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True Crime Time For February 3, 2026 | Family Tragedies, Vigilante Justice & Mardi Gras Shooting
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Hello everybody and welcome to True Crime time for Tuesday, February 3, 2026. And I am Cindy Overton and I promise y', all, I'm not a liar. I really thought that Woody was going to be able to record today or at least record with me today or alone. But as life happens, he has not been able to or will not be able to. However, I hope this is going to be a really good recording because this is my now fourth attempt at recording this episode. There's been several technical errors. The Rodecaster just stopped all by itself and restarted the middle of the last recording. The first one I did earlier this morning it recorded and I went in to edit and there's nothing there but it says there's an audio file with things there but there's nothing there. And then I started recording another one and blah blah blah. So when stuff like this happens, I like to say that a huge blessing is coming and I can't wait to see what that is. But let's get started with today's episode because that's what y' all are here to listen to and definitely not listen to me complain. So on February 3, 1981, 14 year old Janelle Jarvis and her 37 year old mother Donna Eckerd were found shot to death in their California home. This was one of many murders that occurred from 1980 to 1981 along i5 Randall. Brent Woodfield, a 14 round draft pick by the Green Bay packers football team, was arrested for the murders and convicted for one murder. Although he was tied to at least six others, Woodfield was known to wear a band aid over the bridge of his nose to disguise his true identity. So that was this day in history I did look up. There are a few different things about this case and the other cases. So let me know if you find out anything interesting. But let's get down to some blotter news. A man was arrested for stealing a calendar. Police say his days are numbered. Police are investigating a theft at a hair salon. Investigators say the suspect made a clean cut. Someone stole a truckload of frozen meals. Authorities say the case has gone cold. A man was arrested for stealing batteries. Police say he was charged. Authorities responded to a report of stolen spices. Police say there was no time to waste. Police are investigating a burglary at a stationary store. Authorities say the suspect left a paper trail. Officers responded to a break in at a cheese factory. Authorities say several wedges were missing. A man was questioned after stealing a fence. Police say he crossed a line. A man was arrested for stealing a pencil sharpener. Authorities say it was a sharp move. And finally, police are investigating a robbery at a tailor shop. Authorities say the suspect altered the scene. Well, that's some light little things from the blotter for you. But let's get down to.
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It'S time for Worldwide Crime. It's time for Family Matters.
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We're going in hard for this first one. We've got a twofer. The man has been charged with murdering his mother and he attacked her in her own Hampshire home. Daniel Levy was 39 years old when he appeared at Portsmouth Magistrates Court on Wednesday and he is accused of fatally stabbing his mother, Gilly. Gilly was a 68 year old housekeeper and she was found by paramedics and police with serious injuries at her cottage home in Cheriton near Winchester at 10:30am on January 9th. She was pronounced dead at the scene and the post mortem examination found that she died from a stab wound to the neck. Her son Daniel arrived in the dock to confirm his name, address and date of birth at court. He did so on a video link because of his mobility issues and he was wearing a gray top and trousers and had a scar on his neck and a tattoo on his right arm. He is also facing charges of making threats to kill in relation to alleged threats made to a man on January 8th. And he is due to appear at Winchester Crown Court on Friday and there is no option for bail. That is our first story of the day. A son kills his mother. Now, y' all remember Woody sends me these stories that I tell. That way we don't get confused with what's, what he's going to say when I'm not with him and what I'm going to say when he's not with me. So we're going to move on to the next one.
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All right, so there's a lot that goes into this story and we're going to North Carolina. Gudrun Casper Leinenkugel, a 52 year old North Carolina restaurateur, was charged by Henderson County Sheriff's deputies on Friday with the murder of one woman and attempted murder of another woman and her boyfriend. Casper Leinenkugel has also been accused of a 2007 murder that remained unsolved until now. Casper Leinengugel's daughters were her victims and she also tried to poison one daughter's boyfriend. 32 year old Lela Jean Livis died after consuming poisoned wine at Thanksgiving. Her half sister Mija Lacey and Maja's boyfriend, Richard Evan Pegg were also poisoned, but they survived. The poisoning incident happened last November, like I said, during Thanksgiving, where there was a party of 12 people and the only people that drank from this bottle of wine were Lika Maija and Richard. Sandra Riddle, who happens to be the mother of Casper Leinenkugel's ex husband, Stacy Shelton, spoke about the incident and she said they were there to have Thanksgiving dinner at their mother's house and next thing Leila was dead and Maija and her boyfriend were in the hospital. She then added, I don't know why. That's just the strangest part of it. What was to be gained given the strange nature of Leila's death? An investigation was started into Casper Leinenkugel, and police eventually found out that the wine that killed the daughter was laced with a colorless liquid that could be found in lithium batteries and turns into cyanide over time. Moreover, before Thanksgiving, Casper Leinenkugel had also googled what happens if I accidentally ingest acetonitrile Acetonotril, which is that colorless liquid that is found in lithium batteries. Well, that find from the Google search helped further along the case. But then there was another unexpected turn. Investigators also found the woman's connection to Michael schmidt's death in 2007 as he was killed in a mysterious house fire. State prosecutors have also revealed that her name has surfaced in other unspecified deaths that are now under investigation. Riddle offered insight into Casper Leining Kugel's history, who she said had always been associated with destructive activities. She said, since she had known her for some 25 years. Riddle talked about the time she first met. She said, I met her as Linda Casper. That's all she's ever been to me. She's the one that changed her name. Her son then married Casper Leinenkugel and the couple adopted three year old Leila. They then had a daughter, Mia. Explaining Casper Leinenkugel's nature further, Riddle said, I know when Mia was little, Linda would use Maja's name and information to get credit cards. She then added, I don't associate with Linda. When her and my son broke up, he was moving out of the house and we were helping him move out and we went back the next day to get more stuff and the house had burned down mysteriously in the middle of the night. Now District Court Judge Abe Hudson has ordered that Casper Leinenkugel be held without bond and her next date of court appearance has been set for February 10th. And she told the judge that she just wanted an attorney to represent her this next one's going to take us to Kentucky and we had a shooting and a Kentucky woman who was angry at a teen for hitting her vehicle with a car door while she was at McDonald's shot a US Navy veteran who tried to intervene, according to police. Relatives of the veteran say she was tragically killed by trying to save a life, calling it her final act of courage. Shoshana Jones, who is 39 years old, is charged with murder, robbery and possession of a handgun by a convicted felon in connection with the shooting death of 28 year old Myra Rodriguez Munoz, and Myra was enlisted in the Navy from 2017 to 2022 when she was honorably discharged. Court documents say that Jones opened fire on Munoz on New Year's Eve after she intervened during a dispute Jones was having with another woman over their teenage child hitting Jones's vehicle with a car door. Munoz's obituary says that she was tragically taken from this world in Louisville while acting with extraordinary bravery to protect the life of someone she deeply loved, an act she would have carried out for anyone in need. It's unclear what Munoz's relationship is with the mother and teen, though they have established a GoFundMe and in the description they say that Myra was tragically killed while trying to save a life. In a final act of heroism, her brother said, my baby sister made an oath to protect and defend the nation from any threat, foreign and domestic. She definitely understood and demonstrated that with her incredible courage. Louisville Metro Police said in a press conference that the shooting unfolded on Dec. 31, 2025, around 10:40pm at a McDonald's in the 400 block of East Market Street. Jones shot Munoz once and then fled from the fast food joint. She later turned herself over to an attorney who was representing her and then police took her into custody without incident at the lawyer's office.
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Her attorney, Keith Kamenish, said during Jones's bond hearing on Wednesday there's more to this story than the news puts out. Kaminish claimed that reports saying a child was involved are misleading and said the minor is going to be hitting 18 pretty soon. Their age hasn't been reported by police, nor has the age of the mother. They were approaching her, all three of them at the time of this shooting, kaminish alleged. It's one shot and she was there for a lawful purpose, eating her food when these people came up and the incident began. Kim added, there is a lot to this story, while describing Jones as a mother who saw herself who has multiple children and surrendered without incident. Police say Jones shot Munoz with a handgun once in the chest. The mother was attempting to film Jones with her cell phone, prompting Jones to point her gun at her and take her phone by force. Jones's bond was set at $500,000 and she was ordered to stay away from McDonald's restaurants and and witnesses, families. And she's due back. She went back to court on January 26th and I do not know actually what happened at that court date. Munoz's obituary goes on to say though her life was taken far too soon, Myra's legacy of service, love and bravery will endure for generations to come. Her final act of courage reflected the values she upheld throughout her life and service. And we thank her for her service as we do thank all veterans for their service and we are so sorry that her life was taken so soon. We're going to Fort Lauderdale, Florida and we have a US Postal Service employee that was arrested on three charges of animal cruelty after a video showed him pepper spraying a woman's dog and her two puppies in Florida. Cyan Andre Spence, who was 47 years old of Fort Lauderdale, was taken into custody on Wednesday, January 28th. The day of his arrest, the mailman called to work and said he couldn't go in. He had seen footage, video footage of him on the news. WPLG published footage of him at somebody's home pepper spraying three dogs while he was working so he just decides, I'm going to call in sick. Spence pepper sprayed the animals named Ginger, D.J. and Jr. While they were outside in their owner Bianca Green's front yard in Lauderhill on Jan. 2. The dogs had been behind a metal fence, police wrote in the affidavit. DJ and Junior are Shih Tzu puppies and Ginger is their mother. As Spence walked alongside the other side of the fence to deliver the mail, he was seen pepper spraying the dogs as they approached barking on the other side of the fence. Green described Spence's actions as malicious while speaking with the news station. Before he even gets to the mailbox, before he even fully gets to our house, he sprays them coming from my neighbor's house, green told the news. He sprays them with pepper spray. Then the two puppies run and they're running and they're digging their face in the dirt. Green had been inside her house during the incident, but from inside she told officers that she heard banging at her door and found Ginger rubbing her face on the ground after opening the door. Then her puppies ran inside. According to Green, Spence told her that the dogs tried to bite him, so he sprayed them with dog repellent. Green saw her dog's eyes were red and tried to wash them with water, then milk. When she watched her home surveillance footage, she saw Spence had sprayed the dogs twice, and information on Spence's legal representation was not immediately listed in the court records on Friday, January 30. But Green told officers that her dogs have never bitten anyone and that she had not had previous issues with Spence, who had been her mailman for the past year. And Spence had also worked for the U.S. postal Service for five years before Spence was arrested. The USPS told the news station WPLG that local management has been made aware of the situation and it will be addressed appropriately as soon as possible, the spokesperson also said in a statement. Spence remains employed by the Postal Service but is not currently on active duty. His employment is being reviewed, according to the police. During the investigation, an officer spoke with a local veterinarian who said that the effects of pepper spray on dogs are temporary and similar to the effects on people. However, it could be more serious than that. The pepper spray could cause major irritation or corneal damage, which could lead to ulcerations and infections. Well, I just can't imagine watching the news before I'm getting ready to go to work and I see a video of me pepper spray. Well, obviously I wouldn't do this, but imagine what he saw when he looks up and he sees himself with, on a video, spraying those dogs. And his response was to just call in sick.
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It's time for worldwide crime.
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Okay, this is just. I. We have a mom, Maria del Carmen Garcia, who set her daughter's rapist on fire after he was released from prison and approached her at a bus stop and asked her, how's your daughter? The mom was given a prison sentence after she burned the rapist alive following his release from jail. And he said those words to her. Maria del Carmen's daughter Veronica was only 13 years old when she was sexually assaulted at knifepoint by her neighbor Antonio Cosme in 1998 in Spain. The predator was given a nine year prison term for the crime. But In June of 2005, he was on a temporary release when he confronted Maria at a bus stop close to her residence outside of Alicante. And obviously he tormented her by saying, how's your daughter? After that, he went to a local bar that his family regularly visited. Maria, consumed with fury, terror and panic, traveled to a nearby gas station and and bought a container of fuel. She then headed to the bar where he was drinking. She covered him with gasoline and she set him on fire. Cosmum, or Cosme, sustained burns across 90% of his body and died in the hospital several days later. Maria was discovered roaming the harbor that night and admitted to the crime. See, she insisted she only meant to frighten or severely injure him, forcing him to comprehend what he had inflicted upon her daughter. Initially handed a nine and a half year prison sentence for the killing, Maria's sentence was later cut to five and a half years following an appeal. Her situation sparked public support with major efforts launched to prevent her imprisonment. Thousands signed petitions on her behalf. Medical documentation revealed she had been battling severe depression and anxiety, and countless appeals were submitted. There was even a push to have her name added to Spain's Easter clemency list. In 2011, after spending one year and ten days behind bars, a court decided to suspend her sentence while awaiting a formal pardon application, pointing to special circumstances and her clean criminal history, plus her insanity defense during the crime. But in 2013, Maria found herself back in prison, where the Regional High Court of Alicante turned down her attorney's request to halt her incarceration. After the Spanish government refused her partial pardon petition in 2017, Maria received approval to leave the facility daily from 11 to 7 before gaining freedom in 2018. And I read somewhere that they explained that that's the reason why the guy, the rapist, was able to get out of prison. They have certain different sentencing things and they allowed him to go out for a set period of time and that's kind of like his visitation and that's how their prison system is set up. And so that is when he saw her and said what he said, that got that reaction from her.
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It's time for Family Matters.
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A Georgia father was forced to turn in his teenage son to police. The teenager, Laquan Stevens, shot a juvenile in a car, injuring him. The severity of the victim's injuries are currently unknown, although Stevens already faces assault charges. That would likely change if the juvenile he shot dies as a result of his injuries. After the shooting, Stevens left the scene, which caused law enforcement to put out a statement warning people to be on the lookout for the teen and to stay away from him. Once multiple law enforcement agencies got involved, they made it clear that the teen couldn't be protected, prompting his family to deliver him to the police and on January 17th of January this year, officers from the Lovejoy Police Department were notified about a shooting the Clayton Sheriff's Office shared in a January 20 news release. When they arrived, they found a juvenile had who had been shot in the face and neck in the front passenger seat of a car. The suspect fired into the vehicle, striking the victim and then fled the scene. In a Facebook post on January 17, the Sheriff's Office identified 16 year old Laquan Stevens as the suspect, calling him armed and dangerous. Stevens was wanted for aggravated assault and criminal damage to property. The Sheriff's office also shared that additional felony charges were pending. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation also secured warrants against the teen in connection with an unrelated shooting and a coordinated strategic plan was implemented involving multi law enforcement agencies simultaneously executing operations at several residences associated with Steven's relatives and acquaintances. Law enforcement made it clear that Stephen had no place to hide and would receive no assistance, so he was turned in to authorities by his father on January 20 and currently it is not known how badly the juvenile victim was hurt and exact charges against Stevens have not been released. But can't imagine having to turn my child in. But the daddy did the best thing.
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It's time for family matters.
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Robert Busky Jr. Is a former MMA fighter and he has pled guilty to second degree murder in connection with the death of his five year old daughter. On Friday, January 23, he admitted in court that he acted with depraved indifference to human life and engaged in reckless behavior that caused his child's death. What did he do? The incident occurred in April of 2024 and emergency services responded To a call about an unresponsive child. Shortly after first responders arrived, the little girl, Charlotte, was pronounced dead at the scene. Her body was emaciated and severely dehydrated, and an autopsy revealed that she had no food in her body by the time she was discovered. Robert carney, who serves as the schenectady county district attorney, Said in a statement that Charlotte had been entombed in her bedroom until she died of dehydration and starvation. Oh, thank goodness you're here.
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Entombed in a room that sounds like a poet didn't know it.
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You want to finish it?
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You look, she's sitting in my spot, y'. All. I'm gonna sit here and gaze upon the beauty that's laying down the true crime. Time for.
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Oh my goodness. I'm just so glad you're here. This is a very serious ex MMA fighter. Yeah. Further investigation revealed the home, which was described as a house of horrors, Was in obviously horrible condition. And authorities later determined that Charlotte and her three year old brother had been effectively cut off from the world. Receiving no contact from friends or family, no medical care, and they did not even get to go to school. They added that Carney shrunk their worlds to the confines of his deplorable home. But then for his five year old daughter, they shrunk it. He shrunk it even more. The little girl was barred from entering the rest of the house. And busky, the dad, put a lock on the outside of her bedroom door that was also reinforced with tape. Rather than a bed, the little five year old had a pack and play to sleep in that was so tiny she had to curl up to fit inside of it. And that's where she spent her final days. She had no food, no water, no contact with anyone.
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These people doing.
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So it gets even worse. Along with the second degree murder charges, Busky also pleaded guilty to giving cocaine to his three year old son.
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And both like a three year old needs more energy.
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Right. Both children tested positive for the drug. And he's expected to receive a 25 year prison sentence because he pled guilty.
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Right.
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So I don't think that's obviously enough.
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But 25 and the kids get out of the. Or the three. Yeah, he gets out of the situation and all that.
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Yeah. And. And they go on to say, like, the resolution in this case rightfully gives the defendant the maximum punishment allowed by law anyway, and that at least it keeps the. Everything out of the court system and taking up time and doing all of that. So that's that's crazy. Yeah.
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Did you give an update on the Clinton Mardi Gras parade?
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I did not give an update.
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All right, y' all, listen, let me tell you, you know, Mardi Gras in Louisiana runs pretty much the month before Lent starts. You know, every community has a parade. Of course, you got the giant ones in New Orleans, you know, with the big monstrous floats. And then you have all the way down to like my hometown where I grew up, the Mardi Gras in the country parade. Right? And this parade will go down Main street, which is Clinton, still doesn't have a red light, y'. All. That's how small the town is. And it goes down Main street and circles the courthouse. And it's really. We've taken our kids there, but many times. I've been there every year when I was a kid.
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I did tell the story. I have not given an update, but yes, I wanted your input anyway.
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But it is pure. The floats aren't like New Orleans floats. You might get flatbed trailer that's decorated with some crepe paper and people throwing candy off of it, maybe some beads or whoever has the, the local convertible. I'll have somebody riding in the back of it, maybe the mayor or something and, and what have you. Yeah, four wheelers. And it's just a really, really country deal. And, and of course somebody had to be an asshole and ruin it. And my mama messaged me when it happened and she's in, she's in Dallas and she's like, can you believe? And, and I got on and it was just breaking at that time. But let me tell you what happened as of just a few minutes ago. But we're doing this. Well, not that early, but it happened today on February 2nd. So on Monday, East Flute of Paris. Sheriff Jeff Travis, who's a very dear friend of mine and he's totally turned that department around and brought it into this century, right? He doesn't have a lot to work with. They don't have a lot of money from property taxes or there's no big business in East Felician Parish other than us tree farmers and the dairy bin and stuff like that. But no big tax base. It just got a couple deputies. Yeah, they don't have any, any, any funding. And so he does the best with what, what he can. But on Monday, Eastfleet Shannon Parish Sheriff Jeff Travis said that 15 year old Malik Liggins, who was arrested in connection with the shooting that left five people in, including a six year old child injured at the Clinton Mardi Gras parade over the weekend, they charged him as an adult. Liggins was arrested and charged as a principal to obstruction of justice, attempted second degree murder and reckless discharge of a firearm at a parade. Liggins is being held in a in a jail right now, y'. All. That's set up to hold juveniles. But a Monday hearing determined he would be charged as an adult. Said that today they're going to ship his ass from Hug a Thug program to Big Boy Jail in East Feliciano. Now, Sheriff Travis said a third person, Philip Williams, who is a 25 year old gang member known as Choppa C H O P A was also apprehended. Williams was arrested by Louisiana State Police in Baton Rouge and will be transferred to the East Feliciana Parish where he will be charged with obstruction of justice, attempted second degree murder and reckless discharge of firearm. And pray. Which are the same charges as another idiot, 19 year old Noah Basque. He said more arrests are coming and he noted that as many as four more suspects could be apprehended. He said the shooting is believed to be gang related. Now when the fuck does East Feliciana Parish get gangs?
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I know I had read earlier that the gang came from Baker.
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Well, whatever is still gangs in East Luciana.
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He said it's a really bad thing, but it's the reality. It's happening. And Travis said that his deputies as well as other law enforcement partners are working to break down the whole incident. Now, the shooting, which took place during the Mardi Gras in the country parade, left a child and another person in critical condition and three others injured. According to District Attorney Sam dequilla. Another good friend of mine, y'. All, two victims have undergone surgery, including the child and another victim who may be paralyzed from the neck.
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Oh, my gosh.
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But Sheriff Travis said thank goodness no one has died. And he noted that all of the victims are in stable condition. Travis also noted that Liggins was one of the people injured in the shooting and that was initially reported as such. Right. And in response to shooting in Clinton, Travis said the parade in Wilson, which I've been to, that's the Wilson. You think Clinton Small Wilson doesn't even have anything.
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No.
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It's about 10 miles away from where we're sitting right now. But they have even smaller parade that on Fat Tuesday, on Mardi Gras day. But guess what? They canceled it.
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Yeah.
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Out of abundance of caution.
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Yeah.
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What world did we live in where I remember, you know, my mom and daddy taking us as kids. I'm talking about young kids to New Orleans because they love New Orleans so much. Into the big parades and Bacchus and, And. And Demian and. And whatever, nighttime parades. And it was safe. You. I mean, there's millions of people, but it was safe. There was no shootings and stabbings and all this killing and. And of course, that was even for gangs. I'm talking about 40 years, right, 45 years ago. I don't know what the world's coming to, but the y', all, if you get more country than Clinton, Louisiana. And I'm not knocking it, because that's where I was born and raised and it's where we live again now. But. But if. I mean, yeah, when. When my mom called me, I looked it up and I'm like, that's it. Yeah, it's just how we live. Unfortunately, it's how we live. And like, one of the people from the parade said, you know what? Those kids need to put the guns down.
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They do.
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And it's just ridiculous. No respect for life. Thankfully, no one was killed. But, you know, now my little hometown, and I've seen it all. I'm hardened to it. My little hometown, that's the same courthouse square where my grandfather died crossing the street when he was a judge and my daddy practiced for 48 years. And I've walked those streets and driven them a million times.
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Your other grandfather was the district.
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That's right. He was. He was Sam. He was the Sam de Quillo of the day for 30 years, you know, and in.
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That shit didn't happen. It just didn't happen.
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I remember one shooting happened when I was a kid. It was it at the Clinton High School over a girl and a guy. Shot. Shot the guy. And the victim he actually shot was able to chase him, the shooter, down the stairs and before he ran out on the front yard. So he was trying to beat his ass. He was shot and he died in the front yard of school. That's the only one I remember.
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Yeah.
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There was one other murder.
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Suicide.
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JC's Butcher Block is now a husband killed a wife and himself. But, I mean, didn't happen.
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No.
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And. And now.
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Well, I was explaining that. Sheriff Travis. I was so glad when I read that he had spoken with Louisiana State Police two weeks prior. Had them set up because of years past where there was always issues after the parade where people start partying and all of that. So he had set up having, you know, Wes Feliciana on site. Lsp. He already had them there, all of his workers, nobody had a day off. And he was so proactive. Which stopped it from being worse than it could have been.
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That's absolutely correct. In. In all the parades, even in New Orleans, they'll bring in the Department of Corrections and the game wardens and state police and every, you know, every municipality pretty much would send somebody and they house them in the rooms to help with the crowd control. But even in the small town pros like New Roads.
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Yeah.
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That they have, you know, deputies from all the different parishes that come in just to keep.
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Make a presence.
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Make a presence. And. But a lot keeps an honest man honest. And these idiots don't. They're not honest and they don't know anything about locks.
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No. And. And Sheriff Travis also put on a Facebook post like explaining why were like contacting them asking why is there such. This is before the shooting. Why is there so much of a presence here? And he said I want to address this now. This is exactly why there was a presence here. I was trying to stop this.
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Yep. And in. But it doesn't matter if they had it on their mind. They had it on their mind and want to be gangsters. Choppa and the rest of them. I mean juveniles killing each other and that little six year old boy. So he's not the one. That's why I don't want any of them to be paralyzed. But I hope it was not the six year old.
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I know.
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I don't know what to say about that. But it is Mardi Gras season and unfortunately we'll be doing more stories about parade shootings.
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Unfortunately.
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And well, y', all, when I say every, every parish, every town has. I was the grand marshal, which is like the king of the parade or whatever. For the. Those of you who don't know, for the Dental Springs parade, every, every town has it all the way from like the Mardi Gras in the country to. To the big ones in New Orleans to the original Mardi Gras and Mamu Louisiana where the Cajuns chase, chase the. They get drunken and. And ride and gather up all the ingredients for a gumbo. When including. They ride on a horseback and chase down the chickens and they ride around and ask people for ingredients and at the end of it they make big gumbos to share with the community. Mardi Gras is a wonderful thing. It's a big party. What it is is a month long party because when Lent comes, all the Catholics in South Louisiana, they shut down. Well, I'm not. I don't practice Catholic. They shut down the drinking and the party and all that. My mom would never eat Meat on Fridays and whatever. Whatever. But we love and appreciate each and every one of y'. All. I want to say that the GoFundMe for Haley is. Is over $5,300 today. Thank you so much. And please, if you can continue to share and donate, that'd be awesome. We're. Oh, well, we're over halfway there. In two weeks, we're going to get that done for that case, and that's just the way that case spun and. But we're going to continue to work it. Hashtag just for Haley. Love it. This is our chance now. Hashtag just for Bradley. Just 4 AO continue to call on your tips. 313rlrctip and guess what? I'm still getting tips every day. Still working the case every day. Just not doing a weekly episode until I have something to share. Right. And for a variety of reasons, but, you know, you see all the comments. Oh, Woody's off the case. Ha ha ha. No.
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Got scared. Wait, he got scared.
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Scared? You see the next case he got. He got in trouble. Yeah, yeah.
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But wait.
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Yeah, wait till the next case, which I thank, y'. All. I'm gonna start. We maybe it have to be two weeks from this weekend. All right. But anyway, I'll give you more information on that when it's coming. It's a hell of a story, and I got the whole case file.
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Y.
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And it's really, really going to upset some people.
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Yep.
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So. But it is what it is. I didn't kill anybody. I'm just telling the stories.
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B
That's right.
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And working a case.
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B
And you're not scared.
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I don't know.
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And you're not in trouble, right?
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I'm just. I know we got the haters and whatever, but. Yeah, that's. That's part of being in the public eye, and that's the way that it is. So we love and appreciate each and every one of y'. All. Look, we're still ranking in the top 150 in the world. World, which is just amazing. And it's because of y' all and Patreon and comics. We love you all. We love all lifers. Thank y' all so much. Don't forget about real life. Real crime community app. Go download it in app store for free. That everything. Real life for crime is there. The store, the forums, games, whatever you want, we're there.
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And that's it.
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You got anything else?
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I'm just so happy you here.
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Well, man, guess what? You won't be here when I do the tomorrow's episodes. And that's okay. We got to work and. But I love y'. All.
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Yes, we do.
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And thank you for taking care of it again. All right. Well, I'm Woody Overton. I'm Cindy Overton, the host of True crime. Time for Tuesday, February 3, 2026. We'll holler. Peace, Sam.