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Foreign. Welcome to this Thanksgiving episode. November 27, 2025 and it's true crime time four and I'm Woody Overton and Cindy is whipping up all the dishes and I got the Creole garlic butter and Louisiana hot sauce injected turkey. That thing weighs like 20 some pounds y'. All. And it's been smok spoken for about 14 hours now and we're getting ready. Everybody's here. We had the big hoorah right Thanksgiving and we are so thankful for each and every one of y' all and we love you and we appreciate you and that comes from sin. Also and this is probably gonna be an abbreviated version, but I want to tell you about some Thanksgiving crimes today. And let's talk about, I guess you call them special Thanksgiving crime days. I don't know the. But anyway, we love you all, hope you're having a great day, but let's get down to some true crime time for Thanksgiving. And here we go. So I'm going to tell you about some of the most notorious crimes that were ever committed on Thanksgiving Day. And we'll go back way, way, way back for a minute to year of 1789. And that's when President George Washington nation's father declared November 26th to be. Oh, he must have. Today's the 27th for whatever reason, I guess the Thursday. Right. But he, old George declared November 26th to be officially recognized as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed and acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and favors of the Almighty God.
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Right.
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Well, I guess I might have been one of our first public holidays, right? Well, since then, Americans, every year, look, I can remember being a little kid and being in Thanksgiving play and I think I was a turkey and I had a dance round or something, right? And the Indians came. Maybe I was an Indian. I don't know about landing on Plymouth Rock and starving to death and, and hooking up with the Indians and becoming friends. And the Indians taught them how to plant and the settlers taught them how to, I guess, kill, I don't know. But they got together and they broke bread, right? So and now they, we still celebrate it and it's a big, big deal. And it's only, it's less than a month from Christmas, but Americans do it every Thanksgiving Day on the, each day that they do it now is on the fourth Thursday in November. Hence why today is the 27th. And everybody gets together just like we're doing. The families get together and you know, hang out, watch football and eat too much food and they get a little chill in the air. It's just, just really kicks off the festive holiday season, right? And of course, you know, the turkey's at the center of it all. But not everybody is so happy on Thanksgiving. And I'll tell you about one lady who, well, she wanted a little more than turkey. And On Thanksgiving Day 1991, this lady, she was 23 years old, so she would have only been two years older than me. The difference between her and I, she's Egyptian born, I'm American. And she was a fashion model. I wasn't. She's a female, I'm A male. But she, on Thanksgiving Day 1991, got a pair of scissors and she was married to Bill Nelson, who was her 56 year old husband. And he was a pala, y'.
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All.
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And I guess Bill had the day off from the busiest travel weekend of the year. And she took the pair of scissors and she stabbed him. Plunged them, they said, into the chest and stomach. Old Bill. And then when the scissors didn't do it for anymore, she reached for a clothing iron. Well, Bill didn't take too kindly to being stabbed. And with the scissors, x amount of times that plunged into him and he started to fail around, right? And swell, that's okay because Omamiya, the girl's name, she got that iron and she beat him with it. Of course, y' all all know that iron's a heavy af, right? She beat him with the heavy object until it actually broke in her hand. The handle broke off in her hand. So she beat. I, I mean, I haven't ironed anything in years. And I'm out there talking about the old, old school irons like the settlers used, where the whole thing was one piece of metal. You heated up on a fire and did it. But even the ones I used to use, especially back in 1991, I was iron mine. Shit, that's, that's a, that's a heavy, like what, a ten pound thing? And you gotta beat him after you stabbed him numerous times. Anyway, you know why she did it, y'? All? Well. Oh my, my. That's her name, Oma. She unleashed her fury. She claimed she did it because she did it over the sexual terror and other abuses to which Bill had subjected her. It actually reportedly included him pimping her out as his glamorous bride to kinky old creeps. And he did so for rent. I'm pretty sure Bill could afford to rent his airline pilot. But they did. She said he did it for rent. Cash in one case. Oh, Bill pimped her out for a car. Bill's not around, right? So Bill died and she butchered his body on the kitchen floor. She then bowled his hands in oil to remove fingerprints and to add a little bit more to it, stuck his head in the freezer so she could later break out his teeth. No fingerprints, no dental records. Can I DM right who. That's twisted. And so in revenge, oh, Mamiya, whatever her name is, she then castrates her husband. She cut off his testicles. All right? I mean, that's nothing says, you know, thankful and, and for my life and my husband, like stabbing him with scissors, beating the deaf on an iron, cutting off his head to knock out his teeth and removing his testicles and bulletinous hands. Wow. There you go. All right, well let's. We'll skip all around y' all and this can all be about Thanksgiving love. And we are going to. November 26th of 2009, were going to South Florida and Paul Michael Marehatch, he ate a hearty Thanksgiving meal with 16 family members and friends. And then during the meal he was just talking to everybody and joking and look, during their meals they were even having sing alongs and he was joining in on the sing alongs. And then after they got done, you know my house when you get done Thanksgiving dinners is go find your chair and watch the football. Well, at this house when he got done, Mehan whipped out a handgun and executed four relatives, including his cousin in law, his twin sisters, one of whom was pregnant, and his cousin 6 year old daughter. Right after he shot all four of them, he said, I've waited 20 years to do this. And then he ran like a little. But you run but you can't hide, y'.
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All.
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Later on they captured him and they cuffed him and stuffed him and everything else. And the he didn't want to die, evidently forced crime. So he cut a plea deal for seven consecutive life sentences. And he did. They gave that to him for the seven people he murdered. And guess what, he was pretty young at the time. So I'm imagining that he is still eating Thanksgiving dinner wherever it is that he may be. So waited 20 years to do this. All right, we're gonna move out to Colorado. And you know that anytime you have the family over, there's a lot of little chores to be done and cleaning up and there's always a lot of trash to take out and you know, washing dishes, all the that goes with holidays, right? Well, Alias. Yeah. You hear my dogs barking in the home? CDA, alias Clay Oliver, who's 76 years old, had a son, Keith Oliver, who's 49. And. He got mad at him. Why, you may ask? Why did father get mad at son? Well, because the younger man, the son refused to help out around the house for Thanksgiving, right? I son, can you help me? Shit. Me and my son were in the yard other day raking, raking leaves, right? Well, this dude wasn't having any of it and pissed his dad off and to the point it became a homicidal rage. On Thanksgiving Day in 2009, the Father and son had been going at it for hours, y' all they were arguing back and forth and pray. I don't know if alcohol was involved, but I can only imagine that it's like you're a piece of. I'm 75 years old and I'll do this and you won't do it or 76. And this is all witnessed by his.
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Wife.
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And Keith, Oliver's mother. Right. And then she, she finally like tells his son, hey, why don't you just leave, okay? Just get out and leave. He said, why don't you go yourself? And he refused. Well, that really pissed off dad. He went upstairs and retrieved the old family.357 caliber revolver, the largest handgun in the world.
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Right.
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And he came down and shot Oliver to death. Thanksgiving's over. They didn't have to worry about him not helping anymore. Wow. All right. Staying along, I got y' all can pretty much assure you all these are going to be effed up families. So we are going to go to another Thanksgiving Day and more murders. And had a guy named Brian David Smith, who was a retired security engineering officer with the U.S. state Department. And he had dealt with his Little Falls, Minnesota home being burglarized several times in as many months. He put it in an alarm system complete with video cameras. And they covered numerous areas around his house. Right. Well, Thanksgiving Day in 2012, he sat in his basement with a rifle and waited. Waited. Right. Come on, get you some of this stuff inside my house. Well, the video did his job and it captured the tape of Smith moving his truck from the driveway prior to a break in to make it appear. Appear as if he wasn't home. Then an hour later, two teens in hoodies can they come and sneaking around the house casing it before they entered the property. The teens were Haley Elaine Keefer, 18, and her cousin Nicholas Brady, 17. And neither one of them were armed. And Smith had suspected Kiefer and Brady have been responsible for at least some of the earlier break ins in his house. And they were also later suspected of robbery of a retired school teacher that had occurred earlier on this day. But while Smith sat in his basement like he's deer hunting, he had the tape recorder running. And there are hours of audio recordings that document his time had been in a wastement being in the basement, basically hunting the burgers, or would be burgers, complete with sounds of breaking glass. That's our robber breaking in. And then he confronts him. And it's all an audio tape. The audio captures shots fire and Smith statements during and after the killings, including I refuse to live in fear. I'M not a bleeding heart liberal. I felt like I was cleaning up a mess. I was doing my civic duty. I don't see them as human. I see them as vermin. Well, incredibly, despite the two dead bodies inside his house, Smith didn't actually call the police until the next day. And he stated that, hey, I waited a day to call y' all because I didn't want to bother you on a Thanksgiving holiday. Well, I'm pretty sure he's. I mean, I mean, you have a right to defend your. And I get that, but they definitely weren't armed. You have audio. They're not, you know, they're not threatening you or whatever with guns, saying, we're going to kill you and you killed them. And I guess, I don't know, I guess he didn't have a drop gun to put on or whatever, but they came in and steal his and he was mad about it. But to all the law enforcement out there, you don't have to worry about this guy if he was out of prison calling you on the day that he kills somebody if it's on a holiday. All right, let's go to Thanksgiving in 2012. And, you know, you got all kinds of families. You got pure blood families. You got mixed blood families. You got stepbrothers and shit like that and Brady Bunch families and whatever yours may be. Right. One Thanksgiving 2012, they had a family getting together and they were just partying and having a good time at the home of Shanika Al sub, who was 27 years old. And while they're partying, having a good time, sibling spat about the food being served began. Right. I'm ungrateful. Let me tell you something. If you go, you get invited to go eat somebody's house, especially Thanksgiving, you. And if you don't like something, just keep your fucking mouth shut, pass it on, spit it in your napkin. Right? But that's not what happened here, of course. The sibling spat about the food being served also stabbed her half brother, Deontay Antonio Wallace, who was 23 years old. She didn't just stab me. She had a serving fork and she stabbed him in the neck. Yes, I can imagine that. Hurt like a motherf. Er. Stabbed him in the neck. Well, guess what? Wallace survived and also went to jail for first degree assault, secondary assault, and reckless endangerment. And that's all I have to say about that. Hey, y', all, I want to take.
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Holy stabbing in the neck. All right, let's see where we're going to go next. There's some good, good shit happens in the holidays. Good people try to do good things. There's a lot of bad people who do really bad things. In my monster series, David Pender, we, we actually called him Thanksgiving morning over in the Ritter in burning parish. And he of course had done all the horrible things to his mother in law. Right. Well, cops don't get off, Dispatchers don't get off. Jailers don't get off. Hospital people don't get off. Right. They somebody's got to work the holidays. And the blood always hits the ground on the holidays. Bad happens. So I'm gonna tell you about a guy named Jimmy Mulligan from Bridgeport, Connecticut. And he's walking to his friend's house and the dude came up behind him and he had a gun. And Jim Mulligan just so happened that he was carrying turkey and stuffing along with his wallet and a plastic bag of goodies. And tell you what, the dude robbed him. So right after he robbed him, he calls 911 and the dispatcher's like, yeah, whatever this is. Yeah, dispatchers get a lot of stupid calls and he's told me, said no, literally, I just got robbed from a turkey interest. And dispatch like you're joking. And but she had the special copses as part of the law and they got there and arrived at scene and they found out homie was telling the truth. He really got robbed of his Thanksgiving meal. So the goodness in the world, the dispatcher, Denny Vieira felt so bad for the man, she actually decided to help him out, y'. All. And she pitched in with a pool with her co workers and they bought two turkey dinners from Boston Market and they had them delivered to Mr. Mulligan. Kudos to the good ones, right? A good story, good ending, high list dude. And dead. So I've never had Boston Market before. I see it all the time. But. All right, I'll tell you about another one. So dude named Johnny Anton Love, how would you like to have last name Love Johnny Anton Love? Well, he didn't have a lot of love in his heart because he attempted to rob a gas station in Miami Gardens, Florida on Thanksgiving Day 2013. Now the guy that was on duty, the clerk, his name was David Paul Lamore. And when Johnny Anton Love came in to rob Him, David Paula Moore was calm and collected, had his together, right? And to the point of he starts talking to the robber and he befriends him and he told him, hey, you should help yourself to some beer, you know, Meanwhile, while you here robbing me, just go ahead and help yourself to some beer. Well, also, unbeknownst to Jenny and Anton Love, Mr. Lamour was secretly triggering the alarm system. Love grabbed so much beer that on his way out of the store, the bags broke and can scattered across the parking lot. And when the cops arrived, they didn't have to look far from Mr. Love. You know why? Because he was busy trying to pick up the beer and hide the money from the cash register in his clothes. So he got to go to the Miami Gardens jail and eat the rest. His Thanksgiving dinner. All right, this one is a little bit disturbing. It's very short, though.
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It'S time for family matters. Got a dude. His name is Gilberto Vale. In his chosen profession, you might ask. He is a cop in New York City, nypd. Right. But he was a cop until he wasn't. And he got arrested in 2012 because of disturbing pictures his wife found on his computer. And it turns out he had a list of women he was stalking and often fantasized about cooking and eating them. You heard me correctly, his wife found out that he wanted to cook and eat them. And in one chat room, he boasted he was going to have girl meat for Thanksgiving. Right. That's in spite of these disturbing conversation. Current conversations, they found a judge overturned Valley's conviction, saying the former officer was just fantasizing. And he was freed in 2014 after serving 21 months and returned to live with his mother, who promised to cater, no pun intended, to his every need. I wonder if his mom, dear mom, sweet mom, was going to be his girl. Meet. Interesting. I can pretty much assure you that he's. He's not going back on the job as a police officer. I wouldn't think so. All right, as a public service announcement and because it's Thanksgiving, y', all, this is really, really the season. The cops are the busiest. And that's just the tree. Everybody just goes nutso around this time of the year. But. So I'm gonna give you a public service announcement. Listen, I'll give you the most, six most common crimes that are committed on this weekend. All right? Long weekend. Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. And this is actually from an article by a guy named Jay Roland. Peter. And from back in November 18th of 2022. He says, despite a stark History. Thanksgiving is known for being a holiday that brings families and friends together to share a meal, watch football and enjoy each other's company. Unfortunately, Thanksgiving can still have a dark side as certain crimes spike during the four day holiday weekend. And below we will discuss the six criminal offenses commonly committed during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. All right, before I tell you any more, for even more, this dude's article, I have not looked at them, but I'm a guest. I. I can see it in my mind's eye. Every time school lets out for anything before summer, for Thanksgiving, for Christmas, the thefts go up, burglaries go up, vandalism, anything a teenager can do just because they're bored and but. So let's see what he says. All right, Criminal Six criminal offenses commonly committed during the Thanksgiving holiday include. Drumroll, please. Number one, vandalism. Vandalism occurs when a person recklessly destroys or damages someone else's property without their consent. While vandalism is most commonly committed by juvenile offenders, anyone may be accused of committing this offense. And acts of vandalism can include trash dumping, egging of cars or houses, graffiti, breaking windows removed, removing or breaking signs or decoration. The facement, you know, everybody in the world knows that. All right, let's go to the next one. According to this dude's list, disorderly conduct. During blackout Wednesday, Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday, people are often charged with disorderly conduct. In Texas, a person can be charged with disorderly conduct if they knowingly or intentionally expose their genitals or anus in a public place with no regard for others present. Now that's in Louisiana, I guess. I guess it's the same thing. But if you do it and you're masturbating or something, that's a felony charge. Totally different charge. All right, next one. Just sort of, kind of if you get into fight in a public place. You've all seen the videos of the Black Friday fights, right? Fighting over the Elmo dial or whatever may be. Discharge a firearm or a deadly weapon in a public place. Hey, let's go out to the club, get a little bottle service, pop off a few rounds. And always say nothing clears a room like a little gunfire. As quick as a little gunfire. Here's another one. Discharge a firearm on or across a public road. For those of you who don't hunt, I do hunt. And I can tell you it's about to be dark right now. Some bubbas are going to be riding around drinking beer, looking to spotlight deer tonight and shooting across the public where this one comes from. May and. And this guy's in Texas evidently. So abuse or threaten a person in a public place, Fights for black Fridays. Fed up with your brother in law being over whatever the right or making unreasonable noise in a public place. I don't even know what that would be. I'm not even going to guess on that. We'll just leave it alone. Let's go to the the number three, theft. There are many types of theft crimes such as shoplifting, burglary, petty theft, carjacking, grand theft auto and possesses stolen property. Theft crimes are not uncommon during the Thanksgiving season as people may try to commit thefts to cover the cost of their Thanksgiving dinner or take advantage of empty homes or property. And then we'll give you some examples. This all in Texas, y'. All. In 2015, a teenager from Little Texas tried to shoplift four turkeys, sodas and other dishes valued at over 200 bucks. And yet you might ask how they do this. Well, using the soda and some toilet paper, the teen tried to hide the turkeys and the shit underneath his car without paying and walked out. Next one, two people in Seattle committed a Thanksgiving robbery and stole about 200 cases of wine from a local retailer. The wine was valued at over $645,000 and police recovered most of the stolen goods. In 2013, Christopher Sulo, who's 26, was charged with two counts of felony theft after taking his Thanksgiving hostess. Jury after she took it off to cook. The rings he took were valued around $9,000. Christopher, you dirty motherfucker. And she again, she invites you to your house and you're going to steal from her? All right. During Thanksgiving in 2021 in Port Arthur, Texas, police arrested a suspect in an assault. At 4:25pm police responded to a disturbance call from a Dollar General store where a male suspect had assaulted a shopper and stolen their food and money. And of course, they located him and arrested. All right, here's, here's A Captain Obvious 1. Going to the fourth most common crime, Thanksgiving weekend, y'. All. Every holiday, if you're in the state of Louisiana, every holiday you have. Cops. Every cop that's off duty gets grants, federal money, grants to go out and write tickets. They are absolutely out in full force because people, more people are traveling. They're looking for DWIs, they're looking for speed and whatever and they, they get paid extra duty. Right? So they said after the Fourth of July, the holiday season from Thanksgiving to New Year's Day accounts for the highest time of alcohol consumption. And research from the Alcohol monitoring system suggests that even monitored DWI offenders increase their drinking during the holiday season by a whopping 33%. Many people not only consume a lot of alcohol on Thanksgiving Day, they also binge drink on blackout Wednesday. I didn't know Wednesday was named that. With the increase in alcohol consumption, there is also an increase in DWI related offenses because you got to get from point A to B around Thanksgiving week. And according to Texas Penal Code 49.04, drivers commit a class B misdemeanor if they drive with a blood alcohol content of 0.08 or more. Right. So also, you know, with the DWI comes open containers, alcohols and vehicles and having a child age 15 or younger in the vehicle and getting into collision that leads to serious injury or fatalities. So that's, that's the truth. There'll be a lot of people that die this weekend. All right, number five, crime increase relates to the other one too. Speeding and other traffic offenses during Thanksgiving week. Many people are on the road, traveling to friends or relatives houses or running errands to pick up forgotten ingredients or to cool off after a family dispute. Unfortunately, many holiday drivers also receive traffic tickets because of driving infractions, including but not limited to speeding, illegally changing lanes or passing another vehicle, running red lights or stop signs, and last but not least, texting while driving. All right, number six. And the last one I'm gonna do and I can assure you this fucking happens. Number six, rise in crimes. The biggest one rising crime around this holiday is domestic violence related offenses, right? So they said unresolved conflict or tension and other factors such as alcohol consumption or anger issues can lead to fights. Brother, sister, stabbed him in the neck. And instances of domestic violence. Remember the. The model who bought her husband's fingertips off and put his head in the freezer? The. The Elita fights an instances of domestic violence during the Thanksgiving holiday season in Texas. Family violence can occur when a family or household member commits an act against another that threatens or causes physical harm, bodily injury, sexual assault or assault. Family and household members include former current household members, co parents, foster parents and children, those related by adoption, marriage or blood, former current roommates, former current romantic dating partners, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So there you have it.
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It's Thanksgiving time.
Cindy Overton
Joy, joy, joy. I guess that's Christmas. That's the kickoff of buy everything that's coming in the next shit month and a week because we're gonna rock it all the way through New Year's, right? So y', all, I really hope you enjoy your shit And I know I'm gonna enjoy my I'm joining my Texas clan that's in my first Thanksgiving my entire life without my daddy. So, yeah, prayers all y' all that that are missing loved ones. I get it now for the holidays. But the be thankful. I'm so very, very thankful. So, so very, very blessed. No doubt about it. And I love and appreciate each and every one of y'. All. Want to wish you from Cindy and I from the Overtones. We want to wish you a happy, happy, happy Thanksgiving. And I have nothing else. And I'm your host of True Crime. Time for this Thanksgiving. I'll holla at you later. Peace.
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Hosts: Woody Overton & Cindy Overton
Release Date: November 27, 2025
In this Thanksgiving edition of "True Crime Time For," renowned investigator and host Woody Overton, alongside co-host (and wife) Cindy Overton, dig into the dark, bizarre, and sometimes surprisingly wholesome world of Thanksgiving-related crimes. Balancing their signature blend of gritty storytelling and authentic Louisiana charm, they recount some of the most infamous, twisted, and occasionally humorous incidents that have transpired on and around Thanksgiving Day. The episode is both a celebration of gratitude and a vivid reminder that crime doesn’t take holidays off. Woody also connects these cases to more general trends in crime during the long Thanksgiving weekend, offering not only stories but insights and practical takeaways for listeners.
Woody summarizes an article by Jay Roland (2022), adding his personal law enforcement insights:
Woody, after recapping several grisly crimes:
“All these... are going to be effed up families.” (14:19)
On the cannibal cop:
“I wonder if his mom, dear mom, sweet mom, was going to be his girl meat? Interesting.” (33:37)
Woody and Cindy weave between vivid, occasionally graphic storytelling (“old school irons like the settlers used… a ten-pound thing, and you gotta beat him after you stabbed him numerous times”), biting dark humor, and genuine warmth. They openly reflect on their own lives, the pain of missing loved ones during the holidays, and the good—even redemptive—acts that can occur amidst the chaos of the season.
If you're drawn to true crime with a Southern flavor, forensic insight, and a healthy dose of reality mixed with reflection, this Thanksgiving-themed episode is both engrossing and sobering. Whether you’re here for the grisly tales, the cautionary advice, or a moment of shared gratitude, Woody and Cindy serve up a holiday special that’s as memorable as it is meaningful.
Final note from Woody:
“So y'all, I really hope you enjoy your shit... be thankful. I’m so very, very thankful. So, so very, very blessed... I love and appreciate each and every one of y’all.” (45:21–46:25)
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