August 31, 2025 • 47 mins
In September of 2020, Jasper County 911 received a disturbing call from a local motel. A young girl was found shot while propped up in the bed. Conflicting narratives, extra "detailed" alibis and mind games led authorities to the party responsible after a quick investigation.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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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in detail, giving their perspective of the evil that has
resided in the Palmetto State. You're listening to Carolina Crimes.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
And welcome back to Carolina Crimes, episode two thirty seven.
I'm one of your hosts, Matt Hires along.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
With Danielle Myers.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Now we're over the moon thrilled that you joined us
here for this week's episode. And from all the little
hints you've given me, this one's going to be a
pretty wild one, I think.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Now we're gonna come to you from the lower part
of the state for this episode. And before we get started,
I just want to thank everybody for all the feedback
from last week the Dale Richardson case and just the
It blows my mind how people can kind of hide
and play in sight.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Yeah, it seemed like he did that's it's awful.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Thoughts go out to the victims, and we've often said,
you know, victims of sexual assault, they still live, they
still have to deal with the scars the PTSD every day,
and how just horrific a crime that is. Yeah, well, folks,
before we jump into this one, a few housekeeping housekeeping
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I don't cracker barrel wars.
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I don't think I even eat there in the first place.
I mean, I've been there, and I don't.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
I couldn't tell you the last summer whatever, man, I.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Got way bear fish to fry them. Worry about that,
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you sent.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
We still enjoy them.
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We still enjoy the memes or the memes or means
what I used to call them. Well, today's Danielle, you said,
is gonna come from Ridgeland, South Carolina.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I don't think we have ever been here before.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Oh really, okay, yes, so this.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Is gonna be a treat. And I think we've only
been in this county twice before. But Ridgeland, South Carolina
is the county seat of Jasper County, which is South
Carolina's southernmost county. It kind of swoops down to the southeast,
and it makes sure Bufort County is not technically the
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most southernmost county, so Jasper County holds that recognition. Ridgeland
is actually the second name for this town. And this
is absolutely incredible. The first name was Gopher Hill.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Now it wasn't named for the gopher, you know, the
mammal little thing from Caddyshack. But it was named for
the gopher tortoise, which was indigenous to this area back
in the eighteen hundreds. Never heard of it, Never seen one. Listeners,
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if you've got more information about gopher tortoises, send it
to us. I'd love to see one. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah,
that was a This was actually the name of this town. Well,
the town, the name Gopher Hill didn't really sit right
with a lot of folks, and in nineteen oh two,
it especially didn't sit right with the railway executives. You see,
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they wanted to place a depot there, but they didn't
like the name of the town, so it was changed
to something more official, more I guess appealing. It was
changed to Rigeland. It was named Ridgeland due to its
position on a sandy ridge, which is actually the highest
point in Jasper County. Now, Ridgeland's located near I ninety five.
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And the economy today there re on healthcare and travel commerce,
they're up and down nine ninety five, people stopping needing
goods and services. The population of Ridgeland today is three thousand,
seven hundred and fifty and some of that population that
made it big time, some of the more famous folks,
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General Lloyd W.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Newton.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
He was the first African American pilot in the US
Air Force thunderbirds. Oh wow, super huge accomplishment. Also from Rigeland,
Thomas Hayward Junior. He was a signer of the Declaration
of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. Huh okay, yeah,
Rigland Gopher Hill got it going on as where's that?
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
And also from Ridgeland another general. They had a few
of these guys. Rigland's just a breeding ground for military leaders.
I guess General Jacob Smart. He was a US Air
Force general during the Cold War air very strategic minded,
so incredible impressive people from the Gopher Hill slash Ridgeland.
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I promise that's the last time. But the Ridgeland area
here in South Carolina. And Danielle, why don't you go
ahead and without further ado take us away.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
All right, Well, this is, as you said, a case
that's coming from Ridgeland, South Carolina and Jasper County. It
was a tragic case that proved why detective work is
important because things, originally how you would see it on
the surface at the beginning of a case sometimes aren't
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always as they appear. That's where you have to dig
a little bit deeper.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
That's why it's an investigation.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Uh huh. And we are gonna before we dive fully
into it, are going to play a little clip of
nine one one call that came in, So if you
want to go ahead and.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
All right, we'll hit it.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Go.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I forgot. I won't refer to.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
What's going on, but fish, I'm at for, I'm at for.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Okay, looking up for it.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Wow, very traumatic music.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Too, Yeah, very intense, kind of hard to completely make
out what's being said, but you know, very upsetting phone
call that came into the nine to one one dispatch
for Jasper County on Sunday, September sixth of twenty twenty.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
So this is very very recent, yeah, and it came
in about nine to forty five in the morning from
the Forest Motel from a very as you could hear
distraught man saying that he found his girlfriend in their
room and she had been shot in the head and
was unresponsive. Ridgeland police arrived at the scene and ended
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up having sled assists, which they usually do when smaller
counties or towns need a little bit you know, they
don't have a lot of the resources and special Agent
Katie McAllister responded to the scene. She was going to
be the lead investigator on this case. She did end
up speaking with the nine to one one caller who
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was still on the scene, and he was identified as
thirty two year old Brian Jamal Redding, and he told
her that the victim was sixteen year old Cyprus Noonan
and she was his girlfriend.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Dan how old was Brian.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Thirty two and she was sixteen, so of course that
raises some eyebrows. Special Agent McAllister found this a little concerning,
you know, what is she doing in this motel room?
Where are her parents? You know, this age thing, But
she'd had to table that because that wasn't the main
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thing that she was here for and focus on the scene.
By this point, sixteen year old Cypress Noonan had been
pronounced to cease at the scene. And when Special Agent
McCallister approached the door the room into a room twenty two,
she noticed that the door wasn't closed all the way.
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All you had to do was just kind of push
it lightly and it opened immediately into this this motel room.
Typical chair and some tables, a bedside table, mini fridge,
just very typical nothing extraordinary except for the obvious scene
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of the victim on the bed dead teenager. She was
sitting propped up against the headboard with her in a
very relaxed position. She had her arms by her side
and was kind of slumped a little to the left,
almost like if you'd had fallen asleep. But it was.
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But she had an obvious gunshot wound to her forehead,
her forehead, her forehead, and there was brain matter on
the wall all the way up to the ceiling, and
there was a lot of blood to the left side
of her where she was slumped over. So the first
question is is this self inflicted or is somebody else responsible?
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Well, by this time SLED crime scene unit had arrived
to process the scene. They only found one shell caseinge,
there was no weapon on scenes. This was not a suicide, okay.
They also noticed that there was no force entry, the
locks and the bolts were intact, and there were no
signs of a struggle. Nothing had been taken from the room.
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Brian was not able to say, yes, this is missing,
this is missing. He's like, no, everything seems to be here.
And Cyprus did not have any defensive wounds on her,
so she most likely knew the person who did this
and possibly never saw it coming.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Yeah, and my question was going to be but you
answered it. You said when authorities got there, they were
just kind of able to push open the door. I
was like, where the locks in the door latch functioning?
He said they were, but no unforced entry. Someone was
let into the room.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Yeah, they didn't see anything that indicated that the doorframe
was pride open or door kicked open or anything like that. Well,
before sled and the agents and the crime scene unit
showed up, Brian and Reading had actually stayed in the
hotel room while original and police were on scene, which
he should have been removed, but he stayed in the
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hotel room and he was on the phone the whole time,
and some of the first responders noticed that he would
go from wailing and being very upset to being completely
avoid of emotion. It was just very back and forth.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I mean we heard him on the nine one one call,
obviously very distraught.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Yes, Well, Brian ended up calling one of Cyprus's sisters, Taylor,
and told her that Cyprus wasn't responsive, and when she
asked what happened, he proceeded to go into great detail
of everything that he had done that morning mmm read
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and she said, I don't care what you did this morning?
Is my sister okay, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
M hm.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
And he then told her no, she's been shot in
the head and she's dead. And it didn't take long
for the rest of her family to get the devastating news.
And now that the family had been notified, Special Agent
Macawser needed to begin her interviews with family and Brian
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and she began with Desiree, which is another one of
Cyprus's sisters. And what we didn't hear in the nine
one one call because it went a little further. He
did proceed to tell in the No. One one call
what he did that morning, going into detail, and he
mentioned that you know, they're like, do you know who
could have done this? You know on the nine one
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one call, and he had said, well, she got into
it with a girl. It was one of her sisters, Desiree,
and they got into a fight and she could have
possibly done this.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
I got a question out of curiosity here, what time
of day.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Was this this? Well, the phone call came in at
nine forty five in the morning, so I was just I.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Was trying to put why is he focused on what
he did that morning? I was like, well, if this
is midnight at night, this is really weird. Like, oh,
I went to the cabinet, I was out of cheerios
and I was looking for this. I had to get
a dollar general get something to eat or or whatever.
But if okay, that matches up nine.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Yeah, he's not going through his whole list.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Of events, but he made it.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
It was a point that he made multiple times.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Yeah, a point that he made to go back to
his morning routine what he did. And then like you
said to say, hey, she did have an argument with
her sister, Desiree.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
M So they of course wanted to speak to her,
and you know, it's important enough that he mentioned it
in the NW one one call. What's your relationship like
with your sister? What was this argument? And Desiree tells
McAllister that she's like, I live in the apartments that
are next door to this motel, and so I would
see my sister pre regularly. But she said three weeks
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prior to this, Cypress kind of just weirdly started accusing
her of wanting to be with Brian, and she immediately
shut that down and was like I have a boyfriend,
and even if I wanted somebody else's boyfriend, it's not
gonna be.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
My sister's gonna be that old man.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
She's like, so, and Brian had been telling Cypress, you know,
Desiree's been kind of hitting on me. She wants to
get with me and kind of getting into her head
a little bit. Yeah, getting into her head a little bit.
But you know, desirays like, this was never the case.
She said, If anything, Brian was the one that would
kind of make flirty comments to me. He would like
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text me, and she's like, I sent these messages to
my sister, but Brian mostly had her phone and would
delete them as soon as they came in.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
So so Cypress was essentially living there at the motel.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
They had been living there. Later found out they've been
living there for a few weeks, okay, and so she's like,
this is she you know, Cypress chose to believe her
boyfriend and at that point didn't allow her sister, Desra
to come around anymore. And the two hadn't really spoken
okay over this weird accusation.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Yeah, and it sounded like he just wanted to make
himself feel good, make Cypress jealous and.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Yeah, it's like your sister's been giving me a look.
And I and and I heard I saw in the interview.
I didn't know if I was gonna mention or not,
but you know, Desiree had said it started when out
of the blue, Cypress asked Brian, of all my sisters,
who do you think is the prettiest? And I guess
he named two other ones besides her. So then she
looked at it as well, they're trying to sneak. It's just,
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you know, this stupid game game. You know, she's sixteen,
you get jealous easily. This is your first love. Yeah, stupid.
But the next interview, you know, mcaw'ser didn't feel there
was anything nefarious about Doesrey story and was like, okay,
well let's move on to the next one. So the
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next interview was gonna be with Brian, and when we
come back from this first short break, we're gonna get
into what he did that morning. All right, it's very important.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
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South Carolina and welcome back to Carolina Crimes, episode two
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thirty seven at o Rigeland, South Carolina.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
In this horrific scene at the Forest Motel.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
There in Ridgeland, we heard the nine one one call
Brian reading the thirty two year old boyfriend living there
with Cypress Noonan, The victim only sixteen years. When we
left off, we were talking about maybe an alleged or
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concocted in somebody's mind loved triangle between Cypress's sister Desiree
and Brian. Maybe it was someone of Brian's fantasyes, something
like that. But uh, investigators, they questioned Desiree. Everything kind
of checked out, went smoothly, and next you mentioned they
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were going to talk to Brian reading yes.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
And though he had already given his statement to Ridgeland earlier,
special agent mccawiser wanted to hear it for herself, and
they a lot of times will have you repeat events
to make sure that there aren't discrepancies and kind of
weed out any kind of lies or if that is
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even the case. And she first asked asked him if
he had anything to do with Cyprus's death, and he said,
I don't think so, you don't think such a pretty
unusual response, and she said, okay, if she was shot,
did you shoot her? He said no, If she was stabbed,
did you stab her?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
No?
Speaker 3 (21:39):
So did you have did you directly have something to
do with her death? And he said no, okay. She
then asked about their relationship. You know, remember he was
thirty two, she was sixteen, and that's going to draw
some side eyes with people. And he said the two
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met at a laundry mat and the next thing you know,
they were a couple. Her family was very happy about
it because he was helping Cyprus to get a job
and get her driver's license. And there were people who
had something to say about the age difference, but they
didn't let it affect them. Okay, So what were these
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significant versions of events of what he said happened that
morning before the nine one one call came in at
nine five, and so he proceeds and stay with me, okay.
He gives a very detailed description, and I've cut some
of it down, but he started out by saying that
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he woke up at five point forty that morning and
took a shower, and he gave the name of a
girl named Ashley. It will end up coming up later.
It was another girlfriend. I put his side piece. He
can say that, but I'm saying that it will come
out later, okay. So, and she was going to call
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him at six o'clock because he was going to pick
her up and take her to work. He ended up
leaving the motel and said that She didn't end up
calling him until six forty four in the morning, but
he was a little late picking her up because on
the way into Beaufort he got a flat tire and
had to pull over into a gas station, which only
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took about five or six minutes.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
To change a tire.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I mean, I've changed one before, and it took me
a little bit longer, but that was my first time.
He then made it to Beaufort, picked Ashley up, and
dropped her off at her job at seven fourteen or
seven point fifteen, he remembers, because he got a call
from his cousin and the phone it was seven seventeen.
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He then got to Pineland, which is about fifty minutes
from Beaufort to his cousin's house, around nine five or
nine ten. He seemed to have a lot going on
that morning, especially for someone who didn't have a job.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Yeah, and getting up at five forty if you're unemployed,
that would not be me. Rather, he's a heck of
a go getter or.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
So after getting the very detailed version of events of
what happened, and then of course he ends up coming
back to the motel and that's when he found Cypress
on the bed and immediately called nine one one, so
Special Agent mcawser ended up speaking with other members of
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Cypress's family to learn more about her and her relationship
with Brian. She was the youngest of seven children, consisting
of six girls and one boy. Being the youngest, she
was very spoiled and she was very loved. She was
described as a very loving person who loved everyone and
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who was loved by everyone. When the family learned about
her relationship with Brian, especially considering how much older he
was than her, they did not approve, which is very
different than what Brian said. She even brought him home
once to her mom's house where she was living, and
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her mom's like, you can stay, he's got to go.
I don't want him over here. I don't approve. I
think this is wrong on a lot of levels. And
next thing her mom knows, Cypress is moving out, which
is not what she was saying to do. And every
time she said she tried to report it, nothing ended
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up happening, and Cypress would call her mom sometimes and
ask for money so that they could get a room
at a motel because I think they bounced around for
a little bit and her mom would say, no, I'm
not giving you money. Come home. You can state you
have a place to live, you have a room, but
she never did. She also couldn't talk or hang out
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with anyone without him being there or being on the phone,
So if the sisters were all hanging out, he would
be sitting on the phone listening to what was going.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
On, very controlling, very paranoid.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
He knew what he was doing, whatn't on the up
and up, and what wasn't probably really good.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
So and being that age, having that age difference, he
can manipulate a little bit easier. I think he knew
that no one was allowed in the motel room. If
anybody needed to drop something off for her, they had
to leave it outside the door and then leave, otherwise
he would be very upset if anybody came into the room.
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They said. There was major manipulation and control in the relationship,
even to the point where he made her believe that
it was okay that he had more than one girlfriend,
even driving around in the other girlfriend's car with Cyprus
in it. He would borrow other girlfriend's cars and go
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around town.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
This guy man.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
This every parents, Yes, somebody getting their claws into your kid,
that's like that.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
It's so hard to get them out.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
M hmm.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Well, between finding out about the relationship not being how
Brian described it, along with other cracks in his story
through things that were learned throughout the investigation that begin
to show, detectives knew that they needed to speak with
Brian again. And we're going to take this last break
and then find out some new information and see if
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he has a different story or if he's going to
stick to what he's got.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
All right, we'll be right back after this quick word
from our sponsors, and welcome back to Carolina Crimes, episode
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two thirty seven out of Ridgeland, South Carolina. And this, oh,
it gets more stomach churning as you go, and you
just the more this goes on, the more I feel
sorry for Cyprus Noonan of course, the oh yeah, the
victim of this violent crime in the forest motel and
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sounds like her last few months. I don't know how
long she and Brian reading were dating.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Was just it wasn't very long, but I don't just miserable. Yeah,
it was less than a year, is what I had gathered.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
So when we.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Left off, you said, they asked Brian about the morning
what he did, and he admitted to having multiple girlfriends
inside Cyprus, and then they reinterviewed him he said.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Yes, after speaking with a family and really getting better
insight into their relationship and realizing that it's completely different
than the picture that he painted of the two of them,
and the family's approval, they also started with their investigation.
There were other things that they were getting back test results,
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surveillance footage, and they were starting to piece together things
that were putting cracks into his story. So they brought
him back in October eleventh, just a month after cyper
Verus murder, because they needed to clear up these inconsistencies
with his story and kind of get him to explain
some of these things that just weren't adding up. Yeah,
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and they told him, you know, you told us on
the day of the murder, you stopped off at a
gas station before going to pick up your other girlfriend
to take her to work because you got a flat tire.
And he's like yeah, and they're like, well, you know,
we looked on the surveillance footage and it shows you
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coming out of your vehicle and you're wearing very clearly
a black shirt with the Batman logo on the front.
But when police showed up at the scene after the
nine to one one call, that was not the shirt
that you were wearing. That wasn't what you were wearing
when you came to the police station got photographed. Why
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did you change clothes? Good question, I mean, you think
about it, you come Apparently he came back after all
of these errands before nine forty five in the morning
and finds his girlfriend, Why did you have the time
to where with aught? I need to change my shirt?
And he said, well, I got it dirty when I
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was changing the tire, so I ended up changing into
a shirt that I had already in my back seat. Okay,
but he goes in the Batman shirt sat my mom's
house and they're like, well, you had been asked prior
to this where this shirt was. This isn't the first
time coming up and you have not been able to
produce that, And he's like, oh, well, I mean I
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I this is the first time hearing of it. And
she's like, no, it's not, but we'll move on.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Yeah, he's trying to gaslight at this point.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
I ain't gonna work with her.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
A teenage girl.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
No, this is with a slug. She's seen some things
and heard some things. Well, by this time, the results
of the testing of the single shell casing that was
found in the motel room had come back from the
crime lab and it could only have been fired from
a specific handgun. And I've never heard of this before.
(32:09):
I actually looked it up. I can put a picture up.
It's called an SCCY or they call it a sky
nine millimeter.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Okay, I'm not familiar with it. I mean maybe I've
seen it.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
But they were like, this is a very specific I
guess type of AMMO. So this is the only type
of weapon that this could have this gunshot could have
come from or fire. Well, Cyprus's family had said that
she owned a Tiffany blue gun of that same caliber,
the same type, and there were videos on Snapchat of
(32:47):
Brian flashing that gun while driving, kind of showing it off.
So they do have this on Snapchat.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Yeah, ay, a thirty two year old Snapchat passing judgment,
but cool.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Well, forensics also came back on blood that had been
swabbed that was on the motel door, and it came
back belonging to two people, Cyprus and Brian. Okay, well,
he said he had touched Cypress when he first found her.
He saw this scene her bloody, slumped over and he
(33:24):
grabbed her face and then realized something was wrong and
he had to call nine one one. But again when
he they checked his clothes the day that this happened,
absolutely no blood, gunshot, residue, anything was found on his clothes.
He didn't have it on his hands, his arms. So
if you've touched her and then called nine one, there
(33:44):
should be something on you. So they're like, that doesn't
make any sense. Cypress's cell phone records also come back
and they learned that she had been talking to her
brother and she was actually making a plan to leave
Brian good for her, and this was something that was
apparently secret to everyone. Her brother was the only person
(34:06):
that knew about it. She didn't want the whole family
knowing about it, but she's like, I just need one person,
and she was in the process of trying to get
away from him, and detectives believed that Brian found out
and it led to a fatal argument. Brian said that
that was not the case. She could leave anytime she wanted,
but that didn't seem to be in line with what
(34:29):
they had seen and heard. Their belief Their theory was
that he had killed her before he left the motel
that morning, before leaving to go pick up his other
girlfriend to take her to work. His phone records showed
that he actually returned to the motel around eight o'clock
in the morning and was there for about twenty minutes,
(34:51):
which she never mentioned to them that he came back. Yeah,
and they believed that he went back to see if
her body had been discovered, and he left when it
hadn't been And they believe that he most likely wanted
maybe the manager of the motel to find it so
that it would further remove him.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Yeah, I can see that.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
His phone records also showed that he took his cousin
to her house and then drove by a family the
house of a family member of Cypresses and waved. It
was like everything he was doing, They're like, he's wanted
as many people to see him as possible, going.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Way out of his way to distance himself from.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
This murder and to make sure that they can say, well,
this time I saw him, and at this time he
was here, and I'm on surveilla's footage here and it's
just they were like he was doing the most.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Doing too much, yes, way too much.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Well, Brian ended up leaving the police station after that
second interview without being charged, but he was at this
point their prime.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Suspect, as he should.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Detectives met with the solicitor and were able to obtain
arrest warrants, and two months later Brian was arrested at
a relative's house without incident.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Now I wonder too, one of these other girlfriends, could
they have possibly been with it? That's and then maybe
this will come out in the court case. Maybe I'm
getting ahead of you.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
No, like they could have maybe been a participant. Yeah, Well,
the thing, the only mention that he had of when
he was riding around town. It was the one girlfriend
that he picked up, but then he immediately dropped her
off at work. The other person that he had in
(36:44):
the vehicle was a cousin that he ended up dropping
off at their house, and there was this belief that
this happened before he even left that morning. Okay, so
there is no indication or reason for them to believe
that there would be another person responsible for this as well,
or if he worked with someone, and it doesn't seem
because he was so busy establishing an alibi and getting
(37:06):
timelines that I don't believe that there was enough time
for him to really spill his guts to anybody, because
it seems like that morning he was not doing anything
out of the order, not as far as out of
the ordinary, but he wasn't acting weird. Nobody said anything
about that, and he was just doing everything he could
act like it was just another normal day. So he
(37:30):
was arrested without incident at relative's house and he was
charged with one count of murder, possession of a weapon
during a violent crime, and possession of a weapon by
a convicted felon two years ago. By before Brian finally
goes to trial, and his trial begins on August fifteenth,
twenty twenty two, at the Jasper County Courthouse. It lasted
(37:53):
a week with testimony from friends, family, crime scene and
ballistics experts. Ryan tried to make himself out to be
Cyprus's savior, saying he wanted to keep her on her
a game. The prosecutor was, she got interviewed this this woman.
(38:18):
She made me laugh. She says, stuff is just like
just the whole Like I mean, I see right through you,
like you your daddy must have been a glassmaker, because
I can see right through. She didn't say that, but
I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
That because she was just that's pretty bold.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
No, that's what I'm saying. But she was just very like,
not buying it. Not buying it. This doesn't make sense.
And you know, she he was like, I'm trying to
keep her on her a game, and she's like, you
kept her locked into a motel room with no money,
no car. I'm not really sure if that was what
would be considered her a game, but maybe we have
different yeah, definitions. She's also the one that said this
(38:52):
guy had a lot a busy schedule at nine before
nine forty five in the morning for someone who didn't
have a job. And I loled when I heard that
The jury deliberated all of thirty minutes before coming back
with a verdict. He was found guilty of the count
of murder and possession of a firearm during a violent crime.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Yeah, historically not a good sign for the defense if
it's such a quick turnaround. I mean, they barely got
in their seats before they were like, hey, yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Well that's it's a special agent mcalliser. You know, she said,
you go through all this stuff, you have this investigation,
you get as much information as you can, you feel
really confident. But that doesn't mean they're like the jury
can come in and smile to your face and do
the and just completely go the other way of what
you think it's going to be right, and you don't
(39:44):
ever know. And she's like, so when they deliberate, it's
very nerve racking, and she said that they went back
in the next thing, you know, she's like getting called
back in and I look at my phone and and
she's like, it's it's only been thirty minutes. And even then,
she's like, I can't really feel confident because either they
found enough evidence to be like absolutely he's guilty, or
(40:06):
they there's not enough he's not, And so it still
could go either way. And they did find him guilty.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Yeah, but you think, I mean, there's no eyewitnesses, there's
no real like gunshot residue on his hands. Yeah, I
mean it is. I would consider it still very circumstantial.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
I mean they're going off of cell phone records and
of course the sightings and like what he said and
the ballistics and the DNA coming back from the blood
and it being belonging to just those two people, and yeah,
it's enough, but still enough that can it could be
circumstantial that they could decide there's I just don't feel
(40:51):
like there's enough here. But it just goes off of
you know that good old police work where you have
to just go with your gut. So he was sentenced
to forty eight years, which they said, in essence, is
pretty much the rest of his life for the most part,
and he is currently at Turbyville Correctional And there are
(41:14):
still a lot of questions that you know, law enforcement
and her family have and that's just like why did
he do this? And they want like what exactly happened
that day? What caused this to happen in the first place.
You know, she was only sixteen years old. She didn't
really even get to live life and that was taken
(41:34):
away for no reason. But her family does hold her
birthday party for her every year to celebrate her life.
They said, sometimes like friends and people in the community
will come, and she says, sometimes it's just the family,
but they want to do it to celebrate her. They
said that you know, she will never be forgotten and
(41:55):
she will continue to live on through her mom her
sisters and her nieces and and they said, we'll always
talk about her. Yeah, she'll always be here. And it's
just unfortunate the way that she lost her life and
how young she was.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
Some older guy, immature just took it. We wanted to
take advantage, wanted to take advantage of young ladies. That's
that's exactly.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
What it was.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
Manipulation control. And I think those are good. Those are
people who I think have insecurities on their own, so
they sometimes like that's how they I guess maybe have
some kind of control.
Speaker 4 (42:29):
But well, that's why.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
How what I was going to get into with the
the whole desiree or Cypress's sister situation. He knew he
wasn't good enough to be with Cypress.
Speaker 3 (42:41):
And he knew that none of them were interested in him.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
Yeah, but he wanted to try to manipulate Cypress's mind
in the thinking, oh, these women want me, you are
very lucky.
Speaker 4 (42:52):
To have me. And that's the kind of game he
was trying.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
To play, Yeah, and put them together and be like,
you don't need to be talking to them because they
just want to be with me and they're here, No,
not interested, but no, very sad case. Unfortunate the way
that it turned out, and she wasn't able to get
out and hopefully go on to have a full life
(43:17):
with a healthy relationship. But you know, it seems like
watching the interviews with her sisters and her mom, it's
very clear that she was very loved, very missed, and
they said that they you know, they talk about her
any chance they get, and she's always going to live
through them, and she does it. She's not dead in
(43:39):
that sense, and they seem like really good people, but
just overall very.
Speaker 4 (43:46):
Sad, terrible, terrible tragedy.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
You hate to see young people, you know, meet there
meet a demise very quickly in their lives, and especially
when it's just for for somebody playing games.
Speaker 3 (44:03):
And manipulating their emotions and their vulnerability. You know, I'm
sure all of us at sixteen thought that we were
grown and knew what was best for us, and we
made the best decisions and oh yeah, perfect, and you
don't and the adults were the idiots. But you know,
(44:24):
in retrospect, you are ways off from being grown. I
think I'm still a ways off.
Speaker 4 (44:30):
Yeah, it's still I'm still a working.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
I am too, I'm constantly working and to get better.
But yeah, I mean that just I think that vulnerability,
that age, that first love. You don't know what else
to compare it to, right, right, and so you think
that that's what it is. But I'm glad that her
family still continues to mention her, remember her. I think
(44:55):
that that's what's the most important.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
In our heart goes out to them with this.
Speaker 4 (45:03):
This is absolutely awful death of a child.
Speaker 2 (45:07):
I've said it, if I said it once, I've said
it a thousand times. That's the absolute worst ordeal I
believe a human being can go through.
Speaker 4 (45:16):
He's losing a child. Ye, well personal note. That's a
cool name though, Cyprus. Yeah, I think that's beautiful. Think
it is.
Speaker 3 (45:28):
And we'll put pictures up in her very beautiful and
just she's just always smiling.
Speaker 2 (45:37):
So that it sticks and this gets to me, Yeah
it does. Well, Folks, that was a tough one, but
I appreciate you sticking with us through that. Thank you
so much, Thank you Danielle for bringing us that story
that needed to be told. Hopefully it'll spur some awareness,
(45:58):
certainly about keeping your head on a swivel when it
comes to teens who you hang out with, parents who.
Speaker 3 (46:10):
I don't know they try, but it's so As a
person who's not a parent, I would say, I know
there's parents out there that try, but sometimes it's just
certain ages where they just fight back.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
But thank you so much again for bringing that to us.
Thank you so much for listening. A few things. Like
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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
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in detail, giving their perspective of the evil that has
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Speaker 2 (00:42):
And welcome back to Carolina Crimes, episode two thirty seven.
I'm one of your hosts, Matt Hires along.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
With Danielle Myers.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Now we're over the moon thrilled that you joined us
here for this week's episode. And from all the little
hints you've given me, this one's going to be a
pretty wild one, I think.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Now we're gonna come to you from the lower part
of the state for this episode. And before we get started,
I just want to thank everybody for all the feedback
from last week the Dale Richardson case and just the
It blows my mind how people can kind of hide
and play in sight.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Yeah, it seemed like he did that's it's awful.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Thoughts go out to the victims, and we've often said,
you know, victims of sexual assault, they still live, they
still have to deal with the scars the PTSD every day,
and how just horrific a crime that is. Yeah, well, folks,
before we jump into this one, a few housekeeping housekeeping
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dot com. We appreciate everybody that's reached out to us
on social media. I think some people try to get
us involved in the cracker barrel wars.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
I don't cracker barrel wars.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I don't think I even eat there in the first place.
I mean, I've been there, and I don't.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
I couldn't tell you the last summer whatever, man, I.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Got way bear fish to fry them. Worry about that,
but you know whatever, Thank you for the memes that
you sent.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
We still enjoy them.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
We still enjoy the memes or the memes or means
what I used to call them. Well, today's Danielle, you said,
is gonna come from Ridgeland, South Carolina.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I don't think we have ever been here before.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Oh really, okay, yes, so this.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Is gonna be a treat. And I think we've only
been in this county twice before. But Ridgeland, South Carolina
is the county seat of Jasper County, which is South
Carolina's southernmost county. It kind of swoops down to the southeast,
and it makes sure Bufort County is not technically the
(03:30):
most southernmost county, so Jasper County holds that recognition. Ridgeland
is actually the second name for this town. And this
is absolutely incredible. The first name was Gopher Hill.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Now it wasn't named for the gopher, you know, the
mammal little thing from Caddyshack. But it was named for
the gopher tortoise, which was indigenous to this area back
in the eighteen hundreds. Never heard of it, Never seen one. Listeners,
(04:08):
if you've got more information about gopher tortoises, send it
to us. I'd love to see one. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah,
that was a This was actually the name of this town. Well,
the town, the name Gopher Hill didn't really sit right
with a lot of folks, and in nineteen oh two,
it especially didn't sit right with the railway executives. You see,
(04:33):
they wanted to place a depot there, but they didn't
like the name of the town, so it was changed
to something more official, more I guess appealing. It was
changed to Rigeland. It was named Ridgeland due to its
position on a sandy ridge, which is actually the highest
point in Jasper County. Now, Ridgeland's located near I ninety five.
(04:58):
And the economy today there re on healthcare and travel commerce,
they're up and down nine ninety five, people stopping needing
goods and services. The population of Ridgeland today is three thousand,
seven hundred and fifty and some of that population that
made it big time, some of the more famous folks,
(05:19):
General Lloyd W.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Newton.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
He was the first African American pilot in the US
Air Force thunderbirds. Oh wow, super huge accomplishment. Also from Rigeland,
Thomas Hayward Junior. He was a signer of the Declaration
of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. Huh okay, yeah,
Rigland Gopher Hill got it going on as where's that?
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
And also from Ridgeland another general. They had a few
of these guys. Rigland's just a breeding ground for military leaders.
I guess General Jacob Smart. He was a US Air
Force general during the Cold War air very strategic minded,
so incredible impressive people from the Gopher Hill slash Ridgeland.
(06:13):
I promise that's the last time. But the Ridgeland area
here in South Carolina. And Danielle, why don't you go
ahead and without further ado take us away.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
All right, Well, this is, as you said, a case
that's coming from Ridgeland, South Carolina and Jasper County. It
was a tragic case that proved why detective work is
important because things, originally how you would see it on
the surface at the beginning of a case sometimes aren't
(06:47):
always as they appear. That's where you have to dig
a little bit deeper.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
That's why it's an investigation.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Uh huh. And we are gonna before we dive fully
into it, are going to play a little clip of
nine one one call that came in, So if you
want to go ahead and.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
All right, we'll hit it.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Go.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I forgot. I won't refer to.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
What's going on, but fish, I'm at for, I'm at for.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Okay, looking up for it.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Wow, very traumatic music.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Too, Yeah, very intense, kind of hard to completely make
out what's being said, but you know, very upsetting phone
call that came into the nine to one one dispatch
for Jasper County on Sunday, September sixth of twenty twenty.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
So this is very very recent, yeah, and it came
in about nine to forty five in the morning from
the Forest Motel from a very as you could hear
distraught man saying that he found his girlfriend in their
room and she had been shot in the head and
was unresponsive. Ridgeland police arrived at the scene and ended
(08:21):
up having sled assists, which they usually do when smaller
counties or towns need a little bit you know, they
don't have a lot of the resources and special Agent
Katie McAllister responded to the scene. She was going to
be the lead investigator on this case. She did end
up speaking with the nine to one one caller who
(08:41):
was still on the scene, and he was identified as
thirty two year old Brian Jamal Redding, and he told
her that the victim was sixteen year old Cyprus Noonan
and she was his girlfriend.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Dan how old was Brian.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Thirty two and she was sixteen, so of course that
raises some eyebrows. Special Agent McAllister found this a little concerning,
you know, what is she doing in this motel room?
Where are her parents? You know, this age thing, But
she'd had to table that because that wasn't the main
(09:20):
thing that she was here for and focus on the scene.
By this point, sixteen year old Cypress Noonan had been
pronounced to cease at the scene. And when Special Agent
McCallister approached the door the room into a room twenty two,
she noticed that the door wasn't closed all the way.
(09:41):
All you had to do was just kind of push
it lightly and it opened immediately into this this motel room.
Typical chair and some tables, a bedside table, mini fridge,
just very typical nothing extraordinary except for the obvious scene
(10:01):
of the victim on the bed dead teenager. She was
sitting propped up against the headboard with her in a
very relaxed position. She had her arms by her side
and was kind of slumped a little to the left,
almost like if you'd had fallen asleep. But it was.
(10:23):
But she had an obvious gunshot wound to her forehead,
her forehead, her forehead, and there was brain matter on
the wall all the way up to the ceiling, and
there was a lot of blood to the left side
of her where she was slumped over. So the first
question is is this self inflicted or is somebody else responsible?
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Well, by this time SLED crime scene unit had arrived
to process the scene. They only found one shell caseinge,
there was no weapon on scenes. This was not a suicide, okay.
They also noticed that there was no force entry, the
locks and the bolts were intact, and there were no
signs of a struggle. Nothing had been taken from the room.
(11:12):
Brian was not able to say, yes, this is missing,
this is missing. He's like, no, everything seems to be here.
And Cyprus did not have any defensive wounds on her,
so she most likely knew the person who did this
and possibly never saw it coming.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Yeah, and my question was going to be but you
answered it. You said when authorities got there, they were
just kind of able to push open the door. I
was like, where the locks in the door latch functioning?
He said they were, but no unforced entry. Someone was
let into the room.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Yeah, they didn't see anything that indicated that the doorframe
was pride open or door kicked open or anything like that. Well,
before sled and the agents and the crime scene unit
showed up, Brian and Reading had actually stayed in the
hotel room while original and police were on scene, which
he should have been removed, but he stayed in the
(12:08):
hotel room and he was on the phone the whole time,
and some of the first responders noticed that he would
go from wailing and being very upset to being completely
avoid of emotion. It was just very back and forth.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I mean we heard him on the nine one one call,
obviously very distraught.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Yes, Well, Brian ended up calling one of Cyprus's sisters, Taylor,
and told her that Cyprus wasn't responsive, and when she
asked what happened, he proceeded to go into great detail
of everything that he had done that morning mmm read
(12:49):
and she said, I don't care what you did this morning?
Is my sister okay, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
M hm.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
And he then told her no, she's been shot in
the head and she's dead. And it didn't take long
for the rest of her family to get the devastating news.
And now that the family had been notified, Special Agent
Macawser needed to begin her interviews with family and Brian
(13:21):
and she began with Desiree, which is another one of
Cyprus's sisters. And what we didn't hear in the nine
one one call because it went a little further. He
did proceed to tell in the No. One one call
what he did that morning, going into detail, and he
mentioned that you know, they're like, do you know who
could have done this? You know on the nine one
(13:41):
one call, and he had said, well, she got into
it with a girl. It was one of her sisters, Desiree,
and they got into a fight and she could have
possibly done this.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
I got a question out of curiosity here, what time
of day.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Was this this? Well, the phone call came in at
nine forty five in the morning, so I was just I.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Was trying to put why is he focused on what
he did that morning? I was like, well, if this
is midnight at night, this is really weird. Like, oh,
I went to the cabinet, I was out of cheerios
and I was looking for this. I had to get
a dollar general get something to eat or or whatever.
But if okay, that matches up nine.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Yeah, he's not going through his whole list.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Of events, but he made it.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
It was a point that he made multiple times.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Yeah, a point that he made to go back to
his morning routine what he did. And then like you
said to say, hey, she did have an argument with
her sister, Desiree.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
M So they of course wanted to speak to her,
and you know, it's important enough that he mentioned it
in the NW one one call. What's your relationship like
with your sister? What was this argument? And Desiree tells
McAllister that she's like, I live in the apartments that
are next door to this motel, and so I would
see my sister pre regularly. But she said three weeks
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prior to this, Cypress kind of just weirdly started accusing
her of wanting to be with Brian, and she immediately
shut that down and was like I have a boyfriend,
and even if I wanted somebody else's boyfriend, it's not
gonna be.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
My sister's gonna be that old man.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
She's like, so, and Brian had been telling Cypress, you know,
Desiree's been kind of hitting on me. She wants to
get with me and kind of getting into her head
a little bit. Yeah, getting into her head a little bit.
But you know, desirays like, this was never the case.
She said, If anything, Brian was the one that would
kind of make flirty comments to me. He would like
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text me, and she's like, I sent these messages to
my sister, but Brian mostly had her phone and would
delete them as soon as they came in.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
So so Cypress was essentially living there at the motel.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
They had been living there. Later found out they've been
living there for a few weeks, okay, and so she's like,
this is she you know, Cypress chose to believe her
boyfriend and at that point didn't allow her sister, Desra
to come around anymore. And the two hadn't really spoken
okay over this weird accusation.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Yeah, and it sounded like he just wanted to make
himself feel good, make Cypress jealous and.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Yeah, it's like your sister's been giving me a look.
And I and and I heard I saw in the interview.
I didn't know if I was gonna mention or not,
but you know, Desiree had said it started when out
of the blue, Cypress asked Brian, of all my sisters,
who do you think is the prettiest? And I guess
he named two other ones besides her. So then she
looked at it as well, they're trying to sneak. It's just,
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you know, this stupid game game. You know, she's sixteen,
you get jealous easily. This is your first love. Yeah, stupid.
But the next interview, you know, mcaw'ser didn't feel there
was anything nefarious about Doesrey story and was like, okay,
well let's move on to the next one. So the
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next interview was gonna be with Brian, and when we
come back from this first short break, we're gonna get
into what he did that morning. All right, it's very important.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
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thirty seven at o Rigeland, South Carolina.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
In this horrific scene at the Forest Motel.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
There in Ridgeland, we heard the nine one one call
Brian reading the thirty two year old boyfriend living there
with Cypress Noonan, The victim only sixteen years. When we
left off, we were talking about maybe an alleged or
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concocted in somebody's mind loved triangle between Cypress's sister Desiree
and Brian. Maybe it was someone of Brian's fantasyes, something
like that. But uh, investigators, they questioned Desiree. Everything kind
of checked out, went smoothly, and next you mentioned they
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were going to talk to Brian reading yes.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
And though he had already given his statement to Ridgeland earlier,
special agent mccawiser wanted to hear it for herself, and
they a lot of times will have you repeat events
to make sure that there aren't discrepancies and kind of
weed out any kind of lies or if that is
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even the case. And she first asked asked him if
he had anything to do with Cyprus's death, and he said,
I don't think so, you don't think such a pretty
unusual response, and she said, okay, if she was shot,
did you shoot her? He said no, If she was stabbed,
did you stab her?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
No?
Speaker 3 (21:39):
So did you have did you directly have something to
do with her death? And he said no, okay. She
then asked about their relationship. You know, remember he was
thirty two, she was sixteen, and that's going to draw
some side eyes with people. And he said the two
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met at a laundry mat and the next thing you know,
they were a couple. Her family was very happy about
it because he was helping Cyprus to get a job
and get her driver's license. And there were people who
had something to say about the age difference, but they
didn't let it affect them. Okay, So what were these
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significant versions of events of what he said happened that
morning before the nine one one call came in at
nine five, and so he proceeds and stay with me, okay.
He gives a very detailed description, and I've cut some
of it down, but he started out by saying that
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he woke up at five point forty that morning and
took a shower, and he gave the name of a
girl named Ashley. It will end up coming up later.
It was another girlfriend. I put his side piece. He
can say that, but I'm saying that it will come
out later, okay. So, and she was going to call
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him at six o'clock because he was going to pick
her up and take her to work. He ended up
leaving the motel and said that She didn't end up
calling him until six forty four in the morning, but
he was a little late picking her up because on
the way into Beaufort he got a flat tire and
had to pull over into a gas station, which only
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took about five or six minutes.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
To change a tire.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
I mean, I've changed one before, and it took me
a little bit longer, but that was my first time.
He then made it to Beaufort, picked Ashley up, and
dropped her off at her job at seven fourteen or
seven point fifteen, he remembers, because he got a call
from his cousin and the phone it was seven seventeen.
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He then got to Pineland, which is about fifty minutes
from Beaufort to his cousin's house, around nine five or
nine ten. He seemed to have a lot going on
that morning, especially for someone who didn't have a job.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Yeah, and getting up at five forty if you're unemployed,
that would not be me. Rather, he's a heck of
a go getter or.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
So after getting the very detailed version of events of
what happened, and then of course he ends up coming
back to the motel and that's when he found Cypress
on the bed and immediately called nine one one, so
Special Agent mcawser ended up speaking with other members of
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Cypress's family to learn more about her and her relationship
with Brian. She was the youngest of seven children, consisting
of six girls and one boy. Being the youngest, she
was very spoiled and she was very loved. She was
described as a very loving person who loved everyone and
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who was loved by everyone. When the family learned about
her relationship with Brian, especially considering how much older he
was than her, they did not approve, which is very
different than what Brian said. She even brought him home
once to her mom's house where she was living, and
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her mom's like, you can stay, he's got to go.
I don't want him over here. I don't approve. I
think this is wrong on a lot of levels. And
next thing her mom knows, Cypress is moving out, which
is not what she was saying to do. And every
time she said she tried to report it, nothing ended
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up happening, and Cypress would call her mom sometimes and
ask for money so that they could get a room
at a motel because I think they bounced around for
a little bit and her mom would say, no, I'm
not giving you money. Come home. You can state you
have a place to live, you have a room, but
she never did. She also couldn't talk or hang out
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with anyone without him being there or being on the phone,
So if the sisters were all hanging out, he would
be sitting on the phone listening to what was going.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
On, very controlling, very paranoid.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
He knew what he was doing, whatn't on the up
and up, and what wasn't probably really good.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
So and being that age, having that age difference, he
can manipulate a little bit easier. I think he knew
that no one was allowed in the motel room. If
anybody needed to drop something off for her, they had
to leave it outside the door and then leave, otherwise
he would be very upset if anybody came into the room.
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They said. There was major manipulation and control in the relationship,
even to the point where he made her believe that
it was okay that he had more than one girlfriend,
even driving around in the other girlfriend's car with Cyprus
in it. He would borrow other girlfriend's cars and go
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around town.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
This guy man.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
This every parents, Yes, somebody getting their claws into your kid,
that's like that.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
It's so hard to get them out.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
M hmm.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Well, between finding out about the relationship not being how
Brian described it, along with other cracks in his story
through things that were learned throughout the investigation that begin
to show, detectives knew that they needed to speak with
Brian again. And we're going to take this last break
and then find out some new information and see if
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he has a different story or if he's going to
stick to what he's got.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
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from our sponsors, and welcome back to Carolina Crimes, episode
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two thirty seven out of Ridgeland, South Carolina. And this, oh,
it gets more stomach churning as you go, and you
just the more this goes on, the more I feel
sorry for Cyprus Noonan of course, the oh yeah, the
victim of this violent crime in the forest motel and
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sounds like her last few months. I don't know how
long she and Brian reading were dating.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Was just it wasn't very long, but I don't just miserable. Yeah,
it was less than a year, is what I had gathered.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
So when we.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Left off, you said, they asked Brian about the morning
what he did, and he admitted to having multiple girlfriends
inside Cyprus, and then they reinterviewed him he said.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Yes, after speaking with a family and really getting better
insight into their relationship and realizing that it's completely different
than the picture that he painted of the two of them,
and the family's approval, they also started with their investigation.
There were other things that they were getting back test results,
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surveillance footage, and they were starting to piece together things
that were putting cracks into his story. So they brought
him back in October eleventh, just a month after cyper
Verus murder, because they needed to clear up these inconsistencies
with his story and kind of get him to explain
some of these things that just weren't adding up. Yeah,
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and they told him, you know, you told us on
the day of the murder, you stopped off at a
gas station before going to pick up your other girlfriend
to take her to work because you got a flat tire.
And he's like yeah, and they're like, well, you know,
we looked on the surveillance footage and it shows you
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coming out of your vehicle and you're wearing very clearly
a black shirt with the Batman logo on the front.
But when police showed up at the scene after the
nine to one one call, that was not the shirt
that you were wearing. That wasn't what you were wearing
when you came to the police station got photographed. Why
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did you change clothes? Good question, I mean, you think
about it, you come Apparently he came back after all
of these errands before nine forty five in the morning
and finds his girlfriend, Why did you have the time
to where with aught? I need to change my shirt?
And he said, well, I got it dirty when I
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was changing the tire, so I ended up changing into
a shirt that I had already in my back seat. Okay,
but he goes in the Batman shirt sat my mom's
house and they're like, well, you had been asked prior
to this where this shirt was. This isn't the first
time coming up and you have not been able to
produce that, And he's like, oh, well, I mean I
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I this is the first time hearing of it. And
she's like, no, it's not, but we'll move on.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Yeah, he's trying to gaslight at this point.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
I ain't gonna work with her.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
A teenage girl.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
No, this is with a slug. She's seen some things
and heard some things. Well, by this time, the results
of the testing of the single shell casing that was
found in the motel room had come back from the
crime lab and it could only have been fired from
a specific handgun. And I've never heard of this before.
(32:09):
I actually looked it up. I can put a picture up.
It's called an SCCY or they call it a sky
nine millimeter.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Okay, I'm not familiar with it. I mean maybe I've
seen it.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
But they were like, this is a very specific I
guess type of AMMO. So this is the only type
of weapon that this could have this gunshot could have
come from or fire. Well, Cyprus's family had said that
she owned a Tiffany blue gun of that same caliber,
the same type, and there were videos on Snapchat of
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Brian flashing that gun while driving, kind of showing it off.
So they do have this on Snapchat.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Yeah, ay, a thirty two year old Snapchat passing judgment,
but cool.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Well, forensics also came back on blood that had been
swabbed that was on the motel door, and it came
back belonging to two people, Cyprus and Brian. Okay, well,
he said he had touched Cypress when he first found her.
He saw this scene her bloody, slumped over and he
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grabbed her face and then realized something was wrong and
he had to call nine one one. But again when
he they checked his clothes the day that this happened,
absolutely no blood, gunshot, residue, anything was found on his clothes.
He didn't have it on his hands, his arms. So
if you've touched her and then called nine one, there
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should be something on you. So they're like, that doesn't
make any sense. Cypress's cell phone records also come back
and they learned that she had been talking to her
brother and she was actually making a plan to leave
Brian good for her, and this was something that was
apparently secret to everyone. Her brother was the only person
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that knew about it. She didn't want the whole family
knowing about it, but she's like, I just need one person,
and she was in the process of trying to get
away from him, and detectives believed that Brian found out
and it led to a fatal argument. Brian said that
that was not the case. She could leave anytime she wanted,
but that didn't seem to be in line with what
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they had seen and heard. Their belief Their theory was
that he had killed her before he left the motel
that morning, before leaving to go pick up his other
girlfriend to take her to work. His phone records showed
that he actually returned to the motel around eight o'clock
in the morning and was there for about twenty minutes,
(34:51):
which she never mentioned to them that he came back. Yeah,
and they believed that he went back to see if
her body had been discovered, and he left when it
hadn't been And they believe that he most likely wanted
maybe the manager of the motel to find it so
that it would further remove him.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Yeah, I can see that.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
His phone records also showed that he took his cousin
to her house and then drove by a family the
house of a family member of Cypresses and waved. It
was like everything he was doing, They're like, he's wanted
as many people to see him as possible, going.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Way out of his way to distance himself from.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
This murder and to make sure that they can say, well,
this time I saw him, and at this time he
was here, and I'm on surveilla's footage here and it's
just they were like he was doing the most.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Doing too much, yes, way too much.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Well, Brian ended up leaving the police station after that
second interview without being charged, but he was at this
point their prime.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Suspect, as he should.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Detectives met with the solicitor and were able to obtain
arrest warrants, and two months later Brian was arrested at
a relative's house without incident.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Now I wonder too, one of these other girlfriends, could
they have possibly been with it? That's and then maybe
this will come out in the court case. Maybe I'm
getting ahead of you.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
No, like they could have maybe been a participant. Yeah, Well,
the thing, the only mention that he had of when
he was riding around town. It was the one girlfriend
that he picked up, but then he immediately dropped her
off at work. The other person that he had in
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the vehicle was a cousin that he ended up dropping
off at their house, and there was this belief that
this happened before he even left that morning. Okay, so
there is no indication or reason for them to believe
that there would be another person responsible for this as well,
or if he worked with someone, and it doesn't seem
because he was so busy establishing an alibi and getting
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timelines that I don't believe that there was enough time
for him to really spill his guts to anybody, because
it seems like that morning he was not doing anything
out of the order, not as far as out of
the ordinary, but he wasn't acting weird. Nobody said anything
about that, and he was just doing everything he could
act like it was just another normal day. So he
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was arrested without incident at relative's house and he was
charged with one count of murder, possession of a weapon
during a violent crime, and possession of a weapon by
a convicted felon two years ago. By before Brian finally
goes to trial, and his trial begins on August fifteenth,
twenty twenty two, at the Jasper County Courthouse. It lasted
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a week with testimony from friends, family, crime scene and
ballistics experts. Ryan tried to make himself out to be
Cyprus's savior, saying he wanted to keep her on her
a game. The prosecutor was, she got interviewed this this woman.
(38:18):
She made me laugh. She says, stuff is just like
just the whole Like I mean, I see right through you,
like you your daddy must have been a glassmaker, because
I can see right through. She didn't say that, but
I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
That because she was just that's pretty bold.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
No, that's what I'm saying. But she was just very like,
not buying it. Not buying it. This doesn't make sense.
And you know, she he was like, I'm trying to
keep her on her a game, and she's like, you
kept her locked into a motel room with no money,
no car. I'm not really sure if that was what
would be considered her a game, but maybe we have
different yeah, definitions. She's also the one that said this
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guy had a lot a busy schedule at nine before
nine forty five in the morning for someone who didn't
have a job. And I loled when I heard that
The jury deliberated all of thirty minutes before coming back
with a verdict. He was found guilty of the count
of murder and possession of a firearm during a violent crime.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Yeah, historically not a good sign for the defense if
it's such a quick turnaround. I mean, they barely got
in their seats before they were like, hey, yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Well that's it's a special agent mcalliser. You know, she said,
you go through all this stuff, you have this investigation,
you get as much information as you can, you feel
really confident. But that doesn't mean they're like the jury
can come in and smile to your face and do
the and just completely go the other way of what
you think it's going to be right, and you don't
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ever know. And she's like, so when they deliberate, it's
very nerve racking, and she said that they went back
in the next thing, you know, she's like getting called
back in and I look at my phone and and
she's like, it's it's only been thirty minutes. And even then,
she's like, I can't really feel confident because either they
found enough evidence to be like absolutely he's guilty, or
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they there's not enough he's not, And so it still
could go either way. And they did find him guilty.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Yeah, but you think, I mean, there's no eyewitnesses, there's
no real like gunshot residue on his hands. Yeah, I
mean it is. I would consider it still very circumstantial.
Speaker 3 (40:29):
I mean they're going off of cell phone records and
of course the sightings and like what he said and
the ballistics and the DNA coming back from the blood
and it being belonging to just those two people, and yeah,
it's enough, but still enough that can it could be
circumstantial that they could decide there's I just don't feel
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like there's enough here. But it just goes off of
you know that good old police work where you have
to just go with your gut. So he was sentenced
to forty eight years, which they said, in essence, is
pretty much the rest of his life for the most part,
and he is currently at Turbyville Correctional And there are
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still a lot of questions that you know, law enforcement
and her family have and that's just like why did
he do this? And they want like what exactly happened
that day? What caused this to happen in the first place.
You know, she was only sixteen years old. She didn't
really even get to live life and that was taken
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away for no reason. But her family does hold her
birthday party for her every year to celebrate her life.
They said, sometimes like friends and people in the community
will come, and she says, sometimes it's just the family,
but they want to do it to celebrate her. They
said that you know, she will never be forgotten and
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she will continue to live on through her mom her
sisters and her nieces and and they said, we'll always
talk about her. Yeah, she'll always be here. And it's
just unfortunate the way that she lost her life and
how young she was.
Speaker 2 (42:11):
Some older guy, immature just took it. We wanted to
take advantage, wanted to take advantage of young ladies. That's
that's exactly.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
What it was.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
Manipulation control. And I think those are good. Those are
people who I think have insecurities on their own, so
they sometimes like that's how they I guess maybe have
some kind of control.
Speaker 4 (42:29):
But well, that's why.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
How what I was going to get into with the
the whole desiree or Cypress's sister situation. He knew he
wasn't good enough to be with Cypress.
Speaker 3 (42:41):
And he knew that none of them were interested in him.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
Yeah, but he wanted to try to manipulate Cypress's mind
in the thinking, oh, these women want me, you are
very lucky.
Speaker 4 (42:52):
To have me. And that's the kind of game he
was trying.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
To play, Yeah, and put them together and be like,
you don't need to be talking to them because they
just want to be with me and they're here, No,
not interested, but no, very sad case. Unfortunate the way
that it turned out, and she wasn't able to get
out and hopefully go on to have a full life
(43:17):
with a healthy relationship. But you know, it seems like
watching the interviews with her sisters and her mom, it's
very clear that she was very loved, very missed, and
they said that they you know, they talk about her
any chance they get, and she's always going to live
through them, and she does it. She's not dead in
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that sense, and they seem like really good people, but
just overall very.
Speaker 4 (43:46):
Sad, terrible, terrible tragedy.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
You hate to see young people, you know, meet there
meet a demise very quickly in their lives, and especially
when it's just for for somebody playing games.
Speaker 3 (44:03):
And manipulating their emotions and their vulnerability. You know, I'm
sure all of us at sixteen thought that we were
grown and knew what was best for us, and we
made the best decisions and oh yeah, perfect, and you
don't and the adults were the idiots. But you know,
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in retrospect, you are ways off from being grown. I
think I'm still a ways off.
Speaker 4 (44:30):
Yeah, it's still I'm still a working.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
I am too, I'm constantly working and to get better.
But yeah, I mean that just I think that vulnerability,
that age, that first love. You don't know what else
to compare it to, right, right, and so you think
that that's what it is. But I'm glad that her
family still continues to mention her, remember her. I think
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that that's what's the most important.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
In our heart goes out to them with this.
Speaker 4 (45:03):
This is absolutely awful death of a child.
Speaker 2 (45:07):
I've said it, if I said it once, I've said
it a thousand times. That's the absolute worst ordeal I
believe a human being can go through.
Speaker 4 (45:16):
He's losing a child. Ye, well personal note. That's a
cool name though, Cyprus. Yeah, I think that's beautiful. Think
it is.
Speaker 3 (45:28):
And we'll put pictures up in her very beautiful and
just she's just always smiling.
Speaker 2 (45:37):
So that it sticks and this gets to me, Yeah
it does. Well, Folks, that was a tough one, but
I appreciate you sticking with us through that. Thank you
so much, Thank you Danielle for bringing us that story
that needed to be told. Hopefully it'll spur some awareness,
(45:58):
certainly about keeping your head on a swivel when it
comes to teens who you hang out with, parents who.
Speaker 3 (46:10):
I don't know they try, but it's so As a
person who's not a parent, I would say, I know
there's parents out there that try, but sometimes it's just
certain ages where they just fight back.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
But thank you so much again for bringing that to us.
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