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Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

The Coroner Who Helped His Mistress Kill Christopher Dontell's Confession Reveals Everything

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

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🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

The Coroner Who Helped His Mistress Kill Christopher Dontell's Confession Reveals Everything
Deputy Coroner Christopher Dontell Helps Mistress Meagan Jackson Murder Gregory Rice | True Crime Case Analysis
In this true crime deep dive, we examine the shocking murder of Gregory Rice by his ex-girlfriend Meagan Jackson and her lover, Horry County Deputy Coroner Christopher Dontell. This case reveals how two professionals in the death industry used their access to funeral homes to commit and cover up murder.

CASE SUMMARY: On October 2, 2020, body transporter Meagan Jackson shot Gregory Rice, the father of her four children, 5-7 times outside his Myrtle Beach apartment. Deputy Coroner Christopher Dontell helped dispose of the body in the Little Pee Dee River. Text messages revealed they planned to "cut brake lines" and "pop tires" before choosing murder.

KEY EVIDENCE EXAMINED: ✓ Shocking text messages between Dontell and Jackson ✓ Lowe's surveillance footage of murder kit purchase ✓ Daughter Savannah Rice's emotional testimony ✓ Christopher Dontell's full confession ✓ Digital forensics that solved the case

WATCH THIS VIDEO TO LEARN:

  • How a deputy coroner used funeral home access to hide a body
  • Why Meagan Jackson threatened to kill Dontell if he didn't help
  • The anonymous texts that exposed their deadly affair
  • How fishermen discovered Gregory Rice's body after 37 days
  • Child neglect charges that shocked investigators
VERDICT: Meagan Jackson - GUILTY, Life in Prison | Christopher Dontell - 20 Years Plea Deal

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0:00.0

This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski.

0:05.0

I picture this one. You're a fisherman setting catfish lines on a Sunday morning in November.

0:12.5

The little P.D. River. I think of Pee Wee Herman when I hear that. The little Pee-D. River, not Pee-Wee River.

0:20.0

It's calm, maybe a little too calm.

0:22.5

You spot something wrapped in a blue tarp.

0:25.8

Waded down with cinder blocks.

0:32.0

That's how Gregory Rice's daughter, I found out her dad was dead on her birthday.

0:39.1

Because when Megan Jackson describes to plan a murder, she apparently doesn't check

0:46.7

the calendar for awkward timing.

0:49.3

Or did she?

0:51.0

Did she?

0:53.5

There are certain personalities that plan certain days to do certain things to ruin

1:00.6

others' lives. This whole mess started where most workplace disasters begin with two people

1:07.3

who should have kept it professional. Christopher Don Tell was a deputy coroner.

1:13.3

In Horry County, South Carolina, Megan Jackson, drove dead bodies around for a living.

1:19.4

Match made in heaven, right? Wrong. Match made in whatever circle of hell is reserved for people

1:25.2

who use their jobs in the death industry to cover up actual

1:28.5

murders. Here's the thing about affairs between coworkers and the funeral business. When normal

1:34.2

people have workplace drama, maybe someone gets a passive aggressive email or their lunch stolen

1:40.0

from the break room fridge. When corners and body transporters have drama,

1:45.1

apparently bodies themselves end up in rivers, allegedly.

1:51.0

Though Don Tell already copped to it,

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