"Murder 360" Where's Micah?

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1 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:12,520 Everyone was looking for Micah. 2 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:14,440 Where was Micah? 3 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:19,120 Where would someone have come by and tried to abduct her? 4 00:00:19,240 --> 00:00:20,720 You add all the things together 5 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:22,600 and something's not right. 6 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:25,440 It was clear that they knew about guns. 7 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:33,074 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm 8 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:41,160 He's telling me, I'm sorry. I don't know where she is. 9 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:56,840 And she kept repeating, he's going to kill me. 10 00:00:56,960 --> 00:00:58,680 And he shoots my daughter. 11 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:02,880 That's about the only time in my career 12 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:04,480 that I just wanted to shoot him. 13 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:15,400 You can run, but you can't hide. 14 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:38,840 Micah, as a child, was the typical little sister. 15 00:01:38,960 --> 00:01:41,320 She had a very outgoing personality. 16 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:44,720 She had that tomboy kind of a spirit. 17 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:47,160 We loved sports and we liked being outdoors. 18 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:50,400 She loved running. 19 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:54,280 Micah had a way of drawing people in 20 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:56,480 and making them feel appreciated and making them 21 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:59,520 feel loved and encouraged. 22 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:03,080 Micah had a very strong faith. 23 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:06,600 We are a Christian family. 24 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:09,720 For Casey and Micah growing up, 25 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:11,760 we wanted to be authentic 26 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:14,560 and actually live our faith. 27 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:19,480 She had such a sweet, tender heart. 28 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:21,600 I love that about her. 29 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:27,040 And she was a peacemaker and was real sweet about 30 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:30,360 how she kind of conducted herself socially. 31 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:34,760 Micah wanted to be a nurse 32 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:39,400 and got a job as a nurse's aide. 33 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:42,080 You don't take on that profession 34 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:44,800 without having a heart for the vulnerable 35 00:02:44,920 --> 00:02:47,440 and for the broken and the hurting. 36 00:02:49,920 --> 00:02:51,320 Micah was an employee of mine. 37 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:53,880 She was the loveliest soul. 38 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,680 She was the nurse that you wanted on your side. 39 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:00,000 The one that you wanted to be there 40 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:01,920 to help you with a patient. 41 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:05,240 She was just a kind-hearted young lady. 42 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:17,320 Thursday night, which was the 30th, 43 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:18,560 Micah worked late nights, 44 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:20,720 it was kind of a dreary, rainy night. 45 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:21,960 I remember leaving that office, 46 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:24,400 and she was there with patients. 47 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:29,120 I was probably one of the last two people to see Micah alive. 48 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:32,360 We got a call that night. 49 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:35,440 I think it was around 10:00, 10:30. 50 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:38,120 Micah's husband, Thomas, said, hey, 51 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:40,160 do you know where Micah is? 52 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:44,400 She's gone out for a run. She hadn't come back. 53 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:46,360 Didn't know if you'd heard from her or not. 54 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:48,240 It was not uncommon for her to go running. 55 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:52,480 On the final call, it was, OK, 56 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:55,680 Thomas, you need to be calling the police and start a search, 57 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:58,160 and we're coming to Memphis to help in that search. 58 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:29,360 We packed our stuff and headed to Memphis immediately. 59 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:31,920 It's about a 2-hour drive. 60 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:34,520 Everyone was looking for Micah. 61 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:36,920 Where was Micah? 62 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:38,640 So there's this big search, 63 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:43,120 this big hunt for Micah the evening of the 30th. 64 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:47,880 Where could Micah be? Where's Micah? 65 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:50,640 The dog was there. She wasn't there. 66 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:56,840 Well, I drive to her house and at her house, 67 00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:59,120 there's yellow tape everywhere. 68 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:01,560 There's police cars everywhere. 69 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:05,880 And it starts to make me even more alarmed. 70 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:07,720 I mean, it is a scary situation. 71 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:14,160 Well, as soon as we got there, 72 00:05:14,280 --> 00:05:16,680 Thomas said, well, she's gone out for a run. 73 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:20,360 So I started running... 74 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:23,480 the routes that I knew that we had been on, 75 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:25,080 different routes that we had run 76 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:28,280 from her house around Bartlett. 77 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:31,960 She was running without her phone and without her dog, 78 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:33,520 and that would have been unusual for her 79 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:36,280 to go out without either one of those. 80 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:38,600 There were severe storm warnings 81 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:42,400 with lightning and severe rain at that time. 82 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:45,840 It was uncommon for her to go running late at night 83 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:48,440 in the dark in a rainstorm. 84 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:51,760 I'm looking at culverts where she might have tripped, 85 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:54,720 she have fallen in off the side of a road, 86 00:05:54,840 --> 00:05:56,560 off the side of a sidewalk. 87 00:05:56,680 --> 00:06:01,440 Where would someone have come by and tried to abduct her? 88 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:04,520 What are some places where that could have taken place? 89 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:08,240 I'm just looking for any kind of sign about what's going on. 90 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:11,240 There was very little sleep had by anybody. 91 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:14,600 Everyone's doing all they can to try and find Micah. 92 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:29,480 I was like, I've got to go find her. 93 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:30,720 You know, what do you need me for? 94 00:06:30,840 --> 00:06:32,880 Or what can I do? 95 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,800 We went and got four-wheelers, side-by-sides, and we went 96 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:38,600 to the Loosahatchie Bottoms to look for her. 97 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:41,200 So the Loosahatchie is the river, 98 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:42,760 but we call it "The Bottoms" 99 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:44,920 where you actually drive down to. 100 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:48,120 And we went through all the crevices, the ditches. 101 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:55,280 We did that for a few hours and came up with nothing. 102 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:59,400 We were standing at every crossroad in Bartlett 103 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:01,120 near her home handing out flyers, 104 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:03,160 thousands and thousands of flyers, 105 00:07:03,280 --> 00:07:04,640 and all of us searching. 106 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:14,440 Lieutenant Halford came to the house about 7:00, 107 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:17,560 and that's when the investigation 108 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:20,080 became much more intense 109 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:25,240 because he took charge of the situation. 110 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:28,320 I get to the police station and I walk in 111 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:32,040 and the first person I see when I walk in is Thomas. 112 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:34,080 And Thomas is across the lobby. 113 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:37,320 And I walk in and we meet in the middle of the lobby 114 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:41,120 and we hug and I'm crying and he's crying. 115 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:42,600 And I'm like, we're going to find her. 116 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:43,760 It's going to be OK. 117 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:46,360 He's telling me, I'm sorry. 118 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:48,000 I don't know where she is. I'm sorry. 119 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:50,200 I don't know where she is. 120 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:53,720 One of my first questions for Lieutenant Halford was 121 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:56,240 why are you taking Thomas to this other place? 122 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:59,920 And he goes, well, typically in these situations, 123 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:03,440 the first person we have to eliminate is the spouse, 124 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:07,320 and so we're going to question him separately from the family. 125 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:11,400 So that's when it began to sink in that 126 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:12,840 we've got a problem. 127 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:19,960 There was one time that I ask Thomas, you know, 128 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:23,120 just occurred to me, I wonder if they've had a fight. 129 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:27,240 And I didn't get in his face or scream at him or anything else. 130 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:30,680 I just said, you know, did y'all have a fight 131 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:34,200 or did you have a disagreement and maybe she's just left 132 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:36,680 and spent the night with a friend or something? 133 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:39,600 He said, no, they hadn't had a disagreement. 134 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:41,200 Nothing had happened. 135 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:46,600 When Thomas reported Micah missing, 136 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:48,600 he said that she was out jogging. 137 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:51,120 Well, a thunderstorm was in the area that evening. 138 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:52,760 Heavy rain, heavy thunder. 139 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:54,160 Most people don't go jogging that, 140 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:57,120 even if they're training for a marathon. 141 00:08:57,240 --> 00:08:58,920 As we were looking through the house, 142 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:01,080 Micah's purse is still at the house, 143 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:02,920 Micah's phone is still at the house, 144 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:04,880 her ID is still at the house. 145 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:06,480 I mean, even when you go jogging, 146 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:09,520 you go to the gym, you take your phone with you. 147 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:12,720 As I was speaking to Thomas, basic information, you know, 148 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:14,880 how tall is Micah, how much does she weigh, 149 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:16,240 what color hair does she have, 150 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:19,720 he would just randomly break down crying. 151 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:22,200 Very emotional throughout the whole thing. 152 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:26,040 As I walked around the house, instead of Thomas sitting 153 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:27,840 or talking to anybody or talking to the officer, 154 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:29,600 he actually followed me throughout the house, 155 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:31,520 made small talk with me 156 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:33,400 while I was looking at different things, 157 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:37,680 uh, explaining things that, you know, didn't need explanation. 158 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:41,400 Just very, very uneasy, very nervous that we were there. 159 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:54,160 It was around noon 160 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:58,880 that the police separated our families. 161 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:01,320 I felt like they knew something was happening. 162 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:04,600 And that's when our conversation started to move to 163 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:07,400 I think Thomas knows something where she's at, or-- 164 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:14,040 So as that progressed, we became more and more concerned. 165 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:16,280 Does he know something about it? 166 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:18,840 Anytime we would ask him a question 167 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:22,120 that was the least bit pointed, 168 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:25,480 that would maybe position him to give us an answer 169 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:28,400 he didn't want to give us, he'd start dry heaving. 170 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:29,680 You add all the things together 171 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:32,360 and something's not right. 172 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:50,640 Out of high school, my sister decided 173 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:51,840 to go to Harding University, 174 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:55,040 which is our hometown university. 175 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:58,160 My sister really wanted to pursue nursing 176 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:01,560 and that goes to her heart of trying 177 00:11:01,680 --> 00:11:03,160 to help people and love people 178 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:06,280 and help people through hard situations. 179 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:08,960 And so because Harding had a good nursing school, 180 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:10,400 she wanted to be involved with that. 181 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:16,000 Micah and Thomas met through a friend group. 182 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:19,120 There was a crew of them hanging out together 183 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:23,560 and he happened to be friends of friends of hers. 184 00:11:23,680 --> 00:11:26,560 He's athletic, and so it matched up with my sister 185 00:11:26,680 --> 00:11:30,160 wanting to play basketball and be involved in those things. 186 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:33,560 They liked to be outdoors, they liked sports, 187 00:11:33,680 --> 00:11:36,960 and so I could see how they could match up. 188 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:43,880 They were from two very different worlds. 189 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:48,000 She led a rather sheltered life. 190 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:50,480 It was a small town in Arkansas, 191 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:52,720 predominantly very Christian. 192 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:57,560 There's like no alcohol sold in that county. 193 00:11:57,680 --> 00:12:00,680 His parents lived outside of Atlanta, Georgia, 194 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:05,040 a much more metropolitan, open, 195 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:08,840 you know, exposed to just about everything. 196 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:12,440 He was a much more worldly person than Micah was. 197 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:24,400 We really didn't meet him in person until 198 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:27,240 he came to our home Bible study. 199 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:30,280 So then it was just a matter of trying to get to know him 200 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:32,240 and seeing what he was like. 201 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:37,280 And a first impression was, eh, he's OK. 202 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:41,200 Wasn't over-the-top impressed. 203 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:43,000 But didn't have any big red flags 204 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:45,200 to start with either. 205 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:46,520 The more I learned about him, 206 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:48,960 he was more of an introvert. 207 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:51,400 He did not like to be around a lot of people, 208 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:54,360 and so, um, 209 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:57,120 that was a little bit opposite of Micah's personality. 210 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:00,200 And so I was a little curious why he was her choice 211 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:02,480 and why they were dating. 212 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:08,640 We found out pretty quickly 213 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:13,320 that much of what he was about was not like Micah, 214 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:17,200 and we could not identify exactly what it was 215 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:18,960 and name what it was, 216 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:21,960 but it just did not seem to be a good fit. 217 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:24,240 As you learn more about him, 218 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:28,960 I was like, uh, I'm not sure about this relationship. 219 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:32,840 As we were learning to get acquainted with Thomas, 220 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:35,600 we found out different things that he had in his background 221 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:38,240 that were concerning to us. 222 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:41,160 Part of that had to do with a lot of partying, 223 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:46,240 a lot of drinking, some promiscuity, 224 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:49,440 even dabbling some in some drugs. 225 00:13:49,560 --> 00:13:53,160 And then she would try to justify and explain away 226 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:56,280 some of the flags that we would point out. 227 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:07,480 By the time they had dated for nearly a year, 228 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:11,360 we were starting to really get concerned. 229 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:14,960 She was very bubbly and friendly 230 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:18,280 and very outgoing to everybody, 231 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:21,480 and then all of a sudden, she was very withdrawn. 232 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:24,320 She was stressed. 233 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:28,640 I believe Micah went into the relationship open, 234 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:33,200 whole-hearted, honest, transparent, and vulnerable. 235 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:39,920 And then this very shining, bright light in our lives, 236 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:43,320 the light just kind of went out. 237 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:46,960 He would discourage her from being part 238 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:51,840 of social things and part of even family things. 239 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:55,240 The things that we saw in her relationship 240 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:59,560 were very typical observations that you would see in someone 241 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:03,920 who is trying to manipulate another person, 242 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:08,680 trying to instill some power and control over that person 243 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:13,320 in such a way that they almost answer to them. 244 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:17,800 And that was what we were having trouble with. 245 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:22,160 I remember very clearly 246 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:25,680 there was this moment where my sister called me 247 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:29,720 and she called me and said, 248 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:33,880 Mom and Dad don't want this relationship to continue. 249 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:36,120 I'm drawn to him. 250 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:37,600 What's your advice? 251 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:40,320 What's your big brother advice to me? 252 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:45,080 And I remember being extremely, extremely torn. 253 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:50,120 And what I share with her was like, I trust Mom and Dad 254 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:52,720 and I love Mom and Dad, 255 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:56,520 but you need to make the best choice for Micah. 256 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:12,520 There's about two years from the time they started dating 257 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:14,600 till the time they got married. 258 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:17,280 Just the week prior to her wedding, 259 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:19,080 I mentioned a young man 260 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:22,560 that she had a very sweet relationship with, 261 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:24,960 and it probably could have gone romantic, 262 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:26,840 but it just never did. 263 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:30,720 And I said that I spoke with him recently 264 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:33,000 and I told him that it was, you know, 265 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:34,760 it's coming up a few days before your wedding. 266 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:36,440 And he made the statement, 267 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:39,600 I'm sorry I didn't pursue that any further. 268 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:42,960 And she perked up and said, he said that? 269 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:44,440 And I thought that was interesting, 270 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:47,120 because just days before her wedding, 271 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:49,200 that showed me that 272 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:53,000 she still had some doubts about what she was doing. 273 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:54,520 Before I walked her down the aisle, 274 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:57,360 I said, Micah, it's still not too late. 275 00:16:57,480 --> 00:16:59,400 If you want to back out of this, 276 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:01,880 I'll support you 100%. 277 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:04,000 I want what's best for you. 278 00:17:04,120 --> 00:17:06,480 And she just said, no, let's go with it. 279 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:10,960 Let's take me down the aisle and let's do this. 280 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:22,840 After that, she had received a nursing job 281 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:26,160 with a clinic in Memphis. 282 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:27,840 They moved to Bartlett, 283 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:29,800 which is just on the outskirts of Memphis. 284 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:34,800 One of the choices that Micah made in order 285 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:37,160 to help their family and to spend more time together 286 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:41,480 was she moved from working in a hospital 287 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:44,440 where they have more of a hectic schedule, 288 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:47,960 to move to the MOGA clinic. 289 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:51,000 She was the nurse that everybody wanted to be. 290 00:17:51,120 --> 00:17:52,920 Patients loved Micah. 291 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:57,560 She just was energetic and just had this honesty about her. 292 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:00,960 And our patients just really adored Micah. 293 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:03,600 Along with her coworkers. 294 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:12,560 What happened after they got married then, 295 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:14,880 is we wanted to be their cheerleader. 296 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:19,480 We tried to affirm and to do everything we could to help 297 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:24,360 to give our blessing onto this home that they were building. 298 00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:28,160 I believe, because she knew that we were working hard 299 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:31,280 to build that relationship, then she was unwilling 300 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:33,160 to share anything about her struggles 301 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:37,440 that had been taking place in their marriage. 302 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:39,000 All of us that worked with Micah, 303 00:18:39,120 --> 00:18:41,720 just based on interactions with Thomas, 304 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:44,000 kind of questioned him 305 00:18:44,120 --> 00:18:48,120 and kind of thought he was a little shady, disrespectful, 306 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:51,080 and she was such a loving, kind-hearted person. 307 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:54,440 He just belittled her. 308 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:57,040 And I think that his drinking didn't help that because 309 00:18:57,160 --> 00:18:59,720 it would be in those spells that he would drink 310 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:01,880 and things would come out of his mouth that it shouldn't. 311 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,440 We all learned that there was 312 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:09,360 some marital counseling going on. 313 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:12,000 She loved helping people 314 00:19:12,120 --> 00:19:17,000 and that ultimately was what fed into her marriage too. 315 00:19:17,120 --> 00:19:18,680 She loved Thomas 316 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:21,960 and she wanted to help that relationship. 317 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:30,320 The thing that I noticed the most was the anger. 318 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:34,840 Thomas had a hunting dog 319 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:37,960 and he told the hunting dog 320 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:39,720 to stay in the back of the truck. 321 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:42,720 And then the dog got off the truck 322 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:44,680 and walked towards Thomas. 323 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:46,920 Thomas screams at the dog, 324 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:50,120 I told you to stay on that truck. 325 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:53,680 And he picked the dog up by the ears 326 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:58,160 and threw it back in the truck. 327 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:00,080 Extreme anger. 328 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:04,440 Extreme violence. 329 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:07,120 But then two or three minutes later, 330 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:10,000 he goes back to the truck and is petting on the dog 331 00:20:10,120 --> 00:20:12,880 and telling the dog how sweet it is. 332 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:17,640 And so these extreme moods in anger and behavior. 333 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:21,720 But when I point out the red flags, 334 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:25,760 because she was invested in this relationship, 335 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:28,160 she wasn't willing to listen 336 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:30,520 to "Dad's advice" at this point. 337 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:34,360 Whatever I would say 338 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:37,840 really wasn't taken to heart because at this point, 339 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:40,640 Thomas had her heart. 340 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:47,640 He would push to get his way, 341 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:51,080 to get control, to, you know, 342 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:53,520 he would make her probably feel better 343 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:55,680 if they stayed at home alone. 344 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:58,120 You know, he'd give her some compliments. 345 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:00,360 Or if they went out, he'd probably say, 346 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:03,320 oh, why aren't you dressing like that person? 347 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:06,680 Or why do you have to be so picky about your food? 348 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:08,920 You know, things 349 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:12,920 that would make her feel bad about herself. 350 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:16,200 We don't know that he ever hit Micah physically, 351 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:19,280 but the yelling and the screaming we know was there. 352 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:22,680 And so there would be this argument and belittling. 353 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:25,840 You're so stupid, why can't you get this right? 354 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:30,640 And then at the other extreme of saying, oh, you're so sweet, 355 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:32,360 I love you so much. 356 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:37,200 It wasn't, like, bruises and cuts and scratches 357 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:39,680 and broken bones and cigarette burns. 358 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:42,480 It wasn't that kind of domestic violence. 359 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:45,880 It was the kind of scars in her heart 360 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:49,280 and her spirit dampened 361 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:53,720 and all those things that made her who she was. 362 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:56,480 Many of those were taken away. 363 00:21:56,600 --> 00:21:59,320 And she became a little suspicious, 364 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:01,520 I think, of Thomas. 365 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:03,720 Like when she came home and he was on the phone 366 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:05,440 with some other person, 367 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:07,400 evidently in a very personal way. 368 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:11,640 At that point, I think it became clear to her 369 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:13,240 that he was having an affair. 370 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:31,200 There was no sight of Micah. 371 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:33,680 And of course, 75% to 90% of the time 372 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:35,920 that someone ends up dead, 373 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:40,000 the spouse ends up as a suspect at some point. 374 00:22:40,120 --> 00:22:42,520 Then we have a search warrant 375 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:46,040 and the police gather things from within the house. 376 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:50,320 That's where they find hunting rifles. 377 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:55,640 And it was clear that Thomas and Micah both knew about guns. 378 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:58,000 Thomas went hunting regularly. 379 00:22:58,120 --> 00:23:02,480 He had all sorts of hunting rifles and he had handguns. 380 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:06,280 He went hunting all the time with his friends. 381 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:08,960 The police uncover a lot of different things 382 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:12,640 from multiple bottles of alcohol 383 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:16,720 to a history of pornography 384 00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:21,720 to him reaching out to another lady. 385 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:29,880 The officers tracked back through his phone records 386 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,920 and there were many texts with another woman 387 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:34,800 who was from New Jersey. 388 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:38,120 And then they got into the credit cards. 389 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:39,920 And that's when they discovered 390 00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:44,440 that there were charges made at Tunica, Mississippi. 391 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:48,240 He used the credit card to play on the slot machines 392 00:23:48,360 --> 00:23:51,360 and to pay for the hotel room that he and this woman 393 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:53,280 from New Jersey spent the night in. 394 00:24:06,120 --> 00:24:10,880 Micah went home one day and surprised Thomas. 395 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,280 He did work from computers 396 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:17,200 and on the phone doing medical sales. 397 00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:18,560 He said he was sick, 398 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:21,040 so he wasn't going to be working any. 399 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:23,560 So she thought she would go home and fix him some soup 400 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,000 during the middle of the day. 401 00:24:26,120 --> 00:24:28,000 And when she got there, 402 00:24:28,120 --> 00:24:30,200 he was on the phone with somebody 403 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:34,560 that he seemed to be talking rather intimately to. 404 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:40,360 And this was very alarming to Micah. 405 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:42,080 According to her coworkers, 406 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:47,400 she came back to work and sort of broke down crying. 407 00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:49,480 I remember Micah being totally, 408 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:51,040 totally distraught to the point of where 409 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:53,040 I went and got her stuff 410 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:55,760 and helped her out the door and she went home. 411 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:57,320 He actually had met this woman 412 00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:00,880 from New Jersey on a flight to Atlanta 413 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,560 and he was indeed in communication with her 414 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:06,200 and had met her for a weekend 415 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:09,240 at the casinos in Tunica, Mississippi. 416 00:25:09,360 --> 00:25:12,760 So he indeed wasn't very happy with Micah, 417 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:14,920 and he was going after 418 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:19,600 a much more worldly woman. 419 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:23,320 All of these things were news to our family. 420 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:27,800 And so it was sort of shocking seeing all of these things. 421 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,600 All through that search afternoon, 422 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:48,640 more and more doubts began to arise about 423 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:50,760 what's going on here? 424 00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:52,160 We're not getting the whole story. 425 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:55,480 There's things here that don't add up. 426 00:25:55,600 --> 00:26:00,480 And they start going through more personal items. 427 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:06,360 And it turned out that Micah kept a journal. 428 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:10,560 The journal was very revealing. 429 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:13,680 There was one entry in her prayer journal in February 430 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,000 before this happened in April 431 00:26:16,120 --> 00:26:20,080 and she had a whole paragraph that spoke to 432 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:22,600 Thomas's indiscretions and unfaithfulness. 433 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:26,840 "My heart is broken. 434 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:29,640 "I am so angry, sad, mad, 435 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,400 "disappointed at Thomas. 436 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:36,800 "If he truly loved me, how would this happen? 437 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:39,280 "My mind cannot fathom what he's done. 438 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:44,200 Am I so naive that I didn't see this coming"? 439 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:49,760 It clearly showed the dissolution of a marriage. 440 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:54,680 And this was a sacrilege 441 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:57,800 that was held very sacred by Micah, 442 00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:01,200 who's a very religious person. 443 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:03,480 "All I want to do is cry and sleep 444 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:06,440 "and forget this relationship ever happened. 445 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,400 "I've worked so hard on our marriage. 446 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:11,000 "I never thought I would be talking to You 447 00:27:11,120 --> 00:27:13,440 about unfaithfulness." 448 00:27:15,360 --> 00:27:20,720 She's miserable and losing touch with herself, 449 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:23,240 and only feels comfortable being herself 450 00:27:23,360 --> 00:27:26,800 when she is in this journal speaking with God. 451 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:30,760 And, you know, her ask for help 452 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:32,840 or ask for guidance 453 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:36,680 is just very heart-wrenching. 454 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:41,160 It's tragic and it's sad. 455 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:43,400 Micah's prayer journal ties it all together 456 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:46,280 of her talking about her rocky marriage, 457 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:49,960 the things that she's going through. 458 00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:53,920 It was very shocking and very painful. 459 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:06,640 Thomas ends up in an interview room 460 00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:08,880 at the Bartlett Police Department 461 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,520 and he's not telling the Bartlett police anything 462 00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:13,160 except for her leaving, 463 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:16,560 she's gone jogging, he doesn't know where she is. 464 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,680 Thomas lied to the police. 465 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:22,320 You know, he failed a polygraph test. 466 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:24,920 The agent told us that he did not feel, 467 00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:26,360 based on Thomas's results, 468 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,280 that Thomas was being 100% truthful. 469 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:34,720 And when Thomas's father came to town, 470 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:39,440 I think that's sort of when things changed. 471 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:47,160 He went from being very aggressive 472 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:50,600 and telling Thomas, you know, don't lie to me. 473 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,040 Tell me if you hurt, you know, tell me where Micah is. 474 00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:57,320 He went from that within a matter of minutes to 475 00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:58,680 it'll be OK. 476 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,280 We had people around us praying, 477 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:38,720 saying, God, reveal something, make something happen. 478 00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:21,280 That night, 479 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:24,080 the police pulled me and my Mom and my Dad 480 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:27,760 into this side room and they shared with us 481 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:33,000 that Micah was shot by Thomas 482 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:37,320 and that he had left her body at the Loosahatchie River 483 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:40,640 and that he was taking them to her body at that time. 484 00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:44,480 He shoots my daughter 485 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:49,680 and he leaves her out there for over 24 hours. 486 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:53,760 Wild animals, elements, it didn't matter. 487 00:31:55,520 --> 00:32:00,000 He takes the police to her body. 488 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,600 I personally walked out to where they found her 489 00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:07,600 and it is way off the road 490 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:09,960 in the middle of thorns, 491 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:14,920 brambles, mud, leaves, everything. 492 00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:19,920 There was a very off-the-beaten-path place 493 00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,080 to leave her and it looked as if 494 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:25,440 he had probably carried her there 495 00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:27,000 probably with the intention 496 00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:28,960 of throwing her in the Loosahatchie River. 497 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:34,800 But he couldn't make it quite to the river, 498 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:37,960 so he left her there 499 00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:41,280 face-down with a gunshot hole 500 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:44,160 in the back of her head. 501 00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:48,120 And the interesting thing is she's not wearing her shoes 502 00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:52,000 and she's wearing white socks 503 00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:54,800 which are not dirty on the bottom. 504 00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:57,920 And this is a muddy, muddy place where she is 505 00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:00,240 and it would be extremely doubtful 506 00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:03,400 that she went there of her own free will. 507 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:13,080 We were just so eaten up with anger, 508 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:17,800 just so mad that this man 509 00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:20,480 allowed her family, her friends 510 00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:24,480 to spend this time looking. 511 00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:29,200 Looking for her, hoping to find her. 512 00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:31,000 For you to know all along that you had shot her 513 00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:34,480 and left her at the Bottoms with ants and mud. 514 00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:38,160 Wow. 515 00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:42,200 The fact that he knew that whole time 516 00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:47,440 and was lying to us the whole time is so painful. 517 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:49,960 It's so, so painful. 518 00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:17,680 Thomas, in trying to explain what had happened to Micah 519 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,600 and how she ended up shot, 520 00:34:20,720 --> 00:34:22,600 came up with this story of 521 00:34:22,720 --> 00:34:26,960 they went here frequently to fire guns. 522 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,360 And according to Thomas, 523 00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:33,320 they would go target shooting out there 524 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:37,240 and that somehow there was a mistake 525 00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:40,960 and he accidentally shot her in the back of the head. 526 00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:43,000 Something about her gun misfiring 527 00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:47,920 or her getting in the way of him when he's shooting. 528 00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:50,560 It just didn't make a lot of sense. 529 00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:59,160 I have lots of doubts about his story 530 00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:01,360 of the series of events. 531 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:04,400 We spent a lot of time at a Christian youth camp 532 00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:07,480 at Camp Tahkodah and one of the things we do 533 00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:10,640 at Camp Dakota is target shoot. 534 00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:15,040 We would have three or four rifles 535 00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:17,640 shooting at the target at the same time 536 00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:19,600 and she would be aware of the safety issues 537 00:35:19,720 --> 00:35:22,200 of making sure the rifles are put away 538 00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:23,960 when you go check the target, 539 00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:25,720 that before you shoot, 540 00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:29,560 there's nobody between you and the target. 541 00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:32,000 She would have had to gone through gun safety 542 00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:35,120 to get her carry permit that she had. 543 00:35:35,240 --> 00:35:37,640 And so she was well aware 544 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:40,960 of the safety issues involved with guns 545 00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:42,920 and to not be in front of someone 546 00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:44,600 with a loaded gun. 547 00:35:44,720 --> 00:35:47,760 He raised her to know about a gun. 548 00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:49,280 Good, old Arkansas way. 549 00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:50,880 You learn how to fire a weapon, 550 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,000 you learn how to take care of it, 551 00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:56,160 you learn what to do with it, to clean it, load it, 552 00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:58,240 fire it, and everything else. 553 00:35:58,360 --> 00:35:59,840 There's no accident when you shoot somebody 554 00:35:59,960 --> 00:36:01,520 in the back of the head. 555 00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:06,200 One shot with her own gun and you don't call anybody? 556 00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:08,440 You don't call 911? That wasn't an accident. 557 00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:21,080 Early on, he was offered a plea deal 558 00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:23,960 of second-degree murder and 15 years. 559 00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:28,520 And we asked our friends to pray that he would take that. 560 00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:30,760 And he did not. 561 00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:36,720 It was a disappointment to us that 562 00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:39,920 he did not take the plea on the front end. 563 00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:42,480 He could have saved us all those months of grief. 564 00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:45,440 We wanted to grieve the loss of our daughter. 565 00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:49,800 We wanted to get used to this new normal of having a daughter 566 00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:51,560 that was no longer with us. 567 00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:56,040 Instead, we had to concentrate on all the stuff 568 00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:58,280 that was going on in Memphis and make trips over there 569 00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:02,400 that were very emotionally laden. 570 00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:06,400 For all those months, we just felt like we were, you know, 571 00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:08,920 we were just dangling on somebody else's string. 572 00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:28,080 Seeing the crime scene photos 573 00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:32,720 and going through the autopsy with the medical examiner, 574 00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:35,320 it seemed evident that his explanation 575 00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:36,920 of what happened that evening 576 00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:41,120 did not fit with the facts very well. 577 00:37:41,240 --> 00:37:44,160 Thomas is like over 6'. 578 00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:49,160 I want to say 6'4". She's maybe 5'4", 5'5". 579 00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:52,000 The gunshot wound is in the middle of her back-- 580 00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:53,520 the back of her head. 581 00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:56,240 It goes through her ball cap. 582 00:37:56,360 --> 00:38:01,760 And it's not quite a contact wound, but it is close. 583 00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:07,960 And Thomas was very experienced in firing weapons. 584 00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:10,480 And Micah had grown up with guns. 585 00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:14,200 I can't see that she would ever be in front of the gun, 586 00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:17,040 in front of Thomas with a gun. 587 00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:34,240 We were ready for jury selection. 588 00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:37,600 We were ready to go over and be there for this week-long trial. 589 00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:44,360 At the last moment, he made an Alford plea. 590 00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:48,000 The Alford plea says, I'm not confessing 591 00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:51,720 to doing this, but the evidence against me is overwhelming. 592 00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:55,280 And so therefore, I wave the white flag. 593 00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:59,000 The judge clapped his gavel on the desk and said, 594 00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:03,120 you are guilty of second-degree murder. 595 00:39:03,240 --> 00:39:07,240 There was some comfort in that. 596 00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:14,000 When Thomas is told by the judge, 597 00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:16,560 you're guilty of second-degree murder 598 00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:21,520 and he walks through the door to go to prison, 599 00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:26,000 there was part of me that felt some relief that this is over. 600 00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:30,160 And so I say that is God's way of saying, 601 00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:33,040 here's the best blend 602 00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:36,640 of justice and mercy. 603 00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:39,440 We get to feel some justice, 604 00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:43,320 that there's a consequence being paid 605 00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:45,000 for what happened to Micah. 606 00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:54,200 So he was convicted for 25 years with no appeals. 607 00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:58,160 And seeing some justice gives me the chance 608 00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:01,960 to offer a little bit better forgiveness. 609 00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:04,800 Because that's what Jesus has asked me to do as well, 610 00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:09,040 is to give forgiveness, so I forgive Thomas. 611 00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:13,160 Micah has an amazing family. 612 00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:16,360 Yeah, the strongest people I've ever met. 613 00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:22,680 And as a mom... 614 00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:31,200 I don't know that I could have done what they did. 615 00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:33,600 That was their only daughter. 616 00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:41,080 They forgave him. 617 00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:43,200 I just don't know how you do that. 618 00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:56,800 I believe that she caught him 619 00:40:56,920 --> 00:41:01,360 in his adulterous exploits. 620 00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:05,200 And as she realized what was going on. 621 00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:08,400 In my mind, I believe that was the turning point 622 00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:11,880 that led to her death. 623 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:16,200 Sadly, I think Thomas had a volatile nature 624 00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:18,280 and he may have felt like 625 00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:22,000 he would have to get rid of her to keep his little world going. 626 00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:24,920 Sort of like a good church member 627 00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:30,120 that can't divorce his wife, so he has to kill her. 628 00:41:30,240 --> 00:41:32,880 I think she got out of the car or whatever 629 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:34,560 and was mad, maybe perhaps, 630 00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:38,040 ready to run back home in the rain... 631 00:41:39,720 --> 00:41:41,120 And he just shot her. 632 00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:45,480 And then he got rid of her body 633 00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:47,920 in the best place he could. 634 00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:51,160 And I think for some reason, 635 00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:54,760 he carried her out there and took her shoes off. 636 00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:57,120 And I think that was to throw off 637 00:41:57,240 --> 00:42:00,560 being at the muddy bank of the Loosahatchie. 638 00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:04,840 Why look there? Her tennis shoes are clean. 639 00:42:09,240 --> 00:42:12,040 I miss my sister so much. 640 00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:15,560 And she was a light 641 00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:19,160 and she is just an incredible example 642 00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:21,840 of what love looks like. 643 00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:27,160 And if I could talk to her now 644 00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:29,680 and then in a way, talk to other people 645 00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:33,240 that are in struggling relationships, 646 00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:36,720 I pray that if you're in a struggling relationship, 647 00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:38,800 don't keep it to yourself. 648 00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:42,960 Talk to someone about it. 649 00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:46,080 There was one entry in her prayer journal 650 00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:50,240 and she had a whole paragraph that spoke to 651 00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:53,080 Thomas's indiscretions and unfaithfulness, 652 00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:55,880 and she said, "I can't believe 653 00:42:56,000 --> 00:43:00,240 I gave my family up for this." 654 00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:03,080 She didn't give us up. 655 00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:07,440 But in her eyes, it was him or us. 656 00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:10,160 And that makes me so sad. 657 00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:13,400 And she used to, as a little girl, 658 00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:15,800 when she would get upset about something, 659 00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:17,560 and even as an adult, you know, 660 00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:20,480 when she'd get upset, her eyes would just be wide open. 661 00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:23,480 And she had little freckles on her nose. 662 00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:27,600 And when I read that in her journal, I can just see that. 663 00:43:27,720 --> 00:43:29,520 You know, I can see that sweet little girl 664 00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:32,720 with her eyes wide open, like oh, my goodness, 665 00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:35,440 now I get it, now I get it. 666 00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:39,800 And that was--that was just-- that was hard as a mom 667 00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:44,160 to read because she could have come to us. 668 00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:46,680 We could have prevented this. 669 00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:49,000 This did not have to end this way. 670 00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:59,120 Even though the marriage was pretty bad, 671 00:43:59,240 --> 00:44:03,200 she kept her faithfulness and her love for God. 672 00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:06,640 And that lets us live with hope. 673 00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:17,360 All she's doing is a New Year's day, 674 00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:20,480 taking a hike with her dog. 675 00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:22,200 The blood was wet. 676 00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:25,440 It was fresh. That was disturbing. 677 00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:28,400 It was a calm place, she thought. 678 00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:31,720 And then she was kidnapped. 679 00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:34,560 The way in which this person gets money 680 00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:37,040 is by abducting these victims. 681 00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:39,760 He fits the definition of a serial killer by far. 681 00:44:40,305 --> 00:45:40,860 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm