Part 2: The Heartbreaking MacIvor Family Murders

It's been almost a year at this point, and investigators have exhausted all the tips, all for leads, and now they started digging into Michael's business. He had no longer been working in Miami at the actual Tamiami Airport, as part of his everyday routine. As the owner, he was currently working from home. They wanted to account for his whereabouts in the weeks, leading up to the murders. So that's what they do next. It wasn't missy, there weren't many places. Maybe the grocery store, the local gas station, the doctor's office work, and then back home. It's a different story when it came to Michael, and this posed a problem because investigators found out where Michael had been recently. This makes them turn back to Michael as a potential target. While missy is spending her time with her students, her friends, going to PTA meetings, Michael is flying back and forth from Central America, and investigators want to get a complete picture of what Michael's business dealings entailed. They go to his older brother, Jim, who is also in the aviation industry, and Jim tells investigators that their father had had some suspicion that Michael could have been caught up in a bad business deal, and now Jim's thinking the very same thing. During the 80s and 90s, Miami was considered the drug capital of the world, and Florida was notorious for the importation of drugs. And how does that occur? Well, one way is by air, and that means someone needs access to airplanes. What's even better? An airplane that doesn't have to land at an international airport with a bunch of security, it's much better to land at a private air strip. So was his love for aviation the only reason Michael wanted to live in Tevernero? Sometimes locals did not voluntarily get involved in the drug business. These cartels, they would send smugglers over and threaten people just like Michael, and these people are dangerous. Michael may not have had a choice. It's also a really fast way to make some money, some big money. This seems like a very viable lead, and it's the biggest one they've had in a long time, especially because Michael had just flown to Belize just about a week before his death, and supposedly he was going there to buy a plane. This particular area was known for drug trafficking and money laundering, and when Michael gets back to Florida, he made a plan to go back to Belize a couple weeks later to fly home his new plane. But that plan falls through because he's found dead. So investigators wonder if there were two sides to Michael's business. Perhaps the airplane repair business was a front for something much deeper, and the way that the MacGyvers were killed raised suspicions. The drug cartels are known for being ruthless. They definitely wouldn't care about a woman or a child, so Jim tells the investigators that that trip to Belize. It wasn't, like it was unexpected. It wasn't planned. All he knew was that a plane just all out of the blue became available for sale at a great price, and Michael flew there to complete this transaction. And then he says something that took the investigators by surprise. Jim explains that he'd given Michael all of the savings, all the money that he owned to buy this plane. Michael told him that this deal was legit. He was buying it from the police government. They had an auction, Michael won the auction, and detectives are not so sure. The story itself just sounded a little bit fabricated. Instead, they believe the plane was purchased illegally from the drug cartels. And there's another issue. When they run the plane's registration number, it belonged to another plane. It had been confiscated by the Belize government and sold off, but this doesn't mean it was a government plane, not at all. Clearly, it belonged to someone who it was taken away from. And perhaps that someone wanted it back along with all the money that Michael paid for it, and not only that. When they started looking over some paperwork that was in connection with the deal, the price that Michael told Jim he was paying was $17,000, but it was actually $34,000. If Michael couldn't even afford $17,000, where in the world would he get the $34,000? Where did he get the money? Because when they investigated it didn't come out of Michael's bank account, and this was concerning. And if you think that this is confusing and convoluted, and sometimes when I tell this part of my people are probably leaving because it's too much, just wait. Because as the investigators dig deeper, they find out that at one point in his career, Michael crashed a plane during a landing operation, and during that investigation, the location of the plane was in this rural area. They searched the plane, and they found remnants of marijuana. There were some seeds, there were some other things. This didn't constitute a crime, but they were under the impression that there had been marijuana in that entire plane at one point, and that this was part of a smuggling operation. So at this point, Detective Powell has no choice but to fly to Belize. He needs to get as much information as possible about this business deal, and as he travels to Central America, word is traveling around Key West. News articles are coming out. They're accusing Michael of being involved in the drug trade, and his family is devastated. They didn't raise their son like that. His reputation is being dragged through the mud. Their last name is being dragged through the mud without any proof at this point. Losing their son was horrific enough, but to have him painted as a shady criminal with, you know, these crooked business deals, and that, either reason that he ended up getting himself as innocent wife and his unborn child killed was too much. And of course, investigators want to believe that Michael was on a straight narrow, believe his family, but they know better. Families have a tendency to put their best foot forward for those that they love. Instead, these investigators have to rely on their investigative skills, so they turn back to Belize and Detective Powell's intel. He meets with the president of Belize, and it's determined that Michael did legally purchase the plane, and that's fine, but the plane itself had a very bad history, and it was indeed used for drug smuggling. Powell decides to interview people in the area. And surprisingly, many of the locals remember Michael. Everyone says positive things about him. How he is such a nice person, and no one had anything bad to say. They didn't know why anyone would want her, but someone comes forward with a conflicting story. Someone that claims they're connected with South Florida drug dealers, he claims that two Colombian brothers that work with this notorious drug smuggler named Nelson VAO. The informant says that the plane actually was sold to these brothers for a quarter million dollars, and that Michael never delivered the plane as a result. These brothers tortured the McIvers as revenge and to cover their asses and get their money back. So investigators quickly begin to follow this lead. I know, I know this is getting deep, and maybe it seems like it's going nowhere, and you may want to stop watching, but imagine how difficult it was on the investigators, because the family want answers, and they are required to follow up on leads like this. It's too bad, because it didn't pan out. It turns out the informant is lying. They made up the whole thing, because they had been arrested on a drug charge, and they were hoping if they gave this information to the investigators, he would get out of jail. It's pathetic, and investigators are defeated. They've spent so much time on this lead, devoted so many resources, and it turns out to be completely worthless. The family thinks, okay, we can finally clear Michael's name in regard to being involved in drug smuggling, but that didn't happen. Because although the story from the informant in the panel, investigators still think that there's some kind of connection between that private airstrip and drug trafficking involving Michael, so they decide to go back and search locally, and everyone in Michael's life becomes a suspect, especially his brother and business partner, Dem. After all, he was the one that emptied out his bank account, his savings account, to purchase this airplane and believes. They start to think it was Jim. Maybe Jim was involved in the drug business. Maybe Jim was buying a plan to continue this drug trafficking ring, so they begin following him everywhere to and from his home. They went everywhere he went, and Jim starts to notice, and they notice he's acting strange, and they can't tell whether it was out of fear, because if this happened to Michael, could something happen to Jim and his family? Could the cartel be targeting him next? Or was he scared because he did this to his brother and his family? He finally tells them, you know what? Just take a DNA test for me because it's not me. Imagine setting your makeup, then forgetting it's even theirs. Meet new grippy setting mist from Mavily New York. Gel to mist technology locks in your look for up to 24 hours, with flexible all-day comfy grip. No tightness, no stickiness, no residue. Just plump, dewy hydrated skin that still feels like your skin. Try new grippy setting mist from Mavily New York. Maybe it's Mavily! Period and the story, it was completely frustrating and sad for the MacGyver family to have one of Michael's own brothers accused of his heinous crime. Their whole family is, you know, in these articles and the media, but ultimately his name is cleared. His DNA is is not a match. I have to say they were doing their due diligence and it must continue because days, weeks, months are going by with no answers. And at this point, Michael sister Sharon pays to have billboards placed all over the town. She has a reward for a quarter million dollars for information. I don't know if that's like a coincidence with it. I'm not really sure. But you think that something big would come for this, but sadly, there was like one tip that they believe was credible about a guy in a bar that was in a bathroom stall crying and someone hears them and he's talking about what happened to Missy saying, you know, "so you don't deserve this." And it turns out he went to school with her. Once again, they follow this lead. It goes nowhere. The DNA doesn't match. It's a whole whole thing over again. Nothing to do with this crime. Now, I do not want this video to be dragging on unnecessarily, but I think it's important to at least make you understand every lead where it took investigators and how they finally connect the dots to find the real killer and we're getting so close, we're getting closer to not only knowing who did this, but like I said in the beginning, how and why? And that's probably the worst part. Investigators finally drop the theory about Michael being involved with drugs, especially when his family is speaking out publicly. Sharon specifically making it clear that Michael wasn't that type of person, but what is that type of person? Because anyone can get involved in this, but they said he would never, ever put his family in danger for money. This man was simple. He had a simple backyard wedding. He wasn't hourly a show off by any means. Yes, he owned a plane. He lived in a gated community, but he worked very hard to achieve what he did legally. So the detective spent two years already investigating this drug angle. They were at a total and complete loss. So the FBI is now involved in the case and they turn back to profiler Dale Hinman for guidance. It was then that they got a potentially totally different picture of their killer. A lot of factors are taken into account when creating this criminal profile. This one, my favorite parts, when the FBI does this, the most significant factor in this case was that someone would do this to a woman that was eight months pregnant. It takes a specific type of individual to commit such a heartless crime. Dale believed Missy was the target. The way that Michael was kind of pushed to the side, subdued and discarded, but the perpetrator took his time with Missy made Dale lean toward this being a sexual crime. She believed that the person who did this was obsessed with Missy. She also theorized that this person had experience in home burglaries because they knew to cut the phone lines and the fact that they were not scared to go into an occupied dwelling at night and risk being confronted by the homeowners and meant something that he was confident in his abilities that he didn't need to even bring anything. Instead, he knew he could rely on things found at the home. She thinks the offender had been stalking or watching Missy that he was aware of her daily schedule as well as the exterior of their home and where her bedroom was located. The reason she said that he was probably obsessed was because the fact that he didn't care Michael would be there. He had to have Missy no matter what and he was willing to risk being confronted by her athletic husband. He was confident that his urges and his needs were stronger than Michael's will to survive and protect Missy. He was prepared to take him on, unlike Michael, who was caught off guard. So the FBI concluded that this person is also local to the area. Someone who could have bumped into Missy on not one occasion but multiple times getting to know her in some way. So they were looking for a man with a criminal past who's had contact with Missy in one way or another. So they interview Missy's family and friends once again and this time specifically asking about where she went on a regular basis and whether she'd ever talked about anyone that had a romantic interest in her or creeped her out, made her feel uncomfortable in any way. As I mentioned earlier, Missy didn't go many places. The grocery store, the gas station, the local school events, and back home. So they narrowed down places and then they paid them a visit. They find out everything who works there, whether they had surveillance cameras, and they go through records of any of the residents of the keys who have criminal backgrounds that include burglaries or violent crime. Finally, Sharon puts something together. A few weeks before she was murdered, Missy said something that Sharon didn't really think twice about at the time but now it seems there could be more to it. Missy just mentioned in passing but she said that there was a guy that was working at the local gas station and he tried hitting on her. But then Sharon recalls and this was crazy but the night before Missy was murdered, she mentioned this guy again. She said this time he was like making advances toward her and she's clearly pregnant like bellies out of here and she thought it was gross. She said something like who does that? And Sharon really doesn't think that this comment is that significant and Missy doesn't seem that concerned. She's just annoyed and she went on to say yeah it made me feel kind of strange and Sharon agreed. She was like it's creepy, it's odd. She asked Missy well what did you do? And she said that she told the guy she didn't like it and not to do it again. And to leave her alone and then she added my husband knows you and you know my husband. This gas station was the closest one to the Magavers home. It was under a mile away. They went to it all the time. Missy would go by there every morning. It was her routine to get coffee on her way to work. So investigators turned back to the video that they took from the crime scene because now it's been like over two years. They don't have the crime scene anymore. The house is owned by somebody else but they're looking through the video to see if there's any connections to this gas station and sure enough on the dresser they find receipts from that exact gas station and now they have a solid connection not just word of mouth but proof that Missy was a regular patron of this gas station. Remember that this is a small town. It's not like they're looking for a needle in a haystack. Even the police frequent this gas station and sure enough there's a detective that thinks he knows who their potential killer may be. His name is Thomas Mitchell Overton. This detective he'd been working on some burglary cases many of which point to Overton and he is hellbent on catching this guy. You could call him obsessed and he wants to put him behind bars. The main reason is because this detective he'd been working on some burglary cases many of which point to Overton and he is hellbent on catching this guy. You could call him obsessed and he wants to put him behind bars and the main reason is because he was linked to a murder and unsolved murder that occurred a year before the MacGyvers. In May of 1990 there was a 20-year-old girl, Rachelle Sirrett. She was last seen when her father dropped her off at the local movie theater in Tavenir. Two weeks later, hikers stumbled upon her body. In the woods wrapped in a tarp and it turns out she had told her father previously that there was a guy working at the theater that creeped her out. He was coming under her and she kept turning him down and he wouldn't leave her alone. It's crazy though. I know so many people including myself that have been in these situations. But guess what? When they opened the tarp and they found popcorn kernels inside and I know what you're thinking. These could have come from Michelle. She could have definitely eaten popcorn that night but what's crazy is that Thomas Overton worked at that theater. Imagine setting your makeup then forgetting it's even theirs. Meet new grippy setting mist from Maybelline New York. Gel to mist technology locks in your look for up to 24 hours with flexible all-day comfy grip. Just plump, dewy hydrated skin. That still feels like your skin. Try new grippy setting mist from Maybelline New York. Maybe it's Maybelline. Detectives have always believed that Overton killed Rochelle but there was no evidence to prove it. There was no DNA to link him to the crime but what stood out to them was how rude he was in the interview. Not only that, when they said he might have been the last person to ever see Rochelle alive, he smiled. That's sick. It's like he knew he was. Like, ha ha, you're right I was. It just seemed really off. Now comparing what happened to Rachel, to what happened to Missy, they make another observation. The women had similar characteristics. They looked alike in a number of ways and both women had overtly rejected Thomas Overton and then they were found dead. Could this have been his trigger? If they had been nice all the times before and he spared them until they turned him down, is this what happened? And that's scary. That someone could snap like that and makes you think we come in contact with so many random strangers every day. Can you imagine being face-to-face with one like this. 36 year old, Thomas Overton. checked off so many of the detective's boxes. He's already served time in prison for armed robbery. He was a burglar in the area. He worked at the gas station where Missy stopped every day. He worked at the theater where another woman complained about being hit on by a creepy man and both women end up dead and not only that. He was known to burglarize homes during storms. He usually struck around 3 a.m. and liked to cut phone lines. Dale Hinman says he matches the profile of the perpetrator. It doesn't mean much. It's all circumstantial. It seems easy like they can say, "Hey, Thomas, give us your DNA so that we can compare it to the crime scene, but that is not how it works." They have to have a valid legal reason. Unless he gives it to them willingly, but they also don't want to tip him off. It is April 1993 and they have their most likely suspect to date. But wait until you hear what happens. What he says to police, what they find out, because it is terrifying. I couldn't sleep after I read some of this stuff. They bring over to NN. They interview him about Missy. He says he's sooner before, but he has nothing to do with the murder. They ask him for his DNA. He says no. They had to get him into custody to get his DNA. They had nothing to hold him on. And I hate when they say that in these cases, like you have nothing to hold him on. I wish the law was different, but you know what? It's gotta be the way it is. Gotta have a fair trial. Gotta have a fair chance. Innocent until proven guilty, proven guilty. They try to locate his previous records, military records, jail records, anything, but he'd never had his DNA take in. And Florida law states that police can obtain a court order to request a DNA sample if someone is arrested on a felony charge. So they wait. Hoping that their suspect will commit another crime. They're following him as much as they could, just waiting for him to mess up. And then six months later, they get a break in the case. It was 3am. An officer saw a man, suspicious man riding his bike. I don't know what that means. Just read the report. Don't know what it means. And the officer stops him and asks him for his ID. It's Thomas over 10. He says he's leaving a party. That's it. That's all it's fine. Let's him go in his way. 15 minutes later, a call comes in from a girl that lived at the house that over 10 was coming out of. The girl is frantic. She says she's so scared she can't get up. Someone was in her house. There was a message written in lipstick on her bathroom mirror or something like, I'm going to kill you. And I might be wrong. But as I understood it from what I read, it said, get a dog, get an alarm. Next time you won't be so lucky. So weird. Next to her pillow was the head of a stuffed parrot that she had in her living room. He had ripped the head off and placed it next to her. And that's insane. He's just playing these games of people's lives. Like, these are real people. And yes, of course, overtends in that area, but they can't let him come to that incident. It's ox, but they can't. But then not too long after that in Naples, Florida. This is three hours away. A man is seen running through a cemetery at night and he's wearing army fatigues. There's a new trespassing sign and the cops sees him. He starts running faster. So the cop calls for backup. And they arrest him because when they question him, he drops a bag. Inside our burglary tools, they have wire cutters, flashlights, gloves, and a notebook with surveillance notes describing homes in the area. This is a wealthy area. This is how Overton worked. He canvassed areas. He found victims. He burglarized them. And then he went back home to his home base in the keys. Pretty smart, I guess. He's captured and arrested. And Monroe County back in the keys are alerted. And the Naples police try to get that DNA willingly. But he refuses. And trespassing is not a felony. So they let him go. And he goes straight back to the keys. And you're probably as frustrated as I am. And the detectives were because they're even more frustrated years have gone by and they still haven't nailed him down. They still haven't eye on him. But the case is going cold. The MacGyver family, they kept checking in from time to time. And there's no news for years, no news. Until 1996. And I hope you're still here. Thank you to those that are. They get help from another criminal. It's been five years since the murders. And I'm going to go through this quickly. But there are important things here that I have to get to. What happens? Is this criminal? He's close. He's like a close friend, so to speak, to Overton. And he wants to get a charge off his record. So he gives police information that Overton is planning a burglary on a stormy night in the uppercase. And it's coming up soon. He gives police all the info, the address, the time, the date, and the cops hide out of that residence waiting on Overton and sure enough. They see him. The middle of the night pouring rain. He's wearing all black like a ninja outfit. He's carrying a bag full of those same tools to burglarize a home. And what's the first thing that Overton does? He cuts the phone lines. They move in. They arrest him in this time. He's carrying a firearm. And in Florida, it is a third degree felony for a convicted felon to be in possession of a firearm. And this third degree felony is also when it's in connection with a burglary. And he intended to burglarize this home clearly. October 6, 1996, Thomas Overton is arrested on a burglary charge. And finally, they think we can get a warrant for his DNA. But it's going to take a couple months, at least maybe more. Wendy's questioned. They asked him about Missy. And once again, he denies having anything to do with it. But once he's incarcerated, this man tries to break out of jail. And I don't even know how this happens. But he gets a hold of a razor for shaving, and for shaving his face. And they allow him to have it. And I guess they think it's safe because it's a plastic razor. But you're given it to a criminal. So he grabs a wire. That's coming out of an air conditioning box somewhere in the jail. And this man uses it to pop that razor blade right out of that plastic housing. And what does he do? I mean, he doesn't cut himself out of jail. He cuts himself. No, no, no, no, no. This coward is not trying to do himself any damage. He's just trying to cut himself a little bit. I don't know if to die. Just enough to be sent to the hospital because his plan was he gets out of jail. And he beats up the guards and he runs like when they're transporting him. However, when the detectives find out, they decide to send EMTs to the jail so that he won't leave. And as they're working on him, someone, someone smart grabs a piece of bloody gauze for the detectives. So now they have this DNA and it was a perfect match to the McIvers, perfect match 100% perfect match. And finally, oh, wait, I have something important to tell you. Here's where things get crazy from this point on. And I wanted you to stay for this next part. They know they've got him, but they want to see if they can get him to confess because the more evidence you have, the better, they bring him in to the interview room. Their plan is that they're going to pretend that they want his help. Like they want to question him on other burglaries and murders that he didn't commit in the area. And if he knows who committed them or if he has anything to do with them, but really they're waiting to ask him about the McIvers once again. Imagine setting your makeup. 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This is a career criminal. He catches on what they're trying to do. So he's done talking. He doesn't know that they already have his DNA match. So they know he's lying. And that's when they let him know. But this part made me sad. detective says that that was a viable business. maybe that that baby would have been five years old. And that hurts me. - When you cut yourself and we got that blood, it matched that blood up, but that's saying, it was left at that crossing, it matched positive to you. And essentially cut your own throat. We got you in that bed, on that night, with those feet, if you look at a triple homicide, that was a viable bed that baby'd be five years old today. - This next part annoys me. He won't respond. He just keeps saying, like, I'm ready to go back to myself, but don't worry, we'll find out exactly what happened. November 16th, 1996, Overton is finally arrested and charged with the murders of Missy, Michael, and Baby Kyle. It's not until October 17th, 1998. Two years after his arrest, the Thomas Overton's trial begins. The star witnesses are two jailhouse informants, and I know you may be thinking, they're not credible, but you'd be surprised. You'd be surprised what these criminals confess to other criminals. You have to listen to this. The first informant was William Green. He testified that Overton had admitted to him, that he had, quote, "dunny burglary" at a real exclusive wealthy, wealthy area down in the keys. The guy had his own airplane and private airway, and he could land his plane in the friard, unquote. Overton further told Green that when he went into the house, he started fighting with the lady, who he later described as, quote, "a fat bitch," and that she, quote, "jumped on his back," and he had to waste her. Green also testified that Overton stated, he struggled with another person in the house. Further, Overton spoke to him about specific things that happened when he committed the burglaries, and one of these was cutting the phone lines before going in the house, to stop the victims from calling the police, but also in case they had an alarm system, and he always wore gloves, and he would bring a kit with him. It had a gun, a knife, gloves, and disguises. Green also says that Overton told him the best time to commit a burglary was during a power outage or a severe storm. Okay, fine, you heard that, but here's the part of him waiting to share, and I couldn't do it until now, and it's not good, it's terrible, it's sickening, it's the worst part of the story, and it's one of the worst things I've ever read, and I hope you're ready for it. It's a lot to take in. I'm gonna be reading this verbatim right from the legal documents that are related to this trial. Whenever there's an exact quote, I hope I'm not gonna be annoying, but I am gonna say like quote unquote, 'cause I think it's important. The second informant to testify was a man named James Zintek. He met Overton in the Monroe County jail back in May of 1997. Overton believed that Zintek was a hardened criminal straight from New York, so he wanted his help. He had this scheme Overton did, that he would get all the charges dropped because he was gonna give Zintek all the details of the MacGyver murders, and then have Zintek contact the authorities and tell them another inmate by the name of Ace had given him the details. Overton's logic was that this would create reasonable doubt and he would be found not guilty. Therefore, during the course of several months according to Zintek, Overton gave him precise details of what occurred in that home, the night the couple was murdered. Overton also showed Zintek all the pictures related to the crime scene. He had gotten these from his attorneys because they were preparing his defense. This absolutely discussed me that he would be in possession of pictures that he could show to other inmates because these killers get off on this. It's gross, but it's his right to have that information Overton tells Zintek that he met Missy at the gas station where he worked. He believed that he had a relationship with her. It was a hot and cold type relationship in his words. Some days she was polite and others she was quote, cold and bitchy, unquote. There came a point when Missy stopped coming to the gas station, however, Overton had gone her home address from a check and Zintek testified that Overton informed him he had been canvassing that house on many occasions. And on one occasion, he saw Michael doing construction in a lower level of the home. Another time, he said he was going to go into the house. But he didn't because he realized the MacGyvers had friends over. Now I'm going to turn to the events of the night of August 21st, 1991. Overton told Zintek that he went to the home carrying a bag which contained, among other things, a police scanner. He described his attire as being ninja-like, consisting of a mask, black military style fatigues, and gloves. One thing he did when he got there was he cut the phone wires. He then positioned a ladder against the balcony that surrounded the home. But in the process of moving that ladder, he made a noise. A light came on in the house, and it caused him to wait outside for approximately 20 minutes before he climbed the ladder. Once he reached that balcony, he cut some of the clothes line. Then he said he popped the sliding glass door open to the spare bedroom and gained entry to the home. He walked around the house, and he saw the MacGyvers sleeping in their bedroom. He proceeded to walk throughout the house, but then he heard a noise. When he turned around, he saw Michael walking to the kitchen and opening the refrigerator. Overton said, at this point, his adrenaline was rushing, and he panicked. Michael could sense that somebody was there and something was wrong. So he walked out of the kitchen, and he went into the area where Overton was. At this point, he approached Michael from behind. And according to him, he quote, slammed him in the back of the head with a pipe that he found at the house. He also said that the blow to the head with the pipe didn't immediately knock him out. There was a struggle. And Overton knocked him out with his fist. Those were his words. While Overton was attempting to restrain Michael, Missy ran out of the bedroom screaming. He chased her back into the bedroom and temporarily restrained her, using things he found inside the bedroom to bind her. He tried to calm Missy down by telling her that as long as they both cooperated, no one would get hurt. But she started to plead with him. She asked him, why are you doing this to us? And she told him that she had a baby on the way. And she was scared. Overton also said that Missy told him, I know who you are. At this point, he became concerned about Michael being temporarily knocked out. He knew he wasn't dead. So then he went and placed two socks over Michael's eyes and covered his face with masking tape. And according to Zene Tech, Overton did not strangle Michael at this point. Instead, he went back into the master bedroom and did what he did to Missy. So Michael could potentially hear what was going on. Maybe not. Maybe not. When he was done with Missy, he said he strangled her because he, quote, doesn't leave any witnesses. Now this next part gave me the chills because this is just evil. It's just evil. I knew I was going to get to this part. And I was dreading, getting to this part, like absolutely dreading getting to this part. He said that either in the process or after completing the strangulation, he noticed that her stomach was moving. And he put his hand over her stomach and felt the baby move. I really hope that Missy does not witness that. As sad as it is for me to say that, I really wish she was unconscious or already passed because that is pure evil. She has been through so much and to think that this monster's hovering over her. He's violating her and then he's touching her on board, baby. Knowing that the baby's going to die, that's too sad for me. Overton continued to show Zintaq pictures of the crime scene. When asked why he ripped the pages out of the book in the bedroom, he said that it would throw off the police and lead them to think that the attacker wanted to remove their name from the phone book. So he did do that. He also admitted that he did take things from the crime scene but things that no one would notice. The family could only account for several pictures being missing and they were pictures. The Missy had just taken off her pregnant stomach and he did admit to Zintaq that the only reason he did this is because he just wanted to have sex with Missy. That's it. Zintaq also testified that while looking at the autopsy photos of one of the victims, he actually threw up and overton laughed and he said, "Hmm, don't get the pictures wet." It's, it just has no care. Now this was something I noticed and I didn't want to show it until now because I wanted it to be a relevant and you would understand, but Overton shows a picture of a chalkboard in the kitchen where someone had written "renew life insurance" as something that they had to do and he laughed and he said something to the effect of, "You don't think they knew what time it was." It's like, "Really?" Here's the picture of it. These people were just living their lives. They had no clue that this was going to happen and he's making jokes. You can imagine how hard it was for the families to hear this in court, not to mention hearing the defense attorneys trying to discount all the evidence that they had. The primary part of the defense's case, just so you know, it was centered upon the theme that law enforcement planted Overton's semen in the bedding. This was essential to the prosecution's case, so that's why the defense said that Detective obtained Overton's sperm from one of his girlfriends, Lorna, and then took it in the condom and placed it on the bedding. It's so fabricated, but he says that they made this all up. The defense counsel consulted a doctor named Dr. Wright, even though I think he's wrong. He's a pathologist, forensic pathologist and he suggested that they need to examine these samples for an ingredient that's in sperm aside that's found in condoms. I think you pronounce it non-oxinol 9. I'm not going to say it again. Specific compound found in condoms that have sperm aside. So the defense, they do that. They test it. They send the samples to this lab that's a consumer product testing company in New Jersey. Sure enough, there was 53 micrograms of this substance found on the bedsheet stains. On cross-examination by the state, it is concluded that this chemical alone, if it's found on something, you can't tell whether it was there because of sperm aside or because of commercial grade cleaning products. They both have this ingredient in them. And they further went on to argue that Overton could have been wearing a condom to attempt to hide his DNA, which could have torn because of the struggle during intercourse with Missy. And the defense witness, Dr. Wright, had to acknowledge that this could be true. But he continued to say that his opinion was that the semen had been placed there by the cops. Yup, by the detectives using a condom. And these, I swear, these defense attorneys I have to give them credit for creativity. But come on. And the jury wasn't buying it. Overton had this evil stare during the trial. He was totally indifferent. He looked at you in a way that gave you chills down your spine. On March 18th, 1999, eight years after the MacGyver homicides, 41-year-old Thomas Overton is found guilty and sentenced to death for the murders of Missy, Michael, and Baby Kyle. And the court said this, "Thomas Mitchell Overton, you have forfeited your right to live among us. Under the laws of the state of Florida, you have forfeited your right to live at all. Therefore it is hereby ordered by the judge for the first-degree murder of Michael MacGyver. You, Thomas Mitchell Overton, be sentenced to death. And for the first-degree murder of Susan Michelle MacGyver, you, Thomas Mitchell Overton, will be sentenced to death. And for the crime of killing an unborn child, you, Thomas Mitchell Overton, will serve the maximum sentence by law 15 years in prison. After this, Overton literally turned around to face the crowd. And he smiled. He looked right at these families of these three precious, innocent people. And he smiled. Then he looks over a gorgeous Sharon, Michael's sister. And he waved at her. Almost taunting her. In an unspoken way, saying, "I would do the same to you." It took everything in Sharon not to jump out of her chair and attack him for what he did to her family. She referred to him as the physical form of Satan. Sadly, after the trial, Michael's father suffered a massive heart attack and died. And then his mother passed away soon afterward. And Sharon truly believes that the heartbreak cut their life short. Thomas Overton is currently still on death row awaiting execution. And I'm so sorry for this one. We're all here. We're able to laugh and cry and experience life. And it is a gift. I know it can be taken away in the blink of an eye in the most unexpected ways. The MacGyver didn't deserve this, so please remember them. Thank you so much for being here. I will see you in my next video. Bye.