Hell and Gone Murder Line: Victor Collins

Hell and Gone

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🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On the night of Saturday, November 21, 2015, Victor Collins, a 47-year-old former police officer who worked in loss prevention at Walmart, was hanging out with some friends, Owen McDonald and Sean Henry, who all also worked at Walmart, and 31-year-old James Bates.

The four friends went back to James' house in Bentonville, Arkansas to watch a Razorbacks football game. According to court documents, these four guys were drinking. At some point, the guys went out to the back patio to have some beers in the hot tub. Sean left first then Owen sometime shortly after midnight, leaving Victor and James alone at the house.

Now James claimed that after that at around 1 AM he went to bed to crash and left Victor in the hot tub. But in the morning, Victor was floating face down in the hot tub.

Now what happened next depended on who you asked this began a multi-year ordeal that involved allegations of murder, police corruption and what devices in our houses are listening when you think you’re alone.

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0:00.0	School of Humans
0:04.0	Humans
0:05.0	On the night of Saturday, November 21st, 2015,
0:11.0	Victor Collins, a 47-year-old former police officer who worked at Walmart, was hanging
0:17.0	out with some friends, Owen McDonald, Sean Henry, and 31-year year old James Bates.
0:23.7	The four friends went back to James's house in Bentonville, Arkansas
0:27.2	to watch a Razorbacks football game.
0:29.6	This was a big game.
0:31.2	The Arkansas Razorbacks were playing Mississippi State, so this was an all-day event.
0:36.5	Now, and this is according to court documents, these four guys were drinking. They started
0:41.5	out with beers and also had some vodka shots. They
0:44.6	hung out and talked and kept drinking after the game ended. At some point,
0:49.6	according to court documents, the guys went out to the back patio to have some more beers in the hot tub.
0:55.9	At around 11 p.m. Sean and James got out of the hot tub leaving Victor and Owen hanging
1:01.7	out there.
1:03.0	The night seemed to be kind of winding down at that point.
1:06.3	Sean left first, then Owen, sometime shortly after midnight,
1:10.6	leaving Victor and James alone at the house. Now James claimed that after that at
1:15.9	around 1 a.m. he went to bed to crash. He said he left Victor in the hot tub. In the
1:21.5	morning he found Victor there floating face down.
1:27.0	Now what really happened that night and what happened next
1:30.0	depended on who you asked.
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