The Game (George Moss)

Summary

Anatomy of Murder: The Game (George Moss)

Podcast: Anatomy of Murder (Audiochuck)
Hosts: Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi & Scott Weinberger
Guest: Mark Moffat, veteran Texas prosecutor
Date: December 30, 2025

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Episode Overview

This episode unravels the tragic murder of George Moss—a beloved coach, husband, and community figure in Garland, Texas. Through interviews with prosecutor Mark Moffat, the hosts meticulously break down the case, from George's life and sudden death to the investigative challenges and eventual arrests. At its heart, this episode exposes how a random act of violence can devastate not only individual lives but entire communities, and reflects deeply on the fragile line between senseless loss and the enduring power of legacy.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. George Moss: A Life of Promise (02:16–05:54)

• George Moss grew up in Garland, Texas—a town transformed over decades but always passionate about high school football.
• A star defensive back and team captain at Lakeview Centennial High, George was praised for his leadership on and off the field.
  • Mark Moffat (04:08): “It says an awful lot about George because not only do the coaches think that he’s a leader, his character is such a nature that they want to call him the captain.”
• After football scholarships and a college career, George’s deep commitment to youth development continued as a little league coach—despite not having a child on the team.

2. The Murder: A Crime in Broad Daylight (05:54–08:44)

• On November 28, 2015, George settled in for football on a holiday weekend while his wife, Mimi, went shopping.
• A neighbor discovered George lying motionless outside his front door. Police found signs of forced entry and a single fatal gunshot to the back of the head.
  • Mark Moffat (06:47): "They checked, he didn’t have a pulse and they saw blood coming from his neck, they saw swelling under his eye."
• Nothing was stolen, raising suspicions of a targeted, personal attack rather than a simple burglary.

3. Early Investigation: Piecing Together Motives (08:44–13:39)

• The initial focus landed on those closest to the victim—primarily his wife.
• Mimi’s alibi was shaky: she returned from shopping empty-handed, and her friend could not be located to verify her story.
  • Mark Moffat (10:18): "Her emotions didn’t seem right to [investigators], didn’t fit right."
• Nevertheless, a forensic search of Mimi’s phone yielded no evidence of involvement, and her status shifted from suspect to grieving spouse.

4. A Search for Suspects: Community Canvassing (13:39–21:34)

• Investigators found a neighbor who’d noticed a suspicious car—distinguished by a trash bag covering a broken window—near the Moss home the morning of the murder.
• Security footage and police reports linked the car to four young men: Dion Young, Robert Grayson, Henry Davis, and Jarvis "Big Bro" Kimball.
• The car, stolen just prior to the murder, tied locations and individuals together, suggesting a local connection.

5. The Break: Suspect Interrogations & Confessions (22:05–32:42)

• Police interviews reveal the "mastermind" was Jarvis Kimball, who proposed "hitting a jug" (committing a burglary).
  • Scott Weinberger (24:14): "Hit a jug is a new one for me. But in Texas, its message was clear—Kimball wanted to pull a robbery."
• The group drove around neighborhoods, looking for homes without cars in the driveway—mistaking George's house for empty after Mimi left.
• Dion Young confessed to being at the scene but insisted the killing was unplanned and that he was shocked by the violence.
  • Dion Young (29:07): “I don’t want nothing to do with this, sir. Like, I’m innocent, sir… it shocked me to see, like, somebody actually get killed, ’cause I never saw nobody get killed, sir. Oh God.”

6. A Random Tragedy: No Deep Motive (32:42–39:07)

• Statements from all three cooperating suspects matched, and their actions were corroborated by security videos and receipts.
• Prosecutors determined George’s murder was not targeted; it was a random act—the house chosen simply because no car was visible.
  • Mark Moffat (39:07): “We definitely believe that it was just a random house, and they happened to go in thinking that they could get things in there, and George happened to be in [it].”

7. Resolving the Case: Prosecution & Sentencing (39:07–40:47)

• The three younger suspects pleaded guilty:
  • Dion Young: 25 years
  • Henry Davis: 20 years
  • Robert Grayson: 15 years
• Jarvis Kimball, the shooter and planner, received 33 years in state prison.
• The key theme: under felony murder statutes, all participants in the burglary bore legal responsibility.
  • Ashley Flowers (40:10): "Even though they weren’t shooters… all were responsible for the crime under the law... in for a penny, in for a pound."

8. Aftermath & Legacy (40:47–44:08)

• In George's honor, a scholarship was established to support young athletes and students.
• The community gathered for a vigil—thirty balloons released for his thirty years.
  • Mimi Moss (43:23): "George touched a lot of lives, starting with babies, all the way up to elderly people."

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Leadership and Character (04:08):
  “It says an awful lot about George because not only do the coaches think that he’s a leader, his character is such a nature that they want to call him the captain.” —Mark Moffat

• On Senselessness of the Crime (39:07):
  “...That is the saddest part of all. You just think you’re just sitting there watching your TV... then you run into these people that just think they can take your stuff and lose your life.” —Mark Moffat

• On the Limits of Motive (42:31):
  “What sticks with me in this case is how small the reason was compared to the damage it caused.” —Scott Weinberger

• On Community and Memory (43:23):
  “George touched a lot of lives, starting with babies, all the way up to elderly people... There were 30 balloons released into the night sky. One for every year of George Moss’s 30 years on Earth.” —Mimi Moss (quoted)

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• 02:16–05:54: George Moss's life, character, and football legacy
• 05:54–08:44: Discovery of the murder, initial crime scene impressions
• 08:44–13:39: Investigation focuses on George's wife
• 15:47–18:55: Police expand search for motives—workplace and sports ties
• 19:02–21:34: The suspicious car and identification of suspects
• 22:05–28:29: Interrogations and suspect confessions
• 30:09–31:22: Legal theories—accomplice responsibility in felony murder
• 32:42–39:07: Linking evidence, exclusion of wife as a suspect
• 39:07–40:47: Plea deals and sentences
• 40:47–42:31: George's legacy and community response
• 43:23–44:08: The vigil and reflections on loss

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Tone and Style

The episode is deeply reflective and empathetic, balancing procedural detail with human impact. Anna-Sigga and Scott maintain a tone of compassion for George’s family, a respect for the pain of senseless crime, and an undercurrent of hope rooted in community remembrance and resilience.

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Final Thoughts

This episode stands as a powerful exploration of tragedy emerging from randomness, reminding listeners of the ripples a single violent act can send through countless lives. It also honors George Moss’s enduring legacy—one measured in lives touched and dreams inspired, rather than the violence that cut his story short.

Transcript

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[Dion Young]

I'm not saying this to save my life or nothing, sir, because I don't want nothing to do with this, sir. Like I'm innocent, sir.

[Scott Weinberger]

I'm Scott Weinberger, investigative journalist and former deputy sheriff.

[Ashley Flowers]

I'm Anna Sega Nicolasi, former New York City Homicide prosecutor and host of Investigation discoveries True Conviction.

[Scott Weinberger]

And this is Anatomy of Murder.

[Ashley Flowers]

So often when we dream, we dream big. If you're an actor, you might picture your name in lights while a high school athlete aspires to make it into the pros.

[Scott Weinberger]

But in reality, success in life comes in many different forms. Having a career, raising a family, and earning the respect and affection of your community.

[Ashley Flowers]

And by those standards, George Moss was a star, a husband, a mentor, and a beloved coach whose hopes and dreams were tragically cut short by violence.

[Scott Weinberger]

For today's case, we talk to Mark Moffat, who's been a prosecutor in Texas for 36 years with hundreds of homicide cases under his belt. But George's case struck a particular chord for him for several reasons. Not the Least of which was his and the victim's shared love with for something at the center of many Texas communities. Football.

[Mark Moffat]

Garland, Texas is kind of on the outskirts of Dallas. I've been here so long now. It was kind of out towards the country 35 years ago and then now it's of course grown into almost part of Dallas. It's gotten obviously a lot, lot bigger over those years.

[Ashley Flowers]

Garland is also home to some of the most competitive, hard nosed high school football in all of Texas. For some young athletes, it's a path to college or even the pros. And by the time George Moss was 16, it was clear he had the potential to reach the heights of the sport.

[Scott Weinberger]

George was a captain and standout defensive back for Lakeview Centennial, a powerhouse in the Dallas Fort Worth region. But George was also an honor student and a role model for young players, especially when it came to demonstrating the discipline and the character necessary to avoid the pitfalls and, and the temptations that derail so many young athletes.

[Mark Moffat]

When you're looking at captains, it's always the same. It's not only that they're great athletes, but they have to be a great leader. They have to have character. It says an awful lot about George because not only do the coaches think that he's a leader, his character is such a nature that they want to call him the captain. So it's really does say a lot about George and his character.

[Ashley Flowers]

After high school, George had multiple Division 1 offers to play in college, eventually accepting a scholarship at the University of Texas before finishing his career as a star at Prairie View A and M.

[Mark Moffat]

You have to be so dedicated and love the game to even go that far. I mean it is a full time job, 24, 7 every day of the year. Pitch, dedication.

[Scott Weinberger]

George even played some semi pro ball after college. But it was his work ethic and dedication to helping others that led him to a job as a supervisor in the Dallas housing department.

[Mark Moffat]

George had gotten married. He bought a house over in Windmill Farms. It was kind of a new development over there.

[Ashley Flowers]

By 2015, 30 year old George Moss was building a career, a family and even a plan to stay involved in the sport that he loved.

[Mark Moffat]

I heard that he even coached little League. I'm like, well did he have a son on the team? And it was like, no. I'm like anybody that knows when you're a coach, I did a lot of that. It's like a second job. I mean it is three hours a night, three times a week, and then all day Saturday. I mean you really got to be committed and love kids, love football.

[Scott Weinberger]

On the morning of Saturday, November 28, 2015, George was home, settling in for a Texas Thanksgiving tradition. A day of watching college football. At around 10am George's wife Mimi informed him that she was headed to the mall to pick up groceries and to meet a friend for some Black Friday shopping.

[Ashley Flowers]

But within the hour, their day would go from routine to tragic. When a neighbor walking by the Moss home noticed the front door open and George was lying motionless on the ground.

[Mark Moffat]

So he was at least partially outside his door when a neighbor looked and called like a welfare check because he was just laying there. And so they weren't sure what had happened.

[Scott Weinberger]

First responders were quick to the scene while where they found George face down and not breathing.

[Mark Moffat]

And what I remember is when they checked he didn't have a pulse and they saw blood coming from his neck, they saw swelling under his right around his eye.

[Ashley Flowers]

Upon closer examination, it appeared that George had suffered a single gunshot to the back of the head and the injury was fatal.

[Scott Weinberger]

His wife Mimi returned home to the flashing lights of police cars in her driveway and and the news that her husband had been killed.

[Ashley Flowers]

The setting was as shocking as the murder itself. A shooting in broad daylight in a quiet suburban subdivision. And investigators were left trying to figure out what had happened.

[Scott Weinberger]

From the damage to the door and the signs of a struggle inside the house, their best guess was that George's murder may have been a result of an interrupted home invasion.

[Mark Moffat]

They saw where it looked like it had been kicked in, busted open and then the inside looked like there had been the fight that went on. It appeared that George was probably sitting there watching tv. TV was on and then all of a sudden the door bust open. He gets in a fight.

[Scott Weinberger]

But not only did the mid morning robbery sound out of the ordinary, it didn't appear that anything was actually stolen from the house.

[Ashley Flowers]

Which might just mean that George surprised the intruders and interrupted their plan to steal from him. But his injury, a single gunshot to the back of the head, that also hinted at perhaps a much more personal and terrifying motive.

[Mark Moffat]

You see somebody that the door's kicked in and then somebody's killed, you certainly would think like you just said, it's a. This was on purpose to target him. There must have been somebody that had some kind of hatred towards him, some kind of vendetta. You would think it's personal instead of random for sure.

[Scott Weinberger]

And that's exactly what detectives in Kaufman county had to consider as they began their investigation, which started with a canvas of the Neighborhood for any potential witnesses.

[Mark Moffat]

They went around, canvassed all the neighbors, tried to talk to them, see if anybody saw anything. And one of the neighbors had mentioned a few days before there was a truck, described the truck. It seemed like they were arguing, which at that point could be a big leap for the police.

[Ashley Flowers]

Investigators were also able to find several neighbors that actually heard the gunshot. But according to them, they really didn't think much of it. This being Texas, it wasn't that unusual to hear people hunting or taking target practice near their sprawling subdivision.

[Scott Weinberger]

But no one actually saw the attack or knew anyone that would want to do George any harm. With no witnesses that could help idea shooter or a potential getaway car, the killer could literally be anywhere or anyone.

[Ashley Flowers]

Or as is so often the case when someone is murdered at home, the person responsible was not far away at all.

[Mark Moffat]

They have a person right here that's killed. They have to look at anybody in the house. Was there some kind of argument that happened? They did have to look at the wife. Then they had to look at, well, was there some reason she wanted him harmed?

[Scott Weinberger]

George's wife, Mimi explained to investigators how she had left the house around 10am to go shopping with a friend. But her alibi was not enough to dispel suspicion that she may have somehow been involved.

[Mark Moffat]

When they first talked to her, it was something about her responses and her attitude towards the situation, like her emotions didn't seem right to them, didn't fit right.

[Ashley Flowers]

Then a little bit later on the day of the murder, a friend of George's called the police station and reported that George had recently admitted that his marriage was in bad shape and he had asked for a divorce, which contradicted his wife's claim that their marriage was fine.

[Mark Moffat]

They did find out, I think that, you know, maybe they were having some problems in their relationship.

[Scott Weinberger]

Not only that, Mimi's alibi for the morning of the murder was also starting to sound a bit shaky. And because if she had gone to buy groceries like she said, where were they? Because when she returned home, she was.

[Ashley Flowers]

Empty handed and the groceries weren't all that was missing. Police also couldn't locate Mimi's friend to corroborate her alibi.

[Scott Weinberger]

So during a second round of questioning, Mimi stuck to her story, but she did relay some information that had detectives scratching their heads.

[Ashley Flowers]

So according to her, after receiving the call from her neighbor that George had been hurt and to come home right away, Mimi said that instead she drove to her friend's home before returning back to their house, which hardly seems like the Behavior of a distraught wife.

[Mark Moffat]

It was kind of weird that the person didn't come back with her, I think. So there were some kind of questions about that. Now, we know when you see a lot of these different type cases, people always respond from the full rank. But you certainly start questioning that, like what? This may not be the right response that we would think somebody would have. So they really had to start looking at that.

[Scott Weinberger]

Obviously, it was early on in the investigation, and there was no hard evidence that ties George's wife to the murder. But it was too early not to begin to speculate about potential motives.

[Mark Moffat]

So at that point, obviously look into life insurance or what could she gain by this? Could she really have done that? Why did all of a sudden on this day, did she leave to go shopping at 10 o'? Clock? I mean, they had to look at all that.

[Ashley Flowers]

But investigators also have to tread lightly because this potential suspect is also the spouse and loved one of a murder victim. So you want to treat her with care even as you're investigating her possible involvement in the crime. Because if she wasn't involved, no matter what her affect may have been, then her grief was likely overwhelming.

[Mark Moffat]

I mean, this is your loved one person you're trying to spend the rest of your life with, and they get killed, and you're. That's the worst thing you could ever have happen to. You're a victim, and then all of a sudden, they want to start looking at you. I mean, that's hard. That's hard.

[Scott Weinberger]

So in an effort to verify her alibi and clear her as a potential suspect, investigators asked her to surrender her cell phone. As we know, a search of texts and calls can often hold critical clues to a recent crime.

[Ashley Flowers]

And to Mimi's credit, she agreed, handing over her cell phone to be forensically examined. And after searching her call and text history, Investigators didn't find anything that even hinted at a plot against her husband.

[Scott Weinberger]

But soon, police would uncover evidence that would lead them to another place that for George Moss, hit very close to home. His old high school rival. Don't let big wireless and your overpriced phone bill take the joy out of holidays this year. Right now, all of Mint mobile's Unlimited plans are 50% off. You get 3, 6, or 12 months of unlimited premium wireless for 15 bucks a month. It's their best deal of the year. And it makes it real easy for you to give your expensive wireless bill the scrooge treatment. Turn your expensive wireless present into. Into a huge wireless savings future by switching to mint shop. Mint unlimited [e-mail] anatomy that's mintmobile.com anatomy limited time offer upfront payment for $45 for three months, $90 for six month or $180 for 12 month plan required $15 a month equivalent taxes and fees Extra initial plan term only over 35 gigabytes may slow when network is busy. Capable device required Availability, speed and coverage varies. See mintmobile.com OnDeck is built to back.

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[Ashley Flowers]

In November of 2015, 30 year old George Moss, a former high school athlete and beloved football coach, was shot dead on the front steps of his home outside Garland, Texas.

[Scott Weinberger]

It appeared that George may have been the victim of a brazen daylight robbery, but the seemingly personal nature of the execution style shooting also added to the speculation that his own wife may have been involved.

[Mark Moffat]

In the very beginning, they did not know like who, what, how, they didn't know any of it.

[Scott Weinberger]

But despite rumors of their rocky marriage and her weak alibi, George's wife Mimi was pretty much eliminated as a suspect and the search for a killer continued.

[Mark Moffat]

Then they had to widen that to, well, does did George have any enemies? Were there different people that may have fights with arguments, with any kind of connection of anybody that wanted to do him harm?

[Ashley Flowers]

George's family could think of no one that would deliberately have targeted him. By all accounts, George was a good man who always looked out for others and was really loved by his friends and family.

[Scott Weinberger]

And that was evidenced by the turnout at the candlelight vigil at the Lakeview Centennial High School, where hundreds gathered to honor the beloved hometown hero.

[Ashley Flowers]

But police were still convinced that George's murder was personal, which meant that the gathering of mourners could also be a gathering of potential suspects.

[Scott Weinberger]

And so another possibility that they had to consider was whether George had any recent conflicts with anyone he encountered at work, either at the housing department or even while refereeing a high school football game or coaching his pee wee team.

[Mark Moffat]

We all know coaching or even his refereeing, you make a bad call. Sometimes family and parents, they can get very Very upset. So they have to look at that. You're not playing my kid or you pulled my kid. They can get upset. So they had to look at that, see if there was any disgruntled parent.

[Ashley Flowers]

At first blush, this might sound ridiculous. How could a youth football game possibly provide a motive for murder? But this was Texas, where football is more than just a game. And investigators still had to consider that anything was possible.

[Scott Weinberger]

Now, we've all seen the videos online or even witnessed potentially an incident in person where an overzealous parent hurls insults at a referee or. Or a relatively minor conflict on the field turns into physical altercations in the stands. Was it so far fetched to believe that one of these incidents had actually escalated to fatal violence?

[Mark Moffat]

As they tracked all those down, they couldn't find anything.

[Ashley Flowers]

And unfortunately, there was very little physical evidence left at the crime scene. The autopsy had determined that George was likely shot with a.22 handgun, but. But no murder weapon was found. No usable fingerprints, shoe prints, or anything that could help identify the killer.

[Scott Weinberger]

So investigators had to keep pounding the pavement, sticking to old school detective work to scare up their next lead.

[Mark Moffat]

They just kept canvassing all the neighbors. They were trying to find if they had any cameras that might have caught anything.

[Ashley Flowers]

Eventually, this canvas turned up a witness that had spotted. Spotted an unusual car seen near the Moss home on the same morning of the murder.

[Mark Moffat]

I think they did believe that that car might be involved. They knew that before these other things started happening because a neighbor saw, described that car and said this car really didn't fit in that neighborhood.

[Scott Weinberger]

What made the car unusual was that one of its windows appeared to be missing and hastily covered with plastic, which is not that suspicious in a typical situation. But it's just a kind of detail that an investigator can run with.

[Mark Moffat]

So it's very unique car. Not a lot of cars will have that exact busted out window with a trash bag.

[Ashley Flowers]

The car turned up again in video footage from a camera situated at a nearby construction site. And while they couldn't make out the identity of the driver or any of the occupants of the car, investigation investigators were able to make out the license plate number.

[Scott Weinberger]

And lo and behold, when they run the plate through the system, they get a very interesting result. The car with the missing window had recently been involved in a high speed chase with Dallas PD in the days after the murder. And according to that police report, it was ditched near a housing complex in East Dallas. And all four occupants, they fled on foot.

[Ashley Flowers]

So when police tracked down the owner, he said that his car had actually been stolen just a day prior to the murder, while he and his friends had been playing a game of flag football. And he had a solid alibi for the day of the murder itself.

[Scott Weinberger]

With the car thieves at large, the chance of catching them was slim. But considering where the car was stolen from and where it was ditched, investigators had a gut feeling that they were local. And if they kept knocking on doors and letting their presence known in the community, eventually people would start to talk.

[Mark Moffat]

They got some information through anonymous tips that led them to certain people, and that kind of started the ball rolling.

[Ashley Flowers]

Police eventually learned the names of the four young men rumored to be in the car on the day of the murder. Dionne Young, Robert Grayson, Henry Davis, and a man named Jarvis Campbell, who went by the nickname of Big Brother.

[Scott Weinberger]

Police were surprised to hear how young they were. The driver turned out to be a 16 year old student at the rival high school to Lakeview, where George Moss had once been a football star. And just the possibility that this crime was perpetrated by a high school student raised those prior suspicions that somehow George's murder was connected to his role as a youth football coach. Was this a former player or someone else that George had crossed paths with in his past?

[Ashley Flowers]

The truth turned out to be much more mundane and senseless, which made it all the more frightening. What follows is a portion of an interview with one of the suspects, Dion Young.

[Mark Moffat]

Sergeant Ramsey. I talked to your mama on the phone.

[Ashley Flowers]

How are you?

[Scott Weinberger]

You all right?

[Dion Young]

Yes, sir.

[Mark Moffat]

Scared?

[Dion Young]

No, sir. Well, not necessarily, but I just wanted to know what's going on.

[Mark Moffat]

Well, we're going to get into all.

[Ashley Flowers]

That for you, so.

[Mark Moffat]

All right, so. But we're going to go over your Miranda warning. You've watched TV before?

[Dion Young]

Yeah, I saw first.

[Mark Moffat]

Yeah, you seen verse 48 and all that nice stuff. So then we're going to talk. We're just going to talk and see what's happening.

[Dion Young]

Okay?

[Mark Moffat]

You have the right to remain silent, not make any statement at all.

[Dion Young]

Any statement you make may be used.

[Mark Moffat]

Against you at your trial. You understand that, right? Okay.

[Scott Weinberger]

Young reluctantly admitted to being in the car seen in the video outside of George Moss's home and to knowing the other young men inside that car.

[Mark Moffat]

You know Henry. Yes, sir.

[Dion Young]

Right? Yes, sir.

[Mark Moffat]

And y' all were all in a car together? Yes, sir. And something happened. And I need you, Deon. I need you to straighten this out for me, because we ain't got it all straight, but everybody's telling a different story.

[Scott Weinberger]

And I'm going To give you one.

[Mark Moffat]

Shot to tell me the truth of.

[Dion Young]

What really happened out there.

[Ashley Flowers]

Yes, sir.

[Scott Weinberger]

Okay.

[Mark Moffat]

And if you lie to me, I'm going to get up and I'm going to walk out and I don't care. Okay, so let's go ahead and start from when Henry picked you up in the car in Dallas.

[Dion Young]

Okay. When they picked me up, they said.

[Mark Moffat]

Who picked you up?

[Dion Young]

The one that was driving.

[Mark Moffat]

Who booking.

[Scott Weinberger]

Who?

[Ashley Flowers]

Boogaloo.

[Mark Moffat]

Is that Henry?

[Dion Young]

No, that's Henry.

[Ashley Flowers]

Co Young had named 16 year old Robert Grayson as the driver of the stolen car. But he was adamant that whatever the plan for that day had been was only one man's idea. The guy that they called Big bro, Jarvis Kimball.

[Dion Young]

When we went to Big Bro house, we really didn't even want to go over there. But Boogaloo had dropped over there. So when we picked him up, b bro has said, come on, we about to go hit a jug now.

[Scott Weinberger]

Hit a jug is a new one for me. But in Texas, its message was clear. Kimball wanted to pull a robbery. But first, according to Young, they stopped for some food at a local Jack in the Box, then at a Buc EE's Superstore to replace the trash bag taped to the broken window.

[Ashley Flowers]

After Buc EE's, the group then began prowling Windmill Farms neighborhood. It was unclear to Young if Kimball was searching for a vulnerable target or he already had his target in mind.

[Mark Moffat]

These homes are really, I would say, nice. So here you're looking at these nice brick homes, new development. And then all of a sudden they just happen to pull up at that house.

[Dion Young]

When we drive below. Had said, that's the house right there. And then we look, we were like, nah, bro, we don't feel right, bro.

[Mark Moffat]

Now why did he pick that house?

[Dion Young]

Oh, no. Because when he picked the house, it seemed like when he be picking houses, they. They don't got no car, right? So he, he searched for a quarter. So if it's not no Carter, then he'll go do. Do what he gotta do.

[Scott Weinberger]

When y', all, when y' all are driving around, do you drive like different streets looking for a house or. He goes, he goes straight to that house.

[Dion Young]

Nah, he ain't go straight to the house.

[Scott Weinberger]

He just drove around the neighborhood.

[Dion Young]

Yeah, he drove around the neighborhood. But when we saw the house, he knocked on the door. Nobody came.

[Scott Weinberger]

The time was approximately 10:30am George's wife Mimi had just left a few minutes before leaving no car in the driveway.

[Ashley Flowers]

Which meant the Moss home might have looked like an easy target. Or it was the target all along.

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[Scott Weinberger]

Investigators in Kaufman county had three suspects in custody, each sharing their version of the day that George Moss was shot and killed.

[Mark Moffat]

The police don't tell them, you know, what the other person said. So when you kind of look at them, you're like, okay, well, this makes sense. And then again, when we talk to him, we tell them, you better tell us the truth 100%. I don't want to hear, you know, any different lies.

[Ashley Flowers]

What follows is another part of the interview with Dion Young, who explains his version of what happened when the supposed mastermind Jarvis Campbell, pulled up to George's house.

[Dion Young]

He said, ain't nobody at the house, so we gonna hit the house. We were like, nah, B, bro, we don't feel.

[Mark Moffat]

But somebody went with him. Hit the house.

[Dion Young]

Now nobody get at the car. I got at the car. I ain't going to lie. I got at the house. Now listen to me.

[Mark Moffat]

Listen to me on this. I know you got out of the car. Yes, okay, I know.

[Scott Weinberger]

I'm.

[Dion Young]

I'm not lying to y' all or nothing, sir.

[Ashley Flowers]

Just.

[Dion Young]

Just. All right, go ahead now.

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[Mark Moffat]

Y' all get back to the house.

[Scott Weinberger]

Young claimed that he never knew the plan, but he also admitted he didn't do anything to stop it. Did big bro already have the gun in his hand when he kicked the door, or did he have to pull it out of his pocket?

[Dion Young]

I think he pulled it out, but, like, it happened so fast to me because I witnessed the whole thing.

[Ashley Flowers]

According to Young, Kimball kicked in the front door but was immediately confronted by George.

[Mark Moffat]

He kicked in the door. They came in contact at that point that Young kind of stayed outside the door, but that when Kimball got inside, he then started fighting with George. And then Kimball pulled a gun and shot him. Where'd he shoot him?

[Dion Young]

I think right here, because that's where I saw the blood coming from.

[Mark Moffat]

George had made it all the way kind of into the breezeway of the door before he collapsed and died.

[Scott Weinberger]

According to Young, following the shooting, the four young men then got back in the car and fled the scene.

[Dion Young]

I'm not saying this to save my life or nothing, sir, because I don't want nothing to do with this, sir. Like, I'm innocent, sir. I don't got no warrants or nothing out for my wrist at all, sir. And when that stuff happened, it shocked me to see, like, somebody actually get killed, because I never saw nobody get killed, sir. Oh, God.

[Ashley Flowers]

According to all three cooperating suspects, the goal of big Bro's plan was to break into a house, any house, and that George Moss had not been singled out as the target before they went trolling the neighborhood.

[Mark Moffat]

We still believe that they thought it was a vacant house, or shouldn't say vacant, but nobody home, and that they were just going to go in and burglarize it is what it looked like because there wasn't a car in the driveway. That is the saddest part of all. You just think you're just sitting there watching your tv, you know, trying to live your life, and then you run into these people that just think they can take your stuff and lose your life.

[Scott Weinberger]

When you sit multiple suspects down separately, you're not just listening to what they say. You're watching how they say it. The details that stay rock solid under pressure and the ones that shift every time the story gets retold, the timelines that don't add up, the emotions that feel manufactured, the hesitation before even a simple answer, the over explaining and a segue. We've seen this in so many of these cases where someone's trying to talk their way out of it. You know, those are the things that we're looking for. That's what you start to see who's telling the truth and who's just trying to survive the room.

[Ashley Flowers]

But, you know, also here's the thing. Like, it almost doesn't matter if they're trying to put their best foot forward and kind of claiming, like, who stayed in and who stayed out in this vein. And this is how I mean it, because of course it matters who's telling the truth. But if they're all in on the burglary, be it go into the house, take property, carry the gun, or even sit in the car and be the lookout or even just the getaway driver, they are all responsible under the law. You know, in for a penny, in for a pound. It might be taken into consideration at sentencing, maybe if there's a trial. But if they're all there to commit the burglary, then they are all accomplices to felony murder. So, yes, of course, you compare the statements to try and decide who's telling the truth and who's not.

[Scott Weinberger]

Follow Wherever the evidence goes, as you.

[Mark Moffat]

Always say, the police did a great job on that. And they got three out of the four defendants to give statements about everything that happened so we could compare those statements.

[Ashley Flowers]

And for the most part, those statements matched up. And their timelines were also verified by a receipt found in the car from their trip to the jack in the box and security video from their stop at Buc EE's.

[Mark Moffat]

Even when they say they stopped at Buc EE's and they go and get a video and sure enough, it's matching up to what these codefendants are saying. Did we believe everything that they had said? No. I mean, one of them, I think it was maybe Grayson, had talked about he fell asleep. He was asleep whole time he was in the car. Didn't know. Well, Bucky, we saw him. He looked like he was driving the car. So did we believe that part? No. But as far as. Did two of them being the young guys actually stay in the car? Car. It does appear that way. It does appear that Henry Davis and Grayson Robert both stayed in the car. And Young seemed to lay it out pretty good and even putting himself as going up to the door. So that part of it we did believe.

[Scott Weinberger]

And the big takeaway was the name of the man who pulled the trigger, Jarvis Kimball, who at this point was still not in custody.

[Mark Moffat]

So once they got all the statements from the code of Finn, they knew who the actual shooter was, that it was Jarvis Campbell. And they had to go back and look to see one. They could put that car at the crime scene with the video from the construction site. And they looked at the Buc EE's video, which happened to be not very far from the crime. It was not that long before the crime that they could put Jarvis Kimball not only fixing the garbage bag of that window, but getting in that car that was at the location that corroborated the co defense statement on who the actual Shooter was and who was in the car with him.

[Ashley Flowers]

Statements from the three suspects and the accompanying video gave Kaufman county police probable cause to arrest all four young men.

[Scott Weinberger]

And if the three suspects that spoke with police thought their cooperation was going to earn them a free pass, they were sorely mistaken.

[Mark Moffat]

They were all arrested under capital murder. And that would be an intentional killing during the course of a brain burglary. Well, it's the highest level you can get. Capital murder is there are only two sentences for that. Either life without parole or the death penalty.

[Ashley Flowers]

But the truth was that while three of the suspects were willing accomplices, justice would only be truly served with the accountability of the man who planned the burglary and carried out the murder of George Moss. And he was not going to go down as easily as his younger friends.

[Mark Moffat]

Jarvis Kimball, I think his nickname was big bro. When they got him, he said, I want a lawyer. Right in the beginning.

[Scott Weinberger]

We spoke earlier about how George Moss had been a coach and a mentor to young athletes, inspiring them to build their skills as well as their character. One of the tragic ironies of the story is that his killer, Jarvis Kimball, he also had influence on young people. Only he used that influence not for the good, but for evil. Just listen to how young explains why he went along with Kimball's plan.

[Mark Moffat]

You gonna go into the house with. Honestly now, stop a minute. Was you gonna go into the house with big bro?

[Dion Young]

Yes, sir, I was, but, I mean.

[Mark Moffat]

You was gonna go in and help big bro carry stuff out?

[Dion Young]

Not carry stuff out. But I was just going because he told us to go. Now, like, so you. You gotta understand, we young, and that's an old dude.

[Ashley Flowers]

So Kimball refused to confess or cooperate with the investigation, as was his right. So prosecutors began building their case against him and his three accomplices.

[Scott Weinberger]

But while Kimball may have been keeping his mouth shut with investigators, he was not so tight lipped in recorded phone calls from jail.

[Ashley Flowers]

In the calls, he mostly talks about raising bail money and making sure he has money on his book to make calls. But when asked directly about his involvement in the murder, he didn't deny it, instead answering in a very loose code. Here's a piece of that recording.

[Dion Young]

And I always know they're gonna be listening to all your conversations. Yeah, do what he told you to do, and you better flip the clip on them. So I'm asking you yes or no. Did you my. Why would I say something like that on the phone? Why? Or in why? N. Keisha saying yes. That's what she saying to me is she what? She say true? Oh, no. Blue. Huh? Blue.

[Mark Moffat]

His mom actually asked him, did you do this? And he said, it rhymes with blue. It wasn't necessarily a confession, but I was going to use it as a confession. Because if your mom asks you, did you do this, what are you going to tell her? No, I didn't do this. I don't know what they're talking about. But he actually responded in some kind of phrase that, well, it rhymes with true, where you could infer that he was saying he did do it.

[Scott Weinberger]

Prosecutors were sure they had their man, but there was still some lingering doubt over whether they knew the full extent of Kimball's motive and whether George's wife had any connection to the young men involved in this murder.

[Ashley Flowers]

Part of that uncertainty was based on just how random this murder seemed.

[Mark Moffat]

A lot of times you go, how does something like this happen? And it just so happens to be when she's going to leave one morning and go shopping, you know, with somebody.

[Scott Weinberger]

But as the trial inched closer and prosecutors had secured full cooperation from three of the four suspects, their doubts about Mimi's involvement was eliminated for good.

[Mark Moffat]

Now, here's another thing. We were going to use these different defendants to testify to prove up that Jarvis Kimball was the actual killer in this case. And in that scenario, when we talk to the defense and them, we tell them, look, I don't care what you told the police, but you better tell me the truth. Or one, everything you tell me, I use against you. Everything you testify to, you're done. You're. You know you're going to be found guilty, so you better be 100 honest on what happened. Well, in that scenario, we really believe we can get them. If any of the four had a connection with the wife or a connection to George, we could get them to tell us. I mean, there's no way that all three of them are going to hide something. That if there's a connection, there's just no way. Because if. If we found out, then they could be going for life without parole. So we definitely believe that it was just a random house, and they happened to go in thinking that they could get things in there, and George happened to be in them.

[Ashley Flowers]

Mark was convinced that George really did happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, or, I guess, since he was in his home, the right place at the wrong time. And if Mimi had stayed at home instead of going shopping, she may might have also met a similar fate.

[Mark Moffat]

Well, did she have any connection with any of these four different defendants and never found Any connection to any of.

[Scott Weinberger]

Them facing capital murder charges for their roles in George's murder. Grayson, young and davis agreed to plead guilty in exchange for leniency at sentencing.

[Mark Moffat]

I heard an old timer one time, the defense attorney say, there's always a number that's better to plea a case than try a case. Now I remember I was young at that time, and I thought, what? The older I've got, the more I realize that probably is true. It's just trying to figure out what that number is. Sometimes it might be that a straight up life. It could be 50 years. It could be all the way down to 15, 10 years.

[Ashley Flowers]

Even though they weren't shooters and each played a much smaller role. One was going to help carry stolen property, One was the driver and one the lookout. All were responsible for the crime under the law. We can say that catchphrase one more time. In for a penny, in for a pound.

[Mark Moffat]

Mr. Young, who went up to the door with him, got 25. Henry Davis got 20. And the real young kid racing got 20 15th.

[Scott Weinberger]

Jarvis Kimball, who ended George moss's life and ruined countless more, received a sentence of 33 years in the Texas state penitentiary.

[Ashley Flowers]

Following the trial. The George moss scholarship was created by his family to honor his life and memory and to give the kinds of opportunities to young people that George tried to give in his own life as a coach, a mentor, and a friend.

[Mark Moffat]

And I hate to say that I've had so many murders and capital murders that they're all horrible, But I would say in this case, being that football's so dear to my heart, my family and all that, that George, being the type of guy he was that loved football, was captain of his football team, that he then went on to even be dedicated enough to try to play semi pro. That after that, he showed that he wasn't sick of it at that time. He even wanted to be involved in young men's lives, of trying to teach them how to play the game that he loved and the peewee football, which is truly amazing. And became a referee to be around football, that certainly is different than some of the cases that we have. We have some. Some that actually run trap houses and deal dope and they get killed. But you have a guy like George that just over almost everybody you talk to, thought he was loving guy, good guy, just trying to live his life.

[Scott Weinberger]

The loss of George moss is the loss of what could have been. The games he could have coached, the lives he could have changed, the dreams he could have helped fulfill.

[Ashley Flowers]

But we choose not to to mourn what was lost, but to celebrate what was gained. While George was alive, his life was tragically cut short, but the years he lived weren't impactful. And that's a legacy to be proud of.

[Scott Weinberger]

What sticks with me in this case is how small the reason was compared to the damage it caused. You've got a group of young guys rolling into a quiet community looking for what they think is an easy score, randomly choosing a home and in seconds turning a stranger's front porch into a murder scene. A man with no real enemies, just living his life. And from there, everything we learn comes from the chaos and the COVID up, shifting stories and the kind of recorded conversations and paper trail that slowly box them in. There was no master plan leading to this murder, as we've seen in so many other cases. And in the end, the truth is simple. The violence was quick, the excuses were endless, and the consequences will outlast every one of them.

[Ashley Flowers]

At the vigil held soon after George Moss was killed, his wife Mimi shed tears and talked about the impact her husband had on many, and I quote, george touched a lot of lives, starting with babies, all the way up to elderly people. That night at the vigil, there were 30 balloons released into the night sky. One for every year of George Moss's 30 years on Earth. Balloons were sent off to celebrate his life. And here at aom, this AOM community now also knows about George Moss life. And that is another way to help ensure that he is not forgotten.

[Scott Weinberger]

Anatomy of Murder is an audio Chuck.

[Ashley Flowers]

Original produced and created by Weinberger Media and Frasetti Media.

[Scott Weinberger]

Ashley Flowers is executive producer.

[Ashley Flowers]

This episode was written and produced by Walker Lamond, researched by Kate Cooper, edited by Ali Sierra and Phil Jean Grande. I think Chuck would approve.

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