Law&Crime Sidebar - Man Suddenly Confesses to Disturbing Murder: ‘She Wasted My Time’

Episode Date: May 11, 2024

State troopers in Oklahoma were performing a welfare check on a man sitting next to a busy interstate when he allegedly confessed to killing Jennifer Kyli Molloy, 19, back in October 2016. In an interview with detectives, Joseph Tyler Beck, 28, said he was attracted to Molloy and killed her when she rejected his advances. Law&Crime’s Jesse Weber analyzes the sudden confession and Beck’s connection to Molloy’s family with police sergeant and host of the Shots Fired podcast Kyle Shoberg.PLEASE SUPPORT THE SHOW: If you’re ever injured in an accident, you can check out Morgan & Morgan. You can submit a claim in 8 clicks or less without having to leave your couch. To start your claim, visit: https://www.forthepeople.com/LCSidebarHOST:Jesse Weber: https://twitter.com/jessecordweberLAW&CRIME SIDEBAR PRODUCTION:YouTube Management - Bobby SzokeVideo Editing - Michael DeiningerScript Writing & Producing - Savannah WilliamsonGuest Booking - Alyssa Fisher & Diane KayeSocial Media Management - Vanessa BeinSTAY UP-TO-DATE WITH THE LAW&CRIME NETWORK:Watch Law&Crime Network on YouTubeTV: https://bit.ly/3td2e3yWhere To Watch Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3akxLK5Sign Up For Law&Crime's Daily Newsletter: https://bit.ly/LawandCrimeNewsletterRead Fascinating Articles From Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3td2IqoLAW&CRIME NETWORK SOCIAL MEDIA:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lawandcrime/Twitter: https://twitter.com/LawCrimeNetworkFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/lawandcrimeTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lawandcrimenetworkTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lawandcrimeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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October 5th, 2016, that is when 19-year-old Jennifer Malloy, who went by her middle name Kylie, and the nickname Smiley, was found dead in her apartment in Edmund, Oklahoma. Police say they followed up on multiple leads. They were never able to make any arrests. It was a cold case. It was a cold case. But then, you fast forward just now, May 3rd, 2024, almost eight years later, Oklahoma State Troopers stopped to do a welfare check on a man sitting on the side of Interstate 40, not suspecting anything more. Troopers called Edmund Police when 28-year-old Joseph Tyler Beck suddenly confessed to strangling Kylie to death all those years ago.

In a Facebook post with photos of the arrest, Oklahoma Highway Patrol said, quote, this is yet another example of how a trooper never knows exactly what he or she will encounter on the side of the road. Good job by everyone, and we hope this ultimately ends in answers for an Oklahoma family. I want to talk about Beck's alleged confession and his connection to Kylie and her family. Let me bring in right now. Kyle Schoberg, Sergeant with the Citrus Heights Police Department in California, co-instructor of the Patrol Survival Tactics Seminar and host of the Shots Fired Podcast, which is available on YouTube as well, right, Kyle?

Correct, yeah, we're on YouTube, yep. Yep, all right. Well, good to see you. Thanks for coming on. My first question to you is your reaction. You have this man apparently spilling this secret after more than seven years in the most strange way possible. Yeah, so this is actually a super complex case.

And I think when people first read this, they think, well, this guy probably had all this guilt. These cops contact him on the side of the road. And he just confesses to killing this girl. And then they just book him for murder. And that's just not the case. There's actually a lot that goes into these types of cases. And honestly, when you have a cold case like this where the cops have exhausted all leads, they couldn't come up with a suspect. They may have had a lead on a particular suspect, or maybe they were even looking into this guy as a potential suspect.

But if the evidence isn't there to actually charge him with that crime, they have. have to let time go by and hopefully develop something later on. And in this case, I think for this individual, he's sitting on the side of the road, you know, eight years have gone by after he's committed his heinous crime. He was really good friends with this girl. She invited him over to the apartment. And I think all that pressure and guilt was just building and building over time on this guy. And, you know, the state troopers made that statement about you do never know who you're contacting on the street. And that is the one of the unique things about being a police officer and contacting multiple people every day out in the field. Traffic stops, pet stops,

you name it. It is extremely dangerous. You do not know who you're contacting. And in this case, this guy did murder a girl and he is, you know, on the run. And you don't know if that pressure has built up so much as soon as these cops contact these people. If they, you know, they're thinking they're paranoid. They're thinking the cops are on to me. They know what I did. And they lash out and either commit violence towards the officer to try to get away. Well, fortunately, go ahead. thing though like he look we still don't know more details it felt like he was just hanging out side of the road there was a welfare check it wasn't like you know they they barge down his door they brought him in an interrogation room you confess now he just seemingly confessed in his own

which makes me wonder if it is that guilt element and we'll explore this a little bit more but in your experience have you ever seen anything like this where somebody is picked up or somebody walks into police headquarters and just admits it admits to something that nobody thought that they were a part of or something out of left field. Have you ever seen anything like that before? I have in my 18 years. I have seen cases like that happen. It is rare, but I do agree with you. I think in this case, he's not some hardened criminal. I think he lashed out. He snapped. And he's, that was weighing on him all this time. And so fortunately for the cops that contacted him, he decided not to lash out against them to try to then get away. But you're

right. I mean, there's a lot of things that go into these types of cases. As soon as this guy confess to killing this girl the cops are obviously probably taken off guard by that but now that's a serious accusation so now you got to take this person back to the police department now you're talking about you know reading this person the Miranda rights uh they they have the right to not self-incriminate themselves and so there's a lot of things that go into that in the mere fact that someone just admits or confesses to killing somebody does not mean you get to just charge that person with that particular crime. So in this case, the officers have to go back and really do an in-depth interview with this person. And it mentions in the news that he was able to give details

about the crime that was never released to the public. And that's the key thing. And with these homicides, especially if you're going to come across a run into a cold case homicide, a lot of times we as law enforcement are not going to release all the details about the particular crime. That is something that we are going to hold to ourselves for an incident like this. We don't give everything to the public because we don't want everybody to know everything about the crime. Or somebody to come out and say, hey, you know, I did, I've had a part in this because there are people who are crazy and come out and say, I'm the real killer. And they, but that's why you have this information. I agree with you that it had to be something that only the killer

would have known. I want to explore a little bit about this interview, though. So Beck does this interview with Edmund Police, and according to an affidavit, he goes into this very graphic detail when he speaks with detectives. He apparently known Kylie for years. The two had worked together at a subway restaurant at one point in time, and he tells the detectives, or allegedly tells the detectives, that he was attracted to Kylie, invited himself over to her apartment in 2016, to possibly sexually assault her. He claims he made these kind of romantic, romantic advances towards her. She rejects him, tells him to leave. He becomes angry. He becomes violent. He said, quote, she wasted his time, and that's when he killed her, choked her to death,

and even admits pushing his knee on her neck to make sure that she was dead, which is so disturbing. He's right now in custody at the Oklahoma County Detention Center in a first-degree murder charge. So again, it seems that these were things that maybe investigators were looking into and they couldn't put the pieces of the puzzle, but he might have just put those pieces of the puzzle together. I mean, what do you make of his account of what happened? Yeah, well, I do. It's extremely disturbing. And I think a lot of times when you have crimes like that, where you have a 16-year-old girl murdered in an apartment, you know, random acts of violence like that happened far last year. I think she was, I think she was 19, though. I think she was

19 years old. So she's a teenager. So random acts of violence like that happen, you know, less than people, you know think that they do usually when you have a crime like that occur generally speaking you usually you want to look at people in that close circle of either family members uh or close friends and in this case you have a co-worker their friends you wanted to try to you know have some type of romantic relationship with her she rejects him now he's showing up at her apartment and ends up committing this this heinous act of violence towards her so as a cop or a detective when you're investigating these types of crimes that's where you have to start is you want to start with their most inner circle and work from there in case and point i'm sure that they

probably looked at this guy at some point during the investigation unfortunately just not able to put all the puzzle pieces together and now because it's eight years later you probably might have a whole different team of investigators who now have to interview this guy they got to comb through all the evidence read all the reports they have to go back and dig through everything while this guy making this confession because once you book that person in jail you only have 72 hours to get them arraigned and you have to have your evidence uh together for the district attorney to even file those charges and homicide it doesn't get any worse than that so your ducks have to be in a row you're on a very tight uh time window all of those things have to be done and just the mere

confession alone just wouldn't wouldn't have done it so yeah to be booked giving those details those detectives had to do an incredible amount of work to go back and do all this digging it's a lot what a legal development right chilling it's that's one way to describe it really chilling makes you think that the world is sometimes not an easy place not a safe place you know one of the scariest things that can happen to you is if you get injured that's incredibly traumatic that's a very confusing time but that's why i want to take a minute to call out our great partner and sponsor here on sidebar morgan and morgan this is a firm that you would want your corner because they are specialists in this area. Morgan and Morgan is America's largest injury law firm, and for a reason,

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either not admitted into court or during a trial or try to have a spin on. or a narrative regarding it. But here's the part that is really disturbing is the way that he allegedly killed her. And I'm curious in your perspective, if he choked her to death, A, does that make it more difficult to track down who would have done this?

Is that one of the reasons why this was a cold case, the manner in which she was killed? And B, does that tell you something that this was a crime where he was enraged? We talk about how stabbings are sometimes very intimate. but choking someone to death feels, I don't know, even maybe more personal. So those two questions, you know, what's that, what is your take on the way that she was allegedly killed, allegedly murdered, or, and also, is that a reason why this was a cold case? Yeah, so I don't think he had any intention of really formulating a plan on how he was actually going to murder this girl.

You know, I've been to a lot of domestic violence-related deaths. and usually when you have someone that's been choked, strangled, things of that nature, it's generally a close type of relationship like that where it's very personal for the person that's committing that murder to choke that individual. It's a personal connection. I don't think he had any intentions of trying to even cover it up. That would not really play a big factor in trying to track down. And, you know, you got touched DNA nowadays where just you merely touching the individual, your DNA is going to be

left on that person's, you know, unless you're wearing gloves or something of that sort. But I highly doubt he has something that calculated to try to get away from this crime. I think it was a passion thing. I think he lashed out. And it makes perfect sense knowing the type of death that it was. And the fact that he was trying to have some type of romantic relationship with her, it all adds up. I want your perspective on this. So as I mentioned, Kylie had known her alleged killer for years.

In fact, in an interview with News 9 in Oklahoma, Kylie's sister, Krista Stanfield said, quote, growing up with Joseph, again, the alleged killer, he was the nicest guy, he was the sweetest guy, you would never think anything ill-mannered from him, and to know this happened and that he did this over something so stupid. And get this, Stainfield says that Beck had been reaching out to her for years, saying he wanted to meet up, talk to her, she always ignored his messages, seems like a great thing. The last time he reached out was just last month. Johnny Malloy, Kylie's father, told News 9,

The Good Lord works in mysterious ways, and he's haunted that man every day, and I hope he continues to. This man has taken so much from my family, and I'm glad he's in jail, and I want justice to be served, swift and strict. Kyle, that connection is so interesting, and him allegedly trying to stay in touch with the family is bizarre.

Yeah, I actually don't think that that's too far off. from the norm you know when you have someone involved in a crime like this you know these people want to stay connected to the family they want to know what's going on you like what are the police investigating what have they been asking the family does the family even think that they're on to this person to allude to the cops that this guy they think killed their daughter so you know the fact that he's reaching out to the family and wanted to remain kind of close probably to that investigation you know is actually something that happens quite often with with these people so that they can stay in tune and in touch with what is going on in this

investigation. So I think that has a little bit to do. Yeah, I think that has a little bit to do with it and the fact that I think he had such an obsession with her, you know, probably in his mind, you know, thinking he's dating her and all these things. And he's probably looking at her parents like, you know, this is his girlfriend's family. She's dead. So I think there's a little bit of combination of both in his head, you know, his sick, his sick mind that he was a part of her. he ends up killing her he wants to stay in touch with the family and the cops to see you know kind of where this investigation is going so i think that all kind of ties into his weird behavior that's a really good point to keep tabs on because if he gets the sense that she's ignoring him and the family's ignoring him then they might he might think he's a suspect it also could be and this pure speculation if he had this attraction to um you know jennifer was this an attraction that he had towards the sister as well i don't know purely speculating at this point but i just think it's something that has to be explored nonetheless So I should tell you that a judge has set Beck's bond at $10 million. A date for his next court appearance has not been set yet.

But it's also my understanding in Oklahoma, you have the death penalty for first-degree murder, too, which is something to consider real quick before we sign off. I mean, I know this is more of a legal question, but do you think, and correct me from wrong, but I believe Oklahoma has the death penalty. Do you think this is something the kind of case that prosecutors would move forward on and say that this is a death penalty eligible case? Oh, absolutely. I think you have a 19-year-old girl. You know, you've got this guy who's obsessed with her. He goes and he murders her in a horrendous way. You know, I think they probably will. And I think the defense is probably going to be attacking. You had mentioned it earlier, his statement, you know, was it under Miranda? And I think that that's going to be the defense's biggest argument is, okay, this guy's confessed to it. He's given great detail about how the crime was committed. So that's there. But they're only. defense at this point is going to be how did he give that confession who did he give it to was there more questioning after the fact after he gave these statements from the cops and that's really going to get scrutinized and so as law enforcement you know you got to be very cognizant of when you're talking to people and asking questions and what are people telling you so i think that's going to be

their biggest defense but we'll see where it goes from there look the death of this young woman is a tragedy um in one since i hope he's telling the truth because it would the family some sense of closure, but we'll see what happens next and if he ultimately pleads guilty. But listen, Kyle, Kyle Schoberg, thanks so much for coming on. Really appreciate it. You can check out the podcast and on YouTube. Shots fired. Hope everybody checks it out. Kyle, thanks so much. Thank you. Appreciate it, Jesse. And that's all we have for you here on Sidebar. Everybody, thank you so much for joining us. As always, please subscribe on Apple Podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your podcast.

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