Alvin and Judith Ann Neelley Part 1 | Morbid | Podcast | Forensic Files

hey weirdos I'm Ash and I'm Elina and this is [Music] morbid this is morbid morbid on Mikey's
birth week woo it's Mikey's birthday soon so this morning decorated the whole entire pod lab it looks a little
lowbudget but she was looking at the streamers that I hung when she said it wasn't just
about your streamers my my work is interesting as well I Scotch taped the birthday
sign but we got a cake but we got a gorgeous automnal cake from this delicious bakery that we know of that we
ate for breakfast yeah we literally at for breakfast I got this cool candle from tar it's called a mega candle but
okay cool is an interesting way to describe that candle because it is cool I was going to explain to you what it
did while I was holding it yeah so you it's cool if you're like an arsonist which you're not and nor am I
that's rude the arsonist listening is like um excuse me actually I am so tell me about this candle you know you light
the middle of it and like all these other yeah there like petals with um other candles attached to it so you
light this thing in the middle and then slowly it lights all the other candles and then it shoots all the petals out
and it starts [ __ ] going around in a circle and the fire was just the first as soon as Ash lit it this bonfire
erupted from the middle of it and I was like oh we're all going to die I thought
I was going to have to stop drop and roll immediately and then it just shot open and all these little fires and I
was like what what are we doing in here yeah childish gambito started playing it
was crazy oh my God I was like John's going to have questions when we burned half the house down honestly a lot of
smoke shot up and we were standing like right under the smoke detector but you know birthdays and then it wouldn't stop
it listen it's cool but it wouldn't stop like humming happy birthday it was like
a music box kind of so we had to rip the [ __ ] cord out of there yeah so that was our morning yeah and it's not going
to get less chaotic from here because the I have is pretty [ __ ] awful oh yeah it's going to be weird telling this
story with like streamers and like ball on the ground it's actually really upsetting thinking about it that way
actually I'm looking around like oh no uh this is going to be split into two paths um she's got a Tupa we got a tup
cuz it's just a lot a lot happening a lot going on and you know you're going to absorb this in in two phases because
I'm going to absorb this in two phases I don't like that you're using the word absorb yeah and you know what sometimes
we we will record a two-parter or multiarterial [Music] chunks for you guys and this one I was
like we're going to record this in two different days because I don't want to talk about the whole thing at once so
that's like that's how it's just upsetting it's a it's not a nice situation none of these are but no but
some you know some hitch you just in different ways right right um this is the story of Elvin and Judith and neie
oh I've heard of them yeah yeah 70s yeah yeah um well actually early ' 80s oh okay um some of it happened in the yeah
it's not great early 80s crimes in in like True Crime have a certain feel to them yeah they do they have a vibe that
I that I don't I don't um do well with were WI wild yeah like every decade was wild in its own way the
80s have a certain it's like a grimy wild it is cuz it's like the grimness of the 70s kind of like leaks into the
early grimness of the 80s and then it just mixes with some like daylow colors and it gets weird yeah grimy and daylow
don't go together but they do in the 80s they sure do so go for it so on September 11th 1982 Ken dly Youth
Development Center employee in Rome Georgia was shot at in his home by an unseen attacker he wasn't shot but he
was shot at and in his home you said in his home Jesus by some unseen attacker outside and the following day his
coworker Linder Adair Linder Linda Adair was also attacked when someone threw a whole Molotov cocktail at her house in
an attempt to kill her and again these are co-workers at the Youth Development Center in Rome Georgia
so obviously something's going on here and although neither dly nor Adair knew at the time these were actually just the
first attacks in a violent senseless and very confusing crime spree that was committed by Alvin
and Judith and neie oh man at the time they were a married couple who I mean their brutality is up there and you
wonder like how people like this find each other we say that all the time this one when you we get to find out how they
found each other and when you when you see the entire thing you're like wow yeah this is
just this is just like especially Judy she did not I mean she she didn't have a lot of chance here but what she turned
into is a monster I mean Unthinkable it really is Unthinkable yeah I know that this is like a really gnarly case and I
know the name of it but I definitely don't know all the details so a little trepid just you know ahead of time there
is like speak of sexual assault there speak of rape there's some really gnarly stuff in here so just like be warned
yeah um Alvin though he's he's a very confusing case study I would say because we're going to talk about it that he
kind of didn't really have any signs in the beginning or nothing that we are being told of or
confined but when you find out certain things that happen in his teenage years and later you're like that didn't just
come out of missing from his childhood here like something's off something's AR I don't know so Alvin Howard Neely Jr
was born July 15th 1953 in Trion Georgia a caner I had to look up how to say Trion Georgia because I didn't I didn't
want to mess it up it was one of those weird pronunciations and if you guys ever used because I I know like people
are obsessed with pronunciations everywhere so when you look it up on the internet you get several different kinds
one of them is pronouncenames.com and that one's very like this is how you say that and a french guy I love the French
guy who's like H let me tell you how to say this and you're like way you say this name is this and you're like oh my
goodness and you love it and he has a very comforting voice it's very I love it and then there's a whole [ __ ]
robot and then there's an yeah there's AI there's just a robot and I got that one but it tells you Trion Georgia and
it's like Trion Geor like and then it says a wonderful place to live and I said that's good it's weird so that's
Trion Georgia um it's apparently a small pretty rural community about two hours from Atlanta okay you said rural so good
there rural yeah it's hard sometimes rural juror uh Alvin was the youngest of three children and his early life like I
said pretty unremarkable like very normal according to all the things we can find allegedly he had a good home
life he was well-liked at school in the community he ended up really getting a reputation for being very Charming he
was like a little jokester a little prankster but nothing when he was younger it was nothing like oh he was a
prankster and he was pissing people off it was like oh he's just like a little jokester he's a little charmer you know
okay and he was described as always having a smiling face so he was just always happy interesting according to
author Thomas Cook it was a great childhood filled with days of hunting and fishing and hanging out with the
other boy scouts his childhood was a festival of Joy wow a festival of Joy unrelatable I
was well who can relate to that I was like who's I don't know if I've ever experienced a festival of Joy oh I've
experienced a festival of Joy but I'm like what the [ __ ] Mikey raised his hand and said
today today this is an offbrand Festival full of joy scorebot Festival it just sound that's so that's incredible that
sentence like you're in the entirety of your childh never had a joy not Alvin that's I mean that's what that says to
me like never had a bad day yeah that's what it sounds like by the time he went to Fort McKenry elementary school he had
learned that his charm and his very easygoing personality his smile his niceness it was the it was a way he
could draw people to him that's how he was going to get friends and he also learned in elementary school that he
could use it to his Advantage a little while a little bit so he quickly became the class clown he really loved making
everybody laugh he would disrupt Class A lot but nothing like crazy he wasn't getting into trouble really that much it
was just kind of he was that kid I was always and I wasn't like a brainiac or anything like I wasn't like I'm trying
to listen to the teacher but like those kids always pissed me off like the kids that would like distract class just shut
the [ __ ] up yeah that always pissed me off then and it still pisses me off now
yeah yeah like whenever the te um the girls will tell me about somebody who's like always [ __ ] around in class I'm
like honestly don't hang out with them shut the [ __ ] up kid like they're they're lacking something yeah don't
hang out with everyone who W in school is like [ __ ] you guys I'm just kidding no it's fine um but yeah he loved to
make his classmates laugh and once you got into like adolesence like early adolescence he started using his charm
and humor to pick up gals ladies um and you know they would go to the local swimming pool do these like really
wholesome things and he would always especially the local swimming pool was like the big thing there because there
was not a lot going on in that town SOG it was a Trion Georgia I just said what town was that Georgia it was in the
town of Georgia that's good yeah uh you know small town but this was a rural community so it's like the town pool was
like the thing to do in the late '70s you know the checks and when he would go there he was the center of attention of
course um and apparently so cook that author that I mentioned before also wrote it got so the pool owner would let
him in for free [ __ ] just so the other people would show up and pay the entrance price wow so he was a [ __ ]
his childhood was a [ __ ] Festival that is a festival of Joy I guess like I don't think anybody's wrong I never had
that happen so this all sounds like holy [ __ ] like he's even getting it like he's
a Leb he's a bougie kid like they're they're letting him into places for they're letting him into the club for
free so that other people come no cover yeah and he's like early adolescent he's
an influencer but then something happened he was I should when he reached High School okay and I don't know what
happened we can't figure out what happened but he h high school and he was still a charmer still had that
reputation was still like thriving in that way but he started taking like a dark turn in his personality he he was
moodier he suddenly started developing or at least finally showing a very explosive temper huh that didn't seem to
be present before okay and he began committing Petty crimes that eventually escalated to car theft [ __ ] so like we
went from Festival of joy to like hitting high school and something really changing and there was like no tragedy
within the family not that I could find I mean he was an active kid so he was in
Boy Scouts like he and that kind of stuff I don't know if something happened in like some kind of you know TBI you
don't know you really don't know so it's like I don't I couldn't put I couldn't find anything right and neither could
Dave we were like what the [ __ ] happened to this guy um but that's so he's escalating already he's doing Petty
crimes like you know car theft is pretty big and in 1973 when he was 20 years old
he met a 15-year-old oh no named Joanne Browning no 20 years old and this girl 15 [ __ ] gross Joanne was an
acquaintance of Alvin's half brother Benny farington who worked at the local grocery store in Dalton Georgia and
that's how they met Joanne found Alvin so Charming because remember he's still a charmer he's a joker you know when
you're 15 and some older guys sh an interest in you and despite their wild age difference they began dating where
were Joan's parents so this 20-year-old man is dating a 15-year-old girl like what the [ __ ] do you guys have in common
nothing so in early 197 for not long after they had began dating Joanne actually moved in with Alvin and quickly
became pregnant with with what would be the first of the coup's three children wow and at this point was he living on
his own um at this point yeah okay so at first and I think he had he at at certain points he had gotten like an
apartment by himself and then he would move back in with his parents so at times he and his wife or wives we'll
find out will move in with his with his parents sometimes okay now at first you know they seemed like they had a
pleasant like existence together like I mean they went on what is happening in there but it didn't take long before
Joanne finally saw that violent temper and she finally discovered that he was very quick to anger oh no so years later
on the witness stand Joanne described the first time that Alvin physically assaulted her which had occurred early
in her pregnancy now according to Joanne she said and this is like trigger warning
like this is pretty upsetting she said quote Alvin had beaten her on the breasts and arms and had stretched the
corners of her mouth with his with his fingers what the [ __ ] yeah isn't that just like [ __ ] up that's just strange
and horrible yeah and she told the jury that this was the first of countless times that he assaulted her stretched
her mouth yeah what and he would assault her every time he got mad about anything
after that and knowing full well that she was pregnant oh yeah he didn't care the [ __ ] now Alvin and Joanne got
married after this in Cleveland Tennessee in January 1975 and this is when they moved back in with Alvin's
mother at the time that's just such a sad like dichotomy oh it's horrific cuz walking down the aisle like that you're
knowing what he does knowing what he does in your like I think of it like you're walking toward like your future
like happiness and like joy and you're the best guy I know and it's like you're walking towards somebody that beats the
he's convincing you like oh like I'm sure he's doing that I'm sorry and I'm sure he's doing that I'll never do it
again but some little part of you walking down that aisle is like some little voice in your head is scared
you're walking towards someone you're afraid of that's so [ __ ] it's awful I feel so hard for her and what's worse is
they moved in with Alvin's mother and even the presence of her didn't do anything to stop the domestic violence
really this is this is where I say what happened happened yeah like how do you turn a blind eye to your son house
beating his pregnant wife that idic childhood that like was a festival of Joy right but then he's moving in with
his wife and beating the [ __ ] out of her while she's pregnant in front of you and
you're not saying anything I don't know about that like I'm not saying anything cuz I don't know anything I'm just
saying that's strange to me yeah that's a strange I don't know that doesn't that
doesn't that the math ain't math in there for me but I don't know but Alvin used to be super paranoid that Joanne
was having affairs with men in the neighborhood that was like his obsessive thing and this was something that would
send him into to jealous rages a lot and he would physically assault her because
of the paranor paranoia and then would also drag her on Wild Goose chases to go search the neighborhood for her
imagined like Affair Partners oh like he would like literally bring her to every
house and be like is it him is it him that's so scary that he was that paranoid and he also insisted that she
serve him and be submissive in every way at home oh no she had to bathe him comb
his hair and dress him why did he even want that that's bizarre this is why I'm questioning his some what happened yeah
what happened something's off here that's weird I'm um I'm like H like live your life the way you want to and if two
people are consenting to that that's one thing something's off here that's bizarre to me forcing her to bathe you
as a grown ass man yeah and there were also times when he would just randomly become violent with her for no reason
like there was no trigger even in his own mind um and she said he would sometimes hit me with his fists
sometimes just hit me with his whole arm and of course I would run from him trying to protect myself by hiding in
other rooms but he would bust the door down oh my God so he's just like A Raging Bull like what the [ __ ] is going
on here and then to think that three children were eventually witnessed to that is so [ __ ] up it's horrific now
although he may have felt powerful and dominant in his home life with his wife and his children outside the home Alvin
was just a complete [ __ ] failure of a human being yeah I got a feeling [ __ ] loser uh from the moment he began
working he struggled to maintain a job he would travel from one town to the next in search of work and he would just
drag his whole family with him of course and eventually he became so demanding that Joanne um or he he became so
demanding that she finally agreed when he brought up the idea of committing robberies of convenience stores that he
worked at in Dalton and Calhoun Georgia because he was like well I can't keep a job so let's just steal money let's just
rob places come on kids and she was so demanding and scary that she agreed and she claimed out of fear for her safety
and safety of their children I believe that now at one point Joanne couldn't handle it anymore so she ran away and
left the children with him which I'm like why did you leave the children with him yeah and he threatened to like kill
them if she didn't return so she did that's the thing like you're leaving that's the thing I was like that's scary
yeah but she came back and again but we also have to remember she's a a child yeah like she was 15 she's still a
teenager probably at this point she's still a teenager wow and so she brought her 13-year-old sister with her when she
came back because like I think she just thought it would be some kind of like Comfort I mean you're you yeah I can't
even imagine this and she thought her presence would maybe mitigate what was happening here but she was mistaken
because almost immediately Alvin began physically assaulting Joanne right in front of her 13-year-old sister and
attempted to sexually assault her sister that what the [ __ ] he only stopped when
Joanne threatened to kill him wow and her sister returned home to the her mother's house the next day completely
traumatized of course now the cycle of abuse continued for several more months and Joanne would like every now and then
just flee to her mother's house but was always brought back by him so so sad until finally in SE 1977 she left for
good and she left her three children with him huh I don't get that but that's just me
yeah uh but I've never been in that position don't me either um but I'm just saying personally I don't get leaving
leaving them with him I would never leave my children with someone like that no but through her testimony in court it
was clear that Joanne Browning hated Elvin Neely obviously like had deep-seated hate for him finally I think
it I think it took her a long time to get to that place but she [ __ ] hated him I mean who wouldn't and but there
and there and there's no doubt that he is an abusive piece of [ __ ] like for sure but I guess there was questions
about the like how exaggerated some of the moments were like the attorneys were questioning it yeah because there was
like times when it didn't add up so they thought maybe it was being like like certain instances were being exaggerated
a little bit okay but either way he was an abusive prick it just and I don't I don't really understand why like they
felt the need to nitpick that because it's like even if she is exaggerating it like okay whatever like you can't really
prove that either way that's the other thing and it's like but either way he's an abusive piece of [ __ ] AB abuse so
it's like you know and then what this shows is that he's one violent as [ __ ] regardless of how like detailed or
whatever any of the claims were what we know is he's a violent abusive sh that is for sure abely 100% and we also know
that this shows that he has an interest in teenage girls yeah like he has clearly established a pattern of being a
[ __ ] Pig in every way you can also tried to assault her 13-year-old sister tried to sexually
assault her and he met her when she was 15 and that's the other thing that like like I'm like okay that they're like
trying to figure out the validity of the claims of each instance it's like okay but either way even her sister is
claiming that this happened so it's like yeah regardless of anything he's [ __ ]
up clearly but either way as like finally their relationship ended for good which is which was a very good
thing for Joanne but he did keep the kids I think eventually she was able to also some kind of cust yeah I don't I
wasn't able to follow that all the way through but that's so complicated yeah but Alvin had already found himself a
new romantic interest and it was a 15-year-old girl and how old is he now at this point he is when is this he met
her in 1973 right yeah and then I think three years later they got divorced and you say 1976 1977 so he's almost 24
years old and a 15-year-old so he's literally almost 10 years her senior yeah and this girl was Judith an
Adams okay is this part of the reason why she was doomed yeah yeah now unlike her future husband and eventually
literal partner in crime um Judith did not have an idyllic childhood no not a festival of Joy no she was born June 7th
1964 in Murphreesboro Tennessee a Gemini she was the third of five children she had an older brother and sister and two
younger brothers so she was right in the middle yep and they were a solidly middle class family you know their
father had steady work as a carpenter he was a construction worker and things you
know even got better in 1973 because her father James Adams started his own construction company oh wow um and James
worked a lot obviously he owned his own construction company so he was gone a lot yeah and when he got home he was
kind of a distant he just wanted to have a few beers and go to sleep he wasn't really like playing with his kids you
know um such a different time too but by all accounts he was not um outwardly abusive from what I've read unless you
know that just isn't you know knowledge but according to Judy she loved her dad she had a very close bond with him even
though they didn't see each other a lot she loved what she saw okay um and that's when tragedy struck on March 31st
1st 1974 when James had a few beers and jumped on his motorcycle oh no and the uh the details of the accident aren't
like completely clear but somehow he hit a highway guardrail oh no and he was dragged about 100 feet between his bike
and the guard rail oh and eventually he was flung into the air and died immediately when he hit the pavement
yeah that's a brutal way to go an awful way to go in the death of their father hit all the Adam's children really hard
but Judy was only 9 years old when it happened wow and she took it the hardest out of all of them of course um Thomas
Cook said she had always been the quiet one but for a long time after that she seemed to turn to Stone that's really
sad and so you know her mother uh Barbara was left with you know her husband's small Social Security pension
and eight acres of land on the outskirts of Murphreesboro and she kind of struggled to provide for five children
at that point five kids that's a lot lot of kids so she took a job at heatcraft which was a local Refrigeration Factory
and used the 8 Acres of as space for the double wide trailer home that eventually
housed the whole family okay less than a year after James Adams died Barbara began
dating yeah that's tough for the kids I guess like I understand needing to move on and that's her right to do so but I
can imagine that was hard for the kids absolutely um and it upset Judy especially because she was so close to
her dad yeah um and it was exceptionally horrible when Barbara went out on a date
one night and got into a very minor car accident um but it was discovered that night that her boyfriend that she had
been going out with for some time was a teenage boy oh mhm okay so I don't think it was a super
normal like Barbara just moving on after her husband dies kind of thing sounds like she was kind of [ __ ] up y uh so
Barbara was charged with contrib to the delinquency of a minor oh and she and her family were humiliated by this and
she ended up having to leave her job and basically like hid herself away in her trailer yikes um which is nice that she
uh was a predator uh got caught being a predator and then just decided to hide away from
her children and let them fend for themselves yeah that was really great of her it's like that was a really good uh
Jesus Christ this story is so marked with predators predators Alvin's a predator like Barbara's a predator
they're all [ __ ] up uh and Judy at a very young age being right smack dab in the middle she ended up taking over all
the chores in the trailer like taking care of her young younger siblings like she really took over yeah and after all
this the family really slipped into a bad way cuz following their mother's horrible example the older kids just
grew lazy started skipping school regularly they didn't you know they're just following an example here set well
they don't have all is their left where she and Judy's in the middle trying and so they all just spent days like hanging
around drinking beer watching TV not really doing anything oh no and meanwhile Barbara continued to decline
to the point where she spent most of her time using a CB radio like a truck radio
kind of like candy cane yeah um where she would meet men who would show up at the house with beers and just spend time
with her okay so just you know this is so Bleak yeah uh so Judy spent a lot of her time
outside of the home trying to escape I believe that I would as well she focused on school she made honor rooll wow and
joined the cheerleading team in eth grade and after school she participated in 4 club and the future Homemakers of
America wow I didn't even know that was a thing did not know that either and she
just really focused on school was trying to she wanted to become a nurse someday
she was like she had dream she was like ready to go it's crazy that like in this
[ __ ] storm she's kind of thriving in in certain areas but something was off where she was very she became like a
harder person cuz she had to out of her circumstances and I think it led to her she hardened too much yeah she hardened
a little too much and I think this piece of [ __ ] man took full advantage of u a
slightly broken child here and it's really [ __ ] up and what Judy ends up doing
means that there was a monster inside of her all along and when you look at you know her her mother there something's
off there obviously yep and so you know there was something in there that he just happened to I I don't know if he
ended up if he could see it or if he just stumbled upon a vulnerable young girl and he was able to pry this monster
out of her but it's it's really upsetting all the way around oh no so one afternoon in early 1979 Vin NE and
his friend Dan Harley two grown ass men yeah he's like at this point were driving out to meet a woman Dan had met
on the CB radio shut your [ __ ] pie hole yep shut your f [ __ ] Dan his friends was talking to Barbara on the CB
Radio and Dan spotted a CB antenna on top of the trailer and he was like here it is this is where she is so she likes
like younger men cuz at this point she's and he's like in his and then the guy he's bringing along with him is going to
love the daughter oh God this is [ __ ] Dan was very excited to meet this gal in
person uh but it was the woman's 15-year-old daughter Judy that really caught Alvin's attention oh no yep I'm
so uncomfortable yeah so Judy came out to talk to them because she was always in charge of everything being like you
need a beer yeah and when Dan and Barbara you know Dan and Barbara went off and started drinking beers together
in Barbara's room and Alvin sat with Judy in the Next Room talking and apparently they had a lot in common
according to them 26 and which says a lot about Alvin sure does uh they spent all night and well into the next morning
talking and laughing uh we have a grown ass man connecting and flirting with a 15-year-old child that's so heinous he
later said if anyone had stepped in between us they'd have been burned up in the spark
with a 15-year-old dude you're pushing 30 like what the actual [ __ ] like the amount of
predators around this girl right now are outrageous that is so so gross now after
this they became Inseparable it was this was the moment that they met like you were wondering how do these people come
together well don't worry they're just surrounded by Predators so like she's just surrounded by Predators so they
were just naturally brought into her life this story is putrid they did every together they developed this weird
intense bond that was like obsessive with each other like us against the world kind of thing oh very much very
coming from a mile away and she spilled about her troubled home life her father's death how she was still
grieving so sad Elvin listened he didn't share a lot about his at first but finally they'd been together a couple
months and Alvin admitted to Judy well I am still married oh I forgot that he was
still married she just left they didn't divorce [ __ ] and his wife he and insisted was quote a liar and a cheat
and she's still been married to another man when he married her which is not true she she was 15 years old uh Elvin
insisted his relationship with Joanne had been over for a long time and he had every intention of divorcing her which
Judy was like of course I'm 15 I know nothing about this when Judy went back to school for her sophomore year oh my
godak high school when she was a FR sophomore yeah a freshman in high school oh my God she thought she was a full
adult at this point like she's feeling like she's dating a whole adult and she's spending all her time with Albin
especially since her siblings just hung around doing nothing and her mother was also just like a [ __ ] loser and
living with Dan Harley now oh God he moved in he just never left that's good so now Dan Harley is living in that
trailer with her and all those kids and yeah exactly yeah at the end of 1979 Alvin and Judy discussed marriage and
she decided that she was going to leave High School remember she had all these dreams she was going to be n she was an
honor student a cheerleader she was in all these clubs she she had dreams of becoming a nurse she school for this
[ __ ] loser oh that's awful he finally ended up divorcing Joanne and Judy ended
up moving in with Alvin's mother in Cleveland Tennessee his [ __ ] still living with his mom I got
questions for his mom ABS a [ __ ] got questions if my future child at 26 years old came home with a 15-year-old he
would be so far out on his ass it would be next Wednesday exactly that's why I'm
like get the [ __ ] out of know about this I called the cops myself exactly i' like
you [ __ ] creep what are you do% like how did I [ __ ] you up this bad yeah so she ended up moving in with the mom in
Cleveland Tennessee and Alvin stayed in Murphreesboro to keep working and making
money and then he was going to move in and she's like oh how do you like my whole ass adult son like hello child
like you just have a child living with you now literally now once Elvin had saved up some money he and Jud Judy
finally moved in together I like he combined J judie uh they they got a small apartment in Rome Georgia and then
they ended up moving to a small motel room in Kennesaw Georgia they loved a motel room that's upsetting um Alvin
found work at a convenience store across the street from this place Judy again had quit school so she started just
hanging out at the store stocking shelves hanging out helping out Alvin was already back his criminal [ __ ]
because he couldn't hang on to a job and one night after stealing the day's deposits from his job they just ran away
to Alabama to escape any of the consequences oh okay just stole the register money and just never came back
then just never came back now Alvin was shocked to see that Judy was very willing to be an
accomplice to all his criminal ideas all of it like she was just like okay let's
go and it's like yeah because you've groomed her well yeah and she's literally a child yeah she's nowhere
else to go right and after settling in Dawson Georgia they both found work at the Zippy Market until Judy was robbed
one evening but the stores owner firmly believes it was an inside job their lives were a [ __ ] mess
together that winter they would settle in some small town find a job usually at like a convenience store or some Market
it steal from the register and then they just hit the road again and get out of there wow they were like a stupid Bonnie
and Clyde together yeah and the routine was briefly interrupted in mid July because they stopped off in Ringle
Ringold Georgia to get married and then it was just right back to everything that they were doing
before more motel rooms more convenience stores just this grimy ass existence truly grimy is the perfect word for it
that fall Judy learned she was six months pregnant oh no but they just kept on robbing being assoles continuing
their life and she's like 16 17 yeah and she found out she was six months pregnant so it's
like what that's that's pretty pregnant yeah that's more than halfway there it's
a very very pregnant uh you know that all this craziness had to pause though because the fall of 1980 they were
arrested when robbing a woman at gunpoint in the parking lot of the Riverbend Mall oh uh Elvin was sentenced
to five years at the Walker correctional institute in Lafayette and Judy was still underage so she was taken to the
Rome Youth Development Center just pregnant and all remember I don't know if you remember at the beginning of this
the Rome Youth Development Center that was where the two people the guy the person that got shot at in his
hel and the person who had a Molotov cocktail thrown in their house they worked there oh okay uh while she was
there she gave birth to twins just two days after arriving she she found out she was pregnant with twins six months
in yes as someone who has carried twins in their body I am shocked uh I don't know at 6
months I was a i people were like oh you you must be ready to pop and I was like
I am not people go like full-fledged so full term wild uh Alvin and Judy sent letters back and forth several times a
week um their correspondence they they mainly stayed like very romantic very like we love each other we're obsessed
with each other it got like kind of explicit they were weird and like stressful it was it's don't look for
them okay but every now and then Alvin's jealous paranoia would show through yeah
uh in one he said I'll put my love where it will be returned he said so he's basically like threatening her like I'll
I'll leave you and go find someone else like you don't love me okay and then he said you can't have me and play around
too and Alvin wasn't the only paranoid one because Judy also was accusing him of being unfaithful and said a lot in
her letters she said I'll take care of her when I get out refer refering to like an imaginary woman interesting and
she said none of them are woman enough to try to take you from me when I get out I want to be clear they were both in
jail at this time yeah so how and they're not in co-ed jails like they're in like and they're and they're not
talking about like she's not talking about a man that he's cheating on her with or she's talking he's talking about
woman they're like accusing each other of cheating on each other with the opposite sex when while they're in jail
want to be clear yeah like I'm very this shows you how diluted they both were yep
and how paranoid and like obsessive they were yeah it's like a weird I don't know
but again very strange and they they had this like strange and upsetting Devotion
to each other while also having this big disdain for the world and people around
them like you said before very us against everyone else mentality they believed every everyone was out to get
them no one understood them they had to strike back at people Judy was released from the Youth Detention Center in
November 1981 and returned to Cleveland Tennessee to live with Alvin's parents and the twins cuz remember twin babies
twin babies yep unfortunately it didn't take long for her to revert to that criminal lifestyle again and less than
two weeks after she was released she was arrested for robbing a gas station and was sent back to the center 2 weeks what
the the [ __ ] she was released in March 1982 but she went and she went back to living with Alvin's parents um but she
seemed to be like and apparently they like were fine like they were taken care of her but they kind of she like
resented them in a weird way like she wrote to Alvin at one point talking about his dad I can't stand that son of
a [ __ ] your dad still raises hell every now and then but he won't say anything
to me if he ever does he knows he'll regret it this also leads me to believe like what happened in that house exactly
this doesn't sound like a regular situ like I'm very confused no not at all we're getting little bits and pieces
little breadcrumbs of something that went down there and I'm like I don't know what's going on there yeah that's
just like it's just weird yeah it's very strange and it's very and seeing her how
she's talking like he won't say anything to me or he'll regret it's like I can see what's happening here like that's
what I mean when I say like she had to be that way growing up so she acts that way
but Alvin was finally released from the Walker Correction Institute at the end of April
1982 and Judy met him at the bus station and you know it went right back to what
it was before they were obsessed with each other you know they would they had this like really cuz he had which is
also like a red flag to me he had this very like aggressively intense sex drive too which we see a lot in these cases
where it's couples it's like unfulfilling almost every case where it's couples actually we see that the
man usually has a strangely like ins and aggressive sex drive yeah like multiple
times a day or he's going to beat the [ __ ] out of you God and that's how it was and she's a child exactly and soon
but soon reality set back in they had no jobs so they turned right back to the criminal ways and they would steal
checks from mailboxes they would Forge money orders they would Rob people in places it was chaos Sor they still have
their children or yeah they still have their okay I was like did I miss a part where they dropped them off some they
still got them but they're living with Alvin's parents so I'm sure they're just they're probably raising them um then
randomly one day Alvin just looked at Judy and said I don't want you anymore what out of nowhere cuz she
wasn't 15 anymore EXA probably turned 20 she got a little older excuse me she probably turned 18 I should say exactly
and as the summer of 1982 came to an end Judy was now Angry desperate will willing to do literally anything to keep
him from leaving her no matter what oh no so one evening in early September 1982 and what we'll see is like he was
like I don't want you anymore but they stayed connected obviously they had children but they like had this still
obsessive bond with each other even though it wasn't like always a romantic Bond she was always trying to make it
one but he would like flipflop okay it was very strange I I can't understand and I don't ever want to understand the
Dy it's probably better that you don't so on the evening um in September 1982 Ken dly who was a teacher at the Rome
Youth Development Center he was at home when his phone rang a little after 7 p.m. the voice on the under other end
was a young woman claiming to be a friend of Ken's wife Sher I doubt it this person on the other end said she
was going to be passing through the area soon and wanted to drop in to surprise Sher so Ken was like oh that's great
like here's directions to my house Ken Ken Jesus [ __ ] Christ this could be anybody yeah it's the early ' 80s so
everybody was like she even have a friend with that name and this person said well you tell Sher that I'll see
her when we get to Rome and then they hung up Sherry's probably like I've never heard of that [ __ ] in my life
well Sher dly returned home a few hours later uh with the couple son Robbie and Ken said told his wife you know this
lady Susan had called from Kentucky and she goes well that's strange I don't have a friend from Kentucky named Susan
but glad you gave them stepbystep directions to our house Ken now a few days later cuz Ken was like okay that
was weird a few days later Ken returned home from his son's football game and was met at the door by Sherry and Sherry
said I got a call and when she asked who it was she said it was uh she was a it was a young girl and she wanted to know
if he was home and Ken's mind was like okay like I teach girls at like young girls at the development center but like
he was like none of them have my phone number like I don't give my phone number out to these girls and like why would
they be calling yeah so he was like that's just weird and she was like I don't know she wouldn't say who she was
so he had almost put it out of his mind but then the phone rang that evening again and Sherry immediately was like
it's the girl again I know it and so he answered but it was a man's voice and the man's voice said you've screwed the
last girl you're going to screw and then he just hung up oh and Ken was freaked out he was like what the
[ __ ] are you talking about I love my wife by and he tried to put it out of his mind but later that night as he was
walking around checking locks because he was like a little paranoid at that point
and he was checking on the kids like making sure everything was okay he heard four four loud Pops that sounded like a
car backfiring as he went back to his bedroom my God and as he was going in there he heard his wife's voice
screaming that someone was shooting at the house oh my God so Ken ran to his wife then checked the rest of the house
and looked out the window to the front of the house and he saw the tail lights of a car like flying down the street so
the police arrived but since no one identified the shooter and there was really no evidence like no one even saw
the car right they couldn't do anything they just told them you probably shouldn't sleep here tonight thank you
like what the [ __ ] Jesus now the next day September 11th Linda Adair the assistant director of the Youth
Development Center noticed that Ken seemed a little off at work but she didn't want to like pry too much so she
didn't bother to ask what was wrong and just went about her day but she said later like she very much saw that
something was wrong and she went you know she later that night went back home and her husband Gary you know they went
out to dinner together and then they came home and she just laid down on the couch just relaxing a little
everything's normal and then the phone rings and Linda could hear Gary answer and respond to the caller and he called
out to her to let her know that it was for her and Linda took the phone and said hello but no one was on the other
end yeah and when she asked who it was her husband said he didn't know but thought it sounded like a teenage girl
okay he said she just asked if you were home creepy now again this couple was also freaked out but that evening they
got ready for bed Gary was in the shower and the phone rang again a little after
11:30 don't answer it so all of a sudden she can uh when she answers the phone she hears one of her neighbors yelling
into the phone at her saying Linda what's happening someone threw a bomb at your house oh my God so she's like what
the [ __ ] so she went looked out the window in the dining room and she could see Flames engulfing their carport oh my
God and then the scene just erupted into chaos Linda got Gary out of the shower he was in the shower they fled the house
for safety to the neighbor's house and watched as their home went up in Flames oh my God now after that was all
controlled Linda told police that she heard the neighbor's dog barking and chasing a car down the road seconds
after the bomb must have hit the house right and it turned out to be a Molotov cocktail holy [ __ ] made from a soda
bottle and gasoline what the [ __ ] and she told them about the weird call that evening too but again
there was not a lot to go off there's no like caller ID or anything and the police were figuring we're not going to
be able to find out who this is like I don't know what to do I'm sorry is this within the same town yeah so are they
like this is connected well so a teenager who had just dropped his date off at a house nearby did manage to get
a look at the car nice nice and he described the car as like early '70s model Dodge brown in color with a white
stripe down the center he said there was a man and woman Inside and when the headlights passed over the vehicle he
briefly got a look at the woman behind the wheel who he described as being white and she had long reddish hair okay
now this sounds like uh like Judy sure does yeah saw pick yeah um neither Linda nor her husband could think of anyone
who would want a Molotov cocktail their house that's a good thing and as far as she knew she was like I think the people
at the youth de Development Center like like me I haven't had any bad interactions in the recent past that I
could think that would lead to anything like this like she really couldn't think
of anything and then as the police were interviewing them both the phone rang again and Linda answered and it was the
voice of a young woman and she said something about the and this is a random young woman saying something about the
shooting at Ken D's house the previous night and the fire at Linda and Gary's and Linda was like who the [ __ ] are you
what are you talking about and the girl said you both will die before the night's over and then hung the phone up
oh my God so Linda was like what what the [ __ ] because she was shocked to hear
about the attack on Ken she knew he was like in a shitty mood that day but she was like oh my God he got shot at like
and then why did I what the [ __ ] and then the police asked her to listen to a recording of a 911 call that had placed
that night the girl on the recording of the 911 call had said to the 911 dispatcher that she was calling about
the shooting at Ken D's house and the fire at the adir home she said quote for the sex abuse that I went through in the
YDC and the dispatcher asked her to explain and the caller said it was quote sex
abuse and for the abuse I took they are both going to die and who knows it might
be tonight and then H the F God like what the [ __ ] so these attacks were obviously done by Alvin and Judy we
found out later y um after they had done this they head it to maon I think it is
maon I think Mac on you're right I think I I did a little more on you know it's one of those guys um this time they went
in separate cars she went in a brown Dodge and he went in a red Ford Granada and they tried so after Alvin had come
out of prison like I said they had tried to reconcile like several times since he
had been like I just don't like you anymore and they did this together right they did this together even though and
like I said even though their relationship wasn't the same that it was they were still in that like us against
the world like we have to punish people together everyone hates us so we hate everyone kind of thing yeah so it's like
very strange and they were using a CB radio to connect with each other in the cars candy cane yeah it's like very Joy
Ride it's weird it's very strange and like I said they weren't in the same like obsessive passionate relationship
like romantic quote unquote relationship idea with each their idea but again their shared disdain for Humanity and
the people around them was what was keeping them connected in this it's very weird um this was just the beginning of
their big plan and douly and Adair were only two of the names of the list of a list of YDC employees that they were
targeting oh no uh Judy claimed it was for abuse she suffered there it should be said there is no evidence that Judy
was abused or sexually assaulted during her time in juvenile detention but there
are countless examples of children being abused in similar institutional settings
and having it not be documented so it is entirely possible yep but there is no documented proof yep so I just you need
to take it how it is like none of us know for sure but there is no way that we can say that that is not true I
really hope she wasn't now once they reached their destination Judy placed a call to the home of Linda Allen who was
a staff member at the Y YDC uh Judy told Linda that her husband had been she so Judy was saying like
it's me like I I was one of the girls there and she said her husband had been beating her and she needed Linda's help
she begged her for help now believing Judy to be in danger Linda Allen agreed to meet her at a at a motel the
following day she was like I'll help you out of this situation clearly she's a good person but the next day someone
from YDC called to say that Linda had been called out of town and wouldn't be able to make it okay Linda literally
dodged a bullet because Alvin and Judy planned to kill her oh my God but she somehow got called out of town at the
last second wow that's a guardian angel kind of thing right there so they moved on to the next name on the list so next
up was John brownley who was a security guard at the YDC uh Judy believed that this man had been attracted to her
that's all she said she didn't say he assaulted her she just believed he had a crush on her okay um having found his
number she called the house and got brownly on the phone and reminded him that he'd once told her if she ever
happened to be in the area she should look him up mhm so who knows it sounds like that was the yeah and caught off
guard brownley told Judy he couldn't meet her because he' just gotten married a few months earlier he was like I'm
married now okay so she decided to let that one go the plan was derailed interesting but that's all he that's all
it took had to say I know now they decided to go with a new plan because they were like you know what we got to
go big now because this isn't working out how I wanted to so they were now going to Simply track down each of the
men Judy said had abused her break into their homes and then Alvin had a plan that he was going to rape their wives in
front of them oh Jesus as payback to what they had done oh wow yeah that's it escalated very quickly a lot now the
more they talked the more Alvin and Judy just like fed each other and like were feeding each other's [ __ ] upness and
just like rage and aggression and hate and all of this this is so much and the problem was though that finding the home
addresses and phone numbers for all the employees at YDC was not easy you didn't
have like Google back then a good thing um and after a few days of driving around aimlessly they decided to abandon
this Revenge fantasy and they headed back in the direction of Rome and decided we need a new terrible
plan and this one's really terrible so trigger warning on the afternoon of September 25th 1982 Gail Henderson and
six girls from the ethal harpst home which was a facility for neglected and abandoned girls arrived at the Riverbend
Mall in Rome to do some shopping okay um after giving the five older girls very strict instructions to stay together
while they were at the mall Gail took the youngest of the girls with her to run some erands she told the other girls
the older ones meet her in front of the Radio Shack in one hour Radio Shack um Gail regrouped about an hour later but
one of them the 13-year-old girl Lisa milikin was missing now the girls told Henderson
that Lisa had become separated from the group somehow but they figured she would
just meet them outside the Radio Shack when she realized the time they waited for about 20 minutes and then they split
into two groups and went in different directions to try to find Lisa they couldn't find her so now Gail was
panicking of course went to Mall security to explain the situation they split up against again now with guards
to find nothing so they called the police a more formal search happened nothing she just disappeared oh God
months later investigators in Rome interviewed several young women who recall called that day being approached
by a teenage girl on that afternoon in some cases the teenager asked if their names were Kim or Phyllis okay
indicating that she was trying to meet someone and they hadn't shown up kind of thing MH most of them simply shook their
heads and were're like okay bye yeah but a woman Suzanne Clans who was at the riverb mall that day with her husband
had a longer interaction with this girl this girl was Judy I figured um according to Suzanne she said the girl
looked very dirty like she hadn't bathed in a while gross and she said she was looking for someone named Kim and she
said the girl asked Suzanne if she was alone at the mall and when Suzanne explained that she
was with her husband the girl seemed to lose all interest and just walked away oh this is so [ __ ] creepy so suzan
had no way of knowing it but that afternoon at the riverb mall she was about to be abducted and killed by Alvin
if she hadn't had her husband with her wow now Lisa milikin however was not lucky she had been lured and abducted by
Alvin and Judy she's 13 so they just completely abandoned the plan where it seemed like there was targeting
employees at this place who had wronged her and now they're just going after allegedly but now they're just going
after anybody for and that's what makes me think that there's the there wasn't a a total
motive here right that's clear at Le even maybe to begin with potentially exactly um so they abducted Lisa they
took her back to the chattah huchi motel Rome and that night the night cler Claire DH said she noticed them right
away when they came in she thought it was an odd Trio right an old [ __ ] guy with two teenage girls well she was like
the man and the young woman seemed like they were a couple like clearly but she said that young girl with them was
clearly not their child like she was too old to be their child like it was very strange and the next morning when DH
went to check on the room uh that the three of them were in the they had already checked out soda cans and candy
wrap ERS were everywhere and she said it appeared as though only one of the two beds had been slept in okay now the
scene repeated itself again over the next two days they checked into the Five Points motel in scotsboro Alabama and on
the morning of September 28th the motel's owner um he went to clean room 12 where they were found the same kind
of thing cookie wrappers soda cans like just crap everywhere and all three of them are checking in to and only one bed
is being used okay later that afternoon just before 1 p.m. A call came into Rome
Police Headquarters and was received by Watch Commander Lonnie Adcock the callers was a young teenage girl it
seemed who said y'all looking for Lisa Anne milikin on the run from the harps to and then claimed to have information
to help find her mhm she said go up to Little River Canyon in Alabama and then gave Specific Instructions where to find
Lisa the phrasing made them feel like she they were not going to find her alive yeah um they were skeptical but
they went out to little RI River Canyon to take a look okay as they um as officers from Rome were driving up
Lookout Mountain to reach the canyon Jenny West who was a news director at local station
wgaa received a tip from a young woman who called her desk the caller said Lisa milikin that girl that ran away from the
harpst to on Friday she's been killed and the Rome police are covering it up I think what we're seeing here is this us
against the World everyone's out to get us thing is just their shared delusion that they're using as an excuse to hurt
people yeah sounds like it CU now they're saying the Rome police are covering it up when they have nothing to
do with it and the caller then gave some detailed directions to find Lisa's body
and West interrupted and said how was she killed how was she killed and she said she was shot by a female juvenile
officer from the harps home this morning she was at the Little River Canyon and she's still there so now she's trying to
blame the people people from the home right now unsure whether this was real or a prank like a horri prank chased
down a fake lead Jenny West went to the Rome Police Headquarters and told them about it and the detectives were like
yeah like we also got a similar message from that and you know she had disappeared from the riverb mall about a
week earlier so like that name is absolutely true and um but they let the reporter know that they had gone out to
the canyon and hadn't found any evidence of a murder or a body um and they also investigated everyone
who work worked at the harps and no one had a history of violence or criminality
they were like no one's a suspect there like we don't suspect anyone there right
and in all likelihood they said we think she just ran away like that's the likely
thing that happened here right and you know hopefully she would turn up eventually we'll keep looking into leads
and try to find her and um but they wanted to put the reporter's mind at ease and their own so investigators told
her you know what we're going to call the authorities into call County Alabama and let them know that that a second tip
has been received okay so the next day on September 29th the deal County Sheriff's Office got a call from another
young woman wanting to know whether they had found the body in the canyon but the officer was like what the
[ __ ] like no we haven't and the caller just hung up so the young woman called again later that evening and gave more
precise directions like like being like go like wanting them to find her right so the sheriffs were like um all the
sheriffs were like you know what let's go out now and go we got to look so it took some time to get up the mountain to
where this she said the body would be and the sun was actually starting to set so it was getting dark in the canyon
yikes um but crawling on his stomach out to the edge of the mountain Alabama Alabama state trooper Tommy Brock shined
his flashlight down into the canyon and he said he immediately saw a pair of jeans hanging from a tree branch oh no
so he was like oh [ __ ] so he swept the light across the Canyon floor and illuminated the body of Lisa an milikin
more than 80 ft below 13 years old so they did they throw her over the side of the mountain what happened to her is
horrific and I just need you all to know that ahead of time like it's going to be
rough yeah now once they were able to retrieve her body from the canyon floor the deal County coroner Ronald Barry
confirmed that she had indeed been killed by a gunshot wound of the chest and she had been dead about 31 hours
when she was discovered um detectives from Georgia contacted um their counterparts in Alabama and they
confirmed that the voice of the caller matched the same caller that called into the deal County Sheriff's Office and so
they started which this is one of those instances where you're like thankfully they worked together they coordinated
and they did they had a joint investigation that's awesome now with the body taken out of the canyon uh
crime scene technicians began searching the canyon floor and all around for evidence they found several items of of
clothing a large amount of trash because they're [ __ ] pigs and criminalist John kilborne also found several
disposable syringes near where the body had been dis uh discovered strange they took up some tests and determined that
the syringes didn't contain narcotics oh they were sent in for more analysis and
it was determined that whatever had been in the syringes was extremely acidic in
nature it took some time to narrow it down but they found out that um analysts eventually determined that the syringes
had contained two very common cleaning products liquid Drano and Liquid Plumber oh
no so this seemed pretty unusual to lab technicians they were confused by that um but then when you look at the autopsy
results you see that this makes sense oh god um so the cause of death was obviously a shot to the chest um there
was repeated sexual assault on this poor girl and the autopsy technician found six puncture wounds in her
neck um so at some point before her death Lisa and milikin had been subjected to a form of chemical torture
and at the point of injection it had boiled the fatty tissue beneath her skin reducing it to an odd liquid which
resembled burnt cooking grease so they injected Drano and Liquid Plumber into her neck what they would
learn afterwards after they had been arrested because luckily these [ __ ] do get arrested um after they arrested
in investigators learned that while he was in jail Alvin had heard from someone that it would be nearly impossible for
investigators to identify a death as as a murder if the victim was injected with
acidic chemicals and that the death would be quick like it's an easy way to kill someone but then you also shot her
um well of course because it is entirely false that that would quickly kill someone uhhuh and it's entirely false
that they wouldn't be able to detect it but that didn't stop Judy from injecting
Lisa with those chemicals it was Judy who injected her with Drano and Liquid Plumber a 13ear old she had been tied
Lisa had been tied to a tree outside of the canyon and injected by Judy at least
six times with drain cleaner she's a sick [ __ ] when the injections failed to produce the results that she was looking
for and just caused Unbelievable pain and suffering to Lisa Judy simply shot Lisa in the chest and pushed her off the
ledge and into the canyon oh my God so they now knew how and they also knew a young woman was
almost certainly involved at this point in the murder of Lisa because at this point they didn't know it was Judy and
Alvin but they knew it was a young woman involved because she had called a hundred times to let them know right but
they needed to find out who and also where Lisa had been in the days between when she was abducted and murdered and
what the [ __ ] is going on here and what had happened to this that timeline this
isn't going to be the last person that dies from these two idiots that's where I'm going to leave
for part one cuz that's a lot because I have to take a minute after that because
I it's really heavy it's the amount of abuse neglect horrible trauma it's h it's this is a tough one
it's been it's been uh requested many times that's why finally I finally bit it and did it but like oof this is a
tough one yeah um everyone go hug someone you love high five someone you love make you know pay for someone's
coffee in share coffee with someone you yeah just like go do something that makes you feel a little warm and fuzzy
inside that doesn't hurt anyone else okay get a donut don't hurt people hurt people hurt people wow don't do that and
yeah and you know what go listen to an episode of the rewatcher to kind of cool yourself down from this yes perfect
palette cleanser and once you do that you'll be ready for part two on Thursday perfect okay so so we got you covered
all the way around and you can also listen to you know scream if you want to scream is fun you could listen to obit
to obituary lenary always a good laugh strange and unusual podcast go listen to Allison and her soothing voice yes if
you go listen to Al loone at lunch and get the [ __ ] away from all of this just
go listen to Comedy yeah alone at lunch is the perfect funny human beings with a really
funny funny guests if you need to totally disengage from anything dark yeah you know got you covered baby we
got you all right so we hope you keep listening and we hope you keep it weird if I have to tell you not to keep it
this weird you're [ __ ] up in the head and I have no hope love [Music] you [Music]

On September 11, 1982, Ken Dooley, a Youth Development Center employee in Rome, Georgia, was shot at in his home by an unseen attacker. The following day, Dooley’s coworker, Linda Adair, was also attacked when someone threw a Molotov cocktail at her house in an attempt to kill her. Although neither Dooley nor Adair knew it at the time, these were the first attacks in the violent crime spree of Alvin and Judith Ann Neelley, a married couple whose brutality would shock in and around Georgia in the fall of 1982.

Thank you the the incredible Dave White of Bring Me The Axe Podcast for Research Assistance.

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Brief Summary

Mikey's birthday chaos leads to a dark tale of Alvin and Judith Neely's violent crime spree in the 1980s.

Key points

Mikey's Birthday Chaos. A chaotic birthday celebration involving a mega candle that erupts into a bonfire.
The Start of a Crime Spree. Alvin and Judith's violent crime spree begins with attacks on coworkers.
Joanne's Horrific Reality. Joanne describes the first time Alvin assaulted her during her pregnancy.
Cycle of Abuse. Joanne's struggle with Alvin's escalating violence and her eventual escape.
Judy's Troubled Childhood. Judy Adams faced a tumultuous upbringing after her father's tragic death.
Judy's Criminal Life. Judy quickly fell into a life of crime after her release from detention.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

This is just like especially Judy she did not have a lot of chance here.

Discussion about Judith's transformation into a monster.

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