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[Music] ohio state route 47 is a highway running from the indiana border at union city to the village of
waldo it was state route 68 until 1933 when u.s route 68 was commissioned since both roads run through a common
county logan in ohio and since there is a rule that there can be no ohio state routes
with the same number as u.s highways within ohio the number was changed to 47. logan county ohio the county is
467 square miles and as of the 2010 census there was under 46 000 people living in
logan county the county is beautiful points of interest include mad river mountain
and indian lake most of the news good and bad coming out of this area is provided from
papers housed in nearby or neighboring cities most coming out of dayton in springfield ohio
on an even more local level in the may 24th edition of the bell fountain examiner
there was a picture of a young man above the picture it says riverside high school and you see a picture of a
smiling 18 year old wearing a dark colored t-shirt with just enough gel in his hair to not only hold the hair in
place but also maintaining that wet look he was going for this was an advertisement congratulating
the young man on his high school graduation his grandparents who placed the ad included a simple and straightforward
message to their grandson that read good luck in your future scott moody love grandma grandpa shaffer
scott was lucky enough to have a second congratulatory ad placed for him which again featured his high school senior
photo this ad was from his mother and sister and read good luck and have fun less than a week later grandma grandpa
mother sister and scott moody would once again make the paper but this time it was not for celebration
no this time the news was only bad all bad you could read the articles for the details but the headlines were stunning
and jaw-dropping one read no one knows what caused carnage and in big bold black letters on the
front page of the dayton daily news it read slangs stun logan county this is true crime garage
and this is the story of the moody massacre [Music] [Music] scott moody was born in belle fountain
ohio for those not familiar belle fountain is a great community the captain and i have been there on more
than one occasion belle fountain is about an hour's drive northwest of where we are in columbus ohio
located in logan county and just to give everyone an idea the population back in
2011 was estimated at just between 13 and 14 000 residents so this is a small community scott was born in the summer
of 1986 he's the son of steve moody and sherry k shaffer scott lived in belle fountain with his
mother and sister stacy moody they attended the first united methodist church scott's father lived nearby and degraff
ohio with his other sons this is scott's half-brothers stephen christopher and adam
his family at least on his mother's side are all farmers scott included his family owned shaker
farms that's s-h-a-k-e-r farms scott showed cattle in the logan county and ohio state fairs winning several
trophies and awards scott was a member of both the riverside ffa and the liberty livestock 4-h club
for those wondering the ffa stands for future farmers of america and is a large nationwide group that teaches leadership
personal growth and career success through agricultural education the 4-h program is similar to the ffa
but probably even larger at least it seems to be more popular here in ohio the four h's
stand for head heart hands and health i thought two of them stood for hoof hearted because they were farmers and
had plenty of land to work scott's grandparents gary and cheryl shaffer who we referenced in the trailer they lived
just a quarter of a mile away the two houses were surrounded by corn and soybean fields they lived on ohio route
47 so both scott's mother's house and his grandparents home share a large property along route 47.
on sunday morning may 29 2005 at 10 35 a.m an emergency services call came in from an obviously panicked woman
identifying herself as nicole according to the dayton daily news her voice trembled as she scrambled to
explain to the lifeline why she was calling and what she was seeing during the placement of this call right because
it's not a normal 911 call it's not we have an emergency happening right now it is we have wreckage
and and this is the aftermath of the crime yeah that's right nicole tells emergency services the following my
sister just called me and said her mom and her had been beaten up and her mom isn't waking up nicole goes on to say i
can't wake her mom up i can't feel a pulse and then she cried out oh my god scott
the son and girlfriend are beat up too this is all from the dayton daily news now a sheriff's deputy arrived a short
time later after the call two times are reported for his arrival one at 10 45 and one at 10 46. this is deputy
wyrick keep in mind the sheriff's department is nearby so wyrick the first responding officer was
at the scene within seconds of the end of this emergency call so first he finds nicole and her
boyfriend jeff the two that who went out to the house and placed the emergency call
then the deputy finds stacy moody who is covered in blood she's sitting in a recliner in the
living room she had moved around the house quite a bit before the sheriff had arrived and we'll get
into that in a bit she had been shot twice in the neck 19 year old megan karis was found nearby
lying on a love seat shot in the upper neck found in an upstairs bedroom was sherry
shafer she's the mother found in her bed lying on her back in another bedroom there were two bodies
one was 14 year old paige harshberger shot in the left temple and then li she's lying on her right
side facing the wall now next to her in the same bed shirtless wearing jeans covered in blood
legs dangling off the edge of the bed and according to sheriff henry's full investigative report carried by the
associated press clutching a 22 rifle thumb on the trigger shot twice was scott moody
the first shot going through his neck and into his sinus cavity investigators believed that he then switched hands
repositioned himself and put the barrel in his mouth and again pulled the trigger
stacy was the only one alive four people were dead so let's go through this real quick here captain
before we move on because all of this stuff is going to be very important as we go through this that we
have a complete understanding of what the first responding officer is seeing again this is deputy wyrick he's
responding to the scene where he meets nicole and her boyfriend jeff inside the moody home
we find stacy which she is the daughter that lives there okay she's 15 years old
right she's in very bad shape clinging to life she's the one that called nicole saying hey
i'm beat up and my mom's beat up too and i can't wake her up right let's keep in mind she's saying beat up
because she's been shot twice the trauma she probably doesn't fully understand what's going on at this point she might
have been shot and then actually blacked out so she might not even realize that she's been shot yeah on the
ground level they find meghan cars she's 19 years old okay then upstairs we find
three bodies we find the mother we find the mother sherry k shaffer who's 37 she is scott and stacy's mother we also
find in his bedroom scott moody who's 18 years old and his girlfriend paige harshberger who's 14 years old we're
being told that we find scott with two gunshot wounds and he's holding a rifle he's got his thumb on the trigger yeah
they believe these to be self-inflicted so you can kind of deduce that we have a family that has been murdered
and then the person that murdered them scott took his own life but it becomes strange because there's
two gunshot wounds that scott quote unquote inflicted into himself yeah and so deputy wyrick first on the
scene he describes several of the bodies he found as either blue or gray in color
other than the blood stains for the most part they look like they were just sleeping that these people were just
sleeping but they were blue or gray and cold yeah family members dead in their sleep it kind of reminds you of the
defeos the amityville horror wyric asks stacy several questions but she again is barely hanging on she has
been shot twice and had lost a lot of blood by this point she was going in and out and only
answered three questions this is as other deputies were arriving on the scene yeah do we know what those three
questions were yeah the three questions she was able to answer now i want you to
keep in mind she was asked more than just three questions right she's only able to provide answers to
three because again she's going in and out at this point the questions she answered were what is
your name to which she says stacy moody how old are you she says 15 do you know who did this she says no
just before being placed in the back of an ambulance she was asked again by a different officer do you know who did
this and she says no now thankfully stacy is still alive at this time however law enforcement has
they're not able to gain any insight into what she may have witnessed saw or heard or what have you
they were pushing her for these answers especially because she was in such bad shape she is near death
you know they if she if she passes away shortly after this we need to get some information
from her before because that was a reality here so they rushed her out of the scene uh
she would be placed into a helicopter and they're going to have a life flight they're going to have to life flight
this poor stacy to ohio state university hospital in columbus ohio so it was stacy who called nicole to come to the
house because she and her mother had been quote beaten up and we already said that stacy was going
in and out of consciousness and this was immediately as she woke up you know she's blacking out moving around
blacking out and the reason for this we've been beaten up i've been beaten up my mother's been beaten up
that description i think comes from a couple of things one she wakes up in obvious pain horrific pain and does not
fully know why but two her mother who she would have seen lying face up in her bed
she appeared to have what what would look like two black eyes but this was only really due to the fact
that she had been she had been shot in the head she had not been beaten up in fact later the logan county sheriff's
office would say that they saw no signs of a struggle at all and there were no defensive wounds on
any of the victims one she was found in her bed too so we could assume that she was possibly asleep
[Music] so deputies say it was then that they went to investigate the neighboring
farmhouse there they had to kick in the door they found two bodies on the kitchen
floor this is 67 year old gary schaefer and 66 year old cheryl sue shafer they were in the process of cooking
breakfast they found the sheriff found two glasses of orange juice on the table and eggs were out ready to be cooked
both had been shot in the upper neck we will know from eyewitnesses and from just the general timeline that
whatever went down that killed all six of these people and left stacy clinging to life
it went down between 6am and when the emergency call was placed at 10 35 in the morning this all on may 29th
so we know that it was after 6 a.m or have reason to believe that it was after 6 a.m because there were other people
that stayed at the moody house the night before so we had three individuals this is uh
brett davidson he was somebody who he was another high school student we have jason sutherly
this i believe is sherry k shaffer's boyfriend the mother's boyfriend he left sometime that morning and i'm a
little confused on exactly what time he left but we also have andrew denney who left
this is stacy's friend we know that he was there he said that he watched a movie played some pool and left sometime
early in the morning but does not provide a time the reason why we believe that all of
this stuff went down after 6 a.m is because the first person i mentioned brett davidson
he says that he left the moody's at 6 a.m and everything was fine at that point all right so we have three
individuals that were there the day of this massacre they claimed that there was no problems no trouble when they
left correct everything would have been fine at that point and we can look if we believe their statements i
think it would have been obvious if any of this had gone down beforehand obviously you would have somebody would
have heard gunshots but not only that maybe maybe not though i mean we we don't know how
large this property is i mean it is a farm right but these individuals were inside the moody home
so we're not talking about a great amount of right that's between that right and that's if we believe them
right correct but then you also have the fact that that we have meghan karus her her body
was found on the ground level so right somebody may have had to walk past her body to go out the door but i guess we
also have the deputy saying other than the blood stains it almost appeared that these people were just asleep yeah see i
also wonder due to the color of the bodies how long they were were there and it seems to me like if
you're getting a call at 10 and this happens between 7 and 10 a small three hour window
is that enough time for these bodies to turn this purplish gray color that the officers were saying that
they were uh also makes me wonder if and i would assume they did this but uh did they test for
any ballistics on these individuals to see if they fired a gun that day well no pun intended you're jumping the gun a
bit but what i do like and i have to agree with you 100 here captain you're saying right from jump
street you got some questions there's some questions here so i should point out that this
may 29th 2005 this was also the day of the local high school graduation ceremony both scott moody and meghan
karus 18 and 19 respectively were a part of that graduating class right so they would have been walking
across the stage that night that day and obviously they're not going to be attending the ceremony in fact the
school was actually notified of their deaths just a couple of minutes i mean literally a couple of minutes before the
ceremony was to begin their chairs remained empty for the entirety of the graduation
and as soon as the ceremony ended immediately after you know the caps were tossed in the air and
the cheering was over the tassel moved from one side to the hat to the other side students parents teachers and
everyone present was told two of their own were killed that morning wow now the sheriff's department tried to keep the
announcement of the deaths low key so that the other local kids could enjoy their achievement they didn't make the
statement during the commencement speech right but it sounds like some of the kids kind
of knew something was going on very small town so small town and people were saying that as the ceremony was
proceeding and as it drove on that they were you could tell by the faces that you know these
somebody knew something and was probably whispering it to somebody else and it was making its way around
to to everyone so the sheriff's department they announced to news and media outlets that
they would hold a press conference later that same day at the sheriff's office now i want to point out something that i
find to be incredibly strange here captain later on a local reverend this is reverend jones
would tell people that he heard on his police scanner you know he's he's listening in at home
right he says he heard on the scanner at noon that day the day of the shooting that the sheriff had closed the
investigation he says it was quote declared closed mind you this is at noon and we already
reported that the first deputy arrived at the scene according to the reports at either 1045 or 10 46 a.m so hour and 15
minutes and you're able to close the case it's solved baby wow sherlock dickweed we figured it out so
clearly you're as surprised as i was by that statement that's ridiculous now but
now we don't know if that that's true though correct this is this is what one man says
he's a reverend so i'm giving him a little little credit here i'd like to know what he looks like well we're going
to get a general rundown of what happened who is responsible and why right because remember what the sheriff
said that morning we will have a press conference coming up scheduled by the sheriff all set for
7 p.m and captain i wanted to read this directly from a book called saving stacy
by rob sinclair that covers this case the moody massacre so this is from pages 36 and 37. at 7 00
p.m sunday evening logan county sheriff michael henry straightened his wrinkled t-shirt adjusted his dale earnhardt jr
ball cap and stepped before a crowded group of reporters representing local state and national media outlets
he says quote it's tough on us we knew these people we're familiar with these kids i feel so badly for these families
this community you can't imagine what it's like to deal with this when you have six victims it's
very horrendous it was a rampage these are the most tragic shootings i've seen in this county in my 31 years here
because of the sheer number of all of the young victims sheriff henry waited a moment
before he explained the details he estimated that between 7 a.m and 10 a.m sunday morning 18 year old scott
moody got out of his bed loaded a 22-caliber semi-automatic rifle walked a quarter mile to his
grandparents home and shot them as they made breakfast investigators had found gary shaffer age
67 and his wife sheryl shaffer age 66 dead on their kitchen floor the sheriff went on to say that scott
most probably crossed back over crop fields to his adjacent house reloaded the rifle and went from bedroom
to bedroom shooting people as they slept the sheriff commented that he believed the sequence was that scott first shot
riverside high school student megan cars age 19 then his mother sherry k shaffer
age 37 then his girlfriend riverside high school student paige harshberger age 14
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stacy by rob sinclair on our instagram page as well it's a fantastic book and obviously it will be this week's
recommended reading i do want to get into some let's say nitpicking here before we get
too far along in the story here or nick well this is i'm probably going to get some criticism for saying this but i
can't help myself we can only hope yes let the hate mail roll um at the start of
rob sinclair's uh description of this sheriff's press conference he describes the sheriff
sheriff henry what he's wearing he's wearing a wrinkled t-shirt and a dale earnhardt jr
baseball cap right look i don't want to be too critical but we we i want to commend first the
sheriff for his words okay they were powerful words and they were emotional it was an emotional statement and i also
get that it was a holiday weekend the sheriff probably was off for the weekend and did not intend on working
that day was pro was called in because of this horrible massacre that took place
however this is a press conference in front of local state and even national media outlets
you are an elected official if there ever was a time that that community in his words he says the
community he feels bad for this community if there ever was a time that the community needed to see the uniform
it was that day yeah it was at that press conference you had the chance to be the knight in
shining armor and and and be the one that stood up there you you are supposed to be the face of
protect and serve and this community is hurting at this time and you're wearing a nascar hat and
they don't have all the answers so they're probably also scared and nervous correct correct and
look if if it was just like uh if it just happened that press conference just naturally organically happened right at
the scene of the crime or whatever and he was forced to answer some questions i get it that you're not in uniform he
probably rushed to the scene but he scheduled he's the one that scheduled the press
conference at his office for 7 p.m so there was time to look the part let's say right
now if the sheriff and his men are correct if they are right well then this is a
closed case but we have as we said questions but we also have a major issue that is going to take
place stacy the sole survivor she says she would later say mind you she's in very bad shape right she would later say
that she saw the shooter and it was not her brother scott moody so here's what stacy had to say let's
keep in mind again her fragile state they had to life flight her to the best hospital in the area to save her life
right she was supposed to die later she would say that the medical professionals that saved her life
intended to her they didn't even fully understand how or why she survived but she did
so when she was being asked questioned by uh as she lay in the hospital bed i don't think we should assume
that she knew what fully happened meaning she may not know that most of her family was killed
at that point when she's answering these questions she may not know that the logan county sheriff's office had closed
the case and announced to the public that her brother was the shooter so let's go back in using stacy's words
walk through what she says that she witnessed that sunday morning she says she woke up but nothing in
particular woke her up but when she wakes up she sees a man standing over her bed
and holding a gun she would go on to say that she did not know the man but he was
older with gray hair and wearing a blue shirt so i read two versions of this statement here and i'm i'm unable to
discern which is in fact correct you know which is the truth uh i guess really though the truth is
captain we we may not know and stacy just might not know for sure herself but she said the demand that she
described as either a medium build or a larger build we'll come back to this description in a
minute now describing the gun she said it had a huge barrel as soon as she sees the gun
mind you she is just eyes open still lying down she's not up she's not standing the man shoots her in
the neck she said he then walks out of the room and she hears two gunshots then the man returned to the room
and again over top of stacy shoots her a second time then again he leaves the room and stacy
says she then heard two more gunshots now back to the description stacy says she does not know the man so
obviously it's not scott and scott's description well my description of scott anyway he's 18
years old a bit of a baby face five foot eight 135 pounds so a smaller frame a smaller build
he's got short brown hair and deputies say that scott was not wearing a shirt when they found his body
in his room stacy says the man that she saw that shot her was wearing a blue shirt right
it doesn't mean that he couldn't have taken off the shirt though correct now on july 20th 2005 stacy
she spent 12 days at osu many of them in the icu she is quoted in the dayton daily news
as saying i didn't realize what happened i had no clue i don't remember hardly anything i remember the last four days
in the hospital but other than that it's just bits and pieces the gunshots shattered two of her vertebrae
severed an artery leading to her brain and damaged her vocal cords another very sad part of this story
because stacy was hospitalized fighting for her life she was actually unable to attend the services for her
friends her brother her grandparents and her mother right it's also tough though here too because
we know that she has a lot of trauma and it kind of reminds you of like a central
park 5 case where the victim doesn't have much of a memory about the case now her memory in that case in the
central park 5 case never really comes back so there is no details at all but you just also wonder with these
accounts of a larger older man that she didn't know is this something that she um
in her state dreamt up or misremembered or or what yeah so if anybody's having a hard time
figuring it out we're pointing out that there there are some questions about this case we have the sheriff's
department saying scott moody 18 years old who was scheduled to graduate that day killed
basically you know most of his family right it's only because his father lives yeah and
kills himself and then we have stacy saying my brother was not the shooter and i
wanted to point out a couple of couple of things here and that was kind of a long way for me to to to go on about it
but i wanted to point out two two things one when she's being asked that stuff in
the hospital again she may not know at that time that the sheriff's office announced that her
brother was the shooter i think that's important to keep that in our minds when we're trying to figure out
is stacy's story correct because if she's telling the truth and if she is spot on if she's
remembering everything correctly right then we we have a missing shooter here somewhere and somebody made it look like
scott moody killed all these people well also we have two shots to to a guy committing suicide which is
rare in itself yeah it does happen it does you know some people immediately see that and go oh my god well he
couldn't have killed himself he shot himself twice right but you also have a whole
community that is saying this is not yes not in the realm of possibilities that this kid is capable of doing
something like this thank you for saying that and and i think part of the thing too is
not only do we have stacy saying that my brother wasn't the shooter we have the community a lot of people in
the community are saying he probably we don't believe he was the shooter and they they call that into
question and call that into major doubt because i think the sheriff's office was so quick to
announce that scott was the shooter yeah again that's just it feels like we don't
have a thorough investigation here i get that you found a gun in somebody's hands
yes but then then here's the argument too and i think we should spend some of this
time going through some of these things as to call into question if scott was the shooter or if he was not what points
to him being the shooter what points to him not being the shooter so right from the get
here we have a problem because we have the deputy who says i found scott moody his his legs are
hanging off of the edge of the bed you can find pictures of this on the internet
and you can see his legs off of the bed at the bottom of the bed now he says that he found this rifle
in scott's you know he's clutching the rifle he's got his thumb on the trigger there was an emt worker
who said that no i saw the gun it was near scott but it was you know it was within arm's reach but he was not
holding the gun when i saw him right again that's a simple test we can find out if scott shot a gun that day or
not yes and could you find that anywhere because i could not nope that was the first
question i had i'm like if if there's a big question if if scott was a family annihilator and killed himself
or did somebody try to frame this poor 18 year old kid why don't we just test him for gsr and
then announce it to the public we we tested him for gsr we did we ran ballistics on all the bullets
that we found and they all came from this one gun that was in his possession now i do want to point out something
here there's an argument that it's not even in his possession right right and i do want to i do want to point out a
couple things here though it is possible that he did kill himself and somehow the
gun got worked from him you know what i mean like that happens right we one we know we have
stacy moving around the house and it doesn't seem like she's quite clear on what she was doing you know she she was
not shot where she was found once the first responders arrived she was not found where she was shot when her sister
nicole arrived we also have nicole and jeff who ran through the scene checking people
as they call emergency services and then of course we're going to have deputies and emt who are moving things around at
this crime scene as well but you have this individual scott 18 years old what's his motive i mean we know that
he's graduating from high school this is a big step in a kid's life probably the biggest step uh to date
he's graduating high school he's been becoming a man and and he wants to be a farmer so that's ari the family's
business so he's going to go straight from graduating to working the job that he wants to work
and there's a lot of people in this country that don't get to wake up every day and do what they love to do that's
what he was set up to do so what's the motive well this case in a way not only does it
remind me of amityville horror but it it also reminds me in a way of jonbenet ramsay what did we find when we took a
deep dive into the ramsey case we found that every bit of information out there was like a coin it had two sides to it
one where everybody suggests hey this item points towards the parents having killed this little girl
the other side of the coin saying this proves that they're innocent with with scott moody what i found throughout this
was every statement is contradicted by a complete opposite statement so we have and it's not just stacy moody that says
this there's a um there's a documentary it's short it's good it's on youtube called porcelain dolls
it's stacy's story they interview stacy for this documentary it's about 20 maybe
30 minutes long right i recommend that you watch that as well but she says in this documentary and she said it other
times as well everyone in the community the entire community said that scott would never do this
and i saw that in the newspapers as well i even saw his former stepfather who lived with him for many years
i believe they divorced three years before the shooting he says scott would have never done this
but we have some other things that say maybe he might have done this okay those are what so let's go through
this what we know about scott moody one we know that he was or is reported to have
been close with his mom but had not seen his father since he was 16 years old and
this is by scott's own choosing he decided he didn't like his father his father lived a short drive away from
where scott lived he chose not to see him now stacy when she survives this tragedy
she would go to live with her biological father afterwards he had a weird girlfriend situation
okay some people point out uh his girlfriend's 14 some people get angry about that
i get it 1814 seems a little weird to me but i remember when i was in high school
there was a lot of high school seniors that had freshman girlfriends yeah so when you were a senior you only
dated 14 year olds is what you're saying no not me i'm the reason why i remember it was because
when i was a freshman there was a couple of couple of girls that i liked and i'm
like oh i know one i probably didn't have a shot anyway but they were dating seniors i mean i knew you in high school
you definitely did so the girlfriend situation is a little weird his girlfriend the current
girlfriend that was killed that day that was found next to him right she's 14 he knows her because she is was
and probably was at the at the time still a very close friend with his little sister stacy right so that's
less awkward though yeah they had only been dating for i believe two or three weeks at that time
though right i think what i find strange about the relationship 1814 is that it seems like
it was okay that she was staying the night that night is what i'm guessing a little strange but i guess if you're her
parents and you don't know that he's dating her then you just think she's staying with stacy right anyway let's
move past that what i bring that all up because he had a long-term girlfriend who split up with him
within just a couple of months before this the shooting so he's coming off of a long-term
relationship where the girlfriend broke it off and she says later she says i broke it off because of because of his
anger issues that he would he would you know break into these anger fits out of nowhere
okay and so that's evidence to point that it's possible yeah and maybe this is just something that
he just never showed to people at school it's that's a possibility because you wouldn't want to get in trouble and so
now you're at your house and you don't have a male figure in your life that's a hierarchy in your house
the only hierarchy you have is your mother and but that might not stop you from going into these
tantrums right so we have a we have a community that says scott would never do this but we have
three people who make statements that make it sound like he might do something like this we
already covered the girlfriend right right these are all statements three sources that say he was short-tempered
he was angry and even abusive at times there was the girlfriend the former girlfriend i'm sorry a domestic violence
counselor says that she was called by scott's mom this was i think three months two or three months
before the shooting his mother calls saying i want help because i want to remove my abusive son from my home
wow that was her statement then we have um okay so the former girlfriend her name is amanda arthur
and she said that he scared her and at one point he even said to her that he wanted to kill them all
referring to members of his family yeah or possibly the metallica album right he would he
would blow up for no reason as she said but then there was other times that she would he would
call her crying on the phone and she said it was like for no reason she couldn't figure out what was going on
with him well this is possibly one of the reasons why he didn't want to have a relationship with his father maybe his
father was trying to be the authority figure and he didn't want that and if you have these temper tantrums and it's
not against your mother that maybe is afraid of you or physically doesn't think she can control you in any
manner that maybe his father could and that's why he didn't want to be around his father
so stacy's father is the third source for statements saying that scott was short-tempered angry and abusive
he says that when stacy survived and went to come live with him that during that time she stacy the
survivor tells him that in the months leading up to the shooting that scott quit referring to his mother as
mom or mother or mama whatever he called her he was calling her by her first name at
that point and the according to stacy again this is from her father said that scott was to the point where he was
hitting and cursing his mother yeah and i i tried that whole thing for a while where you call your parents by
their first names it lasted like two days and and they were extremely upset well and then you have you have another
thing too right a lot of people say well he was turning 18 he was graduating he was going to become a full-time farmer
his family already has a farm he was into farming he wanted to be a farmer you have another group of people that
says the farm the pressures of him becoming a farmer maybe he didn't truly want to be a farmer he was being forced
into it by his family right again it's the opposite side of the coin or us or possibly your motive is you get
rid of your family and now you get to take possession of the farm but however went down didn't go to plan
and then he decided to take his own life that's really what the the sheriff believes is that
something happened and we we don't know what in fact sheriff henry's statement was that we may never know
says sheriff michael henry maybe you know we may never know why is what he's saying maybe there were a number of
issues domestic pressures on the farm unfulfilled dreams a recent sincere serious argument with his grandfather
gary shaffer so the sheriff points this out because we have any evidence of argument between
him and his grandfather we only have sheriff henry's statement and but what he believes is that once
that first life was taken right that was the only intention but it set off all these other things that that
had to happen well and see that's what i'd really like to know is it to me it seems like
whatever happened in the house that it wouldn't have started with the grandparents
but they would have some evidence of that but again we don't know what tests were ran and what weren't
and and so that becomes very you would think that if he's showing signs of abuse to his mother you could see
something going down of hey it's time to graduate and he's going i'm not going she goes oh yes you are
and that is just enough to spark that but then that carries over to his grandparents house and then he he comes
back and takes his own life but but why would stacy say that somebody else was a shooter
see that's what we have we even have stacy's conflicting statements along the way
no no i agree and i and i think that's you know again the reason why this investigation needed certain tests done
to prove certain things because i think in her trauma state that she is not to me a reliable witness not at all and
so it's like again now now you brought up a point which i think is good did she know
what the claims were when she started making her eyewitness account because you could also argue is there a
possibility that she would want to defend him in any way right that she doesn't want her brother
to be known for this right because i mean we just covered uh the grant a motto yeah a motto case where his
brother was constantly defending him you know constantly defending him up into the point where his brother killed him
and that's why i think it was important to point out that she when when we don't know for certain when given
that statement when she's telling somebody the shooter did was not my brother that's not her exact word she's just
describing the man that she says she saw with the gun i think it's important to point out that
she may not have known that the sheriff had already announced that her brother was a killer so if she doesn't know that
then she's not defending him per se you see what i mean no i i agree but now like we've we've stated multiple times
within the last hour this is very similar to the amityville horror case which started
with the defeat defeo yeah defeo murders now in that case the brother which is in jail for the
murders of his whole family has made statements all along that it wasn't just him that his sister that his
sister was involved so so we have to then as investigators look at this of again i don't
want to believe anything that she's saying because of this trauma state i don't think i don't think she's well
and hold on for a second because i think again what tests were done do we did we have
any tests done to see if she fired any shots that day because let's say there was something going on
in the family that we do not know about we have a tempered brother do we have a tempered sister
do we have this family tree seems a little confusing to me who's brothers and who's half brothers
and and is there's obviously multiple guys older gentlemen that were at the house
what's going on with their family life what's going on in their mother's life is she simply stating
well i think it was an older gentleman to throw off the idea that this would be a situation where it would
be two siblings involved in the murder of their their friends and family i'm just saying that you have to i think
as an investigator at least put that on the table yeah the other three guys that were
present two of them were high school students and one is reported to be sherry k shaffer's boyfriend the mother
right um again that's those are simple tests that you need to run because well they may have been run it's it's
just disappointing this is right when you have a community that's calling into question your findings
why haven't you made those announcements and can't find his dell earnhardt jr hat
well the the problem here is we have a sheriff's office who clearly closed the case very quickly too quickly
100 percent too quickly right their statements are that this was also investigated by the prosecutor's office
and bci ohio bci right bureau of criminal investigation so they may if bci is there on the scene
i'm sure that they ran those tests right it's just disappointing to find out that we can't
we can't come to the conclusion that they got it right because they're not they're not presenting us with the
evidence of such and there's enough of a question to do so and maybe people are out there going you know what they don't
have to do that this is not a trial i get that but when when the community is confused and not convinced that you
got it right give us a little something to go on now well not to throw the sister on the bus like i did but
if her statement is correct and it was an older gentleman with a heavier build then it wasn't her brother and then we
have somebody that is capable of murdering a whole family in two locations walking around willy-nilly
yeah well and the thing is people will call this into question two because look the sheriff's office didn't do a
thorough in my mind they didn't do a thorough investigation what we have here though is we have a doctor failure
he's the coroner you know he has to investigate anything where there's a there's a violent death
be it a homicide or a suicide or both and you know maybe if they're right in this case both right
he was met with a basically with a roadblock from the sheriff's department when he calls up
and he's trying to get his questions answered they don't want to give him any information they're mad at him because
he was the one that went to osu and got the statement from stacy the sheriff's department the logan
county sheriff's department didn't even bother to go to osu and talk to the sole survivor
to get a statement from from her yeah and then it goes back to our age-old question that we've asked a
million times about these stupid investigators lazy because it seems like we got a bunch of
lazy investigators on this case so one thing that i think was pretty thorough as i mean as much of a
roadblock as he was met with this doctor failure um he did go as far to show stacey a picture of a gray-haired emt
member who was working on stacy at the scene right so he he took it a step further and said
well maybe this is the person she's remembering right and that doesn't seem according to stacy that's not who she
said that she saw that day yeah again i i think stacy's opinion matters quite a bit and now i know she was
saying that her brother was abusive towards their mother but it seems as if you can be abusive and not kill a whole
family well it almost seems that what she's stating by by her eyewitness account is okay i saw
this other other individual but i also think my brother wasn't capable of this and look everybody has grown up
in a family where there's some troubled times for some troubled people where maybe the relationship between the
older sibling isn't going as well um and they have some temper issues for a small period of time
but that doesn't always equal a murderer right or even a criminal and it doesn't even seem like
this kid had much of a past other than his mother calling yeah you want to talk about behavioral
issues if he had them um that as you point out that's the only thing that we have
going back six years for his school record he had one disciplinary action against
him and that was for being tardy right in the span of six years we don't see any fighting any shouting or yelling
at anybody you know nothing that would go along with some of the behaviors that that we believe might have been going on
according to what stacy's father says and what this uh domestic violence counselor
states i get again we have multiple statements by the family the crimes were committed against the family
so maybe it's again a situational thing where at school he was fine but for some
reason the dynamics of the household weren't healthy and and that caused him to not be able to control his temper and to
be a jack wagon and be abusive towards his mother one thing that i find interesting too is
the very same agency that we are criticizing for their lack of an investigation or or lack of a thorough
investigation they're also the other suspect in this case there are people out there that believe
that either the sheriff's office covered this up or looked the other way or maybe even
was somehow involved in this shooting why is that okay for for a couple reasons one
detective there's a detective stout that was after the the massacre he's kind of in
charge of keeping in touch with stacy and mind you stacy's 15 years old yeah at some point this is within months of
her mom brother friends and grandparents being killed they their relationship starts to cross some
lines and some boundaries here yeah he's like in his he's in his late 30s and late 30s to 15 is a lot worse than
18 to 14. now i do want to point out this is a bit of a for the most part this is a bit of
a he said she said kind of story because he says he didn't do anything wrong she says that they did have some kind of
physical relationship the only thing that takes it past he said she said was that in october the same year after
this baby no the the same year of the shooting i believe it was in october she is living with her stepmother and her
father right right her stepmother picks up the landline stacy's on the phone with somebody she
accidentally picks up the landline and she hears stacy talking to detective stout
they're making arrangements to meet up that weekend right that coming weekend so
immediately stepmom gets off the phone contacts her husband and she's saying we have to get somebody else involved in
outside agency in this whole thing because everything that this the sheriff's office was rumored to be
involved in which was drugs and sex with underage girls she goes oh my god it's true i i heard
stout on the phone with with our daughter right trying to make some kind of arrangements
and apparently i think she was turning 16 or had just turned 16 a couple weeks before that
so of course this 30 some year old douche [ __ ] isn't gonna admit to this of course and and so we're just not
going to believe her she's been through all this trauma well i'm not saying i don't believe her but i i did want to
point out that we there is we got to be fair you know it is a it is for the most part other than that one
witness ear witness statement it is a he said she said situation now he is charged he gets charged
uh with several counts of something but it wasn't statutory rape these were these were minor charges that he was
brought up on of course because his own department's not going to charge them with major
charges not if they're also doing the same thing well what ends up happening i i want to kind of keep this part short
because there's still a lot of stuff to get to he ends up getting convicted of some
very minor charges which and he resigns from the sheriff's office good and it's it doesn't sound like this
was a resigning that he he he was all did the right thing kind of thing i think the sheriff forced this man to
resign because the sheriff's official statements was hey i could prove on several occasions
this guy was going out and doing things that he had no approval to do he was he wasn't
out working his job like he's supposed to he was out fraternizing with this girl right now
the reason why i say he said she said i believe what she says and she says it was all consensual and i believe most of
what she says the only thing that i take a little bit of issue with and i get it because she's
a victim and she was probably embarrassed the reason why he only got convicted of
very minor charges is because she refused to testify against him at at this trial right
but what the local rumor was at the time was that some of these sheriff's deputies were up to no good that either
they were involved in they were involved in illegal activity is what the rumors were at the time that
it could have been drugs could have been going with these underage girls right and so
where this whole conspiracy comes into play is that according to robert st claire
that the night before the moody massacre there was a call that came into the sheriff's office
and this was stacy and scott's grandfather called the sheriff's office to complain
that some of the sheriff's deputies were having sex with his granddaughter and her friends there's a motive and he he
says he says you know have sheriff henry call me first thing in the morning now mind you it's a
holiday weekend sheriff henry is off we already talked about that yeah so don't call me or have other officers come over
and kill my whole family so what what is thought that might have happened is that the sheriff's
department i shouldn't say department it makes it sound like everybody was involved right right but a couple of
these bad seeds a couple of these bad apples maybe they got somebody to go out and
kill this family to put and thought that stacy was done and unable to say any different and that when they
arrive on the scene or even before the shooter leaves the house let's put the gun in this kid's
hands and now it's an open and closed case yeah i mean there's just so many things
that don't make a lot of sense i mean you're a quarter mile away and there's multiple gunshots to kill the
grandparents and nobody wakes up at the household they all all still just get shot in their sleep yeah certain
things don't make a lot of sense it seems like there's more than one individual involved in this crime well
keep in mind the grandparents they were up and at it they were they were moving around they were they
weren't sleeping and somebody surprised them and killed them in their sleep right they're making breakfast in the
morning yeah they've found on their kitchen floor so did two people come in and do that job
now the the problem here too is that a lot of people say well scott moody didn't even have any guns mind you the
gun that was found was a 22 caliber semi-automatic automatic excuse me marlon rifle
these people say scott didn't have any guns so remember the sheriff's official statement his first statement was that
oh he you know shot he he got up loaded his gun walked to his grandparents house shot them in the
kitchen walked all the way back and then killed everybody going room to room and
then killed himself right well that statement has to change if in fact it's true that scott moody had no
guns their later statement will say that scott moody went to his grandparents house with the purpose of getting a gun
because his grandfather did own several guns right so he took the gun from his grandpa killed them and then came back
and killed the family if scott did it it's believed that he went down to their basement got the gun came upstairs
surprised them killed both of them then went home killed everybody then killed himself
right again but we don't have any type of motive other than possibly that he went into a rage
into a some kind of temper tantrum and and that's only again we don't have a long history of that well then here's
another problem with the gun there's a lot of problems with the gun you already pointed it out no gsr that we've been
told of no ballistics that we've been told of okay scott didn't have any guns well
that's fine the gun belonged to his grandfather well there's an issue with that gary shaffer the grandfather his brother
comes out and says look i knew all of my brother's guns he never he says i never saw a 22 caliber before
at my brother's home right and he said he never would have bought a used firearm the firearm the rifle that was
found either next to scott moody or on his person was last registered to a kevin miller
was registered as the owner of the firearm and he says that he recalls that he sold it to a ray gillenwater
g-i-l-l-e who is now now deceased um i don't i don't think these two people have any connection to
the sheriff's office or to the moody family so it seems this gun seems strange so what is the chain of ownership of
of this gun did it belong to the grandfather or somehow did it make its way to scott
moody in in that scott moody actually owned it just that's these people coming forward
didn't know about it and again this damn coin flip it up in the air and see what
side it lands on because you have several people that say scott didn't like guns
but then you have other people that say yeah he he went deer hunting a time or two uh he he probably had a gun to shoot
groundhogs or you know pests that would come onto the farm right so really it's it's tricky and it's
difficult and i i think but also to back up that the the statement that the grandfather called
and wanted to talk to the sheriff about his daughter's sexual relationships with
officers she would be able to back up that story right because she already you would
think so unless she already talked about one inappropriate relationship with the officer and again
we don't have that statement from stacy we have the statements about the inappropriate actions by detective stout
but we don't have any statements that are backing up if in fact we should point out if in
fact her grandfather did call the sheriff's office the night before complaining with this complaint
or is this just something that because there's a lot of times in cases where we can't find answers and we and
and then the true crime world starts creating their own answers and you see this in a lot of cases where
there's some police conspiracy you know look at the maura murray case i mean people have brought that up for years
that there's possibly a police conspiracy so you know where you don't have a lot
maybe there were these tests run but they haven't been those statements haven't been issued to
the community and now we have a bunch of questions are we filling in the gaps with
information that's not even correct do we even know for a fact that that the grandfather called
and and that would give some kind of motive for conspiracy according to robert st claire
um that that call was the the officer that answered that call took down a note to because he's got to pass along this
information to have sheriff henry actually call this person back right so he's saying that there was some kind
of paper trail that that that a call came in from the grandfather but doesn't it may not state exactly what it is and
you point out something very smart here and i don't think it's the true crime community in this case as it
as it often is in most cases right i think in this case to the true crime community to people
outside of belle fountain outside of logan county ohio this really on the surface just looks
like some kid that lost it that that something was a bruin it bubbled over and he impulsively killed his family and
then himself that's one on the surface what it looks like right you have the community
the the locals that are unsatisfied with the answers that they're getting they're
the ones that start to fill in the gaps they're the ones that start to fill in the blanks and now
we have this whole conspiracy theory and it goes beyond that because the sheriff's office to be to be frank
they were not they had some bad boys on this department they 100 percent did we know that stout loses his job
there was another officer that was caught on one of those baby cams you know you have the baby cam that you set
up in your living room or somewhere in your home yeah he was going over to these people's home
and having sex with the babysitter while they were gone but but yeah they watched
the baby cam footage one night and they're like you imagine that you you turn on the baby cam footage to make
sure that the babysitter's not screwing her boyfriend on the couch or or ignoring the baby and just watching
tv the whole time or talking to her friend on the phone the whole time you put on the baby cam footage and you see
an officer of the law in his uniform on your tv screen yeah so you put it on pause and go get some popcorn put some
butter on it maybe some parmesan cheese and finish watching you know they see they
see the an officer of the law there and they're going well what's why why would he be there and then right then the
clothes start coming off and they're like well we know why he's there now yeah wow he's another one that that uh
is off of the force and how old was this babysitter um i'm a little unclear of that it
the way that it's presented to me if she were under 16 there would be there would be severe charges against
this guy maybe and since there were not charges well again what do you mean maybe they
got video footage of the guy they got pornographic video footage of of this stuff going down you can't
really was it me you can't really have a sheriff's office just go well we didn't
no we don't think that actually happened i was making a service call wasn't me i was having sex with the babysitter on
the baby cam wasn't me i do want to point out something too regarding our recommended reading
captain we said saving stacy the untold story of the moody massacre by rob st claire one thing that i found one it's
it's a very easy read because it's it's incredibly interesting it's right it's a
fast read because it's such a page turner but one thing that i really liked about his
book is he's not creating a narrative he doesn't say this is what happened and this is the conspiracy theory and this
is how it happened he doesn't point that out at all he doesn't try to he pulls dragons down the garage and just says we
don't know he yeah he doesn't try to drag you down that road he just says look here's all the inconsistencies in
this case yeah he's he's kind of saying the same thing that i think you and i are both saying here
we don't have enough information to determine if scott moody was in fact the shooter a lot of things point to him
being the shooter but there's plenty of questions that you have to call into question yeah
tons of holes in this story and and tons of things that it's as simple as this department that's
under heavy questioning your job is to serve and protect not to be having sex with underage girls that's sick you know
grow up and then on top of that so again serve and protect right but it's also for you
to keep calmness like i said calm people's nerves if we think there's another shooter out there so if you have
answers to these questions it's your obligation to present these to the community to let
them know that this is what we found these are the tests that we ran these are what the
test showed us and because you need to have some kind of confidence in your law enforcement
and it's uh pathetic that these that these officers would even call themselves officers because this is not
the action of every police officer out there and and most police officers are out
there trying to protect and serve and and not trying to get into the pants of underage girls yeah it's not even the
actions of everyone on that department at that time exactly and but we've pointed that out plenty of times but if
i'm a officer on that in that department i'm i'm going to the head of every department saying
release this information yeah because these guys have drug our name and our badge through the mud
and and we need to we need to stop this and and the community has rights to have
these answers but isn't it that that makes you question if they even have that they might not you know that that's it
makes me question if they even have that at all that leans more towards that to me would lean more towards a
conspiracy than anything i think it's been you know it's been 15 years almost 15 years i think we we
could i thought going into this that i was going to be able to answer all my questions that i had on it because so
much time has passed but obviously that's not the case and i also want to give two shout outs here captain
i spoke with ben southerly and jim de brosie i think is how you say his last name right um
both of them were they did a lot of the newspaper coverage on this case at the time
both of them were kind enough to pick up the phone and answer some of my questions
even with the case being you know 15 years old so shout out to those guys they didn't
answer any of my questions well i don't call them i don't think that you called them i think this is a great case
to do uh even more of a deep dive into and i'd like to hear people's thoughts and and questions that
they have that maybe law enforcement will be checking the blog so if you have any thoughts or opinions on this please
go to truechromegarage.com and leave those on the blog well and as we said there's so many things to debate
in this case just with scott himself in the finding of his body in the state of his body when they find it at the scene
i mean we have two shots for one suicide right you can argue that all day and night
also the gun the trigger is found in his weak hand yeah he's right-handed is found in his
left hand now i will also say by that same regard that if somebody's determined enough to kill
themselves they don't care if it's their weak or strong hand that's being used but
the blood on scott's bed is weird okay so they find blood remember he was found at the bottom of the bed with his
legs hanging off of the bed no shirt on yeah no shirt on they find blood all the
way up at the top of the bed and the way that this has been described is not so much as
blood spatter which which it very well could have been right but it's described almost as
somebody moved the body that somebody drug a bleeding scot from the top of the bed all the way down to the bed and then
left him in that state before fleeing the scene the other thing that people call into
question too is with so much blood and if somebody went from room to room shooting each one of these people
you can clearly see scott's socks in some of the crime scene photos on his feet still on his feet and
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The Moody Massacre ////// 377 Part 1 of 1 www.TrueCrimeGarage.com On Saturday, May 28th 2005 in Bellefountaine the local teenagers were making their rounds to different graduation parties. This leads to a small overnight party at the Moody household. Between 6 and 10:30 am on the 29th someone shot five people, killing four in the home. Investigators also say that same shooter shot and killed two more people living next door. Crack a beer with us as we discuss a case that at the local level is highly controversial. Beer fo the Week - Who’d Like to Hold My Clipboard Papaya Garage Grade - 5 out of 5 bottle caps We love this week’s sponsors and you will too! www.Zicam.com/Garage - receive a $2 coupon just by visiting and save $2 on your next Zicam purchase! www.ButcherBox.com/Garage - use code Garage right now and get 2lbs of ground beef in every box for the life of the subscription PLUS $20 off your first box! www.Hallmark.com/Garage - to shop cards for any occasion and use code GARAGE to get 20% off your card purchase! www.Handy.com/Garage - use code Garage and get your first 3 hour cleaning for ONLY $29 when you sign up for a cleaning plan!

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Brief Summary

The Moody Massacre left six family members dead, raising questions about the investigation and conflicting eyewitness accounts.

Key points

The Moody Massacre. A tragic event that shook a small Ohio community, leaving four dead and one survivor.
Emergency Call. A panicked call reveals a horrifying scene at the Moody home.
A Community in Shock. The local high school graduation was overshadowed by the tragic deaths of two students.
Sheriff's Emotional Statement. Sheriff Henry expresses deep sorrow over the tragic events, stating, "It's tough on us; we knew these people."
Stacy's Contradictory Claim. Stacy, the sole survivor, claims she saw the shooter and it wasn't her brother Scott.
Community Doubts Scott's Guilt. The community expresses disbelief that Scott could commit such a crime, raising questions about the investigation.

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This is a small community.

Description of Belle Fountain, Ohio.

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