Unseen - The Dollhouse Farm Murders | The Case of Dameon Huffman | UNSEEN

Episode Date: May 5, 2025

“My grandparents were lying in bed, melted” At 9:15AM on March 23, 2007, a 4-year-old arrives at his church daycare alone, wearing his pajamas and out of breath. Following his next words, his teacher immediately calls 911. Something terrible has just happened in the rural community of Bradford, and Dameon Huffman, the 4-year-old boy, is the only witness to the horrors.Little do police know that what little Dameon saw was actually one of the most twisted cases of home invasion gone wrong that the state of Ohio has ever known. Credits Written, directed & edited by Matthew Rice Researched by Manon Lafosse Voiceover by William Akana Produced by Alexandra Salois & Salim Sader Sources: “The Green Monster”, American Monster, Discovery+, 2017 (Arrow Media)“ A Dragon in the Farmhouse”, In Ice Cold Blood, Oxygen Network, 2021. (Asylum Entertainment & Final Level Entertainment) “The Green Dragon”, On the Case with Paula Zahn: Discovery+, 2014. (Investigation Discovery & Scott Sternberg Productions, Inc.) “The Green Dragon”, Solved: Investigation Discovery, 2009 (Digital Ranch) “In the Bag”, Forensic Files: Film Rise & Tru TV, 2008, (Medstar Television) “Greg Must Choose Life In Prison or Death”, Red Tree Stories: Youtube, 2023 (Youtube) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Okay, where did you see blood out? On the pillows and the cups and on the bed. And then I started crying, but I tried the cold nine more month. We're in here. You ready? The back as I could. The boy you just heard is four-year-old Damien Huffman. Just one hour before this police interview was recorded.

Damien was living a quiet, happy life with his grandparents in rural Ohio. Raised by them since birth, Damien was their whole world, and they were his. But on March 27, 2003, everything changed. when Damien showed up at the front door of his daycare alone, covered in blood. 9-1-1-year emergency? The little boy just ran in a front door. How do you get to the daycare? Walked here.

How old is he? He's four years old and he walked there? Yes, he did. He said his grandparents are now, please, and they have blood all over them. No one knew what to make of those words, until investigators went and checked on his grandparents and saw both of them dead in their beds. With no suspects and no clear motive,

This murder in Ohio might have remained a mystery, if not for one clever four-year-old boy who pretended to be sleeping and became the only living witness. He saw something he shouldn't have, something that could solve the case, but could also cost him his life. I turned forward because I had my birthday already. What do you remember? An door opened. You've been to him? Yeah. And who did you see?

It's 2003, and the quiet rural town of Bradford, Ohio, four-year-old Damien lives with his great-grandparents. Jack and Linda Myers and his mother, Amber, on their 40-acre farm. Amber was just a teen when she had Damien in late 1998, so without hesitation, her grandparents, Jack and Linda, still full of energy, opened their home to Amber and her new son. They gave her a place to stay and helped raise Damien as their own. When Damien came along, he was just so precious. You know, they loved him, and they loved me enough to help me out,

and so they helped me with him. Jack and Linda had met later in life, blending their families when they got married in their 50s. Together, they ran a small pizza shop and quickly became pillars in their tight-knit community. I was living with Grandma and Grandpa because them being the kind loving people that they were, they took me in and cared for me and everything,

and Mom would come and see me. We were always having fun, laughing, and just carrying on and whatnot. Jack and Damien were the best of friends. Jack would sit him on his lap, and they'd be out there just driving around in the field, and Damien thought that was. the coolest thing ever.

Family meant everything to them. Their home was always full of kids, grandkids, and the smell of home-cooked food during frequent big family dinners. The farm was the place that everybody went and got together for all the family gatherings. It's a grandpa jacket, it's best. Oh, that's grandma, huh grandma? I mean, we all had great family things that we did together. We were all so close that you didn't put that step-parent or step-son into things.

You know, we were all just, really close. There was no reason to ever think that anything bad would go on there. Life was good for the Myers. Amber, now an adult, recently got married and was able to live in her own home, finally gaining the financial stability to fully support Damien by herself. The plan was clear. After Damien finishes preschool, he'll officially move out to be with his mother, just 30 minutes away from Jack and Linda's farm and start kindergarten in his new neighborhood, but on March 27, 2003, things take a disturbing turn for the worse, when at 915 a.m., a 911 dispatcher in Ohio receives an unusual call.

On the other end, a preschool teacher frantically explains that a little boy has just arrived at daycare. He's alone, in his pajamas, and he's covered in blood. The hospital is he just ran in a front door. How do you get to the daycare? Walked here. How old is he? He's four years old.

He walked there? Yes, he did. He said his grandparents are melting. Okay. And they have blood all over them. That's not a call we get every day. What could melting grain parents mean? Something was wrong.

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fearing the worst, and with a class full of children nearby, the dispatcher orders the teachers to go into full lockdown. Yeah, go ahead, lock your doors. Yeah, you don't want any of them kids outside. Oh, my God. We didn't know what we were dealing with. We didn't know if it was an injury or if it was an assault. Were there perpetrators at the scene?

I'm just assuming worst-case scenario. What was first noticed was the front door of the house was standing wide open. We tactically entered the door where we stopped, took cover, calling out anybody home, anybody here, and there was still no response. The house is quiet, too quiet. Guns drawn, the officers stepped through the front door, slowly making their way through the kitchen. Then they push open the bedroom door. Their worst fears are confirmed when they discover two bodies on the bed, not moving,

and covered in blood. identified as Jack and Linda, Damien's grandparents. I see that Jack was bleeding from the mouth and nose. He had a gunshot wound to the back of his head. I could see that he had suffered significant blood loss. I checked him for a carotid pulse. He obviously wasn't breathing and I determined he was deceased. Linda has suffered a gunshot wound directly to the face and also to the hand. They both felt a little bit warm to the touch, which tells me it hasn't been days that they've been deceased, it's probably more like hours. Unsure if the killer might still be at the scene, officers quickly search the house, room

by room. However, they confirm no one else is inside the home. The killer is still at large. Back at the daycare, Damien was placed under the care and supervision of police. His safety is the top priority. With no killer in custody and police just beginning their investigation, everyone is a suspect, even family. It's not safe to let Damien out of their sight.

Meanwhile, more officers arrive at Amber's house with the heartbreaking job of giving her the tragic news about what happened earlier in the day. The detectives told me that they were no longer with us, and I was confused. I said in Damien too, because the way that they worded it made me think my son wasn't here either. He was actually put in a protective custody status, and he was hidden from all. of his family members. Not knowing where Damien was or how he was feeling, there was nothing I could do. To comfort my son is the worst feeling in the world. As Damien remains hidden from his surviving family, for his own protection, news of the sudden

murders reaches the town and the surrounding Dark County, leaving everyone shocked. Nothing like this has ever happened here, and the residents are on edge, wanting answers. The bodies of Jack Myers and his wife Linda were found murdered in this farmhouse near Gettysburg. Both shot to death execution style. It's already made the news, and the people in the community think some monsters out there that is snuck into people's house and going to kill them. It seems like the only person who might know what actually happened is a four-year-old child, seemingly the only witness.

But before sharing Damien's side of the story, details from the crime scene and investigators are important to analyze. Initially considered a burglary gone wrong, this theory is quickly debunked after an initial review of the farm. We found money around the house. We found purses, credit cards, checkbooks. We found cash. We found electronics. Droars had not been opened or looked into. Theft does not appear to be the immediate motive here. Whatever happened at the Myers House isn't a random act of violence. It's a premeditated double homicide. It's personal. It is not normal. For a total stranger to just sneak into somebody's house overnight and murder somebody and walk out for no apparent reason.

So the investigation is going to start to center around those that are closest to Jack and Linda. However, none of the Myers' close connections turn up any promising leads. None of them, except for John. John is a longtime family friend and an outgoing next-door neighbor to the Myers. He believed he had some information for us, reference to our investigation. Okay. Why don't we just start out with, you tell us what you know. Make a long story pretty much short when me and him used to start off go hunting all the time.

Now me, me and Greg Myers. John seemed suspicious of Greg Myers. Greg isn't just anyone. He's Jack's own son from his first marriage. However, everyone close to the family finds it hard to imagine Greg as a suspect. The 25-year-old had just been the best man at his father's wedding to Linda. He's polite, friendly, and spent a large. amount of his childhood at the farm with his family. Greg was the one that had been closest

with his father for most of his life. Greg cared for his dad dearly. Didn't have no problems with anything about his dad. With no criminal history, Greg is, by all accounts, the opposite of a typical suspect. With a family of his own and no known issues with any of the victims, he seems like the last person who would be involved in something as horrific as this. However unlikely a suspect he may seem, Greg is still brought into the state. for questioning. When Greg first come into the interview room, he was acting like he was down or emotionally upset. I asked us for a trash can right away, said his stomach had been upset all day.

When asked about where he was at the time of his father and stepmother's murder, he provides a solid alibi. He was at work that morning, 30 miles away, even providing a stamped time sheet. Greg also wears shoes two sizes larger than the footprints found at the crime scene. Throughout the interrogation, Greg is cooperative. and expresses a strong desire to help, even enthusiastically offering to take a lie detector test, police were even personally allowed to search his home. Up to this point in the investigation, I mean, we had no information leading us to Greg. Although the current evidence seems like a dead end,

four-year-old Damien, the young boy who ran to get help on the day of the murders, still has his side of the story to tell. Once you tell me what your name is? Damien Huffman Myers. Oh, what are you, Damien? I turned forward because I had my birthday already. Okay. In the early morning hours of March 27, 2003, Damien woke up on his own.

This was unusual, since normally his grandparents were there to get him ready for preschool. At only four years old, Damien knew something wasn't right that morning. Worried he would be late for school, he made his way downstairs to check on his grandparents. I ran downstairs and I went in the bedroom when I was trying to wake him up. Were they just laying there in bed or where were they at? Those laid in bed melted. The horrifying scene was something no child should ever have to see or should even have the words to describe. To the young Damien, the tragedy of his grandparents in front of him was impossible to make sense of.

The only way he found to process it was to assume his grandparents were melting. The words he spoke left the detective stunned, having to take a few moments to collect their thoughts. As the full weight of what Damien said began to settle in, the detectives knew what this meant. You saw blood? Yeah. Okay, where did you see blood at? On the pillows and the cuffs and on the bed. The little boy grabbed the tissue and attempted to tend to his grandfather's injuries,

but it was too late. Jack and Damien were an inseparable duo, and Damien knew his grandpa would never have given up on him. Neither would his grandma. Damian decided to muster up his courage and do the same for his grandparents. Then I started crying. I tried to call 911. The little boy grabbed the phone tightly and dialed 911,

but nothing happened. The line was dead. As it turned out, the killer had cut the phone lines to make sure no one could call for help. Damien looked around the room, trying to find another solution to help his family. Remembering his daycare wasn't too far from the farm, he immediately headed out the front door and started to run. Over a mile down the road to his daycare, the one place he believed he could find help. With Damien's recounting of the story, there's an inconsistency in his retelling. With Damien's recounting of the story, there's an inconsistency in his retelling, versus the evidence.

evidence at the farm. In reality, blood was also found in Damien's bedroom. Either the four-year-old is misremembering the events of that morning, or there's more to the truth that he hasn't yet revealed. They come up with a different approach to go through everything again. Using a bit of ingenuity, they craft the layout of the farmhouse with a model home and dolls, hoping the props will help Damien open up further. They had little puppets of me and grandma and grandpa. I showed them what I did and what had happened. As Damien axed out his movements around the house that morning,

he reveals that while he was asleep in his bedroom, before going downstairs to check on his grandparents, there was a stranger in the house. I was in bed, I was sleeping. I heard the door click, and so I peaked because I didn't want to get caught, being up. I figured it was grandma or grandpa coming in and talk to me or something. With one eye opened, to his horror, Damien realized that it wasn't one of his

grandparents walking into his bedroom. It was a dark figure, a stranger, dressed in a green jumpsuit, holding a shotgun. I was absolutely terrified. I was scared. This dark green mass of a man pointed a gun, I just closed my eyes and eventually I opened my eyes to Pete and he was gone. This four-year-old had come pretty much face to face with somebody that had just killed his grandparents. As it turns out, just five miles away from the house, in the Stillwater River, cops recover a 12-gauge shotgun, but the serial number sanded off to prevent police from finding the owner.

However, it's very similar to the weapon described in Damien's testimony. The forensic examiner was able to restore the serial number. Detectives review a local newspaper where people buy and sell firearms. There, they find an older listing for a shotgun that matches the exact model of the weapon recovered from the river and listed on March 25th exactly two days before Damien survived the murders. With this lead, detectives are able to trace the ad to the gun's original owner. Went to the person's house who sold the Winchester shotgun. I said, do you remember who you sold it to it? His wife brings us a piece of notebook paper where she had wrote down the name Greg

Myers. The name shocks the investigators. Since the beginning, Greg seemed like the most unlikely suspect as a close family member to Damien himself and to the victims. Detectives dig into Greg's past, looking for any signs of motive, and they uncover something concerning. Greg had been struggling at work, and his finances were in serious trouble. We discovered that Greg was in financially dire straits. His house had been foreclosed on. He'd stopped making payments because he knew he was going to lose his house, and that he

really didn't know where he was going to go. But, after looking into their insurance policies, cops discovered that Greg would inherit the farm if his parents died. Suddenly, the motive for the murder becomes clear, and Greg is now the prime suspect in his father's and stepmother's murders. Only days after the murder, Greg is taken back to the station for questioning, this time with a more direct approach. They ask him about the will and the inheritance, pressing him on whether his financial trouble could have played a role in his parents' deaths. Greg is calm, but the tension in the room is clear. The detectives are determined to find out what really happened. You know you're holding some stuff back.

I'm trying to be as honest as I can't. Well, Greg, I don't think you are. I really don't. Okay? I really think you know something about this, and I really think you have knowledge. You do. No?

You do. No, I do not. I know you've asked people for a gun because you want to kill your dad. Okay? There's a four-year-old boy that's seen this, okay? You didn't hurt him, so you got some or more. With only circumstantial evidence pointing to Greg, though, a first-degree murder charge will be tough to prove in court.

However, upon later searches of the river where they had uncovered the shotgun, comes something even more disturbing. A suspicious, floating trash bag, tied shut. Inside the bag is one item perfectly matching Damien's description, a green jumpsuit. The bag also contains more damning evidence. Latex gloves with a fingerprint on it later matched to Greg, 12-gauge slugs exactly like those used in the murders, and tennis shoes two and a half sizes smaller than Greg's feet, but exactly like the footprints found at the window where the killer entered the farmhouse.

Sergeant Mark Whitaker called him for me. They made an arrest and that it was Greg, and I just went to my knees on my kitchen floor. And I cried my eyeballs out because I was... so close with him. That hit me like a rock. I just couldn't wrap my head around him of all people. I just didn't believe that Greg could do that. In April of 2004, Greg Myers goes on trial for the first-degree murders of his father,

Jack, and stepmother, Linda. Despite the overwhelming evidence against him, Myers pleads not guilty. His entire family filled the courtroom, sisters, brothers, and family friends who had once gathered for joyful family occasions. Now they sat in shock, witnessing the man they thought they knew on trial for murder. Seeing Greg, he didn't show remorse for anything. He didn't look at any of us. On April 27, 2004, after just a few hours of deliberation, a dark county jury found Greg Myers guilty of two counts of aggravated murder. Greg Myers is sentenced to two life terms without the chance of parole. It was hard.

Because I still couldn't believe that it was Greg. I still felt like there's no way sometime I'm going to wake up from this dream. I just never would have thought he could do anything like that. To know that he did this all out of greed, that cuts like a knife. It was terrible, and I hope he regrets it a lot. He deserves to be there for the rest of his life for taking them from us. With Greg Myers convicted and justice finally served, Damien's long nightmare finally comes to an end. During the investigation, Damien was kept from his mother, and with his grandparents gone,

it was difficult to stay strong, but detectives worked tirelessly to uncover the truth, save Damien, and make sure his family got justice. The four-year-olds showed immense bravery for such a young boy, inspiring everyone around him. Damien was able to reunite with his mother, Amber, and in a bittersweet turn of events, fulfilled the plan she had made with her family that same year of the murders. The little boy finally moves in with her and starts kindergarten at his new school, supported by the loving memory of his grandparents. I was finally able to get Damien back home.

I can't put into words what that was like. I think about this boy every day because it's just one of those cases that you can't dismiss it out of your mind. Damien now is 22 years old, and he's, He's doing amazing. He did great in school. He's grown up to be a hardworking, great young man. We're all proud of him. We all love him very much.

Jack and Linda were the heart and soul of the family, the glue that blended their family and kept them united. In their own way, they found strength in each other, a love and closeness that doesn't always follow the rules of a typical family, but still holds throughout time and any adversity. Myers' legacy lives on through Damien himself. Now a young man, he carries forward the love, strength, and spirit his grandparents instilled in him. Despite the darkness of the past, he honors them with every step, making his family proud.