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Speaker 1: It's July ninth, twenty twenty six. My name is Simone
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Speaker 1: let's dive into today's case. The year was nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: five and in the mostly affluent city of Naples, Florida.
Speaker 1: This city was known as a paradise of the South.
Speaker 1: You see around this time in Naples, developers cater to
Speaker 1: many millionaires, billionaires, and retirees by building massive homes with
Speaker 1: large gates and golf courses surrounding them, as well as
Speaker 1: luxurious senior communities. Country clubs were also the place to
Speaker 1: be seen and to brag, and people loved that their
Speaker 1: high class enclaves were surrounded by streets lined with beautiful
Speaker 1: palm trees. Also, by this time, many locals flocked to
Speaker 1: the nearby beautiful beaches, and if you were wealthy, you'd
Speaker 1: be at the beach in your cabana or yacht, as
Speaker 1: there was a huge marina culture. The locals weren't the
Speaker 1: only ones who flocked to the beaches either, As reports state,
Speaker 1: Naples was a pretty big tourist destination, with many vacationers
Speaker 1: soaking up the sun at the beach, buying trinkets from
Speaker 1: roadside chains along major routes, and or dining one of
Speaker 1: the expensive seafood restaurants. However, when the wining and dining
Speaker 1: in parks alreadying wound down outside the busiest tourist strips,
Speaker 1: Naples could feel eerily quiet. You see, not all of
Speaker 1: Naples residents were living in multimillion dollar mansions or driving ferraris.
Speaker 1: Many were living in smaller homes, working paycheck to paycheck.
Speaker 1: Instead of picnics at the beach, many had picnics in
Speaker 1: the parks, and instead of five star restaurants. They ate
Speaker 1: at their local diner or chain restaurant, and that was
Speaker 1: just fine. They liked that routine. However, on a fall
Speaker 1: morning in nineteen ninety five, when many residents from Naples
Speaker 1: and the surrounding area flocked in one of their favorite
Speaker 1: laid back chain restaurants for breakfast, they'd be shocked to
Speaker 1: learn it was closed. And it wasn't due to a
Speaker 1: lack of business. Instead, it was due to a gruesome massacre.
Speaker 1: In the following case, you'll find out what a riffick
Speaker 1: event happened here, the investigation and the shocking aftermath in
Speaker 1: a case I title. Before the restaurant was opened, in
Speaker 1: the early morning hours of November fifteenth, nineteen ninety five,
Speaker 1: a worker at the Cracker Barrel restaurant in Naples arrived
Speaker 1: for her shift at around four fifty am. As most
Speaker 1: early morning and late night workers did. She rang the
Speaker 1: doorbell to let her coworkers, who were already inside, know
Speaker 1: she had arrived and to ask them to open the
Speaker 1: locked door for her, since the restaurant was not open yet. However,
Speaker 1: after ringing the doorbell once and strangely not getting an answer,
Speaker 1: she rang it again and still no one came to
Speaker 1: the door, although she knew a few of her co
Speaker 1: workers were scheduled before her. After a few minutes had passed,
Speaker 1: more of her co workers reported for work before the
Speaker 1: restaurant was to open at six a m. The worker
Speaker 1: told her newly reported coworkers that she was unable to
Speaker 1: get in, and after that some of them looked through
Speaker 1: the restaurant's windows to see what was going on. Still,
Speaker 1: after not getting a clear picture of anyone inside when
Speaker 1: there should have been, some of the workers went to
Speaker 1: the nearby shell gas station to call the restaurant. Reports
Speaker 1: state the workers called several times, but after no one answered,
Speaker 1: they called the police. When a deputy arrived at Cracker Barrel,
Speaker 1: they reportedly walked around the building and also looked through
Speaker 1: some windows, but they waited until backup arrived before breaking
Speaker 1: into the restaurant. After backup officers arrived, they entered the restaurant.
Speaker 1: At first, nothing seemed out of place or in disarray. However,
Speaker 1: when they arrived at the back of the restaurant, near
Speaker 1: the walking cooler, they noticed stains of blood, and when
Speaker 1: they pried the door open, they came across the ghastly
Speaker 1: sight of three workers inside the cooler and they were dead.
Speaker 1: After the discovery, an officer reported back to the workers
Speaker 1: who remained outside and told them about finding their coworkers,
Speaker 1: and after hearing from the coworkers again, police learned the
Speaker 1: victims were manager thirty eight year old Dorothy Siddle, cooked
Speaker 1: twenty seven year old Vicki Smith, and evening maintenance worker
Speaker 1: twenty one year old Jason Wiggins. According to reports, although
Speaker 1: Dorothy Siddle was a manager at the Cracker Barrel in Naples,
Speaker 1: she wanted to manage a cracker barrel closer to her
Speaker 1: and her husband's hometown in Palmetto, Florida, which was two
Speaker 1: hours away, as she wanted to eventually return home. Reports
Speaker 1: also state that Dorothy was a devoted wife and mother
Speaker 1: to her and her husband's teenage children, and she was
Speaker 1: a devout Christian. She was also dedicated to her job,
Speaker 1: and in fact, the only reason Dorothy and her family
Speaker 1: lived in the Naples area was so she could train
Speaker 1: to be a manager there, since Naples Cracker Barrel was
Speaker 1: larger than the one in Palmetto. Vicky Smith, a cook
Speaker 1: at Cracker Barrel, had been in a long term relationship
Speaker 1: and she and her boyfriend had a seven year old
Speaker 1: son who was said to be Vicki's whole world. She'd
Speaker 1: worked at Cracker Barrel for about a year and a half,
Speaker 1: and she, just like Dorothy, was dedicated to her job.
Speaker 1: Vicky was so dedicated that she'd wake up extra early
Speaker 1: to leave home at four am for her four forty
Speaker 1: am shift. She also liked the early shift because by
Speaker 1: the time she got off, she could spend time with
Speaker 1: her son when he got home from school. Jason Wiggins
Speaker 1: worked the overnight maintenance shift, but outside of work, he
Speaker 1: loved music, especially playing his guitar. Jason was also close
Speaker 1: to his family, and in fact, his brother worked at
Speaker 1: Cracker Barrel in the same position, but he was off
Speaker 1: that night. His brother also remembered Jason as a team
Speaker 1: player and hard worker, even though he spent many nights
Speaker 1: working and cleaning the restaurant alone, which meant time away
Speaker 1: from hanging out with his friends. At the crime scene,
Speaker 1: this is where it gets grusome. According to reports, when
Speaker 1: police found the bodies of Dorothy, Vicki, and Jason, they
Speaker 1: noticed that all three had their wrists bound with electrical tape.
Speaker 1: But while both of Dorothy's wrists were bound, Jason and
Speaker 1: Vicki's tape had come loose, leaving one of their wrists free,
Speaker 1: and horrifically, all three victims' throats had been slit. Police
Speaker 1: also noticed a set of bloody footprints leading from the
Speaker 1: freezer to the back office, and there detectives discovered the
Speaker 1: restaurant's safe had been robbed of several thousand dollars. At
Speaker 1: a press conference the next day, a lead detective told
Speaker 1: reporters that since they had discovered only one set of
Speaker 1: bloody footprints, they initially thought there was only one suspect.
Speaker 1: They also thought that since the restaurant was off Interstate
Speaker 1: seventy five, whoever did this could be easily kill rob
Speaker 1: and flee back on the road, and even though it
Speaker 1: was very early in the investigation, the detectives thought he
Speaker 1: and his team had an idea of what had happened
Speaker 1: early the previous morning. According to reports, the detectives told
Speaker 1: the press that on November fifteenth, the restaurant's alarm went
Speaker 1: off at around four thirty am when Dorothy arrived for work.
Speaker 1: Jason was already there since he worked overnight, and since
Speaker 1: Vicky's shift was at four forty, they presumed she arrived
Speaker 1: shortly after Dorothy. Then the detective said the robbery more
Speaker 1: than likely occurred between four thirty and four fifty, and
Speaker 1: that the suspect forced either Dorothy and or Vicki to
Speaker 1: let them inside. Then after the robbery and killings, the
Speaker 1: suspect fled out the back door through a field nearby.
Speaker 1: As detectives saw money, two stacks of dollar and five
Speaker 1: dollar bills and coins to be exact, and a cigarette
Speaker 1: butt there which they took in for testing. They also
Speaker 1: sent in a knife that was left randomly in the
Speaker 1: kitchen area, which they believed may have been used in
Speaker 1: the triple slaying. At the scene, detectives also dusted the
Speaker 1: vehicles left behind by the victims, checking to see if
Speaker 1: any other fingerprints were on their cars, but until they
Speaker 1: got answers from the crime lab. Detectives welcomed any tips
Speaker 1: and information from the workers and general public, and Cracker
Speaker 1: Barrel Corporate offered a twenty five thousand dollars reward for
Speaker 1: information as well. Reports state that in the days following
Speaker 1: the murders, tips started to trickle in slowly about potential suspects.
Speaker 1: Another report stated that detective told the press there were
Speaker 1: four suspects who were serial robbers in the area that
Speaker 1: they were looking at, but later those suspects were panned out.
Speaker 1: As the investigation continued, detectives continued to interview other Cracker
Speaker 1: Barrel workers, the victims' families, and continued to ask the
Speaker 1: general public for any information. However, by now detectives figured
Speaker 1: the suspect of suspects more than likely were really familiar
Speaker 1: with the restaurant, as they possibly knew the schedules of
Speaker 1: the victims, unless they were really lucky lookouts and guessed
Speaker 1: the right time to attack. Meanwhile, while the investigation continued,
Speaker 1: Cracker Barrel still offered its twenty five thousand dollars reward
Speaker 1: for information, and although a small memorial remained outside the
Speaker 1: restaurant to honor Dorothy Vicki and Jason, the Cracker Bear
Speaker 1: Marylyn Naples reopened on November twenty fourth, nineteen ninety five,
Speaker 1: nine days after the tragedy to their luck. By early December,
Speaker 1: detectives started receiving highly credible information about possible suspects from
Speaker 1: the victims' families, who told them to look at a
Speaker 1: former employee named Brandy Baine Jennings and possibly his friend
Speaker 1: from work, Jason Graves, Dorothy's husband, told detectives that Brandy
Speaker 1: was a cook at Cracker Barrel and didn't do well there.
Speaker 1: He said that Brandy was frequently disciplined at work, that
Speaker 1: he felt overshadowed, and that he blamed Dorothy for not
Speaker 1: getting promoted. Jason Wiggins's mother also told detectives that after
Speaker 1: Brandy was fired, he continued to hang around the restaurant,
Speaker 1: that both Jason and David thought he was trouble, and
Speaker 1: that they never hung out with him. Detectives also learned
Speaker 1: that shortly after his resignation, Brandy's coworker, Jason Graves quit.
Speaker 1: Other reports also state that after Brandy and Jason were
Speaker 1: named as credible suspects, detectives heard from an ex of
Speaker 1: Brandy that she thought he may have had something to
Speaker 1: do with the robberies and murders, and that he said
Speaker 1: shortly before the murders that Dorothy was going to quote
Speaker 1: unquote get hers and that he couldn't stand her voice.
Speaker 1: With all of this information, detectives were now on the
Speaker 1: hunt for Brandy and Jason. They put out a nationwide
Speaker 1: bulletin in BOLO for the two. The bulletin also mentioned
Speaker 1: that the two were armed and dangerous, and that according
Speaker 1: to informants, the two were more than likely traveling in
Speaker 1: a pickup truck and possibly fled to other parts of
Speaker 1: Florida or out west to possibly Texas, knew My Mexico, Oregon,
Speaker 1: or Montana. Meanwhile, days later, on December eighth, nineteen ninety five,
Speaker 1: an officer in Las Vegas, Nevada, was running a routine
Speaker 1: check on the tag of a truck waiting in front
Speaker 1: of him at a traffic light. It's unclear why the
Speaker 1: officer ran the tag, but after they did, the check
Speaker 1: revealed that the truck's occupants were possibly armed and dangerous.
Speaker 1: The officer then called for backup. After backup arrived, the
Speaker 1: first officer initiated a traffic stop. The truck pulled over,
Speaker 1: but because the officer knew the driver and passenger might
Speaker 1: be dangerous, they ordered the driver to throw the keys
Speaker 1: out the window, but instead the driver sped away. Then
Speaker 1: several police cars chased the occupants in the truck for
Speaker 1: about fifteen miles until officers were able to stop and
Speaker 1: capture them, and the suspects were identified as the driver,
Speaker 1: twenty six year old Brandy Bain Jennings, and the passenger,
Speaker 1: nineteen year old Charles Jason Graves will be back after
Speaker 1: a quick break, according to reports. Brandy Bain Jennings was
Speaker 1: born to divorced parents and raised by his mother, Tawny.
Speaker 1: Not much as publicly known about his childhood, but what
Speaker 1: is known is that although he had friends growing up,
Speaker 1: some saw him as a little quote unquote edgy and
Speaker 1: sometimes weird. When he became an adult, Brandy worked jobs
Speaker 1: here and there, but at Cracker Barrel was where he
Speaker 1: thought he'd advance in life. He never made that much money,
Speaker 1: but he thought he'd eventually get promoted from grill cook
Speaker 1: to waiter to earn more. However, reports state that management
Speaker 1: and even many of his coworkers noticed that Brandy looked unkempt,
Speaker 1: had a quick temper, and was incredibly lazy. His supervisors,
Speaker 1: including Dorothy, apparently told him that given his appearance and
Speaker 1: lack of work ethic, he wouldn't be promoted. So Brandy
Speaker 1: cut his long hair, although he hated it, and allegedly
Speaker 1: tried to do better at work, but he still didn't
Speaker 1: win management's approval. Even worse, he was still being paid
Speaker 1: the same wages as of the cook, and he wasn't
Speaker 1: making enough to pay his bills rent, and his girlfriend
Speaker 1: complained he never spent money on her. Despite his issues
Speaker 1: at work, he continued working at Cracker Barrel and met
Speaker 1: a new coworker, Jason Graves, who was several years younger
Speaker 1: than he was. According to reports, Charles Jason Graves was
Speaker 1: born into an average family and grew up as a
Speaker 1: typical young boy with his parents, twin brother and sister
Speaker 1: in Fort Pierce, Florida. His friends from growing up were
Speaker 1: called Jason as one of the softest and sweetest young
Speaker 1: boys who couldn't even hurt a fly and loved helping
Speaker 1: them build tree forts and explore the woods. It's unclear
Speaker 1: what his teenage years were like, but his friend said
Speaker 1: Jason was mostly a follower, and after he got a
Speaker 1: job as a dishwasher at Cracker Barrel when he turned eighteen,
Speaker 1: his coworkers noticed that about Jason as well, especially no
Speaker 1: sing that Jason seemed to follow Brandy and got close
Speaker 1: to him. Meanwhile, as time went on, while Brandy worked
Speaker 1: at Cracker Barrel, his coworkers repeatedly heard him expressed frustration
Speaker 1: with Dorothy. He frequently called her a bitch and grew
Speaker 1: increasingly frustrated that he still hadn't been promoted. A coworker
Speaker 1: who spoke to the police said he and Dorothy always
Speaker 1: had words, and he, just like Brandy's ex, told police
Speaker 1: that Dorothy was going to quote unquote get hers after
Speaker 1: doing everything Dorothy allegedly told him to do to get promoted,
Speaker 1: only to not get the promotion. By September nineteen ninety five,
Speaker 1: Brandy grew so frustrated that he pulled a no call,
Speaker 1: no shoe at Cracker Barrel, then showed up days later
Speaker 1: to tail management he was officially done and had another
Speaker 1: job lined up. It's unclear whether he actually had another job,
Speaker 1: but after he quit, so did Jason, since Brandy was
Speaker 1: Jason's primary means of transportation. As previously mentioned, after both
Speaker 1: men quit, at least Brandy hung around Cracker Barrel, still
Speaker 1: talking about Dorothy with former co workers, and on one
Speaker 1: occasion when Jason actually joined him for lunch there, he
Speaker 1: heard Dorothy make some sort of announcement over the restaurant's
Speaker 1: public address system. In response, a worker there heard Brandy say,
Speaker 1: quote unquote, is Dorothy here? I hate her? I even
Speaker 1: hate the sound of her voice, and after Brandy and
Speaker 1: Jason were arrested, detectives from Naples got to Vegas to
Speaker 1: interrogate them. According to reports, although there is not much
Speaker 1: publicly known about whether or not Jason said much to
Speaker 1: detectives about the murders, Jason did reportedly ask for an attorney. However,
Speaker 1: when Brandy was first approached by detectives, he declined to
Speaker 1: speak to them as well, but on December tenth, he
Speaker 1: told them that he originally planned to cover for Jason,
Speaker 1: but he had talked to his mother, decided it wasn't
Speaker 1: worth it, and wanted to tell his side of the story.
Speaker 1: According to reports, Brandy told detectives that he felt disrespected
Speaker 1: by management at Cracker Barrel and that he had quit,
Speaker 1: but that he had got along with everyone while working there.
Speaker 1: He also said that after he quit, he and Jason
Speaker 1: worked random labor jobs, but they made nowhere near enough
Speaker 1: money for everyday expenses. Brandy also said that in October
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five, one of his friends, who also used
Speaker 1: to work at Cracker Barrel, suggested robbing the restaurant as
Speaker 1: an easy way to make money. As a side note,
Speaker 1: this friend also sold distructor Brandy, who was making payments
Speaker 1: on it. After quitting Cracker Barrel, Brandy didn't have enough money,
Speaker 1: so he said this was why his friend suggested robbing
Speaker 1: the restaurant. Brandy continued and said his friend told him
Speaker 1: that the restaurant brought in about five thousand dollars in
Speaker 1: change in bags through the back door, and the morning
Speaker 1: manager made a deposit each weekday between nine and ten am.
Speaker 1: Brandy said he didn't think it was a bad idea,
Speaker 1: but that he couldn't see himself partaking in a robbery. However,
Speaker 1: he spoke with Jason and another friend who were also
Speaker 1: desperate for money, and they came up with the plan
Speaker 1: to rob Cracker Barrel. However, he and Jason's friend kept
Speaker 1: backing out, so after a while it was just Brandy
Speaker 1: and Jason planning the robbery. Brandy continued and said that
Speaker 1: a few weeks before the November fifteenth murders, he and
Speaker 1: Jason decided that first it was only supposed to be
Speaker 1: a snatch and grab with no violence, but they'd forced
Speaker 1: whoever the night manager was that evening aside to do
Speaker 1: the deed. However, they chickened out multiple times until November thirteenth.
Speaker 1: That day, Brandy said he and Jason traveled to a
Speaker 1: motel in Fort Myers, Florida, about an hour away, to
Speaker 1: hatch their plan for the last time. He said they
Speaker 1: traveled to Fort Myers because Jason was to receive a
Speaker 1: work check at his mother's home, who lived there. He
Speaker 1: then said that after Jason cashed the check, Jason bought
Speaker 1: a daisy Co two pellet gun that looked like a
Speaker 1: real forty five. Brandy said they planned to use the
Speaker 1: gun to scare the employees and get inside. That way,
Speaker 1: people would just do what they said and they wouldn't
Speaker 1: have to hurt anyone. He also added that he and
Speaker 1: Jason went to Fort Myers to establish alibis because they
Speaker 1: both had friends there and would see them. On the
Speaker 1: day of the murders. Brandy said he and Jason got
Speaker 1: to Cracker Barrel around one or two AM and stayed
Speaker 1: in the truck in the woods until around three point thirty.
Speaker 1: He said he noticed Jason Wiggins truck and later saw
Speaker 1: Dorothy then Vicky pull up. Brandy said he approached Dorothy
Speaker 1: and said his truck was stuck, and she offered to
Speaker 1: call the tilling service after he asked her if he
Speaker 1: could wait inside since it was chilly outside, but she
Speaker 1: said no. Then, he said everything took a turn because
Speaker 1: as Dorothy opened the door, Jason ran up on them
Speaker 1: and rushed her. He said. Vicky started to back away,
Speaker 1: but Brandy told her everything was okay and to go inside.
Speaker 1: They all went in, and Jason instructed Dorothy to turn
Speaker 1: off the alarm, which she did. Brandy said that Jason
Speaker 1: Wiggins was inside sweeping, and Jason Graves ordered he, Vicky,
Speaker 1: and Dorothy to the back. Brandy said he put on
Speaker 1: gloves and bound Jason Wiggins and Vicki with the electrical tape,
Speaker 1: while Jason Graves ordered Dorothy into the office to open
Speaker 1: the safe and get the money. Jason, according to Brandy,
Speaker 1: stuffed the money into his bag, supposedly took the employees
Speaker 1: to the walking cooler, and then went back to the
Speaker 1: office to gather more money. Then, Brandy continued saying that
Speaker 1: after they heard and other employees arrive and ring the
Speaker 1: restaurant's buzzer, they panicked and knew they had to leave.
Speaker 1: He said, though, as he went to flee out of
Speaker 1: the back, Jason spent more time inside. After a while,
Speaker 1: Jason joined him, and he told them he placed the
Speaker 1: hostages in the walking cooler. Brandy said that he went
Speaker 1: back inside, though, to make sure the cooler was able
Speaker 1: to be opened from the outside so the three could
Speaker 1: be let out by other coworkers or the police. When
Speaker 1: asked about the actual murders, he said it was pretty
Speaker 1: much obvious Jason killed the workers and he had nothing
Speaker 1: to do with that, as he considered all three, including Dorothy,
Speaker 1: as his friends. When detectives confronted him about his bloody
Speaker 1: shoeprint being found near the coop, Brandy backtracked and said
Speaker 1: he knew the victims were dead, but he went back
Speaker 1: to check on them one last time anyway, and that
Speaker 1: after he did, he slipped on blood. However, despite his
Speaker 1: lengthy confession, detectives knew there was more evidence against him
Speaker 1: than Brandy let on, and eventually he and Jason Graves
Speaker 1: were charged with three counts of capital first degree murder
Speaker 1: and one count of robbery with a deadly weapon. We'll
Speaker 1: be back with the finality of this story After a
Speaker 1: final break. In October nineteen ninety six, Brandy's trial began,
Speaker 1: with the prosecution seeking the death penalty, and in their
Speaker 1: opening arguments, they said that the murders were not a
Speaker 1: robbery gone wrong, but that this was a planned robbery
Speaker 1: in which witnesses were intentionally eliminated. Even More, the state
Speaker 1: portrayed Brandy as the driving force behind the crime. They
Speaker 1: infantized that Brandy had worked at Cracker Barrel for about
Speaker 1: eleven months, knew all three victims had discussed robbing the
Speaker 1: restaurant before, had made statements about not leaving witnesses, strongly
Speaker 1: disliked Dorothy Siddle, and admitted participating in the robbery. Also,
Speaker 1: Brandy's shoes matched the bloody impressions found inside the restaurant
Speaker 1: and along the escape route. Reports state that during the trial,
Speaker 1: Brandy's attorneys didn't deny his involvement because, after all, brand
Speaker 1: new he admitted to participating in the robbery, helping tape
Speaker 1: the victims, being inside the restaurant, being in the freezer area,
Speaker 1: fleeing afterward, and traveling to Vegas with Jason Graves. However,
Speaker 1: the attorneys argued Jason was the sole murderer and used
Speaker 1: Brandy's lengthy initial confession to support that theory. Prosecution came back, though,
Speaker 1: to refute their theory and presented to the court that
Speaker 1: it was determined that the knife at the scene was
Speaker 1: determined to be his. They called other witnesses who again
Speaker 1: said Brandy frequently talked about revenge against Dorothy and about
Speaker 1: wanting to rob Cracker Barrel. Prosecution also called two exotic
Speaker 1: dancers who witnessed both Brandy and Jason partying at the
Speaker 1: club in Fort Myers and freely given money to the dancers,
Speaker 1: specifically giving them each five hundred dollars, with some of
Speaker 1: the bills having bloodstains them. Prosecutors theorized that after the murders,
Speaker 1: Brandy and Jason traveled back to Fort Myers to go
Speaker 1: to the strip club. After several weeks of his trial
Speaker 1: and deliberations, on October thirty first, nineteen ninety six, Brandy
Speaker 1: Baine Jennings was found guilty of all charges, and on
Speaker 1: December second, nineteen ninety six, a judge sentenced him to
Speaker 1: death after the jury voted ten to two that that
Speaker 1: be his sentence. Meanwhile, Jason Gray's trial began back in
Speaker 1: October nineteen ninety six as well, and prosecutors did not
Speaker 1: seek the death penalty for him because they were not
Speaker 1: sure how much he had to do with the murders,
Speaker 1: but they knew he wasn't innocent, however, after Jason testified
Speaker 1: that he helped stand guard at the door with the
Speaker 1: gun while Brandy slipped their victim's throats and helped him
Speaker 1: rob cracker barrel and laid In October, Jason Graves was
Speaker 1: also found guilty and later sentenced to three life terms.
Speaker 1: In the months and years after the verdicts, both the
Speaker 1: men continued to appeal, and each appeal was denied. Jason
Speaker 1: exhausted all of his appeals in two thousand and two,
Speaker 1: and Brandy in twenty eighteen. While on death row, Brandy
Speaker 1: Bain Jennings died of cancer on May eighteenth, twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: at the age of fifty five. Jason Graves continues to
Speaker 1: serve as sentence. On the second anniversary after the murders,
Speaker 1: Jason Wiggins's brother David told the press in part, quote unquote,
Speaker 1: for me to hate them would make me the same
Speaker 1: people they were on the night they killed my brother,
Speaker 1: and I'm not like that to me. Those people, the convicted,
Speaker 1: know what's coming to them. There's no surprise when they
Speaker 1: start up the hallway to the electric chair. At least
Speaker 1: in Brandy's case, they know what they're getting more so
Speaker 1: than the people they killed. I'm sure had Dorothy, Vicki,
Speaker 1: and Jason known what was coming to them when they
Speaker 1: walked to the freezer, they would have tried a hell
Speaker 1: of a lot harder to get away. So when it
Speaker 1: comes down to it, yeah, it's kind of in a
Speaker 1: humane thing to do. What is poetic justice. The story
Speaker 1: of the Cracker Barrel triple murders of nineteen ninety five
Speaker 1: comes from the sources of Florida State University Library, Naples
Speaker 1: Daily News, Case Law, and others. Output in the notes
Speaker 1: all rights. So I'm not gonna do an opinion piece,
Speaker 1: but i will say, after doing my research, well, all
Speaker 1: three victims' families, Dorothy, Jason Wiggins, and Vicki's families wanted
Speaker 1: both Brandy Bain Jennings and Jason Graves to receive the
Speaker 1: death penalty, but as I mentioned, the prosecution didn't know
Speaker 1: how much Jason was involved. Jason Graves was involved, so
Speaker 1: they didn't want to do the death penalty, but they
Speaker 1: knew again he was not innocent. But I guess he
Speaker 1: was paying for his crimes as he is doing life
Speaker 1: without role and has exhausted all of his appeals so
Speaker 1: he'll pretty much die in there unless something turns around,
Speaker 1: but I don't think he'll be out anytime soon, if ever.
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