Episode 182

Sword and Scale

Incongruity

True Crime, Entrepreneurship, Business, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4 • 61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2021

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

In December of 2000, 31-year-old real estate appraiser Mike Williams went missing while duck hunting on Lake Seminole in Jackson County, Florida. The initial belief was that Mike had drowned and that alligators had eaten his body. Seventeen years would go by before Florida law enforcement could prove that something even more horrifying and nefarious happened to Mike Williams.

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0:00.0	Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences.
0:05.8	Listener discretion is advised.
0:14.0	For the rest of my life I will see my son clinging to a tree stump in the door.
0:21.5	I will resubred a helping animal haunting forever.
0:33.5	Hello, once again.
0:36.5	Welcome to Season 8, Episode 182 of Sword and Scale.
0:40.5	A show that reveals that the worst monsters are real.
0:47.5	On today's episode, a near perfect murder plot is foiled by the one variable of the crime
1:11.5	the murderer could not control.
1:14.5	The story has everything, love, sex, betrayal and alligators.
1:45.5	On the morning of December 25th, 2000, 56-year-old Tallahassee woman Cheryl Williams drove to Jackson County, Florida and arrived at Lake Seminal, a massive reservoir in the northwest corner of Florida's border with Georgia.
2:08.5	Lake Seminal is known for its exceptional fishing and duck hunting locations.
2:14.5	But Cheryl had no intention of doing any fishing or hunting on this particularly somber Christmas morning.
2:22.5	Instead, Cheryl was visiting the final resting place of her 31-year-old son, Mike Williams.
2:30.5	It was just days earlier that Cheryl received the heartbreaking news from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission.
2:37.5	Mike Williams had gone missing while duck hunting on Lake Seminal and was presumed dead.
2:44.5	The belief was that Mike had accidentally drowned and subsequently had been eaten by alligators, making the recovery of his body unlikely.
2:57.5	When Cheryl arrived at Lake Seminal to see where her son had perished, she noticed that the air was considerably cold for Florida.
3:06.5	Colder than it had been in years, and with tears in her eyes, she looked out of the large, malevolent body of water that took her child's life.
3:18.5	Then, without warning, the wind picked up, like some cruel attempt to knock her over the lake breathed a harsh and bitter cold air.
3:32.5	But it was no match for the fire that suddenly ignited inside of Cheryl.
3:38.5	While standing at the lake's edge, an abrupt and unexplained apprehension overtook Cheryl, forcing her to clench her fists, and she knew something wasn't quite right.
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