WEBVTT - 4. The Hitman 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:07.159 Gampsite Media large. 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:18.600 So Rory. 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:22.720 Episode four is the halfway point of our series. Can 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:25.960 you recap for fans who maybe smoked too much weed 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:29.120 between last week and what's been going on. 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:35.159 David Gant, the mastermind of acquiring seventeen million dollars from 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:40.400 Alumis Fargo, is hiding out in Mexico with a little 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:44.760 bit of cash and trying to guess beyond the lamb. 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:48.320 While in the United States of America, the rest of 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:52.320 his crew is getting a little flimsy with the money. 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:55.240 And also we're starting to learn that the FBI is 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:04.399 easily gaining traction. Who is guilty of what? So, yeah, 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:06.880 seventeen million dollars have been stolen. David Gann is the 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:09.520 only one on the lamb. Everyone else is hiding out 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:12.319 in broad daylight spending the money he stole. 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:15.480 All right, then let's get onto the episode. This is 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:17.000 Hilbilly Heist Episode four. 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:26.040 When you're twenty five years old, somebody engine offers you 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:28.000 tuner for the Grand first thing that pops in your 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:30.640 head is cocaine, hookers, and hot tubs. 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:34.480 Cocaine and hooker, sure, but adding a hot tub just 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:36.440 seems fungusy. 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:38.080 Why the hot tubs. 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:40.360 He needs someplace to relax. 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:45.800 That's usually the unholy Trinity. 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:50.200 This is Mike McKenny, a man who knows precisely what 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:53.080 he wants out of life, and also a man who's 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:55.520 fairly comfortable doing whatever it takes to get it. 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:58.320 I have been labeled with sociopathic tendencies. 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:02.240 That's also coming from over educated people with too many degrees. 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:09.320 I don't care, which brings us to why Mike McKenny 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:13.359 got offered two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. It was 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:17.720 a cash deal to pull off one simple job killing 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:25.560 David Gant. Mike mckennie is a former marine who got 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:30.440 kicked out for, in his words, going feral, but before 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:33.799 he was discharged he got pretty good at shooting guns 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:37.520 and blowing shit up. He's a big dude, a muscular 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:40.799 six foot four. Back in the day, he rocked bleach 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:43.880 blonde hair and a dark beard, and the carpet didn't 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:45.960 match the curtains or did it. 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:49.320 To each their own way, The nineties were to me. 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:52.640 When he was still in the Marines, Mike served with 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:56.640 Michelle's first husband, and he also got to know Steve Chambers, who, 0:02:56.680 --> 0:03:00.000 as we know eventually became Michelle's second husband. 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:05.440 Cute little bitty thing, but she's louding obnoxious. Steve was 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:09.880 a bigger guy. He thought he was super slick. Thought 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:11.400 he's a tough guy. 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:16.960 But he was pretty good con man. He could make 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:20.120 you believe a story. He was kind of slicking that regard. 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:22.600 If you've ever been around a really good con man, 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:25.560 you can talk to them and know they're full oft shit, 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:27.600 but they still draw you in. 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:30.400 I don't know how they do it. 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:34.160 Mike started working construction in Illinois after the Marines booted 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:36.840 him out, but he stayed in touch with Steve and Michelle, 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:41.200 and then in the fall of nineteen ninety seven, Steve 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:42.960 approached Mike with the proposition. 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:46.120 The story he told me was this guy needs to 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:49.320 get out of town fast. He robs some money from 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:51.520 the wrong people. Blah blah blah. 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:55.240 Yeah, for fifty thousand dollars cash. I was like deal. 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:02.560 The real story that Steve gave his ID to David Gant, 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:06.160 who used it to flee to Mexico. David and Mike 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:10.720 don't really look anything alike. But remember TSA doesn't exist. 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:14.960 There are no digital eyeball scanners. Also giving someone else 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:17.039 your ID wasn't such a big deal back then. 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:19.680 On me, it wouldn't have mattered if somebody would have 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:22.000 ran a credit scam because I didn't have any credit. 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:25.359 I didn't have any assets for them to try to 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:26.839 cheat me out of, if I didn't have a huge 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:29.400 banking account that they could empty my bank account. 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:31.600 Plus, you could just show up to the DMV, take 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:34.160 a number, and get a new ID with basically no 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:43.080 questions asked. A few weeks after Mike gave Steve his ID, 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:46.280 Steve and his henchman, Big Eric, took a trip to Illinois. 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:49.720 They met Mike in a motel room and gave him 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:54.359 the money Stevid promised fifty grand in small bills. Steve 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:56.640 still didn't tell him where the money came from, but 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.719 he did offer Mike a chance to make even more. 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:03.240 He did drop a seed in there, and he said, 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:06.200 a there might be something big, else big coming up 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:08.440 to we might have to take somebody out. 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:12.599 And as soon as Steve mentioned that he was willing 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:16.880 to pay a quarter million dollars cash, Mike probably immediately thought, 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:19.600 you know how much cocaine, hookers and hot tubs that'll 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:19.880 buy you. 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:24.800 There was no way I would have ever seen that 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:27.120 kind of money in my life. You know, number one, 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:30.800 you're probably gonna end up dead or in prison. It's 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:35.880 a conclusion, and that's what you accept. The only thing 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:38.479 you do is run one day at a time, throwing 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:41.560 as much fun in there as you could before you 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:42.520 hit the brick wall. 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:47.080 Mike told Steve he'd do the job. He still didn't 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:51.720 know where, when, or even who he was killing. Still 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:56.600 he persevered, But hey, dealing with that kind of uncertainty 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:59.120 is just part of being a professional assassin. 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:05.440 Actually, I prefer the the hitman or the hard gun 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:09.680 conferred to assassin because to me, the assassin sounds like 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:15.200 your elite government type of person, you know, one the 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:19.760 government's used, and hit man or a gun for her 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:23.440 sounds more like the hill billy, redneck version of the assassin. 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:31.360 Huh. Anyway, after Steve left, Might quit his construction job 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:46.960 and waited for the call from SmartLess media, campsite media, 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:51.120 and big money players. In partnership with iHeart Podcasts, I'm 0:06:51.200 --> 0:07:00.400 Johnny Knoxville and you're listening to Crime List Bill Billy Heist. 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:13.520 This is our fourth episode. The hit Man a month 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:18.200 into his time in Cancun, David Gand has transformed. He's 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:21.440 no longer the scrawny outlaw giving himself the first little 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:25.480 taste of luxury. Now he's a full blown connoisseur. 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:32.160 I'm learning how to be a person of means, so 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:38.640 I'm trying out the more expensive desserts. I'm drinking better alcohol. Lobster, 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:43.400 so I order a double. It comes with this huge potato. 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:44.480 That's great. 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.840 The heist was the first time that David's impulsive frame 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:52.080 and his army trained planning Frain really got to join forces. 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:56.200 Turns out these two sides of David like working together 0:07:56.920 --> 0:08:00.200 and having a pocket full of cash. In Mexico, it's 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:04.520 a new opportunity for collaboration. He's devised a new routine, 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:07.040 a regular circuit of indulgence. 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:11.640 And we made this loop of really good bars and 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:16.520 restaurants and I would start around two thirty three o'clock. 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:17.880 I'd go for a morning. 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:22.040 Swim, come back, take a nap, and I'd start making 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:22.520 my rounds. 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.520 The highlight of this tour was Senior Frogs. 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.319 I don't like to dance, but if I have enough tequila, 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:35.360 I will. 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:41.880 After Senior Frogs, he'd hit another club called Laboom, and 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:44.200 he'd usually end his night at Daddy Rock. 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:48.160 By then it's two in morning, and I've spent a 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:48.680 don't know how. 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:52.679 Much money real talk, probably about seventy eight bucks. And 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:56.360 all this time David claims that he's not missing Kelly. 0:08:57.120 --> 0:09:00.679 I'll be brutally honest, like the turb to come in, 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:05.080 and there were enough females. 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:11.600 And I really didn't put my salt in her to 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:12.600 be brutally honest. 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:15.040 Oh yeah, we get a David. You never really liked 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:15.680 her anyway. 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:18.199 One of the contests I went to was a bear 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:23.960 as You Dare contest, and since I tipped the doorman, 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:27.840 I got to be an honorary judge. So I got 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:31.319 up front and they go through, and I mean, the 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:35.720 bikinis are getting smaller and smaller, and finally the one 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:38.960 girl comes out and she's got a band aid on 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:39.520 her foot. 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:47.560 But hitting every club in Cancoon every single day is 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:48.880 kind of tough on the wallet. 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:50.800 That'll run your money out quick. 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:53.720 And as the weeks go on, David is starting to 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:56.120 wonder what the hold up is. I mean, how hard 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:58.520 could it be to get contraband into Mexico. 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:02.760 You can smuggle in South all. 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:05.400 This time, David is making his weekly calls to Kelly 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:09.080 at the payphone in North Carolina. He's asking about the money, 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:13.599 explaining that he's running out, and she's just making excuses. 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:16.640 She's talking about, Oh, they haven't problems moving it as 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:17.040 a lot. 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:19.560 They didn't think you'd get nothing of small bills, And 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:21.880 I'm like, what what are you fussing about? 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:26.439 But through it all, David is still David. Here are 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:29.040 the emotions of the guy who threw his life away 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:32.480 for one third share of millions of dollars that he 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:33.640 has yet to see. 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:38.400 Not really fed up, but I'm kind of angry. 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:41.760 I mean, come on, David, if you were pissed, we 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:47.520 would understand. And yet somehow he is still not angry 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:50.240 with Kelly. He's angry with the other guy from the heist, 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:52.679 and he finally knows that guy's name. 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:54.000 She's let slip. 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:58.439 I knew that Steve is a name I wasn't supposed 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:00.960 to know, mister Orange or whatever. 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:05.840 David tells Kelly he needs fifty grand a SAP. She 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:19.880 tells him she'll let Steve know. Mike McKinnie isn't much 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:20.760 of a people person. 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:23.280 Yeah, that's a lot easier to tolerate people when you 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:24.720 don't have to be around them all the time. 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:29.640 Actually, I find that really relatable. But after accepting Steve's 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:33.240 initial offer, Mike was still waiting on instructions on who 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:36.640 he was supposed to kill. In the meantime, Steve had 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:39.320 another way for Mike to make money. He could come 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:43.240 to North Carolina, live in a motel and be Steve's bodyguard. 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:46.439 You know, and somebody hires you for that, You kind 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:48.200 of take it serious at first, and then you realize 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:52.960 there's really no threat here. He just he just wants 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:56.000 to pay me money to look tougher because he has 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:56.680 a buddyguard. 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:58.680 It's like get paid to hang out. 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:01.760 I had to carry the pistol because he was a felon, 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:06.000 and other than that, right around in the truck with 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:10.199 him and Sidney's furniture store and go back to the 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:11.120 hotel room at night. 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:15.360 This life of leisure did give Mike and Steve plenty 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:17.000 of time to hang out in the mansion. 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:22.640 We actually went to the basement and saw the wine 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:24.840 cellar full of PBR. 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:26.959 That's actually great. 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:31.120 He treated the wine cellar more like a walking cooler 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:32.800 at the liquor store. 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:34.800 He went in there and. 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:38.960 Basically had cases and twelve packs packed everywhere inside of 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:44.440 this place. The velvetelle was the Cuban cigars and humid 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:48.000 or he couldn't get to work right. Of course, I 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:51.720 didn't know that this was newly acquired money. I just 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:55.000 figured he'd been building up since the few years i'd 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:55.480 seen him. 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:58.400 Mike still didn't know how his old friend Steve had 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:01.680 acquired all this money, and Steve didn't explain who he 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:04.560 wanted Mike to kill, but he did start to finally 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:07.760 provide a few details, like that the target was in 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.719 Mexico and needed money, so Mike could get close to 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:13.880 him by dropping off the cash. And just how did 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:16.800 Steve instruct Mike to take him out with the bleach 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:20.839 injection tossing a grenade in his general direction, something that 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:23.360 won't attract any attention, right, He was. 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:25.440 Just going to leave the method up to me because 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:27.920 I was a trained assassin. 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:38.760 Uh huh oh okay, Mike, But there was nothing funny 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:40.800 about the code name Mike would have to use to 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:41.920 get close to his target. 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:45.480 Steve chose the name Bruno. I don't know where he 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:46.200 came up with it. 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:49.560 Of course, that was the same time that what Bruce 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:52.079 Willis came out with his album and he called himself 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:53.280 Bruno or something. 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:55.559 Bruno rad Aalini. How dare you? 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:58.319 I don't know. I didn't think. I looked at it 0:13:58.559 --> 0:13:59.120 like a Bruno. 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.840 The real point of this nickname was that David couldn't 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:06.000 know that the guy delivering him money was named Mike McKinny, 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:08.400 because that would make the connection to Steve and the 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:10.120 fake ID a little too obvious. 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:13.599 I was still traveling under my name with my papers. 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:18.120 So yes, at that time, there were two entries for 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:22.000 Mike McKinny with my so security number and everything on 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:25.760 that ID. Both of us entered Mexico and one of 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:26.760 us hadn't left yet. 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:31.800 Ah, the free wheeling nineties, But we're getting ahead of ourselves. 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:35.080 Steve tells Kelly to let David know a guy named 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:38.920 Bruno will be delivering his fifty grand as promised, and 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:41.680 then he buys Mike a ticket to Cancun and hands 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:45.520 him fifteen grand to either deliver to David or to 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:47.320 use to lure David to his death. 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:55.040 And it was all basically brand new, like twenties. That's 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:56.960 a lot of money in twenties. 0:14:57.960 --> 0:14:59.920 And so I had it around inside of my way 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:04.160 and I showed up at the airport. Of course, I 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:06.800 was flying first class, so they kind of basically escorted 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:10.280 you through, held your hand to go through, And at 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:14.560 the moment we left the desk, the money starts slipping 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:17.840 down my legs. So I had to jet into the 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:21.880 bathroom real quick and rearrange it again, tighten up the belt. 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:26.160 You might consider it a waddle. Maybe that airline agent 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:31.720 definitely knew something was off. I mean, you're running, nervous guy, 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:35.800 fidgety all of a sudden, got a run into the bathroom. 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:37.960 It's like you try to blow it off to Yeah, 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:48.360 I'm nervous of flying. Once we take off, then I'm fine. 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:52.640 When Mike gets to Mexico, he's supposed to meet David 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:55.920 at the Rainforest Cafe to hand him the money. Mike 0:15:56.040 --> 0:16:00.280 arrived and scanned the room. He didn't see David. Part 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:02.360 of the problem might be that he actually doesn't know 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:03.400 what David looks like. 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:05.640 I don't know if I was supposed to meet at 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:08.960 Rainforced Cafe or not, but I think I'd just gone 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:11.760 to Rainforce Cafe to eat probably some of the best 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:12.640 rips I ever ate. 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:17.280 Anyway, the money drop doesn't happen. One give you this 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:20.880 as a failure, but Mike is an optimist. He's in Cancun, 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:23.960 he's got fifteen thousand dollars cash, and his only job 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:25.000 just got canceled. 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:26.360 What to do? 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:33.600 Cocaine was cocaine, you know, it was considered recreational back then, 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:35.320 and only people who had money did it. 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:38.680 And so you know, you always make jokes about doing. 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:44.800 Lines off strippers asses, which I've actually seen it. I 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:50.560 can't say I ever did it, though, not off strippers. 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:55.040 After a couple of days of partying and not doing 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:58.520 cocaine off strippers' asses, Mike goes back to Charlotte without 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:03.720 ever making eye contact with David say Leve, but no worries. 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:07.359 Steve gives him another ten grand to make a second 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:10.200 trip south of the border, and Mike's a bit better 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:13.320 at discreetly smuggling that cast through the airport. This time. 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:17.080 He's been told that David is really pissed off. Turns 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:20.080 out he was at the Rainforest Cafe waiting for him 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:24.160 at the appointed time. But now Mike has a hotel address. 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:25.560 He knocks on the door. 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:30.280 They gave me the wrong hotel room. It was a circus. 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:37.399 Oh well, h well, the T shirt contest it was. 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:42.879 I didn't specifically go looking for one. It just happened 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:46.359 to be there whenever I got to the nightclub, the 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:49.440 SuDS Party's phone parties, whatever you call him, there was 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:52.480 one of them that had that, and that was basically 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:56.920 a we T shirt contest waiting to happen with plenty 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:59.520 of bubbles. 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:00.679 And for the discriminating female clientele. 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:07.199 They actually had like uh guy hop bun contests. They 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:09.159 would have guides get up here and they would have 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:12.040 curtain down to their waist right and the women to 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:15.280 be out there cheering whichever one they wanted. So they 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:17.959 were catering to the female crowd too. 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:20.040 So do you think about entering? 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:20.320 Ever? 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:24.320 No, I never even considered entering. 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:32.200 Mike was frugal and only spent about fifteen hundred dollars 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:34.679 of David's money that night, But then he got a 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:38.760 call from Steve with the correct address. However, Steve didn't 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:41.399 want him to do the hit just yet. He wanted 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:45.160 Mike to gain David's trust by giving him way less 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:48.480 money than he had been promised. The first meeting is 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:53.560 going to go just peachy, Mike knocks on the door. 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:57.560 A nervous guy with the spray tand that looks like 0:18:57.640 --> 0:18:58.800 Boris Becker opens it. 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:01.200 I said you for something from Charlotte. 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:06.600 David invites him in. Mike, sorry. Bruno puts the money 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:12.480 on the bed. It's about eight grand, Mike says. David 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:13.679 freaks out. 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:14.800 He acted like it. 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:19.720 I'd skimmed off him bringing him money or something, which 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:24.440 is literally what he did, because I think they told 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:27.280 him they're going to have like fifty thousand sent to 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:32.600 him or something like that, I think, And of course 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:33.480 it'd be a letdown. 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:36.480 I mean there'd be a lot of disappointment on that one. 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:39.600 See, Mike just radiates empathy. 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:41.600 He said, well, I asked for more than that. I 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:43.840 was like, hey, I was in the neighborhood. They just 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:46.440 asked me to drop off whatever I had. I walked out. 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:53.240 Of course, any skimming Mike did was nothing compared to 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:57.760 Steve holding on to David's five million dollar share. David 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:00.760 talks to Kelly on their usual Tuesday phone call. His 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:02.960 patience has been somewhat tested. 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:05.480 I go, how much did y'all sen with Bruno. 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:08.680 Kelly tells him she thinks it was ten or twelve grand. 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:12.679 Well, either he's stealing or y'all can't effan count. 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:18.280 I got eight, which is less than twelve and significantly 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:21.399 less than the fifty thousand dollars David was expecting, in 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:23.120 the whole hell of a lot less than the five 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:27.000 million dollars he's owed. And then David says something he 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:28.560 can't take back, and. 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:32.120 I'm like, listen, if you guys can't deliver, I can 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:37.440 walk over here to the embassy and we'll end this tomorrow. 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:41.920 Y'all need to figure it out. I'm i get angry 0:20:41.960 --> 0:20:45.480 with her over the wall, like this is stupid. Y'all 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:49.240 are gonna get busted and it's gonna be overWe But 0:20:49.320 --> 0:20:51.480 if you'll keep screwing me around, I'm gonna all go 0:20:51.520 --> 0:20:55.399 over here to the embassy. I'll end it myself. You 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:57.600 know what happens to the first rent that goes off 0:20:57.680 --> 0:20:59.879 the ship gets the dryest board. 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:01.720 What does that even mean? 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:02.439 Like? 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:07.480 I get the second rat gets the cheese. Okay, onward 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:12.200 and forward. Kelly promises David that he'll get the money. 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:13.960 They just need a little more time. 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:21.000 It was frustrating having to keep gant believing that I 0:21:21.080 --> 0:21:23.200 was going to come down and see him, and keeping 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:25.239 him believing that Steve was going to send him all 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:29.680 the money. I don't know why he didn't send him 0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:34.280 more at one time instead of just keeping it dragging 0:21:34.320 --> 0:21:38.760 it out, And I imagine that was a pretty horrible 0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:42.360 feeling and not getting the money that you were expecting 0:21:42.359 --> 0:21:45.600 to get and then having the woman that you expected 0:21:45.640 --> 0:21:48.639 to spend the rest of your life living high on 0:21:48.680 --> 0:21:53.879 the hog with keep putting you off. But yeah, in 0:21:53.920 --> 0:21:58.480 the end, he was getting pretty tasty. 0:22:04.000 --> 0:22:08.320 Despite David's bad vibes, Kelly was starting to allow herself 0:22:08.359 --> 0:22:11.720 to enjoy her share of the money. Her motivations had 0:22:11.720 --> 0:22:14.880 always been about providing the finer things for her children, 0:22:15.280 --> 0:22:19.160 and that's what she did. She bought a brand new minivan, 0:22:19.280 --> 0:22:22.840 a Toyota Siena. Steve came to the dealership with her 0:22:22.880 --> 0:22:25.680 and shrewdly paid for it in twenty dollars bills and 0:22:26.000 --> 0:22:28.639 used a fake name for the vehicle registration to boot 0:22:29.280 --> 0:22:31.560 and then Kelly and her mother and her kids took 0:22:31.560 --> 0:22:35.160 a short vacation to Disney World to reset refocus. 0:22:35.640 --> 0:22:37.199 You're gonna love this place, Larry. 0:22:38.119 --> 0:22:47.199 It really brings out the kidney. 0:22:53.000 --> 0:22:55.399 It's been a couple of months since the FBI knocked 0:22:55.440 --> 0:22:58.520 on Kelly's door. She hopes there may be off her trail, 0:22:59.480 --> 0:23:03.040 but then she gets another call. Two agents want to 0:23:03.080 --> 0:23:05.600 speak to her again. She heads to the mall to 0:23:05.640 --> 0:23:10.200 meet them. Unfortunately, Kelly has no memory of this meeting, 0:23:10.440 --> 0:23:13.440 which may have something to do with all that dope 0:23:13.440 --> 0:23:14.040 she smoked. 0:23:14.160 --> 0:23:15.080 Can't remember shit. 0:23:16.000 --> 0:23:19.440 The FBI, on the other hand, has considerably better recall. 0:23:20.960 --> 0:23:23.679 I always say, you can't hide money because if you 0:23:23.720 --> 0:23:24.360 have money. 0:23:24.240 --> 0:23:25.159 People like to show it. 0:23:25.640 --> 0:23:30.080 Build a bigger house, buy a nicer car, So you 0:23:30.160 --> 0:23:30.960 can't hide money. 0:23:31.280 --> 0:23:33.760 The FBI had learned a lot about Kelly Campbell since 0:23:33.800 --> 0:23:36.439 that first interview, you know, at her house where she 0:23:36.600 --> 0:23:39.080 rudely refused to share her wead with the agents. 0:23:40.560 --> 0:23:44.320 We knew through interviews of other Lumis employees that Kelly 0:23:44.359 --> 0:23:49.080 and David were friends, and her denial and a refusal 0:23:49.119 --> 0:23:51.800 to take the polygraph and her denial that they were 0:23:51.920 --> 0:23:55.800 friends connected Kelly right away. I mean all of us 0:23:55.800 --> 0:23:59.320 were like, she's involved somehow, or she knows something. 0:24:00.119 --> 0:24:03.040 The FBI subpoenaed her phone records and found out she 0:24:03.080 --> 0:24:05.399 had received calls from David Gant on the day of 0:24:05.400 --> 0:24:08.040