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[Music] Johnson where I live is a mile square. It's a very small town. It's a farming community.
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>> Let's take a look at your opening cash grain prices. Wheat at 803, Milo 563, corn at 606.
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[Music] [Applause] It's a very cozy town actually. >> Good morning. >> Morning. >> You know, you feel comfortable there. I
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do. >> Johnson tends to be a very boring place for the most part. So, when something like this happens,
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it's so unfathomable to even try to think through what possibly could have happened. Michael went missing May 20th
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of 2005. Michael got up early, gone to work. They were cutting at the time. He was the first one there at the shop.
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He was the last one to leave. On Friday after work, Michael was planning on picking up his son Mikey for
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the weekend. >> He was a great father. Michael was having some problems with his
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exgirlfriend Shannon who he had a child with. >> Shannon wasn't happy. She always
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complained. >> He was also having problems with a fellow by the name of Chad Floyd.
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>> Chad Floyd was raised with money >> who was currently married to his former girlfriend Shannon.
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>> I believe when Michael got to Chad and Shannon's house, some kind of altercation happened. They're the only
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ones that had anything against him. >> I miss Michael every day. He was my baby.
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>> It's clear to me that Michael Golib disappeared. The question is, what were the
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circumstances involved in that disappearance? >> Michael just didn't take off. I thought foul play.
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Michael's blood was on that porch. >> Was he shot? Was he hit over the head? We don't know.
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>> You got no body and you don't have the murder weapon. Skimpy circumstantial evidence and you're trying to put
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somebody away for life. >> Really shouldn't be hard to get justice in a town, any size town.
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But when you are in a very tight-knit community like we are, I think it is tougher.
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I believe that the evidence proves Chad and Shannon are guilty. If the justice system doesn't get them, God will.
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>> Justice in the Heartland. Tonight's 48 hours mystery. [Music] [Applause] [Music]
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You can drive a long way in Stanton County, Kansas, and rarely see another soul.
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In tiny Johnson City, the county seat, the locals trade gossip at places like the County Fair Cafe
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or the aptly named Rinky Dink drive-in owned by Mary Hart. >> I need a special, please.
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>> It's a very close community. Things can divide it and cause hard feelings. things can draw close
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together. >> It's the kind of place that doesn't welcome strangers easily. Deb Gallib
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knows. She moved her family here from California after her husband died when her son Mike was 16. It was her
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boyfriend Jim's hometown, but all new to Deb. We're newcomers. We've been here since 94. I'm an outsider. My son was an
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outsider. His sister Chrissy stayed in California but made a point of being part of Mike's life.
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>> I remember him calling me and about falling out relationships and likewise I remember confiding in him and he was so
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good about that and I think that we really connected. >> Initially the local teens like D Murer
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didn't know quite what to make of the newcomer they nicknamed California Mike. At first, I just thought he was a
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smartass. I mean, he was kind of full of himself and cocky and walked around telling these stories that none of us
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believed. And then we asked his mom and found out that most of them were actually true. And it just grew on me.
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It didn't take very long until you were laughing as hard as he was when he was telling the stories.
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>> Shannon and Steve Morris soon realized that behind that cocky exterior was a heart of gold.
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>> Mike would make you feel good about yourself. Mike was a good guy. He'd give you the shirt off of his back.
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>> He was uh funny. We were best friends as step brothers. He was a very smart guy
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>> and a hard worker, adds his stepbrother, Bo Hines. Mike was a skilled mechanic
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who spent long hours repairing equipment for his boss, Eric Kramer. >> Dependability was really good. Anything
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you put that kid to, he would figure it out. He was pretty good. In 1995, Mike met another outsider, a
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young woman named Shannon Alers from Montana. And from the start, Mike was smitten.
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>> They seemed to get along very well at the beginning. It was let's let's go party. Let's go have fun. It was a fast
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and furious thing. >> But the honeymoon didn't last. >> The only time Shannon ever talked to me
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is when she wanted to complain about Mike and that's it. Michael never made enough money. She always complained
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about money. >> She'd make comments like, "Uh, she has caviar taste on a hot dog budget." And
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she'd say that in front of all her friends. >> The one bright spot, the couple's son,
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Mikey, his father's pride and joy. >> Excellent father. He loved his boy. He was just a naturalb born dad.
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>> But having Mikey didn't save the relationship. At its lowest point, Shannon even called the cops, alleging
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that Mike had choked her. They arrested him. >> They had a fight and he had his hand on
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her throat holding her away from him. >> The charges later were dropped, but Shannon soon moved out, taking Mikey
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with her. >> I mean, he was in love with her, and he was devastated when they when they split
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up. I mean, that was a hard time for him. [Music] Then at the age of 24, Mike Gulib had a
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heart attack. Apparently the result of a genetic defect. It almost killed him. After his heart attack, he got scared.
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He and I had a number of conversations that God had g given him a second chance and that he needed to pay attention to
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that. >> Friends say that brush with death was a turning point and so was a new woman in
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his life, Brooke Wilkerson. >> Young, fun. Um, they went skydiving together. She brought out a lot more a
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lot of that life back to Mike. >> In 2004, Mike and Brooke had a son, Cameron. By all accounts, Mike Gulib
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finally had grown up. His life was full. >> Mike turned into the young man that I
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would have been proud to call my son. He he was in love with Brooke and he loved
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his son Cameron very much and wanted to be the father that he never had. They were really happy. And Mike was talking
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marriage. I mean, he was talking, you know, proposing to her. Mike's former girlfriend Shannon also
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had moved on and up to marry Chad Floyd, who happened to be from one of the richest and most powerful families in
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Johnson. Everybody knows the Floyds, whether it be through farming or sitting around a
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coffee table at the local coffee shop. Their name is so prominent here. They're very huge in farming here. They've been
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here for years. >> Chad and Shannon. What was the attraction there? >> It was money. Period. She's a gold
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digger. >> And she wasn't out of Mike's life. They still were fighting now over Mikey. And
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now Chad was involved. >> Michael wanted more time with his child. Shannon and Chad weren't willing
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>> to to share. >> Mike was allowed to see Mikey only every other weekend. And despite the
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bickering, the arrangement seemed to work for a while. But on May 20th, 2005, Mike Gulib drove away from work a little
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before 6:00 to pick up his son. And he's not been seen since. As soon as Steve got off the phone with
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Bo and told me he was missing, the very first thing I said was, "You don't think
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Shannon did something to him?" >> You're kidding. It's >> the very first thing I said.
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[Music] [Applause] [Music] Mike Golib's disappearance left his friends stunned and very suspicious of
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both his ex-girlfriend Shannon and her new husband Chad Floyd. >> Cocky, arrogant,
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>> arrogant, very arrogant, >> self-righteous. Comes from one of those families, a generation that's been
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around, you know, generations of family that's been in this community forever. They have all the money in the
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community. They control the community. Everybody's lives absolutely revolve around them, their money, and what they
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do. >> It's not It's not that people are afraid of them like you would be someone from
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the mafia, but everybody just kisses their ass and they bow down to them. >> No, money talks.
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>> Money may talk, but Chad and Shannon did not when we asked them for their perspective.
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[Music] and Golib's friends and family worried that the Floyd family's very prominence
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in Johnson could influence the investigation. >> I mean, this is this is big stuff down
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here. The police weren't talking publicly about this case. So, we brought in 48 hours veteran
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homicide investigators Paul Celino and Joe Mura to look at the evidence and see where it would lead.
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>> But we know he's right there between 614 and 620. >> Now, we know that the police spoke to
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the neighbors. It's about half a mile or 3/4 of a mile up. >> All right. So, we're going into the uh
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to Diane Floyd's restaurant and we're going to see if uh she'll speak with us. >> Well, the dynamic is is that the new
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couple, Chad and Shannon, Chad decides he hates Michael because Michael is the father of a child that he's basically
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raising in his home. Uh Shannon and Michael have a classic relationship of unmarried couple who had a child and
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they're kind of at war with each other more often than not. >> Shannon had laid down strict rules for
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Mike's visits with Mikey. He had to pick up his son in a car with a car seat at a
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neutral spot, the local Amride convenience store. >> Very strict. We never vary. Okay. It's
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always at AM Pride here. >> Not ever at their house. >> No. He picked her picked him up one time
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only for a birthday party and that was Mikey's birthday party. That's the only time that I know of that Michael was out
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there at their home. On May 20th, 2005, Mike Gallup was working with a crew in fields about 20
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miles from Johnson. That afternoon, Shannon had called and asked him to do something very unusual.
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Come to her house to pick up Mikey. So, around 6, Mike left in a truck borrowed from his boss.
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The high school football coach next reports seeing Mike at 6:20 in Johnson at the corner of Lake and Logan, some 9
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miles from Shannon's house. So, this is roughly where the last place anybody is known to have seen Mike.
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>> Right. >> Shannon told police he never came to her house to pick up Mikey. When reliable Mike didn't show up for
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work, >> calls started coming in the next morning that he hadn't made it home. So
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>> So his family started calling her. >> Yeah. We started getting pretty worried
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then. >> Yeah. >> His boss, Eric Kramer, feared an accident. A pilot, he took a helicopter
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up, searched remote back roads, hoping to spot the truck. Not a trace. 5 days after Mike's disappearance, the
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truck was spotted in a remote field. There was no evidence of any foul play and the mystery deepened. But given the
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bad blood between Mike and the Floyds, Mike's mother says it never was a mystery to her.
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>> I thought a foul play from the beginning. I would say so because there was so much hatred for me. It fit
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together because I had known that she was vicious enough to do this and so is Chad
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443. >> Police suspicions grew when it was learned that the Floyds were hoping to
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move to leave Johnson for good. >> Him and Shantwell, they're looking at real estate. They're talking about
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wanting to go to Colorado. They want to get out of here. And I who can blame him? Uh if you're young and there's not
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a lot here for you in reality. I mean there's you know you're gonna farm or you're gonna farm some more.
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>> Hi Sally, how are you? Joseph Mora. >> The couple already had talked about leaving to Sally Ooa, a child custody
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worker from the state. >> So their plan when they saw you was to move out of state.
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>> I don't know whether it was a plan at that time but it was definitely something they had discussed
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>> as an option that they were really seriously >> seriously exploring it. I believe.
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>> But then ooa told them something they didn't want to hear. If they left Kansas, Shannon probably would lose
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custody of Mikey to his father. >> Chad wants out of here. He wants out with Shannon. He wants out with the kid
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and he doesn't want Mike around. >> To the local cops, it sounded like a motive. They called in the Kansas Bureau
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of Investigation. >> And what does Chad say when the KBI shows up at his house? What does he say
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to the sheriff? Why'd you have to involve the F and KBI? You know why? Because Chad knows, uhoh, I got a
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problem now because these guys aren't from here. They don't know me and they don't care.
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>> Indeed, the KBI began digging into the Floyd's financial records and made a startling discovery. Two weeks before
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Mike's disappearance, Chad had cashed in $50,000 in family stock. Investigators would
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soon conclude the money was part of an elaborate scheme by the Floyds to make it look as if they had bribed Michael
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Golib to leave town. In fact, Chad's cousin, who runs the local bank here, says that Chad told him exactly that,
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the money was a payoff. So, Michael would disappear and give up custody of Mikey. He would never have sold his son,
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especially not to those two. Not to Chad and Shannon. Never. 6 weeks after Mike vanished, KBI
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investigators searched Chad and Shannon's house, already having discovered that Shannon had repainted
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the front deck just days after Mike disappeared. Suspicious, they dismantled the deck and on the unpainted underside
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of the boards, they hit pay hay dirt, small amounts of blood, and traces of Mike Golib's DNA.
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It's some biological matter that came from Mike Golob. Okay, that's what we know. But of course, if he wasn't here
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that day, how would it be there? >> Shannon and Chad also had recently replaced the front window. The repair
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man said it had a hole in it. And finally, adding to the evidence against them, on the very day of Mike's
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disappearance, Chad Floyd bought an untraceable rifle from his cousin. I think somebody was inside the house
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with a gun. I think he came to the front door, rang the doorbell, and got shot. That's what the evidence looks like to
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me. Um, and I think they got rid of the body. >> Assuming, of course, that Michael Golib
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is even dead. [Music] [Music] He was my baby. He was fun. His laugh was invigorating.
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He wanted to be a good father. losing that child. You never get over it. You never get
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over it. >> I'm pretty sure. >> Good question. I don't know who that is, but I know that's Michael.
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>> His mom and grandmother say there's an empty place in their hearts since Mike
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Golib disappeared. >> You look like a kid. >> Adding to the pain, they no longer have
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contact with their grandson. That BJ and Mikey. Yeah. >> We haven't been allowed to see Mikey and
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he's been such a big part of our life and and then to have him ripped out, it's it's terrible.
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>> But Shannon's a custodial parent and she doesn't want to have anything to do with
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you. >> No. What is she afraid of? That's what I want to know. Why is she afraid for me
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to see that child? Does Mikey know something? In fact, investigators never interviewed
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Mikey, never asked the child what happened that day. 48 Hours consultant Joe Mur says that interview might have
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shed light on the case. >> Police investigation initially could have figured out speaking to a
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5-year-old. Did daddy come? Very simple question. Yes, daddy came. Did you see daddy leave? Very simple questions.
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The Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the KBI, wouldn't discuss this case, but 48 Hours investigator Paul Celino says
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their biggest challenge was obvious. They had no body. >> You could pick up all kinds of fibers,
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issues off of the body, the injuries, what kind of bullet was used. Even without the body, KBI investigators
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formed a theory that Chad shot Mike not with the untraceable rifle he bought from his cousin. Chad turned that over,
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but rather with a Glock like this one. They know Chad owned a Glock, but that gun has disappeared. And on his lawyer's
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advice, Chad never responded to questions about it. How's that possible? That Glock is just
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gone. I don't know what happened to it. >> The investigator's theory, Celino says,
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appeared to be that Chad shot Mike Gulib perhaps from inside the house. The bullet going through the living room
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window and hitting Mike as he stood on the front deck. Adding to suspicion of the Floyds is
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their cell phone record, a cluster of calls that Celino says supports the idea that Shannon took the kids off the
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property while Chad committed the murder. Specifically, between 6:38, 657, there are 10 phone calls between Chad
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and Shannon, >> right? >> That's when >> this murder takes place. >> That's probably it in that 18-minute
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period. >> And then why are they calling each other on the phone? I mean, we got all kinds
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of issues going on. You got a body you got to dispose of. You got to clean a deck. Brooke calls. He's not home. What
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if somebody comes out here? What are we going to do? Listen, they're not serial killers. They've never done this before.
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This is high anxiety. >> But illustrating what prosecutors are up against, Mora thinks those calls prove
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nothing at all. >> We're talking about we're going to murder the individual at my house. I'm
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then going to have to dispose of the body. Okay. So, I'm going to be wasting all this time making phone calls with a
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person that I've already planned this murder with. I'm just not going to buy that. You know what I'm saying?
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>> Still, nothing shakes Deb Golib's belief that the Floyds are responsible. >> So, you honestly believe that this this
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young couple commits a murder? >> Oh, yeah. >> Over a custody fight? >> I do. >> That they've pre-planned?
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>> Yes. >> They must be master criminals. >> Oh, no. Not at all. I think >> No one has found his body.
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>> I think they're idiots. Who in their right mind would do something like this over a child?
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>> But if Chad and Shannon did kill Mike Golib, what did they do with his body? Mike's family has several theories that
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perhaps undercover of darkness, they simply buried it out in the fields or maybe even dumped it in an old abandoned
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well like this one. You find them still scattered around these parts. Anything dumped down there is unlikely ever to be
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found. Without a body, the evidence in this case was circumstantial. The painted deck, the blood under the
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boards, the broken window, the missing gun. But prosecutors are convinced they know
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what happened. And a year after Mike Gulib disappeared, they arrest, charge, and jail Chad and Shannon Floyd.
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Bond was a million dollars each, and it takes only three weeks for Chad's father
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to bail them out. And he hired two of the top lawyers in the state to defend them.
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>> They've put a lot of money out there for those kids to protect those children.
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to protect Chad and Shannon. What are they protecting? Are they protecting the name of Floyd?
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>> Still, Deb Gulib has sympathy for Chad Floyd's parents. >> I feel sorry for them. They have had to
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go through hell as much as I have. My family's not the only one that's been hurt by this.
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[Music] A full cycle of planting and harvesting passed before the trial began in the
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summer of 2007. It lasted two weeks and then after just 2 days of deliberations, the jury
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declared itself hopelessly deadlocked. [Music] Deb Gallib was distraught. She was so
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sure the evidence would convince even a jury from Johnson. >> I think it was such a private
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devastating time for us. We have cried so much over this and it's an everyday occurrence for us to talk about it.
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>> There's no evidence the jury was influenced by the Floyd family's power, but Mike Golib's friends have few
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doubts. Any other place in the United States, any other jury that would have heard the evidence that was put forth,
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they would have been guilty. >> Not so fast, say prosecutors Rick Gwyn and Barry Disney. They refile the
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charges, rolling the dice again with a jury from Johnson. >> This is a big deal. I want to win this.
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Nine months later, they seem confident that this time they will win justice for Mike Golib, even if Chad Floyd doesn't
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seem the least bit worried. The defendant Chad Floyd is charged with the crime of murder in the first degree.
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He pleads not guilty. [Music] April 2008, nearly 3 years after her son disappeared,
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Deb Gallib is getting a second chance at justice. It's scary. It is scary. We've already
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been through a hung jury once. >> With so much at stake, Mike's sister Chrissy has flown in from California.
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>> Just sick to my stomach nervous. This final chapter for 3 years. I I'm ready for a final outcome.
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>> But the family is concerned because this second trial is in the same county, the
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same courthouse with the same small town jury pool. >> Stand for the jury, please.
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>> I hope for a guilty verdict that we can get a fair trial in Stanton County. >> Under Kansas law, only the defense can
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ask for a change of venue. And prosecutor Barry Disney knows Chad and Shannon want to keep the trial right
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here in Johnson. >> So you're not just convicting this arbitrary defendant that tomorrow you
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never know. You're convicting Gary's son or Mara's uh boy or Chris's, you know, cousin.
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>> And it seems like there are so many people that live in this community they that work for the Floyds that are
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related to them. And I mean, I just can't imagine working with these people and then having to go on the stand
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against them. >> But when the trial finally begins here at the Stanton County Courthouse, that
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is exactly what happens. Relatives and employees of the Floyd family are put in the uncomfortable position of testifying
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against Shannon and Chad, adding to the tension in town. [Music] >> Would you please state your name for the
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court, sir? Chris Floyd. >> Chad's cousin Chris the banker says Chad told him all about his plan to bribe
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Mike Gulib to leave town. >> You were left with the impression that Michael Gulib had accepted $50,000 in
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exchange for relinquishing parental rights. Correct. >> Yes, I was. >> But when Chris's wife, Dara,
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>> I help you God. >> Yes, ma'am. >> ran into Mike at a school event just days before he disappeared. She says
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Mike acted nothing like a man about to abandon his son. >> I remember um Michael telling Mikey as
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he walked by um I love you son. [Music] If they tried to bribe Michael with $50,000,
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Michael would have looked at that and looked at them and laughed in their face. He would not have taken a dime for
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that child. >> There's no evidence he ever did take a dime. Bank records show Chad and Shannon
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redeposited almost all of the money into an out of town bank. >> And these two knuckleheads, frankly,
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that's why they're on trial because of this $50,000 and then Mike missing afterwards.
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compounding their woes, a series of damning comments Chad made to co-workers. >> He got very angry, got in my face, and
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said if he ever if Mike ever tried to get custody of that of little Mikey, he'd kill him.
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>> What did he tell you? >> That it would be easy to uh make him disappear. >> And did he indicate how it would be easy
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to do that? >> Drop him in the whale. And there was this from Chad's own cousin.
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>> Chad said that uh if you had nothing to do with this, why kind of making things
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difficult for the investigators? He said, "Wouldn't you cover? You wouldn't even cover for your wife." And I said,
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"Not for murder." >> And what was his response to that? >> He said, "That's where you and I are
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different." >> But perhaps the most telling comment of all. >> And he said, "They can't prosecute
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without a body." Prosecutors don't have a body, but they do have Mike's DNA in the blood under
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the deck. As to how it got there, >> man. Would you tell the jury your name? >> My name is Lisa Marie Berdett.
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>> Defense attorneys get the state's expert, Lisa Berdett, to admit, well, she's not sure.
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Suppose, they ask, Mike was on the deck once and happened to spit. And you'd find Michael Golib's DNA
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because of the skin cells or blood cells in the saliva. Correct. >> Yes. >> 48 Hours investigator Joe Mura says it's
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all about creating doubt. >> He could have been there once, sneezed, or spit on that portion. His DNA would
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be there. >> Still, no one answers the question investigator Paul Celino poses. >> This is it. This is uh Shay Chad. Why is
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only Mike Golov's DNA on those boards? >> Chad's been on the deck 35,000 times and
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his DNA is not on there. Shannon and the children have been on there every day they've lived there. Their DNA is not on
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there. What are the chances of poor Mike's DNA showing up on the deck and nobody else's?
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>> The evidence is there. >> Now, can we turn to board two? >> Blood doesn't get someplace without
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something something happening. It just doesn't it just doesn't go. With the forensic evidence looking so
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bad for Chad and Shannon, the defense goes on the offense, attacking Mike Golov's character, asking his
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stepbrother, Bo Hines. >> That was a good time there >> about Mike's supposedly heavy drug use
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earlier. >> You told Agent Ber that you and Michael Golib had done cocaine, marijuana,
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methampetamin, and alcohol together. Correct. >> Yes. In fact, there was a drug bust in
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Johnson just days before Mike disappeared. The cops say he was not involved, but a key defense witness.
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>> I appreciate you rushing in for us. Thank you. >> suggests a link. >> He says, "I did something that's going
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to piss a lot of people off." >> Helen Bleven says Mike implied to her that he had tipped off the cops and was
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worried about retaliation. >> He stated to me, he says, "Oh, believe me." He says, "I could disappear and
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nobody'd ever find me." >> Made me mad because I don't know where she's getting her information, but it's
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completely false. >> Mike's friends add Johnson is hardly home to drug kingpins out for revenge.
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[Music] As for that big time bust, >> that is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. People in Johnson don't even
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know what a real drug dealer is. They would go to the city and find one and maybe they would find out what one was.
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That's absolutely ridiculous. >> But the defense isn't finished yet. Another theory that the disappearance is
00:32:51
somehow linked to Mike's girlfriend Brooke and a secret affair. >> So, could have been as long as two
00:32:59
months prior to May 20th, 2005 that Brooke and Mike had been arguing about who's sleeping with who. True.
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>> Yes. But Bose says there was no reason for Mike to worry. >> We talked about it that one time. I
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said, "Man, come on, dude." I said, "There's no way." >> If he had a suspicion that he voiced to
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you, he only voiced this one time. >> Yeah. >> This is just garbage on from the defense
00:33:22
side. >> A drug ring, an affair, a jealous lover. Is it all preposterous, or is it
00:33:30
reasonable doubt? >> Did he confront somebody that was having an affair with Brooke? Did a fight break
00:33:37
out? Did he get hit over the head by the uh lover of Brooke? Who knows? The fact is
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there are other possibilities. >> But this time around, Deb Gallib is confident.
00:33:47
>> We can only hope >> that a jury from Johnson can fairly weigh the evidence against a family
00:33:54
named Floyd. >> I feel a difference in the courtroom. We're hoping for a conviction.
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[Music] It's 7:07 now and time for your hometown news. And with that, here's Eddie Ooa.
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Good morning, Eddie. >> Well, in the news, the first-degree murder case against a couple accused of
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killing the woman's ex-boyfriend in Southwest Kansas is expected to go to the jury today.
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The second Golab murder trial is nearing its end. It's taken a toll on Mike's mother, Deb. You don't live your life as
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if you're going to be put into a fishbowl. >> A fishbowl where the defense highlighted
00:34:44
every problem Mike Golib ever may have had. Consider too that if a desparing Golib returned to drugs anywhere and
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with his fragile heart overdosed in some drug dealers's squalid drug den or shooting gallery, then other people
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unknown to any of us had a motivation to get rid of his body and dispose of it to
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protect their drugdeing enterprise. eyes. >> I thought they could do anything they
00:35:20
wanted to because Michael wasn't there to defend himself. >> So, you felt they're putting the victim
00:35:25
on trial? >> You bet. It was Michael's life that was on trial. It wasn't Chad and Shannon
00:35:31
that was on trial. >> Especially hurtful, she says, was defense attorney Kurt Karn's insistence
00:35:38
that since Mike's body's never been found, he may not even be dead. Maybe he's on a beach in Mexico with shades on
00:35:46
going suckers. Maybe that's the last scene of this movie. Huh? Got my revenge. I ain't
00:35:53
paying child support to nobody now. >> Prosecutor Rick Gwyn closes his case, urging jurors to ignore the rhetoric and
00:36:03
focus on the reason. There are two people in this entire world that had the motivation
00:36:12
to to kill Michael Gold that day. They wanted him out of the picture. He was an impediment to their future. Chad and
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Shannon Floyd. Thank you. >> Ladies and gentlemen, the jury, you've now received all of the evidence. It's
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time for you to go to the jury room and commence your deliberation. >> Good job, brother.
00:36:34
We'll win. >> The defense sounds cocky, but Deb Golib also is feeling upbeat. >> Oh, I'm I'm very optimistic with this
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jury. Um I believe the evidence has come across better. The prosecutors were much
00:36:50
more prepared because they knew what the defense was coming in with. But after 3 hours that first day and
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only two hours the next morning comes an all too familiar message from the jurors.
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We have a hung jury. People of extreme adamant about their positions what to do.
00:37:15
I gave you this instruction before and >> try again. The judge says sending the panel back.
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>> Maybe they're afraid to make a decision. Maybe they can't live with it on their
00:37:25
conscience that they've sent somebody to prison. >> Two more days of deliberations and then
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for guilty or not guilty. >> It is over. Another hung jury. The vote split 7 to five. Unclear which way.
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>> This is really disgusting. Unheard of. I don't understand with all the evidence that we have that they
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can't come to a a right decision. He was my grandson and they get away with him.
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>> You guys have any comment about it? >> Shannon and Chad Floyd simply walk out
00:38:24
of the courtroom, free to return to normal life, at least for now. >> You happy that the jury is hung, Chad?
00:38:31
Shannon. >> Neither has anything to say. The exasperated prosecutors do, however,
00:38:40
vowing they will try this case a third time. >> Two hung juries isn't going to discourage us. We'll be there until the
00:38:47
bitter end. >> An announcement that infuriates the defense. >> Apparently, the attorney general's
00:38:52
office is more interested in getting on TV than they are justice. >> But 7 months later, those same
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prosecutors have changed their tune. There was a concern if we went a third time on the evidence that's already been
00:39:09
uncovered that it would result in a third hung jury. >> There will be no next trial for the
00:39:15
Floyds. Prosecutors announce all charges are dropped and won't be filed again unless some new evidence surfaces. They
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will never find evidence incriminating Chad and Shannon Floyd because no such evidence exists, nor did it ever exist.
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>> For Chad and Shannon, it's total vindication. For Deb Gallib, total defeat. The Floyds
00:39:43
are free. Her son is gone. And she has no idea where her grandson even is. As soon as they got their freedom, Chad
00:39:54
and Shannon skipped town with Mikey. Deb Gulib's pleas to Shannon to see him went
00:40:01
nowhere. >> And she just flatly refused to let me see Mikey. I don't know where Mikey is.
00:40:08
I have no clue. >> We We used to be friends. We used to be chummy. And I just I just want to ask
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her what >> how are you doing? Why? I don't understand. But a year after the trial,
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48 Hours investigators tracked Shannon down, living in Burlington, Colorado with Mikey and her other son. A source
00:40:29
told investigator Paul Celino that Chad is rarely seen with Shannon anymore. >> He went out and obtained a commercial
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driver's license and has been driving a semitr. And Mike Gulib, forever California Mike
00:40:46
to his pals, is officially still missing. He was a great father. He was a great son.
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[Music] I was very proud of my son. Do you think you'll get justice? >> Maybe not on this earth, but eventually,
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yes. Shannon and Chad will get theirs in the end. Whether we do it or God. [Music]
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