Missing in the Heartland

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Speaker 4 Johnson, where I live, is a mile square. It's a very small town.

Speaker 4 It's a farming community.

Speaker 5 Let's take a look at your opening cash grain prices. Wheat at 803, Milo 563 Corn at 606.

Speaker 4 It's a very cozy town, actually. Good morning.
Good morning. You know, you feel comfortable there.
I do.

Speaker 6 Johnson tends to be a very boring place, for the most part.

Speaker 6 So when something like this happens, it's so unfathomable to even try to think through what possibly could have happened.

Speaker 4 Michael went missing May 20th of of 2005.

Speaker 4 Michael got up early, gone to work.

Speaker 4 They were cutting at the time.

Speaker 4 He was the first one there at the shop. He was the last one to leave.

Speaker 4 On Friday after work, Michael was planning on picking up his son Mikey for the weekend.

Speaker 4 He was a great father.

Speaker 7 Michael was having some problems with his ex-girlfriend, Shannon, who he had a child with.

Speaker 4 Shannon wasn't happy. She always complained.

Speaker 7 He was also having problems with a fellow by the name of Chad Floyd.

Speaker 4 Chad Floyd was raised with money.

Speaker 7 He was currently married to his former girlfriend, Shannon.

Speaker 4 I believe when Michael got to Chad and Shannon's house, some kind of altercation happened.

Speaker 6 They're the only ones that had anything against him.

Speaker 4 I miss Michael every day. He was my baby.

Speaker 7 It's clear to me that Michael Golub disappeared.

Speaker 9 The question is, what were the circumstances involving that disappearance?

Speaker 4 Michael just didn't take off.

Speaker 4 I thought foul play.

Speaker 4 Michael's blood was on that porch.

Speaker 4 Was he shot?

Speaker 4 Was he hit over the head? We don't know.

Speaker 13 You got no body and you don't have the murder weapon.

Speaker 10 Skimpy circumstantial evidence, and you're trying to put somebody away for life.

Speaker 4 Really shouldn't be hard to get justice in a town, any size town.

Speaker 4 But when you are in a very tight-knit community like we are, I think it is tougher.

Speaker 4 I believe that the evidence proves Chad and Shannon are guilty. If the justice system doesn't get them, God will.

Speaker 15 Justice in the heartland, tonight's 48 hours mystery.

Speaker 11 You can drive a long way in Stanton County, Kansas and rarely see another soul.

Speaker 11 In tiny Johnson City, the county seat, the locals trade gossip at places like the County Fair Cafe

Speaker 11 or the aptly named Rinky Dink Drive-In,

Speaker 11 owned by Mary Hart. I need a special place.

Speaker 18 It's a very close community.

Speaker 18 Things can divide it and cause hard feelings. Things can draw it close together.

Speaker 11 It's the kind of place that doesn't welcome strangers easily. Deb Gollub knows.
She moved her family here from California after her husband died when her son Mike was 16. 16.

Speaker 11 It was her boyfriend Jim's hometown, but all new to Deb.

Speaker 4 We're newcomers. We've been here since 94.
I'm an outsider. My son was an outsider.

Speaker 11 His sister, Chrissy, stayed in California but made a point of being part of Mike's life.

Speaker 19 I remember him calling me and about falling out relationships and likewise I remember confiding in him and he was so good about that and I think that we really connected.

Speaker 11 Initially the local teens like Denae Murer didn't know quite what to make of the newcomer they nicknamed California Mike.

Speaker 6 At first I just thought he was a smartass. I mean he was kind of full of himself and cocky and walked around telling these stories that none of us believed.

Speaker 6 And then we asked his mom and found out that most of them were actually true and it just grew on me. It didn't take very long until you were laughing as hard as he was when he was telling the stories.

Speaker 11 Shannon and Steve Morris soon realized that behind that cocky exterior was a heart of gold.

Speaker 15 Mike would make you feel good about yourself.

Speaker 14 Mike was a good guy. He'd give you the shirt off of his back.

Speaker 20 He was funny. We were best friends and stepbrothers.
He was a very smart guy.

Speaker 11 And a hard worker, adds his stepbrother, Bo Hines. Mike was a skilled mechanic who spent long hours repairing equipment for his boss, Eric Kramer.

Speaker 21 Dependability was really good. Anything you put that kid to, he would figure it out.
He was pretty good.

Speaker 11 In 1995, Mike met another outsider, a young woman named Shannon Albers from Montana. And from the start, Mike was smitten.

Speaker 4 They seemed to get along very well at the beginning. It was, let's go party, let's go have fun.
It was a fast and furious thing.

Speaker 11 But the honeymoon didn't last.

Speaker 17 The only time Shannon ever talked to me is when she wanted to complain about Mike.

Speaker 17 And that's it.

Speaker 4 Michael never made enough money. She always complained about money.

Speaker 20 She'd make comments like she has caviar taste on a hot dog budget and she'd say that in front of all her friends.

Speaker 11 The one bright spot, the couple's son, Mikey, his father's pride and joy.

Speaker 4 Excellent father. He loved his boys.
He was just a natural-born dad.

Speaker 11 But having Mikey didn't save the relationship. At its lowest point, Shannon even called the cops, alleging that Mike had choked her.
They arrested him.

Speaker 4 They had a fight, and he had his hand on her throat, holding her away from him.

Speaker 11 The charges later were dropped, but Shannon soon moved out, taking Mikey with her.

Speaker 6 I mean, he was in love with her, and he was devastated

Speaker 6 when they split up. I mean, that was a hard time for him.

Speaker 11 Then, at the age of 24, Mike Gullub had a heart attack, apparently the result of a genetic defect. It almost killed him.

Speaker 6 After his heart attack, he got scared. He and I had a number of conversations that God had given him a second chance and that he needed to pay attention to that.

Speaker 11 Friends say that brush with death was a turning point, and so was a new woman in his life, Brooke Wilkerson.

Speaker 4 Young, fun.

Speaker 6 They went skydiving together. She brought out

Speaker 6 a lot of that life back to Mike.

Speaker 11 In 2004, Mike and Brooke had a son, Cameron. By all accounts, Mike Gullob finally had grown up.
His life was full.

Speaker 18 Mike turned into the young man that I would have been proud to call my son.

Speaker 19 He was in love with Brooke and he loved his son Cameron very much and wanted to be the father that

Speaker 19 he never had.

Speaker 6 They were really happy. And Mike was talking marriage.
I mean, he was talking, you know, proposing to her.

Speaker 11 Mike's former girlfriend, Shannon, also had moved on and up to marry Chad Floyd, who happened to be from one of the richest and most powerful families in Johnson.

Speaker 18 Everybody knows the Floyds, whether it be through farming or sitting around a coffee table at the local coffee shop.

Speaker 4 Their name is so prominent here. They're very huge in farming here.
They've been here for years.

Speaker 11 Chad and Shannon, what was the attraction there? It was money.

Speaker 3 Period.

Speaker 17 She's a gold ticker.

Speaker 11 And she wasn't out of Mike's life. They still were fighting, now over Mikey, and now Chad was involved.

Speaker 4 Michael wanted more time with his child.

Speaker 4 Shannon and Chad weren't willing

Speaker 4 to share.

Speaker 11 Mike was allowed to see Mikey only every other weekend. And despite the bickering, the arrangement seemed to work for a while.

Speaker 11 But on May 20th, 2005, Mike Gullub drove away from work a little before 6 o'clock to pick up his son. And he's not been seen since.

Speaker 17 As soon as Steve got off the phone with Beau and told me he was missing, the very first thing I said was, You don't think Shannon did something to him?

Speaker 17 You're kidding. That's the very first thing I said.

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Speaker 11 Mike Gullove's disappearance left his friends stunned and very suspicious of both his ex-girlfriend Shannon and her new husband, Chad Floyd.

Speaker 5 Cocky, arrogant, arrogant, very arrogant, self-righteous.

Speaker 15 Comes from one of those families, a generation that's been around, you know, generations of family that's been in this community forever.

Speaker 17 They have all the money in the community. They control the community.
Everybody's lives absolutely revolve around them, their money, and what they do.

Speaker 15 It's not that people are afraid of them like you would be someone from the mafia, but everybody just kisses their ass and they bow down to them.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 17 money talks

Speaker 11 money may talk but chad and shannon did not when we asked them for their perspective

Speaker 11 and gollub's friends and family worried that the floyd family's very prominence in johnson could influence the investigation I mean, this is big stuff down here.

Speaker 11 The police weren't talking publicly about this case.

Speaker 11 So we brought in 48 Hours veteran homicide investigators Paul Cialino and Joe Mora to look at the evidence and see where it would lead.

Speaker 5 But we know he's right there between 6.14 and 6.20.

Speaker 7 Now we know that the police spoke to the neighbors.

Speaker 9 It's about half a mile or three quarters of a mile up.

Speaker 25 All right, so we're going into the to Diane Floyd's restaurant. We're going to see if she'll speak with us.

Speaker 25 Well, the dynamic is that the new couple, Chad and Shannon, Chad decides he hates Michael because Michael is the father of a child that he's basically raising in his home.

Speaker 25 Shannon and Michael have a classic relationship, an unmarried couple who had a child, and they're kind of at war with each other more often than not.

Speaker 11 Shannon had laid down strict rules for Mike's visits with Mikey. He had to pick up his son in a car with a car seat at a neutral spot, the local Am Pride convenience store.

Speaker 26 Very strict, we never vary, okay?

Speaker 20 It's always at A. Am Pride here.

Speaker 11 Not ever at their house.

Speaker 4 No, he

Speaker 4 picked him up one time only for a birthday party, and that was Mikey's birthday party. That's the only time that I know of that Michael was out there at their home.

Speaker 11 On May 20th, 2005, Mike Gallup was working with a crew in fields about 20 miles from Johnson.

Speaker 11 That afternoon, Shannon had called and asked him to do something very unusual. Come to her house to pick up Mikey.

Speaker 11 So around 6, Mike left in a truck borrowed from his boss.

Speaker 11 The high school football coach next reports seeing Mike at 6.20 in Johnson at the corner of Lake and Logan, some nine miles from Shannon's house.

Speaker 11 So this is roughly where the last place anybody is known to have seen Mike. Right.

Speaker 11 Shannon told police he never came to her house to pick up Mikey.

Speaker 11 When reliable Mike didn't show up for work.

Speaker 21 Calls started coming in the next morning that he hadn't made it home. So

Speaker 21 his family started getting

Speaker 21 pretty worried then. Yeah.

Speaker 11 His boss Eric Kramer feared an accident. A pilot, he took a helicopter up, searched remote back roads, hoping to spot the truck.
Not a trace.

Speaker 11 Five days after Mike's disappearance, the truck was spotted in a remote field. There was no evidence of any foul play.

Speaker 11 And the mystery deepened. But given the bad blood between Mike and the Floyds, Mike's mother says it never was a mystery to her.

Speaker 4 I thought of foul play.

Speaker 11 From the beginning?

Speaker 4 I would say so.

Speaker 4 Because there was so much hatred. For me, it fit together because I had known that she was vicious enough to do this.
And so is Chad.

Speaker 11 Police suspicions grew when it was learned that the Floyds were hoping to move, to leave Johnson for good.

Speaker 25 Him and Shannon, well, they're looking at real estate. They're talking about wanting to go to Colorado.
They want to get out of here. And who can blame them?

Speaker 25 If you're young, there's not a lot here for you in reality i mean there's you know you're gonna farm or you're gonna farm some more hi sally how you joseph mora the couple already had talked about leaving to sally ochoa a child custody worker from the state so their plan when they saw you was to move out of state

Speaker 4 I don't know whether it was a plan at that time, but it was definitely something they had discussed.

Speaker 5 It was an option that they were seriously considering.

Speaker 11 I was just going to start exploring it, I believe. But then Ochoa told them something they didn't want to hear.
If they left Kansas, Shannon probably would lose custody of Mikey to his father.

Speaker 25 Chad wants out of here. He wants out with Shannon.
He wants out with the kid. And he doesn't want Mike around.

Speaker 11 To the local cops, it sounded like a motive. They called in the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.

Speaker 25 And what does Chad say when the KBI shows up at his house?

Speaker 14 What does he say to the sheriff?

Speaker 25 Why do you have to involve the F and KBI? You know why? Because Chad knows, uh-oh, I got got a problem now because these guys aren't from here. They don't know me and they don't care.

Speaker 11 Indeed, the KBI began digging into the Floyds' financial records and made a startling discovery. Two weeks before Mike's disappearance, Chad had cashed in $50,000 in family stock.

Speaker 11 Investigators would soon conclude the money was part of an elaborate scheme by the Floyds to make it look as if they had bribed Michael Gullub to leave town.

Speaker 11 In fact, Chad's cousin, who runs the local bank here, says that Chad told him exactly that. The money was a payoff, so Michael would disappear and give up custody of Mikey.

Speaker 4 He would never have sold his son, especially not to those two. Not to Chad and Shannon, never.

Speaker 11 Six weeks after Mike vanished, KBI investigators searched Chad and Shannon's house, already having discovered that Shannon had repainted the front deck just days after Mike disappeared.

Speaker 11 Suspicious, they dismantled the deck, and on the unpainted underside of the boards, they hit hay dirt, small amounts of blood, and traces of Mike Golob's DNA.

Speaker 25 It's some biological matter that came from Mike Golob, okay? That's what we know. Well, of course, If he wasn't here that day, how would it be there?

Speaker 11 Shannon and Chad also had recently replaced the front window. The repairman said it had a hole in it.

Speaker 11 And finally, adding to the evidence against them, on the very day of Mike's disappearance, Chad Floyd bought an untraceable rifle from his cousin.

Speaker 6 I think somebody was inside the house with a gun. I think he came to the front door, rang the doorbell, and got shot.
That's what the evidence looks like to me.

Speaker 6 And I think they got rid of the body.

Speaker 11 Assuming, of course, that Michael Gollob is even dead.

Speaker 4 He was my baby.

Speaker 27 He was fun.

Speaker 4 His laugh was invigorating.

Speaker 4 He wanted to be a good father.

Speaker 4 Losing that child,

Speaker 4 you never get over it. You never get over it.

Speaker 3 I'm pretty sure.

Speaker 4 Good question. I don't know who that is, but I know that's Michael.

Speaker 11 His mom and grandmother say there's an empty place in their hearts since Mike Gullah disappeared.

Speaker 4 You look like a kid.

Speaker 11 Adding to the pain, they no longer have contact with their grandson.

Speaker 4 That's BJ and Mikey. Yeah.

Speaker 4 We haven't been allowed to see Mikey, and he's been such a big part of our life, and then to have him ripped out,

Speaker 4 it's terrible.

Speaker 11 But Shannon's a custodial parent and she doesn't want to have anything to do with you?

Speaker 4 No. what is she afraid of? That's what I want to know.
Why is she afraid for me to see that child? Does Mikey know something?

Speaker 11 In fact, investigators never interviewed Mikey, never asked the child what happened that day. 48 Hours consultant Joe Moore says that interview might have shed light on the case.

Speaker 7 Police investigation initially could have figured out, speaking to a five-year-old, did daddy come?

Speaker 8 Very simple question. Yes, daddy came.
Did you see daddy leave? Very simple questions.

Speaker 11 The Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the KBI, wouldn't discuss this case, but 48 Hours Investigator Paul Cialino says their biggest challenge was obvious. They had no body.

Speaker 25 You could pick up all kinds of fibers, issues off of the body, the injuries, what kind of bullet was used.

Speaker 11 Even without the body, KBI investigators formed a theory that Chad shot Mike not with the untraceable rifle he bought from his cousin, Chad turned that over, but rather with a Glock, like this one.

Speaker 11 They know Chad owned a Glock, but that gun has disappeared. And on his lawyer's advice, Chad never responded to questions about it.

Speaker 8 How is that possible?

Speaker 25 That Glock is just gone. I don't know what happened to it.

Speaker 11 The investigator's theory, Cielino says, appeared to be that Chad shot Mike Gullub, perhaps from inside the house, the bullet going through the living room window and hitting Mike as he stood on the front deck.

Speaker 11 Adding to suspicion of the Floyds is their cell phone record, a cluster of calls that Cielino says supports the idea that Shannon took the kids off the property while Chad committed the murder.

Speaker 11 Specifically, between 6.38, 6.57, there are 10 phone calls between Chad and Shannon.

Speaker 11 That's when this murder takes place?

Speaker 25 That's probably it in that 18-minute period.

Speaker 11 And then why are they calling each other on the phone?

Speaker 25 I mean, we got all kinds of issues going on. You got a body, you got to dispose of it, you got to clean a deck.
Brooke calls, he's not home.

Speaker 24 What if somebody comes out here?

Speaker 25 What are we going to do?

Speaker 5 Listen, they're not serial killers.

Speaker 25 They've never done this before. This is high anxiety.

Speaker 11 But illustrating what prosecutors are up against, Mora thinks those calls prove nothing at all.

Speaker 12 We're talking about we're going to murder the individual at my house. I'm then going to have to dispose of the body, okay?

Speaker 12 So I'm going to be wasting all this time making phone calls with a person that I've already planned this murder with.

Speaker 10 I'm just not going to buy that. You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 11 Still, nothing shakes Deb Gullu's belief that the Floyds are responsible. So you honestly believe that this young couple commits murder

Speaker 3 over a custody

Speaker 11 fight.

Speaker 4 I do.

Speaker 11 That they've pre-planned.

Speaker 4 Yes.

Speaker 11 They must be master criminals.

Speaker 4 Oh, no, not at all. I think they're not.
No one has found his body. I think they're idiots.
Who in their right mind would do something like this? Over a child?

Speaker 11 But if Chad and Shannon did kill Mike Gullub, what did they do with his body?

Speaker 11 Mike's family has several theories that perhaps under cover of darkness they simply buried it out in the fields or maybe even dumped it in an old abandoned well like this one.

Speaker 11 You find them still scattered around these parts.

Speaker 11 Anything dumped down there is unlikely ever to be found.

Speaker 11 Without a body, the evidence in this case was circumstantial. The painted deck, the blood under the boards, the broken window, the missing gun.

Speaker 11 But prosecutors are convinced they know what happened. And a year after Mike Gullub disappeared, they arrest, charge, and jail Chad and Shannon Floyd.

Speaker 11 Bond was a million dollars each, and it takes only three weeks for Chad's father to bail them out.

Speaker 11 And he hired two of the top lawyers in the state to defend them.

Speaker 4 They've put a lot of money out there for those kids to protect those children, to protect Chad and Shannon. What are they protecting? Are they protecting the name of Floyd?

Speaker 11 Still, Deb Gullob has sympathy for Chad Floyd's parents.

Speaker 4 I feel sorry for them. They have had to go through hell as much as I have.

Speaker 4 My family's not the only one that's been hurt by this.

Speaker 11 A full cycle of planting and harvesting passed before the trial began in the summer of 2007.

Speaker 11 It lasted two weeks, and then, after just two days of deliberations, the jury declared itself hopelessly deadlocked.

Speaker 11 Deb Gollub was distraught. She was so sure the evidence would convince even a jury from Johnson.

Speaker 4 I think it was such a private, devastating time for us. We have cried so much over this, and it's an everyday occurrence for us to talk about it.

Speaker 11 There's no evidence the jury was influenced by the Floyd family's power, but Mike Gallup's friends have few doubts.

Speaker 6 Any other place in the United States, Any other jury that would have heard the evidence that was put forth, they would have been guilty.

Speaker 11 Not so fast, say prosecutors Rick Gwynn and Barry Disney. They re-file the charges, rolling the dice again with a jury from Johnson.

Speaker 22 This is a big deal. I want to win this.

Speaker 11 Nine months later, they seem confident that this time they will win justice for Mike Gullub,

Speaker 11 even if Chad Floyd doesn't seem the least bit worried.

Speaker 26 The defendant Chad Floyd is charged with the crime of murder in the first degree.

Speaker 25 He pleads not guilty.

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Speaker 11 April 2008, nearly three years after her son disappeared, Deb Gollub is getting a second chance at justice.

Speaker 4 It's scary.

Speaker 4 It is scary. We've already been through a hungry once.

Speaker 11 With so much at stake, Mike's sister Chrissy has flown in from California.

Speaker 19 Just sick to my stomach nervous. This final chapter for three years.
I'm ready for a final outcome.

Speaker 11 But the family is concerned because this second trial is in the same county, the same courthouse, with the same small-town jury pool.

Speaker 25 Stand for the jury, please.

Speaker 4 I hope for a guilty verdict that we can get a fair trial in Stanton County.

Speaker 11 Under Kansas law, only the defense can ask for a change of venue. And Prosecutor Barry Disney knows Chad and Shannon want to keep the trial right here in Johnson.

Speaker 22 So you're not just convicting this arbitrary defendant that tomorrow you never know. You're convicting Gary's son or Marla's boy or Chris's cousin.

Speaker 19 And it seems like there are so many people that live in this community that work for the Floyds, that are related to them.

Speaker 19 And I mean, I just can't imagine working with these people and then having to go on the stand against them.

Speaker 11 But when the trial finally begins here at the Stanton County Courthouse, that is exactly what happens.

Speaker 11 Relatives and employees of the Floyd family are put in the uncomfortable position of testifying against Shannon and Chad, adding to the tension in town.

Speaker 22 Would you please state your name for the court, sir? Chris Floyd.

Speaker 11 Chad's cousin Chris, the banker, says Chad told him all about his plan to bribe Mike Gullub to leave town.

Speaker 22 You were left with the impression that Michael Golub had accepted $50,000 in exchange for relinquishing parental rights, correct? Yes, I was.

Speaker 11 But when Chris's wife, Dara,

Speaker 11 ran into Mike at a school event just days before he disappeared, she says Mike acted nothing like a man about to abandon his son.

Speaker 31 I remember Michael telling Mikey as he walked by,

Speaker 4 I love you, son.

Speaker 4 If they tried to bribe Michael with $50,000, Michael would have looked at that and looked at them and laughed in their face. He would not have taken a dime for that child.

Speaker 11 There's no evidence he ever did take a dime.

Speaker 11 Bank records show Chad and Shannon re-deposited almost all of the money into an out-of-town bank.

Speaker 25 And he's two knuckleheads. Frankly, that's why they're on trial because it is $50,000 and then Mike missing afterwards.

Speaker 11 Compounding their woes, a series of damning comments Chad made to co-workers.

Speaker 24 He got very angry, got in my face, and said

Speaker 10 if Mike ever tried to get custody of that little Mikey, he'd kill him.

Speaker 22 What did he tell you?

Speaker 32 That it would be easy to

Speaker 32 make him disappear.

Speaker 22 And did he indicate how it would be easy to do that?

Speaker 32 Drop him in the well.

Speaker 11 And there was this from Chad's own cousin.

Speaker 24 I said that if you had nothing to do with this, why kind of making things difficult for the investigators? He said, wouldn't you cover? You wouldn't even cover for your wife?

Speaker 24 And I said, not for murder.

Speaker 22 And what was his response to that?

Speaker 24 He said, that's where you and I are different.

Speaker 11 But perhaps the most telling comment of all...

Speaker 24 I mean, he said, they can't prosecute without a body.

Speaker 11 Prosecutors don't have a body, but they do have Mike's DNA in the blood under the deck.

Speaker 11 As to how it got there...

Speaker 32 Man, would you tell the jury your name?

Speaker 4 My name is Lisa Marie Burdette.

Speaker 11 Defense attorneys get the state's expert, Lisa Burdett, to admit, well, she's not sure.

Speaker 11 Suppose they they ask, Mike was on the deck once and happened to spit.

Speaker 13 And you'd find Michael Gullub's DNA because of the skin cells or blood cells in the saliva, correct? Yes.

Speaker 11 48 Hours Investigator Joe Moore says it's all about creating doubt.

Speaker 12 He could have been there once, sneezed, or spit on that portion, his DNA would be there.

Speaker 11 Still, no one answers the question investigator Paul Cialino poses. This is it.

Speaker 4 This is Shay Chad.

Speaker 11 Why is only Mike Gullov's DNA on those boards?

Speaker 25 Chad's been on the deck 35,000 times and his DNA is not on there. Shannon and the children have been on there every day.
They've lived there. Their DNA is on there.

Speaker 25 What are the chances of poor Mike's DNA showing up on the deck and nobody else's?

Speaker 4 The evidence is there.

Speaker 22 Now, can we turn to board two?

Speaker 4 Blood doesn't get someplace without

Speaker 4 something happening.

Speaker 4 it just doesn't go

Speaker 11 with the forensic evidence looking so bad for chad and shannon the defense goes on the offense attacking mike golub's character asking his stepbrother bo hines that was a good time

Speaker 13 about mike's supposedly heavy drug use years earlier you told agent boyer that you and michael golub had done cocaine marijuana methamphetamine and alcohol together correct yes

Speaker 11 In fact, there was a drug bust in Johnson just days before Mike disappeared. The cops say he was not involved, but a key defense witness

Speaker 11 suggests a link.

Speaker 27 He says I did something that's going to piss a lot of people off.

Speaker 11 Helen Blevin says Mike implied to her that he had tipped off the cops. and was worried about retaliation.

Speaker 27 He stated to me, he says, oh, believe me, he says I could disappear and nobody'd ever find me.

Speaker 19 Made me mad because I don't know where she's getting her information, but it's completely false.

Speaker 11 Mike's friends at Johnson is hardly home to drug kingpins out for revenge.

Speaker 11 As for that big-time bust?

Speaker 17 That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. People in Johnson don't even know what a real drug dealer is.
They would go to the city and find one and maybe they would find out what one was.

Speaker 30 That's absolutely ridiculous.

Speaker 11 But the defense isn't finished yet. Another theory, that the disappearance is somehow linked to Mike's girlfriend Brooke

Speaker 11 and a secret affair.

Speaker 13 So could have been as long as two months prior to May 20th, 2005, that Brooke and Mike had been arguing about who's sleeping with who.

Speaker 3 True?

Speaker 10 Yes.

Speaker 11 But Bo says there was no reason for Mike to worry.

Speaker 20 We talked about it that one time.

Speaker 5 I said, man, come on, dude.

Speaker 11 I said, there's no way. If he had a suspicion that he voiced to you, he only voiced this one time.

Speaker 25 Yeah.

Speaker 4 This is just garbage from the defense side.

Speaker 11 A drug ring, an affair, a jealous lover. Is it all preposterous or is it reasonable doubt?

Speaker 9 Did he confront somebody that was having an affair with Brooke?

Speaker 7 Did a fight break out?

Speaker 24 Did he get hit over the head by the lover of Brooke?

Speaker 20 Who knows?

Speaker 14 The fact is there are other possibilities.

Speaker 11 But this time around, Deb Gallub is confident. We can only hope that a jury from Johnson can fairly weigh the evidence against a family named Floyd.

Speaker 4 I feel a difference in the courtroom. We're hoping for a conviction.

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Speaker 26 It's 7:07 now and time for your hometown news.

Speaker 5 And with that, here's Eddie Ochoa.

Speaker 25 Good morning, Eddie.

Speaker 14 Well, in the news, the first-degree murder case against a couple accused of killing the woman's ex-boyfriend in southwest Kansas is expected to go to the jury today.

Speaker 11 The second Gullub murder trial is nearing its end.

Speaker 11 It's taken a toll on Mike's mother, Deb.

Speaker 4 You don't live your life as if you're going to be put into a fishbowl.

Speaker 11 A A fishbowl where the defense highlighted every problem Mike Golub ever may have had.

Speaker 13 Consider, too,

Speaker 13 that if a despairing Golub returned to drugs anywhere and with his fragile heart overdosed

Speaker 13 in some drug dealer's squalid drug den or shooting gallery, then Other people, unknown to any of us, had a motivation to get rid of his body and dispose of it to protect their drug-dealing enterprise.

Speaker 4 I thought they could do anything they wanted to because Michael wasn't there to defend himself.

Speaker 11 So you felt they're putting the victim on trial?

Speaker 4 You bet it was Michael's life that was on trial. It wasn't Chad and Shannon that was on trial.

Speaker 11 Especially hurtful, she says, was Defense Attorney Kurt Kern's insistence that since Mike's body's never been found, he may not even be be dead.

Speaker 22 Maybe he's on a beach in Mexico with shades on going, suckers.

Speaker 22 Maybe that's the last scene of this movie. Huh, got my revenge.
I ain't paying child support to nobody now.

Speaker 11 Prosecutor Rick Gwynn closes his case, urging jurors to ignore the rhetoric and focus on the reason.

Speaker 22 There are two people in this entire world that had the motivation

Speaker 22 to kill Michael Golub that day. They wanted him out of the picture.
He was an impediment to their future. Chad and Shannon Floyd.

Speaker 34 Thank you.

Speaker 21 Ladies and gentlemen, the jury, you've now received all of the evidence.

Speaker 26 It's time for you to go to the jury room and commence your deliberation.

Speaker 22 Good job, Doug.

Speaker 22 We'll win.

Speaker 11 The defense sounds cocky, but Deb Golub also is feeling upbeat.

Speaker 4 Oh, I'm very optimistic with this jury. I believe the evidence has come across better.
The prosecutors were much more prepared because they knew what the defense was coming in with.

Speaker 11 But after three hours that first day and only two hours the next morning comes an all-too-familiar message from the jurors.

Speaker 26 We have a hung jury, people of extreme adamant about their positions, what to do.

Speaker 26 I gave you this instruction before.

Speaker 11 Try again, the judge says, sending the panel back.

Speaker 4 Maybe they're afraid to make a decision. Maybe they can't live with it.
On their conscience, that they've sent somebody to prison.

Speaker 11 Two more days of deliberations, and then

Speaker 32 jury is deadlocked.

Speaker 26 No verdict can be reached for guilty or not guilty.

Speaker 11 It is over.

Speaker 11 Another hung jury. The vote splits seven to five.
Unclear which way.

Speaker 4 This is really disgusting, unheard of. I don't understand with all the evidence that we have that they can't come to a right decision.

Speaker 4 He was my grandson,

Speaker 4 and they did away with him.

Speaker 20 You guys have any comment about it?

Speaker 11 Shannon and Chad Floyd simply walk out of the courtroom, free to return to normal life, at least for now.

Speaker 20 You happy that the jury is hung, Chad Shannon?

Speaker 11 Neither has anything to say.

Speaker 11 The exasperated prosecutors do, however, vowing they will try this case a third time.

Speaker 22 Two hung juries isn't going to discourage us. We'll be there until the bitter end.

Speaker 11 An announcement that infuriates the defense.

Speaker 22 Apparently, the Attorney General's office is more interested in getting on TV than they are justice.

Speaker 11 But seven months later, those same prosecutors have changed their tunes.

Speaker 22 There was a concern if we went a third time on the evidence that's already been uncovered that it would result in a third hung jury.

Speaker 11 There will be no next trial for the Floyds. Prosecutors announce all charges are dropped and won't be filed again unless some new evidence surfaces.

Speaker 13 They will never find evidence incriminating Chad and Shannon Floyd because no such evidence exists, nor did it ever exist.

Speaker 11 For Chad and Shannon, it's total vindication.

Speaker 11 For Deb Gollub, total defeat. The Floyds are free.
Her son is gone.

Speaker 11 And she has no idea where her grandson even is.

Speaker 11 As soon as they got their freedom, Chad and Shannon skipped town with Mikey. Deb Gullub's pleas to Shannon to see him went nowhere.

Speaker 4 And she just flatly refused to let me see Mikey. I don't know where Mikey is.
I have no clue.

Speaker 19 We used to be friends. We used to be chummy.
And

Speaker 19 I just want to ask her,

Speaker 4 why?

Speaker 6 I don't understand.

Speaker 11 But a year after the trial, 48 Hours investigators tracked Shannon down, living in Burlington, Colorado, with Mikey and her other son.

Speaker 11 A source told investigator Paul Cialino that Chad is rarely seen with Shannon anymore.

Speaker 25 T went out and obtained a commercial driver's license and has been driving a semi-truck.

Speaker 11 And Mike Gullub, forever California Mike to his pals, is officially still missing.

Speaker 4 He was a great father.

Speaker 4 He was a great son.

Speaker 4 I was very proud of my son.

Speaker 11 Do you think he'll get justice?

Speaker 4 Maybe not on this earth, but eventually, yes, Shannon and Chad will get theirs in the end, whether we do it or God.

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