WEBVTT 1 00:00:12.080 --> 00:00:15.560 This episode MA contained content of a graphic nature, including 2 00:00:15.640 --> 00:00:20.839 descriptions of physical and sexual violence against adults, children, and animals. 3 00:00:21.399 --> 00:00:37.039 Listener discretion is advised. Hi, this is Tanya. Hi this 4 00:00:37.119 --> 00:00:40.880 is Shannon, and we are Crimes and Consequences, a hardcore 5 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:46.600 true crime podcast. Hey Shannon, Hey girl, how are you? 6 00:00:47.159 --> 00:00:50.960 I'm doing great? How are you? Oh? 7 00:00:51.280 --> 00:00:52.039 Could be better? 8 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:56.119 Maybe adjusting the microphone just as you hit record. 9 00:01:00.159 --> 00:01:02.000 I'm struggling with chords over here. 10 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:03.640 No, you sound good. 11 00:01:04.319 --> 00:01:06.400 Yeah, but everything's going good. Had a great day. 12 00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:10.599 Visited the parents visited, very nice, great grandma and great 13 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:13.599 grandpa Levi and I did, Oh. 14 00:01:13.480 --> 00:01:16.239 They're doing great, good things. What about you? 15 00:01:16.519 --> 00:01:19.280 How was your day? My day was good. I worked 16 00:01:19.400 --> 00:01:22.879 sports from home today and fucking eight If an eight 17 00:01:22.920 --> 00:01:26.000 hour day didn't last for sixteen hours, I swear, but 18 00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:30.680 that's what it felt like today. I sent eighteams message 19 00:01:30.760 --> 00:01:33.280 to some people that I work with today and I'm like, 20 00:01:33.359 --> 00:01:37.319 it's only two thirty six, and then like the crying 21 00:01:37.319 --> 00:01:40.719 emoji because I just was like, I can't fucking believe 22 00:01:40.799 --> 00:01:43.359 it's only two thirty six, because I swear it was 23 00:01:43.400 --> 00:01:44.120 seven pm. 24 00:01:44.519 --> 00:01:47.680 Days like that are insane. It's like being on another 25 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:49.359 plane of existence. 26 00:01:49.719 --> 00:01:51.879 And it's not that I'm not busy, because I am. 27 00:01:52.439 --> 00:01:54.319 I have tons of work to do, but I just 28 00:01:54.480 --> 00:01:56.239 was like I was ready for this day to be 29 00:01:56.879 --> 00:01:58.319 ten minutes afore I woke up. 30 00:01:58.400 --> 00:02:01.280 So tgif yes, tgif. 31 00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:05.040 Whoo. So I am going to tell you this crazy 32 00:02:05.079 --> 00:02:07.599 story today, and before I get into it, if everyone 33 00:02:07.640 --> 00:02:10.800 can hit the subscribe or follow button, that would be wonderful. 34 00:02:11.199 --> 00:02:14.120 I'm going to tell you the story about Michael Douglas Shaver. 35 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:20.120 He was born January fourteenth, nineteen eighty two, making him Capricorn. 36 00:02:20.439 --> 00:02:20.879 Yeah. 37 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:23.479 He was born in upstate New York and he had 38 00:02:23.479 --> 00:02:28.680 a brother, Brian, and a very overprotective sister, Stacy. Michael's 39 00:02:28.759 --> 00:02:31.800 mom was a single mother, so oftentimes Stacy would step 40 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:34.199 in to help with anything that needed to be done 41 00:02:34.199 --> 00:02:37.800 around the house. Growing up, Michael enjoyed making his own 42 00:02:37.879 --> 00:02:42.039 drum set out of things like tupperware and buckets. Eventually 43 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:44.400 he would learn to play the guitar. He, along with 44 00:02:44.479 --> 00:02:47.080 his friends around the neighborhood, formed a little band of 45 00:02:47.080 --> 00:02:50.960 their own called Rifles in Dandelions, which was a play 46 00:02:51.039 --> 00:02:57.319 on guns n' roses. Nice. Michael, from a young age 47 00:02:57.360 --> 00:03:00.560 was a fairly decent mechanic. He was able to fix 48 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:04.159 anything and everything around the house. His grandfather was the 49 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:07.680 same way, so it was always thought that Michael inherited 50 00:03:07.719 --> 00:03:11.719 that gene. Neighbors would give him various things that needed 51 00:03:11.759 --> 00:03:15.120 fixing and he'd happily help them. He was even known 52 00:03:15.159 --> 00:03:18.000 to have built an airplane in the backyard with a friend, 53 00:03:18.199 --> 00:03:21.280 and the airplane was completely made out of wood. A 54 00:03:21.319 --> 00:03:23.639 family member said that if he had gotten his hands 55 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:27.479 on a motor, he would have flown away. While Michael 56 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:29.840 was still in high school, Not only did he become 57 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:34.000 infatuated with the learning to fly a plane, he also 58 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:38.400 became infatuated with a young girl named Laurie Paddleford. He 59 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:41.759 and Laurie had basically grown up together in the Utica, 60 00:03:41.759 --> 00:03:45.000 New York area, and even from middle school, Michael had 61 00:03:45.039 --> 00:03:48.840 his eye on Laurie, and his crush developed as they 62 00:03:48.840 --> 00:03:52.240 made their way into high school. The only thing Michael 63 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:56.199 wanted to do was to figure out a cute, cool 64 00:03:56.280 --> 00:03:59.240 way to ask Laurie out on a date. His best 65 00:03:59.240 --> 00:04:01.400 friend helped him come up with an idea. So this 66 00:04:01.479 --> 00:04:03.879 is the idea. Michael was going to ask her out 67 00:04:03.960 --> 00:04:06.439 to the song I'll make love to you by boys 68 00:04:06.439 --> 00:04:11.919 to men playing in the background. Oh my gosh, I 69 00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:14.719 am in love with the cheesiness of this. 70 00:04:15.159 --> 00:04:17.279 You know, isn't it adorable? It is. 71 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:20.639 Once he asked her out, Laurie said yes, and the 72 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:24.920 two became inseparable. They dated throughout high school and they 73 00:04:24.920 --> 00:04:29.439 were really excited to get married after graduation. Throughout the 74 00:04:29.519 --> 00:04:33.639 duration of their wedding ceremony and reception, no one could 75 00:04:33.639 --> 00:04:37.680 wipe the smile from Michael's face. His biggest dream had 76 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:40.240 come true and he had married the girl that he 77 00:04:40.279 --> 00:04:42.600 had fallen in love with at the ripe old age 78 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:46.240 of thirteen. Laurie was all that Michael had ever wanted, 79 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:48.720 and the two of them were so excited to start 80 00:04:48.759 --> 00:04:52.160 their life together. After the wedding, Michael got his commercial 81 00:04:52.240 --> 00:04:55.560 pilot's license and he had even gotten a job at 82 00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:59.959 Piedmont Airlines. He loved every single second working as a pilot, 83 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:02.279 and he would always take his friends up in the 84 00:05:02.319 --> 00:05:05.600 sky every chance he got. Not long after Michael had 85 00:05:05.639 --> 00:05:10.279 secured his dream job at Petemont Airlines, Laurie became pregnant, 86 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:13.720 first with a girl named Isabelle and soon after a 87 00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:17.160 son named Aiden. When the happy couple became parents. They 88 00:05:17.199 --> 00:05:21.439 decided to relocate to Clermont, Florida. They purchased a five 89 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:25.240 acre property in the more rural area of Clermont, and 90 00:05:25.399 --> 00:05:29.319 the family would live quiet and peaceful life surrounded by hills, lakes, 91 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:33.519 and the love of wildlife. They eventually would buy some chickens, 92 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:36.639 some guinea hens, some turkeys, and a couple of ducks. 93 00:05:37.079 --> 00:05:39.680 In the meantime, Michael got a job for a local 94 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:43.439 flight group called Precious Medal. He worked as a mechanic 95 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:46.759 and the pilots would perform all over the United States 96 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:51.199 in races along with air shows. While with Precious Medal, 97 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:54.160 Michael became a volunteer pilot with the group so that 98 00:05:54.240 --> 00:05:56.759 he was able to go up into the sky. These 99 00:05:56.879 --> 00:06:01.560 races are often compared to NASCAR racing, but obviously race 100 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:04.639 cars are on a closed track and these races are 101 00:06:04.879 --> 00:06:09.000 airplane flight races, so kind of similar, but just up 102 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:12.920 in the sky as a huge scale called the sky, 103 00:06:13.199 --> 00:06:14.959 up in the sky on a closed course. So I 104 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:17.639 guess they had like a carry off, yeah, an area 105 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:20.519 that was probably you can't see it, I guess, I 106 00:06:20.560 --> 00:06:22.680 don't know. I'm trying to like picture it. 107 00:06:22.600 --> 00:06:27.680 But there something aviation where a designated air space that 108 00:06:28.120 --> 00:06:29.560 they're allowed to be in. 109 00:06:29.759 --> 00:06:32.480 Right, right, and the planes would race at over five 110 00:06:32.560 --> 00:06:36.879 hundred miles an hour and they remained fifty feet off 111 00:06:36.920 --> 00:06:39.480 the ground, so they were not really high up. 112 00:06:39.560 --> 00:06:40.720 Oh my gosh. 113 00:06:40.959 --> 00:06:44.920 Those who participated were just adrenaline junkies, to say the 114 00:06:46.759 --> 00:06:49.639 Those who worked closely with Michael at Precious Metal would 115 00:06:49.639 --> 00:06:51.959 always describe him as a genius when it came to 116 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:55.199 his mechanic skills whenever he would touch a plane. Well, 117 00:06:55.279 --> 00:06:58.319 Michael stayed away for three days at a time working 118 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:00.720 as a pilot mechanic, so I guess it's his schedule 119 00:07:00.759 --> 00:07:03.000 was kind of like how firefighters have, or they'll go 120 00:07:03.079 --> 00:07:06.480 to the station and sounds like it. They lived there 121 00:07:06.519 --> 00:07:09.240 for a couple of days, yeah, and come home and whatever. 122 00:07:09.319 --> 00:07:11.519 So Laurie took care of the kids and she worked 123 00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:14.399 from home for an insurance company. Biko was a great 124 00:07:14.439 --> 00:07:17.560 father to Isabelle and Aiden and knew he was missing 125 00:07:17.560 --> 00:07:20.560 out on quality time and memories with his kids, so 126 00:07:20.600 --> 00:07:23.439 he ended up quitting his job doing what he loved 127 00:07:23.439 --> 00:07:26.000 for the sake of fatherhood. He was able to find 128 00:07:26.040 --> 00:07:28.759 a job with a secure schedule, and that way he'd 129 00:07:28.759 --> 00:07:31.439 be home with his family every single night. So even 130 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:34.399 though he dropped his dream job, he quickly found another, 131 00:07:34.480 --> 00:07:37.759 working for a business everyone knows and loves. It's also 132 00:07:37.879 --> 00:07:40.959 known as the happiest place on Earth, So you guessed it. 133 00:07:41.360 --> 00:07:45.879 He found a job at Walt Disney World, located in Orlando, Florida. 134 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:48.480 This job was where he could still do what he loved, 135 00:07:48.600 --> 00:07:52.199 being mechanic, but it was no longer fixing planes. It 136 00:07:52.279 --> 00:07:54.759 was to be the mechanic for the monorail at the 137 00:07:54.800 --> 00:07:56.000 park on the Epioge. 138 00:07:56.120 --> 00:07:56.920 Yeah, okay. 139 00:07:57.319 --> 00:07:59.920 That way, he would only ever be about twenty min 140 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:02.120 miles away from home, and he was still able to 141 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:05.240 live out his dream of continuously working with his hands, 142 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:07.800 and he also made people happy, So I mean, yeah, 143 00:08:08.120 --> 00:08:11.120 did you want? One day in twenty fourteen, a nine 144 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:14.160 one one call was placed, and it was a desperate 145 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:17.639 Lourie telling the nine one one operator that she was 146 00:08:17.720 --> 00:08:19.959 on her way to the sheriff's office and that she 147 00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:22.879 had her children with her. When the operator asked Laurie 148 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:25.639 what was going on, she replied that her hand was 149 00:08:25.639 --> 00:08:29.560 bleeding from a domestic violence dispute. While that was happening, 150 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:32.200 Michael phoned a neighbor. He asked neighbor to come by 151 00:08:32.240 --> 00:08:34.840 the house because he needed help, and when the neighbor 152 00:08:34.879 --> 00:08:37.960 got to the house, Michael was completely covered in blood. 153 00:08:38.399 --> 00:08:40.639 His clothes had been ripped to shreds, and there was 154 00:08:40.679 --> 00:08:44.399 blood pouring down his face. The neighbor's only thought was 155 00:08:44.440 --> 00:08:46.879 to take as many photos as she could of what 156 00:08:47.000 --> 00:08:50.320 she had walked into, just in case. This neighbor had 157 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:53.240 often heard many arguments coming from the Shaver home, and 158 00:08:53.320 --> 00:08:56.360 oftentimes they were screaming and yelling. Laurie, while on the 159 00:08:56.360 --> 00:08:58.279 phone with nine one one, said she and Michael were 160 00:08:58.279 --> 00:09:00.879 fighting a lot up to that point, but their fights 161 00:09:00.879 --> 00:09:04.360 had never gotten physical until then. Most people thought that 162 00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:07.679 maybe the marriage was on the rocks. Whenever Laurie was 163 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:10.919 asked by friends and family previously if everything was all 164 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:13.320 right between her and Michael, she almost acted like she 165 00:09:13.360 --> 00:09:16.679 didn't know what they were talking about, like everything was fine. 166 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:20.080 Both of them put on a happy face, not seeming 167 00:09:20.279 --> 00:09:23.919 that they had any troubles, so those who knew them 168 00:09:24.159 --> 00:09:27.639 didn't really notice, but they also didn't know, like is 169 00:09:27.720 --> 00:09:31.039 everything all right with them? So you know, they're not sure. 170 00:09:31.159 --> 00:09:33.440 Is this the same happy couple who had fallen in 171 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:38.039 love in middle school? Or are they at each other's throats? So, Laurie, 172 00:09:38.039 --> 00:09:40.360 while still on the phone with Diamond one, said that 173 00:09:40.600 --> 00:09:44.240 she had grabbed Michael's gun and whacked him over the 174 00:09:44.279 --> 00:09:47.960 head with it. He had the pistol okay. After that happened, 175 00:09:48.120 --> 00:09:51.360 she grabbed Isabella and Aiden and left as quickly as 176 00:09:51.440 --> 00:09:54.080 she could. The operator asked if Michael was the one 177 00:09:54.120 --> 00:09:57.320 who pulled the gun on her, and she said, well, yeah, 178 00:09:57.360 --> 00:10:00.559 he grabbed my car keys and shoved them in a pocket. 179 00:10:00.960 --> 00:10:03.600 She only had used force, I guess to get the 180 00:10:03.679 --> 00:10:06.639 keys from him, and she grabbed the two children and left. 181 00:10:06.879 --> 00:10:09.960 According to Michael, she was the person who had initiated 182 00:10:10.080 --> 00:10:12.879 all of the beating him with the gun that she 183 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:16.039 had initially pulled on him, and he had been trying 184 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:18.799 to calm her down. Michael told the neighbor that he 185 00:10:18.879 --> 00:10:22.120 and Laurie had been in a pretty physical altercation and 186 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:25.000 his wife had threatened him with the gun. Not only 187 00:10:25.039 --> 00:10:27.240 did she threaten to kill him, she had also threatened 188 00:10:27.240 --> 00:10:30.320 to kill herself as well. Laurie told the nine one 189 00:10:30.360 --> 00:10:33.399 one operator that the two of them had consumed three beers, 190 00:10:33.519 --> 00:10:36.120 and Michael admitted that he had taken the car keys 191 00:10:36.120 --> 00:10:38.679 from her to prevent her from drinking and driving with 192 00:10:38.720 --> 00:10:41.480 their children in the back seat. Both she and Michael 193 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:43.440 said it was Laurie who had struck him in the 194 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:46.679 head with the thirty eight caliber revolver, which had been 195 00:10:46.759 --> 00:10:49.679 left on their butt inside the home. In the end, 196 00:10:49.840 --> 00:10:52.879 Michael was arrested for grabbing Laurie by her arm and 197 00:10:52.960 --> 00:10:56.080 he was charged with battery, and after that the marriage 198 00:10:56.200 --> 00:10:59.159 just was never the same. Those who knew Michael said 199 00:10:59.240 --> 00:11:01.919 he never raised his voice and would have never yelled 200 00:11:01.919 --> 00:11:05.519 at her, let alone beat her physically. Michael had even 201 00:11:05.639 --> 00:11:08.000 gone over to his mother's home a few times with 202 00:11:08.120 --> 00:11:10.639 bruises on him, and when his mom asked him what happened, 203 00:11:10.679 --> 00:11:13.840 Michael would respond with Lurie got mad. In the fall 204 00:11:13.879 --> 00:11:17.480 of twenty fourteen, the judge from their domestic violence case 205 00:11:17.559 --> 00:11:21.320 granted Laurie a no contact order against Michael and he 206 00:11:21.399 --> 00:11:24.639 had to move out. Michael stayed in the hangar at 207 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:28.279 Precious Metal, as there were showers inside the bathrooms there. 208 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:30.600 Those who were close to him said that Laurie kicked 209 00:11:30.639 --> 00:11:33.080 him out just to invite him back into the house, 210 00:11:33.240 --> 00:11:35.799 even though there was still the no contact order in place. 211 00:11:36.120 --> 00:11:39.440 Laurie was playing mind games with him, and while she's 212 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:43.200 doing this, she's seeing other guys. Michael suspected that Laurie 213 00:11:43.320 --> 00:11:46.080 was cheating on him, and he would often tell his family. 214 00:11:46.559 --> 00:11:49.200 She denied it, though, but the neighbors would see men 215 00:11:49.360 --> 00:11:53.200 coming and leaving the house. Michael also thought that maybe 216 00:11:53.240 --> 00:11:57.240 he's just being paranoid and maybe she's not sleeping around, 217 00:11:57.639 --> 00:11:59.480 but friends of his said that while he was staying 218 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:02.480 in the hangar, he would jump into a plane and 219 00:12:02.559 --> 00:12:04.679 fly over the house just to see if there was 220 00:12:04.720 --> 00:12:06.519 an unknown car in the driveway. 221 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:10.399 That's genius. I think I would do that too. 222 00:12:10.720 --> 00:12:16.600 I know, I know all day exactly exactly. I'm not 223 00:12:16.720 --> 00:12:19.799 that too. But even when he would see an unknown vehicle, 224 00:12:20.159 --> 00:12:22.960 he was still willing to fight for their marriage, and 225 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:27.159 to fight this was not something that his family necessarily 226 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:29.120 thought was the right thing to do, but that was 227 00:12:29.200 --> 00:12:32.440 just who Michael was. Wanting to stay married and keeping 228 00:12:32.440 --> 00:12:35.320 his marriage together put a strain on his relationships with 229 00:12:35.360 --> 00:12:39.480 his siblings and other family members. Whenever his family would 230 00:12:39.480 --> 00:12:42.799 make plans to visit Michael, visit him, visit Laurie and 231 00:12:42.840 --> 00:12:46.120 the kids, there would always be a last minute cancelation 232 00:12:46.679 --> 00:12:49.840 and the reason behind it would often be that Laurie 233 00:12:49.879 --> 00:12:52.519 thought that it was just a bad time know your 234 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:55.399 family come over. So since Michael was trying to save 235 00:12:55.440 --> 00:12:58.039 his marriage, he had no other option than to just 236 00:12:58.159 --> 00:13:00.799 roll with it because he wanted to make Laurie happy. 237 00:13:01.279 --> 00:13:04.840 The communications with his family was rare up until that point, 238 00:13:04.919 --> 00:13:07.600 and not only was it rare, but it was rare 239 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:11.759 among his friends too. So at this point within the marriage, 240 00:13:11.759 --> 00:13:14.200 Michael was invited back into the house to live with 241 00:13:14.279 --> 00:13:16.320 Laurie and the kids. They were going to try to 242 00:13:16.360 --> 00:13:19.960 work things out. Laurie knew that since Michael was desperate 243 00:13:19.960 --> 00:13:21.720 to work things out with her, that she could pretty 244 00:13:21.799 --> 00:13:25.120 much ask for anything and Michael would make her wishes 245 00:13:25.240 --> 00:13:28.919 come true. In November twenty fifteen, Michael, Lourie, and the 246 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:32.679 kids attended a tractor show with some of Michael's close friends. 247 00:13:33.080 --> 00:13:35.240 This is something that would happen at least three times 248 00:13:35.320 --> 00:13:38.000 during the winter months in the Claremont area, and that 249 00:13:38.120 --> 00:13:41.320 was always something Michael loved to attend because he really 250 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:43.960 had a passion for the old tractors that were being 251 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:47.639 shown off. Cool. Yeah, that specific tractor show. The tension 252 00:13:47.679 --> 00:13:50.519 between Michael and Laurie was so thick that you could 253 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:54.639 literally drive a tractor through it. Laurie never made eye 254 00:13:54.639 --> 00:13:58.759 contact with Michael's friends, and they all noticed she wouldn't 255 00:13:58.799 --> 00:14:01.720 even talk to them, and Michael's friends thought that part 256 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:04.639 was pretty strange because she was always friendly with them 257 00:14:04.960 --> 00:14:07.440 whenever they would hang out. She was known to just 258 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:10.000 be a bubbly person who was happy to be there. 259 00:14:10.279 --> 00:14:12.360 And then, you know, in the middle of this tractor show, 260 00:14:12.360 --> 00:14:14.279 all of a sudden, Michael told his friends that he 261 00:14:14.320 --> 00:14:16.879 and the family needed to leave, and they left, and 262 00:14:16.919 --> 00:14:19.159 that would be the last time that anyone would ever 263 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:23.519 lay eyes again on Michael. Two days later, Michael's coworkers 264 00:14:23.559 --> 00:14:26.840 received a really odd text from him, and in that text, 265 00:14:26.919 --> 00:14:30.039 Michael said he was no longer coming to work and 266 00:14:30.039 --> 00:14:33.279 that he was planning on moving away to Georgia. His 267 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:37.360 coworkers and family members tried to contact him, and when 268 00:14:37.399 --> 00:14:40.559 he didn't respond, even after hearing that his mother was sick, 269 00:14:40.840 --> 00:14:43.759 people who knew him best began to worry something was up. 270 00:14:44.240 --> 00:14:46.559 Some close friends of his even log down to their 271 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:49.919 Facebook accounts and noticed they weren't even friends with him anymore, 272 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:54.000 so why is he unfriending them? They didn't have falling 273 00:14:54.039 --> 00:14:58.279 out here. This man was dependable for years and then 274 00:14:58.519 --> 00:14:59.240 he's just going to. 275 00:14:59.279 --> 00:15:01.399 Blow off this now he can't be reached. 276 00:15:01.639 --> 00:15:03.960 Yeah, and he's going to blow off this job at 277 00:15:04.039 --> 00:15:07.200 Disney World out of the blue. And it was just 278 00:15:07.240 --> 00:15:11.399 couldn't be more dependable as an employee as the sounds like, 279 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:15.720 is trying to be a husband, a dependable father. 280 00:15:15.720 --> 00:15:18.120 A husband. He was how his family would say. 281 00:15:18.279 --> 00:15:20.440 It was never like him to do that. It was 282 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:23.679 just it was just really odd. When Michael's boss reached 283 00:15:23.679 --> 00:15:27.240 out to him, Michael's boss received a text back that said, quote, 284 00:15:27.240 --> 00:15:29.360 you can go ahead and fire me. I'm not coming 285 00:15:29.440 --> 00:15:32.759 back end quote. His coworkers all thought that was really 286 00:15:32.799 --> 00:15:36.320 weird because he wouldn't just leave a job without saying 287 00:15:36.360 --> 00:15:40.039 goodbye to anyone. He had friends, everyone had known him 288 00:15:40.120 --> 00:15:43.120 and grown to love him because of his dependability and 289 00:15:43.159 --> 00:15:48.519 his personality skills, yeah, his skills. His coworkers were just perplexed, 290 00:15:48.559 --> 00:15:50.559 you know, they had no idea what was going on. 291 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:53.519 He was just gone. Everyone began to have their own 292 00:15:53.559 --> 00:15:58.000 suspicions and draw their own conclusions. Soon after, Michael's friends 293 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:01.480 began to get text messages from his saying that he 294 00:16:01.600 --> 00:16:04.600 just wanted everyone to leave him alone. All of a sudden, 295 00:16:04.639 --> 00:16:07.080 he didn't want anything to do with anyone that he 296 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:10.440 knew and loved. According to the texts that were sent 297 00:16:10.519 --> 00:16:12.919 from his phone, he didn't want to be found by 298 00:16:12.960 --> 00:16:15.399 anyone who knew him, and he was just done with 299 00:16:15.519 --> 00:16:21.080 everything and everyone. Obviously, his friends his family are saying 300 00:16:21.240 --> 00:16:24.799 these are out of character, this is bullshit. Yeah, and 301 00:16:24.879 --> 00:16:27.759 his niece even received a text message that said, quote, 302 00:16:27.759 --> 00:16:30.080 I don't have a family anymore. I have no clue 303 00:16:30.120 --> 00:16:34.279 who you are, so stop messaging me. End quote. It's weird. 304 00:16:34.320 --> 00:16:36.600 I mean, it's so red flag. It's like, oh, he 305 00:16:36.679 --> 00:16:38.600 has his phone? Who has Michael's phone? 306 00:16:38.759 --> 00:16:42.039 Right? Frank, one of Michael's friends and a coworker at 307 00:16:42.080 --> 00:16:45.159 Epcot that he was the closest with, decided to drive 308 00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:47.519 by his house to see what was going on. When 309 00:16:47.559 --> 00:16:49.960 he got to the house, Frank was confused when Laurie 310 00:16:50.080 --> 00:16:52.519 was the one who came to the door. Frank asked 311 00:16:52.559 --> 00:16:55.759 Laurie where Michael was, and she said he's just not home, 312 00:16:56.159 --> 00:16:59.000 but his car was in the driveway, and Laurie kept 313 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:01.679 insisting that Michael was at home. She went on to 314 00:17:01.720 --> 00:17:03.679 say that the two of them had gotten into a 315 00:17:03.679 --> 00:17:06.680 pretty bad argument and he had stormed off. He then 316 00:17:06.759 --> 00:17:09.720 got picked up in a black suv and he just 317 00:17:09.799 --> 00:17:13.079 never came back home. She said that he caught a 318 00:17:13.160 --> 00:17:15.599 ride with his friend Robert and that the two of 319 00:17:15.640 --> 00:17:18.880 them decided to just go to Georgia. They were gonna 320 00:17:18.920 --> 00:17:22.240 move up and move okay. Frank thought that the entire 321 00:17:22.279 --> 00:17:25.200 communication with Laurie was weird because not only did Michael 322 00:17:25.480 --> 00:17:28.079 never wish to leave the state of Florida, he also 323 00:17:28.279 --> 00:17:31.519 never wanted out of his marriage with Laurie. He wasn't 324 00:17:31.559 --> 00:17:35.680 going to leave his kids, and everyone that he knew 325 00:17:35.960 --> 00:17:40.279 knew that. Yes. Stacy, Michael's sister, sent Laurie a Facebook 326 00:17:40.319 --> 00:17:43.640 message asking where her brother was, and she just replied 327 00:17:43.680 --> 00:17:47.480 with quote no, he left end quote, and she went 328 00:17:47.519 --> 00:17:49.599 on to say that he left his children with her 329 00:17:49.799 --> 00:17:52.839 and that he wasn't paying any child support. This was 330 00:17:53.279 --> 00:17:56.400 strange to Stacy because she knew her brother would never 331 00:17:56.480 --> 00:17:59.279 do anything like that because those kids were two of 332 00:17:59.319 --> 00:18:02.680 the most important people in his life. Michael wouldn't have 333 00:18:02.759 --> 00:18:05.599 never left this job at Disney World to go to 334 00:18:05.720 --> 00:18:10.880 Georgia to start completely over without his kids or his wife, 335 00:18:11.359 --> 00:18:14.319 and at some point his sister Stacy and his brother Brian. 336 00:18:14.480 --> 00:18:17.759 They just didn't know what to think. While Stacy became angry, 337 00:18:17.799 --> 00:18:21.440 Brian just thought maybe Michael did need some space and time. 338 00:18:22.039 --> 00:18:25.640 You know who didn't need space and time? Ri. No, 339 00:18:26.359 --> 00:18:28.839 she moved on without a second thought, and she began, 340 00:18:28.960 --> 00:18:31.480 he's gone yet. Yeah. She began a data man named 341 00:18:31.559 --> 00:18:34.960 Jeremy Townsend. The two had met at a park where 342 00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:37.599 they gave each other their phone numbers. When she began 343 00:18:37.720 --> 00:18:40.279 dating Jeremy, though, she was also telling her friends that 344 00:18:40.319 --> 00:18:43.920 Michael was harassing her. Laurie and Jeremy didn't work out, though, 345 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:47.920 and you want to know why. Jeremy was married to 346 00:18:48.039 --> 00:18:51.920 another woman, Vanessa. One day, while Vanessa was at work, 347 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:55.680 she got a random flower delivery, and with the delivery 348 00:18:55.799 --> 00:18:59.359 was a card. The card said quote roses are read, 349 00:19:00.119 --> 00:19:03.319 Let's are blue. My wife is a whore. Your husband 350 00:19:03.400 --> 00:19:07.640 is too end quote. The car was signed sorry about 351 00:19:07.680 --> 00:19:12.279 this like your Facebook message, We need to talk Mike. 352 00:19:12.960 --> 00:19:16.000 So Vanessa did as the card said, and she went 353 00:19:16.039 --> 00:19:18.880 on Facebook to check her messages. She then found a 354 00:19:18.920 --> 00:19:22.119 message from Michael saying, quote, I believe your husband is 355 00:19:22.200 --> 00:19:24.880 having an affair with Mike soon to be ex wife 356 00:19:25.079 --> 00:19:28.000 end quote. He then told Vanessa that he had installed 357 00:19:28.039 --> 00:19:32.640 some spy software onto his wife's phone, then sent screenshots 358 00:19:32.680 --> 00:19:36.200 of text messages that had been sent between Laurie and Jeremy. 359 00:19:37.000 --> 00:19:40.480 Jeremy's affair with Laurie obviously came to a screeching halt 360 00:19:40.559 --> 00:19:43.400 after that, and Jeremy went back to Vanessa in hopes 361 00:19:43.440 --> 00:19:46.960 of working things out between them. Glori began dating someone 362 00:19:46.960 --> 00:19:49.920 who would become her next husband, and this guy's name 363 00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:53.920 was Travis Filmer, who was a youth group leader at 364 00:19:53.920 --> 00:19:56.920 the local church in the area. Travis looked an awful 365 00:19:56.960 --> 00:19:59.839 lot like Michael, and he fell head over heels for 366 00:20:00.720 --> 00:20:03.519 the two of them. Were married on December thirty first, 367 00:20:03.640 --> 00:20:07.160 twenty sixteen, which I'm not sure how that happened if 368 00:20:07.200 --> 00:20:10.960 she never got a divorce from Michael, but what Yeah. 369 00:20:11.119 --> 00:20:14.200 The wedding took place in Laurie's backyard, the same house 370 00:20:14.359 --> 00:20:17.359 she had once shared with Michael. It was a small ceremony, 371 00:20:17.400 --> 00:20:20.640 but Travis was really happy. Laurie had spent so much 372 00:20:20.640 --> 00:20:23.480 time fixing up the backyard for the ceremony. She even 373 00:20:23.559 --> 00:20:26.759 went as far as to install a fire pit in 374 00:20:26.799 --> 00:20:30.480 the backyard for the ceremony, she and Travis actually utched 375 00:20:30.640 --> 00:20:33.359 their initials into the concrete while it was still wet 376 00:20:33.880 --> 00:20:37.599 like it was literally like this fire pit, and it 377 00:20:37.640 --> 00:20:40.160 was to symbolize their love and affection for one another. 378 00:20:40.799 --> 00:20:43.559 Not long after the two were married, Laurie told Travis 379 00:20:43.599 --> 00:20:46.319 that she was pregnant. Travis was over the moon with 380 00:20:46.400 --> 00:20:48.839 excitement because all he had wanted to do was be 381 00:20:48.880 --> 00:20:52.079 a father, and after seeing Laurie with Isabella and Aiden, 382 00:20:52.480 --> 00:20:54.559 he knew she was going to be a great mom. 383 00:20:55.200 --> 00:20:57.880 As Laurie was building a new life with Travis, Michael's 384 00:20:57.920 --> 00:21:01.079 Facebook page was still active and were made here and 385 00:21:01.119 --> 00:21:04.400 there saying he was working on internal struggles and that 386 00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:07.480 he just wanted to be left alone. Michael's friends and family, 387 00:21:08.200 --> 00:21:11.599 who hadn't seen him since he allegedly walked out on 388 00:21:11.759 --> 00:21:14.920 all their lives, Yeah, just thought this was obviously was 389 00:21:14.960 --> 00:21:17.799 strange again that you know, they hadn't heard from him, 390 00:21:17.839 --> 00:21:20.839 but here he is posting on Facebook. At least two 391 00:21:20.960 --> 00:21:23.960 years had gone by without anyone seeing him in person. 392 00:21:24.559 --> 00:21:27.519 Even Brian, Michael's brother, had known something was up when 393 00:21:27.559 --> 00:21:30.039 a text came over that was from Michael's phone and 394 00:21:30.079 --> 00:21:32.839 Michael had called him bro and he had never called 395 00:21:32.920 --> 00:21:35.160 him that before, so none of this is adding up. 396 00:21:35.559 --> 00:21:38.839 Michael's childhood best friend, Scott had received a phone call 397 00:21:38.920 --> 00:21:41.680 from someone who had been over to Michael and Laurie's 398 00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:44.400 house shortly after he had left his family, and it 399 00:21:44.480 --> 00:21:47.240 apparently walked out on them. On the phone call, Scott 400 00:21:47.319 --> 00:21:50.640 was told that even though Laurie said he had completely 401 00:21:50.759 --> 00:21:53.440