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this week's 48 Hours investigates a suspicious death in South Carolina authorities say they found Davis
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McLendon's body near his dented car in the middle of the night at first investigators thought it was a hit and
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run but an oil trail at the scene LED them to believe he was targeted for murder amarie green has an early look at
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her 48 Hours report May 7th 2023 Greenwood County authorities discovered Davis McLendon
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fatally injured near his dented BMW and suspected the vehicle that hit him leaked oil found on the road
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investigator Patrick Durkin there was tire marks that had had gone back down the road and kind of turned
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around the oil trail LED sheriff's deputies right to the home where local businessman Bud akur was living
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Sheriff's Office authorities noticed his Ford pickup was leaking oil in the driveway can I get you to step with me
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over here for me please they had learned bu acans soon to be ex wife Meredith was
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dating Davis McLendon and according to Meredith Bud couldn't accept she was moving on days earlier she says acrian
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had texted her something about Meredith How Could You Meredith told authorities she'd been out with Davis earlier the
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night he was killed phone records and surveillance video investigators say show acrian compulsively trying to
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contact her until Davis seen here had enough and went to meet him and investigator Ronnie Powell we think
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there's enough evidence at the scene to to prove of what occurred authorities say an angry acur mowed down Davis who
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had been standing next to his BMW as in this CBS News animation based on the authorities theory butd arrian was
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arrested for the murder of Davis McLendon well that's just the beginning because it turns out bud acrian says he
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was meeting Davis just to talk but that Davis was standing near the middle of the road approximately as shown in this
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CBS News animation based on the defense's theory and was nearly impossible to see before it was too late
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but aurman would say it was all an accident and set out to prove it all right I'm here United with my old
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RIT or die Amry Green in the studio um so amme was there other evidence found the night of this murder there was a ton
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of evidence I mean we know that uh there cameras everywhere when we're moving around so they had surveillance video of
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the date that she was on with the victim Meredith was on with the victim uh text
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messages um doorbell cameras from the neighborhood where the car accident happened prosecutors say you can see
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butt's car but more importantly you can hear what happened during and after the accident what did investigators learn by
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looking at Bud arrian's car itself so let me tell you we already know that these cars are basically computers with
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wheels on them we know that they document basically everything right and you expect speed left right your
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favorite radio station but this was a pretty fancy car pretty pretty fancy truck and the infotainment system kept
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track I mean to the millisecond what happened with this vehicle whether the wheel left the road for a quarter of a
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second every single public WiFi that the truck drove past if he drove past a coffee shop with public Wi-Fi the public
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Wi-Fi would say hey I'm public his truck was say I'm a truck and all of that would be stored so they could see
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exactly every place that he had gone for the evening and they say that proves what's in his head and his heart oh my
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gosh all right amarie thank you very much you can watch amar's 48 Hours report the hit and run homicide of Davis
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Mendon tomorrow at night at 109 Central here on CBS and streaming on Paramount Plus