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November 16, 2023 / 01:14:15

This episode covers the tragic events surrounding the 2007 shooting involving Officer Bruce McKay, Leo Kenny, and Gregory Floyd. Key discussions include the traffic stop that escalated into violence, the backgrounds of the individuals involved, and the aftermath of the incident.

On May 11, 2007, Leo Kenny was pulled over by Officer Bruce McKay for an expired registration. The situation escalated when Kenny fled the scene, leading to a violent confrontation where McKay was shot and killed.

Gregory Floyd, a bystander, intervened by shooting Kenny after witnessing the altercation. The episode discusses Floyd's background, including his military history and previous encounters with law enforcement.

The hosts analyze the actions of Officer McKay, questioning his decision-making during the traffic stop and the implications of his conduct. They also reflect on the broader issues of law enforcement and community relations.

Listeners are encouraged to consider the complexities of the case, including mental health issues and the consequences of the actions taken by all parties involved.

TLDR

The episode discusses the 2007 shooting involving Officer McKay, Leo Kenny, and Gregory Floyd, analyzing the events and their implications.

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let's talk some true crime [Music] [Music] d on May 11th 2007 Leo left work at Agway
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this is a farm equipment and garden supply chain around 6: p.m. he and his best friend and cooworker and now
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roommate Caleb mcau got into Leo's powder blue 1984 Toyota Celica Supra for their evening the two picked up a handle
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of vodka and cranberry juice for a little mixer five out of five bottle caps Leo and Caleb drove down Route 116
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toward East and traveling at 45 to 47 mph the speed limit in this area is 35 mph but soon a police SUV this is a
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Chevy Tahoe that's heading toward them from the opposite direction is spotted so Leo slowed down trying to avoid
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getting pulled over driving the Tahoe was none other than Corporal Bruce McKay McKay saw that the registration sticker
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on the Toyota was expired officer McKay flipped on his lights made a u-turn and now he's chasing down the Toyota
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according to Caleb Leo pulled his car into the first available dirt turnout on the side of routes 116 we have dashboard
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footage of this and this video will also be at our website at true Crim garage.com the two sat in the vehicle
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while officer McKay called in a request for another unit to provide backup on the call McKay said he pulled over Leo
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Kenny Sugar Hill PD heard this call and was quickly in route then officer McKay got out of his vehicle now for those
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that have not seen this video online there is no audio for this portion of the video and McKay is just off camera
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as he approaches the driver's side window so we can't see him all we know about this portion of the stop is what
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Caleb later told investigators Caleb says he observed the following from the passenger seat McKay asked for Leo's
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license and registration without telling him why he pulled him over Leo refused and asked that another officer be called
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to the scene Caleb says officer McKay refused this request Leo started making calls on his cell phone but failed to
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get a hold of anyone and then sudden suddenly Leo sped off leaving officer McKay's vehicle sitting in the dirt off
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of the side of Route 116 Caleb says Leo was concerned and Afraid of the traffic stop and afraid of
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Officer McKay Leo was in route to his family's property which was not far away at all this because Leo wanted there to
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be Witnesses in case something should happen yeah and to be clear he's not speeding at like 100 miles an hour he
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just drives off off yeah that's one thing that I thought was interesting about this portion of the video he's
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clearly not speeding away but officer McKay jumps in his vehicle and gives Chase he is racing at a much higher rate
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of speed in my opinion well right to catch up with him with the siren and lights on just a few hundred yards
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before the east in line mck passed Leo and slowed to a stop forcing Leo's Toyota to a halt behind him K turned the
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Tahoe around to face Leo's car and motioned for Leo to back up into uh a dirt driveway this is a wide dirt
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driveway owned by the McKenzie family Leo gestured out the window with his hand indicating to McKay that he wanted
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to to pass or as Caleb would say proceed to his family's property McKay was having none of this meanwhile a gray
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Chevy silver pickup truck can be seen in the background of the dash cam footage stopped on the shoulder of Route 116 and
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presumably observing all of this Leo backed onto the dirt driveway and McKay paused for a few seconds and then
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Advanced his vehicle his bumper physically pushing Leo's car up against a front end loader that was parked there
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I think it's safe to say he rammed rammed Leo's car rammed him and pushed him into the this front end loader then
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suddenly the audio around this time kicks in and we hear the blaring sound of the siren McKay enters the frame on
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the right side striding up to Leo's open window and immediately releasing a heavy
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stream of pepper spray forcibly into the vehicle spraying both occupants McKay turns to jog away and then an arm comes
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out of the driver's side window holding a handgun shots are fired in Rapid succession and we can hear McKay
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groaning and pain then the car driven by Leo backs up turns and drives off to the
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right out of the frame the dash cam video ends there but this is not the end of this encounter here's what we know
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happened from multiple witness statements one thing that gets thrown in here captain that that may be of some
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interest to some is that apparently totally uncharacteristically of Officer McKay he was not wearing his bulletproof
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vest on this day yeah he was known to always wear his vest so one bullet went through McKay's arm and four hit him in
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his side McKay likely in shock stumbled across the road dripping blood trying to
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pull his gun out of his holster and that's when Leo backed up and drove in his Direction running his car right into
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the back of Officer McKay Caleb later told investigators that he thought this was accidental after all Leo was likely
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at least partially blinded by the pepper spray right but then Leo backed up and ran the Toyota forward right into McKay
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now now the Toyota is stuck because this vehicle is now on top of the cop as stated in Bad Blood if the the
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first attempt was an accident the second certainly was not and I tend to believe
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this I I tend to believe it none of it's an accident I mean before you hit the officer with your car you pulled a gun
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and shot him multiple times this horrific event still is not over sadly the other vehicle we
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mentioned the pickup truck that was sitting on the roadway a few hundred yards away witnessing this whole thing
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had two passengers inside the driver was teenager Gregory P Floyd in the passenger seat was his father Gregory W
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Floyd the senior Floyd walked over and grabbed officer McKay's dropped service weapon off of the ground he checked that
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it was loaded as he walked toward the Toyota's passenger side and he raised his arm and he shot into the car
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shattering the window and hitting the driver Leo in the head and the neck the bullets whistled over Caleb's back as he
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bent over his knees terrified Floyd yelled to his son to call for help on McKay's Cruiser radio
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Floyd Jr as we're calling him he's not technically a junior grabbed the radio in McKay's empty Cruiser and radioed in
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officer down officer down I don't you need to come I don't know where you need to you need to come the police officer I
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think he's dead the people that the officer was trying to stop all of a sudden just started shooting at him and
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then my dad had me stop and then he tried to help the officer that was on the call now according to Caleb as soon
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as Floyd shot Le without warning Floyd ordered Caleb to grab Leo's gun and get out of the car or he's going to shoot
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him in the face Caleb was convinced that Floyd would shoot him so he decided to not touch the gun he refused to touch
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the gun in fact not wanting to give Floyd an excuse to shoot him which is probably the move that saves his life
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[ __ ] man I don't know if I would have been that quick on my head feet to come up with that in that situation
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especially when you're you're I mean you're terrified instead Caleb sat in the dirt
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outside the car with his hands in the air terrified and in tears Floyd took Leo's gun from inside the car
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and then took off his shirt to make a tourniquet for the downed officer so now Floyd is shirtless his huge belly
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hanging out holding two weapons both pointed at Caleb dad B when officer Philip Blanchard arrived on the scene
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and told Floyd to drop the weapons he had to do so a number of times including using some Choice language before Floyd
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complied but saying something like easy son I'm quicker than you yeah is so strange then Floyd and officer Blanchard
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hoisted the Toyota off of Officer McKay so that a nurse could give him CPR McKay
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had several lacerations on his face including having lost the tip of his nose his skull is fractured he had a
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shattered pelvis and of course the gunshot wounds his intestines Spilled Out of a severe wound in his abdomen as
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he looked on Greg Floyd said about McKay quote he's [ __ ] the cops yelled at him
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to shut up McKay is still alive at this time you know CPR is being performed right you can't have this guy in the
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background saying the guy's not going to make it people give up in those situations unfortunately the CPR was too
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little too late for McKay who was then pronounced dead at the hospital meanwhile no one at the scene checked to
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see whether Leo had a puls at this time he did not and he too was in fact dead and it's definitely a disturbing video
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to watch knowing that both these individuals lost their lives that's what was strange for me Captain was going
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into it I knew what the outcome was going to be but watching it it was it's still disturbing it just happen so fast
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it's it's like chaos happens so quickly you can't really prepare yourself for what you're about to see so let's talk
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about Gregory Floyd The Man Who so calmly walked up and shot 24-year-old Leo Kenny in the head the man that's
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faster than you are 49-year-old Gregory Floyd was a former Marine and offthe grid backwoodsman he and his wife and
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son also named Gregory lived just below the poverty line Floyd had had 16 back surgeries and was relying on social
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security disability checks to get by his wife was in a car accident and used a cane to walk and she rarely left the
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house The Floyds purchased their property with the proceeds of a disability settlement Floyd got after a
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back injury he suffered on the job most of their money went to pay for medications Floyd was diabetic he had a
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heart attack in 2006 and was on 22 different medic ation including anti-depressants the older Gregory Floyd
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father Floyd had been arrested in Georgia in 1981 for selling PCP and pot and was prohibited by law from owning
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Firearms which did not prevent him from keeping lots of guns stashed away at his
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home he and his wife apparently were both big gun enthusiasts about 10 years before the
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fatal traffic stop the police were sent out to the Floyd property when neighbors
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turned Floyd in for firing automatic weapons on his property at night on multiple occasions they told police that
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Floyd became paranoid when he took his medications both sets of neighbors appear to be afraid of Floyd obtaining a
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search warrant for Floyd's Home Police found six guns this is in a May 1997 search Floyd handed them over without
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incident but the next day Floyd threatened to sick his attack dog on and shoot a meter reader who was just doing
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his job on the Floyd property when police came to arrest him for this incident Floyd went off on a
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rant about his constitutional rights he raved to the cops I know you wear vest so I will have to put it right between
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your eyes I'm an ex-marine and I don't miss while police were cuffing him Floyd tried to knee one of them in the groin
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he posted $150 bail and later pled guilty to attempted assault of a State Trooper he received a suspended prison
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sentence of one to three years on the condition that he stay out of trouble it wasn't until after this conviction that
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his felony arrest in Georgia was uncovered which revealed that because he had a felony conviction he was not
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supposed to own any guns so he was arrested again and another search conducted of his home resulted in seven
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more guns being confiscated somehow Floyd managed to evade conviction for the threats to the meter reader and the
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gun possession charges and things seemed to calm down for Floyd until this 2007 shooting of Leo Kenny so he could have
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something maybe a couple screws loose or maybe it's just a crazy SOB maybe no screws at all right he he lost all screw
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he's held together by duct tape and chewing gum so back at the scene of the officer McKay and Leo Kenny
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shootings when officer Blanchard asked Floyd if he was okay Floyd said quote I'm fine that was the 43rd person I've
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killed I had three tours in Vietnam I'm a marine I know how to use a gun I don't
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know who the F he is he's talking about Leo I don't know who the f is under the car meaning McKay but godamn nobody's
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going to run somebody over and just run them down two times right in front of me
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I've been around the world and I'm not putting up with that crap this is quoted in the book bad blood I mean I I don't
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know like you review this and you feel like you're you're reading a movie script well you know it's a
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officer so I I mean it takes a lot of balls to get out of your vehicle with no weapon after you see a officer Gunn down
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or no screws as we pointed out right and so um I don't know well the day after the
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shootings the New Hampshire attorney general held a press conference that stated that officer McKay's d Cam and
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Radio Calls had provided the following information McKay observed a Toyota driving on route6 was speeding and had
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expired registration I want to cut in for a minute here I have no idea how McKay
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would have saw the expired tags the expiration on these tags right they're they're they're
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traveling toward one another it seems like a difficult thing to spot and I know that in some states they don't even
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put the tag on the front of the vehicle but that that's just an an aside here right well unless they they do have
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computers that can read the license plate is is it possible that something triggered it for him that he
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didn't have to visual I got you that makes all he had to do was drive past him you're right I I just wonder about
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the technology in an area that has three full-time police officers but but who knows anyway he he's got he's got
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supervision either way and he saw that it was expired the the statement goes on to say
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when pulled over the driver Leo Kenny asked for another officer then drove away McKay pursued and overtook McKay
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then pulled in front of Kenny's car forced it off the road and used pepper spray on the driver and his passenger
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Kenny then drew a handgun and shot McKay then ran him over another area man GRE gory Floyd observed the shooting from
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his truck he retrieved officer McKay's gun he then shot Kenny when he told authorities Kenny refused to put down
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his gun the Attorney General concluded quote Gregory Floyd's actions were Justified based upon dangerous
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circumstances confronted with efforts to assist McKay end quote Floyd would not be charged and officer McKay died a hero
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I wanted to make sure we read that statement because there's a lot of people that have a lot of questions
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speculation and suspicions regarding this whole thing that went down well we have crazy Floyd saying
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that he doesn't know who Leo is or McKay but there's some speculation that he actually knew officer McKay yes I was
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looking for good proof on that speculation to which I could not find it could you no but I certainly saw the
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speculation we're not talking about an area where a ton of people live there and the the other weird thing too so
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you'd know the officers well but then you have to wonder does McKay know Floyd right it seems likely Floyd would know
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McKay or know of McKay because you only have three officers but there's also speculation that Floyd was leaving from
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the same place that Leo Kenny and Caleb had just left what I heard as a rumor is
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Leo and his buddy are buying their booze buying their cranberry juice and Floyd sees them and actually calls McKay to
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let McKay know hey your buddy Leo is here and he has some booze on him mhm and then that's how McKay uh started
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pursuing Leo now again I don't know other than the speculation I've heard in multiple
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places I can't find that to be fact well after the funerals for the two dead men
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a ground swell of anger and protest began some people believe that officer McKay was hardly the innocent victim
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hero While others believe that Leo got what he deserved and still others question why exactly convicted felon
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Gregory Gregory Floyd was permitted to shoot someone to death and walk away newspapers demanded the release of
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officer K's dash cam footage suspecting that he had antagonized Leo tensions ran
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so high that officials they formed a committee to encourage an exchange of facts instead of rumors and grudges the
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committee did not take sides but issued a report that said that it's likely both
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murders could have been prevented if quote either Leo Kenny had more respect for the law or Bruce McCay had more
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skill at Conflict Management end quote or both is where you take that statement a little bit further yeah or if Leo
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Kenny wasn't carrying a gun so want to get your thoughts here because we discussed our thoughts a bit on the
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first arrest from 2003 now we have this this double shooting here where the first video my very basic and general
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opinion of the two the first video Leo is annoying defant to the end he won't let up he's pushing and pushing and
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pushing and pushing the officer I actually think that McKay handled the first incident very well I I don't know
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that I give him an A+ I give him like a B minus which I think is acceptable right I I have like the a total reverse
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of opinion on this situation I almost feel like McKay should have been in total control I I
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won't say that he got what he deserved that seems like too cruel of a statement or a thought for me to even have yeah
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that is but it really feels to me like this is the reversal where McKay was really pushing the envelope and really
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could have just controlled this situation in a much better manner no one had to be killed that day let alone two
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people here's a difficult thing though is McKay knows Leo for now several years we now know that his behavior his Antics
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his aggression his violence is ramping up so you have to keep that in mind that this officer knows this this individual
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very well I question how did he know Leo was there I question was the actual reason uh did he get a call from Floyd
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did he pull him over and then see that the the registration was expired and I was able to ask my father retired police
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officer retired Detective Ive what do you see in this video and one of the things that he thought was interesting
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was when you are following a car and you are the lone officer that you wouldn't make a move to get in front of that car
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protocol would be just to follow that car until backup comes or until that car stops we don't see that here that makes
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me believe that he knew Floyd was behind him that he knew he knew Floyd and possibly friends with him because he
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makes a maneuver as if there's two officers there and there wasn't then you get in front of Leo and then you ram his
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car now I don't know if that was an accident or if that was on purpose but again you know this individual you're
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the officer you're the one that's trying to you should be controlling the situation not escalating it not throwing
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gasoline onto a fire if you know that this individual is not stable maybe not mentally stable you are throwing
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gasoline on that fire by ramming that individual and I think you can tell that by the passenger in Leo's car and in the
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eyewitness and then you go in again instead of waiting for officers instead of uh waiting for backup you go in
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instead of trying to talk to Leo you go and pepper spray him throwing gasoline on the fire
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thoughts here Captain mhm and you're going to hear every one of them we don't have time for your
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thoughts this is just like a weird weird colliding of Worlds here for me cuz what I feel like is we have four
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people in the middle of the situation well five if you include uh the younger Gregory Floyd who was driving the
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truck the real victim to me seems like this Caleb individual that's sitting passenger seat in Le 's car he seems
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completely terrified and almost Frozen in the moment not really knowing what to do not knowing how to react and here's
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the other thing had we had other individuals just not react it wouldn't have gone this far I feel like we have
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McKay jumping his vehicle in front of Leos because he's coming up at the end of his jurisdiction at the line that
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cuts off his jurisdiction I almost feel like this is a situation where McKay thought you know what I'm going to pin
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him down inside my jurisdiction because he fled the scene I'm going to do some uh property damage to his his vehicle
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and I'm going to get out I'm going to pepper spray this kid and when the other officer shows up which I know is in
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route according to my radio or at least according to what we've been told was said the audio is conveniently not there
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or maybe inconveniently not there I don't know how you want to spin that but the easiest thing to do would have
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been like you just said before the break to continue to pursue Leo Kenny he's going to run out of gas or stop
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eventually we know according to Caleb that he was intent on going to his family's property you could have simply
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followed him there stayed inside your vehicle and when the other officer arrived the other officer could have
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taken over the situation but possibly the other officer gets killed because I think there's enough evidence to prove
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that there was something happening with Leo Kenny mentally um with his mental health I think the look The the victims
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are the family of these two individuals because both their deaths are caused by cause and effect and and
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adding fuel to the fire and never backing down it's almost like these two bulls that were on a collision course
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for the last four years right and that's that's what I'm getting at cause and effect I think the most effective way to
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control the situation would have been to continue to to follow the suspect right
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and wait for the other officer to take over the situation we can't get into wha ifs after that we we just don't know um
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but there is protocol that could have been followed and I think that McKay went out of his way to not follow that
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protocol I think he went out of his way to really turn into a bully in this situation where I didn't see that in the
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2003 arrest the other thing too and I I want to throw these other stories aside because I really wanted to form an
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opinion on what I thought of the situation inside of what we see on camera inside what we hear from the
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witness statements later I didn't want to get into this whole Floyd and McKay were friends I couldn't I couldn't find
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any proof that the two of them were friends it's just some speculation and I saw a lot of speculation on that the
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issue being here is I don't think the two types line up well to be friends one it doesn't seem like Floyd had any
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friends it seemed like it would be very difficult to be a friend of his either way it's a two-way street yeah the thing
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I argue is that the community is so small that that it would be almost impossible not to think of them as
00:35:00
acquaintances and then the other thing too is we have on the reverse of that M who by most accounts his personality was
00:35:09
he was black and white he was wrong and right and he wouldn't I don't know that he would have been friends with
00:35:15
somebody um of Floyd's character or past so that one seems a little weird to me and that's why I wonder if we just have
00:35:25
a weird situation where three Worlds Collide where you have Kenny who seems to be spiring out of control and then we
00:35:34
have M who with inside this situation is obviously losing control and then Floyd
00:35:40
who knows when's the last time he had any control at all it's just a weird weird tragic situation all foed with bad
00:35:49
filled with bad behavior and fueled with bad blood well and to back up the cause
00:35:54
and effect we have a retired office officer saying hey that's a maneuver to get in front of the person that's not
00:36:01
something You' do unless you had backup so he saw that as being wrong he saw ramming Leo's car as being a way that
00:36:09
you're escalating the situation and then you get out you're not protected if you
00:36:14
were so fearful why isn't your gun drawn uh why aren't you trying to talk to the
00:36:20
individual you do none of that you go up and and pepper spray so those are multiple things that retired police
00:36:27
officer which will normally always go to bat for a police officer saying those don't make sense to me those aren't
00:36:34
those aren't actions I would have done yeah and I I tell you what this might not be a a popular opinion to have but I
00:36:43
do believe that the the Floyd shooting Kenny I agree with the decision that it was justifiable I also think that really
00:36:53
that committee broke it down to the best of what what I believe yeah but wasn't that ruled within like 24 hours yeah but
00:37:02
I'm not I'm not saying I never said that I agree with the time frame in which You
00:37:06
released your your decision I just agree with the the decision yeah right my twoo
00:37:12
my two problems is again because you have a grieving family take a little more time try to be a little more
00:37:20
understanding of the situation and on top of that when you release this V uh video footage why is the audio
00:37:29
compromised was this compromised by Officer McKay or was this compromised by the committee who released this video MH
00:37:39
because that to me seems suspicious and and I think uh the Kenny family has the right to go hey this
00:37:49
doesn't this doesn't make a lot of sense on the same token we have a family that has been dealing with the Antics
00:37:57
and the behavior and I think the mental instability of Leo and I and I wish again we just don't talk
00:38:07
about mental health enough enough and I think sometimes when and somebody's going down the wrong path we we start
00:38:13
thinking that that's alcohol abuse or drug abuse when it really might just be uh imbalance and somebody that needs
00:38:21
mental health help yeah I I do like that committee's decision or or at least their statement of what they said in
00:38:28
regards to both of these murders could have been prevented if either one of these individuals would have behaved
00:38:34
differently or had more respect for the law or each other right you know I think
00:38:40
that that is really what I see here as well and then my thoughts on the audio itself I almost feel like I would like a
00:38:49
statement in regards to that why it is what it is on the the public view of the dash cam footage I almost my my own
00:38:58
personal belief would be that if it was compromised before it was released I feel like they would just have removed
00:39:06
all of the audio rather than have it kick on at the end to notify us that hey it's it's not there and now it's here I
00:39:14
actually don't believe it kicked on at the end I mean I'm telling you it did unless somebody went in it to the video
00:39:22
I've watched it when when it starts to fade in it's it's almost like uh there's a gate almost like there's a gate on the
00:39:31
audio or that the that the audioos just turn way down and because something happens whether it's the gunshots or the
00:39:41
sirens blaring that that's where why you can hear that loud peak of sound but those low-level of a car driving or
00:39:53
McKay talking and radio radio something in would be low enough of a volume that we wouldn't be able to hear right and
00:40:02
that's what I'm getting at I'm wondering if that is something that McKay would have had control over inside the vehicle
00:40:10
yeah I just wish either one or both of these individuals would have had more respect for each other and and there's
00:40:17
no reason either one of them should have lost their lives over this but I guess that's not the complete end of
00:40:24
speculation in regards to to officer McKay because there's some discussion out there that he may be involved or
00:40:33
have some knowledge of another case that we've talked about several times on this
00:40:37
show and that's The Disappearance of Mara Murray and True Crime garage was lucky enough to speak with Aaron Lin
00:40:45
someone who has spent a lot of time looking into the mara Murray case [Music] and I want to thank you for taking the
00:41:05
time to speak with me you're the host of 107° a podcast about the missing person
00:41:13
Mara Murray and one of the leading experts on this case I appreciate that how did you get involved in the mar
00:41:22
Murray case it was sort of a slow process process slow build but I actually was on the track team with Mora
00:41:31
we weren't friends but I remember when she disappeared and then a few years ago I
00:41:37
saw that there was this podcast and I started following up and trying to see like where the case was and learning
00:41:43
more and saw that there was a lot of misinformation out there and thought I might be able to help in some way and
00:41:54
what's your degree in itical science and I have a masters in quantitative methods
00:42:00
in political science and I'm ABD in a PhD program so this was just kind of a labor of love yeah I mean I think that
00:42:09
there was a lot of things that I identified with with the Murray's and the idea that my family
00:42:17
could be going through the same thing was sort of a horrifying thought so um that was definitely part of it as well
00:42:24
so when did Bruce show up on your radar as you looked into the marur case maybe like a year or two
00:42:32
into it I was looking through the dispatch logs and I saw that there was this officer who was unresponsive and at
00:42:39
a at a motel like around 9:30 the nightm disappeared and I thought oh well Mora was looking for a motel maybe I'll maybe
00:42:48
this has something to do with something and so I looked other places where he was in the log and saw that he seems to
00:42:58
have dropped everything that he was doing the minute after the 911 call came in from Faith Westman where they first
00:43:07
reported Mor's accident and from that point from 7:28 forward he was essentially off radio and
00:43:16
unaccounted for so that's what was the first thing that made me a little bit curious about what he was doing Samara
00:43:23
rexor car in 2004 M there's neighbors and we know there's a bus driver that is calling 911 to report this wreck right
00:43:33
this officer Bruce McKay is responding to a suicide call yeah so it was a pretty serious one too because the guy
00:43:43
had had his guns confiscated by police earlier in the day and there's actually a note in the log that says they don't
00:43:50
think that they got them all so then later on in the evening he's threatening suicide and may have guns and may have
00:43:58
um some anger toward police so I would think that that's a situation where you know it's pretty big emergency do you
00:44:06
know what time that call came in so that call came in just before 720 I think it
00:44:12
was either 719 or 717 or something but McKay was the first officer dispatched and that was at 720 so they dispatch him
00:44:21
to respond to this uh suicide call do we know if he would have passed Mara on the
00:44:29
route to this suicide so there's no way to really know where he was when he was dispatched um but there is some evidence
00:44:39
to suggest that he may have been in Woodsville because he made a call earlier in the night around 7:08 p.m.
00:44:47
that appears to be a call to butson Liquors which is in Woodsville so that doesn't mean he was
00:44:55
certainly doesn't mean that he was in Woodsville but he may have been and then you say that he he goes off radio around
00:45:03
what time uh so he's not heard after after he drops whatever he's doing and goes
00:45:09
somewhere else at 7:28 p.m. he's not heard from for two hours and dispatch contacts him and he communicates that
00:45:17
he's at a motel but then doesn't communicate why and isn't responsive when they try to get in touch with him
00:45:24
again so basically the idea once he hits your radar is you see that there's a cop
00:45:32
working in the department that should have been investigating this crash I don't know if he should have been
00:45:39
investigating it necessarily but I do think it's quite a coincidence that he he cleared out of this call that he had
00:45:47
been on his way to for 7 minutes seven or eight minutes before clearing it so something had to have happened or I I
00:45:55
mean he might have run out of gas like anything could have happened but if he cleared it for a reason that was work
00:46:03
related the only explanation would be that he was going to Mor's accident because there's nothing else that was
00:46:11
occurring at the time nothing so we know that multiple officers were dispatched to this call right is there any
00:46:18
explanation of why he would be dispatched to this call and then not show up uh not that I'm aware of I mean I
00:46:27
think it's possible they just decided not to send him and send somebody else in his place like within 15 seconds of
00:46:35
him clearing it there was another dispatched officer that was sent out so it seems like they wanted three people
00:46:42
there right and um and as to why why this third officer the fourth really and not McKay I don't I don't know I mean I
00:46:54
guess you probably know a little bit about McKay's personality at this point maybe it's not the best situation to
00:47:01
send him into uh there could be a lot of reasons but there's no we don't know the
00:47:06
answer but it's on record that he was cleared from the call yes we do he was he was well it just says it was cleared
00:47:14
so it the implication is that he was cancelled out of the call and we we don't know why and I actually went to
00:47:22
the Littleton Police Department and got the police report of that incident just to make sure that there wasn't something
00:47:28
wrong in the log and maybe he did show up but that wasn't the case there were only three officers and they were the
00:47:35
other three officers that were listed in the log mck did not show up right but are you saying that the department told
00:47:42
him not to uh I don't know whether they told him not to or whether he um chose not to for
00:47:50
some reason the problem is that the dispatch logs are a little bit hard to interpret the shorthand of and
00:47:59
so I don't want to I don't want to assume too much but it does say in there that there was an
00:48:07
officer that was had referenced that he was covering a town and asking for another officer to come out it seems
00:48:17
possible that some one of the officers was asking to have another officer be sent in his place place and it just so
00:48:26
happens that that is what happened the first police officer is on the scene with the mar Murray crash at what time
00:48:37
at 7:46 according to the dispatch log and we have no known whereabouts of Bruce McCay for roughly two hours yeah
00:48:48
and then for the rest of the evening as well so even after he he did communicate
00:48:56
to dispatch that he was at that Motel after that he didn't respond either and he never there's no record of him
00:49:03
signing off his shift or anything like that so pretty much the rest of the night we don't know where he was now did
00:49:10
they have to return vehicles at the end of their shift or they did they just drive home in in their own vehicles that
00:49:15
I'm not sure honestly um I'm not sure so other than this call that he was supposed to attend and he never showed
00:49:25
up and then we have no record of his whereabouts other than he claims he was at a hotel uh with no explanation why he
00:49:33
is there it it seems like he couldn't tell his Department was at the hotel because
00:49:39
I was taking a nap but other than that and other than his behavior towards because his behavior
00:49:48
towards Leo was not the only person he was aggressive towards there was other reports what else what other information
00:49:56
do you find interesting about Bruce well I think that for anyone that knows about
00:50:03
the morar case there's all these questions that don't seem to add up like the timeline and whether or not there
00:50:11
was another officer on scene uh before the first official officer arrived and how Mora disappeared so quickly why
00:50:21
eight firefighters two cops and a neighbor all searched West of the accident and no one even did a
00:50:28
cursory search of the East which was the direction that Mor was heading and that
00:50:34
happened to be McKay's jurisdiction so when you when you sort of plug in McKay and overlay him in this whole
00:50:44
in the whole situation some of these things start to make sense how many eyewitnesses do we have claiming that
00:50:53
they saw a officer at the scene of the crash before the official officer showed up at the crash so just one that I'm
00:51:02
aware of that's witness a so she's the one that drove by approximately 10 minutes before the first reported
00:51:09
officer and said that there was the police SUV nose to noose with the Saturn one of the other things she said was
00:51:16
that she she saw that vehicle a total of three times twice it passed her going in
00:51:23
the same direction on the left and the third time was at the accident scene for that to have been possible for
00:51:31
it to have passed her twice it had to pass her go off somewhere and then come back and double back one thing that
00:51:41
could potentially explain how how and why that might might have happened is if McKay is heading to to this other call
00:51:48
to this Littleton call he hears this accident come in over the radio and says hey I'm right in the area I'll go go to
00:51:56
that he could have doubled back and that's when she sees him the second time and and then the third time was
00:52:02
obviously the accident but the timing works out pretty perfectly for for that to have been the case but we have no
00:52:10
evidence of Bruce radioing in and saying hey I can go to this no we don't but one
00:52:16
of the things that I think I don't want to say like about this Theory but is different from some of the other
00:52:24
theories that have been postulated in this case is that it is potentially falsifiable and you can follow up on it
00:52:32
because what we do know is there's a 25 minute recording that the police have in
00:52:36
Mor's file that has all of the dispatch chatter on it from the time that the um presumably from the time the 911 call
00:52:45
came in for the next 25 minutes so from 727 to 7 52 I guess right and if he cleared it at 728 there's got to be some
00:52:57
chatter there they they refuse to release that recording right now uh it's unclear why they refuse to release a lot
00:53:06
of things yes right which is unfortunate because it might answer this question it
00:53:11
could also answer some of the timeline questions uh regardless like this is something that can be followed up on
00:53:18
well like you said if he passed this witness a to head to the suicide call then another call comes in and Bruce
00:53:28
then thinks I'm right around the corner there's other officers going to the suicide call let me double back passes
00:53:36
witness a again gets to the scene but now once he makes contact or once he arrives at
00:53:46
the scene with Mara this would give him a very small window about 10 minutes to leave the
00:53:53
scene yes I mean it's it's it is short but something something happened and um you know 10 minutes is it's not an
00:54:06
insignificant amount of time really could you tell me off the top of your head how many people were calling into
00:54:12
911 at the time of the crash uh there were two two calls there was two and then out of all the people that you've
00:54:18
talked to is do we have any other eyewitnesses other than those two making those calls not that I'm aware of no
00:54:27
because so we have no other neighbors that were possibly looking outside their window well there was uh there were the
00:54:33
morat they were sort of looking out sporadically they weren't like focused and staring the whole time but they they
00:54:41
did look out a few times and see see somebody walking around the car see they actually saw the car being moved right
00:54:47
during the 2 911 calls though we have uh there's two couples two married couples
00:54:53
that are making the calls mhm so we we have at least a total of four people watching the scene pretty
00:55:02
intensely or or less intensely but my point being is that you have a 10-minute window that's not that large you think
00:55:10
that these individuals would keep checking out their window nobody ever reports anything that suspicious but why
00:55:18
would you if another officer showed up was there for 10 minutes left and then you next time you looked out the window
00:55:28
there's another officer you might not even know that that's a new officer exactly it like I think who better would
00:55:36
be able to hide in plain sight and not necessarily um stand out it's just they look out their window they see blue
00:55:44
lights an officer comes to their door they don't have any reason to think that it wasn't the same officer that they saw
00:55:50
10 minutes before when they looked out their window do we have any evidence uh of sexual assaults that
00:55:59
Bruce might have been responsible for or any violations when he has pulled over other individuals I mean so there
00:56:11
were I know that there were a number of complaints about him I don't know how typical it is for any given officer
00:56:19
to have a series of complaints I mean I'm sure they all have some um right but I think that his tended to be instances
00:56:30
where he failed to deescalate situations and he was certainly um reprimanded for breaking protocol a
00:56:41
number of times and I mean not to be insensitive but he sort of met his demise as a result of breaking protocol
00:56:51
a number of times right Fen his own rules be making up the law instead of enforcing it yeah operating outside of
00:56:59
his jurisdiction um using his own personal vehicle to police stuff that really maybe should have given them a
00:57:09
sign that he shouldn't have been a police officer but uh but then besides that yeah he did have a restraining
00:57:16
order uh taken out against him by his wife for domestic violence and as a result he shouldn't have had a gun at
00:57:25
all which is a problem and according to frankonia police they quote misplaced that
00:57:32
record it disappeared yeah it's funny how audio has disappeared with Bruce McCay and now these records dis
00:57:42
disappear and we have really no knowledge if if if the call to the suicide was canceled or if it
00:57:49
disappeared and then and then he goes off radio for multiple hours comes back back on radio with no
00:57:56
clear reason why and then he disappears again correct and so like you said there
00:58:03
was possibly some domestic violence in his past do we know if Bruce had any uh substance abuse issues
00:58:15
um I I'm reluctant to to talk about that because I I don't know for sure right I have
00:58:26
there are some indications that that could be the case but it's it's really impossible for me to say any
00:58:36
other thing during your investigation of the marur case anything else that has stuck out to you about Bruce McCay um
00:58:46
yeah there's so I don't know if you read the part of about him being a a prosecutor for for the town and for the
00:58:58
state so Not only was he a police officer but he also prosecuted cases and called himself as a witness isn't that
00:59:05
like a conflict of interest yes it is and I don't think there are any other states that do that but in New Hampshire
00:59:12
you can still be a a prosecutor and a police officer even despite the fact that you don't have a law degree so you
00:59:20
can be a prosecutor you can be pretending to be a lawyer without a law degree right and without being held to the same
00:59:26
standards as barred lawyers would be and all of that stuff but anyway so he he would actually make money with every
00:59:34
arrest so because he can he can arrest he can charge them and then he he makes the money Prosecuting them right so I
00:59:43
think in that Boston magazine article it said that he he had like 300 stops compared to the other two officers
00:59:50
combined 11 and yeah I think part of that is some obsession with being in authority and a
00:59:58
power trip and maybe some sadistic Tendencies but also he made money it was just like
01:00:05
basic like he just wanted to make money too right so I think that you know when I when I think about what could have
01:00:12
happened if he did encounter her that night I mean did he try to arrest her for leaving the scene of an
01:00:20
accident when she was just trying to make a cell phone call or anything anything he could have arrested her for
01:00:26
but we don't have so we don't even know if he showed up to tomorrow scene and called that in exactly but that could be
01:00:37
on the audio file of the dispatch log that the cops are are not disclosing to the to the public could be anything else
01:00:49
that you have uncovered about Bruce McCay um so far there's a lot of rumors and I'm
01:00:59
reluctant to talk about the rumors because they are just rumors I'm fine with the speculation I mean we're going
01:01:08
forward knowing that they are rumors is there one that you can throw out well for this is not a rumor he he did
01:01:17
actually take out a second mortgage on his house 3 days later okay um after she disappeared and then an additional line
01:01:24
of credit for I think $110,000 a month later that could be entirely unrelated like I think 2004 the
01:01:34
interest rates were pretty low like historically low so right I mean it could mean nothing at all but I did I
01:01:41
did think that was somewhat interesting and as far as I can tell and from talking to people in his world they're
01:01:51
not sure where that money went or what it was for so that's something that I would if I
01:01:57
had the ability to I would look look into further and then about that specific Hotel I mean he was a single
01:02:05
guy and he was known to stay at that hotel from time to time not really making any judgment there
01:02:16
but it is a place that he seemed to frequent with with um female friends yes but like actual like uh females he'd go
01:02:26
on dates with or whatever um are these paid female friends from what I have been told they
01:02:36
may have yeah they may have been transactional I don't know why I'm dancing around this but because it's not
01:02:42
proven and I I want to be really careful about that but right but yeah they people that worked there had noticed
01:02:51
that he he stayed there well and it's it's weird too you wonder you know infidelity is is very high when
01:03:01
it comes to officers um well he wasn't married at the time either so right but but I'm
01:03:08
saying the ones that are married the the rate of infidelity is pretty high so it's so what's weird to me is you don't
01:03:15
hear from your offic there you don't hear from your officer that doesn't show up to a scene for 2 hours when you do
01:03:23
hear from him he's basically says oh by the way I was at this hotel then you don't hear from him for
01:03:29
the rest of the night to me that would be like some red flag yeah but if this hotel was
01:03:36
something that dispatch knew that McKay would frequent or other officers would go to from time to time then when he
01:03:43
calls back in after two hours and hey I was at the hotel they go oh well we know
01:03:48
why he was there you know what I mean like yeah it seems funny to me that he's coming back and saying hey I was at
01:03:57
that hotel and it doesn't giant red flag for the Department to go okay well that's great that you're at the hotel
01:04:04
why why were you there for two hours why didn't you show up to this call right so
01:04:10
I did hear from Chuck West last year he he did explain to me that McKay was at what he told me was that he was there
01:04:22
that night because he was responding to a theft that had been reported and that's why he wasn't on radio and that's
01:04:29
why he was in in the motel that night so I pulled the records for that incident and it had actually occurred
01:04:39
several days before and uh McKay had filed that report Away by Monday afternoon and so I
01:04:47
don't know if officer West just didn't maybe he confused the police report date with
01:04:55
the uh with the incident date right but he he hasn't responded to my follow-up questions
01:05:03
yet um but when I when I got those reports the what I noticed is that there were more than a few times that McKay
01:05:11
called in at that motel and for walkthroughs late in the evening right and I don't know what a walkth through
01:05:20
is I like my I always interpreted that as when somebody comes home and they see like their door is a little a jar right
01:05:28
and they have the the cops like go through and clear basically make sure that there's no bad guys hiding out
01:05:34
somewhere but I don't know what that means for a hotel necessarily yeah maybe possibly the same thing yeah maybe and I
01:05:43
I know that they did have a bar in a restaurant at that point too they don't anymore but right so it could be a
01:05:49
situation like I know in my small town that there was a restaurant that was connected to a bar that was connected to
01:05:56
a hotel and and that was the primarily primarily a place that truckers and a lot of people coming just for the night
01:06:04
would visit so cops would multiple times a night especially on like Fridays and Saturday nights do walkthroughs of the
01:06:12
bar yeah so so I think I guess that's probably what it is um it's a little unclear but yeah which is tough because
01:06:20
when you're looking into this missing person case and you have a couple things that don't sit well with you you think
01:06:29
that these would be answers that uh department for me okay we have this investigator poking her head around
01:06:40
and bringing up some things to our attention why not just give her the answer I don't know I don't know and
01:06:48
unless you can't well that's possible but I do know that last uh when the oxygen show came out there was a a
01:06:58
person who who came forward with a tip after seeing like the first episode I think and it had to do with McKay and
01:07:08
somebody that lives up in the area and the police took two and a half years to call her back wow yeah and so
01:07:19
and just my impression from speaking to them I believe that they believe that no cop could ever have
01:07:27
anything to do with anything nefarious right but I think that sometimes their bias gets in the way a little bit and
01:07:36
they don't want to look into it because even just looking into it perhaps is offensive in some in some way no I think
01:07:44
there's a lot of cops that they're good guys they're solid guys with solid morals just like my father was a a
01:07:53
street cop and then a detective for many years and when you bring these things to
01:07:59
his attention and having him look at Bruce McKay's videotapes it doesn't make any sense to
01:08:05
him and it almost boggles his mind because that is not his personality that's not his set of moral standards
01:08:12
that's not why he wore the badge to Serve and Protect so it becomes this this thing that they can't even it's
01:08:20
hard for them to wrap their head around right and then they become very defensive of officers in almost every
01:08:29
scenario when I sent the videos to my father about this case I was expecting a laundry list of what Leo did and what
01:08:39
the Bruce did but within his rights as an officer and that is not the feedback I got the feedback I got was these
01:08:48
actions don't make a lot of sense yeah and I mean obviously law enforcement as a topic is very divisive in the mmory
01:08:58
world but and of course you always have those people that think that all cops are Sinister and the other side thinks
01:09:08
all they're all Hees yeah but I think if nothing else what the McKay Leo situation proves is that there are two
01:09:17
sides to law enforcement and there are two sides in that area and one of them that was on duty the night that Mora
01:09:27
disappeared is it likely or not likely that Bruce McKay was involved in The Disappearance of Mara Murray I think
01:09:33
that the most likely outcome is like statistically speaking is probably something we've never heard of and a
01:09:41
person whose name we've never heard but of the theories that are out there I think that this one at least
01:09:51
possible holds a little water it it does and I think it's possible that answering
01:09:56
some of the questions about what ha what he was doing that night could potentially lead to answers about Mora I
01:10:04
think that there is circumstantial evidence for sure that he was headed to her accident and that fact even the
01:10:13
detectives in her case have not disagreed with me about they just say that there's no evidence that he was at
01:10:19
her accident right so there possibly could be evidence that would show was that again like we said there that he
01:10:27
cancelled him being dispatched to the suicide call rerouted himself to go to this crash scene shows up at the crash
01:10:36
scene we know that she's in a state that she didn't want law enforcement there even if he did even if he did show up at
01:10:44
the at the scene there's no evidence that he did anything tomorrow but I think it's something that can be
01:10:50
followed up on and should be followed up on and I think almost the worst case that I think is perhaps the most
01:10:58
possible is that he did show up to the scene she wasn't there he kept going but they don't want to let that out because
01:11:05
of his reputation right because of how it could potentially like blow up in their face well and potentially they
01:11:13
don't have answers because Bruce is deceased we we do not have answers and possibly we'll never know what he was
01:11:22
doing at that hotel for about 2 hours and then what he was doing the rest of his shift do you know what time roughly
01:11:28
his shift ended that night uh I believe that he was on the 4 to 11 or um yeah but it's it's unclear because he
01:11:42
he never doesn't actually sign off so I'm not I'm not positive so it's almost four hours three and a half four hours
01:11:48
of his shift that he's unaccounted for and if if that was my employee I would want to know where they were and
01:11:56
what work they were doing all right Aaron thank you so much for joining us here in the garage what's the best way
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Episode Highlights

  • A Disturbing Encounter
    On May 11, 2007, Leo Kenny's traffic stop escalated into a deadly confrontation with police.
    “Leo was concerned and afraid of the traffic stop.”
    @ 07m 12s
    November 16, 2023
  • The Aftermath of Violence
    Both Leo Kenny and Officer McKay lost their lives in a chaotic series of events.
    “It's definitely a disturbing video to watch knowing that both these individuals lost their lives.”
    @ 15m 12s
    November 16, 2023
  • Gregory Floyd's Justification
    Gregory Floyd shot Leo Kenny after witnessing the police shooting, claiming it was justified.
    “Gregory Floyd's actions were justified based upon dangerous circumstances.”
    @ 22m 15s
    November 16, 2023
  • The Double Shooting Incident
    A discussion on the double shooting and the actions of Officer McKay.
    “No one had to be killed that day, let alone two.”
    @ 26m 15s
    November 16, 2023
  • Mental Health Awareness
    The importance of addressing mental health in high-stress situations is highlighted.
    “We don't talk about mental health enough.”
    @ 38m 07s
    November 16, 2023
  • The Disappearance of Bruce McCay
    Bruce McCay's whereabouts during the night of Mara Murray's disappearance remain a mystery.
    “We don't know where he was.”
    @ 49m 07s
    November 16, 2023
  • Conflicting Reports
    Witnesses claim to have seen an officer at the scene before the official arrival.
    “She saw that vehicle a total of three times.”
    @ 51m 16s
    November 16, 2023
  • Unaccounted Time
    Bruce McCay was unaccounted for for nearly four hours during his shift.
    “I would want to know where they were and what work they were doing.”
    @ 01h 11m 56s
    November 16, 2023
  • J.R. Ward's Latest Novel
    J.R. Ward's latest novel, The Center, mentions True Crime Garage. Check it out!
    “We are forever thankful to Jr Ward!”
    @ 01h 12m 52s
    November 16, 2023
  • Binge Old Episodes
    Catch up on old episodes of True Crime Garage exclusively on the Stitcher app.
    @ 01h 13m 02s
    November 16, 2023
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    Maya solves a font crime with Canva, keeping presentations on brand effortlessly.
    “Open up Canva, one click and the font is on brand!”
    @ 01h 14m 00s
    November 16, 2023

Episode Quotes

  • It's good to be seen and good to see you.
    Liko Kenney /// Part 2 /// 389
  • I don't know who the F he is.
    Liko Kenney /// Part 2 /// 389
  • No one had to be killed that day, let alone two.
    Liko Kenney /// Part 2 /// 389
  • We don't talk about mental health enough.
    Liko Kenney /// Part 2 /// 389
  • Something happened and 10 minutes is not an insignificant amount of time.
    Liko Kenney /// Part 2 /// 389
  • What a interesting case!
    Liko Kenney /// Part 2 /// 389

Key Moments

  • True Crime00:31
  • Shooting Incident04:30
  • Aftermath14:56
  • Chaos Unfolds15:26
  • Mental Health Discussion38:07
  • Missing Officer49:07
  • Witness Accounts51:16
  • Circumstantial Evidence1:10:06

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