True Crime with Kimbyr - Part 2: Teen’s Dream Vacation Turns into a Nightmare | The Case of Rebecca Middleton

Episode Date: February 15, 2026

The nightmare didn’t end with Becky Middleton’s death it only deepened. In True Crime with Kimbyr, Part 2 unravels the controversial investigation, courtroom battles, and unanswered questions that cast a long shadow over this heart breaking case. Kimbyrleigha carefully analyzes the evidence, the suspects, and the legal decisions that left many wondering if justice slipped through the cracks. How could a crime so brutal still spark debate decades later? True Crime with Kimbyr delivers a gripping, compassionate look at the aftermath of a tragedy that continues to haunt a family and challenge the truth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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and instead of going across the causeway, he would actually go across George's harbor to the tip of St. George's Island, surrounded by water and not much else, but very narrow roads and brush on both sides. Can you imagine hearing that over the radio? Rick was sick to his stomach. He immediately took a detour down to Ferry Road.

Emergency vehicles and police cars were already blocking the street as they got closer. and Jasmine thought that she had caught a glimpse of blood on the roadway. But she tried to shake away the thought that anything bad had happened. But what could it be? It's not Becky. Could it be a car accident? The roads are so narrow over there, maybe two cars collided.

Anything but Becky being hurt. But less than a minute, after Rick got out of the car and firmly told Jasmine and Jordan to stay in there, they heard a blood-curdling scream echoing down the road. It was their father. He was now standing on the side of the road violently throwing up. What he just witnessed and all the guilt that he felt would live with him forever. Because they're on the road, inside of a body bag, was the sweet, innocent little girl that he dropped off hours ago. The one whose parents thought that she was safe.

She didn't even look like herself. She was badly beaten and bloodied. Her throat had been sliced, and Rick couldn't contain his mask. He literally went crazy in that moment. He was rocking the coroner's van back and forth. He was screaming. He was making a scene, and rightfully so. This man had just seen a child that he was responsible for.

Deceased. This wasn't a car accident either. The officials on scene told him she'd been murdered. Murdered. While on vacation in his custody under his watch, it was unreal, but it was true. Becky was dead. Jasmine didn't even have to hear those words she knew just by her father's reaction,

and everyone was breaking down crying. Rick actually tried to lean down and give Becky a hug, but the officers pulled him away. But now he had the horrific task of calling Becky's parents, his childhood friend Dave Middleton, her dad, and somehow finding the words to let him know that his teenage daughter, his only daughter, is dead. After a few attempts, Rick was only able to reach Cindy's father.

So this would be Dave's former father-in-law, Peter, Becky's granddad. And he cut to the chase. He gave him the devastating news. Becky has been murdered. She's dead. Dave was at work when his former father-in-law, Peter, called him. He said the same thing, bluntly to Dave, that Rick had told him moments ago. no sugar-coating. He just said, your daughter is dead. She's been murdered in Bermuda. Of course, Dave was stunned.

He found it so hard to believe. He thought, no, it's got to be a mistake. He left work and he headed home hoping he was going to get more information and praying that it was a case of mistaken identity. Meanwhile, Rick had also gotten in touch with Cindy's husband, Wayne, and relayed the heartbreaking news to him. He actually drove over to Cindy's work and he told her you need to come home now. Now. And she thought that most likely it was something in relation to Wayne's dad because he had been sick for a while.

So she told her boss, you know, I have a family emergency and she walked out the door. But then she asked Wayne if his parents were okay and he said yes. And she's like, what's going on? And that's when it came out. It was simple yet horrific. Becky's dead. Cindy stopped in her tracks.

She couldn't even process what she had just heard. She wasn't going anywhere. She needed answers. And now she wasn't going to wait in the car on a drive home. She ran back inside her work. And she called the Bermuda Police. And you would think, after telling them who she was, they would at the very least have the decency to give her details.

But that wasn't the case. After being on hold and then passed around several different times to different people, she still had no answers. She gave up and she hung up. Wayne drove them home, where they had to tell their sons the news. And then they made their way over to Becky's dad's house and they stood around quietly trying to come to terms with what they all had heard. And together, they were coming up with a plan to get answers. Can you imagine? This is Cindy's worst nightmare. It had come true. Imagine the guilt to she might have felt in that moment because she let her daughter go. Against her best judgment,

she caved. And that was a regret that I'm sure she will carry for a lifetime. But to be fair, it's not her fault what happened. We'll get to everyone that felt guilt and the burden that was on their shoulders and why and the true reason that Becky was killed. But first, they needed to get to her. It was the 4th of July when Cindy and Dave boarded Air Canada and left for Bermuda. Cindy's mom knew in her heart that her daughter was dead. But at the same time, until she saw her, she was holding on to some hope that Becky was still alive. If they wanted answers, though, that would not come easy. And that's because murder is bad for business. A young white girl killed on vacation in Bermuda, that was not the kind of headline that they wanted. That would stop

people from coming to the island and that would mean their economy would take. So right now, you have to know that secrets will start being kept. The island has a lot of secrets, even of another recent incident that was very similar to what happened to Becky, but they swept that right under the rug so that it wouldn't gain too much attention. But I'm going to let you know that only four years before this, a 27-year-old German tourist, Anya Hercomer, a school teacher. She was also murdered. Her body was ultimately found in an underground tunnel, and a local 24-year-old was charged with her murder.

She had suffered from blunt force trauma to her head and strangulation, and the man who did this to her was a convicted S-offender that was out on unsupervised release. So to say to locals and to tourists and even to Becky's parents, that this type of thing never happens here is not true. The local police also promised Becky's parents that this would be an open and shut case, that they would quickly find the perpetrators and bring them to justice.

I wouldn't be doing this case if that were true. It becomes a complete shit show. There's no other way to put it, which is honestly the one big reason I am fearful of traveling to certain places because I'm scared if something did happen, their judicial system may not work the way that I believe it does here in the U.S.

And you may disagree, and that's okay. But I hope you can also see the clear failures in this case. John and I also did a major deep dive not too long ago on a double murder that happened in Thailand, and I just have to say, saying that mistakes happened in that case is putting it lightly. Some of what are called mistakes seem purposeful, especially when it involves a tourist, sadly.

And in Bermuda, there were secrets, Secret racial divides, political problems, poverty and crime just like anywhere else. But those things were not spoken about because the tourism business was so vital for this area. Remuda has a nickname, Devil's Island. Mostly because before settlers came, the shallow waters and coral reefs would capsize ships. They wouldn't be able to see the bottom and the ships would wreck. And they would say, the devil himself situated things to make it happen. But places on the island like Deepdale Lane were avoided and definitely not promoted in any travel brochures.

It's where slaves once lived pushed to the middle of the island in tiny homes stacked side by side right next to the dump. Kids didn't have much choice about where they could run and play so they would ride bikes. They would play cricket and even hide and seek among stinking garbage. And that is sad. But over time, it thrived. And it became its own little community, gospel churches on the corners, families coming together for cookouts, and there was even money allocated from tourism to clean up this area so that it could blend in with the wealthier parts of town, at least enough not to draw attention. But there were other things going on in that area, like drugs, sex work, and crime. On this small island, news travels fast. And if this had been a local who was killed,

the news would have still been bad. But perhaps it would be chalked up to, you know, it was domestic in nature or was an isolated incident. But this was random. It was a tourist. Someone foreign. And Bermuda feared that this would go international. And they were right.

But it didn't stop them from trying to contain it. Immediately the Canadian government was involved. They wanted Becky's send home for a forensic autopsy. But Bermuda official said that would not be necessary. They assured the Canadian Mounted. police that they were putting the most senior investigator on the case, Detective Superintendent Vic Richmond, and he assured Cindy and Dave that no one would leave that island until Becky's killers were captured. That seemed promising. Even though this was the busiest time of your cruise ships

were pulling up and letting out hundreds of people onto the island. The streets were crowded, and it seemed like it would be easy for killers to blend in. One big difference in the way criminals were dealt with there, though, was that the penalty for murder was hanging. That was the maximum, and it fit this crime. Once locals knew what happened, they were pushing for punishment. So I do think it's a good time to tell you what happened to poor Becky. First, let me explain how she was found. A local DJ, Dana Rollins, had just finished up his shift at about one o'clock, and he headed out to a music festival with his friend Sharon, Angela, and Antonio. And while they were there, another friend named Koi asked Dana if he could get a ride to Ferry Reach Park.

Coy had fallen on hard times. He didn't have a car. He was actually staying in a tent out in that remote isolated area near Whalebone Bay Beach. So if you were wondering why anyone would be going down those narrow roads to nowhere at 3 a.m. to stumble upon Becky's body, this was why. Dana and Angela were sitting up front in the car and Coy, Sharon, and Antonio were in the back. And these roads used to be for carts and horse-drawn buggies. so that is one reason they are so small.

They got up closer to the tip of the island and something caught Angela's eye. At first it looked like an injured animal in the middle of the road, but as their eyes adjusted, they could tell it was a girl. They stopped. They piled out of the car.

Dana ran over to this young blonde woman covered in blood. She was barely clothed. Her bloody and torn bra was dangling from her arm. Her white blood-soaked shirt was slashed and not too far away, was a long jean skirt covered in blood that had been sliced right down the center. Her underwear and a pair of flip-lops were just feet away,

along with several thick pools of blood on the pavement. With the biggest one being right under her head, Dana was shocked. She was still breathing. Because she had numerous slit marks on her neck, he could tell that she had been stabbed and brutally beaten, but she was still alive, barely. Dana kept top of her.

to her. He even saw tears falling from her eyes, but she couldn't speak. He told her, hang on, we're going to get you help. But they were far from town. They didn't have cell phones, and they knew they would need to drive to a pay phone or somebody's house or a business that was still open and call the police. But that could take forever, at least 15 minutes, and they weren't sure that she was going to make it that long. They contemplated that maybe just one of them would go drive and not leave the victim there alone by herself. But as they were thinking about that, they started to worry.

What if the killer came back? Now they wouldn't have a car. He could be watching, waiting about to strike again. And I can understand how scary that must have been. So sadly, they all left Becky behind by herself. And that made me so sad. That poor girl had already been alone, probably thinking that no one was going to save her.

And then there was some hope. when Dana and his friends arrived, but now her will to hang on would have been diminished since she is on this desolate, dark roadway all by herself again. They did manage to get to a phone. They called the police at the first one they found. This was about 10 minutes away, so they raced back to be by her side and she was still alive. But her pulse was weak. She was lying in the fetal position. And as Dana held onto her hand, he told her, hold on, is coming. Angela got some towels from the trunk and she tried to hold pressure and she saw Becky's lips moving like she was trying to speak. She was way too weak. Dana never stopped talking to her.

He said, stay with me. I'm not going to leave you. Help is on the way. And imagine that at the same time, Jasmine and her dad were out there looking for Becky and that ambulance that passed them, the one that Dana's friends called for was the one that Jasmine told her dad was probably for her. But it was too late. Before it got there, Dana started to notice Becky's eyes dilating. She was slipping away. She began to stare straight ahead with her eyes glassy now, chest not moving up and down. And as he was holding pressure on her neck, he tried for a pulse and he didn't find one. Dana could hear the sirens in the background, but his focus was on this poor young girl dying right before his eyes.

It was traumatizing. If only someone could have gotten to her quicker. In these moments, I do realize how lucky we are that we have modern technology, watches that can call the police, cell phones at our fingertips. It was right after Rick and Jasmine pulled up and saw the scene that Becky was transported to the morgue for an autopsy right away. And the island's emergency room doctor, who was also their go-to pathologist, was Dr. James Johnston, and he was ordered by police to perform the autopsy. The issue was he was not a forensic pathologist.

He was fully trained to entirely be capable to carry out a death investigation autopsy, but this was a murder. He did not feel comfortable at all. It was well beyond his expertise, and he made that known. He begged the local police officer. officers to call an outside forensic pathologist. But they said, no, do it now. And from what I read, this man broke down crying. And let me explain this. In Bermuda, it actually wasn't normal practice to call an outside forensic pathologist.

And they felt like in that moment, if they were to make an exception for a white woman tourist, when they had black locals who had also been murdered in the recent past, it would set a dangerous precedent. as though one life is worth more than another. But here's the thing. It's actually normal practice and should be normal practice that you have a specialist that's trained and competent in forensic pathology for all homicides. That should be normal practice for everyone.

But they just wouldn't budge to start now. So instead, they sent in an additional doctor who had experience with SA. But that isn't the same as a doctor who could look at wound patterns in a deliberate killing. However, they did swab and take evidence in private areas of her body to test those areas for semen and DNA. It was obvious that she had been violated brutally in both private areas as well as her mouth. That's how I have to say it on here. She was beaten,

she was stabbed, she was caught at least 35 times and slashed in the neck back and forth. She had wounds on her head that went all the way to her skull, her jugular was cut, her heart had been pierced, her lungs? There were five wounds to vital organs, any of which would have been fatal. And there were at least 19 cuts to her head and her neck that would not have been fatal, but they were caused with a serrated knife. So now they have an idea of the type of weapon used, probably something like a kitchen knife. This type of wound pattern has a name among locals. It's called Jamaican torture. It's when the cuts are superficial, they hurt enough for the victim to submit and do what they're told. And this is a very old technique that was used during slavery.

Now, I'm going to get back to this later because, spoiler alert, a world-renowned forensic pathologist Michael Bodden is going to be brought in later. And he reviews the entire autopsy and finds a number of things that were missed. And speaking of things that were missed, back of the crime scene, we're even more. issues. Instead of having well-trained, experienced crime scene technicians collecting, bagging, and examining evidence, they brought in 20 interns, trainees that were learning the trade. Why? On such a big case, why would you do that? Well, lead Detective Richmond was like, you know what? They're being heavily monitored. So what? They were also potentially contaminating key evidence and not collecting everything that could be significant. For instance,

instance, they couldn't tell what was trash and what was important. They left a condom wrapper on the road that night. Didn't even think it was evidence. It wasn't until an officer came out the very next day after so many people had walked all over it that he picked it up, he bagged it, and he brought it back to the police station and put it into evidence. Wow. And now that's just one example. There were items that were collected. Becky's bloodied and torn clothing, her shoes, but they were also things missing. like her white tank top, the one that she had underneath her shirt, the gold necklace that Jasmine gave her, and a ring with three tiny hearts that she was wearing that night. It was a gift

from her grandparents. Maybe if they look for those items and found them, they would find her killer. That was the thought. At the time, Colin Coxell, the police commissioner, was the one making a lot of these decisions. He was the one in charge of keeping things quiet, keeping secrets when it came to the broader public finding out what happened on their so-called safe island. He has since resigned, but at the time, he argued, we're doing everything to the best of our ability. Okay. But their abilities were lacking, and that became clear. They were rushing things because they wanted this over with.

And what's sad is that this could have all been handled very quickly if they would have handled things differently with eyewitness Dean Latimore. Remember Dean? The nice young man that came on the first motorcycle? The father, the future security guard. He wasn't trying to harm Jasmine and Becky. He was the one that got Jasmine home safely, who had tried to warn her that the other guys couldn't be trusted, especially Kirk Mundy, the driver of the bike that Becky got on. He was a known criminal in that area. He's what's referred to in Bermuda as a jump-up. This is a Jamaican that jumps over to Bermuda for better opportunities, but he didn't seem like he was interested in taking any of those. Instead, he had a reputation for violence. Dean wasn't thinking of coming forward, but he knew who hurt Becky. It was Jasmine

that brought up Dean's name. She remembered him because she rode with him and he chatted along the way. She really had only been half listening, but now being questioned alongside her father just hours later, after her best friend was found dead, she was trying to remember everything. And she remembered Dean. And that's when she dropped a bombshell. She admits to police in front of her father that Becky was riding in between two men on a motorcycle before she vanished and was found murdered. Her dad was shocked, horrified. He was in disbelief, but he knew that Jasmine was already traumatized enough. So it wasn't the time to scold her. She said that one of the guys, kept looking over at Becky, kind of like eyeing her, which she thought was strange,

and he was asking about the gold necklace. But she thought maybe he just thought Becky was pretty because she was. And then she described the rickety motorbike with its ripped seat and its questionable safety. But all she knew about the two guys were that they were black males, but they had helmets on, so she couldn't provide any defining characteristics. However, she said that the guy who rode her back was named Dean. And according to her, she said Dean definitely knew the guys because they were high-fiving, they were talking to each other like they were friends.

Well, it didn't take long for police to track down Dean, who admitted that he was the one that drove Jasmine home and that he did see two guys that night on a motorcycle, and he remembers them taking Becky, but he doesn't provide their names, even though he knew exactly who they were. If they could carry out such a brutal crime, he wasn't going to risk his life, but he was acting cooperative. An investigators asked him if he would come down to the station later and look at a police lineup of local criminals and then point them out if he recognized them.

Dean said yes, but he was actually thinking that would be a better way to pin the crime on someone because most of you know in a typical lineup, potential suspects can't see the person pointing them out. They're either in a picture lineup where the witness is just shown either one picture or a bunch of them at once and you can just say, That's him. Or they're standing behind a two-way mirror. The suspect can't see through it.

But to Dean's surprise and his shock, police literally bring him into the same room with these known criminals. He's standing in front of several men from his community, dangerous men, with no barrier between them, with them staring him down. Do you really think he's going to point out killers? No. He admitted as a fellow black male in this community, he would worry if they thought he was a traitor.

Towards locals especially, there was no way. He was just going to stay silent, even though he recognized Kirk Mundy right in that lineup. Instead, he told the detectives, I can't be sure because the men were wearing helmets. And he didn't want to accuse the wrong guy. They pressed him about the fact that Jasmine said, no, no, no. You high-fived one of them. His answer was, oh, that's just the way we greet each other around here, even if we don't know each other by name. And that was it.

To me, it was almost like the police knew that Dean was not going to turn on local men. Why did they do that? Why would they put him face to face? It's almost like they wanted to delay the case. And later, it really seemed like that was true. After this, there were no leads. I knew about investing, but I really didn't know how to go about it. Meet Corey, a wealthfront client.

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an arrest. Meanwhile, they didn't have their own DNA lab in Bermuda, so they were instructed by the Canadian officials to send the swabs to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Because Becky was a Canadian. And as they were taking that over part of the case, that meant it was going to take time. Most of you are aware DNA testing can take weeks or even months. So it was a waiting game. And finally, Becky was sent back to her family in Canada for a funeral. July 9th, she was laid to rest. The ceremony was at Bridge Street United Church and hundreds of people filled the sanctuary. Many of them teenagers just like Becky crying in disbelief that someone so young was gone. A photo of Becky from her last high school picture sat on top of her casket.

Her mother said they told her they missed her and they loved her. But she knew that wasn't Becky. She said it was just her shell. Her dad said it was when he saw the hearse pull away from the church with the casket inside. that he knew he was never going to see Becky again, and that was so heartbreaking. This man got down on his hands and he was wailing. Now, back in Bermuda, Dean now had 10,000 reasons to talk, the reward. So he walked into the police station and changed his story.

Now he said, I know exactly who did this, even if he hadn't seen them take off their helmets, because he said he recognized voices. And he recognized their shoes, especially Kirk Mundy shoes, white Nikes with a blue check mark. He high-fived him. He knew it was Kirk. He even recognized the motorcycle as Kirk's girlfriend's bike. He said he knew the other guy was Justice Smith. He went to school with Justice's brother. So he knew his build, and he knew those were the two guys on the bike. There were two other witnesses that came forward, Sean and Taj Mah. These were two men that were stranded on the causeway that night, and their car broke down at 3 a.m. Now, they had already gotten help,

but they saw Kirk riding up on his motorcycle with Justice on the back. They stopped to chat, and Sean told the detectives that Kirk had one of his arms outside of his shirt, so kind of like his shirt was up on his shoulder across his chest showing his body. And there was blood on that shirt. He was almost as though he was trying not to show that part off, so he took it and put it across his shoulder. He also noticed that there was some kind of white cloth covering Kirk's bike's license plate. He thought that was odd. He asked him why and Kirk said, oh, my bike is unlicensed.

When they rode off, Sean looked over at his friend and he said, isn't that odd? Why would they cover their license plate going over the causeway? Wouldn't that draw more attention to it? And they agreed. Now, police believe, that white cloth was actually Becky's tank top. It had never been found. And there was one additional person that saw a motorcycle with a cloth hanging over it that same night.

It was a gas station attendant. So that was four different people. who said that Kirk and Justice were in that area, on that night, and under suspicious circumstances. And there was now a warrant out for their arrest. It was easy to apprehend Kirk because he was on probation, out on bail, and he had actually participated in a recent armed robbery of a bank. So he had to come to the police station every week. They were able to get him into the station on July 10th and arrested. And soon afterward, they found justice over on Deepdale Road. Neither of them seem interested in having an attorney present, and they both offered everything from their DNA to give statements. They were even taken to the hospital to have those samples retrieved, and they were talking.

They talked about the scratches on Kirk's body. They said, oh, he got into a motorcycle accident just a few days prior to the arrest. That's also going to be significant. The men were being questioned separately. Justice Smith, who was only 17, was more of a follower. He was the type of person that followed around guys he looked up to like Kirk Mundy. And you would think that these two friends would get their story straight. Justice said that night he and Kirk went to a music festival and they were there till 3 o'clock in the morning.

They drank, they hung out, and then afterward they drove back towards Deepdale Road. When they saw two guys with a broken down Toyota on the causeway and they offered them help. When they got that situated, they left. and him and Kirk sat outside of his house until his mom told him he needed to go to sleep. And that was it. But when they interviewed Kirk, he had a different story.

He said, I never went to a music festival. He must be mistaken. That must have been a different night. I was home with my pregnant girlfriend. I'm spending a lot of time with her since she's about to have my baby. I was with her from 8 p.m.

all the way till the next morning. Huh. So, of course, they bring in his girlfriend and her story aligns with justices. She says Kirk was not at home that night. She remembered him coming in in the early morning hours and asking, where have you been? He said, I was at a music festival of Justice and I was just giving him a ride home on the back of my motorcycle.

The motorcycle that he was borrowing from her. When she was asked what he was wearing, she said it was a black pair of pants, a yellow shirt that kind of had mesh. It was like tiny holes all over. As a matter of fact, she had never had. seen those clothes again after that night. She has no idea where her motorcycle is. Another woman named Marjorie, who was a friend of Kirk's, came forward. She said she actually saw him the day after the murder. She worked at a local boutique, and she asked him, oh my God, did you hear about that young

tourist who was murdered? He literally said, yeah, I was there. But don't worry, I'm not in any trouble. I didn't do anything. It was my friend Justice. Bargerie was like, oh my God, what did he do? And Kirk was like, well, he told me he was going to tell me the details at another time. But he was actually at that boutique for a reason. He was buying the same style t-shirt he had bought there once before. A mesh yellow shirt. The same kind his girlfriend saw him wearing when he came home in the early morning hours, just hours before he goes to this boutique. Interesting. Looks like he was trying to replace evidence. And later, relatives watched Kirk cleaning his girlfriend's motorcycle at their apartment, something that he had never done before. And then it was impounded after he crashed it.

So was it on purpose? Because it seemed that way. And now he was using a walking stick and acting feeble. When they confronted Kirk about what his girlfriend said, he's like, oh, wait a minute. She's right. That is the night I saw those guys break down in the causeway. But right when he's continuing to elaborate, His lawyer walks in, defense attorney Mark Pinnigel, and then the two of them left to be in a private room together. It's in there, in private, that his attorney lets him know if your DNA turns up at the crime scene, there's no way you're going to get out of this.

You're going to be hanged for murder. And after a while, Kirk came back, and he told the investigators he wanted to come clean about everything that really happened that night to Rebecca Middleton. His new version, as he explained, was that he did pick up Becky that night. And he had all intentions of taking her home if it wasn't for her coming on to him, feeling up on him while she was holding on to his back on that bike. She started touching him, whispering in his ear that she wanted to have sex with him.

I could hardly even say any that to you without feeling sick to my stomach. And he said, I changed plans because she wanted to be. be alone with me. So I took her to the beach. He then took a detour to Ferry Reach, and he and Becky walked down to the beach and had, in his words, consensual sense on shore. He said he never heard her in any way and that it was all justice. The justice had been watching and apparently he wanted Becky for himself. And as Kirk was washing up in the water, justice began to hold Becky down and violate her. Before he knew it, he pulled out a knife and started stabbing her again and again as she fought against being held down. Kirk promised he did nothing to Becky. He never hurt her in any way,

and he certainly didn't murder her. That was all his friend justice. And Kirk said, I can even bring you to the murder weapon, but he wanted to make a deal. Of course he did. Wow. So first of all, this man is older. He is more of the leader, and he's from Jamaica. And as I explained, call that I mentioned to make in torture. The injuries lined up with that style of hurting someone to get them to do what you want. Becky was a virgin. She had already been with a guy that she actually did like that night, Jonathan, and they didn't even have intercourse because she was a virgin. So why then would she with a complete stranger while she's driving home, say, pull over and do this with me? It didn't make any sense. Plus, Kirk was the one with a

violent record, not justice. He had minor run-ins with the law, but nothing close to this. Despite all that, Kirk agrees to take them to where he said, justice threw the knife off of a bridge. And the divers do find a serrated kitchen knife down at the bottom of the water. But here's the thing. They can't prove that this is the actual murder weapon. Why? Well, it could have been this knife, but there's no blood. There's no DNA on it. It had been washed. away if there ever was. So all they had was Kirk's word against justices. And my question is, why would you even believe this man? I think the bigger question is why not wait for the DNA evidence to come back because that was still pending? Well, because they wanted to close the case

so badly. They wanted the media off their back. So only two days after his arrest on July 12th, Detective Superintendent Vic Richmond was signing a plea deal with this man in exchange for his testimony against Justice Smith as the true perpetrator. He would be guilty to accessory after the fact. I couldn't even believe this. He had a chance to make a public statement, and these were Kirk's words. I'm very, very shocked that this happened, especially around me, and I want to send my gratitude and sympathy out to Rebecca Middleton and her family. I am deeply sorry. These things should not happen to anyone. I'm even sorry that it happened to her. May God bless her life. End quote. The very next day, the only word I can think of is outrage, especially when it came to Becky's family hearing that only one of

these men was being charged with murder and that there were no other crimes being charged, nothing for the extreme violation whatsoever. All before. the Canadian police had even gotten the DNA evidence back. That is insane. It didn't make any sense. And you just want to shake someone. You just want to say, why are you doing this? And there was this cocky, lying piece of crap, walking around, leaning on a cane, feigning an injury like he's the victim, a victim of an accident that he probably pre-planned to get rid of more evidence. It's infuriating. At a hearing, Kirk Mundy's sentencing was scheduled for the 16th of October. And when I tell you, what the punishment is for this crime, the one he was charged for instead of murder,

you are going to be angry. Seven years was the maximum. And the judge ended up giving him five. Are you kidding me? Five. Days later, it was Justice Smith's turn to be before the court for his hearing to set a date for his trial. He screamed out loud that Kirk Mundy is a liar and a coward and that he's the one that stabbed in violated the girl and the police were framing him for it. And he didn't think that was right.

There were a lot of people in this town that believed that was true. It was believed that it was Mundy. Kirk Mundy was the one that decided they were going to hurt Becky. And he took that detour. He was driving. And then he told Justice to do what he said and hold Becky at knife point. But not with a knife that was later found because they believe that Kirk took that knife from Justice's house after the crime was committed, from his mother's kitchen, and threw that knife into the water to say it was a murder weapon, when the real murder weapon belonged to Kirk and has never been found. Yeah. Yeah. A search warrant was issued for Justice's house, and they later do find a knife block in the

kitchen with one knife missing, and it matched the one they found at the bottom of the water. But here's my question. Why before going to a music festival, would Justice have taken one of his mother's kitchen knives with him. It did not make sense. Use your brain. Yes, it was most likely serrated edge weapon. We know that. But Kirk, according to locals, normally carried knives around town. He was known for it, large knives. He's been in trouble with the law before, and he knew how to get out of it. He's gotten out of other charges. He has experience. And justice did not. So he took the fall. And here's the most disturbing part of this up to this point when it come to all the missteps in this case. y'all. The DNA evidence finally came back. I couldn't believe it. Whose DNA do you think they found inside Becky's body?

Well, I think you know. It wasn't Justice Smith's. No. It was only, and I repeat, only Kirk Mondays. Why didn't they just wait two days before taking a plea deal and sentencing him? Two days. October 18th, they would have had those results and everything was so rushed. And now they can't can't go back and charge Kirk for another crime because he's already taken the deal and that would be double jeopardy. Are you kidding me? In my mind, I was like, this is new evidence, right? It should be reopened. You can charge him with something else. But no, it wasn't allowed. The whole idea, these stupid investigators from their point of view, was like, oh, we're just going to use Kirk to get to justice. We're going to find both of their DNAs because obviously both of them have relations with Becky,

but it turns out the evidence only pointed to Kirk and wait till you hear their cover their own asses argument. It's like they thought of it right in that moment. What's the first thing that would come to your mind if you were in this situation? They say, oh, well, maybe justice didn't finish. Are you kidding me? You realize there are other ways to leave your DNA in those places besides seminal fluid. There's saliva. There's other bodily fluids. There's all kinds of things like touch DNA. The list goes on. but they cannot go back and now say, oh, maybe Justice was wearing a condom. Because in the beginning, Kirk said he was the one wearing the one at the scene. Come on.

His excuse was that, oh, I guess maybe my condom broke. And that's why my DNA was there. Then forensic expert Michael Bodden examined Becky's wounds through the autopsy report because he's not seeing her body. And here's where I told you a lot of things come forward. His trial began in November of 1998, and they thought, you know what, at least we're going to get one person for her murder. But the evidence wasn't strong. Not only do they not have Justice's DNA anywhere, not on Becky's body, not on the knife from his mother's kitchen, and that knife could have made those marks, but they weren't 100% sure. The defense's argument?

Justice wasn't even there. What? Why is that your argument? When Dr. Bodden did the review of the autopsy, even more evidence came. forward that two people were involved in this crime. And that was very questionable. This was a very intense trial. I only read transcripts of the entire thing because, you know, I couldn't find a televised version of it. But let me tell you, many people thought that this doctor was like all a lie. And I'm sitting there thinking, if you have a forensic expert and I don't know, a random kid saying he

wasn't there, I tend to want to lean towards the expert. I'm not saying that in some cases they are wrong or not wrong, but let's go back to the wounds. One person was holding Becky's arms behind her back. Take a wild guess who you think that was. Yeah, Justice Smith. He was listening to orders from Kirk Mundy as he wielded a knife and superficially cut Becky so that he would submit to him and allow him to do what he wanted to do on all areas of her body, apparently starting with her mouth as she fought to get away. The way the wounds were, it was in such a way that there were were straight in some areas. There's no way that she wasn't held back because you have to be steady in order for that to happen. And when this monster was finished with her, he discarded her

because she was just passing through. She was a tourist. She was disposable. He probably thought that the moment he saw her and her friend on the side of the road. An easy target, a young naive teenager that he could his way with. There she was stranded and then sandwiched between two men on a motorcycle, and the driver was a vicious maniac. The fact that she had no defensive wounds proved that her arms were behind her, and there were bruises that showed that her shoulders were being held back. There were actual finger marks and certain portions of her body, and Dr. Bodden showed grab marks. It showed that she was carried to the roadside. She did not crawl there on her own. She had bruises underneath her arms, and she had smears of blood on both of her ankles in the photos that were taken before she went to the morgue.

It lines up with justice carrying her from her arms and Kirk, who was bloody from doing the stabbing, holding her ankles as they dropped her on the roadside. And there were so many things done incorrectly. Her body was washed before the exam. Why would you do that? Because these are not forensic pathologists. That's why. Secondly, her fingernails were never clipped.

They were never examined. No DNA was taken from underneath them. And when Becky's family is hearing this in the courtroom, her dad said he had to block out that these things happened to his daughter. He had to think of it in a mechanical way and not like they were happening to someone that he loved. And then one of the first big surprises, the prosecution never calls their so-called star witness. I was like, wait a minute. So all of that, all the big plea deal to not even have.

Kirk testify? They couldn't. It wouldn't look good. Remember, they were trying to recharge him for murder. That wouldn't have looked very good if now they want him to testify, would it? And in the end, the defense calls zero witnesses. Instead, they asked the judge to dismiss the case. And it's about to get even worse. The judge agreed. Lack of evidence. And Justice Smith walked. free. That was it. He too could never be retried ever again for double jeopardy. I mean, this is insane. You know that two years later, Justice Smith stabs a girl outside of a bar. And guess how long he spent in prison for that? One year. No one right now is in prison for Becky's murder. It's been filed under unsolved, even though we know who did this to her. For years, Jasmine lived with Survivor's guilt.

She even attempted to take her own life more than once. She did say that ultimately she got the help that she needed. But she and her father, they both felt responsible for what happened to Becky. But they're not. It's the evil men who chose to hurt her. One thing that I did find to be very sweet out of all of this, I always try to take one positive thing, even if we can, you know, even the smallest, Dana, the man who held Becky's hand when she took her last breath,

told himself if he ever had a daughter, he would name her Rebecca. And he did. It was a way for him to honor Becky's memory. He felt so bad that he couldn't save her that night. And Becky's family says they still celebrate her birthday every year and they think about her every day. And I think that I will too. It really bothered me what happened. There was no justice at all.

And I hope that changes have been made. I really do. My intention is never to make someone feel that certain places are bad. I mean, there's people from Bermuda that watch this channel. I've seen you comment before. That's not the message. You always have to be safe. You always have to take precautions, even in your own hometown.

I do cases, tons of cases on small towns that are nothing like Miami, nothing like going in an exotic vacation. And these terrible things still happen. So with anything, it's the same message I always give. Do not separate from your friends. These girls were young. They were so afraid of getting in trouble for calling her dad when we wouldn't be mad of you. Our, like, anger would be for a minute.

You woke me up. I had to get to work. The anger and the guilt and the frustration and the regret is so much worse when you take a risk. That anger your parent has for you is not going to last, I promise. As a parent, I'm saying that. But this has been a very heavy case. I've always wanted to do a deep dive on it. Thank you so much for being here for Becky's story.

I really do appreciate it. And I will see you in my very next video. Bye.