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were an unconventional couple
living life to the fullest.
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It was the definition of
opposites attract.
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[David] He was madly in love
with him,
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and was happy they had finally
found the true love of his life.
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[Narrator] But with one
disturbing call,
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everything they had built would
come crashing down.
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[Narrator] As police
try to make sense of
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a complicated relationship,
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a horrific discovery will
propel the case
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into deadly territory.
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He said he knew where
a body was buried.
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The odor of a decomposing body,
that hit me right away.
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He had been shot in the back of
the head,
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almost execution-style.
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[Narrator] The ensuing battle
between lovers
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will cast a dark shadow over
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their seemingly
loving relationship...
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[Narrator] And will leave
detectives questioning
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who to believe.
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[Collin] You had these
two individuals
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that had a love-hate,
anger filled relationship.
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You put them together and it's
just a deadly combination.
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[Narrator] Home to
the renowned Kentucky Derby
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and famed for its
bourbon soaked nightlife,
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Louisville, Kentucky is
a modern city
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with a storied history.
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[Angelique] Louisville is
super unique.
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It's a city with so much
history,
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a little something for
everybody.
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Definitely very welcoming,
very friendly.
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[Narrator] Louisville is also
the city where Jeffrey Mundt
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was born and raised.
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A smart and
determined individual,
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Jeffrey dreamed of success
from a young age.
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He got a college scholarship
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and went to Indiana University
in Bloomington.
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He got into computers,
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and soon, he was getting very
high paying jobs.
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Jeffrey Mundt presented himself
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as buttoned up, straight-laced,
very proper.
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Preppy, if you will.
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[Darren] He truly was a techie,
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and he was a person that
would work on computers all day
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and troubleshoot things.
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[David] He lived in Washington,
D.C. for a time.
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He worked at Northwestern
University in Chicago,
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where he was in charge of their
big IT overhaul
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called Project Café.
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And he had a long term boyfriend
in Chicago.
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[Narrator] Jeffrey seemed to
have it all:
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A lucrative career,
a loving partner,
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and a lively social life.
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[Jason] Mundt went to
the ballet.
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He went to nice restaurants.
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He wanted to be seen in kind of
an upper echelon high society.
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[Narrator] In his mid 30s,
however,
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Jeffrey's life in Chicago
was upended
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when his boyfriend suddenly
broke up with him.
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Supposedly he broke up by text.
So, Jeffrey was suffering.
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That was one of the reasons
he came back to Louisville.
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[Narrator] Jeffrey had
a sizeable nest egg...
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And chose to use it to
buy property in
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a historic section of Louisvile
in 2008.
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Old Louisville is
the first suburb, actually,
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of Louisville Proper
as the downtown area.
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Each block is totally different.
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[David] It's where
the tobacco titans
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built their mansions,
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the bourbon barons,
the racetrack royalty.
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[Narrator] When Jeffrey found
a red brick mansion
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on Fourth Avenue,
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he thought it was
the perfect place
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to start over.
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[David] The house needed a lot
of work.
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The kitchen looked like it had
been bombed out
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and the carriage house was
falling apart.
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Jeffrey set in to slowly
restoring the house.
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He got a job at the University
of Louisville,
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and he got a very lucrative
IT consulting job.
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He was making over a quarter
million dollars a year.
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So, he had a good lifestyle.
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[Narrator] In the fall of 2009,
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Jeffery met the man who would
change his life forever...
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38 year old Louisville native,
Joey Banis.
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Joey and Jeff Mundt met through
an internet dating app.
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It was the definition of
opposites attract.
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[David] Mr. Mundt's background
was, was in sharp contrast
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to the background of Mr. Banis.
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[Steven] Joey used to run
a nightclub called Fusion.
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It was a, a, a queer bar,
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but it was kind of like the,
the fringe people,
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like the gothic folk, the, like,
people who were into
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industrial music,
the alternative scene.
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He was very charismatic.
He was very friendly.
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Always a smile on his face.
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He went all out in attire
and makeup
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and paint
and all that kinda stuff.
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[David] He often would wear just
a pair of jeans,
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and his upper torso would be
painted in
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all these elaborate patterns.
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He's got tattoos, a mohawk.
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He looks a little
rougher around the edges.
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Joey did present himself as
a bit of a bad boy.
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[Narrator] For a straight-laced
computer tech like Jeffrey,
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Joey was a breath of fresh air.
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[David] They would go out to
dinner to nice restaurants
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and go to concerts afterwards.
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They liked to be
seen together as a couple.
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[Narrator] Only a few weeks
into their relationship,
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Jeffrey asked Joey to move into
his old Victorian home...
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And Joey happily accepted.
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[David] Joey saw Jeffrey as
his soulmate.
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He was madly in love with him,
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and was happy they had
finally found, you know,
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the true love of his life.
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[Darren] In June of 2010,
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they had been living together
for roughly 6 months.
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[Narrator] But at 9:30 P.M.
on June 17th, 2010,
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after more than six months
of living together,
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Jeffrey and Joey's
whirlwind romance
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would come to a disturbing end.
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[David] The caller identified
himself as Jeffrey Mundt.
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His boyfriend, he said,
was trying to murder him.
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Jeffrey Mundt was barricaded in
a bedroom on the second floor,
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and Joey Banis was out in
the hallway with a hammer.
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[Jason] Mundt was panicked.
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He was scared that Banis was
gonna bash through the door,
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and you could hear in
the background the pounding.
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[Jason] He was fearful he was
gonna be killed.
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[Narrator] Coming up.
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With one man's life in danger,
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police race to apprehend
a violent criminal.
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He was attempting to escape
down the front stairs.
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They don't know how dangerous
this person might be.
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[Narrator] And
a shocking revelation
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will lead police to uncover
a terrifying crime.
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You have two evil people here
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that just meshed well and
become one evil person.
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isville,
Kentucky,
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police are responding to
the home of
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38-year-old Jeffrey Mundt...
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Jeffrey is the one on the line
with dispatchers,
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reporting that his partner,
Joey Banis,
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is trying to kill him.
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When they get there, Banis is
running down the stairs.
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Joey Banis was attempting to
escape down the,
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the front stairs,
the grand stairs of the mansion,
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and they caught him.
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He had a backpack over
his shoulder.
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In the backpack,
they found drug paraphernalia.
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At that time, Joey was arrested
for the domestic dispute.
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[David] They went up to
the second floor bedroom
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where Jeffrey Mundt was still
barricaded,
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and they got him to
open the door and he came out.
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He was emotionally distraught
and teary-eyed and crying.
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But Jeffrey Mundt showed no
signs of being hurt.
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One of the officers took Joey
down to the squad car
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that was outside the house on
Fourth Street,
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put him in the backseat,
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and prepared to question him
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while the other officer remained
with Jeffrey inside the house
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to question him.
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And that's standard procedure.
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[Narrator] Inside, Jeffrey
tells the officer
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that his boyfriend had
threatened to kill him.
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[Justin] Jeffrey Mundt
and Joey Banis
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had been involved in
a domestic dispute,
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which started as
a verbal argument.
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The domestic dispute turned
physical.
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[David] Jeffrey said they had
had some tempestuous arguments,
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and had some drag-out fights
and things like that.
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But this was the first time
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the police were ever called
in this capacity.
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He was terrified of Joey Banis.
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[Narrator] From the back seat
of the squad car, however,
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Joey Banis offers
a completely different story.
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He was telling the officers that
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Jeffrey Mundt had
killed someone.
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[Jason] This is seemingly
a crazy claim to make,
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and police don't believe it.
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They just think he's trying to
shift the focus off himself.
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They just assumed that this new
piece of information
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was being utilized by Mr. Banis
to, in essence,
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get him out of what would be
a Class B misdemeanor charge.
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[Narrator] While Jeffrey
stays on scene,
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Joey is transported
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to police headquarters for
questioning.
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[Collin] He's claimin' that
the murder
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happened back in December.
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And looking up James Carroll,
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we can't find
a missing person report on him.
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Traditionally, people that have
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some sort of family or
work history,
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somebody's gonna file
a missing person report on 'em
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if they even heard from
'em in a week or two.
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And Jeffrey Mundt, who's been
accused of this,
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but he was very well-educated,
very well-spoken, well-kept,
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put together individual.
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So kinda like, on the fence in
believing Joey's story.
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[David] Jamie wanted to kinda
party,
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and they did drugs
and other things all night.
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But somewhere in the process
when they saw that
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Jamie had cash with him from his
previous drug deals that day,
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Joey said that Jeffrey floated
the idea of killing him
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and keeping the money and drugs
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to kinda keep them going for
a couple months.
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Banis tells detectives that
Mundt had recently lost his job
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and needed money to continue
this drug habit.
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And when Jamie made it back to
the house,
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he probably wasn't expecting
what was waiting for him.
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At that time, there was
a...
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Scream like no one had
ever heard.
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When he wheeled around,
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he saw Jeffrey Mundt armed with
a knife,
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stabbing and slicing at Jamie
over and over and over again.
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[Narrator] According to Joey,
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Jeffrey gave neither man
time to act.
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[Narrator] Joey says Jeffrey
immediately began
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to cover his tracks.
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[David] They took the body down
to the wine cellar.
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One of the few rooms in
the basement
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that still had a dirt floor.
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And he was forced to dig a hole.
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[Collin] It's not every day that
you have somebody come in
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and give you this information
just free will.
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They go ahead, and they draft up
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a, a search warrant for
the house.
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[Narrator] While skeptical of
Joey's story,
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detectives return to
the mansion...
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Where Jeffrey is waiting.
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[Collin] We explained to
Jeffrey Mundt at that time
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what the allegations were.
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That there was potentially
a dead body in his basement.
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He was astonished.
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"Oh no, what?
Are you kidding me?"
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We had no reason to suspect all
these allegations,
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but we still had get
that statement with him.
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I asked him if he would
accompany me back to the,
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the police station.
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He wasn't under arrest.
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I told him I'd bring him
right back.
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And we went down to
the headquarters.
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[Narrator] Meanwhile,
a search team
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descends into the basement.
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[Justin] It is a dirt floor
basement.
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Well underneath the bowels of
the house.
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[Kevin] So, we started diggin'
a hole.
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We had two shovels
with three of us takin' turns.
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[David] They dug for hours
and hours.
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And eventually the, the shovel
hit something hard.
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And as they cleared away
the dirt,
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they saw it was the top of
a Rubbermaid storage container.
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The inside of the lid had the
spray foam insulation around it.
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But when I hit it with the
shovel and broke the insulation,
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the smell, odor of
a decomposing body,
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that hit me right away.
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At that point, I was 100% sure
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Banis was not makin' up a story
about a body.
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anis's
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harrowing story of murder,
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police in Louisville, Kentucky
have unearthed
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a terrible secret buried in
the basement of
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his boyfriend Jeffrey Mundt's
historic mansion.
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[Justin] Upon the finding of
this makeshift grave,
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this container,
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the body was taken to
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the Louisville Metro Medical
Examiner's Office
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for identification purposes.
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[Narrator] Detectives continue
their search of the house,
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zeroing in on the bedroom
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where the murder allegedly
occurred six months prior.
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[Kevin] During all the
search warrants, everything,
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we collect any sort of
computers, phones,
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look for evidence on those.
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They did find a, a hole that
looked like
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it could've
been made by a bullet.
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[Collin] We did another
search warrant there
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for the luminol to show where
they cleaned the blood off.
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With a stab wound,
there would be
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an excessive amount of,
of blood.
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There wasn't a whole lot
in the bedroom.
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But there was, there was quite
a bit in the drain,
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and also around the bathtub
where they had washed the body.
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[Narrator] At the station,
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Detective King sits down with
Jeffrey Mundt,
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eager to hear
his side of the story.
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[Narrator] When pressed about
his knowledge of the crime,
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Jeffrey is adamant his has non.
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Instead, he tells detectives
that his partner Joey
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is entirely capable of murder.
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[Collin] Joey Banis had a long
criminal history.
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Drugs, I think, he had some
violent stuff, some burglary.
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[David] He ended up in prison
several times.
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So, when he met Jeffrey,
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he had just come out of prison
and really didn't have a job.
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[Narrator] Jeffrey claims that
leading up to the 911 call
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earlier that night,
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Joey's violent tendencies
had erupted...
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When Jeffrey had tried to end
things once and for all.
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[Jason] Mundt had threatened to
leave Banis,
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and that is what led to
the argument...
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That ended up with
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Banis allegedly threatening to
assault him.
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Jeffrey continuously talked
about how in fear he was
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of, of Joey,
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and you almost feel sympathetic
to him as the victim.
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We had no reason not to
believe him.
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[Kevin] Mundt had
a clean record.
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He works in computers,
worked for universities.
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He was the more clean cut
of the two by far.
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I'm kinda like,
"Man, this poor guy."
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He's a very, very likeable guy.
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Very articulate.
Very well-educated.
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[Narrator] Police decide to keep
both Jeffrey Mundt
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and Joey Banis at the station
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until they can learn more
about the victim.
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[Collin] We started diggin'
a little bit.
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In looking up James Carroll,
we find out his car,
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it had been impounded, I think,
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out of one of alleys near
the location.
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It got picked up three weeks
after what we believe
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to be the date of the homicide
at that time.
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[Narrator] Jamie Carroll's
identity
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is confirmed at autopsy.
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[Kevin] There was a tattoo that
was not decomposed.
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Detective Lesher,
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who was able to speak with some
family members
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and confirm that that was
Jamie Carroll's tattoo.
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[David] Jamie Carroll had been
shot one time.
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The medical examiner did find
a .38 caliber bullet
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lodged in his chin.
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It appeared that he had been
shot in the back of the head,
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kind of almost execution-style.
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Things started to match what
Joey was telling the detectives.
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[Narrator] But in the six months
since Jamie Carroll's murder,
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why had no one reported him
missing?
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When detectives speak to
Jamie's mother,
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she assumed her son was
in prison on a drug charge.
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[Collin] She hadn't seen him
for awhile,
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but had talked to him around
Thanksgiving.
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So, a few weeks
before the murder happened.
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[Narrator] According to
his mother,
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Jamie had ambitions that outgrw
his small town
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and eventually led him to
Louisville.
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Jamie grew up in eastern
Kentucky,
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around the Prestonsburg,
Paintsville area.
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Jamie was very creative
when it came to hairstyling
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and with makeup.
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He just had
that creative talent in him.
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Jamie Carroll became interested
in drag queens.
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And he started performing as
a drag queen.
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And he took the stage name
Ronica Reed, The Pageant Queen.
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[Barry] When I first met Jamie,
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it was hard for me to believe
that there was a man underneath
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that long blonde mane and all
that beautiful makeup.
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[David] Things were going well
for him.
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He was performing.
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But somewhere along the line
he got into drugs,
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and he began dealing drugs.
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[Narrator] Jamie's side hustle
in the Louisville club scene
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led to an arrest in 2009.
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After being released on bail,
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detectives learn he was expectd
to be sentenced
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on December 15th, 2009.
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But Jamie never made it to
the hearing.
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He had had a court date he had
not shown up for.
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And we couldn't find any record
of him from that point on.
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[Narrator] Now, nearly six
months later,
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detectives believe
that Joey Banis
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is responsible for Jamie's
murder.
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So they sit down with him for
a second interview.
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[Narrator] Joey agrees to tell
his story again...
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But this time,
he drops a telling detail
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about his relationship
with Jamie Carroll.
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[Jason] Banis met Jamie Carroll
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on an online dating service
in 2009,
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and they began a relationship.
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And this sort of bled into
the same time that
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he met and started having
a relationship with Mundt.
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[Justin] Joey and Jamie Carroll
were lovers.
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They had had a relationship.
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The odd man out in that room,
that night was Jeffrey Mundt.
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Mr. Banis stated that the motive
was clearly jealousy.
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We didn't know what to believe.
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[music]
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le, Kentucky
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have just learned that
murder victim Jamie Carroll
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had a long standing
sexual relationship
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with Joey Banis...
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Giving his boyfriend,
Jeffrey Mundt,
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a motive to kill Jamie in
a jealous rampage.
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Joey and Jamie had been in
regular contact
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for sexual reasons,
for drug reasons.
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And then, Jeffrey came
into the picture.
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Jeffrey insisted that he give up
Jamie, and he wouldn't do that.
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[Jason] Banis says that Mundt
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was jealous of this
relationship.
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So now Banis has given a motive
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for Mundt to kill Jamie Carroll.
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[Narrator] According to Joey,
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after Jeffrey killed Jamie in
their bedroom,
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he learned just how ruthless
his boyfriend could be.
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[David] Jamie Carroll's body
was rigid.
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They weren't able to fit it into
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the size container they had
purchased.
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[Narrator] Detectives still have
doubts that someone like Jeffry
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could be capable of such
a heinous act...
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They sit down with him for
a second interview,
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hoping to clear things up.
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[Collin] Jeffrey Mundt never
went home.
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He was still there
the whole time.
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This is probably 8, 9,
10 o'clock in the morning,
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so I, you know, it was at least
24 hours that I'd been,
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been awake.
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So, I said, you know,
"Would you...
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Would you mind
taking a polygraph?
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That way we can be done
with this,
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and I can get you back home."
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[Narrator] Despite his agreement
to a polygraph,
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Jeffrey first makes
a stunning confession.
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Mr. Mundt, in essence,
cracked and finally admitted
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that he knew more than he had
been telling them.
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[Collin] I mean, I was floored
at the time.
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Absolutely floored.
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I'd been duped for six hours in
wantin' to believe this guy.
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When Jeffrey finally broke down
and admitted he did know about
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the body being in the basement,
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they asked him, "What happened?"
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And the story he told was very
similar to the story
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that had been told by
Joey Banis.
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[Darren] With one
minor exception.
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Which is that everything related
to the murder was flipped.
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Meaning it was Mr. Banis who
actually killed Mr. Carroll,
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and it was not Mr. Mundt.
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00:31:05,197 --> 00:31:08,834
[Kevin] In Mundt's story,
he's the weakling.
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Banis did all the bad stuff.
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And he's scared of Banis and
that's why he's assisting.
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And Banis's story,
he's scared of Mundt.
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[Narrator] Now, detectives
aren't sure
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which story to believe.
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00:31:25,584 --> 00:31:29,088
[Collin] You have Joey, that's
giving details about
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this murder that happened,
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and they're adding up.
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And then you have Jeffrey Mundt,
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he's leading us to believe that,
you know,
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he's telling the truth.
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[Darren] If we have two people,
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and there's nothing
specific that's gonna tell us
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which of these two
actually committed the crime,
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we have a problem here.
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We have a quandary.
What do we do now?
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[Narrator] With both men
in custody,
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detectives attempt to verify
their various allegations.
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A routine background check
leads to a startling discovery.
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We learned that both Joey and
Jeffrey were arrested
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in Chicago, Illinois after
Jeffrey had passed
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a counterfeit hundred dollar
bill to a valet at a hotel.
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[Narrator] Detectives obtain
a copy of the incident report..
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And discover the arrests took
place four months after
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the murder of Jamie Carroll.
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They were arrested in
April of 2010.
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This is when Jamie's body
was still down in the basement.
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00:32:40,092 --> 00:32:42,895
What happened was they had
checked into the hotel.
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Jeffrey gave the doorman
a hundred dollar bill.
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Either as a tip or to
break for change,
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00:32:49,935 --> 00:32:52,471
and the doorman noticed
something wasn't right
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about the hundred dollar bill.
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It didn't feel right.
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00:32:55,541 --> 00:32:59,144
It felt damp and,
and not the right texture.
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He called the police.
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00:33:02,247 --> 00:33:05,050
They went up and went into
their room,
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and found 54 thousand dollars in
counterfeit money.
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In addition to bags and bags of
date rape drugs,
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forged documents, fake IDs.
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[Jason] Mundt had lost his job.
Banis didn't have a job.
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They were desperate for money at
this point.
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So, they're running like,
a low-level criminal operation
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out of their home.
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[David] The whole time they were
living in the house,
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Joey and Jeffrey had been
counterfeiting money.
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00:33:33,712 --> 00:33:35,347
[David] They had
an operation upstairs
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where they were
taking dollar bills,
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they were bleaching them in
chemicals,
490
00:33:39,585 --> 00:33:43,288
and then re-stamping them as 50
and 100 dollar bills.
491
00:33:44,256 --> 00:33:47,192
So, when the guys were arrested
for the murder of Jamie Carroll,
492
00:33:47,693 --> 00:33:52,264
they were out on bond from this
big case in Chicago.
493
00:33:53,599 --> 00:33:56,235
[Narrator] But designer drugs
and counterfeit money
494
00:33:56,268 --> 00:33:58,303
aren't the only items
of interest
495
00:33:58,337 --> 00:34:01,106
on the Chicago PD
inventory report.
496
00:34:02,107 --> 00:34:04,510
[Collin] We find out that they
were arrested with guns.
497
00:34:04,543 --> 00:34:09,415
One was the same caliber of gun
that was used to kill Jamie.
498
00:34:10,516 --> 00:34:15,054
So, we drove up to Chicago and
picked up the weapon.
499
00:34:15,754 --> 00:34:18,490
Ballistics testing,
forensics testing
500
00:34:18,524 --> 00:34:19,625
was done on that gun,
501
00:34:20,926 --> 00:34:25,230
and it was proven to be the gun
that killed Jamie Carroll.
502
00:34:26,131 --> 00:34:28,067
The gun that, that was recovered
in Chicago
503
00:34:28,100 --> 00:34:29,368
belonged to Joey Banis.
504
00:34:30,703 --> 00:34:33,105
But we realized, "Okay, they're
both gonna continue to tell
505
00:34:33,138 --> 00:34:35,174
the same story and point
the finger at the other person."
506
00:34:35,741 --> 00:34:38,744
It didn't really matter to
us as investigators
507
00:34:38,777 --> 00:34:43,115
that you stabbed him, he shot
him, or vice versa on that.
508
00:34:43,148 --> 00:34:47,386
They both conspired
together to commit this murder.
509
00:34:48,654 --> 00:34:52,491
They ended up charging both
Jeffrey Mundt and Joey Banis
510
00:34:52,524 --> 00:34:54,226
with the murder of
Jamie Carroll.
511
00:34:55,194 --> 00:34:57,763
[Jason] While police don't know
exactly which person
512
00:34:57,796 --> 00:35:00,265
killed Jamie Carroll,
they were both there.
513
00:35:00,299 --> 00:35:04,036
And they can both be sentenced
to death for this.
514
00:35:04,503 --> 00:35:07,106
[Darren] They both admitted that
this happened.
515
00:35:07,139 --> 00:35:09,141
They both admitted to being
involved.
516
00:35:09,174 --> 00:35:10,676
So, what did they do?
517
00:35:10,709 --> 00:35:12,678
They did what they do in most
cases like this,
518
00:35:12,711 --> 00:35:14,613
which is put 'em both on trial.
519
00:35:15,180 --> 00:35:16,715
Let the jury make that decision.
520
00:35:16,749 --> 00:35:20,552
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521
00:35:29,161 --> 00:35:32,698
the murder of Jamie Carroll
becomes a media sensation
522
00:35:32,731 --> 00:35:34,333
after Jeffrey Mundt
523
00:35:34,366 --> 00:35:37,369
and Joey Banis are arrested for
the crime.
524
00:35:37,403 --> 00:35:39,071
[Reporter] A night of
drugs and sex
525
00:35:39,104 --> 00:35:40,706
inside this old Louisville home
526
00:35:40,739 --> 00:35:43,709
is what everyone agrees led to
Jamie Carroll's death.
527
00:35:43,742 --> 00:35:45,477
But, "Who is responsible?"
528
00:35:45,511 --> 00:35:47,513
Is the question jurors
have to answer.
529
00:35:48,147 --> 00:35:51,183
[Angelique] The neighborhood was
just on pins and needles.
530
00:35:52,151 --> 00:35:55,320
People were freaking out this
happened so nearby.
531
00:35:59,358 --> 00:36:01,427
[David] It was almost three
years later
532
00:36:01,460 --> 00:36:03,228
before the trials took place.
533
00:36:03,762 --> 00:36:07,800
I think the prosecution realized
they really needed the testimony
534
00:36:07,833 --> 00:36:11,437
of the guys against
each other to get a conviction.
535
00:36:11,470 --> 00:36:14,773
because other than that,
there wasn't a lot of evidence,
536
00:36:14,807 --> 00:36:17,743
other than a lot of
circumstantial evidence.
537
00:36:17,776 --> 00:36:21,347
So, in the end, they decided to
try them separately,
538
00:36:22,114 --> 00:36:25,317
in exchange for
the death penalty being dropped.
539
00:36:25,351 --> 00:36:28,153
And that way, each one
would testify against the other.
540
00:36:28,821 --> 00:36:33,225
The prosecution
decided to try Joey Banis first.
541
00:36:33,692 --> 00:36:35,527
[Narrator] In their opening
arguments on
542
00:36:35,561 --> 00:36:38,430
February 26, 2013,
543
00:36:38,464 --> 00:36:42,735
prosecutors contend that both
Joey Banis and Jeffrey Mundt
544
00:36:42,768 --> 00:36:45,471
are culpable for
Jamie Carroll's death.
545
00:37:11,463 --> 00:37:14,600
Prosecutors painted these two
guys as a, as a, quote,
546
00:37:14,633 --> 00:37:19,338
"twisted" couple who murdered
this guy for money
547
00:37:19,371 --> 00:37:21,407
and bludgeoned his body.
548
00:37:22,875 --> 00:37:26,679
Put him in a container,
buried him in the basement.
549
00:37:27,780 --> 00:37:31,550
[Collin] Their relationship was
just such a ball of dysfunction.
550
00:37:32,217 --> 00:37:34,753
You have two evil people here
551
00:37:35,587 --> 00:37:39,425
that just meshed well
and become one evil person.
552
00:37:40,159 --> 00:37:42,261
[Narrator] When Jeffrey Mundt
takes the stand,
553
00:37:42,294 --> 00:37:46,265
he denies ever being jealous of
Joey's relationship with Jamie
554
00:37:46,298 --> 00:37:50,369
and paints Joey as an abusive
and manipulative boyfriend.
555
00:38:06,919 --> 00:38:08,787
[Narrator] When it's their turn,
556
00:38:08,821 --> 00:38:12,257
Joey's defense attorneys argue
that Jeffrey's proclivities
557
00:38:12,291 --> 00:38:14,793
for BDSM support their theory
558
00:38:14,827 --> 00:38:17,830
that Jeffrey was
the crime's true mastermind.
559
00:38:18,864 --> 00:38:22,601
During all the search warrants,
Detective Lesher was examining
560
00:38:22,634 --> 00:38:25,270
one of the computers
and goin' through...
561
00:38:25,304 --> 00:38:27,239
Found some personal videos,
562
00:38:27,272 --> 00:38:32,244
and there was a sex video
between Jeffrey Mundt
563
00:38:32,277 --> 00:38:34,213
and Joseph Banis.
564
00:38:34,246 --> 00:38:37,483
In that video, Jeffrey Mundt is
565
00:38:37,516 --> 00:38:41,286
the dominant person in
the relationship.
566
00:38:42,554 --> 00:38:47,326
[Darren] Jeffrey was into
some seriously different...
567
00:38:47,359 --> 00:38:48,861
Sexual activity,
568
00:38:48,894 --> 00:38:52,398
which involved pain and
the infliction of pain.
569
00:38:53,732 --> 00:38:55,734
[Jason] While it was
compelling evidence,
570
00:38:55,768 --> 00:38:58,804
just because you are into BDSM
571
00:38:58,837 --> 00:39:01,807
does not mean you're a murderer.
572
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:05,010
This was consensual sex between
these two people.
573
00:39:06,011 --> 00:39:09,682
The jury verdict came back and
Joey was found guilty of murder.
574
00:39:10,916 --> 00:39:12,651
[Jason] They gave him
20 to life,
575
00:39:13,585 --> 00:39:17,022
which means he would serve at
least 20 years and possibly
576
00:39:17,022 --> 00:39:18,724
spend the rest of his life in
prison.
577
00:39:20,559 --> 00:39:24,530
[Narrator] Nine weeks later,
on May 12, 2013,
578
00:39:24,563 --> 00:39:26,765
Jeffrey Mundt's trial begins.
579
00:39:49,922 --> 00:39:51,557
[Narrator] But Jeffrey's
attorneys
580
00:39:51,590 --> 00:39:54,560
counter with a new piece
of home video evidence
581
00:39:54,593 --> 00:39:57,629
that surprises everyone
in the courtroom.
582
00:40:15,948 --> 00:40:19,718
Attorneys recovered a video from
Banis's computer,
583
00:40:19,752 --> 00:40:22,054
and it was labeled as
"the suicide tape."
584
00:40:34,433 --> 00:40:39,371
In that video was a confession
from Joey regarding
585
00:40:39,405 --> 00:40:40,839
the murder of Jamie Carroll.
586
00:40:41,874 --> 00:40:43,409
[Darren] It was powerful.
587
00:40:43,442 --> 00:40:46,412
I mean, it's powerful enough to
have been placed in
588
00:40:46,445 --> 00:40:48,781
the opening argument by
the defense counsel.
589
00:40:49,848 --> 00:40:53,952
That video that was there was
100%, in my opinion,
590
00:40:53,986 --> 00:40:55,521
staged and fake.
591
00:40:56,121 --> 00:40:58,657
I believe the video was
orchestrated.
592
00:40:58,691 --> 00:41:01,727
That was something that was
produced
593
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:04,763
at the direction of Mr. Mundt.
594
00:41:06,065 --> 00:41:09,535
[Justin] Myself, my co-counsel,
and of course, Joey...
595
00:41:10,803 --> 00:41:15,708
We know that that confession was
made under duress.
596
00:41:15,741 --> 00:41:17,843
It was made under
threat of death.
597
00:41:19,645 --> 00:41:21,780
[Narrator] When Joey Banis takes
the stand,
598
00:41:21,814 --> 00:41:23,816
he maintains that
his ex-boyfriend
599
00:41:23,849 --> 00:41:27,119
had killed Jamie Carroll in
a jealous rage.
600
00:42:03,088 --> 00:42:05,124
[Narrator] It's
compelling testimony,
601
00:42:05,157 --> 00:42:07,893
but will it be enough to
sway the jury?
602
00:42:10,062 --> 00:42:14,667
On May 29, 2013,
the verdict is returned.
603
00:42:25,544 --> 00:42:28,480
[David] He was convicted of
the two minor counts:
604
00:42:28,514 --> 00:42:30,683
tampering with evidence
and robbery.
605
00:42:31,083 --> 00:42:32,518
When sentencing came,
606
00:42:32,551 --> 00:42:34,687
he only got eight years
for his part.
607
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:37,723
And that shocked a lot of
people,
608
00:42:37,756 --> 00:42:40,092
because they thought
he was more guilty.
609
00:42:41,493 --> 00:42:44,897
The 911 call I think helped to
sway the jury as well,
610
00:42:44,930 --> 00:42:47,499
because he sounds scared to
death on it.
611
00:42:51,537 --> 00:42:55,207
Today, even still,
I'm not 100% certain
612
00:42:55,941 --> 00:42:58,811
if one killed Jamie Carroll and
the other helped,
613
00:42:58,844 --> 00:43:01,780
or if they both did it together
as the prosecution argued.
614
00:43:02,581 --> 00:43:03,649
[Barry] There's only three
people
615
00:43:03,682 --> 00:43:07,786
who truly know what happened
in that room that night,
616
00:43:08,253 --> 00:43:11,090
and only two of them
came out alive.
617
00:43:11,957 --> 00:43:14,693
[David] Jamie Carroll, he was
the innocent victim
618
00:43:14,727 --> 00:43:15,828
in this case.
619
00:43:15,861 --> 00:43:17,262
He was so young,
620
00:43:17,296 --> 00:43:20,666
and he did plan on kind of
turning his life around.
621
00:43:21,533 --> 00:43:23,168
It's a shame he never got
that chance.
622
00:43:23,202 --> 00:43:29,141
[music]
623
00:43:30,609 --> 00:43:36,615
[music]