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let's talk some true crime [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] Florida is the third most populous state in the
U.S Florida is known for its sandy beaches and over 1 000 miles of coastline our true crime story this week will take
place almost entirely at a house and property located at the end of Ghost Creek in North Hudson Florida
if you're looking to catch some Spanish mackerel or sea trout then you've come to the right fishing hole
with a name like Ghost Creek who knows what else is lurking at night early in the morning of Thursday August
28 2014. the Department of Emergency Services for Pasco County Florida received and
recorded a conversation about a violent incident taking place just minutes before the call
27 year old Megan Brown was on the phone with Dustin Brooks the 911 operator on duty when the call came in
Megan can be heard crying Breathing heavily and moaning fighting through the tears Megan said
that her ex-boyfriend and the father of her only child attacked and threatened her
she said she was out late with some friends when she came home 28 year old Adam Matos held a kitchen knife to her throat
and told her several times that his intentions were to kill her but she had fought him off and Adam had
left a deputy from the Sheriff's Office was dispatched to the scene he arrived at 7719 hutteras Drive
shortly after the call there the officer spoke with Megan Brown and observed her to be very hysterical
she was crying and it was obvious to the officer that she had been doing a lot of
crying the officer observed a substantial cut to Megan's left thumb she explained she received the cut when
trying to get the knife away from her throat and out of the hands of one very angry Adam Matos
the deputy collected the knife used in the attack he took photographs of Megan specifically her injury and the
immediate area where the incident took place he observed and spoke with Megan her
mother Margaret Brown and Megan's four-year-old son Tristan the deputy attempted to locate the
alleged assailant Adam Matos but he was unsuccessful about two and a half hours later the
deputy returned to the house on heteris Drive it is now just after 9 A.M the deputy is responding to the
residence after a call was placed by a man named Nicholas Leonard Nicholas reported that an assault
involving a knife was in progress at the house upon arrival the deputy once again made
contact with Megan Brown Megan explained to the officer that this was simply a misunderstanding
Megan reported to Nicholas about the earlier attack via text Nicholas thought the attack was in
progress and called 9-1-1 six days later the officers returned to the same house
what they found there would be described by the media as the House of Horrors this is true crime garage
[Music] you just heard there in the trailer that this case is going to take us down to
the Sunshine State but first we will start this week's True Crime Story in New Jersey
where Greg Brown married his girlfriend Margaret who was known to her friends and family as Maggie back in 1983. Greg
was an electrician who co-ran and operated Brown Electric in Neptune New Jersey Maggie was outgoing a social butterfly
who worked as an emergency medical technician in 1987 Maggie gave birth to the married
couple's youngest child Megan Elizabeth Brown the Brown family moved from their home
in Brick New Jersey to Pennsylvania in 1998 where Greg and Maggie opened Hidden Hills Farm in Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania
where they bred and boarded dogs and horses Megan graduated from Northwestern Lehigh
High School in 2005 where she ran track and competed in the PA state finals she was a bit of a track star in high
school winning a silver medal in the triple jump at the 2005 Pi double a track and field championship
she earned an athletic scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania where she attended while at College Megan started
dating a guy named Adam Matos of course this was college so not supposed to be something serious and it never really
was but Megan got pregnant this was unplanned but she was excited to be a mother and she had the full
support of her parents and Megan's son Tristan was born in 2009. and Megan had committed all of her efforts to raising
Tristan this included reuniting with Adam Matos the child's father while still in Pennsylvania it sounds
like Adam was in and out of the brown home just before 2014 Greg Brown had back surgery and decided to retire the
family plan was to move to Florida and Maggie and Greg plan to build their tropical island dream home leading up to
the move Greg a hard-working man all of his life was unable to help with the moving process as he was still
recovering from his recent back surgery on July 2nd 2014 the Browns this included Greg Maggie their daughter
Megan and her only child four-year-old son Tristan they move from their home in Pennsylvania down to Florida
the Browns are making this big move for many reasons but the two bigger reasons seem to be that they have a family in
the area this also in step with retirement plans for Greg and Maggie but this move will include animatos
Tristan's father this move looks like a life goal for the Browns and everything that I have found
says that Megan while a super awesome and dedicated mother the living arrangement of her and her son Tristan
staying and living at Mom and Dad's house back in Pennsylvania was probably yes something that she
desired to stay close to Mom and Dad but also a living situation in a desirable home
on a beautiful property but probably Captain a necessity Megan is a young mother and of course children are not
cheap and so it was probably an ideal situation for Megan one also her son has special needs he's autistic
so having the extra help probably was a necessity and her parents Greg and Maggie are super great people
great in giving parents and grandparents they say look we're moving but we want our daughter and Grandson to remain
close to us both in heart and proximity so the two of you come and live with us as well
well like I said this plan is going to include Adam Matos ex-boyfriend to Megan and little Tristan's father
so the Browns moved to Florida to be closer to extended family and they are nice enough and thoughtful enough to
allow adamatos to move with them to remain close to his son that he had with Megan Brown Adam was going to be able to
live with the Browns temporarily you know for a couple of months so that he can get set up in this new city get a
job get settled in and then find a place of his own to live right it was agreed that he would live with them he would
also work and he would chip in on the rent the Browns would be renting a very nice
house for the meantime while building what sounds to be their dream home the Browns family extended relatives
living in Florida helped Greg Margaret Megan and Adam move into their rented home and get settled in
the house that they are renting is large enough that Megan and Adam are able to have separate bedrooms
shortly after moving to Hudson Florida Megan Gets a Job bartending at the fisherman's Shack this is a local pub
I'm guessing this is a dive bar there's no website and zero Yelp reviews but this could be the perfect little setup
for Megan the bar is less than a two minute drive from the house her parents are renting right so it's always good to
be close to work and it's one of those cool little spots that's right along the water that is it's off of Cow Creek but
it appears that you could pull your boat up and dock it somewhere in the back not long after this
as promised Adam gets a job at the get hooked Bar and Grill this looks like a cool place featuring live music two bars
and a large fresh seafood menu Adam will be running the dish tank now at Megan's work at the fisherman's
Shack she is quick to make friends this will include both fellow employees and some of the regulars that come in
these are people that she will enjoy seeing at work and going out in groups after work and on her days off
one of these new friends is a young man named Nicholas Leonard Nick is from Florida he's a few years
older than Megan and he works as a carpenter and landscaper it sounds like these two really hit it off I wanted to
put some context there Adam when she met Adam he was like a obscure DJ or something and wasn't much of a go-getter
wasn't known to be that hard of a worker right right back at the rental house on
heteris Drive things are not going particularly well Megan and Adam are not getting along and there is quite the
this is quite the understatement actually but Adam does not appear to be getting along with Megan's family either
and it sounds like he was wearing out his welcome at some point Adam gets fired from his
dishwashing job and it looks like this only created further distance between Megan and Adam and with a big part of
the deal being Adam should be working and pitching in this is going to create additional conflict between Adam and
Megan's parents well and I heard he was a horrible roommate he wasn't taking out
the trash he wasn't cleaning up after himself and I'm not really certain 100 certain of what the deal was here as
this just sounds to me like a recipe for disaster but I'm sure this likely started off with everyone or at least
Greg and Maggie having the best of hopes and intentions for all involved all right here is where the high hopes
that Greg and Maggie had for all on this new living situation starts to go off the rails
on Thursday August 14 2014. Megan calls the local police to report that she's being threatened and harassed
by a female police listen to her complaint but decide this does not warrant any further action because Megan
failed to provide hard details about the threats and harassment right police of course
advised her how to best handle the situation should it occur in the future part of the issue may have been not only
providing evidence of the harassment and threats but Megan either didn't know who
was harassing her or could not show evidence of who was harassing her right so the identity of the alleged harasser
was never determined by police but it's a female not a male that's what her complaint was right but
we will quickly have an idea of who this alleged female harasser was because just
about two weeks later on Wednesday August 27th Nick Leonard new friend in all the circle of friends agree to be
dating Megan by this point in our timeline he makes a somewhat Anonymous call to a
Verizon store in the greater Wichita Kansas area this was to call in a formal complaint about one of the Verizon
employees her name is Michelle Stinson turns out that Michelle was a one-time girlfriend of Nick Leonards Michelle
went out to Florida looking for Nick and things are going to get ugly when she finds Nick's truck parked at Megan's
house which is kind of confusing in this story because as far as Adam and Megan's
relationship is concerned it's never really clear are they an item when he when they moved to Florida
were they on again off again when they're in Florida because he tells so many lies he be an Adam that
he claims that they were together the whole time right and I think what makes it very
convoluted to any Outsiders is you have a situation where at the end of the day they're living together right so it gets
hard to determine what their boundaries are if they in fact even set any up so this woman she says that at some
point she's down in Florida this is Michelle she went to Florida looking for Nick Leonard and she gets upset when she
finds Nick's truck parked at Megan's house she then spent some time watching Nick from afar while he's
spending a decent amount of time hanging out after work at the Old Fisherman's Shack
so this complaint to Verizon from Nick Leonard is this woman Michelle a former romantic interest who lived in Wichita
and who worked for Verizon was using her Verizon employee Powers those are some amazing powers that you get over there
to hack into his accounts similar to Spider-Man right shooting webs and in addition to that probably levitation
homes yes uh so she's using these powers or so he believes to hack into his accounts and
Nick's words he says she was stalking harassing and threatening him through the cell phone and this isn't the first
time though correct it's not really hard to piece together that this was likely the same person
harassing Megan as well are you threatening me his complaint to Verizon was that Michelle was using Verizon
technology to hack into his phone this meant his email account and his bank account as well so you could use this
info to then lead you to Megan's information you see what his Tech star you see what his emails are who he's
communicating with and then boom you have her information if you want to go out of your way to harass her as well
Nick went on to state that she allegedly went so far she being the harasser went
so far as to not only harass and threaten Megan but she contacted several of his business customers it looks like
Nick owned and operated his own business as a carpenter and landscaper or may have been getting jobs on the side
somewhere but she contacts these business contacts of his his customers and starts
harassing them and telling them do not do business with Nick Leonard on the same day Nick reports this to local
authorities in Florida as well but he includes in this complaint that two others had been harassing him as well in
fact at times he says they were even sitting outside of his home in a parked car he describes these individuals as
two heavier set Asian males this is weird we've all heard of an ex-boyfriend or an ex-girlfriend harassing a person
yeah an ex an ex-lover or ex-friend lover lover we hear that all the time but then to take it to the point of
where he says I think she's sending thugs over to threaten me as well these guys just seem to be following me around
and they're sitting outside my home this is a whole nother level of of threat and harassment well and at some
point you go is he just delusional and thinks people were following him but when you have the evidence that yes his
ex is definitely stalking him then you go well maybe all his claims are true so on Wednesday August 27th
Nick Leonard made an appointment with Detective Krause of the Pasco County Sheriff's Office for the next day the
appointment was scheduled for August 28th at 2 pm and the topic of discussion to file a formal complaint of harassment
from his ex-girlfriend in Wichita later that same day on the 27th Megan Brown reports to work at the fisherman's Shack
after work Megan and co-worker Tanya Carlson go out after work it sounds like they were meeting up with some others as
this is always reported as a group thing and I don't think it's important who most of the persons out together that
night were but one of the people in the group that night is reported to be Nick Leonard now it's after midnight so
technically it's now Thursday August 28 2014 and our timeline Megan is still out
with her friends with this group of friends she's at a bar having a good time or at least trying to because this
is obviously going to be upsetting to Adam and we will know this because Adam in the early morning hours of the 28th
well he starts to try to reach out and get in touch with Megan and this quickly leads to a series of repeated calls and
texts to Megan harassing her yeah this guy has no control I mean once he starts trying to contact her and this happened
several times in the relationships we're talking about hundreds of calls and hundreds of texts within a short period
of time which is so bizarre when you think about it because everyone really describes him and I think this is
absolutely spot on I've seen tons of interviews with this guy and it's absolutely correct in their description
of him as a quiet guy who doesn't talk a lot but as you're pointing out he decides I don't like what's going on
flips a switch and he won't shut up he won't leave Megan alone as said to put it politely this leads to
a series of repeated calls and texts to Megan harassing her he wants to know where she is what she's doing and who
she might be out with he repeatedly tells her during these calls and on text that she is a horrible mother
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remember what they used to say when we were kids Captain get out there and Rock the vote Rock the vote sometime after 5
a.m but before 5 30 a.m Megan Brown returned home after a night out with friends at 607 am is when a call to
9-1-1 comes in this will be the first of two 9-1-1 calls both placed by Megan this call got disconnected and I could
not find out the reason why it does not appear that this was discussed in the second call it could be for any number
of reasons obviously someone hung up the phone the phone simply dropped the call
any number of reasons the operator tried to call back several times but got no answer got Megan's voicemail this is
protocol for this 911 Center call drops you can't speak with the caller you try calling them back
then at 6 11 A.M the second call from Megan's phone came in to 9-1-1 emergency services this is the call that we spoke
of in the trailer today during this 11-minute call Megan is very upset and her to be crying hysterically
on the call she is bouncing back and forth between telling the operator what has happened you know reporting the
attack and she is also reporting any additional things that are going on during the
phone call itself she says I came home and my son's dad pushed me against a wall put a knife to my throat and he
threatened to kill me and he cut my hand and I'm bleeding everywhere and my son is freaking out
please have someone come out here as soon as possible Megan says she managed to get the knife
from Adam Matos and says that Adam took off and he fled from the house around the time that their son woke up
she can be heard saying the knife is in my son's room and I'm trying to get him meaning Tristan her son out of the room
and she's going to put the knife in the kitchen she says she can't look at the knife because it's covered with blood
with a lot of blood right she's explaining that her thumb is cut it hurts really bad and she can see
everything I think that she means that she can see everything past the skin through the cut
in her thumb yeah there's no picture that I found online of this injury anyone that's ever injured themselves or
or suffered a cut especially a deep one and you look at it it's shocking when you ugh and I'm laughing in a not in a
funny way it's more ahead of a nervous way yeah she tells the operator that she got her son and she locked herself and
her son inside her bedroom she said that Adam took off down the street but he was turning around
I was really trying to determine if Adam was driving a car or if he was riding a
bike and I think that there's evidence later that will suggest that he is riding a bike she's never descriptive
enough to say that he's driving a car but using the words turning around would imply that they're driving or operating
something they're not just I don't think most people say that when someone's just
walking or running down the the street she tells the operator and this is this is pretty freaky right here that he is
now out front of the house he's back on the property he's at the front door he's
knocking on the door Megan says that she has called the police she tells Adam look I'm I'm on the phone with 9-1-1
So Adam takes off again at some point in the call she says oh my God I can't believe this happened I'm so scared if I
knew he was going to do that I wouldn't even have went out well and this shows you what kind of person she was and what
kind of mother she was because she's putting the blame on herself for something she's not responsible for it's
this shouldn't have happened just because you went out after work to hang out with a couple people right because
this is not even it's not just a problem for her it's also creating a lot of drama and unnecessary problems for Mom
and Dad because we're living at Mom and Dad's house and my son yeah well I mean this is showing how Adam is a dick knows
meat log but I think it also shows it gives us a little insight into what the truth might be about their relationship
in their living situation she may just have thought that Adam was simply there at the house to help with Tristan to
take care of his son and to get set up in a new city and not have to live hundreds of miles away from his son
right and that he should just grow up and be an adult while she goes out with some friends after she worked at her job
all day makes sense to me but hey I'm just but he's very immature I'm just some dude
drinking a beer in a garage what do you know what the hell do I know about it you don't have super powers what I do
know is that as said in the trailer the deputies arrived quickly on the scene by
this point though it appears that Adam Matos is as they say long gone yeah police investigate at the scene and look
for Matos for somewhere between an hour and approximately up to an hour and a half
I want to underline that real quick before we move on they say that they investigate they look for Matos for more
than an hour and approximately up to an hour and a half you have to wander though
was Adam somehow able to hide and conceal himself tucked away somewhere nearby well this house
was also on the water right it's on the water it's it's a canal that comes off of that ghost Creek
and if you look it up on a map it's a neat little neighborhood it has several streets in in a lot of the houses have
these canals that go near the houses I mean for all we know he's just hiding in some Bush somewhere
a real sack sniffer well that's what I mean and the I say this because I find it very interesting the sequence of
events when you start plugging in all of the detailed timed information that we have and filling in the blanks along the
way right let's let's go through this shall we we know the call that the deputy responded to came in at 6 11 A.M we know
per the police report that the deputy was on the scene within minutes of the call the call lasted approximately 11
minutes so about 6 22 the 9-1-1 call ends then the officer is on the scene so let's say on the scene as early as 6 23
to 6 25 then per the report the police investigated this is asking questions observing taking notes
photographs documenting the incident and searching for the alleged perpetrator of
the assault which is Adam Matos all of this per the report took more than an hour and approximately up to an hour and
a half so now we are we're talking about a time frame where anywhere as early as 7 23 a.m up to
about 7 55 am I find this type of minutia very fascinating because per the records at 7
49 a.m starting at this time Adam Matos starts making another one of his now famous
move of repeatedly calling over and over again to Megan's phone and so that's what I
wondered was yes they looked for this guy but he had to have been somewhere close nearby because his calls to Megan
start almost exactly at the same time that the police leave the area right and again not a call or 10 calls we're
talking like over a hundred calls right it's an Adam Matos I'm going to call or text you dozens of times
in a very short period of time it's insane look she's not answering his calls because she knows what she's going
to get should she pick up the phone he's sending her nasty and threatening text to go along with these unanswered calls
well I I know most the people that are listening know this but just in case you need to hear this this kind of contact
counseling calling constantly texting talking trash harassment through text this is a type of abuse this is a type
of control and this if this is helping if this is happening to you please reach out to your family and friends I also
think the one making the calls in the text that it's some kind of psychosis on their end as well yeah
some there might even be a term for that somewhere some somewhere out there under
the stars above yeah beneath the pale blue I don't know I can't remember the words all right so
this now this part is very upsetting to me this is where I want to get the old set the beer down get up punch the guy
right in the face not as upsetting as you not knowing those lyrics right uh but this warrants a punch to the face
okay in the face when Megan is not answering her phone Adam is nice enough to start calling
Maggie's phone Megan's mother oh I'll just start calling her and ruin her day now because Megan's not answering her
phone that's how much of a child I am right but like you said maybe some sort of psychosis right it's you can't
control it at this point it's like a child though when you're not getting the response that you want which is as
simple as someone on the other end picking up the phone you just keep trying and trying and calling and
calling again yeah over 100 calls were made from Adam Matos to Megan and Maggie and these all started at 7 49 a.m almost
like he sat there somewhere watching and waiting for the police to leave and then
started right back in on the threats immediately after the police departure from the house on her Terrace Drive
as if that is not the most annoying thing ever all of those calls over and over it turns out that the night before
when Megan was out with friends Adam made over 100 calls to Megan while she's out trying to have a good time after
work around 8 30 A.M Megan calls her friend Tanya Carlson this is her co-worker that she was out
with the night before Megan tells Tanya that Adam has attacked her and that she has never seen him act
this way before and that she was concerned that Adam might attack her again and maybe even kill her follow
through on the threats that he was making Megan says she will be unable to go to
work that day she says that she is afraid that Adam will show up at the house when she is at work and take their
son take Tristan and never return again just after 9 A.M Nick Leonard calls 9-1-1 to report that Megan Brown was
being attacked a deputy again responds thinking the Adam must have returned to the house and
that this was a new attack let's go through this slowly because this part is a little confusing
well to put it very simply it wasn't a new attack it was a misunderstanding right while the attack went down just
after or right around 6 A.M this is new information at this time around 9 A.M to Nick Leonard right he is
simply reporting the earlier attack to the police to which law enforcement has already responded it's we all live this
we all kind of know not this exact situation but he has communicated this information
via text from Megan so it's it's one of those situations where text there's no tone a voice there's no way to really
fully comprehend What's Understood or going on rather than reading the text itself so he misunderstands he's like oh
crap there's a she's being attacked she says there's a knife involved I better call 9-1-1 right the police show up we
were talking about this off mic earlier today the police unfortunately a lot of what they deal with are these domestic
disputes a lot of adults behaving like children scumbags yeah a lot of a lot of spats let's call them
um and poop canoes what we have here the police of course they're like well duh this makes sense it's it's a couple
hours later of course he he came back so they rush out there and this time they find luckily he's not there he has not
returned he's not done any further damage okay we'll go back out and we'll look for him again but again this time
they still don't find him now and this will be the last call that deputies will respond to on August 28 2014 at
the brown house that they're renting on a Terrace Drive just after noon so 12 p.m noon just after that time this is
an approximate time Greg Brown Megan's father is at a store where he purchases a spark plug and spark plug
tool using a credit card belonging either to him or to his wife Maggie that afternoon the Brown's neighbor Ryan
McCann says Greg is setting up a table and chairs on his back porch Greg telling the neighbor that Megan would be
having a party at some point with her friends after work around 2 30 P.M detective Krause calls and speaks with
Nick Leonard via telephone about Nick missing their scheduled appointment so we kind of have to go back to
one event earlier in our story here captain where remember Nick was getting harassed
by a female he believed it to be an ex-girlfriend of his and he phoned it into the local police
there in Florida even though he believed his harasser was in Wichita and he discussed with Detective Krause
about coming in and filing a formal written complaint about what was going on being hacked his phone being hacked
his accounts being hacked so on and so forth on the 27th of August he made this appointment with Detective Krause for 2
P.M on the 28th detective Krause is calling Nick Leonard because it's now 2 30 and Nick Leonard has never shown up
to this appointment Nick tells detective Krause that something has come up and that he is
busy and what he's going to do is he's going to call the detective back next week so that they can reschedule this
appointment at 3 pm Maggie Brown arrives for and begins her scheduled work shift at a local
convenience store shortly after 3 P.M Megan Brown fails to report to work she calls her boss at 309
pm and she tells him that she was scared and tells him that she and her son are in danger and she would not be able to
come in for her shift that day at work at 4 12 pm Adam Matos calls Megan Brown again
per reports this would be the last call even after the hysterics of calling over
100 times earlier that day right this is the last call from Adam's phone to Megan's phone per the report uh that we
were we were able to see sometime after 6 pm we don't have an exact time for this but
sometime after or around 6 PM again this comes from the neighbor Ryan McCann he says that around that
time he loans Greg Brown a ratchet Greg says he needs the ratchet to work on a spark plug in his RV's generator or on
his RV's generator right this makes sense because we know from his credit card statements that earlier that day he
was at a hardware store he's out purchasing a spark plug Maggie Brown's shift is over at 11 PM
and at 11 10 p.m she leaves work at the convenience store and heads home from door to door this is a drive time of
approximately 15 minutes so she is arriving at the rental house around 11 25 pm sometime between 11 45 pm and midnight a
neighbor in this neighborhood is out for a walk and he says that he hears what he
believed to be gunshots he says he thought that he heard three gunshots sometime between 11 45 pm and midnight
continuing on with our timeline this brings us to Friday yes this would be Friday August 29 2014.
around 3 P.M Megan Brown does not show up for her work shift also at this exact same time at 3 pm her
mother Maggie Brown fails to report to work they work at different locations so this
is a kind of a way to double check that one and both are not accounted for right
let's go to September 4th 2014. at 9 54 a.m Linda Thomas this is Megan's grandmother
she calls the Pasco County Sheriff's Office to request a welfare check on the Brown family
saying she hasn't heard from the Brown family specifically Megan since August 28th
police respond to the Brown family home and discover what appears to be the obvious signs of a very bloody and
violent attack so the way this works Captain is that it has been six days yeah since anyone has heard from
the the Brown family yeah and when Cops show up you know they knock on the door nobody appears to be home at the Brown's
house they say while they're there they detect a foul odor and these are seasoned cops
they've been on the job for a while they say it's the all too familiar odor of death
and decaying bodies yeah these guys know these guys and girls of blue know that they're not responding to
something good this is a bad situation and you can smell that kind of smell from rooms away they find a door that
was left open so they have probable cause to enter the home they entered the house through this open
door and this door was one that would lead right into the garage where the family where the brown family's van is
parked this next bit is from The Daily Mail which did gangbusters work on this case
quote they being law enforcement immediately see blankets on the ground behind the van in the garage there is
what appears to be blood all over the floor and on these blankets but also on the bumper yes and about the same time a
veteran cop makes another Grim Discovery this just a stone's throw away from the
home he says that after noticing the same smell of death coming from a wooded area
he goes in to take a look there the detectives find something worse than they have ever seen in all of their
years in law enforcement it was a pile of bodies Sheriff's Office detective Chet coolgel
said to the Daily Mail quote they were decomposed beyond recognition we didn't know exactly who or how many total
bodies were in the pile but detective coolgill said he could easily deduce that the Brown family was among them
quote it was just common sense you know we had a house with several people that are missing and now we have a pile of
bodies less than a mile away at 2 pm a forensics team arrives with the medical examiner at the site where
the bodies were dumped as the medical examiner tries to identify the victims detectives and
forensic experts go back to the house and of course they find they're returning to a shocking scene
the place turns pink when it's sprayed with luminal there's a trail of blood stretching
throughout the house signs that the killer had tried to clean up some of it and other Clues to the horror that had
occurred there well some really good evidence is found in this van officers said quote we knew there were people
dead people and decaying people in the back of that van at some point there was a significant amount of blood in the van
they found blood and they found maggots in the van as well and there's pictures of that online as well and it's very
jarring to see that because you know that when they open up this vehicle probably the smell got more intense but
to see those maggots in that car like that um just horrible and it's somewhat of a
trite description the House of Horrors but you know given by the newspapers and the media at the
time but that's what it is that's the best way to explain what these officers walked into a lot of blood and then like
you said with the aluminol it just lit up the whole house and then the smell of death and Decay is so strong that it
lead leads these officers from the house to a half to a three-quarter miles away
out into a wooded area where they find this pile of bodies right back in the garage back in the van they also found a
shovel in the back of the van the detectives believed that the killer had used the shovel to try to bury the
bodies in the yard saying that on the side of the house there was a freshly dug area but in that area you can't dig
more than a foot someone tried to bury these bodies on the side of the house and simply gave up
yeah because it doesn't turn to Stone when you're when you're in Florida isn't like there are a bunch of lime rock or
something clay stone Lime Rock yes it gets difficult investigators found evidence to support the theory that the
murderer tried to load the bodies into the back of the van was successful in doing so and then dumped them in that
wooded area oh thanks for joining us here in the garage for everything true crime garage check
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September 2014 - Hudson, Florida. The Sheriff’s Office responds to a domestic dispute 911 call. About two hours later they respond again to the same address. Six days later they respond to the same address on Hatteras Drive to what the media would soon be calling the House of Horrors. There were several immediate questions for the investigators. 1.) How many were dead? 2.) Who are the victims? 3.) Who is responsible? We will answer these questions and more this week in the garage.

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Brief Summary

Megan Brown's tragic story of domestic violence escalates to a horrific conclusion in North Hudson, Florida, involving her ex-boyfriend Adam Matos.

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Welcome to True Crime Garage. Join hosts Nick and the Captain as they dive into this week's chilling true crime story.
Ghost Creek Mystery. A violent incident unfolds at a house on Ghost Creek in Florida.
House of Horrors. What the officers found six days later would shock everyone.
Escalating Tensions. Megan's relationship with Adam deteriorates, leading to police involvement.
Harassment and Threats. Nick Leonard reports harassment from his ex-girlfriend, linking it to Megan's troubles.
Megan's 911 Call. Megan Brown calls 911 in a panic after being attacked by Adam Matos, revealing the horrifying details of her situation.

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