Home Invasion Part 2

0:06 Welcome to Unspeakable, a true crime podcast where I tell stories of real crimes with real victims, whose cases are so shocking that many are left wondering how is this even real? I use my experiences in law enforcement corrections, and combined with my years as a criminal justice educator, dig deep into complex cases of evil acts, some so evil many feel they are unspeakable.

0:50 Warning. Unspeakable as intended for mature audiences. If you are easily offended, then I'm not your girl. Listening discretion is advised. Hey, y'all, it's kJ here. I'm back for another episode of Unspeakable? What are you doing? What are you doing? I have so many people have to shout out, and I promise I'm gonna get to you as quickly as I can today. I'm gonna start right here in my backyard in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I've got missus, Ashley Womag. Hey, Ashley, thank you so much for joining and for supporting me. It means so very much to me. And hey, maybe you know another Baton Rouge, Louisianaan Bethany Gonzalez. Hi, Bethany, Do y'all know each other? Are y'all friends, because right, it's not that big in Batony. I'm just kidding.

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3:00 But if I told. Y'all, we have our very own Gypsy Rose Gypsy Everett to be specific, Hi, Gypsy, you and I have spoken a couple of times. She's messaged me on Patreon and we've had some some lovely little conversations. But she's our Gypsy Rose. So hey, if you're following that whole shit show, this is not actually that gypsy. This is a This is our Gypsy, the Gypsy of Unspeakable. So thank you for joining and for being my friend, and for all the wonderful messages that y'all continue to send me. Now we got to jump into this episode. I promised you a part two and you're getting it, and you're getting it the same week as part one. How do you like them? Apples Plus. If you're a Patreon member, you got a bonus episode this week too. I hope that you've enjoyed that, if you've listened to that. If you haven't, get on there and give it a listen. So we're gonna pick right back up where we left off last episode, where the mc white brothers were in a whole lot of doodo and little brother Patrick was starting to spill the murder beans, and I left you off kind of going, what the heck would this little brother have to do with this murder?

4:04 Well, I'll get to that in a second. But something something else was taking place that was making another woman who I've already spoken to you about feel quite uneasy about a conversation that she and Linda had just days before Jack's murder. And the woman knew her very well because it was that lifelong friend Janice. And Janie had walked into the police station to say, I feel really bad about having to come in and say this, and I feel horrible for thinking, maybe, you know, I might be telling on my best friend, but you know, the right thing is the right thing, and so she said, look, you know, considering Jack is dead, I just want to tell you about this conversation, because Linda and I were speaking and she told me on the phone how.

4:51 Angry she was at Jack, and that. She was so angry that she felt like she could just get a gun and shoot him, you know, And so. Why was she so mad? Well, I'm glad that you asked, and I bet you probably already some of y'all could have seen this coming. But Linda told Janice, I, you know, don't want to remain fat and forty and alone. And so Janna said, well, why would you feel alone? And that's when Linda opened up about some marital struggles they were having and that they were kind of in. A rut, so to speak. Linda also mentioned that she had recently fussed at Jack for, you know, spending way too much time with that younger girl, Carrie that had moved into their home, and even their daughter, Jill, felt like their relationship was just a little too cozy. Well, Jack never even skipped a beat whenever he responded to that accusation from his wife, and he flat out said, yep, it's true, me and Carrie are having an affair, and we're having an affair in our house.

6:06 So here was Linda heartbroken, shocked. And raged, and immediately went after Carrie and said, you can pack your shit and get out of my house, and you can get out of my house now, And any woman worth her salt would do the same thing. She also wanted, though, to repair her marriage. She wanted it to get right back to where they were, maybe improve it. And she's looking at Jack thinking, surely this is just a midlife crisis. This has got to be just a fleeing. I mean, she's what eighteen years old, Jack's fifty almost. This is crazy. What do they have in common? When we all know what they have in common. But detectives were starting to see a pretty clear picture here, and y'all, even if Linda was the one being wronged, it still seemed like a pretty big motive.

7:00 Your husband is dead, okay. So police looked into the records to see had there been any calls from the home to nine one one recently, maybe looking for a domestic violence or something of that nature, where maybe Linda, you know, and he had been in a struggle or something like that, But they didn't find it. What they did find, though, were some recent reports, and that included two burglaries and a sexual assault of Linda, So looking further into these claims, and after being questioned, Linda opened up to the police and was like, look, I think that Carrie is behind all of this. I think she's setting us up at our home and I think she's behind this sexual assault. So that kind of seemed like a stretch maybe, But detectives also took note that when Linda was telling them all of this about Carrie, she was incredibly angry, like spitting nails as we say.

8:00 She was just so angry when she was telling the story. And surely you would be angry too if your husband was cheating, you know, if almost thirty years was cheating with a teenager. But the anger level. Was just of note that the detectives were like, wow, this is a whole lot of anger behind the story. So detectives did what they should and they jumped right in their car and they went to speak to Carrie, and she now had something to say. She said, you know, I love Jack. And I had seen him earlier in the night before he was killed, and Jack told Carrie, look, I gotta go. I've got to leave the the you know, I gotta leave.

8:41 I've got to go home because Janis called and said I needed to be home by seven point thirty or she was going to kill herself. So again a picture's being painted, all the paints on the paint brush, but it's just got to be put in the right order on the canvas. And they've got to make some links if they really think that Janis was behind Jack's murder. So was it possible that maybe Janis made this call to ensure that Jack was home in time for a planned ambush. That is where police stood when they were trying to figure things out. So Detective waw and Lieutenant Redmond went to Donald Bradley's home at eight thirty in the morning with a warrant because they wanted to go seize Donald Bradley's van. Remember that van was the one that the neighbor the night of the ambush said, I saw this maroon van take off. And they really felt like Donald Bradley might be the link there. So Donald lived in a gated community called Loch Ring, and Waugh did not call before. He didn't call Donald before he showed up and went to the house. He didn't want him to have any preparation or anything like that. He just showed up and he got there so early that he actually found the family seated and having breakfast together.

9:57 Donald was there, his wife Valerie was there, and then they had been married for a while. They'd been married for. I think two years, they had been married since nineteen ninety four, but it was them, and then it was their combination of children. He had three, she had one, and together they had won. And something that I found really interesting about the whole conversation between Donald and the detective was that Donald recorded the conversation. Why would you need to record a conversation. The only conclusion I can come to is that you want to be able to remember what you said because the truth doesn't change. Something my dad told me when I was younger, and I never forgot it was that if you always tell the truth, you never have to remember what you said. Now, on the other side, maybe he recorded it because he wanted to have protections of his own, like I don't want to be accused of saying something I didn't say, and so he recorded the conversation so that, you know, he could have proof of what was said. But WHA began asking routine questions such as date of birth, phone number, and you know, just basic little things about himself. And he did ask Donald about his cell phones and did he have any cell phones? And Donald said, yes, I have two phones. One of them is used by my foreman.

11:17 His name is Michael Clark, and then he had another flip phone, which was the one that he used himself, you know, throughout the day. So in further discussion, Donald admitted, yeah, I do know Linda Jones. She's been doing my taxes for several years. And so they asked, okay, well when's the last time you spoke to Linda Jones And he said, oh, probably about three weeks earlier. So there had been three phone calls made from Donald's phone to Linda's phone the night of the murder. The times of those phone calls, and this is the night of the murder was seven thirty five PM, eight oh six and eight seventeen p So detectives knew this. They wanted to know a little bit about how many times he may have called her, and Donald was kind of confused and said, well, I don't know.

12:10 He got up and he got. His calendar that he kept, and the calendar on November sixth, the day before the murder, said Camelot Party by the sea. So Donald got up and got his calendar, and on November sixth, the night before the murder, it was notated that he was supposed to be at a camelot party by the sea, and that in and of itself wasn't a big deal, But the point was that he documented what he did or where he planned to be. So here detectives were talking to a man that they really believed was involved, and he kept meticulous records in the calendar of his whereabouts. So that's kind of a cool thing because you can lock him in or try to lock him in on his own records, on his own notes.

12:52 It was very interesting too that on the date of November seventh, the date that Jack was killed, there was nothing officially planned on the calendar. Nothing was written. It was blank. And that's what we would call a clue that nothing big event wise was available for Donald to use as an alibi. So detectives doubled down, and so they wanted specific answers for the phone calls, because. It's just too convenient. You made three phone calls right before this woman's husband was murdered. Thinking for a moment, Donald gathered his thoughts and he said that, okay, I may if I called her.

13:36 I can recall that I was supposed to go pick up my tax papers from her, and they were supposed to be underneath the doormat at her office, so you know, after work, I do recall that I was supposed to go get some tax papers. I'm not sure which day it was, it must have been that day, and I called and the taxpapers weren't where they were supposed to be. She didn't answer. I had to call her again, and then she said she had met stuff the papers and that she would have to fix them. And then I'd have to come get them another time. So where were the papers then? Well, he didn't have them, but it's not what it looks like. She just hadn't finished him up yet, and she was going to leave them again in the same spot he knows now where she was supposed to leave them the first time. He says, I didn't figure this out though, until I called her, because you know, we had to do the back and forth because she didn't answer.

14:31 And then after all of that, he said, well that's after that, I went and I ran Errand's. So he was adamant that if that was the night of the phone calls. It was about the tax papers. And it made sense, y'all, because he was a tax client. He also remembered that after he got home that he had loaned his phone to his sister. His sister's name was Cynthia, and he had loaned it to her because she had plans to go to Middelburg Midburg, Florida area, and you know, he didn't want her to be without a phone. Now, I did some research about why was she without a phone all of a sudden this one day. But really Cynthia's backed this up because she was using a phone from her employer, but the phone had gotten cut off because the bill wasn't paid. So if what Donald was saying and what Cynthia was saying were the truth, then it absolutely makes sense that.

15:25 He would loan her the phone. He had made it home and he was able to share it with her, and then when she returned home, she was returning the phone to him. He also said, Look, not only that, he said that he watched a TV show that night, and you know, they could vouch that there was a TV show on. So once Donald seemed to really spill everything he possibly could about the evening detective decided to throw him a bone. They said, look, we know that Linda. Is lying about her level of involvement in her her husband's death, and we just want you to know Donald that she is knee deep in the middle of something that is very problematic and we would really hate for someone who may not be directly involved get drug into this with her. And so Donald was kind of curious, like, what exactly are you trying to say to me, and the detective said, look, we got a few theories about what may have happened to Jack. We feel like maybe someone went by the home to kind of quote unquote teach him a lesson since he was cheating on his wife, and it got out of hand, and then maybe Linda finished him off. You know, maybe that maybe the person who who was just going to teach him the lesson didn't kill him, you know, just kind of throw him in a bone, trying to give him something to latch onto.

16:42 And you might also be interested to know that. At this point, what Donald didn't know was that the detectives had done their research on Donald and said, I mean not said, but found out that he had a few domestic battery offenses in his record from his past. So obviously this doesn't mean that he went and he killed somebody, but it sure does show that he doesn't hold back when he gets angry, and he has a propensity to violence if you know, he feels the need. The detective was. Also very clear with him, Look, we think that your van was also somehow involved in this murder, and that you were involved in some way too. We're just not sure of what level of your involvement right now, so you really probably should take this seriously not blow us off.

17:26 And he was very crystal clear and said, look, we're going to be looking into your van because we want to see if there's blood evidence in there, and you might want to speak now if you need to help yourself. And that's about the time Donald piped up and said, well, just so you know, my van's been detailed and clean probably four or five times since November the seventh. Stop. We're going to stop with that so real quick. My own husband is a construction man, Okay, has a work truck. Donald did lawn service and maintenance and care and stuff like that. So this was supposed to be kind of like I guess. A work van. There ain't no way in hell that a man in a work vehicle is gonna have that vehicle detailed six to seven times in this timeframe we're talking about. I don't believe that. I think it could have been cleaned really well once or twice with purpose, but to go just have it cleaned six or seven times. Now, Sorry, don't believe it. You can believe what you want. Maybe you do have a really meticulous man, or you are a very meticulous man, and you keep your vehicle that clean, but not a work vehicle. And if you do, congratulations, But I've not seen that. So something else that I found very interesting in the records that I was reading through was that right after Detective Wall finished up and he left Donald's home, Donald's sister, Cindy went over to

18:56 Donald's house. And it wasn't just to go say hey. She went over there and listened to. The recorded conversation between Donald and detective Waw, why would your sister come over and need to listen to that conversation. Matter of fact, not only did his sister come over and listen to the recorded conversation, are you ready for this? Linda came and listened to the conversation. His wife Valerie listened to the conversation, his sister had listened to it. They all listened to this recorded conversation. So I don't know about you, but it kind of makes me go hmm. Linda, Valerie, and Sindy listened to it, and Donald recorded it. So I know you're dying by now to know exactly what did younger brother Patrick tell detectives. All right, let's dig in.

19:46 Patrick told detectives. You know, look, I'm a high schooler and I'm gonna for the purposes of the story, I'm going to refer to him as little brother, even though technically it's important for you to know that Patrick is six foot two and he weighs two hundred and fifty pounds. Okay, to sit in the seven year old we're talking about. This is a big old fella. But it wasn't quite as simple as I kind of left off last episode when I said that he just showed up to the police station and he started spilling the beans. So I thought i'd kind of back up a little bit and explain in full detail kind of how it all went down. So detectives already knew that Patrick's older brother, Brian was directly involved in the murder because I remember they found the fingerprints on the tape. So in an effort to remove a possibly dangerous arrest situation, the sheriff got with one of his deputies, his name was Mark Cornett, and asked him specifically to go and affect the arrest on older brother Brian. And the reason that he asked this specific officer was because that the officer was a family friend of both the mcwhite brothers, but specifically their father, Eddie all Right, So he was such good friends with Eddie that over the years this officer had taken Patrick while he was growing up. He had taken him regularly fishing and hunting, into football games, and so he knew these people, and the sheriff thought it a good idea. Let me send in somebody I know, and it might lessen the chances of him, you know, fighting, or either of the

21:19 brothers kind of doing something they shouldn't do. So he was also very familiar with where the boys lived, and so he went in and got brother Brian, arrested him and brought him to the police station. So he arrived about five am with Brian at the police station. So whenever his shift was over, which would have been actually just a couple hours later. I think he got off shift at eight am. A couple hours later, the officer went home and he went to bed. But just a little while after he went to sleep, the detective Waugh called him and said, hey, would you be willing to go get mister Eddie and bring him down to the station so we can talk. So he said sure, no problem.

22:08 So the officer went and got father Eddie, brought him to the station and they did whatever they talked about for a while, and then the officer brought Dad Eddie back home. Within just a few minutes of him dropping Eddie off at the house, the phone rang and it was Eddie saying, look, I need you, I need you to come back. Patrick has something that he wants to talk to you about. But at that point Cornett was home, so he said, look, why don't you bring Patrick over come to my house and we can sit and we can talk about whatever it is you want to talk about.

22:49 And I'm assuming Look, he had been working all night, he's tired, he was trying to go to bed. He's already been woken up and doing all this back and forth. Y'all just come to me. So once Officer Cornett had Eddie and Patrick come into the house, he very quickly realized that Patrick was admitting in this discussion that basically he took part in the murder. Of Jack Jones. So he immediately stopped. He read Patrick his rights, and then took Patrick down to the station advised, wah, look, this is what just happened. And once wa got Patrick into the station, that's when Patrick just opened up and gave a full confession word vomit style, just laid it all out for them. And I don't know about you, but I think a whole lot of Officer Cornette in this because he was put in a very difficult situation I'm sure for him as well as his friend Eddie multiple times.

23:45 But he still did the right thing. He stopped, he read rights, he brought the kid down to the police station, and not only did he have to arrest one of his good friend's sons, now he had to do the exact same thing basically of the others and that had to be a tough thing to do. But again, right is right and wrong is wrong. I want to say too, I also think. A whole lot of their father, Eddie, because Eddie didn't try to hide or run or cover up for his younger son. He did the right thing. He said, no, son, if you know something good, bad or indifferent, you're gonna go and you're gonna talk. And that's exactly what happened. So that might that had to be so difficult, but it was the right thing to do. So I think a whole lot of their father.

24:26 So what exactly did Patrick tell Officer Cornette and then you know detail to Detective waw Well, hold on to your butt crack, because either Patrick is the greatest storyteller of all time and is great at making up, you know, direct information and having it correct or he was there whenever Jack was murdered and it was all over. A couple of bucks. Okay. So he says that when he got home on November seventh, that his brother asked him, look, do you want to go make a little bit of money? Of course, a high school wants to go make a little bit of easy money. And that's when his brother said, just come with me. We're gonna go jump a guy. We're gonna rough him up a little bit, and if you do that, I'll give you a hundred bucks. Well, Patrick was happy to make a hundred bucks and then to get to beat somebody up with his brother. That sounded kind of interesting, so sure, why not. Shortly after that discussion, he said that Donald showed up to their house and said, y'all need to get some gloves, and you need to get a stick or something to bring with you. And not just a stick from the yard. He was actually pointing at this what they call war stick and it was in the corner of the mcwhite brother's house. They kept it by their back door, so that's what he did.

25:42 The brother said, he grabbed the war stick and they got some I think he said football gloves that he had, and then they went and stopped together by a Walmart and Donald went inside and he bought some masks. Hey, that's what Linda said that there were multiple guys that came in and they were in masks. So everything's kind of lining up so far. And it was during that trip that Patrick overheard Donald calling someone from his cell phone and he was getting directions to a house. But at one point Patrick said that he heard Donald referred to the person on the phone as SIS. That's gonna matter, Like SIS is in short for sister He also said that Donald did make a couple of other phone calls, and in those phone calls, he kept talking what kind of felt like he was talking in code, like saying like, hey, where are the tax documents? We got to go get those tax documents. But to that kid, you know, it just really seemed like he was talking in code, and he thought that that code he was saying was basically meaning going to this house that they were going to.

26:43 He also said that one of the calls was definitely made to Michael Clark, and he remembered Michael Clark saying, yeah, I'll come along too on this, you know, go beat up this guy. So remember, Michael Clark is the guy that was with Donald during that rage incident, and he is the one whose fingerprints were found on the duct tape. So all of this is making sense. So you know, it doesn't seem like this kid is in there making up everything on the fly. Everything is really seeming pretty accurate. To the facts. He also added that Donald made the last phone call, the very last phone call before they beat up Jack, as they pulled into the driveway of Jack's home. So that matters if you're paying attention, because remember the detectives knew that he had made those three phone calls, and they were at seven thirty five, eight oh six, and eight seventeen. Eight seventeen is just a few minutes, you know, within thirty minutes of when Linda then made the nine one one call. So if he made the last phone call in the driveway, come on, use your brain, right, was he talking to Linda? Well, Donald was really giving all of the instructions about what was about to go down to the guys that were with him, including that the front door was supposed to be unlocked and open, and that they needed to make sure to be careful and avoid the floodlights that he pointed out. Donald told the brothers, look, I'm going to be going in through the garage. Y'all are going to go in through that

28:15 front door, and you know why are we separating? And he said specifically he was going through that door because he had to go retrieve a pistol off the kitchen counter, which is what his daughter always Jack's daughter always said was that Dad was known to come in and take his gun off and put it on the island in the kitchen counter. So when the brothers got into the home, what happened was Patrick said, when they opened the doors in kind of the fourier area, there was a big mirror there. Well, because the mirror where it was located, they were able to see the reflection of Jack in the den watching TV. But at that exact same time that they saw Jack. He said, Jack saw them in the reflection, so he jumped up and Jack, in an effort to defend his home, started going toward towards them and was screaming, get out of my house, y'all, get out of my house. And that's when brother Brian just started punching him. So when detectives asked for a little bit more information, okay, well, if that happened, what were you doing? Patrick Patrick said that it genuinely startled him, that he wasn't quite prepared for what was going down, and he froze and he said, I had the war stick in my hand and I just froze and watched my brother start beating Jack. And then Donald came in and he came from another direction, and that's whenever Donald started beating the hell out of him, because he hit Jack in the back of the head with the butt.

29:37 Of the gun. And I'm assuming the gun that was taken off of the island. He was able to detail that Jack fell down and that Patrick and Donald grabbed him and then drug him into the other room, which would have been the den because the fight, if you remember from episode one, they detectives even thought it started in the foyer and that he must have been drug into the den because of the blood spatter and the drag marks. So it was there that they continued to punch and kick and strike Zach and they being you know, the brothers. Once Jack was injured pretty well, he said, Donald started hitting him with the gun and he was kicking him and just brutalizing with the gun. But Donald turned at one point and he snatched the stick out of Patrick's hands and he yelled at Patrick, you know, go back there and take something, Go steal something, while they continued to hammer down the blows on Jack. So Patrick did as he was told and he went down the hallway and started looking for things to take. He said that he rifled through some drawers, which makes sense if you look at the photos that I'm posting on Patreon. He said he found like a purse that he dug through, but he didn't really find anything of great value. So he then went back into the den. He said that the lady hadn't moved yet and was still standing there. She was just standing there. Look, people react differently in these

31:08 type of situations. But if two guys are beating the shit out of your husband and another one goes in the back, you would think you would try to get away, you would try to exit, or if you're crazy. I mean, welcome to the club. I feel like I am. Then you're gonna go in there and you're gonna try to defend your husband. You're not just gonna stand there and guess what. She wasn't taped up, he said, she just stood there, and so further questioning, he said, well, she did yell one time, stop, don't but it wasn't really like forceful or anything. It's like she just said it to I guess say it. And so Jack was now down on the ground in the fetal position. They were continuing to beat him, and while they were doing so, he yelled at Patrick to shut her up. After she did the little don't stop and so Patrick said that's when he went over to her, and all he did was grab her arm, and he said, she just to the floor. He said, I didn't have to pull her down.

32:02 I didn't have to like fight or anything. He said, I touched her and she flopped to the floor, which was kind of bizarre. So Donald had some duct tape which he threw to Patrick. So Patrick took that tape and he taped her mouth shut. He then went back to the bedroom and looked around a little bit more. He said he found thirteen dollars plus some jewelry that interested him, so he took it. But as he came back out of the bedroom the second time, he said that he was seeing the homeowner lady crawl towards her husband, but it wasn't like she was crawling to go assist him. It was more like she was crawling because she was just trying to see what was happening around the corner, and she was watching Donald continue to beat Jack. So by that point he had gone it's kind of back and forth, but at some point he went and then he duct taped her hands and her feet. So after he duct taped her hands in her feet, he then walked into the den and that duct tape that he had used to duct tape the wife, he said, Donald said, we need to duct tape him speaking of Jack. So Jack was taped up, Donald did beat him a little bit more at that point. He said that Donald then put the gun to the man's head and he went to pull the trigger, but it just clicked, so it either jammed or whatever, but the bullet didn't go off.

33:31 And it was his best recollection that Brian had put tape on the lady at one point two, but they didn't put tape on the man until they were almost done beating him. So, you know, he said, he was literally no longer responsive whenever we put the tape on the man, and that's kind of whenever they went to go leave the home. But what was even more interesting about it was they didn't just run out of the house. They didn't even touch the wife. They didn't hurt the wife. He said that, you know, the man wasn't moving, and right before they left to go out the door, that Donald went over to the woman and he cut the tape on her hands, like to help her get out, and then they left. They ran out of the house, they jumped into the van, and as they were backing out, Donald kind of quipped and said, damn, I think I killed him. So Patrick was asked, okay, well what happened to the duct tape after y'all left, and he said, well, we took it with us, but Patrick threw it out the window or whatever and threw it into some water.

34:38 They went back to Donald's house and he said, that's where it was parked in Donald's garage. We cleaned up, and then we. Kind of, you know, I had to start cleaning up the van. He also said that Donald's wife, Valerie came to the door and gave them a bucket of water, which they used to clean up. He said that he cleaned the stick, the war stick that he had brought, and then he said that they returned it back to their house. The mcwhite brothers brought it back to their house whenever all was said and done. He also said that Donald and Brian changed clothes completely, and that they burned their clothes and the gloves that they were wearing during the murder. He was adamant, though, that he had no idea that they were going to go there and murder somebody. He was adamant they were going to give me a hundred bucks to go beat up somebody. It was easy money, and they said, okay, well, did you hit him? And he said, you know, I may have hit him one time. I don't think that I hit him.

35:40 I don't. To me, that's just kind of separating yourself. I mean I would know if I hit someone during a murder. Sorry, I just don't. I don't believe that. But he's just trying to minimize I don't think he had a whole lot of to do. Maybe in the beatings as much as the other two. But whatever. Now back to the whole motive thing. Yes, we know now that Jack admitted that he was having an affair with that young teen Carrie. But would your wife of almost thirty years really kill you for having an affair? I mean, sure you're gonna be pissed off, but it seems like a bit much to have him killed, right. So what if I told you that this shit show was about to get even deeper?

36:22 Because it did. It turns out, the more digging police did, they found out that not only was Jack having an affair with this young girl, but fine financial record showed that he had in fact purchased a diamond ring for the eighteen year old girl. He's still married to Linda, and he's already proposed to this young girl. That's right. He wasn't just sleeping with her. He had plans to marry her, even though he was currently married. And basically this meant he had made up his mind and he was done with Linda. Even more proof of this was that when Linda kicked Carrie out of their home, Jack didn't just let this girl fall flat on her face.

37:07 He actually went and leased an apartment and they leased it in both of their names. Jack and Carrie leased it together, So he's paying for that, he's buying diamond rings. Surely Linda would be super pissed about this. And I think Linda was very painfully aware that it was over and she was being replaced by a very newer and younger model. And I know y'all heard that saying of young, dumb and full of calm, but this is more like older with money and locking down a younger. Honey, you know what I'm saying. I guess just because you get older doesn't mean you don't you don't stop chasing tail. I don't know, but when Linda found out about the wedding ring, she found out not because Jack had told her, but because whenever she had pulled their credit card statement or whenever it came in the mail she found the purchase for the ring.

37:55 And guess what. The ring purchase was made on October thirteenth, nineteen ninety five, right before Jack was murdered. And this is where bestie Janis comes back into play, because look, Janis wasn't just a friend like I've told you, it's been since childhood. I mean she was even the maid of honor in their wedding, and so she had friendship not only with Linda, but yeah, she really did have a friendship with Jack as well. Just because he was cheating on Linda didn't make him less of a friend to Janice too, And so Janie already knew about the affair Jack was having. And so when they were having this conversation like girlfriends do, and Linda said, you know, I could just get a gun and kill him, she didn't really take that seriously.

38:42 What struck Janie and what she wanted to tell detectives in addition to what I've already told you, was that Linda added that she also felt like she could get away with it because it was so obvious that she had been so wronged that people would just just feel sorry for her and it would be fine. And Janice started speaking in that conversation and she said, well, I know a man, and Linda interrupted her and said, really you do, but Janie continued saying, yes, I know a man that would be a really good lawyer. His name is Lacey Mahon, I believe was the man she was talking about. And that's when Linda came back and went, oh, I thought you meant something else, as in, like, you knew a guy that would be a hitman, and Janis was like, what, no, I'm talking about a good divorce lawyer.

39:34 So towards the end of the conversation, Linda also added that Jack was going to be coming home that evening because they were going to be discussing their finances, and she went a little bit deeper, saying that there was a five hundred thousand dollars total value in life insurance policies if something were to happen to Jack and if they got divorced, that she was going to lose out on that. It was like he had one hundred and twenty five thousand life insurance, plus he had more through the company that he worked for, and there was an additional one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars that was added in through Key Buick, which was the company that he worked for. And so she really was upset because she felt like, all this money on his life insurance, if he leaves me and goes hooks up with this young girl, she's gonna get added as the beneficiary of all that money. And that's not fair. I've been married to him all these years. She shouldn't get to just swoop in and benefit off of his life insurance. And then before they hung up, she also started talking about an indemnity clause. Okay, y'all, it's twenty twenty four, I get it. You start having this kind of conversation with me, like red flag, wave that red flag. Why are we talking about insurance and killing your husband and all that kind of stuff. But I mean, this was the nineties, and her friend was hurt and was angry and was really just talking about this young girl coming in and kind of taking over her life after she's invested thirty years.

40:53 But she also added, you know, it would be over my dead body that this girl's going to come in and become the beneficiary of all of this money. So after the fact, now that Jack's dead, Janis was like, holy shit, was she really telling me like the plan of what was gonna go on? And so Detextaves are like, well, what did you say at the end of that conversation, and Jannis said, I told her, girl, you need to get a hold of your senses. You're talking kind of crazy. You need to calm down. Let's get a divorce and move on. There's life after divorce. A matter of fact, Janie had been divorced. She was married seventeen years, I believe, and then got divorced. We can do this. You're gonna do this. It's fine, let's just move on. So, knowing what we know at this point, maybe Linda was going a little bit crazy and maybe she was losing her mind a little bit over this teenager. But back to Patrick, he also added some other information about another incident, not the murder, another incident that would be very vital to this investigation. He said, not only did I take part in what ended up being the murder of Jack, he said, I also took part in some other activity before Jack was killed. And he said, in this situation, or in this incident with his brother Brian, he went with Donald, and he went with Michael Clark, the same guys that were there during the murder of Jack, and he said, we went to an apartment of a girl that Patrick didn't know when he went there. He said, the plan was we were gonna knock on the door

42:23 and kind of barge our way in. Whenever this girl opened the door, that Donald told us take whatever you want that was of any value, and that he was going to go have a quote unquote talk with this young girl. But when they got there, Donald got a phone call from someone saying that there was someone else in the apartment, so they needed to wait. So they just sat outside and they did not go into that apartment, not until a man left the apartment. Now I know you're smart enough to realize that was Jack leaving the apartment, he said. After that they all got out. They went and they knocked on the door of this girl at the apartment, but she didn't come to the door. Nobody answered, and so that's whenever another phone call was made and they switched gears and they went and they broke out the windows of her car. So when the police went and they questioned Michael Clark about his supposed involvement in the incident, the story had a little bit of difference to it. According to Michael Clark, the reason that they went to the apartment was that they were going to steal something of value, and that thing of value was a diamond ring. They were being told by someone to go steal a diamond ring. So when they got there, Donald Michael said, yeah, we had to wait in the van for about forty five minutes because there was somebody.

43:44 They were waiting for that person to leave. He said, during that time while we waited, I called my mom because it was her birthday and I was going to be late to her party, and I wanted to go ahead and say Happy Birthday. After that man left. That's whenever they got out, they went and broke windows out of this girl's car. So obviously this was someone directing them to go mess with Carrie. And that certainly sounds like a scorned woman taking revenge and asking some. Other CD characters to do it for her. But if you're not kind of seeing what's happening here, the day that Linda found out about the purchase of the wedding set was the exact same day that some guys went and busted out the windows of her car. Now, when speaking to Carrie about this, police also found out that Linda had called Carrie that same day, like right before all this stuff happened to her car, and was yelling at her and harassing her. As a matter of fact, Carrie was home when they went and knocked on the door.

44:49 Carrie said, some men came and knocked on my door. She said, I was too afraid to answer because of what just had happened, and Linda was screaming at me, and I didn't know who these people were. And she said it wasn't until she went out side later on that she found that her car windows had been busted out. She also said that her brake lines were cut. And then reviewing the phone records, police found that Donald Bradley had called Michael Clark on November seventh, the same day that Jack was killed. And oddly enough, guess what it was on the day that Jack was killed. It was Michael Clark's birthday. So all of this happened, the murder on Michael Clark's birthday, and then the harassment and breaking of the windows of Carrie's apartment on Michael Clark's mom's birthday, So he said they didn't speak of a specific plan necessarily, but Donald did mention that at some point they were going to go to Lake Asbury, which is where Jack's home was. So they're getting bits and pieces and it's all kind of starting to come together. And look, I know my storytelling on this one might be all over the place, but I kind of did this on purpose because I wanted you to kind of see the run around that the detectives were getting and how the pieces and parts have to be kind of put together between everything that everybody says, well, do you remember how I told you that Donald lived in a gated community, Well, that too was going to combine to bite him in the ass. See, there was a security guard that worked the gate at that gated community where he lived, And this is where I'm going to introduce miss Irene Sharkey

46:19 to the story. She was the one working the gate and she was responsible for letting people in and out. And according to her records, Valerie Bradley, remember Donald's wife, she was the one that called and she was the one that asked her to open the gate at eleven twenty four for Cindy Bradley. But she also called later on that day at twelve twenty eight and asked that she let Linda Jones in. So both Linda and Cindy were at the house of Donald with their White with his wife, and then the both of them ended up leaving around two twenty that evening. Now I'm not saying it sounds like they may have gotten together and planned out something, but it sure seems like.

47:04 They got together and planned out something. Right. So, when Valerie was questioned about what all she remembered from the day that these people came to her home, she said she didn't remember who called the front gate to let these people in, and she said she also couldn't remember if Cindy and Linda both came over. She was also pretty clear that she did not see either brother that night either. Talking about the mcwhite brothers. So, according to Donald, the night of the murder, this is what he did. Donald said on November seventh, the night of the murder, he went to work like he normally did, and he got home between six and seven pm. It was not unusual for him to call his wife to open the garage for him because the kid's toys were there, and to ask her to move some stuff so that he could back his trailer and his truck into the driveway and he didn't want to run over all of their stuff. His sister, Cindy, he said, came to the house around seven, which is about the same time that he would have gotten home, and he said that their plans were that they were going to be hanging out and that they were going to be watching a movie together.

48:11 So I was even curious about what the movie was, so I did some research and it's called Nothing Lasts Forever. That's the movie he says they were watching. Now. According to Donald, the movie started around nine o'clock and it lasted until eleven PM. He said, I did leave at one point around eight, but I just went fifteen minutes down the road. He said. I went to the wind Dixie to get some snacks and some milk, and I came right back and I made it back before the movie started, and we all stayed together until eleven that night. So police did a simple check of the TV schedule for November seventh, and you know what, it actually backed up his claim. Nothing Last Forever, which was a two part mini series, was playing that night from eight to eleven. Something Still is not right. Detectives just had to do a little bit more work. I mean, you know, being Donald's CPA is one thing, but what is the link? You have to figure out the link between being a CPA doing someone's taxes and the fact that you might could be working together to have murdered your husband, because any reasonable doubt in the minds of a jury could be added by a good detect a good defense attorney. All they have to do is say, look, you want to get his tax documents. Of course he went by Linda's house. Multiple people would go buy our house to get their stuff.

49:31 So you know, if you're any red blooded American, I'm gonna say this real quick. If you're a red blood American, paying taxes probably makes you mad. I hate paying taxes, y'all, I hate it. But what if I told you pay in your taxes might get you caught up in murder, because that's exactly what's about to happen. It turns out that the taxes that Donald's business returns showed had that is, business only made nine thousand, one hundred dollars the year that Donald was that Jack was murdered. So this was obviously a red flag. Why would you stay in business if you're only making nine grand a year? Now, even if you're gonna say, oh, well, maybe it was a side hustle.

50:17 Maybe it was, it wasn't their main business. Well, I want to just let you know you're wrong, because Valerie herself said that Donald's income was their only income. And y'all they're living in a gated community, all right, So the IRS became kind of curious about how that could be. So Valerie said, well, look, I am in talks with the irs because they feel like we owe more in taxes, that maybe our taxes weren't right. And so they said, well, aren't you the one that signed your tax returns? And she says, well, yeah, I mean I sign them, but I just signed whatever Linda arranges for us. Matter of fact, Linda does all the taxes for everyone in our family. So was it possible that there was a financial bin fit in this murder that took place?

51:03 So police were. Gonna keep digging. Was was she gonna help them out with their taxes? HM? So, wanting to know more. About Jack's daily activities, detectives dug into what he did on the daily and that's when they found out that Jack would normally go over to Carrie's apartment around five thirty in the morning, then he would go to work. He would return to the apartment for lunch, he would go back to work, and then he would go back over there after work from about six thirty seven, and then around seven o'clock he would leave the apartment and he would go back to the home of he and Linda as soon to be ex wife. So detectives wanted a little bit more information about this whole situation to put it all together. But it would come a little bit easier now because as the word of Jack's brutal death spread around town, a couple of people started coming forward, including a man named Keith Falana.

51:56 He came forward. Guess who Keith was? He too, was a. Client of Linda's CPA firm, and guess what he had to say. He said that during a conversation getting his taxes done, Linda asked him if he would be willing to kill her husband now. He laughed it off as just a woman scorned run on her mouth saying I need my husband killed. You want to do it? But guess what. Another client came forward. His name was Ricky Byers, and y'all, he had the exact same story. He said that Linda offered him money to kill her husband, saying even that she would give him a cashdown payment and that she would pay the balance.

52:39 After he was dead. So they said, well, what was your response to that, and he said, man, I looked at her and said, girl, you are seriously crazy. There's something wrong with you. And she laughed it off. So nobody really thought that she meant it. But my god, how many people are going to be asked to do this. So every combined to this point had investigators beyond confident that Linda was the one behind the murder of Jack. But the final straw well that came after a check of cell phone records. All of the frequent phone calls from Linda Jones' cell phone to Donald Bradley started on October thirty first, which were just days after the ring purchase that Linda found found out about that Jack had bought. And I would like to also notice that October is not tax season if you haven't thought about that either. So the time frame is just making time frame is just making sense and putting everything all together with a nice little.

53:37 Bow on it. This is what police say happened Linda became aware that her husband had this teenage lover and that he intended to leave her, and so Linda tried to destroy their relationship. It didn't work, and so that's when Linda went to the extent of faking those burglaries in their home as well as the physical and sexual assault attacks on her, basically trying to get jack attention, make her, make him feel sorry for her, and maybe would come back to the home. To protect her. But that didn't work either. So once she realized that she was losing her husband and that, you know, nothing she did was working, that's when she decided, well, if I can't have him, nobody else is going to have him either. I'm the one who invested the time She's not getting she being the teenager Carrie anything from this. So, based on multiple conversations that Linda had over a short period of time, she said that she wanted to blame Carrie for everything that was happening to her. And at first police believed that she was going to kill herself as well as Carrie, and they believe that because some other information came to light that she was trying to get a silencer from someone, and they believe that that silencer was going to be used to be able to get Carrie and then kill herself.

54:51 But once she found out that Jack was going to marry Carrie, that's whenever he had to die, she wasn't going to let that happen, and so she said, well, I'm going to kill him or have him killed, and I'm going to be the one to gain all the financial benefit from this. So she chose Donald to ask him to commit the murder. And it wasn't by chance, because they also found out daving police that Cindy was actually best friends Donald's sister. Cindy was also best friends with Linda Jones during this timeframe. They were so close that Cindy and Linda spoke multiple times a day on the phone. Cindy obviously had a lot to do with making this connection between her brother. It wasn't just some random choice of a CPA client. And Donald was the brother of Cindy whose best friend was being completely wronged by her cheating husband. Donald was already a CD character.

55:47 He already had, you know, domestic violence in his past, and so at first she was going to have Donald go and physically intimidate Carrie at the apartment. They broke out the windows. They were going to see the diamond ring back and that hey, you can beat up Jack. But that plan turned to murder and he was going to kill Jack and then she was going to pay him out of the life insurance policies once the payout was complete. This is why Linda made the phone call claiming that she was going to need him to be home by seven thirty because she had to make sure that he was there when the killers arrived. Both of them. Both of those mcwhite brothers said that they listened to conversations between Linda and Donald on the day of the murder, and they also heard Linda say that the gun would be on the island in the kitchen. The police believe that everything younger brother Patrick said was accurate. Patrick had even said at one point that he begged or kind of said, yo, stop stop hitting him, stop hitting him, because he felt like the beating was getting like it was too much. And obviously Donald just kept going. So Brian mcwhite would then also come forward with more information, saying okay, yeah we did. We burned our clothes. We also ended up going back and getting the warstick from our house and we burned that too. Brother Brian also added that Donald had told him he was expecting a payout of two hundred thousand dollars from a life insurance policy.

57:19 So to argue that the plan was just to hurt Jack doesn't fit because Donald had a lot to gain financially, and he offered to pay the brothers, those employees Mcwhite brothers for their participation in this. And I will add this in, and it may be an unpopular opinion, but I really don't know that younger brother Patrick knew that they were going to kill Jack. I just don't think he may have known that, because again, did he even would testify that he said, bruh, stop, you're gonna you know this is too much. And also I'm going to say something else from an objective of you, not an emotional point of view, but I don't buy that a kid is gonna go help beat up somebody for one hundred dollars, or excuse me, go kill somebody for just one hundred dollars, when if he knew that the ringleader was getting two hundred thousand dollars. Also, further questioning of Patrick brought to light that Linda's mouth wasn't taped just once during that home invasion and murder. It was taped twice, and so that kind of caught my attention. So why did he bring that up? And he said, well, because during the beating, Donald was talking to Linda like they knew one another. And he said, it was really confusing to me because I thought we were doing this, like go in and beat this guy up. So why was Donald talking to this woman almost like.

58:42 He knew her? And he said it was really weird. So he had duct taped her. She pulled the tape off. They were talking during everything, and then he had to go back when Donald said shut that woman up and read tape her, and he said the whole thing just seemed like she was. Acting and it was weird. And then he added to that that and then when Donald cut the tape when we went to leave off of her hands, I just couldn't understand why. He also said that it struck him as crazy. Whenever they got in the car and Donald said, I think I may have killed him, and he was shocked because he said, I didn't think we were going there to kill somebody. I just believe this kid. I don't know what he has to gain from it. I feel like he went to tell the truth because he had a conscience and because he didn't want to get wrapped up in a murder, because he did not have a plan to go do the murder. I can't say the same for his brother, because his brother knew about the two hundred thousand dollars payout. When it's all said and done either way, Linda Donald and the mcwhite brothers were all arrested for the murder of Jack White. Donald Bradley was convicted of first degree murder, burglary, and conspiracy to commit murder and would ultimately be sentenced to death. Donald's wife, Valerie was arrested as well. You don't see a lot of that mentioned in any other you know, productions about this case, but she was also charged, and she was charged with accessory after the fact. But by the time everything went to trial, Cindy Bradley, the brother of Donald, was forty one years old and would be terminally ill,

1:00:13 so her testimony would be recorded and a jury would have to listen to her testimony you know, by videotape. But guess what, she never rolled over on her brother. Her testimony continued to state that she was the one that borrowed her brother's phone, that all of the phone calls between her and Linda were legitimate and about tax purposes. She also maintained that they all stayed together and that they watched a movie the night in question. So I guess the sister really loved her brother, no matter what evidence was put, you know, in front of people's faces. When Linda's trial came about, it was extensively explained how Linda attempted five separate solicitations in order to have her husband killed. Now, this was something that was not said on anything I've ever seen, and this made my jaw drop.

1:01:03 When Linda was in trial, it was made very clear that not only had Linda staged those home you know, those burglaries, but that this sexual assault claim went a bit deeper than just saying that she'd been sexually assaulted. They looked at Linda's phone records and she was in contact with two other petty criminals that were known to local law enforcement. Their names were Dwight Dana Hugh and Greg Green, and they both said that Linda asked them to kill Jack, but they said no, we're not going to do that, but Greg Green did agree that he would help her fake the burglary and this supposed rape sexual assault. Do you want to know how committed Linda was to this sexual assault claim?

1:01:52 This is crazy to me. She had him come over and she paid him to kind of, you know, beat her up a little bit and scratch her up for the burglary, you know claims. But the rape and sexual assault claim. Linda went to his place of business, this is according to a lieutenant on the case, and she paid him fifty dollars and had sex with him. She literally went and had sex with someone else and paid him for it to really hammer home that she had been sexually assaulted. The woman who was so angry that her husband was cheating on her was willing to pay these shitty little criminals to have sex with her and slap her around a little bit so that she could make the claim that she had been sexually assaulted. That's some devious shit right there.

1:02:42 Linda was convicted and she was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of her husband, and y'all, she continues to maintain her innocence to this day. She even added in an interview that I saw that it was so sad being behind bars for something that she just didn't do. And she said, you know, you cry a lot, even if you get on medication for depression, you just cry a lot. Well, I wonder if Jack was crying, you know, before he took his last breath. And I know that people. Might sit here and go, well, you really shouldn't have cheated on his wife, and you know what, You're right, he shouldn't have. But I'm gonna stand on the side that being a cheater is morally you know, that's a bad thing. You shouldn't do that.

1:03:23 But deserving to die and being murdered, those don't equate. In my book, Jack was jumped and attacked and beaten to death by a group of men armed with weapons, and they beat him until he stopped breathing. And it was all under the direction and the control, and it was planned by the very woman who claimed to love him. Linda should have just let the cards fall, let him fall where they lay. We all know what would have happened. Jack would have moved in with this little eighteen year old. She would have taken him for all that he was worth, and then she would have left him and Linda could have laughed all the way to a new relationship and a happy ending of her life, but instead she chose to.

1:04:07 Have him killed. And for that, I don't feel sorry for her her daughters though, remember they both Jack and Linda had two daughters. They both continue to support her claims of innocence, and I, you know, I genuinely do feel sorry for them. Their mother is a murderer, their daddy is dead. They really seem to be, you know, forgotten victims and all this as well. But you know they're related to her, and they have a reason to look for the best and the woman who loved them and raise them. But I don't share that same sentiment. I'm just thinking of Jack in the fetal position on the ground, begging for his life while he was mercilessly beaten. So regardless your opinion of Jack, maybe Carrie was, you know, the light of his life. But if that's the case, then I guess Linda would have to be the broken glow stick of his life because you can snap her and shake her all you want, but the light ain't coming on and she ain't ta and responsibility