Episode 265 - Treehouse Cinderella - The Murder of Matthew Bonnett – Part 1 of 2
The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories
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4.4 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In Part 1, you'll hear how a late-night robbery turned deadly when Matthew tried stopping two masked men from attacking his upstairs neighbor.
You'll also hear how three men from a nearby warehouse found themselves caught in a web of conflicting stories, grainy surveillance footage, and a murder investigation that would soon take an extraordinary turn.
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Research & Writing:
Ryan Deininger
Editing:
Aiden Wolf
Sources:
Franklin Tyrone Tucker IA Complaint Sept. 2019
True Homestead 11/26/2020
Informant Naeem Jackson 1st Interview 6/22/2018
Transcript-Oct2320-Motion To Add Dunne As Witness
Inside Edition: Why the Millionaire Co-Founder of Crossfit Bailed Out Her Accused Murderer Lover
BluePaper - Tree House Murder Gets National Attention
BluePaper - The Investigators Under Investigation
BluePaper - Lead Detective Claims His Boss Coached Witnesses and Fabricated Evidence
Deposition of Detective Matthew Pitcher
Youtube - Free Franklin Tucker
Paula Belmonte Interview with True Homestead
Paula Obituary
WATCH LIVE: Treehouse Murder Trial — FL v. Franklin Tyrone Tucker — Day One
WATCH LIVE: Treehouse Murder Trial — FL v. Franklin Tyrone Tucker — Day Two
WATCH LIVE: Treehouse Murder Trial — FL v. Franklin Tyrone Tucker — Day Three
WATCH LIVE: Treehouse Murder Trial — FL v. Franklin Tyrone Tucker — Day Four
WATCH LIVE: Treehouse Murder Trial — FL v. Franklin Tyrone Tucker — Day Five
WATCH LIVE: Treehouse Murder Trial — FL v. Franklin Tyrone Tucker — Day Six
WATCH LIVE: Treehouse Murder Trial — FL v. Franklin Tyrone Tucker — Day Seven
WATCH LIVE: Treehouse Murder Trial — FL v. Franklin Tyrone Tucker — Day Eight
WATCH LIVE: Treehouse Murder Trial — FL v. Franklin Tyrone Tucker — Day Nine
VERDICT WATCH: Treehouse Murder Trial — FL v. Franklin Tyrone Tucker — Day 10
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| 0:33.3 | Music Thank you. I'm going to be. I'm going to be. There are two different types of Cinderella stories. |
| 1:09.5 | There's the fairy tale romance, where love transforms a pauper into a princess. |
| 1:15.5 | And then there's the classic underdog tale, where the impossible becomes possible against |
| 1:21.7 | all odds. |
| 1:23.4 | But what if there was a story that was both? |
| 1:26.7 | In November 2017, police discovered a brutal murder at what locals called the tree house, |
| 1:34.3 | a makeshift dwelling on Stock Island in Key West Florida. |
| 1:39.3 | Among the three men arrested was 46-year-old Tyrone Tucker, a homeless man living inside a nearby warehouse. |
| 1:48.7 | At first, Tyrone's cries of innocence fell on deaf ears. But everything changed when his old |
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