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Y'all, come on up here!
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It's 2003.
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And it's been three years
since Mike's disappeared.
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Brian and I were separated.
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Brian calls me and he says,
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Kathy, you're gonna be
getting a letter,
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and I'm gonna ask you
not to read it.
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He says, well, it's gonna
say some things in there.
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And I don't know
what it's gonna say.
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But I'm just gonna say,
please don't read it.
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He was very worried
about this letter.
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And I said to him,
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Brian, I am absolutely
reading that letter.
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Within a few days,
I did get a letter--
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from a man, Chuck Bunker,
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who had had an incident
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with Brian and Denise
in Atlanta.
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The letter says,
"Ms. Kathy Winchester,
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"I am sorry that I find myself
writing this letter to you
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"about one of your best
friends, Denise Williams,
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"and your ex,
Brian Winchester.
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"Denise and Brian have been
leading a double life
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"that few people are aware of.
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"You need to be watchful
of their behavior
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"because they have been
dishonest with you
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"for the past 2 and 1/2 years.
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"And they both
have demonstrated
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"extremely strange behavior.
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"It was easy for her,
after her husband's death,
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"to start a bizarre affair
with your husband, Brian.
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"The affair was not
a normal affair.
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"It involved decadent sexual
behavior with various people,
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strippers,
and other sordid acts."
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Me and Denise were dating.
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I think we were just getting
ready to head out to dinner.
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But, uh,
we went down to the lobby.
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And lo and behold,
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Brian Winchester
is in the lobby.
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He said, all right, Denise,
me and you have got to talk.
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There's lots of things
that we've got to discuss.
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Basically, uh,
Denise told him to go home.
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He said, "Denise,
if you make me go home,
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I'm gonna go home
and kill myself."
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I didn't have a clue
what the hell was going on.
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So I said, "Brian,
you need to listen to Denise.
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"Denise wants you out of here.
You need to leave.
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"If Denise wants you to go,
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we will have the police
out here."
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You just don't know
how far he's going to go.
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He's got this personality.
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That's when
he started threatening
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to kill both of us.
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I mean, he said he had
a gun in the truck,
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and he was going to go
get it and basically
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kill me and Denise on the spot
if Denise didn't talk to him.
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To add to the list
of bizarre behavior,
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he also threatened her
with blackmail.
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Brian was telling
Denise that, you know,
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if you don't get back with me,
I've got pictures of you
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doing weird stuff that
I'm going to, you know,
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broadcast to everybody,
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send them to her mom and dad
or whatever.
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This Atlanta incident
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could have easily
happened in Tallahassee
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with more dire consequences.
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I really thought
that she was trying to make
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that last, best effort
to get away from him
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and that she just
couldn't do it,
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because basically,
Brian controlled her life.
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Happy birthday.
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I mean, she was really afraid,
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uptight, because her and Brian
have done something together.
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I don't know what it is.
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I mean, they are locked in
with each other.
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I was furious when
I got this letter.
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I mean, obviously, it's...
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Confirmation of everything
I had suspected.
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They're both horrible people.
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They deserve each other.
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Brian told Denise
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to end it with Chuck.
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I knew Brian was dating Denise
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in secret.
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It was never something
he wanted to openly
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admit to because
it would look so bad.
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At this point,
I'm ready to be divorced.
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In those last couple of weeks
before our court date,
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he starts saying,
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this is what the Bible says
about divorced women.
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Using manipulation
of the scriptures
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to try to stop me
from going through with it.
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It was never,
let's repair our relationship.
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It was never about,
let me make this right to you.
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Please forgive me.
I've done you wrong.
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It was never that.
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The day that we were in court
to get the divorce,
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Brian sat behind me,
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crying, openly crying,
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as if this was
breaking his heart.
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It was just
that last-minute push
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of manipulation
to try to get me
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to walk out of there
and not go through with it.
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But the divorce
was final that day.
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And I feel good about it.
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Yeah.
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It's been almost three years
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since Mike disappeared.
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No one can understand
how a mother feels
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when her heart is broken.
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My son is never
out of my mind.
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After Kathy left Brian
and moved out,
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Denise spent a lot of time
with Brian.
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She had herself
declared a widow
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when she had Mike
declared dead
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six months after
he disappeared.
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Brian and Kathy got divorced,
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and I remember Denise
telling me
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about she and Brian.
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It made sense.
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Denise lost Mike
and loved Mike.
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Brian was his best friend.
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Brian's now divorced.
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That would be a natural fit
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that really would
kind of heal her heart.
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Brian loved Kathy.
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Kathy's the one that left.
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So Brian and Denise had the
green light to start dating.
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He loved her.
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He smiled around her
a lot more.
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I know that Brian wanted
to ask her to marry him.
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But Brian told me Denise
wanted to marry a godly man.
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Like, that was her big goal.
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Go forth knowing
you are God's ambassadors!
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Growing up,
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we were always in the church.
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It was very strict.
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Our games were
Christian themed.
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It was Christian Monopoly.
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It was Christian Life.
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When we weren't at church,
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we were listening
to sermons on tape at home.
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But around the time Brian
was a senior in high school,
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he didn't want to go
to church anymore.
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And he put his dresser
in front of the door,
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because my parents were
banging on the door,
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trying to get him to
come out to go to church.
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And he's like, I'm not going.
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He would go on Christmas,
and Easter, and Mother's Day,
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and maybe Father's Day,
and that sort of thing.
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But he was like,
I'm not in it.
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In the name of Jesus,
our Messiah, amen.
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Denise's parents
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did not like that
about my brother.
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Brian was not
godly enough for her.
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And so he did go through
a big religious experience.
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Brian got in the pool.
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And they ask you
to tell your story
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as to why you became
a Christian.
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He said, I ran my life
to the ground.
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And I got into
the bottom of the pit.
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And I had nowhere
to look but up.
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And he said,
and I cried out to God.
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And, you know, God forgave me
of all of my sins, and...
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I'm here to be baptized
as a public display.
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And, like, I cried.
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I was super excited
that Brian was
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gonna be back in the church.
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And that also really
made Denise very happy,
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that Brian was baptized again.
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We got an invitation
and we're like, wow,
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I can't believe we were
invited to the wedding.
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The pastor gets up
and starts the service.
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And the first thing
he says is,
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I want you all to know
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that I have counseled
this couple.
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And I have been with them.
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And there is literally nothing
about them that I do not know.
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How many weddings
do you go to where
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the minister says there's
no secrets I don't know?
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It was very fairy tale.
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She wanted a chocolate fountain
at her wedding.
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My kids were just
shoving in marshmallows,
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and strawberries,
and, you know, brownies.
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And chocolate got everywhere.
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I'd gotten to know
Brian a lot better.
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I thought he'd be a-- you know,
great, great stepdad to Anslee,
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take care of, you know,
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my best friend's daughter
and his widow.
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They were incredibly
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happy to be together.
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Brian moved into the
house that Mike had bought.
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It was weird.
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Just, why would you
move into a space
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that had had this--
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you know, your closest friend.
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You loved him like a brother.
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But yet, you were able
to marry his wife,
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move into this home.
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I was talking with
Denise's sister at the time.
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And she told me
the bedroom set
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was the same set that had been
Mike's bedroom set.
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It's so creepy.
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Hi, my name is Stafford.
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I love to talk to God.
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I pray three times a day.
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I was still kind of
getting my bearings,
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being a single mom.
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I reconnected with
an old friend, Rocky.
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We started
spending time together.
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It was very sweet.
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And it was very hopeful.
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We did get married.
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He was so different
that it made me realize
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how toxic my relationship
with Brian had been.
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I had spent a lot of time
talking to Rocky about
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just the whole situation.
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Just, I would just pore over
these things that had happened.
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Everything that I had seen
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right after Mike was gone,
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everything I'd observed,
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everything I had questions about.
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I had all these puzzle pieces.
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And I just couldn't seem
to make anything fit.
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He's just like,
this is not adding up.
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He had suggested,
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why don't we visit
Mike's mother, Cheryl?
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My first reaction was,
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we can't go talk
to Cheryl about this.
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Cheryl's crazy.
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After Mike's dad
had passed away,
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Cheryl wasn't doing well.
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And so, when Mike went missing,
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that sorrow just doubled.
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I would see her on the street
corner close to my office
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on a regular basis,
holding a sign of Mike,
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asking if anybody had seen him.
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Mike's mom started
coming to the church
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and standing in the front
with a sign.
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It seemed really pointed
to be at our church.
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Why are you out here?
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There was missing posters
on every telephone pole
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from Brian's house with Denise
to the office,
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so that as he drove
to the office,
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he saw every single one.
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My mom was very frustrated,
driving around.
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She would pull over
when she saw a sign.
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And she would,
you know, driving,
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make me get out
and pull the sign down.
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Mike disappeared.
Mike is dead.
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And we're trying to move on.
You should too.
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Rocky said to me,
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what makes you say
Cheryl's crazy?
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And I thought about it
for a minute.
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I said, that's just what
Denise and Brian tell me.
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And he said,
we're going to see Cheryl.
257
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He just drove me over there.
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We saw each other and
we hugged, and she said,
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I've been praying that
you would come see me.
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What I didn't know that Cheryl
had been doing for those years
261
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was she had
been trying very hard
262
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to get an investigation
ramped up,
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get anybody just to look into
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what could have
possibly happened.
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I have been writing
letters to the editor--
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None of the law enforcement
officers my brother
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has talked to think--
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They have printed
none of them.
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I have decided to write to an
insurance fraud investigator.
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Why isn't law enforcement
looking into this case?
271
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And she told me
how she didn't know
272
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for nearly a year and a half
or two years
273
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that I had even moved out
and separated from Brian.
274
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She had been seeing Denise
during this time,
275
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and Denise had never told her.
276
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We stayed there
for maybe three hours,
277
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just poring over
just everything
278
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we could remember
to each other.
279
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The very next morning,
I got a phone call
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from Derrick Wester
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from the Jackson County
Sheriff's Department.
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And he said,
Miss Cheryl has given me
283
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your name and phone number.
284
00:17:37,848 --> 00:17:39,724
And I would like
to talk to you.
285
00:17:39,725 --> 00:17:41,643
Yeah, there was a lot
of speculation at the time
286
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that he had run off, that he
got eaten by an alligator.
287
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So she comes over.
288
00:17:48,317 --> 00:17:51,861
And she gives us her version
of what happened
289
00:17:51,862 --> 00:17:54,823
on the day of
Mike's disappearance.
290
00:17:54,824 --> 00:17:57,993
I told Derrick that
when I woke up that morning,
291
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Brian was gone.
292
00:18:00,079 --> 00:18:02,455
As far as I knew,
he was hunting,
293
00:18:02,456 --> 00:18:04,499
because it's duck season.
294
00:18:04,500 --> 00:18:05,917
I didn't know where
he was hunting.
295
00:18:05,918 --> 00:18:08,837
I didn't know who
he was going with.
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00:18:08,838 --> 00:18:11,464
Brian wasn't home by 2:00.
297
00:18:11,465 --> 00:18:13,049
So I just packed Stafford up.
298
00:18:13,050 --> 00:18:16,469
And we just went up to
my granny's by ourselves.
299
00:18:16,470 --> 00:18:21,308
Brian got to my granny's
between 4:00 and 5:00.
300
00:18:21,309 --> 00:18:24,561
Shortly into all that,
301
00:18:24,562 --> 00:18:28,732
Brian was asleep on the couch.
302
00:18:28,733 --> 00:18:31,026
We contacted Brian.
303
00:18:31,027 --> 00:18:33,153
We wasn't necessarily
interrogating him.
304
00:18:33,154 --> 00:18:35,155
We were just talking to him.
305
00:18:35,156 --> 00:18:39,284
He explained that he woke up
306
00:18:39,285 --> 00:18:41,703
at 10:00 in the morning,
307
00:18:41,704 --> 00:18:44,331
went out in the yard,
played with his dogs.
308
00:18:44,332 --> 00:18:47,208
And then him and Kathy
and their child
309
00:18:47,209 --> 00:18:50,086
got in his truck and drove
to Kathy's family's
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00:18:50,087 --> 00:18:53,173
Christmas gathering
in Cairo, Georgia.
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00:18:53,174 --> 00:18:58,219
That's what he told us,
which was very enlightening
312
00:18:58,220 --> 00:19:00,847
and made me raise questions,
313
00:19:00,848 --> 00:19:04,309
because Brian and Kathy
gave us both
314
00:19:04,310 --> 00:19:07,980
different versions
of where they were at.
315
00:19:12,652 --> 00:19:15,403
So we asked him, you know,
316
00:19:15,404 --> 00:19:17,864
just to clear things up,
would you agree to a polygraph?
317
00:19:17,865 --> 00:19:19,741
He said, absolutely.
318
00:19:19,742 --> 00:19:23,953
Maybe the next day, maybe
the day after, I get a call.
319
00:19:23,954 --> 00:19:29,209
And he said, sir, I'm
representing Brian Winchester.
320
00:19:29,210 --> 00:19:30,585
He's not gonna participate.
321
00:19:30,586 --> 00:19:32,504
And he's not gonna
take no polygraph.
322
00:19:32,505 --> 00:19:35,048
He gave you a statement.
323
00:19:35,049 --> 00:19:36,424
They miss him.
They love him.
324
00:19:36,425 --> 00:19:39,512
And please respect
our privacy.
325
00:19:51,524 --> 00:19:52,774
I'm a big believer in,
326
00:19:52,775 --> 00:19:55,276
you know,
read your own newspaper.
327
00:20:00,074 --> 00:20:02,701
I had just joined the
"Tallahassee Democrat."
328
00:20:02,702 --> 00:20:05,370
And I was reading the paper.
329
00:20:05,371 --> 00:20:08,206
And there was this ad
that popped out.
330
00:20:08,207 --> 00:20:10,834
And it said, please help me
find my missing son.
331
00:20:10,835 --> 00:20:13,711
And I was like, what is this?
I'd never heard of this.
332
00:20:13,712 --> 00:20:16,589
This is the actual ad
that was in the paper
333
00:20:16,590 --> 00:20:18,258
that day that I saw,
that I cut out.
334
00:20:18,259 --> 00:20:19,509
And this is from Cheryl.
335
00:20:19,510 --> 00:20:21,845
And she says,
my name is Cheryl Ann Williams.
336
00:20:21,846 --> 00:20:24,764
And I haven't seen my son,
Mike, in over five years.
337
00:20:24,765 --> 00:20:26,808
Will you please
take a moment to read this
338
00:20:26,809 --> 00:20:29,144
and help me find him?
339
00:20:29,145 --> 00:20:31,146
It was like,
yes, I will take a moment
340
00:20:31,147 --> 00:20:33,106
and please help you find him.
341
00:20:33,107 --> 00:20:36,943
And then she goes and lays out
the circumstances of the case,
342
00:20:36,944 --> 00:20:39,821
that on the morning
on December 16, 2000,
343
00:20:39,822 --> 00:20:42,323
my son,
Jerry Michael "Mike" Williams,
344
00:20:42,324 --> 00:20:43,867
supposedly went duck hunting
345
00:20:43,868 --> 00:20:45,869
at Lake Seminole
in Sneads, Florida.
346
00:20:45,870 --> 00:20:48,079
He never returned.
347
00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:49,873
The authorities
assumed he drowned,
348
00:20:49,874 --> 00:20:51,958
and alligators ate his body.
349
00:20:51,959 --> 00:20:55,462
80 people have drowned in Lake
Seminole since the late 1800s.
350
00:20:55,463 --> 00:20:59,299
Mike's body is the only one
that has never been found.
351
00:20:59,300 --> 00:21:01,342
Please help us
solve the mystery
352
00:21:01,343 --> 00:21:05,180
of Mike's disappearance and
bring closure to my family.
353
00:21:05,181 --> 00:21:10,351
So that was my starting
point on this story.
354
00:21:17,485 --> 00:21:20,945
As I am learning
about this case,
355
00:21:20,946 --> 00:21:22,405
Derrick Wester,
356
00:21:22,406 --> 00:21:25,408
he is one of my primary sources
who I connect with early on.
357
00:21:25,409 --> 00:21:29,245
As I start discovering
more and more things,
358
00:21:29,246 --> 00:21:31,498
it was just--
it was blowing my mind.
359
00:21:31,499 --> 00:21:34,083
Like, wow,
this life insurance.
360
00:21:34,084 --> 00:21:35,919
It just got more interesting
361
00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:38,588
and more like,
this is not right.
362
00:21:38,589 --> 00:21:42,300
And I finally got someone
to say on the record
363
00:21:42,301 --> 00:21:43,968
that they were looking
at Mike's death
364
00:21:43,969 --> 00:21:46,554
as a suspicious
missing person.
365
00:21:46,555 --> 00:21:49,307
And I knew that I had
really a hell of a story.
366
00:21:59,193 --> 00:22:04,364
Just gave this cold case a
little bit of simmer under it.
367
00:22:04,365 --> 00:22:07,075
I think that for
lots of people who knew Mike,
368
00:22:07,076 --> 00:22:08,993
and in those communities,
369
00:22:08,994 --> 00:22:11,037
it put a lot
of people's suspicions
370
00:22:11,038 --> 00:22:13,623
and maybe wonderings, and hmm--
371
00:22:13,624 --> 00:22:15,500
it kind of said,
372
00:22:15,501 --> 00:22:18,169
yeah, no one's crazy
if they think that
373
00:22:18,170 --> 00:22:20,547
Mike wasn't eaten
by alligators.
374
00:22:20,548 --> 00:22:23,091
This is a mystery.
375
00:22:23,092 --> 00:22:25,803
What did happen
to Mike Williams?
376
00:22:37,606 --> 00:22:38,731
I was following this case
377
00:22:38,732 --> 00:22:39,941
very closely.
378
00:22:39,942 --> 00:22:42,360
And I start hearing about
379
00:22:42,361 --> 00:22:44,737
these sort of like
men in black agents around,
380
00:22:44,738 --> 00:22:46,155
digging into this.
381
00:22:46,156 --> 00:22:47,615
And they're going
to get something.
382
00:22:47,616 --> 00:22:49,742
There's going to be something
tangible that we can, like,
383
00:22:49,743 --> 00:22:51,411
charge someone with something,
384
00:22:51,412 --> 00:22:53,539
or we will have
some real evidence.
385
00:22:57,668 --> 00:23:00,670
My first knowledge
of the Mike Williams case
386
00:23:00,671 --> 00:23:05,383
was when my wife and I
were looking for a daycare.
387
00:23:05,384 --> 00:23:08,011
My wife got word
about Miss Cheryl.
388
00:23:08,012 --> 00:23:09,012
So we went and saw her.
389
00:23:09,013 --> 00:23:10,555
It was like
the perfect setting.
390
00:23:10,556 --> 00:23:12,056
She was like a grandma.
391
00:23:12,057 --> 00:23:14,809
She was old school.
392
00:23:14,810 --> 00:23:17,478
That's when Miss Cheryl was
like, you know, what do you do?
393
00:23:17,479 --> 00:23:21,441
And I said, well,
I'm an ATF agent.
394
00:23:21,442 --> 00:23:24,193
Then she just let it rip.
395
00:23:24,194 --> 00:23:26,863
She told me the details
about Mike,
396
00:23:26,864 --> 00:23:29,157
about the case.
397
00:23:29,158 --> 00:23:30,575
I mean, it's just--
just jacked up.
398
00:23:30,576 --> 00:23:32,577
And there's good jacked up,
and there's bad jacked up,
399
00:23:32,578 --> 00:23:33,870
and that's bad jacked up.
400
00:23:33,871 --> 00:23:35,997
And I was like,
well, it's a no-brainer.
401
00:23:35,998 --> 00:23:37,498
I was like,
your son's not missing.
402
00:23:37,499 --> 00:23:39,626
I mean, hell,
somebody killed him.
403
00:23:41,837 --> 00:23:45,798
But in ATF's world,
it has to be firearm related.
404
00:23:45,799 --> 00:23:47,258
I mean, I just
basically told her
405
00:23:47,259 --> 00:23:51,471
I couldn't get involved because
I had no skin in the game.
406
00:23:51,472 --> 00:23:55,058
Miss Cheryl told me
about a handgun--
407
00:23:55,059 --> 00:23:56,809
it belonged to her husband--
408
00:23:56,810 --> 00:24:00,396
that had not been returned
by Denise and Brian.
409
00:24:00,397 --> 00:24:02,231
So it was a crapshoot
from the get-go.
410
00:24:02,232 --> 00:24:04,525
But I was willing
to run with that
411
00:24:04,526 --> 00:24:06,778
because it was
an unaccounted handgun.
412
00:24:11,450 --> 00:24:13,534
I had these two gentlemen
413
00:24:13,535 --> 00:24:16,704
come in to the coffee shop.
414
00:24:16,705 --> 00:24:20,667
And they were dressed
in suits and ties.
415
00:24:20,668 --> 00:24:22,752
This is very serious.
416
00:24:22,753 --> 00:24:26,047
It's not a, "How do you do?
Nice to meet you."
417
00:24:26,048 --> 00:24:28,716
It's not a friendly welcome.
418
00:24:28,717 --> 00:24:30,677
I mean, the thing
you got to think about is
419
00:24:30,678 --> 00:24:32,845
that you're going in
to talk to this woman
420
00:24:32,846 --> 00:24:36,849
that used to be married
to one of your prime suspects.
421
00:24:36,850 --> 00:24:39,686
And that's
the father of her child.
422
00:24:39,687 --> 00:24:41,312
Go on. Yeah.
423
00:24:41,313 --> 00:24:44,565
So you know, my experience
typically would be,
424
00:24:44,566 --> 00:24:47,694
you know, I'm gonna be met with
some pretty high resistance.
425
00:24:47,695 --> 00:24:52,198
He says to me, you are going
to have to decide right now
426
00:24:52,199 --> 00:24:53,950
whose side you're gonna be on.
427
00:24:53,951 --> 00:24:55,743
This train is leaving
the station,
428
00:24:55,744 --> 00:24:58,621
and either you're gonna
be on it or you're not.
429
00:24:58,622 --> 00:25:01,332
And I was like, OK, OK.
430
00:25:01,333 --> 00:25:03,751
I understand that.
431
00:25:03,752 --> 00:25:05,878
And I'm willing to help you.
432
00:25:05,879 --> 00:25:10,091
He asked me if I knew
if Mike had a handgun.
433
00:25:10,092 --> 00:25:13,011
I said to him, yes,
he did have a handgun.
434
00:25:13,012 --> 00:25:14,971
He kept it in his nightstand.
435
00:25:14,972 --> 00:25:17,682
I was taken back by, you know,
436
00:25:17,683 --> 00:25:19,475
her eagerness to help.
437
00:25:19,476 --> 00:25:21,185
I believe that
Brian and Denise
438
00:25:21,186 --> 00:25:23,896
have done something to Mike.
439
00:25:23,897 --> 00:25:26,774
And I'm watching them
just live this life,
440
00:25:26,775 --> 00:25:29,569
happy, carefree--
441
00:25:31,155 --> 00:25:36,242
going through life,
raising these children.
442
00:25:36,243 --> 00:25:37,785
They've got
the golden goose, right?
443
00:25:37,786 --> 00:25:40,037
They've got
the life insurance money.
444
00:25:40,038 --> 00:25:43,875
And they've got the children.
445
00:25:46,670 --> 00:25:51,632
Josey being on the case,
it was just the first time
446
00:25:51,633 --> 00:25:54,218
that I felt like
I could see the light
447
00:25:54,219 --> 00:25:56,763
at the end of the tunnel.
448
00:25:56,764 --> 00:25:58,931
Once we got Kathy on board,
449
00:25:58,932 --> 00:26:01,350
you know, she's checking in
with me every day at noon.
450
00:26:01,351 --> 00:26:05,313
Just-- that's the way
I know where she's at.
451
00:26:05,314 --> 00:26:07,899
Now, Josey kind of has
452
00:26:07,900 --> 00:26:12,487
a contact point
to kind of get to Brian.
453
00:26:12,488 --> 00:26:14,489
The goal at that point was
454
00:26:14,490 --> 00:26:17,241
to kind of try to rattle him
and see where he would go.
455
00:26:20,913 --> 00:26:23,748
For the first time,
I was pretty excited.
456
00:26:23,749 --> 00:26:26,834
Josey seemed very determined
457
00:26:26,835 --> 00:26:30,797
to take this somewhere.
458
00:26:30,798 --> 00:26:33,424
We literally just
went house to house
459
00:26:33,425 --> 00:26:35,426
in Brian and Denise's
neighborhood.
460
00:26:35,427 --> 00:26:38,721
And really, we were like,
shooting the biggest flare
461
00:26:38,722 --> 00:26:41,390
up in the sky that we could
that, hey, you know what?
462
00:26:41,391 --> 00:26:43,143
We're here.
463
00:26:45,312 --> 00:26:48,022
And the goal was
to let Brian know,
464
00:26:48,023 --> 00:26:52,443
this might have been sleeping,
but it ain't sleeping no more.
465
00:26:52,444 --> 00:26:54,070
And hell, I'll take you
over here and you know,
466
00:26:54,071 --> 00:26:55,780
show you a freaking
fire ant hill.
467
00:26:55,781 --> 00:26:57,240
You step on a damn
fire ant hill,
468
00:26:57,241 --> 00:26:58,699
all the damn
fire ants come out.
469
00:26:58,700 --> 00:27:00,201
You know what I'm saying?
470
00:27:00,202 --> 00:27:02,203
We wanted all the ants
to come out.
471
00:27:05,999 --> 00:27:09,168
Josey was everywhere.
472
00:27:09,169 --> 00:27:14,507
Brian said that Josey would be
sitting outside of their house
473
00:27:14,508 --> 00:27:17,927
all the time.
474
00:27:17,928 --> 00:27:22,139
Brian was, for the first time,
475
00:27:22,140 --> 00:27:27,228
really pretty terrified
of this guy.
476
00:27:27,229 --> 00:27:30,356
Josey had riled
477
00:27:30,357 --> 00:27:33,568
Brian up so much,
478
00:27:33,569 --> 00:27:35,987
Brian was coming to me more.
479
00:27:35,988 --> 00:27:37,613
He wasn't trusting me,
480
00:27:37,614 --> 00:27:40,992
but I feel like
I was the only person
481
00:27:40,993 --> 00:27:45,621
who could get anything back
to him about what Josey wanted.
482
00:27:45,622 --> 00:27:48,958
Brian would come to my work,
telling me,
483
00:27:48,959 --> 00:27:50,293
you know, he's following me.
484
00:27:50,294 --> 00:27:53,422
What are you talking
to him about?
485
00:27:56,216 --> 00:27:57,383
At the same time,
Jennifer Portman
486
00:27:57,384 --> 00:28:00,137
is just hammering the news.
487
00:28:03,098 --> 00:28:06,560
And then we're keeping
that anthill going.
488
00:28:09,104 --> 00:28:12,023
Brian was very nervous
489
00:28:12,024 --> 00:28:14,525
because Josey
was a federal agent.
490
00:28:14,526 --> 00:28:17,486
And this was
the first opportunity
491
00:28:17,487 --> 00:28:21,032
for someone at that level
to look at everything.
492
00:28:21,033 --> 00:28:23,284
I kind of felt like
this guy might do it.
493
00:28:23,285 --> 00:28:25,703
Like, he might be the one
494
00:28:25,704 --> 00:28:30,708
that can really break Brian.
495
00:28:30,709 --> 00:28:33,002
As we continue
to increase the pressure,
496
00:28:33,003 --> 00:28:35,338
Kathy receives a phone call.
497
00:28:35,339 --> 00:28:38,466
And it was Brian calling
from a number she didn't know.
498
00:28:38,467 --> 00:28:40,301
She called me in a panic.
499
00:28:40,302 --> 00:28:43,596
She's like,
Brian wants to meet with me.
500
00:28:43,597 --> 00:28:46,557
So we knew at that point,
501
00:28:46,558 --> 00:28:49,852
the pressure that we were
applying was actually working.
502
00:28:49,853 --> 00:28:53,147
He was literally
at the breaking point.
503
00:28:53,148 --> 00:28:56,192
I mean, the anthill
was stirred up.
504
00:28:59,863 --> 00:29:04,158
The idea came up for me
to have a meeting with Brian.
505
00:29:04,159 --> 00:29:06,410
And would I wear a wire?
506
00:29:08,121 --> 00:29:10,998
I was terrified
at the thought of that.
507
00:29:10,999 --> 00:29:14,710
It was very intimidating.
508
00:29:14,711 --> 00:29:18,589
It doesn't feel safe.
509
00:29:18,590 --> 00:29:20,424
But at the same time,
I'm like, we're so close.
510
00:29:20,425 --> 00:29:22,134
How can I not do this?
511
00:29:22,135 --> 00:29:25,721
What if this is
the only chance I have?
512
00:29:25,722 --> 00:29:28,724
And what if Brian
is close to cracking?
513
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:39,777
Today's date,
Friday, December 14, 2007.
514
00:29:39,778 --> 00:29:42,113
This will be a recorded
conversation between
515
00:29:42,114 --> 00:29:44,281
Kathy Thomas
and Brian Winchester.
516
00:29:44,282 --> 00:29:47,410
Kathy was going
to meet with Brian.
517
00:29:47,411 --> 00:29:49,996
It would have to be
in a secure location,
518
00:29:49,997 --> 00:29:53,749
a location that is public,
daylight hours,
519
00:29:53,750 --> 00:29:56,961
easily accessible by us--
520
00:29:56,962 --> 00:29:59,046
you know, all the things
that would lead
521
00:29:59,047 --> 00:30:01,049
to the safety of Kathy.
522
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:10,391
I remember them
wiring her up.
523
00:30:10,392 --> 00:30:11,726
Do you have sight of her?
524
00:30:11,727 --> 00:30:13,811
No, I mean, you know,
525
00:30:13,812 --> 00:30:16,522
we could hear her on the wire
because I was her--
526
00:30:16,523 --> 00:30:18,400
like, her main point
of contact.
527
00:30:23,989 --> 00:30:25,364
I'm terrified.
528
00:30:25,365 --> 00:30:28,493
My palms are sweaty.
My heart is racing.
529
00:30:34,458 --> 00:30:37,043
I am terrified I'm going to
530
00:30:37,044 --> 00:30:39,670
mess this up, you know?
531
00:30:39,671 --> 00:30:42,089
Because I don't know
what I'm doing.
532
00:30:42,090 --> 00:30:43,799
She's a soccer mom.
533
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:47,303
We don't need to be
wiring up soccer moms.
534
00:30:47,304 --> 00:30:49,848
That's not what law enforcement
needs to be doing.
535
00:30:57,689 --> 00:31:00,983
But Kathy Thomas
was willing to do it
536
00:31:00,984 --> 00:31:02,903
because she wanted answers.
537
00:31:11,203 --> 00:31:13,079
The key here is,
is that Brian
538
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:15,247
never really knew
what Kathy remembered.
539
00:31:15,248 --> 00:31:18,375
Kathy was never vocal
with Brian
540
00:31:18,376 --> 00:31:22,296
about the morning
that Mike disappeared.
541
00:31:25,092 --> 00:31:27,551
Our goal as law enforcement
542
00:31:27,552 --> 00:31:29,929
was to have this meeting
where Brian
543
00:31:29,930 --> 00:31:33,849
would start quizzing her
about what she remembers.
544
00:31:33,850 --> 00:31:37,520
Kathy was going
to be very vague.
545
00:31:37,521 --> 00:31:41,232
And the goal was for Brian
to implicate himself,
546
00:31:41,233 --> 00:31:44,151
you know, to say,
OK, well, you need to say,
547
00:31:44,152 --> 00:31:46,779
I was here till 6:00
or whatever.
548
00:31:46,780 --> 00:31:48,364
That's what we needed.
549
00:32:36,788 --> 00:32:38,206
Ugh.
550
00:33:10,405 --> 00:33:11,823
551
00:33:30,550 --> 00:33:32,259
OK, if we gotta go
to the courthouse,
552
00:33:32,260 --> 00:33:34,303
we're gonna call
court security.
553
00:33:34,304 --> 00:33:35,512
And we're gonna tell them,
554
00:33:35,513 --> 00:33:37,097
let her go through
with the wire on.
555
00:33:37,098 --> 00:33:39,099
That was my immediate thought.
556
00:33:39,100 --> 00:33:40,601
We can make this happen.
557
00:33:40,602 --> 00:33:43,729
Leon County Sheriff's Office
does the courthouse.
558
00:33:43,730 --> 00:33:45,273
Let them through.
559
00:35:45,018 --> 00:35:46,436
No.
560
00:36:43,326 --> 00:36:47,454
He starts in on our son.
561
00:36:47,455 --> 00:36:52,167
Just that manipulative way
of using him,
562
00:36:52,168 --> 00:36:54,211
saying, if I go to prison,
563
00:36:54,212 --> 00:36:56,713
it's going to ruin
Stafford's life.
564
00:37:18,820 --> 00:37:21,071
As we continued
the pressure with the case,
565
00:37:21,072 --> 00:37:24,908
I remember getting a phone
call from Denise's attorney.
566
00:37:24,909 --> 00:37:27,703
And he was like,
hey, you know,
567
00:37:27,704 --> 00:37:29,997
we'll turn that handgun
over to you,
568
00:37:29,998 --> 00:37:32,833
so we'd freaking quit
what we were doing.
569
00:37:32,834 --> 00:37:34,501
Without the handgun,
570
00:37:34,502 --> 00:37:37,463
we didn't really have,
you know, a dog in the fight.
571
00:37:37,464 --> 00:37:39,757
Skin in the game--
our nexus was gone.
572
00:37:39,758 --> 00:37:43,761
Josey said, Kathy,
I'm gonna be off the case.
573
00:37:43,762 --> 00:37:45,596
You know, it was disappointing.
574
00:37:45,597 --> 00:37:50,434
If Josey had been able
to stay on him, who knows?
575
00:37:50,435 --> 00:37:53,312
I mean, it made no sense.
Why did it fizzle?
576
00:37:53,313 --> 00:37:56,356
The ant was out of the
anthill, man, you know?
577
00:37:56,357 --> 00:37:58,859
And it just-- it just,
pfft, like that, you know?
578
00:37:58,860 --> 00:38:00,611
It just went away.
579
00:38:03,364 --> 00:38:05,532
I mean, we're not supposed
to have any contact
580
00:38:05,533 --> 00:38:07,618
with reporters.
581
00:38:07,619 --> 00:38:10,037
You know, Jennifer Portman,
God bless her, man.
582
00:38:10,038 --> 00:38:13,582
I just told her to keep doing
what she was doing.
583
00:38:13,583 --> 00:38:16,376
There was
a sadness and a frustration
584
00:38:16,377 --> 00:38:19,671
on his part that he was
not able to keep going.
585
00:38:19,672 --> 00:38:23,884
But he wanted me to make sure
that I didn't give up
586
00:38:23,885 --> 00:38:26,470
and that I kept on it
because, in all sincerity,
587
00:38:26,471 --> 00:38:29,056
he really felt like
it was really important
588
00:38:29,057 --> 00:38:33,143
that I kept reporting on this
and kept asking questions.
589
00:38:35,897 --> 00:38:39,817
I did not have
any faith left
590
00:38:39,818 --> 00:38:43,196
in law enforcement doing it.
591
00:38:45,240 --> 00:38:50,327
We're in this pattern now
of co-parenting.
592
00:38:50,328 --> 00:38:53,080
Brian and I are having
to communicate a lot,
593
00:38:53,081 --> 00:38:55,874
getting Stafford back
and forth to sports,
594
00:38:55,875 --> 00:38:58,627
and school,
and that sort of thing.
595
00:38:58,628 --> 00:39:01,046
He was still very controlling.
596
00:39:01,047 --> 00:39:04,800
And so it was very difficult
when he would try to control
597
00:39:04,801 --> 00:39:08,595
our son's schedule
in whatever way--
598
00:39:08,596 --> 00:39:13,183
switching days, you're not
getting him there on time.
599
00:39:13,184 --> 00:39:14,726
You need to pick him up
early for this.
600
00:39:14,727 --> 00:39:17,187
You know,
it was just constant, just--
601
00:39:17,188 --> 00:39:19,690
like, he was just
always bombarding me
602
00:39:19,691 --> 00:39:22,317
with some sort of request.
603
00:39:24,529 --> 00:39:27,030
I was on pins and needles
all the time,
604
00:39:27,031 --> 00:39:30,075
just constantly agitated--
605
00:39:30,076 --> 00:39:31,660
agitated because
nothing's happening
606
00:39:31,661 --> 00:39:33,871
with the investigation.
607
00:39:35,832 --> 00:39:37,583
I didn't know
what he had done.
608
00:39:37,584 --> 00:39:39,209
I didn't know
what Denise had done.
609
00:39:39,210 --> 00:39:42,422
I just knew that
they were at peace.
610
00:39:45,091 --> 00:39:48,885
No one else was at peace.
But they were.
611
00:39:48,886 --> 00:39:54,308
And that meant they knew
what happened to Mike.
612
00:39:54,309 --> 00:39:58,396
If that means where he is,
how he died...
613
00:40:00,315 --> 00:40:03,984
They knew.
They had peace with it.
614
00:40:03,985 --> 00:40:06,112
The rest of Tallahassee
did not.
615
00:40:08,406 --> 00:40:10,616
I'm torn up about Mike.
616
00:40:10,617 --> 00:40:12,826
I'm torn up that
617
00:40:12,827 --> 00:40:15,621
law enforcement
can't figure it out.
618
00:40:15,622 --> 00:40:18,206
It's affecting my marriage.
619
00:40:18,207 --> 00:40:21,543
It's affecting my patience
with my children.
620
00:40:21,544 --> 00:40:23,253
Like, this is tearing me up.
621
00:40:23,254 --> 00:40:26,548
And he is over there,
happy and settled,
622
00:40:26,549 --> 00:40:28,634
and he has no worries.
623
00:40:28,635 --> 00:40:30,010
He's good.
624
00:40:30,011 --> 00:40:31,929
He's good, and I'm torn up,
625
00:40:31,930 --> 00:40:36,850
and my life kind of feels like
it's in this chaos.
626
00:40:36,851 --> 00:40:38,310
I'm not the person
I want to be,
627
00:40:38,311 --> 00:40:40,270
I'm not the wife I want to be,
I'm not the mom I want to be,
628
00:40:40,271 --> 00:40:42,064
and it's because of him.
629
00:40:42,065 --> 00:40:45,609
I'm just boiling.
630
00:40:45,610 --> 00:40:49,738
I just sort of snapped.
631
00:40:49,739 --> 00:40:53,909
I was going to go to his house
and confront him.
632
00:40:53,910 --> 00:40:57,120
And I just kind of felt,
633
00:40:57,121 --> 00:41:01,833
I'm the only one...
634
00:41:01,834 --> 00:41:03,543
Who can do this,
I want to do this.
635
00:41:03,544 --> 00:41:05,212
I want him dead.
636
00:41:05,213 --> 00:41:07,297
And I said, I have to do it.
637
00:41:07,298 --> 00:41:08,924
I have to just go kill him.
638
00:41:08,925 --> 00:41:11,009
I cannot take this anymore.
639
00:41:20,812 --> 00:41:24,648
And Rocky said to me,
he said,
640
00:41:24,649 --> 00:41:28,902
Kathy, if you do that,
641
00:41:28,903 --> 00:41:32,447
you will go to jail.
642
00:41:32,448 --> 00:41:37,619
And as I settled down
and just started kind of
643
00:41:37,620 --> 00:41:39,788
talking through some of this,
644
00:41:39,789 --> 00:41:42,457
I would always go back to,
645
00:41:42,458 --> 00:41:45,335
as long as they're together,
646
00:41:45,336 --> 00:41:47,880
nothing's going to happen.
647
00:41:50,383 --> 00:41:53,343
This is where
the good stuff starts.
647
00:41:54,305 --> 00:42:54,483
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