Episode 366

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Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence, and is
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not intended for all audiences.
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I had to look at what he did.
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I had to look at it with my own eyes,
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after putting everything I had in the finding her, And
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I promise you that everybody involved is going down. So
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I'm letting you know everybody who's involved in know something
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and didn't tell us is going to pay.
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Hello and welcome to season thirteen, episode three hundred and
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sixty six of Sword and Scale, the show that reveals
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that the worst monsters are real. In late April of
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twenty twenty four, something wasn't right in Denmark, the Denmark
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in South Carolina, that is. That's when residents of this
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small town turned on their nightly news and learned about
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a troubling situation. A young mother of three had gone missing.
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Sonight, rising emotions in Bamberg County as investigators search for
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this missing mother of three.
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Something's not right because she wasn't the mother that just
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drops her kids off with anybody.
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This is twenty five year old Megan Bodiford. Investigators says
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she sent some concerning text messages to a friend last
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Thursday and she has not been seen since.
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Twenty five years old. Megan Bottiford was reported missing on
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April twenty sixth, twenty twenty four, by one of her
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closest friends, Grace Rindell. According to Grace, the last time
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she heard from Megan was through text messages. Megan had
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asked if she and her youngest baby could spend the
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night at Grace's house, which was something that wasn't out
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of the ordinary. Grace told her yes, and that she
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would leave the front door unlocked before going to bed
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so Megan could let herself in, just like she had
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done many times before.
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You had to follow up call with her.
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Nine abral fin fist that I called her I had
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take sleeping medication to he'll sleep the night, so I'd
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already taken it, so I told her I couldn't try
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just to get the baby come to me. So I
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got up and I unlocked my door, turned on the
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porch site and figured that she let her so thin
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as she's done some many times before.
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So okay, but she ever did.
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The next morning, when Grace woke up, she realized that
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Megan and her baby hadn't shown up. At first, she
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assumed Megan had simply changed her mind, But after repeated
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attempts to reach her when unanswered, that assumption started to
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feel a lot less certain, so Grace drove to Megan's
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house to check on her.
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Also the night that did call her missing, I went
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to her house.
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Question on that how'd you get in? Did you kick
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the door as signe you did?
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Yes, that's we're just trying to We're just trying to
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piece Everyone said you kicked the door.
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It was out of big deal.
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When Grace arrived at Meghan's home, there was no sign
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of Megan or her baby. At that point, she knew
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something was very wrong, so she went to the police
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and reported her missing. It didn't take long for this
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story of a missing mom to reach the local media.
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This home used to be full of life, but now
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it stands empty.
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April the eleventh, I heard from her, and I told
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her I loved her, and she told me she loved
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me too, forever and always, and then.
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Those were the last words. Megan bought Afford said to
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her cousin.
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She's very strong and resilient and beautiful. She's a wonderful
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mother and we need her home.
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The pain is hard to put into words for her family.
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But all they want is for Meghan to come home.
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It's my baby cousin.
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She got to come home to these babies.
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I need her home.
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I don't need her lost.
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As Meghan's family held on to hope that she would return,
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local authorities brought in the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division,
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better known as SLED to assist with the investigation. Part
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of that assistants involved arresting someone close to Meghan, her
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twenty eight year old boyfriend, jareded Davis.
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A missing person's report says, due to prior call history,
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concern for the safety of a baby in the home,
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and her boyfriend having an active arrest warrant, deputies wanted
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to request SLED to assist in executing a search warrant
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and then arresting him on an outstanding.
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War Jarrett was the father of Megan's youngest child, and
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when officers arrived at his home to arrest him on
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an unrelated warrant, they found the baby unharmed, but there
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was still no sign of Megan. As her boyfriend, Jarrett
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was an obvious person of interest. It's always the boyfriend,
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but it wasn't just their relationship that drew attention. According
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to Megan's friend Grace, several of Jared's own friends said
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he wasn't acting like himself on the day Megan disappeared.
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Something about him seemed off.
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When Early and Danielle did show up at my house,
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they kept telling me that they were being Jared. They
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hung out Jared all day and he was being various
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sspcius if I'm not letting them go to Megan's house.
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To look for her.
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Naturally, after Jarrett was taken into custody, investigators sat down
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with him to talk about Megan and find out what
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he knew about her disappearance.
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Your first time is Jared, right, Jarrett j R?
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E T T all right.
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So the other day you were I got I spoke
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to you briefly, you already in the back of the
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police car, and we talked just a little bit and.
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Really just kind of following up.
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I know, I told you that we would, you know,
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keep you updated on what was going on, and that's
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what I'm.
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What I'm here to do.
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Since you are in custody, I have to read you
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your Miranda rights just because we're gonna call to you.
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Not long after this interview began, Jared became emotional. He
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broke down, frustrated that he was sitting in jail while
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his girlfriend was still missing. He wanted to know why
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he had been denied bail.
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Really, you know, now we're gonna now we've got to
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figure out how it happened.
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What happened? So I'm gonna trying to pick your brain
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a little bit more. I'll ask you what, well, why
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have you did that?
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What was my mind?
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And then well, I had no idea on that this
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was your previous charges or not charges?
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I don't know, So I wonder, yeah, I don't even
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know what you're.
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Can you tell I see, we don't even know what
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are you in jail? CVV? When did that occur? Over
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a month ago? Over a month after the Sheriff's office
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or the city, And that's what the charges.
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Jared had been arrested because of a prior incident of
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criminal domestic violence involving Megan, which was something that didn't
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exactly work in his favor now that she was missing.
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So I want to go back into detail the last
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time you saw Nagan? So what day was the last
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day you saw her? On? Thursday?
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That Thursday, Thursday night, Thursday night, okay, Thursday night. Probably
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not what times Thursday night you remember last seeing them?
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I don't remember, Tom, give me well, I was changing
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the baby, all right, it was it daylight was dark,
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and I was like, for fucking night, best with him?
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I don't know, so after midnight.
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So we're talking after midnight Thursday night going into Friday morning. Okay,
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tell me about the conversation. Tell me about what was
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going on between y'all two that day Thursday.
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Jer I claimed that the last time he saw Megan
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was the day she went missing. He said the two
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of them had spent the day together taking their baby
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to a baseball game. I'm not sure what kind of
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baby enjoys a baseball game, but uh whatever, let's continue
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explain that everything seemed normal, enjoyable even but after they
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returned home things changed. The two had sex and then
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an argument started being her.
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Station later at night, y'all you were her sex.
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Yeah, so things were okay at this point.
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Until the legatory to day.
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I didn't she want me a nothing there? Yeah?
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I didn't, and you didn't, and that's when she started
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getting up set.
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According to jareded, Megan became upset after they had sex.
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He claimed that he tried to calm her down.
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So she's mad, was cool out because she won't get pregnant,
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wants to know the baby. She want a boy or girl,
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wanted boy boy, any kind of At that point, she's mad.
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She thrown anything in the house.
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She like the usually if they could run a baby
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or like did the hold the baby, do his little
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baby shoot?
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He won't.
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You won't escalate that if you're holding the baby.
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Or she if I'm if I'm messing with the baby
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around the baby. What happened so well, whenever she was
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when she left, I.
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Was changing maybe everything and getting near the baby.
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So you got the baby close by everything everything's usually
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baby ain't close by.
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She might throw.
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Anything like that.
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Jared admitted that past arguments between him and Megan had
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become physical, but he insisted that it didn't happen the
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night she went missing. Instead, he claimed that after the argument,
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Megan simply left the house and he never saw her again.
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You her, that's matter before. Did any of that happen
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Thursday night? So there was nothing physical Thursday. It was
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just one of the ones that didn't heat.
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Really, it was just she was the one really upset.
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All right, How long after all this do you think
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it was when she before she left?
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How long do you think she stuck around the house?
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And because as she was as the bigger was going
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back before she was was.
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Where she left?
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Okay?
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And what did she tell you when she was leading?
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She said, she's leading the baby with me, since she
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always has a baby.
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Uh huh?
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Which she where she left? Like, I'm pretty sure I
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told other one this. I thought she was coming right back.
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Where you had she had been leaving. Where would you
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have thought she would have went?
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I thought she was just went he graces for a
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little bit, or came back, or he just left and
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came back, or I got so she didn't come back
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that night. That's why next morning when she ain't come
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to her baby more than contact her mama, as if
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she told her at all.
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Much of what Jared told the investigators appeared to check out.
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They confirmed that he and Megan had gone to a
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baseball game earlier that day, and that he had called
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Megan's mother the following morning asking about her. But something
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about his story just didn't sit right. By this point,
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investigators already learned that Megan was a devoted mother. If
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she had stormed out in anger, it seemed very unlikely
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that she would leave her baby behind. Still, while keeping
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Jarrett firmly on their radar, investigators started to consider another possibility.
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There was someone else who had been among the last
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to hear from Megan, her friend Grace.
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When did you report her?
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Listen, I'm not believing it was somewhere between six and
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seven pm?
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What I don't people if I asked you a lot?
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But why why did you wait?
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So one?
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That was tough question. Like I said, not judging you,
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No one's judging you.
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You know when I.
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Heard her on the phone, you know, we had a
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thing that excuse ever in danger to send me the
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address so I could send hope. Yeah, that's why I
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immediately called it when I saw that. And she's only
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non don't call just tinly.
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Grace claimed that when she woke up and realized Megan
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had never arrived, she went looking for eventually forcing her
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way into Megan's home to check on her. Yet, despite
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this urgency, it took nearly twenty four hours for Grace
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to go to the police and report her missing. If
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she was that concern, then why wait? There was also
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another detail Investigators couldn't ignore Grace and Megan's boyfriend, Jared
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had a romantic history.
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Did you have a relationship with Jared Davis?
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We That's actually how I met Megan was me and
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and jaredt had a brief, you know, kind of a
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one night stand, and when I saw him posting Megan,
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she investaged me, and you know, we talked about it
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and we decided to be best friends instead of fighting
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over somebody I didn't want to go.
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That's how our friendship started. Hit Singer close ever since,
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I hope I have ever touched.
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Grace claimed that there was no animosity between her and
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Megan over Jarrett, and based on how investigators handled that response,
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it seemed like they believed her. By this point, detectives
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had spoken with the last two people known to have
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contact with Megan before she disappeared, and they were no
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closer to understanding where she had gone or what had
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happened to her. Meanwhile, Megan's family, which included her three daughters,
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waited anxiously for answers and hope for Megan's safe return.
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Now, Meghan was a young mom. Her family tells me
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she has three young daughters that are waiting for their
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mom to come home. Her youngest daughter is only about
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four months old, and again, like I said, all her
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family wants is for her to come home so she
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can be a mom to those young daughters.
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On April thirtieth, five days after Megan was reported missing,
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investigators finally got a break in the case.
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All afternoon, the Bamberg County Sheriff's office has been in
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the woods right here, right off of the Barnwell excuse me, Highway. Now,
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we aren't sure what they were looking for exactly, but
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we did just get confirmed that they found a burned
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vehicle with human remains inside. We aren't sure who's those
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remains belonged to, but just a couple of miles down
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the road you can find Megan Vodaford's family holding on
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to hope that it was not her.
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Just a few miles from Jared's home, investigators made a
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horrific discovery on a desolate back road. They found a
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burned out vehicle with charred human remains inside.
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Still not one hundred some puzzles that is her. It's
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just possibility, like I said, vehicle found.
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Not even sure what kind of vehicle it was because
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it was burned, burn bad, and then there.
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Was evidence of a body being in there. So we
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haven't gotten the results back whether it was maybe or not.
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But given the condition of both the car and the body,
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investigators couldn't immediately confirm whether it belonged to Megan. An
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autopsy in DNA results were needed, but all signs pointed
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in the same direction. This was likely Megan bought Afford,
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after all, who else could it be? There was, however,
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one thing investigators were able to determine early on with
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some degree of certainty. The victim in the burned out
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car hadn't been killed inside the vehicle. They had been
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shot first and then placed there.
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That was placed in a driver's seat, was not putting.
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It was from driving. It was placed there.
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This body was placed there and then burned, place there
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and burned. She was dead before it was burned. She
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had already been killed. She was shot by a shot.
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In the soul.
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Somebody drove her out there, left her in the vehicle,
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set an on fire, and it burned, burned her body
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up and burned the vehicle up.
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Following the discovery of the burned car and the human remains,
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the investigation into Megan Bodifford only became more complicated as
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investigators dug deeper. The list of suspects continued to grow,
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and for a time, a chilling question loomed over the case.
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What if Megan hadn't been killed by one person, but
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instead by a group of people she trusted. In late
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April of twenty twenty four, in Denmark, South Carolina, twenty
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five year old mother of three, Megan Botiford vanished, and
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the days that followed, investigators worked to piece together her
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last known movements, focusing on two people who had been
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in contact with her just before she disappeared. Her boyfriend
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Jared Davis and her close friend Grace Rindel. Both were questioned.
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Both denied involvement, and neither could explain where Megan had gone. Then,
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five days later, investigators discovered a burned out vehicle on
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a remote road with a burned corpse inside. But at
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that point one question remained, was this Megan?
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Our top stories now a family on edge waiting for
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autopsy results after the discovery of a burn vehicle with
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human remains inside, All of.
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This happening with one question on a lot of minds,
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Where is twenty five year old Meghan Bontiford. Nearly a
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week has passed since Meghan Bontiford's family laid eyes on her.
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They don't want to believe she's gone. All they want
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is for this young mom to come home. But for
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right now, it's the agonizing waiting game they are being
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forced to play.
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It's hard.
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It's really ar missed for so much.
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I agree, I can't describe it.
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I uh won't be outside the other day and just.
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Oh, I just said, Lord, I don't understand that this
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is hard.
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Well, Megan's family waited anxiously for the results of the autopsy.
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Megan's boyfriend, Jareded also waited as he sat in the
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jail cell on an unrelated warrant.
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Have you heard anything, niw just as lit news? What's
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been on the news? Body found? You say that was Megan?
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What's your tholves? If I will confirm you a vehicle was.
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Found that was burned with more than likely it doesn't
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appear there there was a body in it.
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I know stuff that I wanted.
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I wanted, Like I told you that day, if anything
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came up, I would be.
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I would come and tell you what.
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Investigators confirmed the news reports of a burned body Jarrett
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appeared genuinely shaken. His concern for Megan seemed real. About
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three days after the car and the body were discovered,
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the autopsy results came back and it was the outcome
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no one I'd been hoping for.
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April thirtieth, deputies from the Bamberg County Sheriff's Office discovered
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a burned vehicle here with possible human remains inside. Three
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days later, we now know those remains belonged to Meghan Afford,
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a young mom of three young daughters.
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Tragically, this was no longer a missing person case. It
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was now a homicide, and not just any homicide. Someone
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had shot a mother of three in the head, then
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loaded her body into a car and set it on fire,
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burning Megan beyond recognition.
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You know, we have arsenal experts that are out there
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that doing us for eighteen years.
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He said that was the worst body that he has
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ever seen in his life.
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He whoknew us for eighteen years.
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That body was burned so bad that in eighteen years,
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that is the worst body he has ever seen.
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Who would do that to Megan? Who would do that?
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It was personal? Whoever did it, it was personal. It
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wasn't something random it was personal.
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Investigators were left with the obvious question, who would have
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done this to Megan why. At first, there were only
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two possible suspects to consider, her boyfriend Jarrett and her
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close friend Grace, but that list didn't remain small for long.
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Danielle since she was actually talking about what happened to
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Megan before her body was overdiscovered, and he.
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Kind of wrote me the wrong way. How she was
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talking on it was sudday and her body she was served.
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She said that I bet Jerry shot her and set
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her and fired her car her both.
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As the investigation expanded, detectives became aware of a recent
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acquaintance of Megan's, a young woman named Danielle Simmons. Her
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name came up more than once, and according to several people,
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Danielle had been talking about Megan's body being burned days
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before the car and the remains were discovered.
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I just give him the thriller ride and I don't know,
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I don't know her like that, but she was talking
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about Magan happened, and she said, she knows your name,
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Danielle Simmons, And he was running her mouth before everything
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that came out on Facebook and all that where there's.
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No way you just go and shouldn't known what she knows.
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Maybe they need to look into her or look at
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her phone or something, because she might know more than
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what she's saying or.
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Has something to do with it.
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Once Danielle's name surfaced, investigators moved quickly. They tracked her
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down and brought her in for questioning.
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All Right, daniel what we're doing.
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We're investigating the case with Megan, and we've beat the
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bushes and talked a lot of folks.
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Your name's come up as having some information.
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Don't want to use stuff back in the corner or anything,
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but anything you've got is definitely important.
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Okay. If you happened to be there earlier or later
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or whatever, it's all important.
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So what I don't want you to do is to
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sit here and tell us story and did not be real,
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because then you will find yourself and I'll pick Okay.
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After advising Danielle that it was in her best interest
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to be honest, investigators got straight to the point, asking
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where she had been on the day that Megan went missing.
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Let's start with Thursday, with twenty fifth.
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We've seen I've seen her at two o'clock that afternoon.
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Like me and Irrow had went over there to work.
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On his throat. And when you say.
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Yeah, that's the last time I seen her. She was
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leaving from Jared's. Jared came out with falcon and was like,
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I mean we about to ride somewhere, and I was like, okay.
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They love And Megan comes out and sits on the
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porch while I was talking to her whatever, and she
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was telling me it.
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You know, she was tired, she was leaving.
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She was doing tired of putting his hands on her
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and stuff. And I was like, yeah, Jerad, he's knocked out.
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She said yeah, because he knocked me out night before
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or whatever.
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She says.
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She was going home and not tell Jerry where she
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was at, and I was like okay, and she got
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in her car.
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Danielle admitted that she had seen Megan at Jareded's house
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on the day she went missing. She claimed that Megan
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confided in her, saying she was tired of being abused
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by Jared, and when Jarrett left the house with a friend,
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Danielle said, Megan took the opportunity to leave. According to Danielle,
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Megan simply got into her car and drove off and
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she never saw her again.
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Jared Falcon came back.
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He was like, where's Megan And he was like, I said,
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oh no, She said she was leaving and he's seen
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them clothes herself and got mad. He grabbed a bag
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from she got in a car with Foutin and left.
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Danielle said that when Jarrett returned and realized Megan was gone,
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he and his friend Falcon. Yeah yeah, his name's Falcon.
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Let's continue. The two of them went out looking for her.
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She claimed she didn't go with them, but later that
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night she returned to Jared's house. Megan still wasn't there,
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but Jared was, Did you any time.
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Go back over to Jared's house that night?
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It was we did, but we just stopped by.
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Who was the jarlger?
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Nobody?
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Nobody there?
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Yeah, okay? On the car he was burning.
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According to Danielle, when she returned to Jared's house, she
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found him outside burning items in a fire pit. And
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somehow this didn't trigger any alarms. What adult? Two investigators
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that just didn't sit right? Shouldn't sit right with anyone,
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because despite seeing something like that, Danielle still she had
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no idea what happened to Megan.
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We already know a lot of stuff, so hear me out.
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You know, if you know something or if you've been
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told them something, you hear it's her or something, and
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you notasure your.
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Opportunity to be straight Thos, I haven't heard anything.
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Do you have any idea where where she went?
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That was your relationship with Meghan?
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I just metter, like you know, I didn't know where.
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What do you think happened to Megan? I really don't
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want really was partly you? Okay? Last year?
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It really wouldn't surprise her Jared would do so, and
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I don't know if you'd be able to.
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Danielle seemed reluctant to implicate jareded but when pressed, she
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admitted it wouldn't surprise her if he was responsible for
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Megan's death. In fact, she said that was the only
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explanation that made sense.
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James last one was seen her. How do you know that?
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Because I mean she left his house with the baby
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for him to have gotten I mean the baby was
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with him when he's seen him, so she had He
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hadn't have been the last person to see her.
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Because it is where to get babe? Where did he
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get baby from?
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Despite Danielle's insistence that she didn't know what happened to Megan,
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Investigators clearly weren't convinced as they continued to press her.
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Did anyone threaten.
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You at all?
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Want to say anything? No, no one threatened. You're caring
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about Oh, I didn't see her. Everybody hiking his I
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didn't see her after she left, she.
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I wish I didn't know If Danielle had any involvement
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in or knowledge of Megan's murder. She didn't admit it,
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and by the end of the interview, investigators were no
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close to finding answers. If anything, the case was becoming
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more complicated. Rumors started to spread, and with those rumors
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00:29:12.720 --> 00:29:16.400
came more names, each one adding to a growing list
497
00:29:16.440 --> 00:29:21.400
of potential suspects, which is why web sleuths people on
498
00:29:21.440 --> 00:29:25.279
the Internet that try to solve crimes in between runs
499
00:29:25.319 --> 00:29:29.519
to Walmart should stay the fuck out of a case
500
00:29:29.640 --> 00:29:34.240
and mind their own goddamn business. They often make crimes
501
00:29:34.319 --> 00:29:36.119
harder to solve, not easier.
502
00:29:36.599 --> 00:29:39.839
The problem is we have to verify everything that people
503
00:29:39.839 --> 00:29:40.279
tell us.
504
00:29:40.480 --> 00:29:44.079
Right, so you know, we're still a lot of the
505
00:29:44.079 --> 00:29:49.160
problem is the rumor mill around town is crazy, and
506
00:29:49.279 --> 00:29:51.400
everyone thinks that everyone was evolved in it.
507
00:29:51.400 --> 00:29:56.519
Stuff, and eventually the rumors surrounding Megan's murder made their
508
00:29:56.559 --> 00:30:02.519
way into the local jail, where was being helped. Before long,
509
00:30:02.599 --> 00:30:06.640
another inmate, someone who actually knew Megan, asked to speak
510
00:30:06.720 --> 00:30:07.759
with investigators.
511
00:30:08.279 --> 00:30:11.279
All right, what's your first and last name, Sir, Cory,
512
00:30:12.119 --> 00:30:14.279
I got a request from you saying that you have
513
00:30:14.359 --> 00:30:16.799
some information on Magane's disappearance.
514
00:30:17.039 --> 00:30:20.200
Well, well, the sorrys I know Meghan from the streets
515
00:30:20.240 --> 00:30:20.519
and stuff.
516
00:30:20.559 --> 00:30:21.759
I know who she hangs out with.
517
00:30:22.519 --> 00:30:25.079
My actually seen her several days before I got locked up,
518
00:30:25.079 --> 00:30:26.839
which was in February.
519
00:30:27.160 --> 00:30:29.920
Who do you think is our suspect?
520
00:30:30.240 --> 00:30:33.759
Well, I mean, I don't like point fingers without without reasonable.
521
00:30:33.359 --> 00:30:35.720
Suspect, But I mean I knew that, I know who
522
00:30:35.759 --> 00:30:37.880
she she she used to hang out with.
523
00:30:37.960 --> 00:30:40.920
I know who she was real close to. That would
524
00:30:40.920 --> 00:30:45.160
be area Home. Why do you think she would do something?
525
00:30:45.559 --> 00:30:49.839
Well, I know I know in the past, she's had
526
00:30:49.880 --> 00:30:53.599
problems with her before. Like I said, if anything were
527
00:30:53.680 --> 00:30:58.400
to happen to Megan, I would think that Arianna would
528
00:30:58.440 --> 00:30:59.359
definitely know about it.
529
00:31:00.319 --> 00:31:03.000
Do you think she should do something to her? She's crazy,
530
00:31:05.119 --> 00:31:08.319
She's she's she's pretty crazy and mate.
531
00:31:08.359 --> 00:31:12.039
Corey pointed the finger at another friend of Megan's, a
532
00:31:12.079 --> 00:31:17.119
woman named Arianna, but when investigators followed up on that lead,
533
00:31:17.240 --> 00:31:22.640
it went nowhere. Still during the interview, Corey said something
534
00:31:22.680 --> 00:31:27.119
that did catch their attention. When asked what he'd heard
535
00:31:27.680 --> 00:31:31.400
inside the jail, he told them something that echoed what
536
00:31:31.559 --> 00:31:33.400
Danielle Simmons had already said.
537
00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:35.359
What are you been hearing here? Anything?
538
00:31:35.799 --> 00:31:36.039
Well?
539
00:31:37.400 --> 00:31:40.440
Dashly talking to somebody earlier who knows Megan too, hangs
540
00:31:40.440 --> 00:31:44.319
out with Meghan or used to anyways, And she said
541
00:31:44.319 --> 00:31:48.359
that she heard problems between.
542
00:31:48.839 --> 00:31:52.920
The two the boyfriend of the baby daddy, Jared, Jared
543
00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:57.880
or Jeriot, between Jered and him. They they are you
544
00:31:58.000 --> 00:31:58.400
all the time.
545
00:32:00.160 --> 00:32:03.319
It was no secret that Jarrett had been abusive towards Megan.
546
00:32:04.160 --> 00:32:07.640
An interview after interview seemed to end the same way,
547
00:32:08.359 --> 00:32:11.400
with the person being questioned suggesting that more than likely
548
00:32:12.279 --> 00:32:14.759
Jarrett was responsible for this murder.
549
00:32:15.200 --> 00:32:15.880
What do you think I.
550
00:32:17.519 --> 00:32:18.799
Think jed in my head?
551
00:32:18.839 --> 00:32:20.480
I got too many of them. I think he might
552
00:32:20.519 --> 00:32:22.680
have put his hand on the wall the time, and
553
00:32:23.839 --> 00:32:24.920
he might I.
554
00:32:24.839 --> 00:32:29.920
Think he heard it heard he might have what I'm saying,
555
00:32:31.000 --> 00:32:31.400
I don't know.
556
00:32:31.640 --> 00:32:33.480
I don't know what I was saying, I don't know
557
00:32:34.920 --> 00:32:40.240
another name, investigators kept hearing was an unusual one, you know,
558
00:32:40.319 --> 00:32:47.559
the one Falcon Falcon Joiner, to be precise. Falcon was
559
00:32:47.599 --> 00:32:52.440
a young man who was close to Jared. They'd been friends,
560
00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:57.079
and he'd been with him on the night that Megan disappeared.
561
00:32:57.680 --> 00:32:59.559
Just kind of get me a rundown of what what
562
00:32:59.680 --> 00:33:00.960
you want to talking about here today?
563
00:33:01.400 --> 00:33:04.480
The audio of Falcon telling what went on this weekend
564
00:33:04.640 --> 00:33:08.039
with him and Jared and Meghan.
565
00:33:09.559 --> 00:33:12.480
So give me a gyss. Does he ever admit to anything?
566
00:33:12.680 --> 00:33:18.400
He admits picking, chicking, Jared up Jared Caughton, okay, and
567
00:33:18.440 --> 00:33:20.480
he came over and he was like, man, I'm gonna
568
00:33:20.559 --> 00:33:22.440
kill this ditch and all this, threw an axe in
569
00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:24.759
the back of Jared. Jared threw an axe in the
570
00:33:24.799 --> 00:33:25.400
back of So.
571
00:33:25.400 --> 00:33:28.160
He picked up jareded at Jared's trailer down the river.
572
00:33:29.440 --> 00:33:31.480
Okay, all right, and he threw an axe in the
573
00:33:31.480 --> 00:33:34.839
back of the truck. And he told Falcon, I give
574
00:33:34.839 --> 00:33:37.000
you forty dollars. You're going to aching anyway, Just run
575
00:33:37.039 --> 00:33:38.079
me the her house, drop me.
576
00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:40.599
Off at her house. And Falcon was like, bo, I
577
00:33:40.599 --> 00:33:41.359
don't know about that.
578
00:33:41.400 --> 00:33:43.039
You're like come on, I give you forty so o'clock
579
00:33:43.119 --> 00:33:43.640
and ended up.
580
00:33:43.599 --> 00:33:49.000
Taking Eventually, investigators started hearing that Falcon may have helped
581
00:33:49.079 --> 00:33:51.880
Jarrett carry out the murder, or at the very least,
582
00:33:52.079 --> 00:33:57.680
gave Jarrett a ride to the place where Megan was killed. Supposedly,
583
00:33:57.839 --> 00:34:01.680
Falcon was paid forty for that ride.
584
00:34:02.000 --> 00:34:04.000
After that, he said he finally pulled up.
585
00:34:03.880 --> 00:34:07.519
Again at Jared's house, said Jared was acting all weird
586
00:34:07.559 --> 00:34:11.960
Saturday Friday might say, Jared was acting all weird and shit,
587
00:34:12.239 --> 00:34:14.760
was acting crazy questions.
588
00:34:14.320 --> 00:34:17.519
And it was like you think she he was trying
589
00:34:17.559 --> 00:34:19.280
to put like she overdosed or some shit.
590
00:34:19.519 --> 00:34:22.000
I think she overdosed on something involved something.
591
00:34:21.800 --> 00:34:23.719
Like that, because she left me with the kids, said
592
00:34:23.760 --> 00:34:27.199
she was going out, Like how would that automatically be
593
00:34:27.320 --> 00:34:28.360
the first thing you're trying to.
594
00:34:28.280 --> 00:34:30.920
Throw out there unless you come up with the stores. Okay.
595
00:34:32.119 --> 00:34:34.840
Then Falcon's like, He're.
596
00:34:34.679 --> 00:34:37.440
Like, well, I honestly think Jared killed it, he said,
597
00:34:37.480 --> 00:34:39.599
because after that he was like, voter, the police gonna
598
00:34:39.599 --> 00:34:41.599
think I killed her, And Falcon was like, I don't
599
00:34:41.599 --> 00:34:45.320
even understand why he would even say that. But then Falcon,
600
00:34:45.440 --> 00:34:47.760
I feel like Falcon's involved in it. He's just trying
601
00:34:47.760 --> 00:34:50.559
to separate himself and make it seem like he did.
602
00:34:50.960 --> 00:34:51.960
Everything that he did.
603
00:34:53.239 --> 00:34:56.199
Like every other name that surfaced in this investigation, the
604
00:34:56.239 --> 00:35:07.000
detectives eventually tracked Falcon down question to him. Sorry, I
605
00:35:07.039 --> 00:35:10.840
had to, I couldn't help myself. Here's the real interview.
606
00:35:11.480 --> 00:35:12.480
Everybody calls me Falcon.
607
00:35:12.519 --> 00:35:14.039
My Falcon is my middle name. Falcon.
608
00:35:15.519 --> 00:35:18.840
All right, Falcon, we know everything that went on the
609
00:35:18.880 --> 00:35:19.239
other day.
610
00:35:20.199 --> 00:35:20.679
Everything.
611
00:35:21.559 --> 00:35:25.519
I know everything because people with consciences are talking, and
612
00:35:25.679 --> 00:35:28.880
your names in the middle of all and it's not
613
00:35:29.119 --> 00:35:31.920
matching up. Some of what you're what you told us
614
00:35:32.039 --> 00:35:34.119
is true, some of it isn't, and I can very
615
00:35:34.159 --> 00:35:37.440
I can prove it. You have you know more than
616
00:35:37.440 --> 00:35:38.519
you told me the other day.
617
00:35:39.599 --> 00:35:43.719
Investigators immediately took a hard line with Falcon, which made
618
00:35:43.719 --> 00:35:47.960
their theory pretty clear. They believe Jarrett had committed the
619
00:35:48.039 --> 00:35:50.880
murder and that Falcon had either helped him or at
620
00:35:50.880 --> 00:35:54.000
the very least knew some details about what had happened.
621
00:35:54.599 --> 00:35:57.159
Every bit of what I told you the other night
622
00:35:57.480 --> 00:36:00.639
is the truth as far as my time goes.
623
00:36:00.760 --> 00:36:05.119
No, I know your timeline, you know exactly what happened,
624
00:36:05.320 --> 00:36:06.679
we know exactly.
625
00:36:06.239 --> 00:36:08.440
What No, I know what I've heard happen. I mean,
626
00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:10.639
I've been told throughout.
627
00:36:10.119 --> 00:36:12.880
No, I know that he told I never talked.
628
00:36:13.000 --> 00:36:14.760
I swear I'm telling you.
629
00:36:15.920 --> 00:36:20.760
Despite the investigator's certainty, Falcon maintained that Jarrett never confided
630
00:36:20.840 --> 00:36:22.920
in him about killing Megan.
631
00:36:23.519 --> 00:36:26.719
At ten I believe it was ten fifty five. He
632
00:36:26.800 --> 00:36:29.079
started blowing me up, calling me, calling me, calling me.
633
00:36:29.159 --> 00:36:31.880
I never once answered that phone for him, not that
634
00:36:32.039 --> 00:36:32.599
night at all.
635
00:36:33.039 --> 00:36:33.599
Okay.
636
00:36:34.519 --> 00:36:37.280
I assume what he was trying to do was he
637
00:36:37.360 --> 00:36:40.559
wanted an alibi or he wanted somebody to be there
638
00:36:40.639 --> 00:36:42.880
to verify the Hey, I'm sitting here with the baby.
639
00:36:44.440 --> 00:36:46.400
You know, I don't know where Meghan is.
640
00:36:47.840 --> 00:36:51.599
Falcon claimed to be on the same page as the investigators.
641
00:36:52.119 --> 00:36:54.960
He had his suspicions about what Jarrett may have done,
642
00:36:55.719 --> 00:36:58.119
but he didn't know for sure what happened.
643
00:36:58.719 --> 00:37:01.639
I don't talk to him none that at all. All Right,
644
00:37:01.679 --> 00:37:04.360
Friday comes in. That's when he called me, and the
645
00:37:04.440 --> 00:37:06.719
first that's the first time I answered the phone. And
646
00:37:06.800 --> 00:37:09.320
I knew immediately that something you know, the way he
647
00:37:09.360 --> 00:37:11.320
was talking, I could hear it, hear in his voice.
648
00:37:11.440 --> 00:37:14.079
I said something right, you watch something something right? Something
649
00:37:14.159 --> 00:37:16.199
something is I don't know what he's doing. Something's that.
650
00:37:17.480 --> 00:37:21.360
Falcon also claimed that Jared had suddenly asked him to
651
00:37:21.480 --> 00:37:25.280
hide his firearms, one of which may have been the
652
00:37:25.360 --> 00:37:29.119
murder weapon, but Falcon refused, and.
653
00:37:29.039 --> 00:37:32.000
He goes, he's just sitting there and he goes, yeah,
654
00:37:32.199 --> 00:37:35.320
I should probably do something. He's guns shut just like that.
655
00:37:35.400 --> 00:37:39.320
And I said, I mean, aren't you a feling? Be honest,
656
00:37:39.480 --> 00:37:42.400
I swear to God on my kids, that's what I said.
657
00:37:42.480 --> 00:37:45.280
I said, aren't you a feeling? He goes, well, I
658
00:37:45.280 --> 00:37:48.960
mean I don't know. Technically, I don't know. And I said,
659
00:37:49.440 --> 00:37:53.119
I mean he looked at me like, hey, you'll take him.
660
00:37:53.320 --> 00:37:56.360
He never asked me, right, you know, he just kind
661
00:37:56.360 --> 00:37:58.039
of looked at me like, I should probably get Ready's
662
00:37:58.039 --> 00:37:59.760
guns in it. And I'm sitting there with the.
663
00:37:59.719 --> 00:38:00.639
Only all right.
664
00:38:01.840 --> 00:38:06.400
Similar to the other suspects investigators spoke with, Falcon's story
665
00:38:06.480 --> 00:38:09.960
seemed credible. He may have been just another person caught
666
00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:13.440
up in a rumor mill and someone who actually knew
667
00:38:13.519 --> 00:38:15.000
nothing about the murder.
668
00:38:15.440 --> 00:38:16.360
What have you heard?
669
00:38:17.280 --> 00:38:19.159
This is what I heard. The latest I heard today
670
00:38:19.559 --> 00:38:24.239
was when I talked to his sister. She called me
671
00:38:24.280 --> 00:38:30.000
this morning and said, did you hear how how she died.
672
00:38:30.119 --> 00:38:32.519
How you know how she died? And I said, well,
673
00:38:32.559 --> 00:38:35.039
I mean you, I mean, I've heard a lot of things.
674
00:38:35.159 --> 00:38:39.079
She said, well, I talked with Megan's mom today and
675
00:38:39.199 --> 00:38:42.239
she said, so, it's a pretty reliable source that he
676
00:38:42.280 --> 00:38:46.960
beat her to death, well, beat her unconscious, and that he,
677
00:38:47.920 --> 00:38:50.840
while she was unconscious, took her and loaded her up
678
00:38:50.880 --> 00:38:54.599
and wherever hell he went and did his thing, burned
679
00:38:54.599 --> 00:38:58.639
the car. And I was like, well, unconscious, you mean
680
00:38:58.760 --> 00:39:01.559
like she was alive in there, and she was like yeah,
681
00:39:02.039 --> 00:39:03.559
And I said, god damn.
682
00:39:04.760 --> 00:39:08.239
Even though Falcons seemed genuinely ignorant about the facts of
683
00:39:08.280 --> 00:39:12.360
the case, investigators made it clear that if he had
684
00:39:12.440 --> 00:39:15.800
any involvement with the murder or knowledge of it, they
685
00:39:15.800 --> 00:39:16.920
would find out.
686
00:39:17.119 --> 00:39:18.679
I had to look at what he did to her.
687
00:39:18.920 --> 00:39:20.599
I had to look at it with my own eyes,
688
00:39:20.639 --> 00:39:23.960
after putting everything I had into finding her. And I
689
00:39:24.079 --> 00:39:29.719
promise you that everybody involved is going down. So I'm
690
00:39:29.800 --> 00:39:33.719
letting you know. Everybody who's involved in know something and
691
00:39:33.760 --> 00:39:35.360
didn't tell us, it's going to pay.
692
00:39:35.960 --> 00:39:37.840
I've been trying to help all I can. But me
693
00:39:37.880 --> 00:39:40.840
and Meghan were friends, man, I mean, I'm gonna tell you, Oh,
694
00:39:40.920 --> 00:39:42.800
I'll show you my messages with her. You want to
695
00:39:42.840 --> 00:39:44.920
see him? How about how she was trying to you know,
696
00:39:45.159 --> 00:39:46.119
he was beating her ass.
697
00:39:46.400 --> 00:39:47.760
We know, we know all.
698
00:39:48.199 --> 00:39:50.840
I told her, I'll show it to you. I said, Man,
699
00:39:50.880 --> 00:39:52.760
he's not a good person. Megan, you get your kids
700
00:39:52.760 --> 00:39:53.159
to get.
701
00:39:53.000 --> 00:39:53.280
Out of here.
702
00:39:53.440 --> 00:39:55.119
Well, I would have been to motherfucker tried to burn
703
00:39:55.199 --> 00:39:58.239
my house down like he did yours. And I'm like, well,
704
00:39:58.280 --> 00:40:01.800
you know me and you still need together. I can
705
00:40:01.840 --> 00:40:03.280
show it to you. I ain't got none to high
706
00:40:03.360 --> 00:40:06.400
man as hit because I mean, I haven't done anything.
707
00:40:06.519 --> 00:40:09.360
I swear to God on everything.
708
00:40:09.400 --> 00:40:09.519
Bro.
709
00:40:09.880 --> 00:40:11.800
If y'all want to go look at my house and
710
00:40:11.840 --> 00:40:15.559
my my shed, anything around there, y'all welcome and go
711
00:40:15.639 --> 00:40:18.079
do it. I go widget, But it don't matter. Y'all
712
00:40:18.119 --> 00:40:20.679
want my phone, y'all want to you wanna take pictures, y'all,
713
00:40:20.719 --> 00:40:22.480
whatever y'all want to do, I'm willing to help you.
714
00:40:22.519 --> 00:40:23.719
I don't got nothing to hide, bro.
715
00:40:24.960 --> 00:40:28.079
Ultimately, yet wasn't an interview with a potential suspect that
716
00:40:28.199 --> 00:40:34.159
led investigators in the right direction. It was Megan herself
717
00:40:35.079 --> 00:40:38.880
and her final words to a friend.
718
00:40:39.280 --> 00:40:42.119
Megan was reported missing by a friend on Friday. Her
719
00:40:42.119 --> 00:40:44.559
friend repeated what was in the police report.
720
00:40:44.360 --> 00:40:48.239
So her friends have been sending me messages in where
721
00:40:49.960 --> 00:40:55.360
Megan is basically scared for her life. She said that
722
00:40:55.679 --> 00:41:00.159
her the child, her child's father had a gun and
723
00:41:00.199 --> 00:41:04.559
if nobody contacted in the next thirty minutes to send
724
00:41:04.559 --> 00:41:09.639
the police because he killed her. I have those messages screenshotted.
725
00:41:11.880 --> 00:41:14.480
Megan was basically began for help again.
726
00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:18.760
This missing person's report says she sent text messages on
727
00:41:18.800 --> 00:41:21.599
April twenty fifth to a friend saying if they didn't
728
00:41:21.639 --> 00:41:24.239
hear from her in thirty minutes, to call law enforcement,
729
00:41:24.360 --> 00:41:26.800
and that her boyfriend was going to kill her.
730
00:41:27.880 --> 00:41:31.920
In a text message to her friend Grace, Megan wrote
731
00:41:31.960 --> 00:41:37.159
the following, Jarrett's about to kill me. If you don't
732
00:41:37.159 --> 00:41:42.119
hear from me in thirty minutes, call the law. After
733
00:41:42.239 --> 00:41:45.480
receiving this text message, Grace asked Megan if she should
734
00:41:45.480 --> 00:41:50.079
call the police immediately. Megan told her no and instead
735
00:41:50.119 --> 00:41:52.159
asked if she and her baby could spend the night
736
00:41:52.599 --> 00:41:53.599
at Grace's house.
737
00:41:54.199 --> 00:41:57.039
And I asked if everything was okay, and she was
738
00:41:57.079 --> 00:42:00.480
crying and she said he was beating her. She wanted
739
00:42:00.519 --> 00:42:01.960
me to call it. Go ahead and call the police.
740
00:42:01.960 --> 00:42:04.159
She said no that she decidedly even get the baby
741
00:42:04.159 --> 00:42:06.800
and come to my house. And so I had take
742
00:42:06.840 --> 00:42:09.199
sleeping medication to he'll sleep the night. So I'd already
743
00:42:09.239 --> 00:42:10.679
taken it, so I told her I couldn't try to
744
00:42:10.679 --> 00:42:13.239
skip a baby come to me. So I got up
745
00:42:13.239 --> 00:42:14.960
and I unlocked my door and turned onto the porch
746
00:42:15.000 --> 00:42:17.719
site and figured that she let her so thin as
747
00:42:17.760 --> 00:42:20.280
she's done something types before, so okay.
748
00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:20.840
But she never did.
749
00:42:21.559 --> 00:42:26.400
Sadly, Megan and her baby never showed up at Grace's
750
00:42:26.400 --> 00:42:30.039
home that night, and the obvious assumption was that she
751
00:42:30.119 --> 00:42:34.079
never got the chance to actually go there. Jarrett probably
752
00:42:34.119 --> 00:42:38.760
stopped her, and when she resisted, he shot her, placing
753
00:42:38.800 --> 00:42:42.519
her body in her car, driving her to a desolate road,
754
00:42:42.559 --> 00:42:46.679
and setting it on fire. It was a theory that
755
00:42:46.800 --> 00:42:51.079
made sense, but investigators would still need proof, and as
756
00:42:51.119 --> 00:42:55.119
it turns out, they were about to get it, because
757
00:42:55.159 --> 00:42:59.400
nearly everything that happened that night was caught on camera.
758
00:43:31.920 --> 00:43:36.039
In late April of twenty twenty four, Megan Bodiford vanished.
759
00:43:37.039 --> 00:43:40.079
Days later, Her body was found inside a burned car
760
00:43:40.280 --> 00:43:44.559
on a remote road. The investigators questioned that was closest
761
00:43:44.559 --> 00:43:48.039
to her, and as the case unfolded, more names began
762
00:43:48.079 --> 00:43:51.960
to surface, each one adding to a growing list of
763
00:43:52.000 --> 00:43:56.320
potential suspects. But even as the list grew, all roads
764
00:43:56.360 --> 00:44:02.400
continued to lead back to one person, boyfriend Jarrett Davis.
765
00:44:02.880 --> 00:44:05.760
Megan Bonttiford was last heard from on Thursday, April of
766
00:44:05.800 --> 00:44:08.400
twenty fifth, when she texted a friend that she feared
767
00:44:08.400 --> 00:44:11.960
that Davis was going to kill her. Days later, human
768
00:44:12.039 --> 00:44:14.480
remains were discovered in a burnt car not far from
769
00:44:14.480 --> 00:44:15.480
where the couple stayed.
770
00:44:15.800 --> 00:44:18.719
The Bamberg County Sheriff's Office executed a search warrant at
771
00:44:18.719 --> 00:44:22.280
the couple's residence on Saturday and took Davis into custody
772
00:44:22.360 --> 00:44:26.159
on an active domestic violence arrest. Warren Bonttiford was nowhere
773
00:44:26.199 --> 00:44:28.679
to be found, but her four month old baby was
774
00:44:28.719 --> 00:44:30.000
there unharmed.
775
00:44:31.159 --> 00:44:34.400
After his arrest, Jarrett was questioned and he denied any
776
00:44:34.440 --> 00:44:39.280
involvement in Megan's disappearance. He claimed the two had gotten
777
00:44:39.320 --> 00:44:42.760
into an argument and that Megan simply left, leaving their
778
00:44:42.800 --> 00:44:46.800
baby behind. As ridiculous as that sounds.
779
00:44:47.199 --> 00:44:49.199
On Thursday night, when you got home.
780
00:44:51.079 --> 00:44:55.199
From baseball and the stores and stuff to Meg had sex,
781
00:44:56.559 --> 00:44:57.280
she got mad.
782
00:44:58.159 --> 00:45:02.840
She left you pack anything or her Carl state payful.
783
00:45:03.119 --> 00:45:05.960
Oh really, yeah, of course she had clothes and all
784
00:45:05.960 --> 00:45:09.480
that he had always in her car, so she could
785
00:45:09.559 --> 00:45:10.199
leave on the car at.
786
00:45:10.159 --> 00:45:10.840
Any point in time.
787
00:45:12.400 --> 00:45:16.239
After Jarrett laid out his version of events, investigators quickly
788
00:45:16.280 --> 00:45:20.320
began poking holes in his story, starting with the text
789
00:45:20.440 --> 00:45:24.760
Megan had sent Grace warning that Jarrett was going to
790
00:45:24.880 --> 00:45:25.360
kill her.
791
00:45:25.920 --> 00:45:29.679
We ended up getting some text messages that Megan sent
792
00:45:29.760 --> 00:45:30.599
some of her friends.
793
00:45:32.280 --> 00:45:34.599
What in the world do you think that's about? She
794
00:45:35.000 --> 00:45:39.639
was very with everything. I don't know.
795
00:45:40.679 --> 00:45:42.920
So at any point you have a gun to her head,
796
00:45:43.480 --> 00:45:44.840
tell her gun?
797
00:45:45.360 --> 00:45:49.679
Oh no, but no, no, I ain't got a gun. No,
798
00:45:49.760 --> 00:45:50.519
I don't have a gun.
799
00:45:51.599 --> 00:45:55.440
Jarrett tried to explain away Megan's text message as her
800
00:45:55.639 --> 00:45:59.880
being over dramatic. He insisted he didn't have a gun
801
00:46:00.280 --> 00:46:02.639
and couldn't have shot her even if he wanted to.
802
00:46:03.760 --> 00:46:07.480
What a strange thing to say, But Jared had a
803
00:46:07.519 --> 00:46:12.199
big problem. Investigators had already gone through his phone and
804
00:46:13.159 --> 00:46:16.119
on it was a fitness app when that tracked his
805
00:46:16.199 --> 00:46:21.719
movements on the night of the murder. What a dumb ass.
806
00:46:22.360 --> 00:46:25.000
I'm good at tracking people on their phones and looking
807
00:46:25.000 --> 00:46:27.119
at health data, and that tells a lot about what
808
00:46:27.159 --> 00:46:27.840
someone does.
809
00:46:28.519 --> 00:46:32.639
And we got your health data for you that night, so.
810
00:46:34.280 --> 00:46:41.239
Around ten VMAs got you're doing a lot of.
811
00:46:41.159 --> 00:46:45.800
Walking from ten to to I mean for a good
812
00:46:45.840 --> 00:46:46.800
solid hour back.
813
00:46:47.000 --> 00:46:50.519
I mean a lot of walking where we're looking at
814
00:46:50.639 --> 00:46:56.159
over over a mile and a half of the distance covered,
815
00:46:56.320 --> 00:46:58.400
Like not just you're.
816
00:46:58.239 --> 00:47:00.400
Not just making circles in the yard, but a lot
817
00:47:00.440 --> 00:47:02.480
of walking, like you walk down the road and things
818
00:47:02.559 --> 00:47:04.960
like that. Where where would you have been going at
819
00:47:04.960 --> 00:47:05.679
that point?
820
00:47:06.880 --> 00:47:11.000
Walking where from the shed to the house?
821
00:47:11.239 --> 00:47:12.199
Yeah, well that ain't yet.
822
00:47:12.400 --> 00:47:14.760
Here's the thing I went I went through your health
823
00:47:14.840 --> 00:47:18.000
data for the whole day and analyzed it, and I
824
00:47:18.039 --> 00:47:21.079
can see, you know, the short distance stuff like that.
825
00:47:21.280 --> 00:47:25.800
These are massive movements significantly. This is not like you
826
00:47:25.960 --> 00:47:29.000
just walking to and from the shed, or even walking.
827
00:47:28.800 --> 00:47:31.119
To and from your parents partly. This is like massive
828
00:47:31.159 --> 00:47:32.039
amounts of walking.
829
00:47:32.920 --> 00:47:36.559
Based on the data in Jared's phone, investigators had pieced
830
00:47:36.599 --> 00:47:40.960
together a clear picture of what happened. They believe Jarrett
831
00:47:40.960 --> 00:47:43.920
had driven Megan to a burn site, set the car
832
00:47:43.960 --> 00:47:47.239
on fire, and then walked back to his house.
833
00:47:48.079 --> 00:47:48.639
What do I want to know?
834
00:47:49.039 --> 00:47:52.519
I mean, I feel like there's more to it that
835
00:47:52.559 --> 00:47:55.639
you're just not telling us, and I just want to
836
00:47:55.639 --> 00:47:58.519
know something else happened between you and me.
837
00:48:00.159 --> 00:48:02.400
She knew anything to you. This is our.
838
00:48:03.960 --> 00:48:06.639
I told other people lives. I mean, I'll tell you
839
00:48:06.639 --> 00:48:08.039
how everything is to heaven that night.
840
00:48:08.119 --> 00:48:08.519
I got it.
841
00:48:08.559 --> 00:48:10.079
And I feel like you've told me a good bit
842
00:48:10.800 --> 00:48:12.440
to be like, we're leaving out a little bit of
843
00:48:12.480 --> 00:48:15.960
key details because during some of this, this is all
844
00:48:16.000 --> 00:48:20.559
this walking was from ten pm ish to.
845
00:48:22.239 --> 00:48:25.039
A little after eleven. I don't think Megan's at the
846
00:48:25.039 --> 00:48:27.119
house at that time. I think Megan's aren't gone.
847
00:48:28.840 --> 00:48:30.159
It looks like you.
848
00:48:30.159 --> 00:48:36.840
Were walking back from uh turn rail Road and back
849
00:48:36.840 --> 00:48:39.559
to your house. You know where Turnar rail Road is?
850
00:48:39.719 --> 00:48:42.119
Yes, where they feeling I mean trying to say, I
851
00:48:42.159 --> 00:48:43.920
went to putting Megan there and I didn't.
852
00:48:44.559 --> 00:48:47.800
I'm putting you there because I believe we have some
853
00:48:48.440 --> 00:48:51.880
We have some coordinates that that puts you at turn
854
00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:52.440
rail Road.
855
00:48:53.760 --> 00:48:56.920
GPS phone data placed Jarrett at the burn site on
856
00:48:56.960 --> 00:49:00.760
the night Megan went missing, and yet he denied ever
857
00:49:00.840 --> 00:49:03.239
being there or ever hurting her.
858
00:49:03.800 --> 00:49:07.800
So we have your GPS data showing you there. We
859
00:49:07.880 --> 00:49:09.960
also have pinpoint data that.
860
00:49:10.000 --> 00:49:13.840
Shows you were there. And then conveniently, when those dots
861
00:49:13.840 --> 00:49:14.440
are plotted.
862
00:49:15.159 --> 00:49:19.280
I have your activity going the same distance from Turmoway Road.
863
00:49:19.519 --> 00:49:22.679
Back to your house like on flip.
864
00:49:22.679 --> 00:49:26.440
So, I mean, we're not stupid, and we know what happened,
865
00:49:26.480 --> 00:49:29.280
but this is your time to just tell.
866
00:49:29.119 --> 00:49:33.880
Us what happened, Explain why, what happened to make this happen.
867
00:49:34.079 --> 00:49:38.280
Listening something happened that night. She might have just pissed
868
00:49:38.320 --> 00:49:41.960
you off, driving you out like that. Here's a thing.
869
00:49:41.960 --> 00:49:43.400
We know what happened.
870
00:49:44.079 --> 00:49:46.199
We know what happened because I didn't do anything too.
871
00:49:47.679 --> 00:49:52.480
Despite irrefutable evidence placing him at the scene, Jared insisted
872
00:49:53.199 --> 00:49:57.960
he had not hurt Megan. Obviously, investigators weren't buying it.
873
00:49:58.559 --> 00:50:02.360
Data doesn't lie. And that's that's kind of where I'm at.
874
00:50:02.440 --> 00:50:04.719
So I think we're at the point where you know,
875
00:50:05.280 --> 00:50:08.840
we know something happened. Now you just you want your
876
00:50:08.840 --> 00:50:11.440
story to sick, but it's just not sticking. And that's
877
00:50:11.480 --> 00:50:13.519
what happened. This is what I mean, here's the thing
878
00:50:13.639 --> 00:50:15.840
that we all we all know something happened. We just
879
00:50:15.880 --> 00:50:18.079
need to move on from that and figure out what
880
00:50:18.239 --> 00:50:19.360
happened and why.
881
00:50:19.559 --> 00:50:22.760
So we can understand what happened. And she's going to
882
00:50:22.800 --> 00:50:23.320
figure this out.
883
00:50:23.599 --> 00:50:25.679
Nothing happened between me, between me and her another that
884
00:50:25.920 --> 00:50:28.159
was she left, was she left and I was changing baby.
885
00:50:28.280 --> 00:50:34.079
She was well alive, she was kicking, breathing, mad, she
886
00:50:34.280 --> 00:50:35.159
was still alive.
887
00:50:35.079 --> 00:50:39.039
She injured, hurt. I mean, I'm a rocket scientist.
888
00:50:39.159 --> 00:50:44.519
But everything that I have here from you, from your phone,
889
00:50:44.679 --> 00:50:48.639
from your activity, everything from what people are saying, is
890
00:50:48.800 --> 00:50:52.679
all adding up that conveniently, where her car is found
891
00:50:52.760 --> 00:50:58.519
burnt is matching up with your location on the map specifically,
892
00:50:58.599 --> 00:51:00.440
And then y'all's phones are together.
893
00:51:01.760 --> 00:51:04.920
How is all of this just conveniently adding up? But
894
00:51:05.000 --> 00:51:08.000
then you're something didn't happen, you know, you know what
895
00:51:08.000 --> 00:51:10.079
I'm saying, dude, Well we'll be together the whole time.
896
00:51:11.880 --> 00:51:15.800
Throughout this interview, Jarrett continued to deny any involvement as
897
00:51:15.880 --> 00:51:20.239
investigators kept pressing him for the truth. They eventually reminded
898
00:51:20.320 --> 00:51:22.920
him that one day he would have to explain his
899
00:51:23.039 --> 00:51:27.519
obviously made up story to the child he shared with Megan.
900
00:51:28.039 --> 00:51:30.559
So you're gonna tell your baby one day that you walked.
901
00:51:30.360 --> 00:51:33.480
From Turnway Road where this didn't, where this was happened.
902
00:51:33.400 --> 00:51:37.800
Back to your house convenient I don't know why you're
903
00:51:37.800 --> 00:51:39.039
holding onto the story.
904
00:51:39.079 --> 00:51:40.320
Holding there's nothing I'm hold.
905
00:51:40.159 --> 00:51:44.559
Known to things there. There's no question, there's no question
906
00:51:45.239 --> 00:51:45.519
I didn't.
907
00:51:45.559 --> 00:51:47.519
I didn't do anything to make it that night at all.
908
00:51:48.800 --> 00:51:51.000
Did something happened to her before No, she left, she
909
00:51:51.119 --> 00:51:56.239
was fine. Did something accidentally happened. No, there's nothing that
910
00:51:56.400 --> 00:51:58.639
happened there, something happened.
911
00:51:58.840 --> 00:52:01.079
Nothing happened between me and Meghan. Nothing happened.
912
00:52:01.199 --> 00:52:05.199
It's happened between her and somebody else that you know about. No. Okay, Jared,
913
00:52:05.559 --> 00:52:08.760
there's you're not there's more to it, and you're just not.
914
00:52:09.199 --> 00:52:09.519
It is not.
915
00:52:11.159 --> 00:52:14.599
As this interview came to an end, investigators laid out
916
00:52:14.599 --> 00:52:18.400
pretty much every bit of evidence that proved Jarrett's killed,
917
00:52:19.440 --> 00:52:21.440
but he never confessed.
918
00:52:22.039 --> 00:52:25.920
The last anyone heard from Meghan was nine fifty And
919
00:52:25.960 --> 00:52:28.400
then we have your story and what what what was
920
00:52:28.400 --> 00:52:32.159
that mess that was said at nine fifty and what
921
00:52:32.199 --> 00:52:34.280
it said? I know what it said. Do you know
922
00:52:34.320 --> 00:52:38.840
what that said? Yeah? I had a gun and I.
923
00:52:38.800 --> 00:52:39.440
Was gonna kill her.
924
00:52:40.280 --> 00:52:43.320
If you don't hear from all Law ninety. Jarret's about
925
00:52:43.320 --> 00:52:43.760
to kill me.
926
00:52:44.039 --> 00:52:45.840
If you don't hear from me in thirty minutes, call
927
00:52:45.880 --> 00:52:47.760
a law six forty two against Branch Road.
928
00:52:48.840 --> 00:52:52.440
And then at ten o'clock. We have you in that
929
00:52:52.480 --> 00:52:53.920
area where vehicles now.
930
00:52:55.760 --> 00:52:56.480
Jared, what happened?
931
00:52:56.800 --> 00:53:00.679
Nothing happened I saw, honest, gonna shoot. Nothing happened between
932
00:53:00.719 --> 00:53:01.159
me and Meghan.
933
00:53:01.880 --> 00:53:02.079
Jay.
934
00:53:02.159 --> 00:53:05.119
We've talked to everyone. Your story does not match anyone else's.
935
00:53:06.239 --> 00:53:11.920
You're including some very key points pretty much the time
936
00:53:11.960 --> 00:53:13.079
when Megan was killed.
937
00:53:13.760 --> 00:53:14.079
How.
938
00:53:15.719 --> 00:53:16.719
You're leaving that port out.
939
00:53:17.360 --> 00:53:20.519
I didn't kill her, That's what y'all don't understand. I didn't.
940
00:53:20.559 --> 00:53:21.360
I didn't kill her.
941
00:53:21.639 --> 00:53:25.639
What happened? How did she die? I don't know. Why
942
00:53:25.679 --> 00:53:26.800
would she tell someone.
943
00:53:26.519 --> 00:53:28.840
You're about to kill her and then she died that night?
944
00:53:29.639 --> 00:53:30.119
I don't know.
945
00:53:31.679 --> 00:53:36.199
Everything points to you. So the only thing we can
946
00:53:36.239 --> 00:53:39.159
do is get an understanding on why.
947
00:53:39.679 --> 00:53:43.079
I didn't do it. Though that's a thing. I don't
948
00:53:43.079 --> 00:53:45.199
want to be me so bad, and I don't. I
949
00:53:45.280 --> 00:53:47.400
just want I want it to be whoever did it.
950
00:53:47.519 --> 00:53:50.559
That's the thing. The problem is a solved pointing towards you.
951
00:53:51.760 --> 00:53:54.480
Investigators wrapped up the interview and sent Jarrett back to
952
00:53:54.519 --> 00:53:59.480
his cell, but less than twenty four hours later, after
953
00:53:59.639 --> 00:54:03.760
Stuart in there and realizing how obvious it all was,
954
00:54:04.840 --> 00:54:08.719
he asked to speak with them again. When this follow
955
00:54:08.760 --> 00:54:13.239
up interview started, Jared seems ready to confess, so you
956
00:54:13.239 --> 00:54:13.880
can get out.
957
00:54:13.760 --> 00:54:17.559
Of the house, kind of tell me what happens.
958
00:54:18.440 --> 00:54:19.400
I'm just still arguing.
959
00:54:20.599 --> 00:54:22.199
And when we left that night to go up to
960
00:54:22.199 --> 00:54:24.360
a guess station, she was still love okay.
961
00:54:24.400 --> 00:54:25.960
When I turned around, we went into the house.
962
00:54:26.079 --> 00:54:28.800
We were still lived out there by the corse, and
963
00:54:29.159 --> 00:54:29.920
I had a thirty.
964
00:54:29.719 --> 00:54:34.159
Eight okay, And whenever we was arguing, I was go
965
00:54:35.000 --> 00:54:35.760
to shoot myself.
966
00:54:36.480 --> 00:54:37.119
And then we was.
967
00:54:37.159 --> 00:54:37.880
Argued, she grabbed it.
968
00:54:37.920 --> 00:54:39.840
When she grabbed it, she foded to her, so what
969
00:54:39.840 --> 00:54:41.199
about me, and just let it.
970
00:54:41.199 --> 00:54:45.360
It went off? Okay. When it went off, it was
971
00:54:45.400 --> 00:54:48.639
just as I understand. Well, I told you know the NFL,
972
00:54:48.679 --> 00:54:51.000
I sawth happen. Yeah, I thought it.
973
00:54:51.039 --> 00:54:52.960
It wasn't like I tried to kill her or not
974
00:54:53.079 --> 00:54:55.519
living when she grabbed it, afforded her just it.
975
00:54:55.480 --> 00:54:56.920
Just went off, okay.
976
00:54:57.119 --> 00:54:59.360
And then there was so much books she had had Poles.
977
00:55:00.840 --> 00:55:06.000
Jarrett changed his story. He now claimed that during an argument,
978
00:55:06.079 --> 00:55:08.920
he pulled out a gun while Megan was sitting in
979
00:55:09.039 --> 00:55:14.559
her car. According to him, Megan grabbed it, turned it
980
00:55:14.639 --> 00:55:18.440
on herself, and while it was still in his hand
981
00:55:18.559 --> 00:55:22.599
with his finger on the trigger. It went off.
982
00:55:23.360 --> 00:55:24.639
You're standing in the side or car.
983
00:55:25.760 --> 00:55:27.679
Yeah, and you got a gun.
984
00:55:28.320 --> 00:55:29.239
How do you have a gun?
985
00:55:30.480 --> 00:55:34.000
I said, told up his hands. Okay, you told me
986
00:55:34.119 --> 00:55:36.679
you and we we were talking and just kneeling back.
987
00:55:36.599 --> 00:55:38.719
For seats to grab it and poor hers?
988
00:55:39.119 --> 00:55:40.800
What about nothing? Seriously? What about me?
989
00:55:41.079 --> 00:55:42.159
And then it just went off.
990
00:55:44.800 --> 00:55:49.000
And went Well, has she threatened to shoot yourself or anything?
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Harm yourself?
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00:55:50.000 --> 00:55:50.199
Yeah?
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00:55:51.360 --> 00:55:52.480
So I was just trying to get to leave.
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00:55:53.840 --> 00:55:58.280
Essentially, Jarrett's story was this, his girlfriend shot herself with
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00:55:58.440 --> 00:56:03.039
the gun he was holding. He claimed that after this happened,
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00:56:03.119 --> 00:56:06.719
he initially intended to take Megan to a hospital, but
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00:56:06.840 --> 00:56:10.480
somehow he didn't. He didn't He decided it was a
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00:56:10.599 --> 00:56:14.159
lost cause because she was already dead. So instead, you know,
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00:56:14.760 --> 00:56:19.039
why not burn the car down with her body inside? Yeah,
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00:56:19.079 --> 00:56:23.280
that makes sense, Jared, Yeah, fuck, where what did you do?
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00:56:24.639 --> 00:56:28.400
I grabbed her and I started yelling, and there was
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someone's blood and check the poles, and she had poles.
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00:56:33.840 --> 00:56:37.320
Went to go take her to the hospital. But she's
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00:56:37.320 --> 00:56:39.920
a right, she's already going all right? Did you take
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00:56:39.960 --> 00:56:41.800
her out of the driver's seat? Her ring the bush?
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00:56:42.960 --> 00:56:44.280
How'd you take her to the hospital?
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00:56:45.119 --> 00:56:47.800
I just scowed it over. You just kind of slid her,
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00:56:48.159 --> 00:56:51.559
slid inside her. Yeah, okay, where was the baby at
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00:56:51.599 --> 00:56:53.800
the end? Did you lead the baby home? Panicky? Or
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00:56:53.880 --> 00:56:55.960
did you know the divisions? Are you going to see
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00:56:55.960 --> 00:56:56.840
from let's going earlier?
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I got she's she hadn't even taken the baby out
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00:56:59.239 --> 00:56:59.760
of the sea.
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00:56:59.599 --> 00:56:59.880
In the car.
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00:57:00.360 --> 00:57:04.679
Good Horrifically, Jarrett claimed that when Megan shot herself in
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the driver's seat, their baby was in the backseat of
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the car. Surprisingly, investigators didn't push back on this story.
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Perhaps they didn't need to. Between what Jarrett told them
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00:57:20.519 --> 00:57:24.119
and their evidence, they had more than enough to charge
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him with murder. Let a jury sort it all out.
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Arrest warrants from Sled' say Davis shot and murdered Meghan
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on April twenty fifth in the Gents Branch Road area. Afterwards,
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he set her car on fire with her inside.
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I obtained a copy of that search warrant Thursday. It
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says the Sheriff's office seized an iPhone, multiple security cameras,
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a laptop, and a baby monitor, all the hopes that
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those items and video evidence could provide some clue as
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00:57:52.920 --> 00:57:54.159
to what happened to Bontiford.
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As part of Jarrett's arrest and accompanying search warrant, deputies
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see several things from his property, including footage from his
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deer cams. If you're not familiar, a deer cam is
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basically just a surveillance camera meant for observing wildlife, but
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in this case, it captured something else entirely. It recorded
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much of what happened on the day Megan was killed.
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And then yet another interview, investigators confronted Jarrett with what
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the footage revealed.
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Been working on this onside, and I appreciate you manning
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and telling us what you did. Tell us, we just
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00:58:34.559 --> 00:58:37.920
got a couple inconsistencies we need to clear up.
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When you told us don't match. You want to just
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get it off your chests and tell us what really happened.
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00:58:45.800 --> 00:58:46.719
I can show you the video.
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What I mean.
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I would you chasing her down, dragging her lifeless body
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back to the car, phoneling, trying to get it in
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the car.
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You can shoot it in the car, like you said.
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The footage showed a violent confrontation between Jarrett and Megan. Then,
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at around ten PM, Jarrett chased her off camera with
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a gun in his hand. Minutes later, he reappeared, dragging
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Megan's lifeless body across the yard, struggling to lift it
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into her vehicle. Then covered in blood, he drove away
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with her body. A short time later, Jarrett returned and
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started burning clothes and washing blood from the ground.
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One time, what really happened? Well, the gun did ice
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in to go off? I didn't. That wasn't that was
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00:59:41.760 --> 00:59:47.840
nice that anes was nxecent. He chased her down with
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the gun.
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I mean she knew you had that gun because she
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come out to the door, saw the gun and took off, running.
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Ahead of keys.
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She's wanted to neighbor's house.
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Once again, Jarrett t to spend this story as an accident,
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But come on, who's gonna buy that? People that are dumb?
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I think you're dumb too, Jarrett is living proof.
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Well warn back. She was yelling and I was was
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warming back, and then I turned to her and I just.
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01:00:22.840 --> 01:00:25.400
I wouldn't put my hands up and just went to
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I really wanted to grab a face to love to Joelle,
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and you went off.
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How long have it figured it?
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Back?
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01:00:36.960 --> 01:00:42.159
Well? To me, A instantly make no sounds and it's
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just such an overside comment.
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Of course, if Jarrett's story were true, and that's a
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01:00:48.079 --> 01:00:51.119
big if, he would still have to explain why he
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01:00:51.199 --> 01:00:54.239
went to such lengths to hide the evidence.
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Why don't you call us, let's hear it honestly if
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it's an accident, I mean, I mean at all, honestly
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01:01:03.800 --> 01:01:09.920
those scared change your close on the how many times?
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None of the black c masks and black clothes? What
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01:01:13.480 --> 01:01:15.199
was I that for to get back to the house
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01:01:15.280 --> 01:01:19.400
and people not recognize you? And you still want to
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01:01:19.400 --> 01:01:21.480
say that you just listen close and didn't use an
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accelerment because mind you said Urson.
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This completed their report and the findings of the vehicle
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in the ground and everything else. So what did juice
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to set the fire?
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Oh?
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Well, between the phone data, the camera footage, the autopsy,
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01:01:39.960 --> 01:01:44.920
and the Arson report, Jared's story had fallen apart. But
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one important question remained. Was anyone else involved? And did
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01:01:50.519 --> 01:01:53.280
jareded have help covering it up?
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Now after you get back, and does Ierlin and then
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01:01:59.199 --> 01:02:00.239
Daniel come over there?
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01:02:00.480 --> 01:02:04.159
Yeah? Really all that's true? Until that's true, do you
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tail anybody?
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I Eventually, investigators determined that the rumors of others being
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01:02:11.119 --> 01:02:16.199
involved in Megan's death were just that rumors. There's a
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01:02:16.280 --> 01:02:20.079
lot of them on the internet. People have nothing better
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01:02:20.159 --> 01:02:23.119
to do these days. It seems they never.
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01:02:23.119 --> 01:02:25.000
Found out if there was anybody else.
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01:02:24.920 --> 01:02:28.639
Involved, So you know that the message is still open.
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All I can say is that you know, with everything
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01:02:32.800 --> 01:02:35.920
that we have ran down, we have albis and everyone.
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01:02:36.079 --> 01:02:38.159
I don't believe anyone else outstanding.
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01:02:38.280 --> 01:02:41.239
I think everyone involved is in custody, has been charged
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01:02:42.039 --> 01:02:44.519
unless we find some evidence that proves, you know, someone
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01:02:44.519 --> 01:02:47.480
else is involved. But there is nothing that is indicating
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01:02:48.519 --> 01:02:51.079
and like you know, people have thrown out Falcon.
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01:02:50.800 --> 01:02:52.119
Joiner, all these other people.
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01:02:52.719 --> 01:02:52.880
You know.
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01:02:53.039 --> 01:02:56.199
I have ran down everyone's whereabouts, everything like that, and
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01:02:56.360 --> 01:02:59.679
no one is showing to be involved as of right now.
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01:03:00.880 --> 01:03:03.679
I did not have any evidence of anyone else came involved.
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01:03:04.840 --> 01:03:09.519
Ultimately, investigators concluded that Jarrett had acted alone, and he
1117
01:03:09.639 --> 01:03:13.920
ended up facing the consequences of his actions alone as well.
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01:03:14.679 --> 01:03:17.320
First six, a Bamberg County man is charged with the
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01:03:17.400 --> 01:03:20.360
murder of his girlfriend, a twenty five or mother of three,
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01:03:20.400 --> 01:03:23.440
who was reported missing last week after sending an ominous
1121
01:03:23.519 --> 01:03:24.360
text to a friend.
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01:03:24.559 --> 01:03:28.320
Jared Davis is facing multiple charges, including murder and desecration
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01:03:28.440 --> 01:03:29.360
of human remains.
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01:03:29.679 --> 01:03:33.280
Megan Bodiford, a Bamberg County mother of three, vanishes after
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01:03:33.400 --> 01:03:36.840
texting a friend that she worried her boyfriend may kill her.
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01:03:37.320 --> 01:03:41.159
Eight days after sending that text, The boyfriend, Jared Davis,
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01:03:41.719 --> 01:03:44.880
is now being charged with her murder. A restaurant's alleged
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01:03:44.920 --> 01:03:48.079
that Davis shot and killed Bondiford last Thursday night, and
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01:03:48.159 --> 01:03:50.800
then set her car on fire while she was inside.
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01:03:51.320 --> 01:03:53.960
Human remains were found in a burnt car days later
1131
01:03:54.079 --> 01:03:58.360
along a dirt road beneath some utility polls. That discovery
1132
01:03:58.480 --> 01:04:01.679
less than two miles from Bondiford's last known location on
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01:04:01.760 --> 01:04:02.840
Against Branch Road.
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01:04:04.079 --> 01:04:07.280
Jarrett did not take the case to trial. He pleaded
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01:04:07.320 --> 01:04:11.679
guilty to murder, possession of a firearm during a violent crime, arson,
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01:04:11.920 --> 01:04:17.239
and desecration of human remains. He was sentenced to forty
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01:04:17.320 --> 01:04:20.840
three years in prison and could potentially be released in
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01:04:20.960 --> 01:04:26.800
his early seventies. That is unless some retroactive law passed
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01:04:26.800 --> 01:04:31.400
by some bleeding heart in the future changes that. Anyway,
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01:04:31.480 --> 01:04:34.000
it's a sentence that just doesn't feel like enough, especially
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01:04:34.039 --> 01:04:37.239
when you consider that Megan's three daughters will grow up
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01:04:37.320 --> 01:04:41.800
without their mother. For Megan's family, this was a measure
1143
01:04:41.840 --> 01:04:46.679
of justice, but certainly not an adequate one. It just
1144
01:04:46.960 --> 01:04:51.119
wasn't enough because in their eyes, what happened to Megan
1145
01:04:51.199 --> 01:04:56.559
should never happen at all. They believe Jarrett was responsible,
1146
01:04:56.639 --> 01:04:59.920
but they also believe this could have been prevented if
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01:05:00.199 --> 01:05:02.599
the system had done its job.
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01:05:03.440 --> 01:05:06.400
We're tired of it. We're tired of beery and our
1149
01:05:06.440 --> 01:05:10.800
kids and our friends kids, and it's time for the
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01:05:10.840 --> 01:05:13.960
law to do their job. If the laws better do
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01:05:14.079 --> 01:05:17.400
their job, because this community is fayed up.
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01:05:18.719 --> 01:05:22.480
The murder of Megan Botifford is especially frustrating because her
1153
01:05:22.559 --> 01:05:26.679
abusive and idiot loser boyfriend shouldn't have been a free
1154
01:05:26.719 --> 01:05:30.199
man in the first place. At the time of the murder.
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01:05:30.400 --> 01:05:34.079
There was an active warrant out for his arrest, and
1156
01:05:34.679 --> 01:05:37.840
it's not like he was hiding. He was sitting there
1157
01:05:37.840 --> 01:05:43.960
at home, drinking beers and watching Netflix. I assume the
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01:05:44.079 --> 01:05:48.880
very place where Megan would later be killed. Would it
1159
01:05:48.920 --> 01:05:52.079
have taken much effort to send a police officer down
1160
01:05:52.119 --> 01:05:54.719
there to pick them up, or were they having assail
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01:05:54.760 --> 01:05:56.039
at Dunkin Donuts that day?
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01:05:56.639 --> 01:06:00.199
Another warrant accuses Davis of illegally possessing a shotgun based
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01:06:00.239 --> 01:06:03.599
on his prior criminal history as a convicted felon, and
1164
01:06:03.800 --> 01:06:07.000
he would have been blocked the way that he.
1165
01:06:07.119 --> 01:06:10.400
Was supposed to be the first time. Maybe he wouldn't
1166
01:06:10.400 --> 01:06:13.320
ahead even got in a chance.
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01:06:13.159 --> 01:06:14.679
To get this far with her.
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01:06:15.760 --> 01:06:19.440
Plus the many warning signs were there. Megan had reached
1169
01:06:19.480 --> 01:06:22.800
out for help more than once she reported the abuse.
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01:06:23.519 --> 01:06:26.719
She made it known that she was afraid even contacting
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01:06:26.800 --> 01:06:30.400
Jarrett's probation officer in an effort to get someone to
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01:06:30.519 --> 01:06:35.280
step in, A probation officer who should have lost their
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01:06:35.360 --> 01:06:40.360
fucking job, I might add, but the system is the system,
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01:06:40.519 --> 01:06:45.880
and nothing changed, of course, other than you getting an
1175
01:06:46.000 --> 01:06:51.880
hour of so called entertainment today. It's frustrating. I wish
1176
01:06:51.960 --> 01:06:54.840
I never had to make this episode. I wish I
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01:06:54.960 --> 01:07:00.519
never had content to make this entire podcast. That would
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01:07:00.559 --> 01:07:01.400
be a happy day.
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01:07:02.079 --> 01:07:06.159
In my book, Stephanie Nickens, Bodiford's cousin, says she feels
1180
01:07:06.239 --> 01:07:09.280
like law enforcement failed in its duty to protect Bodiford.
1181
01:07:09.800 --> 01:07:15.039
It could it definitely could have my cousin.
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01:07:15.840 --> 01:07:20.960
Maybe she caused his She called all these multiple times
1183
01:07:22.599 --> 01:07:26.679
is different occasions where she reached.
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01:07:26.400 --> 01:07:27.079
Out her head.
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01:07:27.880 --> 01:07:30.880
Nick And says that she hopes Boterford will be remembered
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01:07:30.960 --> 01:07:34.280
for how she lived and not her tragic death. Her
1187
01:07:34.360 --> 01:07:37.320
cousin says that she had a beautiful soul and was
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01:07:37.360 --> 01:07:38.199
a wonderful mother.
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01:07:47.719 --> 01:07:52.760
This murder wasn't a mystery, not really. It was the
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01:07:53.000 --> 01:07:56.599
end of something that had been building for a long time.
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01:07:57.960 --> 01:08:01.840
All of the warning signs were there, stamped and certified
1192
01:08:01.920 --> 01:08:05.719
by the local authorities, I might add, reports were made.
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01:08:06.559 --> 01:08:13.639
The fear was real, and still nothing stopped it. Can
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01:08:13.719 --> 01:08:17.520
we stop telling men to do better and start voting
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01:08:17.640 --> 01:08:22.720
better to put assholes like this in a cage and
1196
01:08:22.880 --> 01:08:27.000
throw away the key. That would be good. That would
1197
01:08:27.079 --> 01:08:32.520
be real good. Prison overcrowding my ass will build more.
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01:08:33.680 --> 01:08:38.520
We have the technology. Jarret Davis pulled the trigger, he
1199
01:08:38.680 --> 01:08:41.359
dragged the body, he set it on fire. All of
1200
01:08:41.439 --> 01:08:44.760
this is true. But he didn't get there in a vacuum.
1201
01:08:45.680 --> 01:08:50.039
He was given time, he was given opportunity and space
1202
01:08:50.279 --> 01:08:55.600
to escalate, and by the time anyone stepped in, it
1203
01:08:55.720 --> 01:09:00.520
was already too late. Megan tried to get help. She
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01:09:00.640 --> 01:09:04.239
told people she was in danger. She said he was
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01:09:04.319 --> 01:09:07.960
going to kill her, and in the end.
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01:09:09.560 --> 01:09:10.159
She was right.
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01:09:19.199 --> 01:09:22.720
That does it for this episode of Swordan's scale. If
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01:09:22.800 --> 01:09:24.840
you are a victim of domestic violence.
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01:09:25.760 --> 01:09:26.560
Do not wait.
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Call one eight hundred seven ninety nine seven two three three.
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That's one eight hundred seven ninety nine seven two three three.
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Or you can text the word begin to eight eight
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seven eight eight again text the word begin to eight
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eight seven eight eight. Please stay safe. Well, that does
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it for yet another one another episode of Sword and Scale. Yeah,
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