True Crime Time For October 7, 2025 | Peyton Hughes, Callie Burnett, and a Soldier’s Tragic End

Summary

Real Life Real Crime

True Crime Time for October 7, 2025

Hosts: Woody Overton & Cindy Overton
Episode: Peyton Hughes, Callie Burnett, and a Soldier’s Tragic End (Released Oct. 7, 2025)

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Woody and Cindy Overton sift through a series of recent and chilling cases spanning from tragic accidents to grisly homicides, family betrayals, and systemic failures. While the tone remains candid—with both humor and raw emotion—Woody and Cindy provide in-depth commentary, bringing their personal and professional experience to bear on each story. The narrative arc moves from mysterious disappearances and harrowing family tragedies to cases of extreme violence, ultimately painting a portrait of the dark complexities and heartbreak at the core of real-life crime.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

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1. The Disappearance and Death of Peyton Hughes (01:58–04:46)

• Case Details:
  • 21-year-old Peyton Hughes, a sophomore at Campbellsville University and member of the kayak bass fishing team, disappeared on the Toledo Bend Reservoir during solo practice for a tournament.
  • His mother, Sarah Hughes, learned the news while in Kentucky and drove 13 hours to Texas in desperation.
  • Two days later, Peyton's body was found in the reservoir. No foul play suspected; believed to be an accidental drowning.
• Emotional Impact:
  • Cindy recounts the family’s heartbreak: "My sweet boy is gone. They recovered his body this morning in the lake. Please pray for us." (Sarah Hughes’s Facebook post, 04:03)
  • Woody offers kudos to the game wardens and law enforcement for bringing closure.

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2. Police Stories: Tickets and Excuses (05:16–11:43)

• Woody’s DMV Story:
  • Unexpectedly discovers a warrant for his arrest due to a misprocessed ticket, illustrating how bureaucratic errors can escalate.
• Cops and Restroom Excuses:
  • Woody and Cindy recount humorous instances where people claim needing the bathroom to avoid tickets.
  • Viral TikTok story: A woman truly needing a bathroom ends up soiling herself during a traffic stop; the sympathetic officer lets her go without a ticket.
  • Woody’s advice, in his candid tone:
    “If you really got to go, just go ahead and let it go.” (10:46)
  • Cindy admits to using that excuse in her younger days, but Woody insists cops are immune to it.

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3. Family Matters: Baby Found Abandoned in the Philippines (11:57–14:08)

• Case Summary:
  • Newborn girl found alive inside a box by a roadside in Taragaroa City, Philippines.
  • Authorities are searching for her parents while she recovers in hospital.
• Community Response:
  • The story garners local sympathy and attention.
• Woody notes:
  • In the U.S., there are options (safe havens) for overwhelmed parents: “Anywhere. Bring them here. We’ll take care of them.” (14:08)

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4. Matricide in Missouri: Mother Kills Her Teen Son (14:15–24:05)

• Case Details:
  • Crystal Roy is charged with first-degree murder for shooting and repeatedly stabbing her 16-year-old son as he slept.
  • She allegedly lay in bed with him after the shooting and, as he cried “Mommy, Mommy, Mommy,” she left to fetch a knife and finished the act.
  • Roy confessed to police and is held on a $1M bond; Missouri has the death penalty.
• Woody’s Outrage:
  • “That’s fucked up… Death penalty worthy. I definitely think so.” (23:13)

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5. Neglect and Child Endangerment in Evansville, Indiana (24:05–26:42)

• Case Details:
  • Toddler found wandering in only a soiled diaper while her mother, Ashley Ellis, left two teens (supplied with vodka) in charge of her.
  • Police found that Ellis was unreachable for two days, declined a drug test, and was eventually arrested for neglect and contributing to the delinquency of minors.
  • Oddity: The low bail set at $750; Woody speculates it’s a misprint.

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6. Filicide in Cape Coral, Florida: Son Murders Mother (26:42–36:23)

• Case Summary:
  • 28-year-old Delvin Bryant Johnson murders his 69-year-old mother, Rosemary Johnson, after years of abuse and a history of domestic violence protective orders.
  • After stabbing her in the head and neck, he flees. During his arrest, he attacks the K9 unit and tries to seize an officer’s weapon.
  • Rosemary’s protective order details escalating violence and her fear for her life, which tragically went unheeded.
• Woody’s commentary:
  • “She pressed charges after he hit her… left her stranded in recliner because he cut the power… What a dick.” (33:58)
  • Discussion of the system’s failure: “They could have figured it out then.” (36:05)

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7. The Savage Murder of Callie Burnett and Aftermath (37:24–42:23)

• Case Facts:
  • Young mother Callie Burnett found brutally stabbed (over 50 times) in Laranger, Louisiana; her two young daughters abducted.
  • The children were rescued in Jackson, MS. Perpetrators Daniel Wayne Callahan and girlfriend Victoria Cox arrested.
  • Callahan pled guilty in Mississippi to avoid trial, receiving life in prison plus consecutive sentences; faces additional charges elsewhere.
• Courtroom Trauma & Quotes:
  • Callie’s sister Brandi Hosh, during sentencing:
    “You are a predator, a monster, a rapist, a demon… You took from us something you can never give back.” (41:24, Brandi Hosh)
  • Judge Gibbs: “Among the most horrific this court has ever seen.” (41:35)
  • Woody highlights the local DA’s readiness to pursue the death penalty for such brutality.

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8. A Soldier’s Tragic End: Murder on a Military Base (43:17–52:07)

• Case Details:
  • Margaret Schaeff sentenced to over 24 years in federal prison for shooting her Army soldier husband, Greg Schaeff, at Fort Riley, Kansas.
  • Margaret shot Greg while he held their baby and in view of his nine-year-old stepdaughter; she drove off, attempted to blame him for heinous acts post-fact, but jailhouse confessions and her daughter’s testimony sealed her conviction.
• Woody’s Reactions and Analysis:
  • “The judge gets to hear. So the nine year old testified against her mom and which helped the prosecutors secure the conviction.” (48:45)
  • Calculation of federal prison time and frustration at the relative leniency:
    “Not enough, but at least there’s a little bit of justice.” (51:21)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On victim family agony:
  • “My sweet boy is gone. They recovered his body this morning in the lake. Please pray for us.”
    — Sarah Hughes via Facebook announcement, as read by Cindy (04:03)
• Woody on tragic matricide:
  • “You shoot him multiple times then you crawl up in bed with him… Then you start saying, ‘Mommy, mommy, mommy’… let me go to the kitchen, get a knife, come back and stab him to death. Death penalty worthy.” (23:13)
• On the systemic tolerance of danger:
  • “[She] pressed charges against him after he hit her… and that time he got arrested and spent a month in jail… but nothing was done.” (33:58)
• Victim’s family member to perpetrator:
  • “You are a predator, a monster, a rapist, a demon… You took from us something you can never give back.”
    — Brandi Hosh, Callie Burnett’s sister, during sentencing (41:24)
• Woody’s advice to listeners:
  • “If you really got to go, just go ahead and let it go.” (10:46)
• On sentencing in federal court:
  • “Federal time is 24 years. You get one day a month off… That’s a long fucking time. Not enough.” (51:13–51:21)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Timestamp | Segment |
|-----------|-----------------------------------------------------| | 01:58 | Introduction of Peyton Hughes case |
| 04:22 | Confirmation of no foul play |
| 05:16 | Woody’s DMV warrant story |
| 07:49 | Cop-excuse and bathroom stories |
| 11:57 | Family Matters: Baby abandoned in Philippines |
| 14:15 | Missouri mother murders son |
| 24:05 | Indiana neglect case: Toddler and vodka teens |
| 26:42 | Florida son murders mother |
| 37:24 | Callie Burnett case and aftermath |
| 43:17 | Soldier’s murder in Kansas by wife |
| 51:08 | Federal sentencing breakdown |

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Tone & Language

Woody and Cindy maintain a distinctive, conversational style, sometimes irreverent and at times deeply empathetic. Humor and personal asides lighten the grim subject matter, but there is no sugar-coating the brutality of the crimes discussed. Both hosts ground their reactions in lived experience, lending the episode an authentic, sometimes raw, emotional resonance.

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For Listeners

This episode presents a wide swath of recent, deeply disturbing crimes, balanced by the hosts’ forthright, compassionate, and—at times—wry perspective. Through first-hand stories, poignant quotes, and case analysis, Woody and Cindy illuminate both the horror and the real-life consequences of crime, never shying away from asking hard questions or expressing outrage on behalf of victims. For anyone seeking the heart, complexity, and darkness at the core of true crime, this episode delivers.

Transcript

[A]

Foreign hello everybody and welcome to this episode of true crime time for Tuesday, October 7th, 2025. And I'm Woody Overton.

[B]

I'm Cindy Overton.

[A]

Who you're back.

[B]

I'm back.

[A]

Back. Back in black sack. It was time anyway. The true crime time for y'. All. And you know there's always plenty of plenty of stories. And Leah Marie, since I have 124 right now.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But not gonna get that many done naturally. Continue to call on your tips. 313 rlrc tip and and hashtag just for Bradley. Hashtag justice for AO. Hashtag just for Ms. Barbara Blunt. And I still say hashtag justice for Haley is coming. But we're going to see in Brad the Straits case. It's just out there. I mean it's so. It literally could be a movie, y'. All. It's being worked. Everything, it just takes time. Like just like on Haley's case. The proper investigation takes time and the more tips you call in, the longer it's going to take. But that's okay. Okay. The the they need. They have to been done on the law enforcement side anyway.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

The so the more you give me when it all comes to fruition, the better it is, right?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So let's get down some true crime time for this Taco Tuesday. Oh, by the way, we have gas.

[B]

And I've been cooking up a storm.

[A]

Right. All right. What you got?

[B]

So way, way back on September 24th of this year, there was a 21 year old young man, Peyton Hughes. He was a college sophomore and an avid fisherman. He disappeared while out on the Toledo Bend Reservoir, which is like the Texas, Louisiana border.

[A]

Right. By Vernon Parish.

[B]

Right. Which they describe as a massive lake that stretches along Texas, Louisiana.

[A]

It's one of the best fishing in the world, but it's in the middle of nowhere.

[B]

He was a student at Campbellsville University in Kentucky, and he was part of the school's kayak bass fishing team. That week, he and his teammates were practicing individually on the reservoir in preparation for an upcoming Bassmaster Kayak series event. Well, according to officials, Payton was pre fishing, scouting the waters alone when something went wrong. Peyton didn't arrive back at the designated meeting place later that day, and his travel partner grew very alarmed and called authorities. The Texas game wardens, along with multiple other agencies from both Texas and Louisiana, launched an intensive search back home, which is in Kentucky. Peyton's mom, Sarah Hughes, awoke in the middle of the night to a flood of calls and texts. She said, I called the game warden. And he told Me, my son was missing. In a panic, she drove 13 hours straight from Kentucky to Texas. She, of course, was desperate for answers.

[A]

It had to be the longest drive ever on.

[B]

Can you imagine? Two days later, on the morning of Friday, September 26, at around 7:15am Search teams recovered Peyton's body from the reservoir. And they, of course, confirmed the worst fears, that he was no longer with us. His mom shared the heartbreaking news in a post on Facebook. She said, my sweet boy is gone. They recovered his body this morning in the lake. Please pray for us.

[A]

Any foul play that's expected or anything.

[B]

Payton's death sent shockwaves through the campus community and the competitive fishing world. And he was known as a talented angler and devoted teammate. And his loss was felt by his family and friends and competitors. But there's no mention of foul play in this. I think it was just an accident.

[A]

Well, the, you know, the cops and everybody and the game wardens and the, you know, search teams that go out and shout out to them for bringing the boy's body home. So at least this is not a conspiracy theory or whatever. And I guess, you know, they do an autopsy, drown, whatever. He's by himself fishing. I mean, that's. That's a big lake. Yeah, it's, I don't know, 20, 30 miles or something like that. And then who knows, who knows what happened.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But let me tell you the y', all, I went to the DMV a couple weeks ago and go in, get my shit straight over, get my new license because my license was expired and go in there and the lady tells me I have a warrant for my arrest. I'm like, what the. I've never got a speeding ticket in my life. I didn't let literally ever. Right? And the I sit, she told me what parish and everything and real nice and gave me the number to DA's office. And I called and I had warrant from arrest for failure to appear for speeding, 10 miles an hour over, like, I don't know, 75 to 65, something like that. And so what had happened was the year before I did get stopped and the trooper recognized who I was afterwards, whatever, and he said, look, I'm just going to give you a warning and, you know, sign here, it's a warning ticket, blah, blah. And I still had the ticket. Well, guess what? He must have turned it in, whatever. And I never got a notice about a court date, anything else. And so I had a warrant. But anyway, people would. Would do anything to get out of a ticket, right? And I didn't like to write tickets if you were such an asshole to me when I pulled you over. I was always looking for dope and. Or warrants and stuff like that. If you're such an asshole to me. I just generally took you to jail for whatever it was. But people try to do anything to get out of tickets. And I know, I've told the story. I was going down the interstate one night and there was a lady. There was a car on the shoulder with the trunk open. And so I pulled over just to check them out because we always tried to stop and help people, right? And then I saw this lady come running out of the woods and she had on white shorts and she's screaming and hollering. I drew my piss. Like, I don't know. She didn't. Raped or just. Just escaped from the trunk or what have you. Ultimately she's. Do you have any toilet paper? And I was like, no, I don't. And then she just. All over herself. I mean, it was. You could see me this. When they first put the cameras in the car, you could see me backing away. I didn't have the audio on. You could see me just like. I mean, because it was going down her legs and everything. It was just unbelievable. Right. Well, let me tell you about this story. This. The cops are used to people. I mean, you. I've heard it numerous times. They stopped for speed. Well, I gotta go to the bathroom. Okay.

[B]

Use that many times.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. Well, it. Cops are immune to it.

[B]

Well, I know, but I did it 30 years ago.

[A]

Until they're not. So this tick tocker. One morning she woke up, she had to go poop, but. And she lived with her husband and they had a one bedroom, one bath, and her husband was already in the bathroom. So she's like, really had to go. So she jumps in her car, drives to the. To the gas station, which is right down the road. And guess what? It was closed. Then she's like, I'm about to blow. So she. Her grandparents lived. Like she said her stomach was hurting and she desperately needs to relieve herself. She knew she didn't have much time, and so her brain goes on oh shit mode. Her grandparents live just a short drive away. So she sped down the road and whipped through the back streets at high speeds trying to make it to the.

[C]

Toilet before disaster struck.

[A]

And guess what happened?

[B]

Disaster struck when she got pulled over.

[A]

Sirens happened.

[B]

Oh my gosh.

[A]

So she heard the. The cop sirens behind her and so she had to pull over and stop. She said at this point she was in so much pain, she's been over steering wheel, clutching her stomach. The cop comes up to the license, registration. She's like, I got a poop. And he's like, yeah, I heard this one before, right? She tried to tell the cop she had to go to the bathroom, would.

[C]

Take the speeding ticket without a F.

[A]

But he kept lecturing her about speeding. Meanwhile her stomach is a bubbling and cramping. And I think we all unfortunately now that feel. She said he just seemed Olivia to her struggle like because he thought she was lying, right. But soon enough she was unable to hold it any longer and the inevitable happened. She says, so I turned him and I said I really got to go to the bathroom. And he completely talks over me. He acts like I ain't said nothing. But the battle was lost and I started pooping.

[B]

Oh my.

[A]

She said when the smell hit him, he said, I'm gonna let you go take care of that situation. And she was only seven minutes from her grandparents house. She had to drive the rest of the way in her poopy shorts. And it was 6:45 in the morning. She said it was so way too early to be dealing with something so humiliating. So she had to take a bath and ended up going back to bed because she had already written off today. But the silver lining was she didn't get a ticket ticket. And, and there you go. She called a win a win.

[B]

Oh my gosh.

[A]

So y', all, if you, if you, you heard my wife say it, she used that excuse. Or use that excuse when she get used to get stopped. Don't use the excuse. But you know what? If, if you that close and that's, that is the truth, just go ahead and let it go.

[B]

Well, I did use that excuse. You know how I, how I have to go to the bathroom.

[A]

But you're talking about when you're a kid, you're like, oh lady, go to the bathroom now.

[B]

No, yeah, no, I'm talking when I was 20 trying to like finish work at 10 o' clock at night in Laredo and get to San Antonio before the party got started.

[A]

I understand. I knew exactly what you're talking about and I'm telling them that that doesn' work. If you really got to go, just go ahead and let it go. And, and if they were still write you a ticket in their.

[B]

Yeah, well, what I'm saying is if I said I needed to go potty, I probably really did need to. But that wasn't my reason for speeding.

[A]

It doesn't work how about that? What you what? What you got? Let's give them a crime story this time. It's time for family matters.

[B]

On September 24th of this year in Taragaroa City, Philippines, there was a newborn baby girl that was found abandoned on the side of the road. A grandmother was passing by and she spotted the infant wiggling inside of like she noticed a cardboard box and something wiggling around inside of it and it was like on a roadside wall. And she immediately called for help. Authorities arrived around 6:50am that morning and they confirmed that the baby was alive and rushed her to the local hospital. Doctors determined that she was in stable condition. Police believe the girl was less than a day old. Her umbilical cord had been clipped, but which suggests that she had been obviously abandoned shortly after birth. Local police under the Philippine National Police launched an investigation to trace her parents or whoever abandoned her. And Chief Police Lt. Gen. Jose Melencio pledged the law enforcement would not rest until the person responsible was found. Then there's a social worker named May and she confirmed that the baby will stay in the hospital for up to five days for observation and further care. This case has drawn attention and sympathy across the community and authorities are urging anyone with information to come forward. So as the date of this, there's been no findings of who abandoned the poor baby.

[A]

So I know well, ah.

[B]

I'm glad that she was stable.

[A]

Yeah, right. That's the thing. The only good thing of that the I don't know. I don't know.

[C]

I don't know.

[A]

I don't know.

[B]

If that happens in the United States. There's plenty of places for you to take your child if you need help.

[A]

Yeah, anywhere. Bring them here. We'll take care of them.

[B]

That's right.

[A]

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[A]

Said had been brought to hospital to the hospital earlier in the day in September 29 after she tried to kill herself and she was taken into custody after her release. And guess what? She admitted to killing her son and she told the law enforcement she shot him as he slept. And then she further confessed to lying in the bed with her son, caressing him and hearing him cry out mommy, mommy, mommy, I know you're about to cry. She said she got the idea to put the boy out of his pain. Her words to put him out of his pain. She went to the kitchen and got a knife and returned and stabbed her son until she killed him. That's fucked up. Detective said she then told them that she used a Bursa 380 pistol to shoot her son and the gun was later found in her ex husband's home. She's been held on a million dollars bond and this place St. Charles is about 25 miles drive northwest from St. Louis and let's look up at and see. Yes they have the death penalty. Can you imagine? No you shoot him 16 years old.

[B]

After you stabbed him.

[A]

But a 380 is like the smallest caliber you can get in a pistol besides his.22. So you shoot him multiple times then you crawl up in bed with him to love on him Then he starts saying, mommy, mommy, mommy. You're like that. Let me go to the kitchen, get a knife, come back and stab him to death. Death penalty worthy. I definitely think so. Family Matters. Fucked up story is what that is. That is just your turn. Bring them some joy. What do you have? It's time for Family Matters.

[B]

We're going to Indiana. Evansville, Indiana. On the morning of July 5, residents in the 1700 block of Stevens Avenue found a little girl wandering the streets alone. And she was wearing nothing but a urine soaked diaper. And she was crying, mommy, Mommy. The neighbor rushed out and brought her to safety and called 911. When officers arrived, the scene inside of the little baby's home emerged. And in interviews there was a 15 year old friend that was staying over. Said Ashley Ellis, which was the child's mother, had given two teenage girls a bottle of vodka before leaving them in charge of the toddler. The friend claimed she had no idea a baby was even in the house until around 2:30am when the child started crying. By 4:40am both teens were vomiting from what they were drinking. The friend estimated that that's when the toddler slipped outside. There's some reports that say the 16 year old child experienced a seizure and had to be rushed to the hospital. But that was just like one isolated report. We don't know that as true. Ellis initially could not be reached for two days. The baby mama. When she finally did speak with investigators, she said she had only planned to be gone for a few hours, but panicked when she learned of her child's disappearance. She declined to take a drug test, though she acknowledged that there was a bottle in the freezer that the teens had asked about. Ellis was arrested and charged with two counts of neglect of a dependent and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a min. And according to local reporting, she's being held on a $750 bond at the time of arrest.

[A]

What?

[B]

It says $750 bond.

[A]

Well, I don't understand that. I guess they figure she's not a further threat or something. Or it's a misprint. Instead of 150,000.

[B]

It could be a misprint, but I.

[A]

Never heard anybody get a $750 box for anything. Yeah, misdemeanor, like 500 exactly.

[B]

I don't know.

[A]

But that's another, another one for you. And I'm about to bring you another one. Staying in the theme of the day and prepare your tissues. It's time for family matters. Let me show you the picture of this winner before I start the story. So I go, I got the picture of this guy's booking photo and he is beat to. I'm talking about both eyes swollen shut, big cut on his face, the whole nine yards. And you know why? Because he deserved it. And I'm gonna tell you the long story from Cape Coral, Florida, all right? Where they had a son and they had a mom, right? Family matters. And the son murdered his mom after months of abuses that were reported to the police, including an incident in which he cut the power to her home and left her immobile in her powered recliner.

[B]

Oh my.

[A]

Hey, but this, this is just this tip of that. This is. So Cape Coral police were dispatched to residence around 1.25pm on September 16 after a person called 911 to say they discovered their mother's body inside her home. The caller said that family members were unable to reach the woman for a worrying amount of time. So they drove to her house, they went to do their own welfare check, right? And that's when they found bloody footprints that led them to the body of 69 year old rosemary Johnson. And you're walking up on your mama, you're following the bloody footprints and what do you see? They said she had significant number of stab wounds to her head and neck. She a fucking mama. But I'll get to it. So cops came out, cops do what they do. And detectives come out and they learned that witnesses had seen the victim's son, 28 year old Delvin Bryant Johnson, leaving his mom's home in a gray Toyota Corolla not long before the police arrived. Well, cops put out a BOLO and they locate the vehicle just a short time later. And when they went to contract to conduct a traffic stop, he ran like a little bitch. And the pursuit was on. And y', all, it was a long enough pursuit where they were able to get officers out in front of them and deploy stop sticks, which, I mean, you have to know, they're like, I'm following him on 7th street, he's turning right. Well, we're gonna get ahead of him on 10th and we'll block off. When you do stop 6, you block every section of the road except for where the sticks are going to be thrown. But you have to leave them way out legally, you have to leave them way out. And right when they're coming. And you know, he knows he can only go one way, you throw those sticks out. They're not really sticks or covered. No, listen to me, they're covered in like a foam material, like this microphone is. And they have some weight to them. The spikes are hidden inside the phone. And so you throw them out in front of them and when the weight of the car goes over, it punctures the tires. And so the tires don't go flat immediately. And it takes them like another, you know, two or three miles, depending on how long or how good the hit was on the. On the stop sticks. So they. They disabled the vehicle ultimately by using stop sticks. Well then guess what?

[C]

He ran like a little bitch.

[A]

This time on foot. And. But he was quickly apprehended. And they look in the car and what do they see? They found blood on the outside and the inside as well as on Johnson's shoes. But Johnson's not done yet being an because while they're arresting him, he attacks the canine unit multiple times and attempted to steal a police officer's firearm. What? Yeah. So base any. The most dangerous time when you're arresting someone is when you get the first cuff on because that's when they're going to fight. And that other cuff attached to them, it could be a weapon. And so, you know, I'm imagining. I don't. Wasn't there but imagine this what happened. And then they go down the fight. And the canine is. Is right there, unfortunately for Johnson. And you're going to let the canines try to get him to submit. So he's attacking the canine and somehow he tried to get the officer's weapon and kill him. So anyway going on. Let's go back to the investigation on how Mr. Johnson is an so other family members told the police that Johnson had a history of abuse against his mama. Many incidents which were reported to police. The court documents show that detailed two major incidents in January and March of 2025 that resulted in Rosemary, his mama, filing a petition for an injunction for protection against domestic violence. That up you have to file a restraining order basically against your own kid. So said on March 12, this is the protective border, y'. All. Or on March 12, he grabbed my arms and held my arms down and bruised my arms and wrists and spit in my face over trying to take my phone since he doesn't have one. This is what his mama wrote in the petition. Furthermore, she said that Johnson suffered from an unspecified mental illness that his mama, Dennis said said was schizophrenia, which made him unable to work. She said or she said it in the she's dead now. She said it in the protective order. He doesn't have an income. He's unable to work because of his mental health. Devin lives with me, but. But now I'm staying at my daughter's because I don't feel safe around him. Kind of like prophetic, right? She also wrote that she pressed charges against him after he hit her with a closed fist on the head. And that time he got arrested and he spent a month in jail in the same incident. The asshole left his mother stranded in the recliner because he cut the power to the house.

[B]

Geez.

[A]

And I mean, she like 67, obviously not good shape, right? Yeah, the. I mean, why would you cut the power to your mama's house, you live there. And punch her in the head? Yeah. So Rosemary Johnson stated that her son, Devin Johnson, who lives with her, like I said, hit her on top of her head, took her mobility walker and threw it across the room and then proceeded to remove her cell phone from her hand and smashed it multiple times on the floor. Johnson pulled the walker further away before entering the garage and cutting the power from the electrical panel. This calls the victim to not to be able to get out of her power recliner in her living room. Johnson then took the car keys, a pile of clothing, fishing rod and spear gun for leaving his mama's house in the vehicle. Now, Rosemary was only saved when she managed to crawl to a laundry basket to get her walker. Then she walked outside and asked a neighbor for help. What a dick. Johnson was charged with second degree murder for the role and his mother's death. Well, you know what? You that I already know floors got the death penalty that you know. I mean, come on, man. That the so an aggravated circumstance in this besides her age being not been old enough yet. But the aggravated circumstances, he's already got a protective order against him. Yeah, you violate that and Louis, at least in the state of Louisiana, you're eligible for the death penalty. Yeah, but you all of the. And you stab her multiple times in the neck and head and then try to kill a cop and run like a little and everything else. And that is the life of the. In Cape Coral, Florida.

[B]

Well, if he truly was is schizophrenic, he should have been in a hospital.

[A]

I mean, you know, well, he's in whatever. He spent a month in jail for punching his mama in the face. They could have figured it out then. Yeah, and maybe they not going for the death penalty because they don't want to have that shit come up. So give them a story.

[B]

Goodness gracious.

[D]

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[B]

Naturally, we're going to stay here in Louisiana for this one in Larager.

[A]

Larager, Right. Right down the road from Hammond. Rural. Did you know 80 of the United States is rural?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And then you get some like us that are really, really. LaRonder is pretty rural. It is very the home of Global Wildlife center and now second home to our good buddy Mr. Wayne Waller.

[B]

That's true.

[A]

And his bride.

[B]

That's true.

[A]

So what's going on in Laraja?

[B]

Well, in June of 2024 in the small town of Laranger, there was a horrific crime that began as a missing person report and ended in tragedy.

[A]

Yeah, this is, I do remember this. And it's multi state and multi horrible.

[B]

Yes. Would you rather tell it?

[A]

Oh, you go ahead.

[B]

Callie Burnett, which was a young mother of two little girls, was reported missing after she failed to show up for work. Family members went to check on her and made a horrifying discovery. Callie had been brutally stabbed more than 50 times inside her home.

[A]

Isn't that crazy?

[B]

And her two daughters, who were just four years old and six years old, were gone. The disappearance of the girls triggered an Amber Alert that stretched, like you said, across multistates. And authorities in Louisiana and Mississippi worked around the clock to find them. The search came to an end in Jackson, Mississippi, where police discovered Callie's daughters. One of the children was found hidden under a mattress and the other child was found alive and rescued. Police arrested Daniel Wayne Callahan, who was a man that had been connected to Callie and his girlfriend Victoria Cox for their involvement of the murder and kidnappings. What investigators uncovered next, stunned even like the seasoned detectives According to court documents, Callahan not only murdered Callie Burnett, but kidnapped, assaulted and sexually abused her young daughters.

[A]

The full laundry list.

[B]

The brutality of the crime and the suffering of the young victims led to, of course, outrage across both states. Over the next year, Callahan faced multiple charges in Louisiana, Mississippi and federal court, including capital murder, sexual battery and kidnapping. He ultimately pleaded guilty in Mississippi, supposedly to spare the surviving child and family the trauma of a lengthy trial.

[A]

That he did it because he knew he was going to get fried. Look, Larondra is in basically in tangible parish kind of right on the line with Saint Tammany. And the d. A don't play. Yeah, they're not afraid to go for the death penalty.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

I mean you raping babies and murdering and doing all this stab 50 times and then the interstate Flynn you.

[B]

So on. On September 29th of this year, Callahan appeared before hines county circuit judge Deborah Gibbs, and she sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

[A]

Who. Who was it? Oh, that was Mississippi.

[B]

And that was for the murder and sexual battery, plus two consecutive 30 year sentences for the kidnappings. Those sentences will run in addition to all penalties he faces in Louisiana and federal court. So during sentencing, the courtroom was filled with tears and fury. And Brandi Hosh, which is Callie Burnett's sister, delivered a powerful statement. This is a quote. You are a predator, a monster, a rapist, a demon, she said through sobs. You took from us something you can never give back. And judge Gibbs echoed those words, calling the crimes among the most horrific this court has ever seen in quotations. As of now, Callahan will spend the rest of his life behind bars. His co defendant, Victoria Cox, still awaits trial on charges of capital murder, kidnapping and sexual assault. Callie's family, you know, of course, lost one child, and then there's the other one that is still alive. And they're hoping that even though their life, you know, her life was forever changed, that she can overcome and.

[A]

You.

[B]

Find, you know, some sort of peace.

[A]

I don't know, something you gotta live with it forever. You know, the cases like David Constance daughter reached out to me last week. I didn't tell you about it. Tell you about half of the people that reach out to. And she was like, she just found out that Christina got out on parole after 20 years. And she was like, tell me that he's not getting out. I said, that definitely ain't getting out. Yeah, you know, and. And she said, well, I think that the pearl bore, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, I do too. But you know, the, those kids that were kids Back then we interviewed them. And now, I mean in their 40s.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

30S and 40s and. And they're still living. They're going to live with the rest of their life.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Cuz some idiot, you know.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So. Well, well, well, why not? Cool. One more. It's time for family matters. I was in went through basic training at Fort McCullen, Alabama which is in the mountains in the north northeast Alabama almost to the Tennessee line. And we got leave for Christmas actually I was in my advanced training part of school. I graduated Basie and we got our first leave. And my buddy Dale south was from Kansas and He was like 27 and I was 18. He. He worked as a meat cutter in the meat. It was hard times. The plant closed down. And he had two young daughters and a white sport. So he joined the army. Right. And we were thick as these as. But so Christmas time came and we made a plan. Jamie Hunt and Clinton Beachman them came, picked us up from the fort and from the base and drove us back to Clinton. And we stayed until Christmas Eve in Clinton, Louisiana. And then Christmas Eve night we drove all the way to Kansas so he could be there for his babies to wake up. That's the first time I had Chinese food. I never tell you.

[B]

You told me that. I knew you were coming.

[A]

So anyway, we're going to Kansas. And this involves a US army soldier who was also a husband. What do you think happened?

[B]

I guess he killed somebody.

[A]

The exact opposite. A 31 year old woman in Kansas was arrested and sentenced to prison for decades for murdering her US army soldier husband. Wow. Yeah. Margaret E. Schaeff was sentenced to over 24 years in prison proceeding of her husband Greg schaef on the Fort Riley military base. This according to the U.S. attorney's office for the district Kansas. Margaret shot her husband as he held their baby while her nine year old brushed her hair in a nearby bathroom. Yep. And according to the sentence memorandum y', all they would be federal charges in that state because it happened on a military base. Okay.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So the sentencing memorandums in the federal courts they get so many points like if, if it's to the good or bad or if they were a confidential informant and the judge ultimately has to follow the guidelines on the sentencing. Right. So they have sentencing memorandums and according to the sentence sentencing memorandum we would state court would call that pre sentence investigation report. According to the sentencing memorandum, Margaret had threatened to kill her husband just minutes before she actually did it. She said, I'm gonna make him feel my fucking pain. And he just laughs at me. And she said just after 7pm on the night of the murder in quotations. And you know, I'm the one that gets the last laugh and I've been trying and I've been trying and I want him to dead. So 20 minutes later she grabbed her husband's gun, walked up to the second floor of their home and waited for her husband to get to the stairwell landing. As soon as he did, she fired and hit him in the face as he held their 11 month old. So he fell backwards into the bathroom where their nine year old was brushing their hair. He imagined first of all how loud that gun is and he's holding the toddler falls back into the bathroom and his nine year old daughter gets to witness the joy. Also said the 9 year old screamed and hid in the shower before grabbing her younger sister and called her father to tell him what had just happened. And the father called 911. So evidently the nine year olds were different marriage. So neither child was physically injured. The wife grabbed the kids, got in the car and drove off the base. Now you can't run far. She was arrested a few hours later and then she tried to tell the cops. She's like he was a porn addict and he had sexual interest in children and everything else trying to get right.

[C]

But they lock her ass up.

[A]

They put her in jail and guess what, she must not know about jailhouse snitches because this bitch had diarrhea of the mouth and she began bragging about killing her husband and even through. And this, this first one I ever had heard, first time I ever heard this in quotations. She even threw a you birthday party for him on, on his birthday. Yeah, making confetti out of paper scraps. They said that. So back to sentence. Miranda said the defendant showed a complete lack of remorse for her unjustifiable action. And according to the prosecutors, the murder was the culmination of years of physical and emotional abuse. And as Margaret Schaef, while intoxicated, would often make fun of her husband, emboss him around and threaten to leave with their child. It's all in the sense memorandum, everything they found out. Basically it's an investigation, right. And the judge gets to hear. So the nine year old testified against her mom and which helped the prosecutors secure the conviction. And they said quotations. Margaret Schaef deserves to go to prison. The evidence in this case showed she murdered her husband while the couple's two young daughters were in the home. That's according to U.S. attorney Ryan Kraghauser. They said the court, her brave testimony from Ms. Shaft's own daughter, who witnessed her mother shoot her stepfather in a fury. So now the only bad thing about it is she gets to go to federal prison. And they're much nicer.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Than state prison.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

24 years old. Federal time is 24 years. You get one day a month. Awful good time on your federal sentence. Yeah, but say 24 years, how many months is that?

[B]

I mean, 24 times 12. I don't know.

[A]

What is that?

[B]

288.

[A]

What is 24 times 12? My brain is not working today. It's 288. All right, so she gets 288 days divided by 30. What is 288 divided by 30? It's 9.6. Is that right?

[B]

Multiple.

[A]

I'm trying to figure out how many months are. Are there? 280.

[B]

That's 2. 8. 288 months. And you're trying to figure out the day. So multiply that times 30.

[A]

Not divided by 30 was 288 times 30. It's 8,640 days. But it doesn't work because I need to figure out she's get. For every 30 days she's getting one day off her sentence.

[B]

Okay, so 288 days.

[A]

It's 288 months. So she's getting 288 days off.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Sorry. Y' all. Look brain cloud going.

[B]

So not quite a year off.

[A]

So 288 days and 24 years. She's got to serve 23 years in a couple months. That's a long fucking time.

[B]

Not enough.

[A]

I know it's not enough. I know it's not enough, but at least there's a little bit of justice.

[B]

But she shamed him. She said that he was a pedophile. She said that. I mean like his.

[A]

She threw a fuck you party on his birthday in prison and they got it on camera. But at least she. She's. At least she got 24 years. Right. But the feds don't have the leeway like the. The state should. They have to follow certain sentencing guidelines. Yeah. So.

[B]

Well, she.

[C]

And that's why there was a sentence.

[A]

A memorandum and you ma', am, we throw you a fuck you. This poor babies. I know both of them are her biological children and she. To shoot whatever.

[B]

Imagine being the nine year old that had to get up there and testify against her mom at nine.

[A]

Yep.

[B]

Nine years old.

[A]

Well, I'm pretty sure she saw some terrible shit.

[B]

I'm sure.

[A]

And she's protecting her baby sister. Yeah, the 11 month old. All right, I got nothing else for today. I love and appreciate each and every one of y' all Patreon convicts. Thank you so much for your support. No, again, episode coming this week, y'. All. We love all y' all lifers. And coming up on almost a year for true crime time for us. So we thank y' all for liking and sharing and all that. Good podcaster, you got anything else? All right, I'm Woody Overton.

[B]

I'm Cindy Overton.

[A]

You host a true crime time for this taco Tuesday. Tuesday Hawa Chiller. Peace.