KK’s Corner Murders: Marty LeBouef, Stacie Reeves & Nicole Guidry: Part 1

All witnesses, purchas of interest, and suspects are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Warning. This episode contains graphic crime scene detail and may be sensitive for some listeners. Welcome to Primetime Crime. I'm your host, Kylie. Let's talk right now in true crime, and then together we are going to work on warming up some cold cases. Let's go Hey, guys, welcome to this week's episode of Primetime Crime. It's Kylie. We are going to go ahead and get into right now in true crime. We have quite a few things to talk about, so let's go ahead and get into it. First thing is first Delphi murder trial Richard Allen. Jury selection has been going on all week, and if you're. Listening to this episode, the court proceedings will have started. They are set to start on Friday, and it's going to go on through November fifteenth. So this trial is going to be a little under a month from the start of the court proceedings opening statements to the end of trial November fifteenth, twenty twenty four. The trial is not going to be live streamed. There are no phones, laptops, no cameras, no recording devices inside of the courtroom, so I'm going to be doing. My best to try to keep up with it. If there's anything interesting or breaking that happens, I will be sure to update you guys as things happen. I do feel like this is going to be a really interesting one. I think right now things are a little bit of a hot mess and kind of all over the place, and I don't know what the future of this trial is going to look like, but I will be sure to. Keep you guys updated. They do have. Their jury, and I know that this has to be such an emotional toll for the family to finally be sitting in a courtroom with the alleged murder suspect getting ready to hear everything that these poor girls went through. It's going to be interesting. I think it's going to be a hard one to keep up with, but I am going to try my best to do so. So, like I said, keep you guys updated as things transpire in the trial, because I think it's going to be a wild ride. Next up, Sarah Boone. I have not talked about her. I've probably shared about her on social media. She is the woman who is accused of suffocating her boyfriend to death in a suitcase, and there's video of it. It is horrific, it is horrendous. Her side of things is of course, claiming that she was an abused woman and basically her actions were justified letting him suffocate inside of this luggage because he had been abusive to her in the past. And this one is going to be very interesting because Sarah is very animated and she is constantly really like showing what she's thinking about things with her facial expressions. They did say that she is going to be testifying at this trial. Another one. It's going to be really interesting, and this week was jury selection and things will be starting soon with this one as well, so I will continue to keep you updated. If you haven't heard of this one, google Sarah Boon and you will probably see the video that is so sad and horrific. Her boyfriend literally begging for his life, like let me out of here. This isn't funny anymore horrible, and he ended up suffocating like that is a horrific way to die. I can't even imagine. And the fact that it was on video even more horrific and horrifying. I cannot So I will keep you guys updated on that one. Okay, moving on to the Menindas brothers and what's going on right now with them. They have an official court date November twenty sixth, where everything is going to kindy be laid out and they're going to be willing to hear about some of these abuse allegations. As we know, Jose Mendez not a good person, a predator through and through, and the Menenda's brothers tried to tell us this back during the trial, but nobody wanted to believe them because the media very much painted them as spoiled rich kids who killed their parents for a monetary gain, when behind closed doors, Jose was a sexual predator. And there have been multiple people that have come out and spoken out about how they were abused by Jose Mendes, and family members of the Menenda's brothers also have come forward and they are wanting the brothers to kind of get a second chance. To tell their story. There is a documentary on Netflix, not the Monsters one by Ryan Murphy. I did not watch that and I'm not going to, but the documentary that's on Netflix that the Meninda's brothers participated in, that was really well done and I think if you don't really know a lot about the case. That is probably the best place to start because it's going to talk about all of the sexual abuse allegations, and they're not allegations at this point, because I think it's pretty clear and proven that the boys were sexually molested by their dad and they were in fear for their lives. I one hundred percent believe that. So I'm going to be really interested to see how everything plays out because there is such a push by a lot of people, the Menenda's brother supporters and the Menanda's family to hear all this new evidence, and I think they have a possibility of getting out getting a new trial. I'm seeing actual hope. For the Menanda's brothers on the horizon, and there are people out there who think that they deserve to be behind bars and need to be where they're at. Is fine. Your opinion and my opinion do not have to be the same. We don't have to agree. But I am really curious to see how everything plays out with this entire scenario because it is so wild, so many years later that all of this is finally coming to light and people are finally starting to listen after all of this time. Okay, this next story is so wild, but I have to share it because it's one of those stories that I feel like stuff like this probably happens a lot more often than we realize, but it's not really talked about that much. So there was a girl. Named Amanda Overstreet. She was fifteen sixteen years old, and she essentially just kind of disappeared. Her biological mom said that she had run away at some truck stop and was just never seen or heard from, since there was never a missing person's report filed or anything like that. So cut to twenty twenty four, and this homeowner has just bought this new home and there's this freezer that was left behind by the old owner, and they find human remains in the freezer. Of course, law enforcement is informed, and they send the remains off to be tested, and they come back as belonging to this girl named Amanda Overstreet. And coincidentally, Amanda Overstreet's mom and stepdad previously owned the home where. This said freezer was. So things are looking a little too coincidental for me. So everyone is up in arms about trying to figure out how did this happen? How did she essentially disappear? And nobody reported her missing, and like where, like how. Did this happen? So there's a little bit of a timeline that kind of explains the way that things happen. So Amanda was born on March fourth of nineteen eighty nine. Her birth parents are Lee Anne Overstreet. And Paul Justin j. Row And they ended up getting married in nineteen eighty eight and then they were divorced in nineteen ninety two in Harris County, Texas. So, in nineteen ninety three, when Amanda was three years old, she was adopted by her grandmother, who was named Nilda Anne Owings over Street. And at this point in time, Amanda was three years old. Amanda attended school in Texas up until two thousand and four, and then in two thousand and five, her grandmother who was raising her passed away. Now even though Amanda's mom had lost custody of her. After the grandmother passed away, Amanda went to Grand Junction, Colorado, to live with her biological mom, Leanne. After several months, Leanne had called Nilda's sister and said that she couldn't keep Amanda anymore. She said that her and Amanda. Didn't have a good relationship, and then her family ended up wiring money to Leanne to drive Amanda back to Texas. And then the next day, Leanne ended up calling the family from her home in Colorado and said that they had left for Texas the day before. She then said that Amanda had run away when they stopped at a gas station in Amarillo, Texas, and they couldn't find her, so they just went ahead and drove back home to Colorado because you typically will let your fifteen sixteen year old just run off, that's normal, right, And Leanne said she couldn't remember the name of the gas station or highway where they were where Amanda went missing. So at this point in time, the family tried to file a missing persons report, but they didn't have an information. They hired a private investigator to try to track down Amanda, and there was no leads, and they searched and searched and searched and looked up every Jane Doe record to see if any of them match the description of Amanda. So Leanne was married to another gentleman who was Amanda's. Stepdad, so to say, they both. Lived in this home where these remains were found, and then they had moved out, the step dad had passed away, so on and so forth. But basically Amanda disappeared. People around her, her family besides her mother, knew that something wasn't right, but nothing happened, and she basically just literally vanished into thin air. When the whole time she had been murdered allegedly, probably by the last people she was seen with, allegedly again, and her body was kept in this freezer in Colorado. What the actual heck is going on? And the people that were trying to report her missing came up with dead ends everywhere they turned because nobody would help them because they didn't have enough info, which is insane. If someone goes missing, they go missing. I don't really feel like you need information, you just need to know that they're missing. So poor Amanda, her life was cut short. She was given to this woman who allegedly lost custody of her when she was young, and then she ends up dead in a freezer in a house that this woman owned previously her own mother. I don't know where things stand currently. I'm sure there is going to be a thorough investigation into Leanne. Like I said, the stepdad is no longer living. I think he died secondary to COVID at some point over the last couple of years. But Leanne is very much still alive, and Leanne has a lot of questions to answer in regards to what happened to her daughter and how did her remains, not even all of her remains, some of her remains end up in that freezer. Happened and in Charlie Adelson news this broke today that they are requesting a evidentiary hearing to determine if Charlie got a fair trial. Apparently, initially, the state had scheduled a deposition of Donna and Harvey Adelson prior to Charlie's trial, and Daniel Rashbaum, the attorney, had made a deal with the state to remove Donna and Harvey from the defense's witness lists, and they said that they were going to cancel the deposition from there. So the argument is that basically, if Charlie didn't agree to this and not to call Donna and Harvey as witnesses, it essentially compromised his defense. And that would basically mean that Daniel Rashbaum made the deal in order to protect Charlie, and that messed up Charlie's defense, So that could definitely be a conflict, It could definitely be not good. It is big news for this whole thing, but I will be sure to keep you updated on that last thing I want to talk about. This is breaking news. As of this morning, they have finally made an arrest in the alleged murder of Dale Williams. I covered Dale's story recently on the podcast. He went missing in nineteen ninety nine from Colorado, and as of this morning, they have arrested a man named James Daniel Bishop, who is sixty eight years old and an acquaintance of Dale's, and he is being held and arrested on suspicion of Dale's murder. They haven't come forward and said yet what the alleged motive was, or what evidence they have, or why they think that Dale Williams is deceased, but that is kind of the direction that they're going and it's going to be interesting to see what happens with this. But this happened twenty five. Years ago, and it is another testament too it's never too late, and that is why I cover all the cases I've covered, and I hope that there is resolution soon enough in Dale's case. So with all of that. Being said, we are going to go ahead and get into today's episode. Okay, guys, today we are jumping into a brand new unsolved case. This week's episode, we're going to be talking about a triple homicide that happened in Lake Charles, Louisiana in nineteen ninety seven. So the story was first brought to my attention by my friend Carly, who I also met through my love for antiques. She told me to look into this one when I first started my podcast, and I added it to my list, and as I was going through looking for a new case to do, this one popped out. I started to research it and I knew I had to cover it. There is a lot of information in this one. It is a very long and twisted road between July of nineteen ninety seven when the murders occurred in current day twenty twenty four. This is going to be at least a two parter, and it might be more, but we are going to go ahead and dive in to part one. So first thing, as always, I want to start talking about our victims. There were three victims in this triple homicide that occurred at the KKSE corner store in Louisiana. Our first victim was twenty one year old Marty Leabuff. His sister, Tanya, was also employed at the store, however, at the time of the murder, she was out on maternity leave. Our next victim is twenty six year old Stacy Reeves. She was also working at the store that night alongside of Marty, and she had two twin girls at home that were two years old. So Stacy and Marty were the two people that were working that evening, and it was their responsibility to close the store, set the alarm, and get everything ready for the next morning. Also with them that night was a fourteen year old girl named Nicole Gidry, and Nicole was the babysitter for Stacy's two young twin daughters, who are named Tracy and Tiffany. Nicole was fourteen years old, about to turn fifteen in August, and is described by her family as a quiet and trusting teenager who was getting ready to enter ninth grade at her local high school. So Kk's Corner Store was a convenience store but also a country store. It was a pretty popular spot for people in the area and also a popular destination for those who were traveling to and from Lake Charles, Louisiana. You could pick up anything from shotgun shells or anything you needed for your outdoor activities, but you could also. Grab a drink and a snack. It looked like your typical convenience store, not really that big in size, and it was located at eight one ninety six tom Heybear Road in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and it is still standing today. It is still operational today and if you are a visual person like I am, you can look it up on Google street View. So this crime occurred on July fifth of nineteen ninety seven, with the timeline being around midnight. So the next morning, on July sixth, around five am, the worker who was set to open the store in the morning arrived to the store to open it for the day and found that everything was in shambles. The cash registered drawers were open, the safe was open, and the store alarm wasn't on. She knew that something not good had happened and immediately stopped in her tracks and she called nine one one. So when the nine one one call came in, it was more likely than not that this was a robbery. But when the investigators arrived, they found the three victims in the store's cooler. They had all been shot, and they were all deceased. The bodies were Marty, Tracy, and Nicole. Nicole Dad's Harold said in the days following the murder that he can't imagine someone looking at his daughter and killing her. Nicole was only fourteen years old. And I've said it before and I'll say it again. People that kill and take another life are truly evil humans. But I'll never in my years be able to wrap my head around harming a child for any reason whatsoever. I cannot imagine the horror that these families felt following the murders, and I can't imagine what the three victims were feeling that night, as they were so senselessly killed in a place that they were supposed to be safe. Investigators also determined that the office phone and payphone lines had also been cut by whoever these perpetrators were. There was also a round ten thousand dollars missing from the store between cash and checks, so it did appear that robbery seemed to be the motive here. So they started to try to piece together a timeline, and it really didn't prove to be too difficult. Marty's father had phoned the store that night to let his son know that he had left a plate of barbecue out for him once he got off and all was well when he spoke with his son. Another customer of the store said that he spoke with Stacy around eleven fifteen and when he had left the store, there were no other customers there and. All was well. There were also several other people in the area that night, although nobody said that they saw anything suspicious. Around one am, the store security office realized that the alarm for the store had not been set, which was a normal routine thing that they did when they closed the store, and they ended up calling in for a welfare check, and the dispatcher that took the call never sent anyone out. And I I think if. This had occurred, if they had sent someone out, they might have interrupted what was going on at the store and this could potentially be a completely different story. But the dispatcher never sent anyone out and he ended up being fired later for his lack of response. Now, coincidentally, around one seventeen am, there was a deputy that was responding to a call nearby and they did lay eyes on the KK Corner store and they didn't see anything suspicious. Around one thirty am, there was a person that was outside of the store that was there to deliver copies of the Lake Charles America Press for the Sunday Morning paper, and they also saw nothing out of the ordinary. And then around one point fifty am. There were two deputies that were returning from another nearby call. They laid eyes on the store and they reported nothing out of place. So you have three different people that in that timeframe of potentially when something bad could have been happening, were laying eyes on this store and they saw nothing out of place. It's all really very interesting that whatever happened probably happened very quickly, and they did it in such a way that everything did look ordinary and nothing looked out of place. On July eighth, eight, candlelight vigil was held for the three victims. To honor them. Tips and leads came pouring in, and more than in hunter calls had come in and sixty people had been interviewed. They offered a ten thousand dollars reward leading to the arrest of. The person or persons responsible. In the days following the murders, on July sixteenth, the Police Task Force released a composite sketch of a man that was wanted for questioning. They wanted everyone to know that this man was not a suspect. He was just somebody that they wanted to talk to. He was seen in the store with another man around eleven to fifty he m on July fifth. They described him as being six foot tall, in his twenties or thirties, and they, for whatever reason, thought that he was a local. They, like I said, didn't say he was a suspect, but they wanted to ask him some questions. And they also kind of threw out a. Theory that this murder was possibly drug related, and that was being investigated, and we'll get to that in a little bit. Three weeks after the murders, on July twenty seventh, the store reopened, but it was done so under a new name and new owner, so the store was renamed four Corners. The new owner bought the store from his brother in law, who had owned Kk's Corner Store. I do not understand why you would want to run a business where three people had just been brutally murdered, not even a month after the fact, when whoever did this is still out there, I cannot imagine that is just me. So. Law enforcement initially didn't release a ton of information in regards to the killings, except for that the people that had been killed had been shot, and this was done for the purpose to maintain the integrity of the investigation. They did believe that there was more than one suspect here. They thought that it was two people, and they thought that they had taken Marty and Nicole into the cooler and shot both of them while the other suspect had Stacy lead him to the safe and then Stacy ended up also being shot. Marty was the furthest back in the cooler, so they did believe that he was shot first. Of course, in all things like this, rumors started to swirl around town in regards to the crime scene details, and there was a lot of rumors out there about the way that they were killed and the condition of their bodies, and all of that was eventually debunked by law enforcement in one way or another, but they were still doing all that they could to try to figure out who was responsible for this. They announced that they had brought in a hypnotist to help with some of the interviews and talk to some of the witnesses to see if they could remember anything, and they said that the hypnotist had produced limited information, but in the long term this will play a very crucial role. In the case. By nineteen ninety eight. The case was still unsolved and investigators decided it needed more attention, and they took it to one of the most popular shows at the time, America's Most Wanted, hosted by none other than the John Walsh. It aired on January twenty fifth of nineteen ninety eight. At the time that. It aired, fifty two calls came in that night, and in the two weeks following another thirty to forty had also come in. New details had been. Released during the show, including an updated sk that was drawn from information of a witness under hypnosis. This witness is going to blow your mind. So this witness was at the corner store around midnight to get gas and she went to walk into the store to pay, and she saw at that point there was a two door black Chevrolet that had pulled into the parking lot and parked by the store side entrance. The witness said when she went to go inside. The doors were already locked because they were in the process of closing, but Stacy led her into pay. As she was up at the cash register paying, one man got out of the car and ended up walking in the store and went towards the beer coolers, and then the other man also walked in and bumped into her at that time. Wasn't polite, didn't say excuse me, and she said immediately she just had a bad feeling. She then went back outside and stood there pumping her gas, and she could see that the two men were in front of the beer cooler and they were arguing, and she definitely trusted her gut and felt like something wasn't right with the two of them, and she ended up leaving before she was even done pumping her gas. She then went and picked up her boyfriend and then decided she was going to drive back by the store, and when she did, she noticed that there was a red pickup truck that was parked next to the black car, and the red pickup truck had its driver's side door open, and she also noticed that the black car also had its trunk open, but she didn't see anybody around, and the witness also noticed when she was in the store and saw one of the men, she noticed something that stuck out. He had a rabbit's foot keychain hanging out of his pants pocket. And then he also had a key tag that was in the shape of a cigarette and on the cigarette said Marlborough on it. So that is a pretty big piece of information there. Now, investigators knew all of this, but they didn't release it to protect the integrity of the case. But once it was released on America's Most Wanted, the families were taken aback by this info and how they were just hearing about it. So with all of the new information that was released and the sketch that was released, lots of rumors began once again, and one of the most. Interesting rumors was. Undeniably that the sketch that was released resembled the Sheriff Wayne mcelvine's son, Richard. They had multiple calls that said they didn't know if Richard was involved, but that the sketch looks just like Richard. Richard gave blood samples, hair samples, he took a light detector test, gave his fingerprints, and he was cooperative. The lone witness was even shown Richard in a six man lineup and said that none of the men looked like the one that she saw that night. He also had an alibi, so he was pretty quickly ruled out as a suspect. But it really goes to show you that very quickly you can become the forefront of a murder investigation just because you resemble somebody in a sketch. And at this point, due to Richard's resemblance of the composite sketch and the fact that he was the sheriff's son, the families wanted an outside investigation just because they wanted to be sure that everything was done in the right way to try to find who harmed their loved ones. Everything was just way too close for home, and with this Richard being a potential person of interest and his relationship to the sheriff, they wanted to be sure that he really wasn't involved and that this wasn't just a rumor. But rumors did continue to swirl in regards to Richard's involvement, and his dad ended up holding a press conference to dispel the But this press conference really only made it worse. In the press conference, he said, quote, if I have to in the name of my son. I'll work with him and we will file suits if this doesn't stop. If these rumors, if people still believe them, let them say, they'll say them to you, and if they do, I'm sure lawsuits will follow. End quote. He then went on to say, quote to whoever started these rumors, these rumors, they're not going to make me or my family just fold or go away. We're not going to do that. Y'all underestimated the strength of the mclvin family and friends. End quote. So that is obviously probably not the best look. He probably shouldn't have come out and said any of that, but regardless, he did. And the families of the victims were kind of upset about this because they felt that the investigation had shifted away from their loved ones murders being solved and all of this, and Wayne coming forward was just giving a ten t to all of the rumors, and they felt that Wayne was using his platform and his role as sheriff to try and take attention away from the killings and make the case about rumors and speculation instead of about. Justice for their families. So I can definitely see that the families were severely impacted by this, and it did. It distracted from the investigation. If Richard really wasn't involved, it distracted from the investigation him even getting up there and saying what he was saying. Although I do understand, being falsely accused of triple homicide is not something that you want to have to deal with in your life, and I get that as well. So rumors continued to swirl and surround this case, and although law enforcement had come out and said that the killings were likely robbery motivated, some of Stacy's family had wondered if this was a targeted attack and if Stacy was the reason and the target. So in May of nineteen ninety seven, a man named Kevin Abel, who was a friend of Stacy's, had died and it was ruled a suicide, but Stacy herself, after the death of her friend, had wondered if he was murdered. She had believed that certain people involved in the drug trade were responsible and trafficking drugs. Now this is a. Quote from an attorney named Hunter Lundy, who, alongside a man an attorney named Clayton Davis, ended up filing a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of Stacy and Nichol's families. Quote. Certain people didn't like her reporting others to be involved in drug trafficking because I think she was giving names to law enforcement as to who she suspected to be involved in the death of Kevin Abel end quote. So this filing that was filed by these two attorneys listed a coworker of Stacy's and said that this person was dealing drugs out of Kk's and had quit. In the days leading up to the triple homicide. Rumors of course, continued to swirl, and about a week before the one year anniversary of the killings, Sheriff mcelevin put up a one hundred thousand dollars reward leading for information into the arrests of the suspects, and on August twenty eighth of nineteen ninety eight, finally, four hundred and eighteen days after the murders occurred, an arrest was made. So the man that was arrested was named Thomas Frank Cisco. He was twenty nine years old and a former Lake Charles resident. He had moved to New Orleans two years prior, and he actually was friends with Stacy. He knew her in high school and had even been to her house a couple of times. His arrest did come from a lead from America's Most Wanted, but they didn't really say a lot about his arrest or what. Evidence they had against him. They had kind of talked a little bit about his previous interactions with law enforcement. They said that in nineteen eighty eight, he was arrested for stealing a grave marker and had confessed that he was into devil worshiping, and he had also been a witness in a shooting death eight years prior in nineteen eighty five, and because he was so cooperative with law enforcement, they actually helped solve this particular case. But regardless of that, he ended up being charged with the murders of Marty, Stacy and Nicole. On August twenty eighth of nineteen ninety eight, they sat down with Tom for his first official interview, and he had a lot to say, but investigators didn't really know what was real and what wasn't real, so that was very much a challenge. He gave at least thirty five statements to police, but many of them contradicted one another, and he said he knew who did it because he was there, and what he basically said was that he had taken a bus from New Orleans to Lake Charles for a fresh start, and he said that he was with a man named Robert Thigpen, and Robert said, Hey, we should rob the Corner Store, and he gave like this big elaborate story of what they did, what happened. And when investigators looked into Robert, they discovered that he had a solid alibi, and the story that Tom had given about what had happened that night at the Corner Store there was a lot of inconsistencies from what investigators knew was the truth. So they confronted him with the fact that Robert had an alibi. They investigated him and there was no way that he could be involved, and Tom said, okay. You're right. I basically named him because I didn't like him. But despite all of this, the interview did kind of warrant a few things that came out of it, because Tom did admit that he always carried a rabbit's foot keychain in his back pocket, and he said that the rabbit foot was always hanging out. And then he read a letter aloud that he had written to Stacy, and I'm going to read you that letter. Now, Stacy, I want you to know that I'm really sorry for what happened. If I knew you were going to be there that night, I would have never let it happen. I really wouldn't. Please, if you're up there listening, please understand that if I could have, if I could take your place and the other's place, I would in a New York minute, if it was up to me that night, I would have done it totally different. I would have just took all the money and took my chances of getting caught. I know that you can never forgive me, but I'm really sorry from the bottom of my heart. No matter what happened. I still love you, Sis. If you can find it in your heart, please forgive me if you can. I'm paying for what I did, and he will pay for what he did because I'm going to do everything in my power to see that he is caught. I promise I cry a lot since you're gone. Believe me, I do again. I'm really sorry about everything, Biasis. I love you very much. So this pretty much sounds like a slam dunk. Tom was there that night. He's responsible, and there's someone else who he knows that was there that is also responsible, and he's going to do everything in his power to help bring this person to justice and get justice for these three. In this letter to Stacy, he does seem remorseful, but this story is not cut and dry. And Tom Cisco is also not cut and dry. So just a few days later, four days later, on August thirty first of nineteen ninety eight, Tom Cisco recanted everything he said and said, I wasn't even at the corner store that night, and I had nothing to do with this. And he said that he had been talking with his ex girlfriend on the phone and she asked him, why did you confess when you didn't do it, And he said that he confessed because he felt that he was being harassed by the FBI and that they were ruining his life already. So he might as well just confess. And he's quoted us saying to the investigator that was questioning him, I'm just telling you, I swear on it if you give me a stack of Bibles swearing that I swear on my kid's life. And I don't ever swear on my kid's life for anything. I did not commit these murders. I did not commit these murders, and I don't know who did commit these murders. He also said that he had previously confessed to a rape that he didn't commit, and he said the whole reason that he did all of this is because he just wanted to be over with and he was tired of people looking at him. Now, investigators didn't know what to make of this because there were details that Taught had offered up that they believed that only the killer would know, or somebody that was present there that night would know. But Tom insisted that he wasn't there. He said that he had previously been to the KKs Corner store before, and all of the stuff that he said and confessed was basically just him guessing as to what happened that night. But he even mentioned himself that the phone lines were cut, the office phone was cut, and the payphone lines were cut, and that is something that only somebody present there that night that actually cut the phone lines would have been privy to, because that was never released into the media. So investigators don't really know what to make of all of this. So on December one of nineteen ninety eight, Tom is still denying his involvement and he decides to call in to the local news station KPLC and give what he thinks is his side of things and say that he is just a fall guy and this is all just made up. He said that they're. Very much trying to depend it on him because they haven't found anyone in a year and a half, and he does have a connection to Stacy, so they're kind of using his friendship with Stacy to try to pin this on him. He also said that when he was being. Questioned by law enforcement that he was on drugs and he basically was under a lot of pressure, so that is the reason that he ended up confessing. So he takes this very public to the news station and gives them this information. So again, lots of rumors surround this story since it happened to when this happened with the new station interview in nineteen ninety eight, this is such a wild story, guys. We are now going to fast forward to January twentieth of nineteen ninety nine, when there was another jail house interview that was conducted with Tom Cisco, and you guessed it, he is now putting himself back at the center of the crime. He said that he traveled to Lake Charles. From New Orleans with a man named Bobby and another man who he didn't identify by name, he just identified as a blackmail. He said that while Bobby stayed outside, he and the quote unquote blackmail went into the KKSE corner store and Tom was armed with a nine millimeter and the other man had a thirty eight caliber and Bobby is the one who cut the phone lines. And Tom said he was on drugs at the time, and said that the other man passed by a white female customer. As they entered. He said that he had told Marty, Stacy, and Nicole to come out from behind the counter. The other man held them out gunpoint in the aisle, and then Tom ended up calling them back into the cooler. He said, I called them each one by one from where they were standing. I motioned them back to the coller one by one. As they came back there, I sat them down executional style and shot them. He then said that he shot Marty first, and then he went and got fourteen year old Nicole who was sobbing, which I imagine she was, And then he said he called Stacy back and said, quote, that's the one I really hate the most because I loved Stacy. I would have gave anything in the world, but right at that time, I didn't care. I didn't want to get caught end quote. He then said that he shot each of them multiple times, and Stacy asked him why he was doing it, and he said, quote I told her to be honest with you. I don't want to be caught. I don't want to take no chances of getting caught. End quote. He then said that they stole money out of the cast registers but could not get into the safe, and he said that they stole close to. Eight hundred dollars. He then returned to New Orleans and sold his gun for drugs, which of course he did. He then said, quote, I did it. There's no questions about it. I'm pleading guilty right here on this tape end quote. And if you're confused, I'm confused because he said he did it. Then he completely recanted and even went to the news station, the local news station, to say that he was coerced and he was under pressure, and he was on drugs and he wasn't there. And then he recanted that and then said I did do it, but I was with this one man and this other black individual, and we're the ones that did it. And then, because the story isn't crazy enough as it is, on March third of nineteen ninety nine, six months after the arrest and a year and two months after the case was on America's Most Wanted, Tom Cisco named someone else, the person that had essentially set up this killing. And when I tell you the name, it's gonna sound familiar because that name is Richard Mcelvin, the sharef son. He basically said that he was approached by Richard mcelvin and that he was going to pay him twenty thousand dollars to kill Stacy Reeves, and he was going to give him ten thousand dollars up front, which back in those days was a crap ton of money. And he basically said that he wasn't in his right mind, he shouldn't have taken the twenty thousand dollars hit offer, but he was desperate because he was a drug addict and needed to have money for his drugs. And when they pressed a little further, he said basically that Richard had approached him because he knew that he was on drugs and he would probably easily accept a bride, and he offered him twenty thousand dollars because he was on crack and he knew that he needed drugs, so he said, Stacy knows too much and I need you to kill her. But this doesn't change. The fact that over the years Richard had been investigated, he had been cleared as a suspect, he had a solid alibi, he had passed a lie detector test, and the witness who was there that night and saw the two individuals said that is not the guy that I saw, but did say, yeah, Tom Cisco, he's familiar to me. He was definitely there. So another claim that Tom Cisco had made January twenty seventh of nineteen ninety nine, he said that he had taken the kk's corner store surveillance tape and then he had traveled to Laplace, Louisiana, where he said he burned the tape. So investigators are trying to probe him on this, and in the midst of that, Tom ended up identifying another man as being an accomplice. So he identified this man named Malcolm. So he said that the first sketch that was released looked like the man that he refers. To as Bobby. And then the composite sketch that was shown on America's Most Wanted, the second one they released, look like himself. And then the investigator was like, you know who this picture is. They have a very distinct look. The investigator then went on to say, I've met just about everyone that you know. I've talked to all of them. And when I met someone that I know that was an associate of yours, the investigator very much at this point is hinting that I've talked to somebody who I think looks like this sketch, and it's somebody that. You know, Tom. And then Tom comes forward and says a man named Chris. And then they said was Chris there? And Tom shook his head and said yes, But then he said that Chris never entered the store. So the investigator continues to probe and said, were there four. Of you there then that night? And Tom shook his head yes and said, yes, there were four of us. So if you're having a hard time keeping up, it's because Cisco. Tom Cisco changes the story every other minute. First he was there, he didn't kill them, Then he's the shooter. Then we're introducing other people. He's lying about who was there, He's naming random names. He's bringing up Richard mcelevin again. It is just a hot mess disaster. So two days after this, he then basically said I was just kidding with everything I said. I wasn't the shooter, but did admit that he and the others that were there and were involved were high on LSD, marijuana, and a bunch of other drugs. He named so many different people in the different stories that he told. He had thirty five plus ever changing statements and stories about what happened that night, but nobody else was ever arrested or charged in connection with the murders. So we are going to end on that note for part one. Part two, we are going to get into the trial and what is going on currently. Like I said, I'm going to try to make this a two parter, but it might have to be a three parter because there is a lot of information here. But we basically know, at least I feel like as of right now, Tom Cisco is a pretty solid guy as far as being a suspect in this case. Although his story has changed, there are things that he knows about the crime that only he would know, and. He knows an awful lot. He's talking an off lot, although a lot of it doesn't make a lot of sense, and a lot of it is being recanted, and he's naming all these different people. That were there and were involved. I honestly don't know what to make of all of this because it is just so much information and at this point still we don't really have a motive besides robbery, and Tom is saying that there were four of them there that night, but were there only two? There were only two seen by the eyewitness, but then there was also that red truck that had pulled up, So we have questions there who was. In that car. We have so many unanswered questions in this case, and there's just so much unknown still to this day. But next episode we're going to get into trial, We're going to get into the aftermath, and we're going to get into where things stand today with this story. But this one definitely has me scratching my head, like what is going on here? So many more questions than I have answers. But I thank you guys for listening. Please stay tuned for part two, which will be coming next week, and I will see you then for part two of the crazy KKs Corner store murders. Thank you guys, have a great weekend and I will see you then. Bye.