Richard Merritt was a well-known, successful attorney in Smyrna, Georgia, until he was caught stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from his clients. Richard pleaded guilty to the financial crimes and was given two weeks to get his affairs in order before he had to report to prison. Richard was willing to kill to avoid going to jail.

Join Mike and Gibby as they discuss Richard Merritt in this part 2 and final episode. His mother, Shirley, supported him throughout his legal troubles and was planning to drive him to prison on the day he was supposed to turn himself in. But Richard decided to murder his mother and take off in her vehicle. In part two of the Richard Merritt episodes, we’ll cover how he was finally arrested and all the evidence prosecutors presented at his murder trial.

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Richard Merritt was a well-known, successful attorney in Smyrna, Georgia, until he was caught stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from his clients. Richard pleaded guilty to the financial crimes and was given two weeks to get his affairs in order before he had to report to prison. Richard was willing to kill to avoid going to prison

Join Mike and Gibby as they discuss Richard Merritt. His mother, Shirley, supported him throughout his legal troubles and was planning to drive him to prison on the day he was supposed to turn himself in. When Richard’s family received notice that he had cut off his ankle monitor and was nowhere to be found, they worried for Shirley’s safety.

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To outsiders, Aldo and Barbara Pacheco seemed like a happy family. When Barbara filed for divorce after a decade of marriage, Aldo became obsessed with winning custody of his kids and vowed that if he couldn’t have Barbara, no one else would.

Join Mike and Gibby as they talk about Aldo Pacheco. What appeared to be an earlier attempt at killing Barbara caused Aldo to be charged with aggravated assault and aggravated kidnapping. But he was out on bond when he initiated a standoff with police that resulted in the death of two people.

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Omar Medina was a young music producer who went missing in September 2017. Days later, his body was found in a barrel in the San Diego Bay. Investigators traced the evidence back to Omar’s former landlord, Timothy John Cook.

Join Mike and Gibby as they discuss Timothy John Cook and the murder of Omar Medina. Cook denied all involvement in Omar's murder, but the investigation of a truck and a boat led to him and also to one of his friends as a possible accomplice. Did Cook kill over a security deposit? Or did he have a much broader plan to fleece Omar out of a recent inheritance?

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The murder of Julia Martha Thomas, also known as the Barnes Mystery or the Richmond Murder, was one of the most infamous crimes of 19th-century Britain. Julia was murdered by her servant Kate Webster, who dismembered her remains and impersonated her for two weeks before fleeing the country.

Join Mike and Gibby as they discuss Kate Webster. Kate was 30 years old when she murdered her employer. But it's the way that the murder occurred and what Kate did afterwards that shocks so many people about this case. There is also a possible theory that Kate planned this out before she even took the job.

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On November 16th, 1981, 53-year-old Priscilla Dinkel and her 7-year-old granddaughter Danelle Lietz were murdered at The Swanson Motel in Dickinson, North Dakota. The case went cold until 1991, when local law enforcement utilized an FBI profile to identify the killer.

Join Mike and Gibby as they discuss the Swanson motel murders. The police followed leads down into Texas and even looked at Henry Lee Lucas as a possible suspect. Then, in 1991, authorities began looking at a 48-year-old named William Reager who fit the FBI profile. Reager was a drifter who worked as a truck driver and a carnival employee.

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In the early morning hours of August 16th, 1986 an intruder entered the home of 27-year-old Gary Larson and stabbed him to death before raping Gary’s fiancee. The case was unsolved for almost twenty years, until a peeping tom was arrested in 2004, when authorities noticed similarities to the suspect in the cold case.

Join Mike and Gibby as they discuss Jonathan Scott Graham. Graham had a history of peeping around his neighborhood. When he was arrested on something unrelated to the murder, the authorities noticed striking similarities to the murder of Gary Larson. However, another suspect had been identified and charged years prior.

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Johnny Lewis was an actor on many different shows. He was best known for his roles on The OC and Sons of Anarchy. He was a teen heartthrob who once dated Katy Perry. A motorcycle accident sent his life spiraling downward, culminating in an unbelievable tragedy. There was no doubt he suffered some head trauma during the accident, and it is difficult to think it didn't have something to do with his later actions.

Join Mike and Gibb as they discuss Johnny Lewis. On September 26th, 2012, actor Johnny Lewis murdered his elderly landlady and soon after fell to his death from the roof of her home. Over ten years later, many aspects of the case remain unexplained.

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