Authorities announced on June 12, after matching the shell casings in Garber's and Schultz's murders, that the boys were suspects. [19] Gibson has also done several interviews on various podcasts, on which he has professed responsibility for an additional 30 murders committed across multiple states, additionally claiming that he has sexually abused and even cannibalized the victims' corpses. [3] After his release, he started dating Kelly Bailey. Regardless, it certainly backs the hypothesis that Alex Murdaugh is behind them. Timeline: How Man Suspected in 6 Murders Was on the Street Keith Gibson served time for manslaughter and was released in 2020. Upon his return, he saw Steven Sr. awake and holding his head, so he hit him again. In interviews with police, the teenage girls said that they had "partied" with McMahan and Kauffman at the hotel on the night of June 10. 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 Without objection from probation and parole officials, the judge accepted the public defender's recommendation for time served and placed him on 18 months of probation, Miller said. Maggie and Paul Murdaugh. At one point, Steven Jr returned to the house and stabbed his father three times in the chest. The DOC asked that Gibson be sentenced to 6 years in prison for his violation. That disturbed the girls so much they said they wanted to go home. I just want people to remember Linda and little Cody.. Michelle insisted that Steven had physically abused her and that she feared for her life. "I saw what yall have seen pictures of," he told the jurors, crying. 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. The latter had always supported Gibson and even gave him money. 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. Upon learning of his conviction, his wife divorced him. Police found $29,000 in cash less than half of what they'd stolen 19 days before and a .22 caliber handgun. Breaking news and the stories that matter to your neighborhood. He rolled out of bed, bundled up warmly, pulled on his boots, and stepped outside with a metal pail. Of the parade of SLED agents and affiliated professionals who testified over the course of the prosecution's month-long case, the defense attorneys poked holes in each testimony, in particular highlighting errors in securing the crime scene early on and collecting evidence. 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. "We were like a bicycle gang. The Pulaski County Sheriffs Department and the Somerset Police Department are conducting the investigation. Once inside, the responders found the brutalized bodies of four teenage girls-Amy Ayers, Jennifer Harbison, Sarah Harbison and Eliza Thomas. 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. [10], During his murder trial, prosecutors presented an interview Gibson had given to investigators upon his arrest, during which he claimed that an "evil" had overcome him and had made him commit the murder. 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. [3] After his release, he married an artist in June 1980, but after he was diagnosed with infertility, Gibson intensified his drug usage, supposedly smoking upwards of 20 marijuana joints a day. Kauffman had just graduated from high school with apparently few prospects and a group of friends who "ran the streets," and McMahan had recently lost his job at a local plant. After his release from the hospital, he was sent to serve the rest of his sentence at the Floyd County Jail, where he remained until his discharge on March 12, 2002.[4]. Murdaugh's story that he tried to stage his own murder in a suicide plot in order for his son Buster to collect his life insurance has been treated with skepticism, especially after the man involved in the incident, Curtis Eddie Smith, said he was set up. While the documentary suggested the unraveling of the Murdaughs' finances was due to the boat crash, trial testimony suggests that the law firm was already looking into inconsistencies surrounding funds relating to some of Murdaugh's cases, the severity of which was revealed to him that day. "But both of them were in bad places and it was really just a recipe for disaster.". Kauffman told McMahan he wasn't going to shoot Schultz, too, so McMahan shot her in the back of her head, then in her forehead, and took her car. "All the sudden, Jamie McMahan grabs the phone and is yelling at the hostage negotiator.". 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Mahaska County seems like a peaceful, quiet place. For several days, McMahan and Kauffman spent the cash "like crazy," said Quinn but by the time the foursome got to Disney World in Orlando, the girls wondered how they'd actually come by so much money. And then, Steven Jr. appeared with a knife and stabbed his father multiple times. "I never manufactured any alibi in any way shape or form, because I did not and would not hurt my wife and my child.". They also told Medinilla that Gibson had an extensive history of violence including 29 felony arrests and nine convictions a documented history of anger issues, and that they felt he posed a threat to himself and the community. NBC10's Tim Furlong and Hannah Gross contributed to this story. Jamie Mcmahan and Chris Kauffman. 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. Familicide, Mass Murder Esker Gibson flew into a murderous rage after seeing a man leave his home in Irvington, AL, on April 24, 1941. Crime scene specialist Kenneth Kinsey, right, shows where he believes a shotgun round entered Paul Murdaugh during Alex Murdaugh's double murder trial at the Colleton County Courthouse, Feb. 16, 2023, in Walterboro, S.C. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Jamie McMahan and Chris Kaufmann needed cash to fuel their meth habit so they came up with a horrifying plan that included betraying a friend. Rufus . Authorities are investigating whether he was responsible for six . Secondly, Seckinger testified that the conversation was cut short when Murdaugh received a phone call telling him his father, who was in hospital, was terminal. After spending some time at local bars, the pair found themselves at an apartment complex in New Albany. "I would never hurt Maggie. But there are only three roads in or out of Gibson, and a search by deputies along those roads found the sedan, abandoned on a gravel road off of one of them. He said he was even spoiled but acknowledged that his father was an alcoholic who would become combative when drunk. Four of the murders Gibson is linked to happened in May and June. [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. Maggie and Paul Murdaugh are not presented in the most flattering of lights in the docuseries. Updated: Dec. 10, 2020 at 7:42 PM PST. Michelle Gibson was sentenced to life in prison, and her son, Steven Gibson Jr, was sentenced to 22 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder and hindering prosecution. 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 lawyer representing the boys, who were charged with federal counts of aggravated robbery and carjacking and two state counts of first degree murder, negotiated a plea to help them avoid the death penalty. According to The Independent, filming for the documentary wrapped before the trial began, so many of the explosive details that have come from the 19 days of testimony and counting are absent from the show. [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. Thirdly, Owen acknowledged that SLED was told that Murdaugh was spending $50,000 a week on drugs, which he was buying from gang members who were never investigated by law enforcement in connection with the murders. Alex Murdaugh gives testimony during his murder trial at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, S.C., Feb. 23, 2023. Bizarrely, this is after Murdaugh opened a group text message, called a videographer he barely knew, and appeared to Google "Whaley's Edisto," a restaurant in the beach town where the Murdaughs were renovating a home. Weeks into the trial, Alex Murdaugh was called to take the stand by his defense team on Thursday. She said that some days later, Murdaugh had a conversation with her that she found upsetting, in which he told her that the visit had lasted 30 to 40 minutes, but that to her recollection, it had lasted 20 minutes. The high-profile family is linked to five deaths, two of which patriarch Alex is on trial over. They were right to be: Schultz's body was found in her living room. In May 2003, Gibson sued the prison authorities, claiming that they had improperly denied him access to Seroquel and for housing him in squalid conditions, but the suit was thrown out by a federal judge, who considered it baseless. The Murdaugh family legacy is now coming crashing down as 54-year-old Richard Alexander Murdaugh (known as Alex, pronounced "Alec") stands trial accused of shooting his wife Maggie and adult son Paul to death on June 7, 2021. Elsmere police later contacted Philadelphia police, saying the man they were looking for fit the description of a man Philly officers were after in a Fairhill Dunkin store murder. Famous Alabama Murders Some of the most famous Alabama murders over the years include the 2005 murder of Charles Newman, who was killed on Halloween night by Andrew Lackey, later named the "Halloween Killer;" the 1941 Gibson Family Murders; and the 2001 unsolved murder of Shannon Paulk. When asked why he lied about the last time he saw his wife and son, Murdaugh blamed his addiction to painkillers, which he said caused "paranoid thinking. He said the two decided to rob the bank for money to pay for their meth habit, but the day before, they saw Garber driving her pickup which was the kind of car McMahan had been wanting. Keith Gibson was arrested after allegedly attacking a Rite Aid clerk in Delaware during a robbery. My dad was a loving man and was not abusive in any way.. Michelle Dawn . Clayton told Dateline that in the weeks and months leading up to July 3, his sister had told him and their father that she thought someone was going to hurt her. Michelle Gibson and Steven Gibson Jr. Erik McBee approached Steven Sr. as he slept upstairs on his bed and struck him several times with a baseball bat before going back downstairs. The boys grew up together inOskaloosa, Iowa a city of then about 10,000 people around 25 miles from the aforementioned crimes. I didn't know whether he was trying to get me to say that that shirt, if I was to be asked that if that was the shirt he was wearing that day.". In later interviews, he claimed that he had never experienced any abuse or neglect from either of his parents. The Pensacola police found it parked behind a hotel, and hotel staff confirmed the boys were there with a new third person. 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. Two men were shot dead in a store in Philadelphias Germantown neighborhood, but police did not recover a gun. Linda and Cody were last seen walking along Bourne Avenue, Pulaski Sheriffs Department press release. 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. She had been shot both in the back of her head and her forehead. EVERETT Gail Jubie's family begged a judge to keep the man who killed her in prison for the rest of his life. The warnings did not sway Medinilla in accepting the public defender's recommendation. Miller said Gibson violated probation by fighting with other offenders and was sentenced to six more months in prison, followed by 18 months of probation. Gibson then doused his home with kerosene and set. They followed her home, and McMahan told Kauffman they'd use her pickup to commit the robbery. [2] Due to this, he was found competent to stand trial and accepted an Alford plea, for which he was sentenced to seven years imprisonment at the Luther Luckett Correctional Complex in La Grange. "Mahaska County, it is one of the safest counties in the state of Iowa," he told producers. Krasners office has approved murder charges against Gibson in the North Philadelphia killing of 40-year-old Dunkin manager Christine Lugo over the weekend. Meanwhile, McAbee and Molina-Pompa attacked Steven as he slept at the house. Rogan Gibson, who said he was a close friend of Paul's and the Murdaughs were like a second family to him, told investigators shortly after the killings he was 99% sure he heard Alex Murdaugh's. Her motive stemmed from a wish to collect from a $320,000 life insurance policy. Then, he left the body on the garage floor, surrounded by garbage bags. The docuseries devotes more than half of its airtime to telling the story of Mallory Beach, who died in 2019 aged 19 after a boat seemingly driven by a heavily intoxicated and belligerent Paul Murdaugh, also 19 at the time, crashed into a bridge, hurling her overboard into the waters where she drowned. Other witnesses corroborated the story that Murdaugh learned of his father's condition the same day Maggie and Paul were murdered. James Waybern Hall: The murderer known as "Big Jim" killed 4 people, including his wife, in Arkansas between 1944 and 1945. One key question left unanswered by the docuseries is what potential motive Murdaugh could have had for murdering Maggie and Paul. 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. He also said he entered a rehab facility. Despite pleas from prosecutors, probation officers and police in two states to keep a convicted killer locked up, a Delaware judge authorized the release of the man who is now being investigated in at least six more slayings. The scheme fell apart when McBee, who was helping Steven Jr. move the body, heard police sirens in the distance, fled the scene but later turned himself in to police at the house, documents say. [2] Eight months later, Gibson was charged with robbery and sexual battery relating to an incident involving a 21-year-old woman whom he sexually assaulted in a phone booth near the Louisville Galleria in Louisville, Kentucky. Officials concluded this after a month . At the time, Paul Murdaugh was awaiting trial on a charge of allegedly boating under the influence after a crash in February 2019 that killed a 19-year-old woman, Mallory Beach of South Carolina. McMahan had borrowed but not yet returned the same friend's .22 caliber handgun. As part of the deal, it was decided that evidence presented at the Hodella trial would not be used as evidence or an aggravating factor in any follow-up trials. "You've been able to lie quickly and easily and convincingly if you think it'll save your skin for well over a decade. The tragic story of the boat crash and Beach's death, the traumatic impact it had on a group of teenagers, and the way it spotlights the weight of the Murdaugh name in the local area make it an obvious entryway to the family's story. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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