Murdaugh Murders Podcast - TSP #125 - Our First-Ever: True Sunlight® Podcast 'Allegedly Worst Men Pageant’ Awards Show!

Episode Date: November 27, 2025

While the FBI investigation results in JP Miller’s case remain unconfirmed, Investigative journalists Mandy Matney and Liz Farrell, ⁠ host the first ever True Sunlight Podcast 'Allegedly Worst Men Pageant' Awards Show.  Between the Weldon Boyd and Scott Spivey case in Myrtle Beach, SC to the Gilley case in Houston Texas to Alan Wilson’s failing office— Mandy and Liz unpack the lies, misconduct and audacity.  So much to cover, so let’s dive in! 🥽🦈Leave A Review for Hulu's Original Series! ⁠“Murdaugh: Death in the Family” on IMDB⁠ ⭐⁠“Murdaugh: Death in the Family” on Rotten Tomatoes⁠ 🍿Episode References “ACT LIKE VICTIM - CAMERA” video 🎞️ “News13 investigates: Horry County police chief first denies knowing of HR complaint, admits awareness one week later” - WBTW, Nov 18, 2025 📰 “A $24M center in Horry County honored a top official. A sexual harassment claim could change that.” - The Post and Courier, Nov 21, 2025 📰 “Docs: Former Horry County police deputy chief resigned after learning of internal investigation” - WMBF, March 27, 2025 📰 Sara Lynn Colucci Case Overview Page ⚖️ 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 ⁠⁠Support Our Show, Sponsors and Mission: https://lunasharkmedia.com/support/⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Quince⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠Hungry Root⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠Bombas⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠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.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram.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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meantime as we wait for accountability. My name is Mandy Matney. This is True Sunlight, a podcast exposing crime and corruption, previously known as the Murdoch murders podcast, which was the inspiration for Hulu's original series, Murdoch Death in the Family, and the Murdoch Death in the Family official podcast, now both streaming on Hulu and audio episodes wherever you listen. True Sunlight is a Luna Shark production, written with journalist Liz Farrell. Hello and Happy Thanksgiving, y'all.

This is the fifth time that I get to tell you Happy Thanksgiving on a podcast. And can I just say that is a big deal. Four Thanksgiving ago, I never saw a future in podcasting, especially all the way through 2025. I was trying to make it to the next week, the next month, the next court hearing and the next indictment without losing it. During that time, as the Murdoch Murder's podcast was topping the charts, and we were getting new listeners every day,

I unfortunately absorbed too many negative voices that told me that I was a one-hit wonder, who would go back to being a nobody local reporter as soon as her 15 minutes ran out. Those voices did not succeed in getting me to quit like they wanted to, But they did convince me for too long that all of my success was temporary, and by luck, not talent, dedication, bravery, or prowess. Well, 400 podcast episodes and a hit Hulu show later, inspired by some of those episodes,

I am grateful to announce that those negative voices were all wrong. It's been more than 15 minutes, y'all, and the future of Luna Shark Media has never been so bright. About a year after our first Thanksgiving as podcasters, we welcomed thousands of new members to Luna Shark Premium, and when I look back on my mental health journey throughout the last few years, and especially sinking into that serious depression spell, that launch was huge for my healing. Glimmers of hope started to shine through the darkness, realizing that I had a whole dang army of people from around the world, who not only were dedicated to listening to our shows,

but they were willing to support our team and our mission to expose the truth wherever it leads, give a voice to victims and get the story straight. I know that I would have quit and fallen into pieces if it wasn't for this amazing community of people, many of whom I am proud to call my friends, who gave me a renewed sense of hope for humanity like I had not seen throughout this whole terrible saga.

As y'all know, I was absent from the podcast last week for the first time in a long time, or ever. Last week, I was helping a loved one whose life was struck by tragedy. I took six planes to see her, and I just couldn't bring myself to focus on anything else except for being at her side. Again, it is not lost on me how privileged I am to be in the position to fly across the country to support a loved one, while knowing that my team will cover for me, and my supporters will be there when I get back. I am endlessly grateful for that. So at the end of a very difficult week last week, I flew to Charleston to celebrate the Murdoch death in the family season finale in the unofficial end of our Murdoch era, with hundreds of

Luna Shark Premium members, our team, and cast and crew members. Honestly, my mind was heavy when I walked into the Queen Street Playhouse on Friday night, but once again, I was lifted up and carried by the Lunashark community, who reminded me of all of the light and the love that there is in this world, and even in the darkest of times, we can still push each other into the sunlight. It was a fitting evening to conclude the last seven years of this journey, especially as I shared the stage with the two people who were next to the same, to me at every step, Liz and David. I've never been so grateful for them, and I mean that.

Support is not always a two-way street, and I hope every single one of you hears me when I say that I am grateful for you. And if you are experiencing something hard this holiday season, please know that you are a part of an amazing community of people, working hard to make the world a better place. And you do matter. The future of Luna Shark is so. bright, and I cannot wait to see the amount of lives that we change in the next year, thanks to all of you. And before we start this episode, I want to share a special thanks to Grace Hills for planning and operations at the Charleston event, and another special thank you to a few amazing Lunashark

Premium members, Myra G for the Japanese treats, Kim and Mike B for always being there, Maureen and Don S for the long-distance visits. and also Ruth Rivera for being an amazing FOIA sponsor. Happy Thanksgiving. I hope I have the privilege of saying that to y'all on a podcast for years to come. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Welcome to our first ever, True Sunlight Podcast, allegedly Worst Men, pageants. Which allegedly worst man will take home the T-S-P-A-W-M-M-A-W-M?

B. Tiarra tonight. Oh, it is so exciting and so hard to predict. Let's meet our contestants, starting with, ladies gentlemen and everyone, please welcome Lee Mungerson-Gilly. Lee Gilly is 38 years old and hails from the very corrupt state of South Carolina, but lately he's been a resident of Houston Heights, Texas, where he lived with his pregnant wife, Krista Bauer, and their two young children until October 7, 2024, when Lee is accused of strangling Krista to death and killing her unborn baby. But that's only after he told police that she had killed herself, which of course they believed him until Krista's body told the medical examiner a different story. Lee's hobbies include

Hiring a high-price legal team to defend his capital murder charge. Lee Gilley's team includes the famed Dick DeGaron, who is perhaps best known as the attorney that was hired by Branch David Davidian cult leader, David Koresh's mother, stick a pin in mother, to represent her baby boy during his fatal standoff against the FBI at his Waco Ranch in 1993. And wait, there's more. Dick DeGarren was also the attorney who represented real estate air Robert Durst, who was convicted in 2021 of murdering his friend Susan Berman and was suspected of killing his ex-wife Kathy McCormick and killing and dismembering his neighbor Morris Black. You might remember Robert Durst as the very willing subject of The Jinks, a documentary in which he was caught on Hot Mike talking to himself in a conference room and saying this. There it is. You're caught. and what the hell did I do?

Killed them all, of course. After six episodes of telling the audience that he didn't kill anyone. Lee's next hobby, David. Having zero self-awareness. That's right, not one drop of awareness, in our opinions, that he is a double murder suspect since being accused of killing Krista Bauer and her unborn child, Lee Mongerson Gilley,

and his team have done the following. They have fought Krista's parents on having custody of Krista's two surviving young children who were in the house the evening Krista was killed. And they published a website lobbying prosecutors to drop Lee's charges, titled, Lee Gilly, a husband and father wrongfully accused, real life happening now, not a documentary. The website featured emotionally unmoving videos of AI humans making unsolic cases in Lee's favor,

like this little weirdo here. Lee faces terrible charges based on circumstantial evidence alone. Such evidence is thin and attempts to fabricate a false narrative of guilt against an innocent family man. It should be known that the prosecution is not wrong to do their job. But their job is to win, not to seek the truth. The charges are sharply contradictions. by the absence of marks or any sign of struggle,

no motive, no criminal record. Plus, his innocence is further confirmed with three polygraph tests. History shows that, without vocal community support, similar cases can spiral out of control into a wrongful conviction, a life sentence. This would end a good man's life

and unnecessarily sabotage the futures of his young children. But we can end this nonsense now, now. This is not about deciding one man's fate. It's about what prosecutions and behaviors we condone today and tomorrow. Now is the moment to stand up before this case wastes more resources and erodes more public trust. So, act now, please. Sign the petition, pray, post on social, be kind, and help to guide the justice system before similar misjustices may affect you and your family. Three polygraphs?

That he paid for? You mean to tell me he passed bows? You don't say. The website also had this fun blurb about Lee's professional life. Here's David with that. Lee is grateful to have the opportunity to exceed the expectations of industry leaders, including Shell, Dell, Harley Davidson, banks, lenders, and more. However, Lee's proudest achievement is having built a business that supports 10 children. Since 2003, his business has been the sole source of income for families with 10 children.

He loves Microsoft Excel and aims to build tools which are so simple and so helpful that they benefit 1 million Excel users. users. I know what you're thinking. How could a man like that possibly be accused of killing his wife an unborn baby? Needless to say, the website was pulled after Luna Shark researcher Beth Braden called Dick DeGaron for comment on it. David, Lee's next hobby, please. Making sure he's seen at a popular C and B-seen megachurch with a woman. Huh. What does praying at home get anyone when they are facing a capital murder charge? Not recognition for it, that's for sure. This past year, Lee Gilly was seen with a mystery woman at a megachurch,

known as the place to go to network with the area's most influential people. Because how can a man who loves Jesus be accused of killing his wife, an unborn baby? That is unheard of. Unheard of, right? Now what is Lee's last hobby? hobby, David. Asking to leave the state of Texas to drive himself to South Carolina for Thanksgiving with his family. One time I was in the bathroom with a friend at a popular outdoor bar in Philadelphia, and I called

the hostess a B-word, not realizing that the hostess was in one of the stalls. She came out and earnestly apologized for the thing that caused me to call her a B-word, and I never went back to that bar because I have that thing that makes me feel ashamed of my poor behavior toward others. Lee Gilly, he doesn't appear to have that. On October 1st of this year, Lee's attorneys made this motion to the court. Here's David again. Mr. Gilly is subject to bond conditions in the above cause, including that he is to remain in Texas. In addition, Mr. Gilly has a GPX monitor affix to his person, and he has a curfew from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. 7 days a week. Since his release on bond, Mr. Gilly has followed these conditions.

2. Mr. Gilly requests permission to travel to Fountain in South Carolina, 29644, to be with his parents during the Thanksgiving holiday. Number three, Mr. Gilly requests to drive his car from Houston directly to his parents' residence. Wherefore, Mr. Gilly requests permission to travel. Can you imagine being charged with killing your spouse and an unborn baby that was very much wanted, being charged with one of the most serious crimes you can commit in Texas, capital murder, and having the audacity to ask the court to allow you to drive 14 hours from Houston Heights, Texas to Fountain Inn, South Carolina? When you're barred from leaving the state as a part of your bond conditions, that is some serious pampered behavior, right?

Which brings us back to Lee's biggest fan, his mommy. Behind every allegedly worst man, there is a person with a dustpan in a broom trying to clean up their giant messes. More on that after a quick break. And we'll be right back. And that brings us to our next contestant whose mama helps clean up his messes and who has a voice like a discarded baked potato that was granted his wish of becoming a big-boy blueberry farmer.

And that is David. All right, everybody, here we go. All together now. For Weldon Boyd. Weldon Boyd is a skilled orator who, in our opinions, loves nothing more than the sound of his own voice. And why wouldn't he? Especially when he and his friend Bradley Williams, 100% clear-cut black and white, no doubts about it, killed 33-year-old Scott Spivey in self-defense. according to Weldon and the good old boy cops at the Orgy County Police Department who advised him to act like a victim and shut up at the scene in case his story doesn't add up later. You know how when you haven't done anything wrong you tend to tell yourself and others this

over and over and over again in phone calls that you record? It takes talent, friends, and boy, is Weldon Boyd talented. Here he is talking to his granny, three days after shooting and killing Scott Spivey, to tell her that he is a hero, because witness number one, Blaise Ward, a woman who told police she was hit by Scott's bullets when she wasn't, felt saved by Weldon. That guy aimed at her before he got to me. He was looking for someone to kill.

And that her cousin or whatever was like a 21-year-old girl. And that's when I turned down the road. and got behind him. And she pulled her car behind my truck and the gun fight started and she was able to stay safe behind my vehicle and out of his sights because we were keeping him focused on us.

So her family member reached out and told me that we saved her life. Oh, well, I thought that happened on the main road. Why'd you pull out, following? Because I was telling the cops where he was going. Oh, you would do a 911. Yeah. Huh, even his granny wanted to know why he pulled down Camp Swamp Road to follow Scott.

Even she thought that that was bizarre until she found out that he was doing 911. And she said that like it wasn't her first time, right? In our opinions, she said that like a woman who has often had to tell her grandson to stop doing 911 and come to the house for supper. Weldon isn't just talented at crafting a narrative and using his ego to fill in the blanks. He is a natural-born pity party planner. Here he is, talking to his mother three days after killing Scott Spivey. Did you see Harold? I talked to him on the phone.

He's heard all the rumors, but I told him what the deal was, and he said, just do what you got to do. Mama, this has just been a fucking terrible year. And I do not look good right now. Well, once the rumors go, you got lots of witnesses, well, and the police have already. doing everything and if they didn't they got all the evidence that they had come to a conclusion well uh the detectives said it might be two more weeks before they make a ruling so what's what the brandon said he said the stuff just takes time i mean they're

getting the detectives said they're getting flooded with phone calls everybody's got all these new witnesses are coming forward and got things to say and want to tell them about me and every time that phone rings it adds to his workload because he has to look into it which is why they're kind of saying hey look don't make a statement because that's just going to fuel fire and then they're going to have more people calling in and more shit to look into well they just want to make sure they're crossing all their teeth yeah so that family can't say well we're y'all didn't do a thorough investigation or... Well, the family, Brandon, said 100% the family is planning to sue you and Bradley.

So we are going to be in a civil suit no matter what. Well, I mean, if the police have already told you this is a straight case, then that's their... They look at the same. You've won 9-1-1. People don't know all that. So, and if the guy gets out of his car to fire warning shot and walks to the back of his truck, how done is that? Weldon has such a superior gift when it comes to self-aggrandizement. He told his granny he did a heroic act by speeding up on Scott Spivey and following him for about nine miles before turning onto a road that he didn't need to be on and shooting Scott after Scott

told him to stop following him. Oh wait, he left that last part out. In this call with his mother, Weldon also reminds himself that he is a hero because, well, Jimmy, presumably a reference to the 15th Circuit solicitor Jimmy Richardson says so. Well, Jimmy told Ken in his personal opinion and what we did was heroic because we chased down bad guys to make sure that they didn't hurt anybody else. And he said, that's heroic. I said, well, he say that when he makes his public statement. He said he might. And finally, let's not forget Weldon's talent for secretly admitting to what he did during his altercation with Scott while publicly denying that he did anything wrong. Here he admits to chasing

Scott in antagonizing him on Highway 9. Thank you. We're following him. Oh, he knew I was following him. Me and you talking, he knew he had fucked up at that point because all the other cars slammed on brakes and was trying to get away from him. And I was like, he just ran me off the road and aimed a gun at Radlick's head. Fuck this guy. And I chased him.

Oh, I was on his ass. And his truck couldn't outrun my truck. And he knew it. Yeah, he was terrified. And here Weldon admits to having a really good time killing Scott, while quoting Brandon Strickland, the then-number-two man at the Ory County Police Department, as saying, dead men tell no tales. Well, and that's something Brandon told me.

And, you know, that's off the record stuff. Brandon flat out said, Dead man, can't tell no tales. So, they probably need to find out how much he had to be drinking at boardwalk. Ken said in this kind of situation, alcohol is not going to help our argument. Ken said alcohol won't really, I forgot how he worded it, but in this situation, the alcohol isn't going to be hard hitting. He said, we need narcotics or we need steroids. Yeah, and I don't think alcohol would make you a crazy.

That's why Ken said that alcohol isn't going to be something that helps you. But it doesn't matter at this point. The evidence shows he initiated the fight, he was committed to the fight, and he tried to stay in the fight. So we never left our vehicle. We only defended ourselves. and unfortunately he got killed well

I had a damn brand I had a damn blast but Charles Weldon Boyd everyone so talented in the words of Hannah Horvath he might just be the voice of his generation

or a voice of a generation of good old boys. David, please introduce our next contestant in the 2025 True Sunlight podcast, allegedly worst men, pageant. All right, our next contestant, ORI County Police Chief, Chris Leonhardt. So our next contestant, Chris Can't Stop Lion, Lionheart,

has only been the Ory County Police Chief for one year. year, y'all, and we are slightly surprised that he has made it that far. That is not a compliment. I thought Chris should have resigned in the spring of this year when he was caught lying to the public about the Scott Spivey case. But nope, Chris Lionheart is a classic good old boy, who just doubles down when he's wrong and keeps on a lion. So I know that Chris has a reputation in Ori County as a nice man. So let's get one thing straight before you all start emailing me about how this nice man doesn't deserve to be on this list. Let's be real. Chris Lionheart is a coward at best. And I don't really care about his intentions. I care about

how little action he has taken in the last 12 months to write the many wrongs of his own department. I care about how many people that his lies have hurt. I care about his $182,000 tax-funded salary going toward a person who makes a lot of bad choices. Leadership comes from the top, and all of the problematic paths that we have unearthed about the horrific ORI County Police Department lead straight to him. Chris Lionheart is responsible for keeping his officers in check. He is responsible for keeping the public informed. He is responsible for public safety in ORI County, and yet, ORI County is what it is now. Let's think back to everything that we've discovered about all ORI County Police, a department that will hopefully

be dismantled by next Thanksgiving, if all is fair, in the land of Myrtle Beach. In the Micah Francis case, we caught Ory County Police, Blake blatantly disrespecting and mistreating Micah while practically bowing down to her alleged abuser. If Lionheart was a good man and a good police chief, he would have publicly recognized the mistakes that his officers made in Micah's case, and educated his officers about the signs of coercive control and domestic abuse to make an effort to save other women like Micah. But no, Orie County Police have doubled down on their reputation of being awful to women and being kind to abusers. The police department violated FOIA laws in several circumstances in Micah's case alone, which again, is a problem that the police chief should have addressed. However, inaction is one thing, lying is another.

This year we have caught Lionheart in three big lies that every person. person in ORI County needs to know about to start demanding accountability and answers from ORI County Council, who are clearly not doing their job of keeping Lionheart in check. So let us remind you of the three big lionheart lies, David. Big lie number one. The act like a victim, camera lie. Remember back in April when Luna Shark reporter Beth Braden found a note on a body cam from the scene written by Officer Damon Vescovy, telling Weldon Boyd to act like a victim for the camera while police were, quote, investigating the scene of the crime. Luna Shark published this video before Ori County PD held its press conference because we wanted to force them to be open with the public. Luna Shark Media announced this discovery before Orie County lied to the public and claimed that they had made this discovery on their own.

And yet, Orie County Police spokesperson Michaela Moscov, the one who refused to answer our questions about the Micah Frances investigation until we publicly called her out on Twitter last year, and the one we will talk about again in a second, who was maligned in a fake sex scandal, continued to double down on this lie. This lie was so big to us because it meant that they were truly doing nothing to punish officers who worked on Weldon, the suspect's, behalf, until their hands were forced and their cards were shown. That is a big problem, which brings us to another big problem, another big lie from the same press conference, David. Big lie number two, claiming that Brandon Strickland had no part of the Spivey investigation. So Lionheart said in the press conference that three other officers involved in the Spivey case, who they still haven't named yet, are being investigated for policy violations. But yet again, we don't believe Lionheart and neither should the public.

He said that they were investigating this incident at least six months ago, and we haven't heard a peep about anyone else being reprimanded for misconduct in the public. the Spivey case. And just in case, y'all are thinking to yourself, Mandy, you're really hard on cops. He deserves to be trusted by the public. A reminder that Chief Lionheart lied to the public in the same dang press conference. No, from what I'm aware, Brandon Strickland had no action in this case as far as on scene. I'm sorry. What? Now I realize that he said no action on scene, but sir, the deputy police chief that you allowed to resign literally was caught on audio the day after the shooting telling his buddy boy Weldon the suspect that

he was literally working in the shadows of Scott Spivey's investigation. You cannot be serious and claim that the working in the shadows guy who resigned the day before this case was reopened by Sled, you cannot pretend to think that we believe that those two things are not related. Because, of course, they are. Stop lying, Lionheart. In that case, too, Michaela would only confirm that he was gone, but she would not answer any other question about his resignation, including whether or not this was connected to the reopening of the Spivey case. Obviously, later, we confirm that in documents. So, not only did Lionheart allow Strickland to

resign, but he was not honest with the public about his resignation. And in two incidents just there, Michaela appeared to be muddying the waters and covering for corruption. Hang on to that thought. Big lie number three, the fake sex scandal. I'll keep this brief since this just happened a few weeks ago, but I can't let y'all forget this one, because it's one of the messiest, The most disgusting attempts that we have seen of police allegedly trying to cover up a sexual harassment report. So earlier this month, police chief Chris Leonhardt announced that four of his officers had resigned in connection to some sex capades they were allegedly involved in. Interestingly, we received a tip that ORI County Public Information Officer Michaela Moskov was also gone. Did that get announced?

No. to ask. And then Orie County Police released a brief but unredacted internal affairs investigation that included accusations against Michaela, who along with the four police officers, was forced to resign due to so-called intra-office sex capades. Like attorney Johnny McCoy, who represents Michaela, and one of the officers who was forced to resign, Kelsey Manamite, said on Cup of Justice this week, everyone was so shocked and thrilled that Worrie County Police appeared to have turned a corner into transparency land they were finally communicating with the public albeit still poorly and they were releasing information about their own officers bad behavior without a fight well

turns out remember how Michaela's name has come up in the other previous incidents and how it's no secret we've been vocal about her lack of transparency with the public as the county pio for over a year now chris is likely aware that the lunish ark team a.k.a.a. the platform of his biggest and most powerful critics had beef with Michaela. And I just want to point that out because I don't think it was a coincidence that Michaela was apparently roped into the sex scandal accusations. It's not unreasonable to think that Chief Leonhard in his bad brainstorming sessions thought that including Michaela's name in the IA report, which she didn't work for the police, y'all, she worked for the county administrator, would result in headlines, which it's, sure did. And then the truth came out. A longtime administrator, the deputy administrator of public safety and emergency management director Randy Webster, had mysteriously and abruptly announced

his resignation two months earlier for medical reasons. And he said this in the most bizarre resignation letter I've ever read, where he also admitted to not being the best version of himself, of Randy. All Randy helped the county usher in the construction. of a $24 million, apparently $8 million over budget, emergency operations center that got named after him. So, he's a big deal in the county and to the police, which is interesting because Randy resigned after being called into human resources and being told an investigation was being conducted into serious allegations of sexual harassment

from Kelsey Manamite, whom Randy had hired for a higher-paying job and seemed fixed. stated on. And there were allegations from Michaela Moscoff, who independently witnessed Randy allegedly being creepy and inappropriate around Kelsey. There is a photo of Randy pinning something to Kelsey's uniform, and the body language says it all. She's smiling, but she's leaning away from Randy while holding out the front of her shirt for him. Even without knowing about the accusations, this photo would cause pause. But no, or a county police department posted it on Anyway, back to the part about Chris can't stop lying Leonhard, Chris and the county want us to believe that Randy's resignation and the accusations of sexual harassment have nothing to do with

the forced resignations of Kelsey, Michaela, and the three other officers. Chris outright told TV news reporter Adriana Lawrence that he didn't know about Randy's sexual harassment allegations when he forced the officers and Michaela out the door. And the new county PIO, the one who took over for Michaela, promptly contradicted that with the truth. Chris knew. Instead of admitting to lying, Chief Chrissy said he answered Adriana's question that way because he didn't know the details of the sexual harassment charges, which is another lie, because that's not what Adriana had asked him.

She wanted to know if Chief Leonhardt was aware that Kelsey and Michaela had alleged sexual harassment against his boss at the time that he forced Michaela and Kelsey's resignations. It's not that hard to be honest, but Chris sure does make it look that way. There's a happy update to Lie Number 3, by the way. According to the Post and Courier newspaper, Ory County Council's Infrastructure and Regulation Committee, will decide next Tuesday whether to remove Randy Webster's name from the building. More on that after a quick break. At Capital One, we're more than just a credit card company.

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Our next contestant, former O'Rey County Police Deputy Chief, Brandon Strickland. In the early rounds of the 2025 True Sunlight, allegedly worst men pageant, contestant, Contestant Brandon Strickland wowed judges, Mandy and me, with his utter willingness to ruin his career by helping friends. So, in light of Brandon Strickland losing his badge earlier this year, we would like to award him with the True Sunlight podcast, Taylor, Allison Swift, Friendship Bracelet Badge, for being such a good, good pal to Scott Spivey's killers, for knowing the right people. Remember this call from Deputy Chief Brandon Strickland to Weldon Boyd while Scott's body sat nearby in his truck? Before Strickland could possibly know any of the facts or the evidence, and just 20 minutes after Weldon lied to him about his reason for pulling onto the same road that Scott had turned down to go home and get away from him,

telling Brandon that he did so to fix the couches on his trailer. Hey, well. Hey. Look, I got the right people, I got the people coming that need to 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 doesn't come out there, okay?

Yeah, I get it. No, I get it now. 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 fired. You just got to go through the process. They're going to ask you questions. They're probably going to take you calm with

and 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. All right.

Well, you'll be all right. Thank you. Amen. Come on with him. Imagine chasing someone, shooting dozens of times in that person's direction, killing him, and then being able to use the secret dial a cop hotline

to get deputy chiefs. Brandon Strickland on the phone so he can send you the right people. Brandon Strickland is truly the friend of the year, y'all. And he clearly knew that he was acting off the books, putting his career as a top officer at risk. He told Weldon he could not come to the scene because of how it would look. And that's not all the evidence of Deputy Chief Brandon Strickland's awareness that he was doing something wrong.

Here is a call with Weldon from the day after Weldon and his friend killed Scott Spivey. Okay, well, I appreciate, if you hear anything or if I need to do something, just let me know. And I owe you, I won. Oh, you good, man. Hey, we do probably need to postpone the cooking for the department if I would. Yeah, okay. We'll wait until next year. Yeah.

Yeah. Because they'd be like, damn, yeah, he's feeding the people. That big banner says, thank you. Yeah. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Those two, having a fun little laugh about police corruption and rigging the investigation into a man's death before the investigation could even get started.

Oh, and this part of the call. Well, Brandon and Will be talking as quite as a white male. Yes. That's the first person. one of the first questions I asked, I was like, okay, you know how, could you know how to actually? Yeah, that would have, that would have changed the narrative. So, you'd have still been okay, but you'd really had people running her mouse down. Why business owners shoot blackmail, you know?

What a mess. So. Oh, you sure you don't need a gun? Because I got a damn safe full. I can give you if you any want to buy one. No, I appreciate it. I got a couple. We're going to go to P.

USA and get something new, good excuse to buy a new one. The casualness of that statement that killing Scott was a good excuse to buy a new gun shows just how little these two men thought about the seriousness of what Weldon had done. Weldon was the judge and Strickland was a one-man jury. It is in these conversations where the pact was forged that Orie County Police would protect Weldon from being charged and help him mitigate the civil case that was coming his way. And this all would have been a secret had Scott's sister, Jennifer Spivey Foley, and her attorney Mark Tinsley not fought for Scott's case file and fought for a special prosecutor to take another

look at whether Weldon Boyd and his friend Bradley Williams should be criminally charged in the killing of Scott Spivey. What's this? Oh, I just got handed a note. There's an update to one of the candidates' bios. and there's a picture attached. Who is that? Oh, it's former Ori County Deputy Chief Brandon Strickland

in a shiny polyester uniform shirt with the name Federal Signal on it. It seems he has a new career after losing his career to his best friendship with Weldon Boyd. Here's David with Brandon Strickland's new career bio. Brandon Strickland is an accomplished sales manager whose career consists of public service and leadership.

As a retired South Carolina police officer and U.S. Coast Guard veteran, he brings a unique blend of operational expertise, strategic vision, and team-oriented leadership to every role. Strickland holds a master's degree in executive leadership from Liberty University and is a graduate of the FBI National Academy, the National Emergency Management Basic Academy, and the N-E-N-A Center Manager Certification Program. Uh, a retired South Carolina police officer?

Just for the state? Not for a particular locale? What an interesting omission. Brandon Strickland, the recipient of the True Sunlight podcast, Taylor Allison Swift, Friendship Braclet Badge, is now selling first responder products for a company that goes to trade shows. Just like the one that Brandon was traveling to when he was helping his friend Weldon Boyd the day after Weldon killed Scott.

Remember that? No, man, you've done, you've done. done more than enough, just know that I love you and appreciate you. And where are you going? I had to go to Gatlinburg for a week. Toronto Affairs certification

course. Hell, I was just in Colorado week before last for the National Tactical Officers Association Conference. It's a big trade show where they show all their new toys and stuff. That's something I'd like to go see. Did you buy anything?

It is phenomenal. Well, I am going to buy this These little three drones, you're the size of a matchbox car, and you wear almost like a dany packed around your waist that actually attached to a plate carrier, and you launch it from there. It's the size of like a little matchbox car, and it's like super quiet. It was sold specifically to the U.S. government for a long time, and they finally got a release Raked, so a police officer or police department has been 60 grand with this three mini drones. two of them are normal daytime and one of them's got a fleer night vision on that dude i swear

it is no bigger than the little matchbox car and it is super quiet they are nasty but at 20 grand for a drone i'm like holy shit yeah but i can make a difference in a in a in a bunker down situation well i use them a lot um like sniper sections using yeah they could you know insert low crawl get in wherever they need to do and put that up and you can't keep here running. It's like stupid. Cool. Well, have fun in the Myrtle Beach of North Carolina. Weldon might have a go bag forever stocked with flashbangs, helmets, and cash for when the apocalypse comes, but I sure wouldn't follow him without your own map. Final note about old Brandon Strickland. Did Worri County Police Department end up buying those $20,000

drones with taxpayer money? Lona Shark researcher and reporter Beth Brayden filed a FOIA to find out. According to the documents provided through the Freedom of Information Act, Orie County purchased a Lemmer 2 drone in June, 2024 for 26,998 and 92 cents. In November 2024, they spent $9,169.20 on 27 drone batteries. In February 2025, of Orie County spent $58,997.16, which included a $39,000 annual subscription for a data plan to store all their drone footage, which, whoa, how much drone footage do they have? Aren't their arrests mostly made up of people trespassing and sniffing glue? Also purchased was a $5,000 annual subscription for an add-on drone program and a $10,000 drone, the GGI

Matrix, 350 RTK, as well as one $627 battery station. Then, in July 2025, Oregon County spent another $20,952 on another DJI Matrix, 350RTK commercial drone, and a DJI Zenmuse H3OT5 module camera, and then that same month, another $3,600 and one cent. on an eight-month subscription to an unspecified drone program. Our next contestants are a father-son duo. David, please announce them. Using air quotes, Pastor, Reginald, Reggie, R.W.R. Wayne Miller. And his son, quote, pastor, end quote, John, Paul, J.P.J.

P. Miller. Pastors Wayne and J.P. Miller are known for their charitable... Sorry, I misread that. They are known as charlatans, in our opinion. But charlatan pastors with a platform, with a cause, a mission, just like any first place worthy pageant winner. Their cause? Oh, well, let's, um, let's talk about that. How about we talk about the people their cause is effect? We'll start there.

David, who are the recipients of Wayne and J.P.'s pastoral works? Of all people, children. Oh, okay, we're just going to jump into that. Uh, yes, children. Okay, so pastors, Wayne, and J.P. are defendants in two Jane Doe lawsuits that accused J.P. of raping and sexually assaulting two children, one of whom attended Wayne's Christian school, where J.P. taught, and where Wayne is accused of not giving a single, our father, who art in heaven, about what J.P. was up to. Worse, he's accused of

telling one of the victims that she was going to be raped by demons for what she was accusing J.P. of doing to her, and allegedly forcing her to write, I will not lie about John Paul Miller 5,000 times. Who else are the recipients of Wayne and J.P.'s pastoral work, David? Oh man. Well, Wayne Miller stands accused of abusing his first wife and going to great lengths to minimize the amount of child support and alimony he would have to give her after she openly accused him of having affairs with male Bible school students right under her nose. In retaliation, Wayne accused his then-wife of having online affairs and sleeping with other men, during their marriage.

J.P. Miller has an adult son with a high school sweetheart. Wayne fought tooth and nail for J.P. the teenager to have custody of his son, who has his mother's last name, a big point of contention for Wayne. Then J.P. married a woman named Allison, with whom he had four children with. He then left Allison for his children's babysitter, Micah Francis, who said, that she had been groomed by J.P. since she was a teenager and who was a member of his church. Micah, as y'all know, was found dead in a North Carolina swamp and allegedly took her own life in a bizarre scenario that included her making a sandwich for lunch to take with her to work.

On her way to work, she turned around and went to a pawn shop and was on camera buying a pistol. Then she drove north, stopping to fill up her gas shortly before a run. driving at the swamp where she died soon after. Please see our many True Sunlight episodes on the Micah Frances case and the many stories involving allegations that JP emotionally, physically, spiritually, sexually, financially, and medically abused Micah and allegedly stopped and harassed her leading up to her death, which police repeatedly ignored. And then there's Susie Skinner, JP's latest wife, whose own husband

died from an apparent suicide, which she insisted was an accident. According to court records, Chris Skinner, a quadriplegic, had told J.P. Miller, his pastor, to stay away from his family. Specifically, Susie, who J.P. was rumored to have a sexual affair with while married to Micah, which Micah confirmed with a friend before her death. So, who else is the recipient of Wayne and J.P.'s pastoral work? David? Students.

You are sadly correct. In addition to the two Jane Does who have accused Wayne and J.P. of doing some horrific things to them as kids, and while one of them was a student at Wayne's school, there are other students Wayne and J.P. spread the word to, such as the Bible students who accused Wayne of sexual assault in the 1980s. Then there are the international Bible students who Wayne pleaded guilty to enslaving, making them work for him, for little to no pay, and holding their visas over their heads. And then there's the Faith First student who J.P. is accused of punishing by removing her from the honor roll in retaliation for her parents' support of Micah after Micah's death.

I don't know if I can handle this, David, but who else? And bathhouses. Oh, yes. And then there's that. According to news reports in 2006, a pantsless Wayne Miller walked up behind an undercover orie-kewarm. County police officer who was urinating at a stall. Wayne is accused of looking over the stall at the undercover officer's genitals and then indicating to the officer to follow him into a bathhouse dressing room. Wayne took part in pretrial intervention and the charge was dismissed.

What a duo these two make. What is the opposite of men of God? Is it men of the devil? Is it men of demons? Maybe those same demons that Wayne allegedly told us. the little girl would rape her for reporting his adult son's egregious behavior. Whatever the lowest of the holiest lows are, these two guys are it. And finally, our last two true son thy podcast, allegedly worst man pageant contestants.

David? South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson and Michael Kalucci, the man accused of killing his wife in 2015, who continues to get a. Now here is a pair of winners, y'all. Where do we even start with Alan Wilson? Oh, I know. Eveningware competition. This past year, Alan Wilson, an attorney general

already known for using his position in South Carolina to get involved in other states' cases, announced his candidacy for governor. Because, of course, he would think that he deserves that. that. So he's been attending a lot of fundraisers in schmoozing with anyone who can increase his chances at winning. In the meantime, Old Boy has been slipping at work and is apparently the subject of multiple ethics investigations connected to his campaign and to his job, and whatever the Venn diagram between those two looks like. And in the meantime, he has

been the worst version of himself. That guy you saw dazzle at Elyke Murdoch murder trial? The one who simplified the testimony about how the two guns were used and when, by one person, to kill his wife and son? I have no idea where that man went. But then again, let's face it, we were both extremely worried that Alan Wilson was hoping for a way out of charging Ehrlich Murdoch with murder in the first place. So his appearance in the courtroom was an unexpected and pleasant surprise that had us thinking cynical thoughts until he showed us what he was capable of at the stand. That guy is gone. Instead, we have this self-simping jerk in a tux in charge of the state's justice system who does not seem to care about the same things that

the people who voted him into office care about, such as getting justice, such as, you know, sending a message to local law enforcement agencies that corruption and good old boy investigation rigging will no longer be tolerated. And I say no longer because you can't be a person with perfectly functioning eyes and ears at the front of a dog and pony show and do not without knowing about the dogs and the ponies and the show. We're just getting started on revealing how much Alan Wilson's office is terrified of angering local power players in law enforcement circles and how they very much protect not just the bad

apples, but the dummies who keep holding onto them. Do I need to mention the name Weldon Boyd, or the Scott Spivey investigation, or the Ory County Police Department, former deputy chief Brandon Strickland, Chief Chris Lionheart, and the multitude of corruption evidence we have continue to uncover, along with Jennifer Spivey Folly? Oh, and then there's Alan Wilson's brother in no justice. Michael Colucci. The Charleston area man remains accused of strangling his wife, Sarah Lynn Moore Calucci, to death, in an alley outside a warehouse where part of their jewelry business was in May

2015. He told his alleged buddies at the local police department that it was suicide. and they were allegedly like, Sounds good. Thanks for letting us know. Sarah Lynn was working on leaving Michael at the time, and Michael was dealing with a number of financial disasters. Again, Sarah Lynn was afraid of losing the house her parents helped her buy, and she wanted a better home life for her daughter, Bishop,

whose father was the high school sweetheart of Sarah Lynn and had died several years earlier, leaving her a widow. It took Alan Wilson's office a year to bring murder charges against Michael Colucci. And then, in 2018, when Michael was finally brought to trial, and represented by high-priced and high-powered Charleston attorney Andy Savage, who instructed his wife to mimic how Sarah Lynn might have squeezed between a chain-link fence and the warehouse on the night of her death and accidentally hanged herself. Which his wife did, his wife did this while wearing the same dress Sarah Lynn had on the night of her death.

It was sick. And sorry, I don't mean the dress that was in evidence. but Michael's legal team obviously went searching for it to buy online. The trial ended in a hung jury because Mandy and Liz Nemesis, Megan Birchstead, the assistant attorney general prosecutor who let Dick and Jim take over the courtroom in Paul Murdoch's bond hearing in the boat crash case in 2019 dropped the ball. Her case was haphazard and a de-minus at best.

She hardly did anything to clean up Andy Savage's misdirections, mischaracterizations, and sly moves in the courtroom. And she told the jury that Sarah Lynn was a mean person. Of course, when we looked at the evidence and Sarah Lynn's text messages, we saw someone in a chaotic marriage that she was trying to extract herself from. After the hung jury, Alan Wilson sat on the case until 2024, when his team scheduled one single week to retry Michael. When we called them out on that, how could they possibly make their case in a week?

They canceled the court date and then continued to sit on the case. until this past June, 10 years after Sarah Lynn's death, when Alan Wilson's team blew the case apart. And the judge ended up dropping Michael's murder charge instructing Alan's office, which was basically accused of misconduct, to present this case again to the grand jury. Has Alan done that? Uh, no.

Maybe if the grand jury held a fundraiser, he'd be interested in showing up. Black tie, orders. a little elbow rubbing, then maybe let's talk about getting justice for Sarah Lynn's daughter and mother, who put their faith in an attorney general who wouldn't take the time to say hi to them if he ran into them on the street. Now, we have three honorable mentions for the true sunlight podcast allegedly worst man pageant. Let's just call them the sleeper team. And those men are Bowen Turner, the thrice accused rapist who went back to prison again for violating his parole

again. Then there's accused pedophile, Charleston Judge, James Skipper Gosnell, whose alleged crimes are so heinous. It's terrifying to know that he breathes the same air as the rest of us. And of course, there's former South Carolina State Representative R.J. May, who is currently awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to distributing child sexual abuse material disguised as Joe Biden 69. What a weird year, y'all. And we still have a month to go. So, who is True Sunlight's allegedly worst man of 2025?

This is a tough call, but we need y'all to help us decide. Follow us on Instagram and on Facebook so you can vote and stay tuned on some super fun pageant post. I hope all of you have a wonderful Thanksgiving break, and tis the season for binging. All eight episodes of Murdoch Death in the Family are available on Hulu and Hulu on Disney Plus. Until next time, stay tuned, stay pesky, and stay in the sunlight. True Sunlight is a Lunar Shark production created by me, Mandy Matney, co-hosted and reported by journalist Liz Farrell. Research support provided by Beth Braden.

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