Episode 301: Greg Everett Wells

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.5 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

On January 6, 2002, a 31-year-old pizza delivery driver is bludgeoned to death and has his throat cut after making a delivery to an apartment in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. the brutality of the attack, which police suspect is motivated by robbery, has the community on edge. Within days, a 17-year-old young man, who lives at the apartment where the victim is slain, and his 20-year-old female friend are apprehended. The sheer randomness of the attack is felt far and wide as the suspect’s identities and backgrounds are released to the public. But their subsequent lack of remorse over the violent slaying is what truly chills the community to the bone. In episode 301, Jac and Alexis detail the senseless murder of Greg Everett Wells at the hands of David James Keegan and Brandy Renee Byrd, and the devastating consequences of sheer malevolence colliding with being in the wrong place at the wrong time, leaving a family forever shattered.

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0:00.0	It's a degree.
0:02.0	First degree.
0:04.0	First degree.
0:05.0	First degree.
0:06.0	First degree.
0:07.0	The first degree.
0:08.0	The first degree.
0:09.0	You see it on the news.
0:10.0	See it on the paper and you see it on Facebook.
0:13.0	These things are supposed to happen in movies, not in real life.
0:20.0	It's just genuinely a nice human being.
0:24.3	He never meant anybody that he wouldn't help
0:26.4	and he did constantly.
0:28.3	You couldn't find anybody who had a mean thing to say about Greg.
0:32.2	There just wouldn't have been a person on the
0:33.6	face the planet that did. She called my mom and my mom woke me up and said,
0:38.8	Greg hasn't come home. Your aunt is freaking out. I went with her over to my aunt's house and she was in
0:45.4	sole breakdown. We were calling everybody, it was just something's wrong. So
0:50.4	finally my mom who was more collected and tends to be a little more aggressive anyway got on the phone and said what's going on it is my motto to this day that she says do not let someone walk out of your house that you love
1:04.8	without telling them you love them because sometimes they just don't come back and I
1:10.2	mean it's gut-wrenching to hear your aunt say that to you and know what she means by that.
1:16.0	I would have never imagined anything like that would ever be something my family would have ever dealt with.
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