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The Grim Secrets of a Fractured Family: Violence, Deceit, and the Shadow of Madness
What happens when the fabric of a family is torn apart, revealing a nightmarish tapestry of violence and deceit? The story of Timmy, a special needs adult entangled in his parents' acrimonious divorce, unveils this grim reality. As we trace the ominous path leading from tense familial arguments to a string of disturbing incidents, the tension escalates—Timmy's violent outbursts grow more perilous by the day. His journey through the criminal justice system, a cycle of incarceration teaching him all the wrong lessons, and the subsequent tragedy that befalls his mother, will leave your heart pounding. The disquieting pattern of missing cats at his grandmother's home suggests a deeper darkness within Timmy, opening a Pandora's box of troubling concerns for the care of special needs individuals in our society.
Can you imagine the secrets that lurk behind the walls of an ostensibly normal home? Our investigation takes a macabre turn, leading to a backyard exhumation that sends shivers down the spine. Follow the intricate web spun by Timmy, the deceitful narrative involving an attorney caught in a lethal trap of his own making, and the FBI's pivotal role in unveiling the shocking truth. The case unfolds to reveal a haunting tale of a mind ensnared by its own delusions and the chilling fate awaiting both the mastermind attorney, Michael Branston III, and Timmy. Listening to the unraveling of these deadly secrets in the dead of night, you'll find this episode not only chilling to the bone but also a sobering reflection on mental health's intersection with law and order.
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Speaker 2:Tonight, another true crime brought to you by the Master of Creep. Why? The year was 1984, and Timmy's parents were in a heated divorce. The biggest problem seemed to be concerning around Timmy, a special needs child. Timmy would probably need adult supervision his entire life and his parents disagreed on moving forward with this dilemma. Timmy's dad wanted to put him in a unique program that would allow him to live independently, with the help of special communities that provided housing. Timmy was approaching 18 years old. His father was ready for him to move out. He had already spent 18 years raising Timmy and now he wanted a break and, on the other hand, timmy's mother wanted him to stay at home and she was prepared to take care of him for as long as possible. The divorce was finalized and the dad moved on with his life, cutting all ties with his son and his ex-wife.
Speaker 2:When Timmy turned 18 years old, he was 5'11 and he weighed about 225 pounds. He was much larger than his mom and it was getting harder to control Timmy's emotional flare-ups. Timmy was intellectually about 11 years old, stuck in an adult's body. His temper tantrums went from being verbal to physical. He often would push his mom around and she started fearing that this was going to continue and get worse. She thought maybe her ex-husband was right. She now realized that she couldn't control Timmy. Reasoning just didn't work, so she started calling the cops. When Timmy would get physical and soon Timmy became a regular resident at the county jail the police would come and get Timmy and arrest him until he calmed down, at which point they would release him. This continued for another six years, at which point the pushing turned into hitting and choking. The police would arrest Timmy and send him into long-term prison for up to six months at a time. Now, while Timmy was sitting in jail, his mother got some needed relief, but then Timmy would get out and the abuse would start up again. By the time Timmy turned 30 years old, he had spent more than four years in jail for attacking his mother. She was getting older and Timmy was getting bigger and meaner.
Speaker 2:While in jail, timmy met several other bad inmates and started observing their crime habits. Timmy learned he didn't need to ask his mom, he could just steal it. The other inmates taught Timmy to go into stores and hide things in his jacket and then walk out without paying for them. Timmy couldn't drive, but he could ride his bike, and so he started riding his bike to a bar that was close to his home. He was happy that he met some of his old cell buddies and he started spending more time with them. And as time went on, timmy started doing crimes with his buddies.
Speaker 2:Timmy would agree to break in and steal jewelry and his so-called friends would buy it from him for pennies on the dollar. For example, if Timmy stole a gold ring worth $1,500, why? They would give him $5 for it, and since Timmy was a special needs adult, he thought this was a great price. He didn't sell everything. One of the things that he stole and kept was a Nintendo game box, and his mother asked where he got the game. He would lie and tell her that one of his friends let him have it. He started collecting lots of things and his mother knew that his friends were not just giving him that stuff, why something else was going on.
Speaker 2:Timmy's mom finally got him to tell her where he was getting all of his new stuff. Of course she got furious and started yelling at him. Timmy pushed her back and she tripped on the carpet and fell, hitting her head on the corner of a coffee table. Timmy called 911 and told them that his mother tripped and fell. Of course he left out the part where he pushed her, and the police and ambulance arrived and took his mother to the hospital. His mother suffered significant brain damage and went into a coma and never recovered.
Speaker 2:Timmy had nowhere to go and he couldn't live on his own. The police questioned Timmy about the accident, but he stuck with his story that she accidentally tripped and fell on her own. Many officers from the department suspected that Timmy killed his mother, but there just wasn't enough evidence to make a formal charge. Even though Timmy wasn't charged with murdering his mom, he had no place to live. He wasn't mentally stable enough to live on his own and the authorities were thinking about putting Timmy into a mental hospital, probably for the rest of his life. In retrospect, that would have been the best place for him and society. However, this is not what happened.
Speaker 2:His grandmother stepped up and accepted the responsibility of looking after Timmy. Why? She had no idea what she was getting herself into. She had long talks with her daughter that's Timmy's mother and she knew that Timmy was hard to live with, but she didn't know what she was getting into and she also didn't know that she was letting a killer, live with her. She was used to living with her seven cats, most of whom were outdoor kitties, who came to the back door to eat every day. However, timmy didn't like cats, and soon they started disappearing, one at a time, why this was the first sign that his new living arrangement would not work out very well for his grandmother. No one really knew what happened to her cats, but she had a feeling that Timmy was somehow involved, since his grandmother lived on the outskirts of town.
Speaker 2:Timmy was more isolated, but he did have a computer and he contacted some of his old friends that he had met in jail. His so-called friends knew that Timmy was a couple of beers short of a six-pack, and of course they took advantage of his willingness to commit crimes and sell the spoils for pennies on the dollar, and this worked out well for his criminal friends. So now they just let Timmy take all the risks, breaking into homes and businesses, and they got the loot for next to nothing. They would stop by and pick Timmy up at his house, and then they would tell him which homes and businesses they wanted to rob. These were the only friends that Timmy had, so he was more than eager to please them at any cost.
Speaker 2:Timmy is introduced to the worst people in society worst people in society. Timmy's sideline business of breaking in and stealing things became more profitable as the days turned into weeks, turned into months. It seems that one of his cellmates introduced Timmy to a new friend, someone lower than pond scum, an absolute degenerate. Yes, you may have already guessed I'm talking about a lawyer, michael Branson III, an attorney specializing in wills and insurance claims. Why, he's slicker than a pocket full of pudding. This lawyer would help people write their wills and make him the administrator, and then he would have them killed and take their money. Michael would spend most of his time figuring out ways to legally steal money from elderly people who had worked hard all of their lives. Why, if this guy were any more crooked, he'd have to move to Washington DC. This guy would steal his mama's egg money.
Speaker 2:The combination of Timmy and Michael meant trouble for society. Michael quickly determined that if Timmy's brains were ink he couldn't dot an I. So Michael started hiring Timmy to do all of his dirty work. First it was little things like stealing cars and running them into telephone poles for the insurance money, or maybe setting fires to homes. Timmy made more than five bucks. Michael would pay him $100 per job and all he had to do is keep his mouth shut. The jobs got bigger and more involved and Timmy started killing people for money.
Speaker 2:Michael hired Timmy to kill people and then get rid of the bodies. He taught Timmy how to use barrels of battery acid to melt the bodies of his victims so that there would be no evidence his victims, so that there would be no evidence. Michael owned a machine shop, a business he legally stole from an elderly man during a liability lawsuit. This shop had many metal barrels in the back ready for more bodies, and each time Timmy would kill someone, he would get rid of the body and he would earn a crisp $100 bill. Things started going south when Timmy didn't dispose of the bodies the way that Michael taught him how to do, but instead he started burying his victims in his grandmother's backyard burying his victims in his grandmother's backyard. After several months, timmy's personal graveyard had seven unmarked graves. His grandmother asked him about all the piles of dirt that started occupying a portion of the backyard and Timmy said that he was looking for buried treasure. Timmy said that he was looking for buried treasure and his grandmother was satisfied with that answer because she knew that Timmy was a few fries short of a happy meal, so she didn't question him about it anymore. She believed that at least he was doing something harmless.
Speaker 2:I'm going to tell you about Timmy's last criminal job. It seems that Timmy was hired to kill a young woman who had just inherited several million dollars because her father had died. Her husband decided that he would like to get his hands on her money, so he called Michael to help him get a big insurance policy for her. Michael offered to help, for 35%. In fact, he would get the woman insured and then killed. Michael said that he had the perfect person for the job. Yes, it was another job for Timmy. Timmy would kill the woman and collect another crisp $100 bill.
Speaker 2:But this job is different. Michael told Timmy that we needed the body for proof that she was dead. The insurance policy required positive proof and they couldn't just dispose of the body like they did the rest of the deaths. Plus, this had to look like an accident, not a crime, so that the insurance company would pay more. A car accident might meet the requirements, but how could we get Timmy to cause a car accident? Timmy doesn't drive. Somehow we need to get the woman in the same car as Timmy and then she needs to have a fatal accident. The husband asked well, why do we even need Timmy? Why does he need to be involved? Michael said in case the accident didn't kill her, timmy would have to finish the job.
Speaker 2:So the plan was hatched and the husband hired Timmy to do the simple yard work at his home, and then he was to ask his wife to drive Timmy back home. So they rigged up the car's brakes so that when she pushed on it hard it would fail. They also rigged the seat belts to fail upon impact. Timmy was supposed to sit in the back and reach over the seat and grab the steering wheel and plow into a tree on the side of the road. Timmy had a bunch of yard tools with him, including a machete, so the idea was to make it look like the machete flew forward, cutting off the head of the young woman. So the plan was put into play. But the accident just barely injured the woman and Timmy was supposed to chop her head off with a single blow from the back of her neck.
Speaker 2:Timmy was told to stay with the car and tell the police about the accident, because having an eyewitness would make it easier to collect from the insurance company, and the police arrived to find the woman unconscious and Timmy just slightly injured. Timmy told the police that the woman had turned around while driving to talk to him and she had hit a tree. The ambulance took both Timmy and the woman to the hospital, where the woman was pronounced dead upon arrival, the coroner reported that the woman died from multiple lacerations, which isn't unusual from a car accident. However, the 87 cuts matched the machete, which made no sense at all. It was quickly determined that this was not an accident. This was a homicide, so Timmy was arrested for murder. The woman went to a funeral home and Timmy went to jail.
Speaker 2:The police started investigating Timmy's story, which began to collapse as soon as he tried to explain how the woman got 87 machete cuts during the accident. The police went to the grandmother's house where Timmy lived and searched his room for evidence. They found a shovel and piles of dirt in the backyard, and that's where they dug up seven fresh graves to find people who had been missing during the past year. Timmy's secret was now coming to light. The FBI was called in to help and they found all the evidence they needed to put Timmy away forever.
Speaker 2:Yes, the FBI was on the case. The organization that used to investigate riddle crimes before Donald Trump came along came along. All of the bodies were identified and the common thread was always pointing back to the attorney, michael Branston III. Michael was arrested and found guilty and sentenced to life without parole. Timmy was found guilty of murder and he's going to spend the rest of his life in a mental hospital for the criminally insane. And that's how it all ended. Michael spends most of his time trying to not drop the bar of soap in the shower and Timmy spends most of his time watching Spongebob cartoons.
Speaker 1:As the casket closes on another creepy episode, we bid you farewell to the shadows that danced upon your fears. Oh, and thank you for joining us on this creepy journey into the unknown, where the darkness whispers secrets and the silence echoes within your soul. Find us online for some extra creepy content at creepyshow content at creepyshow. And if you happen to make it through the night, don't forget to share this podcast with someone you want to terrorize. Good night, my little creepies. Sleep with one eye open, for the night is long and full of horror. You.