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case of Kyle [Music] buris we are going to go down to Lee County Florida for this week's case and
we start off on August 15th 2013 this was a Thursday a normal work day before everything got turned upside down
we have a seasoned worker for the Lee County Electric Cooperative who's heading out to do some work that day
back then they were developing what is called Lehigh Acres this was a bit of a work in progress at the time when
heading out to the work location our Lee County Electric Cooperative worker he makes what will turn out to be a wrong
turn this is at Lee Court and Meadow Road there the man spots a curious site he sees some buzzards Milling about in a
field this is very near the road they are attempting to swarm something as buzzards often do now this isn't
anything that anyone who works primarily outside has not seen before and the same
is true for our work here in Lehigh Acres on this day in this area the object that caught the attention of the
large birds he just assumed it would have been perhaps a dead animal maybe a dead hog or dog possibly even a deer the
man then recognizes that he has made a wrong turn so knowing that he would need to turn
around he's attempting to do so but that is is when something caught his eye something that told him no this was not
a hog or a deer he saw feet well shoes to be more accurate and then he made phone calls to report what he could not
believe that he was seeing at the start of his workday this was the body of a Young Man
Lee County Deputy lesie green was the first to respond to the scene and there he located the body of a Caucasian male
wearing black cargo shorts gray longsleeve shirt and Tennis Shoes the hands were tied behind his back the male
was dead and the deputy was unsure of how long the body had laid there but also unsure of how long the victim had
been dead but what the deputy was sure of was that this was the result of Foul Play There were obvious and clear signs
of Foul Play the victim again had his hands tied behind his back and there were several noticeable gunshot wounds
to the victim it's a dramatic start to your day you see this body like you said obvious signs that this is not just an
accident victim's hands are bound behind their back there's gunshot wounds bad weather is coming so since this is a
crime scene and we got to protect it so they have to set up tents so they could preserve the crime scene and your crime
scene is everything right especially at this point in your investigation we don't know who the victim is we have no
leads at this point anything that is going to provide us with a lead we hope that we're going to find it at this
crime scene and if inclement weather comes in that's going to destroy your scene before you can you can process it
thoroughly and appropriately well at this point we don't know if the murderer Left Behind the weapon or if they left
behind other evidence and and if it starts raining you're talking about washing away EV evidence Lee County
Sheriff's Office they're going to set up tents they're going to try to secure this area and they're going to be
looking for Clues what does the crime scene tell us now later what we're going to learn here Captain is that the
medical examiner would sort out some of the details of this homicide a lot of which has not been released to the
public even to this day right this is 2013 that we're talking about now what was released is that the victim was tied
up hands tied behind his back and there were several gunshot wounds one report states that there were gunshot wounds to
the Torso of the victim the the right forearm and the victim's head they quickly learned the identity of the
victim this was 25-year-old Kyle buris he was from Fort Meers Florida originally this is nearby remember he's
found dead in Lee High Acres right both are in close proximity to one another but what the investigation would quickly
yield is that this young man had moved around leading up to the time of his death death so as law enforcement
examines the crime scene they're going to want to know more details about the victim Kyle Alexander buris was born May
17th 1988 in Hollywood Florida he was the only son of Lynn creger when Kyle was very little his mom moved back to
Fort Meyers this to be closer to family Kyle was also the oldest grandchild and only grandson to Lynn's parents he was
very close with his grandfather growing up and sometimes would travel with his grandfather on these
Grandpa and Grandson trips Kyle was involved as a student and not just at school but very active and involved with
his church youth group as well he went on several mission trips to Central America with his church youth group the
group would put on these shows to entertain at orphanages in Guatemala and Honduras
played some sports as a youngster but he got serious when he got to high school and got on the track team running cross
country was his passion now he told several people that he enjoyed the competition part of cross country but he
also found this to be a great escape a great mental Escape almost running cross country was a form of meditation for
Kyle beris and he was good at it too I found many competitions that were listed in newspapers around this time Captain
where Kyle placed among the top finishers consistently in these competitions especially his senior year when Kyle was
the co- captain of the cross country team and he wasn't just good on the cross country team he was good in the
classroom as well Kyle got straight A's and graduated Fort Meers high school with honors in 200 six and because of
his success as an athlete and a student athlete he's going to get scholarship to
Florida Atlantic University that's right Captain the result is hard work pays off
and he's got the scholarship to Florida Atlantic this is located in not too far away boka ratton Florida so Kyle leaves
for boar ratan in August of 2006 to go off and start his time at College this is tricky and I step into this
lightly because unfortunately in our time doing this show and covering these cases I feel like one out of every 15 to
20 we're talking about somebody who's going off to college and something happens you know there's there's a turn
in their life this can be a scary time for parents as we know and a scary and difficult time time for the young adult
as well right going off to school leaving their friends getting out on their own and often times trying to fit
into this this bigger new scene questioning oneself did I pick the right school should I have moved away so this
is a this can be a lot for a lot of different people Kyle's mother Lynn today says that she is haunted by some
conversations that she had with Kyle while he was away at school Kyle told his mother that some kids in his dorm
had overdosed on drugs right and in other conversations she remembers Kyle telling her that he was stressed out and
that as hard as he worked and as great as his mother and Grandparents were he says that nothing could have prepared
him or really anybody in his opinion for that big year that big first year of college yeah it's a lonely time you're
trying to figure out what your next steps are there's a lot of people that do well in high school because it's
a routine that is provided to you and now you have to kind of provide your own routine and life and how many people go
to college and experiment with drugs for the first time or with alcohol and that's not uncommon or unreasonable to
think a student's going to do that but when you you're hearing that there's individuals in his dorm room that are
overdosing that'd be scary as a as a parent cuz you know your kids's going to experiment a little bit but you want it
you want them to do that in moderation and obviously not with hardcore drugs it's so easy for a lot of us
Yours Truly included to fall into the old monkey see monkey do situation and here there starts to be
some hints that things are shifting right the the the good hardworking student athlete of high
school maybe isn't having such a great time his freshman year so there's some hints that things are going aew for Kyle
and then later there's going to be indicators that Kyle like some of the other FAU students probably and I even
say likely ones in his dorm based off of conversations he had with his mother that he too started to experiment with
drugs this would lead to trouble for Kyle this means trouble at school and eventually he finds himself on
probation at FAU and eventually he drops out Al together well again this is a very difficult time because when you're
focused and driven in high school sometimes that causes burnout yeah so then when you get to
College it's it's not that you can't be a good student doesn't mean you can't be
a good student athlete but you've just been working so hard and you've been running for so long that some of these
kids would be better off just taking a year off I wish I wish I wish that there was some kind kind of way that when you
s these kids off for freshman year at college that you could wrap them in bubble wrap put the ear muffs on uh
football helmet on top and blinders on and just say keep your head down and fight through this first year because
once you get through that if you can make it through that you can make it through the other three years right
that's that's to me that's the mountain climbing up the top of the mountain the other three years feel like you you can
kind of Coast a little bit or or at least you've already adapted to a a very different change in life now
unfortunately as we said he drops out of Florida Atlantic and Kyle with no other
real great options here he's going to turn to his loving family KY went home to his family in Fort Myers yeah but
unfortunately and we've seen this before haven't we captain while returning home
may work for some it certainly doesn't always work for everyone for Kyle living at home meant house rules and curfews
and after being away on his own that just didn't work out well for him Kyle was staying out at all hours of the
night his mother Lynn worried that he was out drinking and partying with friends he was but the reality is he was
probably doing more than just drinking with friends and I let's use that term loosely right when we're talking about
certain circles but she like most parents didn't really know what her adult son was up to eventually they
decided it would be best for Kyle to get back out there on his own so he moved to
boa ratan where he stayed for about five years and my understanding here Captain
is that he lived in rentals during this time with a few different people most of this would be his former
classmates some of them from FAU right they seem to move each year when the lease was up and move to a new place a
new apartment and sometimes this would mean different people different roommates now while in bokeh he worked
at several different restaurants to support himself he would come home to visit mom and the grandparents and the
rest of the family on on holidays but he would only stay most of these times for just a day or maybe two
on the rare occasions that he would stay longer his mother noticed that he always
got sick now looking back Lynn realizes that it was the drugs that were making Kyle sick or the lack of drugs Yes
actually the lack thereof would be a better phrase he was going through withdrawals at this time Kyle's family
and Kyle too would try to get him clean Kyle however even though and when Arrangements were made for him to go to
rehab he decided that rehab was not going to be for him right and even though he was making efforts to try to
get clean this was not an Avenue that he was going to pursue he in fact he the statements are that he refused to go but
he did agree to come home and get sober so he moved in with his grandparents this might have been a good idea because
they were retired at the time and home most of the time so they could keep a good eye on Kyle when he moved back home
to get clean he talked about his drug use he was addicted to pills because of the addiction work in
earning money was difficult and pills can be expensive he said could afford the pills because he too was a pusher he
said that he was a middleman he would get some pills from A supplier and then sell some of them and just take payment
in the form of pills he admitted that he was regularly ingesting up to 10 to 12 pills a day so that can be an
expensive addiction especially if you're doing 10 to 12 pills a day yeah very expensive but also very hard on the body
and the problem with pills become that your body keeps adapting so if you start off with well two pills a day works then
eventually it's four pills a day it works and then 10 pills a day and then it keeps going up and up and like you
said if you're the middleman and you're just well my payments and pills well your payment gets higher and higher it
becomes a vicious cycle right where you're always chasing that dragon and it's uh it's and I I'm not trying to be
flippant about it but it's it's like Axel Rose said in Mr Brownstone I used to do a little but then the little
wouldn't do it so the little got more and it got more and that's the same with this situation I'm sure no one's going
to sit here and believe that Kyle started off doing 10 to 12 pills a day well again this is also a dangerous
situation because if you can't make money without pushing drugs if you can't make if you can't make money without
pushing drugs and your habit becomes worse and worse then the people that you're taking those pills from and
they're not getting their money they're dangerous people because by selling those pills they're taking a risk you're
taking a risk and then now you're putting yourself in just a riskier situation this is already a sad
situation a difficult situation that's only going to get more unpleasant because one day
taking the pills orally for Kyle just didn't work anymore right and so unfortunately he started shooting up
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again 700 over 700 episodes still going strong and hopefully we got seven more down the road or 700 more did I see
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work no I say follow me blindly and let's keep going all right Kyle we talked about his
situation getting worse and the addiction getting stronger and maybe a little more out of control we should say
though that he did manage to get cleaned up for a while and he did manage to stay
sober for a while but sad this was only for a short time this was very much with
the help of his family right so it's only for a short time unfortunately then he fell back into using eventually Kyle
started stealing from his family to feed this addiction and this is something that that is sadly going to be familiar
to a lot of people out there in listener land that when a loved one falls into addiction
I mean essentially becoming a victim themselves of addiction but then they victimize most of the time it's it's the
ones closest to them or the loved ones that they have and it's because it's easy to do it's it's taking a few bucks
here or there or stealing an item here or there from something that you have access to or from a family member's home
this is what we would later learn from his family they say that you know Kyle was he was taking some of some items
from our homes and trading them or selling them for money to get drugs this is going to obviously create a situation
where family B bands together and now it's a united front it's got to be time for Kyle to go back out on his own so
for months he ended up living on couches at his friend's apartments and houses now
some of these people are going to be users as well then he found his way to a neighborhood that is called Pine
Manor I've never been there Captain it sounds nice by the name Pine Manor guess what it isn't Pine Manor is a
neighborhood that at least in 2012 and 2013 and probably Beyond was known for drugs and criminal activity there are
drug house is there we have drug dealers drug users and Kyle was really caught up
in all of this so like you said and this and we see this often right if they don't have a job because
of the Habit they then have to start stealing from family members or just start stealing from
anybody so now he's out on his own and he's going to have to get money for the drugs or he's going to
have to steal the drugs himself yes find ways to make money or get pills and drugs he's involved in petty theft we
know that then later we're going to learn that he had a couple of different methods of making money so one was he
would walk around or ride his bike at night checking cars Vans and trucks looking for unlocked car doors if he
finds a vehicle unlocked now it's time to get inside that vehicle and see what items are inside that he could piler
right and then he had this this receipt grift that he was running for a while and the way that this would work Captain
is Kyle would walk the parking lot of Walmart and other stores these bigger box stores primarily he's hunting for
paper receipts uh receipts of purchases that were made at that store he would find the receipts in the parking lot and
then he would go inside the store and find the item or some of the items that were listed on
that receipt and then approach customer service and attempt to return those items or that item for cash right this
you know he's no dummy Kyle was a smart kid and this worked for a while but eventually his luck ran out in June of
2013 Kyle was arrested for petty theft running this receipt scam that he was doing now while in
jail he calls his mother phones his mother from jail this is I believe this was 4 days after he was arrested and
he's asking her to bail him out right he needs somebody to come and make bail for
him so he can go home and he pleas with his mother to get him out and look the problem here is going to be
and forever will be not just in this case but in all the cases a family member a loved one of a victim
especially a mother a father they're always going to second guess their actions did I do the right
thing did I turn my back on on my kid did I turn my back on my loved one how could I've have done things different L
if I would have done things differently would would I still have would I still have my loved one and I'm sure that this
is something that Kyle's mother Lynn thinks about and we all have regrets and I'm sure she has regrets as well but I
my opinion here Captain I think she did the right thing she she basically tells him no you know I'm not going to bail
you out I'm not going to bail you out today maybe I will tomorrow but I think she let him sit there for the amount of
time that that he had to and the reason why I think that this is the right thing or at least the approach
that I would take if I found myself in this situation that nobody wants to find themselves
in is this is an opportunity for that person who's locked up to get clean right they
can't the the system is set up for them not to be able to do drugs while they're
in there the other thing too is unless it's you know some inmate violence or jailhouse violence you might
be keeping your boy safe he might be safer in there than out on the streets right I'll tell you what I I have had a
personal situation where a a longtime friend of mine was was addicted and got caught up in something and he got locked
up in jail jail and he by his own accord made what was one of the smarter life decisions that this guy has made he
didn't call anybody to bail him out he he told in fact when friends and family would visit him he said don't bail me
out this is my one shot I have at getting cleaned up this is the one chance that I got and even if I can't
stay clean forever the longer I stay in here that's adding days to my life and the guy was at the end and and I'm happy
to say that was many years ago he's still with us today and he managed to get clean by doing that and so I I hope that
if if Lynn does have regrets about this situation I'm sure that she does please don't let this be one because I think
you did this in the best in interest of your son to keep your son safe so she does not help Kyle get out of jail for
this this is going to of course it's going to I don't know if it made a a a complete
break in the relationship but there you know it certainly made it so they were on less
speaking terms this is keep in mind Captain this is just about two months before August 15 2013 when Kyle's body
was found in a field near Meadow Road and Lee Court yeah in leehigh acres now there are few details that are out out
there about this case the Lee County Sheriff's Office did give out a few additional details many that we've
already covered here they gave out some additional details on a podcast this is a podcast that is conducted by Lee
County Sheriff's Office that focuses in on some of their cold cases now it's difficult to say how cold Kyle's case
truly is it appears to have heated up from time to time over the years I think that the authority
do have some leads so while the case was featured in a short episode I'm hesitant to call this a cold
case I know that there was a big push on the 10th on the 10year anniversary this would be last year in
August of 2023 this was a large effort by the Florida Themis project and the paradise
after dark podcast the there is one very strange twist in this True Crime Story it is
believed or suspected would be a better word that Kyle stole jewelry and at least one
gun from his family of course we know that the murder weapon in Kyle's case is a gun or guns we know that he was shot
several times right that twist came about in November of 2022 this is when Kyle's mother Lynn got
a call from a sergeant working at the evidence facility at the Lee County Sheriff's
Office so Sergeant calls Lynn asking if she had reported a gun stolen in 2013 she says yes and then the sergeant
proceeds to ask her well do you still want this gun back well she's a little surprised because she's filed the the
stolen gun report back in 2013 and not heard anything about this gun since right what we learn or what
Lynn learns from the sergeant on the other end of the phone is that yeah we we found your gun that was reported
stolen and we've had it in our evidence locker since 2015 so she's getting the call seven
years later yeah crazy this is a shock to me Captain we've covered several Lee County cases and I have regularly been
impressed with their work but you know even in the best of outfits things can and do unfortunately fall through the
cracks and that seems to be the case here yeah so now we know what everyone has to
be wondering could this stolen gun that also be the murder weapon right so ly was able to meet with the detective that
was assigned to her son's Kyle's case this was in early December 2022 she says that she didn't get as
much information as she had hoped for during this meeting again open investigation there's probably some
details that they don't even want to tell family now she did say part of that visit with the
detective included going out to the site of the crime scene where Kyle was found
and the detectives brought crime scene photos with them to the scene they did talk to a forensic specialist based on
the evidence they believe that Kyle was killed where he was later found someone and you know I I'll go on record here
captain and I'll say someone's plural took him out there and killed him right there where he was found to
me that means that I think Kyle knew these people and these people knew this area where Kyle was killed they chose
this location and this was by Design to me the the way that the details were described to me on both on paper and
verbally about how he was found it screams to me that there were multiple people involved yeah when I heard about
this gun my first thought was did he have it on him and was he using this gun for protection himself yeah that's
that's interesting because when we hear that they are telling Lynn look we found
this gun it's been in our locker since 2015 right she reports it stolen in 2013 he's killed in
2013 what we don't get is where was this gun found that gun may have nothing to do
with this crime at all other than it's linked to the victim in March of 2023 Lee County's major crime
unit they had already sent this gun off for some testing it's in March of 2023 when they
get lab results back about that stolen gun that belonged to Kyle's family this is the one that sat on the shelf for
over six years and they learn then that it was not a match with the fragments of
bullets that were found at the murder scene so this gun was not involved in that
shooting it seems like it's just simply linked by the victim here that it belonged to Kyle's family was reported
stolen by Kyle's family likely was Kyle that stole the gun and probably sold it or traded it for drugs and they found it
on some other people or in some other location now there are some key players here that we do need
to I was going to say discuss but we don't know a lot about these people so we need to at least bring them up there
was a trap house at Oak Drive and 10th Avenue in Pine Manor we've already mentioned this P Pine Manor
neighborhood and there this is based off of law enforcement's information so this is this is fact this
isn't speculation here inside that Pine Manor Area neighborhood they know that there were
at least two people so we got like a a small crew of people that are running drug operations in that Pine manner
right and we know that Kyle buris had ties and was associated with this area the two
known persons that were running drug operations and involved in drug operations in Pine Manor is uh first
these are nicknames so we have Bay Bay who is a Puerto Rican man real name B Louis
Santiago and we also have Louis's brother Babel is I think his nickname but his real
name is Carlos Santiago so they're involved in these drug operations in Pine Manor they do
have ties to Kyle buris and some of Kyle's persons that he either stayed with or ran with now some of the other
known people that we should mention these are less you know people running drugs and
and the the sagos were running a good amount of drugs we're talking regularly turning over thousands of dollars of
drugs these people that I'm about to bring up were more Petty criminals and drug addicts but they are known
associates of Kyle bises one is Tatiana Martinez who has seems to have cooperated some with police I question
how honest she's being on some of her comments she claims to not really know what happened or who's responsible for
Kyle's murder I'm sure she's probably passed along some suspicions I'm wondering if she actually knows more
than she's saying but maybe not directly involved herself who's know who's to know until we know we don't know the
other person is Jesus Torres he go goes by the nickname of Chuchu or Jesus Chuchu Torres again another Petty
criminal drug addict that was was a known associate of Kyle bertis Captain I believe three things very strongly after
having looked at this case And discussing it with several persons close to the investigation right one I think
that Kyle's murder has everything to do with drugs drug money and Drug houses and that Kyle was killed in
retaliation for something that he got caught up in he may have crossed some people he knew crossed the wrong people
well what do we do know about him I mean he had this habit and when he was not clean and sober he would live with his
family and he was stealing things from the family in order to get money for drugs so then if you're couch
surfing with sometimes friends sometimes dis acquaintances other addicts did he steal something from one of these
individuals to try to get money for drugs or did he steal drugs from one of these individuals and if so that would
be a possible motive for somebody murdering him yeah I think that you and I are definitely in the
same church on this one I think that he crossed some people that were a lot more
cold and evil than he had expected at the time and when he took from them I think they came to take from him and you
can only squeeze so much blood from a rusty nail the second part of this I believe that there is more than one
person involved in the murder of Kyle buris and that there are others that know what
happened here and who is responsible but we've also seen when people have drug addictions that they don't cooperate
with police as often because they're essentially involved in criminal activity themselves exactly the other part of
this I think when we have these known associates we we have some persons that are fall well into the bad guy category
and we know their names their identity where they were living a lot of what they were up to at the time to me that
tells me that this case is solvable so I say to the lead County Sheriff's Office
you have impressed me before impressed me again and go out and solve this damn thing
and some people listening will hear this and go well he was a drug addict and he
was involved in criminal activity so you know that's the risky Life Style he was
living led to his ultimate demise but like we've said many times on the show The problem is is his story
wasn't complete and these individuals didn't allow him to complete his story and maybe he would have just stayed on
the path he was on or maybe he would have got things together and maybe he would have turned his life
around and I have several people in my life that got to very dark places and now they're inspiration to me not just
because they got clean and sober but because they're positive pillars in people's lives mhm
and and whoever did this stopped his story and that's just not acceptable well and the addiction that
Kyle fell into unfortunately isn't something that's too far removed from any of our lives and I'm talking about
ours and the listeners right unfortunately with the opioid epidemic the heroin situation the the meth
situation in many parts of this country this this country as a whole most of us know so some not too far removed from
from our very personal very inner circle that has fallen into addiction just like
Kyle did all of us want to fight for those people that's what Kyle's family wants here they can't bring Kyle back
let's get some justice and the other thing too for the sake of all of us let's get some bad people off of the
streets before we wrap up I want to give a shout out to some sources and to some
some people that are important to this case we have our friend Lauren samples who wrote a gangbusters article about
Kyle's case for medium.com titled the unsolved murder of Kyle bertis and also the Florida Themis
project which is a nonprofit that supports loved ones and victims of unsolved crimes with ground and dog
searches for the missing financially contributing to various types of investigative tools including DNA
testing aware Ness campaigns such as Billboards printed media flyers and podcast episodes like this one here
today Kyle's case is also on the FDLE website under unsolved homicides and there is a link to submit tips there
Kyle Alexander buris was just 25 years old he was found murdered on August 15th 2013 in a field in Lehigh Acres Florida
the murder weapon was a gun this gun is yet to be located he was known to frequent the Pine Manor community in
Fort Meyers anyone with any information on Kyle's case or the individuals that we've mentioned in these
episodes I urge you to contact the Lee County Sheriff's Office at 23947 1000 or call the southwest Florida
Crim Stoppers hotline at 1 80078 tips which is 1 80078 [Music] [Music] [Music] 8477 want to thank you so much for
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reading for beautiful listeners a little recommendation for your eyeballs here everyone should go and check out Florida
Themis project.org that's Florida t h mpr.org and check out their blog each month they feature and highlight a case
of the month Kyle bis's unsolved murder is just one of these cases featured there other cases include the Walker
family murders and The Sims Family case one that that is still unsolved over 50 years later there are
many intriguing cases to learn and read about on their blog once again that is Florida Themis project.org you can find
that recommendation and many other great recommendations on our recommended page
on our website truecrime garage.com and until next week be good be kind and don't litter
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On August 15th, 2013 a body was discovered by an electrical worker in a developing area called Lehigh Acres. Later it was learned that this was the body of 25 year old Kyle Byrtus. The victim had been tied and killed. The Lee County Sheriff’s Office just caught another homicide case. Kyle’s case remains unsolved to this day. The case appears to not have gone “cold” as detectives are still chasing a few leads. There was a lot of criminal activity in this area at the time. Some of this activity has provided information about Kyle’s case. SWFL Crime Stoppers are on the case. They are available 24/7 and there is a reward for information that leads to an arrest, the recovery or weapons, narcotics, stolen property or the capture of a wanted fugitive. Crime Stoppers keeps you anonymous. If you have helpful information about the murder of Kyle Byrtus or any Southwest Florida crime please call 800- 780- TIPS

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Brief Summary

Kyle Buris, a 25-year-old, was murdered in 2013; his case remains unsolved amid struggles with addiction and ties to a drug environment.

Key points

The Unsolved Homicide of Kyle Buris. Exploring the mysterious death of Kyle Buris, found with signs of foul play.
Kyle's Troubling College Experience. Kyle struggled with drug use during his first year at college, leading to severe consequences.
The Heist That Changed Everything. Friends pull a heist on their vault, leading to bankruptcy.
A Mother's Dilemma. Kyle's mother struggles with the decision to bail him out of jail.
The Stolen Gun Twist. Years later, a stolen gun linked to Kyle's murder is found.
Support for Victims. The Florida Themis project aids families of unsolved crime victims with various resources.

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Episode quotes

This is the still unsolved homicide case of Kyle.

Transition to the main case discussion.

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