McAbee then slit his throat before they then moved the body into the garage. And if you didnt, you were far and few between.. According to a text message Maggie sent her housekeeper Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson, Murdaugh requested she come "home" to Moselle, where the murders occurred, as opposed to staying at the beach house where she preferred to be in the summer, according to various witnesses' testimony. The police held a press conference to explain the crimes to the public on the afternoon of June 11, and immediately got a tip from a man who saw resident Jamie McMahan driving the pickup that day, which he was certain the unemployed 22-year-old could not afford. Gibson was convicted of manslaughter in 2010 and released last year. You can find out more and change our default settings with Cookies Settings. Asked if the Gibsons 16-year-old daughter would be implicated in the plot, Jacinto added, More arrests could occur depending on how the investigation plays out. However, in February, around the time of his mothers death, Philadelphia police arrested him, though they could only find that he was violating probation by being in the city. Upon his return, he saw Steven Sr. awake and holding his head, so he hit him again. The trial has drawn a packed courtroom, with lines outside. The latter had always supported Gibson and even gave him money. Friday, February 24, 2023 3:41pm. Kauffman eventually confessed. After spending the day doing drugs and having sex, the pair returned to Gibson's house, where they argued over some pills. The docuseries devotes under 10 minutes of its last episode to the September 4, 2021, roadside incident, a tale so strange it left people baffled well into the trial. She was real shy. McAbee pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and agreed to testify against Michelle. He raped and strangled her before mutilating her corpse, cutting one of her breasts off. [13] In regards to his upcoming murder trials, he changed his plea and waived his right to a speedy trial, choosing to plead guilty to Hodella's murder instead. "Murders dont take place and banks rarely get robbed.. Murdaugh's remaining son Buster does not receive a call from his father until 10:44 p.m. that night, according to cell phone records. On Wednesday, June 9, Krasner approved murder charges against Gibson in Lugos slaying. NBC10's Danny Freeman has the details. Cookies collect information about your preferences and your device and are used to make the site work as you expect it to, to understand how you interact with the site, and to show advertisements that are targeted to your interests. Donna Thorngren shot her husband, Curtis Curt Thorngren, Dr. Mark Wangler killed his wife, Kathy Wangler. On June 7, 2021, agents with the South . Later that night, as police officers were putting tape around the crime scene, McAbee and Molina-Pompa returned to the house and approached the investigators. ", Alex Murdaugh disputed that, replying, "That's not correct.". A probation violation report obtained by NBC10 shows that the Delaware Department of Corrections in early February told a judge that Keith Gibson, 39, was violent, had violated his probation by traveling to Philadelphia and that police there had indicated he was the prime suspect in his mothers murder. If you have any information in this case, please contact the Pulaski County Sheriff's Department at 606-678-5145. A neighbor had seen a green pickup truck parked outside the home around 9:30 a.m. It's hard to tell whether the show expects viewers to care about the murders because two people lost their lives, or feel that some type of karmic justice has been served. The bodies of Margaret Murdaugh, 52, and Paul Murdaugh, 22, were found dead from multiple gunshot wounds near the dog kennels at the family's home near Islandton, South Carolina, in June 2021, authorities said. man's yard identified", "S. 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His father, Alex Murdaugh, a local attorney and the son of Randolph Murdaugh III, owns the boat.. He said Murdaugh broke down and told him he had been addicted to opioids for 20 years, and admitted to stealing from a client they had jointly represented. At the time of his death, Steven was facing aggravated assault charges. (The defense argued during the trial that this was a result of him mistyping in shock.). On December 6, 1991, Austin, Texas was shell-shocked by a vicious crime. [4], After being released from jail, Gibson continued hanging around bars, but on February 21, 2006, he stole the purse and $300 from a female acquaintance. He told Dateline that in 1994, Linda lived with her 4-year-old daughter, Stephanie, not too far from the family. After seven minutes, Murdaugh hangs up the 911 call saying he needs to call family and, according to cell phone records, calls his brothers Randy and John Marvin, and tries to call Paul's friend Rogan Gibson, with whom Paul was in communication around the time of his death, multiple times. Instead, she paid $2000 to Erik McBee and Karen Molina-Pompa, who were friends with Steven Jr and Alysa. Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner acknowledged that police did not have enough probable cause at the time to arrest Gibson for his mothers death, but he said both the police department and his office attempted to aid the Delaware DOC to keep Gibson off the street. The DOC asked that Gibson be sentenced to 6 years in prison for his violation. The man fled in Ruiz-Basilios vehicle. READ MORE 5. He is currently on death row. Theres blood everywhere! Gibson cried. Michelle insisted that Steven had physically abused her and that she feared for her life. The elder Steven Gibson had been arrested in Nov. 2012 for allegedly assaulting an officer during a DUI stop, but none of the family members had any other significant criminal history. On the following day, one of Gibson's sisters went to their mother's house to settle the division of the family estate, and after checking the garage and finding Whitis' body, she immediately notified the police. [2] Hospital staff claimed that Gibson seemed disinterested in the treatments, and two psychiatrists later diagnosed him with a bipolar disorder, for which he was prescribed Seroquel, but again, no indications of a mental illness or a psychiatric disorder were noted. "I would never hurt Maggie. At age 13, he also started drinking and later that year, would be arrested for stealing a motorbike.[2]. [3] At the subsequent trial for this case, his lawyer claimed that he was mentally ill and requested a competency evaluation, which the court granted. That was confirmed by a subsequent tip from a local hotel employee who'd seen the boys with two girls at the hotel around the time of the murders. During the trial, however, more detail about that day has emerged. Miranda Barbour Alisha Vargas After spending some time at local bars, the pair found themselves at an apartment complex in New Albany. The boys wanted to drive to Florida and check out the theme parks with the two teenagers. [7] On April 18, he was visited by a 75-year-old friend of his late mother, Christine Whitis. Waters asked Alex Murdaugh if phone calls he made during that time, including to his wife, was to "manufacture an alibi. While he was considered an obedient inmate who rarely caused trouble, even earning an associate's degree in art from the Lindsey Wilson College, several psychiatric assessments concluded that Gibson had poor judgment and often experienced conflicting feelings of loneliness and losing control. The narrative jumps from speculation about the stress the family was under following the boat crash, to a ghoulish reconstruction of Murdaugh walking around the bodies of his wife and son, overlaid with the audio from his 911 call. The way we lost her was terrible. [16], Since his incarceration, Gibson has repeatedly appealed his death sentences, with his defense lawyer claiming that his confession to the Kirk murder was a mitigating circumstance. Defense attorney Jim Griffin, right, questions Alex Murdaugh, left, as he gives testimony during his murder trial at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, S.C., Feb. 23, 2023. Officials have indicated there may be more charges for killings in both Philadelphia and Delaware, including that of 28-year-old Metro by T-Mobile employee Leslie Ruiz-Basilio. As the police were just beginning to investigate Garber's murder, they heard over the radio that the Gibson Bank, just eight miles away, had been robbed of $65,000 by two white men in ski masks and coveralls shortly after 10:00 a.m. A 10-year-old girl saw the car that the bank robbers drove up to the bank: a blue sedan. That arrest, combined with the surveillance video from the murder of Christine Lugo at a Dunkin' shop in Philadelphia this past weekend, has developed into a wide-ranging investigation. The Netflix documentary reports that Murdaugh was arrested for the murders, but does not interrogate what led to that point. link Gibson was released from prison and sent to Level IV Community Corrections custody. Firstly, Murdaugh's former close friend Chris Wilson testified that on September 3, he had been told by Murdaugh's law firm partners that Murdaugh had been stealing money. "I don't think I was capable of reason and I lied about being out there and I'm so sorry that I did.". "This is rural Iowa," Michael Berrier, an officer with the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, told "Killer Siblings,"airing Fridays at 8/7c on Oxygen. Young Women in Salt Lake City Fearful of Serial Killer, Barbara Jean Rockys Sisters Speak Out on Reopening Her Case. Michelle Gibson, 41, a nursing school student, allegedly offered $1,000 each to two of her sons friends on Feb. 28, telling them they needed to kill [her husband] before he killed her or [his son], according to court documents filed by prosecutors. [11] On October 25, 2013, Gibson was found guilty in Whitis' murder at a jury trial, with the jurors taking less than 20 minutes to find him guilty on all charges. Two crucial witnesses throughout the trial were Murdaugh housekeeper Blanca Turrubiate-Simpsonand caregiver Mushell "Shelly" Smith, who worked for Murdaugh's parents taking care of his mother, who has dementia. Two weeks after this incident, he joined the Army and was stationed in West Germany as a mechanic. ", "On June the 7th, I wasn't thinking clearly," he said. Law enforcement also acknowledged they had a warrant to search the house where the murders occurred the day after they happened, but chose not to execute it as there were lots of people there that would be "displaced" as a result. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison. Breaking news and the stories that matter to your neighborhood. The girls took a train back to Iowa. That disturbed the girls so much they said they wanted to go home. [6] On August 15, 2014, Gibson was sentenced to death again, with sentencing Justice Orth deeming that it was "the only appropriate sentence" in regards to the brutal killing. Im no detective, but for 20 years I have gone around door to door, asking questions and trying to help solve this case, Clayton told Dateline. Since the murders, Murdaugh who says he was living with a decades-long opioid addiction has been disbarred and faces more than 100 further charges in which he's accused of financial crimes, including stealing millions of dollars from clients. Alex Murdaugh told the court Friday that he lied to investigators about the last time he saw his wife and son due in part to his distrust of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED), a state investigative agency. Netflix's popular true-crime series Unsolved Mysteries has covered over 1,000 mysteries since it started airing (originally on television.) Later that evening, one of the two boys, Erik McBee, 16, who worked at Popeyes Chicken, allegedly beat a sleeping Steven Gibson in the head with a baseball bat, according to the prosecutors complaint. Linda Gibson was a fun-loving and easygoing 21-year-old woman, according to her younger brother, Clayton Gibson. Create your free profile and get access to exclusive content. Her husband tracked down Gibson's brown Toyota and had him arrested for theft, with Gibson serving a 3-year sentence until he was released circa Independence Day in 2009. Instead, McMahan dropped the two off in an orange grove in nearby Kissimmee, Florida, threw cash at them, and drove off. Keith Gibson Indicted On 41 Felony Charges For Multiple Murders, Assaults, And Robberies - State of Delaware News State Agencies Social Media Mobile Apps Topics NEWS FEED Nominations Open for State of Delaware's Compassionate Champion Awards Date Posted: February 20, 2023 The Pensacola police called in its SWAT team and a hostage negotiator, and then called the boys' room. Copyright 2023 NBCUniversal Media, LLC. She loved her family, and we love her too, Clayton told Dateline. Til Death Do Us Part airs at 10/9c on Investigation Discovery. He had. Check out never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! He did, he said. Parole officials did not object to a recommendation by the public defender to sentence Gibson to time served plus 18 months probation. "We were like a bicycle gang. He also said he entered a rehab facility. "All kids that I knew in the town of Oskaloosa were either on it, making it, selling it. On May 23, Gibson was officially charged with her murder as well, with prosecutors announcing that they would seek the death penalty for all three killings. Updated: Dec. 10, 2020 at 7:42 PM PST. Fox's "America's Most Wanted" did a segment on the boys in late June 1997 it aired twice, according to the Tampa Bay Times which resulted in a tip on June 30 from a woman in Pensacola who recognized the truck. Asked whether he felt bad, Kauffman told police, "No, not really. McMahan had borrowed but not yet returned the same friend's .22 caliber handgun. Molina-Pompa held a gun on Steven as McAbee bashed the 39-year-old several times in the head with a baseball bat. His employee-tenant, Barb Garber, 52, had unusually for her not shown up for work that morning. On Tuesday, June 7, Gibson was arrested on suspicion of pistol-whipping a Rite Aid clerk during another Wilmington robbery. After going through a four-day withdrawal, he was examined by the prison's psychiatrist, Dr. Daniel Howerton. Firstly, Owen acknowledged that a detailed search wasn't undertaken in the area between Moselle, where the murders occurred, and Murdaugh's parents' house, where he went that evening. Waters asked, to which Alex Murdough responded, "I disagree with that.". [2], Later that year, Bailey filed a police report claiming that Gibson had blocked her car with his vehicle while she was delivering newspapers and proceeded to hit her before stealing her car keys and fleeing the scene. "But both of them were in bad places and it was really just a recipe for disaster.". No arrests have been made, but according to the Pulaski Sheriffs Department press release, the investigation has uncovered possible suspects and investigators have been concentrating on those leads. Thanks to bodycam footage of interviews, cell phone records, and law enforcement testimony, much of what Murdaugh did from that moment on is documented and plays a large part in the case against him, though the documentary barely touches on it. Get an all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! Backpack Serial Murder Victims (top left to right) Deborah Everist, Anja Habschied, Simone Schmidl, (bottom left to right) Joanne Walters, Gabor Neugebauer, Caroline Clarke, James Gibson | via Reuters Is anyone feeling that the mom has strong narcissistic vibes, I worked on both cases. The unemployed carpenter's helper confessed to. During hours of questioning on Thursday, Alex Murdaugh's attorney asked if he believed his "financial house of cards was about to crumble" on June 7, 2021, to which Alex Murdaugh replied, "Absolutely not.". He would say, If you dont tell us, we cant help you.. "I have never believed in coincidences and having one homicide in a small rural area in a five-year period is unusual," said Berrier. Authorities announced on June 12, after matching the shell casings in Garber's and Schultz's murders, that the boys were suspects. On June 21, the girls' parents called back: Their daughters had returned home safely. They argued over some prescription medication that Gibson had supposedly stolen. Michelle Gibson claims she was out shopping with her kids at the time, but her 16-year-old daughter Alysa told police that after the three of them drove to a store, Steven Jr. was driven back to the house by his mom after he received a phone call. Keith Gibbson Secondly, the Murdaughs' housekeeper Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson testified that on September 4, Murdaugh asked her to send him a photo of his medical insurance card, telling her he was trying to schedule some routine medical checks. [McBee] then took the knife and slit the victims throat.. Police are investigating whether he is responsible for at least six killings in both states, including that of his mother. Waters asked Alex Murdaugh. Link your TV provider to stream full episodes and live TV. Once inside, the responders found the brutalized bodies of four teenage girls-Amy Ayers, Jennifer Harbison, Sarah Harbison and Eliza Thomas. Michelle Dawn . The defense ended their questioning on Friday by again asking Alex Murdaugh if he murdered his wife and son. He attacked his wife, Mary Gibson, 31, with a chair and eventually knocked her out. 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