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from Clay County North Carolina are looking into The Disappearance of Sean Patrick McDuffie Jr of Calhoun Sean was
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last seen on Sunday December 20th 2015. this is when he planned a trip to North Carolina from which he was scheduled to
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return within a day or two a friend spoke to him by phone on December 21st at about 6 30 pm and that
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is the last contact anyone has had with Sean since [Music] investigators have interviewed several
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people pertaining to this investigation and are continuing to follow up on numerous leads
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his rental vehicle a gray 2015 Dodge 1500 pickup truck was found abandoned on December 30th 2015 in Clay County North
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Carolina the detectives in North Carolina have expressed concerns of Foul Play and
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Sean's disappearance due to evidence uncovered in their jurisdiction Sean Patrick McDuffie Jr is a Caucasian
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male at the time of his disappearance Sean was 27 years old with short dark hair
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and blue eyes he is six foot one inches tall and weighs about 140 pounds anyone with information as to the
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whereabouts of Sean Patrick McDuffie Jr is asked to call the Calhoun Police Department at 706 629-1234
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foreign [Applause] [Music] [Applause] by the end of 2015 Sean Patrick McDuffie Jr according to the state of Georgia was
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officially a missing person on December 20th 2015 before hitting the road Sean asked his ex-wife if he could take his
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kids along for a ride to North Carolina it was going to be a quick trip to drop off his friend Eric Brown Sean's ex-wife
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well she knew better and she said no because Sean likely had more than just dropping off his friend in his plans
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around 9 30 p.m that night Sean picked up Eric Brown and away they went Eric to Clay County North Carolina and Sean into
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a missing persons file now Sean Patrick McDuffie Jr his life was not an easy one
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some kids have a bad childhood Sean he was raised by a monster Sean's earliest years would be filled with severe
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violence from the start Sean and his little sister Megan had the odds stacked against them as children life at home
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was lived on the edge and full of fear their father Sean Patrick McDuffie senior was a drug-addicted tyrant a man
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who used fear tactics and pain to control his wife and children the family only survived because of the kid's
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mother this is Kathy McDuffie while she had stopped loving Sean senior a long time ago she stayed with him because he
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had warned her many times about what would happen to her if she decided to leave him
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so Kathy did everything she could to try to keep the peace and try to provide a normal childhood for her children but to
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do that to keep the peace she knew her and her children they had to follow the rules that were laid down by Sean senior
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an unreasonable and selfish man well not only would he beat his wife but to escalate things even further to torture
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the children he would beat his wife in front of the children now when little Sean Jr was about seven years old he
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would at times this is at the point where he's going to begin to stand up to Sean senior but one time his dad locked
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Sean Jr out of the house and so Sean Junior broke a window to get back into the house and he had enough now mind you
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even at this young age he is going to know how to be extremely violent himself because he has witnessed extreme
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violence so much in his young life so Sean Junior goes and grabs a knife from the kitchen and he takes it it over to
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Sean senior and he holds the knife against his father like I said this was when he was just seven years old like
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you can't even you can't even say that things are spiraling out of control in the house because by now it's Ariana way
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out of control and the kids are just seven and four years old so extreme chaos basically inside this
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house yeah this is not a house party of violence this is a hotel party of violence so staying there eventually
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became impossible Kathy realized the path her family was on could not continue right and what a difficult
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situation when you have kids involved but you have a situation where if you leave you are been threatened with
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possible the murder of you possibly the murder of your your children but you also are stuck in a situation where if
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you stay this is going to continue oh yeah the violence is going to continue and if you if you stay it might
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be a death sentence as well right it could escalate to that and it seems to be on that path and you know it took a
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long time but somehow Kathy She Found the courage to leave but you see no one leaves Sean senior he found Kathy and he
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found the kids and he ordered Sean Jr and Megan to sit on the couch and then he explained to everyone to Kathy and to
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his children that nobody leaves him and he demonstrated what happens when somebody
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does leave him he then proceeded to Slit Kathy's throat in front of his shocked children
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Sean senior fled the scene and the kids helped their mother and called 9-1-1 the
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authorities arrived and transported Kathy to the hospital and with three eyewitnesses law enforcement started the
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case against Sean senior and the amount of trauma that these children had to deal with I mean it's unimaginable well
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this horrible crime took place in March of 1996 so Sean Jr and his little sister
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Megan the kids they would have only been about like eight and five or nine and six years old at the time so they're
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still very little kids yeah Sean senior he was tracked down and arrested he was charged with and later convicted of
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aggravated assault and two counts of Cruelty to Children for this he gets 20 years in the can Kathy survived this
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horrific attack but the pain was far from over as she suffered through a long rehab from the injuries he didn't get
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charged with attempted murder um he may have but the conviction was for aggravated assault
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so I I was not happy about that one yeah I don't know what he was trying to slit
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his throat there's some little bits of legal jargon involved in those in those charges right no legal jargon if you
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just slit his throat then send him to the you know ER but slit his throat first well these were horrible injuries
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that Kathy suffered from this attack and she suffered through a long rehab from these injuries as well only to come out
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the other end of this thing addicted to painkillers and as we have discussed on this show so many times and
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unfortunately we see it on the news daily people easily get addicted to things like painkillers to prescribed
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medication and when they can no longer get what they need they become Reliant that they've become reliant on or it
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gets too expensive well Kathy like so many others turn to street drugs to fill her addiction on things a lot big Pharma
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and this ultimately would mean that Sean Junior and Megan well now they had no one their father's locked up and their
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mother has come out of this addicted to drugs now the kids are going to be placed into foster care yeah Sean Jr he
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ended up living with one Foster family and Megan she was a little bit younger so during the course of her childhood
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she would live with two different foster care families but Sean Patrick McDuffie
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senior well his violent history it actually started well before he met Kathy and well before he ended up having
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two children with her right in 2007 an old dying man has One Last Wish left and it is something this poor man had to
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wait a long time for because way back in 1985 on February 21st Kelly McDuffie age
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24. and his wife Bobby Michelle McDuffie age 20. they were found dead in their home on squirrel Street and the Bonnie
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Dune community both had suffered sharp forced trauma to their upper bodies authorities said news
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Accounts at the time reported when when they were found a butcher knife was still in Kelly mcduffie's side yeah why
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wouldn't they just say like stab wounds or or is it because how the butcher knife would
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hit them that I don't know Captain that's a good question I I wondered that myself but but all reports States
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suffered sharp force trauma and with a knife being found in one of the victims you would think it'd be fairly obvious
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that it would they were stabbed to death well I think that's the first time we've
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ever heard that we normally hear blunt force trauma right maybe this is a uh I was gonna say maybe this is like a
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fancy Backwoods term for stabbed to death sharp suffered sharp force trauma to their upper bodies but now looking at
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this Captain I think what they what they're calling a butcher knife they're probably actually mean like a Cleaver
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yeah that's where my mind went that's what I was thinking okay okay Cleaver so my bad you were trying to clean that up
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for us and that's probably why they use that term uh because of the weapon that was used in this attack now Sean Patrick
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McDuffie senior he's the brother-in-law to the two murdered victims and he actually lived with his brother and
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sister-in-law at the time of their deaths of their murder so he was considered the prime suspect very early
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on in this investigation now this causes him to flee all the way to the State of
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Arizona well at some point in 1986 he is located and arrested they find him in Phoenix and they brought him all the way
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back to Fayetteville so let's just be clear we got this violent douche nozzle right and he's living with
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these two people and they're murdered his brother and his sister-in-law right and they're murdered and then he's a
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suspect and then he goes on the Run yeah he goes like Forrest Gump on the run and
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then they find him and he's not charged with the crime no no they find him they bring him back all
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the way to Fayetteville they they charge him they book him and he's jailed for this while they're going to await trial
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okay you know but what ends up being there ends up being an issue here probably some technicality I don't know
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because I couldn't find the exact cause of this with you know and exact details of mcduffy's arrest but a judge at some
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point said that there was no probable cause for the arrest and so he's released the case went cold and it
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wasn't really being worked and it's so confused there's no probable cause he's a he is the number one suspect in this
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murder well he's a suspect but but you have to have probable cause evidence to arrest the guy and I like I said I we
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don't have the details of it so to kind of dig through it would be we we wouldn't know if there was wrongdoing or
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or if this was rightfully turned over or not but what we do know is once McDuffie
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is released this case goes cold and it wasn't really being worked in my opinion it basically just sat there closed until
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over 20 years later and we've seen situations like this before where the the guys and girls that have to go out
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and work the crime the investigators the police officers they they this is a situation where they
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know who did it basically and a lawyer a prosecutor saying we can't convict so it's kind of a it's kind of a closed
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case you know it's other cases hit your desk you start working them and you just
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kind of have to be reluctant and and know that this one might have got past you somehow well
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right and the fact that they collect all the evidence and then they try to bring
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this guy to try on it can't happen I mean I don't know how much more they can do unless they could get him to slip up
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and confess you know that that'd be a very difficult thing to be a part of law enforcement to
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you know pretty much know 100 percent that somebody is guilty especially of a heinous crime like this right a double
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homicide and you can't do anything it's like your hands are tied behind your back right and so basically it sits
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closed it's technically an open case but as far as the people working it it's kind of a closed case until over 20
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years later this is when Bobby mcduffie's dying father he asked investigators to please take one more
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look at this thing you know so he he actually asked a family friend to contact the Cumberland County Sheriff's
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office and ask them to reopen the case so with the aid of investigators who worked the case back in 1985 they got
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new homicide detectives on this they were all on the job together working through this thing pulling you using all
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their resources together to to to get this thing down get it done once and for all so they dug through the boxes of
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evidence looking at investigative notes and crime scene photos and even all these years later everything that they
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had really still pointed to the guy that they had suspected all along Sean Patrick McDuffie senior you would think
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that there would be some kind of DNA or fingerprint or something well the interesting thing here is their guy that
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they like for this double homicide well he's not out on the run at this point he's sitting in a Cell uh for trying to
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kill the mother of his children he's sitting in a Cell down in Georgia so time would only prove that Kathy had
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been right all of those years about not Crossing Sean senior she was right to be
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terrified of leaving him and setting him off on some kind of murderous Rampage because he was he was already a murderer
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by the time he met Kathy and married her and had children with her yeah he's real
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prick nose so while he's in prison the per the police had a chance to question him about the double homicide Cold Case
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and close close to 24 years to the day after the young couple was found slain in their home a grand jury indicted Sean
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McDuffie senior for these two murders he was 48 years old by the time the charges
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came down the wire and the charges wore two counts of first-degree murder Sean McDuffie senior took the opportunity to
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then confess to killing both people over a what he referred to as a drug dispute
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probably a slippery way for him to avoid the death penalty as my guess what was life like for these children
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living under one roof with a seething murderer how do how do these kids come out mentally healthy from this type of
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childhood I I cannot even begin to wrap my my head around that it's almost impossible
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and like we said it you know Kathy came out of this situation addicted to drugs but it it took some years but she found
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the strength to beat her addiction and to get her life back on track she re-established her relationship with her
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children and she began to live as much of a normal life as she possibly could her relationship with Sean Jr her son
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healed and they loved and maintained contact with each other Megan the daughter became the rock of the family
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she was the most stable of the three and she grew up to be a great mother a loving and supportive daughter and she
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did her best to be Sean Junior's sister and friend now Sean was able to he was unable to finish High School it wasn't
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that he wasn't smart enough to make passing grades he began to take up with the wrong people for Megan she escaped
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her father and entered into foster care at a younger age than her brother and that was what got her out of the cycle
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of violence but Sean he was only in foster care for a very short period of time and so it seems like he never
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really got very far from that cycle of violence and drugs [Music] [Music] all right cheers mates for all of our
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that show is called off the Record cheers to you Captain well eventually Sean Jr he fell into drugs and he became
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deeper involved with drugs and when this took place his mother Kathy and his little sister Megan who has now grown
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realize that they both had to take a step back so they didn't get pulled down or sucked into this cycle as well
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they've already experienced this once and more than enough for one lifetime as time went on Kathy kept in touch with
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Sean Junior who now had kids of his own she was always there you know if anybody
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needed anything but and a bit of a distance and Megan was there watching from the outside as well because she
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wanted to keep her her own children away from the negative influences uh that she
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saw and her brother because she grew up with this stuff and she was not going to
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put her children or have her children witness the things that she had to experience in her young life now this is
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an interesting case for us Captain because we were asked to cover this one and it it was interesting in a sense
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that we were asked to cover it and there's really no information out there that's easily accessible or readily
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available to to tell the story of this missing person Sean McDuffie Jr there if you go online or if you go to the news
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sources you will find mention of him you will find mention of him having gone missing and the his vehicle being found
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ultimately though you will find more information on the cases involving his father of the double homicide and of the
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attempted murder of of Sean Junior's mom but there's really not a whole lot of information on Sean senior either or his
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horrible crimes so and there's even much much less regarding Sean Patrick McDuffie Jr's disappearance so what we
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had to do here is something that we don't get a chance to do with every case we just made it all up yeah and it's a
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really good story no we we what we did was we reached out to some people in the the small town of Calhoun to find out
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what was going on because Sean Patrick McDuffie Jr he went missing in 2015. the reason why we were asked to cover this
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case and I you know I had to tell the person out right I don't know that we can because I don't know that there's
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enough information here for us to be able to tell a story I mean it was literally if you look at the stuff it's
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literally a five-minute story and so I said all right let's see what we can dig up let's get some people
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involved and see what we can find in Calhoun and what's going on there because the reason why we're asked to
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cover this case Captain with it with him going missing in 2015 we're about two and a half years into his disappearance
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the there's the threat of this case going cold and going cold very soon and if if things don't start to happen
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in this investigation we may never know what ended up happening to Sean Patrick McDuffie Jr so we're going to go through
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stuff that we found and things that we uncovered when we spoke to the people of Calhoun
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so Sean Junior's path in life may have forever been rerouted when he and his cousin DJ were robbed during a drug deal
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because this would be the first meeting with a woman that we are going to call Stephanie
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correct rumor has it that Stephanie is a bit of a big deal regarding the drug scene in Calhoun
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now I read some statements given that some people think that at one time she may have run the meth business in
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Calhoun according to other Rumors in Calhoun Stephanie had a practice of setting up drug deals and also setting
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up a staged robbery at the same time this way she would get the cash and be able to keep the drugs as well so she
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she wins pays off some fake robber or robbers and all else involved well they lose and they get scammed
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this was not a one-time deal for her either she did this setup job on several occasions
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on one incident it is stated that Stephanie even paid a woman that we will call Sunshine
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she paid her about twenty dollars or so to punch Stephanie in the face after one
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of these stage robberies went bad because she needed to further stage the scene making it look like Stephanie
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herself was a victim in this situation now remember Sean and DJ they had been robbed by Stephanie during
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this drug deal so later Sean and DJ thou they they now know what actually went down at some point and one night while
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Sean and his friend Tyler were out driving around they spotted Stephanie on the streets and after they saw her they
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decided they were going to go and get their drugs back or their money back whichever was stolen from them during
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the stage robbery Tyler wanted to approach Stephanie immediately but Sean wanted to go and
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get DJ the other person that was robbed in this situation they picked up DJ and later they found
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Stephanie at some kind of hotel now DJ approached Stephanie and demanded drugs or cash or both from her because of this
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robbery so they basically roll up on her and say hey look we know what happened we want our stuff back yes Stephanie you
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little skank we want our stuff back now we either we're either going to get the drugs back or you're going to give me
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the money for the drugs right and at that time when they roll up on her she didn't have drugs or cash on her but she
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had an idea and Stephanie's supplier is a dude that we will call biggin they here's her idea
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she's going to get Sean and DJ in on a little bit of this action she can't give them back cash or give them back drugs
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so what she's going to do is she's kind of a big deal these two guys are small time
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she's going to let them in on some of her action by introducing them to her supplier that we're going to call biggin
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so what they did was they had DJ and Tyler stay put but Sean Jr decided he would leave and go with Stephanie to
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meet this big end character while there wherever this Rendezvous took place they
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received drugs uh that this was supposed to be the equivalent of what was stolen from them
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so this is a way of the kind to introduce them to to this supplier and as well as give them back some of what
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they were robbed of okay I'm just trying to follow you we got Sean Junior we've got skankosaurus Rex Stephanie and now
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we have bacon and they're going to give them a set amount of drugs that will but they're not giving it to them they
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have to sell this this these drugs I don't know what they have to do with it it's my understanding that they were
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given some uh stash of drugs to repay them for the robbery that they were aware of well this we say that this may
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have rerouted Sean Junior's life because there's a chance that this whole robbery
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deal meeting biggin and then Stephanie trying to make amends with Sean right this could be the start of
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possibly what led to his disappearance because after Stephanie makes amends with Sean Junior
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it it starts to look like you know remember we said Stephanie is rumored to be some sort of boss so from the outside
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looking in it actually now looks like Sean is working with or most likely working for Stephanie at some point that
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they developed a working relationship so what this for this new working relationship to begin an old one had to
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end meaning Stephanie would not be creating a new position or a new job for Sean Junior she would actually be
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replacing someone with Sean Jr and that brings a guy that we will call go forth into the picture he was a guy that
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worked dealing for Stephanie and to put it plain and simple go forth played the role and play the role that now she had
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promoted Sean to so Sean's in go forth is out this left go forth on the outside looking in and
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as one as as we all should expect disrespect in the drug dealing business in in these criminal activities is not
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would not be taken lightly right so as Rumor Has It Go forth was not going to let what he had worked so hard to earn
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be so easily taken away from him by this new Johnny come lately newcomer Sean Jr
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so he let some people know that he was interested in removing Sean from the drug game and if it meant that he would
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have to have Sean Jr killed then so be it as reported To Us by many go forth ran around town letting everyone know
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what he thought of Sean Jr and what he wanted done to Sean Jr now in typical drug dealer slash drug addict fashion
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Sean Jr wanted to make a lot of money and a lot of money very quickly he had limited funds to do so so he had
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very limited funds for buying a large amount of drugs that he could turn into even more money so that
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purchasing a large purchase would be impossible for Sean Jr it's rumored that he came up with the
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idea of stealing a large amount of drugs so that he could sell them turning that
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into a lot of money all right well Stephanie showed him how it's done well and Sean's Sean Junior I guess the rumor
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is that he decided to rob the only big time drug supplier that he knew this was the man that he was recently introduced
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to begin begin yeah remember that Stephanie's drug supplier so here is what we again we have uncovered and this
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is not definitive it's simply The Narrative as far as what we could dig up at the local level here but this is
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to break it down basically the word on the streets okay so someone stole a large I said that
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almost as white as possible go ahead I'm ready but but I think that's the most clear way and simple way to explain the
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information we have here right what's coming from the streets so anyway someone stole a large brick of
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meth from biggin and the person who stole this large invaluable brick was Sean Jr now if this is true well then
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you don't need to be a drug kingpin to dream up the bad things that could happen to Sean Junior right because not
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only would this make him a problem for bigen but this is a bad situation for Stephanie as well because this could
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only be perceived as her having made a bad judgment call for introducing Sean Junior too big in yeah or it also
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doesn't rule out the possibility that she's involved I mean we have this lady drug dealer that is stealing drugs and
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creating these false robberies so is it possible that bigen has this missing drugs and they go well
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we think that it's Sean Junior but is Stephanie involved in this was just the whole meeting in general you know
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concocted by Stephanie in the first place well the other issue too that we have Captain is we we also have go forth
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who already is said to have it out for Sean Junior but but now you know if I'm go forth okay and I know about this big
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end guy being stolen from or robbed right I could make a good name for myself as far as Biggins concerned and
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Stephanie hell I I could impress bigen enough maybe I could even replace Stephanie and we can't say for certain
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that Sean junior is responsible for stealing this brick of meth but what we can say for certain is there's a lot of
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people believe that he's responsible for it yeah and I don't even know how this whole stealing or robbery thing would
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have went down um but we did talk to at least one person that said that quote Sean seemed
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to be like a kid in a candy store as he broke up the brick of meth into a large plastic bowl and he was running his
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fingers through it well he's a drug addict yeah but more importantly for Sean in
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this situation he's a dealer and what this means is that's where people get wrong yes he
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he's stealing or hypothetically we think he's stealing this these drugs for money
00:33:35
right but the the Dr the drug addict always trumps the drug dealer okay I see what you're saying but the reason why he
00:33:44
seemed to be so happy according to this person was he was thinking about the amount of money he was going to make off
00:33:50
of off of acquiring this brick so now let's get to Eric Brown Eric was the one that was traveling with Sean
00:33:59
just before Sean went missing and Sean Junior met Eric Brown through Stephanie Eric according to several sources is a
00:34:07
dealer from North Carolina who comes to Calhoun to meet his drug contacts and pick up drugs to sell on the way back to
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North Carolina the easiest way to break this down for you why this Eric individual will do
00:34:22
this is that the meth is so regular readily available in Calhoun that he can purchase it for much cheaper than what
00:34:32
he's going to sell it to in these other spots because like everything it's supply and demand these other locations
00:34:38
where he's moving these drugs to the the supply doesn't equal the demand so he can make a bunch of money doing this
00:34:46
making this traveling to Calhoun picking up these drugs selling them on the way back to his home or even selling them in
00:34:53
his hometown so during one of Eric's visits to Calhoun actually to be perfectly clear Captain this would be
00:35:01
like an extended stay and this would be the last visit that Eric would make to Calhoun before Sean Junior would go
00:35:09
missing but during this Extended Stay Eric and Sean they spent their time trying to
00:35:14
make money and this of course mostly involving them attempting to successfully exchange drugs for money
00:35:20
and money for drugs after one of these afternoons I guess Eric called Sean and asked him to look
00:35:28
in his rented 2015 gray Dodge Ram 1500 pickup truck this was for a thousand dollars this is money that they had made
00:35:39
that Eric thought that he had left inside Sean's vehicle Sean said that he checked the vehicle and then later
00:35:46
informed Eric that there was no money left in the car now Eric is as we said rumored not only to be a
00:35:54
dealer but he's also a drug addict right and uh you know he called call this being paranoid or whatever but Eric
00:36:00
seems to think that Sean was lying to him and that Sean just ended up keeping the one thousand dollars for himself
00:36:07
well this is all also what happens when you hang out with Shady people if you hang out with people that sell drugs or
00:36:13
still drugs or steal money you know you get involved in illegal activity this is the kind of stuff
00:36:20
happens you know well and there's no real friends in this situation you know I mean all these people that they're
00:36:25
they're Associates because they can make money or trade drugs together but at the
00:36:30
end of the day none of them are friends well the funny thing about it is um the original pilot for the Friends TV
00:36:38
show was about drug addicts and drug dealers well I don't know if you knew that the rumor the rumor here though
00:36:45
Captain is going to be the Eric has told some people that he considered Sean to be a thief that Sean stole the
00:36:52
thousand dollars from him right and there's no honor among Thieves right so this has led some to believe that Eric
00:36:59
has something to do with Sean Jr later having gone missing because Eric has been quoted as saying Sean stole from me
00:37:07
he took money I'm sorry he took food out of my kid's mouth right now also let he lets his cousin Derek know okay so
00:37:19
Eric tells his cousin Derek that he was going to kill Sean for stealing from him
00:37:26
Okay so I'm just trying to keep this clear right so so John Jr goes with Eric a couple
00:37:35
times on these drug dealing trips uh we have what's the one guy's name that wants to kill
00:37:46
Sean Jr well Eric well Eric but the other guy go forth go forth so we got two guys and then we have a
00:37:55
possible we have these rumors circling that Sean is a thief Sean junior is a thief and he stole from biggin right and
00:38:03
now Biggins out to get him but also connecting it back to Stephanie Stephanie and see Stephanie's kind of
00:38:10
the nucleus here if you're trying to figure this thing out Stephanie gets her drugs from biggin okay and she's the one
00:38:16
that introduces Sean Junior too big in and she introduces Eric to Sean Jr right but when you say it like that and I'm
00:38:23
not trying to throw you under the bus I'm just saying when you say it like that it's like
00:38:28
she is the one that introduced no no she stole a bunch of money and conned these
00:38:33
guys and then they caught her and that's when she introduced them right right I still
00:38:39
think that's cynical you know there uh there's uh something um diabolical with that plan of her
00:38:45
introducing these guys into biggin well for her it seems to me like she needs people moving and selling these drugs
00:38:55
for her and every time you know think of it like a pyramid scheme Biggins at the
00:39:00
top he's giving a bunch of drugs to Stephanie who's then filtering it out to these different Outlets to these other
00:39:07
small-time drug dealers and then she steals it back from before in some situations stealing it back from them
00:39:12
but all the money Works its way up the uh pyramid scheme you know it all helps out big in and then Stephanie and the
00:39:20
trickle-down effect to these low-level drug dealers well could you imagine if I if I set up a fake robbery right and
00:39:27
then I paid you I mean how much would I have to pay you to just punch me in the face
00:39:33
um well according to the stories that I've heard the growing rate now Stephanie set up was 20 bucks okay so I
00:39:40
pay you 20 bucks you gotta come in here come into the garage when bingham's gonna be here right
00:39:46
we're gonna be selling some drugs we're gonna stage a robbery you're gonna have a bunch of guys with you but you got to
00:39:52
come in and punch me in the face I'll give you extra 20 bucks yeah yeah my guess is the way that this
00:40:00
goes down is either the the stage robbery takes place at the time of the exchange or just shortly after punch me
00:40:08
in the face and then in this situation if if the other party if I suspected that they kind of knew
00:40:15
what was going on this is when she's saying hey behind the scenes you know either right in front of them punch me
00:40:22
assault me or behind the scenes at least I can show up with an injury and I can go look same [ __ ] happen to me right you
00:40:28
know and and then she looks like she looks like a victim as well so I wanna I wanna get into this vehicle situation a
00:40:35
little bit the Sean the rented truck yes okay so a little more information on this rented truck Sean Jr had received
00:40:44
some kind of settlement for a car accident that he was in and because of the accident Sean's car was in the shop
00:40:52
and he had rented this vehicle this is a 2015 gray Dodge Ram 1500 cool truck at the end of 2015 Eric asked Sean Jr to
00:41:04
drive him home for Christmas this is so Eric could see his kids for the holidays
00:41:10
now Eric and Sean well they're not going to make this trip for for no reason at all they hatched a
00:41:18
plan to acquire a bunch of drugs or buy a bunch of drugs in Calhoun and they're going to do in typical Eric fashion
00:41:27
they're going to make multiple stops on the way back to Clay County North Carolina selling the drugs all along the
00:41:34
way now they could make more money as we stated they can make more money in these
00:41:40
other towns doing this now where are they getting the drugs from this I don't know and this is why I want to be clear
00:41:46
here stating that their plan was to acquire drugs or to purchase drugs right I don't know if they purchased a large
00:41:52
batch or if the large batch that they intended to sell was that same batch that was stolen from bigot I'm a little
00:42:00
unclear on the time of that of when that went down okay in comparison to Sean Junior going missing it sounds to me all
00:42:09
of this stuff that we're discussing here now mind you we're getting a lot of this
00:42:13
information from drug addicts drug dealers people that know them uh so the dates are a little skewed well yeah very
00:42:21
trustworthy people they take a lot of notes but the thing is all of this seems to be going down in a
00:42:29
relatively quick amount of time meaning within within the course of a month maybe two months right so this is all
00:42:35
happening happening very rapidly so they're going to make this trip Eric and Sean Jr and they're going to make
00:42:42
you know sell drugs along the way back to Clay County so on December 20th 2015 Sean Junior picked up Eric he ended up
00:42:51
picking him up at Derek's house Eric's cousin's house remember Derek is the one later that would tell people hey my
00:42:59
cousin Eric said that he he was going to kill Sean for stealing that thousand bucks right one thing I wonder about
00:43:05
that Captain is that's one of those situations where you wonder about Eric was was that just
00:43:12
something said in a fit of rage like in the Heat of the Moment like I'm gonna kill this guy or was it really I don't
00:43:18
think he would say it like that but maybe but no you you know what I mean rather than sitting down in very calm
00:43:23
and cool and collectively saying look I'm gonna this is Sean Junior I'm gonna wait till the time is right I'm gonna
00:43:29
take him out he took a thousand bucks for me it's it's much different yeah yeah I think you know in passing where
00:43:35
it's like oh well yeah I think this guy stole a thousand bucks from me oh really
00:43:41
yeah I'm gonna kill that [ __ ] you know what I mean so the thing here is he picks up Sean Junior picks up Eric
00:43:48
and they leave Calhoun and they do sell drugs along the way back to Clay County now the final meeting to sell drugs was
00:43:57
with a guy that we will call Jericho and as usual this is a lot to keep straight
00:44:01
just to let you know no I know and trust me as usual a drug dealer and a drug deal is never just plain and simple
00:44:09
there's usually some some [ __ ] that gets in the way so apparently Jericho didn't
00:44:14
have enough money to buy the drugs from these two whatever amount was agreed upon in advance he didn't have that I I
00:44:23
love that you know hey you put something on Craigslist right or Facebook Marketplace somebody shows up you say
00:44:31
I'm selling a van right and they're they're offering tradesies they're offering you a t-shirt
00:44:37
well what they're going to do is the three of them would go around to local stops and sell drugs to make up for some
00:44:46
of the difference and when that failed to produce enough funds Jericho decided to barter a couple of guns a couple
00:44:54
handguns in exchange for the rest of the money that he still owe so after this deal was completed Sean Jr dropped off
00:45:02
Eric at Eric's parents house and then he started his way back to Calhoun now Eric stands by his story stating
00:45:11
that the last time he had saw Sean Jr Sean was driving away in his rented truck all right so they go to make this drug
00:45:21
deal we got Sean Jr he's hanging out with Eric they got a bunch of drugs we don't know how they
00:45:27
got the drugs but Eric is going to visit his family Sean's going to drop him off
00:45:33
but hey we gotta make this lucrative right gotta get lucrative on this trip and then they meet Jericho right
00:45:41
right now Jericho you know he's not wrestling in the WWE anymore so he doesn't have enough money
00:45:48
to pay for the drugs so he has to try to round up drugs he can't get enough money
00:45:52
so then he decides hey I got these guns barter with you drug deal is made it's done at this
00:46:00
point we have two people in the rented truck we're back to Sean Junior and we're back to Eric Sean Junior takes
00:46:07
Eric to his Eric's family's house and then Sean junior is gonna head back home correct
00:46:14
and Eric he's never seen from again well hang on there and we're gonna what we're
00:46:19
gonna do here is we're gonna squash one big rumor from Calhoun right away so in Calhoun there's always been this rumor
00:46:27
of well Sean Junior went to Clay County North Carolina he was killed there and he was never seen again so we can go
00:46:35
ahead and squash that rumor because on his way back to Calhoun Sean Junior was actually spotted on two different
00:46:43
surveillance cameras the first sighting was at a Walmart store this is where Sean junior he bought batteries for a
00:46:50
flashlight and he bought it I have conflicting reports here that he bought a holster for one of the guns or he
00:46:57
bought two holsters for the two guns that he had acquired only bought batteries for a flashlight correct okay
00:47:04
or he bought batteries is assumed for a flashlight now um according to the reports according to
00:47:12
the police reports Sean was alone in the store at the time there was nobody seen
00:47:17
with him how far are these stores away from where he dropped off Eric um that's that's a good question I
00:47:25
didn't include that in my notes um but he would have been on the road for some time
00:47:32
um it wasn't like he dropped off Eric and then drove around the block and pulled into Walmart so it could be a
00:47:38
half an hour to hour or so yeah I think it was more like uh 45 minutes to an hour to the Walmart so he could have he
00:47:46
could have made it 30 some miles maybe more well and on top of that though there was another the second sighting of
00:47:52
him was at a gas station and this gas station was even further from uh where Eric lived now I can say that this small
00:48:01
gas station was located in Franklin North Carolina and the gas station was named Car City there Sean Jr purchased
00:48:09
the can of Coke he paid for it with cash now not only did Sean have guns but according to the security footage at
00:48:18
the gas station Sean had a lot of money presumably from the drug sales that he had just made right so apparently he had
00:48:26
a wad of money in his pocket that was so large that he was like having trouble removing it from the pocket to pay for
00:48:34
this you know single can of soda that he purchased at the gas station you go and buy a Coke I'm just a little
00:48:44
thirsty I'm gonna stop and get a coke uh that would be 79 cents sir you can't get
00:48:50
your money out of your wallet well I actually think that the the purchase of the soda was like a secondary reason for
00:48:58
the Stop and we'll get into that in just a minute now regarding the the wad of cash it's actually believed that Sean
00:49:05
had about Seventeen hundred dollars cash on him at this time yeah and coming from
00:49:10
the world of banking I mean depending on what denomination you get that in I mean
00:49:16
that could be a you know stack of you know stack of fives stack of tens 20 I mean dude I used to bartend for a living
00:49:23
I I would have a big wad of cash and my friends would be like man you're like Rich I'm like yeah this is two hundred
00:49:29
dollars I'm hoping it lasts me the week this you know yeah this all fits in a suitcase but uh but it's only 205
00:49:37
dollars yeah uh so now while Sean was at the gas station he asked for directions and I actually
00:49:44
believe this to be the main reason for him stopping at this uh Car City gas station right because I believe Sean to
00:49:53
have been lost and we know he was unfamiliar with this area and he's traveling by himself at this point and
00:49:59
he doesn't have a cell phone does he have a cell phone he does so he doesn't have GPS on the cell phone
00:50:05
um that I cannot answer that question I don't know if he has GPS or just does not know how to use it right but for
00:50:11
whatever reason he chooses to stop and ask for questions directions my my other guest though too is
00:50:18
um you know what I mean if he's going to program his phone does his phone work real well in this location yeah it could
00:50:27
be bad service or I mean or could this be a cheap phone I mean again is a drug addict and it sounds
00:50:34
like he if he's doing math you know to to think that he'd have the new newest updated top of the line
00:50:45
iPhone I I just don't see that happening well from the video at the gas station it was determined that Sean Jr was alone
00:50:53
in his vehicle now this was on December 21st 2015 at approximately 6 55 p.m now at this time of year
00:51:05
we should note that it's already dark at this time when he's traveling so just after Sean left the gas station he was
00:51:13
on his phone this is how we know he he did have a cell phone with him right he was on his phone with his who this is
00:51:21
always difficult in these cases because we see these situations where people are
00:51:25
reported as girlfriends ex-girlfriends Ex-Wives uh he was on the phone with Brandy King okay uh it's been reported
00:51:34
as both ex-wife or girlfriend whatever what we do know is according to his mailing address Sean Jr was supposedly
00:51:43
living with Brandy at this time all right so there are a couple yeah well we know that he was traveling on 64 West
00:51:51
and this is while he was talking to Brandy King but he would eventually lose cell service now this is one hell of a
00:52:00
phone call because it sounds like Sean and Brandy were arguing before he even left to go to North Carolina like she
00:52:08
knows what he does us right she knows that he's selling drugs that he uses drugs I think you know he's probably
00:52:14
telling her look I'm just selling them I don't use them uh I think he's also telling her things like look I just need
00:52:21
to make one big score and then I'm getting out right right and I think he kept telling her hey let me go do this
00:52:28
North Carolina thing and I'm gonna get out I'm gonna make a bunch of money and then I'm gonna get
00:52:33
out and I'll go get a real job and and straight myself out so they're already arguing before he
00:52:39
leaves now now he's on his way back which would make brandy happy however on this phone call he's telling her that
00:52:46
he's lost and that he doesn't know where he's going he he actually tells her he didn't even know what road he was on the
00:52:53
road that he tells her that he's on I don't even know if it was anywhere in the area because he gives two different
00:52:58
numbers I think he listed something like I I could be on 441 or or 415 you know he doesn't seem to even know what road
00:53:07
he's on now we do know that he was on 64 West we know this because we see him on
00:53:12
the surveillance footage at the gas station leaving heading on that road right so
00:53:19
not even knowing what roady's on but before he drops the call the call drops Sean tells Brandy during
00:53:25
this conversation to tell his kids he loved them in case something happened to him yeah Brandi asked him why he would
00:53:33
say that and he responded that he thought he was being followed and then seconds later he lost cell service so
00:53:41
Sean was on Highway 64 and lost service while talking to Brandi this was at approximately 7 15 pm
00:53:48
in the days after the 21st of December Sean's mom Kathy had been trying to get a hold of her Sean through Facebook
00:53:55
Messenger for days he never responded which was unlike Sean to not respond to his mother from the 21st to the 26th
00:54:04
Brandy searched high and low for Sean she called everybody that he knew text everybody that he knew she even checked
00:54:12
with jails and hospitals to see if he was found nothing no sign of Sean but on December 26 2015 Sean was reported
00:54:23
missing by Brandy King she knew that if Sean was not home to see his kids on Christmas day that he was not coming
00:54:30
home and maybe not coming home ever again foreign [Music] [Applause] thanks to all of you out there for
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the missing person's case of Sean Patrick McDuffie Jr until then you better be good please be kind and don't
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