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Restrictions apply. Often not available in all areas. Hey, 2020 listeners. You're about to hear the fifth installment of Death in the Dorms, season two, a new true crime series. From ABC News studios. This week we'll hear the story of Patrick Moffley, whose death exposed a hidden crime ring operating around the College of Charleston.
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Family Member
My phone beeped, and it was the chaplain. She said, patrick's been shot, and you need to come to the hospital. I said, no, no, no, no. You are mistaken. I think you have the wrong person.
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Narrator
Still no arrest tonight in the shooting.
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Police Officer
Death of a College of Charleston student. Keep breathing.
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Narrator
Stay awake.
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Witness
Patrick was lying on the ground at the base of the stairs of his home.
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Police Officer
They're gonna take care of you, all right?
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Witness
With a single gunshot wound to his chest.
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Friend
We were stunned.
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Sibling
Patrick made friends everywhere he went. He was like a light that everybody kind of got attracted to, immediately flocked to.
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Advertiser
He was thriving. And then I think it got out of hand.
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Witness
Authorities haven't identified a suspect or a motive.
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Family Member
Whenever you speak to your loved one, the last thing you should ever say is, I love you. Because it might be the last time. And that was the last thing I said to him was I love you.
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Narrator
The words I said that day still haunt me. I focus on the pain. It haunts me. I tried my best. I tried my best. I tried. I tried my best. I tried my best. I tried my best. I tried my best.
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Family Member
Patrick was born the day after Thanksgiving, November 27, 1992, and he's a Thanksgiving baby. His birthday is always Thanksgiving weekend.
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Friend
He was very outgoing and always trying to have new friends, and he'd talk to anybody. That continued on for the rest of his life. He was just a really likable guy.
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Sibling
We grew up in Charleston, South Carolina, in Mount Pleasant. Being out on the farm, me and Patrick were, you know, always doing a lot of the barn chores together. So mucking stalls, all that really fun nitty gritty stuff. I was really close with my brother Patrick, and Patrick was always kind of a big defender for me if I was ever getting picked on in school or anything. He Was always. There was always a fighter. You know, he kind of, you know, protected his friends and all that. And he was one to never back down from defending himself, too.
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Narrator
He kind of came into his own towards middle school and high school and became pretty rambunctious, really, into extreme sports. He was pretty cool. He was one of the cool kids, for sure.
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Sibling
Patrick was the most adventurous one out of all of us and was willing to do anything and try anything.
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Friend
He would never say he couldn't do something. He would just do it, much to his detriment. Sometimes we called him Reckless Rick. When he was a child, he definitely.
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Sibling
Liked the adrenaline rush. He would drive me along to the beach, like, super early in the morning before school to take photos for him. He was never really great at the constantly being in a classroom kind of thing. Patrick was kind of starting to party a lot in high school. Like, he was so lovable. Patrick made friends everywhere he went. He was like a light that everybody kind of got attracted to and immediately flocked to. It's a Good Song came on.
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Advertiser
I was just like.
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Sibling
But he did start getting in trouble a little bit.
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Narrator
He got in trouble with the law a couple times for having substances. Right. Or having alcohol when he was underage.
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Police Officer
His friends would want to talk about the story of when the cops busted one of Patrick's parties and he ran up into a tree. He was an amazing tree climber. And then he's hiding in the tree, and the cops are looking up the tree, and he whispers, there's no one up here.
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Friend
He was bumping heads with someone, potentially, maybe the wrong crowd. I don't know what it was at the time. He was getting into a couple of fights. So we wanted him to have a different set of scenery.
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Narrator
Wake up alone with the fire in the hall.
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Friend
So we sent him to Costa Rica to do Costa Rica. Outward bound instead of 10th grade. So he's the youngest person ever to go do that. They hiked from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean. The experience of living in the jungle made him mature a lot, and he grew personally, and his skill levels grew. He proved himself to the leaders of Outward Bound, who were tough guys, and they really liked Patrick. He came back, you know, he got through high school. He worked here on the farm, and we wanted Patrick to get, you know, either a college degree or work in the trades or any number of different things.
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Family Member
He didn't really like either of those options, so he chose the school.
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Sibling
The world's gonna love me.
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Narrator
Before I die.
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Sibling
In 2015, the fall semester, Patrick Decided he was going to try out College of Charleston and started his first semester there.
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Advertiser
I think he would have rather have been at CFC in a city close to home with a bunch of his friends.
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Friend
Sarah was also at the College of Charleston and Bridget was also at the College of Charleston at the same time.
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Sibling
The College of Charleston was founded in 1770, so it's one of the oldest colleges in America. So you have this, you know, very old timey vibe to the whole school. Paulist Charleston is somewhat of a smaller school, about 10,000 kids or so.
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Advertiser
You're just kind of thrown into the middle of a city. It's not your average college town. I mean, in fact, when you get accepted into the College of Charleston, you get a pamphlet or packet that says you've been accepted boundless because there's no direct vicinity of the college and campus.
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Friend
Patrick, he seemed super stoked about his classes. He was talking to the professors and things seemed good.
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Sibling
He liked business. He was really good with numbers. So that's kind of what he went into college thinking he wanted to do. Patrick was communicating with me about, you know, this new group of friends he had made that summer and how he was hanging out with them a lot and that they already had a house together that they were living in. And so they had invited Patrick to be one of the roommates because they had an extra room. So he became like, I think, like the fifth roommate in that house. Most of the students don't live in the dorms. They live in housing that surrounds the campus.
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Advertiser
They're one of the few colleges in South Carolina that don't require you to live in a dorm your freshman year.
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Sibling
Patrick was excited to be able to, you know, get away from the farm and have his own place to kind of live. He did move in with these people in that fall of 2015.
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Advertiser
His roommates were around the same age as him, but were further in their schooling. They were juniors and seniors, I believe, at call to Charleston. While he was a freshman.
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Family Member
We kind of thought it was a good thing that, you know, at least he was with different guys that were doing different things. Some played soccer, some were into business, higher education.
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Sibling
So he was introducing me all of his new roommates. And there's constantly friends in and out of that house. The door was never locked. Just kind of chaotic sometimes. They were a lot of fun and they were partying a lot.
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Advertiser
I mean, he was thriving at first and then I think it got out of hand quick.
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Narrator
I think a beauty high blast through the matrix A safe haven when it's dead or abrasive. Lift the veil on the matrix Dancing with the devil that you name no, never. No devil.
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Advertiser
Just going from high school to college, it was like people drank and smoke weed. That was it. And then you get to college and, you know, there's ecstasy, acid, Molly, shrooms, cocaine, Xanax, Percocets, Klonopins, you know, just a plethora of new drugs and party drugs and, you know, try this. If you don't like it, you can do something else. So there is definitely more of a resource. College of Charleston. You have all 12,000 of these kids living in a three mile radius, or at least majority of them. I don't want to call them connects, but like, you know, you meet people and then they know people and they know people.
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Police Officer
The party scene is fraternities and sororities for sort of pre games. And then everyone goes out on King Street. And King street is one of America's great drinking streets. It's sort of like Bourbon street or 6th street, but with fewer tourists.
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Advertiser
He just jumped right into it, seasoned and ready to party.
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Narrator
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Friend
Knew something was a little off, but wasn't really sure what.
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Sibling
He started buying a bunch of expensive things, I guess, trying to show off.
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Friend
He's falling behind in school and then he's missing classes. Then Patrick called us from the Richland County Detention center to tell us he got arrested. We were stunned. He got arrested in Columbia at a football game. He had eight ounces of cocaine to sell. He was charged with trafficking.
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Advertiser
You know, wherever he got that. And then now it was all gone and confiscated. You know, somebody was looking for their cash.
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Sibling
It was a lot of money, somewhere towards 20 grand. Patrick was super worried about getting that money back. Patrick confessed to me out of extreme anxiety and fear. He said, like, Bridget, you don't understand. Like, if I don't get that money back, someone's gonna come after me. I don't think Patrick had a plan to approach. All the walls closing in on him. He felt like his life was over and he was just had no way to escape out of the situation. He didn't tell my parents that. He didn't want to disappoint my dad. He wanted to show my dad that he could be his own man. He told me not to say anything. Don't tell anyone. And I kept that confidence because never, like, confided in me like that. Has never cried on my shoulder like that. And such despair and fear. It's a totally different side never seen in my life of my brother. Early January 2016. He was starting that semester. He was kind of falling at the wayside with not going to classes and getting really depressed and not really wanting to get out of bed all the time. So I think that was kind of the hardest part when we got back was, you know, his schooling did take a hit and his mental health kind of was starting to go down. So ultimately, by end of that January 2016, Patrick did drop out of school.
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Family Member
Patrick was struggling with the things that were hanging over his head. He did not leave the farm. Pretty much January, February. I had made an appointment. And then we talk about mental health. You call somebody, try to get some help. They're like, oh, yeah, you know, we can see you in three weeks. So we kind of have an issue today. We were waiting for that appointment.
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Sibling
I was still living downtown and going to my classes and saw some of his roommates, like, off of the street. And they started asking me where Patrick was. He kind of owed rent or money for bills that were going on and that they had been trying to contact him. He wasn't answering any of them. And even then, he was barely answering me, which was, I knew, weird because I was one of the few people he actually would answer for his phone, but he wasn't really picking up. So I told my parents that he did owe money.
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Friend
So I'm like, patrick, you can't do this to your roommates. You know, here's a check for $60 or whatever it is they wanted for the water or the electric. Go down there and give this to your roommates. Well, he did, and he was supposed to come back to the.
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Family Member
The next day, I was sitting on my front porch. My phone beeped. I picked it up. It was the chaplain. She said, patrick's been shot, and you need to come to the hospital. I said, no, no, no, you are mistaken. And so I don't. I think you have the wrong person. She's like, nope, it's him, and he's been shot, and you need to come here.
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Witness
On March 4th of 2016, law enforcement received a 911 call a little bit before 4:00. The call was from a roommate of Patrick Moffley. He described that he was in his room, door closed with the Xbox. And then he overheard a commotion and what sounded like a gunshot. He came out of his room and saw Patrick lying at the base of the stairs with a single gunshot wound to his chest.
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Police Officer
And all Patrick says to him is, just tell my parents I'm so sorry. The police arrive. The patrolman's applying pressure.
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Witness
Officer Foulkes tried to comfort Patrick and ask him questions about how he was doing, trying to get him to stay conscious before EMS arrived.
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Narrator
Jordan Glacinta, Ted, keep breathing. Stay awake.
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Witness
Patrick was lying on the ground at the base of the stairs of his home.
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Police Officer
Just look at me, all right?
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Narrator
They're going to take care of you, all right?
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Witness
There was also a ripped plastic Ziploc style bag. The sounds of the commotion the roommates overheard in the ripped bag are indications of a struggle. Surrounding his body were over 1,000 white pills with the stamp of GG249.
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Narrator
They had him in the hospital within, I think five, 10 minutes after he'd gotten shot.
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Family Member
We're heart sick. I mean, that's all I could think, is Patrick gonna lose? The longer Pacho Ricus was in surgery, the more hopeful we were that he was going to make it.
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Narrator
He had gotten shot in like the chest and it traveled down and they went out through his liver.
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Sibling
There's nothing they could do.
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Friend
We Were just stunned. It's eerie. You know, you always think that you're going to cry and wail, but Sarah cried and wailed. The rest of us were just in disbelief.
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Sibling
I immediately broke down and the only things going through my mind were, you know, how upset I was and angry that I was that he didn't fight hard enough to make it through that surgery. After hours of fighting already, my closest family member was now gone. And part of me broke in that moment.
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Police Officer
I'm on scene at Smith Street. You can go ahead and put me as primary officer.
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Witness
Patrick lived with four roommates. All of his roommates were full time enrolled students at the College of Charleston. After Patrick gave Patrick police the clue in some of his dying words about Jordan Piante and $T, the police began talking to Patrick's roommates.
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Police Officer
He was, he said, a name like Jordan or something like that.
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Witness
The police were able to learn that Jordan piacente is someone who Patrick was friends with. So law enforcement looked into it further. Law enforcement was able to find the flight records of Jordan that placed her in New York at the time of the murder. Jordan Piacente could not have killed Patrick. But who was $t? The police contacted Jordan. That initial police communication did not produce any immediate, immediate clues. But the Charleston Police Department investigators plan to follow up with her in the coming days. When she returned to Charleston, officers ended up talking to a lady who was walking down the street when all of this happened. She heard a commotion and when she turned and looked across the street, she saw three males running from the home to a red Jetta that was parked on the street with the engine running.
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Police Officer
She sees these three guys run out looking like, I think the word she used was they robbed a bank in a movie. So she made a mental note to check the license plate and when she looked, it was a paper dealer tag. So the kind of tag you have when you have just bought a car.
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Witness
The police issued, be on the lookout for or a BOLO for red Jetta with these paper tags. Within hours of the murder.
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Narrator
Still no arrest tonight of the shooting death of a College of Charleston student.
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Witness
Authorities haven't identified a suspect or a motive. We'll continue to update you on this investigation as new details come into the newsroom.
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Advertiser
Charleston has this image of being the holy city. There's churches everywhere. It's a big touristy place. They love to protect their image. For this to happen. It was all over the news. It was in every newspaper.
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Friend
This is live 5.
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Narrator
And the murder of Patrick Moffley.
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Sibling
Shooting death of Patrick Moffley.
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Advertiser
People were definitely talking about it. Patrick was very personal. He was so genuine and so nice.
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Sibling
He just. He just brought life to everyone. And everything that he did.
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Advertiser
At the time, it was kind of just like, oh, my gosh, this college kid just got shot in his doorway. Like, what happened? How does this happen? This never happens.
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Police Officer
Hey, Sarge, we got evidence of the floor here too. I got a bunch of little white pills. I don't know what they are. Kind of looks like Xanax.
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Narrator
That's a lot of antidote. Yeah, they need prescription string.
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Police Officer
Then all of a sudden, you have Patrick murdered with these pills around him. It launched two investigations. The first was who killed Patrick Moffley? And the second was where did he get these GG249 manufactured fake Xanax pills? And there's this question of how did this happen so close to the College of Charleston campus?
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Witness
The police did a search warrant for the residents, and law enforcement was able to locate one fired cartridge case that was from a.45 caliber firearm.
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Police Officer
It reeks of marijuana.
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Sibling
Yeah, there's all kinds of drugs. Predail you downstairs.
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Police Officer
I got gloves, Sarge, if you want me to.
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Sibling
You got some residue in there.
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Police Officer
Lots of.
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Witness
Inside of Patrick's room, there was one of the mail boxes, the cardboard boxes that on the outside had 208g and times 10. And the idea is that was 10 bags, and each bag weighed 208 grams.
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Police Officer
There are all these questions about how could there be 10,000 pills at this college house.
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Narrator
Can't nobody tell me nothing.
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Witness
They know I'm built for this.
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Sibling
College of Charleston has a pretty big reputation to be a part of the school. You'd be going to like house parties mainly. Drinking was a lot aspect of it, but I feel like coke and molly and all that kind of stuff was definitely going around. But I think the biggest one, especially from when I was in high school to college and being at that college, was the Xanax that was going on.
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Narrator
To my brother.
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Police Officer
He ahead, Hunter.
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Narrator
They call and just tell him he'll not better than me.
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Friend
I got it.
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Narrator
Cool. You know, we come in here, he's laying by roughly 150 white pills. Probably there's some other drug paraphernalia and some pills that are being cut up upstairs.
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Police Officer
When the police searched the bedrooms, they found a lease agreement to a different residence that had been signed by one of Patrick's housemates. The address was under surveillance in an active investigation.
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Witness
In the months before Patrick's murder, the City of Charleston Police Department, Narcotics Unit had a separate investigation ongoing. That investigation included college aged people who were in the drug trade.
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Police Officer
About five months, six months before Patrick was killed, the Charleston police had a confidential informant buy a small amount of Xanax from a dealer. They arrest the dealer, they say, who gave you these drugs? And he told them it was Zachary Kligman and laid out a very extensive picture of Zach's drug operation. He said, this is a guy who sells everything from coke from Atlanta, you know, LSD and millions of Xanax pills. And he has this stash house called the treehouse. And so the police start a pretty small time investigation of Zachary Kligman. They installed a security camera overlooking the stash house. The tree house on Gadsden street, it was just right there, walking distance from campus.
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Witness
Zach Kligman was not enrolled at the College of Charleston. He actually was from the Myrtle beach area of South Carolina. Zach was living in Charleston at the time.
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Police Officer
Before the murder. You had one housemate who signed the lease for a stash house. So all of a sudden, there's this pretty tight link between where Patrick is killed and the stash house that they're already monitoring. Patrick's death turned this drug investigation into something real.
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Friend
We did chat with the police, so we did tell them what we knew about the whole cocaine incident. Patrick claims these people he was involved with would hurt you if you were going to rattle them or do anything he could. Claimed that they had enforcers that would hurt you. So we thought, well, could have been a hit to quiet them down.
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Witness
As the police were investigating what happened surrounding Patrick's death, they tried to talk to his roommates. They talked to his family, they talked to longtime friends. They tried to get a better sense of who Patrick was and what was going on in Patrick's life at the time of his murder. After learning that Patrick had been killed, one of his friends that he had grown up with reached out to law enforcement. Summer McNary told the police that she got extremely concerned about Patrick the day of his death when she saw a Snapchat that he posted. That Snapchat video, according to Summer, featured Patrick snorting a line of cocaine off of his desk. And then it panned over to many Ziploc bags that were full of white pills. In front of those pills, the words, maybe I'm the plug. The plug is common lingo or language to indicate being a drug dealer.
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Police Officer
Dealing Xanax is a really fast way to make a great profit. You can make $7 a bar. So I mean, that's a massive margin.
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Advertiser
Patrick was definitely an over his head after the arrest. You know, he had this money that I think he owed people for selling the drugs that were confiscated. I think he thought that he could, you know, make this big move and that, you know, that might have been it.
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Sibling
Because he was always the life of the party, creating a life celebration like a final party was more Patrick style.
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Friend
Christ to thy servant Patrick.
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Advertiser
I know his parents wanted that to kind of be the wedding you never got to have. It's the best damn funeral I think I'll ever go to. Nothing will ever top that. Probably better. It's better than some weddings I've been to. It was one of a kind. One of a kind. Just like Patrick.
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Narrator
Hundreds of people showed up from like all walks of life. Patrick was friends with people from all generations, all walks of life, from the homeless up to senators. You know, like, he was friends with everyone.
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Sibling
We had his friends band play. Everyone was dancing and just celebrating. My brother, I want you to carry.
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Narrator
Those memories with you all the way.
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Sibling
Through for the years to come.
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Friend
So at the time, the police are still not sure what the situation is with the shooter. So the police manned the party as well, they didn't know if they were still working the angle of maybe this was a hit.
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Sibling
Just not knowing who it was and if I had met them was kind of making me have anxiety whether or not they would kind of be looking for us. They were. I was very antsy.
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Witness
It came to light in the drug investigation and in Patrick's death investigation that at one point, Zachary Kligman supplied Patrick Moffley with pills.
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Police Officer
Patrick's housemates, they turn out to be very valuable as witnesses. The detectives have one of the housemates wear a wire. He's telling the housemate, like, oh, I had just, like, pounds of, like, weed and like a million Xanax pills here. So the detectives immediately go to Zach's house, they arrest him, they find more drugs at his house, and they basically tell him, you know, we have you on all of this stuff. So Zach lays out this entire drug ring with the shipping raw Alprostolam powder from China through Vancouver and Toronto and Montreal down to South Carolina, finding a house for it, getting a pill press, pressing it into pills, and then shipping it out, both through the fraternity system and pledges, but also, once again, on the dark web is now a completed product that they can ship all over the world. The complexity of that compared to sort of of the kids that you might meet at a bar in Charleston, it's pretty mind boggling. The police are building a drug case on Zach. The drug investigation and the homicide investigation were sort of on two separate tracks. As more people brought up Zach, they would say, like, yeah, we've already looked into that. But the homicide investigation narrowed very quickly. Policemen all over the city are looking for this red Jetta seen at the time of the killing. And that night, after Patrick was killed in West Ashley, they find it parked.
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Witness
There was a male in the car, and they see a female in the front passenger seat. When the police first approached the vehicle, they smell marijuana. They also observed some marijuana in the car near the gear shift. Because the BOLO was related to a murder along with seeing the drugs, law enforcement asked the occupants to get out of the car.
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Police Officer
And they used the pretense of seeing some marijuana on the dash, and they tow the car away.
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Witness
The occupants, Symitria Wilson and Charles Mungin, were transported separately down to headquarters, put in separate interview rooms, and law enforcement attempted to interview them. The Symmetria Wilson and Charles Mungein's stories did not match the day that you got stopped.
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Narrator
Tell me what you were up to that day. Me and my friends ride around with you, okay. At some point during that day, did you ever go downtown? No, sir.
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Witness
Mungein insisted he was never downtown. And Symitria gave the details that not only were they downtown, but they are downtown within blocks of this incident. Furthermore, she talks about how there were two other people that Munchen picked up. She remembers stopping and picking up somebody who had a double first name. However, when law enforcement tried to push her for more details, she closed down and she wanted to talk to an attorney. She doesn't remember any anything because she was high. There is nothing further law enforcement could do at this time as far as charging in relation to Patrick's death because they did not have enough information. Police did, however, seize the two phones that Mungen had on him when the car was pulled over to further investigation.
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Police Officer
You have no direct evidence. All you know is that a car pulled up to the house.
- [43:18]
Witness
Police looked at the physical phones that were seized. They were hoping to see if there's any connection, any kind of relationship between him and Patrick. Based upon Mungin's phone, police were able to see that Jordan Piacente was saved in Munchin's phone by the name Bars. This is the same Jordan Piassante that Patrick mentioned to police before he passed away. There were text messages about Xanax bars and selling bars on the phone between Mungin and Jordan. Police after investigating and speaking with Jordan learned that Jordan and Patrick would frequent the bars on Upper King street and he would advertise that he can get drugs and he, he sells drugs. And at one of the bars called the Silver Dollar is where Jordan first introduced Patrick to Charles Mungeant.
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Police Officer
Then they go through Patrick's phone and find out that Charles is saved in Patrick's phone as $T and that he had texted him to set up this drug deal at the the time of the murder. They found their $t. It's the sky. Charles Muncheon.
- [44:55]
Witness
Instead of just selling and being around people from a very small circle and a trusted group, Patrick went outside that group.
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Police Officer
Patrick, I think he was very trusting. At the same time, he's opening his home to people for whom drug dealing is a completely different proposition. It's not this fantasy adventure. It's a means of survival. And when drug dealing is a means of survival, then violence is also sometimes a means of survival.
- [45:37]
Witness
So for the police, more and more of this information was corroborating each of these different pieces of the puzzle. Based upon the phones, there was location data that the police were able to get from the provider search warrant. That location data had Mungen Located downtown around the time of the murder.
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Police Officer
And from there, the case really comes more about one finding the surveillance evidence into trying to find who else was in the car.
- [46:14]
Witness
Police did a canvas of the entire area trying to catch the Jetta flee the scene on the camera, basically going.
- [46:24]
Police Officer
To every store, school, anything in the neighborhood and a pizza restaurant and the school down the street and one other store had cameras facing the street. And they were able to go through all the footage and basically see this red car pulling up, you know, right before the murder and then leaving right after.
- [46:52]
Witness
On March 17th of 2016, about two weeks after Patrick was killed, the police arrested Charles Munchin iii. Moffley was gunned down at his home on Smith street in downtown Charleston. Police say 21 year old Charles Mungeon is one of the suspects involved. Detectives are still working to find more suspects.
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Police Officer
In March 26, homicide detectives arrested Charles Munchen.
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Sibling
So continuing at College of Charleston, after everything, I feel like you're just so numb. You kind of just trying to get through your courses and classes. It was just all over the news at that point, like a college Charleston student selling drugs.
- [47:53]
Narrator
Charles Mungeon, who was arrested a few weeks after the murder, killed Patrick Moffley during a drug deal at a Smith street apartment last March. Officers are still trying to identify other suspects.
- [48:06]
Police Officer
Patrick's death turned this drug investigation, funneling a lot of Xanax into that sort of college party scene, into something real. Up until that point, it was really just a detective with a camera checking in on a stash out. All of a sudden, this becomes like a 30 person task force involving the DEA, the FBI, state law enforcement, city law enforcement.
- [48:33]
Narrator
Charleston police say they've seized thousands of dollars worth of drugs. Picture there nine people under arrest.
- [48:40]
Friend
Surveillance, undercover buys, and numerous search warrants.
- [48:44]
Sibling
Throughout the city, all taken in connection.
- [48:46]
Narrator
To possessing and trafficking drugs in Charleston County.
- [48:49]
Friend
The drugs that were seized, they included.
- [48:52]
Narrator
Cocaine, marijuana, Xanax pills, powdered ecstasy and LSD.
- [48:57]
Friend
Also seized more than $200,000 in cash.
- [49:00]
Narrator
Seven guns, including some powerful semiautomatic rifles, and four vehicles. Mullins says there was a connection between the bust and the murder of Patrick Moffley.
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Advertiser
They were saying it was the same pill, press drugs and same weed. And that was just kind of when we realized the extent of what had been going on on the oldest municipal.
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Narrator
College campus in America.
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Sibling
I think it's an issue, but not necessarily on the College of Charleston campus.
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Advertiser
I think it's an issue all over.
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Sibling
The United States, no matter what college you're at. I've seen some things on campus that, or not even on campus, but at parties, like college parties, that I'd prefer if I didn't see.
- [49:40]
Narrator
Many students believe the more money there is in a city, the more drugs they're likely to see. But what about counseling? Hayley Womack says the school already has.
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Sibling
An abundance of programs to help those in need.
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Advertiser
When the news came out about the drug ring and everything, then it was a, we don't condone this. We didn't know anything about it. This is not accepted or tolerated, blah, blah, blah. And then they, you know, just crack down everything. The campus security was increased a lot. I mean, it kind of turned into a dry campus for a little bit.
- [50:18]
Sibling
Right after they started making us do these, like, drug course kind of things. They made that, like, a mandatory thing after that. But the school just didn't really mention it a lot. Students kind of talked about it a little bit, and then it was done.
- [50:43]
Witness
As the city of Charleston police continued in their investigation, they had developed a person of interest as potentially a passenger in the car at the time of Patrick's death. Symetria Wilson, the female in the front passenger seat in Mungin's car, told the police the day of the murder that it was a guy with the double first name, like the same first name. Police, after getting the phones from Mungin, were able to look and see who he was in communication with. Mungin was in contact with John or John John Glover. Police were able to map the cell phone geolocations of Mungein and of John John Glover. And they were able to map and see that both of those individuals while communicating and at the time of Patrick's murder were both located downtown and hitting off of the same tower, which includes Patrick's house on Smart. Symetria Wilson was interviewed on multiple occasions by police. Every time, she would give a little bit more. As law enforcement was learning more about the investigation, they could confront her on items. Ultimately, Symitria told the police that they drove around, she was smoking marijuana. She was sleeping, and she woke up at one point due to a loud sound, that loud sound being a gunshot. And when she looked out of her window, the front passenger seat window, she saw Jon. Jon Glover, the other guy in the back passenger seat that she did not know the name of, and her friend who was Mungin, she saw the three of them running out of the house, and they were all holding bags. In those bags were a bunch of white pills.
- [52:51]
Narrator
Police made a second arrest in the.
- [52:53]
Witness
March 2016 shooting death of College of Charleston student Patrick Moffley, 22 year old John Glover and 21 year old Charles Mungen III are charged with Moffley's murder.
- [53:05]
Police Officer
One of Patrick's housemates who opened the door and saw men going into Patrick's room got a pretty good look at Jon Jon's face and was able to recognize him in a lineup.
- [53:18]
Witness
After that, John Glover accepted responsibility and he pled guilty to accessory after the fact of murder of Patrick Moffley. The police charged Bungeon with murder. Later, as the prosecutor, I additionally put the charge of armed robbery. The trial against Charles Mungein for the charges of murder and armed robbery took place in September of 2019.
- [54:07]
Police Officer
Stephanie Linder put together a very impressive and long list of witnesses and she really built the case sort of from the ground up.
- [54:15]
Witness
Some of Patrick's roommates certainly didn't want to talk about stuff. We only learned certain facts surrounding Patrick's death right before the trial. When I'm all these people are under subpoena and I'm dragging them in here to prep them and I'm saying you got to tell me the truth. What'd you do?
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- [55:45]
Sibling
Until the trial started, you were constantly just guessing and making up scenarios in your head about what really went down.
- [55:55]
Witness
We only learned right before the trial that the roommate there when Patrick was shot did not call police immediately. He went and they took their drugs out of their rooms. They didn't touch stuff around Patrick and then went in the backyard of a neighbor who's already gone because it was spring break, and hid them there so that way the police didn't find it during the search warrant.
- [56:21]
Sibling
So finally getting to the trial, like three years later was, you know, just like, finally learning all the details and putting all the pieces together.
- [56:35]
Police Officer
The story that the prosecution presented, Stephanie Linder's narrative, was it was a drug robbery gone wrong. Basically, Charles knew that he could probably get 10,000 Xanax bars, and so he set up this deal, and then he picked up two partners and went just to do armed robbery. That was the idea, what the detectives believe happened. They fought and the fight escalated to a point where they shot him, grabbed as many pills as they could and fled.
- [57:33]
Sibling
After Patrick was screaming for help after being shot, it was just one of his roommate's friends that was the only person that jumped in to help him, to actually put pressure on the wound. I mean, that made me just feel absolutely horrible knowing somebody was prioritizing the bags of drugs over a human life.
- [58:07]
Friend
The police body cam footage during the trial was painful seeing Patrick, but I'm thankful that I got to see it. You know, you always wonder what's happening with your child. In his last moments of consciousness.
- [58:25]
Family Member
That was the hard part. Here he's been gone, you know, three years. And his last words we get to see three years later on the body cam footage. It just made my heart hurt. I felt so bad.
- [58:59]
Witness
Although we did not have any evidence that definitively said who pulled the trigger out of those three individuals who went inside because they were acting together, Mungen was convicted on both counts, both the murder and the armed robbery, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
- [59:28]
Family Member
We've had such mixed emotions about that because yet another life has been ruined. I mean, he was younger too. 21, I believe, was, you know, doing the two year college thing and working in a restaurant. The guy that ultimately got sentenced to.
- [59:50]
Witness
Life.
- [59:53]
Sibling
We thought it was going to feel great, you know, having that final piece kind of put to rest and, you know, having that person kind of punished finally for what they had done. We, you know, thought it was going to be a nice relief and all that, and it honestly just didn't feel good at all.
- [60:22]
Witness
The police were never able to identify a fourth individual in the car, and the identity is still unknown to this day.
- [61:12]
Narrator
Patrick's legacy is like, you should not be afraid to live life. You should be ready to go out there, experience new things, get outside of your comfort zone moving forward. We remember him and have his photo up all over the place.
- [61:30]
Friend
We dedicated a dive site in Roatan in Honduras to Patrick. The dive site's called Patrick's Stash.
- [61:43]
Narrator
I got together with the siblings and we commissioned a statue of Patrick.
- [61:48]
Friend
I think it captures him and I. It makes me think about Patrick.
- [61:52]
Family Member
I think Patrick would say, this board's too big. He would surf on a smaller board.
- [61:56]
Friend
Yeah, Patrick would say something like that.
- [62:02]
Narrator
Nice little brass statue is a gift to my parents. But it's never going to be the same Calcan. He was so big, so full of life.
- [62:25]
Friend
I miss my son a lot. Think about him every day.
- [62:37]
Family Member
Whenever you speak to your loved one, the last thing you should ever say is I love you. Because it might be the last time. And that was the last thing I said to him, was I love you.
- [62:50]
Narrator
I tried my best. I tried my best I tried my best I tried my best.
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Police Officer
I tried my best.
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Narrator
I tried tried my best. This can't be the end. He's fleeting. This is Deborah Roberts. Next week you'll hear the sixth and final episode of Death in the Dorms, a story about a bright accounting student from Jackson State University whose promising future was cut short. Death in the Dorms was produced by ABC News Studios with the Intellectual Property Corporation. And yes, Like a river for Hulu Originals. You can find the entire series streaming on Hulu. And of course, be sure to tune in to ABC Friday nights at 9 for all new broadcast episodes of 2020. Thanks for listening.
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Witness
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