The Cell Phone Murders /// Part 2 /// 785 | Forensic Files

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[Music] [Music] at of September 27th 1996 joint arraignment for all three suspects we have the Three Stooges
standing there Shackled together facing the judge Nicholas aklan and Corey Johnson looked somber but the media
captured a photo of Joey Wilson smiling and seeming Carefree I guess he was too dumb to
recognize how much trouble he was in the judge found that there was ample evidence for trial and a grand jury
indicted the three on four counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder first we have Joseph Joey Wilson
AKA Doughboy he was tried first the prosecutor's office stated we wanted to try Wilson first because he is
the one that caused it he is the one who led it and it's his show Wilson was also
the one who was accused of stealing Lamar's cell phone in other words he's the instigator since he was only 19 at
the time of the murders Wilson petition for youthful offender status so he would
be tried as a juvenile guess what no dice the judge ruled that the allegations were too serious and Wilson
needed to wear his big boy pants be charged as an adult he pled not guilty to the charges on
October 23rd in Wilson's August 1998 trial prosecutors termed him the ring leader in the brutal crime they
introduced testimony about Wilson bragging that the other two guys were quote his crew and so on there were a
bunch of people that testified obviously at this trial but we'll go through some
of the more important key figures here Dr Ken Warner the state medic medical examiner testified that the victims all
died from gunshot wounds Brian Carter had been shot seven times with a Ruger P89 Wilson had been he's the one that
had been holding that gun all of that night the night of the shootings Johnny couch had been shot twice in the head
with a different gun 9mm Michael bodette had been shot from above as he sat on a
mattress the bullet traveled from the left side of his head and lodged into his right jaw he was also was shot in
the leg and finally Lamar hemp Hill was shot once in the head Brent wheeler of the Alabama Department of forensic
Services testified that 13 of the cartridges were fired from one of the loron pistols and the remaining six
cartridges were fired from the Ruger Michelle Hayden testified about who held what gun that night this is important to
the to the case here who was doing what at the scene she talked about Wilson shooting her and shooting the other
victims because you can't have a situation where they're all a rain together they're all going to be tried
separately and you don't want this Doughboy to be sitting there in court just blaming the other two people that
were with him that night and as the prosecutors told us we believe he's the ring leader he's the instigator he's the
one who caused all this it's his show you're trying him first to set the bar for the other two trials and to set up
some of the facts that are agreed upon of that horrible night I know the details matter but I I feel not with
just the loss of life but the torturing the sexual assault and then the other injured victims it's simple
life for all we get all of the survivors that testify in court we get a bunch of
the First Responders the offic are testifying one little additional piece of evidence here is Wilson thanks to his
own narcissism at his trial at this trial one of Wilson's friends his name is David newbie testified that Wilson
called him from jail after the shooting talking about what happened that night so he's bragging to his friend over a
jailhouse phone this guy this guy's got two brain cells left in they're fighting
each other new testified at Wilson's trial that he was told by Wilson to quote finish the job meaning which which
he says he took to mean he wants me to go kill the surviving Witnesses of course this man doesn't do it he tells
police about this and testifies against Wilson at court so he's in prison telling him hey the two surviving people
I want you to go kill and he just thinks that this guy is going to just do it cuz
they're a part of my crew yeah he thought he was something that he clearly wasn't he told this guy go
finish the job this guy's testifying this guy's testifying I took that to mean go kill the witnesses right finally
one of Wilson's cellmates who spent three months in a cell with him testified that Wilson bragged about his
involvement that night you know and this is just horrible stuff saying you know I
blasted this one blasted that one I mean he just really was bragging about this the defense called No Witnesses that's
that's not a good feeling when you are sitting there the defendant and your defense team's like yeah we we got
nobody we got nobody to to say something good about you on Cross they tried to push their Theory so their Theory as I
had mentioned earlier their theory was exactly that they were going to try to push more blame onto one of the other
suspects than their client yeah all right so they're claiming that Nick anlan had been the one that shot all the
victims this seems a little stupid to me though that we're going to try to put blame on people when we do have
eyewitness accounts and then we obviously have multiple guns used and then we we we can fingerprint those guns
and so we know that not just one of the killers used all of the guns to kill all
the victims oh yeah this I mean this is a defense for when your client has no true defense you you build a story and
try to steer the narrative in a way that could confuse the jury or jurors into thinking that while we know the outcome
and while we know everybody that was there that night oh we got all these different stories and things and it gets
all convoluted it comes down to we know who did it we know the three people were
responsible but who's mostly responsible and who is responsible to somewhat of a
lesser degree well these [ __ ] turds were trying to sell a [ __ ] sandwich at closing
arguments the prosecutor said that uh quote this has been described as a murder over a cell phone and when you
listen to the evidence probably the saddest thing was that that it was less than that it wasn't even a murder over a
cell phone I think it was a Mindless murder over some kind of distorted image of tough guy stuff after the prosecutor
gave his closing argument the defense lawyer delivered his closing arguments saying initially that there was not
enough evidence against his client to support the finding of capital murder the other prosecutor his name is Ken
Taylor said in rebuttal quote remember the horrible night and particularly the horrible 10 or 15 seconds that these
three young people that lived went through ladies and gentlemen I submit to you that there are veterans of War who
have spent a full year in a combat theater and not seen the Carnage the slaughter the coldblooded killing that
these young people have seen to traumatize them for the rest of their lives Joey Wilson killed these people as
sure as he put the gun to everybody's head and pulled the trigger end quote it only took the jury 3 hours to convict
Wilson during the penalty phase of the trial the jury had to decide whether to give Wilson the death penalty or
not and the prosecution was pushing for it big time so we believe that his crime
would warrant the death penalty but at the trial we're going to have people that will speak for the victims and
speak for this murderer yeah and in Alabama to be eligible for the death penalty for that to be the appropriate
sentence what is stated is that the the murder or murders are to be deemed heinous
extremely Wicked atrocious and shockingly evil and the sheriff testifies that in
his opinion that's exactly what these murders were the defense calls Joey Wilson's
father Robert to the stand who cried and begged the jury for mercy on his son and
then we get Joey Wilson himself called to the stand to speak on his own behalf he admitted that he cut off Johnny
Couch's ponytail and stomped on his chest and then he said quote I shot Brian Carter I want to say I'm sorry to
Mr and Mrs Carter for what I did to your son I hope you will forgive me I want to
say to the other families that I didn't give any orders to kill any of your family members end quote when asked why
he shot Brian he said I don't know he had no explanation for his actions no justification and no real remorse his
attorney tried to tell the jury that that Nick had Nick aklan not started shooting they would not be in
this courtroom he pointed out that Wilson apologized to the families and asked the jury to give Joey Wilson a LIF
line so there was no more loss of life meaning give him a sentence of life in prison but only after one hour the jury
sentenced him to death the vote was unanimous judge fry pronounced at the end of
sentencing quote by any standard acceptable civilized society this crime was extremely wicked and shockingly evil
the defendant was unnecessarily torturous in the commission of these crimes while the court recognizes that
all capital offenses are heinous atrocious and cruel to some extent the degree of heinousness atrociousness and
cruelty which characterizes this offense exceeds that which is common to all capital offenses it is the Judgment of
this court that you be punished by death and quote but this is a true sign of a monster to me
because like you were saying when when he gets up and addresses the families everybody in the courtroom is saying
there's no sign of remorse but that's because there is none inside of him and somebody that can't show remorse because
there's none inside of them they have no soul they have they're they're just pure
evil and the only reason why he probably spoke at all is maybe this will save myself or maybe he doesn't even care to
save himself but maybe he did it to save Fates with his family or something so the state had proven Beyond reasonal
doubt that Joey Wilson shot and killed Brian Carter the three surviving Witnesses all testified that Corey
Johnson didn't fire his gun that meant that all the other victims were shot by Nicholas aklan aklan was tried before a
jury on the charges that he intentionally murdered Charles Lamar Hempel Michael bodet Johnny couch and Brian Carter
pursuant to one scheme or course of conduct and that he attempted to murder Ashley Rutherford and Michelle Hayden at
trial the evidence against akan was overwhelming the three survivors I witnesses to the shootings testified
that they saw aklan shoot first he first shot Ashley Rutherford in the head and then moved to the other victims shooting
them one by one as Joey Wilson also began shooting at the victims the guns used all of the guns used to kill the
four murder victims were found in his home in his residence there was some push back and argument
over the search was it legal later his girlfriend's going to say I didn't consent to a search one of the searches
she signed a paperwork and she said well I didn't know what I was signing it's a little too late after
you sign there's this thing called reading you asked to see the document can you imagine how bad of a person this
is to hear what happened to to know the brutality and also just the also the pain of the surviving victims to know
all that and then to do anything to defend him because when you initially hear the story and they go hey uh does
he have guns can we see them and and and she tells the cops go ahead and now you're recanting that and so now you're
defending this monster after you know what he did she did the right thing when she didn't know what he
did and now that she knows how bad of what he did she then defends it I mean you're a scumbag the prosecutor Ken
Taylor told the jury that Nicholas anlan was quote the worst killing Ma Mach ever
in Madison County if Joey Wilson was the ring leader Nick aklan was the enforcer
end quote here again Captain the defense calls zero Witnesses other than the argument about the illegal search the
defense really had nothing going for them and remember a lot of the facts about the case were already
predetermined prior to this trial because we've already had one murder trial the jury found akan guilty in the
penalty phase anlan introduced his parents his aunt his grandmother a retired police officer an employee at a
Youth Organization and two Reverend to testify on his behalf his father was also a reverent and testified that his
son had been raised in a loving and supportive home specifically he testified that he asked where did I go
wrong Nicholas was raised in a God-fearing home I took him to church he sang in the youth choir he was an usher
he was a good kid Nick and I had a good relationship I went to his parent teacher conferences I took him to the
dentist that's a relationship I wanted with my son because I was denied that relationship with my father nonetheless
ecklund's defense claimed that his childhood had been troubled in consideration to the sentence the court
noted that aklan had a common law wife and two children and that he was known to be quiet and polite but as for his
assertions that he came from a troubled family and therefore wasn't his fault that he had shot a bunch of people the
evidence didn't back that up the court found that quote most killers are typically the products of poverty a
dysfunctional family physical or sexual abuse and or social deprivation aan was the product of a loving middle class
family as the jury sought akan was a exposed to all the values that are Central to an ordered Society however he
chose to reject them he made a conscious choice to become a killer he was not born to it but I still think that's weak
and pathetic to these people that do horrible things to blame it on somebody else some other reason this was done to
me so therefore this is how I turned out it's accepting no responsibility yeah here too we get the jury that would
recommend the death penalty in this case as well the judge agrees with it uh it was not such a unanimous vote
as in the previous case this was a 10 to2 vote on August 24th 1998 the trial court sentenced Nicholas akan to 20
years imprisonment for each count of attempted murder to be served consecutively and ordered him to pay a
fine of $10,000 and a $10,000 victim's compensation assessment for each count for the capital murders the trial court
sentenced him to death so we have two of the three murders trials they took place now we have
convictions now we have what their sentencings are going to be MH so then what happens to the third murderer so
Corey Johnson is our third suspect and according to our Witnesses surviving Witnesses they're saying that his
behavior was very different from the other two suspects and perpetrators and forensic evidence proved that he didn't
fire a shot witness statements proved he didn't fire a shot furthermore those statements said that he tried to
convince the other two perpetrators that they shouldn't shoot any of the victims that he tried to persuade them
multiple times that the victims would not report the home invasion that we weren't we're not leaving Witnesses
because they're not going to they're not going to tell on us they're not going to
call this in we just need to get out of here uh he actually went at one point and got ice and tows for some of the
victims who had been smacked and beaten by the other two perpetrators so it's really difficult to look at this
and separate one from the other or in this case one from the others cuz they're all
part of it correct but then at the same time again if you didn't pull the trigger well and that's what the Madison
County district attorney is saying and says to the court and says to the newspapers as well after we've reviewed
all the information and the evidence the witness statements and talk to all the perpetrators as well that our office's
conclusion is that there was no intent by this suspect to actually kill anyone and he didn't kill anyone
so they were not going to make this a death penalty case for Corey Johnson they're saying we're not he's not guilty
of capital murder so we're not going to charge him with that but he was engaged in a felony whether it be a burglary or
an assault whatever you want to label it at the time of the deaths so he needs to be charged for
that but there was no intent by this individual to kill anybody well I'm assuming he's a lot more Cooperative
with law enforcement yes strikes a deal with the Madison County prosecutor's office he pled guilty they didn't need
to have a trial for him and in fact he he not only did he plead guilty but he also said that he would testify against
the other two in court but he was never called to to testify yeah but this is a sign of remorse yeah obviously we have
one murderer in this case that thinks he's big bad his [ __ ] don't stink I got my crew shows no remorse
this individual is going oh by the way I'm going to plead guilty cuz I am guilty and I and I guarantee you if he
is listening to our show and we said those actions you being there not stopping it that makes you a piece of
[ __ ] probably agree with us well yes but let's not yeah I'm I'm not trying to give him a trophy well that's what the
Le piece of [ __ ] of these horrible pieces of [ __ ] let's not hand out any flowers just yet because I wish he would
have stopped this he was released in 2011 and it appears that while he had no intent to kill anybody he whatever
lesson it was for him to learn he did not learn that lesson so he he's released in 2011 oh great so now I'm
going to be the [ __ ] back November 30th 2016 Huntsville police received a 911 call that a victim had been cut up
officers responded to a home in the 2600 block of Del nor L around 5:00 p.m. when
emergency Personnel arrived at the scene they found that this was the home of Cory Johnson he's the guy that the
captain was going to get a trophy to yeah now no trophies I'm the dumbest boy in school well Corey
Johnson C he was the one that in fact called 911 so when they arrive at this home his home he's sitting on the porch
waiting for the cops he tells the First Responders that they needed to lock him up because he's
the one that did it and what he's talking about is what they're about to find inside inside the house the First
Responders found 42-year-old Candace Wilson face up on a blood soaked bed she had been stabbed multiple times I I
don't want to go too far down this road because we know he's guilty he admits when they show up so essentially he's a
guy that does horrible shitty things and then he feels bad about it afterwards yeah he
he called it in she had been stabbed like 60 times or something the other thing that's really really crazy and
bizarre here too is Candace Wilson that's not the first time that you've heard her name she she was mentioned
before she's Doughboy's sister right well this makes me the dumbest boy in school biggest
douche canoe I got my foot in my mouth and there's a little bit of dog poo on my shoe well she was with Nicholas aklan
she was the one that rememb she said oh I didn't I didn't consent to the search of our home right where you guys found
the gun and she had the two the guns she was the one that had two kids with the other
perpetrator and after they all went away to prison and he gets out at some point they strike up a
relationship together and he I guess believed that she was running around on him and they they this this
relationship had a lot of problems a lot of issues uh but certainly nobody wanted
this to be the outcome she ends up dead he ends up back in prison he plad guilty
to her murder in 2020 avoiding the death penalty he received a life sentence for Candace's
murder [Music] all right cheers mates we we are back talk hands in the air cheers to you
Colonel cheers to you Captain so of the three murderers mhm the one that was going to get the lesser sentence or got
the lesser sentence he gets out ends up killing somebody else mhm I almost gave him a
trophy I feel awful about it you can send your hate mail to Captain at true Crim
garage.com but what happens with these other guys cuz they're sent to death but we know that there's going to be appeals
yeah there and as we know from The Three Amigos there will be a plethora of appeals so there would you say I have a
plethora of appeals these two guys do they're sentenced to death in the state of Alabama and let's skip over Wilson
because none of his appeals seem to carry any weight everyone that's been a f been filed to date has been uh
overruled or the basically the death sentence has been upheld every time they've reviewed any of this other
information do we know when he's going to be sentenced to death or if he will be sentenced to death I believe that he
will be now Nicholas anlan who also has a bunch of appeals yeah there's one that
stands out here so in in 2002 he files a claim that's worth discussing because it was taken all the
way to the Supreme Court aklan claimed that his attorney had a conflict of interest
resulting in ineffective assistance in counsel because of his loyalties were not to him the client to Nicholas aklan
here's what happened so his attorney agrees to represent him after he met with his
mother and father the mother and father were divorced in September of 1996 his mother Velma promised to pay
a $25,000 retainer to the attorney even though it was obvious to the lawyer that
she was in financial distress he had never get paid right so Velma the mother paid about $1900 over
the next two years his father Thaddius paid $2,900 the attorney worked nearly for
free when you consider when you add those two amounts together it gets nowhere near $25,000
but that's the amount he was paid to work this case and represent their son two days before the trial in
1998 the mother goes to the attorney telling the attorney that that her husband had perpetrated several abuses
against her and her children pretty serious stuff Seri Alle serious allegations we should say these are
allegations the abuse included multiple allegations of Thaddius threatening her and the
children with a gun she testified at an evidentiary hearing that Thaddius would have a gun
in his hand and would shake it and would shove it down her mouth and that the two
sons would be screaming telling their dad not to hurt their mom he didn't hurt them but he disciplined them with fear
and threats of violence and it's some pretty aggressive disturbing stuff the short of it here Captain is that at some
point the the claim that the claim that our suspect is going to make in his appeal is that this should have been
brought up at his trial as a mitigating Factor on the sentencing he's not saying
I'm innocent he's just saying you know this this shaped me it molded me it it it affected me in a way that made me a
violent individual it was one of the blocks that built me to becoming a murderer this would ultimately get shot
down even though it was a it was on its face a pretty good solid appeal what he's claiming is that well my attorneys
never brought that up because they didn't have my best interest at heart they were worried about getting paid and
when these allegations were brought up by my mother to the attorneys my father then said okay but if that comes out at
trial I'm not paying you guys your fee so he's telling the appellant court that I had bad representation because their
best interest was getting paid by my father not with protecting me or keeping me out of prison right however what was
Learned was that it was in fact the suspect that had signed off that none of that information would come
out at his trial it was he was the determining Factor right that that wouldn't be brought up at trial and once
that was reviewed during the Appel during the appeals process it was overturned so while it
looks good on its face what the Court's going to say is well if this was such a big serious deal then why did you
say why why didn't you want this presented at the first trial why are we doing it years later and obviously he's
going hey my dad's paying someone for my attorney fee so it makes sense that this
stuff is not going to come out that's probably why I agreed to it but then it's like you agreed to it so you can't
later say my my lawyer's messed up no you messed up again but even if your dad was abusive even if your dad was
threatening family members with a gun even if it goes beyond that even it's even if it's unspeakable
actions it makes no sense to go into this house over a bag of weed and a cell phone and some tough guy [ __ ]
and torture these people killing four victims leaving two injured and then creating all these other victims all the
people you murdered their families now have to suffer well their Community suffers and then on top of that now
there's three murderers that are behind bars that are going to be locked up and then that destroys other fam Ames well
and there's a standard for appeals process you can't just have somebody that's sentenced to death that goes well
I I don't agree with it here's an appeal no you have to have grounds for an appeal so this on its face is grounds
for appeal but what is that appeal the appeal itself is I had poor counsel my lawyers did not have my best interest at
heart during my trial so I had ineffective counsel is is the term used for this right the in 2013 after a hearing these
are multiple hearings people much smarter than you and I captain sorry to speak for the both of us come on man I'm
I told you already I'm the dumbest boy in school now you got to kick me when I'm down judges and officers of the
courts reviewed this information and what was decided after a 2013 hearing the judge ruled that Nicholas a Nicholas
akan was the one who chose not to present that evidence at trial so he cannot now blame that on his
lawyer because it wasn't his lawyer that refused to presented at trial it was the
client but this is just the lawyer is the lawyer has a fiduciary duty to the client if the lawyer says no we should
present this and the client says no I don't want to well he's got to do what is client wants right so he can't in
retrospect go back and flip the script and blame it on somebody else but this is another
example when you when you said at the beginning that these guys aren't rocket scientists this is just another example
of the stupidity yes and then you have the the one youngster who's trying to talk the other guys at the scene out of
doing this we don't have to shoot anybody clearly he shows remorse for his involvement there and then he gets
out and this is one of those situations Captain where you look at it it's like was this dude bad all along is he just
not great at controlling his actions Does He surround himself with dumb bad violent people yeah because we know we
do know that he can control his actions to a certain point because he didn't pull a trigger right and and after he
stabs Candace Wilson he calls police yeah then it makes you wonder what happened to him in prison
right that's one of those we we talk about it all the time anytime the serial killer conversation is is being debated
it's a lot of debate of nature versus nurture I usually tend to think that it's a it's a a bit of both it's a mixed
bag and then you have other people that say you know well prison doesn't reform anybody it doesn't rehabilitate
anybody and and I I think that we can show great examples of people that have been rehabilitated and I think we can
can also show great examples where maybe it did shape and mold somebody into more
of a criminal and it's hard for us to sit here and say if that were the case here
but we know the result right we know that he he killed this woman he's charged with capital murder
which which is right to do so even though he's the one that calls the cops because Alabama law says that anyone who
has a previous murder conviction within 20 years of a second murder must be charged with capital murder upon
Commission of the second homicide so that was the big thing for them to sort out at his second murder
trial if you will you know it it everybody understood who killed the victim the weapon was found inside the
home it was a small pocket knife he had simply set it on the dresser in the bedroom before going
outside and calling police hide the evidence but I think I asked you before if you ever seen the movie shot
caller and I I think it's a complete fictitious story but the idea is this guy goes to
prison for his his buddy was killed in the car of the car he was driving but he was drunk so he got V vehicular
manslaughter and he pled guilty so he's only supposed to be in prison for maybe a couple years maybe 18 months now
getting out of prison is going to really affect his life in the long run because
he's going to be he's going to have this charge on his record but because it is a murder charge he has to
go to prison with some bad dudes and he has to become a bad dude himself just to
survive those 18 months to two years or whatever it is when I watch the movie myself I go if
I was was put in the situation I don't know what I would do I if you're in a situation where
you're surrounded by the worst of the worst bad dudes that don't give a [ __ ] and not
going to show remorse then you don't you have to become an animal yourself just for survival and what would that do to
you depending on how many years you had to do that for I feel awful though because I went
to give him a trophy and now I feel like I'm giving him excuse well and I'm not you have nothing
you're guilty of nothing here sir but other than being the dumbest boy in school the so when he goes back to
prison okay we know he pleed guilty so he avoids the death penalty there he receives a life sentence but also part
of that is that it's ordered that he Johnson be restricted from contact with Joey Wilson and Nick
acklen right we don't want these three yeah joining forces and forming Voltron inside of this
prison now the prosecutor who was the prosecutor for all three of these individuals in talking about Johnson
after he gets out and then commits the murder on Candace Wilson he told al.com quote you've got as close and personal
to Mayhem and criminal activity of the highest level and you learned nothing from it we incar at you for 15 years you
get out and you've learned nothing you make choices and you go right back to it but it's tough though too because
when you watch these shows or these documentaries on these prisons a lot of these prisons don't
have actual programs they're not forcing these individuals to have some kind of education it's it's
available to them but they don't have to do it and I think if I was to create a prison
system I think I want to have a situation where you can just sit in your cell all
day cuz what are you learning from that today the home where the cell phone murders happened has been
demolished the prosecutor Rob browser told WHNT news every time I glanced at the
house I thought about about the case horrible tragedy occurred in that house you think about four young people just
barely out of their teenage years who haven't been with us for the last 20 years every time I look at that house it
had a certain sadness about it Joey Wilson and Nick akan remain on death row to this day they are each being held at
Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore their appeals went on and on and on Sherry Carter the sister-in-law of
one of the victims Brian Carter told WHNT that 25 years was way too long to wait for
justice we have family members that have fought cancer and all kind of illnesses
to stay alive just to see the Justice carried through and unfortunately every one of our victims has lost a parent or
grandparent or something during during this time of us waiting and they are still waiting to this day both Wilson
and aklan remain on death row Joseph Wilson's appeals very recently ran out the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals
recently upheld his conviction and death penalty that was decided June 28th 2024 and these families are still
waiting for these sentences and Justice to be carried [Music] out want to thank you so much for
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On September 25, 1996 just before midnight, a 911 call came into emergency services. A crying woman requested police and ambulance personnel to her home. She reported a lot of gunfire in her home with several people down. Within minutes, Police, Fire, and EMTs were on the scene. A young man covered in blood ran up to the responding Sheriff’s deputy saying “They shot them all, they shot them all.” The savage brutality of these murders is shocking. The 1996 Cell Phone Murders would be better described as a massacre.

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Brief Summary

The episode details the trials and fates of three murder suspects involved in a brutal 1996 crime, focusing on their actions and consequences.

Key points

Joey Wilson's Trial Begins. Joey Wilson, the alleged ringleader, faces trial for multiple murders.
Sentencing of Joey Wilson. Joey Wilson is sentenced to death after a unanimous jury decision.
Aklan's Defense Strategy. Nicholas Aklan's defense attempts to shift blame to others despite overwhelming evidence.
Aklan's Sentencing Outcome. Nicholas Aklan receives a death sentence despite claims of a troubled upbringing.
Corey Johnson's Plea Deal. Corey Johnson pleads guilty and cooperates with authorities, avoiding murder charges.
Cory Johnson Calls 911. Cory Johnson, the murderer, calls 911 on himself after the crime.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

This has been described as a murder over a cell phone.

Prosecutor's closing argument.

9:32WatchSep 4, 2024

Tension

75/ 100High tension

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