WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:03.799 Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence, and is 2 00:00:03.919 --> 00:00:05.679 not intended for all audiences. 3 00:00:06.320 --> 00:00:08.480 Listener of discretion is advised. 4 00:00:12.519 --> 00:00:15.400 First of all, when you told me that he transported 5 00:00:15.400 --> 00:00:19.000 a dead body, that should be your first clue. 6 00:00:21.839 --> 00:00:25.359 This is Sword and Scale Season thirteen, episode three, sixty 7 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:29.600 four show that reveals that the worst monsters are real. 8 00:00:51.399 --> 00:00:53.759 It's cute how some of you think that people are 9 00:00:53.840 --> 00:00:57.600 just these docile little sheet these sweet little babies that 10 00:00:57.679 --> 00:01:03.039 won't do anything to harm you. It really is kind 11 00:01:03.039 --> 00:01:06.400 of cute, almost like a thing you have to do 12 00:01:06.560 --> 00:01:19.480 to make yourself. Okay, it's better than the alternative, I guess. 13 00:01:27.400 --> 00:01:31.359 In a small pocket of Fleming Island, Florida, there was 14 00:01:31.400 --> 00:01:35.239 a group of women. They called themselves the British Club. 15 00:01:36.200 --> 00:01:39.280 This club was a collective of sharp, dry witted ex 16 00:01:39.400 --> 00:01:42.799 pats who met every week to talk about one thing. 17 00:01:42.879 --> 00:01:47.400 They all shared their home in the UK. But in 18 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:50.840 October of twenty nineteen, one of the members of this 19 00:01:51.159 --> 00:01:55.439 British Club went missing. She was a sweet old lady, 20 00:01:55.640 --> 00:01:59.359 a sixty five year old widow named Sue Maldon. One 21 00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:02.079 of the ladies the club hadn't heard back from Sue 22 00:02:02.159 --> 00:02:06.400 in two days. Her phone kept going to voicemail, and 23 00:02:06.439 --> 00:02:10.439 the landline rang and rang, So she sent her husband 24 00:02:10.520 --> 00:02:15.680 to Sue's house for a welfare check. Inside Sue's clean, quiet, home, 25 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:19.479 not a thing was out of place. Her blue cotton 26 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:23.919 gardening shorts were laying out waiting to be worn. Her 27 00:02:23.960 --> 00:02:27.520 car was in the driveway, her purse in the dresser. 28 00:02:28.439 --> 00:02:32.280 It was as if Sue and her cell phone had 29 00:02:32.319 --> 00:02:37.319 just vanished without warning. Neighbors confirmed they hadn't seen Sue 30 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:41.000 outside in a few days. She was an avid gardener 31 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:45.120 and was always outside weeding her yard. Sue's loyal friend 32 00:02:45.159 --> 00:02:50.639 in the British Club called the police. Something was terribly wrong. 33 00:02:51.639 --> 00:02:53.319 Oh right, how don't need you. 34 00:02:53.319 --> 00:03:00.479 Guys know miss Susan since nineteen about ninety nineteen ninety eight, 35 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:01.800 two thousand and one. 36 00:03:03.439 --> 00:03:06.439 How long has Susan been here and united? 37 00:03:06.719 --> 00:03:09.879 She's been here about twenty four years two thousand and one, 38 00:03:09.879 --> 00:03:11.960 and she was about three or four years before us, 39 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:12.719 so twenty four. 40 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:15.039 They came from New UK four. 41 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:21.479 Her husband passed a worry about we think John nine 42 00:03:21.479 --> 00:03:24.039 ten years ago, but they both came over together. 43 00:03:24.120 --> 00:03:27.639 Of course, Sue had been in Florida for almost two decades. 44 00:03:28.280 --> 00:03:31.599 Her husband had tragically died from throat cancer only a 45 00:03:31.639 --> 00:03:36.000 few years into their move to the USA. So the 46 00:03:36.039 --> 00:03:38.879 women at the British Club were like family to Sue. 47 00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:43.919 She had no children, no relatives close by. Her British 48 00:03:44.199 --> 00:03:46.319 ladies were everything to her. 49 00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:50.159 You guys know of any doctors that she visited frequently 50 00:03:50.360 --> 00:03:55.199 or therapist for her ankle? No, I don't know that 51 00:03:55.280 --> 00:03:56.599 that's over. 52 00:03:57.759 --> 00:04:02.719 She wants to get an injection in a show to. 53 00:03:59.840 --> 00:04:07.800 That Riverside, Yeah, over Riversids maybe Riverside Pain Clinic. 54 00:04:07.919 --> 00:04:09.960 With her is that she was at the base. 55 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:14.400 She went a lot to the base because he was retired. 56 00:04:16.319 --> 00:04:18.959 So she struggled with quite a lot. That's what she calls. 57 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:24.000 You say, I can't lift this or I can't do 58 00:04:24.160 --> 00:04:27.920 that canyon. So we popped around and do whatever it was. 59 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:34.480 And she couldn't start a lawnmore start at four and 60 00:04:35.959 --> 00:04:36.920 just little things, you know. 61 00:04:37.920 --> 00:04:41.120 Though Sue was a social woman, her arthritis gave her 62 00:04:41.199 --> 00:04:44.639 more and more trouble with each passing day. She still 63 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:48.399 tended to her flowers, made quilts, and kept up with 64 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:52.199 her British girls, but she needed help with little things 65 00:04:52.519 --> 00:04:57.319 like moving heavy boxes, her revving up her lawnmower, Without 66 00:04:57.319 --> 00:04:59.920 a husband around, she was on her own to hand 67 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:03.920 all those tasks that kept getting harder and harder as 68 00:05:03.959 --> 00:05:07.480 you age. Since Sue's phone had been switched off, the 69 00:05:07.519 --> 00:05:12.279 police couldn't ping it. Her place was spotless, not a 70 00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:15.759 sight of a struggle or a droplet of blood. They 71 00:05:15.800 --> 00:05:18.360 had to rely on clues from her friends, and they 72 00:05:18.399 --> 00:05:20.839 were desperately chasing down anything they could. 73 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:25.240 I heard somebody told me I can't figure any truth through, 74 00:05:25.279 --> 00:05:27.800 and so I'm trying to ask you guys. Was there 75 00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:32.240 a boomer or a taxi lady that she called often 76 00:05:33.120 --> 00:05:35.519 to use, mainly just through her through drinkive. 77 00:05:36.839 --> 00:05:37.759 Not that I know. 78 00:05:37.720 --> 00:05:38.839 Anything, but that I heard. 79 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:41.879 They were either arrived with one of the English ladies 80 00:05:42.519 --> 00:05:43.720 or she would drive herself. 81 00:05:44.959 --> 00:05:47.959 So it's it's very rare for her to be gone 82 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:49.600 from her house in her car. 83 00:05:49.519 --> 00:05:51.879 Still be there. Well, definitely. 84 00:05:53.160 --> 00:05:56.560 The ladies told the detective that Sue was a responsible woman. 85 00:05:57.199 --> 00:05:59.519 She let them know where she was going and what 86 00:05:59.560 --> 00:06:02.639 she was doing doing. She wasn't on social media, and 87 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:06.399 though she tried a dating sider too, nothing had stuck. 88 00:06:07.439 --> 00:06:09.720 The most eventful thing that had happened in her life 89 00:06:09.759 --> 00:06:13.279 recently was the loss of her beloved cat. But all 90 00:06:13.319 --> 00:06:15.920 that meant was that she was now free to travel 91 00:06:16.040 --> 00:06:19.040 next year. But she was happily planning if. 92 00:06:18.959 --> 00:06:22.120 We can literally think that anything that we're missing, or 93 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:24.720 you know, the smallest thing could end up being important. 94 00:06:24.759 --> 00:06:27.600 So well, the only thing that we know that the 95 00:06:27.639 --> 00:06:30.480 guy that was supposed to be during her bathroom. 96 00:06:30.759 --> 00:06:33.000 Yeah, that's the thing. That's the only thing that she 97 00:06:33.160 --> 00:06:35.639 was having problems with it. She gave him the money 98 00:06:35.759 --> 00:06:37.360 and then supposedly he. 99 00:06:37.439 --> 00:06:41.079 Got sick or hurt, never came back, started a job, 100 00:06:41.279 --> 00:06:43.199 got a bunch of money off of her. 101 00:06:43.360 --> 00:06:45.199 What did you say, It was about toil grand. That's 102 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:46.120 about twelve grand. 103 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:49.639 Aside from the death of her cat. Sue was having 104 00:06:49.639 --> 00:06:53.279 her bathroom remodeled, and apparently she had been having issues 105 00:06:53.560 --> 00:06:58.399 with her contractor. 106 00:06:55.279 --> 00:06:59.480 And the stories of him not doing her work so bizarred. 107 00:06:59.480 --> 00:07:00.680 They were love all that we. 108 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:04.519 Almost left with her about what's gonna say now? 109 00:07:04.839 --> 00:07:10.839 Well, remember well it was just a yeah he was hurt, sorry, 110 00:07:10.879 --> 00:07:13.279 couldn't work as your therapy. 111 00:07:13.839 --> 00:07:15.240 Then there was a death in the family. 112 00:07:15.439 --> 00:07:17.680 Let's go and see a lawyer because he's getting a divorce. 113 00:07:18.480 --> 00:07:20.680 It turns out that most of the British club had 114 00:07:20.720 --> 00:07:24.759 heard about Sue's rogue bathroom contractor who was putting her 115 00:07:24.959 --> 00:07:25.680 through the ringer. 116 00:07:26.680 --> 00:07:27.839 I really didn't know the whole thing. 117 00:07:28.079 --> 00:07:29.959 I kind of knew that she was going to have 118 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:31.519 some tire work done by this guy because I know 119 00:07:31.560 --> 00:07:35.079 a house had flooded an insurance paper and he kept 120 00:07:35.079 --> 00:07:38.439 putting off doing the work. And you know, he said, 121 00:07:38.519 --> 00:07:39.759 Sue because she gave me my check. 122 00:07:40.079 --> 00:07:41.319 I don't know if this is helpful or not. 123 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:44.839 You know, he said he was out of town, he said, 124 00:07:45.079 --> 00:07:46.959 I think he said that he had a family member 125 00:07:47.399 --> 00:07:49.079 sick out of town, and then he came back and 126 00:07:49.079 --> 00:07:52.759 then he said, oh, my truck broke down. And as 127 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:55.079 far as I know, that evening, because I spoke to 128 00:07:55.519 --> 00:08:00.519 a couple of the girls, she was gonna apparently either 129 00:08:00.600 --> 00:08:02.879 confront him or she was going to get money from him, 130 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:04.879 or he said he would do something. So because I said, 131 00:08:04.879 --> 00:08:06.279 to have you sorted out, and I'm hoping I'll get 132 00:08:06.319 --> 00:08:08.800 it sorted out next week. The thing about Sue is 133 00:08:08.800 --> 00:08:11.560 she seemed to trust everybody you know she handed I mean, 134 00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:13.000 I don't know about you, but I wouldn't hand a 135 00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:15.600 man a check or anyone woman do work for me 136 00:08:15.639 --> 00:08:18.399 before he's done it. But Sue's the kind oh he 137 00:08:18.439 --> 00:08:21.000 said he would, you know type thing, So she was trusting. 138 00:08:21.160 --> 00:08:24.199 So I don't know. Has she obviously you've checked if 139 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:25.399 she used a passport or anything. 140 00:08:25.519 --> 00:08:29.839 Yeah, anything that you could probably think of. We're looking 141 00:08:29.839 --> 00:08:30.240 into it. 142 00:08:30.519 --> 00:08:31.639 Now. Does she have a phone with her? 143 00:08:32.120 --> 00:08:35.759 The detectives were suddenly getting fragments of this story. Sue's 144 00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:39.159 contractor had flaked on her, leaving her twelve grand in 145 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:43.039 the hole, and she needed to sort things out. 146 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:44.879 And if I could think of it before you come 147 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:47.639 get thinking, have I heard anything? And I thought, I 148 00:08:47.720 --> 00:08:50.759 really haven't, except for the guy that's about it. You know, 149 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:54.399 he might be as innocent as you know. 150 00:08:54.679 --> 00:08:56.080 That's kind of what we're doing, is make sure we're 151 00:08:56.080 --> 00:08:58.840 going to get television on one thing or anything, any 152 00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:02.120 whatever we can do that could give us a percentage 153 00:09:02.200 --> 00:09:03.120 chance letter to find her. 154 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:03.840 That's what we're doing. 155 00:09:04.720 --> 00:09:08.559 It wasn't hard to find Sue's contractor. His real name 156 00:09:08.639 --> 00:09:11.600 was Corey Bendram. He was a forty four year old 157 00:09:11.720 --> 00:09:15.240 husband and father of two girls living in Fleming Island, Florida. 158 00:09:15.759 --> 00:09:21.639 And he looked exactly like that somebody's dad, the kind 159 00:09:21.679 --> 00:09:25.559 of man who knew drywall better than most picture Tim 160 00:09:25.639 --> 00:09:30.159 the tool man Taylor basically detectives located him on a 161 00:09:30.240 --> 00:09:35.039 job site and started chatting. Corey was forthcoming. Yes, he'd 162 00:09:35.039 --> 00:09:37.879 been working for Sue Malden. In fact, he was at 163 00:09:37.879 --> 00:09:39.879 her house just a few days ago to get everything 164 00:09:39.919 --> 00:09:44.320 sorted because he knew she was unhappy with the progress 165 00:09:44.360 --> 00:09:44.960 of his work. 166 00:09:45.559 --> 00:09:48.720 He went inside and went over the contract. 167 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:49.360 What it was. 168 00:09:49.519 --> 00:09:51.679 This contract was going on for a very long time. 169 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:54.159 I demoed the back of the guest capital and I 170 00:09:54.200 --> 00:09:57.399 was supposed to be people started all the guest capital 171 00:09:57.440 --> 00:10:00.480 and a showered up the side out had take over 172 00:10:00.559 --> 00:10:03.759 of her toilet up there, and it was She took 173 00:10:04.519 --> 00:10:06.240 matemath and a half to pet it up with how 174 00:10:06.360 --> 00:10:08.360 she wanted. She bought and I went and got it 175 00:10:08.399 --> 00:10:10.960 and delivered it. And then it came time to talk 176 00:10:11.039 --> 00:10:16.159 about tub and fixtures and all that. She just couldn't 177 00:10:16.159 --> 00:10:18.799 make a decisions, So gots forward. I would take the 178 00:10:18.879 --> 00:10:21.240 job there between, and then she was frustrated that I 179 00:10:21.240 --> 00:10:24.200 couldn't spell over right now and she was ready, and 180 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:25.799 so it just got to the point where it was 181 00:10:26.039 --> 00:10:28.639 just better for both of just refundmenturer money. 182 00:10:29.159 --> 00:10:30.799 I went about by way she thought something. 183 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:35.279 Corey's explanation made sense. He said that on the morning 184 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:38.480 he went to Sue's place, she invited him in and 185 00:10:38.519 --> 00:10:42.240 they went over all the details on the cancelation of 186 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:44.759 their contractor client relationship. 187 00:10:45.159 --> 00:10:47.759 And so we went through the you know, the paperwork, 188 00:10:47.799 --> 00:10:50.879 and I wrote that check, and I had some stuff 189 00:10:50.879 --> 00:10:53.120 still there. I had I had a tool bag with 190 00:10:53.240 --> 00:10:56.120 some plumbing tools. I had been with some plumbing tarts, 191 00:10:56.240 --> 00:10:58.879 and then there was a trash back still there, so 192 00:10:58.919 --> 00:11:01.480 I loaded that in my truck. She held the door forward. 193 00:11:02.240 --> 00:11:04.879 Corey said that he wrote Sue a check for the 194 00:11:04.919 --> 00:11:07.879 money he owed her. He showed the police the receipt 195 00:11:07.879 --> 00:11:10.519 from a check just over twelve hundred dollars. 196 00:11:15.919 --> 00:11:16.120 Yeah. 197 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:17.840 Yeah, I was twelve for the whole. 198 00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:19.039 Yeah. 199 00:11:19.080 --> 00:11:20.919 Well, I don't take any money for labor. 200 00:11:21.600 --> 00:11:26.600 Corey said. Sue's friend was mistaken. The amount was twelve 201 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:31.559 hundred dollars, not twelve thousand dollars. He didn't take any 202 00:11:31.720 --> 00:11:38.080 upfront cash for labor. Corey's story made sense. Sue was elderly, 203 00:11:38.480 --> 00:11:41.840 maybe she'd gotten the number wrong and spread that information 204 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:46.559 to all her friends. Corey was cooperative and calm. He 205 00:11:46.600 --> 00:11:49.080 shook the detective's hand and said he would be there 206 00:11:49.120 --> 00:11:51.240 if they needed any additional help. 207 00:11:51.919 --> 00:11:53.000 Well, I appreciate your timing. 208 00:11:55.000 --> 00:11:56.960 I mean, if there's anything, I don't buy it. 209 00:11:57.320 --> 00:12:00.519 You know, that's good to know, he said to just 210 00:12:00.559 --> 00:12:02.320 at this point, you're the last guy that helped. 211 00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:05.799 Check as. 212 00:12:08.600 --> 00:12:10.240 Ye give me. 213 00:12:11.240 --> 00:12:12.720 I mean, she she's very lovely. 214 00:12:14.000 --> 00:12:16.679 Detectives went back to Sue's house to look around to 215 00:12:16.720 --> 00:12:20.039 see if there was anything out of order, anything they missed, 216 00:12:20.639 --> 00:12:27.159 anything to suggest foul play. That's when they spotted it, 217 00:12:27.320 --> 00:12:32.679 a tiny pinprink of blood on the living room floor. 218 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:37.120 How could they have missed us? The detectives brought in 219 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:42.919 luminol and suddenly the house lit up blood that had 220 00:12:42.960 --> 00:12:46.320 been cleaned up in the kitchen and on the lamp 221 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:52.679 shades and in the hallway. Now the detective knew this 222 00:12:52.840 --> 00:12:57.519 wasn't a rogue elderly woman who went missing. Sue had 223 00:12:57.639 --> 00:13:10.080 died in that house, and they needed to find out how. 224 00:13:32.240 --> 00:13:35.759 Sixty five year old Sue Malden had mysteriously disappeared from 225 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:38.480 her Fleming Island home in the fall of twenty nineteen. 226 00:13:39.440 --> 00:13:41.840 If it hadn't been for her social group, it could 227 00:13:41.879 --> 00:13:45.360 have been weeks before anyone noticed the widow was gone. 228 00:13:45.519 --> 00:13:49.600 Sue had an uneventful life, but as police pride, they 229 00:13:49.639 --> 00:13:53.320 found out that she'd been in a dispute with her contractor, 230 00:13:53.879 --> 00:13:57.879 Corey Binderham, who she'd hired to remodel two of her bathrooms. 231 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:02.399 After talking with Corey, the police secured school bus camera 232 00:14:02.440 --> 00:14:05.679 footage that showed his truck at her house the morning 233 00:14:05.720 --> 00:14:09.840 he said he visited her, but Corey assured them that 234 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:13.320 he was there to return her money and settle their differences. 235 00:14:13.879 --> 00:14:16.879 He said she was alive when he left. Then the 236 00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:21.360 police found blood at Sue's house and Lumanol revealed a 237 00:14:21.519 --> 00:14:25.159 possible clean up job, but with no trace of Sue. 238 00:14:25.320 --> 00:14:30.120 These were all just theories. Corey had to be further investigated. 239 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:34.960 There was something about corey is too cool demeanor, his 240 00:14:35.639 --> 00:14:40.519 friendly affect was it Reelder? Was this all a put on? 241 00:14:41.399 --> 00:14:44.120 There was one woman who knew him, perhaps better than 242 00:14:44.159 --> 00:14:48.480 his own wife, and her name was Leanne Locklear. 243 00:14:49.039 --> 00:14:54.039 My name's Leanne. I am a dispatcher and then I 244 00:14:54.120 --> 00:14:58.080 own an appliant Shirpeer company. I worked a lot of 245 00:14:58.159 --> 00:15:01.480 jobs always, and one of my jobs was I was 246 00:15:01.480 --> 00:15:04.080 a bartender. And that's actually how I met. 247 00:15:03.919 --> 00:15:07.720 Corey Leanne is a single mother who runs her own business, 248 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:11.279 but back in twenty nineteen, she was bartending at a 249 00:15:11.320 --> 00:15:14.960 local spot that Corey liked to frequent after work. They 250 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:19.720 became friendly, like bartenders and regulars often do, and after 251 00:15:19.840 --> 00:15:22.519 he fixed a door in her house that needed replacing, 252 00:15:23.320 --> 00:15:25.840 she invited him out after work one evening. 253 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:29.320 He came into the bar. You know, he just joked, 254 00:15:29.320 --> 00:15:31.200 He's like, how's your door holding up? You know, He's like, 255 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:33.679 oh my god, it's great, it's great. Thanks, it's phenomenal. 256 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:34.679 I really owe you big time. 257 00:15:34.720 --> 00:15:35.000 Thank you. 258 00:15:35.279 --> 00:15:37.360 He had a few drinks. I got off early, and 259 00:15:38.279 --> 00:15:40.159 some of our other friends came up there that we 260 00:15:40.200 --> 00:15:43.159 hadn't mutually in common, and then we all just went 261 00:15:43.200 --> 00:15:44.840 out for the night. You know, we went out drinking. 262 00:15:45.639 --> 00:15:47.720 Had to blast. You know, you realize he's a really 263 00:15:47.759 --> 00:15:49.879 cool guy. He fit in with the group really well. 264 00:15:50.519 --> 00:15:53.039 And that's really what started our whole friendship. Was he'd 265 00:15:53.039 --> 00:15:54.799 be like, Hey, what are y'all doing tonight? We're like, well, 266 00:15:54.799 --> 00:15:56.080 this is what we're doing. Do you want to go? 267 00:15:56.559 --> 00:15:58.960 And he'd show up or he wouldn't. He wasn't like 268 00:15:59.519 --> 00:16:01.960 the person. It came around starting problems or I think 269 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:03.240 he was just super chill. 270 00:16:04.039 --> 00:16:07.279 Leanne learned more about Corey and his life as they 271 00:16:07.320 --> 00:16:10.879 spent nights out drinking together. She knew he ran his 272 00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:14.399 own business and had a wife at home. It always 273 00:16:14.399 --> 00:16:16.200 struck her as odd that he was hanging out with 274 00:16:16.240 --> 00:16:18.759 her and her friends as much as he did, seeing 275 00:16:18.759 --> 00:16:21.360 how many responsibilities he had in his life. 276 00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:24.039 And I used to ask him sometimes when we would 277 00:16:24.039 --> 00:16:26.080 all say out really really late, and I'd be like, 278 00:16:27.440 --> 00:16:29.200 you don't get in trouble when you go home, like 279 00:16:29.240 --> 00:16:31.159 you've been out a whole night. He's like, no, she 280 00:16:31.200 --> 00:16:33.039 doesn't care. He's like, cause as I don't drive drunk, 281 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:35.120 and I'd get home right after the bar's clothes. I 282 00:16:35.120 --> 00:16:36.879 got She's usually okay with this, she doesn't care. 283 00:16:37.480 --> 00:16:41.519 Leanne and Corey developed a strong friendship, and soon it 284 00:16:41.559 --> 00:16:43.240 developed into something more. 285 00:16:43.960 --> 00:16:46.480 Of course, you know, being a single mom, you're always 286 00:16:46.480 --> 00:16:48.360 looking for extra work. So I was bartending, I was 287 00:16:48.360 --> 00:16:50.200 an appliance, says, I was doing a little bit of everything. 288 00:16:50.600 --> 00:16:52.559 I don't even remember how it got brought up. Actually, 289 00:16:52.919 --> 00:16:56.279 he said something about he's like overloaded at work, and 290 00:16:56.360 --> 00:16:57.879 I was like, well, if you need some help, you 291 00:16:57.919 --> 00:16:59.600 know you know, call me, I'll come help you. I 292 00:16:59.639 --> 00:17:01.679 need to make extra money. Like I'm in totally down, 293 00:17:02.320 --> 00:17:04.960 and he just randomly, like two days later, hit me 294 00:17:05.039 --> 00:17:06.200 up and he was like, hey, do you want to 295 00:17:06.240 --> 00:17:08.960 work tomorrow. I'm like, absolutely, get me out of this house. 296 00:17:09.000 --> 00:17:13.160 I'm going crazy. So we started working together and then 297 00:17:13.200 --> 00:17:15.920 he started, you know, my birthday party, he was there, 298 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:18.319 and you know, he just started being in everything involved 299 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:20.000 that was going on in my life. 300 00:17:20.079 --> 00:17:20.599 At that time. 301 00:17:21.279 --> 00:17:25.519 Leanne started working with Corey on his home remodels. She 302 00:17:25.640 --> 00:17:27.759 was happy to learn a new skill and make some 303 00:17:27.880 --> 00:17:30.680 extra money and whe her buddy no Less. 304 00:17:31.440 --> 00:17:33.640 Yeah, working with that was great because you know when 305 00:17:33.680 --> 00:17:35.480 you're really good friends with somebody and you're gonna hang 306 00:17:35.519 --> 00:17:37.039 out all day, it's like, oh, it doesn't even feel 307 00:17:37.079 --> 00:17:39.680 like work. So it was all just home improvement stuff. 308 00:17:40.799 --> 00:17:43.799 And every customer we worked for really acted like they 309 00:17:43.880 --> 00:17:46.079 knew him forever. And I guess that was just the 310 00:17:46.160 --> 00:17:49.960 demeanor he put off with him. We didn't have standard hours. 311 00:17:49.960 --> 00:17:51.960 It wasn't like eight five. He'd hit me up day 312 00:17:51.960 --> 00:17:54.039 four and day I don't pick hip this time he'd 313 00:17:54.039 --> 00:17:56.480 picked me up. I'd work three or four and then 314 00:17:56.519 --> 00:17:58.759 we were at the bar drinking beer. So it wasn't 315 00:17:58.799 --> 00:18:02.759 like her job or a very demanding job. Is actually 316 00:18:02.799 --> 00:18:04.200 probably one of the easiest jobs I had. 317 00:18:04.799 --> 00:18:08.720 Leanne saw Corey a lot. If they weren't working together 318 00:18:08.920 --> 00:18:11.799 mudding drywall, she was serving him a beer at her 319 00:18:11.960 --> 00:18:16.079 bartending job, or they were out till the wee hours 320 00:18:16.079 --> 00:18:19.599 of the morning partying together. She got to know him really, 321 00:18:20.279 --> 00:18:24.799 really well and became a confidant in his life. Hey, 322 00:18:24.880 --> 00:18:26.880 I thought that's what a wife was for. 323 00:18:27.480 --> 00:18:29.920 But yeah, we were definitely close because there was times 324 00:18:29.920 --> 00:18:31.799 like him and his wife would have an argument and 325 00:18:31.839 --> 00:18:33.480 he would just call me he bakely and she's really 326 00:18:33.480 --> 00:18:35.279 mad at me, and I was like, well, what'd you do? 327 00:18:35.640 --> 00:18:37.000 You know we would talk about and I'm like, all right, 328 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:38.440 we'll just go get flowers and tell your story. I 329 00:18:38.519 --> 00:18:40.279 just don't do it again. Or he would tell me 330 00:18:40.319 --> 00:18:41.799 what was going on with the kids. So it was 331 00:18:41.799 --> 00:18:44.319 definitely like another you know, another brother that you got 332 00:18:44.319 --> 00:18:45.680 that she got to sit here and go, oh my gosh, 333 00:18:45.680 --> 00:18:48.039 don't do dumb stuff, you know, be a man and 334 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:50.759 fix it. So he was definitely like one of my brothers. 335 00:18:51.839 --> 00:18:53.920 And yeah, I definitely think that we were very close 336 00:18:53.960 --> 00:18:54.880 at that time. 337 00:18:55.160 --> 00:18:57.759 Corey and Leanne were busy, and she knew that there 338 00:18:57.759 --> 00:19:01.160 were jobs he was going out on alone. After all, 339 00:19:01.279 --> 00:19:04.599 she had her bartending job and several other side hustles. 340 00:19:05.559 --> 00:19:09.119 On one job, Corey and Leanne were using a jackhammer 341 00:19:09.160 --> 00:19:12.400 all day, and the next morning she woke up unable 342 00:19:12.519 --> 00:19:13.039 to move. 343 00:19:13.799 --> 00:19:16.640 I tore my rotator cuffs, so I called out of work. 344 00:19:16.640 --> 00:19:18.160 I don't remember if it's Wednesday or Thursday. I told 345 00:19:18.200 --> 00:19:19.440 him myself, I can't work. I'm gonna go to the 346 00:19:19.440 --> 00:19:22.079 hospital and get this thing checked because I've definitely tore something. 347 00:19:22.839 --> 00:19:26.559 Leanne went home and rested, but called Corey the next 348 00:19:26.640 --> 00:19:28.039 day ready to get back at it. 349 00:19:28.480 --> 00:19:30.319 Well, then the next day when I'm like, okay, I'm 350 00:19:30.319 --> 00:19:31.519 at the hospital. I can work. 351 00:19:31.559 --> 00:19:32.000 I just can't. 352 00:19:32.039 --> 00:19:33.440 I can't do the jack hammy Moore. I gotta do 353 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:35.400 light stuff, He's like, all right, I'm going to pick 354 00:19:35.480 --> 00:19:37.319 up in the morning. At this time, but you could 355 00:19:37.319 --> 00:19:40.440 tell you it was very frazzled, like kind of like 356 00:19:40.440 --> 00:19:42.160 when my anxiety gets high, like I'm all over the 357 00:19:42.200 --> 00:19:44.119 place and very spastic, and you could tell he was 358 00:19:44.160 --> 00:19:46.559 the same way, like very spastic. He's like, I'm picking 359 00:19:46.599 --> 00:19:49.839 up tomorrow. This time, and I was like, okay, So 360 00:19:49.880 --> 00:19:51.319 he didn't show up, and you know, I'm blowing his 361 00:19:51.319 --> 00:19:52.680 phone up and I'm like, bro, where are you at? 362 00:19:52.799 --> 00:19:54.319 Are we not working today? If or not, I'm going 363 00:19:54.359 --> 00:19:56.279 back to bed, but I don't want to go back 364 00:19:56.279 --> 00:19:57.359 to bend. And then you'd be like, oh, where are 365 00:19:57.400 --> 00:19:59.839 you at? Are we working or not? And he's like, yeah, 366 00:19:59.880 --> 00:20:01.279 I'm howm and I just got on some errands. 367 00:20:02.119 --> 00:20:05.200 Corey arrived late, and when Leanne got in the car, 368 00:20:05.920 --> 00:20:09.079 she wasn't greeted by the same old Corey. This guy 369 00:20:09.200 --> 00:20:13.160 was distracted and distant. But aside from that, there was 370 00:20:13.200 --> 00:20:17.559 something even more glaring. Corey's truck, which was normally filled 371 00:20:17.599 --> 00:20:20.640 with trash and tools, was spotless. 372 00:20:21.000 --> 00:20:23.160 Because I was like, hey, you got the truck cleaned? 373 00:20:23.160 --> 00:20:25.519 I says about time. I said this thing was disgusting, 374 00:20:25.880 --> 00:20:27.920 and he's like, yeah, I ain't got it all cleaned yesterday, 375 00:20:28.079 --> 00:20:30.400 and you know, like nothing's wrong, but you could tell 376 00:20:30.440 --> 00:20:33.519 his mind was not. Like he's driving and he's just 377 00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:36.480 staring at the road instead of our casual let's talk 378 00:20:36.519 --> 00:20:39.400 shit and have conversation. He's just so focused on the road. 379 00:20:39.440 --> 00:20:41.519 His hands are still around. He's just very focused like, 380 00:20:41.519 --> 00:20:44.480 do you tell someone's bothering him? So I was like, well, 381 00:20:44.519 --> 00:20:46.480 maybe he got himself in trouble with the wife again, 382 00:20:46.799 --> 00:20:48.559 or you know, I don't know. 383 00:20:48.680 --> 00:20:52.559 I don't know. Leanne and Corey worked all day, but 384 00:20:53.119 --> 00:20:56.240 there was no fun banter, no laughing, no inside jokes. 385 00:20:57.000 --> 00:21:01.400 Corey was focused with his head down and his mind elsewhere. 386 00:21:01.880 --> 00:21:04.640 And then he took me home. That was it. We 387 00:21:04.640 --> 00:21:06.079 didn't have a long day righty day. We didn't go 388 00:21:06.079 --> 00:21:08.599 to the bar and have drinks. We didn't go somewhere 389 00:21:08.599 --> 00:21:10.079 cool and eat lunch and talk to Mack. You know, 390 00:21:10.079 --> 00:21:11.160 we didn't do any of that. It was like, I 391 00:21:11.160 --> 00:21:11.519 gotta go. 392 00:21:11.920 --> 00:21:15.519 This all happened the week Sue went missing, but Leanne 393 00:21:15.519 --> 00:21:19.480 didn't know that. In fact, she'd never worked at Sue's house. 394 00:21:20.440 --> 00:21:23.519 That job was one of the ones that Corey handled alone. 395 00:21:24.240 --> 00:21:27.559 At that point. No one was connecting the dots, not 396 00:21:27.799 --> 00:21:32.079 yet anyway. The detectives didn't want to get tunnel vision. 397 00:21:32.119 --> 00:21:36.000 As they put it, Corey wasn't an obvious suspect. He 398 00:21:36.079 --> 00:21:40.039 was a business owner with a family. His daughters were successful, 399 00:21:40.400 --> 00:21:44.000 with one away at college. He'd been married for decades. 400 00:21:44.759 --> 00:21:48.640 On the surface, it looked solid and stable, the kind 401 00:21:48.640 --> 00:21:52.960