EPISODE 157: “Ambush in York”: The Murder of Melvin Roberts

Carolina Crimes

Matt Hiers and Danielle Myers

True Crime

5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In 2010, a successful attorney and businessman and his longtime girlfriend were attacked in his driveway costing him his life. The deeper investigatiors dug, the clues and inconsistencies only pointed in one direction.

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Sources:
https://amp.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article88178427.html

https://www.wyff4.com/article/woman-featured-in-dateline-death-in-the-driveway-dies-in-prison/7023144

https://www.wbtv.com/story/23330402/witness-relationship-strained-before-former-york-mayor-murdered/?outputType=amp

https://amp.heraldonline.com/news/local/article88295367.html

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0:00.0	For over 350 years, the state of South Carolina has been the setting for some of the most horrendous crimes ever committed.
0:14.8	Some have gained global notoriety.
0:17.6	Some have been forgotten, and others have been swept under the rug completely.
0:23.0	Now, two South Carolina natives and true crime enthusiasts
0:27.0	have teamed up to examine these heinous acts in detail,
0:31.0	giving their perspective of the evil that has resided in the Palmetto state.
0:35.6	You're listening to Carolina Crimes.
0:39.4	And welcome, welcome back to Carolina Crimes, episode 157.
0:48.0	And we're over the moon, thrilled that you joined us here for this week's episode.
0:52.0	I'm one of your host Matt Hires along with
0:54.1	Danielle Myers and she is a joke she's heavily medicated she took she took a couple
1:01.0	Tylenol before we went on. Yeah, so the fustler, I apologize.
1:04.0	Yeah, she's doing this episode under heavy sedation.
1:08.0	So, um...
1:09.0	Oh, I'm sedated now, okay.
1:11.0	Yeah, well, we appreciate you joining us here this week. This is going to be a wild one.
1:17.6	We appreciate all the feedback we got from last week's episode coming out of Abbeyville quite a lot and in fact some
1:28.4	people chimed in that actually knew a lot about this case and reached out to me and I gratefully appreciate that as well.
1:37.1	So thank you.
1:38.2	That was just wrong place, wrong time.
1:41.8	Good gosh. I think that was the name of the episode wrong wrong guy wrong place wrong time and
1:48.1	It's never should have happened. Yeah, poor Jamel Phillips. I mean just just... And then Dale Phillips.
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