Murdaugh Murders Podcast - TSP #110 - Did Months-Long Obsession Have Weldon Boyd Primed for a Fight the Day He Killed Scott Spivey?

Episode Date: August 7, 2025

Investigative journalists Mandy Matney and Liz Farrell continue to connect the dots in the Scott Spivey shooting case as they impatiently wait for South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster to appoint a special prosecutor to revisit what has turned out to be one of the most corrupt police investigations in state history.  On this week’s episode: Did shooter Weldon Boyd’s months-long obsession over his ex-fiancé have him in a fighting-mood on the day he and his friend Bradley Williams killed Scott? In SLED’s download of Bradley’s phone there were 60 screenshots of text messages between Weldon and the mother and grandmother of his son, showing Weldon’s increasing anger over his inability to control and manipulate his former fiancé. Those messages, along with court records, recorded phone calls and social media posts reveal that Weldon wasn’t just momentarily upset about his broken engagement the afternoon of Sept. 9, 2023, when he encountered Scott on Highway 9 in Horry County…   Mandy and Liz share their new timeline on Weldon’s potential state of mind as he tousled with Scott on the road, along with Weldon’s tactical messages, seemingly crafted to create a paper trail for the narrative he wanted everyone around him to believe.  Let’s dive in! 🥽🦈 Episode References Statement from the Office of South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson on the shooting of Scott Spivey - Aug 6, 2025 📄 SC’s Stand Your Ground and Citizen's Arrest laws (Circumstances when any person may arrest a felon or thief.) 🌐 SC Attorney General Alan Wilson says he is prepared to lead as governor 📰 Alan Wilson for Governor Campaign Website 🌐 Premium Resources AG Office’s Letter to SLED - April 3, 2024 📄 Spivey, Scott – 2023, Sept 09 – Horry County PD Shooting CAD Report📄 Stay Tuned, Stay Pesky and Stay in the Sunlight...☀️ Learn more about Premium Membership at ⁠⁠⁠lunashark.supercast.com⁠⁠⁠ to get bonus episodes like our Premium Dives, Corruption Watchlist, Girl Talk, and Soundbites that help you Stay Pesky and Stay in the Sunlight ⁠⁠⁠Premium Members ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠also get access to ad-free listening, searchable case files, written articles with documents, case photos, episode videos and exclusive live experiences with our hosts on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠lunasharkmedia.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ all in one place. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠CLICK HERE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to learn more: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/3BdUtOE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Here's a link to some of our favorite things: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://amzn.to/4cJ0eVn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ *** ALERT: If you ever notice audio errors in the pod, email ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[e-mail]⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and we'll send fun merch to the first listener that finds something that needs to be adjusted! *** For current & accurate updates: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠lunashark.supercast.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram.com/mandy_matney⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠   |   ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram.com/elizfarrell⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠   ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠bsky.app/profile/mandy-matney.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠bsky.app/profile/elizfarrell.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TrueSunlight.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠facebook.com/TrueSunlightPodcast/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram.com/TrueSunlightPod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠youtube.com/@LunaSharkMedia⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠tiktok.com/@lunasharkmedia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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did not want to be with him. But after taking a closer look at Weldon's personal text messages and phone calls leading up to Scott Spivey's death, it is clear that Weldon's obsession with controlling the narrative with his ex ultimately led to his downfall and to his exposure. My name is Mandy Matney. This is True Sunlight, a podcast exposing crime and corruption, previously known as the Murdoch Murders podcast. True Sunlight is a Luna's Shark production written with journalist Liz Pharrell. So, I know some of y'all are still experiencing whiplash from the last episode of True Sunlight,

where we finally told you about Alan Wilson's family connections to Palmetto State Armory, one of the largest gun retailers in the country. I'm honestly still stunned thinking about the question. What if Alan Wilson really doesn't want to make South Carolina a safer place? What if he just wants it to be a place where people feel like they need to buy guns to protect themselves? And maybe, just maybe, that could be why they made this terrible decision in the spivey case, a decision that he, by the way, still sticks by. Alan Wilson has been the top law enforcement officer in the state of South Carolina for more than a decade, and yet South Carolina consistently ranks in the top ten states for violent crime.

Is that a coincidence? I'm starting to wonder. This week, Alan Wilson doubled down on his office's stunning decision to not prosecute Weldon Boyd or Bradley Williams in the shooting death of Scott Spivey. In previous episodes, you heard Assistant Attorney General Heather Weiss's Backwoods reasoning for her decision in this, citing Stand Your Ground and Citizens Arrest, a law that is rooted in racism, by the way. Alan Wilson, hot on the campaign trail in hopes of becoming the next governor of South Carolina, claimed in the article this week that his office followed the law to the letter in the Spivey case. He told my ory news, that there is no new information that would change the outcome of the case in their decision

to not prosecute Weldon or Bradley. However, in Sled's investigation into the corruption in the Spivey case, Alan Wilson said that he is still waiting until they're done and will assign a different solicitor's office to review the case. Jennifer Spivey Foley, Scott's sister, called Alan Wilson out for his absurd comments on Facebook this week, saying, quote, This is our everyday life now, public and political figures taking punches at us, like we don't matter and belittling my family for questioning their uninformed decision.

They failed to do their job. Also, as Jennifer pointed out, Alan lied about the amount of lawyers who reviewed the case. He said that six from his office reviewed it, and there is no record of that. And also, they destroyed the records. Alan is missing the point here again. The fact that he is doubling down on this horrible decision tells the voters all they need to know about where he stands. He stands firmly at this point on Weldon's side, and that side cannot be trusted to lead the state of South Carolina. And speaking of Weldon, today we are going to dive into the relationship that ultimately led to his undoing and public exposure.

After almost every Spivey episode, I get at least one message from a listener, asking something like, wait, hold on, how do you have all of these phone calls and texts that look really bad for Weldon? The answer is that Weldon had an app on his phone where he recorded all of his phone calls because of his legal battle with the mother of his child, who we refer to in this episode as Lily. Weldon's distrust for Lily and his obsession with controlling her and wanting to have her is what ultimately led to his undoing. He signed his phone over to police and likely didn't think that they would look far enough to find the recorded phone calls.

And he definitely did not anticipate Jennifer Spivey Folly and Mark the Tiger Tensley getting a hold of those phone calls and sharing them with the world. As you'll see today, Weldon is a man. who is used to controlling the narrative, and for the first time in his life, he is trapped in a cage of his own words. We have so much more to share with you about the Spivey Family's April 24th meeting

with South Carolina Attorney General Prosecutor Heather Weiss, where Heather appeared to think she could just pat them all in the head with a defense team-worthy explanation for why she thought it was legally cool for North Myrtle Beach businessman Weldon Boyd, and his friend Bradley Williams, to shoot and kill 33-year-old Scott Spivey after chasing him for miles and following him after he exited the highway. This was the same meeting where I assume Heather, now looking back on things, is realizing that she clearly underestimated the power

of love, as well as the intelligence of Scott Spivey's sister, parents, and relatives, and the public's increasing intolerance for corruption in the justice system. Today, though, we're going to take a pause on that meeting to dive in deeper on the state of Weldon's mind at the time of this shooting and to start talking about the one person who actually did witness everything, Bradley Williams. Weldon and Bradley, who are both from Hartsville in Darlington County, South Carolina, grew up together. In 2019, Weldon was the one who married Bradley and his wife, Amanda, in an outdoor ceremony in North Carolina. Amanda and Bradley have a son. On the D. Weldon and Bradley killed Scott Spivey, the plan was for Bradley to drive an hour and 40 minutes from his home in Darlington, which he shares with his wife Amanda, to Weldon's farm in Ory County. Why? To hang out and play with Weldon's big boy toys at the farm, meaning shoot guns and ride four-wheelers, although I believe the official explanation for why Bradley was coming was to help trailer couches. The night before the shooting, Bradley was texting with his wife, who was either out of town or spending the night at someone else's house for a party.

And we want y'all to hear what they were talking about and how they talk to each other because it's everything Weldon wanted for his own life. And on September 9, 2023, he was reminded just how far he was from having it. Here's Mandy and David reenacting that conversation, which started at 9.17 p.m. Amanda, I love you. Bradley. I love you. Bradley. Bradley. Bradley. Zah. Amanda. Sah.

Bradley, I thought you spelled sausage at first. Amanda. I was just copying you. Ha-ha. Bradley. How's your party coming along? Amanda. Good.

We just got done eating dinner. We had Chinese. Amanda. Chinks loves me. Ha-ha. Amanda. Good night, love bug. I love zhuz.

And I miss you bunches and bunches. Bradley. Good night, love. I love you, and miss yous. As you can hear, Bradley and his wife have a super-loving, playful relationship, according to these texts. And the next morning, Amanda greeted Bradley with an equally loving message around quarter to nine. Amanda, good morning, love bug. I hope you have a great day. I love's use and miss you bunches. I have been up since 5 a.m. About 30 minutes later, Bradley texted her back. Bradley. Good morning, love. I'm sorry. The storm woke me up. I hope you have a good day. I love and misuse.

It's kind of adorable, right? And like I said, it's also the exact opposite of what was going on in Weldon's life at the time. According to years of posts on Weldon's Facebook page, it mostly appears that it's just been him, his parents, his older sister, her growing family, and Weldon's beloved dog, Grady. And there are glimpses here and there of where things stood in his life life. In June 2022, for instance, Weldon shared a video of himself with his dog, lounging in front of the TV on which Weldon was searching for videos of how to get any girl to like you. In October 22nd, he posted a comment saying, unpopular opinion, people don't date anymore. They just sit back and compare. A couple of months after that post, Weldon began dating the mother of his baby, and we're going to call her Lily.

Before hooking up in March 2023, which was only three months after Lily's divorce from her first marriage went through, the two had been friends for five years, according to Weldon and text messages that were contained in the case file. In an affidavit from Weldon that was filed in their custody case, he said Lily became pregnant on the first night that they slept together in late March. Weeks later, Weldon proposed to her with a $20,000 diamond ring that he says he designed himself. In mid-May, when Lily, according to his affidavit, was already not returning his messages and expressing a desire not to talk with him or see him, Walden bought her a Toyota four-runner and had it delivered to her as a Mother's Day gift. He noted in the affidavit that she had

accepted the car in silence. He forgot to note the part where Lily immediately tried to get him to take the car back, offering to park it at the church for him to pick up. Weldon kept refusing. It took her months to get him to take it back. We've talked about this dynamic before in the Sarah Lynn more Kalucci case and the Micah Francis case. There's a pattern here. Like with Sarah Lynn's and Micah's husbands, Weldon seemed to be very careful about what he put in writing when texting with Lily. The reason we believe this is because of how he acted in other realms

and the things he would say about her to others. Weldon had decided on what reality was for Lily and was loyal to that narrative. Sound familiar? It seemed like in Weldon's head he was this perfect catch of a man. loyal, thoughtful, generous, family-oriented, and born to be a devoted provider. Whereas in his narrative, Lily was portrayed as a cold, mean, heartless, hussy. In his messages to Lily and her mother, who will call Ellen, he played the part of an abused, broken-hearted, but ever-loving father to be who had done everything perfectly, because he's a

Christian, and that's his duty, according to him. In fact, in messages between Weldon and Ellen, he makes it clear that he makes it clear that he he wants the record to show that he isn't the person who did anything wrong. It was her daughter who had blocked him on all platforms, which was the reason he had to go through Ellen in the first place, who was hateful and cruel. I think this is going to sound very familiar to a lot of you. Lily had put down two boundaries. She was not open to talking to Weldon about the possibility of being with him, but she was open to talking about the future of their child, so long as he didn't cross that first boundary, which he did, and frustratingly.

No matter how firm or even angry Lily got with Weldon in text messages, Weldon would respond with variations of this. He loves her. He's going to continue to be there for her. He wants to build a family with her. What can he buy her? In other words, at first glance, if you knew nothing else about him other than he owns a restaurant

and has a quaint and cozy blueberry farm and you knew nothing about narcissistic behaviors and relationships, Weldon looks like a gee shucks good guy, content to suffer for love and in the name of the Lord. But in reality, that ain't it. We don't know the specifics of what made Lily want to have nothing to do with Weldon, but we know she cited the breaking point in their short-lived relationship being Weldon's temper and alleged mental health issues according to court records.

Every text message, record, and affidavit we've seen, has shown us that Lily appears to be someone who wanted the absolute best for her unborn son, which included him having a relationship with Weldon after he was born. Something she was willing to facilitate even when doing so meant she had to open her home to Weldon at his whim, according to court records. None of the records that we have show Lily ever threatening him with never allowing to see his son once he was born.

From what we can see in these texts, she just wanted Weldon to leave her alone and respect her boundaries. What I'm saying here is, we're trusting his ex-fiancee's side in what we're seeing in these case files. So, one of Weldon's children, chief grievances in the spring and summer of 2023 was that Lily would not publicly announce her pregnancy on social media on Weldon's timeline. He wanted that out there, which is unsurprising because Weldon lives his life very much out loud on Facebook and seems to assign a whole lot

of meaning to what goes on there. He was also upset because he felt like he was entitled to be present at Lily's medical appointments. According to his affidavit, quote, On July 3, 2023, Lily had an appointment with her doctor to find out the sex of the baby. I was neither informed of the appointment nor invited to be present at the first look at our child. After that appointment, Lily sent me a cold, emotionless text. Quote, do not text me about anything else, just thought you should know it's a boy, end quote. I have been robbed of all of the joys of new fatherhood that I should be experiencing, Weldon wrote. On July 9th, 2023, Lily made her birth announcement on Facebook.

Excited to finally announce, Santa won't be the only one making an appearance this December. She posted this over a photo of a basket containing a gray onesie, gray baby toys, and brown blocks spelling out, oh baby, as well as a small letterboard sign that said the best things in life are unexpected. And of course, Weldon immediately took issue with that. He messaged Ellen, Lily's mom. Unexpected? Really? Unexpected.

This child was planned. What a disservice to our son. It's an insult to injury. When will she be done sticking the knife in what we created? Total disrespect to our son to announce him as unplanned, but whatever. Anyway, in the download of Bradley Williams' phone, there are 15 screenshots of text messages between Lily and Weldon and a whopping 45. screenshots of messages between Weldon and Lily's mom, sent to him by Weldon.

Interestingly, none of these text messages are in Sled's download of Weldon's phone. Hmm. So, according to the messages, two days before the pregnancy post on Facebook, about two months after they had broken up, Weldon texted Lily. Do you have any names in mind? She did not respond. The day before the pregnancy post, he texted her again. Am I going to get any involvement in this pregnancy, or am I just going to miss my child's pregnancy altogether? She responded, Weldon, there is no child right now. So yes, you will miss the pregnancy. Your involvement will start with the delivery. Stop messaging me or you will be blocked again. Well, guess what? Weldon did not stop. More on that after a quick commercial break,

and we'll be right back. It happened right here in my town. One night, 17 kids woke up, got out of bed, walked into the dark, and they never came back. I'm the director of Barbarian. A lot of people die in a lot of weird ways. We're not going to find it in the news because the police covered everything all up.

On August days. This is where the story really starts. Weapons. So, after Lily clearly told Weldon she wanted nothing to do with him during her pregnancy and that she would block him again if he continued to message her, did he stop, y'all? I think we can pretty much all say this together as a chorus. Nope, he sure didn't. There's appointments, Weldon wrote back to her.

I'd like to be there for those, and classes. She wrote back, well, you won't be. I don't know how else to tell you. Again, your involvement will start in December. No need to message me about it again because the answer will not change. He responded, why are you treating me this by Lily? Then he messaged her again. Can I at least come to church with y'all on Sundays so I can sit with my baby in church?

Guys, he was asking, essentially, to sit next to her uterus in church when she wanted nothing to do with him. I can't with this guy. Anyway, Lily wrote back, when the baby is here you can, the baby is not here. and she wrote those last two words in all caps. Your baby is not here right now. I don't know why you can't understand that. We are done. Get that through your head.

So no, you can't come to church until the baby is here. Weldon, who I think at this point you're starting to learn, is somebody who really was concerned about how he appears to other people in public, whether it's on social media or in his small town of Hartsville, responded, I just want to work towards a united family, Lily. our baby deserves his mama and daddy to be together. Lily did not respond to that. And Weldon sent another message.

Do you need anything? Have you spent the $7,000 yet? If you need more, I can send you more. I just want to help and be included. So unsolicited Weldon had sent Lily money to build her dream nursery sometime after their breakup in May, which she did not acknowledge. Lily responded, well, we will not be together.

I do not want to be with you. we will co-parent and that is it. If you want to send money, you can send $1,500 a month since that's half of what I'm paying for the baby's insurance. If you could get it through your head, we won't be together. We could communicate about the baby, but since you can't, I don't want to talk to you. Why do you not want to be with me? Weldon wrote back. Don't I deserve an answer to that? Lily responded, I don't love you. That's the answer. So don't ask for anything else. Well then responded by texting Lily a series of four messages. What did I do wrong?

I gave you all of me. Was loyal to a fault. Catered to your every want. Loved you unconditionally. You were my whole world. How can you just stop loving someone? Well, pause that question because apparently something has blown up in Hartsville today. Our family is getting phone calls from multiple people

and your neighbors have even asked people I know for a way to contact me. And I'm being told someone from... Benji's side of this is going to be calling me today? What is going on, Lily? Okay, so that was whiplash, right? First, what girl doesn't want to hear a man say he was loyal to a fault when it came to her? What was the fault? Tell me more about that fault, Weldon. Also, you were my whole world? They were, by Weldon's custody hearing math, together for like 10 to 12 weeks before they broke up. Anyway, he was literally in the middle of harassing and stalking Lily over text by continuing to pile on, after she told him to stop, and then he paused so he could poke her with what sounds like

the most ridiculous manufactured drama. Something has blown up in Hartsville today? Blown up? The manipulation here is unreal. In this screenshot in the case file, you can see that Lily's response starts, I don't want shit from you. Come pick your fucking car up. I'll be driving mine from now on. I don't want anybody to be able to say you did anything for me but knock me up unfortunately. Weldon wrote back, I'm asking why people are doing this. How does that turn into me being the bad guy again? If you've ever been in a relationship with someone like Weldon, I'm sure your blood is boiling right now. There is something so enraging about hearing a man who can't handle rejection and refuses to hear a woman say the word no. Saying the words, turn me into a bad guy.

Lily wrote back, F you, Weldon. Leave me the F alone. Since you're so worried about what other people have to say and you are so unsure about your role in all of this, F off. And my mom knows what I'm saying, so save yourself the screenshot. Can we just pause here for a second and bow down to Lily? Save yourself the screenshot is so savage and accurate. Weldon responded, I'm worried about you and me and our child. This is all I have ever worded. worried about. You are my family and I want to protect you and our baby. I asked you what was happening. What was going on? I'm seeking insight so I can defend us and you say F you to me? Lily wrote back. Yeah, F you. I don't know what's going on because nobody has said shit to me. Leave me alone. I don't need you to defend me. I don't need shit from you. Don't worry. I will have a paternity test done the second the baby is born since I'm such a whore having so many people coming in. in and out of my yard. So, it seems like we're missing a screenshot or two from Bradley's phone or some context.

What was the rumor? Weldon was actually saying the words, things were blowing up in Hartsville because Lily was having friends over. Weldon was actually telling her that he needed to get clarification about what she was doing, an hour and 40 minutes away from him, in her own house, as a grown single woman with a career, In a message to Ellen, Lily's mother, Weldon accused Lily of having ulterior motives for posting the announcement the next day after he told her about things blowing up in Hartsville. He wrote, quote, she wouldn't allow us to announce because she hated me.

But the second people started talking, she wanted to announce so people would not think that she cheated. That's the only reason she announced. It's not clear if Weldon meant she was cheating on him, a man she was no longer with, or with Benji Spivey. whom Weldon also referred to in his affidavit, accusing Lily of having a situationhip, my word, not his, at the time with a man in a quote, long-term relationship, and also with several children. Reminder, around the time of the shooting in 2023, Weldon appears to have been in some sort of situationhip with a woman who was not Lily, saying things like, I want to snuggle the shit out of you. I'm so happy you're okay. I'm sorry I keep bugging you, but I can't

stop thinking about you. So yeah, messy boots. Also, Weldon was leaving out something very important about how all this went down. Lily was clear that she didn't want her pregnancy made public yet. For months, Weldon posted about babies and fathers. He would share posts about how to massage baby's hands and post about the joys of being a father and post showing drawings of men and women in bed with their newborn baby. And he would share post about the importance of a baby having two parents. So not only, were Lily and her family dealing with his direct pressure from behind the scenes, Weldon was on a shadow campaign on social media. I can't tell people you're having my baby? Fine. I'll just post about babies and the importance of fathers, and I'll write

things like someday. So, Weldon responded to Lily's message about paternity. I'll have David read this one. Wow. And where did I ever question if the baby was mine? I didn't. I asked why these people were wanting to contact me to figure out what was going on. I never once said in this conversation that I thought anything you just texted me. You and I are both in the same boat. Confused why other people have stuff to say. I'm not interested in what they have to say. I came to you to figure out what happened to cause this blow up so I could defend you. You may absolutely. hate the idea of it, but we are in this together. So when I come to you asking what is coming

my way, I'm doing it so I can defend us, not to accuse you of anything. You can't be mad at me for what other people are doing. I blasted Steve in your defense. I am fighting for you whenever the need arises. Do not turn on me for that. I will continue to pray that you and I can come together For our child, I love you, Lily, and I will always defend you. When are men like Weldon ever going to understand that women, like Lily, don't need them to defend them? They need men to simply listen to them. I saw a post the other day from a woman who said that her ex-husband would constantly say things, like I would kill for you in our family, while in reality he wouldn't do simple things for them.

like do the dishes or go for a family walk. Here, Lily has laid down her boundaries and made them crystal clear, while Weldon stomps all over her boundaries with his good old boy boots and then whines that she isn't grateful enough. So that's what was happening the day before Lily posted about her pregnancy.

At no point did it appear to occur to Weldon that Lily posted the announcement the weekend after she found out the sex of the baby, which makes sense. Lily tagged Weldon on the post and immediately afterward, and Weldon, of course, commented on it immediately. If you close your eyes, you can see the drooling. He wrote, quote,

You're going to make a great mother for our child, L.Y. for Love You. Then he re-shared the post, commenting, Words can explain how excited I am to finally become a father. This little boy will have the best life we can possibly give it. You're going to make a great mother, Lily. Love ya. And love ya, not you, yeah. He finally got to out himself as the father of Lily's baby to his Facebook friends

in a way that laid claim to Lily. After he commented and shared the post, Lily texted him this. Take the love you out of your freaking post. You look like an idiot. Everyone knows we aren't together and that I don't love you. I don't want you acting like everything's fine between us because that's fake as hell. Fix it. Can I pause here again and just say,

this is one of the most empowering things I have ever heard a woman say to an alleged narcissist. Lily planted her two feet firm with her text. I will not be forced into your imaginary narrative. You cannot coerce me into loving you. That is how you cut a man down, girls. Take note from Lily. Weldon responded with, I will always continue to try and fix things for us.

I'm not throwing away five years and all we've been through when we have a child on the way. He deserves us to try. Lily wrote back, well, you just look absolutely pathetic then. I mean, it's laughable. Nothing will ever be fixed. We are done. I don't love you in the slightest. No part of me feels anything for you.

Take it out of your post or I will comment on it. I promise that. And Welding came back with this and I can already feel all of your eyes about to roll at once. Go ahead and do what you want. I don't think loving someone is laughable. You're the mother of my child, and I have a biblical duty to you and our baby boy. I want to be a family, provide for y'all, and protect y'all. I want the responsibility of a family that comes with this baby.

She responded, you will never get that wish. I can't stand you. You will never have anything with me ever again. Weldon sent this in reply. I'm sorry, I treated you the best anyone could. Loved you through it all, and still do. I'll never stop showing up for you. especially now that we have a child on the way.

I pray your feelings change. Lily wrote back, I literally can't stand you. You're pathetic. Well, Ninn, responded. At some point, you're going to need stuff for him. You'll need things around the house fixed and done, like a new dishwasher, so it's cleaning the bottles better. When that time comes, I'm here and want to help.

I will make sure your house is prepared with the best so that you have what you need. I want to pause here before I tell you how she responded, and I hope y'all are seeing this clearly. there is a reason the mother of Weldon's baby wants nothing to do with him. I mean, you see all the things he's offering. That's great support. So something has to be bad for her not to want that.

In the court documents, she cited his temper and his alleged mental health issues as problems. Also, it turns out in mid-May, just over a month after they got engaged, Weldon walked out on Lily. According to her affidavit to the Darlington County Family Court, quote, during my pregnancy, I was not myself. I was mean, and I said hurtful things, but I was also hurting. I was sick every single day. I was having to take a pay cut to be able to get insurance, and on top of that, I had Weldon threatening me all the time. Weldon harassed my mother and continually told me I had to leave my home and job and move to the beach to be under his roof.

It was just too much stress, and it made me into someone I didn't recognize for a while. I told Weldon I just needed some time and I asked him to be patient, but he walked out on me while I was pregnant and called my mom at 11 that night to brag about leaving me. According to Ellen's affidavit, quote, I tried everything I could to help Weldon, but every day it was the same thing. He never listened to reason and he only heard what he wanted to hear. Weldon is the type of person who is so desperate to have complete control over things that nothing else matters. His money has always been his way of securing whatever he wanted, and this time he wanted Lily.

When he couldn't have her, he couldn't accept that reality. Anyway, back to Weldon's response to Lily telling him she can't stand him. A dishwasher? To clean the bottles better? For bottles that don't exist? Here is how Lily responded to his manipulative dishwasher message. I'll have David read this one for some punch. Fuck you. I don't need shit from you.

And I will never run. accept shit from you ever again. And finally, my family sees what I've been saying so they agree. I'm so beyond done with you. I wish someone else was the father, because the thought of dealing with you for the next 18 years makes me sick. I mean, we were all thinking the same thing, right? This poor woman getting stuck with this man for a lifetime. But also, at the same time, go Lily. Hit him where it hurts. Let him know that you will not be pushed around.

Weldon wrote back, that's really hurtful. I don't know what you mean by what you're saying, but I'm sorry that you cannot stand me. I will be a good father and a good support system for you regardless because that's my responsibility in this. Our child did not ask for this, so we have to put ourselves aside for him. Lily did not respond to that.

Now Weldon, according to the copies of text messages in the case file, had a habit of immediately running to Ellen, Lily's mom, to tattle on Lily. Which he did. Among the things Ellen texted back was this. Your little post on Facebook knowing everything that is going on for everyone to see shows you are playing dirty. In other words, we see you, Weldon. we know what you're doing. According to those messages, in my opinion, Weldon was also gaslighting

Ellen and playing the victim, and apparently making threats, including that he planned to destroy Lily and drag her through court. And I can't say this strongly enough. Lily appears to have sensed the danger when it comes to Weldon and how controlling and reactive he was in the short time that they were together. I get that Weldon's version of this is going to be very different, but we've seen enough women ignoring red flags, only to end up in very bad places. At any rate, because the baby announcement post did not meet his expectations in terms of including photos of him and Lily together in referring to the pregnancy, which again happened on the first night that they slept together, according to him, as unexpected. Weldon untagged himself, again, manufacturing drama,

because again, he puts a lot of meeting into what happens on Facebook. And one interpretation as to why a man would untag himself in a pregnancy post would be maybe to signal to others that he wasn't so sure that he was the father. Here's a fun message from him to Ellen, from around that time, by the way. The date is not on it, so it's not clear if this came before or after the baby was born. But one thing for sure is that Weldon is very aware of what he puts in writing. about the record that he creates for his narrative. He told Ellen, quote,

I have every single phone call since March recorded with you, your daughter, Nana, everyone. I got every single text. It's all saved in the cloud. There is no way I'm going to allow people to believe a false story when your daughter is the one who abused and abandoned me. Can you imagine dating a man and finding out that he had been, recording your phone calls and your mother's and grandmother's phone calls from the very beginning. And also, Weldon, I'm glad you did.

So, the day after Lily asked Weldon to remove the love part of the baby announcement, and when she made it clear that she didn't want anything from him, Weldon texted her this. I'd like to order some stuff for our boy. I want to get some things with his name. Do you want to talk about name ideas? No, Weldon. She does not want to talk to you about baby names.

Again, Weldon thinks that this is Weldon's world where he can choose to change the subject, change the narrative, rewrite the narrative, and move on. Lily is not having this. So, all of those texts were included in screenshots that Weldon sent to Bradley. This is an exact math, by the way, but when you look at everything SLED downloaded from Bradley's phone,

75% of it is photos and screenshots of guns and dirt bikes, and 25% are screenshots sent to him by Weldon and photos of Weldon. As someone close to this case said to us, no one appears to love Weldon Boyd more than Weldon Boyd does, but Bradley Williams is a very close second. A few days after the fight over the pregnancy post, Weldon posted some very emotional emails on Facebook, including one that said, quote, a wise person once told me, let people do what they want to do, so you see what they would

rather do. That'll answer all the questions you have. How did Weldon Boyd have any questions about what Lily wanted? She made it pretty clear. He also posted what appears to be a homemade meme that says mental and emotional abuse against men is real. And another one, quote, I've spoiled too many unworthy people with my time and attention and made them priorities in my life when they barely deserved it. Then on August 25, 2003, just two weeks before Scott Spivey's killing, Weldon made good on his threat to drag Lily through court. He filed a complaint in family court against her asking the court to issue an order to establish him as the father of her unborn baby, to force Lily to give the unborn baby his last name, to grant him custody of the unborn baby.

to grant, quote, reasonable visitation between the unborn baby and Lily, to grant him child support from Lily and to make Lily pay all attorney fees and costs. The judge ended up dismissing the complaint because it was too soon to make a ruling on any of that. I mean, isn't this just classic Weldon Boyd? He can't wait. He can't listen to advice. He has to do the thing he wants to do now. Know the answer to the question he has now.

get all of the things he wants right now and not even biology could stop him. Just four days before filing that disgusting complaint, Weldon had posted this on his Facebook. Quote, faith, patience, a heavy trigger finger, and perseverance. Four things that I've seen overcome anything. Oh, really. So that's what Lily was dealing with during her pregnancy. She asked Weldon to restrict his conversations with her to topics concerned their unborn baby only.

But he repeatedly violated her wishes, so as a consequence to that, which he was warned about, Lily cut off contact with Weldon. She literally gave him instructions on how to maintain a pre-birth relationship with her, and he appears to have repeatedly ignored it. Then, after alternating between love-bombing her and shaming her,

he went and filed that nonsense, threatening to take away the little boy she was literally building, cell by cell inside of her body. We can't even imagine the stress of all of that. In the week leading up to Scott Spivey's shooting, Weldon kept his Facebook followers updated through his usual sub-tweeting. On September 2nd, 2023,

Weldon posted a meme that said, The highest form of intimacy is truth. On this, he commented, The worst form of liars are the ones who even lied to themselves and believe it. This is just one week before he would shoot Scott Spivey's. to death while claiming a false narrative of self-defense. Deeply ironic, right? On September 3rd, 2023, he posted a photo of his truck on his farm with the comment, Sunday equals Farm Day, working on mapping walking trails, haunted hayride route, and drainage today. This week, we will be cleaning

the orchard up and getting the roads nice and pretty for fall. Remember, Weldon looks really good on paper. His farm is a Nico Sparks romance novel setting. More on that after a quick break. On September 4, 2003, Weldon posted a photo of baby clothes and wrote, I absolutely love the customers who support buoys on the boulevard. Yesterday at work, a couple from New York stopped me and presented me with a gift bag of love for my son on the way. The best part is that she personally knitted the buoys and pacifier cloth. Thanks y'all. I've had a lot of experiences held from me through this,

so this made my week. He also posted a mirror selfie of him standing sideways in the bathroom with the comment, rolling up on 30 pounds lost. Haven't worn these gym shorts in six years, healthy body, healthy mind. Someone was getting a glow-up. On September 5th, 2023, it appears that Weldon had a professional photographer take photos at the farm. He posted a photo of his mother with the comet. Y'all, look how beautiful my mama is. Her first picture at the farm. Again, like we said, this guy looks really great on paper. He also shared a post from the father's rights movement that day, which included the definition of a narcissist, which is rich, incredibly rich. On September 6, 2023, well then posted a photo of the finished

statement wall in the nursery he was building for his son in his condo with two heart emojis. On September 7, 2023, Weldon posted a photo of the Western-th themed art for his Western-themed nursery with this comment. The nursery is coming together. Can't thank the few people involved enough for helping me get this done. I will do everything in my power to make sure he gets to use it. I don't think I've ever asked for prayers on social media before, but please keep my family in your prayers for the next coming weeks ahead. We are all hurting, but it's all going to work out.

On September 8th, 2023, the day before the shooting, Weldon shared a post from Women with PTSD United, which, oh my God, I can't. On a pink embroidery project was stitching that said, quote, people in therapy are often in therapy to deal with people in their lives who won't go to therapy. And yes, according to Weldon's own recorded phone calls, Weldon was in therapy. Another thing that made him look good on paper. On September 9, 2023, the day of the shooting, Weldon shared a WPDE story about him with the comment. Throwback to that time, I sued a lady for a fake review and won. She even moved to Florida and tried to dodge collections.

And then he commented that the judge awarded him $17,000 in the case. In other words, Weldon was saying, Remember how I win? Okay, so all of that, That should give you a really good snapshot as to where Weldon's mind was on September 9th, 2023. At 7 that morning, Weldon texted his mother asking, are you going to the farm Sunday? At 8, Weldon received a text from an employee at Boise asking whether he thought Hurricane

Lee was going to hit them. Weldon responded right away and told them, it was too soon to tell. I'm going to get more of those sandbags today, he said. At 9 that morning, Weldon sent a woman who is saved in his phone as, Brookie, a video of a kid petting a horse. At 10, he texted Brookie again that he was about to shower and start errands. Then he texted his mother to say, I just woke up. Best sleep I've had in years. At 1020 that morning, Weldon hearted a text he'd received from his granny the night before, which read, Weldon, no one in your family thinks you're an idiot, and for the rest of the world,

they really don't care. The people in this town don't care about your situation. They are too busy with their own lives. The people in this town who know you and are your friends have your back. The others don't matter. If anyone is flapping their mouths, few people will let the gossip sink in and the truth always comes out. Stop worrying. That is what Satan wants you to do. He wants to play with your mind. Don't give him that foothold. Every time you get to the point of feeling any negative feelings, just speak the name of Jesus. He wants to help you, but you have to ask. Ask, and it shall be given. Seek, and you will find the answers. And remember, that God is not on your timetable. He has his own. He is working behind the scenes. Trust him. So yeah, Weldon Boyd started

out his day with that absolutely precious message from his grandmother and then ended the day by killing a man. But also, you heard what she was saying, right? I mean, we don't know for sure what she was addressing, but it sure does seem like a sign that Weldon was preoccupied with imagined things that people were saying about him and Lily. And maybe that's what this day with Bradley was all about. Bradley's wife was out of town. Saturdays are for the boys, right? What a great way for Weldon to indulge all the dramas he was manufacturing with Lily,

having his bestie there to vent to. Anyway, Bradley's and Weldon's communication appears to have started at 1042 a.m. with a Facebook message from Weldon to Bradley. Weldon. All right. I got to be at the toy store. to pick up the other side-by-side at two. Four minutes later, Weldon sent another message.

I would say I'll be there around 240. Shortly after that, Weldon texted a screenshot to his mother of a Facebook post from someone named Elisa, showing a man wearing a pregnancy belly with boobs. Weldon told her, I need to get in these classes. Then he texted his mom again to let her know that he was going to move his patio furniture

to the farm and told her that Bradley was coming at 3 p.m. 40 minutes later, after Bradley still hadn't responded, Weldon messaged him again and said, You want to just meet me at the farm at 3? Wellden then texted his mother. I've got to go to Lowe's and get them hay bales. At 11.54 a.m., Bradley finally wrote back. That's cool. I'm about to head out now, so I may be a little earlier than you. Weldon then sent him another message. Just meet up with me in town. I'm going there now to get the trailer.

But Weldon had misunderstood what Bradley was saying, so Bradley corrected him. Like, I'm heading out to go to Darlington. It's 25 minutes to my mom's, then it's an hour and a half from my mom's to the farm. Weldon responded. Oh. Then Weldon got on the phone with his mama, one minute before news. hello where's dad at um he went to the golf course shit I got to pick the side by side up at 2 o'clock Bradley's supposed to meet me at 1.30

I've got to go to the farm to get the trailer and since I overslept I don't have time to be at hay bales for buoys do they need hay bells today she's asked for them yesterday and then asked for them again today. So how many does she know? She said six. And where do they come from? Loves. Well I can put them in the back of my car. Yeah because they're not big are they? No and I was gonna take those shirts up there so I can do that. Okay that that's a big help. I need to get ready. Yeah I'm gonna let them pee and then I'm put him back. He's gonna be mad by I'll put him back in here.

All right, well, I'll go ahead and go get the haybells drop that off and come pick him up. Just make sure you might want to close that nursery door because if he pees on that road, Yeah, all right. Bye. Did you notice how he said Bradley would be there at 1.30 p.m., even though the plan was to meet at 3 p.m. We mainly played that for y'all so you could hear Weldon, who was 33 at the time, seemingly lie to a his mom so that she would buy the haybills that he was supposed to have gotten for fall decorations at his restaurant. Oh, and to take care of his dog. But also, this is how Weldon started his Saturday.

He overslept, but had the best sleep in years. He was behind schedule. He needed to pick up an ATV, and he needed to go to his farm. His 50-acre, Bonnie Bay Blueberry Farm in Loris, South Carolina, which he had purchased earlier that year, to pick up his trailer. That's about a 40-minute drive from his condo in North Myrtle Beach. Once Weldon got the trailer, he was going back to the condo to get his patio furniture. He planned to bring the furniture to the farm so that there would be somewhere for people to sit once the farm was still in the beginning stages of being transformed into Weldon's Pinterest-worthy property. Also, Saturday was the day Lily was supposed to return the $20,000 engagement ring he had given her.

and the brand-new Toyota forerunner that he had bought for her as a Mother's Day present, even though she was not speaking to him at the time. The plan was for Lily to drop everything at their church parking lot, where Weldon's Aunt Lucy would be at 1 p.m. in Darlington County. Around 12.15 p.m. Weldon texted a woman named Brooke with three E's, saying, I'm so tired. And then the crying, laughing emoji. I wonder what tired him out.

especially when he said that he got the best sleep ever the night before. Huh. At 12.34 p.m., Weldon texted his aunt to tell her to make sure the ring was actually in the box, and he thanked her with a blue heart emoji. Just before 1 p.m., he texted his mother. Y'all need to come out to the farm tomorrow. We have fans inside the barn going, and they cool it off a lot. I'm putting a couch and stuff in there.

Aaron and all them are coming. Bradley Jr., my friend Hannah may come. Benton and Ryan and Charlie need to come to. Then he texted his Aunt Lucy again and told her to throw an egg at Lily's head if she got the chance. You know, Lily, the woman who was six months pregnant with his baby. His aunt said, for sure.

At 1.22 p.m. that day, Lily left the car at the House of Weldon's Aunt Lucy with the ring in the cup holder. And she got into another car with her mother and sister. her. Aunt Lucy sent Weldon a picture of them getting into the car. He asked her, is it two girls or a girl and a guy? I can't tell. His aunt said it looked like a guy might have been driving and Weldon said it was probably the guy that I've heard she's been screwing for the last month. She's evil, he said. You know what? I was a good man to her. She deserves whatever misery comes her way. Again, Lily was with her 16-year-old sister and her mother. Not a guy. A few minutes later, after finding out that Lily and her family had driven back around and parked in a lot across the street, Weldon texted his father. So she's just sitting across the street watching y'all? And Lucy continued to give him the play-by-play of discovering the ring in the cup holder.

Weldon texted his father again, furious about the ring being there. More on that after a quick commercial break, and we'll be right back. So, are you starting to see what Weldon's point of view is here? The narrative is that Lily was preventing him from being a father to a baby that had not been born yet, and that he was a victim of this, despite the incidents that led Lily to decide to not have him in her life. But really, it was about control and jealousy and embarrassment. He was embarrassed over imagining things that imagined people might think about him for not being with Lily. He knew it didn't look good for him, so he tried to buy back the narrative, literally.

And when that didn't work, he made her out to be the problem. About 40 minutes after Lily and her family dropped off the ring in the car, Weldon called his mother. Hello. So she brings a guy to stare at the people picking the car up. Well, I wondered if it was, um... No, it wasn't. I can tell you. The guy, he's got longer hair in that picture.

That's not... It's probably the guy Taylor said that that's being rumored, she's been fucking. Well, you got some crazy people. What did Lucy say? Nothing. Just, um... They were... First, Brandon, was trying to figure out how to get the car started.

But they just trash and hanging out. They think they he was hanging out the back window. Ah! But you know, if she's put her six to a year old and that, she passes trash. How long they sit there and stare at them? Um, not too long. They started, look, they left. There were three that got into somebody else.

And I guess it was, they don't, Granny said it must have been in the back. I don't know if it was or not. All right. I'm confused. Was there, too? Well, I get it was driving a car. Maybe she would.

They don't know who it was. There was just three people sitting in one car. Yeah, it looked like a guy driving was definitely in the passenger seat, and then I guess it was in the back. That could have been. I think they probably thought you, don't show. Might have been what that was. I told you she had somebody else.

Well, and she'll have. somebody else in about three months and maybe she does and I don't know who can you tell in a picture who it was too I can just tell it's a guy he's got on it's definitely got on guy sunglasses but it's too pixelated to tell yeah I don't know so well what a bitch yeah she she that she that yeah she that She's sick. She is totally auto cut. And they just threw it.

She just had the ring sitting in a cup holder? I don't know. They didn't tell me where it was. I don't know why she thinks giving that car back would have been so bad. She didn't need anybody. But they're going to make drama out of everything. So that's just who they are. After the end of the call, Weldon called his father and got no answer.

His dad called him minutes later, but the recording of that call is missing from the sled downloads, so we don't know what they discussed. After that call, Weldon spoke with the manager of his restaurant. It's not clear how long they spoke for because, again, there's no recording in the file. And after that call, his mother called them again. And again, there's no recording. A few minutes later, he posted video and photos of a four-wheeler on Facebook. announcing that it was the newest of the rentals that would be available at his farm,

to which someone commented, Hope your insurance is awesome. Around that exact time, Weldon got a text from his granny. Quote, you said something about you were afraid that people were talking, which they are not, and she had that in all caps. But you need not put anything on Facebook, because if you do, that only causes people to wonder and discuss. Let it die.

Promote buoys and the farm. I love you. Think about what I said. We'll tell you how he responded to that in a second. Ten minutes later, around the time Weldon said he'd be at the farm, he called Bradley. As you'll hear, Weldon was in a super cheerful mood. It's hard to hear Bradley's side of the conversation, so we're just going to edit that part out where he says that he is about five minutes from Weldon's farm.

Where are you at? Five minutes left. But I texted you an hour ago and told you to go to the condo. Oh, you? Is this here? Yeah. So yeah, there's no text that we can see in the case file where Weldon texted any such thing to Bradley an hour before that. There were those Facebook messages that we shared with you before from hours earlier where Weldon misunderstood Bradley on the timing, but Bradley had corrected him.

Either Weldon didn't let that sink in or the message was deleted. After this call, Weldon texted an employee at the restaurant telling them there should have been three boxes delivered there earlier this week with 30. inch industrial fans in them, leading to the following exchange. The employee said, I have a huge box from Amazon, two small boxes and a bag. Weldon said, look inside the big box. The employee said, big boxes helmets. Of course it was helmets. Weldon told them to look in another box. They responded that it contained wheel spacers and some net thing. Then Weldon seemed to go off a little. That's all the shit I got to have so people can rent these side by Besides, I need to fund the fans.

Things worth $300 bucks apiece. About 10 minutes later, Welding got back on the phone with his mother. We shared this call with you a month ago, but I wanted you to hear it again in context with everything else. Listen to the obsession he still has with Lily. Why do you think she would be bold enough to pull up with a guy? I don't see how you told what that was. Because it's men's sunglasses and he's a lot taller than her sitting next to her.

It's just kind of like a guy figure. That couldn't be her uncle. No. He wouldn't have gone and gotten involved in that drama. I don't. I don't know who that was. I mean, it could have been somebody that cried with her. They just.

That crazy, well. So I don't understand them. And it's just like does not care. It's like nothing phases her. No empathy. What they did. No empathy. It's all about her.

Well, and even that cousin yesterday, basically, said that she's always in love than somebody. So, I said, um,

plays that little gang. I'm going to tell you, I don't know what that husband knew, but he figured it out. I wish I could talk to him. Yep. Well, he figured some of him.

Quit. Did you? ever find out if he was back in Charleston or not? See if you can find out. Just call his office Monday and say, can I schedule an appointment with this doctor and they'll say, oh, he's not here anymore. And then if he's in Charleston, I may go try to talk to him. So, yeah, Weldon was talking about Lily's ex-husband, a physician, and how he was thinking about scheduling an appointment with him to talk about Lily. In his affidavit, Weldon simultaneously accused Lily.

of having a relationship with a married man, and still being in love with her ex-husband. When he got off the phone with his mama, he texted the manager at Bowies a screenshot showing that his fans had arrived earlier that week. Then he texted his granny back, responding to the message in which she had advised him that no one was talking about him,

where she told him to not put anything on Facebook and told him to let it die. But Weldon had something else on his mind. He texted her, why would Lily show up to watch y'all and with a guy? That's literally the only thing he said back to his grandmother and her wise advice. Again, there was no man in that car. Weldon's granny responded to him that Lily just wanted to see who was picking up the car.

Right after that, Weldon sent screenshots of his aunt Lucy's text about Lily and the car slash ring drop off and how she sat in the car with possibly a man to Brookie for some reason. According to photo data, at this same time, Weldon appeared to be on Mulligan's Street in Loris, where he encountered the body of 40-year-old motorcyclist Matthew Mendoza of Loras, who had just died at the scene of traumatic injuries after colliding with another vehicle. Weldon took photos, and those photos got sent to a group message chain on Facebook between him, Bradley, and their friend J.R. Weldon clearly wasn't with Bradley at that time because he responded, oh, fuck. And J.R. responded, damn. Weldon wrote back,

yeah, he's gone. Cops getting the blanket out now. 4.4 p.m., around two hours before he killed Scott Spivey, Weldon asked his granny, does Aunt Lucy know how bad it is? Ostensibly, he was referring to Lily. His granny said she thought so and then informed Weldon that the car was returned clean and with a full take of gas and just over 2,000 miles on it. You said you did not want to see the car, she wrote to Weldon. He told her to send him pictures of the car inside and out,

and then his granny warned him not to be hasty. Fourteen minutes later, Weldon, once again, ignoring, every piece of good advice he's been given about slowing down, not being so reactive, not making his gripes and drama public, went to Facebook and posted a sales ad for the car he had bought for a woman who wanted nothing to do with him. About a half hour after that, he sent a screenshot of the listing to his father and Aunt Lucy. Then, just over an hour later, his granny sent him pictures of the ring, and Weldon had them posted on Facebook within 10 minutes, and Scott Spivey would be dead less than 45 minutes after that.

The most striking thing about everything that we shared today is that September 9, 2023, wasn't just about a temporary flare-up in a complicated relationship. It was the culmination of a month-long effort on Weldon's part to get Lily back. And the handover of the car and the ring were concrete signs that he had lost his mission. When Weldon Boyd pulled out from the parking lot of tractor supply on Highway 9 and joined the road where Scott Spivey was, he was a man who had just publicized two very big plot points in his victimhood narrative, and he was fielding text messages from friends in response. As we continue to share more details about this case, and if you're feeling the urge to be pesky,

the very best thing that you can do right now to help get the governor of South Carolina to assign a special prosecutor to the case would be to post a public message to him on social media by tagging him, Governor Henry McMaster, and tagging South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson. You can also join me and leaving comments on McMaster's and Wilson's self-indulgent post about themselves on social media. Alan is in a tough race for the governor's seat right now. with five politicians vying for the Republican primary seat. Every comment on every post matters to Alan Wilson at this point. He cannot afford to lose voters about this case, and he needs to be reminded of that every single day.

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