June 4, 2025

Drifter: The Murder of Matthew Millican

Drifter: The Murder of Matthew Millican
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Season 7
In this episode of “Unspeakable” KJ delves into the horrific story of the stabbing death of Matthew Millican and brutal assault of his fiancee’ by a group of men in West Baton Rouge Parish Louisiana.

Chapters
04:03 The Life of a Drifter
07:02 A Proposal in the Air
19:21 The Night of Horror
27:19 The Attack Begins
37:54 The Brutalization of Matt and Megan
57:17 The Psychology of Evil
1:01:02 The Fight for Survival
1:15:44 A Hero Emerges

Unspeakable: A True Crime Podcast by Kelly Jennings is Produced by the Pro’s at Envision Podcast Studios

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Welcome to Unspeakable, a true crime podcast where I tell

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stories of real crimes with real victims whose cases are

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so shocking that many are left wondering how is this

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even real? I use my experiences in law enforcement corrections,

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and combined with my years as a criminal justice educator,

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dig deep into complex cases of evil acts, some so

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evil many feel they are unspeakable. Warning. Unspeakable as intended

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for mature audiences. If you are easily offended, then I'm

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not your girl. Listening discretion is advised. Hey, y'all's kJ

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you're back for another episode of Unspeakable, and I want

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to give a real loud shout out all the way

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to o Caalla, Florida, where Jackie Devall resides. She joined

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and she told me that Kelly, not only did I

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join Patreon, she said, but I was turned onto your

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show by my work friend whose name is Nicole. So

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to Jackie and Nicole, I want to say thank y'all

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so much. I need to find me a story from

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y'all's area so that I can just give y'all the

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full monty of my appreciation for joining Patroon. But shout

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out to y'all. Tell all your work friends, I said, hello,

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I'm waving at the camera, and I hope that things

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are just going really, really really well in your neck

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of the woods. Now I'm gonna have to bring y'all

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back to Louisiana though this case is from that area,

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proof that no matter how great a place can be,

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there is always evil lurking in the shadows. So while

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all true crime cases have tragedy and they have heartbreak,

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this one was profoundly disturbing to me when I came

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across it, and I don't recall it getting a ton

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of media attention, and I almost wondered at first as

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I was writing this episode if maybe it had to

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do with who the victims were. So hear me out

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on this one as I get started. And I also

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want to give a very very clear warning right now

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that this episode is in no way, shape or form

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appropriate for young people at all. Please trust me on

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this warning. If there are young ears nearby, this is

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not for them, you may want to stop it and

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listen to it when you're not around the little ones. Okay,

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you've heard my warning now. Matthew Millikin was super special

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to his family. Why because he was the first child

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the first grandchild and the first great grandchild in this family,

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and as myself the leftover, accidental last born in my home,

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I wouldn't know the beauty of being the first child

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of a family, but I can attest that they are

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in fact loved the most okay, the firstborn for some reason,

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people like them a lot. And my sister is the

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one that got that title. She was the first born

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and the favorite of the grandparents. Fight me on it.

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I have the microphone. I said what I said, and

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it must be nice. But all jokes aside. Matt was

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the proud older brother of two younger ones that would

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follow what I would like to call his guiding light. Okay,

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because Matt had this essence about him that I'm going

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to get into in just a minute. Matt was born first,

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then his brother Daniel, and then the caboose was Christopher.

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Now these brothers loved hard, but baby, they fought hard

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with one another to growing up rough and tumble boys

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exactly what you would expect of boys that grow up

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close in age and are tight in their family. Eventually,

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though their parents' marriage failed, the parents were together a

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total of sixteen years, but Missterie Matt's mom would find

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herself single, but not for long. A little bit of

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time would pass before she would meet a man that

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she would eventually marry, and he would love her boys

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as his own and raise them as his own. His

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name was mister Gary, and Matt would his mother had

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told me this. I spoke to her, and she told

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me that she and Matt basically grew up together. Okay,

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that she had gotten married at the very young age

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of seventeen and she had Matt just a year later.

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So not someone of great means. His mom would go

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off to work hard to give him a good life.

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She was young, and she had to work really hard

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for everything that they had, And so Matt would stay

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with his grandmother a lot of the time while she

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was away at work. And Matt always kept his grandmother

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on her toes because he was a little ball of fire,

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constantly on the go, an extremely inquisitive child. When Matt

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was born, he was a bald baby, I'll tell you that.

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But he quickly became this white cotton top kiddo. And

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then as a young adult, he grew into this sandy

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blonde and he liked to wear his hair long, but

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he took really good care of that hair too, So

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the long hair wasn't the style back then. Whenever he

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did it, he was different. But his mama learned, you know,

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I'm going to pick my battles. I'm not going to

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fight over over hair. He would carefully wash it and

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condition it and comb it, and he loved that hair

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and women would always compliment him on it because it

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had curl to it and just how beautiful it was.

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So Matt, with his love of his hair, fell less

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in love with school because truth be told, school became

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really hard for him, and now that he was in

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his final years of high school, algebra became a massive

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problem for him. And shout out to Matt for that one,

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because I'm with you, buddy, Matt. Math is hard. Math

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is really hard. I just my brain doesn't get it.

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So his issue was he simply could not pass it.

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No matter what he did or how he tried, he

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could not pass the class. And it got so serious

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that once he realized that this was just not going

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to happen, graduating high school really started to fade away

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as a goal that Matt had. And so his mom

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and mister Gary, however, weren't down with that, Okay, you're

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not just going to drop out of school. That's not

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what we're going to do. And so eventually when they

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saw him just not doing well in school and him saying,

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I just you know, this isn't working out for me,

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they were like, look, buddy, we're not going to let

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you just lay down and give up. Okay, No, you

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have decisions to make, and you have one of three

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and you need to make it now. You will either

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finish school, or you will go to work, or you

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will go. You're not going to stay here and do nothing.

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So Matt had asked his mom at one point if

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he could be a foreign exchange student because he wanted

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to travel the world and that just sounded so exciting

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to him. But because of his mother's limited means, that

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just wasn't going to happen. She couldn't afford to send

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him to go to school somewhere else. So, as hard

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as it was for his mama, Matt chose the option

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of he was gonna leave. He was gonna go. But

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this is the thing, it was not out of anger,

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and it was not out of resentment, but it was

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because he wanted to. He wanted to go and while

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his mama's heart was broken when he chose to leave.

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It was the hardest thing that she ever had to do.

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At that time, she had no clue in that moment

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that Matt felt like she had given him the greatest

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gift of his life to be free, to go aimlessly

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into the wind, and to go drum up unknown adventure

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in the process. And I know it's cheesy, but I

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have goosebumps. I don't know if you can see him

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in the camera, but this is obviously not what his

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mother wanted for him, and this is something that I

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would not want for myself. But for Matt, this was

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the dream unfolding before his eyes. And it was a

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because he didn't want his mom telling him what to do.

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And it wasn't because he wanted to go be in

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control of himself. He literally wanted to just travel and

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see the world, to just aimlessly be out there. So

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what he did was he packed up the basic essentials

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that he needed and he left with a friend and

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from that day forward he thumbed his way literally around

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the country, hopping trains at times, he would walk. He

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just was not materialistic. He didn't want a thing in

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the world, but to just go and be And there

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were a few times a year that were non negotiable

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for him that he would always come home and this

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was done without question, and that would be his mama's birthday,

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which is right near his own, and he would always

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come home for the holidays. So one thing I thought

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was kind of cool was his mom didn't like not

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being able to get in touch with him. And this

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you know, he didn't have a phone at first, so

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this was very stressful to her. What if I need

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to talk to you, What if you need to talk

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to me and I need to know that you're okay, Matthew.

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This isn't going to work. She went as far as

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to go and get a one eight hundred number that

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was designated specifically for matt to be able to call

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her anytime from anywhere without any money. And you know,

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a mama's heart will do anything for her kid. And

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I have to tell you, I was so uber impressed

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by her understanding and her acceptance of her son's decisions,

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but also the ability to adapt and to make a

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way to keep in touch with him. This is not

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parenting for everyone, I'm telling you. And she didn't kick

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her kid out. He wanted to go, so she made

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it to where she could stay in touch with him. So,

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while home now became a general term for him because

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he was a drifter, mama's house always would serve as

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home base. And to be clear, because I want to

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be very clear about this, he was voluntarily homeless. He

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could have stayed with his mother, he could have stayed

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somewhere else. He voluntar barely was homeless. A drifter chooses

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to live a nomadic life, while a homeless person is

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usually something we would associate with a state of instability,

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and this homelessness maybe due to something like mental illness

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or some other issues. But Matt chose this life. He

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loved it. He loved it. So what did Matt look like? Well,

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now established in his traveling ways for a few years,

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he would often be seen rocking different color dreads. He

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would his mom said his hair would go from green,

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the blue to god knows what, But basically his hair

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changed with the seasons. But he was always gonna stand

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six foot one and he was always toting this green

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military style duffel bag on his back wherever his travels

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took him. And he had a ruggedness to him, but

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he wore baseball caps and chemo military style pants. But

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he'd rock a beanie too, just depends on what the

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weather was. And I know we say beanie in the South,

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but I think like in Canada, an other player says,

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they call it tukes. I learned that actually in a

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nine when one call I was listening to, we call

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it a beanie down here. So his ears were gauged.

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He had those big, open circle ear rings inside of

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his ears. But he had a soft voice and he

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was more on the quiet side. But everyone agreed that

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he was funny as hell. He was a prankster. He

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lived to make people laugh. And one of the things

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that he was known for that was kind of his

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thing was that he would blame people who weren't even

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there if something happened or if there was an accident,

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and it always made people laugh. So one little story

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I can tell you is that he was cooking. He

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loved to cook, and he was in his mom's kitchen

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at a time that he came to visit, and he

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accidentally dropped an egg while he was cooking on the

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ground in the kitchen. And so he had a little

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young niece. Her name was Kyla, and he said, Kyla, Kyla,

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come see, come see, And so Kyla goes walking over there,

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and whenever she came into the room and got close

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to him, he grabbed her foot and he stuck her

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foot in that egg yoke on the ground. She said,

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ew gross, but he blamed it on her. She wasn't

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even in the in the house. He called her over

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to come in and then he blamed her for dropping

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the egg and she goes running over to her groom.

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He did this, I didn't do this, and just gave

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people a chuckle. But I'm talking about like, even in

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big incidences, he would blame people who weren't even in

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the state. You know. He would like to just blame people.

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And it was funny. People loved it. Now. Daniel and

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his brother Matt were the tallest of the three brothers.

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Daniel six foot three, Matt's six foot one, but baby

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brother Christopher he was a smaller one. He only grew

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to be about five foot nine five foot ten, and

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the baby brother, Christopher also had been born with a

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whole lot of medical problems that persisted his entire life,

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and that may have been part of why he didn't

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grow as tall as his brothers, because the men were

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all really tall in the family. Middle brother Daniel was

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He's just a big bear. He's a gentle giant and

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the type of person that you have to push him

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to make him mad, and he would often act as

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the peacemaker between brothers and Matt. He could get mad quick,

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but he was also the personality that he could get

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over it very quickly and didn't hold grudges, just kind

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of moved on. And then there was little Christopher, who

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the family always rallied around him in tough times because

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of all of his medical issues. But that was kind

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of the dynamic between the brothers and Matt. Obviously was

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very eclectic, and as is common with eclectic people, Matt

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loved tattoos. He thought that they were great. My husband

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is tatted up. Okay, I'm not against tattoos, and I

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don't want anyone to take it that way. He's fully tatted.

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Matter of fact, my husband just got a brand new

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tattoo on his forearm and he told me, I got

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you on my arm. I said what, And I went

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showed up to go look, and it's a woman underwater.

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All she has on his flippers. I guess that's how

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he sees me. And he made sure that the girl

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had curly hair just like me. And I'm naked in

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the ocean, snorkeling on my husband's arm. But Matt loved

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tattoos as well. And if you're from here locally, you

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may remember back in I guess it was the nineties

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when this happened, but our area code used to be

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five oh four before that five oh four was shifted

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to New Orleans. Well, Matt, in honor of where he

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grew up, had gotten that five oh four tattooed on

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his left forearm and then on his right wrist. He

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had kind of like a bracelet tattoo, and it was

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x's and o's XO XO XO. And so when people

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would ask him, well, what are the x's and o's mean,

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he'd always look at him and say, it means everything

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and nothing, and he would just leave it at that,

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and it was kind of a interesting thing, you know,

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it means everything and nothing all at the same time. Well,

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Matt was also an avid reader, and so as he traveled,

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his goal was he always was looking for public libraries

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and bookstores like Books a Million, because he wanted to

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go in and he wanted to read. So while he

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may have not been good at math, he was very smart.

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He was book smart, he was artsy, and he was

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a free spirit, just going with the wind. Something he

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also liked to always wear was a white bracelet that

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said impossible is nothing. I think that really speaks to

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his temperament and his high hopes and his high spirit

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for what he might could do in life. So Matt

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was also often engaged in what's called tagging while he traveled.

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And so basically tagging is when people spray paint their

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name or a symbol or walls or trains or something

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of that nature. And while look, people can argue all

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day long the purpose of tagging, because I know gangs

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do it as well as teenagers who are just being

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ass hats and spray paint and stuff, but a lot

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of travelers do this as a mark of their travels

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and to basically say I was here. Well, he started

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out with the tag e Or, which I liked because

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ere was my favorite Disney character growing up. My room

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was decorated in New York. And Matt also loved music.

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One of his favorite musicians was Bob Marley and by

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the way, here's a little trivia for you. Did you

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know or do you know what Bob Marley's middle name is?

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Do you know? Because I do. The middle name of

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Bob Marley was Nesta in Eesta, and Matt really liked it,

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so when he heard it, he loved it so much

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that as a tribute to Bob Marley as well as

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to himself and his travels, he combined it with his

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five oh four area code, and so his tag changed

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from e or to Ness five oh four. So who knows,

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Maybe one day you'll be out and about and you'll

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look up and you'll see a tag that says Nests

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five oh four, and you'll know that you're looking at

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where Matt Milliken had once been. But he also was

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not someone who was always going to be just begging

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for money. He was willing to work. He would make

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He would go get these jobs just to make enough

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to get by and that he could make it to

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the next town, or he can make it to the

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next state. And one time I found that he worked

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at a place in New Orleans for a STEMP that

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was called Lucky Chang's, And so I'm like, what the

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hell is Lucky Chang? So I looked it up. I

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thought it was going to be like a buffet, like

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a like a Chinese buffet or something. I'm so ignorant,

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but he always worked as a cook wherever he went,

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and this place made me kind of because it's like

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a dinner theater place, but all of the servers and

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the restaurants are in drag. So it's super eclectic, but

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definitely something that he would do without reservation. Because Matt

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loved people and he loved to cook. It served him well.

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And being in New Orleans also was a thrill because

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Marty Graw was his jam and I totally get it.

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I live from Marty Gras. I know if you got

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your last free gift from Patreon Crime family members, it

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was Marty gral themed because it came during the Marty

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Gras season. I love Marty Gras. So while not following

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the traditional path of laying down roots or anything like that,

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he did manage to make a love connection with another

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fellow traveler named Meghan. They lived very similar lifestyles and

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they just hit it off. Now. Meghan had dark hair

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that it would also shift in style as well, because

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like many other drifters, she also liked to rock dreads,

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and she would grow those dreads out and then once

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they would get too long, she would cut it short

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and then start over. It's just what was easiest while

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you're on the road. She stood about five foot four.

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She had this medium average build. But she was a

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tough cookie, and you're going to learn that about her.

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She was a tough cookie, albeit gentle and kind. And

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what a great combo that you can be kind to people.

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It's free to be kind to people. But she had

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that side to her that she was going to take

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no shit and I love it. She had green eyes,

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she had really thin eyebrows, beautiful complexion, and her personality

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would be described as nothing short of down to earth,

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easy going, easy, breezy, blowing in the wind, just like

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her boyfriend Matt. And she was now in her early twenties.

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But she had had kind of a rough go of

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it at first, because she did get married previously when

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she was really young. But it fell apart quickly and

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she was now happy to be with Matt and they

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traveled all over the US by foot. But Matt and

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Megan had chosen to return back to his hometown because

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they were over the moon, excited to announce that Matt

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decided to propose to Megan and she had accepted his

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proposal for marriage. And it was now February of two

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thousand and six. When they did what they had to do.

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They stuck their thumbs out, they got to walking, and

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they sure enough made it back to the hometown right

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there in Prairieville. Now, usually the plan was this, when

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Matt would come in town, he would call his mama, Teresa,

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and she would always say, all right, son, I'm on

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my way. She would jump in her car and she

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would drive into town and meet him at a gas

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station or wherever he was, and she would always just

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bust out laughing, just so excited to see him because

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she didn't see him often, and she would get there

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to pick Matt up. And it never failed that it

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was never just Matt. It was Matt and some dogs

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that he had with him, and some random people that

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he had with him that were his traveling companions at

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the time. But she would be so happy to see

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her son that she would just say, look, everybody climbed,

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It's fine, and they would all climb in with all

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their baggage and these animals, and she would just laugh

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with just this joy, and she'd say, look, y'all, I

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love y'all, and this is wonderful, but y'all stink. We

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got to roll the windows down, y'all, y'all, this is terrible.

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And they would laugh because they knew it was true.

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They knew it was true. They'd been traveling, they hadn't

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been bathing like we all do every single day. But

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math was Matt was a firm believer that a good

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hot bath would cure anything, and so his mama loved

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to help him out with that. She was welcoming to

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these people just sometimes just strangers, but she was welcoming

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to them because they if they were a friend of

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her son, then they were a friend of hers. And

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it just reminded me when I was learning about this

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about Twister. Do y'all remember that movie that's actually my

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favorite movie of all time? And when they would all

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roll up at Aunt Meg's to shower and eat, and

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they all smelled bad and were sweaty from the road,

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but nothing, just acceptance and love. That was kind of

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how what I envisioned when I was, you know, learning

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about this. Now. When they arrived, Matt's family did live nearby,

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like I'm telling you, Miss Teresa and all of them

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lived right there. But on this night, the couple decided

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that they would prefer to just stay outdoors on this

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trip and that they were going to hunk her down

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for the evening like they normally did in this lifestyle.

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So they had in toe with them. They're four month

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old pit bull mixed puppy and she was white with

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spots and she had those beautiful blue cattahula eyes. Now officially,

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on paper, she was called a Catahula and a Dalmatian mix,

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but Megan was from California, and California was not very

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pit bull friendly, and so that's why they had her

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listed as a Catahula Dalmatian mix, so that it was

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like a safety measure for Lola. If they took her

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to California, they wouldn't label her as a as a

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pit bull. And that's kind of sweet, right, Don't don't

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put a label on my puppy. So they decided on

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this night that they were going to sleep at an

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abandoned Texico station near the south end of Louisiana Louisiana

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Highway four fifteen, and once they found the spot that

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they were going to make camp for a few days

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or so. They were kind of getting set up and

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they came upon another drifter, and this drifter's name was Hollywood.

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Now I do not have at the time of this recording,

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I do not have Hollywood's real name. I have tried

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mercilessly to find this guy's real name, but I haven't yet,

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but I think I'm going to be able to do it.

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So I'm just going to refer to him as Hollywood

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because that's how they knew him, and they befriended each

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other rather quickly. Hollywood, let's talk about him, a genuinely

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sweet person. He was roughly in his like mid thirties,

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shaggy brown hair. He stood about five eleven, and Hollywood's

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thing was that he would hang around truck stops in

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the area and he would wash the tires on eighteen

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wheelers to get just enough money to go buy himself

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some alcohol. Because the truth was he was an alcoholic. Okay,

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all he wanted to do was sit on a porch

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of somewhere and drink alcohol. So to pretend that their

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lifestyle was normal, I think would be disingenuous of me.

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But you know, as all of us do, they all

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had their vices. Drinking hanging out with people that would

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probably be labeled as undesirables was their thing, but it

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was just who they were. And one good thing about

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this couple of Matt and Megan is that they were

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kind and they were generous, unphased, literally unphased at sharing

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their squat location with someone else who they just met

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five minutes prior. So in February seventh, the couple got

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up that morning and they did decide this time that

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they were going to go panhandle a little bit for

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some food money. That afternoon, while they were at a

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nearby Walmart, Hollywood was still back at the abandoned Texico station.

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So Hollywood was lazily sitting there and just watching the

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sunrise and set and the day go by. When three

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men came walking past the Texico station, and being a

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friendly person mixed probably with a little bit of loneliness

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and wanting to talk to somebody, Hollywood waved over at

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the men and said, hey, man, y'all, y'all want to

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have a drink with me? And the men said sure,

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that sounds good. And it's kind of like a lost

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soul can so readily identify other lost souls. I don't

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know what it is. Maybe kind of like how when

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animals know what kind of people they can go up

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to for help and which ones they shouldn't. It's kind

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of like that. I guess they see something in one

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another that they can identify with. So the three men

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came over and they settled down with Hollywood, and they

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all started drinking alcohol together and just getting to know

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each other. And it turned out that the three men

467
00:24:30.559 --> 00:24:34.480
they were also homeless. They were traveling from Florida and

468
00:24:34.519 --> 00:24:38.400
they were headed west. So how they had ended up

469
00:24:38.440 --> 00:24:40.920
where they were was that they had stolen a motor

470
00:24:40.920 --> 00:24:44.599
home while they were in Florida and that was getting

471
00:24:44.640 --> 00:24:47.400
them from point A to point B until it had

472
00:24:47.480 --> 00:24:50.839
broken down, leaving them stranded in the area. So the

473
00:24:50.880 --> 00:24:55.880
men identified themselves as Michael Garcia and his brother Daniel Garcia.

474
00:24:56.000 --> 00:24:57.920
Now I don't know if you're somebody who likes to

475
00:24:57.960 --> 00:25:00.440
research these cases after I start them, I will tell

476
00:25:00.480 --> 00:25:04.200
you his name is pronounced Daniel, but it is spelled Daniel,

477
00:25:04.400 --> 00:25:07.640
so I'm not miss speaking here. That's how it's pronounced.

478
00:25:07.880 --> 00:25:10.799
So the brothers were Michael and Daniel Garcia, and the

479
00:25:10.839 --> 00:25:12.839
third man that was with them was their friend and

480
00:25:12.880 --> 00:25:15.359
his name was James Nelson, but he went by the

481
00:25:15.440 --> 00:25:19.160
name fat Boy. So there's Michael, Daniel and fat Boy.

482
00:25:19.359 --> 00:25:23.279
Now fat Boy was chubby. I'm not hating, okay, I

483
00:25:23.400 --> 00:25:25.759
love I love my thick people. I'm just telling you

484
00:25:26.200 --> 00:25:28.880
what he looks like. Okay. He was chubby, hence the

485
00:25:28.960 --> 00:25:32.319
name fat boy, and he was very baby faced. He

486
00:25:32.319 --> 00:25:35.680
looked super young. He had blonde hair, and he was

487
00:25:35.720 --> 00:25:39.640
the youngest of the group. Michael and Dan Daniel, like

488
00:25:39.680 --> 00:25:42.319
I told you, were brothers, and they were of a

489
00:25:42.480 --> 00:25:47.480
mix of Spanish and American Indian heritage, which they were

490
00:25:47.839 --> 00:25:51.759
very proud of and liked to boast that heritage. Michael

491
00:25:51.839 --> 00:25:55.440
was the younger brother, but he was the leader in

492
00:25:55.519 --> 00:25:59.000
most aspects of their of their life. He was often

493
00:25:59.000 --> 00:26:02.319
the decision maker. And both of these brothers were in

494
00:26:02.359 --> 00:26:06.319
their mid to late twenties. I believe Fat Boy was nineteen.

495
00:26:07.519 --> 00:26:09.759
Don't quote me on it, but I believe he was. Now.

496
00:26:09.799 --> 00:26:13.799
Michael had really really short black hair, a really thin

497
00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:18.240
mustache above his upper lip, a very heavy brow, but

498
00:26:18.279 --> 00:26:23.599
a very narrow and thin face, while Daniel had just

499
00:26:23.680 --> 00:26:29.880
these has very long and very big, large facial features.

500
00:26:29.920 --> 00:26:32.160
You can tell they're related, but they he's just like

501
00:26:32.200 --> 00:26:35.200
a different looking version of his brother. He also had

502
00:26:35.240 --> 00:26:38.200
that short black hair a really long nose, but his

503
00:26:38.319 --> 00:26:41.759
mustache was super super thick, and then he had that small, little,

504
00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:44.000
I guess you'd call it soul patch of hair right

505
00:26:44.039 --> 00:26:48.400
underneath his bottom lip. The men sat around, they all

506
00:26:48.400 --> 00:26:51.200
were chit chatting and sharing war stories from the road.

507
00:26:51.680 --> 00:26:54.960
And so later that afternoon, Matt and Megan returned and

508
00:26:55.000 --> 00:26:58.200
they walked up and greeted the group. So they all

509
00:26:58.240 --> 00:27:01.039
said they're helloes, and then Matt Megan joined in for

510
00:27:01.119 --> 00:27:04.839
some drinks and some camaraderie as well. Later on, when

511
00:27:04.839 --> 00:27:08.240
it got dark and it became nighttime, the couple decided

512
00:27:08.279 --> 00:27:12.160
they wanted to move their bedding from the Texico behind

513
00:27:12.160 --> 00:27:16.799
that Texico to behind a Super eight motel which was

514
00:27:16.920 --> 00:27:19.240
next door. They just wanted to have some privacy while

515
00:27:19.240 --> 00:27:21.759
they were sleeping. They didn't really know the other men

516
00:27:21.920 --> 00:27:23.680
very well, and so they just felt like it was

517
00:27:23.720 --> 00:27:25.599
a better setup for them if they just moved and

518
00:27:25.799 --> 00:27:28.400
made a little bit of distance. But later that night,

519
00:27:29.319 --> 00:27:32.839
around nine forty five that evening, Megan left and she

520
00:27:32.920 --> 00:27:35.720
went to Arby's to go buy sandwiches for dinner, and

521
00:27:35.759 --> 00:27:39.119
then she returned, so the couple sat there they enjoyed

522
00:27:39.119 --> 00:27:41.119
their meal together and then they were getting ready to

523
00:27:41.119 --> 00:27:44.599
go to sleep when they looked up and Hollywood showed

524
00:27:44.680 --> 00:27:47.759
up from around the corner. So You started talking to

525
00:27:47.799 --> 00:27:49.839
him and said, hey, guys, do you mind if I

526
00:27:49.880 --> 00:27:52.480
come and I sleep next to y'all? Because I think

527
00:27:52.519 --> 00:27:56.359
I would just kind of feel safer with you, And so,

528
00:27:57.119 --> 00:28:00.279
not really knowing him well but feeling bad for him,

529
00:28:00.279 --> 00:28:03.039
they didn't want him to be alone. They said, sure,

530
00:28:03.319 --> 00:28:06.240
that's no problem, and so Megan got up and she

531
00:28:06.400 --> 00:28:10.279
helped Hollywood to make his bedding and put it kind

532
00:28:10.279 --> 00:28:12.839
of next to theirs, and then they all kind of

533
00:28:13.880 --> 00:28:16.440
got ready for bed. Now I guess I don't have

534
00:28:16.480 --> 00:28:18.079
to tell you this, but Hollywood was plastered and he

535
00:28:18.119 --> 00:28:21.559
was shitfaced, and so he kind of knocked out pretty quickly.

536
00:28:21.799 --> 00:28:24.559
But Matt did take a moment to call his mama

537
00:28:25.160 --> 00:28:28.200
and talked to her before they turned in for the night,

538
00:28:28.319 --> 00:28:31.240
because while he was on the phone with her, he

539
00:28:31.319 --> 00:28:36.160
was actually trying to console his mother. So Matt's brother, Christopher,

540
00:28:36.640 --> 00:28:39.720
remember he was the more sickly of the three. He

541
00:28:39.799 --> 00:28:43.160
and his wife had just had a baby that night,

542
00:28:43.559 --> 00:28:46.519
and the child, whom they were gonna name Caleb, wasn't

543
00:28:46.559 --> 00:28:48.599
doing very well. It turned out that when the baby

544
00:28:48.680 --> 00:28:51.839
was born, he swallowed some amniotic fluid and he developed

545
00:28:52.119 --> 00:28:54.640
a type of pneumonia, and so they placed him in

546
00:28:54.680 --> 00:28:56.799
the nick you and he was struggling. He was not

547
00:28:56.920 --> 00:28:59.200
doing very well, and Matt was on the phone with

548
00:28:59.240 --> 00:29:02.359
his mama, telling look, it's gonna be okay, Mama. He's

549
00:29:02.400 --> 00:29:05.920
gonna pull through. He's a tough little cookie. Everything's gonna

550
00:29:05.920 --> 00:29:08.799
be okay, and we're all gonna be there for him.

551
00:29:09.400 --> 00:29:13.119
He's gonna be fine. Now, what they did was they

552
00:29:13.160 --> 00:29:17.799
made a plan for their other brother, for Christopher to

553
00:29:17.960 --> 00:29:20.640
come in the morning, and Christopher was gonna pick up

554
00:29:20.680 --> 00:29:23.839
Matt and Megan and the mama, Teresa, and they were

555
00:29:23.880 --> 00:29:27.599
gonna all go to the hospital together to see the baby.

556
00:29:27.839 --> 00:29:31.039
And Matt was just beyond excited to put his eyes

557
00:29:31.119 --> 00:29:33.880
on baby Caleb. And I want you to know something

558
00:29:34.240 --> 00:29:37.079
I found this out in the process of getting this

559
00:29:37.160 --> 00:29:43.200
episode together, that Caleb I actually have seen in person

560
00:29:43.400 --> 00:29:46.359
and never knew it because Caleb actually went to school

561
00:29:46.400 --> 00:29:50.799
where I teach. What a small world that I've walked

562
00:29:50.839 --> 00:29:54.319
around this kid and never knew. You just never know

563
00:29:54.400 --> 00:29:56.799
what stories people carry with them. It's kind kind of

564
00:29:56.799 --> 00:29:59.039
interesting to me. That was very interesting to me actually,

565
00:29:59.319 --> 00:30:01.839
And Caleb is the first contact I was able to

566
00:30:01.839 --> 00:30:04.240
make with this family, and I just think that that's

567
00:30:04.559 --> 00:30:09.160
really neat. So after solidifying the plan, Matt told his mama,

568
00:30:09.240 --> 00:30:11.440
I love you, Mama, I'm going to see you tomorrow,

569
00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:13.920
and they hung up the phone. So now it was

570
00:30:13.960 --> 00:30:16.160
really time to go to sleep. So Matt and Megan

571
00:30:16.200 --> 00:30:18.160
they carried this little radio with them that they liked

572
00:30:18.200 --> 00:30:20.640
to listen to to fall asleep, and so they snuggled

573
00:30:20.680 --> 00:30:23.319
on into their sleeping bags, they turned on that radio,

574
00:30:23.640 --> 00:30:26.759
covered themselves with blankets, and they drifted off to sleep.

575
00:30:28.359 --> 00:30:30.519
So some time would pass while everyone was sleeping, and

576
00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:32.400
that it was the quiet of the night. Not much

577
00:30:32.519 --> 00:30:35.720
was really stern, except maybe a raccoon and some crickets

578
00:30:35.720 --> 00:30:40.039
making some noise. The three were sleeping peacefully, that radio

579
00:30:40.160 --> 00:30:44.079
just humming along on this low volume, and those three

580
00:30:44.119 --> 00:30:47.160
travelers that they had shared drinks with earlier in the

581
00:30:47.279 --> 00:30:52.880
night were now really close to them. They were actually

582
00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:57.039
kind of lurking in the shadows and watching the three

583
00:30:57.039 --> 00:31:01.400
of them sleep. So when Hollywood Wood had moved his

584
00:31:01.480 --> 00:31:05.440
bed closer to the couple and they had separated from

585
00:31:05.480 --> 00:31:08.640
this group. That's when those three strangers that they all

586
00:31:08.680 --> 00:31:12.039
had met earlier decided that they were going to make

587
00:31:12.079 --> 00:31:18.079
a plan to rob the couple. Now, you know, there's

588
00:31:18.119 --> 00:31:20.079
a lot of stupid shit that happens in this world,

589
00:31:20.119 --> 00:31:25.599
but robbing a homeless person or a traveler probably doesn't

590
00:31:25.640 --> 00:31:28.079
sound like it's going to be a big win. But

591
00:31:28.119 --> 00:31:30.720
that is the plan that they came up with, and

592
00:31:30.759 --> 00:31:34.599
with Michael taking the lead and making all of the calls,

593
00:31:34.720 --> 00:31:37.720
he was the shot caller of the plan. They decided

594
00:31:37.960 --> 00:31:39.759
that they were going to go surprise the three of

595
00:31:39.799 --> 00:31:42.119
them after they fell asleep. It was going to be

596
00:31:42.200 --> 00:31:46.200
like a surprise attack, you could call it, and the robbery,

597
00:31:46.240 --> 00:31:48.319
by the way, it was not going to be like

598
00:31:48.400 --> 00:31:52.960
a sneak and take situation, because the three men had

599
00:31:53.000 --> 00:31:57.680
now heavily armed themselves with knives and machetes as they

600
00:31:58.160 --> 00:32:04.400
quietly crept towards the sleeping group of three, and without notice,

601
00:32:04.400 --> 00:32:08.680
without warning, the men bent down and they ripped the

602
00:32:08.720 --> 00:32:12.200
covers off of the couple. Matt and Megan, who were

603
00:32:12.279 --> 00:32:17.359
startled awake and realized immediately as they were startled awake

604
00:32:17.400 --> 00:32:20.559
and sitting up that they were now being held at

605
00:32:20.680 --> 00:32:24.319
knife point, multiple knife point and machete point to be

606
00:32:24.400 --> 00:32:27.319
crystal clear, so their eyes are wide and they're kind

607
00:32:27.319 --> 00:32:29.720
of scurrying backwards to get away from these knives and

608
00:32:29.759 --> 00:32:32.480
trying to quickly assess and make sense of what's going

609
00:32:32.480 --> 00:32:36.000
on here. Well, Michael took his blade and he pushed

610
00:32:36.039 --> 00:32:39.880
it straight into Matt's throat, not cutting it, but with pressure,

611
00:32:40.319 --> 00:32:43.319
and he sneered at Matt that you better fucking keep quiet,

612
00:32:43.480 --> 00:32:46.680
and you better keep that dog quiet too. He was

613
00:32:46.799 --> 00:32:50.359
so close in Matt's face as he's doing this that

614
00:32:50.519 --> 00:32:55.720
Matt could feel the breath coming out of Michael's mouth

615
00:32:55.880 --> 00:32:58.319
while he is sneering in his face to be quiet.

616
00:32:58.960 --> 00:33:03.599
So unable to do anything but agree, Matt and Meghan

617
00:33:03.720 --> 00:33:07.880
remained near silent as Matt was made to stand up

618
00:33:08.319 --> 00:33:11.160
and then walked at knife point further down the wall

619
00:33:11.279 --> 00:33:14.799
of that Super eight motel, and once they were separated

620
00:33:14.960 --> 00:33:17.880
from the group, Michael then demanded that Matt empty his

621
00:33:17.960 --> 00:33:20.640
pockets and give him all of his money, but all

622
00:33:20.680 --> 00:33:23.200
Matt had on him was twenty bucks, but he handed

623
00:33:23.200 --> 00:33:27.480
it right over without a fight, with no questions. Whatsoever.

624
00:33:27.599 --> 00:33:29.799
He gave him everything that was in his pockets, but

625
00:33:29.880 --> 00:33:32.680
that's when Michael decided it wasn't good enough and he

626
00:33:32.839 --> 00:33:37.279
cut Matt with his knife on the arm. Now, Matt

627
00:33:37.319 --> 00:33:41.440
always wore this bandana tied to his pants, and the

628
00:33:41.519 --> 00:33:44.000
cut was bad enough on his arm that he needed

629
00:33:44.000 --> 00:33:46.359
to stop the bleeding. So he took off his bandana

630
00:33:46.720 --> 00:33:48.759
and he wrapped it around his arm to try to

631
00:33:48.799 --> 00:33:52.079
stop the bleeding. And that's when Michael turned around and

632
00:33:52.119 --> 00:33:55.039
went up and approached Meghan with his knife, and still

633
00:33:55.119 --> 00:33:57.599
under the threat of the other two men's knives as well,

634
00:33:57.920 --> 00:34:01.319
he demanded any money that she had. So as she's

635
00:34:01.359 --> 00:34:04.960
nervously trying to check her pockets, Michael with that knife,

636
00:34:05.039 --> 00:34:07.200
leaned in and he started growling at her, you better

637
00:34:07.240 --> 00:34:09.519
give me the money now, and she's shaken and she

638
00:34:09.559 --> 00:34:12.760
reaches in and she's able to pull out ten crumpled

639
00:34:13.039 --> 00:34:16.559
one dollar bills, and with shaky hands, she went to

640
00:34:16.599 --> 00:34:19.599
hand them over to Michael, but he was disgusted that

641
00:34:19.599 --> 00:34:21.800
that's all that she had, and so he just snatched

642
00:34:21.840 --> 00:34:25.360
him out of her hand with just anger in his face.

643
00:34:26.719 --> 00:34:30.639
And so then she and Matt were forced at knifepoint

644
00:34:30.679 --> 00:34:34.480
to go stand on the wall now. Incredibly, while all

645
00:34:34.519 --> 00:34:37.679
of this is being done. It was done without waking Hollywood,

646
00:34:37.679 --> 00:34:39.719
who was sleeping hard because he had passed out from

647
00:34:39.760 --> 00:34:44.400
the drinking all day. The men wanted it that way though, because,

648
00:34:44.480 --> 00:34:46.440
if you think about it, that's one less person to

649
00:34:46.480 --> 00:34:49.000
possibly fight. It was very strategic that they waited for

650
00:34:49.039 --> 00:34:52.679
them to go to sleep. So while Hollywood was sleeping

651
00:34:52.800 --> 00:34:55.199
just six to eight feet away from what was going on,

652
00:34:56.199 --> 00:34:58.920
the men went up to the couple's stuff and they

653
00:34:58.960 --> 00:35:02.800
removed their pillow ca from their pillows. They then took

654
00:35:02.800 --> 00:35:06.800
those pillowcases and put them over their heads, blindfolding them,

655
00:35:07.079 --> 00:35:10.480
and then pushed those cold blades of those knives into

656
00:35:10.519 --> 00:35:13.320
their backs, and they demanded one thing. They told them

657
00:35:13.519 --> 00:35:17.599
start walking. So they're blind, they can't see. It's dark,

658
00:35:18.119 --> 00:35:22.199
they've been robbed, Matt's been cut, and they're now walking

659
00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:25.400
into the woods. And they could tell they're walking into

660
00:35:25.400 --> 00:35:28.119
woods because they could hear the crunch underneath their feet.

661
00:35:28.599 --> 00:35:31.320
And so the couple walked for what felt like forever,

662
00:35:31.920 --> 00:35:35.880
their hearts pounding in their chests at the unknown because

663
00:35:35.880 --> 00:35:37.880
they can't see, they don't know what's going on. They

664
00:35:37.880 --> 00:35:40.679
had already given these men, all of their money, what

665
00:35:40.840 --> 00:35:43.679
more do they want? They didn't fight back. They gave

666
00:35:43.719 --> 00:35:47.679
them whatever they wanted. So obviously the couple they were afraid,

667
00:35:47.920 --> 00:35:50.480
but they remained quiet because as long as they were quiet,

668
00:35:50.599 --> 00:35:52.519
they were hoping that they weren't going to be hurt.

669
00:35:53.719 --> 00:35:57.280
So while walking in absolute fear in an unknown direction,

670
00:35:58.039 --> 00:36:02.440
they were also terrorized by the sound of Daniel's machete

671
00:36:02.639 --> 00:36:05.480
because he was violently swinging it forcefully in front of

672
00:36:05.519 --> 00:36:08.719
them into the bushes, because he was clearing a path

673
00:36:08.840 --> 00:36:12.119
for all five of them as they all walked near

674
00:36:12.199 --> 00:36:15.800
silently back into these woods. That'll tell you how dense

675
00:36:15.840 --> 00:36:18.199
it was that they had to cut a path and

676
00:36:18.239 --> 00:36:22.920
the only noise besides that machette just chopping away were

677
00:36:22.960 --> 00:36:26.960
crickets and frogs. I mean, it was just silence, and

678
00:36:27.039 --> 00:36:30.519
nobody knew they were there, nobody knew to look for them,

679
00:36:30.559 --> 00:36:33.960
nobody knew any of this was going on, And so

680
00:36:34.039 --> 00:36:36.199
eventually the stress built to a level that they just

681
00:36:36.239 --> 00:36:38.880
couldn't take it anymore, and Matt began to just plead

682
00:36:38.960 --> 00:36:43.239
for mercy. So once Matt started saying, please don't hurt us. Please.

683
00:36:44.239 --> 00:36:47.920
Hearing this, Megan cried out too please just let us go.

684
00:36:48.000 --> 00:36:50.440
We will not say a word. Please don't hurt us.

685
00:36:50.679 --> 00:36:53.719
We gave you everything that we have, just please don't

686
00:36:53.800 --> 00:36:57.400
hurt us. And that's when Michael snatched on Matt's arm

687
00:36:57.639 --> 00:36:59.559
and jerked him up into his face and he said,

688
00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:02.599
do you know what that sound is? Do you know

689
00:37:02.639 --> 00:37:04.679
what that sound is that you're hearing right now? And

690
00:37:04.719 --> 00:37:07.599
Matt answered, it's the sound of a knife cutting things.

691
00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:10.639
And Michael agreed. He said, that's right, and I'm not

692
00:37:10.719 --> 00:37:13.800
afraid to use it. You should know that by now,

693
00:37:14.760 --> 00:37:19.480
basically telling him to shut the hell up. So terrified

694
00:37:20.000 --> 00:37:23.920
but understanding the extreme danger that they were in. You know,

695
00:37:23.960 --> 00:37:27.079
this isn't the movies, this is real life. The couple

696
00:37:27.119 --> 00:37:31.039
lowered their heads, they became quiet, and they just kept

697
00:37:31.119 --> 00:37:35.280
walking into the woods, and periodically the men would do

698
00:37:35.400 --> 00:37:39.679
things to try and distort the couple, just completely get

699
00:37:39.719 --> 00:37:41.960
them out of sorts. They would walk them in circles,

700
00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:44.880
and then they would pull off their blindfolds and then

701
00:37:45.280 --> 00:37:47.960
blind them with flashlights and straight into their eyes and

702
00:37:48.320 --> 00:37:50.400
make them, you know, where they couldn't see, and that

703
00:37:50.480 --> 00:37:53.840
burning brightness. It would make them squint and try to

704
00:37:54.039 --> 00:37:56.679
look away. But then they would have the knives put

705
00:37:56.719 --> 00:37:59.239
directly in their faces to terrorize them while they're trying

706
00:37:59.320 --> 00:38:01.760
to to just sense of what's going on. And then

707
00:38:01.800 --> 00:38:04.039
they would ask the couple if they knew where they were,

708
00:38:04.079 --> 00:38:06.199
which of course they didn't, and they'd say, no, I

709
00:38:06.199 --> 00:38:07.760
don't know where I'm at, where I'm at, And it

710
00:38:07.880 --> 00:38:11.440
just was just it was like torturous, and it kept going,

711
00:38:11.519 --> 00:38:13.719
and it kept going and it kept going, and nothing

712
00:38:13.840 --> 00:38:18.280
was happening other than being threatened and terrified and walking.

713
00:38:19.360 --> 00:38:24.079
And so they just walked for like ever until the

714
00:38:24.159 --> 00:38:29.199
men stopped them. So at that time, they took Matt

715
00:38:29.800 --> 00:38:33.199
over to a tree and they removed his boot laces.

716
00:38:33.239 --> 00:38:37.079
He had these military type lace up booths on, and

717
00:38:37.119 --> 00:38:42.400
taking those laces, they tied him up and made ligatures

718
00:38:42.960 --> 00:38:46.000
and then tied Meghan up to the trees as well.

719
00:38:46.079 --> 00:38:48.280
So Megan was tied to a tree and Matt was

720
00:38:48.320 --> 00:38:51.480
tied to a tree. And while all of this was happening,

721
00:38:51.840 --> 00:38:56.800
Michael was going off on the couple, terrorizing them with

722
00:38:57.360 --> 00:39:01.480
questions and sneering comments. He kept saying things to him like,

723
00:39:01.800 --> 00:39:03.920
you don't know whether you're gonna live or die? Do you?

724
00:39:04.280 --> 00:39:08.360
How does it feel? He was like getting excitement out

725
00:39:08.360 --> 00:39:11.360
of the control that he had over these two people,

726
00:39:11.400 --> 00:39:14.599
and it was just it's disgusting, just it's bad enough.

727
00:39:14.599 --> 00:39:15.960
You've done all of this, and now you just want

728
00:39:15.960 --> 00:39:18.119
to you just want to scare them, You just want

729
00:39:18.119 --> 00:39:23.199
to just terrify them. And knowing that someone so terrifying

730
00:39:23.679 --> 00:39:27.639
holds the gift of your life in their hands had

731
00:39:27.679 --> 00:39:32.000
to be the most helpless feeling on earth. And at

732
00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:35.280
one point while this was happening, the puppy Lola, started

733
00:39:35.320 --> 00:39:39.559
to cry, and rather than just leave it in the

734
00:39:39.559 --> 00:39:41.840
woods or having left the puppy back where they were,

735
00:39:42.039 --> 00:39:44.719
they had brought the puppy with them, and so Michael

736
00:39:44.800 --> 00:39:47.280
snatched the puppy up and he had his knife in

737
00:39:47.320 --> 00:39:49.039
his other hand, and he started threatening. He said, I'm

738
00:39:49.039 --> 00:39:51.079
gonna kill the puppy if he doesn't shut the fuck up.

739
00:39:51.480 --> 00:39:54.159
And he started taunting Matt and said, get ready, man,

740
00:39:54.280 --> 00:39:56.719
I'm about to kill your dog. And you're drinking every

741
00:39:56.719 --> 00:40:01.800
ounce of its blood. It's, you know, just horrifying what's

742
00:40:01.840 --> 00:40:05.000
going on here. And Megan was begging them, please stop, please,

743
00:40:05.079 --> 00:40:09.239
I'll hold the puppy, please don't hurt her. So somewhat

744
00:40:09.280 --> 00:40:12.400
satisfied with the fear that Matt was showing at the

745
00:40:12.400 --> 00:40:16.320
thought of having to drink his own dog's blood. Michael

746
00:40:16.599 --> 00:40:19.920
untied Meghan and told her she got one chance to

747
00:40:19.960 --> 00:40:22.559
hold the puppy and to keep it quiet, and one

748
00:40:22.639 --> 00:40:26.440
chance only. And that's when Michael then turned back to

749
00:40:26.559 --> 00:40:31.480
Matt and continued working on him. He hogtied his neck

750
00:40:32.079 --> 00:40:36.360
to his wrists, which were also bound behind his back.

751
00:40:36.559 --> 00:40:41.639
So take that visual in. He's on his stomach, basically

752
00:40:41.920 --> 00:40:44.159
his hands are behind his back, and then he's got

753
00:40:44.199 --> 00:40:47.400
to rope around his neck tied, pulling it back towards

754
00:40:47.639 --> 00:40:51.079
his hands. So now that Matt was in an even

755
00:40:51.320 --> 00:40:55.639
further uncomfortable position, Michael said to him in a very

756
00:40:55.719 --> 00:40:58.679
snarky tone, Hey, what do you think we ought to

757
00:40:58.719 --> 00:41:02.920
do with you guys? And Matt responded, well, hopefully you

758
00:41:02.920 --> 00:41:05.960
can just tie us up here, leave us together, and

759
00:41:06.079 --> 00:41:09.000
just go on your way. We won't say a word,

760
00:41:10.360 --> 00:41:14.480
but this was going to be just the beginning of

761
00:41:14.599 --> 00:41:21.519
further torment. He then jerked Matt up somewhat to his feet.

762
00:41:21.559 --> 00:41:23.960
You know, it's all awkward, and he asked him do

763
00:41:24.000 --> 00:41:27.639
you have a heart? And Matt quietly said to him,

764
00:41:27.760 --> 00:41:31.320
I tried to and just as the words started to

765
00:41:31.360 --> 00:41:33.960
come out of his mouth. As Matt was trying to

766
00:41:33.960 --> 00:41:37.559
say I tried to, Michael reared back and punched him

767
00:41:37.679 --> 00:41:42.199
straight in the stomach, the most forcible strike that he

768
00:41:42.199 --> 00:41:45.320
could possibly do. Matt's hands are behind his back, and

769
00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:49.119
he takes a straight gut punch to the stomach, in

770
00:41:49.159 --> 00:41:53.280
which Matt just moaned out in pain. So he asked

771
00:41:53.320 --> 00:41:56.239
him again, and he bent down in his face. You know,

772
00:41:56.280 --> 00:41:58.480
Matt collapsed to the ground, and so Michael just bent

773
00:41:58.559 --> 00:42:02.079
down in his face again like a fricking serpent. He said,

774
00:42:02.519 --> 00:42:07.079
do you have a heart? Do you Matt? So Matt,

775
00:42:07.119 --> 00:42:10.639
having been punched very hard at this point, was unable

776
00:42:10.679 --> 00:42:13.840
to respond. He was confused at at what had just happened,

777
00:42:14.599 --> 00:42:16.199
and not wanting to be hit again. He said, I

778
00:42:16.199 --> 00:42:20.559
don't know what you mean. And Michael took this as

779
00:42:20.679 --> 00:42:24.320
being smart with him, and that's when he unleashed a

780
00:42:24.440 --> 00:42:28.559
barrage of punches on the hogtiede Matt, who could not

781
00:42:28.760 --> 00:42:33.320
defend himself in any way. He just wailed and wailed

782
00:42:33.400 --> 00:42:36.960
and wailed on Matt, and as he tried to catch

783
00:42:36.960 --> 00:42:41.360
his breath and recover from the multiple full force blows

784
00:42:41.440 --> 00:42:45.519
to his soft stomach. That's whenever the men followed by

785
00:42:45.599 --> 00:42:50.079
starting to kick him full force, hands behind his back,

786
00:42:50.280 --> 00:42:53.760
legs tied behind him. He can't do anything, and they

787
00:42:54.039 --> 00:42:59.320
start beating the ever living shit out of Matt. So

788
00:42:59.360 --> 00:43:04.239
he's collapsed to the ground. They are mercilessly now focusing

789
00:43:04.320 --> 00:43:09.239
on his face. Punch after punch after punch. Three men

790
00:43:09.960 --> 00:43:14.639
are attacking him. His nose started to swell, his mouth

791
00:43:14.760 --> 00:43:18.320
was bleeding, his eyes were swollen shut, and they just

792
00:43:18.480 --> 00:43:22.920
continued to beat him the whole while Megan just holding

793
00:43:22.960 --> 00:43:26.800
this puppy just in sheer horror, not knowing what to do,

794
00:43:26.840 --> 00:43:30.199
because remember they're still armed with these knives and as

795
00:43:30.239 --> 00:43:34.800
if this torture to this point wasn't just overkill. Michael

796
00:43:34.840 --> 00:43:37.920
looked around on the ground and he spotted a log.

797
00:43:39.000 --> 00:43:42.239
It was nearby, and he ran over and he picked

798
00:43:42.320 --> 00:43:46.000
up this heavy log and he walked over to Matt.

799
00:43:46.280 --> 00:43:49.920
He raised it above his head and he slammed it

800
00:43:50.039 --> 00:43:56.440
down onto Matt's head, which an just unimaginable amount of

801
00:43:56.519 --> 00:44:02.679
pain shocked through his body. So now was completely unable

802
00:44:02.719 --> 00:44:05.679
to do much of anything. He just laid there, trying

803
00:44:05.719 --> 00:44:09.199
to breathe as Michael then picked the log up again

804
00:44:09.920 --> 00:44:13.800
and slammed it down and bashed it into Matt's head.

805
00:44:15.239 --> 00:44:17.320
And when he did it that second time, he looked

806
00:44:17.320 --> 00:44:20.159
over at Megan and started screaming, you think I'm fucking joking.

807
00:44:20.719 --> 00:44:23.679
You think this is a joke. And Megan just shook

808
00:44:23.679 --> 00:44:25.719
her head and closed her eyes. No, no, no, I

809
00:44:25.719 --> 00:44:27.440
don't think it's a joke. I know you mean this.

810
00:44:28.119 --> 00:44:30.519
And the two other men at that point had these

811
00:44:30.519 --> 00:44:33.280
glass beer bottles that they had been drinking from when

812
00:44:33.320 --> 00:44:36.199
they first were walking back into the woods, and they

813
00:44:36.239 --> 00:44:40.079
decided at that point to take turns smashing these glass

814
00:44:40.119 --> 00:44:44.440
bottles over Matt's already gravely injured head. So by now,

815
00:44:44.440 --> 00:44:48.000
as you can imagine, Matt was totally incompletely incapacitated. And

816
00:44:48.079 --> 00:44:51.639
this isn't the movies, Okay, it's real life. He was

817
00:44:51.960 --> 00:44:56.360
horrifically injured. You don't just stand up from from trauma

818
00:44:56.480 --> 00:44:59.360
like this like in the movies. So in the moment,

819
00:44:59.400 --> 00:45:03.199
feeling rather accomplished in their attack on Matt, they now

820
00:45:03.280 --> 00:45:08.079
turned to Megan in what I only can imagine to

821
00:45:08.440 --> 00:45:14.239
be like a pack of hyenas, because she was seated

822
00:45:14.280 --> 00:45:18.440
at this point against a tree, and the men made

823
00:45:18.480 --> 00:45:23.840
her stand up, and she complied, she stood up, and

824
00:45:23.920 --> 00:45:26.760
that's when Michael walked up to her and punched her

825
00:45:27.159 --> 00:45:30.400
as hard as he could, directly in her vaginal area.

826
00:45:31.639 --> 00:45:34.079
And after he did it, he said, when's the last

827
00:45:34.119 --> 00:45:37.960
time this thing's been hit? Meaning in a sexual way,

828
00:45:38.400 --> 00:45:40.440
not in a in a punching way, to be clear,

829
00:45:40.480 --> 00:45:44.679
when's the last time someone hit this? And so Megan,

830
00:45:44.800 --> 00:45:47.800
in all honesty, looked at him and in pain, leaning over,

831
00:45:47.960 --> 00:45:52.480
said it was a night the night, a night ago,

832
00:45:52.840 --> 00:45:59.599
and to her absolute disgust, he responded with do you

833
00:45:59.599 --> 00:46:02.360
know when the next time is gonna be? So go

834
00:46:02.360 --> 00:46:05.079
ahead and take a while, guess, because it's about to

835
00:46:05.079 --> 00:46:10.599
be in two minutes. And then the three men jumped

836
00:46:10.639 --> 00:46:16.920
on her, grabbed her clothing, and physically, like a pack

837
00:46:17.000 --> 00:46:22.000
of wild animals, ripped her clothing off of her body.

838
00:46:23.239 --> 00:46:25.920
The only thing that remained was her brawl, which they

839
00:46:26.000 --> 00:46:32.440
then ripped down, exposing her chest. And that's when Daniel

840
00:46:32.880 --> 00:46:38.039
and Fat Boy then both leaned in and at the

841
00:46:38.079 --> 00:46:44.360
same time started sucking on her breasts. But Michael got

842
00:46:44.360 --> 00:46:47.280
pissed off and demanded that they have to pause because

843
00:46:47.280 --> 00:46:50.239
they're not going to do that right there. No, he

844
00:46:50.360 --> 00:46:55.719
wanted them to bring her right in front of Matt,

845
00:46:56.679 --> 00:47:02.079
who is still semi semi aware but unable to do anything,

846
00:47:02.800 --> 00:47:07.159
because he wanted Matt to have to watch what they

847
00:47:07.199 --> 00:47:12.320
were about to do to his girlfriend. So Matt's face

848
00:47:12.400 --> 00:47:17.239
down on the ground. His injuries are just unbelievable. And

849
00:47:17.320 --> 00:47:20.360
now what they did was they picked Matt up and

850
00:47:20.400 --> 00:47:24.679
they propped him up against the tree so that he

851
00:47:24.719 --> 00:47:28.800
would be able to adequately watch his fiance be defiled

852
00:47:29.000 --> 00:47:32.159
by not one of them, not two of them, but

853
00:47:32.400 --> 00:47:37.199
all three of them. And Matt was just unable to move,

854
00:47:37.239 --> 00:47:41.599
but he used his last bit of breath that he

855
00:47:41.639 --> 00:47:47.280
could muster up, bloodied and beaten and just unable to

856
00:47:47.320 --> 00:47:50.639
do anything, but he used his last bit of breath

857
00:47:50.840 --> 00:47:53.760
to comfort Megan, and what he said to her softly

858
00:47:53.920 --> 00:47:59.679
was it's okay, baby, I love you. It's okay. And

859
00:47:59.800 --> 00:48:07.480
that what hurts my heart because just imagine being so

860
00:48:07.760 --> 00:48:12.000
brutalized and injured, you can't do anything, but you use

861
00:48:12.039 --> 00:48:15.960
your voice, which is all he had left to try

862
00:48:16.000 --> 00:48:20.800
and calm his love, knowing all the while that she

863
00:48:20.960 --> 00:48:26.480
is about to be abused in the most disgusting and

864
00:48:27.559 --> 00:48:35.519
horrifying of ways. And it takes true cowards. To hurt

865
00:48:36.599 --> 00:48:39.440
a man to the point that he can do nothing

866
00:48:39.920 --> 00:48:44.199
before you then do something to his woman. You are

867
00:48:44.239 --> 00:48:54.119
a sick ass coward. The men then forced Megan to

868
00:48:55.000 --> 00:48:59.599
remove whatever clothing was in the way, even though you

869
00:48:59.639 --> 00:49:02.559
know they had attacked and ripped at her clothing. And

870
00:49:02.639 --> 00:49:06.480
once she was unclothed, the men looked her up and down.

871
00:49:07.280 --> 00:49:09.679
They looked her up and down like a piece of meat.

872
00:49:09.880 --> 00:49:12.280
And what I'm about to tell you, I want you

873
00:49:12.360 --> 00:49:15.920
to know is uncomfortable. But that's what we miss in society.

874
00:49:15.960 --> 00:49:19.039
I'm telling you what these victims go through. This is

875
00:49:19.079 --> 00:49:25.239
going to be uncomfortable. And Daniel walked up to her first,

876
00:49:26.480 --> 00:49:32.119
undid his belt on, zipped his pants, dropped him, and

877
00:49:32.159 --> 00:49:36.920
then forced her to give him oral sex at knife point,

878
00:49:37.239 --> 00:49:43.159
right in front of Matt. So she's just disgusted, but

879
00:49:43.280 --> 00:49:46.960
she's so scared for her and for Matt's life that

880
00:49:47.119 --> 00:49:50.760
she did. She did what she was told to do,

881
00:49:51.239 --> 00:49:54.119
but Daniel didn't think that she did it to his

882
00:49:54.280 --> 00:49:58.639
liking because he couldn't get off. He got mad at

883
00:49:58.639 --> 00:50:01.440
her about it. So since Daniel wouldn't hurry up and

884
00:50:01.480 --> 00:50:05.440
finish this, pissed off Michael, his brother who then swung

885
00:50:05.519 --> 00:50:08.960
his machete and hit Daniel in the back of the

886
00:50:09.039 --> 00:50:12.280
head with the machete. Okay, like popped him in the

887
00:50:12.320 --> 00:50:14.280
back of the head with the machete, so this in

888
00:50:14.320 --> 00:50:17.840
turn caused a fight between the two brothers before Michael

889
00:50:17.880 --> 00:50:20.360
then said, fucking get over there and finish your business,

890
00:50:20.679 --> 00:50:25.400
which Daniel did until he ejaculated in her mouth. So

891
00:50:25.559 --> 00:50:27.639
praying that this would be the end of her attack,

892
00:50:28.039 --> 00:50:31.800
she whimpered and she tried to clear her mouth out

893
00:50:32.239 --> 00:50:35.239
when Michael approached her and told her, oh, you're not

894
00:50:35.360 --> 00:50:41.679
done yet, and he dropped his pants and demanded that

895
00:50:41.719 --> 00:50:46.760
she now give him oral sex. And while she's doing that,

896
00:50:47.360 --> 00:50:51.679
at the exact same time, fat Boy went behind her

897
00:50:52.679 --> 00:50:57.760
and raped her both vaginally and anally at the same time.

898
00:50:59.400 --> 00:51:02.400
While in the middle of all of this happening, Michael

899
00:51:02.440 --> 00:51:07.280
then ordered her to switch and so she now was

900
00:51:07.320 --> 00:51:10.599
forced to give oral sex to fat Boy while Michael

901
00:51:10.880 --> 00:51:16.119
raped her both analie and vaginally, and the rape was violent.

902
00:51:17.119 --> 00:51:23.400
Poor Meghan, y'all, she's injured, humiliated and injured and in pain.

903
00:51:25.079 --> 00:51:27.599
She was in And I am telling you this information

904
00:51:29.119 --> 00:51:34.039
with nothing but respect for Megan. When I'm telling you this,

905
00:51:34.599 --> 00:51:36.960
and I want it accepted that way. I'll take nothing

906
00:51:37.039 --> 00:51:41.440
less than respect for her. But they injured that poor

907
00:51:41.480 --> 00:51:46.599
girl so bad that she ended up defecating on Michael's

908
00:51:46.599 --> 00:51:51.960
penis during the rape. And so when that happened, Michael

909
00:51:52.000 --> 00:51:54.400
decided that rape wasn't going to be enough for him.

910
00:51:56.039 --> 00:51:58.599
He wanted to show her just how worthless she was

911
00:51:58.679 --> 00:52:04.199
to him, and so, in an act of utter just degradation,

912
00:52:05.559 --> 00:52:09.559
he turned her around and he forced her to lick

913
00:52:10.119 --> 00:52:14.800
all of her own fecal matter off of his penis

914
00:52:14.840 --> 00:52:18.199
and then complete oral sex on him until he was

915
00:52:18.239 --> 00:52:24.559
able to ejaculate in her mouth. This is the reality

916
00:52:25.280 --> 00:52:30.800
of rape. You know. I don't share any of this

917
00:52:31.159 --> 00:52:36.079
to humiliate this victim. I share this as a woman's

918
00:52:36.440 --> 00:52:42.159
woman who wants, who wants you to know what she

919
00:52:42.280 --> 00:52:47.239
went through, but in nothing but defense of her. This

920
00:52:47.320 --> 00:52:53.000
is disgusting, it's depraved. And while she suffered a gang

921
00:52:53.119 --> 00:52:58.079
rape and abuse that only depraved animals would be excited by,

922
00:52:58.599 --> 00:53:01.920
she complied with the demands in hope that if they

923
00:53:01.960 --> 00:53:05.880
were hurting her, then maybe they would stop hurting Matt.

924
00:53:07.280 --> 00:53:12.719
But while Matt was down and down bad, he wasn't out.

925
00:53:13.400 --> 00:53:17.039
He's gravely injured. And while this is going on, he

926
00:53:17.199 --> 00:53:21.320
half yelled, half cried, pleading with the men, please show

927
00:53:21.360 --> 00:53:27.320
her mercy, please stop, please, well fat boy hurt us, please,

928
00:53:28.119 --> 00:53:31.719
And he didn't like the interruption into his fun, so

929
00:53:31.760 --> 00:53:36.679
he stopped raping Megan temporarily and went over to him

930
00:53:36.880 --> 00:53:40.199
and mockingly, just mockingly in his face, asked what the

931
00:53:40.239 --> 00:53:44.360
fuck was that before. The men then started taking turns

932
00:53:44.719 --> 00:53:49.760
kicking and beating him throughout the gang rape, stopping and

933
00:53:49.840 --> 00:53:54.159
starting with both of their victims. The beating was so

934
00:53:54.280 --> 00:53:57.679
bad that eventually Matt began to have a seizure, which

935
00:53:57.760 --> 00:54:01.400
they took joy in, and that only prompted them to

936
00:54:01.440 --> 00:54:06.400
start hitting and kicking him even more. And it's something

937
00:54:06.480 --> 00:54:09.119
about the underdog. I don't know what it is in me,

938
00:54:09.440 --> 00:54:12.639
but I always want them to pull out a miraculous win.

939
00:54:13.880 --> 00:54:17.079
But that's like in a one on one fight in

940
00:54:17.119 --> 00:54:20.440
a movie where the miraculous win comes in. This is

941
00:54:20.519 --> 00:54:24.400
not what that is. What's happening here is multiple people

942
00:54:24.440 --> 00:54:28.480
taking joy and mercilessly brutalizing someone already down for the count.

943
00:54:28.679 --> 00:54:31.400
And if that doesn't just evoke a fire in you

944
00:54:31.519 --> 00:54:36.440
and anger in you, and then to sexually abuse the

945
00:54:36.599 --> 00:54:39.039
love of his life in front of him is the

946
00:54:39.079 --> 00:54:42.760
most disrespectful thing that they could possibly do, not to

947
00:54:42.800 --> 00:54:49.280
mention her suffering as well. I mean, watching this all

948
00:54:49.360 --> 00:54:53.960
happen while also having to submit to a gang rape

949
00:54:54.199 --> 00:54:56.400
just in an effort to try to save Matt is

950
00:54:56.480 --> 00:55:01.920
beyond victimization, y'all. This is pure trauma. It's downright evil

951
00:55:02.280 --> 00:55:05.760
and it's torturous. So just for a second, and you

952
00:55:05.760 --> 00:55:07.480
know I always do this, but I want to try

953
00:55:07.480 --> 00:55:10.559
to make you understand something. A question popped up in

954
00:55:10.639 --> 00:55:13.519
my mind, or two questions. Did Number one, why would

955
00:55:13.559 --> 00:55:17.079
a group of people want to do this, like a

956
00:55:17.119 --> 00:55:19.280
group of them do this to a woman? And then

957
00:55:19.360 --> 00:55:23.079
number two, how could they even come together and do

958
00:55:23.159 --> 00:55:25.440
this as a group, Like how are you even stimulated

959
00:55:25.519 --> 00:55:29.639
excited like with another man went to gang rape a woman?

960
00:55:29.719 --> 00:55:34.280
Like what in the hell makes this go down like this? So,

961
00:55:35.000 --> 00:55:37.440
as I do, I did look into this because I

962
00:55:37.440 --> 00:55:39.920
wanted some psychology behind gang rape, and this is what

963
00:55:40.000 --> 00:55:43.760
I found. The theory, by the way that I'm gonna

964
00:55:43.760 --> 00:55:46.400
tell you is not to justify any action in any way.

965
00:55:46.440 --> 00:55:48.280
It's just interesting. So I'm just gonna I'm gonna be

966
00:55:48.280 --> 00:55:51.960
really brief here, but basically my thoughts were, this has

967
00:55:51.960 --> 00:55:56.440
got to be a pack mentality behavior, as in, like

968
00:55:56.639 --> 00:55:59.800
does evil travel in groups? What are the chances of

969
00:55:59.840 --> 00:56:03.679
the all being excited by this? And what I found

970
00:56:03.800 --> 00:56:08.480
was it all boils down to sexual aggression to impress

971
00:56:08.639 --> 00:56:13.159
others and to make their own mark in front of

972
00:56:13.280 --> 00:56:15.480
other males. Now I know what you're thinking right now,

973
00:56:15.519 --> 00:56:17.480
You're like, yeah, right, that's so fucking dumb, But hear

974
00:56:17.519 --> 00:56:21.880
me out. There's this theory called the divide theory of rape,

975
00:56:22.280 --> 00:56:26.079
and basically it explains that some men obviously not all,

976
00:56:26.960 --> 00:56:31.679
not even a majority, but some men use sexual violence

977
00:56:32.079 --> 00:56:37.360
to demonstrate their strength and masculinity to other men, and

978
00:56:37.400 --> 00:56:41.239
for these type of perpetrators, having an audience is critical

979
00:56:41.800 --> 00:56:46.519
to getting the effect that they want. So basically they're

980
00:56:46.639 --> 00:56:52.079
established establishing their power over the other men through the rape,

981
00:56:52.199 --> 00:56:54.880
and it is it's like animalistic, like beating your chest

982
00:56:54.960 --> 00:56:56.960
like look what I can do, Look how tough I am.

983
00:56:57.320 --> 00:56:59.960
And the psyche is that women are seen as proper

984
00:57:00.639 --> 00:57:04.559
of these inferior males. E. They're thinking of Matt as

985
00:57:04.679 --> 00:57:09.719
inferior and so by abusing the property of the rival

986
00:57:09.880 --> 00:57:13.960
male or Matt in this instance, the perpetrator is then

987
00:57:14.440 --> 00:57:19.679
establishing their dominance over all of them. This specific intent

988
00:57:19.840 --> 00:57:23.360
is to cause the victims severe pain and suffering. And

989
00:57:23.440 --> 00:57:28.679
the purpose is this camaraderie with their co rapists while

990
00:57:28.719 --> 00:57:33.960
they're establishing their dominance. It's sick and it's twisted. Yet

991
00:57:34.000 --> 00:57:36.440
this theory, and I read a bunch on it. It

992
00:57:36.480 --> 00:57:40.639
fits the bill here. It's evil, it's evil as hell.

993
00:57:40.679 --> 00:57:43.440
But maybe that's how they're getting off on gang rape.

994
00:57:44.159 --> 00:57:46.079
I can't identify with it in any way, but that's

995
00:57:46.119 --> 00:57:49.360
what I found. So while these men were establishing their

996
00:57:49.360 --> 00:57:52.360
so called dominance over Matt by violating Megan in the

997
00:57:52.400 --> 00:57:57.320
worst of ways, Megan was no little weakling. She was

998
00:57:57.440 --> 00:58:05.199
thinking the entire time. So when they were mercilessly beating Matt,

999
00:58:05.400 --> 00:58:10.760
Michael continued raping Megan until he eventually ejaculated. And I

1000
00:58:10.800 --> 00:58:12.800
know this part is tough, but Megan lived, at y'all,

1001
00:58:12.800 --> 00:58:15.239
and I'm telling it in full truth, so that everything

1002
00:58:15.280 --> 00:58:17.800
she went through is properly understood and that she's given

1003
00:58:17.880 --> 00:58:21.119
the ultimate respect in her actions during this tortuous event.

1004
00:58:21.519 --> 00:58:25.280
But when Michael finished raping her, his bodily fluids were

1005
00:58:25.280 --> 00:58:29.639
released in her mouth, and undeterred as Michael stepped back

1006
00:58:30.559 --> 00:58:33.039
and pulled up his pants and was watching his friends

1007
00:58:33.079 --> 00:58:39.039
continue to beat Matt. Meghan was wearing a long sleeve

1008
00:58:39.199 --> 00:58:43.320
shirt at one point, and the sleeve was still intact

1009
00:58:43.320 --> 00:58:46.760
on her arm, and so she brought the sleeve up

1010
00:58:46.800 --> 00:58:50.679
to her face and she spit the contents in her

1011
00:58:50.719 --> 00:58:54.320
mouth into her sleeve in hopes that maybe she could

1012
00:58:54.400 --> 00:58:58.320
save the DNA to prove what happened to them. So

1013
00:58:58.360 --> 00:59:00.800
imagine going through all that I've mentioned so and then

1014
00:59:00.840 --> 00:59:03.800
worrying you might not be able to prove it. I mean, like,

1015
00:59:03.840 --> 00:59:06.599
bless her heart, but she was thinking, and her goal

1016
00:59:07.000 --> 00:59:09.760
was to have something testable for the police, whether she

1017
00:59:09.880 --> 00:59:14.599
made it out alive or not. And I'm just again,

1018
00:59:14.679 --> 00:59:17.440
as a woman's woman, I am so proud of her

1019
00:59:17.840 --> 00:59:20.920
that she was thinking. And I want, like, when I

1020
00:59:21.000 --> 00:59:23.360
was learning about this, I just wanted to reach my

1021
00:59:23.480 --> 00:59:26.880
hand out and gently put my fingers under her chin

1022
00:59:26.960 --> 00:59:30.039
and just lift and say, chin up, girl. You are strength,

1023
00:59:30.320 --> 00:59:33.440
you are smart, and you're alive to this point. Don't

1024
00:59:33.440 --> 00:59:38.360
you drop your head. You stay the course, you know. So,

1025
00:59:38.400 --> 00:59:41.519
as Megan was secretly saving this evidence as best she could,

1026
00:59:41.559 --> 00:59:44.440
she looked over at Matt, and she was beyond scared.

1027
00:59:44.679 --> 00:59:47.800
She had never seen someone so injured and in almost

1028
00:59:47.800 --> 00:59:51.880
a childlike way. She also was fearing for her puppy.

1029
00:59:51.960 --> 00:59:54.320
She was pleading, please don't kill my puppy. The Lola

1030
00:59:54.440 --> 00:59:57.599
was her baby. Just please don't hurt Matt anymore. And

1031
00:59:57.679 --> 00:59:59.480
she told him, you can do whatever you want to

1032
00:59:59.519 --> 01:00:02.199
do to me. I don't care, but please give them

1033
01:00:02.199 --> 01:00:05.280
a break. Please stop, please stop beating him. His face

1034
01:00:05.400 --> 01:00:09.039
was so destroyed, and she kept begging, I swear I

1035
01:00:09.079 --> 01:00:12.679
won't say a word, Please just stop. But Megan's please

1036
01:00:12.679 --> 01:00:15.079
would go ignore it as Michael, who was still armed

1037
01:00:15.079 --> 01:00:20.079
with the k bar, went over up to Matt and

1038
01:00:21.239 --> 01:00:24.199
he untied him from the tree with the ligature that

1039
01:00:24.280 --> 01:00:26.559
was still remaining on the tree. But Matt was just

1040
01:00:26.719 --> 01:00:29.360
beyond injured and too bloody to be able to get

1041
01:00:29.440 --> 01:00:31.719
up or move anywhere. He was just beaten to an

1042
01:00:31.760 --> 01:00:36.159
absolute pulp, So Michael directed Fat Boy to lift Matt

1043
01:00:36.320 --> 01:00:38.519
onto his feet by grabbing him under the armpit, and

1044
01:00:38.559 --> 01:00:41.199
Michael then got under the other one, and from there

1045
01:00:41.800 --> 01:00:48.280
they basically drug a half conscious Matt back further into

1046
01:00:48.320 --> 01:00:51.400
the woods, but Megan was stopped, so Daniel took his

1047
01:00:51.559 --> 01:00:55.199
machete and basically held it to her as insurance that

1048
01:00:55.280 --> 01:00:57.400
she wasn't gonna run off, and so once the other

1049
01:00:57.480 --> 01:01:00.480
three were out of sight, Daniel then decided it was

1050
01:01:00.519 --> 01:01:03.960
his turn for some more action, and he threatened Meghan,

1051
01:01:04.840 --> 01:01:08.119
and he told her, you're gonna give me oral sex,

1052
01:01:08.159 --> 01:01:09.920
and you're gonna give it to me right now, but

1053
01:01:09.960 --> 01:01:12.559
she now refused. She said, the fuck I am. I'm

1054
01:01:12.599 --> 01:01:15.199
not doing anything until I know that Matt is okay.

1055
01:01:15.960 --> 01:01:19.079
And now realizing that Megan was starting to buck up

1056
01:01:19.280 --> 01:01:21.400
and that she wasn't going to be threatened into submission,

1057
01:01:22.360 --> 01:01:24.639
he kind of didn't follow through with it, and he

1058
01:01:24.719 --> 01:01:27.760
also allowed her to put her clothes back on as

1059
01:01:27.800 --> 01:01:31.920
best she could, and she started demanding to him, where

1060
01:01:32.000 --> 01:01:34.159
is Matt, What are they doing with him? What is

1061
01:01:34.199 --> 01:01:37.360
the plan? Why did they take him? And she reiterated

1062
01:01:37.400 --> 01:01:39.360
to him, look, I'm flat out not gonna do anything

1063
01:01:39.400 --> 01:01:41.800
you want me to do. If they hurt him anymore,

1064
01:01:42.000 --> 01:01:45.719
I'm not gonna do anything else. And so she straight

1065
01:01:45.760 --> 01:01:47.679
up asked him are they going to kill him? And

1066
01:01:47.760 --> 01:01:49.840
Daniel kind of scoffed and said, no, They're just going

1067
01:01:49.920 --> 01:01:52.280
to tie him up and leave them and y'all, can

1068
01:01:52.320 --> 01:01:53.800
he'll be able to get loose in the morning. Quit

1069
01:01:53.840 --> 01:01:57.360
worrying with it. They needed to basically be able to

1070
01:01:57.360 --> 01:01:59.000
buy some time so they could get away. So they

1071
01:01:59.000 --> 01:02:00.440
were gonna go tie him to a tree off in

1072
01:02:00.480 --> 01:02:03.199
the woods, and so the minutes felt like hours while

1073
01:02:03.199 --> 01:02:05.679
Meghan sat there in the woods at knife point or

1074
01:02:05.719 --> 01:02:08.760
machete point with one of her rapists, and she just

1075
01:02:08.800 --> 01:02:12.119
had no clue what was going on with Matt. Well,

1076
01:02:12.159 --> 01:02:15.039
at the exact amount of time that had passed, I

1077
01:02:15.039 --> 01:02:17.199
don't quite know the exact amount of time, but sometime

1078
01:02:17.280 --> 01:02:19.320
had passed and they had been gone for a minute

1079
01:02:19.360 --> 01:02:23.719
when Meghan heard off in a distance Matt shriek out

1080
01:02:23.760 --> 01:02:29.039
in pain, unimaginable scream, but it was from a distance,

1081
01:02:29.639 --> 01:02:31.599
and so she thought, okay, well, at least if he's screaming,

1082
01:02:31.639 --> 01:02:34.880
he's alive, so that's good. We just have to hang on,

1083
01:02:34.960 --> 01:02:36.760
you know, that's going on in the back of her mind.

1084
01:02:36.880 --> 01:02:40.639
And after Matt screamed, Michael and Fat Boy a few

1085
01:02:40.679 --> 01:02:43.360
moments later could be heard crunching through the leaves and

1086
01:02:43.400 --> 01:02:47.199
then appeared back in sight, and Meghan's heart dropped whenever

1087
01:02:47.320 --> 01:02:49.719
she did not see Matt with them. This time, and

1088
01:02:49.800 --> 01:02:52.320
both of the men who had left dry now returned

1089
01:02:52.519 --> 01:02:55.840
with their pants wet on the legs, and they were

1090
01:02:55.880 --> 01:03:00.360
also wearing gloves previously, but now they were both holding

1091
01:03:00.360 --> 01:03:02.679
their gloves and they were ringing water out of them.

1092
01:03:03.400 --> 01:03:05.719
So Daniel looked at him and was like, what happened.

1093
01:03:05.760 --> 01:03:07.840
He looked at Michael and said what just happened? And

1094
01:03:07.960 --> 01:03:10.519
Fat Boy and Michael both started to chuckle and kind

1095
01:03:10.519 --> 01:03:12.920
of smirk, and they said, oh, we both tripped and

1096
01:03:12.920 --> 01:03:15.239
we fell into a big puddle. Well, not finding any

1097
01:03:15.280 --> 01:03:17.679
of this funny, Megan demanded that they just tie her

1098
01:03:17.800 --> 01:03:20.599
up and just leave her there with him, And then

1099
01:03:20.639 --> 01:03:22.480
Michael turned and sneered at her and said, you want

1100
01:03:22.480 --> 01:03:25.239
to be in the same position that Matt is, So,

1101
01:03:25.960 --> 01:03:29.119
while not directly saying it, Megan understood that to mean

1102
01:03:29.119 --> 01:03:33.000
that Matt was either not doing well or maybe even dead.

1103
01:03:33.079 --> 01:03:36.360
She didn't quite know what that meant, and Michael then

1104
01:03:36.400 --> 01:03:39.400
broke the plan to her that no, you're not gonna

1105
01:03:39.400 --> 01:03:41.960
stay here. You're actually gonna leave with us. You belong

1106
01:03:42.079 --> 01:03:46.760
to us now, So he added while they started walking

1107
01:03:46.760 --> 01:03:50.079
that if she behaved well, then they may decide to

1108
01:03:50.159 --> 01:03:53.119
let her go in the future. But they then took

1109
01:03:53.119 --> 01:03:55.000
their knives and use those to kind of push her

1110
01:03:55.039 --> 01:03:58.639
back in the opposite direction, where the group eventually returned

1111
01:03:58.800 --> 01:04:03.039
to the gas station. Now, Hollywood was still deeply asleep

1112
01:04:03.079 --> 01:04:07.000
from that intoxication the night before, and the men quietly

1113
01:04:07.159 --> 01:04:12.039
walked up and took majority of the couple's belongings, careful

1114
01:04:12.239 --> 01:04:15.960
to not disturb Hollywood. Now. It was still dark at

1115
01:04:15.960 --> 01:04:18.559
this time that all of this was happening, but Megan

1116
01:04:18.599 --> 01:04:20.920
could tell that it was getting closer to daylight because

1117
01:04:20.920 --> 01:04:22.519
of the sound of the traffic. It had picked up

1118
01:04:22.599 --> 01:04:25.159
nearby and more cars were passing, so she knew that

1119
01:04:26.000 --> 01:04:29.559
that light had to be coming soon. So they then

1120
01:04:30.159 --> 01:04:33.000
looked up and realized that there was a gas station

1121
01:04:33.159 --> 01:04:37.199
bathroom there, and the men forced Meghan into that bathroom,

1122
01:04:37.639 --> 01:04:40.559
where Michael then took a flashlight and shined it straight

1123
01:04:40.599 --> 01:04:45.639
into her eyes, blinding her while now again forcing her

1124
01:04:46.199 --> 01:04:50.280
to get naked. Well, Megan flat out refused because she

1125
01:04:50.320 --> 01:04:52.119
didn't know what they did with Matt and she was

1126
01:04:52.159 --> 01:04:55.119
done playing their games. That's when Michael got in her

1127
01:04:55.159 --> 01:04:58.199
face with the k bar, slammed her up into the wall,

1128
01:04:58.440 --> 01:05:01.079
and reminded her of who he was still in charge,

1129
01:05:01.320 --> 01:05:04.039
and he threatened her and she knew he wasn't playing.

1130
01:05:05.000 --> 01:05:08.360
He then turned around and he snapped it, fat boy,

1131
01:05:08.400 --> 01:05:13.079
you got two minutes. And incredibly, fat Boy then began

1132
01:05:13.159 --> 01:05:16.480
to whine like a little bitch that he only got

1133
01:05:16.519 --> 01:05:20.480
two minutes. He wanted more time, and Michael and him

1134
01:05:20.559 --> 01:05:22.119
kind of went back and forth, and Michael told him,

1135
01:05:22.119 --> 01:05:25.079
you better hurry up, and then fat Boy turns back

1136
01:05:25.079 --> 01:05:27.079
to Megan and said this would be a whole lot

1137
01:05:27.119 --> 01:05:30.239
easier if you just took your clothes off yourself. So, defeated,

1138
01:05:30.679 --> 01:05:33.639
scared and unsure if she was even gonna live now

1139
01:05:33.679 --> 01:05:38.239
to see the daylight, she again complied, took off her

1140
01:05:38.320 --> 01:05:44.760
clothes and was vaginally raped again by Fat Boy. So

1141
01:05:44.880 --> 01:05:48.159
now that the men had all been satisfied one after

1142
01:05:48.199 --> 01:05:50.639
the other, like complete pieces of shit that they were,

1143
01:05:51.280 --> 01:05:54.119
they all decided they needed a nap. They needed to

1144
01:05:54.920 --> 01:05:56.840
rest up on the work that they had just done.

1145
01:05:57.880 --> 01:06:01.000
So there in the bathroom, they all slid down the

1146
01:06:01.039 --> 01:06:05.960
walls and went to sleep. But Megan couldn't escape because

1147
01:06:06.000 --> 01:06:09.480
Michael had posted up and was blocking the only exit,

1148
01:06:09.599 --> 01:06:13.679
the doorway to the bathroom. He had his body leaning

1149
01:06:13.679 --> 01:06:16.159
against it, and then he had his machete across his lap,

1150
01:06:16.239 --> 01:06:18.760
still in his hand, so all she could do was

1151
01:06:18.800 --> 01:06:23.480
herself slide down the wall and sit. She was viciously

1152
01:06:23.559 --> 01:06:28.559
violated multiple times and now trapped by the same men

1153
01:06:28.719 --> 01:06:32.320
and having to share the bathroom as a bedroom with them.

1154
01:06:32.840 --> 01:06:37.360
But she did have one saving grace, and that was

1155
01:06:37.920 --> 01:06:42.480
her puppy, who she clung to this entire time with

1156
01:06:42.639 --> 01:06:48.039
Oliver might So sometime later, after daylight broke, the puppy

1157
01:06:48.239 --> 01:06:51.599
began to whimper and it woke Meghan up, who was

1158
01:06:51.679 --> 01:06:54.119
so exhausted. She had been so exhausted by everything that

1159
01:06:54.159 --> 01:06:56.239
she had been through. She too had dozed off while

1160
01:06:56.280 --> 01:07:00.119
she was laying on the stall floor, and she she

1161
01:07:00.519 --> 01:07:03.719
went over and woke up one of the men and said,

1162
01:07:04.239 --> 01:07:06.239
Michael is who it was, and said, hey, I've got

1163
01:07:06.280 --> 01:07:08.840
to let this puppy out. She's got to go. He said, no,

1164
01:07:08.880 --> 01:07:10.239
you're not going out of here, and you're not taking

1165
01:07:10.239 --> 01:07:13.719
the dog out. But he turned a fat boy, shook

1166
01:07:13.760 --> 01:07:15.679
him awake and said, go take the dog outside to

1167
01:07:15.719 --> 01:07:19.480
use the bathroom. And while it may not seem this

1168
01:07:19.639 --> 01:07:23.760
serious to some people, considering that Megan, you know, had

1169
01:07:23.800 --> 01:07:29.039
been through a lot, I'm sure that it was just

1170
01:07:29.119 --> 01:07:32.639
another loss that she was feeling in that moment because

1171
01:07:32.679 --> 01:07:34.760
she was having to hand over the closest thing to

1172
01:07:34.800 --> 01:07:38.360
her in that moment and trust her rapists and her

1173
01:07:38.800 --> 01:07:41.920
abusers of her fiance who was god knows where, that

1174
01:07:42.000 --> 01:07:45.519
they would treat her puppy right. But it's the small

1175
01:07:45.559 --> 01:07:50.679
things that become the really big things in trauma situations,

1176
01:07:52.000 --> 01:07:55.280
because that puppy grounded her and it gave her a

1177
01:07:55.320 --> 01:07:59.360
small piece of normalcy in the worst of times. But

1178
01:07:59.480 --> 01:08:04.119
she now had to just hand it over. And Megan

1179
01:08:04.239 --> 01:08:06.960
was also told in that moment, when we open this door,

1180
01:08:07.280 --> 01:08:11.480
if you make a peep, if you make any sound whatsoever,

1181
01:08:11.719 --> 01:08:14.159
I will kill the dog. And then I'm gonna kill you.

1182
01:08:14.440 --> 01:08:18.039
And if Hollywood wakes up, he's dead too. We'll kill

1183
01:08:18.079 --> 01:08:22.319
you all. Don't play with us. So Michael moved from

1184
01:08:22.319 --> 01:08:25.079
in front of that nasty door, and as it opened,

1185
01:08:25.079 --> 01:08:27.479
the daylight peeked through for just a moment as fat

1186
01:08:27.520 --> 01:08:29.640
Boy went out with the dog, and then it shut.

1187
01:08:30.399 --> 01:08:33.439
So her hope for anyone noticing that she was trapped

1188
01:08:33.479 --> 01:08:36.960
in this bathroom faded as quickly as it had arrived.

1189
01:08:37.640 --> 01:08:42.199
But this is when things took a shift. Now God

1190
01:08:42.239 --> 01:08:45.640
works in mysterious ways, and this next part is proof

1191
01:08:45.680 --> 01:08:50.159
of that. To me, I found it odd during this

1192
01:08:50.199 --> 01:08:53.840
whole story that the puppy would remain in the picture

1193
01:08:53.920 --> 01:08:58.359
during this whole kidnapping and torture and beating and rape.

1194
01:08:58.800 --> 01:09:02.920
But she did ran off, nor was she ever tied up.

1195
01:09:04.000 --> 01:09:06.319
So I was like, this is just the weirdest thing.

1196
01:09:07.520 --> 01:09:10.680
But let me tell you what. Miracles aren't always walking

1197
01:09:10.720 --> 01:09:15.960
on water. Sometimes it's something as simple as having tipee.

1198
01:09:16.840 --> 01:09:21.159
Because when fat Boy was letting the dog pee outside,

1199
01:09:21.199 --> 01:09:24.560
none other than Hollywood, who had woken up by this point,

1200
01:09:24.840 --> 01:09:27.000
came walking up and he had a few questions for

1201
01:09:27.079 --> 01:09:29.920
fat Boy, starting with have you seen my friends? And

1202
01:09:29.960 --> 01:09:31.920
I wanted to stop and take a second real quick

1203
01:09:32.479 --> 01:09:35.600
to focus on two words in that sentence, and those

1204
01:09:35.640 --> 01:09:39.920
two words are my friends. They had literally known this

1205
01:09:40.039 --> 01:09:43.439
man less than twenty four hours, but they were his friends,

1206
01:09:43.640 --> 01:09:46.920
and he was genuinely concerned for them when he woke up.

1207
01:09:47.760 --> 01:09:50.520
Because he's mentioning to fat Boy, you know, they left

1208
01:09:51.079 --> 01:09:54.880
their things. Some of their things are still around, including

1209
01:09:54.920 --> 01:09:57.520
their radio. That they wouldn't leave their radio. And as

1210
01:09:57.520 --> 01:09:59.600
he's saying that, he looks up and he noticed the

1211
01:09:59.640 --> 01:10:05.760
dog with fat Boy, Well, why was Hollywood alarmed? Well,

1212
01:10:05.800 --> 01:10:08.720
because people of this lifestyle don't just up and leave

1213
01:10:08.760 --> 01:10:11.319
the very few things that they travel with. And in

1214
01:10:11.399 --> 01:10:14.920
this moment, it was now dawning on him that their

1215
01:10:15.039 --> 01:10:19.560
puppy was left behind and fat Boy was holding it,

1216
01:10:20.640 --> 01:10:23.000
and so Hollywood was a little bit unnerved trying to

1217
01:10:23.000 --> 01:10:26.680
process what was going on here. And Hollywood told fat Boy, Hey,

1218
01:10:26.960 --> 01:10:29.319
why don't you just give me the dog and I'll

1219
01:10:29.880 --> 01:10:31.359
watch it for them. Why don't you just give me

1220
01:10:31.399 --> 01:10:34.880
the puppy. Well, while all of this was happening, Michael

1221
01:10:34.920 --> 01:10:37.640
could overhear the conversation through the bathroom door, and he

1222
01:10:37.760 --> 01:10:42.239
realized this was now a problem that Hollywood was asking questions. Well,

1223
01:10:42.239 --> 01:10:44.880
there was some old trash and debris in this on

1224
01:10:44.920 --> 01:10:48.000
the floor of this bathroom, and Michael quietly bent down

1225
01:10:48.239 --> 01:10:52.079
and he grabbed this old sock from the pile of trash,

1226
01:10:52.920 --> 01:10:56.000
and then he took that nasty ass sock and he

1227
01:10:56.159 --> 01:10:59.880
made it into a ball and used it as a gag,

1228
01:11:00.199 --> 01:11:03.159
shoving it into Meghan's mouth in an effort to keep

1229
01:11:03.239 --> 01:11:06.800
her quiet. And then, using the end of the machete

1230
01:11:06.800 --> 01:11:10.119
that he had, he cut strips of cloth off the

1231
01:11:10.159 --> 01:11:14.720
clothes and he tied them around her mouth and around

1232
01:11:14.720 --> 01:11:19.439
her head, completely silencing her. He also cut more strips

1233
01:11:19.479 --> 01:11:21.800
of the clothing which he used to then bind her

1234
01:11:21.840 --> 01:11:25.720
hands behind her back. With the remaining ones, he tied

1235
01:11:25.760 --> 01:11:28.600
her legs together, so now she couldn't make sound and

1236
01:11:28.640 --> 01:11:32.880
she was immobile. And as this was happening, Megan, I

1237
01:11:32.960 --> 01:11:35.920
just want you to know, she wasn't giving up. No

1238
01:11:37.079 --> 01:11:40.319
never was that gonna happen. Because what Michael didn't know

1239
01:11:40.800 --> 01:11:42.680
was that as he shoved the sock in her mouth,

1240
01:11:43.000 --> 01:11:47.520
she actually bit down on the sock with her teeth,

1241
01:11:47.520 --> 01:11:49.279
with the front of her teeth, so it didn't go

1242
01:11:49.520 --> 01:11:51.800
all the way back in her mouth and down to

1243
01:11:51.880 --> 01:11:55.239
her throat like Michael thought. So she pretended that it

1244
01:11:55.279 --> 01:11:57.399
did and that she couldn't make any noise whatsoever, But

1245
01:11:57.479 --> 01:11:59.680
it was more trapped to the front of her mouth

1246
01:11:59.760 --> 01:12:02.399
where she could have a little bit of noise made

1247
01:12:02.479 --> 01:12:05.680
from her throat. And about a moment later, Fat Boy

1248
01:12:05.760 --> 01:12:08.399
came back into the bathroom and he was all worked up.

1249
01:12:08.720 --> 01:12:13.359
He said, look, Hollywood is feeling like this whole situation

1250
01:12:13.439 --> 01:12:15.479
is strange, and I don't know if he's buying my

1251
01:12:15.560 --> 01:12:17.399
story or not. That the couple have left, you know,

1252
01:12:17.439 --> 01:12:19.640
what are we going to do? So Michael decided, as

1253
01:12:19.640 --> 01:12:20.840
the leader of the group, that he was going to

1254
01:12:20.880 --> 01:12:24.199
go outside and talk to Hollywood, and at that point

1255
01:12:24.600 --> 01:12:29.000
he exited the bathroom, leaving Meghan alone with Daniel, who

1256
01:12:29.039 --> 01:12:33.600
was still asleep, because I guess gang rape and horrific

1257
01:12:33.640 --> 01:12:35.600
battery is just so tiring that you can just sleep

1258
01:12:35.600 --> 01:12:37.800
through all of this shit. So once the door shut,

1259
01:12:37.840 --> 01:12:41.520
it was just Meghan and Daniel. That's when Megan sprung

1260
01:12:41.560 --> 01:12:44.439
into action. She was able to loosen the ties on

1261
01:12:44.520 --> 01:12:47.159
her hands and she was able to get one hand out.

1262
01:12:47.439 --> 01:12:49.600
So with the one hand she got out, she reached

1263
01:12:49.640 --> 01:12:52.319
up and she pulled that gag and those ties from

1264
01:12:52.319 --> 01:12:55.279
her mouth, and in a moment of panic, she still

1265
01:12:55.359 --> 01:12:59.079
wanted I mean, she's absolutely panicked, but she still wanted

1266
01:12:59.159 --> 01:13:03.159
an ounce of decency, so she took the moment. She

1267
01:13:03.279 --> 01:13:06.520
had to pull her shirt over as best she could,

1268
01:13:07.159 --> 01:13:09.239
and her legs were still tied so and she couldn't

1269
01:13:09.239 --> 01:13:12.600
get him undone. Her overalls she'd been wearing overalls throughout

1270
01:13:12.600 --> 01:13:16.119
the situation, were down around her ankles, which was making

1271
01:13:16.119 --> 01:13:18.720
it even harder to move, and she knew that time

1272
01:13:18.800 --> 01:13:22.119
was probably running out so still naked from the waist down,

1273
01:13:22.439 --> 01:13:25.239
she managed to get her feet to her feet, and

1274
01:13:25.319 --> 01:13:29.279
she hopped past the sleeping Daniel, and in a last

1275
01:13:29.640 --> 01:13:33.119
effort of heroics to save her own life, she was

1276
01:13:33.199 --> 01:13:37.279
able to push on that bathroom door, and as it

1277
01:13:37.359 --> 01:13:44.720
broke open, she screamed at the very top of her lungs, Hollywood, Hollywood.

1278
01:13:45.600 --> 01:13:47.720
And just as she got the name out of her mouth,

1279
01:13:47.880 --> 01:13:50.279
Michael was back on her and shoved her back into

1280
01:13:50.279 --> 01:13:53.880
the bathroom, screaming at her to shut the fuck up, Hollywood.

1281
01:13:53.880 --> 01:13:57.920
Though he heard he heard her. In this case, I

1282
01:13:57.960 --> 01:14:01.680
want you to know prooves that you never really ever

1283
01:14:02.079 --> 01:14:05.600
know what a hero will look like. My mama impressed

1284
01:14:05.640 --> 01:14:08.680
upon me since childhood that you always be nice to

1285
01:14:08.680 --> 01:14:11.520
people because they might be angels in disguise. And Hollywood

1286
01:14:11.560 --> 01:14:14.840
is going to prove this because in the moment that

1287
01:14:14.960 --> 01:14:19.520
Hollywood heard Meghan's desperate scream of his name, he immediately

1288
01:14:19.560 --> 01:14:25.239
took action, without one ounce of fear for his own safety.

1289
01:14:25.600 --> 01:14:29.520
He charged towards the building, and he charged the bathroom

1290
01:14:29.880 --> 01:14:33.880
completely unarmed, and when he slammed into the door, he

1291
01:14:34.039 --> 01:14:37.920
busted it wide open, and when he looked, he was horrified.

1292
01:14:38.000 --> 01:14:41.239
To find Meghan with their overalls down around her ankles,

1293
01:14:41.399 --> 01:14:46.039
her privates exposed, and bindings around her arms and her legs. Well.

1294
01:14:46.079 --> 01:14:49.479
By now, Fat Boy and Michael had started to attack

1295
01:14:50.039 --> 01:14:52.840
and were trying to stop him, but Hollywood plowed straight

1296
01:14:52.960 --> 01:14:55.279
into them, yelling, get the fuck out of my way,

1297
01:14:55.359 --> 01:14:58.359
get the fuck out of here, and he shoved past them.

1298
01:14:58.640 --> 01:15:01.079
He just fought his way through two men and he

1299
01:15:01.159 --> 01:15:05.640
was eventually able to block them with his body and

1300
01:15:05.680 --> 01:15:09.199
with one arm that he had, he pulled Meghan into him,

1301
01:15:09.600 --> 01:15:12.520
for all I can say was just like a hug.

1302
01:15:12.840 --> 01:15:15.039
He pulled her in and tried to shield her from

1303
01:15:15.119 --> 01:15:19.000
the men as Michael was reaching in to his pants

1304
01:15:19.039 --> 01:15:20.920
where his kbar had been stashed in the moment, and

1305
01:15:20.960 --> 01:15:24.479
Fat Boy had his machete. But Michael then started screaming

1306
01:15:24.479 --> 01:15:27.720
and threatening Hollywood that he better leave, but undaunted by

1307
01:15:27.760 --> 01:15:31.439
the threats that he was receiving in comparison to what

1308
01:15:31.560 --> 01:15:36.159
Megan looked like, Hollywood ignored them and instead he continued

1309
01:15:36.199 --> 01:15:39.039
to hold them back and block them from getting to her.

1310
01:15:39.680 --> 01:15:41.680
So Fat Boy and Michael may have been armed to

1311
01:15:41.720 --> 01:15:45.880
the teeth, but Hollywood was not playing around, and he

1312
01:15:46.000 --> 01:15:48.640
told those men you better back the fuck off, I'm

1313
01:15:48.680 --> 01:15:52.359
telling you well, being the cowards that they were, they did.

1314
01:15:53.079 --> 01:15:56.000
They ended up kind of taking off in the moment.

1315
01:15:57.000 --> 01:15:59.399
So Hollywood kind of looked back behind him and he

1316
01:15:59.479 --> 01:16:02.600
watched as the men left the back of the gas station,

1317
01:16:02.920 --> 01:16:06.000
still trying to protect Meghan as best he could. And

1318
01:16:06.039 --> 01:16:08.479
when he turned back to Meghan, he helped her pull

1319
01:16:08.560 --> 01:16:12.279
up her pants and he unbound her legs. He reached

1320
01:16:12.319 --> 01:16:14.960
down and he grabbed her beloved puppy, and the two

1321
01:16:15.039 --> 01:16:18.640
of them took off running well. As they took off

1322
01:16:18.720 --> 01:16:21.720
running around the building, none other than Fat Boy and

1323
01:16:21.800 --> 01:16:25.000
Michael then reappeared. But now when they reappeared, they were

1324
01:16:25.039 --> 01:16:29.720
acting like they were confused, literally feigning complete unawareness of

1325
01:16:29.920 --> 01:16:32.640
anything that had happened to Meghan and going, oh my god,

1326
01:16:32.640 --> 01:16:35.800
are you okay? What happened? What happened? Tell us what happened.

1327
01:16:36.439 --> 01:16:39.239
So Hollywood and Meghan never broke sprint. They continued to

1328
01:16:39.319 --> 01:16:41.399
run away, and once they felt like they had gotten

1329
01:16:41.439 --> 01:16:44.359
to safety far enough away from the men, Meghan told

1330
01:16:44.399 --> 01:16:46.880
Hollywood what had happened, and she was panicked. We have

1331
01:16:46.960 --> 01:16:49.119
got to go find Matt. We have to go now.

1332
01:16:49.159 --> 01:16:52.720
I know he's hurt Matt's back in those bushes. Please,

1333
01:16:53.039 --> 01:16:55.439
He's probably tied to a tree somewhere. We've got to

1334
01:16:55.479 --> 01:16:58.520
go get him. And realizing in the moment that this

1335
01:16:59.159 --> 01:17:02.600
was just far beyond on just finding Matt, they went

1336
01:17:02.680 --> 01:17:05.800
together to the Love's truck stop, which was right there

1337
01:17:05.800 --> 01:17:08.680
in the distance, and Megan called the only phone number

1338
01:17:08.680 --> 01:17:11.279
that she had memorized and a person that she felt

1339
01:17:11.279 --> 01:17:13.479
that she could trust, and that was none other than

1340
01:17:13.520 --> 01:17:16.239
Matt's brother, Daniel. And once she was on the phone

1341
01:17:16.279 --> 01:17:20.319
with Daniel, Hollywood got to thinking, and he decided that

1342
01:17:20.359 --> 01:17:22.399
he was going to take things into his own hands

1343
01:17:22.560 --> 01:17:26.079
with nothing more than an all thread pipe. The cops

1344
01:17:26.079 --> 01:17:29.399
were going to need probable cause. All Hollywood needed was

1345
01:17:29.439 --> 01:17:32.560
to hear Megan cry. So this is going to be

1346
01:17:32.640 --> 01:17:34.840
stopped right here, and this is going to have to

1347
01:17:34.840 --> 01:17:38.560
be a part two coming up. But I want you

1348
01:17:38.600 --> 01:17:43.800
to know something. Hollywood believed her version, no questions asked,

1349
01:17:44.119 --> 01:17:46.239
and now he had a jumpstart on the bad guys.

1350
01:17:46.680 --> 01:17:48.760
And I'm not saying that he was going looking for violence,

1351
01:17:49.520 --> 01:17:51.319
but I have a feeling he had plans to be

1352
01:17:51.399 --> 01:18:04.880
heavily persuasive with industrial grade torque