Murdaugh Murders Podcast - Officer by Officer: Inside the Spivey Complaint's Alleged HCPD Cover-Up Playbook (164pt2)

Starting point is 00:00:04 Welcome back to True Sunlight, Episode 164, Part 2. My name is Mandy Matney, and this is True Sunlight, a podcast exposing crime and corruption, previously known as the Murdoch Murders podcast. True Sunlight is a Lunar Shark production, written with journalist Liz Farrell. Okay, let's pick up right where we left off in part one of episode 164, shall we? As we told you in part one on Tuesday, Scott's Vivey's fans. filed a case in federal court against 13 current and former Ory County police officers, including former Chief Joseph Hill, former deputy chief and friend of Scott Spivey's killer,

Starting point is 00:00:47 Weldon Boyd, whose name is Brandon Strickland, and former Bofoon Officer Damon, act like a victim, Biscovey. The lawsuit accuses the officers and county of violating the Spivey family's civil rights. There are three main accusations in the complaint. One, that Ory County Police conspired to direct the investigation into Scott's September 9th, 2023 killing in a direction that would favor Scott's killers, Weldon Boyd and Bradley Williams. Two, that Scott's parents, as his legal errors, were deprived of meaningful access to civil judicial redress and their protected property interests. In other words, Scott's estate, which is not a state, which.

Starting point is 00:01:31 is currently suing Weldon Boyd and Bradley Williams. And three, that former Chief Hill has supervisor liability in this case, and ORI County has managerial liability. We're going to follow the path of the complaint and going through the individual actions the spivvy say add up to a conspiracy to deprive them of their civil rights. The next officer mentioned in the complaint is a man named Daniel Spencer, who was saved in Weldon's phone by name, where Welles, Weldon also noted that Daniel was special ops at Ory County.

Starting point is 00:02:05 Daniel, sources tell us, is peas and carrots with Brandon Strickland. And just being honest here, we have heard a lot of bad things about this guy. The lawsuit accuses Daniel of obtaining information about the investigation and relaying that information to Weldon. David, will you read the last sentence of paragraph 27? Plaintiffs allege that Spencer's disclosure of investigative information to Boyd served no legitimate law enforcement purpose. Afforted Boyd preferential access to information about the investigation into his own conduct and personally furthered the effort to protect Boyd from scrutiny and accountability and to help Boyd mitigate his exposure.

Starting point is 00:02:56 Exposure, meaning to criminal and civil liability for killing Scott. Okay, so remember this phone call between Weldon and Brandon Strickland right after Weldon killed Scott? I got people. I got a judge. I county judge. I've got Brandon with the SWAT team. What's up, man? Brandon, where are you at? I'm not in my house. Can you come to Camp Swamp Road off of nine like as fast as possible? What was wrong? I had to shoot somebody. Oh, look, let to shoot somebody.

Starting point is 00:03:34 He held a gun at us. He ran us off the road. We stopped to try and get the stuff on the trailer because we were hauling a couch. He got out, pulled a gun, started shooting at us, and we had to shoot back. All right. You call 911 one. Yeah, they're all here. I just, and I've got witnesses that watched them run me off the road, that watched him hold the gun out the window.

Starting point is 00:03:54 We have a picture of him holding the gun out the window, and then he pulled, he got, when he was in front of us, he got out. he got out the car, aimed, racked the slide, aimed it at us, and started shooting, and we shot back. And then when he got back in the car, we quit shooting, and then he started shooting again,

Starting point is 00:04:11 and we started having to shoot again. Yes. All right, I've got to be real careful with that because in my jurisdiction weren't investigating agencies, so I've got to be careful that I'm not showing any... I know that.

Starting point is 00:04:26 It's self-defense. And we got, We got witnesses that are all saying is self-defense. I'm a fucking nervous wreck, dude. Why? I'll slide out there, but I got to be real careful. You know what I'm saying? Okay.

Starting point is 00:04:40 All right. All right. Thanks. Just be calm. Okay. And remember this call. Hey, well. Hey.

Starting point is 00:04:51 Look, I got the right people. I got the people coming that need you come, but I need you to listen to me and understand me for a second, okay? Okay. It might not make sense now, but it'll make sense later. It'll come out there, okay? Yeah, I get it. No, I get it now.

Starting point is 00:05:08 I understand. That keeps it clean. And what you're telling me is a case, and it's a self-defense thing. Yeah. You're going to be fine. You're going to be fired. You've just got to go through the process. They're going to ask you questions.

Starting point is 00:05:21 They're probably going to take you the call away to see if you've got to talk to you. Okay. All right. But just I'm right here. I know. I know. I understand completely. Here's what the spivvy say happened next.

Starting point is 00:05:34 Quote, Strickland strategically and against protocol began making contact with the other defendants herein, including but not limited to Alan Jones, M. Stevenson, and Mick Kathman, who then relayed the message and plan to other defendants herein to make sure the right officers responded to the scene and new to follow Boyd's narrative of self-defense and to violate protocol in any way necessary to ensure the netherance. narrative was not contradicted by any actual investigation in order to protect Boyd from any civil or criminal liability as a result of murdering Scott. As listeners who've been following our coverage on this case know, Officer Kerry Higgs was the first on the scene September 9th,

Starting point is 00:06:20 2023, followed a few minutes later by the buffoon, Officer Damon Viscovy. The spy Have you say neither made any effort to separate witnesses, to separate Weldon and Bradley, to properly secure the site, to properly collect or secure evidence, or to determine the actual facts? According to body camera and dashboard camera footage, Officer Higgs poked Scott in the butt to determine whether he was alive or not, and he placed a few pieces of paper down to mark spent cartridges on the ground. He also started a crime scene log, which the buffoon, Viscovy, in our opinions, seemed very reluctant to sign. And as you all know from our coverage,

Starting point is 00:07:01 that crime scene log went missing until late last year, when Officer Higgs found it mixed in with filings in his vehicle. The complaint notes that before the investigation had even started, when Weldon was on the phone with his attorney Ken Moss, Viscovy had already told Weldon that he thought that he and Bradley would be okay before he took the phone from Weldon and spoke with Ken Moss himself. It was after that, the complaint says, that Viscovy asked Higgs whether his body camera was on and sent Higgs away, quote, in a direction, away from Weldon and Bradley.

Starting point is 00:07:36 Before repositioning his own camera, so he could secretly show Weldon the note he had handwritten, act like a victim, cameras. Again, with Viscove being a buffoon, the note got caught on his camera anyway. This, by the way, was something that was discovered by Lunashark reporter Beth Braden. We brought it to the attention of Jennifer Spivey Foley and her attorney Mark Tinsley. We were then asked to give Sled time to confront Viscovy on this. Viscovy was on vacation at the time, and we agreed to wait on reporting this until the day he returned to work, where Sled was waiting for him. Vescovy was fired that day, and Chief Chris Lienhardt held a press conference to take credit for the discovery of this note and the, quote, swift action to hold Viscovy accountable for it.

Starting point is 00:08:24 That should tell you everything you need to know about Chris Lee and Hart's relationship with the truth. Anyway, the spy's complaint also notes that at one point, Higgs told Boyd to stop talking and sharing information. As listeners of this show, I remember, we actually found two places in the police recordings that show this. One, where he verbally says this to Walden, telling Walden that, you know, he wouldn't want to say something that contradicts something he says later. the opposite of what police are supposed to want from suspects. And two, you can see Higgs seem to silently make the universal sign for Zippet when Weldon is again having verbal diarrhea. Weldon sees Higgs make that signal and he immediately shuts up.

Starting point is 00:09:07 Later, in our reporting, we learned that Higgs has denied knowing who Weldon even was at the time. And we have no reason to believe otherwise, which makes this worse for Higgs because it appears he was following someone's orders or their insinuated or unspoken orders to help steer this investigation in one direction. In the complaint, the spy v.A. there was then a coordinated effort, quote, for all the officers on the scene to turn off their body cameras and or audio to cover up and hide the surreptitious and illegal activities of law enforcement. David, will you read the part we marked in paragraph 30?

Starting point is 00:09:44 As additional officers arrived and more phone calls and text messages were exchanged, the defendants continued to conspire together through words, actions, silence, and, quote, the good old boy culture, end quote, and formulated and continued a plan to protect Boyd from civil liability. These officers intentionally and knowingly ignored the evidence and facts, clearly showing the stories of Boyd and Williams did not match the evidence, but rather suggested they murdered Spivey and did not act in self-defense. Immediately, officers on the scene should have known that Weldon's story about turning onto Highway to check his trailered couches was a lie, and that his 911 call, minutes earlier, totally

Starting point is 00:10:45 contradicted his cover story. I say cover story because Weldon had no actual destination related needed to turn onto that road that Scott, who lived just over the border in North Carolina, took to go home that day. The Spiveys include all the evidence at the scene that should have immediately signaled to investigators that the facts weren't adding up in favor of Weldon and Bradley's story about how all of this transpired. And they note that Damon Biscoe personally gave the okay for Weldon's attorney, Ken Moss, to enter the scene immediately after the shooting. Remember in our past reporting how you can literally see old Ken Moss through the back window of a police

Starting point is 00:11:31 car where a witness was being interviewed? David, will you read from paragraph 31 of the lawsuit. Vescovy thereby permitted a representative of Boyd, one of the principal subjects of the investigation to obtain physical access to the scene before the scene and its evidence had been fully processed, secured, and preserved. Plaintiffs allege that Viscovy's authorization further compromised the integrity and independence of the investigation. and formed a part of the preferential treatment afforded to Boyd. Now, let's talk about Lieutenant Doug DeShong and the accusations against him. The Spivey's alleged that DeShang,

Starting point is 00:12:21 who is the one who made the decision to have everyone shut off their body cameras at the scene shortly after Damon Boscovy took him aside to tell him that part of Weldon's story didn't make sense to him. Well, he made this decision to intentionally, quote, while material events at the scene were ongoing, and quote, preventing the creation and preservation of a complete audiovisual record of the officer's conduct, communications, handling of evidence, and interactions with Boyd and Williams. DeShang's conduct, they allege, quote, personally furthered concealment and evidence manipulation, which interfered with the Spivey's ability to get complete and accurate records of the investigation,

Starting point is 00:13:10 which again is one of the three major allegations contained in this lawsuit. More on that after a quick commercial break, and we'll be right back. Now let's talk about Scott's body and how O'Re County's bizarre and unorthodox treatment of it in an alleged effort to contain the investigation in Weldon's favor, according to Brandon Strickland himself, affected the Spivey family. On the evening that Weldon and Bradley killed Scott Spivey, the Ory County coroner showed up and basically sat in his SUV, doing nothing until apparently being told to leave for now.

Starting point is 00:13:51 Did the coroner sign the crime scene log? Uh, no. Which is odd, right? And why was the coroner apparently sent away? Because the decision to be. to move Scott's body in his truck to an ORI County impound lot 45 minutes away had apparently already been made. It's a decision that appears to have been made very early on because of one of the officers doing traffic control told another officer, which is recorded on their body cameras,

Starting point is 00:14:22 that he was told that they were moving Scott's body in the truck. That happened at 6.31 p.m. that evening. And we actually haven't reported to y'all this yet, but had planned to as a part of our ongoing coverage of Ory County's investigation of itself in this case, which you might have remembered from episodes 151 and 152. But the way breaking news works, part of our reporting gets pushed back and what we can tell you, we're going to do our best year. Anyway, just listen to this November 19, 2025 interview between Officer Van Sissell, the Internal Affairs Investigator at Ory County Police, and Officer Tyler Sear, who was caught on Officer Adam Shea's body camera footage telling the officer that they were going to move Scott's body in his truck.

Starting point is 00:15:16 And listen, pay attention to how Van Sissell mentions that he watched the video in question with Taylor before recording this interview. and pay attention to the leading questions. All right, so, um, tell you the reason I brought you in here, I know I've watched the video with you, but you observe what you said, and I'm going to ask you about it.

Starting point is 00:15:41 So on Alster Adam Shea's body cam video, y'all are doing traffic control point for the shooting incident, and you're, you walk up to, uh, Shea and Shea says something about something a reference to see what it was that he made a statement that basically CID that he assumed that CID was going to I guess there was another truck as we can see in this photo here there's a flatbed truck coming and I think you asked a question about towing was it going to the crime scene or something like that and he said well I he assumes that CID was going to pull a truck back to

Starting point is 00:16:34 RPD and that would be normal practice, correct? On a shooting with vehicles. Yes. Okay, we're going to get that exertion warrants and stuff. Then you made a statement to him that basically, yeah, they're going to they're going to tow it back with the body in it.

Starting point is 00:16:52 Okay. Now, on this crime scene, our first detectives, I don't think, arrived until I believe at 1908 p.m. which is at 708 p.m. you made that comment at 6.31 p.m. so that would have been prior to any CID or CSI arriving on scene. Can you explain that comment and where you may have heard that or so I can tell exactly who I got that problem? I've never personally seen it ever done all the shooting investigations.

Starting point is 00:17:29 Ledell McCona Conway and here and with Coffield to answer. So I've never actually seen it and so it was

Starting point is 00:17:36 actually something and again I'm not trying to throw Jill into the bus but Jill was my old and Jill Domaguer

Starting point is 00:17:40 retired. Yeah and she was CSI for a long time. So she told me and I've never person

Starting point is 00:17:47 seen it but she's told me what I guess I apologize. Sorry. Sorry about that. I'm going to turn that off

Starting point is 00:17:58 I apologize. So So she's told me in the past, I guess in some of her cases where in shootings in cases where like when a body's found in a vehicle, they can tow the car in the past with the body still in the car to the PD do a search warrant. Right. I didn't know if that was going on. I've never personally seen it. It's me being, I shouldn't have repeated something like that because it's ignorant. I don't know what's going on down there.

Starting point is 00:18:26 So it was something I've heard from my sergeant. and again, it's something I should... So you're saying it's an assumption on your part based off the training experience that you had under Sergeant Tom McGowanard, who was a crime scene investigator for many, many years. Yes. And she was basically stated that

Starting point is 00:18:45 that was something that has been done before. Although not common, it does occur in certain situations. So it is basically an assumption on your part that that may have been what was going to do with her. Anything other than that, sir? Yep. Okay. No.

Starting point is 00:19:03 You didn't hear that from anybody prior to that day. Nobody else discussed it. Obviously, when you pulled up, nobody had discussed that, or that would be an option during that time? I mean, it's been, what, two years now? I can't 100% say for certain, but the best of what I can remember, me getting dispatched out to that,

Starting point is 00:19:27 there was no time for me to even have those conversations with Jill or, excuse me, Sergeant Domagher or anybody else. Was Domagher, your sergeant at the time? Yes. Okay. All right. Okay. So, let's break down the timeline a little here because it's a mess.

Starting point is 00:19:43 Here's what we know. Weldon hung up with 911 at 6.02 p.m. Scott is already dead at that time. At 603, Weldon calls his mom and is like, Mama, I killed someone. And she was like, no, you didn't. Just before 6.10 p.m., Officer Kerry Higgs, the first policeman on the scene, arrives at Camp Swamp Road. Weldon asks him if he needs a lawyer. And Higgs is like, I can't give you advice. And he continues to walk past Weirdo Weldon to Scott's truck.

Starting point is 00:20:13 Three minutes later, you can hear Weldon on the phone with someone explaining what happened. This is presumably his attorney Ken Moss. I say presumably because this call is not reflected in Weldon's or Bradley's call logs. from police. At 6.14, Officer Damon Viscovy arrives on the scene. And just before 6.22 p.m., Ken calls Weldon. At 6.25 p.m., they end that phone call, and a minute or so later, Weldon tells Viscovy that his attorney is on the way to the scene. At 629, Weldon calls Brandon, and the call ends at 631 p.m. While Weldon is on that call, though, just seconds before 6. 631, Uri County Police notify the coroner.

Starting point is 00:21:00 It's at almost 632 p.m. that Officer Taylor Sear makes the comment to Officer Adam Shea that they're going to move Scott's body in his truck on a flatbed. A minute later, Ken calls Weldon again. This call is also not reflected in the call log. While Weldon is on the phone with Ken, at 6.34 p.m. Viscovy tells Weldon, I think you're going to be okay, as far as what I've heard.

Starting point is 00:21:28 This is after he's had very brief conversations with the Wrights, who did not witness the shooting, and a very brief conversation with the McMurrows, who drove by Wright as Weldon was unloading his weapon toward Scott, who had not, according to Frank McMurrow, lifted his hand to shoot at Weldon. This was also the moment that Officer Damon Viscovy asked Weldon, is that Ken?

Starting point is 00:21:52 So, how, how? I ask, did Officer Damon Viscovy already know that Weldon Boyd, who couldn't even pronounce Viscoe's name because it didn't seem like they even knew each other, was represented by Ken Moss. In his call to Brandon Strickland, Weldon didn't even mention that Ken was representing him. And these questions need to be asked. Did Brandon Strickland already know about the shooting by the time Weldon called him at 6.29 p.m.? Was he faking the surprise he didn't really even express when Weldon told him he shot someone to death? Were the wheels already in motion? As far as our research and reporting has shown, the Ory County Police Department has only ever towed a dead body in a vehicle once,

Starting point is 00:22:42 maybe twice, maybe three times, and the whole annals of their more modern history anyway. If you can call anything about their practices modern, but the point is, It's rare. It's something that most officers say they've never even heard of happening before. So, this other question needs to be asked. In what world is a young police officer going to randomly assume that Scott's body is going to be towed off the scene still in his truck?

Starting point is 00:23:13 In what world? Someone knew something, and that's something got mentioned to Officer Taylor Sear, or maybe he overheard something. And if Damon Viscovy knew that Weldon was being represented by Ken Moss before there was any record of Viscovy being told that at the scene, it means there's a very big piece of this that is missing. Okay, so let's talk about what the Spivey's lawsuit says. David, will you read the first part of paragraph 33? The defendants acted in furtherance of their conspiracy by also making the conscious decision to leave Spivey's body in his truck to bake in the extreme heat for an extended period of time, and then towed

Starting point is 00:24:03 Spivey's vehicle with his body still in the vehicle to a garage in violation of the law and all reasonable protocols, policies, and procedures, all for the purpose of helping Boyd and Williams by having access to Spivey's vehicle in a private facility, where planting and manipulation of evidence would be undetectable, including placing a bottle of steroid pills in a compartment in Spivey's truck that was conveniently accessible through the shattered back glass, which was not covered, without having to disturb the crime scene tape securing the doors.

Starting point is 00:24:46 After baking the body, defendants ordered an autopsy that was not at first recommended by the coroner, in an effort to provide Boyd help in defending a civil action because defendants knew the blood alcohol level would be elevated by leaving the body in the heat for an extended period. Okay, so let's say police did plant the steroids. It was actually in a fresh-looking baggy, not a bottle, in Scott's truck. Did they do that because they were rolling the dice? Is it because they had heard from locals that Scott might have a hot temper? Did someone speculate that he might have been on steroids?

Starting point is 00:25:31 Or were they thinking that Scott's testosterone would have been naturally elevated by the encounter with Weldon? Were the pills put there as a red herring to shore up anything the toxicology might show after Scott's body spent so much time in the summer heat? Because, the Spivey say, the coroner did not actually recommend. the autopsy. But the investigators push for it in the alleged conspiracy because they knew a toxicology could possibly help Weldon, who is reportedly a wealthy local business owner. It would help him mitigate his liability in a future wrongful death case. Reminder, no steroids were found in Scott's system, but his BAC was well over the legal limit to drive, which given his body size,

Starting point is 00:26:19 food intake, number of drinks he had at the time he spent at the restaurant prior to the encounter with Weldon, well, that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. By the time Scott's body was examined, police already knew that Scott had been at Boardwalk Billy's because of a social media post he had made. According to the lawsuit, the decision to move Scott from the scene in the truck came from now Deputy Chief, then Captain Mick Cassman, which the Spivey say he coordinated with Brandon Strickland. The Spivey's also accused Officer Matthew Stevenson of participating in the effort to bring the truck with Spivey in it to the impound lot by intentionally failing to seal the broken rear window, giving police a point of access to the compartment where the drugs were quote-unquote

Starting point is 00:27:09 later placed. Stevenson, according to the lawsuit, also saw Weldon's tablet in the truck, but intentionally failed to seize or preserve that device. Quote, despite the existence of a search warrant authorizing the seizure of all electronic devices. In the complaint, the Spivey's also accused Officer Mark Johnson of intentionally mislabeling video evidence in the case file and personally participating in the manipulation and concealment of evidence. The Spivey say that the body-worn cameras show that already,

Starting point is 00:27:46 County officers discussed the quote, need to make sure that no one told Spivey's family that his body had been left inside the truck when it was towed. The effort, to keep this from the family, they say, is evidence that these officers understood that the way that they were treating Scott's remains was unusual, illegal, and quote, likely to cause the family severe distress. They say that this was not an innocent failure. In fact, the Spivey's alleged that the video footage from the garage where Scott's body was disrobed and processed by CSI officers showed that his body was, quote, violently jostled and thrown about

Starting point is 00:28:28 inside the vehicle as it was unloaded. They say this caused them severe mental anguish and emotional distress for several reasons, including that they were forced to revisit these events because they weren't getting truthful answers from ORI County and its officers. They had to pursue the truth themselves, which is how all of this was uncovered. And we'll talk more about the lawsuit after a quick break. Now, about that 100 miles per hour pin

Starting point is 00:29:10 we asked you to hold on to from part one of this episode. Let's talk about that. According to the lawsuit, a meeting of officers involved in the Spivey case was called for September 11, 2023, just two days after Scott's death. It was at this meeting, the Spivey's alleged, that everyone got their marching orders as to how the investigation would go. Higher ranking officers, the lawsuit says, told lower ranking officers to be nice to Weldon and Bradley,

Starting point is 00:29:37 which the Spivey say the lower ranking officers understood as a command message and that it did influence their treatment of Weldon and Bradley, along with investigative decisions and the handling of evidence. Also, in this lawsuit, are accusations that the police, intentionally suppressed and ignored evidence of Weldon's recorded phone calls, which the SpyVis say were accessible to all of the defendants named in this complaint at any time. The SpyVis say that this proves to them that the police only downloaded Weldon's in Bradley's phones as a way to shut the spivey's up, and not because police were planning to look into any of it for potential evidence that Weldon's and Bradley's stories, which already contained so many holes in them,

Starting point is 00:30:23 were not the truth about what happened. The lawsuit also points out something we've reported on before about Brandon Strickland. And that's how, from the IAA investigation interviews, Strickland seemed to take a particular and persistent interest in how Weldon's and Bradley's phones would be downloaded and what information would be available to investigators at SLED. And we're not talking about the standard protections for attorney-client privilege here. The spivis say that Strickland put Alan Jones in charge of handling and documenting electronic data.

Starting point is 00:30:55 Jones, who they say instructed the first detective on the scene, not to interview Walden and Bradley, contrary to Orie County's policies and procedures. They also say that Jones conspired with Strickland in terms of what Strickland should say in a recorded interview between Jones and Strickland that was taken the day after Scott's killing, in which Strickland outlined,

Starting point is 00:31:17 and I'm making air quotes around that one, his call again in, in air quotes with Weldon. The Spivey's alleged that this was done with the intent to control how those calls would be characterized and disclosed, which guess what? That interview between Alan Jones and Brandon Strickland

Starting point is 00:31:36 wasn't produced to the Spivey family until the Spivey's learned in 2025 through one of Weldon's recorded calls with Brandon that Brandon was scheduled to be interviewed on the record, September 10th, 2023, about Weldon's call from the scene the night before. This interview, the Spivey Say, was later intentionally mislabeled by Ory County Police in the investigative file after they asked about it to make it look like it had been produced to them with the rest of the file.

Starting point is 00:32:04 In the lawsuit, the Spivey's accused Alan Jones, Greg Lent, and Mick Cathman, of doing this so that the Spiveys wouldn't find out about Brandon Strickland's call with Weldon Boyd. Also, according to the lawsuit, Detective Alan Jones, The guy Brandon Strickland described to Weldon Boyd as being one of the right people whose Strickland was sending to the scene for Weldon, the guy he told Weldon was a good old boy, in those exact words, lied to officials, presumably to Aegee's office and sled, by telling them that nothing was found on Weldon's or Bradley's phones relevant to the investigation. The Spidey's accused Chief Joseph Hill, Greg Lent, Mick Kaufman, and Brandon Strickland

Starting point is 00:32:46 of intentionally misrepresenting the help they received from SLED. They later claimed that Ory County had transferred all responsibility to SLED for the investigation. And remember, that was to avoid a conflict of interest because of Weldon's Facebook post praising the police and solicitor Jimmy Richardson for their

Starting point is 00:33:03 help at the scene, just days after Scott's killing. But in reality, Ory County retained control of the investigation and in reality only asked SLED to perform one quote, narrowly defined task. And that was to look at Weldon's

Starting point is 00:33:19 and Bradley's phones for a recording of the shooting. Okay, finally, let's talk about the 100 mile per hour chase. Remember how we said that up until the family had Scott's phone downloaded on their own, they had to use other means to estimate how fast Scott was driving as he was being chased by Weldon. That is because Alan Jones, according to this lawsuit, didn't include any report outlining or even acknowledging the download of Scott's phone by police in the case. file. This was done, the Spivey say, quote, in an attempt to hide speed information collected by Spivey's phone during the chase by Boyd, which showed speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour.

Starting point is 00:34:03 David, will you read the rest? Alan Jones also failed to upload evidence from the investigation into Evidence.com. Jones personally instructed Shell Neal Tamasi not to take the tablet of observed in Boyd's truck into evidence, but instead to leave the device in Boyd's truck so that it would ultimately be returned to Boyd. Jones falsely told forensic investigator Ken Marcus that the downloads from Boyd's and Williams' phones would be analyzed by SLED and made the representations so that the Downloads would not be analyzed by ORI County personnel. Like we said in part one, we will continue to talk about the details of this much-deserved reckoning of a lawsuit in its chances of surviving in federal court. Again, we refuse to accept that in a case like this, when there is so much evidence of intent when it comes to this coordinated cover-up,

Starting point is 00:35:10 that there is not a place in the judicial system for people like the spivies to hold individual officers in the county fully responsible. Civil liability cases, whether born from product failure or negligence by business owners, can result in widespread change and much-needed improvements made by people and companies far beyond the defendants listed in the caption of the lawsuit. It is important for police agencies to be beholden to the people they serve and not to those in power. We need to and have to drag agencies like ORI County Police into the 21st century, and the only way to do that is through fear of serious litigation and consequences. As it stands, lawsuits are no skin off these guys' noses. They don't pay for them. Why do they care?

Starting point is 00:36:02 It might feel like a hassle, but it's performative. Maybe it's time for the cops to carry individual liability policies like doctors and others in high-risk careers. Until next time, stay tuned, stay pesky, and stay in the sunlight. True Sunlight is a Luna Shark production created by me, Mandy Matney, co-hosted and reported by journalist Liz Pharrell, research support provided by Beth Braden, audio production support provided by Jamie Hoffman and Grace Hills, case file management by Kate Thomas. Learn more about. our mission and membership at lunasharkmedia.com.

Starting point is 00:36:48 Interruptions provided by Luna and Joe Pesky.

Murdaugh Murders Podcast - Officer by Officer: Inside the Spivey Complaint's Alleged HCPD Cover-Up Playbook (164pt2)

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