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[Music] Greenwood I lived here half my life everyone knows everyone and their business I have decided to set the story
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straight it's still real I still think maybe I'll wake up we were out from our bird day I
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remember I was just sitting at the bar and he sat down beside me and we just talked the rest of the night you were
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there the night she met Davis I was I was there that night did it seem like there was chemistry immediately I would
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immediately Davis he was so kind and I mean his heart was huge we enjoyed each other so much it
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was an amazing 6 months Mar to her and Davis they would going away weekends a lot I liked
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them his smile was so contagious and he's just such a sweet guy I would have never expected this to happen ever GRE
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County 911 but is the one person car wreck okay it was a car wreck and somebody is hurt I pull up right beside
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Davis's car and he wasn't in his car and that's when I noticed his airbags were out so then also that's when I kind of
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started start looking at the carore noticed that his front tire was smashed in and I remember looking and I notic
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there's a body mer just started like screaming like who is it who is it and you look over mhm what do you think you
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were looking at Davis he was laying there and his head was rested on the SL like a pillow and
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he was shirtless and his face was covered in blood was there anything about the scene that struck you as odd
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was being all the way on the other side of the road the car being wrecked like none of that I couldn't piece anything
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together Davis's car was way over there and his body was way down here and I was
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like well how'd he end up down here that's quite a distance yeah to here it is quite a distance originally it came
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out as a as a possible traffic accident and then once officers arrived on scene they realized it was more than that a
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lot of people think it was an auto accident well know it was I do believe that this was an accident and not an
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intentional killing it was a murder I was in shock I was like it doesn't even make sense the photographs of the crime
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scene the text messages from Davis's phone the Ring videos looking at everything in the totality of the case
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was very powerful How can any of this possibly happen there's so many things missing from the story and once I kind
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of get that out there then I can close the chapter [Music] [Music] and 1028 whiskey Echo Victor
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253 it was May 7th 2023 just after 1:00 a.m. when authorities responded to a reported Road accident on a secluded
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deadend Street in Greenwood South Carolina start roping this off cuz this is going to be a crime scene at the edge
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of the nearby woods they would find 46-year-old Davis McLendon's body but what they saw at first was on the road
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itself a shirt a shoe and a mangled sedan and there was significant damage to the fender inial it was a BMW 5
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series similar to this one we're using to demonstrate the position of the vehicle that night after First
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Responders had locked everything down Greenwood County Sheriff's Office investigator Patrick Durkin arrived to
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photograph the scene the front driver side wheel was turned slightly whatever had transpired at this
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deserted Crossroads durkin's job was to freeze it in time First Responders had thought Davis McLendon's injuries seemed
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consistent with having been hit by a vehicle though no other vehicle relating to the Collision was there they'd found
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Davis's body about 50 ft away from the BMW leading them to suspect he'd been outside his car when he was hit there
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was no rain or anything that would potentially wash anything away so um the main thing I focused on was the vehicle
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Durkin says he noticed some strange damage to the BMW usually when we would you think of a normal fender bender it
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would just kind of be pressed into it this was torn back like a tuna can in a sense it had made authorities wonder if
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it was a hidden run or something more Sinister those airbags were out and a phone was on the front passenger seat
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Durkin saw more debris in the road but nothing particularly telling the Assumption was that he was struck by a
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vehicle investigator Ronnie pal from the Greenwood County Sheriff's Office says authorities had learned more by speaking
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to two women at the scene Meredith Haney and Megan McGovern who' called 911 Megan
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often babysat for Meredith's three children they provided statements of what they saw and what had occurred all
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night long what did mer say she pretty much gave a summary of the whole backstory that she had been dating
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Davis Meredith had told authorities that Davis left a club they'd been in that night calling her minutes later from the
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road saying he was parked at the intersection of avid Road and Saw Grass place when he'd put her on hold and then
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failed to come back on the line Meredith was worried and got a ride there from Megan it was Megan the babysitter who'd
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gotten out of her car and was the first to see Davis's body that news must have been stunning yeah it was devastating it
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was was crushing Davis McLendon was the ultimate people person without an enemy in the World say his friends chip
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Thunder buunk everybody loved Davis he was just awesome Zack Calhoun he he loved big int and Johnny coats and what
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Zach said he was everyone's best friend he was he loved everyone but none of them could remember Davis ever
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mentioning the specifics of his love life not until he met Meredith Haney he told me that he had met somebody and
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they had just kind of been chatting and um you know enjoying getting know know each other you know it it seemed uh
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seemed like a good thing seemed like a positive thing for sure Calhoun says Davis had gone through
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a divorce but the end of his marriage hadn't done anything to weaken his devotion as a father and a friend even
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to the residence of the retirement home where he worked he was the most empathetic person I've ever
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met more than 4 months before Davis died on the night of December 23rd 22 Meredith was at that club celebrating
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her 39th birthday with her best friends she says they were wearing their worst Christmas sweaters when the handsome
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stranger struck up a conversation then I think he text on Christmas Day and then the next day and then the
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next and you just kept on talking until meeting Davis she says she'd been keeping her head down just
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about 6 months earlier she had left her husband of 10 years a local auto body shop owner named Bud Akerman and she was
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struggling to balance parenting their three kids and her job as a grammar school teacher she says she knew getting
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involved with someone new would not be easy was there any hesitancy about moving forward with this there I mean
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there was she says first Davis wanted to make make sure she had no intention of reconciling her marriage he didn't want
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to be the reason that you know we didn't get our family back together so we made
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sure from the get-go that that wasn't going to be an issue and I just it just happened they would have less than 6
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months together could you start to guess what may have happened how it was hit the night of Davis's death at the
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site investigator Patrick Durkin noticed something beyond the strangeness of the
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crashed car and Davis's distance from it there was an oil slick in the road it's
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still here uh just over a year later it's it's still here uh but there was a number of footprints and and some tire
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tracks that were leading away from this oil stand and what did that tell you when you saw it what we knew that there
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was some type of impact to the vehicle and then we knew there was uh oil and and tire marks that left from
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here it looked like evidence from the vehicle that hit Davis you guys are looking around and you realize the oil
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continues you could see it was very obvious that there was tire marks that had had gone back down the road and kind
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of turned around back where the tire track seemed to show a vehicle had turned around investigators had found
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oil spatters on a street light post it was about maybe this high and from there there was a trail of oil that had led
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down the road into the distance it's bread clums basically in a manner of speaking you know we just have
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to do the investigation and and see what evidence is there and see where it leads
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us to [Music] [Music] there was a trail uh that led from from the incident location investigator
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Ronnie poell says by the time authorities started following that oil trail from the crash site they had a
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solid hunch where it might lead Davis McLendon's girlfriend Meredith Haney had told them she'd suspected where he had
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been going when he left her at the bar that night to meet her estranged husband butd
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akur and it turns out the oily evidence LED right to AC's parents house garage is open he'd been living there since
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separating from Meredith about a year earlier Sheriff's Office yes sir authorities body cameras were rolling
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he kind of walked up um and almost was expecting us bud arrian and his father were both standing near the garage are
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there some kids here yeah y okay whose kids are they mine yours and who uh my wife
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okay bud had spent the day with his three kids at a local Festival he and his wife Meredith had a custody
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Arrangement and it was his night with the kids but in the driveway authorities know noticed his white Ford F250 pickup
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that's wild with oil leaking from the undercarriage they also noticed a crack in the grill and other evidence that
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suggested the vehicle had hit someone that's a palm Mark investigators turned to Bud do you
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have your ID on you I do not okay just step over here for me authorities say Bud told them he
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would not answer questions without his lawyer present but but from speaking with Meredith they learned she had a
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contentious relationship with her soon Tobe ex-husband and came to suspect a jealous Bud akur had mowed Davis
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McLendon down looking at the scene they deduced Davis had been standing outside his BMW
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as shown in this CBS News animation based on their investigation they suspect budd's pickup
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truck sideswiped the sedan and hit Davis carrying him on the vehicle's Grill and
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depositing his body across the road meridi says Bud had been upset since reaching out to her days earlier
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when he found out she was dating Davis he text me what did he text you he said something
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about Meredith how could you what was your reaction to that text I think it was hurt like I was I felt bad
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because I just don't like to hurt people's feeling I don't like people to be hurt so I felt
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bad what had begun years earlier as a promising marriage that would bear three kids had fallen
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apart he was a good father he was a really good dad bud was from a prominent local family and he was a business owner
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but Meredith says his work had become stressful I started to notice like some depression and things like that
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um that I've never seen before she says he started drinking a lot and the more he drank she says the more unpredictable
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he became there was screaming cursing you felt threatened absolutely Meredith says he never laid a
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hand on her but destroyed her sense of self the house was never clean enough there were never enough groceries it was
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so loud and vulgar it was very degrading then she says she noticed her husband was starting to become
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paranoid she remembers being in her closet one day and noticing a strange pillow they had cut a hole in
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it according to Meredith there was a hidden camera inside and then I started finding more
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of them what other places did you find cameras oh um there was one hidden in our dresser that faced the bed
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found one in a bush in the front yard and he put them in all the kids rooms she says that was the last straw
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they separated in the spring of 2022 I could breathe I could be me again Meredith says the separation
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seemed to help Bud too that he'd stopped drinking and kept going to church with her and the kids but by then she decided
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it was too late when I was done I was done and starting again with someone new seemed like a distant dream Meredith
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says until that night Davis McLendon sauntered up and sat down in her life they tried to keep things low-key at
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first Meredith says she never wanted to rub Bud's nose in it so what did you all
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do we would go out of town but Meredith says they knew they couldn't sneak around forever and it had
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started seeming like her new relationship with Davis was a forever kind of thing we talked about sitting on
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the porch rocking chairs at 80 and it was just a different kind of relationship but after Bud found out
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there were new complications he accused you of cheating yeah even though you were weeks away
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from your divorce right Meredith says Bud actually called Davis and asked him to back off until the divorce was
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official what was Davis's reaction to that request I think he agreed but then we talked about it and
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decided that was just giving him another little piece of control and on the night Davis died she
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says Bud seemed out of control back at his parents house investigators now had a warrant and were
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finding more clues that acrian had been at the crash site Oly Footprints oily Footprints at about 6 30 a.m. on May 7th
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2023 Bud acrian was arrested he would be charged with the murder of Davis McLendon we think there's enough
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evidence at the scene to to prove of what occurred so by the end of the night you already have someone in custody yes
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what's left to do well that's just the beginning because it turns out but AR did have a story to tell he says Davis
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was standing near the middle of a dark Road approximately shown in this CBS News animation Bud says he didn't see
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Davis until it was too late that hitting him had been an accident and Bud's team says they can
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prove it [Music] investigators are confident they could prove Bud arrian's truck had hit and
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killed Davis McLendon but they knew proving aurman had done it on purpose might be harder building a case starts
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from that night and when investigators looked at that night they learned but acrian had been tracking Davis and
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Meredith's whereabouts for hours he was trying to find them that night and he was was not happy about this whole
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situation using security video phone records and even data from Bud's own truck authorities built a timeline they
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began with Meredith's phone Lieutenant Matthew wac of the Greenwood County Sheriff's Office we were able to extract
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the information such as the calls and the texts a slew of calls and text messages Bud had made to Meredith
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leading up to the collision at 8:54 p.m. Bud texts Meredith why do you hate me I
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just don't understand she doesn't respond to him she's out with Davis at a local
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restaurant we went to dinner um at break on the lake you see Davis and Meredith you know
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having dinner and being interrupted by buds attempts to reach her what was the FaceTime conversation like where are you
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who are you with why are you doing this to me did you tell them where you were I
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feel like at some point in the conversation either he could tell where I was because of what's around me or I
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finally did tell him was one or the other so at that point he knows that you're out with
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Davis while Meredith continued her date with Davis security cameras catch bud acrian at 10:40 p.m. arriving at a
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popular Greenwood club called Key West you can see bud you know he's talking to people interacting consuming alcohol the
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video shows Bud spent about an hour and a half at Key West then called Meredith again how did he sound on the phone
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intoxicated what's an intoxicated Bud sound like vulgar soon after midnight aurman had left Key West about a half
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hour later cameras show Bud's truck cir in front of break on the lake but by then Meredith and Davis were no longer
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at the restaurant you can see his vehicle drive through the parking lot as if he's looking for them Lieutenant wac
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says before long investigators would learn just how far but acrian had gone that night to find Meredith and Davis
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though acrian himself wasn't talking critical information would emerge from another Digital Witness his truck it's a
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Box about this big that goes into the back side of the dash wac says in some cars and trucks the infotainment systems
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as they're known store detailed information about how the vehicles are being driven we're in a similar model to
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buds Ford F250 pickup so on Bud's vehicle they were able to pull a significant amount of information this
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is just a little snippet you're talking just in in in a 24-hour time period it's over 3,000
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events events including snap measurements of speed acceleration and Brake pressure Bud's onboard computer
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even pinged public Wi-Fi it passed investigators learned that bud had actually driven by Meredith's house and
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onto Davis McLendon street that night but while he was driving around looking for them ironically they had moved to
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the key West Club he had just left when Davis decides to call Bud he walked out the back of the bar it was
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12:51 a.m. a few minutes passed and I went out there to check on him he was gone did he think he could bring the
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temperature down mhm record show Davis called her minutes later and what was that conversation where are you and
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that's when he told me that he was going to meet Bud wac says other infotainment system
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data show that at a bit past 1 in the morning Davis and Bud had their fatal encounter and we can tell there was
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actually an event at 1:11 a.m. on May the 7th they say acrian hit the brakes hard we could narrow it down to T of
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seconds of when the Collision occurred and according to the computer seconds after the Collision arrian's truck had
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stopped at that point in time buds opening the door uh he opens the door before he shifts it to park wac thinks
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acur got out of his truck which was probably leaking from the Collision remember that puddle of oil in the road
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near the victim then he closes the door then he gets back in and then it's shifted to drive at that point in time
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then say authorities aurman turns his truck around near the lamp post roughly as you see in this CBS News
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demonstration based on their investigation he then drives away leaking an oil trail all the way to his
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parents' driveway right here his phone becomes unavailable the ignition turned off and it disconnected from his device
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what does that tell you that's when he got home and got out it started to paint a very clear
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picture but acr's attorney Jack swirling paints a different picture I don't think
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he intended to run Davis McLendon over there's no indication that he's aggressive or violent individual
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Sheriff's Office yes sir nor says swirling is there much to indicate his client was drunk that night you this can
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I get you to step with me over here for please none of the cops who arrested him
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reported he seemed Tipsy the only one that said he was intoxicated was Meredith was he stalking them that night
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I think he was trying to find out confirm that they were together he wanted to talk to her according to
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whirling Meredith and Davis had betrayed McLendon's promise to Bud to stand down
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until the arrian's marriage was officially over she couldn't wait another month and she's out with this
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guy uh and she's cheating on her husband they are still legally married South Carolina law calls out
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adultery and swirling says the night Davis died he let Bud arrian's repeated calls and text messages to Meredith get
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under his skin Davis got upset about it and that's what led to them having this meeting Bud thought they were going to
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meet and talk he says Bud had suggested an innocent and safe place for it to happen they were supposed to meet at
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Bud's parents house which is about a half a mile from that location swirling says arrian's children were sleeping
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there that night so attacking Davis would have been the last thing on his client's mind you wouldn't meet at your
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parents house if you were angry and threatening I'm ready to kill somebody he says it was Davis who
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selected the deserted intersection as a new location and remember how Davis was found without his shirt on that night
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well swirling says he believes Davis took it off to prepare for a confrontation he was ready to fight
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swirling insy Bud acrian meant no harm that night and Bud is about to tell that story to a jury your name William grey
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Akerman Junior um also go by Bud good morning everybody we are on the record in the
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state versus William Bud acan prosecutors are determined to prove it was no accident that bud arrian hit
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David McLendon the night he died so in September of 2024 assistant Attorneys General John
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Conrad and John Mets he intentionally drove his car into the body of Davis mclin start the case off with a bang bam
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and that's what this case is about they'll argue acrian couldn't stand the fact that his estranged wife was seeing
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someone and Bud was searching for Meredith and David all over town but aaman was not going to let Davis
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McLendon be with Meredith that's your house right there yes sir Mets and Conrad lead with their
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strongest evidence there are actually timestamped videos from the neighbors doorbell cameras at the moment of the
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crash that killed Davis it shows what they say is buds Ford F250 driving through the frame seconds later on the
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video what sounds like a crash and seconds after that a series of muffled sounds what did you hear I heard
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somebody yelling okay prosecutors argue it's but aer's voice yelling at Davis McLendon after running him
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down what it sounded like to me was what do you want to talk about now bud yelling un Heavenly EXP as he uh
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said to Davis as he was lying on the ground I think he was glad he was dead but but arrian's defense attorney Jack
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swirling argues the audio is too garbled to prove anything i' listened to it several times now and well I don't
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believe you can conclude 100% that that exactly what he said the prosecutor then
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calls Megan McGovern the arrian's babysitter and friend to describe the moment she'd seen Davis's body through
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traumatized teenage dies he had blood coming out of his ears and his nose and I couldn't I'm not
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exactly sure if it was coming out of his mouth or not cuz I mean there's just blood everywhere from his nose and
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everything but their star witness is the woman at the center of both men's affection Meredith Haney who testifies
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with the date night security videos as a guide yes is that you yes yes sir she tells the jury Bud arrian called her
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when she and Davis were at break on the lake did you think he was trying to find
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you I did worry yes and kept calling after they got to Key West Club is that a call from the defender Bud aan yes sir
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did you reject that call yes sir it's 18 seconds later you get another call yes sir well what did you think about all
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these calls coming in I was getting very frustrated and angry and just it was getting obsessive
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it it was getting scary and she says by the time Davis McLendon left her at the Key West Club after midnight and is that
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Davis Mendon leaving the ball yes she was worried Bud might be volatile so when Davis later called to tell her he
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was going to meet with acman she says she wanted to go check on the situation in person and makes clear to the jury
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that when she saw the scene she had little doubt who killed her boyfriend I do back into Mex car because I thought
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that the only way that bud would have ever killed somebody would have been to shoot objection don't don't go the judge
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sustains the defense's objection but Meredith continues I was scared that he was still out there okay Mr swirling any
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cross examination all real question step down ma'am your honor a state call special agent Brian Hudak digital
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forensics expert Brian Hudak tells the jury about data in the infotainment system of arrian's pickup including some
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that show Bud was driving in exactly the right place in Greenwood at the inter of
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such of avid and sress at exactly the right time between 11131 and 11132 to be implicated in the deadly
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Collision He suggests they can even tell the moment of impact there's something that causes this truck to De accelerate
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very quickly correct correct and Hudak says the evidence shows acrian was going 25
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mph and the amount of detail that that truck had on what bud did that night is is simply breathtaking Ford vehicles on
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the completely on the wrong side of the road when it strikes the BMW collision reconstruction expert Corporal
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Christopher bratcher testifies the dent show buds speeding pickup sideswiped Davis's BMW sedan as shown in that CBS
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News animation based on the prosecutions theory they said Bud was aiming at Davis
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who was standing near the driver's door when he was hit and that the truck kept going with Davis on the grill until he
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fell off where authorities found him but Jack swirling argues much of the same evidence shows hitting Davis was an
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accident we maintain that Mr acement did not act intentionally in this case he says Bud arriman had no idea Davis was
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standing outside his car and calls Auto forensics expert Jonathan Nelson to testify that given acrian speed in the
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dark over a slope in the road and into the parked BMW's headlight beams he wouldn't have seen Davis McLendon
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standing in the road until at most 2 and 1/2 seconds before the Collision well would a person have sufficient
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opportunity to avoid impact I think the most people would have little to no opportunity to begin to try to avoid and
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swirling says David wasn't standing right next to his car when he was hit but further out towards the center of
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the road and that acrian swerved to his left into the BMW to get around him as shown in this CBS News animation based
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on the defenses Theory he's trying to avoid hitting him wouldn't you swerve the other
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way why he didn't go right I can't answer that swirling knows there may be only one person who can call bu I come
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around to stand pleaser arrian's attorney Begins by trying to show the jury his client was Meredith's
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long-suffering but devoted husband did you love her I did very much he admits he was angry at Meredith
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but says he only wanted to talk to her and agreed to meet Davis to talk to him too do you have any intention to hurt
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him I did not acrian says he hadn't realized how fast he was going and that he was only trying to pull up next to
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Davis to talk and didn't see McLendon standing in the road until the last moment what action did you take if any
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to avoid hitting the person I jerked my truck as hard as I could to the left to try to hit his car to stop the motion of
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my truck from going forward but on Cross examination he admits something that undercuts his claims of Innocence that
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night he had never called 911 I panicked he panicked instead he left the scene and
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drove to his parents' house and told them what had happened but they never called authorities either I've seen so
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many people react in abnormal ways in all the cases I've handled that I've come to expect those kind of
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things in closings prosecutor met argues acrian is a murderer with a truck as his
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weapon this might as well be a driveby shooting with a gun and he says the Ford pickups infotainment system proves
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it this is Bud's brain this is malice this is intent that state has not proven that Mr
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akan acted with malice or with the intent it's the highest possible bar and the defense insists the state has not
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proven its case that Mr aaman is entitled to a verdict of not guilty this is Judgment Day it's verdict Day you
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never know what a jury's going to do you got 12 people making the decision have you reached a verdict in this case
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[Music] ladies and gentlemen is my understanding that the uh Jury has reached a uh a
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verdict for the acrian jury 6 days of testimony and evidence boiled down to a deliberation less than a half hour
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long state of South Carolina versus William grey bud acran did you have a feeling about what that verdict might be
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yes yeah a quick verdict like that is not good not good we the jury unanimously find the
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defendant guilty but a is guilty of the murder of Davis McLendon it was a right verdict I mean I I thought it would be
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fast not that fast not just fast but too fast to be thought through says but arrian's
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attorney Jack swirling I don't think the jury considered everything that was presented
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to him they a lot of time to Stew over the evidence the evidence was clear and obvious damning evidence of what bud
00:37:43
arriman did say Davis McLendon's friends and equally damning evidence they say of
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what bud acrian never did our friend laid there in the road they still can't wrap their head around
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why nobody in the acrian family ever called 911 somebody should have done the right
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thing at sentencing right after the verdict Davis McLendon's son demands accountability from the
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acement it is time for this spoiled evil individual and this spoiled evil family
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in Greenwood to finally gain some repercussions for their actions thank you A lot's been said about why we
00:38:34
didn't call 911 but akerman's father tries to explain his own lack of action by saying
00:38:42
he was too disoriented to know what to do at that hour of the night when his son woke him with the
00:38:49
news the judges sentence is devastating to the defendant Mr Amman if you please stand
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answer sentence of the court is Mr Amman you be committed to State Department Corrections period of 45
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years it looks like the end of the road for Bud Akerman I know that where he is is where he's supposed
00:39:16
to be but it may allow for a new beginning for Meredith Haney I was worried that if he only got five or 10 years
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that I i' never get to start a new life because I'd be scared for when he got out with their father unlikely to get
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out of prison for decades she's determined to spare her children from the impact of that horrible night as a
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single mom she leans on friends and family how are the kids doing more my kids looking back she believes bu acrian
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really wanted to Target her that night and that she's only alive because he found Davis McLendon
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first DAV has saved my life you really feel that way absolutely if true Meredith Haney owes
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her life however challenging to the new man she had once hoped to share it with how would you like Davis to be
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remembered as a hero for the way he treated people for his empathy for his heart he was just a good person
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