House of Horrors /// Part 1 /// 437 | Forensic Files

when it comes to Quality sleep Ashley has you covered with top mattress brands at winning prices and with special
financing options available you can snooze now and pay later plus your mattress purchase helps give the gift of
better sleep to children in need and US Special Operations forces visit your local Ashley store or shop online today
and make every snooze count financing is subject to credit approval C store or ashley.com for d details canva presents
a true crime of design in the office Maya spots something unusual in the presentation what's this it was an
off-brand font her coworker explains I added the font I thought it was fun it was not Maya solved it with canva open
up canva one click and the font is on brand easy stay on brand and solve font crimes at canva.com the home for every
brand [Music] [Music] never [Music] welcome to True Crime garage whever you are whatever you are doing thanks for
listening I'm your host Nick and with me as always ladies and gentlemen the Supreme garage Court Justice nominee the
captain thank you thank you thank you it's good to be seen and good to see you thanks for listening thanks for telling
a [Music] friend today we are very happy to be featuring Shadows of laughter teram misu
white oak by the fine folks down at one of our favorites tactical brewing in Orlando this is an imperial stout brewed
with lady finger cookies rum soaked coffee beans Madagascar vanilla beans and aged in White Oak and incredible
garage grade five out of five bottle caps and here's some big praise and High Praise And cheers to our good friends
right here first up cheers to Ava in Madina Ohio and a big we like your jib to Sophie in Birmingham here's an extra
cold cheers to Sea Winters in Pittsburgh and a big cheers to Kelly in Indianapolis Indiana all right Captain
here we go we have a big big thank you to send to Aaron and Little Rock Arkansas and last but certainly not
least cheers to Crystal campost residing and beautiful Parts Unknown everyone we
just mentioned they went to our website and helped us out with this week's beer fund and for that well we're going to
thank you yeah BW R beer run for all of our old episodes download the Stitcher app they are free and check out our
bonus show called off the Record and that is enough of the business all right everybody gather around grab chair grab
a beer let's talk some true [Music] crime [Music] [Music] oh Florida is the third most popular
state in the US 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 who knows what else is lurking at night early in the morning of Thursday
August 28th 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 heris 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 in 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 as salent Adam Matos but he
was unsuccessful about 2 and 1 half hours later the deputy returned to the house
on her Terrace Drive it is now just after 9:00 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
911 6 days later the officers returned to the same house what they found there would be described by the media as the
house of [ __ ] this is true crime [Music] garage 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 P ablea 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 pregn 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 planned to build their tropical island
dream home leading up to the move Greg a hardworking 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 Adam
Matos 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 situ situation for Megan well and 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 and 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 Adam Matos 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 help 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
2-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 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 want to put some context there Adam when she met
Adam he was like a obscured 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 heris 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 14th 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 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 Witchita Kansas area this was 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 when he when they move to
Florida were they on again off again when they're in Florida cuz he tells so many lies he being atam 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 Shack so this complaint to Verizon from
Nick Leonard is this woman Michelle a former romantic interest who lived in Witchita 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 um 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 texts are 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 mhm these guys just seem to be following me around and they're sitting outside my
home this is a whole another level of of threat and harassment well and at some point you go is he just delusional and
thinks people are 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 Krauss of the Pasco County Sheriff's Office for the next day
the appointment was scheduled for August 28th at 2 p.m. and the topic of discussion to file a formal complaint of
harassment from his ex-girlfriend in Witchita later that same day on the 27th Megan Brown reports to work at the
fisherman Shack after work Megan and cooworker 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 28th 2014 in 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
text 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 their 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 spoton 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
[Music] mother this show is sponsored by better help do you look forward to the holiday
maybe you struggle with seasonal Blues this time of year can be a lot and it's natural to feel some sadness or even
anxiety about it but adding something new and positive to your life can counteract some of those feelings
therapy can be a bright spot something to look forward to to make you feel grounded and to give you the tools to
manage everything going on if you're thinking of starting therapy give better help a try it's entirely online designed
to be convenient flexible and suited to your SK schedule just fill out a brief questionnaire to get matched with a
licensed therapist and switch therapist at any time for no additional charge find your bright spot this season with
betterhelp visit betterhelp.com Garay to get 10% off your first month that's betterhelp
hp.com garage dreaming of overseas Adventures or connecting more deeply with family
from afar Rosetta Stone Bridges the language Gap I've tried others but Rosetta Stone's immersive lessons and
voice feedback technology are game changers dive into 25 Languages by learning intuitively just like when you
were a kid and here's the holiday Sparkle grab a lifetime membership now and save 50% gift yourself the world
head to rosettastone.com now and save 50% you can start your day off right when you find a professional on Angie to
get your pluming right first connect with skilled professionals to get all your home projects done well
visit angie.com you can do this when you Angie [Music] that all right cheers mates cheers
everybody having a cocktail with the captain and Colonel and if you're not having a cocktail just
make sure you jiggle your booty a little bit and don't forget that next week is election day so get out there and vote
make arrangements because you can vote in advance if Tuesday is no good for you remember what they used to say when we
were kids Captain get out there and Rock the vote Rock the vote sometime after 500 a.m. but before 5:30 a.m. Megan
Brown returned home after a night out with friends at 6:07 a.m. is when a call to 91 1 comes in this will be the first
of two 911 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 611 a.m. the second call from Megan's phone came in
to 911 emergency services this is the call that we spoke of in the trailer today during this 11-minute call Megan
is very upset and heard to be crying hysteric Ally 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 there's no picture that I found online of this injury anyone that's ever injured themselves or or or
suffered a cut especially a deep one and you look at it it's shocking when you GH
I'm laughing in a in a not in a funny way it's more out of a nervous way nerd way 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 911 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 dickn NOS
me L but I think it also shows it gives us a little insight into what the truth might be about their relationship and
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 superpowers 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 wonder 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 it has several streets
and and 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 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 611 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 MH so about 622 the 911 call ends then the officer is on the scene so let's say on
the scene as early as 623 to 625 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 we're anywhere as early as 7:23 a.m. up to about 7:55 a.m. 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 100 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 of the people that are listening know this but just in case you need to hear this this kind of
contact constantly calling constantly texting 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 and the text that 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 there beneath the pale blue I don't know that 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're 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 teras drive as if that is not the most
annoying thing ever all of those calls over and over it turns out 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 coworker 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 9:00 a.m. Nick Leonard calls 911 to report that Megan Brown was
being attacked a deputy again responds thinking that 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
6:00 a.m. this is new information at this time around 9:00 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 is communicated this information via text from Megan so it's
it's one of those situations where text there's no tone of 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 911 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 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 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 no and this will be the last call that deputies will respond to on
August 28th 2014 at the brown housee that they're renting on her terce drive just after noon
so 12:00 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 Browns neighbor Ryan mccan 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 kuss 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 in to the local
police there in Florida even though he believed his harasser was in Witchita and he discussed with Detective Krauss
about coming in and filing a formal written complaint about what was going on uh 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
Krauss for 2 p.m. on the 28th detective Krauss is calling Nick Leonard because it's now 2:30 and Nick Leonard has never
shown up to this appointment Nick tells detective Krauss 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 300 p.m. Maggie Brown arrives 4 and begins her scheduled workshift at a local convenience store
shortly after 300 p.m. Megan Brown failed to report to work she calls her boss at 3:09 p.m. 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 p.m. 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: p.m. we don't have an exact time for this but sometime after or around 600 p.m. again this comes from the neighbor
Ryan mccan he says that around that time he loans Greg Brown 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 1100 p.m. 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 p.m. sometime between 11:45 p.m. 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 p.m. and midnight continuing on with our timeline
this brings us to Friday yes this will be Friday August 29th 2014 around 3 p.m. Megan Brown does not
show up for her work shift also at this exact same time at 300 p.m. 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 Browns house 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 M this next bit is from The Daily Mail which did Gang Busters work on this case quote they being law
enforcement immediately see blankets on the ground behind the van man 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 Stones throw away from the home he says that after
noticing the same smell of death coming from a wooded area he goes into 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 CH Kil 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 kill 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: p.m. 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 mm and of course
they find they're returning to a shocking scene the place turns pink when it's sprayed with luminol 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 horor that had occurred there 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 CU you know
that when they opened 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 trit description the house of [ __ ] 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 with 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 leads these
officers from the house to a half to a 3/4 miles away way 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 believe 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 cuz doesn't it turn to Stone when you're
when you're in Florida isn't like there 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 dump them in that wooded area thanks for joining us here in the garage
for everything true crime garage check out the website true Crim garage.com join us back here tomorrow and until
then be good be kind and don't [Music] litter [Music] you can live out your Master Chef dreams
when you find a professional on Angie to tackle your dream kitchen remodel connect with skilled
professionals to get all your home projects done well visit angie.com you can do this when you Angie that

House of Horrors /// Part 1 /// 437

Part 1 of 2

www.TrueCrimeGarage.com (http://www.truecrimegarage.com/)

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.

Beer of the Week - Shadows of Laughter: Tiramisu - White Oak by Tactical Brewing Garage Grade - 5 out of 5 Bottle Caps

The full archive of True Crime Garage is available on the Stitcher listening app - for FREE. Our show “Off the Record” is only on Stitcher Premium. For a FREE month of listening go to http://stitcherpremium.com/truecrimegarage and use promo code GARAGE

Beer Fund: https://truecrimegarage.com/home

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com (https://pcm.adswizz.com) for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Brief Summary

Megan Brown's 911 call reveals a violent attack by ex-boyfriend Adam Matos, leading to a tragic discovery days later.

Key points

Quality Sleep with Ashley. Ashley offers top mattress brands at winning prices, helping children in need with every purchase.
True Crime Begins in Florida. The true crime story unfolds in Florida, starting with a violent incident involving Megan Brown.
Megan's New Life in Florida. Megan moves to Florida with her family and ex-boyfriend Adam, but tensions rise quickly.
Harassment Escalates. Nick Leonard reports harassment from his ex-girlfriend, linking it to Megan's situation.
The Attack. Megan describes the horrifying attack by her son's father, Adam Matos.
Megan's 911 Call. Megan calls 911 after a violent attack, pleading for immediate help.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

This is simply a misunderstanding.

Megan explaining the situation to police

7:37WatchNov 16, 2023

Tension

85/ 100High tension

More from True Crime Garage TV

Solve the Crime

Read a real case one clue at a time, then see how your call held up against the investigators.