Discretion is advice.

This is a nightmare.

He has the serpent tongue, the cloven tongue, a victim's brother addressed a South Carolina

courts in 2015 before turning to his brother's killer.

You are a devil, man.

Irate, heartbroken and shaken with anger, Antoine James then stormed out of the courtroom,

leaving behind the man who'd just been found guilty of murdering one of the closest and most

important people in Antoine's life.

This was the climactic end to a case that started all the way back in November of 2013

when a man went missing.

A group of children playing in the woods in Lancaster, South Carolina, about a month after

the man's disappearance, made a disturbing and grotesque discovery. Partially hidden by brush and

leaves was the decomposing remains of a man in his 30s. His head had been nearly hacked

away from his body. Scared, the children ran home to tell the parents what they'd found,

and the police were called to the scene shortly after. The investigators then discovered

what was left of 33-year-old Ricky James, the very same man who'd gone missing about a month prior.

Ricky had most definitely been murdered.

He'd been bound with rope wrapped around him all the way from his neck to his ankles.

His neck slashed, and his body then left exposed to the mercy of the elements.

His death had been the result of 39 stab wounds

that had come from a butcher knife. The area of the woods that he was found in showed no signs of a

struggle or looked like Ricky had been taken there against his will. But that was the fact of the case

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