The next morning, they used a ruse about needing Garber's phone and once inside, McMahan told Kauffman he had to kill Garber in order to prove himself. She was only 21 and she had been used and abused, Clayton told Dateline. Linda Gibson was a fun-loving and easygoing 21-year-old woman, according to her younger brother, Clayton Gibson. Its just what it is.". [4], During his imprisonment, where he was ordered to attend a sex offender rehabilitation program, Gibson refused to admit responsibility for his crime and was thus deemed ineligible to participate. Create your free profile and get access to exclusive content. Local News Everett. 15) Tony von Carruthers: In February of 1994, Tony shot his mother, her teenage associate, and his drug dealer in the Memphis area. In a shocking twist, barely 24 hours after the release of the Netflix documentary, Murdaugh himself took the stand on Thursday, waiving his 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination in order to tell his side of the story. Maggie and Paul Murdaugh are not presented in the most flattering of lights in the docuseries. The boys grew up together inOskaloosa, Iowa a city of then about 10,000 people around 25 miles from the aforementioned crimes. [18], In 2018, he was among several death row inmates to be featured in the documentary Inside Death Row, hosted by British journalist Trevor McDonald. He is currently on death row. On June 11, 1997, police were contacted by a farmer and landlord, Joe Hollop, in the town of What Cheer, Iowa. He said that being asked about his relationship with his wife and getting tested for gunshot residue following the murders triggered his paranoia. A man who has been charged with a violent attack in a Delaware store is now being investigated for a possible connection to three murders, including that of a North Philadelphia Dunkin store manager and a Delaware Metro by T-Mobile store employee, law enforcement sources said. During his deployment, he was awarded badges for marksmanship and hand grenade usage, but at this time, he developed an addiction to drugs such as heroin, cocaine, and LSD, which he often mixed with alcohol. Steven Jr. then later drove [a] large knife he was holding into his fathers chest at least three times, the documents say. Do you, This was definitely in IL because we are friends with, Hi. IE 11 is not supported. When asked how she interpreted the conversation, Turrubiate-Simpson said, "I know what he was wearing the day he left the house and I was basically confused. Tennessee has its own rough past, drenched in murderous stories that will keep you locking your doors. After spending some time at local bars, the pair found themselves at an apartment complex in New Albany. [4] During that time, he found a job at C&C Hardwood Flooring in Borden, where he was described as a diligent worker, and was regarded positively by friends and neighbors for attending the local non-denominational "Power of the Cross" church, making papier-mch figures and for helping his sick mother - on the other hand, patrons of the bars he frequented considered him strange, and on at least a few occasions, he had asked out women to visit his home, to varying success.[4]. Gibson was convicted of manslaughter and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, Delaware Department of Corrections spokesman Jason Miller said. He was released on April 5, 1999, after which he was added to the Indiana Sex and Violent Offender Registry. Prosecutors wrapped their cross-examination by showing a clip of body-camera footage of the first deputy arriving at the scene of the killings, prior to SLED's arrival, during which Waters noted that Alex Murdaugh also "told the same lie. "You've been able to lie quickly and easily and convincingly if you think it'll save your skin for well over a decade. This is a complex case and theres still a lot of evidence to review.. April 24, 1941: Esker Washington Gibson set fire to his house, killing his wife and five children, ranging in age from 7-months-old to 7-years-old. Two happened earlier, in January. However, Bailey left him in 2000 due to Gibson's worsening drug habits. [5], At this final murder trial, Gibson unexpectedly pleaded guilty again, waiving his right to a jury trial. Police found Gibson had violated probation, but they did not recover a gun, and video didnt show him at the location of his moms murder, meaning any evidence linking Gibson was only circumstantial, Vanore said. McAbee told them he was the killer. They call it Iowa nice.. Michelle then dialed 911 and told the operator they had returned home from shopping to find Steven had been murdered. At the time, Paul Murdaugh was awaiting trial on a charge of allegedly boating under the influence after a crash in February 2019 that killed a 19-year-old woman, Mallory Beach of South Carolina. Michelle Gibson claims she was out shopping with her kids at the time, but her 16-year-old daughter Alysa told police that after the three of them drove to a store, Steven Jr. was driven back to the house by his mom after he received a phone call. The same type of weapon was used in the Philadelphia killing of Lugo at the Dunkin store. As part of the deal, it was decided that evidence presented at the Hodella trial would not be used as evidence or an aggravating factor in any follow-up trials. Elsmere police later contacted Philadelphia police, saying the man they were looking for fit the description of a man Philly officers were after in a Fairhill Dunkin store murder. Instead, she paid $2000 to Erik McBee and Karen Molina-Pompa, who were friends with Steven Jr and Alysa. Donna Thorngren shot her husband, Curtis Curt Thorngren, three times at their home in Meridian, Idaho, and then tried to stage the incident like a burglary. He rolled out of bed, bundled up warmly, pulled on his boots, and stepped outside with a metal pail. Gibson was arrested in Philadelphia in February for violating his probation on a Delaware manslaughter conviction. On October 10, 2002, Gibson was out drinking at a bar in Jeffersonville when he met 44-year-old Karen Sue Hodella, a beautician from Port Orange, Florida, who was visiting a boyfriend of hers at the time. [19] Gibson has also done several interviews on various podcasts, on which he has professed responsibility for an additional 30 murders committed across multiple states, additionally claiming that he has sexually abused and even cannibalized the victims' corpses. This week Cold Hearted examines the 1975 murder of Sherry Gibson, a case where the truth took nearly three decades to be revealed. Smith also said that in a subsequent conversation, Murdaugh implied he could help her financially with the cost of her upcoming wedding, and that he had connections with the school where she was working a second job at the time. He would say, If you dont tell us, we cant help you.. You can find out more and change our default settings with Cookies Settings. UPATOI, Ga. (WTVM) - One of the three men charged in the murder of three Upatoi family members in 2016 is motioning for a retrial. Gibson walked across his lawn, crossed the road separating his home from his barn, and stepped into the wooden structure. Wilson had worked with Murdaugh on various cases in which Murdaugh has been accused of misappropriating funds. While her case was considered credible due to the visible injuries on her face, it was ultimately not pursued due to a lack of evidence. ", "All those reasons that you just gave this jury, about the most important part of your testimony, was a lie, too, isn't that true, Mr. Eventually, Gibson dropped out of school and continued to commit small-time crimes, including drunk driving and crashing the car. List of serial killers in the United States, "Remains from Ind. Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner acknowledged that police did not have enough probable cause at the time to arrest Gibson for his mothers death, but he said both the police department and his office attempted to aid the Delaware DOC to keep Gibson off the street. I didn't know whether he was trying to get me to say that that shirt, if I was to be asked that if that was the shirt he was wearing that day.". Michelle Gibson was sentenced to life in prison, and her son, Steven Gibson Jr, was sentenced to 22 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder and hindering prosecution. The scheme fell apart when McBee, who was helping Steven Jr. move the body, heard police sirens in the distance, fled the scene but later turned himself in to police at the house, documents say. "I saw what yall have seen pictures of," he told the jurors, crying. Murdaugh's story that he tried to stage his own murder in a suicide plot in order for his son Buster to collect his life insurance has been treated with skepticism, especially after the man involved in the incident, Curtis Eddie Smith, said he was set up. In addition to learning about the brothers' drug use, police learned that McMahan had borrowed a friend's gray station wagon in May and returned it on June 11. By the start of the summer, the 22-year-old McMahan was hanging out with 18-year-old Kauffman and his high school -age friends, and both, according to Lofreddo, were doing drugs. The three-part documentary looks into the different cases surrounding the family, most prominently the death of Paul and Maggie Murdaugh, the son and wife of Alex Murdaugh, who is currently on. He often got in trouble for fighting, talking in class, and not following directions. NBC10's Danny Freeman has the details. They argued over some prescription medication that Gibson had supposedly stolen. However, in February, around the time of his mothers death, Philadelphia police arrested him, though they could only find that he was violating probation by being in the city. Parole officials did not object to a recommendation by the public defender to sentence Gibson to time served plus 18 months probation. This week on Reasonable Doubt, the team takes on the Raul and Cathy Sarinana were sentenced to death for abusing Would love your thoughts, please comment. Later that night, as police officers were putting tape around the crime scene, McAbee and Molina-Pompa returned to the house and approached the investigators. Alex Murdaugh faces 30 years to life in prison without parole if convicted of the killings, for which he has pleaded not guilty and adamantly denied. Neither the prosecution nor the Netflix production is obliged to provide a motive in order to accuse Murdaugh of murder, but in its absence, both jurors and viewers alike will likely be left wondering what exactly they are being told to believe happened on the night of June 7, 2021. On May 23, Gibson was officially charged with her murder as well, with prosecutors announcing that they would seek the death penalty for all three killings. It's hard to tell whether the show expects viewers to care about the murders because two people lost their lives, or feel that some type of karmic justice has been served. "He says that hes a hitchhiker, got picked up, theyd been doing copious amount of drugs, alcohol, and just having a party," Quinn explained. A few days later, he confessed responsibility for Hodella's murder. [4] Despite these diagnostics and his refusal to complete the rehabilitation program, he was deemed unlikely to re-offend. At the time of his death, Steven was facing aggravated assault charges. Paul's best friend, Rogan Gibson, took the stand and testified that he was "100 percent sure" that the voices belonged to Paul, Maggie and Alex Murdaugh on the night of the killings. During the cross-examination on Friday, Waters later asked Alex Murdough about family, friends and colleagues he has lied to over the past decade. The Murdaugh family legacy is now coming crashing down as 54-year-old Richard Alexander Murdaugh (known as Alex, pronounced "Alec") stands trial accused of shooting his wife Maggie and adult son Paul to death on June 7, 2021. The unemployed carpenter's helper confessed to. Secondly, Griffin used the opportunity to tell the juryabout acontroversialblood spatterreport to argue a rush to judgment by law enforcement. Two men were shot dead in a store in Philadelphias Germantown neighborhood, but police did not recover a gun. Investigators began reinterviewing the family and others. Weeks into the trial, Alex Murdaugh was called to take the stand by his defense team on Thursday. On the following day, one of Gibson's sisters went to their mother's house to settle the division of the family estate, and after checking the garage and finding Whitis' body, she immediately notified the police. "Having two murders and a bank robbery all within a circle of eight miles? [17] These appeals were rejected by the Indiana Supreme Court, which reaffirmed all of his convictions. The boys left in the morning but picked them up around noon in a green pickup truck and with a bunch of cash. NBC10's Tim Furlong and Hannah Gross contributed to this story. His attorney, Jim Griffin, asked right away if he shot his wife and son in the head. Prosecutors have focused on footage taken from Paul Murdaugh's cellphone the night of the murders, including a video taken at the kennels several minutes before the victims were believed to be killed that investigators said has Alex Murdaugh talking in the background. The officer requested that Gibsons probation be revoked and that he be given a maximum sentence. His employee-tenant, Barb Garber, 52, had unusually for her not shown up for work that morning. Alex Murdaugh gives testimony during his murder trial at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, S.C., Feb. 23, 2023. The T-shirt Murdaugh was wearing when he says he discovered the bodies appeared to have no visible blood on it. Sentencing was delayed by two weeks to provide the defense time. Without a doubt.". [16], Since his incarceration, Gibson has repeatedly appealed his death sentences, with his defense lawyer claiming that his confession to the Kirk murder was a mitigating circumstance. Later, after they picked him up in a church parking lot, he allegedly stated: Whats done is done, prosecutors allege. In interviews with police, the teenage girls said that they had "partied" with McMahan and Kauffman at the hotel on the night of June 10. On January 5 1991, Gibson hit his pickup truck in an automobile accident but sped off after seeing a nearby police officer attempt to inspect the damage. After his release from the hospital, he was sent to serve the rest of his sentence at the Floyd County Jail, where he remained until his discharge on March 12, 2002.[4]. The boys wanted to drive to Florida and check out the theme parks with the two teenagers. When asked by his lawyer about those prior statements, Alex Murdaugh admitted to lying to investigators. The interview sees Murdaugh make various statements that will later be used against him, including that he tried to turn Paul's body over despite having no visible blood on him, and that he last saw his wife and son hours before the murders, which a video filmed by Paul would later disprove. Waters asked, to which Alex Murdough responded, "I disagree with that.". During the trial, which began last month, prosecutors have presented more than 60 witnesses and evidence, including body camera footage of police arriving at home following the murders and an interview Alex Murdaugh gave to police two months later, in which he denied killing his wife and son. Michelle Dawn . The bodies of Margaret Murdaugh, 52, and Paul Murdaugh, 22, were found dead from multiple gunshot wounds near the dog kennels at the family's home near Islandton, South Carolina, in June 2021, authorities said. Kauffman eventually confessed. Clayton told Dateline that in the weeks and months leading up to July 3, his sister had told him and their father that she thought someone was going to hurt her. "I have never believed in coincidences and having one homicide in a small rural area in a five-year period is unusual," said Berrier. Murdaugh is also being charged with insurance fraud and assisted suicide in relation to what has become known as the "roadside incident," in which Murdaugh initially claimed to have been shot in the head by an unknown assailant after pulling over with a flat tire, but which he subsequently told police was an elaborate plot in order to have a former client shoot him to death so that his remaining son, Buster, could collect a $10 million life insurance policy. According to the Pulaski Sheriffs Department, after investigating the scene, it seemed that Linda and Cody had been murdered elsewhere, and their bodies were then dumped in the field, which was only two miles from the road on which they were last seen. Sign up for NBC Philadelphia newsletters. The judge accepted the recommendation. The show highlights that the family was under immense pressure due to the fallout from the boat crash, which led to Paul being criminally charged and the family being sued for millions of dollars, leading in part to Murdaugh's financial situation getting closer to becoming public. On Wednesday, a month into an explosive murder trial that has rocked South Carolina's Lowcountry region and captivated audiences across the globe, Netflix dropped a highly anticipated docuseries which promised to explore the complex web of power, secrets, and suspicion that ultimately led to the downfall of a local family dynasty. Nor was Murdaugh's parents' house searched for the as-yet-undiscovered murder weapons, potential bloody clothes, or other evidence. He thought of Island Schultz and the two drove over there. [2] Hospital staff claimed that Gibson seemed disinterested in the treatments, and two psychiatrists later diagnosed him with a bipolar disorder, for which he was prescribed Seroquel, but again, no indications of a mental illness or a psychiatric disorder were noted. Alex Murdaugh detailed on the stand a 20-year addiction to opioids, noting that he has been clean for 535 days. Prosecutors claim that Alex Murdaugh, who comes from a legacy of prominent attorneys in the region, killed his wife and son to gain sympathy and distract from his alleged financial wrongdoings. Gibson, 39, has been back in custody since June 8, when he was captured wearing body armor and weapons after an alleged armed robbery in Wilmington, police said. Friday, February 24, 2023 3:41pm. I wish, I hope and pray that somebody would come in here and go through Linda and Codys case again. Theres blood everywhere! Gibson cried. Once inside, the responders found the brutalized bodies of four teenage girls-Amy Ayers, Jennifer Harbison, Sarah Harbison and Eliza Thomas. By the time it gets to describing their murders, viewers have sat through 1 episodes of people detailing how they were wronged by the Murdaughs, as well as harrowing accounts of the boat crash Paul is accused of causing. Meanwhile, McAbee and Molina-Pompa attacked Steven as he slept at the house. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison. Linda Gibson and Cody Garrett were found murdered in a field outside of Somerset, Kentucky, on July 7, 1994. Wilson then left the meeting. McMahan did not: In November 2017, 20 years after his conviction, Jamie McMahan killed himself in his cell at a federal prison in Florence, Colorado, according to the Oskaloosa News. Her motive stemmed from a wish to collect from a $320,000 life insurance policy. When you visit this site, it may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. "Its just filled with good people, Iowa people. During hours of questioning on Thursday, Alex Murdaugh's attorney asked if he believed his "financial house of cards was about to crumble" on June 7, 2021, to which Alex Murdaugh replied, "Absolutely not.". Dateline was unable to reach an official at the Pulaski Sheriffs Department for comment, but according to their press release, it took four days for the Pulaski County Sheriffs Department, along with help from the Somerset Police Department, to find their bodies. Four of the murders Gibson is linked to happened in May and June. March 1, 1975, in rural Indiana and firefighters were called to . Firstly, Owen acknowledged that a detailed search wasn't undertaken in the area between Moselle, where the murders occurred, and Murdaugh's parents' house, where he went that evening. A neighbor had seen a green pickup truck parked outside the home around 9:30 a.m. Without objection from probation and parole officials, the judge accepted the public defender's recommendation for time served and placed him on 18 months of probation, Miller said. The Delaware DOC document shows corrections officials told Medinilla that early reports suggested Gibsons mother had told friends and family members that if anything happened to her, her son would be responsible. Netflix's popular true-crime series Unsolved Mysteries has covered over 1,000 mysteries since it started airing (originally on television.) After seven minutes, Murdaugh hangs up the 911 call saying he needs to call family and, according to cell phone records, calls his brothers Randy and John Marvin, and tries to call Paul's friend Rogan Gibson, with whom Paul was in communication around the time of his death, multiple times. On June 5, a masked man carrying a revolver forced Christine Lugo, also a mother, into a Dunkin store in Philadelphias Fairhill neighborhood. FBI and local authorities caught the kidnappers by tracing the serial numbers on the ransom money; the culprits were a pair of young hoodlumsHarmon Waley and William Dainardwho had first met in the Idaho State Penitentiary and one of their wives. In a frantic 911 call on March 1, Michelle Gibson tearfully told police about a grisly discovery she made at 2 a.m. in the familys Peoria, Ariz., home. "Murders dont take place and banks rarely get robbed.. At age 13, he also started drinking and later that year, would be arrested for stealing a motorbike.[2]. On June 11, 1997, police were contacted by a farmer and landlord, Joe Hollop, in the town of What Cheer, Iowa. All rights reserved. The pair moved to an apartment in Borden, Indiana. When police went to her home shortly after 9:30 a.m., they found the door unlocked and Garber . [6] On August 15, 2014, Gibson was sentenced to death again, with sentencing Justice Orth deeming that it was "the only appropriate sentence" in regards to the brutal killing. In the body camera footage from that night, a distraught Alex Murdaugh told officers, "It's bad, it's bad," and mentioned that his son had been getting threats following a boat wreck he was involved in. "I battled that addiction for so many years, I was spending so much money on pills," he said. It didnt take this long. Found the resolution to each, I know who really killed Chanin, her husband did not, I have so many questions about this story. He was on supervised release and was not to leave Delaware. [2] In 1979, he was dishonorably discharged for stealing a car and sentenced to a year of imprisonment at Fort Leavenworth, where he attempted to kill himself by slitting his wrists on one occasion. Maggie and Paul Murdaugh. After the crash, and while Beach was still missing, the Murdaugh family sprang into action to pull as many strings as necessary to protect Paul, even appearing to try and frame his friend Connor Cook as the driver of the boat, according to interviews Cook and his parents gave the Netflix docuseries. (The defense argued during the trial that this was a result of him mistyping in shock.). Rogan Gibson, who said he was a close friend of Paul's and the Murdaughs were like a second family to him, told investigators shortly after the killings he was 99% sure he heard Alex Murdaugh's. By Olivia Gunn. Later that evening, one of the two boys, Erik McBee, 16, who worked at Popeyes Chicken, allegedly beat a sleeping Steven Gibson in the head with a baseball bat, according to the prosecutors complaint. In their cross-examination, prosecutors grilled the former attorney on his actions around the time investigators believe the murders occurred. Alex Murdaugh took to the stand for the second day in a row on Friday. On June 21, the girls' parents called back: Their daughters had returned home safely. The judge, whom the DOC said was Vivian Medinilla, instead sentenced him to 31 days, time served, in April. Closing arguments are expected to take place Wednesday before the case is turned over to the jury. 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