Dr. Insanity - Officer Finds A Killer's Horrifying Body Dump

Episode Date: January 23, 2026

Police find the body of 44-year-old Clinton James Pierce, rotting away in the garage of his closest friend. James has been missing for more than a month, and because of his history of drug abuse, detectives assume it was an overdose. But when a furious crowd of residents demands that the police find the killer, one officer begins to suspect something far more sinister. The officer sets out to uncover the truth, even if it means going against his own department. Because if he doesn’t, a killer will get away with murder... This video was made for educational purposes only. The video is presented to provide genuine footage of police incidents to promote transparency in government while providing educational, informative and newsworthy content allowing viewers to examine and assess public safety material. This is a fact-checked documentary using authoritative sources. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Over here, and her... Do you smell it? Do you smell it? I do you smell something. This is the body of 44-year-old Clinton James Pierce, routing away in the garage of his closest friend. James had been missing for more than a month. And because of his history with drug abuse,

detectives assume it was an overdose. But when a furious crowd of residence demands that the police find the killer, one officer begins to suspect something far more sinister. Oh, what? Seriously? This is not his post time. I know he's been sitting in his garage. Running away like a .

One of the detectives sent out. Hey, he might have overdosed. Even if he did, that's not how he would have been found. It's going to be a comic, but it has to be. The officer sets out to uncover the truth, even if it means going against his own department. Because if he doesn't, a killer will get away. with murder.

In the late hours of a Thursday evening, police in Dayton, Ohio, receive a frantic call from a woman claiming she's found her husband dead in a friend's garage. On the line is Amanda Carson, her voice trembling as she struggles to contain her sister, Nicole. But when officers arrive, they have no idea the entire neighborhood has already gathered, and the scene, is moments away from spiraling into absolute chaos. I'm the one who did the report. Okay, well, can you come here with me? We're pretty sure a shoes are in here underneath the paddy.

This is her son and his wife. Why don't you guys get back? I thought you guys are actually in the garage. This is all my personal stuff. Over here, under... You step out. And do you see the same candy right there? where you're skating in here right that smell that smell

I do smell since that under this one in the corner he's gonna be back up back on it back on uh hook on search uh huh beneath piles of garbage lies the body of 43 year old clinton james peers known to everyone simply as cj his family is furious

convinced the police ignored his disappearance for months dismissing him as a drug addict who overdosed. But as Officer Floyd prepares to step outside, one resident bursts into panic, shouting that this is not the first time someone has died in this very garage. The scene is pure chaos. Nicole, the caller's sister, stands before the crowd of the victim's family and neighbors. According to them, whoever lived here has allegedly killed more than two people,

people in the past. Now with a potential serial killer on the loose and a furious crowd closing in, Officer Floyd knows they need to act fast. Lucky for him, Nicole knows exactly who the killer is and will be instrumental in his capture. We tried telling him he's to come up here, we told our detective. He's been missing since July 15th. You guys are going to be mad at all right. Hey, I need you guys move down the alley song. Back up, guys. Come on. Okay. All right. Well, I have the officers here on me about the only one coming up to talk to this, so I'm going to stand here in top with these two officers.

Go on them. What are you going to do? What do you want us to do? Go down there with your saying. These guys didn't do it. This man came out to the report. I mean, and just because Jay, Carter said he's a dope thing.

They're going to have the evidence to get Jay now. He's got a dead body in his garage. As soon as I saw, I'm not touching it until an evidence. Right, they have dead body in his garage. Regardless, he's got an answer for that. Where's Jay out now? They're going to get him.

Don't go get him. Go go get him. The lady in Pink just mentioned the name Jay. Someone she claims recently moved out after killing CJ. Officer Floyd recognizes the name immediately. Jay was listed in a previous missing person report, the very one that detectives chose to ignore.

Jay is CJ's business partner and longtime friend. Now he's nowhere to be found, and Floyd fears he may have already fled down. But worse yet, the officer doesn't realize that Jay has even tried to hide his horrifying act. This is like emotional. No. Absolutely.

No. I completely understand. I had a bad feeling when I did the report. The circumstances that led up to everything. My name's Nicole. I was on, I know who's his ex-I'm wife? His wife's down here. It's just fine.

They're not, they weren't legally married you. You know who owns the property? Amanda does. Amanda does? His fiance, yeah. Dude who lived here, his daughter has been talking 10 kinds of shit to her about, oh, you'll find out what's happened to your husband. You'll know eventually, like just crazy.

It's all on screenshot. So if needed, we'll be able to, yeah. According to Nicole, Jay's girlfriend has been openly talking about CJ's murder trying to intimidate the family, especially his wife, Amanda. But before the officer speaks to Amanda, he first has to convince his sergeant that CJ's death is a homicide and not an accident. This is our sergeant. You just hop out your family a little bit and then we'll do everything we can.

Okay. Hey, Sarge. It's going to be a homicide. It has to be. He's a missing person. Super suspicious circumstances. This house is owned by family members, but there was a guy that was living here. He just recently moved out.

These guys have been looking for him nonstop. They drove past the garage today. The door was cracked. I'm not sure the situation there, but there was a smell of a dead body. They opened the door, and there was stronger. There's carpet and a whole bunch of floor padding and stuff all in the corner, and it's covering his dead body. I saw his leg. I saw his leg.

I saw his leg. I'd put everything else back. So he works. He's got a work van. He works with the guy that lived here. He just got moved out. with everyone at the scene pointing to the same person officers now have a main suspect 47-year-old Jeremy van Voorhees a man they'll soon learn has a lengthy

criminal record meanwhile the lead officer goes to speak with the victim's wife Amanda the police still believes CJ was a drug addict and haven't ruled out the overdose theory but what Amanda says next would expose just how wrong the police have been about CJ all along This is the one that actually owns the house. I think they're here for you. I just take it to me. Because I got her phone right here.

I'll just take that her son how to find the daddy went there. Yeah. Amanda? Yeah, that's right. Amanda, I know you're not going anywhere. However, so you own that house, correct? Yes, sir. So the reason, so everybody knows,

the reason we're not just putting that door in and grabbing whoever we can is because if we do that right now without a warrant, it throws out a lot of evidence. So the detective can talk to you. I told you there was something right about that. I agree. There's a real explosion place. That's why they didn't want me around this.

And that's the same thing, I've been telling him for a month. They're not letting me in the house or that garage. There's something wrong. Oh, but we can't do nothing. We can't do nothing, you son of a bitch. Now, what are you going to do? You're really not going to do nothing now. How's this story paying out now?

He really jumped out of a car and got someone else's scar, didn't he? The whole time, my baby's been right here underneath my nose. My baby has been sitting in his garage, rotting away like a piece of shit. And all he's ever... We gave this son of the place to live. We gave him a place to live. We gave him a job. We got him out of jail.

We put our house up for him to get out of shit. CJ's fiancé, Amanda, is visibly distraught, realizing she will never see her children's father again. She says they gave Jeremy a house and even got him out of jail several times. Yet he still chose to murder CJ over what officers will soon discover was merely a pay dispute. Devastated by what he's just heard, the officer finally grasps the gravity of the police department's failure to investigate CJ's disappearance sooner. From this moment on, Officer Floyd makes it his mission to uncover the truth and bring the killer to justice, even if it means holding his own department accountable.

The family was back, so I guess somebody from the family called one of the detectives and told one of the detectives that he was like a drug user. But the initial story was like, he hasn't had any history with us for like 12 years. So he didn't have anything. He's got a steady job, has his grandkids and stuff, has a family, has a house that he lives with his fiancee

in the last like 15 years. Yeah, somebody was like, dope thing. And so in the email that one of the detectives sent out, quite overdosed. But I'm like, that's, even if he did, that's not how he would have been found. So I was trying to take it. We did the initial missing on 16th or 17th of July. Family basically said, got a steady life, secure job, no runs with police for 12 years,

good life. His co-worker lives here. The deceased family actually owns the house. They allowed him to live here. He just got residency here. They were co-workers. They went to work. They came home. He was acting a little funny like he had something on his mind. And that was the last time he was seen. And with that short speech, Officer Floyd single-handedly pushes full. forward the search for the main suspect in CJ's death, and an arrest warrant is issued for Jeremy Van Voorhe's on suspicion of murder. Soon after, the residents disperse and officers return to the station, hoping the autopsy results will give the investigation the boost it needs. Though they finally have a lead, no one knows just how far their suspect will go to

stay free, even if that means putting dozens of lives at risk. The very next day, the autopsy results come back, revealing a gunshot wound to the back of the head. The body is in an advanced state of decay, and investigators determine that CJ likely died about a month earlier, around the same time he was reported missing. As the search for Jeremy intensifies, Officer Floyd calls the victim's wife, hoping she can help him piece together what drove Jeremy to snap at CJ. According to her, the two men have been arguing over money, with Jeremy demanding $30,000 in cash for his work, which CJ refused to pay. Now, Officer Floyd realizes that if Jeremy is capable of killing out of spite, no one knows what he might do next, or who else might be on his list of grudges.

But there was still one person close to CJ investigators could talk to. The woman Amanda mentioned earlier, Jeremy's wife of 30 years, Brandy Van Voorhees. Detectives brought Brandy in for questioning. At first, she stayed completely silent. No cooperation at all. But as the interview went on, she'd start to slip, accidentally revealing a perfect motive for the murder. But to get to that point, Brandy would first need to share a few key details about CJ and Jeremy's volatile relationship.

You'll have a seat right here in the corner. You're obviously you're not in trouble. You're not anything like that. I just want to get some background information from you, get some information. What is your relationship with Jeremy and Boris? Well, I call on my husband, but we've been together since I've been 18. How many years is that? 28 in December, I do believe.

And how do you know Amanda or CJ? Actually, we met him through a mutual friend. years ago, Jay is the carpet installer, and CJ needed health at one point in time, when it was through mutual friends, somebody else that Jay had worked on a crew with years ago. So they basically met through work business? They lived in a close-knit community, the kind of place where everyone looked out for each other. That's how Jeremy and CJ first met and eventually started working with each other.

But after CJ's disappearance, everything changed. The entire neighborhood. turned against Brandy and Jeremy. Once CJ is missing, the family, I assume, reaches out to you guys. They call, they called on Friday night and asked them, you know, and they said now, next thing, you know, they're getting loud and they're like just accusing, point your fingers and start in an argument and it was what they was going to do and how they was going to hurt us and that.

They're basically threatening you guys. guys to try to find out where CJ is correct. Right, right. You guys have something to do with it. Right. And it went straight from, straight from that, too threatening. We have been, we're entwined, you know, I'm not going to say that we hang out and party, because we're not that type of crowd. We don't drink and all that good stuff. But our families are inclined, you know. If one of, if guys didn't work, then none of us are taken care of. So to see, you know, so to see, you everybody at the front door was kind of nuts. And not only wasn't just the guys on the front door,

there was cars lining up. Right about that time, he decided he was going to open the door again and argued with him for a few minutes. And I pushed the doorstep, and I told him, just get off my porch and go away. That's how I never had come out and was like trying to calm the crowd down. But at that point, there was people everywhere. According to Brandy,

C.J's family and neighbors have harassed them over C.J.'s disappearance, even threatening them. But instead of making Brandy doubt her husband, the pressure seemed to have the opposite effect. It only strengthened her belief that Jeremy was innocent. That became clear when investigators asked her directly, did she think Jeremy had killed CJ? Did he say anything then? Have you had any conversations about, have you asked him? Did he do this? I have asked him and he said no. And just, you know, just like, have things. I mean, you know, it's just like, have things. And we've been married almost, well, not with, I say married, but we've been together for almost 30 years.

Yeah. You know, so it's like almost married pretty much. And all I can do is just cry. I'd be honest, that's all I can do is just cry right now. You imagine me. I have to say, when you said, just trust me, pay to me. At this point, Brandy seemed to think she'd gained some sympathy from investigators after describing the harassment they'd faced. That may be exactly why, just moments later, she'd slip up and accidentally reveal a crystal clear motive for the brutal murder.

How were they doing that, you know, were they issuing one check that they would then divide, or were they issuing a check to Jay and a check to CJ? They issued one check, and this was the same way it was done, insurance and when you're a subcontract, and you have like a leader of the crew, you know, so you have to carry a certain amount of insurance and all that. So everything is in CJ's name. So there's one check. And then after they would pay, we have a... Would they use that white work van?

Is that... Obviously, you know that the... C.J. had been reported missing. And then his body was discovered in the garage at 4-O-A-Kirk Park where you guys were living. And like the last one was... Where's the phrase? The phrase was the building in the cavern. There is an old field home in the park.

know if they're home linking something right there yeah that was the one big job that jade did without cj although he should have been there the only job that i can think of that was big money obviously around the time that this happened or he went missing or he may have came into a bunch of like there's no four thousand dollar it's almost as if brandy realized her mistake the moment she said it and immediately she started backpedaling but the damage was done. To investigators, it was clear. The missing payments for that huge job lining up perfectly with CJ's disappearance was no coincidence. At this point, they were nearly certain. Jeremy was behind the murder, but one major problem remained. Police still didn't know where he

was, what car he was driving, or what he might be planning next. But just as the investigation seems to stall, the officers receive an unexpected visit, one that points directly to the killer. Six days after C.J.'s body is found, a man walks into the police station claiming he knows where Jeremy is hiding. The man is Sean Connolly, Jeremy's best friend for more than 10 years. The officers sit him down for an interview, quickly pulling up everything they can find on him. They learn that Sean has recently been released from prison, a detail they know they can use as leverage to pressure him and ensure he doesn't mislead them. Now, Sean has just become the officer's best hope of finding Jeremy. You know him? Yeah.

My best friend. Okay. How would you know? Okay. At least ten. So you want to talk with me about him? What about him? What about is able to take you to his location?

What's that? What about is able to take you to a location? It depends on your cooperation. You know, you got to make a prison. When you take care of that? I would prefer. So you guys don't... We're not to hurt anybody.

I don't want to... None of that matter. Sean claims that Jeremy is hiding. hiding at his mother's house, about 45 minutes north of Dayton. Detectives immediately head to the location and begin surveillance. After several hours, they spot Jeremy leaving the residence and driving away in a black Hyundai Sonata. But when officers move in to stop him, Jeremy takes off.

He knows the police have more than enough evidence to put him away for good, not to mention that his car is filled to the brim with drugs like crack. So Jeremy does the only thing he can. He drives like a man. Madman. Jeremy is driving with extreme recklessness, showing complete disregard for anyone on the road. The officers know they need to stop him. If they don't, innocent lives could be lost.

But then something completely unexpected happens, something that will bring Jeremy to his knees. Can you bring you, each of the ground. You know how to walk. You know how to drive? You guys have a dog with you? Put your window. Hands out, touch hand. Reach out and open the car doll.

Grab the back of your shirt and lift it. Come back to the sound of my voice. Back. Back. Back. Back. I got cuff. I got cuff.

Cross your ankle. Cross your ankle. After an hour-long chase, seemingly by a miracle, Jeremy runs out of gas and is forced to pull over. To the officer's relief, he doesn't resist and is quickly handcuffed before being taken to jail. The evidence against him is overwhelming, and the high-speed chase only makes things worse. Still, Jeremy has a plan to get out of this predicament. CJ's family and Officer Floyd wait in anxious anticipation, hoping the detectives don't blunders. again and let a killer slip away. Unbeknownst to Jeremy, the detectives about to walk into the

room are the exact same ones who let him off the hook and gave him a month of freedom. Thank you, sir. Jeremy, how you doing, Bob? I'm Detective House. This is Detective Lips. We're with the Dayton Police Department. We're investigating an incident with Clinton. All right. Do you want to talk to us about what's going on, get your side of story. I didn't do this, but I would like to have talked to a lawyer. Realizing he's in serious trouble, Jeremy asks for a lawyer, but fortunately, the evidence against him is strong enough that a confession isn't even necessary.

Officer Floyd can finally relax, knowing the killer has been caught. Still, he can't shake the thought that the detective's inaction may have cost an innocent man, his life. Jeremy Van Vorges is charged with two counts of murder, felonious assault, tampering with evidence, and gross abuse of a corpse. He is sentenced to 22 years to life in prison. For the high-speed chase, an additional 24 months is added to his sentence. Regarding the two other deaths mentioned by the residents, the police could not find any proof that Jeremy was involved with any of them.