WEBVTT - Chapter 2 | Destroyer 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:14.840 Every time I hear about my dad is oh, he's 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:18.160 a killer, you know he has He's just straight evil. 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:21.200 I was always scared because, like my biggest fear was 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:23.480 being him. 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:27.320 Jeremy Scott was a shadow in Justin's life, always there, 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:31.880 but only mentioned in hush tones. Growing up, He'd hears 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:35.839 stray comments about Jeremy, but the details were always vague. 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:37.360 The hazy mix. 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:41.320 Of fact and fiction, different stories like killing two people, 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:44.639 and one time I was on the impression from all 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:47.240 the information I gathered that he's killed at least twelve people. 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:51.839 Justin also heard bits and pieces about a true story, 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:56.560 the story of the one murder his dad did get convicted. 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:59.360 Of killing this one guy because he was gay. 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:02.000 He said that, you know, to do try to touch them, 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:03.800 but apparently to do didn't touch them. 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:06.199 He just wanted to rob him for money. 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:09.480 Now, Justin wanted to know everything about whose dad was 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:12.600 and what he'd done, as long as it was finally 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:13.080 the truth. 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:17.200 If you really want to make amends, just you know, 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:21.640 come clean and just open open yourself to yourself. 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:26.280 There are some things Justin I can tell you about 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:35.480 this murder. Hey, Shan, I can tell you about the 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:39.160 evidence Kelsey and I saw at the Polk County Courthouse. 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:43.679 Don't touch anything, text some pictures and correct that we 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:47.120 saw the blood spattered shirt your dad was wearing the 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:49.720 day he was arrested. It's a Bud Mackenzie t shirts. 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:55.240 That the weapon was a bottle sparkling white grape juice. 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:59.000 That's what it is, okay. The confessions exist on two 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:00.960 black cassette tapes. 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:05.480 Testing Testing one two three four five five four three two. 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:07.600 I can tell you what's in them, and I will, 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:12.160 But there are other parts of the story, parts I 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:14.760 could never have known if your mom hadn't chosen to 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:18.560 share her side of things. She's the one who can 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:22.880 tell you about your dad's final moments of freedom because 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:26.960 your mom was there justin and in a way, so 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:36.960 were you do you? 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:49.919 My mans laugh to as my feet soru step sorry 0:02:52.440 --> 0:03:16.280 in this vasish rage as fish to. 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:19.799 The sliding stuff. 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:25.720 Sold things stop. 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:45.000 Bone Valley Season two, Jeremy Chapter two, Destroyer. 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:55.640 I remember him calling and saying that him and Brian 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:57.600 were coming. They were going to pick me up. 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:01.800 Jamie thought she was done with Jeremy. He broke up 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:04.760 with her after finding out she was pregnant, but the 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:08.880 morning after Halloween, Jeremy shows up in a Chevy Bretta, 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:10.520 Brian's in the front seat. 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:15.000 I knew Brian from high school. He was always kind 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:19.760 of a quiet guy, one of the pie heads, you know, 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:22.000 always hung out with the pie heads that smoked out 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:26.159 under the oak tree. That when I saw him in 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:29.560 that car, he was he just he didn't even look 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:32.159 like the same person. His face was all broke out. 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:35.800 It was really pale. I remember getting in the back 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:37.279 seat and we left. 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:39.680 Jamie turns to Jeremy. 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:43.040 Where'd you get the car, and he said, Oh, it's 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:48.120 Donald's car. Now, Donald, I remember him mentioning Donald before Donald, 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:50.880 I think was the guy that he owned trailer park 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:54.039 trailers or ran a trailer park or something, and Jeremy 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:59.280 would do side jobs for him. 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:02.160 Here's what I look learning from police files and trial testimony, 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:05.880 Jeremy met thirty seven year old Donald moorehead that fall 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:09.960 at a gay bar called Fantasy two thousand. Don gives 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:12.680 him some weed, asks if he wants to make some money, 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:17.640 and Jeremy begins doing handiwork at his trailer. Sometimes Don 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:20.119 would let Jeremy stay overnight if he had no place 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:24.320 to go. Don's friends later testified that Don was paying 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:25.360 Jeremy for sex. 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:30.920 Jeremy denied this, and it was weird. He said, Don 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:35.599 let me borrow his car, and I remember thinking, why 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:37.840 would Don let you borrow his car? He knows you 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:41.400 don't have a driver's license, you've never had one. 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:46.760 Jeremy circles the block a few times. From the back seat, 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:52.599 Jamie notices both boys are jumpy and nervous. Jeremy looks 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:53.760 like he's starting to cry. 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:58.440 He had spots on his pants. He was wearing this 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:02.680 white and blue shirt and these jeans, and they had 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:08.400 kind of like ragged places, not really holes, but like 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:11.719 real thin ragged places, and there were spots all over it. 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:17.240 And I remember thinking he just bought that shirt not 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:19.880 too long ago, because it was the shirt he got 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:21.840 with the money they gave him when he got out 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:25.800 of prison. He got it from the dollar store. But 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:27.000 it had spots on it. 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:30.720 The spots are dark and red. 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:36.280 And I think my brain registered what it was. 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:41.800 Jeremy tells her something really bad happened and that he 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:45.520 and Brian have to leave town. They let Jamie out 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:49.280 of the car and they drive off. Jamie is terrified. 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:52.360 She runs inside and calls her friend, Jennifer. 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:58.359 I remember her calling me, and she was upset. She 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:01.240 was crying, and I thought maybe they had a fight whatever, 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:05.840 But she was telling me that she was worried about Jeremy. 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:10.040 Something bad had happened. Jeremy had told her he'd gotten 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:12.840 into a fight with some guy, and the story was 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:15.600 that the guy was gay and made a pass at him, 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:20.280 and he had grabbed a bottle and he hit him 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:22.240 with it. Didn't know if he knocked him out or 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:24.880 what happened. And they got out of there. So she's 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:28.080 telling me he's telling her all of that, and she 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:30.400 kept saying, I think there's more. I think there's more, 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:34.560 there's more to it. And she sounded scared to me. 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:39.680 And I remember telling her, whatever you do, if he 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:43.480 shows up, don't leave with him, don't go anywhere. I 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:45.440 made her promise, but swear to me, you're not going 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:47.560 to do anything stupid. You're not going to go anywhere, 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:50.600 basically trying to talk her into staying put. 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:58.720 Later that night, Jeremy calls again. He says he wants 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:01.080 her to lay low with him for her few days, 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:04.360 then make a run for Texas in a fresh start. 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:07.760 He's coming back to get her. 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:12.080 I remember going out back, smoking a cigarette and just thinking, 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:16.640 and it was almost like I was trying to think 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:18.480 of a way to get out of it. That couldn't 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.160 find a way to get out of it. But I 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:23.480 can remember smoking a cigarette and hearing the car pull 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:30.320 up and my heart just dropping. And I remember walking 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:32.240 around the side of the house and I figured he'd 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:35.280 be sitting in the car. Well, he was already at 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:40.000 the front door, and my grandmother was at the front door. Well, 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:42.040 he had told my grandmother I'm here to pick up Jamie, 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:44.680 so you know, he already told her I was leaving. 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:46.640 So she's like, oh, okay, we'll come back your stuff. 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:48.000 You didn't tell me you were going. 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:53.280 Jamie takes another look at Jeremy. He's still wearing the 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:55.880 bloodstained clothes he had on earlier that morning. 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:19.640 I knew I wasn't coming back, and so people would 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.120 ask me, well, why you knew he showed up at 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:24.640 your house in this guy's car and he had blood 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:26.600 on his pants. Why did you get in the car 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:31.560 with him. I was not telling him. No, you don't understand, 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:35.800 and people just don't understand. I wasn't telling him. 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:40.800 No, Jeremy and Jamie set off in Don's Chevy Barretta. 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:45.760 As they drive, Jeremy talks about his plan. He's got 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:48.560 family about thirty miles away. They can hang out with 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:51.559 them for a few days before hitting the road, maybe 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:55.800 leave Polk County for good. An hour later, they arrive 0:09:55.880 --> 0:10:00.360 at a trailer in Davenport. Jeremy's younger brother Royal, is 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:04.760 there with his teenage wife Anna and their baby. 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:08.839 The baby was walking, so she had to have been, 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:12.840 you know, over a year. And I remember the baby 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:15.880 being in a diaper and just dirty and just covered 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:19.880 in dirt, and the house was dirty, and the baby 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:22.440 was crying, and I wanted to get the baby something 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:27.679 to eat. There was nothing, nothing. There was nothing in 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:33.040 that kitchen. Nothing. And I came out and I said, 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:36.520 there's nothing in this house. What are you going to 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:40.640 give her to eat? And I remember Anne getting mad, 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:42.280 told me, I don't worry about, don't worry about. She's 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:44.640 already ate. She's fine, she's fine, And Jeremy told me 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:45.240 to go to bed. 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:50.480 Back in Lakeland, Jennifer spent the whole night worrying about 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:50.960 her friend. 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:55.480 I remember getting a yeah, took a shower, my hair 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:58.040 was wet and I was combing my hair, and I 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:00.559 walked out through the kitchen into the dining room, and 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:03.680 on the dining room table was the newspaper, Lakelyn Ledger. 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:06.839 That was normal, and I went over and I grabbed it. 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:08.600 I always liked to read the comics, you know, so 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:11.480 I grabbed it and bang, right on the front page 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:14.840 there's the story about someone found murdered. And the things 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:18.480 that they were saying in the news article were, you know, 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:21.120 pretty much lining up with some of the stuff that 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:22.000 she had told me. 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:27.040 The headline and the Lakeland Ledger reads Neighbors and Investigators 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:31.360 mystified by Lakeland man found dead and home. Below it, 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:35.200 a photo shows a sheet covered body being wheeled to 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:40.000 a van. Jennifer skims the article, reading that the victim, 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:44.000 Donald Moorehead, died from a head wound and that police 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:48.240 believe his Chevy Burretta was stolen. Jennifer's thoughts jumped to 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:51.400 Jamie's panicked call into Jeremy Scott. 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:55.680 So I started freaking out, like, oh my god, he 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:59.640 killed this guy, you know. So I called for grandmother's 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:02.760 house and she was gone. They didn't know where she was. 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:08.079 She'd left with Jeremy. And at that point, I kind 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:14.920 of freak out because I'm reading this, He's obviously murdered someone. 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:18.200 In my mind, obviously murdered someone. And now my friend 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:21.640 is gone, my pregnant friend is gone somewhere with him. 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:26.160 I went and I found my mom and I went 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:27.960 to her crying. I had the paper in my hand 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:29.480 and I took it to her and I told her 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:32.200 what Janie had told me, and I showed her the article. 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:39.120 That same morning, across Polk County, Jamie wakes up in 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:43.160 a trailer with Jeremy and I was starving. 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:46.280 I was so hungry. Now, mind, I'm six months pregnant 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:51.240 and the baby's still crying. That baby was always crying, 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:56.480 and I know she was hungry. You can just tell 0:12:56.640 --> 0:13:02.319 she was hungry. I remember coming out and the keys 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:05.960 to that car sitting on this little table thing that 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:07.920 was sitting by the door, and I didn't care what 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:09.720 they said. I was going to get something to eat. 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:13.120 And I knew from sitting in the back seat that 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:16.120 that Center Council thing had a bunch of change in it. 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:20.120 And I grabbed them keys and Jeremy said, where are 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:22.079 you going? I said, I'm going to get me and 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:24.680 this baby something to eat. And I walked out the 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:32.559 door and I made it maybe a block, maybe two blocks, 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:35.200 I'm not really sure, and all of a sudden, all 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:41.600 these cops came flying from nowhere, and I can remember 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:46.319 just sitting there, petrified and thinking. In the back of 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:49.079 my head. The first thought I thought was, I knew it. 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:53.600 I knew it. My gut knew when he picked me up, 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:58.320 I knew it. I knew something was wrong. And I 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:00.880 remember putting my hands up and I'm all getting out 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.360 and they all had their guns pointed at me, and 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:06.120 I can remember hollering out the window, I'm pregnant. Please 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:09.800 don't shoot, Please don't shoot. I'm pregnant. I'm pregnant. And 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:14.840 I'm just balling and balling, and they're like, where's where's Scott, 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:18.080 Where's Jeremy Scott, where's it Jeremy Scott. And I'm like, 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:21.760 I'm alone, I'm alone. Don't shoot, don't shoot, Please don't shoot. 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:24.960 And I remember this one cop and he came in. 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:27.960 He grabbed my arm and he held it out the 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:29.720 window and then he opened the door and I can 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:32.240 remember him yanking me out and put me across the hood, 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:34.840 and all I kept thinking about was baby, and so 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:37.480 I was grabbing my stomach and so then they got 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:41.200 really mad, and so they're grabbing my arms and all 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:45.520 I kept hollering was I'm pregnant. I'm pregnant. And this 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:48.640 one cop got down in my face and he says, 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:53.640 if you care about your baby, where's Jeremy Scott? And 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:55.840 I said, I'll tell you where they're at. I'll tell 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:58.680 you what they're wearing. Just let me get off my baby, 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:00.840 and so he let me stand up. I said, to 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:03.480 that house. I told them, to the scripts of the house. 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:05.360 This is what they're wearing, this is how many people 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:08.760 are there. But I said, there's a baby in the house. 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:12.720 And I remember this lady cop being there, and I 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:15.360 can remember I looked at her and I was crying 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:17.520 and I said, please take some food for that baby, 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.760 and she just looked at me and she said what 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:24.000 I said, Please feed that baby and the tea, and 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:27.360 I mean she started crying. They did put me in 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:30.920 the back of the car and they told me they 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:33.200 were taking me to the station and I said okay, 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:40.360 And when they shut that door, I could breathe. It 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:43.560 was like the whole time I couldn't breathe like I 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:49.840 was underwater. And then I think that's when it finally 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:54.440 hit me that I was free, that I was finally 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:59.200 going to get away. And they took me to the 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:01.480 station and they were ask me everything, and I told 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:04.160 him everything, everything I knew, and they were asking me 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:06.720 about calling Jennifer. And then that's when I knew Jennifer 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:08.400 had called the police. 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:11.560 I was scared and I was upset for her, but 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:15.600 I was also mad at her because she promised me 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:17.480 that she wouldn't go with him. 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:24.800 She promised me, So Jennifer saved my life. I'm telling 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:30.520 you right now, I still firmly believe if he had 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:35.920 not been arrested, I'd be dead. It was getting more 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:41.920 and more violent each time. And the look when I 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:45.760 first met him, he was intense, and you could just 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:49.000 feel him. By the end, there was nothing. There was 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:52.280 nothing in his eyes, and he would look at you 0:16:52.320 --> 0:17:16.520 and you would just feel like ice water. Five four 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:17.480 three two. 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:22.920 We'll be speaking with Jeremy j E. R. M. E. 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:24.880 Y Scott. 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:29.000 When Jeremy and Brian are arrested, they eventually tell police 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:33.400 everything that the murder happened. The morning after Halloween. 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:36.639 Night, going back to Halloween. 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:41.240 That they were drinking and smoking in Don's trailer. Jeremy 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:44.320 knows Don's got hundreds of dollars on him. He wants 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:47.520 the cash and Don's car, and when he sees Don 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:51.200 asleep in the recliner, Jeremy smashes him over the head 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:52.040 with a bottle. 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:56.320 I ain't one time with the bottle, okay, And that's 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:57.040 when he went down. 0:17:57.080 --> 0:17:59.200 He was like then, he was unconscious. 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:03.400 When Don doesn't die fast enough, Jeremy wraps a telephone 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:09.120 cord around his neck and watches Don take his final breath. 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:14.080 From the tapes, it's clear the murder, like so many 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:18.040 of Jeremy's violent acts, was completely senseless and not well 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:21.600 thought out. He kills Don to give himself time to 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:24.600 search for money. He knew Don was hiding in the trailer, 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:28.040 but the murder didn't bring him any closer to finding it. 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:28.600 Which you couldn't. 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:32.280 You will don't care what you do. You won't fire again. 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:33.920 You will find nice cook eating. 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:37.360 So Jeremy gave up looking for the cash and left 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:40.240 a fake note on Don's door to buy themselves time 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:44.040 to get away. It reads friend was in trouble in 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:47.520 Orlando went to help him be back in a few days. 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:53.760 Don That's when Jeremy drives over to Jamie's with blood 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:57.000 on his clothes and brings her to the trailer in Davenport. 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:02.120 When police pulled Jamie over in the Chevy, Jeremy hears 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:05.120 a dog from the canine unit. From inside the trailer, 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:10.240 he sees the helicopter circling above. With nowhere to go, 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:13.760 he and his younger brother, Royal Dean, take off into 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:17.960 the woods. Dean's got a warn out for his arrest. 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:20.440 It's an unrelated charge, but he doesn't want to be 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:24.600 thrown in jail either. They wade into a creek, hoping 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:28.240 the water will mask their scent, but the helicopter stays 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:32.919 fixed above them. They sit together on a log and 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:37.200 Jeremy finally tells Royal Dean what he did to Donald moorehead. 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:41.440 They're after me, not you, he says. Watching the scene 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:46.240 unfold through the trees from where they sit, Jeremy sees 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:49.639 the officers putting Jamie in the back of a cop car, 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:54.320 and then he does something that for me looking at 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:58.320 it now, reveals what a complicated and conflicted person he is. 0:20:00.560 --> 0:20:00.879 M M. 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:05.520 My brother said he was gonna turn him selva Inn, 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:07.560 so that's what he did. 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:11.040 Jamie had nothing to do with this murder, and he 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:13.880 doesn't want her or Royal Dean caught up in it. 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:16.560 He gave me enough time to get away and they 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:17.240 turned himselve In. 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:22.480 What I know from police records is that Jeremy walks 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:26.080 up the hill toward the waiting detectives. Are you looking 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:30.600 for me? He asks? His voice is calm, almost resigned 0:20:30.640 --> 0:20:44.880 to his fate. He's been behind bars ever since. Somebody 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:47.200 told Jamie that you were gonna kill Jamie. 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:48.240 What. 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:53.640 Yeah, I gotta take my own life right to kill 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:56.439 her up. 0:20:57.600 --> 0:20:59.040 That's the only girl I ever really loved. 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:02.960 And she was pregnant with Justin at the time. 0:21:03.240 --> 0:21:03.440 Yeah. 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:08.480 Yeah. 0:21:09.080 --> 0:21:12.280 On March fifth, nineteen eighty nine, well, Jeremy is locked 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:15.119 up in the Polk County jail awaiting trial for Donald 0:21:15.119 --> 0:21:19.960 Moorehead's murder. Jamie checks into the hospital with her mom. 0:21:20.280 --> 0:21:33.080 I was petrified. You know, you see movies about evil children, 0:21:33.520 --> 0:21:37.160 like like Damien and stuff, and I'm not gonna lie. 0:21:37.200 --> 0:21:40.919 I had those thoughts. I had those thoughts that what 0:21:41.080 --> 0:21:55.639 if this kid is just like his father? When Justin 0:21:55.840 --> 0:21:59.800 was born. The day he was born, and the way 0:21:59.840 --> 0:22:02.040 he was I had a really rough labor. He was 0:22:02.080 --> 0:22:07.960 in stress. It was just it was scary. And he 0:22:08.119 --> 0:22:11.720 ended up being in the hospital for like six weeks, 0:22:12.600 --> 0:22:15.560 and I couldn't hold him and I couldn't touch him, 0:22:15.840 --> 0:22:18.040 and I would sit there and I would look at 0:22:18.119 --> 0:22:22.560 him and I told I remember telling my mom, this 0:22:22.640 --> 0:22:25.200 baby's not gonna love me because I can't bond with him, 0:22:25.320 --> 0:22:29.560 I can't touch him. And I can remember him just 0:22:29.640 --> 0:22:32.560 looking at me, and my mom saying, you see how 0:22:32.560 --> 0:22:35.600 he's looking at you. He knows who you are. And 0:22:35.640 --> 0:22:39.560 I just fell so in love with this baby. And 0:22:40.720 --> 0:22:46.080 I just knew. I just knew he was mine. I 0:22:46.119 --> 0:22:48.600 didn't care who his dad was, I didn't care how 0:22:48.640 --> 0:22:52.600 he came. That was my baby, that was my child. 0:22:55.640 --> 0:22:58.640 By the time Jeremy's trial began, his son was six 0:22:58.680 --> 0:23:02.080 months old. This trial was not a who done it. 0:23:02.840 --> 0:23:06.120 Both Jeremy and his co defendant Brian Hall had already 0:23:06.160 --> 0:23:10.679 confessed to killing Donald moorehead. Even though the jury recommended 0:23:10.720 --> 0:23:15.240 life in prison, that Jeremy's sentencing prosecutor, John Aguero, convinced 0:23:15.240 --> 0:23:18.919 the judge to send him to the electric chair, so 0:23:19.080 --> 0:23:21.879 Jeremy was shipped off to death Row at Rayford to 0:23:21.960 --> 0:23:25.800 wait for his execution date, and while he waited, he 0:23:25.840 --> 0:23:27.680 could not stop thinking about his son. 0:23:28.800 --> 0:23:31.280 He would write, I mean, at first, it was like 0:23:31.760 --> 0:23:34.800 almost every day I would get a letter, get a letter, 0:23:34.840 --> 0:23:38.480 get a letter. And then I can remember him begging 0:23:38.560 --> 0:23:41.280 to meet Justin, begging to meet Justin. I wanted to 0:23:41.280 --> 0:23:46.680 meet Justin, and I wouldn't write him back. I wouldn't respond, 0:23:46.800 --> 0:23:49.320 and I kept thinking, if I don't answer him, he'll 0:23:49.400 --> 0:23:53.040 quit right and he's gone, He's gone. Don't answer them. 0:23:53.280 --> 0:23:55.679 But he kept asking about Jestin, and he wanted to 0:23:55.680 --> 0:24:01.520 meet Jestin, and I found he wrote down, and I thought, okay, 0:24:01.760 --> 0:24:04.159 I'm gonna let him meet Justin. One time. 0:24:06.119 --> 0:24:10.359 Jamie drives north to Rayford to visit Jeremy. In the 0:24:10.440 --> 0:24:14.360 visitation area, death row inmates are separated from visitors by 0:24:14.440 --> 0:24:19.439 thick glass. When Jeremy's escorted in, He's wearing blue prison 0:24:19.520 --> 0:24:23.040 pants with an orange shirt reserved for death row inmates. 0:24:24.440 --> 0:24:27.840 Jamie is seated on one side of the glass. Jeremy 0:24:27.880 --> 0:24:29.240 sits down on the other side. 0:24:30.160 --> 0:24:33.439 I let him see him through. It was like five minutes. 0:24:33.880 --> 0:24:34.960 It wasn't very long. 0:24:36.760 --> 0:24:40.240 Jeremy can't take his eyes off of Justin, and. 0:24:40.240 --> 0:24:43.640 I remember him starting crying, and I told him, this 0:24:43.680 --> 0:24:47.840 is the lonely time you'll ever see your son. And 0:24:47.920 --> 0:24:52.720 I think me being able to finally tell him no 0:24:53.560 --> 0:25:00.600 without the fear was what I needed. And I remember 0:25:00.680 --> 0:25:06.399 leaving and the relief that I felt, and knowing that 0:25:06.520 --> 0:25:10.439 I'd never have to see him again, and that it 0:25:10.560 --> 0:25:15.960 was just so much relief, so much relief. And I 0:25:16.080 --> 0:25:18.399 remember going out and sitting in the car, and I 0:25:18.480 --> 0:25:21.199 know I sat there for probably an hour, and I 0:25:21.320 --> 0:25:27.160 just cried, and a part of me felt guilty because 0:25:28.400 --> 0:25:34.080 Justin was going to grow up without a dad, but 0:25:34.119 --> 0:25:38.280 I wouldn't want him growing up with that dad. And 0:25:38.320 --> 0:25:41.840 the letter stopped not long after that. They got less 0:25:41.880 --> 0:25:45.480 and less, and it wasn't much longer after that that 0:25:45.520 --> 0:25:49.560 he finally just gave up and stopped writing. 0:25:56.040 --> 0:26:00.480 Jamie tries to move on to forget. Every time there's 0:26:00.480 --> 0:26:04.959 a change in Jeremy's status, the doc notifies her, like 0:26:05.000 --> 0:26:08.520 a few years later, when the Florida Supreme Court overturns 0:26:08.600 --> 0:26:12.520 Jeremy's death sentence, citing all the physical and emotional abuse 0:26:12.560 --> 0:26:16.040 he suffered, as a child, she's told that his sentence 0:26:16.040 --> 0:26:19.480 has been reduced to life in prison. When she gets 0:26:19.520 --> 0:26:23.040 these calls about Jeremy, she has to start forgetting all 0:26:23.080 --> 0:26:23.680 over again. 0:26:25.920 --> 0:26:27.840 I used to have some of his clothes and stuff 0:26:27.840 --> 0:26:31.000 that I held onto for a long time. I got 0:26:31.080 --> 0:26:35.119 rid of all of that to try to get rid 0:26:35.160 --> 0:26:40.080 of demons. And it didn't work. Yeah, I was. I 0:26:40.119 --> 0:26:42.320 had a really rough time with nightmares and stuff for 0:26:42.400 --> 0:26:48.520