1 00:00:02,279 --> 00:00:06,799 Southern Fried true crime covers cases that are not suitable for young listeners, and 2 00:00:06,879 --> 00:00:18,320 there may also be some explicit language used. Listener discretion is advost. On 3 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:23,879 Thursday, June twenty fifth, nineteen ninety eight, Officer Chris Long was having 4 00:00:23,879 --> 00:00:29,640 a normal hot summer night. He was patrolling Moody, Alabama in his police 5 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:33,880 car, and he was keeping an air to his radio, just like he 6 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:39,960 always did so. When Chris heard his colleague, officer Keith Turner, send 7 00:00:40,039 --> 00:00:45,520 a radio transmission to central dispatch, he listened like he always would, but 8 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:50,600 it wasn't anything special. Keith was pulling over a vehicle for a routine traffic 9 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:57,920 stop. Automatically, Chris headed towards Keith's location. Later, Chris would testify 10 00:00:58,039 --> 00:01:00,679 that this was out of habit. He said, anytime he stopped a car, 11 00:01:02,079 --> 00:01:07,079 I backed him up, and vice versa. Even when Chris had Keith's 12 00:01:07,079 --> 00:01:11,239 patrol car in sight, he didn't think anything was off. He heard a 13 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:15,640 few pops, but it was June twenty fifth, The Fourth of July holiday 14 00:01:15,719 --> 00:01:21,439 was only a week away. People were always setting off firecrackers early, especially 15 00:01:21,599 --> 00:01:27,159 in rural Alabama. But when Chris heard additional pops followed by screaming. His 16 00:01:27,239 --> 00:01:38,879 stomach dropped as he realized it wasn't fireworks. Welcome to episode two O nine, 17 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:52,000 The Disgraced Hero and Fugitive Mario Sentobi Officer. Keith Ashley Turner was born 18 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:57,159 in November nineteen sixty eight to his parents Dot and Pat Turner in pel City, 19 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:01,120 Alabama. He had two brothers and a sister, and although Keith was 20 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:06,079 born in pel City, he primarily grew up in a town called Ragland. 21 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:10,680 Ragland is located in Saint Clair County, Alabama. It's about fifteen miles north 22 00:02:10,719 --> 00:02:17,280 of pel City and fifty miles east of Birmingham. Ragland is your typical rural 23 00:02:17,319 --> 00:02:24,560 small town. Its population sits at about two thousand plus or minus several hundred 24 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:30,000 people depending on the year. When I say this is the kind of place 25 00:02:30,039 --> 00:02:38,080 where everybody knows everybody, I mean it. Everyone in Ragland is just about 26 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:42,560 on a first name basis. How could they not be. They're filling up 27 00:02:42,599 --> 00:02:46,719 their cars at the same two gas stations, They're going to the same grocery 28 00:02:46,719 --> 00:02:50,639 store, and when they want a night out, they're all headed to the 29 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:57,520 only restaurant in town, which, if you're wondering, serves barbecue. Keith's 30 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:01,120 family was from Ragland. His mother, Dot was a lifelong member of the 31 00:03:01,199 --> 00:03:08,240 Ragland Methodist Church and attended Ragland High School. Keith's father, Pat, was 32 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:13,000 a military veteran. He had served in the U. S. Navy during 33 00:03:13,039 --> 00:03:20,479 World War II as a machinist mate. Pat operated and maintained ships, and 34 00:03:20,599 --> 00:03:25,280 it's likely his military status was a big part of the Turner family. In 35 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:30,879 fact, before Dot passed away in twenty twenty one at the age of ninety 36 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:37,039 four, she was a member of the local VFW Auxiliary. Keith was a 37 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:40,719 member of his mother's Methodist church, and in nineteen eighty seven, eighteen year 38 00:03:40,719 --> 00:03:47,199 old Keith graduated from the same Ragland High School she did. On June twenty 39 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:52,479 seventh, nineteen ninety six, twenty eight year old Keith married a woman named 40 00:03:52,479 --> 00:03:57,719 Brandy. She was about twenty years old at the time. A year later, 41 00:03:58,039 --> 00:04:01,039 in the spring of nineteen ninety seven, Brandy gave birth to the couple's 42 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:06,400 first and only child, a little girl. According to Brandy, Keith was 43 00:04:06,439 --> 00:04:13,400 a fantastic father. The Birmingham Post Herald reported that Brandy said he was a 44 00:04:13,439 --> 00:04:18,600 wonderful man. He lived for her. The summer after Keith's daughter was born, 45 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:25,120 he hit another big milestone. He graduated from the University of Alabama's police 46 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:30,279 academy. Keith had wanted to be a law enforcement officer for quite some time. 47 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:36,399 I imagine this was an especially exciting accomplishment for him. Keith began his 48 00:04:36,519 --> 00:04:43,399 police career with a southside police department near Gadsden, Alabama. In March of 49 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:46,600 nineteen ninety eight, he switched to a new position at the police department in 50 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:53,360 Moody, Alabama. Moody, like Ragland, is also located in Saint Clair 51 00:04:53,399 --> 00:04:58,439 County, and while Moody is also a small rural town, it is slightly 52 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:02,560 bigger than Ragland. In the late nineteen nineties, approximately eight thousand people lived 53 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:09,160 there. In June of nineteen ninety eight, Keith was twenty nine years old 54 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:14,120 and thriving. He had a loving wife, a young daughter, a supportive 55 00:05:14,199 --> 00:05:19,399 family. Plus. Keith had started his dream career, a dream career that, 56 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:26,319 as it turns out, he had a knack for. Moody Police Chief 57 00:05:26,399 --> 00:05:30,160 Robert Clement said of Keith, I wish I had a dozen more just like 58 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:34,639 him. Others who knew Keith remarked on how kind and generous. He was. 59 00:05:35,639 --> 00:05:41,720 A previous supervisor told the Birmingham Post Herald he was an outstanding young man. 60 00:05:42,199 --> 00:05:45,519 He always had a smile on his face and was ready to help anyone. 61 00:05:46,519 --> 00:05:51,680 On June twenty seventh, nineteen ninety eight, Heith's anniversary. He was 62 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:58,959 on duty in his marked Moody police vehicle. At ten thirty pm. He 63 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:03,639 pulled over a nineteen on Mercury Grand Marquis for a routine traffic stop. The 64 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:11,079 marque parked in a residential driveway. Before Keith exited his car, he radioed 65 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:15,959 Central Dispatch to let them know he had stopped this vehicle. As I mentioned 66 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:19,560 at the top of the episode, Officer Chris Long heard the transmission and made 67 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:27,279 his way towards Keith's location. Meanwhile, Keith walked toward the Marquee he pulled 68 00:06:27,279 --> 00:06:31,560 over. Suddenly a man got out of the car. Keith called out, 69 00:06:31,639 --> 00:06:36,319 Hey, what are y'all doing. The man leaned into the car's window and 70 00:06:36,399 --> 00:06:41,680 said, give me my license. Then the man leaned down and reached through 71 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:46,720 the window, but when he straightened up he did not have his license. 72 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:51,199 Instead, he had a gun. Without warning, the man shot Keith three 73 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:58,879 times. The first bullet was stopped by Keith's bullet proof best the second hit 74 00:06:58,959 --> 00:07:02,319 his hip, and the third was fired directly into the back of his head. 75 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:09,879 Twenty nine year old Officer Keith Turner died immediately. He did not even 76 00:07:09,959 --> 00:07:15,079 have time to draw his weapon. When Officer Chris Long pulled up, the 77 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:19,839 two men responsible for Keith's murder ran. The man who was inside the car 78 00:07:19,879 --> 00:07:26,160 went one way and the shooter went another. The two hit among the swampy 79 00:07:26,199 --> 00:07:31,800 wooded areas in Saint Clair County. Almost immediately, a massive manhunt began. 80 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:38,160 No one had laid eyes on these men yet, but the authorities were damn 81 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:43,560 near positive they knew exactly who these fugitives were. Thirty two year old Mario 82 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:48,680 sent Toby and nineteen year old Jeremy Granbury. They had both escaped from a 83 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:57,279 Mississippi prison two days earlier. I'm going to pause now freshwort commercial break. 84 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:07,879 Mario Giovanni Sentobi was born in nineteen sixty six to his mother, Tracy Wolfe 85 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:15,199 and his father John Arden sent Toby in Biloxi, Mississippi. His gravestone indicates 86 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:20,199 he was born on January twenty sixth, but according to an FBI wanted poster, 87 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:26,319 Mario's birthday is actually October twenty sixth. That same FBI wanted poster explained 88 00:08:26,759 --> 00:08:33,159 that January twenty sixth was just an alias birthday Mario used, probably to help 89 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:39,960 avoid detection. When Mario was around four years old, his biological father left 90 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:46,200 his family. Mario's new stepfather was Richard O'Connor. When Tracy and Richard were 91 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:52,840 wed, Mario would have been approximately seventeen years old. By the time Mario 92 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:56,799 was grown, he had at least seven siblings. Some of them were full 93 00:08:56,799 --> 00:09:03,679 siblings, while others were half siblings. Mario spent the bulk of his childhood 94 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:09,720 in and around two Mississippi cities, Biloxi and Long Beach. They're about seventeen 95 00:09:09,759 --> 00:09:15,759 miles apart from each other on the Mississippi Gulf coast. In nineteen eighty four, 96 00:09:16,039 --> 00:09:20,600 eighteen year old Mario graduated from Long Beach High School. He had played 97 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:24,480 football there. By the time he was about twenty years old, he still 98 00:09:24,519 --> 00:09:28,320 lived in Long Beach. At nine to fifteen pm on Sunday, June first, 99 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:33,919 nineteen eighty six, Mario was involved in a gun related accident. He 100 00:09:35,039 --> 00:09:39,159 was cleaning his twenty gage shotgun when it accidentally discharged. He was taken to 101 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:46,840 the hospital where he underwent emergency surgery. At the time, authorities told the 102 00:09:46,879 --> 00:09:52,639 Sun Herald that the accident was under investigation. In fact, the Sun Herald 103 00:09:52,759 --> 00:09:58,960 article that reported on this event used the words supposedly when referencing the incident. 104 00:10:00,759 --> 00:10:05,879 It seemed people weren't sure that Mario was telling the truth. But as far 105 00:10:05,879 --> 00:10:11,240 as I can tell, no additional news reports came about this incident. When 106 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:16,759 Mario was in his twenties, he became a firefighter. According to his obituary, 107 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:20,320 he was a valedictorian of his class at the State of Mississippi Fire Academy, 108 00:10:22,039 --> 00:10:26,519 and as reported by The Sun Herald, twenty five year old Mario was 109 00:10:26,559 --> 00:10:30,720 working for the Orange Grove Fire Department in Biloxi. By March of nineteen ninety 110 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:35,200 one, he appeared to be doing very well there. In fact, Mario 111 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:39,399 was sometimes chosen to be the fire departments and formal spokesman, and by that 112 00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:45,440 I mean when local newspaper journalist needed a quote from a fireman on the ground, 113 00:10:45,879 --> 00:10:50,639 they would go to Mario. For example, when a local grass burning 114 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:54,200 got out of control and spread to more than three hundred acres of land, 115 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:58,960 Mario told the Sun Herald it was the largest woods fire I'd ever been in. 116 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:05,159 Nobody would heart. I found several similar quotes from Mario published in the 117 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:09,200 Sun Herald. He was usually explaining what may have caused a recent fire and 118 00:11:09,279 --> 00:11:15,559 giving an estimate of the damage. According to his obituary, in nineteen ninety 119 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:20,759 two, the twenty six year old was named Firefighter of the Year. Newspapers 120 00:11:20,799 --> 00:11:24,000 reported that by August of nineteen ninety two, Mario had risen to the rank 121 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:31,399 of captain. He was also sometimes cited as being a training officer. Months 122 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:35,919 later, in December of nineteen ninety two, Mario completed a five week training 123 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:41,600 program at the State Fire Academy. The next year, in nineteen ninety three, 124 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:46,200 Mario was dubbed Fireman of the Year. I'm not sure if that's the 125 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:52,159 same as the Firefighter of the Year Mario received in nineteen ninety two. Sometime 126 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:56,600 between nineteen ninety two and ninety three, Mario also worked for the Dieberville Fire 127 00:11:56,639 --> 00:12:03,440 Department, but in December of nineteen ninety three he had resigned from that position. 128 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:07,519 In addition to being a fireman, Mario was a lifeguard, a CPR 129 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:16,039 instructor, a rescue diver, and a rope rescue specialist. Mario received nine 130 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:22,000 Green Cross Awards for rescuing trapped and injured victims. On July twelfth of nineteen 131 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:28,279 ninety four, twenty eight year old Mario and another rescue professional, Norman Barnum, 132 00:12:28,759 --> 00:12:33,440 were recognized for helping with the Amtrak train disaster near Mobil, Alabama. 133 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:37,440 You may have heard of it. It's sometimes called the Big Bayou Cannot Rail 134 00:12:37,519 --> 00:12:43,639 accident. On September twenty second, nineteen ninety three, a towboat pulling along 135 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:50,120 heavy barges ran into a bridge. The collision knocked the bridge's train track out 136 00:12:50,159 --> 00:12:54,240 of alignment, and eight minutes later, an Amtrak passenger train carrying two hundred 137 00:12:54,240 --> 00:13:00,720 people was derailed. The train was traveling about seventy miles per hour. In 138 00:13:00,759 --> 00:13:07,440 total, forty seven people died more than one hundred were injured. Mario was 139 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:11,600 a volunteer for the Long Beach Dive and Rescue Team, so he was helping 140 00:13:11,639 --> 00:13:16,000 clean up the scene. Afterward, he repeatedly dove into the bayou to help 141 00:13:16,039 --> 00:13:22,960 recover bodies and other items. Mario told The Sun Herald the devastation of the 142 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:28,799 crash was almost unbelievable. Norman, the other recognized man, had helped on 143 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:35,279 the surface. For their work on the accident, Mario and Norman were presented 144 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:41,720 a certificate of merit from the Mobile County Sheriff's Flotilla. But despite Mario's long 145 00:13:41,759 --> 00:13:46,000 list of accomplishments as a rescue worker, he was not a good guy. 146 00:13:46,919 --> 00:13:50,000 There's no other way to put it. He just wasn't. This was a 147 00:13:50,039 --> 00:13:54,360 man who might have been a hero for some good portions of his life, 148 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:58,039 but by the end of this episode, you're going to understand that all of 149 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:03,600 Mario's good deep could never outweigh his bad ones, and it's time we talk 150 00:14:03,639 --> 00:14:09,360 about those. At some point in the late nineteen eighties and early nineteen nineties, 151 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:15,399 Mario married a woman named Cheryl Lynn Stanley. There isn't much information available 152 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:20,559 about Cheryl's past, but she was likely a Mississippi native born around nineteen sixty 153 00:14:20,639 --> 00:14:24,600 nine. She was in her late teens or early twenties at the time that 154 00:14:24,639 --> 00:14:30,039 she had began a relationship with Mario. Cheryl and Mario had one son together, 155 00:14:30,159 --> 00:14:33,559 named Dominic, and for a while the family of three lived together in 156 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:39,039 Gulfport Mississippi, which is just four miles to the east of Long Beach. 157 00:14:41,159 --> 00:14:45,679 Cheryl worked as a teacher's aide at a local elementary school, and Mario, 158 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:50,440 of course, was a rescue worker. But soon the couple began having serious 159 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:56,120 problems. Mario was abusive. On at least one occasion, he admitted to 160 00:14:56,159 --> 00:15:03,159 slapping Cheryl. Afterward, she got a restraining order against him, and by 161 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:07,480 September of nineteen ninety five, twenty six year old Cheryl and twenty nine year 162 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:13,000 old Mario were separated. Cheryl and her son Dominic lived in a Gulfport home 163 00:15:13,039 --> 00:15:18,799 together and Mario was on his own. Mario and Cheryl's separation may have been 164 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:24,679 a shock to Mario's family. Later they would say they didn't believe Mario would 165 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:30,480 hurt his wife, but this separation probably wasn't a shock to Cheryl's family. 166 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:35,720 Her father later testified that for two years it had been painfully clear that Cheryl 167 00:15:35,759 --> 00:15:43,240 feared her husband. Her father told the son Harold, the whole family is 168 00:15:43,279 --> 00:15:46,440 still worried about her. It's rough. She has been plumb scared to death, 169 00:15:48,279 --> 00:15:54,840 and the authorities would later confirm Mario's domestic violence as well. Police chief 170 00:15:54,879 --> 00:16:00,159 George Payne of the Gulfport Police Department, said Mario was violent and abuse to 171 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:04,559 Cheryl repeatedly. Hain also indicated that both Cheryl and their son, Dominic, 172 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:08,960 were scared to death of Mario, and that Mario was known for using fear 173 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:15,399 and intimidation to control them. On the evening of Saturday, September sixteenth of 174 00:16:15,519 --> 00:16:21,000 nineteen ninety five, Mario cut the phone lines to Cheryl and Dominic's home. 175 00:16:21,879 --> 00:16:26,320 Then he kicked open her front door, violently pushing into the house. At 176 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:30,879 the time, Cheryl and little Dominic, who was between five and seven years 177 00:16:30,919 --> 00:16:37,360 old, were watching television. I'm sure they were terrified to see Mario burst 178 00:16:37,399 --> 00:16:42,080 in while wielding a gun. Mario used the gun to force Cheryl and Dominic 179 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:48,720 into his rented four probes of Dan and Mario told Cheryl that he would kill 180 00:16:48,759 --> 00:16:55,000 their son if she didn't follow his orders exactly. For four days, Mario 181 00:16:55,120 --> 00:17:00,000 held his estranged wife and son captive. He took them from Mississippi to Louisiana 182 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:07,119 to Texas, all the while Mario sexually assaulted Cheryl repeatedly while their son was 183 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:14,079 present. When they were near San Antonio, Mario wanted to force another man 184 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:18,000 to sexually assault Cheryl. She testified, we went to a truck stop, 185 00:17:18,279 --> 00:17:22,720 but he couldn't find a man that was by himself. He got back in 186 00:17:22,759 --> 00:17:25,960 the car and put the gun to his head. He said he just didn't 187 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:30,480 want to live anymore, and then he put the gun down. Eventually, 188 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:37,240 Cheryl commenced Mario that she would not divorce him, and she agreed to retract 189 00:17:37,319 --> 00:17:41,559 her previous allegations of abuse. Honestly, what else was she supposed to do? 190 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:48,720 Stand her ground and die. With Cheryl's agreements in mind, Mario decided 191 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:52,000 to return to Mississippi. He needed to go to the city of Pearl anyway, 192 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:56,440 he had to make a court appearance to pay a one hundred dollars fine 193 00:17:56,480 --> 00:18:03,160 and do six months of probation for an unrelated shoplifting charge. And now that 194 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:07,119 Mario felt he had his wife and son back under his thumb, he felt 195 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:11,279 comfortable showing up. Afterward, they would go back to their Gulfport home. 196 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:18,839 In his mind, things would return to normal. So Mario threw away his 197 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:23,960 gun at a convenience store, and on Tuesday, September nineteenth, nineteen ninety 198 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:30,000 five, he had Cheryl drop him off at the Pearl Courthouse. Cheryl took 199 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:33,920 the rental car to wash it, and then she and Dominic waited for Mario 200 00:18:33,039 --> 00:18:38,160 in a wal Mart parking lot. It was near the courthouse. Later, 201 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:44,000 it would be pointed out by Mario's defense attorneys that Cheryl could have simply driven 202 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:49,160 away, obviously ignoring the amount of control Mario had over Cheryl. He had 203 00:18:49,279 --> 00:18:55,680 terrorized her and her child for four days. She was terrified to defy Mario. 204 00:18:56,599 --> 00:19:02,400 When Mario arrived at the Pearl Courthouse, someone had the wherewithal to realize 205 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:07,480 he was out on bond. He was facing charges of sexual assault and domestic 206 00:19:07,559 --> 00:19:12,680 violence against his wife, and with a little more digging, they realized that 207 00:19:12,799 --> 00:19:19,759 same wife and Mario's son had been reported missing. Thankfully, the court officials 208 00:19:19,759 --> 00:19:26,519 and other authorities put things together, and as Cheryl and Dominic waited for Mario 209 00:19:26,599 --> 00:19:32,359 to finish his court proceedings, two FBI agents approached them, and those FBI 210 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:38,839 agents told Cheryl that Mario had been arrested for kidnapping. I'm going to pause 211 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:45,319 now, tar a word from today's sponsors. This episode is sponsored by care 212 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:49,920 Of. Care Of is a health and wellness company that ships high quality, 213 00:19:51,039 --> 00:19:56,319 personalized vitamins, supplements, and powders conveniently to your door every month. 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They saw that her front door was kicked in, the house was 266 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:23,000 unusually messy, and the phone wasn't working. Even the television had been left 267 00:24:23,039 --> 00:24:30,799 on. Clearly something was wrong, so Cheryl's father reported his daughter and the 268 00:24:30,839 --> 00:24:36,279 grandson missing, and due to Mario's history of domestic violence, he was the 269 00:24:36,319 --> 00:24:41,440 police's number one suspect. When Mario was arrested four days later. He was 270 00:24:41,519 --> 00:24:47,039 taken to golf court and held on a fifty thousand dollars bond. Two days 271 00:24:47,079 --> 00:24:51,519 later, on September twenty first, Mario's bond was increased to one million. 272 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:56,359 Needless to say, he couldn't pay it, so he remained in jail. 273 00:24:57,039 --> 00:25:03,400 Mario was indicted that November. His charges were kidnapping, aggravated assault, burglary, 274 00:25:03,559 --> 00:25:08,559 and sexual battery, and one count of sexual battery related to an earlier 275 00:25:08,599 --> 00:25:14,839 incident, and his trial began the next year, on October fourteenth, nineteen 276 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:22,079 ninety six. By this point, Cheryl had successfully divorced Mario. During the 277 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:26,079 trial, Mario's defense team argued that Cheryl had agreed to go on this quote 278 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:32,440 trip. They suggested that it was a family vacation, not a kidnapping. 279 00:25:33,279 --> 00:25:37,799 Mario's defense attorneys said their marital issues were typical. They pointed to how, 280 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:44,720 despite their separation, Cheryl and Mario had recently interacted a church, the movie 281 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:48,599 theater, and restaurants. They had witnesses to prove as much. One of 282 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:56,119 Mario's acquaintances thought Mario and Cheryl were making up, but that same person also 283 00:25:56,240 --> 00:26:02,920 testified that Mario had recently been suing, and then he had mentioned getting a 284 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:08,720 gun. The defense also cast out on the police investigation. The authorities had 285 00:26:08,799 --> 00:26:14,680 let Cheryl drive her son home after Mario's arrest, That in and of itself 286 00:26:14,799 --> 00:26:18,599 wasn't the problem. The problem was that Cheryl drove home in the same rental 287 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:25,039 car that Mario had kidnapped her in, and she had removed trash like fast 288 00:26:25,039 --> 00:26:27,759 food wrappers from the car before turning it over to the police to be searched. 289 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:36,480 The defense was alleging that Cheryl may have tampered with evidence. By the 290 00:26:36,559 --> 00:26:41,359 time the four vehicle was searched, detectives found blood on the passenger side seat 291 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:45,160 belt. Cheryl testified that this was because she was bleeding while sitting in that 292 00:26:45,279 --> 00:26:51,440 seat. Mario had pistol whipped her in the head and there was a lot 293 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:55,000 of blood. She had had to wrap her head with a shirt to staunch 294 00:26:55,079 --> 00:26:59,880 the bleeding. When those two FBI agents found Cheryl, she did have a 295 00:27:00,039 --> 00:27:06,160 head injury. However, this seat belt blood was never proven to be Cheryl's. 296 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:11,279 The authorities had intended to send samples to the state crime lab for testing, 297 00:27:12,039 --> 00:27:18,359 but for unknown reasons, though samples were never sent. Also, the 298 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:22,400 shirt Cheryl had used to wrap her head was never found. Another issue with 299 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:26,759 the investigation was that they had not sent Cheryl to the hospital to complete a 300 00:27:26,839 --> 00:27:33,119 rape test, and they didn't check Cheryl or Mario's clothing for seamen. The 301 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:40,000 defense team also had proved that when a Gulfport police officer had interviewed Cheryl immediately 302 00:27:40,039 --> 00:27:42,240 after the kidnapping, she had said she had gone on the trip of her 303 00:27:42,279 --> 00:27:47,680 own accord, and they pointed out how Cheryl wrote letters to Mario while he 304 00:27:47,759 --> 00:27:52,079 was in jail. She had even signed them with a word love, but 305 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:57,720 this again was due to Cheryl's fear of Mario. While on the stand, 306 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:03,960 Cheryl test as to how terrified she was of Mario. She explained that she 307 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:07,319 had written him letters because she didn't know if he was getting out of jail. 308 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:11,920 She said, I didn't want him to be mad at me. He 309 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:18,880 will kill me. Cheryl testified to her story in detail, and officers explained 310 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:23,680 to the jury that they found wirecutters in Mario's personal vehicle, which was a 311 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:30,559 truck that had been abandoned in a casino parking lot. The prosecution claimed these 312 00:28:30,599 --> 00:28:36,720 wirecutters were what Mario used to cut Cheryl's phone lines before he kidnapped her. 313 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:44,039 The prosecution also called to the stand Cheryl's seventeen year old neighbor he had seen 314 00:28:44,119 --> 00:28:48,640 Mario peeking into the windows of Cheryl's home days before the kidnapping, and a 315 00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:53,559 bank worker testified that Mario had stopped by the bank a day before the kidnapping. 316 00:28:55,240 --> 00:29:00,880 He had seemed upset and had withdrawn five thousand dollars that's just under ten 317 00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:07,960 thousand today, but when asked about how he and Cheryl were doing, Mario 318 00:29:07,079 --> 00:29:12,880 said they were fine. Cheryl and Mario's elementary school age son, Dominic, 319 00:29:14,039 --> 00:29:18,400 also testified. He verified that Mario had a gun on him, saying he 320 00:29:18,559 --> 00:29:23,599 kept it in a pouch in a red car, and Dominic confirmed that his 321 00:29:23,599 --> 00:29:30,599 father had beaten his mother in front of him. On Friday, October eighteenth, 322 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:34,160 nineteen ninety six, the jury convicted thirty year old Mario cent Toby of 323 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:42,119 aggravated assault and burglary. He was acquitted of all sexual battery charges. It's 324 00:29:42,279 --> 00:29:48,039 likely the jury made that decision because Cheryl had not undergone a rape test and 325 00:29:48,079 --> 00:29:53,880 the lack of testing for Mario seamen. Ultimately, Mario was sentenced to forty 326 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:59,799 years in prison, twenty years for kidnapping, ten years for aggravated assault, 327 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:04,359 and tend for burglary. The jury had considered life in prison, but they 328 00:30:04,359 --> 00:30:08,039 couldn't make a unanimous decision on it, so it was off the table. 329 00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:15,160 This wasn't an extremely high profile case. In fact, the authorities didn't disclose 330 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:21,400 any information about the case to news reporters until after Cheryl and Dominic were recovered. 331 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:26,200 That was a purposeful decision, meant to keep them safe. However, 332 00:30:26,599 --> 00:30:33,279 for those who did follow the case, Mario's convictions were controversial. On the 333 00:30:33,319 --> 00:30:38,799 one hand, Mario's family maintained that this whole situation was blown out of proportion. 334 00:30:41,279 --> 00:30:45,920 Mario's stepfather, Richard O'Connor said to the Birmingham Post Harold, they went 335 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:49,920 on this vacation and didn't tell either parents, and the next thing I know, 336 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:56,559 the police are around here looking for Mario. Richard referenced how Mario took 337 00:30:56,640 --> 00:31:03,359 Cheryl and Dominic to Texas beeches, and how Mario's original shoplifting charge was for 338 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:07,599 stealing his son a birthday present, which is strange if he had five thousand 339 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:15,079 dollars in the bank. But anyway, the authorities obviously thought this whole story 340 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:21,799 was bullshit. The police chief of Gulfport said to the Sun Herald, this 341 00:31:21,839 --> 00:31:26,359 is a classic case of an abused woman where it appears the system failed her. 342 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:33,119 Additionally, I'm not sure how Mario's family is rationalizing Cheryl's broken door, 343 00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:40,880 cut phone wires and bruised face. But it doesn't matter what I think the 344 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:47,880 jury thought. Mario was guilty and that was that or that should have been 345 00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:55,920 that, because unfortunately this was only the beginning. I'm going to pause now 346 00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:06,400 for a short commercial break. In nineteen ninety eight, thirty two year old 347 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:13,559 Mario Centobi was incarcerated in the Mississippi State Penitentiary. It's located in Parchment, 348 00:32:13,599 --> 00:32:19,000 Mississippi, and is often referred to as Parchment Prison. That's where Mario met 349 00:32:19,119 --> 00:32:23,720 nineteen year old Jeremy Granberry. Jeremy was serving six years. He would have 350 00:32:23,799 --> 00:32:30,160 only served five years, but in November of nineteen ninety seven, Jeremy and 351 00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:35,119 another inmate, twenty one year old Christopher Wally, attempted to escape from Parchment 352 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:40,119 Prison. The pair had just walked away while on work detail at a nearby 353 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:45,279 pig and chicken farm. They were caught by that afternoon and Jeremy was sentenced 354 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:51,119 to an additional year in prison. On Thursday, June twenty fifth, nineteen 355 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:55,519 ninety eight, Mario and Jeremy were to be transported from Parchment Prison to Laurel, 356 00:32:55,519 --> 00:33:02,359 Mississippi, for court proceedings. These hearings were directly related to Jeremy's case, 357 00:33:02,799 --> 00:33:07,440 so it made sense that he was going, but Mario was not supposed 358 00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:09,839 to be going to these court hearings. He had asked Jeremy to put his 359 00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:15,160 name on the witness list because this was the first step of Mario's plan. 360 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:22,119 So Mario and Jeremy climbed into a vehicle with Sheriff Maurice Hooks of Jones County 361 00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:27,200 and Ray Butler. Ray was a former lawman and a friend of Sheriff Hooks. 362 00:33:27,839 --> 00:33:31,279 Later on, Hooks would explain that he had brought his buddy Ray along 363 00:33:31,359 --> 00:33:37,079 because he thought he was only transporting one inmate, Jeremy. Mario coming was 364 00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:44,000 news to Sheriff Hooks. That's also the reason why Hooks arrived in an unsecured 365 00:33:44,079 --> 00:33:49,440 vehicle. It was supposed to have a divider between the front seat, where 366 00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:52,759 the officer sit, and the back seat where the inmates sit, but this 367 00:33:52,839 --> 00:33:57,680 vehicle did not have that, and as you'll soon learn, this lack of 368 00:33:57,759 --> 00:34:04,000 divider was going to make all the difference. And it's important to note here 369 00:34:04,319 --> 00:34:07,920 that Mario and Jeremy's ankles were shackled, but their wrists were not. It's 370 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:14,800 unclear why the trip from Parchment to Laurel would take nearly four hours, so 371 00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,480 a little over two hours in the group of four made a pit stop in 372 00:34:17,559 --> 00:34:23,360 Richland, Mississippi. Sheriff Hooks let Mario and Jeremy use the restroom, and 373 00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:28,280 he and Ray got some coffee. As Hooks went to get back into the 374 00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:34,360 vehicle, all hell broke loose. Sheriff Hooks later testified, opened the front 375 00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:37,639 door, got into the driver's seat, put my coffee into the holder, 376 00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:40,840 and closed the door. Granberry reached over the seat, grabbed me by the 377 00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:45,039 neck and pulled me into the seat backwards. Sin Toby went from my gun 378 00:34:45,119 --> 00:34:50,639 and hit me with it on the head four or five times. Armed with 379 00:34:50,639 --> 00:34:55,039 the sheriff Hooks's forty five caliber automatic pistol, Mario forced Hooks and Ray to 380 00:34:55,119 --> 00:35:00,599 an old barn in an isolated area. He and Jeremy tied up the sheriff 381 00:35:00,639 --> 00:35:05,320 and his friend to a post. Then they left them there. Mario and 382 00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:10,719 Jeremy fled in Sheriff Hooks's vehicle. Sheriff Hooks and Ray Butler stayed tied up 383 00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:15,599 in that barn for approximately twenty hours. They were found on Friday, June 384 00:35:15,639 --> 00:35:22,199 twenty sixth by a couple visiting a nearby cemetery. The two men received treatment 385 00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:27,000 for cuts, swollen limbs, and dehydration. They both made a full recovery. 386 00:35:28,199 --> 00:35:31,199 After Mario and Jeremy stole the sheriff's car, they stopped at a Walmart 387 00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:37,360 twenty five miles to the north in Livingston, Mississippi. They walked inside while 388 00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:43,400 still wearing their prison uniforms. The uniforms consisted of white shirts with ms DOC 389 00:35:43,679 --> 00:35:49,119 for Mississippi Department of Corrections printed on the back and dark pants. And Walmart, 390 00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:53,320 the two men purchased black T shirts, a compass, water purification tablets, 391 00:35:53,440 --> 00:36:00,599 and other items. Mario and Jeremy also found fai plastic sheriff's badges and 392 00:36:00,639 --> 00:36:07,800 Hooks's car. Hooks would give these out to children. Mario and Jeremy pinned 393 00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:12,159 them to their shirts, probably in the hopes that they might fool someone into 394 00:36:12,199 --> 00:36:15,880 thinking they were supposed to be in this marked law enforcement vehicle. With new 395 00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:21,559 clothes, fake badges, and some provisions, the two escapees were prepared to 396 00:36:21,559 --> 00:36:27,400 go on the run, just like they had planned all along. Seven hours 397 00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:31,239 later, Mario and Jeremy were near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and it just so 398 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:37,239 happened that forty seven year old Captain Cecil Lancaster of the Tuscaloosa Police Department was 399 00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:40,800 coming home late. He had been held up by a meeting at work. 400 00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:49,360 Lancaster saw Hooks's marked patrol car drive by on I three fifty nine, and 401 00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:53,159 although Lancaster had no idea that two fugitives were on the loose, he noticed 402 00:36:53,199 --> 00:36:58,119 that something was off about the car. First off, he saw that the 403 00:36:58,119 --> 00:37:01,360 sheriff's car was missing its rear bumper. As luck would have it, this 404 00:37:01,519 --> 00:37:07,679 was not actually related to Mario or Jeremy's fugitive status. The bumper had been 405 00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:12,760 dislodged during a previous accident Sheriff Hooks had been involved in. Still, it 406 00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:16,920 gave Captain Lancaster pause. Then he also noticed that the car had no tags. 407 00:37:17,679 --> 00:37:22,199 Plus, the two people inside the car didn't acknowledge him as they passed 408 00:37:22,199 --> 00:37:29,840 by. As a precaution, Lancaster pulled the sheriff's car over. As Captain 409 00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:32,679 Lancaster walked toward the driver's side of the car, he got a good look 410 00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:37,920 at Jeremy Grandberry. Jeremy was in the driver's seat, so he was easy 411 00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:42,559 to see, but Lancaster was unable to see Mario in the front passenger seat. 412 00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:47,519 Before Lancaster made it all the way to the driver's side, Mario leaned 413 00:37:47,559 --> 00:37:52,519 back behind the front seat. Although Lancaster didn't have a clear vision of Mario, 414 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:57,840 he could see that someone was pointing a gun at him. According to 415 00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:01,320 later testimony, the first time Marrio tried to shoot Lancaster, the gun only 416 00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:06,760 clicked. There was no shell on the gun's chamber, so Mario cocked the 417 00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:09,960 gun and fired again. He shot through the back window on the driver's side 418 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:15,480 and hit Lancaster twice. The first shot struck Lancaster's gun clip on his police 419 00:38:15,519 --> 00:38:21,599 belt, and the second hit him in the torso. Lancaster suffered two broken 420 00:38:21,679 --> 00:38:25,119 ribs and the bullet's exit wound was near his tailbone. He was a very 421 00:38:25,159 --> 00:38:31,000 lucky man. After being hit, Lancaster fell to the ground. That's when 422 00:38:31,039 --> 00:38:36,239 he saw the Sheriff's vehicle begin to move forward. He realized they were going 423 00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:39,639 to try and run him over. He testified, I saw the reverse light 424 00:38:39,679 --> 00:38:44,159 come on, and that shocked me back to reality. I pulled out my 425 00:38:44,199 --> 00:38:49,079 gun and fired a shot into the rear window in the high left side. 426 00:38:49,119 --> 00:38:53,519 A second shot shattered the back window. Jeremy and Mario decided it wasn't worth 427 00:38:53,519 --> 00:38:58,760 it to run over Lancaster and fled the scene. As they sped off, 428 00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:04,960 Lancaster kept fire, but they were gone Soon after. A fellow police officer 429 00:39:05,039 --> 00:39:08,639 saw that Captain Lancaster was hurt. On the Interstate. That officer, Sergeant 430 00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:14,199 Jeffrey Elmore, used his shirt and a piece of cardboard to slow Lancaster's bleeding. 431 00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:21,920 Other concerned bystanders had also stopped to help. Eventually, Captain Lancaster would 432 00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:24,920 make it to a hospital. He was reported as being in fair condition the 433 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:30,079 day after the shooting, but he did have to undergo surgery due to his 434 00:39:30,159 --> 00:39:37,039 injuries. Following their run in with Lancaster, Mario and Jeremy abandoned Sheriff Hooks's 435 00:39:37,079 --> 00:39:45,280 patrol car in the backyard of a mobile home in South Tuscaloosa after nearly killing 436 00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:52,440 Captain Lancaster. They probably realized that marked car was drawing unnecessary attention. That's 437 00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:58,079 when they stole the nineteen eighty one Mercury Grandmarquis I'm mentioned in the opening. 438 00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:02,679 By this point, the local authorities were aware that Mario and Jeremy were on 439 00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:08,079 the run. The two fugitives were considered armed and dangerous, and law enforcement 440 00:40:08,119 --> 00:40:13,079 officers were going door to door to check on locals and advise them to stay 441 00:40:13,119 --> 00:40:19,480 inside. On Saturday, June twenty seventh, Jeremy and Mario stopped for food 442 00:40:19,519 --> 00:40:23,199 near Leeds, Alabama. Jeremy stopped at a McDonald's while Mario went to a 443 00:40:23,239 --> 00:40:30,559 Taco Bell. Security footage was later recovered showing Mario making his Taco Bell order. 444 00:40:30,559 --> 00:40:35,599 Later that day, Officer Keith Turner pulled over Jeremy and Mario for a 445 00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:42,760 routine traffic stop. After Mario murdered Officer Keith Turner in cold blood, Jeremy 446 00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:47,840 turned their stolen car into a driveway, and per later testimony, Jeremy looked 447 00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:52,360 at Mario and said, well, this is it, and Mario responded, 448 00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:55,559 you can give up if you want to, man, I ain't going back 449 00:40:55,559 --> 00:41:04,039 to Parchment. Then Mario got out of the car shortly after Jeremy did too. 450 00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:07,400 He fled across a baseball field and hid in a swampy wooded area, 451 00:41:08,079 --> 00:41:15,719 and immediately after Mario did the same in a slightly different direction. When Officer 452 00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:21,519 Chris Long arrived on the scene, he fired at Mario. Mario fell to 453 00:41:21,599 --> 00:41:24,039 the ground as if he had been shot, so Chris thought he had made 454 00:41:24,119 --> 00:41:31,079 contact. This was further reinforced when Mario began crawling towards the woods. Later 455 00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:36,840 investigators would realize that Mario had not been shot. There was no blood on 456 00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:40,559 the ground where he had fallen. Mario was either trying to mislead Officer Long 457 00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:46,760 or he was avoiding more gunfire. But thinking that Mario was somewhat incapacitated, 458 00:41:47,119 --> 00:41:52,960 Chris turned his attention toward Keith. He felt around Keith's chest, searching for 459 00:41:52,039 --> 00:41:57,400 a wound. It was ten thirty p m. And dark. Chris couldn't 460 00:41:57,440 --> 00:42:02,400 see that Keith had been shot in the head. But then Chris shined his 461 00:42:02,519 --> 00:42:07,239 light on Keith and saw the blood. His neck and collar were covered in 462 00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:12,920 it. Officer Keith Turner was killed in the line of duty on his two 463 00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:19,840 year wedding anniversary. His funeral was held three days later at one pm on 464 00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:25,239 Tuesday, June thirtieth, at the Ragland Methodist Church. He was laid to 465 00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:30,440 rest in the Garden of Memory Cemetery in Ragland, Alabama. His father was 466 00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:35,920 also buried there, and his mother was laid to rest there too, at 467 00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:39,679 the age of ninety four in twenty twenty one. At the time of Keith's 468 00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:45,000 death, his mother had seen him a few days earlier. She told the 469 00:42:45,039 --> 00:42:49,559 Birmingham Post Herald the last thing he said to me was I love you. 470 00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:55,480 There couldn't have been a better way to say goodbye. The year after his 471 00:42:55,639 --> 00:43:01,039 death, in May of nineteen ninety nine, Keith was posthumously rewarded the Medal 472 00:43:01,079 --> 00:43:07,119 of Valor and a stone memorial was dedicated to his memory. The Moody Police 473 00:43:07,199 --> 00:43:12,760 Chief, Robert Clement, said of Keith, he had tremendous potential. He 474 00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:16,360 was a fine, fine man. It was just our bad luck that those 475 00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:22,679 predators happened to come through our town. I'm going to pause now for a 476 00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:32,480 short commercial break. Following Officer Keith Turner's murder, a huge manhunt for Mario 477 00:43:32,559 --> 00:43:38,159 and Jeremy began. Detectives primarily focused on a ten square mile area in Saint 478 00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:44,840 Clair County. The Cross Baptist Church became the headquarters for all search activities. 479 00:43:45,639 --> 00:43:52,280 Roadblocks were put up, helicopters circled the air. Hundreds of federal, state, 480 00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:55,960 and local officers were put on the case, and numerous law enforcement agencies 481 00:43:57,039 --> 00:44:00,960 help. Some of them were the FBI, that Alabama Bureau of Investigation, 482 00:44:01,519 --> 00:44:07,719 the Alabama State Troopers, multiple county sheriff's departments, and multiple city police departments, 483 00:44:08,079 --> 00:44:15,320 including the Moody Police Department where Officer Keith Turner was employed. Jeremy was 484 00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:19,280 captured at two pm on Sunday, June twenty eighth. It was less than 485 00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:23,280 one day since he had ran. Bloodhounds had found him hiding in a sewage 486 00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:30,199 ditch not far from where he had initially fled the scene. He was charged 487 00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:35,599 with capital murder for Officer Keith Turner an attempted murder for Captain Cecil Lancaster. 488 00:44:37,559 --> 00:44:43,079 As the police apprehended him, locals watched, They clapped and cheered. The 489 00:44:43,119 --> 00:44:47,119 authorities, high fived, and honked their horns. Many onlookers heard Jeremy screaming 490 00:44:47,519 --> 00:44:52,239 that he was not responsible for killing Officer Keith Turner. He was held at 491 00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:59,440 the Saint Clair County Jail. Even though Jeremy was quickly recovered, Mario escaped 492 00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:06,679 the authority for several days. He survived by stealing vegetables from people's gardens and 493 00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:10,159 breaking into homes for food. He would take items from the back of people's 494 00:45:10,159 --> 00:45:15,639 refrigerators and the hopes that they might not notice he had been there. Law 495 00:45:15,679 --> 00:45:22,679 enforcement officers were optimistic that the hot weather might exhaust Mario. It was about 496 00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:30,079 ninety degrees most days. Alabama State Trooper William Rogers told the Birmingham Post Harold, 497 00:45:30,639 --> 00:45:34,000 we think the heat will work in our favor. That's why we want 498 00:45:34,039 --> 00:45:37,079 to keep continuous pressure on him. On a hot day, it's hard to 499 00:45:37,159 --> 00:45:43,800 keep moving. But the heat didn't seem to FaZe Mario because on Monday, 500 00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:49,320 June twenty ninth, law enforcement had no clue where he was. Jeremy did 501 00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:53,159 not provide them with any helpful information, and the leeds coming in from locals 502 00:45:53,199 --> 00:45:59,199 were largely incorrect. Still, the police were pretty sure Mario remained in this 503 00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:05,400 area. As a precaution, residents were encouraged to lock their doors and stay 504 00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:09,840 inside. A special agent for the Federal Bureau of Alcohol tobacco and firearms. 505 00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:15,519 Told the Birmingham Post Herald, he is very cunning. He's desperate to do 506 00:46:15,599 --> 00:46:20,320 anything to not be incarcerated. He's on the extreme violent end of the criminal 507 00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:27,119 subculture. And a different officer told the Birmingham Post Harald, now's not a 508 00:46:27,119 --> 00:46:30,960 good time to take a walk in the woods or go pick berries. June 509 00:46:31,039 --> 00:46:36,519 turned into July and Mario sent Toby was still nowhere to be found. A 510 00:46:36,559 --> 00:46:42,119 local fireworks company called Crazy Bill Fireworks shut down business to help with the investigation. 511 00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:46,239 They urged everyone in the area to not shoot off any fireworks. They 512 00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:52,679 didn't want the sound or sights to interfere with the investigation. On July fourth, 513 00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:59,440 Mario escaped the authorities search perimeter, undetected due to rain and dense fog. 514 00:47:00,199 --> 00:47:04,559 He went to a Moody, Alabama gas station. There he carjacked a 515 00:47:04,559 --> 00:47:09,519 man named Daniel Alexander at about nine thirty PM. Daniel wasn't even from Alabama. 516 00:47:10,079 --> 00:47:15,559 He was from Arkansas visiting relatives, but he had the misfortune of being 517 00:47:15,599 --> 00:47:22,519 in Mario's path. Mario forced Daniel to drive him to mobile Detectives later revealed 518 00:47:22,519 --> 00:47:27,000 that they believed Mario was on his way to Cheryl and Dominic's home in Gulfport. 519 00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:31,199 Fortunately, the authorities had seen that coming. They had already put Cheryl 520 00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:37,039 and Dominic in protective custody. As they crossed the state lines from Alabama to 521 00:47:37,079 --> 00:47:44,079 Mississippi, Mario and Daniel stopped at the Mississippi Welcome Center. Mario must have 522 00:47:44,079 --> 00:47:50,000 been driving at this point, because Daniel was pretending to be asleep. When 523 00:47:50,039 --> 00:47:53,719 Mario went inside the welcome center, Daniel quickly drove the car away. He 524 00:47:53,800 --> 00:48:00,320 called the police immediately and told them Mario's location. That Daniel had escaped, 525 00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:06,280 Mario knew right away that his location was compromised, so he hitched a ride 526 00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:10,000 with a van full of tourists to the distance between himself and the Mississippi Welcome 527 00:48:10,039 --> 00:48:15,920 Center. The van documents later confirmed to the authorities that Mario was indeed headed 528 00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:22,679 to see his wife and child. Fifteen year old veteran Lieutenant Obie Wells was 529 00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:27,639 at the Ocean Spring Sheriff's Department building when he received a call. The caller 530 00:48:27,719 --> 00:48:31,840 informed Wells that escaped fugitive Marios and Toby might be traveling in a van on 531 00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:38,039 iten, So Wells set out to find the van and Mario. Through sheer 532 00:48:38,119 --> 00:48:43,760 luck, he spotted them right away. He started telling the van and radioed 533 00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:47,280 for backup. Once Wells felt comfortable that he had support, he pulled the 534 00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:53,719 van over near Pascagoula, Mississippi. Mario got out of the van right away. 535 00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:59,639 He wouldn't listen to the lieutenants or the other officer's commands, and he 536 00:48:59,679 --> 00:49:04,760 was still armed with Sheriff Hooks's gun. But when Mario realized he was outnumbered 537 00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:09,440 by officers with no place to go, he finally surrendered. He emptied his 538 00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:14,840 clip from his gun, held out his arms, and positioned himself spread eagle 539 00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:19,719 in the van. Throughout his capture, Mario did not say a word, 540 00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:23,480 and at about seven twenty am on July fifth, nineteen ninety eight, thirty 541 00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:28,920 two year old Mario Sentobi was arrested after eleven days of being on the run. 542 00:49:29,639 --> 00:49:34,519 He was charged with capital murder for Officer Keith Turner's death an attempted murder 543 00:49:34,519 --> 00:49:39,559 for officer Cecil Lancaster. The Moody Police Department, where officer Keith Turner had 544 00:49:39,599 --> 00:49:45,199 worked, was disappointed that they were not the ones to catch Mario. Their 545 00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:50,199 police chief, Robert Clements, told the Birmingham Post, Harold, that will 546 00:49:50,199 --> 00:49:53,840 be a regret for every member of the Moody Police Department forever. He destroyed 547 00:49:53,880 --> 00:50:00,199 one of us, and we wanted to get him. Although Mario's case was 548 00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:04,400 not high profile back when he was first tried in nineteen ninety six, it 549 00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:08,760 certainly was now, and for good reason. This manhunt involved at least one 550 00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:15,559 thousand hours of overtime for authorities. In total, about six hundred law enforcement 551 00:50:15,599 --> 00:50:20,119 officers were involved, and more than one hundred and thirty agencies had played a 552 00:50:20,119 --> 00:50:24,079 part in Mario's search and capture. By the end of it all, catching 553 00:50:24,119 --> 00:50:30,039 Mario had cost taxpayers a modest estimate of one million dollars. It would be 554 00:50:30,039 --> 00:50:36,880 almost two million today plus. Coverage of the case was especially popular when three 555 00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:43,119 different people filed three separate lawsuits against Sheriff Maurice Hooks and other Jones County officials. 556 00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:49,000 Keith's widow, Brandy Turner, the officer who was almost killed, Captain 557 00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:54,000 Cecil Lancaster, and the carjacked man Daniel Alexander all wanted ten million dollars each, 558 00:50:54,880 --> 00:51:00,159 thirty million dollars from a county with less than seventy thousand in population. 559 00:51:01,039 --> 00:51:06,480 Brandy, Lancaster, and Daniel felt that it was an oversight by Jones County 560 00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:12,119 that Mario and Jeremy had escaped in the first place. One lawsuit specifically cited 561 00:51:12,119 --> 00:51:19,719 that missing divider that should have barricaded Mario and Jeremy from sheriff Hooks. Eventually, 562 00:51:20,159 --> 00:51:25,519 all three settled their lawsuits for undisclosed amounts of money. Following his arrest, 563 00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:32,440 officers questioned Mario for four hours in a Pascagoula jail. He confessed. 564 00:51:34,679 --> 00:51:38,840 By July eighth, Mario was transferred to the Edawa County Jail. They couldn't 565 00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:43,960 hold him in the Saint Clair County jail because they were worried for his safety. 566 00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:47,280 Mario had killed a police officer in cold blood. In a small town, 567 00:51:49,079 --> 00:51:54,880 there was worry about vigilantes. At the time that Mario arrived at the 568 00:51:55,000 --> 00:52:00,800 Ediwa County jail, Officer Keith Turner's widow, Brandy, was also at the 569 00:52:00,840 --> 00:52:05,119 same jail. She was trying to get more information about her husband's murder. 570 00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:09,000 She had no idea Mario was going to be there, but once she saw 571 00:52:09,039 --> 00:52:15,039 her husband's killer, she asked to speak with him. According to court documents, 572 00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:21,000 Brandy was escorted to Mario's cell. Then Mario asked the present officers to 573 00:52:21,119 --> 00:52:24,920 leave. They did, leaving Brandy and Mario alone for a private conversation. 574 00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:31,840 For days, Brandy did not tell authorities what Mario said to her during this 575 00:52:32,079 --> 00:52:38,320 time, but eventually she revealed the following Brandy asked Mario, why did you 576 00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:44,159 murder my husband? And Mario had responded that he did not murder Keith, 577 00:52:44,639 --> 00:52:52,079 he merely shot him. He told Brandy that he had to I'm going to 578 00:52:52,119 --> 00:53:00,760 pause now for a final commercial break. You might have thought I was about 579 00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:05,280 to wrap up, that we were almost at the finish line. That's probably 580 00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:09,840 what every person following Mario's case had thought too, But Mario wasn't done yet, 581 00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:15,559 and in October nineteen ninety eight, three months after being taken into custody, 582 00:53:15,159 --> 00:53:22,760 Mario successfully escaped jail again. This time, Mario escaped by charming forty 583 00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:28,679 four year old Donna Hawkins. Donna was a prison guard at the Ottawa County 584 00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:31,800 Jail, and while Donna and Mario would not have been able to interact in 585 00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:37,760 person, they did communicate via written letters. Other jail workers suggested they also 586 00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:45,840 could have spoken via the prison's speaker system. Donna had left Mario's maximum security 587 00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:51,280 cell and cell block unlocked, so on Thursday October eighth, between eight and 588 00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:54,960 ten pm, Mario walked out the front door of the jail. He had 589 00:53:55,000 --> 00:54:00,119 fashioned a silhouette of a person in his prison bed using sheets, pillows, 590 00:54:00,159 --> 00:54:06,199 and hair clippings, so no one realized Mario was gone until breakfast the next 591 00:54:06,239 --> 00:54:12,199 morning. By that time, Mario had disappeared. He had arranged for a 592 00:54:12,239 --> 00:54:15,960 former inmate who was out on bond to help him find a ride out. 593 00:54:15,559 --> 00:54:20,960 That inmate, twenty eight year old Brent Andre Paris, was later charged with 594 00:54:21,079 --> 00:54:29,000 hindering prosecution. As Mario fled once more, the authorities posted wanted flowers all 595 00:54:29,039 --> 00:54:34,920 over the southeastern United States. They focused primarily on service stations and rest areas 596 00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:40,559 along major highways. On Tuesday, October thirteenth, five days after Mario escaped, 597 00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:46,719 Alabama Governor Bob James offered a ten thousand dollars reward almost sixteen thousand dollars 598 00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:53,039 today for any information leading to his capture or conviction. After the reward was 599 00:54:53,039 --> 00:54:58,480 put out, the number of calls about Mario's sightings increased. They had to 600 00:54:58,480 --> 00:55:00,840 install more phones at the command and center just to take them all in. 601 00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:07,119 By October fourteenth, the authorities had issued an unlawful flight warrant for Mario. 602 00:55:09,079 --> 00:55:14,320 Investigators suspected Mario would continue to try to make his way back to his ex 603 00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:20,039 wife Cheryl and his son Dominic, but honestly they had no idea where he 604 00:55:20,239 --> 00:55:25,800 was, not until Mario contacted a woman named Phronsie Owens. Phronsie was a 605 00:55:25,840 --> 00:55:32,320 longtime friend of Donna Hawkins, the jailer who had let Mario escape. Mario 606 00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:37,039 wanted Phronsie to deliver Donna some letters he had written to her, but instead 607 00:55:37,039 --> 00:55:44,559 of delivering the letters to Donna, Phronsie delivered them to the police. As 608 00:55:44,599 --> 00:55:49,239 a direct result, Mario was caught at eight forty five am on October twenty 609 00:55:49,280 --> 00:55:52,800 first, nineteen ninety eight. It had been thirteen days since he had escaped. 610 00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:58,960 He was apprehended at a Sitgo convenience store in northern Atlanta, Georgia. 611 00:55:59,679 --> 00:56:04,039 He was sitting in the passenger seat of a red Ford pickup. The driver 612 00:56:04,159 --> 00:56:07,000 of the pickup was a twenty four year old truck driver. That truck driver 613 00:56:07,519 --> 00:56:12,199 was out of the vehicle and on the phone when the officer surrounded Mario. 614 00:56:13,639 --> 00:56:17,360 Apparently, the truck driver had been letting Mario stay at his apartment, but 615 00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:22,159 he did not know who Mario was, so he didn't face charges. Once 616 00:56:22,199 --> 00:56:29,000 again, Mario surrendered peacefully. He had to. There were seven law enforcement 617 00:56:29,039 --> 00:56:34,480 officers with guns pointed at him. Mario was carrying a stolen three fifty seven 618 00:56:34,559 --> 00:56:38,880 caliber revolver in his backpack, but he couldn't get to it in time. 619 00:56:39,719 --> 00:56:46,000 According to present officers, Mario appeared incredibly surprised when they found him. He 620 00:56:46,079 --> 00:56:52,440 later confirmed that he had no idea they were on to him. Jailor Donna 621 00:56:52,519 --> 00:56:57,360 Hawkins had been arrested on Friday, October ninth, the day after Mario escaped. 622 00:56:58,039 --> 00:57:01,519 She was released on bond a few months later. By the end of 623 00:57:01,559 --> 00:57:07,679 it all, Donna was sentenced to eighteen months in prison for helping Mario. 624 00:57:07,800 --> 00:57:12,320 According to her defense attorney, Donna, who was married, had not engaged 625 00:57:12,360 --> 00:57:19,159 in a romantic relationship with Mario. Nope, she had supposedly just made an 626 00:57:19,159 --> 00:57:24,119 honest mistake. At the very most, Mario had tricked her. But this 627 00:57:24,239 --> 00:57:30,719 theory falls a little flat when you consider it was Mario's continued correspondence with Donna 628 00:57:30,119 --> 00:57:36,920 that led to his second capture. This whole ordeal brought a huge amount of 629 00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:43,119 criticism to the Ottawa County Jail's security measures. A sheriff told local papers that 630 00:57:43,159 --> 00:57:46,400 there was nothing wrong with the jail security, but he suggested that they might 631 00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:57,079 start implementing psychological screenings before hiring guards, you think. Following Mario's second capture, 632 00:57:57,559 --> 00:58:01,480 he was held at the Federal Correctional Institution and Talladega after a stop in 633 00:58:01,559 --> 00:58:07,239 Gadston. This was a maximum security prison. They later transferred him to Saint 634 00:58:07,239 --> 00:58:14,159 Clair Correctional Facility. Due to rampant publicity, Mario and Jeremy's trials were both 635 00:58:14,239 --> 00:58:19,440 moved from Saint Clair County to Elmore County, and although the two men were 636 00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:23,119 to be tried separately, their trials happened to be in the same building at 637 00:58:23,119 --> 00:58:29,199 the same time. This was because Mario and Jeremy were extreme flight risks. 638 00:58:29,880 --> 00:58:36,480 The court was trying to mitigate their security costs. After all, Mario had 639 00:58:36,480 --> 00:58:42,400 two escapes under his belt and by this time Jeremy had three. In April 640 00:58:42,400 --> 00:58:46,039 of nineteen ninety nine, while awaiting this trial, Jeremy had broken a window 641 00:58:46,480 --> 00:58:52,280 of the Saint Clair County jail. He was trying to escape again. The 642 00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:57,440 authorities suspected he was going to use bedsheets to climb to the ground. On 643 00:58:57,519 --> 00:59:00,639 Monday May tenth, nineteen ninety nine, both Mario and Jeremy's trials for the 644 00:59:00,679 --> 00:59:07,079 capital murder of Officer Keith Turner began. Both men faced the death penalty. 645 00:59:07,800 --> 00:59:13,880 Barely a week later, both men were convicted. There really was no question 646 00:59:13,920 --> 00:59:19,480 about their guilt. Jeremy's only defense was that he was not the mastermind of 647 00:59:19,519 --> 00:59:24,000 this operation, just a follower, and both Sheriff Hooks and Mario's account of 648 00:59:24,039 --> 00:59:30,280 the situation corroborated that, and likely for that reason, the jury voted seven 649 00:59:30,320 --> 00:59:36,159 to five that twenty year old Jeremy Granbury should be sentenced to life without parole, 650 00:59:37,400 --> 00:59:44,039 not death. Today Jeremy is about forty five years old and incarcerated in 651 00:59:44,079 --> 00:59:49,280 the Saint Clair Correctional Facility. He will never receive parole and he has never 652 00:59:49,320 --> 00:59:53,360 appealed. Mario, on the other hand, was facing the death penalty. 653 00:59:54,320 --> 00:59:59,400 He was obviously the shooter in Keith's murder, and against the advice of his 654 00:59:59,480 --> 01:00:05,639 lawyers, Mario testified in his own defense. On the stand, Mario admitted 655 01:00:05,639 --> 01:00:08,840 to killing Officer Keith Turner. He said that he wanted to tell the jury 656 01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:14,840 he wasn't a terrorist, mad dog killer. He explained, if I had 657 01:00:14,880 --> 01:00:19,719 that in me, then the body count would be big. So on Friday 658 01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:23,559 May fourteenth, nineteen ninety nine, the jury deliberated for less than two hours 659 01:00:23,599 --> 01:00:30,199 before convicting thirty three year old Mario cent Toby of capital murder. That Sunday, 660 01:00:30,559 --> 01:00:36,199 he was sentenced to death less than a month later, on Thursday, 661 01:00:36,280 --> 01:00:40,679 June third, nineteen ninety nine, officials searched Mario and they found he had 662 01:00:40,719 --> 01:00:46,119 a makeshift plastic handcuff key hidden in his mouth. He was planning to escape. 663 01:00:46,440 --> 01:00:51,719 Yet again, he wouldn't spit out the key until the authorities shocked him 664 01:00:52,199 --> 01:00:57,960 with an electric belt he was wearing. Jeremy and Mario still faced charges in 665 01:00:58,000 --> 01:01:02,519 the attempted murder of Captain Cecil Lane and Castor in the year two thousand. 666 01:01:02,760 --> 01:01:08,280 Twenty one year old Jeremy Granberry pled guilty. He was sentenced to three consecutive 667 01:01:08,320 --> 01:01:15,960 life terms in addition to his previous sentence. Mario went through the motions of 668 01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:20,199 a jury trial, but the result was the same. He was sentenced to 669 01:01:20,280 --> 01:01:24,840 three consecutive life terms. The prosecutors were not willing to drop this case against 670 01:01:24,840 --> 01:01:30,440 Mario because they feared his death sentence might be overturned in the appills process, 671 01:01:30,960 --> 01:01:35,159 and Mario did appeal once in August of two thousand and one, but by 672 01:01:35,199 --> 01:01:40,559 November it had been denied and a five to zero decision. He soon dropped 673 01:01:40,599 --> 01:01:46,280 all efforts for remaining appills. On April twenty eighth, two thousand and five, 674 01:01:46,679 --> 01:01:51,840 thirty nine year old Mario sent Toby ate his final meals. For lunch, 675 01:01:52,079 --> 01:01:55,639 he had chili and rice, okra and corn tomato soup, cornbread, 676 01:01:55,840 --> 01:02:00,320 gingerbread cake, and fruit punch. For asus snack, he ate pizza, 677 01:02:00,639 --> 01:02:07,320 a poor Boy and a Philly cheesteak sandwich and three sodas. And for dinner 678 01:02:07,360 --> 01:02:12,519 he ate barbecued chicken egg noodles with butter, turnip greens, candied sweet potatoes, 679 01:02:12,599 --> 01:02:16,920 and a strawberry soda. At four ten pm, he was served communion 680 01:02:17,039 --> 01:02:22,800 by a Catholic priest from Birmingham. He said in an affidavit he preferred death 681 01:02:22,880 --> 01:02:28,599 over life in prison and that he was ready to die. He also denounced 682 01:02:28,639 --> 01:02:32,440 a Montgomery attorney who filed an unsolicited appeal on his behalf, claiming that he 683 01:02:32,519 --> 01:02:37,360 was mentally ill. The only kind of mental condition I may be suffering from 684 01:02:37,519 --> 01:02:42,760 is depression, which is just a condition of being on death row. The 685 01:02:42,840 --> 01:02:47,679 crimes I have committed have also caused me to have some depression. At six 686 01:02:47,719 --> 01:02:54,199 pm that day, he was executed by lethal injection. Multiple Moody police officers 687 01:02:54,239 --> 01:03:00,559 were present to witness his death. Mario Giovanni, sin Toby, killer and 688 01:03:00,719 --> 01:03:06,800 escape artist, smiled slightly and gave a thumbs up before he was executed that 689 01:03:06,960 --> 01:03:13,039 night for the nineteen ninety eight murder of Moody police officer Keith Turner. He 690 01:03:13,119 --> 01:03:16,920 said nothing. He didn't acknowledge his mother or brother sitting in a witness room 691 01:03:16,920 --> 01:03:21,840 to his right, or the relatives and co workers of Turner in a separate 692 01:03:21,840 --> 01:03:29,280 witness room straight ahead. Though he had been divorced for ten years, sin 693 01:03:29,360 --> 01:03:34,199 Toby still wore his wedding ring. He was pronounced dead at six twenty two 694 01:03:34,239 --> 01:03:39,679 pm. Any of those hoping for an apology did not get one. I 695 01:03:39,760 --> 01:03:45,239 never saw any remorse. Patrick Turner said he did not even apologize to his 696 01:03:45,280 --> 01:03:51,800 own mama for what he put her through. He didn't care. It was 697 01:03:51,840 --> 01:03:57,719 an ignominious, shameful ending for a man who had once been held a hero 698 01:03:58,320 --> 01:04:12,159 for his work in the Amtrak train disaster. Southern Fried True Crime is hosted 699 01:04:12,199 --> 01:04:15,639 and produced by me Erica Kelly. 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