S3 Ep283: J.C. McGhee: Home Invasion or Contract Hit? (Part 1)

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🗓️ 14 March 2025

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Summary

On the morning of July 11, 2002, 16-year-old Alyssa McGhee was jolted awake by the sound of a gunshot and her father’s scream. She rushed into the living room and found 45-year-old JC McGhee lying on the floor, covered in blood. Minutes later, just next door, JC’s nephew Omar Foston called 911 to report that his house had been invaded, his family had been tied up, and his attackers were still inside. As police arrived to investigate, they quickly realized this wasn’t your average robbery gone wrong—there were layers to this case, from a high-stakes custody battle to JC’s work as a confidential informant. And as investigators dug deeper, it became clear that there were several possible suspects, including family members.

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0:00.0	On the morning of July 11, 2002, 16-year-old Alyssa McGee was jolted awake by the sound of a gunshot and her father's scream. She rushed into the
0:22.9	living room and found a 45-year-old J.C. McGee lying on the floor covered in blood. Minutes later,
0:29.7	just next door, J.C.'s nephew, Omar Faustin called 911 to report that his house had been
0:35.7	invaded. His family had been tied up, and his attackers were still inside.
0:40.7	As police arrived to investigate, they quickly realized this wasn't your average robbery gone wrong.
0:46.4	There were layers to this case, from a high-stakes custody battle to J.C.'s work as a confidential informant,
0:52.8	and as investigators dug deeper, it became clear that
0:56.5	there were several possible suspects, including family members.
1:15.9	Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Crime Weekly. I'm Stephanie Harlow.
1:22.4	And I'm Derek Labassar. And as you heard from the teaser, we are jumping into a completely new case today.
1:29.2	Yes. Yes, we are. And it's long overdue. A friend of ours, Madison McGee, we met her years ago at CrimeCon.
1:33.0	This is the case we're talking about is J.C.'s her father.
1:38.8	And she actually has a podcast as well called Ice Cold Case, where she's going over her father's murder and everything involved with it and trying to get justice.
1:41.6	And we talked about this case a long time ago and we said,
1:44.3	hey, we want to cover it at some point. Originally, I was thinking about covering it on detective
1:48.4	perspective because it is an unsolved case. But there's so much here. And detective perspective is a
1:54.2	soundbite. It's 45 minutes tops. This really needed a deep dive. And obviously Stephanie knows Madison as well. So we wanted to
2:03.2	to do this case justice and we're going to cover it as best as we can. I will say right off the
2:07.7	jump here, Madison has spent her entire life covering this case and studying this case and researching
2:13.3	this case. So although we're going to do the best we can, if you really want to hear everything,
2:18.0	you need to go check out ice cold case because obviously she's going to have more information
2:22.3	than when we have, but we will do our best to cover everything we can. She's going to have a different
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