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[Music] [Music] on September 25th 1996 just before midnight a 911 call came into the Madison County Alabama
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Emergency Services Center a woman identifying herself as Linda Williams cried for help saying her nephew and
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some of his friends had been shot the crying woman asked that police and ambulance Personnel be sent immediately
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to her home at 6591 University Drive in Huntsville the first to respond was Monrovia assistant
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fire chief Dale strong who lived right near the scene and had many years of EMT experience he arrived at the small brick
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ranch at 12:01 a.m. lights were on inside the house but it was eerily quiet as strong pulled up he was joined by
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other First Responders this was three Law Enforcement Officers armed and they entered the house through the open
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attached garage guns at the ready walking through the garage and into the house announcing themselves as Madison
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County Sheriff's officers the men were startled to see a bloodied young man run up to them the man yelled
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they shot them all they shot them all this is true crime garage and this is the case of the cell
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phone murders [Music] [Music] responding to the 911 call we have police on the scene guns drawn walking
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through the garage and into the house announcing their presence when a young man covered in blood runs to them saying
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they shot them all they shot them all one of the officers on the scene is Officer Solinski he asked who was the
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shooter and the blooded young man responds Joey Wilson Officer salomonsky says Doughboy to which the youngster replies
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yes this officer and the other officers told the young man to go outside then they walked from the garage area into
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the house and found an elderly woman there this is Linda Williams she is the 911 caller she's the aunt of the young
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man man who they just ordered out of the house she seemed dazed she was sent outside as well the officer then
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beckoned Dale strong the EMT officer on the scene to come inside and bring his life-saving equipment with him the men
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quickly came into a cluttered 13 by1 18 room that served as the living quarters of Ashley Rutherford and his fiance
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Michelle hay the room was part of the home that was owned by Ashley's Aunt Linda Williams in
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this room Captain we got beer cans clothing trash and other stuff that lay all over the floor and obscenity filled
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graffiti covered the walls there were three aquariums that held snakes inside this room but more
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importantly was the haze of smoke in this room this was not cigarette or pot smoke the place rre of gunpowder Dale
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strong later testified that he had never smelled such a strong concentration of gunpowder in one place in his life
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strong was an assistant fire chief with years of experience so he knows what he's smelling and he says that it
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smelled like the 4th of July or a firing range but that wasn't all later strong would tell WHNT news
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quote the next thing I remember is the shell casings as we cleared and went into this room I heard the shell casings
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that we were actually kicking with our feet and I had never seen anything like that in my life there were so many shell
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casings they were like peanut shells on the floor of the bleachers after a ball game and indeed the scene inside the
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tiny room was a blood bath we have three people people in this room Michael bodette Brian Carter and Johnny couch
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Michael bodette is 19 Brian Carter is 21 Johnny couch is 18 all three dead in this room Michelle Hayden age 17 was
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alive but critically wounded she' been shot in the face abdomen and arm EMTs frantically tried to save the life of
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Lamar Hemphill he was a marine reservist age 21 sadly he would die at the hospital
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22-year-old Ashley Rutherford who managed to crawl to his aunt and yell to her to call 911 had been shot too but
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was alive he was the blooded young man that ran up to the officers that was ordered to go
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outside emt's placed him in an ambulance and rushed him to the hospital we end up
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with four dead two too pretty close and a lot of people that are scared despite having been shot before he was whisked
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away into an ambulance as we heard in the intro this young man Ashley Rutherford was able to talk to the First
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Responders saying that he knew who the shooters were he told them the names of the three men who had been in his room
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that night discharging guns shooting a total of 19 rounds their GES were Cory Johnson age 23 Joseph Wilson 19 years
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old and Nicholas aklan age 24 and it took the police all of about 15 minutes to round up these rocket
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scientists we have Solinski who was a lieutenant he was a Narcotics investigator at the time when Ashley rer
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told him the name Joey Wilson remember Solinski responded Doughboy Mark so he knows who this
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person was accusing of being the shooter that's because Joey Wilson had already had plenty of run-ins with the cops and
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his nicknam Doughboy was known to the police as well I'm guessing this is based off of physique and not his
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financial situation after securing the scene and making sure the three living victims were taken care of police issued
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a bolo for Joey Wilson who was driving a white tourist so we got a car we're looking for we got a guy we're looking
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for and we got three people being accused by one individual who's found shot at a scene where three were already
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dead and one would later die at the hospital similarly upon hearing the name Joey Wilson over the police radio we
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have another officer this is Officer Norse who pulled out a photo and Wilson's Huntsville address so this
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officer Captain had had encounters with this Joey Wilson cat before and he kept a log of sorts of the scumbags that he
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had interacted with in the past this dude was one of them he and his partner officer young headed to the Wilson home
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this was on Dell nort Drive at 1215 a.m. so police on the scene at 12:01 by 12:15
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a.m. 14 minutes later they are in pursuit of one of the Persons of Interest in this case of course there's
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still a whole lot of things to sort out right is this the truth is this the real deal the person who's being accused
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the other people that are being accused and named to the officers did this actually go down the way that they are
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told that it went down and what will the evidence at the scene tell police now in route to the home where
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Joey Wilson was living at the time these two officers they saw that white tourus
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pulling out of the easy service convenience store inside it appeared to be two individuals our officers pulled the car
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over luckily thankfully this didn't go this could have been could have went down
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very badly pulling these guys over inside the vehicle they found a revolver Lieutenant Charles Franklin read Wilson
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his rights and cuffed him Wilson complained that he had a recently had shoulder surgery so cuffing his hands
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behind his back hurt then he falls into an asthma attack so he has to be taken to the hospital he ends up at the same
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hospital where the shooting victims were being treated finally Wilson and Johnson
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were processed at the station and the interviews began so we have four persons dead and we have two that are locked up
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they're going to be held at the police station they're going to be interviewed well anybody that thinks it would be
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easy to be law enforcement this is a situation that would test you test the best of them you go into a scene of a
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crime there's multiple people dead it's bloody you're stepping over shell casings you have a name of a person that
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you know as a scumbag but you also know is now a violent vicious murderer that is in charge of this horrific scene that
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you are at you get this name you get others names you now have to go look for these people and then you come upon two
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of the suspects but what is going on with the third suspect so this is going to take a little bit more time with
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suspect number three so about 5:30 A.M we get officers arriving at the home of suspect number three Nicholas aklan he
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lived somewhat nearby I believe this is a neighboring town he's living in a trailer with his then common law wife
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her name is Candice Wilson and they're two children okay well Wilson's a pretty common name common last name but she is
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in fact related to the other suspect that we mentioned previously Joey Wilson he is her
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brother once on the scene aklan opened the door he's he's in his underwear it's early in the morning is under R he
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identifies himself as Nicholas aklan the person that they are looking for the officers with guns drawn told him to get
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dressed he did they cuffed him they told him he was under arrest for murder and they placed him in the back of the cop
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car now we have Sergeant Paul Ys of Madison County Sheriff's Department he's interviewing The woman there at the
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trailer Candace Wilson the common law wife he asks her does aklan have any guns she says yes when asked where they
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were she said they were under the bed she gave permission for the sergeant to search the trailer for weapons in the
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course of the search police found a Ruger P89 they also found two 9 mm loron pistols and an H&R nickel-plated 32
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caliber revolver so we got four guns found the sergeant asked Candace if she knew what aklan had been wearing that
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night she turned walked into the bedroom she bends over and picks up a pair of jeans and a white T-shirt off of the
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floor hands them to the officer in the pocket of the jeans was Michael bod's driver's license he's one of our murder
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victims that was found at the scene just hours prior so that's a fine piece of evidence right there yeah and just
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because you have somebody that can ID these killers you're going to need to pad your evidence you want physical
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evidence that places them at the scene or would be indicative that they were once at the scene yes the sergeant then
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obtained written consent to search the premises the evidence was piling up on Wilson Johnson and acklen all three were
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both hooked on capital murder charges less than 24 hours after these four homicides after a thorough forensic
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examination of the crime scene the next order of business was to interview the survivors the ones that were there that
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night when the shooting took place four young men died in the space of about 15 seconds on that horrible evening
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19-year-old Michael bodette was a jokester but a hardworking guy who was saving up his money to move out of his
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mother's home he worked about 60 hours a week and was considered a very reliable
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employee 21 year-old Brian Carter had been through a rough patch but had recently joined a church and was working
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to straighten himself out Johnny couch was only 18 he lived with his mom he liked to collect baseball cards and
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Lamar Hemphill the only one of the crew to graduate from high school played golf
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and football and played the flute in the high school band he was a marine reservist and Was preparing to go on
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active duty but there were also three survivors of the shootings in that small room Ashley Rutherford lived having
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received just a superficial head wound to the surprise of many so did his fiance Michelle who was shot in the face
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elbow and abdomen she would go on to spend a month in the hospital to recover but there was another Survivor
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who had not been shot at all Michael skirk had been in the room during a home invasion what can only be described as a
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home invasion he had actually run out the back door as the shooting started his name
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was withheld from the media reports early on out of fear for this man's life that that maybe somebody
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would come and find him and finish the job so to speak now when you say home invasion when I think home invasion I'm
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thinking robbery do we have motive for robbery this just seems like they invaded the
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home to assassinate people well as as bad as that is they they were in there and terrorizing them for a period of
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time too unfortunately this this we say that for lives ended in the matter of just 15 or so seconds but that's when
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the shooting started that's just the shooting right part of the evening so here's the story this is the story that
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we get from the three survivors Michelle and Ashley had been at home in the room
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that they shared this we're going to go back a week before the shootings to kind
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of set this up so we're we're at September 18th now okay keep in mind Ashley he lives there with his
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girlfriend and they live in his aunt's home they're basically renting a room renting space inside her home right on
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September 18th a week before the shootings three three guys that Ashley knew Joseph Wilson
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Nicholas aklan and Corey Johnson stopped over to buy some marijuana it's unclear
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generally who was buying PT or who was selling pot Ashley claimed that Wilson was his dealer at one time but on this
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day according to the story Ashley was the seller akan Johnson and Wilson hemmed and hauled they kind of talked
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about you know what's the price oh let's take a look at it uh and they decided to
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not buy any weed from Ashley that evening they kind of flipped and flopped and left without buying any weed then
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one of this one of these guys Cory Johnson comes back into the house grabs the bag of weed and just runs out
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without paying for it now Ashley felt like that was the plan all along right they just came in made
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sure that he had something that they wanted pretended that they were going to buy it and then left and then run back
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into the home and just come in and steal it right like we talked about couple weeks ago with that case
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from Cleveland somebody steals your illegal drugs you can't just call the cops and say hey I need a report of
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theft well you could you I mean you could I would advise against that I'm not an attorney though you might want to
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seek legal counsel so after these three guys leave they already stole the weed he knows that but then Lamar realized
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that his cell phone which he had sat down was gone the cell phones missing keep in mind we're going back to 1996
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cell phones were not nearly as common they're simply they're certainly not as connected as they are today there's
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probably a flip phone too they didn't have find my iPhone or Life 360 for easy tracking to to go find one's phone once
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the phone was gone it was potentially gone for good Lamar used another phone to call his phone and guess who answered
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Joseph Wilson we don't know what was said in this conversation or whether Wilson admitted to taking the phone but
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we can presume that when Lamar asked for the phone back Wilson used some Choice language and simply hung up
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so Lamar did what anyone would do he called the sheriff's department and reported the cell phone theft right cell
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phones were very expensive back then they in large part still are today he wanted his cell phone back and because
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it wasn't illegal like the pot that was stolen he was going to place a complaint
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with the sheriff's department right so he's not calling up the sheriff and going hey by the way uh uh these guys
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stole my weed and they stole my cell phone he's just leaving the weed out of that conversation yes and I would
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imagine that that report would include hey I called the phone with another phone and a guy I know Joey Wilson
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picked up the phone yeah the guy that we believe stole it yeah answered the phone
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so now let's go to the afternoon of September 25th a friend of Joey Wilson's the name is Christian Ashby told Wilson
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that Ashley Rutherford had arrest warrants out for Joey Wilson okay so these guys all kind of know each
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other obviously if they're coming over to the house to to buy weed but now we have this other individual who's sort of
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in the middle he knows both parties and he's letting Joey Wilson know look there's an arrest warrant out for you
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and Ashley Rutherford the guy that you stole the weed from and his buddy that you stole the cell phone Ashley
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Rutherford is responsible for getting those arrest warrants on you so this pissed Wilson off and he starts telling
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his other buddy Corey Johnson who he's driving around town with about these warrants and saying look I'm he he
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wanted Vengeance he wanted revenge on on Ashley Rutherford well think about how silly this is you you stole somebody's
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drugs then you sell their cell phone you answer the phone you talk [ __ ] about it
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now they're going to have you arrested and and you're upset right and and here here's the
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other thing I purposely called these three suspects rocket scientist earlier because there was no arrest warrant
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there was no warrant out for this Wilson cat right it was simply a complaint that
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needed to be verified it's calling it's a police report that's all that was filed was a report at 7:15
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p.m. we have Wilson remember he's in the car with Cory Johnson going on and on how he wants revenge they pick up the
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third guy Nick aklan they rode around for a while they're drinking they're smoking they're
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really working themselves up into quite the tizzy they decided to go to Ashley's
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house because they wanted to let him know that they were pissed off for him getting these this warrant out what they
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believed to be an arrest warrant out for Joey Wilson they get to Ashley's house around eight but the only ones there
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were Michelle Brian Carter and Lamar Hempel the person they're looking for is Ashley
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Rutherford who's not there according to the book murder in the Heart of Dixie by
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Fred Simpson and jacin Proctor gray Aken Johnson and Wilson are three suspects they show up brandishing handguns and
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asking about these arrest warrants Brian Carter denied knowing anything about it
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Lamar Hempel didn't respond but was visibly angry remember it was his cell phone that had been stolen Cory Johnson
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punched Lamar in the face and the three left warning that they would be back when Ashley Rutherford got home from
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work Ashley Rutherford was at work at the Circle K convenience store around 8:30 p.m. his fiance Michelle came in
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during his shift along with Lamar and Brian they told Ashley that Joey Wilson and some of his cronies had shown up at
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their house and they were angry with Ashley the group discussed whether the guys would actually do anything to them
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but it seems like they agreed that they didn't think they thought that these guys were all talk and that nothing bad
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really was going to happen that these were just threats So eventually they go home by 10 p.m. Michelle Lamar and Brian
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were hanging out in their room waiting for Ashley to get home he's still finishing up his ship the three were
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watching TV and just hanging out but pretty soon two more buddies stopped by that's Michael skirack and Johnny couch
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they were planning on going to pick up their buddy Michael bodette but they would not get the
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chance as they went to leave our three suspects Wilson acklen and Johnson barged into the home they just charge
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into this home Michelle who lives there says get the hell out of my house they say we're
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not going anywhere Cory pushed Michelle down in a chair by her throat he said you keep your mouth shut or I'll shoot
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you Wilson demanded to know who had filed a warrant against him for stealing a phone according to
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al.com Madison County Sheriff Joe weisson later said Wilson was misinformed no warrant had been issued
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right citizens don't file warrants you file a complaint or a report with the police they take it from there but
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Wilson was convinced that one had been issued and that the police were coming for him and so now he wanted retribution
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now not taking this bullying laying down remember Lamar is our marine he started
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arguing with The Intruders Cory Johnson started to get violent this is from a later report that says Johnson then
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started slapping hemp Hill couch and Carter using a Jack Daniels whiskey bottle he hit Lamar Hemphill in the
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head and Carter Brian Carter in the mouth with this bottle with this glass bottle he also grabbed Johnny couch by
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his hair which was long and he's repeatedly slamming his head into a dresser multiple times Wilson also
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repeatedly stomped Johnny who was lying on the floor and Johnny was essentially beaten
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unconscious at that point while he was passed out Wilson Johnson and acklen cut off Johnny's ponytail with a pair of
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scissors and they were calling him a girl he's unconscious we have the other four victims in the room who are
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terrified because the guys that are threatening them they're all packing they're they're waving around guns and
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threatening all four of their lives and this is when Michael bodette had The Misfortune to walk in to that
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[Music] back all right we are back you silly little [Music] monkeys cheers to you Colonel cheers to
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you Captain talk cans in the air everybody out there power to the people this is a
00:34:18
horrifying situation me this is something that you'd see in a action film and we're trying to do our very
00:34:24
best to describe everything that's happening a lot of the stuff is happening very quickly and for the most
00:34:31
part the only reports that we are going to get about what actually happened in that home leading up to what would be a
00:34:37
quadruple homicide comes from the survivors who had to been terrified out of their minds once the once it went
00:34:46
from threats to violence actually occurring because remember the the the victims earlier had talked and said no
00:34:55
we we think that yeah a little worried but we think these are just threats we don't think these guys are actually
00:35:01
going to do anything yeah and just because they have guns on them doesn't mean they're going to use them but when
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you're in a scene like this you're thinking well once they use those guns it's not going to be good for anybody
00:35:13
and with every case that we've reviewed that has similarities to this case one thing that I've always found and this is
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terrifying where we left off Michael bodette arrives at the home he walks he just he's think about this steps three
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four five steps before he is none the wiser he has no idea what's going on inside that home and walks in himself
00:35:38
placing himself In Harm's Way and every time we've reviewed one of these cases when a new person shows up to a scene
00:35:47
basically where we have people being held by gunpoint or hostage in some form or fashion right it always seems to make
00:35:55
things worse right not just have we upped the potential victim count but it seems to really stress out the the the
00:36:04
people that are holding these people at night for gunpoint and that's exactly what happened here so Michael bodette
00:36:10
walks in and now guns on Michael he's forced to the ground forced to empty his pockets note reminder his driver's
00:36:22
license was missing from his pants pocket from his jeans pocket and later found at one of
00:36:28
the suspect's home Joey Wilson held a gun to the head of Michael skirk and demanded to know about the
00:36:37
warrant well Michael skirk had no idea what this guy's talking about Wilson then put his gun down on the dresser and
00:36:45
was yelling and daring the prisoners to grab it you know there's the gun get it go get it and of course the other two
00:36:56
bad guys are still holding their gun so so nobody moved Wilson continued to terrorize these poor people he he made
00:37:04
the men take off their pants sitting their underwear he gathered up all of their IDs or driver's license for
00:37:11
reasons we don't know why he starts yelling at this group that you all blamed us for robbing you well now we
00:37:18
are going to rob you Nicholas Akin really started getting into it at this point he put the barrel of his gun into
00:37:28
Ashley's mouth making him gag he put Mike bodette in the headlock and held a gun under his chin but this
00:37:36
is also mob mentality I mean this is just going to escalate even worse and some of these scenes too what you see is
00:37:44
when one of the suspects one of the perpetrators starts to ramp up it only ramps up the other guys involved as well
00:37:53
yeah and we got like you said not rocket scientists we got three piles of [ __ ]
00:37:58
here well Nicholas anlan took Michelle outside and he's grabbing her inappropriately this is I mean this is
00:38:09
sexual assault at this point and it's unclear why he's never charged with sexual
00:38:17
assault but we can get into that later after one of these excursions of taking her outside he comes back in and he says
00:38:25
to Ashley Rutherford sorry and there's no nice way to say this he says quote your girlfriend gives good head which
00:38:33
none of that happened so he's simply just trying to you you get the impression that these guys are
00:38:42
terrorizing these people but also giving them a chance to either retaliate like here's the gun go get it or oh I did
00:38:50
this to your girlfriend yeah get making them angry hoping one of them might Punch or push or fight back yeah it's
00:38:58
like it's the whole time they're like give us a reason to more exctly give us a reason give us a reason I mean these
00:39:04
guys aren't douche canoes these guys are like douche cruise ships I mean these guys
00:39:11
are awful these are the type of guys that you know if they said you can be alone in a room with them for a couple
00:39:20
hours and and I'll buy the way we're going to tie them up and we're going to give you a baseball bat you'd go okay
00:39:26
let's have some fun well and one of the survivors would also say that there was a situation too where one of the perss
00:39:33
took a knife and threw it at the feet of one of the victims and then tries to tell the
00:39:40
other two perpetrators like look he's got a knife he's trying to pull a knife on us very strange Behavior yes yes well
00:39:47
and and what what this shows us too is that while it may have been planned to go in and terrorize these people or
00:39:55
maybe it was even planned to kill them as unfortunately we know was the result with some of the victims yeah none of
00:40:01
this other stuff was really well thought out or planned it's a bunch of idiots just going three- ring circus on
00:40:09
everybody they would say girlfriend gives good head I'd say your mom gives good head you sick son of a [ __ ] this
00:40:15
went on for nearly 2 hours so at approximately 11:30 there's all of these victims
00:40:22
inside this home meanwhile the Aunt Linda Williams had managed to stay hidden from all of this chaos and
00:40:32
commotion and and truly terrifying what's going on I that I don't know that part I don't know cuz you think that if
00:40:40
she heard any of this or if she would have saw any kind of assault that she would have called the police or if she
00:40:47
knew that they had guns I do know that at one point one of the victims said to one or all the perpetrators like uhhuh
00:40:56
you guys are freaking out you're being really loud if if his aunt hears this she'll call the police there was a
00:41:03
concern she was elderly though too so I don't know you know some some some of our fine elderly citizens you could have
00:41:11
a bullhorn and stand right next to him and they they might not hear very much what at 11:30 everything goes from bad
00:41:19
super bad to incredibly horrible okay so we got Ashley Rutherford in there that's
00:41:26
the person that it seem seems like these three guys were really looking for and everybody else is just happened to be
00:41:33
there that night or in Michelle's case lives there they start demanding that Ashley get on the ground
00:41:41
empty his pockets the same thing that we saw with some of the other victims yeah
00:41:45
and they wanted to know they're yelling things at him like who signed the warrant who signed the warrant and of of
00:41:52
course he's replying it's like I don't know what you guys are talking about right so they're not getting the answers
00:41:57
that they want these Jack wagons they're not getting the answers that they want but
00:42:04
what they don't understand is this guy can't give you the answer you want cuz he doesn't know what you're talking
00:42:08
about he didn't sign a warrant he didn't even call in the complaint yeah but this
00:42:14
is where it gets bizarre because you just wonder if if is this all escalating because
00:42:21
like you said they're not getting the answers that they want but he can't give them the answers cuz there's a just a
00:42:27
simple dumbass miscommunication mhm well who signed the warrant well I don't know you dumb [ __ ]
00:42:36
you know I I don't know what you're talking about yes we we called the police they
00:42:42
filed a report they didn't file a warrant well and what based off of all of the statements from the survivors it
00:42:52
appears to me that this Joey Wilson guy and my he's the first name that's tossed
00:42:58
out to police as soon as they arrive on the scene this Joey Wilson guy either was the leader of these three idiots or
00:43:06
clearly wanted to be and this is Joey Wilson AKA Doughboy this doughy pasty hick just appeared to want to be some
00:43:17
kind of badass alpha male so he's at some point yells let's buck them the captives knew that to
00:43:28
Buck to mean shoot or kill them and he was you all don't know who you're messing with you're all fake we're real
00:43:34
you said we robbed you now we're going to rob you but they did Rob them yes at some
00:43:42
point Nicholas aklan says ain't nobody leaving and then yells we ain't going to leave no
00:43:51
Witnesses according to the survivors Johnson was not as into terrorizing this group as the other two
00:44:00
Wilson and aklan were the survivors even said at some point that this third suspect Johnson he he tried to reason
00:44:08
with the other two saying like hey you know calm down there's no need to shoot anybody nobody's going to talk they you
00:44:16
know they're not going to they're not going to ran us out yeah but this is one of those situations hey come with us
00:44:21
we're going to go we're going to go [ __ ] those dudes up and oh we got some guns
00:44:26
and this guy's probably going why we got to bring guns or we're not going to shoot nobody we're just going to bring
00:44:32
guns Just for protection but why would we need guns if we're not going to shoot nobody and now they're in this situation
00:44:40
where this harassment and and the torture is not what this guy expected but he didn't leave he could have said
00:44:50
I'm out I don't want to be a part of this he could have left and called the police
00:44:56
and he could have said in that moment you know what I came here to to scare the [ __ ] out of this guy but this went
00:45:05
too far and I would I would argue that he might not be charged with anything if he would have he had so many
00:45:13
opportunities to do the right thing and that's what is so crazy because you also
00:45:19
wonder in this case if the guy that they were looking for was there when they got
00:45:24
there CU to me it seems like well Ashley he's not here yet right so we just got to stay here whole place is on
00:45:31
lockdown until he gets here yeah we're and we're just going to stay here and then escalation upon
00:45:38
escalation it's just I mean this is and and could you imagine the fear in those victims and what they had to go through
00:45:47
I mean you have guys with guns and and they're like you said they're taunting these victims do something make us shoot
00:45:56
you and you don't know every second that passes you're probably thinking oh thank
00:46:02
God they haven't shot us yet I mean this the these guys are bags of [ __ ] just before midnight Nicholas
00:46:10
aklan went outside and he starts up Joey Wilson's car that's the the tourus the white tourist that we talked about
00:46:17
earlier he starts up the vehicle leaves it running in the driveway he comes back
00:46:22
into the house holding his handgun and at that moment we have Joey Wilson who says to Nicholas a aklan if you shoot
00:46:32
the first one I'll shoot the rest of them shortly after that comment Nicholas aklan grabbed Rutherford thrust the
00:46:41
muzzle of his gun up against the young man's head just as he felt that cold heart steel he instinctively ducked his
00:46:50
head when the gun discharged Jesus it grazed the back of his head the bullet he falls to the
00:46:58
ground and he's bleeding profusely that in this situation the bleeding profusely
00:47:04
is a good thing okay because Wilson Joey Wilson he follows through on his promise you shoot the
00:47:13
first one I'll shoot the rest of them and he starts shooting when the shooting started skirack ran out of the back of
00:47:20
the house Michelle Hayden later said that Michael bodette was shot while he was sitting right next to her she was
00:47:27
next a bullet shattered her elbow and then another hit the right side of her face passing through her cheeks and
00:47:33
blowing out six of her teeth [ __ ] it was chaos in that room and every one of the victims was ducking
00:47:40
for cover or shielding their faces or dying yeah some of them were shot twice some of the victims shot once some of
00:47:48
them shot multiple times but remember where I said the bleeding profusely is a good thing in
00:47:55
the situation yeah well that's because the two Shooters stood over stood over Ashley Rutherford trying to decide if
00:48:03
they should shoot him again and they they arrived at the conclusion that no he's already dead and they move
00:48:09
on all in all 19 shots were fired in this tiny little room some of the shootings were Point
00:48:17
Blank and now several people in this room are either dead or are dying Ashley Rutherford who had been shot in
00:48:28
the head he gets lucky because they he pretends to be dead he's bleeding enough that they stand over top of him and
00:48:35
think that he's dead and after the blast from these handguns ceased those guys they leave the room they they they take
00:48:44
off they jump into the Taurus and they speed off Ashley hears the car leaving the
00:48:51
driveway he gets up somehow makes it to a phone he dials 911 he can't communicate with the 911 operator and
00:49:00
hands the phone to his aunt Linda who took over the phone call pleading for help let's get Emergency Services here
00:49:09
stat meanwhile Michelle Hayden crawled into the kitchen and this is where First Responders later found her just minutes
00:49:17
later spitting out her teeth Michael who's able to get outside of the house he was hiding outside and he I mean he's
00:49:26
hiding fighting outside is one way to to state it but really he's he's in complete shock like he's just Frozen
00:49:34
he's out he's out there vomiting from the stress and he's out there kind of Frozen
00:49:41
just too terrified to even run Madison County authorities arrived Johnny couch was dead on the floor in a corner
00:49:50
Michael bodette was dead on a bed Brian Carter was slumped over dead on a beige upholstered chair
00:49:58
and then we know our other victim they attempted to get him to the hospital to save his life and they unfortunately
00:50:06
could not we have coroner Bobby Barry Hill who had to help sort out what was happening happening or what had happened
00:50:14
in the room to report all these shootings and of course he States it was definitely
00:50:21
Overkill every one of the deceased victims had been shot at least once in the head and some in the neck as as well
00:50:27
this is all referred to as execution style intended to kill the victims this is a horrific
00:50:36
crime but it's a crime that's also unique in the sense that horrific crime but we have survivors yeah that know the
00:50:49
attackers M but then we have law enforcement that knows the victims and also knows the attackers yeah knows some
00:50:57
of the attackers here and our three suspects were a mly crew of losers youly crew Nick akan who washed cars at
00:51:07
Bentley Pontiac we got Corey Johnson who work at stake escape and Joey Wilson who
00:51:14
said he was a plumber but was really just a drug dealer and everybody knew it but regardless of their jobs or
00:51:21
occupations at the time could you imagine though knowing that guy and you know he's a drug dealer and then you're
00:51:28
at a party with him and he's like hey how's life going he's like well the plumbing business is hard and you're
00:51:33
like I'm sure it is Joe plumber couldn't you lie about something cool like tell people you're architect or something
00:51:42
well I'm sure the people that he wants to be customers he tells them I sell drugs and the people that he wants to
00:51:47
hide that from he tells them he's a plumber yeah um needless to say there was ample evidence right away right out
00:51:55
the gate against These Guys these guys everything points to them being the perpetrators of
00:52:02
this heinous crime remember Michael's driver's license is found in Nicholas Akin's pants at his home second the guns
00:52:11
found in Akin's home were ballistically matched to several of the shootings forensic testing showed that Brian
00:52:18
Carter had been shot with a Ruger P89 the three surviving Witnesses said it was Wilson who had been carrying this
00:52:25
model of gun third several witnesses had survived and talked telling police what happened who
00:52:32
was responsible Ashley said that Nick aklan had shot him and others and Joey Wilson had shot at least one person and
00:52:40
then we get to item number four on our evidence list there is confessions so Kevin Turner was a juvenile and gang
00:52:50
investigator for the sheriff's department he interviewed Joey Wilson that night the night he was picked up
00:52:56
Wilson knew him and it sounds like they were not just familiar with one another but casual with one another in fact Joey
00:53:05
Wilson called Kevin Turner KT he said if KT got him a cigarette he would talk so
00:53:12
of course the officer got him a cigarette Wilson told the officer that he had armed himself with a 357 Magnum
00:53:20
and gone over to Ashley Rutherford's home to confront him because of the dispute over the stolen self phone he
00:53:27
said that he had a revolver and aan and Johnson also had weapons he admitted that they slapped some of the victims
00:53:35
that one thing led to another and the shooting started those are his words Wilson told Turner he didn't remember
00:53:42
specifically who did the shooting and said quote that's my crew you all got locked up out there I'm not going to
00:53:49
turn and rat on them [Music] thank you so much for joining us here in the garage so much more to get to stay
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