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let's talk some true crime [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] Florida is the third most populous state in the
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U.S Florida is known for its sandy beaches and over 1 000 miles of coastline our true crime story this week will take
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place almost entirely at a house and property located at the end of Ghost Creek in North Hudson Florida
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if you're looking to catch some Spanish mackerel or sea trout then you've come to the right fishing hole
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with a name like Ghost Creek who knows what else is lurking at night early in the morning of Thursday August
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28 2014. the Department of Emergency Services for Pasco County Florida received and
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recorded a conversation about a violent incident taking place just minutes before the call
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27 year old Megan Brown was on the phone with Dustin Brooks the 911 operator on duty when the call came in
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Megan can be heard crying Breathing heavily and moaning fighting through the tears Megan said
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that her ex-boyfriend and the father of her only child attacked and threatened her
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she said she was out late with some friends when she came home 28 year old Adam Matos held a kitchen knife to her throat
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and told her several times that his intentions were to kill her but she had fought him off and Adam had
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left a deputy from the Sheriff's Office was dispatched to the scene he arrived at 7719 hutteras Drive
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shortly after the call there the officer spoke with Megan Brown and observed her to be very hysterical
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she was crying and it was obvious to the officer that she had been doing a lot of
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crying the officer observed a substantial cut to Megan's left thumb she explained she received the cut when
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trying to get the knife away from her throat and out of the hands of one very angry Adam Matos
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the deputy collected the knife used in the attack he took photographs of Megan specifically her injury and the
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immediate area where the incident took place he observed and spoke with Megan her
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mother Margaret Brown and Megan's four-year-old son Tristan the deputy attempted to locate the
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alleged assailant Adam Matos but he was unsuccessful about two and a half hours later the
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deputy returned to the house on heteris Drive it is now just after 9 A.M the deputy is responding to the
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residence after a call was placed by a man named Nicholas Leonard Nicholas reported that an assault
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involving a knife was in progress at the house upon arrival the deputy once again made
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contact with Megan Brown Megan explained to the officer that this was simply a misunderstanding
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Megan reported to Nicholas about the earlier attack via text Nicholas thought the attack was in
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progress and called 9-1-1 six days later the officers returned to the same house
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what they found there would be described by the media as the House of Horrors this is true crime garage
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[Music] you just heard there in the trailer that this case is going to take us down to
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the Sunshine State but first we will start this week's True Crime Story in New Jersey
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where Greg Brown married his girlfriend Margaret who was known to her friends and family as Maggie back in 1983. Greg
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was an electrician who co-ran and operated Brown Electric in Neptune New Jersey Maggie was outgoing a social butterfly
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who worked as an emergency medical technician in 1987 Maggie gave birth to the married
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couple's youngest child Megan Elizabeth Brown the Brown family moved from their home
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in Brick New Jersey to Pennsylvania in 1998 where Greg and Maggie opened Hidden Hills Farm in Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania
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where they bred and boarded dogs and horses Megan graduated from Northwestern Lehigh
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High School in 2005 where she ran track and competed in the PA state finals she was a bit of a track star in high
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school winning a silver medal in the triple jump at the 2005 Pi double a track and field championship
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she earned an athletic scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania where she attended while at College Megan started
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dating a guy named Adam Matos of course this was college so not supposed to be something serious and it never really
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was but Megan got pregnant this was unplanned but she was excited to be a mother and she had the full
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support of her parents and Megan's son Tristan was born in 2009. and Megan had committed all of her efforts to raising
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Tristan this included reuniting with Adam Matos the child's father while still in Pennsylvania it sounds
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like Adam was in and out of the brown home just before 2014 Greg Brown had back surgery and decided to retire the
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family plan was to move to Florida and Maggie and Greg plan to build their tropical island dream home leading up to
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the move Greg a hard-working man all of his life was unable to help with the moving process as he was still
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recovering from his recent back surgery on July 2nd 2014 the Browns this included Greg Maggie their daughter
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Megan and her only child four-year-old son Tristan they move from their home in Pennsylvania down to Florida
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the Browns are making this big move for many reasons but the two bigger reasons seem to be that they have a family in
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the area this also in step with retirement plans for Greg and Maggie but this move will include animatos
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Tristan's father this move looks like a life goal for the Browns and everything that I have found
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says that Megan while a super awesome and dedicated mother the living arrangement of her and her son Tristan
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staying and living at Mom and Dad's house back in Pennsylvania was probably yes something that she
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desired to stay close to Mom and Dad but also a living situation in a desirable home
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on a beautiful property but probably Captain a necessity Megan is a young mother and of course children are not
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cheap and so it was probably an ideal situation for Megan one also her son has special needs he's autistic
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so having the extra help probably was a necessity and her parents Greg and Maggie are super great people
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great in giving parents and grandparents they say look we're moving but we want our daughter and Grandson to remain
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close to us both in heart and proximity so the two of you come and live with us as well
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well like I said this plan is going to include Adam Matos ex-boyfriend to Megan and little Tristan's father
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so the Browns moved to Florida to be closer to extended family and they are nice enough and thoughtful enough to
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allow adamatos to move with them to remain close to his son that he had with Megan Brown Adam was going to be able to
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live with the Browns temporarily you know for a couple of months so that he can get set up in this new city get a
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job get settled in and then find a place of his own to live right it was agreed that he would live with them he would
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also work and he would chip in on the rent the Browns would be renting a very nice
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house for the meantime while building what sounds to be their dream home the Browns family extended relatives
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living in Florida helped Greg Margaret Megan and Adam move into their rented home and get settled in
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the house that they are renting is large enough that Megan and Adam are able to have separate bedrooms
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shortly after moving to Hudson Florida Megan Gets a Job bartending at the fisherman's Shack this is a local pub
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I'm guessing this is a dive bar there's no website and zero Yelp reviews but this could be the perfect little setup
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for Megan the bar is less than a two minute drive from the house her parents are renting right so it's always good to
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be close to work and it's one of those cool little spots that's right along the water that is it's off of Cow Creek but
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it appears that you could pull your boat up and dock it somewhere in the back not long after this
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as promised Adam gets a job at the get hooked Bar and Grill this looks like a cool place featuring live music two bars
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and a large fresh seafood menu Adam will be running the dish tank now at Megan's work at the fisherman's
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Shack she is quick to make friends this will include both fellow employees and some of the regulars that come in
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these are people that she will enjoy seeing at work and going out in groups after work and on her days off
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one of these new friends is a young man named Nicholas Leonard Nick is from Florida he's a few years
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older than Megan and he works as a carpenter and landscaper it sounds like these two really hit it off I wanted to
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put some context there Adam when she met Adam he was like a obscure DJ or something and wasn't much of a go-getter
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wasn't known to be that hard of a worker right right back at the rental house on
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heteris Drive things are not going particularly well Megan and Adam are not getting along and there is quite the
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this is quite the understatement actually but Adam does not appear to be getting along with Megan's family either
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and it sounds like he was wearing out his welcome at some point Adam gets fired from his
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dishwashing job and it looks like this only created further distance between Megan and Adam and with a big part of
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the deal being Adam should be working and pitching in this is going to create additional conflict between Adam and
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Megan's parents well and I heard he was a horrible roommate he wasn't taking out
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the trash he wasn't cleaning up after himself and I'm not really certain 100 certain of what the deal was here as
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this just sounds to me like a recipe for disaster but I'm sure this likely started off with everyone or at least
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Greg and Maggie having the best of hopes and intentions for all involved all right here is where the high hopes
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that Greg and Maggie had for all on this new living situation starts to go off the rails
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on Thursday August 14 2014. Megan calls the local police to report that she's being threatened and harassed
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by a female police listen to her complaint but decide this does not warrant any further action because Megan
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failed to provide hard details about the threats and harassment right police of course
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advised her how to best handle the situation should it occur in the future part of the issue may have been not only
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providing evidence of the harassment and threats but Megan either didn't know who
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was harassing her or could not show evidence of who was harassing her right so the identity of the alleged harasser
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was never determined by police but it's a female not a male that's what her complaint was right but
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we will quickly have an idea of who this alleged female harasser was because just
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about two weeks later on Wednesday August 27th Nick Leonard new friend in all the circle of friends agree to be
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dating Megan by this point in our timeline he makes a somewhat Anonymous call to a
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Verizon store in the greater Wichita Kansas area this was to call in a formal complaint about one of the Verizon
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employees her name is Michelle Stinson turns out that Michelle was a one-time girlfriend of Nick Leonards Michelle
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went out to Florida looking for Nick and things are going to get ugly when she finds Nick's truck parked at Megan's
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house which is kind of confusing in this story because as far as Adam and Megan's
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relationship is concerned it's never really clear are they an item when he when they moved to Florida
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were they on again off again when they're in Florida because he tells so many lies he be an Adam that
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he claims that they were together the whole time right and I think what makes it very
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convoluted to any Outsiders is you have a situation where at the end of the day they're living together right so it gets
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hard to determine what their boundaries are if they in fact even set any up so this woman she says that at some
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point she's down in Florida this is Michelle she went to Florida looking for Nick Leonard and she gets upset when she
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finds Nick's truck parked at Megan's house she then spent some time watching Nick from afar while he's
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spending a decent amount of time hanging out after work at the Old Fisherman's Shack
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so this complaint to Verizon from Nick Leonard is this woman Michelle a former romantic interest who lived in Wichita
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and who worked for Verizon was using her Verizon employee Powers those are some amazing powers that you get over there
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to hack into his accounts similar to Spider-Man right shooting webs and in addition to that probably levitation
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homes yes uh so she's using these powers or so he believes to hack into his accounts and
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Nick's words he says she was stalking harassing and threatening him through the cell phone and this isn't the first
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time though correct it's not really hard to piece together that this was likely the same person
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harassing Megan as well are you threatening me his complaint to Verizon was that Michelle was using Verizon
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technology to hack into his phone this meant his email account and his bank account as well so you could use this
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info to then lead you to Megan's information you see what his Tech star you see what his emails are who he's
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communicating with and then boom you have her information if you want to go out of your way to harass her as well
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Nick went on to state that she allegedly went so far she being the harasser went
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so far as to not only harass and threaten Megan but she contacted several of his business customers it looks like
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Nick owned and operated his own business as a carpenter and landscaper or may have been getting jobs on the side
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somewhere but she contacts these business contacts of his his customers and starts
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harassing them and telling them do not do business with Nick Leonard on the same day Nick reports this to local
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authorities in Florida as well but he includes in this complaint that two others had been harassing him as well in
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fact at times he says they were even sitting outside of his home in a parked car he describes these individuals as
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two heavier set Asian males this is weird we've all heard of an ex-boyfriend or an ex-girlfriend harassing a person
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yeah an ex an ex-lover or ex-friend lover lover we hear that all the time but then to take it to the point of
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where he says I think she's sending thugs over to threaten me as well these guys just seem to be following me around
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and they're sitting outside my home this is a whole nother level of of threat and harassment well and at some
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point you go is he just delusional and thinks people were following him but when you have the evidence that yes his
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ex is definitely stalking him then you go well maybe all his claims are true so on Wednesday August 27th
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Nick Leonard made an appointment with Detective Krause of the Pasco County Sheriff's Office for the next day the
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appointment was scheduled for August 28th at 2 pm and the topic of discussion to file a formal complaint of harassment
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from his ex-girlfriend in Wichita later that same day on the 27th Megan Brown reports to work at the fisherman's Shack
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after work Megan and co-worker Tanya Carlson go out after work it sounds like they were meeting up with some others as
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this is always reported as a group thing and I don't think it's important who most of the persons out together that
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night were but one of the people in the group that night is reported to be Nick Leonard now it's after midnight so
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technically it's now Thursday August 28 2014 and our timeline Megan is still out
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with her friends with this group of friends she's at a bar having a good time or at least trying to because this
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is obviously going to be upsetting to Adam and we will know this because Adam in the early morning hours of the 28th
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well he starts to try to reach out and get in touch with Megan and this quickly leads to a series of repeated calls and
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texts to Megan harassing her yeah this guy has no control I mean once he starts trying to contact her and this happened
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several times in the relationships we're talking about hundreds of calls and hundreds of texts within a short period
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of time which is so bizarre when you think about it because everyone really describes him and I think this is
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absolutely spot on I've seen tons of interviews with this guy and it's absolutely correct in their description
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of him as a quiet guy who doesn't talk a lot but as you're pointing out he decides I don't like what's going on
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flips a switch and he won't shut up he won't leave Megan alone as said to put it politely this leads to
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a series of repeated calls and texts to Megan harassing her he wants to know where she is what she's doing and who
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she might be out with he repeatedly tells her during these calls and on text that she is a horrible mother
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thank you [Music] all right cheers mates cheers to everybody having a cocktail with the captain and Colonel and if
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you're not having a cocktail just make sure you jiggle your booty a little bit and don't forget that next week is
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remember what they used to say when we were kids Captain get out there and Rock the vote Rock the vote sometime after 5
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a.m but before 5 30 a.m Megan Brown returned home after a night out with friends at 607 am is when a call to
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9-1-1 comes in this will be the first of two 9-1-1 calls both placed by Megan this call got disconnected and I could
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not find out the reason why it does not appear that this was discussed in the second call it could be for any number
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of reasons obviously someone hung up the phone the phone simply dropped the call
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any number of reasons the operator tried to call back several times but got no answer got Megan's voicemail this is
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protocol for this 911 Center call drops you can't speak with the caller you try calling them back
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then at 6 11 A.M the second call from Megan's phone came in to 9-1-1 emergency services this is the call that we spoke
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of in the trailer today during this 11-minute call Megan is very upset and her to be crying hysterically
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on the call she is bouncing back and forth between telling the operator what has happened you know reporting the
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attack and she is also reporting any additional things that are going on during the
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phone call itself she says I came home and my son's dad pushed me against a wall put a knife to my throat and he
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threatened to kill me and he cut my hand and I'm bleeding everywhere and my son is freaking out
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please have someone come out here as soon as possible Megan says she managed to get the knife
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from Adam Matos and says that Adam took off and he fled from the house around the time that their son woke up
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she can be heard saying the knife is in my son's room and I'm trying to get him meaning Tristan her son out of the room
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and she's going to put the knife in the kitchen she says she can't look at the knife because it's covered with blood
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with a lot of blood right she's explaining that her thumb is cut it hurts really bad and she can see
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everything I think that she means that she can see everything past the skin through the cut
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in her thumb yeah there's no picture that I found online of this injury anyone that's ever injured themselves or
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or suffered a cut especially a deep one and you look at it it's shocking when you ugh and I'm laughing in a not in a
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funny way it's more ahead of a nervous way yeah she tells the operator that she got her son and she locked herself and
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her son inside her bedroom she said that Adam took off down the street but he was turning around
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I was really trying to determine if Adam was driving a car or if he was riding a
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bike and I think that there's evidence later that will suggest that he is riding a bike she's never descriptive
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enough to say that he's driving a car but using the words turning around would imply that they're driving or operating
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something they're not just I don't think most people say that when someone's just
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walking or running down the the street she tells the operator and this is this is pretty freaky right here that he is
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now out front of the house he's back on the property he's at the front door he's
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knocking on the door Megan says that she has called the police she tells Adam look I'm I'm on the phone with 9-1-1
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So Adam takes off again at some point in the call she says oh my God I can't believe this happened I'm so scared if I
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knew he was going to do that I wouldn't even have went out well and this shows you what kind of person she was and what
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kind of mother she was because she's putting the blame on herself for something she's not responsible for it's
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this shouldn't have happened just because you went out after work to hang out with a couple people right because
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this is not even it's not just a problem for her it's also creating a lot of drama and unnecessary problems for Mom
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and Dad because we're living at Mom and Dad's house and my son yeah well I mean this is showing how Adam is a dick knows
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meat log but I think it also shows it gives us a little insight into what the truth might be about their relationship
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in their living situation she may just have thought that Adam was simply there at the house to help with Tristan to
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take care of his son and to get set up in a new city and not have to live hundreds of miles away from his son
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right and that he should just grow up and be an adult while she goes out with some friends after she worked at her job
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all day makes sense to me but hey I'm just but he's very immature I'm just some dude
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drinking a beer in a garage what do you know what the hell do I know about it you don't have super powers what I do
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know is that as said in the trailer the deputies arrived quickly on the scene by
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this point though it appears that Adam Matos is as they say long gone yeah police investigate at the scene and look
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for Matos for somewhere between an hour and approximately up to an hour and a half
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I want to underline that real quick before we move on they say that they investigate they look for Matos for more
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than an hour and approximately up to an hour and a half you have to wander though
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was Adam somehow able to hide and conceal himself tucked away somewhere nearby well this house
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was also on the water right it's on the water it's it's a canal that comes off of that ghost Creek
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and if you look it up on a map it's a neat little neighborhood it has several streets in in a lot of the houses have
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these canals that go near the houses I mean for all we know he's just hiding in some Bush somewhere
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a real sack sniffer well that's what I mean and the I say this because I find it very interesting the sequence of
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events when you start plugging in all of the detailed timed information that we have and filling in the blanks along the
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way right let's let's go through this shall we we know the call that the deputy responded to came in at 6 11 A.M we know
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per the police report that the deputy was on the scene within minutes of the call the call lasted approximately 11
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minutes so about 6 22 the 9-1-1 call ends then the officer is on the scene so let's say on the scene as early as 6 23
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to 6 25 then per the report the police investigated this is asking questions observing taking notes
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photographs documenting the incident and searching for the alleged perpetrator of
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the assault which is Adam Matos all of this per the report took more than an hour and approximately up to an hour and
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a half so now we are we're talking about a time frame where anywhere as early as 7 23 a.m up to
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about 7 55 am I find this type of minutia very fascinating because per the records at 7
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49 a.m starting at this time Adam Matos starts making another one of his now famous
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move of repeatedly calling over and over again to Megan's phone and so that's what I
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wondered was yes they looked for this guy but he had to have been somewhere close nearby because his calls to Megan
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start almost exactly at the same time that the police leave the area right and again not a call or 10 calls we're
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talking like over a hundred calls right it's an Adam Matos I'm going to call or text you dozens of times
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in a very short period of time it's insane look she's not answering his calls because she knows what she's going
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to get should she pick up the phone he's sending her nasty and threatening text to go along with these unanswered calls
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well I I know most the people that are listening know this but just in case you need to hear this this kind of contact
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counseling calling constantly texting talking trash harassment through text this is a type of abuse this is a type
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of control and this if this is helping if this is happening to you please reach out to your family and friends I also
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think the one making the calls in the text that it's some kind of psychosis on their end as well yeah
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some there might even be a term for that somewhere some somewhere out there under
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the stars above yeah beneath the pale blue I don't know I can't remember the words all right so
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this now this part is very upsetting to me this is where I want to get the old set the beer down get up punch the guy
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right in the face not as upsetting as you not knowing those lyrics right uh but this warrants a punch to the face
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okay in the face when Megan is not answering her phone Adam is nice enough to start calling
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Maggie's phone Megan's mother oh I'll just start calling her and ruin her day now because Megan's not answering her
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phone that's how much of a child I am right but like you said maybe some sort of psychosis right it's you can't
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control it at this point it's like a child though when you're not getting the response that you want which is as
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simple as someone on the other end picking up the phone you just keep trying and trying and calling and
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calling again yeah over 100 calls were made from Adam Matos to Megan and Maggie and these all started at 7 49 a.m almost
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like he sat there somewhere watching and waiting for the police to leave and then
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started right back in on the threats immediately after the police departure from the house on her Terrace Drive
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as if that is not the most annoying thing ever all of those calls over and over it turns out that the night before
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when Megan was out with friends Adam made over 100 calls to Megan while she's out trying to have a good time after
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work around 8 30 A.M Megan calls her friend Tanya Carlson this is her co-worker that she was out
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with the night before Megan tells Tanya that Adam has attacked her and that she has never seen him act
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this way before and that she was concerned that Adam might attack her again and maybe even kill her follow
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through on the threats that he was making Megan says she will be unable to go to
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work that day she says that she is afraid that Adam will show up at the house when she is at work and take their
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son take Tristan and never return again just after 9 A.M Nick Leonard calls 9-1-1 to report that Megan Brown was
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being attacked a deputy again responds thinking the Adam must have returned to the house and
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that this was a new attack let's go through this slowly because this part is a little confusing
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well to put it very simply it wasn't a new attack it was a misunderstanding right while the attack went down just
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after or right around 6 A.M this is new information at this time around 9 A.M to Nick Leonard right he is
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simply reporting the earlier attack to the police to which law enforcement has already responded it's we all live this
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we all kind of know not this exact situation but he has communicated this information
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via text from Megan so it's it's one of those situations where text there's no tone a voice there's no way to really
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fully comprehend What's Understood or going on rather than reading the text itself so he misunderstands he's like oh
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crap there's a she's being attacked she says there's a knife involved I better call 9-1-1 right the police show up we
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were talking about this off mic earlier today the police unfortunately a lot of what they deal with are these domestic
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disputes a lot of adults behaving like children scumbags yeah a lot of a lot of spats let's call them
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um and poop canoes what we have here the police of course they're like well duh this makes sense it's it's a couple
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hours later of course he he came back so they rush out there and this time they find luckily he's not there he has not
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returned he's not done any further damage okay we'll go back out and we'll look for him again but again this time
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they still don't find him now and this will be the last call that deputies will respond to on August 28 2014 at
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the brown house that they're renting on a Terrace Drive just after noon so 12 p.m noon just after that time this is
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an approximate time Greg Brown Megan's father is at a store where he purchases a spark plug and spark plug
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tool using a credit card belonging either to him or to his wife Maggie that afternoon the Brown's neighbor Ryan
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McCann says Greg is setting up a table and chairs on his back porch Greg telling the neighbor that Megan would be
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having a party at some point with her friends after work around 2 30 P.M detective Krause calls and speaks with
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Nick Leonard via telephone about Nick missing their scheduled appointment so we kind of have to go back to
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one event earlier in our story here captain where remember Nick was getting harassed
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by a female he believed it to be an ex-girlfriend of his and he phoned it into the local police
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there in Florida even though he believed his harasser was in Wichita and he discussed with Detective Krause
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about coming in and filing a formal written complaint about what was going on being hacked his phone being hacked
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his accounts being hacked so on and so forth on the 27th of August he made this appointment with Detective Krause for 2
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P.M on the 28th detective Krause is calling Nick Leonard because it's now 2 30 and Nick Leonard has never shown up
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to this appointment Nick tells detective Krause that something has come up and that he is
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busy and what he's going to do is he's going to call the detective back next week so that they can reschedule this
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appointment at 3 pm Maggie Brown arrives for and begins her scheduled work shift at a local
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convenience store shortly after 3 P.M Megan Brown fails to report to work she calls her boss at 309
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pm and she tells him that she was scared and tells him that she and her son are in danger and she would not be able to
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come in for her shift that day at work at 4 12 pm Adam Matos calls Megan Brown again
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per reports this would be the last call even after the hysterics of calling over
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100 times earlier that day right this is the last call from Adam's phone to Megan's phone per the report uh that we
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were we were able to see sometime after 6 pm we don't have an exact time for this but
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sometime after or around 6 PM again this comes from the neighbor Ryan McCann he says that around that
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time he loans Greg Brown a ratchet Greg says he needs the ratchet to work on a spark plug in his RV's generator or on
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his RV's generator right this makes sense because we know from his credit card statements that earlier that day he
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was at a hardware store he's out purchasing a spark plug Maggie Brown's shift is over at 11 PM
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and at 11 10 p.m she leaves work at the convenience store and heads home from door to door this is a drive time of
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approximately 15 minutes so she is arriving at the rental house around 11 25 pm sometime between 11 45 pm and midnight a
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neighbor in this neighborhood is out for a walk and he says that he hears what he
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believed to be gunshots he says he thought that he heard three gunshots sometime between 11 45 pm and midnight
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continuing on with our timeline this brings us to Friday yes this would be Friday August 29 2014.
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around 3 P.M Megan Brown does not show up for her work shift also at this exact same time at 3 pm her
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mother Maggie Brown fails to report to work they work at different locations so this
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is a kind of a way to double check that one and both are not accounted for right
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let's go to September 4th 2014. at 9 54 a.m Linda Thomas this is Megan's grandmother
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she calls the Pasco County Sheriff's Office to request a welfare check on the Brown family
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saying she hasn't heard from the Brown family specifically Megan since August 28th
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police respond to the Brown family home and discover what appears to be the obvious signs of a very bloody and
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violent attack so the way this works Captain is that it has been six days yeah since anyone has heard from
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the the Brown family yeah and when Cops show up you know they knock on the door nobody appears to be home at the Brown's
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house they say while they're there they detect a foul odor and these are seasoned cops
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they've been on the job for a while they say it's the all too familiar odor of death
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and decaying bodies yeah these guys know these guys and girls of blue know that they're not responding to
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something good this is a bad situation and you can smell that kind of smell from rooms away they find a door that
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was left open so they have probable cause to enter the home they entered the house through this open
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door and this door was one that would lead right into the garage where the family where the brown family's van is
00:45:57
parked this next bit is from The Daily Mail which did gangbusters work on this case
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quote they being law enforcement immediately see blankets on the ground behind the van in the garage there is
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what appears to be blood all over the floor and on these blankets but also on the bumper yes and about the same time a
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veteran cop makes another Grim Discovery this just a stone's throw away from the
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home he says that after noticing the same smell of death coming from a wooded area
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he goes in to take a look there the detectives find something worse than they have ever seen in all of their
00:46:42
years in law enforcement it was a pile of bodies Sheriff's Office detective Chet coolgel
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said to the Daily Mail quote they were decomposed beyond recognition we didn't know exactly who or how many total
00:47:01
bodies were in the pile but detective coolgill said he could easily deduce that the Brown family was among them
00:47:12
quote it was just common sense you know we had a house with several people that are missing and now we have a pile of
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bodies less than a mile away at 2 pm a forensics team arrives with the medical examiner at the site where
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the bodies were dumped as the medical examiner tries to identify the victims detectives and
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forensic experts go back to the house and of course they find they're returning to a shocking scene
00:47:44
the place turns pink when it's sprayed with luminal there's a trail of blood stretching
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throughout the house signs that the killer had tried to clean up some of it and other Clues to the horror that had
00:47:58
occurred there well some really good evidence is found in this van officers said quote we knew there were people
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dead people and decaying people in the back of that van at some point there was a significant amount of blood in the van
00:48:15
they found blood and they found maggots in the van as well and there's pictures of that online as well and it's very
00:48:24
jarring to see that because you know that when they open up this vehicle probably the smell got more intense but
00:48:32
to see those maggots in that car like that um just horrible and it's somewhat of a
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trite description the House of Horrors but you know given by the newspapers and the media at the
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time but that's what it is that's the best way to explain what these officers walked into a lot of blood and then like
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you said with the aluminol it just lit up the whole house and then the smell of death and Decay is so strong that it
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lead leads these officers from the house to a half to a three-quarter miles away
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out into a wooded area where they find this pile of bodies right back in the garage back in the van they also found a
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shovel in the back of the van the detectives believed that the killer had used the shovel to try to bury the
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bodies in the yard saying that on the side of the house there was a freshly dug area but in that area you can't dig
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more than a foot someone tried to bury these bodies on the side of the house and simply gave up
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yeah because it doesn't turn to Stone when you're when you're in Florida isn't like there are a bunch of lime rock or
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something clay stone Lime Rock yes it gets difficult investigators found evidence to support the theory that the
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murderer tried to load the bodies into the back of the van was successful in doing so and then dumped them in that
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wooded area oh thanks for joining us here in the garage for everything true crime garage check
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