Episode 266: Michael Thomas Garry

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

Society & Culture, News, True Crime

4.5 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On September 14, 2007, a 52-year-old security guard is savagely beaten at his workplace in Cypress, California in the early hours of the morning and left for dead, later discovered by his co-workers. Everyone who knows the man, who has autism and passes away hours later, is shocked that something so violent could befall someone so gentle and unassuming. It’s clear the victim was fatally attacked during a burglary, but who could wish such grievous harm on someone just doing their job? At the same time, the net is closing in on the perpetrators, and it’s only a matter of time before everyone learns how the killer's paths collided with the victim. In episode 266, Jac and Alexis detail the callous murder of Michael Thomas Garry at the hands of David Joseph Zimmer and Sean Christopher Hodge, and how devastating being in the wrong place at the wrong time can be.

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0:00.0	The first degree, the first degree, the first degree, the first degree, the first degree.
0:13.6	These things are supposed to happen in movies not in real life.
0:24.0	It was extremely scary.
0:25.8	I really thought I was going to die.
0:28.3	He was very calm, extremely quiet.
0:31.4	I come home and my apartment is trashed.
0:35.1	I mean, there's cops everywhere.
0:36.8	They have my brother sitting at a table.
0:39.2	They're interrogating him and my brother looks so scared.
0:43.4	I've never seen him look this scared in his life.
0:46.8	It's just a really crazy story and it's crazy to think that you're that close to a monster.
0:52.2	And you kind of know it and nobody else sees it.
0:55.7	And you think you're crazy.
0:57.7	And then when it comes out, it turns out you're not crazy.
1:02.4	Welcome to the first degree.
1:03.5	The True Crime Podcast.
1:04.5	You might end up on my name is Jack Fanick.
1:06.5	I'm sitting here at the Lexus link letter.
1:08.0	And you know what?
1:08.5	We have so many different intros to our three different episodes.
1:11.6	That it's very hard for me to do the correct one.
1:14.0	And I screwed up immediately.
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