August 3, 2025 • 51 mins
In 2004, a deranged criminal terrorized Viginia, North and South Carolina. He took beutiful valued lives including that of a local hero here in the Palmetto State. He eventually had to answer for his cimes by staring down the barrels of several State Owned Firearms.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
For over three hundred and fifty years, the state of
South Carolina has been the setting for some of the
most horrendous crimes ever committed. Some have gained global notoriety,
some have been forgotten, and others have been swept under
the rug completely. Now, two South Carolina natives and true
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crime enthusiasts have teamed up to examine these heinous acts
in detail, giving their perspective of the evil that has
resided in the Palmetto State. You're listening to Carolina Crimes.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
And welcome back to Carolina Crimes, episode two thirty three.
I'm one of your hosts, Matt Hyres along.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
With Danielle Myers, and we're.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Over the moon thrilled that you joined us here this week.
Thank you all. A lot of feedback from last week's
episode ode the unfortunate death of Patrick Mofley and just
the avalanche of information and the amount of players, amount
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of players in the game and the game that was
being played. I mean that was a true wild one.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yes, it was definition, yes, but.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
We appreciate everybody reaching out about that. Thank you all. Man,
been a long week.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Hot, it's hot.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
We hope everybody's staying cool out there. And surviving this
South Carolina summer and school is right around the corner,
So get ready teachers, parents, especially you kindergarten teachers out there.
Just when you think you've seen it all, guess what's
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coming now five years old. The COVID babies are coming.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Oh I didn't think about that.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Wow, So get you some of that. Some of those
tiger king kids coming at you, so batting down the hatches.
Kindergarten teachers who got a new breed coming, they've built different, dog,
They're built different. So yeah, we wish all the teachers,
all the students, parents, administrators, are support staff in our schools.
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Best of luck as you get going, especially I know
there's a bevy of teachers here in rock Hill that
that listen to us, and we just appreciate you all
so much. Thank you, Thank you well. Before we get
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We got a lot of thank yous and shout outs
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here at the end of this episode. Finally, we ran
real long last week. It should probably been two episodes.
It's two separate investigations. Yeah, I hindsight's twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I don't think anybody was upset.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
No, I don't think it's a little more content for
that for yourself. All right, So, Danielle, this week, we're
going to a county I think we've only been to
once before, maybe maybe twice. But it's Calhoun County, and
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crime happens there just like everywhere else. But when I
say the population of this entire county, you'll know why
there's not a ton of stuff out there. But Calhoun County,
for those that don't know, is located in south central
South Carolina, just between Richland and Orangeburg Counties. Originally, Calhoun
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County was home to the Congaree Native American tribe, and
to this day they still find tons of artifacts down
there from the Congree tribe, right there at the fork
in those rivers. Fantastic historic sites there. Calhoun County place
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in American history. It was the site of the Siege
of Fort Mott during the American Revolution. What Fort Mott
was was a British garrison and two guys of high
ambition to Patriots decided they wanted to take that down,
and they sure did, Lieutenant Colonel Lighthorse Harry Lee and
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the swamp Fox Francis Mary, and they got them surrounded
on either side and flushed those British out. It was
a resounding victory for the Patriots. Calhoun County, as you
may guess, is named for former US Vice President John C. Calhoun,
and today it is home to a mere fourteen thousand residents.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Really, yes, I didn't realized it was that small.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah, I mean, it's a it's a it's a huge
rand mass, but and it's not even the smallest county
population wise in South Carolina. It's the fourth smallest so yeah,
not a lot of folks there, but some folks from
Calhoun County are extremely famous. Starting off with Egott Winner,
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you know what that is, Emmy Grammy Oscar and a
Tony Yeah for Broadway, Viola Davis, Yeah, from the Help
Solaris Suicide Squad. She's been in everything from top to bottom.
One of my favorites, man, one of my favorites. Also
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from Calhoun County. For Gamecock fans, this is definitely gonna
Rilly up O, NFL wide receiver and former game Cock
great al Sean Jeffrey super Bowl fifty two champion with
the Philadelphia Eagles. Just an outstanding athletic talent and also
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hailing from Calhoun County. Eartha Kit the original catwoman in
the Batman's He's the old hokey one where they would
punch in yeah, the comic bookie version of that. And
she was also an accomplished singer and was the first
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one to record the song Santa Baby. That's right, Yeah,
the real sexed up version.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Yeah, yeah, it comes on.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yes, Well that was that's her. That's her and from
Calhoun County. How about that.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Yeah, this is some big names.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
That's those are some superstars, how meta states superstars from.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
There sep on a small town.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
No you don't, No, you don't. But uh, unfortunately we're
not going to be talking all about famous folks and
their glory. I think we're gonna get into something.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
It won't be as Joe got great great.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Started out, Yes, but uh, go ahead and take us away.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Danielle, Well, this was a case that the ending came recently,
but it began a little over twenty years ago. Oh
okay where it started. And it wasn't just South Carolina
that was involved in this story. There are a couple
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other states that are involved. A little crime spree and
a lot of destruction in a little bit of time.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Unfortunately, we see that a lot. Yeah, somebody goes on
a rampage in a real short time period and over
over a.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Few days, and you just the amount of destruction that
one person can bring. But this is a little over
twenty years ago before this crime spray actually began. Okay,
So there's a man named Sharif Mahadi Madi. Is that
how you say the last name? Mh DHD Madi? I
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think it's Madi. This was not his birth name, but
apparently he converted to Islam as he got a little older,
and this was the name that he chose for himself
and would eventually pass down to his children. So I
didn't know what his actual legal name is. He came
from what was considered a dysfunctional household. We've talked about
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a lot of people who don't come from great situations,
and that could be a contributing factor to a lot
of things. He didn't complete high school. Instead, he chose
to join the Marines, where he was later honorably discharged,
and at the age of twenty seven, he had an
arranged marriage with a sixteen year old. I do not know.
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He wasn't born into that religion, but I'm guessing that
that's part of Islam. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I would I would not take a guess.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
I'm not going to, but I don't know if this
was somebody else's family decided the girl's family did it,
or if he chose to do it himself. I have
no idea. But either way, he's twenty seven years old
marrying a sixteen year old.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Yeah, if you're marrying somebody sixteen years old, I mean,
I know the legal it sounds disgusting. The age of
consent is different each state, but something still tells me
if somebody sixteen year old years old getting married, there
needs to be some permission slip signed somewhere. There's paperwork
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on that. Well.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
The two ended up having two sons, Salim and Michael.
In nineteen eighty six, the mother decided to just leave
the family. This was a lot for her. You gotta
think she probably became a mom by seventeen, So she
decided to leave the family, leave the kids with the dad,
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and go start a life somewhere else when Michael was
just three years old.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
That what a responsibility for such a young person. I mean,
that's that's hard to think.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
And you have to think too. You know, you see
these about shows like sixteen Pregnant, Team Mom. At least
some of these you have this support system. I don't
know what her supports system looked like. She was probably
in it by herself, other than her husband.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
And then he got my kids that are twenty and
I'm still feeding their fish form.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
So that's a very important job.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
For them. It's not my fish, but not my fish.
It's a good kid, it's good fish.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Well, being a single father wasn't exactly something that Sharif
was good at, or in his opinion, had signed up for,
but and it caused him to not pay as much
attention to his two children, and he would work odd
jobs to help pay the bills, but he failed at
most of these jobs didn't last enough to really make
a dent. He also ended up having a history of
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altercations with law enforcement, and after deciding that he was
not up for the job of being a single dad,
he had his kids sent to live with family members,
people who could actually take care of these.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Children, probably probably the best thing for the children.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Yes, Well, in nineteen ninety one, Selim went to go
live with his aunt in Texas, while Michael went to
live with his aunt and uncle in Maryland. I think
it's interesting that they split them up. Yeah, but it
could also be, you don't know, like if they had
these the aunts and uncles they went to live with
had other children, and maybe it's like, look, what if
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I give you one, I give you one. It's not
overwhelming you. But you know, you just got to think
of splitting the siblings up. But I guess he figured
that was the best option. Yeah, I don't know. Well,
Michael was like most eight year olds, where he had
disciplinary issues. He didn't like to respect authorities, he didn't
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really care to listen to his teachers. In school, his
grades were not that great and he had below grade
level reading and writing skills and only completed the third
grade before dropping out. And which this is Michael the
youngest who was living in Maryland with his aunt uncle.
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And I did put what about truancy? Is this something
that a kid at that age can make that decision?
I mean, I think there's a state law, but I looked.
I continued researching, and at the age of nine, he
was diagnosed with major depressive disorder and was involuntarily admitted
to a psychiatric facility due to a suicide threat. Which
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this is a heavy suffer a kid at this age.
But the aunt uncle that he was living with apparently
realized that he needed to get some help that they
could not provide.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Yeah, at least they were able to identify that.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Yeah, and that's so instead of him, I'm guessing he
was pulled out of school and they were going to
try a different approach. Well. A few years later, Michael
moved back to Virginia to live with his father and brother,
who by this time had moved back as well from Texas,
and in December of nineteen ninety seven, at fourteen years old,
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Michael committed his first crime. It was breaking and entering,
and he was convicted of two counts of grand larceny
and two counts of breaking and entering. He served time
in a juvenile facility where he spent seventy five days
in solitary confinement from the ages of fourteen to seventeen,
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and then spent another eight months of solitary confinement at
the age of twenty one before he was released.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
And this is a young man that's already experiencing some
mental health challenges, that's correct, yes, and you're going to
put him in solitary confinement.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
From the age of fourteen to seventeen. That even if
I feel like evening's good, if you didn't have a
mental disorder, that would create one.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
In my opinion, Even that movie Old Cool Hand Luke,
you know he had what a week or a month
in the box and that that wore on him. But man,
that's unbelievable. They're even able to do that in a
juvenile situation.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I understand sometimes you need to some people need to
be pulled aside. And be by themselves. But that's a
long time.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Yeah, and we're kind of passing judgment. We don't know
what he did to earn.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Yeah, and I wasn't able to find the detail. I mean,
you can only get so much, you know, it's only
so much details with those But it was just this
is what we have. That's about as far as you're
gonna get.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Right.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Well, once he was released, when he aged out twenty one,
he went to go live with his mother in Richmond, Virginia.
I never the stuff that I read. I did not
see where she came back into the picture. He could
have been talking to her this whole time, so I
don't know where she came back into contact. But the
two of them were talking and had some kind of
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relationship where he went and lived with her. In two
thousand and one, Michael continued to test the limits of
the legal system, and in two thousand and one, Michael
attacked a police officer and was sentenced to ninety three
months in prison. Not a good move, and he was
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given fifteen years probation.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
And was fifteen years probation.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
That's what it said.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Sorry to interrupt, No, I saw that.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
I was like I was going, but I guess it's
making up for I don't want to say he only
got ninety three months, but you know that the penalty
is increased when an officer is involved. I don't know
the extent again of what happened with that assault, but
it was something that I guess they believe warranted fifteen
years probation.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Yeah, but that's still almost eight years.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Yeah. Wow. And he eventually was released in May of
two thousand and four. And with all these crimes happening
back to back, he's spending time in prison, but he's
also still able to you know, you're getting a little
taste of prison, but you're also able to come off
on probation. So maybe instead of just throwing putting locking
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you up, and throwing away the key, you still kind
of you're seeing what's going on in prison. You decide
this probably isn't for you. You got probation, so you still
have limits. Maybe we're gonna learn something and turn our
lives around while you're still.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Young, hopefully.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Yeah, and that's not what happened. In just a couple
months after being released for attacking the police officer. Michael's
decisions he would make in the coming month would alter
the course of not only his life, but the lives
of many other people, while simultaneously putting the fear in
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multiple communities. And we're gonna take a short break so
that we can jump into what transpired.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
All right, Well, thank you, Danielle, and we'll be right
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Visit Mullins, South Carolina, and welcome back to Carolina Crimes,
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episode two thirty three. Eventually getting to Calhoun County, South Carolina.
And we've talked about the early criminal legacy I guess
of Michael Maddy and it's time in juvenile hall prison
and then fifteen years on probation, which is unheard of
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to me. That's hefty, That is hefty. But again that
wasn't old out though by South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
So no, that was Virginia. So we will get I
promise I told you this multi state get We'll get
to where we're going.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Eventually, we believe you.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Around July fourteenth, two thousand and four, a man by
the name of Greg Jones was found dead from a
parent stab wounds. And I don't know if it's because
there were witness statements or phone records, but police ended
up at Michael's mother's house in Virginia, which just happened
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to be two miles where from where Greg Jones lived.
I mean, Greg Jones was found in Michael's home. They
recovered a knife that had blood on it, which DNA
tests later confirmed belonged to both Michael and greg and
Michael was quickly identified as the killer and they believed
that it was a drug deal gone wrong.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
So he was getting starting to dabble into the drug world.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Yes, but now that they have their suspect, it's not
as easy to arrest him because police are unable to
locate him. That is because apparently it seems that after
this stabbing took place, Michael possibly went back to his
house and ditched the knife, which is where police found it.
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He then took a stolen three eighty caliber pistol three
eighty caliber pistol and a truck from his grandmother's neighbor
and set up and stolen license plates from Virginia. I
guess the neighbor had some and he just grabbed a
bunch and then took off, and he drove the stolen
car headed towards North Carolina on July fifteenth. The next day,
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Michael arrived in Winston Salem, North Carolina, and he entered
a convenience store and got a beer out of the cooler,
and while twenty nine year old store clerk Christopher Jason
Boggs was checking his ID. For reasons unknown, Michael took
the three eighty caliber pick caliber why can't I say
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that word a pistol out and shot Bogs point blank
in the face. Whoa, and he collapsed to the ground,
and Michael leaned over the counter and fired another shot
into him his face, killing him. He then attempted to
open the cash register and was unable to get it open,
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so he fled with just the beer and headed towards
South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
So he shot somebody in the face for a cold
beer twice twice.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
And there's I mean, like I said, for reasons unknown,
maybe he was just trying to get some cash, but
I think it could have definitely ended differently. When Michael
arrived in Columbia around three point thirty in the morning,
he card jack demand named Corey Pitts. He replaced the
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man's license plate with the stolen Virginia license plate and
drove thirty five miles southeast to Calhoun County, where he
stopped off at the Wilco Travel Plaza, which is a
truck stop gas station.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
And I believe that McDonald's is in there.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
I know exactly where this is, Okay, located just off
Interstate twenty six, Michael was at the gas pump attempting
to get gas and was repeatedly unable to purchase any
because he was using stolen credit cards and they were
not working. He proceeded to struggle to try to get
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gas for about forty five minutes, to the point where
the store clerk became suspicious as to what in the
world this person was doing and thought it was just
weird that it's taking this long, well for forty five minutes,
but he's not taking it because the credit cards he's
using are stolen and he also so they decided they
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were gonna like, we're gonna call Calhoun police out here.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
So he's just out there sitting there looking at the
gas pomp.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
It's like I could see him, like he's trying to
use these different cards and it's not taking so he's
I don't know if he's juggling them around. I don't
know how many he had. Let me try to reuse it,
and after a while forty five minutes, the clerk was like,
and you got to keep in mind, this was very
early in the morning, so not a lot of people around, Like,
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this guy's looking a little shifty. So the store clerk
called the Sheriff's apartment Calhoun County. The police, of course
arrive and I'm guessing this. Immediately he was like, they're here,
I'm not doing this, and he decided to get in
the vehicle and he fled. He ditched the car, the
stolen car that he took from Pits or from Corey Pits,
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and he took off on foot and ended up at
a family farm where he broke into a shed in
the backyard. We are gonna put pictures up. This is
when I say a shed. I know. My immediate reaction
was just one of those typical little houses that they
have selling on the street, like on the side of
the road. You can see on the side of the
Interstate and you can just open it's like a little
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barn door kind of thing. You open it and there's
all your lawn equipment. This was like an outdoor building.
It had a groage. I mean, I had a you know,
the garage where you go in, and it had like
an area where somebody had made it into like an
office equipment, the TV, a place you can hang out
like a barn. Yeah, you can like hang out here. Yeah,
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that's pretty much what it was. And inside was also
a gun collection and a TV set up where Michael
decided to spend his time watching TV. Since nobody appeared
to be on the property, he broke in through. I
think he shattered one of the little square windows on
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the door to get in. But this this may have
been just a random piece of property for Michael to
stumble upon, but the person who owned it was not
a random person in the community. The property belonged to
fifty six year old James Myers, who happened to be
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a captain with Orangeburg County Public Safety, where he served
as a firefighter and a police officer both m and
it's and I put in here Casey public Safety, that's
where my aunt used to work. It's like those little
public safety offices. If some people aren't familiar these smaller towns.
It's basically you have your fire department, your ems, and
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police like all in one building. And sometimes and people
are cross trained, and so sometimes people who are EMTs
will also be firefighter, you know, different things like that.
And he kind of did all of those things. Okay,
he did not live at this property. He lived in
Orangeburg where he worked. But him and his wife, who
he had recently gotten married to just I think it
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was a second marriage. She was a little bit younger
than him and they had only been married for a
few years. Decided to buy this piece of property. It
was a dream of theirs, and even though they hadn't
moved there yet, he would go over and frequent this
place and kind of just hang out, and that.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Was his.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Place to be. He loved his daughter, leader said, he
had an older daughter who was married at the time,
no grandchildren yet. He loved to go to the low country.
He loved to shrimp fish, anything that gave him an
excuse to be out on the boat, and he went
down there as much as possible.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
So loved his community too. It sounded like, yeah, I
loved taking care of his neighbors. It's people. A great guy.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Yeah, And he was very well known, very well liked
in the community. And at the time, Captain James Myers
had been at the beach all day celebrating the birthdays
of his wife, his sister, and his daughter and so
on the way back into town, they had stopped off
at their home in Orangeburg, and he decided he was
going to swing over to the farm as they called
it in Calhoun County and was going to go hang
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out in his workshop, and that's where he encountered Michael
in on him. Wow, who was they said, reading it,
they said, laying in wait. It's kind of what he was,
because I'm sure he figured there were going to be
people showing up at some point.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Pull up.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
As soon as Captain Myers opened the door, Michael immediately
opened fire, shooting him a total of nine times.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Myers did not survive the shooting. He was killed on scene,
and Michael proceeded decided that wasn't enough to do to somebody,
and proceeded to pour gasoline on Myers's body and set
him on fire.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Good gosh.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
He then stole Myers's police truck, which I later will
come back to it later, but I think it might
have been like an unmarked is what I'm guessing, just
off of what.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Public safety truck.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Yes, yes, exactly. So he stole the police issued truck,
a twenty two caliber rifle and an issue a police
issued assault rifle, and a shotgun, all belonging to Captain Myers,
and he took off Well unfortunately, you know, as I said,
Amy at their time was cut short, she knew that
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he liked to hang out at this property, but he
had been there for way longer he should have been home,
and she ended up calling the She she drove over
to the farm, and she's the one that actually ended
up finding him lying in a pool of blood, partially
burned my gosh, and she immediately called police. James Ross
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of Newberry Pathologists Association conducted the autopsy and determined that
two shots had traveled from the top of James's head
down to the base of his skull, suggesting that James
was either down or slumping when the shots were fired,
and because of the head wounds reach how they reached
the brain, they said it caused him to lose consciousness
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and caused his death. One of the shots to his
chest struck struck both of his lungs and his heart,
and he also sustained a gunshot wound to his left hand,
which I would think putting your hand up.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Well.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
When Michael stole james police issued truck, he made his
way further down south to Florida. By this time, Virginia
police had already begun on their investigation into the murder
of Greg Jones and this drug deal gone back, Yes,
and police in North Carolina had already issued an a
(32:09):
restaurrant after security camera footage from the gas station showed
that Michael was the one and who had been identified
as shooting and killing the store clerk, Christopher Boggs for
one for two beers, maybe one well the paper I
read that a so it could be. But since this
is now what they have considered a crime spree, it's
(32:31):
committed by one person, and they have crossed state lines.
This is now the FBI.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Yeah, it's a federal deal now.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
And the FBI dispatched agents to begin a search for
Michael with a description of the vehicle he was in,
him and probably the whole he is probably armed in
dangerous Yes. Well. On July twenty first, four days after
Captain Myers was killed, local police in Florida spotted Michael
(32:59):
driving the stolen police truck again. I said, this is
why I thought it was possibly unmarked, because a mart
one would stand out so much easier. So that's what
made That's what made me believe this isn't just a
standard police car. And he was cornered in Satellite Beach.
(33:19):
I'd never heard of it, so I had to google
map it I went, I threw it in my Google
machine and it's just under Orlando. Michael did not like
that he was being cornered and he abandoned the truck
and fled on foot while carrying Myers's stolen rifle with him.
(33:41):
After a good bit of a chase, he finally ended
up dropping the rifle and surrendering to police. And it
was actually during Captain Myers's visitation when the family was
informed that the suspect had been caught, and they said
that it was very in a very sad time. It
(34:03):
was still a sad time, but it was a sense
of relief that they had that this person had been caught.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Michael was extradited back to South Carolina, where he was
officially charged for the murder of Captain James Myers, and
prosecutors sought the death penalty at the request of Myers family,
Orangeburg County authorities where he was an employee, and Calhoun
County Authorities where the murder took place. So you've got
all these people going death penalty, go for it. Yeah, Well,
(34:34):
two years would pass before Michael stood trial, and we
are going to tell you one more short break and
get into aftermath.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Yes, thank you, we'll be right back after this quick
word from our sponsors, and welcome back to Carolina Crimes,
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episode two thirty three. And just this madman on the loose,
this Michael Maddy, and how he ended the life of
one of a hero really in Orangeburg and Calhoun Counties,
Captain Myers, unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Unfortunately, he was found and taken into custody in Florida
and extradited back to South Carolina. But like I said
before our break, it would take two years, you know
how the process gathering information, just legal system in general,
two years would pass before he went to trial. Well,
his trial began on November twenty for US of two
(36:00):
thousand and six, where the first three days of this
trial were spent on jury selection. At one point when
he you know, they bring them from the prison to
like a holding cell in the I guess they have
it in the courtroom a courthouse, yes, And then they
go to search them before he goes into the courtroom.
(36:23):
And at one point it was discovered that Michael had
a homemade cuff key on him, almost like he was
intending to try to escape. And as a result, yeah,
and as a result tighter security measures were put in
place during the rest of the trial, and then November
twenty eighth, four days into his trial, after the jury
had been selected and they are ready to begin listening
(36:47):
to the facts of this case, Michael stated he decided
he was going to plead guilty to all charges and
as a result, he was convicted. There was no trial,
and he the sentencing was left up to the discretion
of the judge. Prosecutors continued to argue for the death penalty,
(37:08):
stating that Michael had hate and malice in his heart,
pointed out his criminal history, and had Myers's widow testify,
saying that the very shed her husband had been killed
in was the same shed that was the backdrop for
their wedding in two thousand and three, so something that
was supposed to just bring great memories and good things
(37:30):
turned into an awful place that she didn't want to
be at. The defense was seeking life in prison, bringing
up Michael's troubled childhood and said it warranted judicial mercy. Well.
On December eighth, two thousand and six, Judge Clifton Newman
sentenced Michael to death for the murder of Captain James Myers.
(37:52):
Saying that Michael had a lack of remorse, bringing up
the homemade handcuff key that had been found in other
misbehaviors that had gone on while in court, including threatening
law enforcement during the trial, all which he said proved
that he would not adapt or conform to prison life.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Okay, and Judge Clifton Newman, of course, trial judge for
the Murdock trials, m I.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Thought I heard that name. It was like, that's very familiar. Yeah,
he stated, in extinguishing the life, hope and dreams of
Captain Myers in such a wicked, depraved, and consciousless manner.
The defendant, Michael Dean Maddie also extinguished any justifiable claims
to receive the mercy he seeks from this court. In
(38:44):
addition to the death sentence, Michael also received consecutive jail
terms of fifteen years and ten years for second degree
burglary and grand larcening, and at the age of twenty three,
Michael was the youngest person ever to be sentenced to
death in South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Well, George Stanny, I think in modern day South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Yes, yes, Now it was time for Michael to face
the court in North Carolina for the murder of Christopher Boggs,
and in December twenty eleven, he was extradited to North
Carolina to stand trial, where he pled guilty to one
count of first degree murder and was sentenced to life
(39:28):
without parole. Since he was already on death row in
South Carolina, Michael was sent back to serve his time
there here. Michael was never prosecuted in Virginia for the
murder of Greg Jones because Virginia authorities determined that whether
he gets tried in South Carolina and North Carolina, either
(39:51):
way he's going to get either a life or death sentence,
and there's no point he's going to be incarcerated. And
I do want to point out that Michael did later
confess to killing Greg Jones, Okay, so that's not an assumption.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Yeah he was, he admitted it, okay.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
But there was never anything from it because Virginia was like,
you're the Carolinas will handle you.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
Yeah, you've been handled.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
Michael's troubles didn't end just because he was on death row.
And on the morning of December two, two thousand and nine,
this was before he was tried in North Carolina, three
years into his sentence at liber correctional institution. Michael and
a condemned serial killer, Quincy Allen, plotted an attack on
a corrections officer.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Hmmm, No, I think we've covered Quincy Allen before.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
I asked Iget why I'd asked us? I said this,
Have we done this one? Because this might be a
segue into something, But I don't. I'd have to go
back and look.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
Yeah, let's let's look at that, and if not, we'll
do it next week.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
There you go. They both removed metal strips from air
ducks and made makeshift knives.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
I could see how you could do that very easily.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
Nathan Sassar was the correction officer that day, and they
approached him and asked if they could go to the
basketball court. He escorted them there, where Michael and Quincy
began stabbing, says he many times, multiple times, before attempting
to escape by climbing through the fence. The escape attempt
(41:24):
failed after another prison staff subdued the two by firing
teargas and rubber bullets. Sassar survived the stabbing, but developed PTSD,
which is rightfully so, and began suffering from anxiety attacks,
which unfortunately later resulted in him being dismissed from his job.
(41:45):
Ah Man, Michael and Quincy were stripped of their privileges
including outside recreation, visitation, phone use, and canteen items, and
charged with assault, but since they were both already serving
death sentences, the charge just ended up being dropped. Like
most death penalty cases, this one had multiple appeals, all
(42:07):
of which were rejected, and in two thousand and three
twenty three, Michael was involved in a lawsuit that included
several other death row inmates against the state of South
Carolina over the introduction of the firing squad and electric
chair as alternate execution methods. There was an issue a
(42:28):
while I don't know all dates and stuff when this
decided to get brought back in.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
Because of it was just early last year, the.
Speaker 3 (42:34):
Availability of the drugs for lethal injection and the cost.
So then they decided, so that halted a lot of
the death stinans is being carried out. So then this
is when this comes into play. They decide what we'll
bring in alternative.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
Kind of delaying the inevitable.
Speaker 3 (42:52):
The inmates argue that it was unconstitutional because it could
cause them unnecessary pain and suffering, which went against the
eighth The mat of cruel and unusual punishment. The state, however,
said that both options were in line with current legal
protocols and that had no law decreed that death had
to be instantaneous or painless for individuals facing the death penalty.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
I see their point.
Speaker 3 (43:17):
The lawsuit was dismissed in July of twenty twenty four,
and on August twenty eighth, twenty twenty four, a court
order was issued to allow the state to carry out
a total of six executions during the course of the
following year, with one taking place every thirty five days
apart from each other. Michael was one of the six
(43:41):
prisoners on that list. One of the other ones was
Brad Sigmund, which I said was when you covered in
episode to twelve.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
Yeah. He was the first recently for the Firing Squad.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
While March fourteenth, twenty twenty five, a week after Sigmund
was executed by Firing Squad, Michael's death warrant was formally
signed by the South Carolina Supreme Court and his death
sentence was scheduled to be carried out on April eleventh,
twenty twenty five. He was given until March twenty eighth
to choose his preferred method lethal injection, firing squad or electrocution,
(44:22):
and if he failed to make a decision by then,
it would be carried out via electric chair by default. Wow,
he ended up choosing death by firing squad after his
final what they call it in the twelfth hour or something.
After his final appeal was rejected, government Master did not
(44:46):
order a stay, the execution date was officially set. Captain
Meyers's only daughter chose not to witness the execution. She
said that she didn't need to deal, didn't need to
be there to see that, but would hope that it
and it would help her put the painful memories behind her.
She said, every time she would get a call about
a prison transfer an appeal coming up, it brought me
(45:11):
back to the crime and what happened, and I'm ready
for that to be done. An interesting thing is former
now he's the Calhoun County Sheriff. Thomas Summers was originally
the investigator on Captain Myers's case, and he was friends
with him, and he said he did plan to go
(45:33):
to the execution because he said, I'm finishing what I
started and this is going to be the end of
my case. Okay, I can see, so he had plans
to attend the execution.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
Well.
Speaker 3 (45:46):
On April eleventh, to twenty twenty five, forty two year
old Michael Dean Body had a hood placed over his
head and after three simultaneous shots to the heart, was
pronounced dead at six oh five pm. He never made
a final statement, and prior to his execution, his last
meal had been a Ribbi steak, mushroom risotto, broccoli, collar greens,
(46:10):
a cheesecake, and sweet tea. And he was executed, and
hopefully there is some kind of peace that can come
to his family. His daughter, she's remarried. She said he
would have loved her current husband. She's got four daughters
(46:34):
that never got to meet her their grandfather and the
only thing that the only time they've ever known him
is through pictures and stories. And it's unfortunate his wife,
Amy did not get to have that life with him
that they had planned. And the other people, you know,
Greg Jones, Christopher Boggs, these people have lost their lives
for nothing. And there's nothing that indicated that I saw
(46:58):
where there's an ex nation of what even triggered this.
Unless the only thing I can think of is maybe
the drug deal gone wrong. He ended up stabbing and
killing Greg Jones and decided I got to get out
of dodge. And then it turns into well, I've got
stolen stuff. I know they're looking for me. I need money,
and then it turns into desperation and you do things
(47:21):
I don't know. Yeah, but it's uh, it's unfortunate. A
lot of people's lives were forever changed, including his. Yeah,
and it's sad, but we'll put up a lot of
pictures of the victims. I don't have one of Greg Jones,
but we have a lot of good ones of Captain Myers.
Speaker 2 (47:39):
Yeah. It seemed like a wonderful person.
Speaker 3 (47:41):
Oh yeah, and you look on he's sweet. He's got
that sweet look. But it's it's just it's a sad thing.
But at least we can say that there was someone
held responsible. Yes, and to an extent, justice state was served.
Speaker 2 (47:58):
Just a whirlwind a track. Well. Our hearts certainly go
out to them, for sure, his family and the community
that he served, that he loved. You don't do jobs
like that. You're not a firefighter, public safety. You don't
do that unless you love the people that you live around.
And certainly a testament to his big heart.
Speaker 3 (48:18):
Yeah, and he was very well loved, not just by
his family but the community that he served.
Speaker 2 (48:24):
Well, Danielle, we thank you for bringing us this one
this week, said, another interesting tale. We talk about the
firing squad and how unique that is, and that's come
up and it makes headlines and people wonder about the backstory.
What got this person to this point and obviously a
troubled childhood, a troubled life, and somewhere evil set root
(48:49):
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For over three hundred and fifty years, the state of
South Carolina has been the setting for some of the
most horrendous crimes ever committed. Some have gained global notoriety,
some have been forgotten, and others have been swept under
the rug completely. Now, two South Carolina natives and true
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We got a lot of thank yous and shout outs
(03:33):
here at the end of this episode. Finally, we ran
real long last week. It should probably been two episodes.
It's two separate investigations. Yeah, I hindsight's twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I don't think anybody was upset.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
No, I don't think it's a little more content for
that for yourself. All right, So, Danielle, this week, we're
going to a county I think we've only been to
once before, maybe maybe twice. But it's Calhoun County, and
(04:09):
crime happens there just like everywhere else. But when I
say the population of this entire county, you'll know why
there's not a ton of stuff out there. But Calhoun County,
for those that don't know, is located in south central
South Carolina, just between Richland and Orangeburg Counties. Originally, Calhoun
(04:32):
County was home to the Congaree Native American tribe, and
to this day they still find tons of artifacts down
there from the Congree tribe, right there at the fork
in those rivers. Fantastic historic sites there. Calhoun County place
(04:52):
in American history. It was the site of the Siege
of Fort Mott during the American Revolution. What Fort Mott
was was a British garrison and two guys of high
ambition to Patriots decided they wanted to take that down,
and they sure did, Lieutenant Colonel Lighthorse Harry Lee and
(05:17):
the swamp Fox Francis Mary, and they got them surrounded
on either side and flushed those British out. It was
a resounding victory for the Patriots. Calhoun County, as you
may guess, is named for former US Vice President John C. Calhoun,
and today it is home to a mere fourteen thousand residents.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Really, yes, I didn't realized it was that small.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah, I mean, it's a it's a it's a huge
rand mass, but and it's not even the smallest county
population wise in South Carolina. It's the fourth smallest so yeah,
not a lot of folks there, but some folks from
Calhoun County are extremely famous. Starting off with Egott Winner,
(06:10):
you know what that is, Emmy Grammy Oscar and a
Tony Yeah for Broadway, Viola Davis, Yeah, from the Help
Solaris Suicide Squad. She's been in everything from top to bottom.
One of my favorites, man, one of my favorites. Also
(06:30):
from Calhoun County. For Gamecock fans, this is definitely gonna
Rilly up O, NFL wide receiver and former game Cock
great al Sean Jeffrey super Bowl fifty two champion with
the Philadelphia Eagles. Just an outstanding athletic talent and also
(06:50):
hailing from Calhoun County. Eartha Kit the original catwoman in
the Batman's He's the old hokey one where they would
punch in yeah, the comic bookie version of that. And
she was also an accomplished singer and was the first
(07:12):
one to record the song Santa Baby. That's right, Yeah,
the real sexed up version.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Yeah, yeah, it comes on.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yes, Well that was that's her. That's her and from
Calhoun County. How about that.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Yeah, this is some big names.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
That's those are some superstars, how meta states superstars from.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
There sep on a small town.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
No you don't, No, you don't. But uh, unfortunately we're
not going to be talking all about famous folks and
their glory. I think we're gonna get into something.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
It won't be as Joe got great great.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Started out, Yes, but uh, go ahead and take us away.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Danielle, Well, this was a case that the ending came recently,
but it began a little over twenty years ago. Oh
okay where it started. And it wasn't just South Carolina
that was involved in this story. There are a couple
(08:23):
other states that are involved. A little crime spree and
a lot of destruction in a little bit of time.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Unfortunately, we see that a lot. Yeah, somebody goes on
a rampage in a real short time period and over
over a.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Few days, and you just the amount of destruction that
one person can bring. But this is a little over
twenty years ago before this crime spray actually began. Okay,
So there's a man named Sharif Mahadi Madi. Is that
how you say the last name? Mh DHD Madi? I
(09:07):
think it's Madi. This was not his birth name, but
apparently he converted to Islam as he got a little older,
and this was the name that he chose for himself
and would eventually pass down to his children. So I
didn't know what his actual legal name is. He came
from what was considered a dysfunctional household. We've talked about
(09:28):
a lot of people who don't come from great situations,
and that could be a contributing factor to a lot
of things. He didn't complete high school. Instead, he chose
to join the Marines, where he was later honorably discharged,
and at the age of twenty seven, he had an
arranged marriage with a sixteen year old. I do not know.
(09:52):
He wasn't born into that religion, but I'm guessing that
that's part of Islam. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I would I would not take a guess.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
I'm not going to, but I don't know if this
was somebody else's family decided the girl's family did it,
or if he chose to do it himself. I have
no idea. But either way, he's twenty seven years old
marrying a sixteen year old.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Yeah, if you're marrying somebody sixteen years old, I mean,
I know the legal it sounds disgusting. The age of
consent is different each state, but something still tells me
if somebody sixteen year old years old getting married, there
needs to be some permission slip signed somewhere. There's paperwork
(10:33):
on that. Well.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
The two ended up having two sons, Salim and Michael.
In nineteen eighty six, the mother decided to just leave
the family. This was a lot for her. You gotta
think she probably became a mom by seventeen, So she
decided to leave the family, leave the kids with the dad,
(10:57):
and go start a life somewhere else when Michael was
just three years old.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
That what a responsibility for such a young person. I mean,
that's that's hard to think.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
And you have to think too. You know, you see
these about shows like sixteen Pregnant, Team Mom. At least
some of these you have this support system. I don't
know what her supports system looked like. She was probably
in it by herself, other than her husband.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
And then he got my kids that are twenty and
I'm still feeding their fish form.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
So that's a very important job.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
For them. It's not my fish, but not my fish.
It's a good kid, it's good fish.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Well, being a single father wasn't exactly something that Sharif
was good at, or in his opinion, had signed up for,
but and it caused him to not pay as much
attention to his two children, and he would work odd
jobs to help pay the bills, but he failed at
most of these jobs didn't last enough to really make
a dent. He also ended up having a history of
(11:56):
altercations with law enforcement, and after deciding that he was
not up for the job of being a single dad,
he had his kids sent to live with family members,
people who could actually take care of these.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Children, probably probably the best thing for the children.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Yes, Well, in nineteen ninety one, Selim went to go
live with his aunt in Texas, while Michael went to
live with his aunt and uncle in Maryland. I think
it's interesting that they split them up. Yeah, but it
could also be, you don't know, like if they had
these the aunts and uncles they went to live with
had other children, and maybe it's like, look, what if
(12:34):
I give you one, I give you one. It's not
overwhelming you. But you know, you just got to think
of splitting the siblings up. But I guess he figured
that was the best option. Yeah, I don't know. Well,
Michael was like most eight year olds, where he had
disciplinary issues. He didn't like to respect authorities, he didn't
(12:55):
really care to listen to his teachers. In school, his
grades were not that great and he had below grade
level reading and writing skills and only completed the third
grade before dropping out. And which this is Michael the
youngest who was living in Maryland with his aunt uncle.
(13:15):
And I did put what about truancy? Is this something
that a kid at that age can make that decision?
I mean, I think there's a state law, but I looked.
I continued researching, and at the age of nine, he
was diagnosed with major depressive disorder and was involuntarily admitted
to a psychiatric facility due to a suicide threat. Which
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this is a heavy suffer a kid at this age.
But the aunt uncle that he was living with apparently
realized that he needed to get some help that they
could not provide.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Yeah, at least they were able to identify that.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Yeah, and that's so instead of him, I'm guessing he
was pulled out of school and they were going to
try a different approach. Well. A few years later, Michael
moved back to Virginia to live with his father and brother,
who by this time had moved back as well from Texas,
and in December of nineteen ninety seven, at fourteen years old,
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Michael committed his first crime. It was breaking and entering,
and he was convicted of two counts of grand larceny
and two counts of breaking and entering. He served time
in a juvenile facility where he spent seventy five days
in solitary confinement from the ages of fourteen to seventeen,
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and then spent another eight months of solitary confinement at
the age of twenty one before he was released.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
And this is a young man that's already experiencing some
mental health challenges, that's correct, yes, and you're going to
put him in solitary confinement.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
From the age of fourteen to seventeen. That even if
I feel like evening's good, if you didn't have a
mental disorder, that would create one.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
In my opinion, Even that movie Old Cool Hand Luke,
you know he had what a week or a month
in the box and that that wore on him. But man,
that's unbelievable. They're even able to do that in a
juvenile situation.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I understand sometimes you need to some people need to
be pulled aside. And be by themselves. But that's a
long time.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Yeah, and we're kind of passing judgment. We don't know
what he did to earn.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Yeah, and I wasn't able to find the detail. I mean,
you can only get so much, you know, it's only
so much details with those But it was just this
is what we have. That's about as far as you're
gonna get.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Right.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Well, once he was released, when he aged out twenty one,
he went to go live with his mother in Richmond, Virginia.
I never the stuff that I read. I did not
see where she came back into the picture. He could
have been talking to her this whole time, so I
don't know where she came back into contact. But the
two of them were talking and had some kind of
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relationship where he went and lived with her. In two
thousand and one, Michael continued to test the limits of
the legal system, and in two thousand and one, Michael
attacked a police officer and was sentenced to ninety three
months in prison. Not a good move, and he was
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given fifteen years probation.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
And was fifteen years probation.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
That's what it said.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Sorry to interrupt, No, I saw that.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
I was like I was going, but I guess it's
making up for I don't want to say he only
got ninety three months, but you know that the penalty
is increased when an officer is involved. I don't know
the extent again of what happened with that assault, but
it was something that I guess they believe warranted fifteen
years probation.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Yeah, but that's still almost eight years.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Yeah. Wow. And he eventually was released in May of
two thousand and four. And with all these crimes happening
back to back, he's spending time in prison, but he's
also still able to you know, you're getting a little
taste of prison, but you're also able to come off
on probation. So maybe instead of just throwing putting locking
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you up, and throwing away the key, you still kind
of you're seeing what's going on in prison. You decide
this probably isn't for you. You got probation, so you still
have limits. Maybe we're gonna learn something and turn our
lives around while you're still.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Young, hopefully.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Yeah, and that's not what happened. In just a couple
months after being released for attacking the police officer. Michael's
decisions he would make in the coming month would alter
the course of not only his life, but the lives
of many other people, while simultaneously putting the fear in
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multiple communities. And we're gonna take a short break so
that we can jump into what transpired.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
All right, Well, thank you, Danielle, and we'll be right
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tobacco warehouses. Thanks to a generous loan from his daughter Rose,
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Visit Mullins, South Carolina, and welcome back to Carolina Crimes,
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episode two thirty three. Eventually getting to Calhoun County, South Carolina.
And we've talked about the early criminal legacy I guess
of Michael Maddy and it's time in juvenile hall prison
and then fifteen years on probation, which is unheard of
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to me. That's hefty, That is hefty. But again that
wasn't old out though by South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
So no, that was Virginia. So we will get I
promise I told you this multi state get We'll get
to where we're going.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Eventually, we believe you.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Around July fourteenth, two thousand and four, a man by
the name of Greg Jones was found dead from a
parent stab wounds. And I don't know if it's because
there were witness statements or phone records, but police ended
up at Michael's mother's house in Virginia, which just happened
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to be two miles where from where Greg Jones lived.
I mean, Greg Jones was found in Michael's home. They
recovered a knife that had blood on it, which DNA
tests later confirmed belonged to both Michael and greg and
Michael was quickly identified as the killer and they believed
that it was a drug deal gone wrong.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
So he was getting starting to dabble into the drug world.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Yes, but now that they have their suspect, it's not
as easy to arrest him because police are unable to
locate him. That is because apparently it seems that after
this stabbing took place, Michael possibly went back to his
house and ditched the knife, which is where police found it.
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He then took a stolen three eighty caliber pistol three
eighty caliber pistol and a truck from his grandmother's neighbor
and set up and stolen license plates from Virginia. I
guess the neighbor had some and he just grabbed a
bunch and then took off, and he drove the stolen
car headed towards North Carolina on July fifteenth. The next day,
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Michael arrived in Winston Salem, North Carolina, and he entered
a convenience store and got a beer out of the cooler,
and while twenty nine year old store clerk Christopher Jason
Boggs was checking his ID. For reasons unknown, Michael took
the three eighty caliber pick caliber why can't I say
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that word a pistol out and shot Bogs point blank
in the face. Whoa, and he collapsed to the ground,
and Michael leaned over the counter and fired another shot
into him his face, killing him. He then attempted to
open the cash register and was unable to get it open,
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so he fled with just the beer and headed towards
South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
So he shot somebody in the face for a cold
beer twice twice.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
And there's I mean, like I said, for reasons unknown,
maybe he was just trying to get some cash, but
I think it could have definitely ended differently. When Michael
arrived in Columbia around three point thirty in the morning,
he card jack demand named Corey Pitts. He replaced the
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man's license plate with the stolen Virginia license plate and
drove thirty five miles southeast to Calhoun County, where he
stopped off at the Wilco Travel Plaza, which is a
truck stop gas station.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
And I believe that McDonald's is in there.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
I know exactly where this is, Okay, located just off
Interstate twenty six, Michael was at the gas pump attempting
to get gas and was repeatedly unable to purchase any
because he was using stolen credit cards and they were
not working. He proceeded to struggle to try to get
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gas for about forty five minutes, to the point where
the store clerk became suspicious as to what in the
world this person was doing and thought it was just
weird that it's taking this long, well for forty five minutes,
but he's not taking it because the credit cards he's
using are stolen and he also so they decided they
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were gonna like, we're gonna call Calhoun police out here.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
So he's just out there sitting there looking at the
gas pomp.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
It's like I could see him, like he's trying to
use these different cards and it's not taking so he's
I don't know if he's juggling them around. I don't
know how many he had. Let me try to reuse it,
and after a while forty five minutes, the clerk was like,
and you got to keep in mind, this was very
early in the morning, so not a lot of people around, Like,
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this guy's looking a little shifty. So the store clerk
called the Sheriff's apartment Calhoun County. The police, of course
arrive and I'm guessing this. Immediately he was like, they're here,
I'm not doing this, and he decided to get in
the vehicle and he fled. He ditched the car, the
stolen car that he took from Pits or from Corey Pits,
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and he took off on foot and ended up at
a family farm where he broke into a shed in
the backyard. We are gonna put pictures up. This is
when I say a shed. I know. My immediate reaction
was just one of those typical little houses that they
have selling on the street, like on the side of
the road. You can see on the side of the
Interstate and you can just open it's like a little
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barn door kind of thing. You open it and there's
all your lawn equipment. This was like an outdoor building.
It had a groage. I mean, I had a you know,
the garage where you go in, and it had like
an area where somebody had made it into like an
office equipment, the TV, a place you can hang out
like a barn. Yeah, you can like hang out here. Yeah,
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that's pretty much what it was. And inside was also
a gun collection and a TV set up where Michael
decided to spend his time watching TV. Since nobody appeared
to be on the property, he broke in through. I
think he shattered one of the little square windows on
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the door to get in. But this this may have
been just a random piece of property for Michael to
stumble upon, but the person who owned it was not
a random person in the community. The property belonged to
fifty six year old James Myers, who happened to be
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a captain with Orangeburg County Public Safety, where he served
as a firefighter and a police officer both m and
it's and I put in here Casey public Safety, that's
where my aunt used to work. It's like those little
public safety offices. If some people aren't familiar these smaller towns.
It's basically you have your fire department, your ems, and
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police like all in one building. And sometimes and people
are cross trained, and so sometimes people who are EMTs
will also be firefighter, you know, different things like that.
And he kind of did all of those things. Okay,
he did not live at this property. He lived in
Orangeburg where he worked. But him and his wife, who
he had recently gotten married to just I think it
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was a second marriage. She was a little bit younger
than him and they had only been married for a
few years. Decided to buy this piece of property. It
was a dream of theirs, and even though they hadn't
moved there yet, he would go over and frequent this
place and kind of just hang out, and that.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Was his.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Place to be. He loved his daughter, leader said, he
had an older daughter who was married at the time,
no grandchildren yet. He loved to go to the low country.
He loved to shrimp fish, anything that gave him an
excuse to be out on the boat, and he went
down there as much as possible.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
So loved his community too. It sounded like, yeah, I
loved taking care of his neighbors. It's people. A great guy.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Yeah, And he was very well known, very well liked
in the community. And at the time, Captain James Myers
had been at the beach all day celebrating the birthdays
of his wife, his sister, and his daughter and so
on the way back into town, they had stopped off
at their home in Orangeburg, and he decided he was
going to swing over to the farm as they called
it in Calhoun County and was going to go hang
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out in his workshop, and that's where he encountered Michael
in on him. Wow, who was they said, reading it,
they said, laying in wait. It's kind of what he was,
because I'm sure he figured there were going to be
people showing up at some point.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Pull up.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
As soon as Captain Myers opened the door, Michael immediately
opened fire, shooting him a total of nine times.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Myers did not survive the shooting. He was killed on scene,
and Michael proceeded decided that wasn't enough to do to somebody,
and proceeded to pour gasoline on Myers's body and set
him on fire.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Good gosh.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
He then stole Myers's police truck, which I later will
come back to it later, but I think it might
have been like an unmarked is what I'm guessing, just
off of what.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Public safety truck.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Yes, yes, exactly. So he stole the police issued truck,
a twenty two caliber rifle and an issue a police
issued assault rifle, and a shotgun, all belonging to Captain Myers,
and he took off Well unfortunately, you know, as I said,
Amy at their time was cut short, she knew that
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he liked to hang out at this property, but he
had been there for way longer he should have been home,
and she ended up calling the She she drove over
to the farm, and she's the one that actually ended
up finding him lying in a pool of blood, partially
burned my gosh, and she immediately called police. James Ross
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of Newberry Pathologists Association conducted the autopsy and determined that
two shots had traveled from the top of James's head
down to the base of his skull, suggesting that James
was either down or slumping when the shots were fired,
and because of the head wounds reach how they reached
the brain, they said it caused him to lose consciousness
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and caused his death. One of the shots to his
chest struck struck both of his lungs and his heart,
and he also sustained a gunshot wound to his left hand,
which I would think putting your hand up.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Well.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
When Michael stole james police issued truck, he made his
way further down south to Florida. By this time, Virginia
police had already begun on their investigation into the murder
of Greg Jones and this drug deal gone back, Yes,
and police in North Carolina had already issued an a
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restaurrant after security camera footage from the gas station showed
that Michael was the one and who had been identified
as shooting and killing the store clerk, Christopher Boggs for
one for two beers, maybe one well the paper I
read that a so it could be. But since this
is now what they have considered a crime spree, it's
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committed by one person, and they have crossed state lines.
This is now the FBI.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Yeah, it's a federal deal now.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
And the FBI dispatched agents to begin a search for
Michael with a description of the vehicle he was in,
him and probably the whole he is probably armed in
dangerous Yes. Well. On July twenty first, four days after
Captain Myers was killed, local police in Florida spotted Michael
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driving the stolen police truck again. I said, this is
why I thought it was possibly unmarked, because a mart
one would stand out so much easier. So that's what
made That's what made me believe this isn't just a
standard police car. And he was cornered in Satellite Beach.
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I'd never heard of it, so I had to google
map it I went, I threw it in my Google
machine and it's just under Orlando. Michael did not like
that he was being cornered and he abandoned the truck
and fled on foot while carrying Myers's stolen rifle with him.
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After a good bit of a chase, he finally ended
up dropping the rifle and surrendering to police. And it
was actually during Captain Myers's visitation when the family was
informed that the suspect had been caught, and they said
that it was very in a very sad time. It
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was still a sad time, but it was a sense
of relief that they had that this person had been caught.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Michael was extradited back to South Carolina, where he was
officially charged for the murder of Captain James Myers, and
prosecutors sought the death penalty at the request of Myers family,
Orangeburg County authorities where he was an employee, and Calhoun
County Authorities where the murder took place. So you've got
all these people going death penalty, go for it. Yeah, Well,
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two years would pass before Michael stood trial, and we
are going to tell you one more short break and
get into aftermath.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Yes, thank you, we'll be right back after this quick
word from our sponsors, and welcome back to Carolina Crimes,
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episode two thirty three. And just this madman on the loose,
this Michael Maddy, and how he ended the life of
one of a hero really in Orangeburg and Calhoun Counties,
Captain Myers, unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Unfortunately, he was found and taken into custody in Florida
and extradited back to South Carolina. But like I said
before our break, it would take two years, you know
how the process gathering information, just legal system in general,
two years would pass before he went to trial. Well,
his trial began on November twenty for US of two
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thousand and six, where the first three days of this
trial were spent on jury selection. At one point when
he you know, they bring them from the prison to
like a holding cell in the I guess they have
it in the courtroom a courthouse, yes, And then they
go to search them before he goes into the courtroom.
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And at one point it was discovered that Michael had
a homemade cuff key on him, almost like he was
intending to try to escape. And as a result, yeah,
and as a result tighter security measures were put in
place during the rest of the trial, and then November
twenty eighth, four days into his trial, after the jury
had been selected and they are ready to begin listening
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to the facts of this case, Michael stated he decided
he was going to plead guilty to all charges and
as a result, he was convicted. There was no trial,
and he the sentencing was left up to the discretion
of the judge. Prosecutors continued to argue for the death penalty,
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stating that Michael had hate and malice in his heart,
pointed out his criminal history, and had Myers's widow testify,
saying that the very shed her husband had been killed
in was the same shed that was the backdrop for
their wedding in two thousand and three, so something that
was supposed to just bring great memories and good things
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turned into an awful place that she didn't want to
be at. The defense was seeking life in prison, bringing
up Michael's troubled childhood and said it warranted judicial mercy. Well.
On December eighth, two thousand and six, Judge Clifton Newman
sentenced Michael to death for the murder of Captain James Myers.
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Saying that Michael had a lack of remorse, bringing up
the homemade handcuff key that had been found in other
misbehaviors that had gone on while in court, including threatening
law enforcement during the trial, all which he said proved
that he would not adapt or conform to prison life.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Okay, and Judge Clifton Newman, of course, trial judge for
the Murdock trials, m I.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Thought I heard that name. It was like, that's very familiar. Yeah,
he stated, in extinguishing the life, hope and dreams of
Captain Myers in such a wicked, depraved, and consciousless manner.
The defendant, Michael Dean Maddie also extinguished any justifiable claims
to receive the mercy he seeks from this court. In
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addition to the death sentence, Michael also received consecutive jail
terms of fifteen years and ten years for second degree
burglary and grand larcening, and at the age of twenty three,
Michael was the youngest person ever to be sentenced to
death in South Carolina.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Well, George Stanny, I think in modern day South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Yes, yes, Now it was time for Michael to face
the court in North Carolina for the murder of Christopher Boggs,
and in December twenty eleven, he was extradited to North
Carolina to stand trial, where he pled guilty to one
count of first degree murder and was sentenced to life
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without parole. Since he was already on death row in
South Carolina, Michael was sent back to serve his time
there here. Michael was never prosecuted in Virginia for the
murder of Greg Jones because Virginia authorities determined that whether
he gets tried in South Carolina and North Carolina, either
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way he's going to get either a life or death sentence,
and there's no point he's going to be incarcerated. And
I do want to point out that Michael did later
confess to killing Greg Jones, Okay, so that's not an assumption.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Yeah he was, he admitted it, okay.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
But there was never anything from it because Virginia was like,
you're the Carolinas will handle you.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
Yeah, you've been handled.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
Michael's troubles didn't end just because he was on death row.
And on the morning of December two, two thousand and nine,
this was before he was tried in North Carolina, three
years into his sentence at liber correctional institution. Michael and
a condemned serial killer, Quincy Allen, plotted an attack on
a corrections officer.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Hmmm, No, I think we've covered Quincy Allen before.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
I asked Iget why I'd asked us? I said this,
Have we done this one? Because this might be a
segue into something, But I don't. I'd have to go
back and look.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
Yeah, let's let's look at that, and if not, we'll
do it next week.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
There you go. They both removed metal strips from air
ducks and made makeshift knives.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
I could see how you could do that very easily.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
Nathan Sassar was the correction officer that day, and they
approached him and asked if they could go to the
basketball court. He escorted them there, where Michael and Quincy
began stabbing, says he many times, multiple times, before attempting
to escape by climbing through the fence. The escape attempt
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failed after another prison staff subdued the two by firing
teargas and rubber bullets. Sassar survived the stabbing, but developed PTSD,
which is rightfully so, and began suffering from anxiety attacks,
which unfortunately later resulted in him being dismissed from his job.
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Ah Man, Michael and Quincy were stripped of their privileges
including outside recreation, visitation, phone use, and canteen items, and
charged with assault, but since they were both already serving
death sentences, the charge just ended up being dropped. Like
most death penalty cases, this one had multiple appeals, all
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of which were rejected, and in two thousand and three
twenty three, Michael was involved in a lawsuit that included
several other death row inmates against the state of South
Carolina over the introduction of the firing squad and electric
chair as alternate execution methods. There was an issue a
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while I don't know all dates and stuff when this
decided to get brought back in.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
Because of it was just early last year, the.
Speaker 3 (42:34):
Availability of the drugs for lethal injection and the cost.
So then they decided, so that halted a lot of
the death stinans is being carried out. So then this
is when this comes into play. They decide what we'll
bring in alternative.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
Kind of delaying the inevitable.
Speaker 3 (42:52):
The inmates argue that it was unconstitutional because it could
cause them unnecessary pain and suffering, which went against the
eighth The mat of cruel and unusual punishment. The state, however,
said that both options were in line with current legal
protocols and that had no law decreed that death had
to be instantaneous or painless for individuals facing the death penalty.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
I see their point.
Speaker 3 (43:17):
The lawsuit was dismissed in July of twenty twenty four,
and on August twenty eighth, twenty twenty four, a court
order was issued to allow the state to carry out
a total of six executions during the course of the
following year, with one taking place every thirty five days
apart from each other. Michael was one of the six
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prisoners on that list. One of the other ones was
Brad Sigmund, which I said was when you covered in
episode to twelve.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
Yeah. He was the first recently for the Firing Squad.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
While March fourteenth, twenty twenty five, a week after Sigmund
was executed by Firing Squad, Michael's death warrant was formally
signed by the South Carolina Supreme Court and his death
sentence was scheduled to be carried out on April eleventh,
twenty twenty five. He was given until March twenty eighth
to choose his preferred method lethal injection, firing squad or electrocution,
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and if he failed to make a decision by then,
it would be carried out via electric chair by default. Wow,
he ended up choosing death by firing squad after his
final what they call it in the twelfth hour or something.
After his final appeal was rejected, government Master did not
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order a stay, the execution date was officially set. Captain
Meyers's only daughter chose not to witness the execution. She
said that she didn't need to deal, didn't need to
be there to see that, but would hope that it
and it would help her put the painful memories behind her.
She said, every time she would get a call about
a prison transfer an appeal coming up, it brought me
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back to the crime and what happened, and I'm ready
for that to be done. An interesting thing is former
now he's the Calhoun County Sheriff. Thomas Summers was originally
the investigator on Captain Myers's case, and he was friends
with him, and he said he did plan to go
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to the execution because he said, I'm finishing what I
started and this is going to be the end of
my case. Okay, I can see, so he had plans
to attend the execution.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
Well.
Speaker 3 (45:46):
On April eleventh, to twenty twenty five, forty two year
old Michael Dean Body had a hood placed over his
head and after three simultaneous shots to the heart, was
pronounced dead at six oh five pm. He never made
a final statement, and prior to his execution, his last
meal had been a Ribbi steak, mushroom risotto, broccoli, collar greens,
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a cheesecake, and sweet tea. And he was executed, and
hopefully there is some kind of peace that can come
to his family. His daughter, she's remarried. She said he
would have loved her current husband. She's got four daughters
(46:34):
that never got to meet her their grandfather and the
only thing that the only time they've ever known him
is through pictures and stories. And it's unfortunate his wife,
Amy did not get to have that life with him
that they had planned. And the other people, you know,
Greg Jones, Christopher Boggs, these people have lost their lives
for nothing. And there's nothing that indicated that I saw
(46:58):
where there's an ex nation of what even triggered this.
Unless the only thing I can think of is maybe
the drug deal gone wrong. He ended up stabbing and
killing Greg Jones and decided I got to get out
of dodge. And then it turns into well, I've got
stolen stuff. I know they're looking for me. I need money,
and then it turns into desperation and you do things
(47:21):
I don't know. Yeah, but it's uh, it's unfortunate. A
lot of people's lives were forever changed, including his. Yeah,
and it's sad, but we'll put up a lot of
pictures of the victims. I don't have one of Greg Jones,
but we have a lot of good ones of Captain Myers.
Speaker 2 (47:39):
Yeah. It seemed like a wonderful person.
Speaker 3 (47:41):
Oh yeah, and you look on he's sweet. He's got
that sweet look. But it's it's just it's a sad thing.
But at least we can say that there was someone
held responsible. Yes, and to an extent, justice state was served.
Speaker 2 (47:58):
Just a whirlwind a track. Well. Our hearts certainly go
out to them, for sure, his family and the community
that he served, that he loved. You don't do jobs
like that. You're not a firefighter, public safety. You don't
do that unless you love the people that you live around.
And certainly a testament to his big heart.
Speaker 3 (48:18):
Yeah, and he was very well loved, not just by
his family but the community that he served.
Speaker 2 (48:24):
Well, Danielle, we thank you for bringing us this one
this week, said, another interesting tale. We talk about the
firing squad and how unique that is, and that's come
up and it makes headlines and people wonder about the backstory.
What got this person to this point and obviously a
troubled childhood, a troubled life, and somewhere evil set root
(48:49):
in there, it did. Yeah, but thank you, thank you
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