob,
(19:14):
he was doing. No, you misread about Yeah, yeah, I
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back to the episode. So they were honestly looking for
a confession for Michael. They don't really have much say,
(21:16):
got much to get them all though, they don't, but
he never budged. He unequivocally denied killing Simone. But despite
the lack of physical evidence, Michael Johnson was arrested in
April twenty twelve for the murder of Felicia Barnes and
was denied bail. Sorry, locked up? Who had kissing on him? Oh?
(21:37):
Is that the willow too far? We'll get back to it. Okay,
let's focus, Uh girl, We're focused. We're tuned in. Yeah, right, Okay.
So that very same month that he was arrested, Felicia's
Law was passed by Maryland's House and Senate. It's a
law that requires state officials to publish a list of
(21:59):
missing children and annual statistics. And although there's like a
lot of those types of laws around the country, this
is the first named after a black child. Oh all right.
Her parents were like lobbying, doing christ and doing everything.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
The murder trial began in January of twenty thirteen. I
believe the prosecution was leading with their theory that Michael
got Simone alone, raped her, then strangled her to death,
and dumped her body in that container into the river. Right, Okay,
Like I said, Michael was the last person to see
Simone alive, which in and of itself, in my fin
(22:36):
would have been like, okay, well, I'm convicting them, right,
It's gonna take something astronomical over me not to. They
also claimed that Michael turned off his phone during the
murder and during the time he was moving the body.
That's why there's no record of him being at the lake.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
There you go, that's sketch, a lack of evidence, normal
you know, thing that normal people wouldn't do. It's still evidence,
it's true, but it's circumstantial, right, there's nothing physical.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
And then on top of that, he called out of
work that day, like out of all days, you call
out of work on the day that your girlfriend's sister
goes missing and her she doesn't even know that her
sister's missing it. Oh, Dina doesn't know, no, because it's
the day that she went missing. So nobody, you know,
they're like, she's supposed to be somewhere or was she
supposed to be doing this? But and then when Dina
(23:28):
was questioned, because of course Dina was questioned about what
was going on, Dina lied, of course she did. Why
she lied why well, because she didn't want to get
in trouble because her one of Felicia's friends after she
went missing, went to her mom and told her that
she knew that Felicia was doing some drugs like weed
(23:49):
and drinking when she would go visit her sisters. I mean,
the girl was crying and she was just like so
sad because she felt like, you know, she should have
been told her mom already and maybe something wouldn't have
happened to her. So said, she dropped everything, went to
Where's what's it called? Marlin went to Maryland, confronted Dina
and was like, you know, why did you tell me
the truth? And Indiana ends up saying, well, well, she
(24:11):
only had a couple of puffs and stuff like that.
She didn't take it seriously and just honestly, she's she's
to blame. I blamed Dina a bit for what happened
to her sister.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Me put her in the line of sight for this
man to even fixate himself onto her.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Right, she shouldn't be making out with a twenty six
year old man that's unexecutive and drinking and touching and
all that stuff, right with Right, And then now that
brings us to the pictures that we all prematurely saw.
So this picture is Dina and Simone kissing this girl
(24:51):
funky man on his cheek. Look at she just looks
so cute. And like, of course I can see why
he fixated on her. She's he's he's a pedophile. Yeah,
and she's adorable and she's adorable. Yeah, oh mm hmm,
you jerk. Apparently Michael used to have like parties and
(25:11):
stuff so they would hang out. Obviously he's twenty six.
He can buy whatever they want and need. This is
also a picture of Simone and Michael together. She ain't
really close to this dude, I know, for three visits
and for Dina to be his woman. Yeah, MoMA is
all abad neck taking a picture. Dina's probably ticulart dummy.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
So it's not it's not good right now. It's not good,
like if it was really given.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Oh you know, my little sister's gonna hang out.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
The little brother to him, he's twenty six. Little brother
to him could be twenty two and twenty three. You
know what I'm saying, is he well, he's not important.
He well, he'd be at like the parties and stuff
like this one of the party. But the little brother,
like he's not important. Also the story, he's just a
part of like the toxicity, because we're about to see him.
(26:06):
He's doing with the braids. Oh, he young. And then
these are like other girls that was hanging around them.
As you can see, they have drinks. Yeah, this girl,
it looks like they're like egging her on to drink
and she's like grimacing from it.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Yeah, she looks toe up already in that corner is
a cousin, okay, because he's fine Christian.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
But they're all like doing like weird, Like it's like
it's a bit too much back out with underage kids.
I don't like that. Yeah, I can't even tell if
he's fine because I don't like that. I can tell
that idiot that's a jerk. Yeah, all he jerks. I
don't like any of them. I'm not gonna lie. That
(26:51):
picture creeps me out. They look like predatory. She she
looks like if she was blacked out, they would still
try to bang. Look in her own that's her brother. Yeah,
I know that's something. I don't like the situation at all.
And this was this was posted on MySpace. I think
it was my space. They was posting me so.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Yeah, and you know how I think they they think
the young niggas, why in they thinking anything?
Speaker 2 (27:15):
They won't smooth talking, just mess And this is twenty
ten wow. According to court documents, it seemed like a
lot of the prosecution's witness testimonies came from just law
enforcement and basically them talking about like what they saw
on the text messages and that video, you know, And
(27:35):
they played the video for the jury as well, so
the jury saw it. And because they didn't immediately arrest him,
like they suspected him of being involved, but didn't arrest
him for a year. They wired tapped his phone, they
recorded some calls, all that type of stuff. They saw
some text messages he was sending. After Smolle's disappearance, for example,
(27:56):
he was heard asking if his DNA could be found
under her her fingernails because they had been wrestling the
day before. Yeah, wrestling, Yeah, wrestling with wrestling so pissed.
She was not protected at all. And I know in
sixteen you did your girl and stuff, but her sister,
who was what eighteen ninety, however, should have known that
(28:17):
she wasn't and kept her away from that.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Even when I visited you during spring break, right, I
was underage.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Yeah, but we wasn't gonna do it, none of that,
nothing like that. We was doing none of that. This
is sick and sad yeah, it is. But again, no
real hardcore DNA or physical evidence tied him to her death,
and the defense team knew this when presented with the
fact that Michael had talked to a girlfriend about leaving
(28:45):
the country. Oh the days the moment went missing. He
literally was talking about, I feel like everything's gonna come
down on me, like I just I want to get
out of get out of here. Whatever could the day
someone went missing? Correct, Well, he said that's not what
he was talking about. He was talking about Simon. He
had a baby on the way with another woman, so
(29:06):
he's dating sim own sister attracted to Simone, got another
woman pregnant, and claims he just wasn't ready for the
responsibility of being a dad.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Had to look at him though, who cares? Who's like
this man touched him all like that, like I just
don't order stand tall. He looks caught guy. Yeah, and
this picture hees a little sweaty. He looks cock. Women
don't care, They said, I don't care. Clean up? Well
he do, Okay, he do, he does. He looked like
(29:41):
his special needs. If I hear his voice immediately, I
know what Buzzy's on. Like, that's what it gives im
just saying When asked why he was the last one
to see her alive, he said that he left the
apartment round one thirty pm because he was moving some
things out. The sister claims that she had loved earlier
in that day because she was gonna go get some
(30:01):
food and like get a haircut or something like that.
I don't know. And then he says that when he
was there, he just saw her sleeping on the couch.
So he saw Simones sleeping on the couch. But that's
weird because he texted Dina saying, quote, Lilsis is up
and active something Which one is? Which one is it?
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Oh? She up?
Speaker 2 (30:22):
He said. He then drove to Walmart and then to
visit some family and when they tried to track his
phone to see if it would like show him in
the vicinity of the river that day, the record showed
that his cell phone was not in the vicinity of
where Simone's body was found. Now, because her body was
found four months after she disappeared, I'm hoping they're not
completely stupid and checked like the surrounding area checked his
(30:47):
tracking for the full four months. Because you can't tell
me that he put her bodies some work and didn't
go back to check if it was still there or not.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 8 (30:55):
But the.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Way that they jumped so quickly to thinking that Michael
did it, they blundered a lot. I think, in my opinion,
they didn't look at a lot of things that they
should have looked at closer. But you know, you know
how they do. They make up their mind about who
did it, and then they just try to convict that
person when they should have just taken more time and
(31:18):
it was already a year. They should have taken their
time and really dug because now we're about to be
in the legal system all for a minute. I will
tell you it's nobody.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
I want to.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
It's also possible that he had someone else get rid
of the bin, right, we don't know. Apparently the pictures
eggs broke egg exactly, so it's possible. But how it's looking,
the verdict can really go either way at this point,
it's really too shaky, it is. They have nothing concrete. No,
(31:51):
Michael ended up being acquitted. I knew it was the
first degree murder, but convicted of second degree murder. Oh,
he's still looking on possibly, you know, spending life in prison, possibly,
But before he could even get sentenced, the conviction was
thrown out because apparently a jail house snitch that was
(32:13):
used in the case was not like reliable. I don't
even know the details surrounding that, but it was enough
to boom blow the whole case up. Are you kidding me?
Are you freaking kidding me? They gotta stop using jail
house snitches. My guy, shame they're in jail. I'm sorry,
(32:34):
but they're They're liability has been shot. Why would I
care about somebody else spending more time in jail with
me enough to put myself in a situation, especially if
my incentive is I'm gonna get less time. That's what
I'm saying, exactly exactly. So they dumb, And this means
(33:00):
that he has to be tried all over again, but
that you couldn't get tried of the same Oh okay,
so he can't get first degree murder again for simone
because he was acquitted. Well, the conviction part of it
was thrown out, so the whole trial basically is no use.
He can be tried again. Oh so in the second trial,
(33:20):
there were certain recordings and conversations that jurors were not
supposed to hear, but they did so. Michael's defense team
immediately filed for a mistrial, stating that a bratty violation
had taken place, and on March twentieth, twenty thirteen, the
Circuit court granted it godly, So they blundered her case
(33:42):
two times. These news are you joking?
Speaker 3 (33:47):
No, Christen, as a prosecution, why would you even show
some stuff or hear like if you know the jurors
should not hear this, it may blunder our case.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
But like in Tyler Lewis case, they have so much
more evidence, like so much more evidence than in this case,
and they just refuse to try the guys, which means
it's circumstantial either way. The judge gets to decide. I mean,
it's the thing in Tyler's case is not even circumstantial.
Guys goes to the justice form. Tyler Lewis episode, his
mother was in it. It was too much for us.
(34:20):
But Kobe we did it and he deserves justice and
still hasn't gotten it. But they will take cases like
these that shouldn't even see the light of day because
you have your you're presenting not theory, you're presenting assumption
and circumstance and you blundered it. And he's smiling, and
he's smiling because he's out. Oh that's sicken. So this
(34:44):
means looking at and he did it dirty dug. So
this means they would have had to try the case again.
But the judge decided to reverse the mistrial ruling and
instead grant a judgment of a quill, stating that the
prosecution had failed to prove their case and they will
never have a chance to prove it again. So he's out.
(35:06):
That's and he can never be tried again, and he
can never be tried again like double jeopardy calos because
they caused a misschild. Mischild means you can try to
get acquittaled, you're acquitted, you're done. Okay, you just go
back and be like, oops, I made a mistake. Let's
go ahead and change it to an acquittal. That's not fair.
(35:27):
Sounds very corrupt, but who's ever corrupt in favor of
a man? What's up with that? Right is judged where
it gets to it. So you can imagine that the prosecution,
y'all thirty eight hot right now? Oh my god, because
not only is it looking like Michael can't be tried again,
but the niggas.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
About to walk free like crime completely gone, which means
nobody can be tried for her crime again.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Or it's just him, somebody just him, because her crime
will still be Yeah, I have a video of him
walking out, So the pictures I'm showing you right now
is not of him like when he was released. But
the video I'm about to show you is what's next
for you. I have no idea it's been for you
(36:16):
to be in this one for something you didn't do.
Doesn't He just look disgusting? Ever, we're all being objected
given like he's manging. He done lies splinter, Yeah, you
know splinters from the teenage. That's just splinter, mom. Yes,
he looks very rodent, disgusting. So the prosecution takes for
(36:37):
emotions all the way to the highest court saying like no,
we deserve to try this fool again, and they won. Good.
So here we are in twenty eighteen. Now it's been
eight years since Simone's death, and she still doesn't have
justice and I still trying the same food, yep, the
same foe. And we can only imagine how her family's feeling,
you know, after the first conviction was dropped, Simone's dad said, Coote,
(37:01):
I feel like I got run over by a train.
We just can't let this go. We have to see
justice for Felicia. We're just going to pursue the same gentleman,
a child killer who's on the streets of Baltimore. They
must really.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Feel like it was him, Like nothing else could have
made it.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Nothing, But nothing else does because from the lies that
Dina is telling, right, the lies that he's telling, she
shouldn't have been around anybody else in any other space.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
For her to be Yeah, and the fact that Dina
put out a restraining order on this man, Yeah, why right?
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Like he's violent clearly, you know. Like, but Diina, like,
speak up, I'm so sick of you. She sounds like
she has daddy issues. She's a pigmy and like what
maybe was even jealous of Simone.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
I will let her own sister go down, her whole
murder go down without like speaking up or.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Saying anything because she was lying and lying about it.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
What the.
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time for his trial in twenty eighteen, Michael's thirty four
(39:02):
at this point, still free and decides that he will
waive his right to a jury trial and just wants
a judge to decide his fate. Baltimore Judge Circuit Judge
Charles J. Peters ultimately decided to acquit Michael again. Yep.
He ruled that the state's circumstantial evidence against him was
insufficient and that prosecutors had failed to establish a motive
(39:26):
even though we know this man is sexually attracted to
the sixteen year old girl, sexually made an advance at her.
She denied him, And you don't think that's motive enough
to be like he could have completely snapped, and when
he was in the house with her by himself, tried
it again. She said no again, and he took it
too far. The prosecution is trash. I'm sorry too. They failed,
(39:50):
judge failed, are trash. I mean the judge said, hey,
I can't sentence you to death for something that you're
the state hasn't proven fully, like quittle is crazy, like
mistrial understood it for the second time. The third time,
I guess the acquittal was like, I have no choice, Yeah,
you don't have the evidence. I have to equate him. Well,
he had to kill him, but he could have locked
(40:10):
them up.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
But my thing is like, hey, the prosecution had three times,
three trials where they could have dug up more evidence.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
I mean, rallied really sold the story three times. You failed.
That makes me mad. Yep. Even the second trial was
such was handled so so unprofessionally. Those judges should or
those juries should have never heard the parts of the
recording that they weren't supposed to hear. Yeah, the defense
(40:39):
didn't play that the prosecution exactly because they were just
so in the years. They couldn't even find another one.
They couldn't go get the other cousin brothers, other women
over there, no testimony, get him finally speak up and
say something, little bro, have anything to add like, because
(41:00):
you can't tell me he did all this by himself,
and then said nothing to nobody, and then was talking about, oh,
will my DNA be found out of her nailed because
we were wrestling. That's not a thing for a tweets
and children six years it's not a thing. You don't
wrestle no person ten years younger than you. That's nasty.
But we got in DNA. I mean, if you rested,
she's scratching you and stuff. You know you did, you know,
(41:24):
which means she probably fought him. She did, and he
gave away himself right there. And because it took four
months for her body to be found on everything, he's
healed up. If he had any scratches are gone, And
it's stupid. Dina dis ignored it, saying right, Dina whatever.
Girl literally like, you know, I hope whatever, but like
(41:46):
whatever bye.
Speaker 6 (41:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
So he has officially been acquitted of felicious murder and
he cannot be tried again. That's so prod. But you
he has some friends on the other side. Huh in
jail for sure. Yeah, that's not what I meant. Oh
oh well, I mean to keep it out. I'm not
gonna lie.
Speaker 6 (42:08):
You know.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
There was a witch lady that came out. She's like
this black lady. She came out and said that she
helped a very well known rapper beat a case that
he was fighting and it was looking really bad and
he was going to spend the rest of his life
in jail, but she helped him get off. And she said,
now when he gets out, he likes to like claim,
(42:29):
you know, old thing my lawyers and stuff like that.
But she's like, no, he called me, I did my
my witchery. She said, I did my my spells and
stuff like that. And now he's out. She thought, my
daddy and mom, he's not a rapper, but am yeah him,
but nobody likes she said in the comments. Diddy's people
(42:51):
had reached out to her many times and she kept
telling them no, and she's talking about young gun though. Yeah,
I believe it. Those type of people on retainer celebrities
do waist. Oh yeah, they're playing with bubble. I don't
want to hear none of that. I know, God, ladies,
people wicked. So this is just horrible. This man is
(43:14):
free and clear of Simone's death. Simone's family obviously this
is the last thing they want to hear on planet Earth.
Co Man, I'm just so sorry to them, my God.
So as of twenty eighteen, the forty year old is
a free man god and can go on to live
his life while Simone cannot correct. But wait, because once
(43:37):
you're an abusive, disgusting prick, you're always one. Okay, he
did it again. He did it again. Michael was arrested
in July of twenty twenty four for strangling his nineteen
year old girlfriend. Nineteen. He's forty, so we get prott am.
(44:01):
I said, we can pretend like he's not even put
a bob but a yoch. We already knew it. But
he bowed. He said, I got away with it. One,
I'm gonna do it again. According to her, they were
living in New York, Pennsylvania, because that's like where he's
originally from. She considered him to be just like a
sugar daddy and started dating him. She stated. At one
point they lived together for three months the year prior
(44:25):
so in twenty twenty three until quote her foster care
reported her missing child as in like she was, she's
basically she's a child. He's a chi Jesus, my God,
a troubled child. On the night of the attack, police
officers could see the popped blood vessels in her eyes.
(44:45):
Jesus could see the marks she had on her body,
her throat, her tongue, and her mouth were so swollen
from being choked out that she had to communicate through texts.
She couldn't even speak. He was gonna kill her too,
she said. The attack lasted for over six hours, and
at one point he used an actual fan cord on
her to try to kill her. He must have been
(45:07):
really weak too, right, I mean I playing with him?
Speaker 7 (45:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (45:12):
Absolutely, She said. She got mad at him for texting
like this is what all started it. She said, she
got mad at him for texting another woman, and then
that's when he hit her in the face and then
in the arm, and it was just like it was
on from there, pump. Oh my god, he's really discussing.
Look at him, so it was her good. Good, that's
him at forty Yeah, I know he look he's well preserved.
(45:37):
I think that is him. I think that's the picture
because in the articles, this is the picture that they're
using for him. When he just got arrested. Mom said,
old Prisperd. I tell you there's no way he should
be looking like that forty years old.
Speaker 3 (45:51):
I'm god, well, there's no stealing the youth and beauty
of other people.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
You you hold on, I'm saying, I'm glad she's knocking
got him right now. She got good too, and she
had just reported his ass earlier in January twenty twenty
four because he tried to choke her then and she
gave him another chance. She's in it, y'all, she's in it.
He apparently was drinking all day and she like he
(46:17):
wanted to drive and she was. They were arguing because
she's like, you know, I don't want you to drive.
He's driving anyway, and while he's driving, he grabbed her
by the throat and threw her out the car, so
she called the folks. She called the folks. On went
back to him, went back to when they arrested him
after this attempted murder, So the one that he just
did on her and she's swollen and can't speak. The
(46:38):
nigga was driving in tesla, a red Tesla. What does
he do for? Probably an insurance company. Christen?
Speaker 4 (46:48):
What what.
Speaker 2 (46:52):
You're annoying? Like you're annoying the whole pa annoying.
Speaker 7 (47:02):
Drinking?
Speaker 2 (47:05):
Yeah, he looks like he looked twenty forty. Do whatever?
Beat his ass? Is he tall?
Speaker 8 (47:15):
How many?
Speaker 2 (47:16):
Then they didn't chop him down. I'm really irritated by
this because Felicia's not here. Apparently her case is still
seen as unsolved. It is unsolved when they need to
sob it now again he can never again, never held
responsible for it again. I don't like him. What's his name?
(47:36):
Uh my, I don't like you. And so he was arrested.
He was driving the red Tesla and he smelled very
strongly of alcohols he was he's an alcoholic. Yes, he
was officially charged with rape, driving under the influence, and
possession of marijuana. He is still awaiting his trial as
we speak period. So he's in jail. They gave him
no bond and if he's convicted of this this. I
(47:59):
think he was actually charged with attempted murder as well.
So he's facing life. So Felicia make it you know
something indirectly after all?
Speaker 5 (48:09):
Yes, I mean, good God, how horrible and long did
he choke her for her tongue to be swollen?
Speaker 2 (48:17):
She can't speak? That is unbelieved. Her mouth was swollen.
That's unbelievable that woman is and she's only nineteen, Like,
that's horrible. Dog out And if he's a sugar added
he was, really he must be really like one. Why
has he been doing? I'm annoyed. Yeah, he has so money.
He must have sued somebody. No, he didn't see nobody.
(48:39):
I would have read that he sued somebody got some money.
But dang, that's crazy. So yeah, right now he's in
jail good and I hope they get him this time.
Me too. And I hope that I don't heal up.
I hope somebody black. I hope he asks somebody how
you doing. I hope he's some body little snack, little
(49:03):
snickers child, somebody little tweaks. I can't can. I don't
like this liking it all? No, that's a wild I know.
Look at the energy.
Speaker 4 (49:17):
This is.
Speaker 2 (49:18):
This picture is from after he won the first time.
He's on the phone, I know the same after the
third time. In twenty eighteen, the judge first round Hollywood. Okay,
thank you Hollywood. Whoa you ain't Hollywood, no mojo period.
(49:39):
So yeah, that's our case for this week. Y'all, way
to soak us back up in the mess. I'm sorry
this was something else. Yeah, how to remind y'all who
we are? Rest in peace of mall right, it's really
not you didn't deserve that, and I'm still mad as
(49:59):
heck a day you show. Yeah, somebody really should have
whooped her in the corner for a minute. Brothers them
because then you.
Speaker 3 (50:09):
Said two sisters like she was there for not just Dina,
somebody else too. Where was that sister as she's probably
mind her business.
Speaker 2 (50:16):
Oh no, you never know what goes on behind closed
doors when it's the family stuff. Because the mom said
to an interviewer that she stopped everything and wait and
confronted Dina. So but yeah, well, we love you guys
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see at this point, this week's episode is named after
a man, but like most of the cases on our show,
it all starts with the death of a woman, not
(02:27):
just the death, the murder, and not a woman but
a teenage girl, so clearly we hate it. Already join
us as we discussed the murder of Felicia Barnes and
the man convicted of killing her, Michael Maurice Johnston. No good,
dirty Ray Johnston. Right, a man killing a teenager for what?
(02:50):
Because he's sick. Oh, and let's let's get to know him. Well, actually, no,
we're not going to get to know him. We're gonna
get to know Felicia period.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
She was born on January twelfth, nineteen ninety four, to
parents Russell Barnes and Janice Sallas. Her family called her
by her middle name mostly, which was Simone. Thanks, that's
what she went by, pretty girl. She lived in Monroe,
North Carolina. She skipped third grade because she was so
(03:19):
ahead of the curve. Period. Simone was a straight A
student throughout middle school and high school, and at sixteen
years old, she was already on track to graduate a
year early.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Some so thriving, all, she's so cute, she's beautiful, she
really really is.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I love a girl who can clean up nice. And
so she was going to graduate early and she's going
to graduate with honors. So her parents were obviously extremely
proud of her. Yeah, me too, go Samo. Simone had
plans to go to Towston State University in Baltimore and
wanted to study psychology and early childhood education. Okay, where
(03:58):
was she going and was Towston State University Esmo? Well,
Felicia Simoone I'm gonna go switch between the two, Okay.
I think she likes Simoon better though, so I want
to stick with Simona's much as I can. Samoe was
very sociable. She was involved in activities at school, the
theater program. She loved to talk on the phone. She
(04:21):
loved the shop with her friends. She loved the Lord.
She loved Harry Potter. She was a cute sixteen year old.
She was sixteen. Yeah, child, she's giving it, and she
lost her life way too soon. This is said already.
We are not happy. Look, you guys, the fullness on her,
(04:43):
the happiness, Like that's how our pictures looked when we
were young. Was she born the same year or year before?
She was born a year before me? Yeah, nineteen ninety four,
so same angles? Thin brows, Oh god, I want to think.
Brows so bad. All the things mine were so thick.
Either way, she was coming into her own. She's just adorable,
(05:05):
beautiful smile. Her family included the following at the end
of her obituary quote. Although Felicia graced this earth with
her presence for a short time, she accomplished so much.
Felicia's name and her story will always be remembered. Her
vibrant smile and loving spirit captured hearts and changed the
lives of many she met. And even though she did
(05:26):
not oh I love her, I know I love her too.
Apparently hundreds of people would end up attending her memorial.
I would have went. I never met her, so rest
in peace to Simone and Felicia. Let's get to what
happened to her.
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On Tuesday, December twenty eighth, twenty ten, Samon was reported
missing after taking a trip to visit her half sister
in Baltimore. So she went from North Carolina to Baltimore
as a sixteen year old, right, I read that fully.
Sha had recently started developing a like relationship with her
half sisters because they were her dad's kids. They I
(07:06):
know that they were older than her. I just don't know,
like her parents were together when they were born. I
don't know, you know whatever. But they were described as
like being distant from her her yes, and according to
court documents, Simone had visited this sister twice before, okay,
and had reportedly been given alcohol, Oh, giving her a
(07:30):
little fun, some weed. Yeah, yeah, it was turning her out.
They was introducing her to some things she didn't have known. Right,
So it was usually when she was hanging out with
her sister and like his her boyfriend and his friends
or whatever. But Felicia never returned home from this visit.
(07:52):
This was the third time. Can you imagine the parents
how they feel in North Carolina. I would have never
sent my sixteen year old to go so they could
have come to her, you know. So she hasn't returned
home days and weeks and months go by, yes, before
there's any sign of Felicia until Tuesday, April twenty sixth,
(08:14):
twenty eleven, when officers responded to a call about a
body being found near the Conowingo Damn area of the
Susquehanna Susquehanna River. Yeah, I know that river. The body
was quickly determined to be female, but had been in
the water so long that the victim would have to
be identified like forensically through dental records and hot dogged.
(08:35):
It was simoom baby, somebody dumped her body in the water.
They sure did. Her body was completely naked, bastard, there
was evidence of a sexual assault, and her cause of
death was strangulation. Good Grey, how could you dabbled? Who
would do this with sixteen year old girls? She's not
(08:56):
even from there. The only people that she knows and
the whole city is her sisters discussed and their friends.
You know, so what is going on? I also want
to add that Felicia's body was found in the water
along with another male victim's body, all ones. Yeah, they
(09:16):
just floating together. I mean, I think Christian. I think
in the area right, because when you're searching an area,
she was being searched for. So when you're searching an
they found another body. Wow, And I didn't read anything
else about that victim, So I'm assuming police never like
connected the two cases to each other. But still that's sad.
(09:39):
That person that must have been a dumping ground. Jesus rivers,
you know, attract a lot of bodies. Okay, back to
Simone's case. Simone's family is obviously torn to pieces by
the news. Her mother quit her career as a home nurse,
she sold her home outside of Charlotte, North Carolina, and
(09:59):
moved in with family, and she was just I mean,
her whole life, Yeah, her whole life was broken. Was
that her only child?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
No?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I read that well. I actually I don't know if
she was her only child, but I did read that
Simone had a brother as well, So I'm not sure
who it came by, but obviously daddy had other kids,
you know. But either way, this is her baby girl,
even she has eleven kids, this is still her baby.
Although Simone's body was found on April twenty sixth, her
(10:29):
death wasn't deemed a homicide until May fourth, Okay, so
a week later, so I'm thinking, like that's when they
really started to investigate because she could have died. I
guess in their mind it wasn't visible how she may
have died, so she could have just like drama, an accident.
But she was naked, Let's be real. Naked is a
sixteen year old and they saw sexual assault, right, They
(10:53):
figured that out later, so I did, Okay, yeah, I
did like disclose that earlier, but they found it out later.
And with all teenagers, the phone is probably the best
place to start looking, and you're trying to figure out
what they've been doing.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
And investigators learned a lot from Simone's phone what happens.
For one, they learned that one of Simone's half sisters
named Dina, was dating a man named Michael Maurice Johnson.
He's too old, so this is Mike. Thank you for
noticing as soon as you le eyes. I mean, I
don't know how old her half sisters are. They're older
(11:29):
than her, right, She's too old to be around him,
That's what I'm thinking, because this is a grown man.
He was twenty six years old at this time and
she's sixteen. Disgusting. Apparently, he and Simone had started texting
each other after her trips up there. Oh my goods man?
Sure is Oh no nasty? Yeah, well he's twenty six.
(11:57):
Oh no, this is not good. Yeah, this is half
sis the two, so come on.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
According to investigators, they found about twelve hundred texts between
between the two within like six months. They were even
straight dating. They were dating, they were talking to you
according to According to some claims, the texts weren't like
sexual in nature or anything like that. But at the
(12:27):
end of the day, a twenty six year old texting
a sixteen year old that's grooming one hundred percent. He's
being very careful with his words, you know. But there's
no reason they should be texting. No, yeah, I don't.
I don't know. I know this is that, don't know
going to get to it? Oh she found out we'd
so from the text it was seeming like Michael was
(12:49):
starting to get obsessed with simone. What a loser? What's
wrong with you? He is a loser. It's not even
like he wasn't pulling That's what really he irritates me
about pedophiles, like you're pulling women your age, you still
go after children. Danni's eyebrows look like quotation works yep,
and twenty six year old.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
The fact you said pedophile, right, because like if I'm
twenty four and I'm beating a thirty four.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Year old, okay, cool, but she's six consenting? Yeah, yeah,
like no, you don't do that.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
You guys may be wondering, like mom's here, what the heck?
What's going on? Like does Dina know about these texts? Yeah,
twelve and six months is a lot of text messages.
I'm not going a lot of text messages.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
Two.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I mean, oh, is that that's Diana right there? Sina
cute Dan a little licensement. They must look like they daddy,
They must that. Yeah, they resemble, Yeah they do. So
that's Dina.
Speaker 8 (13:49):
Dina.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
She about that, she's about she's about some she's about
a couple of things. Let's let's get to it. They
look got nice hair. Well. I don't like her because
one of the things that they would find on Dina's
phone is a video of Simone, Dina, and Michael and
Michael's younger brother all drinking together all naked. Ah, you're free.
(14:15):
You turn your little sister out, she's too young for
that and doing some touching.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
This is such a storment. This is an attack.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
What in the world.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
So they're like, have no orgy something of the sort,
but you open up the door girl. Apparently in the
video you can see Michael like try to touch Simone too,
but she swats his hand away. So she's not like
she doesn't want to do that, but her stupid, I mean,
her sister who's supposed to be her protector's supposed to
(14:54):
protect her hazard in these situations, getting high, getting drunk
and getting naked, getting naked in front of men like
almost twice her age. Why I had to take it roll.
So were they doing it? No, they were touching, they
were just I guess they were just being naked. These
(15:14):
are there's levels to this stuff. They're trying to get
her comfortable to do more things. And Dina's a part
of it, Yes she is. She's definitely not stopping it.
And this video was found in Dina's phone and Michael's phone.
Oh man, that's pedophilia right there. You got a child
pornography video. Yep, on your coat. You have an underage
(15:35):
girl on camera and she happens to be your sister.
Like this girl should have been put in jail.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Should have been. She wasn't. No, she wasn't spoiler alert,
because they don't care about like sexuals, they don't care
about sexual crimes whatever. So as the investigation continued, investigators
found that Dina had filed a restraining order against Michael
in early March of twenty eleven. So this is months
(16:01):
after her sister had been missing and one month before
her body was found, and she's still dealing with this
man that was clearly a pedophile, was clearly attracted to
her little sister. So regardless of what you think about Dina,
like girl, you were that slow down, Yeah, she has
she had a hand to play. She didn't play her
(16:22):
hand right. She definitely opened the door for it. She
created these environments and we're gonna I'm gonna show you
guys some pictures of these environments in a little bit.
So at this point, the police have this information, they
have this video, and they're like, Okay, we need to
bring this guy in mm hmm. But they're taking a
chance because yes, the video is disgusting, but there's no
(16:42):
physical contact in it. You know, even though it's pedophilic behavior.
He's not gonna go to jail for her. Let's be honest.
So if they want to get him for Felicia's murder,
they're honestly gonna need a little bit more. Yes, and
they had some more, but not much. They had the
testimony of one of Michael's neighbors who said they saw
him struggling to move a plastic bin. M okay, a
(17:06):
little sketch, A little sketch. So the running theory now
is that Michael sexually assaulted Simone, put her body in
a plastic tub, and then dumped her in the dumb
the tub in the river. Now, my question is like, okay,
well where did her clothes end up? Like where where
you are her belongings?
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Where?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Then in his house or he took them moll over? Well, well,
well I don't know. We'll see, we'll see, I guess.
And coupled with claims that Michael was the last person
to seize Simone alive, because he even mentions it out
his mouth. Mm hmm. Yeah, I'm gonna tell you guys
what happened with that later. But he does say it, Okay,
(17:46):
shouldn't have done that. He doesn't say yeah, I was
the last person to see her alive, but he says
when he saw her last and that was the last
time she would see alive. So definitely. So this this
theory that the prosecution has plosive is but investigators have
zero physical evidence that Michael was ever at the river. Okay,
(18:10):
they don't know, and they had and because her body
was in the water so long, there's no no DNA
evidence left on her. At this point, I wonder how
they knew she was sexually assaulted then, I mean, because
there's trauma that your organ can face, you know, during
situations like that. And she was sixty.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
She probably from where she came from, she probably wasn't
sexually active.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Yet it's possible. I mean it's possible. Yeah, it's possible.
I wasn't it. I mean I was still fresh and sixteen,
still untainted. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
I wasn't.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
About to say something. She tried to say something, but
not trying to say it's what she tries not to
live with. She's also trying, no, I'm not. I I
hadn't been penetrated at sixteen. Okay, you're just doing other stuff.
I wasn't doing. Again, Well, that's not what your little head, bob,
(19:14):
he was doing. No, you misread about Yeah, yeah, I
gotta get out of Patrio. Okay.
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back to the episode. So they were honestly looking for
a confession for Michael. They don't really have much say,
(21:16):
got much to get them all though, they don't, but
he never budged. He unequivocally denied killing Simone. But despite
the lack of physical evidence, Michael Johnson was arrested in
April twenty twelve for the murder of Felicia Barnes and
was denied bail. Sorry, locked up? Who had kissing on him? Oh?
(21:37):
Is that the willow too far? We'll get back to it. Okay,
let's focus, Uh girl, We're focused. We're tuned in. Yeah, right, Okay.
So that very same month that he was arrested, Felicia's
Law was passed by Maryland's House and Senate. It's a
law that requires state officials to publish a list of
(21:59):
missing children and annual statistics. And although there's like a
lot of those types of laws around the country, this
is the first named after a black child. Oh all right.
Her parents were like lobbying, doing christ and doing everything.
Speaker 7 (22:14):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
The murder trial began in January of twenty thirteen. I
believe the prosecution was leading with their theory that Michael
got Simone alone, raped her, then strangled her to death,
and dumped her body in that container into the river. Right, Okay,
Like I said, Michael was the last person to see
Simone alive, which in and of itself, in my fin
(22:36):
would have been like, okay, well, I'm convicting them, right,
It's gonna take something astronomical over me not to. They
also claimed that Michael turned off his phone during the
murder and during the time he was moving the body.
That's why there's no record of him being at the lake.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
There you go, that's sketch, a lack of evidence, normal
you know, thing that normal people wouldn't do. It's still evidence,
it's true, but it's circumstantial, right, there's nothing physical.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
And then on top of that, he called out of
work that day, like out of all days, you call
out of work on the day that your girlfriend's sister
goes missing and her she doesn't even know that her
sister's missing it. Oh, Dina doesn't know, no, because it's
the day that she went missing. So nobody, you know,
they're like, she's supposed to be somewhere or was she
supposed to be doing this? But and then when Dina
(23:28):
was questioned, because of course Dina was questioned about what
was going on, Dina lied, of course she did. Why
she lied why well, because she didn't want to get
in trouble because her one of Felicia's friends after she
went missing, went to her mom and told her that
she knew that Felicia was doing some drugs like weed
(23:49):
and drinking when she would go visit her sisters. I mean,
the girl was crying and she was just like so
sad because she felt like, you know, she should have
been told her mom already and maybe something wouldn't have
happened to her. So said, she dropped everything, went to
Where's what's it called? Marlin went to Maryland, confronted Dina
and was like, you know, why did you tell me
the truth? And Indiana ends up saying, well, well, she
(24:11):
only had a couple of puffs and stuff like that.
She didn't take it seriously and just honestly, she's she's
to blame. I blamed Dina a bit for what happened
to her sister.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Me put her in the line of sight for this
man to even fixate himself onto her.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Right, she shouldn't be making out with a twenty six
year old man that's unexecutive and drinking and touching and
all that stuff, right with Right, And then now that
brings us to the pictures that we all prematurely saw.
So this picture is Dina and Simone kissing this girl
(24:51):
funky man on his cheek. Look at she just looks
so cute. And like, of course I can see why
he fixated on her. She's he's he's a pedophile. Yeah,
and she's adorable and she's adorable. Yeah, oh mm hmm,
you jerk. Apparently Michael used to have like parties and
(25:11):
stuff so they would hang out. Obviously he's twenty six.
He can buy whatever they want and need. This is
also a picture of Simone and Michael together. She ain't
really close to this dude, I know, for three visits
and for Dina to be his woman. Yeah, MoMA is
all abad neck taking a picture. Dina's probably ticulart dummy.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
So it's not it's not good right now. It's not good,
like if it was really given.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Oh you know, my little sister's gonna hang out.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
The little brother to him, he's twenty six. Little brother
to him could be twenty two and twenty three. You
know what I'm saying, is he well, he's not important.
He well, he'd be at like the parties and stuff
like this one of the party. But the little brother,
like he's not important. Also the story, he's just a
part of like the toxicity, because we're about to see him.
(26:06):
He's doing with the braids. Oh, he young. And then
these are like other girls that was hanging around them.
As you can see, they have drinks. Yeah, this girl,
it looks like they're like egging her on to drink
and she's like grimacing from it.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Yeah, she looks toe up already in that corner is
a cousin, okay, because he's fine Christian.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
But they're all like doing like weird, Like it's like
it's a bit too much back out with underage kids.
I don't like that. Yeah, I can't even tell if
he's fine because I don't like that. I can tell
that idiot that's a jerk. Yeah, all he jerks. I
don't like any of them. I'm not gonna lie. That
(26:51):
picture creeps me out. They look like predatory. She she
looks like if she was blacked out, they would still
try to bang. Look in her own that's her brother. Yeah,
I know that's something. I don't like the situation at all.
And this was this was posted on MySpace. I think
it was my space. They was posting me so.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Yeah, and you know how I think they they think
the young niggas, why in they thinking anything?
Speaker 2 (27:15):
They won't smooth talking, just mess And this is twenty
ten wow. According to court documents, it seemed like a
lot of the prosecution's witness testimonies came from just law
enforcement and basically them talking about like what they saw
on the text messages and that video, you know, And
(27:35):
they played the video for the jury as well, so
the jury saw it. And because they didn't immediately arrest him,
like they suspected him of being involved, but didn't arrest
him for a year. They wired tapped his phone, they
recorded some calls, all that type of stuff. They saw
some text messages he was sending. After Smolle's disappearance, for example,
(27:56):
he was heard asking if his DNA could be found
under her her fingernails because they had been wrestling the
day before. Yeah, wrestling, Yeah, wrestling with wrestling so pissed.
She was not protected at all. And I know in
sixteen you did your girl and stuff, but her sister,
who was what eighteen ninety, however, should have known that
(28:17):
she wasn't and kept her away from that.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Even when I visited you during spring break, right, I
was underage.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Yeah, but we wasn't gonna do it, none of that,
nothing like that. We was doing none of that. This
is sick and sad yeah, it is. But again, no
real hardcore DNA or physical evidence tied him to her death,
and the defense team knew this when presented with the
fact that Michael had talked to a girlfriend about leaving
(28:45):
the country. Oh the days the moment went missing. He
literally was talking about, I feel like everything's gonna come
down on me, like I just I want to get
out of get out of here. Whatever could the day
someone went missing? Correct, Well, he said that's not what
he was talking about. He was talking about Simon. He
had a baby on the way with another woman, so
(29:06):
he's dating sim own sister attracted to Simone, got another
woman pregnant, and claims he just wasn't ready for the
responsibility of being a dad.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Had to look at him though, who cares? Who's like
this man touched him all like that, like I just
don't order stand tall. He looks caught guy. Yeah, and
this picture hees a little sweaty. He looks cock. Women
don't care, They said, I don't care. Clean up? Well
he do, Okay, he do, he does. He looked like
(29:41):
his special needs. If I hear his voice immediately, I
know what Buzzy's on. Like, that's what it gives im
just saying When asked why he was the last one
to see her alive, he said that he left the
apartment round one thirty pm because he was moving some
things out. The sister claims that she had loved earlier
in that day because she was gonna go get some
(30:01):
food and like get a haircut or something like that.
I don't know. And then he says that when he
was there, he just saw her sleeping on the couch.
So he saw Simones sleeping on the couch. But that's
weird because he texted Dina saying, quote, Lilsis is up
and active something Which one is? Which one is it?
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Oh? She up?
Speaker 2 (30:22):
He said. He then drove to Walmart and then to
visit some family and when they tried to track his
phone to see if it would like show him in
the vicinity of the river that day, the record showed
that his cell phone was not in the vicinity of
where Simone's body was found. Now, because her body was
found four months after she disappeared, I'm hoping they're not
completely stupid and checked like the surrounding area checked his
(30:47):
tracking for the full four months. Because you can't tell
me that he put her bodies some work and didn't
go back to check if it was still there or not.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 8 (30:55):
But the.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Way that they jumped so quickly to thinking that Michael
did it, they blundered a lot. I think, in my opinion,
they didn't look at a lot of things that they
should have looked at closer. But you know, you know
how they do. They make up their mind about who
did it, and then they just try to convict that
person when they should have just taken more time and
(31:18):
it was already a year. They should have taken their
time and really dug because now we're about to be
in the legal system all for a minute. I will
tell you it's nobody.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
I want to.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
It's also possible that he had someone else get rid
of the bin, right, we don't know. Apparently the pictures
eggs broke egg exactly, so it's possible. But how it's looking,
the verdict can really go either way at this point,
it's really too shaky, it is. They have nothing concrete. No,
(31:51):
Michael ended up being acquitted. I knew it was the
first degree murder, but convicted of second degree murder. Oh,
he's still looking on possibly, you know, spending life in prison, possibly,
But before he could even get sentenced, the conviction was
thrown out because apparently a jail house snitch that was
(32:13):
used in the case was not like reliable. I don't
even know the details surrounding that, but it was enough
to boom blow the whole case up. Are you kidding me?
Are you freaking kidding me? They gotta stop using jail
house snitches. My guy, shame they're in jail. I'm sorry,
(32:34):
but they're They're liability has been shot. Why would I
care about somebody else spending more time in jail with
me enough to put myself in a situation, especially if
my incentive is I'm gonna get less time. That's what
I'm saying, exactly exactly. So they dumb, And this means
(33:00):
that he has to be tried all over again, but
that you couldn't get tried of the same Oh okay,
so he can't get first degree murder again for simone
because he was acquitted. Well, the conviction part of it
was thrown out, so the whole trial basically is no use.
He can be tried again. Oh so in the second trial,
(33:20):
there were certain recordings and conversations that jurors were not
supposed to hear, but they did so. Michael's defense team
immediately filed for a mistrial, stating that a bratty violation
had taken place, and on March twentieth, twenty thirteen, the
Circuit court granted it godly, So they blundered her case
(33:42):
two times. These news are you joking?
Speaker 3 (33:47):
No, Christen, as a prosecution, why would you even show
some stuff or hear like if you know the jurors
should not hear this, it may blunder our case.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
But like in Tyler Lewis case, they have so much
more evidence, like so much more evidence than in this case,
and they just refuse to try the guys, which means
it's circumstantial either way. The judge gets to decide. I mean,
it's the thing in Tyler's case is not even circumstantial.
Guys goes to the justice form. Tyler Lewis episode, his
mother was in it. It was too much for us.
(34:20):
But Kobe we did it and he deserves justice and
still hasn't gotten it. But they will take cases like
these that shouldn't even see the light of day because
you have your you're presenting not theory, you're presenting assumption
and circumstance and you blundered it. And he's smiling, and
he's smiling because he's out. Oh that's sicken. So this
(34:44):
means looking at and he did it dirty dug. So
this means they would have had to try the case again.
But the judge decided to reverse the mistrial ruling and
instead grant a judgment of a quill, stating that the
prosecution had failed to prove their case and they will
never have a chance to prove it again. So he's out.
(35:06):
That's and he can never be tried again, and he
can never be tried again like double jeopardy calos because
they caused a misschild. Mischild means you can try to
get acquittaled, you're acquitted, you're done. Okay, you just go
back and be like, oops, I made a mistake. Let's
go ahead and change it to an acquittal. That's not fair.
(35:27):
Sounds very corrupt, but who's ever corrupt in favor of
a man? What's up with that? Right is judged where
it gets to it. So you can imagine that the prosecution,
y'all thirty eight hot right now? Oh my god, because
not only is it looking like Michael can't be tried again,
but the niggas.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
About to walk free like crime completely gone, which means
nobody can be tried for her crime again.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Or it's just him, somebody just him, because her crime
will still be Yeah, I have a video of him
walking out, So the pictures I'm showing you right now
is not of him like when he was released. But
the video I'm about to show you is what's next
for you. I have no idea it's been for you
(36:16):
to be in this one for something you didn't do.
Doesn't He just look disgusting? Ever, we're all being objected
given like he's manging. He done lies splinter, Yeah, you
know splinters from the teenage. That's just splinter, mom. Yes,
he looks very rodent, disgusting. So the prosecution takes for
(36:37):
emotions all the way to the highest court saying like no,
we deserve to try this fool again, and they won. Good.
So here we are in twenty eighteen. Now it's been
eight years since Simone's death, and she still doesn't have
justice and I still trying the same food, yep, the
same foe. And we can only imagine how her family's feeling,
you know, after the first conviction was dropped, Simone's dad said, Coote,
(37:01):
I feel like I got run over by a train.
We just can't let this go. We have to see
justice for Felicia. We're just going to pursue the same gentleman,
a child killer who's on the streets of Baltimore. They
must really.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Feel like it was him, Like nothing else could have
made it.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Nothing, But nothing else does because from the lies that
Dina is telling, right, the lies that he's telling, she
shouldn't have been around anybody else in any other space.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
For her to be Yeah, and the fact that Dina
put out a restraining order on this man, Yeah, why right?
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Like he's violent clearly, you know. Like, but Diina, like,
speak up, I'm so sick of you. She sounds like
she has daddy issues. She's a pigmy and like what
maybe was even jealous of Simone.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
I will let her own sister go down, her whole
murder go down without like speaking up or.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Saying anything because she was lying and lying about it.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
What the.
Speaker 7 (37:56):
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Speaker 2 (38:28):
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go of whatever you're carrying today.
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time for his trial in twenty eighteen, Michael's thirty four
(39:02):
at this point, still free and decides that he will
waive his right to a jury trial and just wants
a judge to decide his fate. Baltimore Judge Circuit Judge
Charles J. Peters ultimately decided to acquit Michael again. Yep.
He ruled that the state's circumstantial evidence against him was
insufficient and that prosecutors had failed to establish a motive
(39:26):
even though we know this man is sexually attracted to
the sixteen year old girl, sexually made an advance at her.
She denied him, And you don't think that's motive enough
to be like he could have completely snapped, and when
he was in the house with her by himself, tried
it again. She said no again, and he took it
too far. The prosecution is trash. I'm sorry too. They failed,
(39:50):
judge failed, are trash. I mean the judge said, hey,
I can't sentence you to death for something that you're
the state hasn't proven fully, like quittle is crazy, like
mistrial understood it for the second time. The third time,
I guess the acquittal was like, I have no choice, Yeah,
you don't have the evidence. I have to equate him. Well,
he had to kill him, but he could have locked
(40:10):
them up.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
But my thing is like, hey, the prosecution had three times,
three trials where they could have dug up more evidence.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
I mean, rallied really sold the story three times. You failed.
That makes me mad. Yep. Even the second trial was
such was handled so so unprofessionally. Those judges should or
those juries should have never heard the parts of the
recording that they weren't supposed to hear. Yeah, the defense
(40:39):
didn't play that the prosecution exactly because they were just
so in the years. They couldn't even find another one.
They couldn't go get the other cousin brothers, other women
over there, no testimony, get him finally speak up and
say something, little bro, have anything to add like, because
(41:00):
you can't tell me he did all this by himself,
and then said nothing to nobody, and then was talking about, oh,
will my DNA be found out of her nailed because
we were wrestling. That's not a thing for a tweets
and children six years it's not a thing. You don't
wrestle no person ten years younger than you. That's nasty.
But we got in DNA. I mean, if you rested,
she's scratching you and stuff. You know you did, you know,
(41:24):
which means she probably fought him. She did, and he
gave away himself right there. And because it took four
months for her body to be found on everything, he's
healed up. If he had any scratches are gone, And
it's stupid. Dina dis ignored it, saying right, Dina whatever.
Girl literally like, you know, I hope whatever, but like
(41:46):
whatever bye.
Speaker 6 (41:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
So he has officially been acquitted of felicious murder and
he cannot be tried again. That's so prod. But you
he has some friends on the other side. Huh in
jail for sure. Yeah, that's not what I meant. Oh
oh well, I mean to keep it out. I'm not
gonna lie.
Speaker 6 (42:08):
You know.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
There was a witch lady that came out. She's like
this black lady. She came out and said that she
helped a very well known rapper beat a case that
he was fighting and it was looking really bad and
he was going to spend the rest of his life
in jail, but she helped him get off. And she said,
now when he gets out, he likes to like claim,
(42:29):
you know, old thing my lawyers and stuff like that.
But she's like, no, he called me, I did my
my witchery. She said, I did my my spells and
stuff like that. And now he's out. She thought, my
daddy and mom, he's not a rapper, but am yeah him,
but nobody likes she said in the comments. Diddy's people
(42:51):
had reached out to her many times and she kept
telling them no, and she's talking about young gun though. Yeah,
I believe it. Those type of people on retainer celebrities
do waist. Oh yeah, they're playing with bubble. I don't
want to hear none of that. I know, God, ladies,
people wicked. So this is just horrible. This man is
(43:14):
free and clear of Simone's death. Simone's family obviously this
is the last thing they want to hear on planet Earth.
Co Man, I'm just so sorry to them, my God.
So as of twenty eighteen, the forty year old is
a free man god and can go on to live
his life while Simone cannot correct. But wait, because once
(43:37):
you're an abusive, disgusting prick, you're always one. Okay, he
did it again. He did it again. Michael was arrested
in July of twenty twenty four for strangling his nineteen
year old girlfriend. Nineteen. He's forty, so we get prott am.
(44:01):
I said, we can pretend like he's not even put
a bob but a yoch. We already knew it. But
he bowed. He said, I got away with it. One,
I'm gonna do it again. According to her, they were
living in New York, Pennsylvania, because that's like where he's
originally from. She considered him to be just like a
sugar daddy and started dating him. She stated. At one
point they lived together for three months the year prior
(44:25):
so in twenty twenty three until quote her foster care
reported her missing child as in like she was, she's
basically she's a child. He's a chi Jesus, my God,
a troubled child. On the night of the attack, police
officers could see the popped blood vessels in her eyes.
(44:45):
Jesus could see the marks she had on her body,
her throat, her tongue, and her mouth were so swollen
from being choked out that she had to communicate through texts.
She couldn't even speak. He was gonna kill her too,
she said. The attack lasted for over six hours, and
at one point he used an actual fan cord on
her to try to kill her. He must have been
(45:07):
really weak too, right, I mean I playing with him?
Speaker 7 (45:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (45:12):
Absolutely, She said. She got mad at him for texting
like this is what all started it. She said, she
got mad at him for texting another woman, and then
that's when he hit her in the face and then
in the arm, and it was just like it was
on from there, pump. Oh my god, he's really discussing.
Look at him, so it was her good. Good, that's
him at forty Yeah, I know he look he's well preserved.
(45:37):
I think that is him. I think that's the picture
because in the articles, this is the picture that they're
using for him. When he just got arrested. Mom said,
old Prisperd. I tell you there's no way he should
be looking like that forty years old.
Speaker 3 (45:51):
I'm god, well, there's no stealing the youth and beauty
of other people.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
You you hold on, I'm saying, I'm glad she's knocking
got him right now. She got good too, and she
had just reported his ass earlier in January twenty twenty
four because he tried to choke her then and she
gave him another chance. She's in it, y'all, she's in it.
He apparently was drinking all day and she like he
(46:17):
wanted to drive and she was. They were arguing because
she's like, you know, I don't want you to drive.
He's driving anyway, and while he's driving, he grabbed her
by the throat and threw her out the car, so
she called the folks. She called the folks. On went
back to him, went back to when they arrested him
after this attempted murder, So the one that he just
did on her and she's swollen and can't speak. The
(46:38):
nigga was driving in tesla, a red Tesla. What does
he do for? Probably an insurance company. Christen?
Speaker 4 (46:48):
What what.
Speaker 2 (46:52):
You're annoying? Like you're annoying the whole pa annoying.
Speaker 7 (47:02):
Drinking?
Speaker 2 (47:05):
Yeah, he looks like he looked twenty forty. Do whatever?
Beat his ass? Is he tall?
Speaker 8 (47:15):
How many?
Speaker 2 (47:16):
Then they didn't chop him down. I'm really irritated by
this because Felicia's not here. Apparently her case is still
seen as unsolved. It is unsolved when they need to
sob it now again he can never again, never held
responsible for it again. I don't like him. What's his name?
(47:36):
Uh my, I don't like you. And so he was arrested.
He was driving the red Tesla and he smelled very
strongly of alcohols he was he's an alcoholic. Yes, he
was officially charged with rape, driving under the influence, and
possession of marijuana. He is still awaiting his trial as
we speak period. So he's in jail. They gave him
no bond and if he's convicted of this this. I
(47:59):
think he was actually charged with attempted murder as well.
So he's facing life. So Felicia make it you know
something indirectly after all?
Speaker 5 (48:09):
Yes, I mean, good God, how horrible and long did
he choke her for her tongue to be swollen?
Speaker 2 (48:17):
She can't speak? That is unbelieved. Her mouth was swollen.
That's unbelievable that woman is and she's only nineteen, Like,
that's horrible. Dog out And if he's a sugar added
he was, really he must be really like one. Why
has he been doing? I'm annoyed. Yeah, he has so money.
He must have sued somebody. No, he didn't see nobody.
(48:39):
I would have read that he sued somebody got some money.
But dang, that's crazy. So yeah, right now he's in
jail good and I hope they get him this time.
Me too. And I hope that I don't heal up.
I hope somebody black. I hope he asks somebody how
you doing. I hope he's some body little snack, little
(49:03):
snickers child, somebody little tweaks. I can't can. I don't
like this liking it all? No, that's a wild I know.
Look at the energy.
Speaker 4 (49:17):
This is.
Speaker 2 (49:18):
This picture is from after he won the first time.
He's on the phone, I know the same after the
third time. In twenty eighteen, the judge first round Hollywood. Okay,
thank you Hollywood. Whoa you ain't Hollywood, no mojo period.
(49:39):
So yeah, that's our case for this week. Y'all, way
to soak us back up in the mess. I'm sorry
this was something else. Yeah, how to remind y'all who
we are? Rest in peace of mall right, it's really
not you didn't deserve that, and I'm still mad as
(49:59):
heck a day you show. Yeah, somebody really should have
whooped her in the corner for a minute. Brothers them
because then you.
Speaker 3 (50:09):
Said two sisters like she was there for not just Dina,
somebody else too. Where was that sister as she's probably
mind her business.
Speaker 2 (50:16):
Oh no, you never know what goes on behind closed
doors when it's the family stuff. Because the mom said
to an interviewer that she stopped everything and wait and
confronted Dina. So but yeah, well, we love you guys
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