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Foreign. Hello everybody. Welcome to this episode of True Crime time for Friday, January 9, 2026 and I'm Woody Overton and I'm rolling solo. We are, for lack of a better expression, we are balls to the wall right now with real life for crime. And everybody knows, you know, Sheriff Samcraft did a release this week or public statement, what have you. So this week's episode, patreon and convicts, you got it last night. Everybody else, you're going to get it tomorrow night, Saturday at 1201am and I, I went an hour and I didn't even get probably a quarter of the way through what I want to say. But y' all make sure you listen to it and stir in a pot. Well, that gets cases solved. Continue to call you tips 313RLRCTIP I will continue to do what I'm doing and have been doing all along and I'm not gonna stop until we get justice. Okay? And that's the way it goes. Just, you know, this case just won't stop. So that being said, the it's just so much y', all, you know what, my lawyer, Thomas Davenport, who the sheriff mentions in in the thing and I didn't get that far on the episode this week. He's going to be with me this weekend and we're going to actually record an episode for next week also about the non disclosures and stuff like that. So. But you came here today to hear some true crime time stories and that's what I'm about to bless you with the knowledge from the criminal college. All right, so let's see where we want to start today. Oh, Florida. We just can't get away from it recently and this one is, this encompasses all the things I'll start with this beast mode. This story is just bizarre, all right, and it's horrible. But a Miami man, if you want to call him that, who threw a five year old girl into the Everglades and left her to be eaten by alligators could again be condemned to die almost three decades after the girl's cruel death. And I'm gonna tell you all about it. And Cindy was here. She would cry. So, dude's name is Harold Brady. He's 76 years old, and he kidnapped Quatisha Maycock, who was five years old, and her mother, Chandell Maycock, who's an acquaintance that Harold Brad Brady met in church. In a church group, right? He kidnapped them on the night of November 7, 1998. You know, 98 doesn't seem like that long ago to me because I was 28 years old then, but I guess it's been a minute. So not only did he kidnap him, Brady beat Shindell, choked her, put her in the trunk of his car, and later left her in a deserted stretch of US 27 near the Broward Palm beach county line. This court, in the prosecutors. And guess what? She survived, y'. All. Now a new jury will hear details of the brutal crime as Brady again faces execution due to the changes in Florida's death penalty law. Brady's resentencing started Monday in Miami Dade Circuit Court with a jury selection. Right. So no doubt about the guilt. We're going to, you know, have wadir jury selection. Brady's motive, investigators say, was that he was spurned by Chandell, who had repeatedly reject his advances. She didn't want him. Right. He wanted her fear. Quatia could identify him, the baby. And y' all got the sweetest little baby picture here. Fearing Quatisha could identify him, Brady dumped the child alive on the side of a place they call Alligator Alley. Now, look, we don't have Everglades. We have regular swamps. The Everglades, kind of a mix between swamps and marsh. And if you go out there any time of the day, especially an Alligator Alley. I know of a place we Alligator Bayou. And you look 24 hours a day, and there's nothing but alligators, right? And he dumps her alive in Alligator Alley. Now, Quadish's body was found in the canals days later by a fisherman. The baby had bite marks from alligators on her head and stomach, and her left arm was torn off. Okay, y', all, when alligators get you, they. They like to take you down for a death roll. They drown you. And generally they'll store you underneath a tree or whatever under the water, and they come back and they eat on you a little at a time. And anyway, so Darren Brady's bratty, whatever his stick's name is. Brady's trial in 2007, a medical expert testified that Quatisha, the baby, was still alive when alligators Bit her. Brady was convicted and sentenced to death at his trial nine years after this horrible, horrible murder of this baby. The quotations, they say the defendant calls this five year old to die alone in the wilderness and to be mutilated by monsters of the swamp. And this is according to the judge back then, who is Miami Dade Circuit Court Judge Leonard E. Glick. And he said it in a sentence in order. He said, adults are supposed to protect children from monsters. They are not supposed to be the monsters themselves. And I'm looking another picture of the sweet baby. Well, you might ask yourself, what's Brady doing back in court? Right. Well, Brady could be spared from execution due to changes in Florida's death penalty law. In 2016, the U.S. supreme Court found Florida's death penalty sentencing system unconstitutional as it called for a judge to determine whether a death penalty should be imposed, which violates the Sixth Amendment right to trial by jury. Okay, I get that. I'm not against that. You should have the guilt phase of the trial, then you should have the death penalty phase of trial. Whether those jurors get to hear all the middle game circumstances from both sides and determine whether you deserve the ultimate punishment. So Florida lawmakers, with support of then Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, rewrote the state law to allow only 10 or 12 jurors to recommend a death penalty. But the Florida Supreme Court in 2017 ruled the new law was unconstitutional, saying jury verdicts need to be unanimous. I'm not against that either, y'. All. And our laws have changed here. Also. The. I mean, I believe if you're going to give somebody the ultimate penalty and you should get a hung jury or, you know, give them life. Right? So. But that was the catalyst that granted about 100 Florida death row inmates, including Brady, the opportunity for a new sentencing. Brady had been sentenced to death in 2007. Brady, however, may again be resentenced to death with a non unanimous jury vote. In 2023, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a new law that allows juries to recommend a death sentence with an 8 to 4 vote instead of unanimously. And I don't know why you do that, bro. That's g. That's my personal opinion. That's just going to cause a show that people are already against the death penalty. And I understand that some people are innocent and years later it's been proven this guy's not. You know, the 8 to 4 is just going to cause a show. But they said the Supreme Court has yet to take up constitutional challenge to the new non Unanimous vertical law, which means he's going to. Brady's probably going to die on death row, unlike the little baby who got eaten by alligators. But DeSantis pushed for the change after the Parkland School shooter who killed 17 students and faculty in a shooting spree at Major Stoneman Douglas High on February 14th of 2018. He, he and he spared from the death penalty in 2022. Brady's case is the third death resentencing Miami Dade in recent months. In November, a jury spared the life of Lebrant Dennis was convicted of bludgeoning to death his ex and the University of Miami football player she was seeing back in 1996. Later that month, another jury said Rafael Andres should be sent back to Florida's death row for beating, stabbing and strangling a La Coretta waitress with a rice cooker cord back in 2005. Right. Okay, let's go back to Brady. Brady, whatever. If I misspent saying, I'm just calling footstep. Let's go back to Fox Case. Brady was well known to law enforcement before quite murder. His criminal history included convictions for robbery, kidnapping, and attempting to kill a correctional officer by strangling him. Robbery. If you've ever been robbed, this is probably the worst, most offensive thing that can happen to you. But other than being raped or murdered, kidnapping. I'm sorry, robbery being more. Not as offensive as kidnapping, I would guess, and trying to kill correctional officer, but you know, by strangling, whatever. So in September 1984, Step escaped from custody three times, overpowering a Miami Dade Correctional officer and four Broward Sheriff's deputies. And according, this is according to the Miami Herald's archives, this whole article is according to Miami Heroin. All right, so while awaiting trial on an attempted murder charge involving an ex girlfriend in 1984. Fuck sticks. Been doing it his whole life, right? Brady. Brady attacked a bailiff who escorted him to a hearing. He beat and left the bailiff unconscious inside a courthouse holding cell. He escaped, y'. All. He ran like a little bitch. But as always, almost always happens, 11 days after he ran like a little that from the courthouse, Hollywood, Florida police caught Brady breaking into a store. And however, Brady overpowered two officers that called him and escaped a third time. He again, he ran like a little and his crimes didn't stop. And he broke into the home of a Hollywood couple and stole their car. And he was ultimately located in Georgia three weeks later. So that should have been in a stick, right? But no, he was sentenced to 30 years behind bars. But guess what? They released him in 1997, a year. A year before Quatisha's killing, her murder. He. He only served 13 years, y'. All. 13 years. Quotations. He's an extremely dangerous guy, according to former Miami Dade Police spokesman Ed Munn. While jailed, Brady also became known for delaying his first trial by going through 10 lawyers. And at one point, this genius represented himself. So, You know, I know a lot of people don't believe in the death penalty, and I get that it's America, but we should all be able to believe in what we. We believe in. And without murdering each other, I might add. But this dude left that baby, a five year old kid, an alligator alley after he all the other murders and shit he committed and served a couple years on one and escapes and everything else. I mean, trying to kill correctional officers and everything else. Who deserves the death penalty if he doesn't? I just, I don't get that. So he's old now. I mean, he's older than me and I imagine he'll die on death row of natural causes, so not ever suffering like his victims suffer. Well, let me tell you, let's go to a totally different end of the spectrum, all right? And you know, obviously prisons are dumb criminals. 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