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[Music] when we left off yesterday Captain the police had just discovered what can only
be referred to as a House of [ __ ] they found a bloody scene at the rental house
where the Browns were staying and within a mile of the house in fact it's distanced at between a half and a 3/4 of
a mile from the home in a wooded area they find a pile of bodies now from the get-go of course
their main person of interest is going to be Adam Matos they know that he lived there at the home they also know that
911 was called because there was some kind of Confrontation where his ex-girlfriend Megan says that he
attacked her with a knife and threatened to kill her yeah put the knife against her throat and cut her hand this took
place on the 28th about 6 days before their Grizzly Discovery but for all the detectives knew Matos might even be
among that unidentified pile of bodies so another possible suspect here is Nicholas Leonard the other person
involved in this love triangle that seems to be known to LA enforcement here's a little peel back the curtain
moment here at the garage Megan apparently hadn't told her friends and family about Nick prior to the
28th it seems like this was very much on the DL for her and that makes sense because Adam Matos is still living at
her home and she knows that this is not going to be a permanent Arrangement so some sometimes you just try to keep the
peace right but Nick is the opposite he had told his family all about Megan in fact saying that he was in love with her
right Nick told his parents that he and Megan were keeping their romance quiet until Adam moved out of the house I
think he even told his mom that she might be the one yes I believe so but Nick Leonard is discounted pretty
quickly as a suspect in the murder of the family when the medical examiner finally identifies those found in that
pile of decomposing bodies MH and Nick Leonard is identified as being one of the victims now we stated here that the
detectives immediately when they found this I mean this is like the most horrific site these officers have seen
in their entire career they State we didn't know what exactly we were looking at we knew it was a pile of bodies but
we didn't know how many victims they were or who who they were so now we have the medical examiner who is able to
start identifying the remains that were found but how many people were found it turns
out that there were four decomposing bodies we already said that Nick Leonard was one of them but the other victims
were Megan her father Greg and her mother Maggie Brown all identified by the medical
examiner so I guess the one bright spot here in this very very darkest of moments is there's no Tristan there's no
little boy found dead at the scene so there is some hope yeah some hope but also if you're law enforcement you have
this kid which is autistic that is possibly with his father which is the number one suspect
for a quadruple hom side so what kind of danger is he in yes you're spot on with that and that's
going to be the major major concern here before we move on to that though Captain
I do want to point out because the question becomes why would these detectives see and find this pile of
bodies and not understand what it is that they're looking at or immediately know the in the victims the number of
victims I think that we should point out here there's a couple of factors involved in this
one it can be easily assumed that these victims have all been dead for some time
for quite some time actually because it was the day after that police report was
taken at the home on the 29th of August that neither Megan nor Maggie showed up for their 3 pm work shifts that day so
it's easy to assume that whatever happened whatever transpired and went down it went down before 300 p.m. that
following day it was 6 days between that 911 call and this grizzly Discovery and
we don't know how long the remains were exposed to the elements but we're talking about Florida in August it's
freaking hot it's going to speed a lot of things up and that's going to work against the forensic experts and the
investigators when they find the scene and you are exactly right as soon as they determine Tristan is not amongst
the victims here thank God we got to find this little boy he's four years old and very likely in the company of this
very very dangerous man we have suspect number one underline and circle him at the top of our list suspect number one
Adam Matos probably is in possession of this little four-year-old boy so they very smartly issue an amber alert to try
to locate Tristan this is very smart for several reasons one top priority find the boy no
doubt about that number two second priority if you can manage to do both get out of Matos and handcuffs and sit
him down and ask him the tough questions well they find him pretty quickly because he's not the the smartest of
guys no no he's not he might be at the top of the list for suspects not at the top of the list for Smart Guys yeah evil
doesn't equal genius but he checks himself in with his son into a hotel not that far away so he manages to make it
to Tampa Florida and they do check into to a hotel where he uses his own name he
checks in under his own name so that makes it a little easier for him to be found and located well I think he said
I'll take a a room for two they said what name he said uh douchebag and they said well we don't accept that name he
goes okay well Adam matus it's the same it's like in Star Wars there there's there's several flaws in Star Wars but
one that was always alarming to me shut your mouth was that Obi-Wan Kenobi when he goes into hiding what is the name
that he uses the Alias that he uses while in hiding Ben Kenobi like I'm in hiding but I'll still use my my last
name I thought he went by Obi to Kenobi right instead of the captain I'll go by the Capon yeah nobody will ever figure
it out so Adam Matos checked into this Tampa Florida hotel under his own name authorities get a break there when they
pick up the two Tristan he's four years old of course he's in a State of Shock like none of us could believe he's not
talking to police Adam on the other hand does not appear to be in shock at all in
fact he seems to be incredibly calm cool and collected well again we have a we have a kid that's autistic and so I
don't know a lot about it but I did play in a band with um amazing guy amazing teacher he taught kids with autism and
so he always kind of talked to me about the Spectrum and and how some are verbal
and some are nonverbal so it's not as simple for the cops to to know they don't know his
personality well before being able to talk to him but they clearly can see that this kid has some kind of trauma
going on right I was going to throw that in there too unfortunately the icing on
the cake here will be you when you find this boy you're very happy about that but you do not have a clear
understanding as to what he may or may not have witnessed and the effects that may have had on him and as you said the
the PTSD that could be involved with just what the potential of what this kid could have witnessed well and I
experienced I just want to say this and maybe this goes without saying when you have teachers I love teachers but
somebody like the guy I played with his name is Bobby he he he specialized in teaching kids with autism make sure you
take the time out to let them know what they're doing is so special and changing
the lives of so many people okay moving on with the story well Adam does not put
up any type of fight when they go to arrest him and we mentioned that Adam Matos not the smartest guy not at the
top of the list of Smart Guys but when they bring Adam in for questioning this is very smart the detectives they don't
tell Adam that they found the bodies of Megan her parents and Nick Leonard right
no instead detectives tell Adam that he's being arrested on domestic violence charges that stem from that first 911
call from Megan so at the police station detectives tell Matos that uh hey you're
here on these charges but your son is here too we need to release him to the custody of someone yeah who should that
be yeah we got to take this kid somewhere how about we take him back to his mother Megan that would be the first
option that makes the most sense right Adam uh do you know if it that's going to be possible if we could locate Megan
and easily locate her and return Tristan to her while we sort out this deal of the domestic violence charge and his
answer is I don't know I wouldn't know but like you you should know the detectives go okay well they're going to
give him a pass on that they say well how about Megan's parents can he stay with them maybe again Adam says well you
can check on that you can call and ask if they will keep him and he says hey our relationship my relationship with
Megan is certainly troubled you can see this by this domestic assault charge mhm
um so I don't know what the deal is with her but you can call her parents and ask
detective says well when did you guys break up Adam says a week ago detective a week ago okay do you remember what
that was about Adam mat says well it was just a bunch of drama a bunch of [ __ ]
you know and he denies that he attacked Megan in that jealous r the on that morning when she called 911
well let's face it I mean it they should be called relationships you know instead of
relationships the detectives asked do you know if she's seeing anyone else Adam says I wouldn't know that but he
does admit that they got into a loud argument didn't attack her but they got into a loud argument and this would have
been after Megan arrived home that morning he says that her mother Maggie hears this argument tells me to
leave and so I left it wasn't until he was locked up for this domestic violence charge that Adam he starts to learn that
the detectives had fooled him and actually found the bodies of Megan her parents and Nick
Leonard earlier right so in a newspaper interview Adam denies killing them and there's some footage that can be seen of
this where the the officers and detectives are walking atam down a street or maybe an alley and they
they're get they're trying to put him into a car they keep getting stopped by this
horde of reporters right who want to ask Adam what's going on we got a quadruple
homicide here you're in handcuffs did you kill those people he is so unbelievably calm yeah he does he's not
not sweating he's not red-faced his answers are short and to the point he says of course I don't know a lot he
even gives a little attitude too like well why did you take Tristan from from the house he's my son so at some point
he's being interviewed by a newspaper Adam denies killing them and with detectives in the room he says oh
they're dead they've been murdered you know who you might want to look at is the jealous ex-girlfriend friend of Nick
Leonard's right we were talking about this earlier off the Record is how he how calm he is but how effortlessly he
can just lie and it it's really hard normally you can kind of read somebody and go okay well that comment or that
statement doesn't seem to add up and you can kind of tell by their body language
but he's just so nonchalant I mean it's very very impressive on how he's very calm cold and just lying
through his teeth he's got an answer for everything and when he can't provide one he simply
says I don't know but he doesn't say I don't know in like a dumb way though no he it says it very matter of factly like
I I don't know because I wouldn't know I've already explained to you that I wasn't there at that time or I you know
I'd already been gone by that time so I don't know I would he even says sometimes I wouldn't know mhm the
detectives now with this information with the exgirlfriend jealous ex-girlfriend information they very
quickly figure out that she the ex-girlfriend has an airtight Alibi right but right but hold on it also
helps that she's in witch Kansas like you start to make make sense of it that she wasn't in the area at the time but I
was thinking about this when researching the case could you imagine being law enforcement and you you have the guy
you're almost 100% sure that this dick face in front of you is the guy responsible for this
horrible horrible murder mhm murderers and he is saying well I don't know this and I don't know that and he's
cool and he's calm and he's Collective and then when you tell him one I think it's a big tell that he wasn't very
emotional once you say hate your girlfriend the mother of your child and her whole family has been murdered that
there's no emotion there but he's going hey who you should look into is her new boyfriend had a crazy ex and so you're
probably thinking that again this is just another [ __ ] lie but when you look into her she stalked him and
harassed multiple women that he was in contact with multiple women that he tried to date so there was some validity
to that story or that idea but as law enforcement you're like we have to follow this
lead but there's a part of you that's like your mind would have been blown if it wasn't Adam if it was this
girl right and I think the situation here is like the the papers and the media really make a big deal of this
like he dropped a bombshell on the detectives I don't think it was like that for the detectives at all I think
the detectives were as you said had this guy dead to rights pretty much and thought you know what this is our guy
100% but you know what we're going to do our due diligence we're going to cover all of our bases here if and when we
take this guy to court this possibility this Theory will be presented by someone
that defends we need to show this Theory does not track it doesn't track at all it didn't happen she has an airtight
Alibi but again it's it's plausible because we know Nick Leonard was filing in the process of filing a formal
complaint about harassment against this woman at the time of his murder the thing here though is you really got to
get the traumatized autistic young four-year-old boy to talk was he a witness did he witness anything and if
he did what was it and unfortunately what detectives will learn it takes some time to pry
that door open slowly pry that door open but Tristan Just 4 years old witnessed a
bloody massacre he witnessed his mother his grandparents being killed eventually
he describes two investigators hearing The Gunshot that killed his mother he says that he heard
his mother saying please don't Tristan tells them that he and this is he's kind of trying to reenact this in a way using
a doll he wrapped it up in a little blanket and he starts pounding it saying mommy
mommy and finally the poor kid points his finger at his own father saying Daddy killed
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Adam Matos he is going to lawyer up the state is building a case against him for
a quadruple homicide and for this the State of Florida is going to seek the death penalty now Adam Matos will be
tried for the four homicides in 2017 he does decide to take the stand and we have have some audio from The
[Music] Trial hello hi please state your name Adam Matos let's cut right to the chase shall
we Adam MOS on August 28th 2014 did Nicholas Leonard put his hands on your throat yes he did did he
threaten your life with a gun yes he did did you get in a fight with him yes did
you defend yourself yes I did did you kill him yes why he tried to kill me Adam MOS on August 28th 2014 did
Gregory Brown threaten your life the rle did he pull the trigger yes did you get into a shootout with him yes I did
did you defend yourself yes did you kill him yes I did why he tried to kill me at a Matos on August 28
2014 was Megan brown with Nicholas Leonard when Nicholas Leonard had his hands on your throat yes she was was she
with Gregory Brown when he threatened your life with his rifle yes she was was she with Gregory Brown when he
tried to shoot you with his rifle yes did she say anything as he was pointing his rifle at you she said Dad
shoot him him shoot him dead did you defend yourself against them yes did you kill her yes why I felt that she was
going to kill me as well how about Margaret Brown did you believe that she was trying to kill you yes did you fear for
your life though yes what were your feelings when you killed her I was lost I was hurt I was I was in shock I was
out of my mind and I thought that everyone was out to kill me I felt like she was going to kill me as
well did you kill her yes did you strike her with a hammer yes was she bleeding a
lot yes what did you decide to do to her head uh there was a lot of blood and um
to stop the blood from getting everywhere I put a trash bag over her head anything else um you put over uh and
helping put in the trash bag overhead and keeping that blood contained I used tape to close the bag to prevent blood
from getting leing out was this after you had gotten into the altercation with Nicholas Leonard
upstairs yes it was was she dead or alive when you put the bag over her head she was dead
well let's talk about the house at a 7719 hat Drive in Hudson Florida back in August of 2014
okay how many bedrooms were being slept in three bedrooms and did the house face
South yes now who slept in the master bedroom on the west side of the house Greg and
Margaret Greg and Margaret Brown yes I'm going to refer to this room as Greg and
Margaret's room okay okay who slept in the Southeast bed room on the east side of the house closest to
the front door Megan and I I'm going to refer to this as Adam and Megan's room okay
okay how close is this room Adam and Megan's room to the front door about a few feet just a few feet
Yes who slept in a Northeast bedroom on the east side of the house farthest from
the front door Tristan I'm going to call this Tristan's room okay yes tell us about the lock on Tristan's
bedroom when you were there uh in August of 2014 before this incident um when we
moved there there was just a simple door knob with a simple lock that you could lock from the
inside if the lock had been changed uh after August 28th of 200 um 14 who would have died it would
have to have been Nick or Megan now the two bedrooms on the east side of the house they were separated by
bathroom correct yes this neighborhood this neighborhood at um 7719 hatus Drive are there woods
around and close to that neighborhood yes do you ever hear gunshots yes how often often uh on a regular basis just
during the day or day and night now Megan was Alison friends on the night of August 27th 2014 correct
yes we're going to talk about that a little bit later but right now I want us to
concentrate on August 28th 2014 okay approximately what time did Megan Brown get home on August 28th 2014
around 5:30 a.m. and she been out all night long yes were you worried about her yes were you
angry yes why I was angry about a phone conversation that I had with Nicholas Leonard he let me know that he was
having aair with Megan and that she was a [ __ ] and that he didn't want want her anymore
suain did you for apprach certainly um you said you'd talk to um Nicholas Leonard and he advised
you uh what without getting into things like that he just let me know that he didn't
want anything to do with her and he was done with her he didn't want to be a home recer that he was done with her now
did he advise you that there was an incident that happened at the time he called you yes and did he seem still
upset about that he seemed upset that there was an incident that occurred that night at the bar and did he um did he
tell you that it just it had just occurred right when you call he called me as he was leaving the bar
getting into a cat and tell us about what information he gave you here to St judge
[Music] please it seemed like from after that day they wouldn't be together did you and Megan get into an
argument um with she got home at 5:30 in the morning yes we did what was the argument about it was
about the phone conversation that I had with Nicholas Leonard and tell us what happened when
she came home I asked her if she if she was having an affair with Nicholas Leonard she told me that she
wasn't and when I asked her about it she denied it and she said that Nicholas was stalking her and that
he followed her to the bar without getting further into that conversation did she lead you to think
that there was nothing between her and Nicholas lemon yes she said there was nothing going on between them did you
believe her 100% I didn't know what to believe tell us what happened after that um I got
upset uh pulled out a knife and I asked her you get the knife from uh from the kitchen I asked her what was the truth I
just wanted to know the truth I didn't want to hurt her she tried to grab the knife out of my hand she cut herself on
a finger and once I saw that she she had cut herself I Put The Knife Down on a dresser Tristan just woke up so I left
the house and I took my bike and I went up the road Northeast did you pull the knife out to
hurt her no why did you pull the knife out I just wanted the truth I was upset it was just stupid thing to
do did you ever put the knife to a throat no at no time did you scratch or hurt her throat in any way no and you
never put it up to her throat no you said that she grabbed the knife yes did did you expect her to do that no
where did you go I went Northeast up the road behind um house that was empty and I just laid down and
um just chain smoking just cooling off um were you riding a bicycle yes um why did you
leave I just wanted to give her some space just get away from the house were you able to cool off yes did you
see law enforcement arrive at the house I saw um law enforcement driving in that
general direction towards the house did they leave I couldn't see from that angle what did you do I stood there most
of the day just um sleeping um chain smoking now by the way let me go back just a
little bit was Nicholas Leonard there when Megan got home in the morning no it was not was he there when you left the
house no was he there when you guys were arguing no you decide to return to the house at
7719 Hatter's Drive yes about what time was it between 6:00 and 7:00 p.m. still light outside
yes why I wanted to get my things I didn't have anything on me so I just wanted to
get my belongings I wanted to see if I could say goodbye to Tristan and possibly work things out with
Megan what time did you go inside approximately little after 6 and what door did you use to go
inside the the East entrance um that one that goes into the East Garage area or the stairwell yes it's
the only door on the east side of the house right correct was the door open it was wide
open yes I didn't ask you earlier but about how many dogs were in this house on Hatter Drive 20
dogs describe them for me small dogs large dogs small to Tiny how often these dogs bark all the time
how you describe their barking loud they were barky dogs did you hear them bark as you went
upstairs yes I did where are the dogs kept in the house usually in the dining room
area is that downstairs or upstairs that's upstairs okay how far from um yours in Megan's bedroom approximately
about 10 ft now as you walked up those stairs did you have a gun in your hand no a knife no a bat no a hammer no what
if anything did you have in your hands nothing at all tell us again what were you going to
do inside the house I just wanted to get my things just um gather the stuff that
I had when you had left did bring things with you uh no were you able to do that get your
things no was the door to you in Megan's room was it closed yes did you open it yes did you step inside yes I did did
you see Megan and Tristan yes as I entered the room they were just coming out did Nicholas letter come up to you
yes where did he come from he came from the closet area were you able to see um where he was
coming from as far as uh any length of time before he got to you no he just came out of
nowhere did he reach uh I'm sorry did he grab you anywhere he grabbed me by the throat and did he reach for a gun he
reached into his right pocket and he pulled out a gun and he pointed it at my chest did you grab his gun yes I grab
hand I grabbed his hand and I pointed it towards the ground away from me so he would shoot me did he
seem like he was trying to raise the gun toward you yes did you struggle to stop him from
getting the gun pointed at you we didn't we struggled tell us what happened uh there was a lot of wrestling going on we
were going around the room um we ended up in the corner by the dresser and um I saw a knife on top of
the dresser that I used to defend myself and I stabbed him in the arm a few times
and he released his grip on my throat and um I dropped a knife and we continued to wrestle around
I was trying to get the gun out of his hands and um we wind up falling on the bed and now when you say bed um was
there a actual bed frame or was it just a mattress it was just a mattress on the
floor it was on the floor you said yes how many times did you stab them about three
times and you said that you guys fell on the bed both of you yes let me go back real quick and ask
you about this knife did you leave this knife on the dresser no do you have hunting knives laying around around when
you have this four-year-old walking around no I do not are you the type of person to keep a knife on a dresser no
how about under a mattress no while you guys are struggling did Nicholas do anything to your face he
took the inside of my cheek and he started to rip the flesh from the inside out and he he told me I'm going to rip
your face off did Megan come back Megan and Greg stepped into the room yes and tell us what happened uh as you
guys were struggling on the bed and Megan and Greg come back Megan uh she screamed out uh dad
shoot him shoot him dad did he have anything in his hand I'm talking about Greg a rifle in his hand where was it
pointed at my chest did Nick uh do anything when he saw that rifle pointed at you he moved
out the way he was still pinning me down my legs um he just moved out of the way so
Greg could have a clear shot at my chest did you say anything to Greg I asked Greg I said please Greg
don't shoot me Greg don't do this Greg did Greg pull the trigger yes he did what happened it
misfired what was going on after the gun misfired he was trying to get it to work
again and he repeated the steps of trying to shoot me again tell me what was going on with Nick um while Greg is
messing with this gun is he getting stronger or weaker he seemed to be uh weakening was he bleeding a lot there
was a lot of blood he was bleeding a lot from his arm did Nick uh did Nick sorry did
Greg um ever shoot the gun again the second time yes he pulled the trigger again and what happened it was a misfire
again tell us what happens between you and Nick Leonard uh as Greg was uh continuing to
try to shoot the gun again um Nicholas loosened his grip on his gun and I was able to get it out of
his hands did uh you or him shoot the gun yes a shot went off towards the wall okay while you guys were struggling for
the gun yes and um you said it went toward the wall it went through the wall did it put a
bullet hole through the wall yes tell us did was there a second shot yes um as I as I grabbed the the gun I
shot it towards Nicholas was Nick still bleeding from the stab yes he was did you later find that
bullet um from shooting uh that gun the second time yes I did what did you do with it I
threw it in trash bag and was that the one that was found in the uh garage uh west garage no uh the one that I found
that um I thought that hit Nicholas lonard I found behind the bed okay and did that did you end up putting that in
the trash yes okay well you and Nick are struggling Greg shot the gun twice wasn't able to get it
to to kill you yes what happened with Greg and Megan they ran back to his uh bedroom the master bedroom did you know
what was in that master bedroom he had a bunch of weapons in his closet did you chase after him yes why I
felt that he was going to get another weapon try to kill me when you got to the master bedroom closet what was Greg
doing he was um attempting to load another weapon what did you do I shot him in his lower back as he was trying
to turn around with his weapon did he go down then or did he turn around no he had the weapon in his hand and I shot
him again did he go down then yes as you leave the master bedroom closet um tell us what happens next as I was
leaving the closet I could see someone in my peripheral and it was Megan and I thought she had something in her hand
and I just reacted and I shot her where was she at she was by the door around a corner and did she have something in her
hand yes what was it I later found it to be a cell phone how many times did you shoot her
one time and um was it around where that bead was in the uh master bedroom where
the uh Bullet Hole was in the corner of the wall what' you do then I lost the completely I just realized that I killed
the woman that I love the mother of my child and at that point I I realized that Tristan no longer had a mother he
no longer had grandfather and he no longer had me and at that point I felt like my life was
over were you angry at all yes I was very angry did you place that anger on any particular individual Nicholas Leonard
why I was upset that he brought a weapon into my home that he tried to kill me he
turned my family against me and tried to have them kill me as well what' you do I went back to my
bedroom and he was just lying on the bed and he was unconscious and I was just upset and I
was I was just just yelling out w why why why this had to happen I grabbed um a hammer that was on the floor and I
just kept hitting him until I couldn't anymore how many times do you remember hitting him with that hammer I can't
remember it was it was a lot of times was it always with the uh end of the hammer necessarily that you put the
nails in it may have slipped when I was hitting what' you do after this after that um I went and checked on
Tristan to make sure he was okay and he was and I told him to stay in his room there was a lot of blood on me from
the altercation that I had with Nicholas and um I washed it off and then I went to check up on
Tristan to make make sure that he was okay was he he was okay what' you tell him I told him everything's going to be
okay I I gave him a hug kissed him on the cheek how did you feel in general after having this entire incident felt
just lost my whole world was turned upside down and I was just I was out of my mind I was in
shock and I felt like a part of me died that day do you have any fear about the cops
shooting you yes I I was in fear that if the cops were to show up that they would
try to kill me as well how about Tristan I was I was I was scared that Tristan was endangered as well that he might be
In Harm's Way if the police were to show up what' you do with all of these guns um like letters gone I threw all the
weapons in the canal I didn't want any weapons in the house after that in incident I don't want it to be a threat
to anyone else or to me or to Tristan were you afraid that Tristan might see those bodies I was afraid that
he would be exposed to it so I I locked the doors to the bedrooms with the bodies were
um yours in Megan's room how'd you lock that door there's a latch on the door it's um it's a high latch so he wasn't
able to reach it and you latch it from the outside of the room and um the master bedroom the master bedroom uh the
the door knob to the room was missing so you couldn't just step into the room and
um you had to be a strong strong person to to turn it because it didn't have the
knob there it was just a piece of metal and I put a dog cage in front of the door to keep them from getting
in what did you and Tristan do um at that point um it it was very fuzzy my um memory of what what happened that day
later um I was just lost out of it and I was just chain smoking a lot what happens when Margaret comes
home from work I heard the dogs barking and um at that point I was I was still out of it
and I was in shock and I was scared that people might be coming to the house to kill
me and if you saw Margaret would you did you feel that she was in on it yes I felt that she would try to kill kill me
as well where was Tristan what was he doing he was in his room sleeping so what did you do I went down
to the garage with the hammer that I used on Nicholas and I killed Margaret and the
west garage hallway you ran down the stairs and met her down there yes I did how did you kill her I hit her over
the head a few [Music] times and that's the perfect spot to stop that clip they actually inter view
him on the stand for about an hour of course they have cross-examination the problem with his testimony is it doesn't
take any genius here to figure out that this guy is completely lying to everyone
he's trying to manipulate the story to save his own ass remember he's being charged with quadruple homicide he is
being threatened with the punishment of death by the state of Florida he is choosing his words very carefully and
his defense attorney is helping helping him to do so he's trying to paint a picture and put the victims themselves
in a bad light he says that it was Nick that called Megan a [ __ ] he says that it was Megan that tells him that Nick is
a stalker that these two are not involved in any kind of relationship these are their words these are them
telling me both that the other is a bad person and then I snuck into the house around 6:00
p.m. and I was attacked I went in there to get my belongings to possibly say goodbye to my son and try
to work things out with Megan and I was attacked I love that he chooses to use the words I was mad at Nick Leonard
because he came into my home it wasn't your home dude you were living there with the Browns the Browns were nice
enough to allow you to stay at their house it wasn't your home I was mad that he brought a firearm into my home and
put my family in danger this wasn't your family it was your son that was in the house Megan had moved on from you the
Browns weren't interested in you and other than helping you be the father be a good father to their grandson that's
the only interest they had in you it's not your family it's not your home and here's the good reason that I say that
we stop it at that point because what they end on is that we have Margaret who we've been calling Maggie her friends
and family call her Maggie Maggie comes home from work we already put this timeline together for you
11:25 p.m. his own testimony says he puts himself inside that home being attacked by Nick Leonard and then by
Greg Brown in the 6:00 hour this all goes down very quickly he murders Nick Leonard Then Greg Brown then Megan Brown
and he's so scared to death he's so scared and Afraid for his own life and personal safety that he just waits
around in the house for 5 hours and then kills Maggie when she comes home from work complete [ __ ] and this is what
these Psychopaths do what went down that night is he sat outside that home knowing that Maggie
would return to the house after 11 11 o'clock he lived there he knew their schedules she went to work at 3:00 p.m.
as usual got off at 11:00 p.m. as usual returned to the house he knew that that was his ticket to get inside that house
and do what he planned to do which was murder everyone in there with the exception of his son
Tristan he knew that Nick Leonard was inside that home the victim's vehicle was parked in
front of the house he attacks Maggie in the garage she cannot make it all the way into the
house he beats her to death ties her up puts a trash bag over her head and then his testimony oh I couldn't have broke
into the house I couldn't have been sneaking into the house there was 20 dogs in there that were Y yappers and
barkers there's no way that I could have snuck up on these individuals because of these dogs
[ __ ] he went into that room and very likely we have Nick Leonard and Megan who are asleep or getting ready to do so
he got the jump on Nick he hit him 21 times in the head with a hammer when Megan freaked out she sees
what's happening she fle to the room of her father trying to wake her father and
say he's in the house Greg grabs a gun he's trying to load the gun in his closet in his
bedroom he didn't walk into Megan's room no this animal this monster beat this man
to death Nick Leonard 21 times in the head takes his gun walks into the master bedroom and shows what kind of coward he
is he shoots the man in the back shoots him again and then Megan begs for her life
and he gets up and shoots her close at close range one shot it only took one shot right into the left eye
he killed four people and then what did this monster do he hung out at the house
for damn near a week ordering pizzas using Margaret's credit card to make purchases he tries to sell their
belongings on Craigslist he successfully sold several of the dogs yeah he sold dogs he sold Furniture then he goes to
the store and he buys a shovel tries to dig a a grave can't so he has to go well what's next put him
in the car move them dump them in the woods still living at the house he was still hanging out at the house when the
police came to make their welfare check that's why they found the open door he panics he fleases the area grabs the sun
oh my God the cops are at the front door this place is a bloody mess I couldn't even bother to clean it up I couldn't
successfully bury anybody MH runs out the back door leaves that door open he takes a canoe we
talked about those canals he went down one of the canals about about a mile or so calls a cab takes a cab to the bus
stop rides the bus stop the bus to the hotel in Tampa where they eventually pick him up now where this guy got lucky
where Adam Matos got lucky he's a complete psych psychopath complete psychopath I thought you were going to
call him a sack of [ __ ] complete sack of [ __ ] psychopath he gets lucky he got spared
the death penalty there was a juror it has to be unanimous in Florida 12 out of 12 12 out
of 12 11 out of 12 said yes kill this man one person was kind and compassionate enough to spare Adam mat's
life Adam Matos it will cost taxpayers in the state of FLA $94,000 to house him for the entirety of
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Brief Summary

Adam Matos murders his ex-girlfriend and her family, leaving his son as a witness, leading to a complex investigation and trial.

Key points

A Grizzly Discovery. Police find a bloody scene and a pile of bodies near a rental house.
The Calm Suspect. Adam Matos checks into a hotel under his own name, making it easy for police to find him.
A Child's Testimony. Four-year-old Tristan witnesses the horrific murder of his family and points to his father as the killer.
The Emotional Aftermath. Adam shares his feelings of loss and confusion after the tragic events.
Adam Matos on the Stand. Adam Matos recounts the events leading to the quadruple homicide, revealing shocking details.
Fear for Tristan. Adam expresses his fear for his son's safety amidst the chaos.

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