Southern Horror Story: Forbidden Teen Love Ends in Double Murder

In this shocking true crime case from Alabama, a small town is left reeling after two teens, Maisie and Bo, are brutally murdered behind a Waffle House. As investigators dig deeper, they uncover a twisted plot involving high school secrets, a hidden GoPro, a corrupt deputy, and a preacher living a double life. The killer is sentenced to life in prison, but the mystery doesn’t end there. With sealed investigations, sudden resignations, and lives forever changed, this tragic story explores betrayal, small-town scandals, and justice gone sideways.


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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to true Crime case Files. Today we take you
to Greendale, Alabama, a sweltering southern town where the air
is thick with secrets and church bells ring louder than justice.
In a place where gossip spreads faster than a summer wildfire,
in every porch has a story. A double murder in
September twenty twenty three stunned the community and exposed a

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web of forbidden love, jealousy, and betrayal. This is the
story of Mazy Lynn Woodrum and Botanner, two teenagers caught
in a love that defied rules, only to end in
a horrifying, ritualistic slaughter behind a greasy waffle house off
Highway ten. Macey Lynn Woodrum was eighteen years old and
full of big dreams. She had just graduated from Greendale

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High School in the summer of twenty twenty three. Most
days she worked the evening shift at the Sonic drive
in on Cedar Street, taking orders on roller skates and
handing out Route forty four cherry limaids with a bright,
if tired smile. Macey lived with her family on the
edge of town, just down the road from the Holy
Fire Baptist Church, where her father, Reverend Ezra Woodrum, preached

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every Sunday. Their relationship was tense. Mazie had a rebellious
streak that clashed with her father's strict rules and fiery sermons.
She often wore pink lipstick, short skirts, and thick eyeliner,
which upset many of the churchgoers who thought she should
dress more modestly, but Misi didn't care. She wanted out.
She had a growing collection of vintage pollypocket toys, which

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she proudly displayed on a thrifted pink bookshelf in her bedroom.
Her small room also held a bulletin board filled with
pictures from prom magazine, cutouts of hairstyles, and a schedule
for cosmetology school in Birmingham. Macey planned to start classes
in January. She had already filled out the application and
was working extra shifts to save up for the move.

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Her pink diary, found under her mattress, was filled with
lipstick kisses, hand drawn hearts, and sad poems about love
and loss. She often wrote about her boyfriend Bow Tanner
Bo was also eighteen and worked as an apprentice mechanic
at Gentry's Auto garage. He was shy but kind. He
kept to himself and liked to write poetry during lunch breaks.

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His friend said he was always humming melodies under his
breath and recording original songs in his bedroom. Bo posted
those acoustic songs on TikTok, where a few even went
mildly viral among local teens. He had a soft spot
for classic rock and always wore a faded Leonard skynerd
T shirt. When Bou was fourteen, he lost his left
eye in a four wheeler accident. After that, he wore

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a glass eye that never quite matched, giving him a
slightly crooked, endearing smile. Maizie and Beau had been together
since the spring of senior year. They were planning to
move to Montgomery and start over. They spent early September
looking at studio apartments on Craigslist, picking out furniture from
Facebook marketplace, and calculating how much they'd need to say

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for a used car. Maizie had just dyed her hair
platinum blonde and posted a selfie with the caption new Beginnings.
Bo told coworkers he was ready to leave town and
take Maizie somewhere. She never be judged. The two were
last seen alive on September sixteenth, twenty twenty three, holding
hands at the Dollar General, lying hair dye, a bag
of hot Cheetos, and a six pack of Doctor Pepper.

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They never got the chance to start their new life.
It was a hot, sticky morning in Greenville, Alabama, on Sunday,
September seventeen, twenty twenty three, just after six o'clock am.
The sun was rising over the waffle house off Highway ten,
and the air smelled like old, greased and rain silked pavement.
Inside the small diner, breakfast rush hadn't started yet, Lying cooked,

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Teresa Jurgens, fifty seven, had just arrived to open the kitchen.
She parked her two thousand and eight Ford Focus behind
the building, lit a cigarette, and walked forward the back
door with her purse over one shoulder in keys in hand.
As she reached the rear entrance, Theresa noticed something strange.
The dumpster lid was propped open a few inches. At first,

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she figured it was just raccoons again, they'd been tearing
through trash bags for weeks, but as she got closer,
she caught a strong metallic odor mix with something sore.
When she peeked inside, what she saw would stay with
her for the rest of her life. Inside the dumpster
were two large black trash bags. One was partially split open,
and something pale and lifeless was sticking out. Teresa leaned

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in for a better look and saw human skin covered
in dried blood. The shape of a leg was clearly visible.
She backed away, quickly, dropped her purse and screamed. Shaking
and crying, Teresa rushed into the waffle house through the
back door and picked up the store's landline phone, which
sat next to the grill. In her panic, she dropped

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it twice before finally dialing nine to one one. The
dispatcher stayed calm and asked her to stay on the line.
Teresa locked the doors and waited inside, pacing between booths,
wiping her face with a dish towel. Officers from the
Greenville Police Department arrived within fifteen minutes. By then, several
early morning customers had started to pull into the parking
lot for breakfast, only to be turned away by yellow

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crime scene tape. Paramedics and crime scene investigators arrived soon after.
Inside the dumpster, officers confirmed the presence of two bodies,
later identified as eighteen year olds Maisie Lynn Woodrum and
Bow Tanner both were naked, badly cut and crammed into
bags like trash. Bow's fingers had been severed after death,
and Maisi's chest was sliced open. Her heart was missing.

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Not far from the dumpster, under a stack of old
milk crates, police found a plastic tupperware container with dried
blood inside. The container was labeled with a faded sticker
that said leftovers in blue sharpie. It was quickly taken
in as evidence. Greenville had never seen anything like this before.
By six thirty am on September seventeen, twenty twenty three,

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the parking lot behind the waffle house off Highway ten
in Greenville, Alabama, was completely blocked off by yellow police tape.
Greenville Police Department had responded quickly after the nine to
one to one call from lime cook Teresa Jurgens. Within
fifteen minutes, several patrol cars and an ambulance had pulled
up to the scene. Curious neighbors and early morning drivers
slowed down as they passed, trying to catch a glimpse

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of the action. What they didn't know was that the
crime scene was one of the most disturbing the town
had ever seen. Leading the investigation was Detective Calvin Hughes,
age fifty two, a serious and detail focused officer who
had previously worked as a state trooper in Montgomery. Hughes
was known in the department for being calm, experienced, and
by the book. He arrived at the scene with rookie

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officer Tamar of Ants, who had only been with the
department for six months. This was her first homicide case.
The area behind the waffle house was grimy and smelled
like old friar oil. The dumpster was large and dented,
and blood had spilled out of it, pooling on the concrete.
Flies buzzed in thick circles above the scene. Inside the dumpster,
the bodies of Macy Woodrum and Bow Tanner had been

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stuffed into black trash bags. Both were naked, slaughtered like hogs.
According to Detective Hugheses had been slit with what appeared
to be a very sharp knife. Bow's fingers had been
cut off after he died, and Misy's heart had been removed.
It was later found inside a plastic tupperware container labeled Leftovers,
under a stack of broken milk crates. Detective Hues called

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an additional help from the Montgomery County Crime Scene Unit.
By eight o'clock am, a mobile forensics van had arrived
and crime scene texts began their work. They used UV
flashlights to look for blood stains and sprayed luminolo the
concrete to detect traces of cleaned up blood. A drone
was flown over the waffle house property and nearby woods

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to search for footprints, weapons, or anything else suspicious. Investigators
collected security footage from the restaurant. The camera mounted near
the back door captured grainy, black and white footage from
the early morning hours. At two eighteen am, a shadowy
figure could be seen moving near the dumpster. The person
was wearing what looked like a cheerleading uniform and appeared

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to be limping. The figure's face was not visible and
no car could be seen leaving the area. Still, detectives
believed this footage was an important clue. Evidence bags were
filled with items including cigarette butts, a pink hair clip,
and a broken self on screen. The bodies were taken
to the Montgomery County Medical Examiner's Office for Aupsey's Detective

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Hughes told esteem that this wasn't just a murder. It
looked personal, emotional, and deeply disturbed the first person, detectives
turned their attention to his Reverend Ezra Woodrum, age forty seven.
He was the father of victim Maisie Lynne Woodrum and
the head pastor at Holy Fire Baptist Church, one of
the oldest and strictest churches in Greenville. Known across town

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for his booming voice and old fashioned sermons about sin,
fire and the end of days, Reverend Woodrum had a
reputation for being controlling and intense, especially when it came
to his daughter. In the weeks before Maisie's murder, Reverend
Woodrum had been open about his dislike of her boyfriend,
Bo Tanner. He believed Bo was a bad influence and
often warned his congregation to keep their children away from temptation.

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Church members recalled that Ezra once called Bo a greasy,
one eyed pagan during a Sunday sermon. He blamed Bo
for Maisie's rebellious behavior, her interest in makeup and hair school,
and her decision to work at Sonic instead of going
to church events. He had even tried to send Maisie
to a religious rehab center in Mississippi, claiming she had
a problem with alcohol, though there was no real proof

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of that. Detectives brought Reverend Woodrum in for questioning on
the afternoon of September seventeen, just hours after the bodies
were discovered. He arrived at the station wearing a black
suit and holding a bible. He was calm, quiet, and
polite with officers. He said he hadn't seen Maisie in
weeks and that their relationship had groom distant after she
left home back in August. He claimed he spent the

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night of the murders alone in his study of the
church preparing Sunday sermon. Officers noted this as a week alibi,
since no one else could confirm his whereabouts during the
early morning hours of September seventeen. The investigation took a
darker turn when detectives began digging into Reverend Woodrum's past.
Back in two thousand and seven, Ezra's wife, Macy's mother

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eyed under mysterious circumstances. It was rule the suicide of
the time. She had been found at home, with an
empty pill bottle nearby and a note that didn't match
her handwriting. The case was closed quickly, but some of
the original investigators remembered feeling something wasn't right. When Ezra
became a suspect in Mazie's case, they reopened the old file.

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Though they could not officially prove anything, the timing raised
more red flags. Police searched the reverend's home in office.
They found several journals full of sermon drafts, scripture, and
angry notes about Mazie's behavior. One page called her a
jez Bowl and another described dreams about fire and blood. However,
no murder weapon, bloody clothes, or direct link to the

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crime scene was found. Reverend Woodrum's DNA was not found
on the bodies, the tupperware container, or the dumpster. There
were no fingerprints linking him to the fill In nine either.
Although Ezra Woodrum remained a person of interest that there
simply wasn't enough physical evidence to arrest him, but to investigators,
the rage, obsession, and past tragedy made him a man

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worth watching closely. The second major suspect in the murder
investigation was Deputy Shan Mallory, a thirty eight year old
officer with the Greenville County Sheriff's Office known around town
as the Badge Bully. Mallory had a reputation for being aggressive,
especially toward women. Many residents believed he had an unhealthy

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obsession with Macy Woodrum, the nineteen year old victim. Several
locals remembered seeing him hanging around the Sonic Drive in
on Highway forty three, where Macy sometimes worked late night shifts.
Some even said he would sit in his patrol car
parked nearby just watching her. Mallory had a history of
misconduct over the years. There were multiple complaints from women

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who said he acted inappropriately during arrests and traffic stops.
Just three weeks before the murders, Macy herself had file
a harassment report. She told her friends and family that
Deputy Mallory pulled her over one night, supposedly for a
broken taillight, but then touched her in a way that
made her feel deeply uncomfortable. He was never officially disciplined

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for it, but the complaint had been logged. On the
night of the murders, Mallory claimed he wasn't working. He
told investigators he went to the waffle house on Highway
eight just to check on things. When police got the
surveillance footage, it showed him standing near the cashier area
for almost ten minutes, silently watching the restaurant's security monitor.
He never ordered food or spoke to anyone. Investigators noted

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this behavior was strange. When questioned, Deputy Mallory grew angry
and defensive. He started sweating and refused to answer basic
questions without making accusations against other officers. He told detectives
they were targeting him unfairly and blamed his bad reputation
on department gossip. He seemed especially nervous when detectives brought
up Maisie's harassment complaint. During the background investigation, police also

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uncovered something even more troubling. Mallory had a pattern of
pulling over black drivers at a higher rate than white ones.
Internal records showed that many of these stops resulted in
aggressive confrontations or unnecessary searches. Complaints from black residents had
been filed against him for years, with little to no
follow up from department leadership. Still, police found no physical

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evidence that directly connected Mallory to the murders. No fingerprints,
no DNA, and no security footage placed him near the
dumpster behind Dollar General where the bodies were found, But
investigators kept him on the suspect list due to his
disturbing pattern of behavior, especially toward Maisie. The department placed
Deputy Mallory on administrative leave while the investigation continued. Greenville citizens,

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especially on Facebook community pages like What's Happening in Butler County,
where quick to voice their opinions. Many demanded his badge
be taken away for good. On the stormy afternoon of
September twenty one, twenty twenty three, a surprising clue came
to light. At around three forty five, a county maintenance
worker was cutting grass along the Conaca River near Andalusia

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of Alabama, just off County Road seventy one. Rain poured heavily,
soaking the ground and making the job even harder. As
the worker trimmed the overgrown weeds near a drainage ditch,
he noticed something odd, a plastic ziplock bag half buried
in the mud. Inside was a GoPro camera, scratched but
still intact. The worker turned the camera over to the

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Covington County Sheriff's Office, detectives quickly began examining it. They
checked the serial number and traced it back to a
Dick's sporting goods store in Montgomery, about two hours north.
Records showed it had been purchased in cash back in
July twenty twenty three, just two months before the murders.
The store had no surveillance footage of the transaction. The

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gopro's internal memory was damaged, possibly from water exposure or
intentional tampering. However, Parentic Texts managed to recover a few
short video cliffs. Though most of the footage was broken
or too dark to make out out, detectives were able
to confirm that the camera had been recording on the
night of the murders September sixteenth. One clear frame appeared
to show part of the waffle House parking lot. Another

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blurry segment seemed to capture someone dragging a trash bag
near the dumpster. Most concerning was that the camera's SD
card slot was empty. Detectives believed that someone had removed
the memory card either before or just after the camera
was dropped at the river site. Investigators questioned if the
killer had purposely tried to destroy the footage, or if
the missing SD card might still be out there waiting

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to be found. Detective Leah Hughes, one of the lead
officers on the case began to suspect that the killer
may not have acted alone. The placement of the GoPro,
sealed in plastic, hidden far from the crime scene suggested
careful planning. Also, the use of recording equipment hinted at
a level of control and preparation that didn't fit the
profiles of their earlier suspects. Hughes and her team reviewed

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the recovered video again and again, searching for anything else
they might have missed. As word of the GoPro discovery spread,
tips began flooding the Sheriff's department. Some callers claimed to
have seen people lurking near the river days before. Others
speculated that the GoPro was part of a Dare prank
or even a secret on Lifean's account. Police couldn't rule

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anything out yet, but one thing was clear. This discovery
opened a new path in the investigation and possibly toward
the real killer. As the investigation continued, in late September
twenty twenty three, police turned their attention to a third
and very unexpected suspect, sixteen year old Dalilah Tanner. Delilah
was the younger sister of Bo Tanner, Maisie's boyfriend. A

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student at Andaluja High School, Delilah was known around town
as a quiet and strange girl. Many classmates said she
kept to herself, rarely spoken, less asked, and often seemed
lost in her own world. She wore black clothes almost
every day, even in the humid Alabama heat. She even
wore all black to Sunday services at the local Baptist church,

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making her stand out in a place where most teens
dressed in bright, casual clothes or Southern brands like Simply
Southern or Duckhead. Delila was a sophomore, and some classmates
described her as artistic but dark. Teachers reported she was
intelligent but emotionally distant. Her backpack was covered in patches
for bands like My Chemical Romance and Nine Inch Nails,

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and she spent most of her lunch period alone sketching
in her notebook. When investigators got a search warrant for
her bedroom, they discovered several sketch books hidden in a
lock box under her bed. What they found was disturbing.
The drawings were filled with graphic and violent images. Some
were people tied up, Others showed what appeared to be
girls getting strangled or stabbed. One sketch eerily resembled the

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exact position Maisie's body had been found behind the waffle house,
with her limbs bent unnaturally and her cheerleading uniform torn.
Detectives quickly flagged Dellalla's sketch books as potential evidence. They
had also found a blood stained cheerleading costume in the
back of her closet. It was not a school issued uniform,
but a cheap replica from a Halloween costume shop, still

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bearing its original tag from Spirit Halloween. Friends and classmates
told detectives that Delila had a strong attachment to her
older brother, Beau. Some even said she had an unhealthy
obsession with him. She often acted cold and hostile toward
Maisie in public, calling her names and refusing to speak
to her during football games or school events. One cheerleader
said Dalila once called Maisie a simple minded cow after

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a pebrally. There were also social media posts, mostly cryptic
quotes or dark poems, that hinted a jealousy and resentment.
When detectives brought Delilah in for questioning, she seemed calm
and unfazed. She barely blinked When they asked her about Maisie,
her answers were short and strange, often going off topic.
At one point, she said her brother was the only

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person who ever truly saw her. Then she started laughing
loud and sudden, almost uncontrollably. Officers in the room noted
that her laughter didn't match the tone of the interview.
It fell forced or perhaps disconnected from reality. Though Delila
denied being involved in the murder, the evidence piling up
was hard to ignore. Her sketches, her bloody costume, and

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her unusual behavior all made her a serious person of
interest in the case. Detectives believed she either played a
direct role in the crime or knew more than she
was saying. On the morning of September twenty three, twenty
twenty three, at exactly eight twelve am, police arrived at
the Tanner family home to arrest sixteen year old Delila Tanner.
She didn't run or argue. Instead, she started laughing uncontrollably,

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just like she had during her earlier police interview. Investigators
were confident they had found their killer. Delila's motive was
a dangerous mix of jealousy, obsession, and twisted belice. She
believed that Misi had turned her brother Bo away from her.
She thought Macie had somehow tricked or seduced him, and
that it was her mission to stop it. She called

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it of cleansing. Delila sent a fake emergency text from
Bo's phone to lure Beau and Maizie to the waffle
House parking lot on Highway ten. She wore an old
cheerleading uniform that she had bought from a local costume shop,
likely to shock or distract them. When Bo and Maisie
arrived in the early morning hours of September seventeen, Delilah
was waiting. She brought her father's filly knife, taken from

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a tackle box in the garage. Dahlilah used the knife
to attack both victims. According to the investigation, she struck
quickly and violently. Both Bo and Maisie were stabbed and
slashed repeatedly. After the attack, Dalilah dragged their bodies to
the nearby dumpster and stuffed them into black trash bags.
Police say she took off their clothes to humiliate them

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and make the crime scene harder to understand. Dalila also
wore a GoPro camera on her head to film the murders.
Investigators believed she planned to keep the footage as a
personal trophy or record of what she had done. But
that wasn't the most shocking part of the case. Police
discovered that Delilah had help. She had made a secret
deal with Deputy Adam Mallory, a troubled officer who had

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already been under investigation for multiple complaints. Mallory promised to
help her get rid of the evidence, including the knife
and the GoPro, in exchange for a copy of the footage.
He believed the video could be used as blackmail against
Reverend Greg Woodrum, the powerful leader of the local church
who was rumored to have deep political connections. Mallory wanted

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to use the footage to damage Woodrum's reputation and clear
a path for himself to run for Sheriff Detectives recovered
the GoPro camera several days later in a stiplock bag
near the river, but the SD card, the memory chip
that held the video, was missing. Police believe Mallory still
had it. As of the end of September twenty twenty three,
he was being closely watched and a warrant was being prepared.

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Delai La Tanner's trial began on February five, twenty twenty four,
inside the Butler County court House in Greenville, Alabama. The
courtroom was packed with reporters, family members, and curious locals.
National media outlets like Court TV and Daveline NBC sent
crews to cover the trial, calling at one of the
most disturbing cases the state had seen in years. People

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lined up outside in the chilly morning air, some holding
signs in support of the victims, others simply wanting to
see justice unfold. The prosecution was led by District Attorney
Rebecca Klingon, aged forty five, Known across Alabama for her
organized and relentless courtroom style, Klingon laid out her case
with sharp detail. She showed the jury pieces of Delilla's

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bloody cheerleading uniform, pages from her sketch books filled with
violent images, and fragments of video recovered from the damaged
GoPro camera. While the full murder footage was still missing
due to the missing SD card, tech experts testified that
the recovered clips and metadata proved the camera had been
warned the night of the murders. Klingon also called several classmates, teachers,

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and family friends to the stand. Their testimonies painted Dililla
as an angry, isolated teen who was deeply obsessed with
her brother Beaux. She had hated Maisie, and many of
her drawings showed disturbing scenes that matched how the victims
were found. The prosecution argued that this was a premeditated
personal killing, one driven by twisted love, rage, and jealousy.

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The defense was led by Miles Bernstein, a twenty nine
year old public defender with a calm, thoughtful style. He
didn't deny that Delilla was involved, but he argued that
she was mentally ill and had been neglected by the
adults around her. He pointed to her family's history of violence,
especially her alcoholic father and distant mother. Bernstein claimed Deliva

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had been crying out for help for years and never
received proper mental health care. He also reminded the jury
that she was only sixteen years old. The courtroom remained
tense throughout the week. Macie's mother, Clara Woodrum, wept silently
every day in the front row. Bo's father, Henry Tanner,
did not attend the trial, saying he couldn't bear to
see his daughter on the stand. Several jurors were visibly

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shaken by the drawings and videos shown during the trial.
After five days of testimony, the jury reached a verdict.
Dahlila Tanner was found guilty on two counts of first
degree murder. The judge sentenced her to life in prison
without the possibility of parole. Because she was under eighteen,
the court had to get special approval for the sentence
under Alabama's juvenile sentencing laws. The decision was controversial but final.

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Even with the guilty verdict, many family members said the
trial didn't bring them peace. The missing SD card, the
involvement of Deputy Mallory, and Dalila's eerie lack of emotion
left more questions than answers. After Delila Tander's conviction, the
small Alabama town continued to feel the shockwaves. Deputy Carl Mallory,
who had been tied to the case through a shady

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deal with Delilah involving the missing GoPro footage, was quietly
forced to resign. The sheriff's office conducted an internal review,
but the results of that investigation were never made public.
Locals continued to whisper about what might have been uncovered,
but the official story was sealed Reverend Franklin Woodrum, whose
name was tied to both Delilla and Mallory, also stepped

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down from his leadership role at the local church. He
left town in early February twenty twenty four, just days
after Delilla's sentencing by March, church goers learned he had
moved to a small town in Georgia and was living
under a new name. Church attendants dropped, and many in
the congregation felt betrayed by the sudden disappearance of a
man they once trusted. Teresa Jurgens, a waffle house waitress

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who found the bodies behind the building that horrible morning,
struggled emotionally. She left her job at the Highway two
hundred and thirty one waffle house map long after the
murders b February twenty twenty four. She had started working
at a budget motel off I eighty five in Montgomery.
Former coworkers said she never really got over what she
saw and didn't like talking about it. Detective Richard Hughes,

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the lead investigator on the case, officially retired from the
police department in June twenty twenty four at fifty nine
years old. Hughes sighted burnout as the main reason. He
had worked hommicide for over two decades, but colleagues said
this case affected him more than any other. He had
tried hard to bring justice, but the disturbing details, community pressure,

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and lack of full closure left him drained. Dilli La Tanner,
now twenty, remains behind bars at Julia Tutwiler Prison for
Women in Watunka. She is serving a life sentence without
the possibility of parole. Records show she's been placed on
suicide watch more than once, and prison staff describe her
as isolated and unpredictable. She does not receive visitors. Back

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in town, the families of Maisie and Beau planted a
memorial garden behind the local high school football field in
late spring twenty twenty four. Students helped with the planting,
adding roses, sunflowers, and a stone bench with both victims
names engraved. Every September on the anniversary of their deaths.
Friends still post photos, stories, and messages on Instagram, tik tok,

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and Snapchat using hashtags like hashtag remember Maisie and hashtagg
Justice Forbau. The pain hasn't gone away, but the town
continues to try to heal. One day at a time
in Greenville, Alabama, where church hymns rise with the heat
and secrets stick to the sidewalks. The love between two
teenagers ended not with a happy future, but with a

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knife in the dark. This case reminds us that evil
doesn't always wear a stranger's face. Sometimes it hides behind
a uniform, a pulpit, or a sister's stare. This has
been true crime case files