Episode 319: Brandon Hilton

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.5 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On January 8, 1995, a 34-year-old man and his 33-year-old girlfriend are walking to their cars parked along the side of State Highway 295 in Spartanburg, South Carolina, near a fast food restaurant. Suddenly, another vehicle pulls up, driven by the woman’s 49-year-old ex-husband. He pulls out a revolver and begins shooting through the rear window of the other man’s Chevy station wagon, striking the victim multiple times. The mortally wounded man flees on foot but is chased by his attacker into the parking lot of the restaurant and collapses, later dying in hospital. The killer initially takes responsibility but years later appeals, throwing the lives of everyone involved in the ordeal into further turmoil. In episode 319, Jac and Alexis detail the devastating death of Timothy Roach, and how the ripple effects of childhood trauma can come to define not only who we are, but spur us on to achieve success despite the darkest of circumstances.

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0:00.0	It's a degree.
0:02.0	First degree. First degree. First degree. First degree. First degree. First degree.
0:06.0	The first degree.
0:08.0	See it on the news.
0:10.0	See it on the paper. You see it on Facebook.
0:13.0	These things are supposed to happen in movies, not real life.
0:16.0	After he did what he did, before he got in his car and drove away, he came up to me, my mom and my sister.
0:29.0	We were like all huddled in the middle of the road, crying, and it was just like chaos all around us and he like pointed
0:34.2	the gun straight at me like I looked like down the barrel of the gun he pulled the
0:37.9	trigger but there were no bullets such in the gun I've dissected this a
0:42.2	million times since in my heart I know that he knew there was no bullet
0:46.5	fussing the gun. He knew he'd empty the gun. He stood over this man and pulled the
0:49.7	trigger until there was no more bullets coming out. He completely had no regard for me.
0:55.7	Welcome to the first degree of the True Crime Podcast
0:57.8	that you might end up on.
0:59.1	My name is Jack Vanick.
1:00.0	I'm sitting here with Alexis Linkletter
1:01.6	who is wearing a Foo Fighters sweatshirt which is interesting.
1:04.8	What what's I did everything that's going on which honestly nobody cares about anymore because of all the
1:10.6	did he shit that's going on.
1:12.5	Yeah, like we were joking about this.
1:15.3	Dave Grohl and Blake Lively are so happy
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