209: The Disgraced Hero & Fugitive: Mario Centobie

Southern Fried True Crime

Erica Kelley

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

When Officer Keith Turner pulled over a car in Moody, Alabama on June 25, 1998, he thought it was a routine traffic stop. The 29-year-old husband and father had no idea that the men in the car were two escaped convicts, Mario Centobie and Jeremy Granberry. In the span of two days, the armed and dangerous fugitives had already attacked one officer and nearly killed another. As Officer Turner walked toward them, Mario stepped out of the vehicle. He reached through the window as if to retrieve his license, but instead he pulled out a gun and fired three times.

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0:00.0	Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Southern Fried True Crime covers cases that are not suitable for young listeners,
0:25.0	and there may also be some explicit language used.
0:28.0	Listener discretion is advised. On Thursday, June 25th, 1998, Officer Chris Long was having a normal hot summer night.
0:45.0	He was patrolling Moody, Alabama in his police car.
0:49.0	And he was keeping an air to his radio just like he always did.
0:54.0	So when Chris heard his colleague, Officer Keith Turner,
0:58.0	send a radio transmission to Central Dispatch,
1:01.0	he listened like he always would.
1:04.0	But it wasn't anything special.
1:06.5	Keith was pulling over a vehicle for a routine traffic stop.
1:10.2	Automatically, Chris headed towards Keith's location.
1:14.0	Later, Chris would testify that this was out of habit.
1:18.0	He said, any time he stopped a car, I backed him up, and vice versa.
1:23.0	Even when Chris had Keith's patrol car in sight,
1:27.0	he didn't think anything was off.
1:29.0	He heard a few pops, but it was June 25th.
1:32.0	The 4th of July holiday was only a week away.
1:35.0	People were always setting off firecrackers early, especially in rural Alabama.
1:41.0	But when Chris heard additional pops, followed by screaming, his stomach dropped,
1:47.8	as he realized it wasn't fireworks. works.
1:55.0	Welcome to episode 2009, the disgraced hero and fugitive Mario Santobe.
2:16.2	Officer Keith Ashley Turner was born in November 1968 to his parents, Dot, and Pat Turner in Pell City, Alabama.
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