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Speaker 15 A string of brutal crimes rocks Atlanta's hottest social scene.

Speaker 2 The adult entertainment industry was booming. Men had a lot of cash going into these clubs.

Speaker 2 He was shot, execution style.

Speaker 16 I was shot.

Speaker 17 We actually was just so scared.

Speaker 20 Detectives search for a killer in a world of glamour, sex, and secrets.

Speaker 21 There were huge clubs.

Speaker 22 There were mega-celebrities.

Speaker 2 The club owners, the bouncers, the security, they're not real excited to have police combing through their establishment.

Speaker 12 And the pressure is on as the crime spree continues.

Speaker 2 There's been another shooting, the third male.

Speaker 11 The Orlando Police Department contacted our agency concerning a similar incident that they were investigating.

Speaker 24 Could a stark confession reveal the truth?

Speaker 3 This was a girl who just lays it all out.

Speaker 25 She didn't sugarcoat it.

Speaker 2 He made all these promises, sold her this huge pipe dream.

Speaker 5 Is there more to this tale than meets the eye?

Speaker 22 She was under the control, to some extent, of him.

Speaker 11 This is one cold-blooded female that just does what she wants to do. I mean, I don't know if I've ever seen anything like that.

Speaker 21 August 15th, 2002, Atlanta, Georgia, the height of the city's club scene.

Speaker 22 2002 was a time in Atlanta when the nightlife scene was an international destination for partying.

Speaker 21 Like there were huge clubs.

Speaker 22 It was a very wild time.

Speaker 17 2002 Atlanta was lit.

Speaker 17 It was the place to be. Anytime celebrities come in town, you know, they call us, you know, to come party.

Speaker 17 Everybody who was on our scene was real players, real heavy hitters.

Speaker 29 30-year-old Atlanta resident and staple on the club scene, Carlita Knox, better known as Smokey, is getting ready for a night out with her brother, Ray.

Speaker 17 I talked to Ray about 8:30. He told me to come on over there and, you know, we'll go hang out.
So I was like, okay, cool. He was like he was cooking, he was grilling some steaks for some friends.

Speaker 17 So my friend, man, Sam, wanted to go over there.

Speaker 2 Her brother, Ray, was at the apartment partying with his friend, Doc.

Speaker 29 Just 30 minutes later, Carlita receives another phone call.

Speaker 3 I got a call from G, one of Doc's friends.

Speaker 17 And G was like, hey, you know, I was on the phone with Doc and I heard gunshots

Speaker 17 and something like he couldn't breathe or something like that. He said he did hear some female voices in the back saying, get the money, get the money.

Speaker 2 I kind of brushed it off.

Speaker 17 But I said, let me call him. So I kept calling Doc, kept calling Doc, no answer.

Speaker 3 I'm like, what the hell? This is strange. So I kept trying to call Ray.

Speaker 9 He's not picking up.

Speaker 22 She's getting panicky.

Speaker 9 She's like, let's go over to this place.

Speaker 29 Carlita and her friend Sam head over to Ray's apartment.

Speaker 17 The whole ride over there is just such a dreary, dreadful feeling.

Speaker 17 Me and Sam.

Speaker 3 Got out the car and we walked up.

Speaker 17 And when we got to Ray's door, it was cracked a little bit

Speaker 17 so sam peeped in

Speaker 3 he was like um it's not good it's not good i'm like what what happened what happened he was like they did they did i was like oh my god

Speaker 3 So I end up calling 911

Speaker 30 First responders with the DeKalb County Police Department arrive on the scene.

Speaker 11 Both victims were deceased in the living room, one close to the couch, the other on the floor. I started documenting the crime scene as I saw it.

Speaker 11 They secured the crime scene and then notified the DeKalb County Police Major Felony Unit to respond.

Speaker 5 Outside the apartment, Carlita is in shock.

Speaker 3 Finding my brother dead, that changed my life forever.

Speaker 17 Everything was rushing through my head. Everything was rushing through my head.

Speaker 3 Who, what, when, why?

Speaker 17 I just broke down crying.

Speaker 3 We couldn't wrap our minds around it.

Speaker 29 Born in 1968, Raymond Goodwin was raised by his mother in Birmingham, Alabama.

Speaker 17 She was a single mom raising five kids by herself. So it wasn't, you know, all roses, but she did the best that she could.

Speaker 32 Ray was the middle child and he was always helping people. Always, I call him Captain because he was always reaching out and helping people.

Speaker 17 Growing up, Ray was just always active into the high school banning different stuff like that. He started working at 16 years old.
I remember he worked at McDonald's in high school.

Speaker 26 Ray was close with all of his siblings, but especially with his sister, Carlita.

Speaker 33 My mom and Ray, they were best friends. They were always together.
Them two, they were the youngest, so they had a special kind of relationship.

Speaker 15 By the late 90s, Ray and most of his siblings had migrated to Atlanta. There, he stayed close with his family.

Speaker 33 Ray was like the legendary uncle. He was the house to go to.

Speaker 10 He's got to rent us 10, 15 games, movies.

Speaker 33 We got board games. He's going to cook the whole weekend.
It was the place to be as a kid.

Speaker 32 He was always the comedian, always kept people laughing. He was full of life.

Speaker 30 After a successful stint as a car salesman, at age 31, Ray changed lanes to pursue a lifelong dream.

Speaker 17 Photography was Ray's passion. He was always into that.

Speaker 32 He would go into like the Walmarts and he would have these booths set up to do his photography. He was very good at it.

Speaker 14 But Ray had bigger dreams than taking pictures in department stores.

Speaker 27 He wanted to break into the booming Atlanta entertainment scene.

Speaker 28 Something by the late 90s, Carlita had already done.

Speaker 17 We were in the adult entertainment industry. I started dancing on a regular basis then, and I just became great at what I was doing.

Speaker 2 She would hook Ray up with other dancers who needed to make like flyers or portfolios. In order to market themselves, Ray would take their pictures for them.

Speaker 4 He had created a whole photography company.

Speaker 10 Within like a few months, time just catapulted to another level.

Speaker 15 Ray found his niche working with dancers at Atlanta's multitude of high-end clubs.

Speaker 17 He did a lot of my photography. He made my portfolios.
He made portfolios for all of my girls.

Speaker 20 Ray developed a huge network of friends in the city, including 35-year-old Claudelle Christmas, aka Doc.

Speaker 17 Doc was very suave.

Speaker 3 He was a cool guy.

Speaker 17 He called himself the Doctor. I met him at the club through a mutual friend.
He liked to go to the casinos. He just liked to, you know, party just like everyone else back then.

Speaker 17 He became one of my best friends as well.

Speaker 33 Doc was a very giving person, very great person, great energy. Everyone knew him, loved him.
Our whole family and friend network was very tight.

Speaker 30 Ray found success, status, and popularity in Atlanta.

Speaker 37 When he met Akasha Turner in 2001, he also found love.

Speaker 3 I met him at a dance club.

Speaker 15 He just came up to me laughing.

Speaker 36 Raymond, even amidst that type of environment, he stood out differently. He was very religious.

Speaker 3 He was very spiritual.

Speaker 38 I had a friend, like a best friend.

Speaker 2 They had been together for a couple years. She loved him.
They were in love.

Speaker 26 By the summer of 2002, Ray was at the peak of success in a city where the sky was the limit.

Speaker 5 But on August 15th, his rise to the top is cut short.

Speaker 23 Detectives with the DeKalb County Police Department enter Ray's apartment, where they find the bodies of 34-year-old Ray Goodwin and 35-year-old Doc Christmas.

Speaker 11 We'd look for any damage to the door, which there was none. We'd look for any broken windows and there was no damage, indicating any type of forced entry.
There was none.

Speaker 11 There was no immediate signs of any type of struggle. Nobody had any other injuries besides the gunshot wounds.
Doc received one gunshot wound to the head.

Speaker 11 Ray received a gunshot wound to the head along with other gunshot wounds to his torso.

Speaker 23 When asked why anyone would want to hurt her brother, Carlita says she believes burglary may have been the motive.

Speaker 2 He kept very expensive photography equipment.

Speaker 2 Both of these victims, Doc and Ray, were known to carry a large amount of cash, especially being around the entertainment industry.

Speaker 2 They would go to the clubs with wads of cash and just, you know, spend all kinds of crazy money.

Speaker 17 My brother, he bought major equipment. I mean, he had so much stuff.
Doc, he was a little flashy too, you know, and I thought they probably was like, shoot, we're going to rob him too.

Speaker 27 Carlita also tells investigators of the bizarre call between Doc and her friend G that led her and Sam to the apartment in the first place.

Speaker 2 While Doc was speaking with this individual, gunshots rang out.

Speaker 25 He actually heard a female voice say, get the money, get the money.

Speaker 27 Investigators wonder if Ray and Doc fell victim to Atlanta's growing crime wave.

Speaker 2 During During this timeframe, the adult entertainment industry was booming. People would want to rob the men, knowing they had a lot of cash going into these clubs.

Speaker 2 They started to have a lot more robberies within our city, and they were being committed by females.

Speaker 26 Coming up, a pair of suspects emerge.

Speaker 2 Whoever this voice was on the phone saying get the money was somebody they knew.

Speaker 39 And the discovery of another body strikes fear in this close-knit community.

Speaker 11 He suffered multiple gunshot wounds.

Speaker 17 He actually was just so scared and everything. Isn't that a serious guy here?

Speaker 14 DeKalb County detectives are investigating the murders of 34-year-old Ray Goodwin and his friend, 35-year-old Claudell Doc Christmas.

Speaker 25 Raymond had been shot five or six times. Doc had been shot one time to the head.

Speaker 2 Robbery could have been a motive. Ray and his business had a lot of very, very expensive high-end photography equipment, carried a lot of cash, and the money from their wallets was missing.

Speaker 39 Inside Ray's apartment, detectives search for clues.

Speaker 2 In this particular case, it appears that they were having a party, getting ready to go out for the evening. There were drink glasses and they were about to cook out.

Speaker 2 So it appeared initially at first glance that the victims knew and let the killers in willingly.

Speaker 11 There was no tables turned over. There was

Speaker 11 no damage to any of the other property inside.

Speaker 11 I would have to say the incident appeared to to have been almost by surprise.

Speaker 2 Doc was shot execution style in the head.

Speaker 2 That tells us that he was probably shot first.

Speaker 2 It appeared that once Ray saw what happened, he tried to flee and it just unloaded on Ray. And that's why Ray has a lot more gunshot wounds than Doc had.

Speaker 2 Ray and Doc were obviously very comfortable with the people that were in the house with them because they were drinking.

Speaker 2 Whoever this voice was on the phone saying get the money was somebody they knew.

Speaker 2 Based on the information they heard about this phone call, detectives thought we had at least two perpetrators.

Speaker 25 They were invited in and that means you can focus your attention on people who might have had access to the apartment.

Speaker 11 Two cell phones were recovered from the crime scene, one being docks and the other being raised.

Speaker 11 I sent out subpoenas for the phone carriers to find out who they had been communicating with.

Speaker 40 Investigators discover one more potentially important clue.

Speaker 11 There were seven bullets fired. All of the shell casings located were.32 caliber bullets.

Speaker 2 32 calibers, it's a very small gun. And, you know, with a small gun, who carries small guns? Typically females.

Speaker 2 Because we have a female voice say, get the money, get the money. The suspect in this case is most likely a female.

Speaker 26 Detectives head back outside where Ray's sister Carlita is waiting.

Speaker 29 She says she's just gotten off the phone with Ray's girlfriend.

Speaker 2 Carlita found out that on this particular day, two individuals might have been at the apartment partying with these guys.

Speaker 38 He had people around per usual.

Speaker 38 He naturally does, tells me what he's doing, who he's with. He said the names of who he was with.

Speaker 3 It was

Speaker 38 nicknames.

Speaker 2 Ray and Doc were hanging out with two dancers from the area, and she identified them as Peaches and Snow.

Speaker 15 Carlita tells them she thinks she met Peaches and Snow a few weeks earlier.

Speaker 17 A light bulb immediately went off.

Speaker 3 Ding.

Speaker 17 It's gotta be them girls. It's gotta be them girls.
I didn't know Peaches and Snow. I didn't know their names at the time.

Speaker 17 But three weeks before this incident had happened, I had a yacht party at Lake Lanier. My brother, we were supposed to have a photo shoot there.
So he set up everything for the girls.

Speaker 17 and invited them to the photo shoot.

Speaker 17 These girls were dancers at, you know, less popular clubs. One stood out to me.
She was tall. She was like 5'7 ⁇ , 5'9 or something like that.

Speaker 17 When I first met them, I got a bad vibe from her.

Speaker 3 I said, Mary Ray, I don't like these girls.

Speaker 17 I mean, something came over me immediately and I was just like, no, sir, not them.

Speaker 31 Investigators turn to the only other detail they know about peaches and snow.

Speaker 11 Detectives went to some of the strip clubs in the Atlanta area.

Speaker 2 Dealing with the clubs was difficult. You know, you couldn't even get past the door.

Speaker 2 The club owners,

Speaker 2 the bouncers, the security, they're not real excited to have police, you know, combing through their establishment.

Speaker 30 Two days after the murders on August 17th, 2002, DeKalb County detectives are called to the scene of another homicide.

Speaker 2 There's been another shooting and it's just across town.

Speaker 2 The third male murdered.

Speaker 30 At the crime scene, detectives find 29-year-old Lemitrius Michi Twiddy dead on his living room floor.

Speaker 11 It appeared that he had suffered multiple gunshot wounds, including to the head, back, abdomen area, and that they were in intermediate range, probably five to six feet.

Speaker 29 It doesn't take long for detectives to notice eerie similarities between the two crime scenes.

Speaker 11 These murders, they're in close proximity, both occurring in the same county.

Speaker 25 You've got a deceased guy in his apartment. He too has been executed.
Neither one of them has a forced entry.

Speaker 2 And then, while going over the scene, they found the same.32-caliber shell casing that they did on the scene with Ray and Doc.

Speaker 11 The fact that the same caliber, which was an unusual caliber, was used, it would not be far from saying that the same individual committed all three murders.

Speaker 30 Detectives on the scene step outside where they find Michi's friend, Marchetti Townsend.

Speaker 2 He said Michi didn't show up for work that day, and he was concerned.

Speaker 25 Michi and Mr.

Speaker 11 Townsend worked together as barbers. Mr.
Townsend had tried to reach his friend several times by phone. He went to the apartment.
At that point, he found Michi dead.

Speaker 30 Distraught, Marchetti explains that Michi was a beloved figure in their tight social circle.

Speaker 2 Michi was very popular as being a master barber and he cut a lot of people's hair. He was high in demand.
People would pay in cash so he always had a lot of money on him.

Speaker 34 But there is no cash to be found in Michi's apartment.

Speaker 35 And that's not the only thing that's missing.

Speaker 11 Michi had been renting a gold Nissan Maxima. That car was missing from the scene.

Speaker 30 As detectives search for the gold Nissan, news of Michi's death reaches his friends.

Speaker 17 I knew Michi, you know, we always just on the same scene. Ray knew Michi as well.
We heard he got killed.

Speaker 3 So we like, what the heck?

Speaker 17 You know, what the heck is going on?

Speaker 16 I was shocked.

Speaker 17 I could not believe it.

Speaker 39 Still reeling from her brother's murder, Carlita fears the worst.

Speaker 17 We actually just so scared. You know, I mean, we got a serial killer out here.

Speaker 40 Coming up, investigators enlist help to stop a killer.

Speaker 3 Nobody want to talk to the police.

Speaker 17 So that's where I come in at.

Speaker 26 And they make an important discovery.

Speaker 11 Two handguns were located in the toilet tank.

Speaker 11 It was the same caliber handgun used at both crime scenes.

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Speaker 20 After a string of three murders, DeKalb County detectives are urgently trying to track down their only possible suspects, two dancers named Peaches and Snow.

Speaker 17 I'm asking the police, hey, you know, you guys hear anything? You guys hear anything? Nope, nope, nope, nope. A week went by.
It was like, man, we don't have any leads. We don't have anything yet.

Speaker 34 Unwilling to let the murders go unsolved, Carlita takes matters into her own hands.

Speaker 17 I wasn't just going to sit there and, you know, be scared. Nobody wants to talk to the police.
So that's where I come in at.

Speaker 39 Carlita hits the streets, trying to uncover anything she can on the two dancers who were allegedly at her brother's apartment the night of the first murders.

Speaker 17 I reached out to everybody.

Speaker 2 I went to about three, four strip clubs.

Speaker 17 They're not supposed to let you do this, but because of my status, they allowed me to go and look at the permit books.

Speaker 2 Because she was a dancer and she wasn't law enforcement, they let Carlita sift through these permit books. It'll tell your name, your age, you know, all the basic information.

Speaker 2 And she was able to identify peaches.

Speaker 17 I came across this one permit of Felicia Blakely, and her height and weight stood out.

Speaker 17 She was tall and skinny, she was like five something and 114 pounds. I said, you know what, that looked like her.

Speaker 17 I called the detective and I told him what I had found. He was like, okay, meet me and I'll run everything.

Speaker 18 Felicia Blakely was born in 1983 to a single mother in Jacksonville, Florida.

Speaker 22 Felicia had an absent father. She was bounced between her mother and her grandmother in Jacksonville her whole childhood.

Speaker 20 In 1998, at the age of 15, Felicia moved with her mother to Atlanta.

Speaker 22 Her mother had been transferred to Atlanta with some kind of warehouse job.

Speaker 24 Felicia's already tense relationship with her mother became even more difficult after the move.

Speaker 2 She had a lot of anger. Her relationship with her mom was so estranged she had to find a way to support herself.

Speaker 2 So she got a fake permit or ID to make herself look older, and she began dancing in these clubs. It was very lucrative for her.

Speaker 29 Felicia left home at age 17.

Speaker 15 Young and beautiful, she made enough money dancing to get by.

Speaker 2 After Felicia was dancing in these clubs, she was dating a guy, she got pregnant, but she didn't want to have anything to do with the guy.

Speaker 2 So she was just going to raise the baby on her own, but she couldn't dance as she got bigger in the pregnancy.

Speaker 2 So there was one particular night that she was dancing and she was showing quite a bit and she wasn't making very much money. And a guy in the audience approached her.

Speaker 2 Alicia described him as good looking, you know, charismatic. He approached her and gave her a big wad of cash.

Speaker 28 At the end of the night, the man introduced himself as Mike Berry.

Speaker 2 Made her feel like she was on top of the world and she could have everything.

Speaker 2 There was no guidance in her life.

Speaker 2 You know, you're going to latch on to the first person that shows you any type of affection, love, or stability.

Speaker 27 Quickly, the two began dating, and Mike offered Felicia dreams of a better life.

Speaker 2 This was everything she probably ever wanted was what she saw in Mike Berry.

Speaker 2 He was giving her love, spending time with her, buying her things for coats and cars, and offering to like take the role of being this baby's father.

Speaker 31 However, Felicia's relationship with Mike didn't turn out as she hoped.

Speaker 2 When you have a master manipulator, they know who to target.

Speaker 2 They're not going to target the flamboyant chick in the club. You know, they're going to target the one that they think that's very insecure.

Speaker 2 He was much older than her.

Speaker 2 He made all these promises to her. We're going to get out of Atlanta.
We're going to have a better life. He just sold her this huge pipe dream and Felicia bought into it.

Speaker 35 But in the the end, none of that happened.

Speaker 2 Felicia's transient, she has no real known address.

Speaker 2 She would drop the baby off at daycare and then just not pick the baby up. And so Felicia's mom got the baby.
Felicia tried to fight her on that, but the mom ended up getting the custody.

Speaker 2 And Felicia went back to dancing in these clubs.

Speaker 30 Now, in August of 2002, Felicia's name is at the center of a triple homicide investigation.

Speaker 2 You're dealing with a suspect who dances at different clubs in different areas of the city. So, trying to hunt and find her location, you're losing a lot of time.

Speaker 28 Meanwhile, just a few miles away inside the Atlanta city limits, a call comes in to 911.

Speaker 11 On August 25th, City of Atlanta police were contacted regarding some suspicious individuals in the lobby of a Mrs. Winters' restaurant.

Speaker 25 There had been a series of robberies, armed robberies, at a fast food pride chicken restaurant all over the Atlanta area, and the perpetrators were female.

Speaker 25 As such, the word got out among the various franchises of the restaurant. Be on the lookout for women who are acting suspicious.

Speaker 27 the manager reports there are three women in the dining room who match the description of the suspects at large

Speaker 11 when atlanta police get there the females are seen running into the bathroom atlanta police order the females out of the bathroom

Speaker 30 The women are placed in the back of a squad car and hand over the keys to the vehicle they arrived in.

Speaker 11 City Atlanta ran the tag on the Gold Nissan Maxim that was in the parking lot that the females arrived in.

Speaker 11 When they did that, they learned that it had been taken in a homicide in DeKalb County, which was Michi's homicide.

Speaker 2 In Michi's crime scene, the one thing that was taken was a car that Michi had rented. It was a gold Nissan.

Speaker 15 They also discover the women had attempted to ditch something in the restaurant bathroom.

Speaker 11 Two handguns were located in the toilet tank within the bathroom.

Speaker 11 One of them was a.32 caliber automatic handgun.

Speaker 11 It was the same caliber handgun used at both homicides.

Speaker 26 Outside, officers asked the women for identification.

Speaker 11 The women that were arrested by the City of Atlanta Police at Mrs. Winters were Amisha Irvin and Felicia Blakely.

Speaker 3 Coming up, detectives learn of another potential victim.

Speaker 11 The Orlando Police Department contacted our agency concerning a similar incident that they were investigating.

Speaker 2 Detectives think she's done more murder than we've discovered.

Speaker 15 It's been 10 days since the murders of Raymond Goodwin, Doc Christmas, and Michi Twitty.

Speaker 24 And Atlanta authorities have just arrested their suspects, 18-year-old Felicia Blakely and 20-year-old Amisha Irvine.

Speaker 2 We've been on the hunt for Felicia Blakely. And here we have Felicia in Michi's vehicle with a.32-caliber handgun.

Speaker 21 Detectives begin their interviews with 18-year-old Felicia while taking note of her unusual necklace.

Speaker 11 It was a chain with a padlock on it. It was odd.

Speaker 2 When detectives got to interview Felicia, she admitted without too much trouble that They killed Michi and Ray and Doc.

Speaker 11 She knew we had the gun, we had the car. I mean, how do you lie about that?

Speaker 25 With Ms. Blakely, her statement was remarkably candid.
This was a girl who is being charged with three different murders and just lays it all out. She didn't sugarcoat it.

Speaker 30 Felicia tells them that she met Ray through her friend and fellow dancer Amisha, also known as Snow.

Speaker 11 Amisha knew Ray as a photographer. He had given her his business card to have photos taken.

Speaker 30 She says the women had socialized with Ray a few times.

Speaker 27 And on August 15th, she and Amisha went to Ray's house to party before heading out to the clubs.

Speaker 30 While she'd hung out with Ray before, This day was different.

Speaker 11 Felicia believed that Ray possibly had money and that's that's why she was there to actually rob him.

Speaker 30 Desperate for money, Felicia says she decided to make her move.

Speaker 2 When Felicia went to hang out with Doc and Ray this particular day, she had her gun with her.

Speaker 29 Felicia confesses to investigators she purchased the gun illegally.

Speaker 22 Doc is on his own phone with somebody. She walks up behind Doc.

Speaker 22 He turns just in enough time to see her with the gun. She pulls the trigger.

Speaker 36 Ray tries to leave and she shoots him.

Speaker 2 Felicia disclosed that Ray had withdrew about $1,000 that day. So about $1,000 was taken from Ray.

Speaker 28 As had been the plan all along, Felicia says she and Amisha hit the clubs.

Speaker 11 Shortly after the robbery of Ray and Doc, they had gone partying in Buckhead.

Speaker 26 Felicia tells investigators, while riding high from success, the women spotted another potential victim.

Speaker 11 They had met Amichi while at parting. and Felicia believed he had money.

Speaker 17 Michi, he used to come to the club all his time. He was a flashy guy.
He loved big bulky jewelry, and you know, he was a flashy guy. So, I think that's why they targeted him.

Speaker 22 Michi wants to party with these pretty girls and invites them back to his house.

Speaker 3 They're partying, hanging out.

Speaker 22 I believe he dozes off and wakes up to the gun.

Speaker 11 Felicia shot him several times.

Speaker 11 He got $650 in cash and they left in his car.

Speaker 27 Felicia confesses to investigators that over the next few days, she and Amisha continued their crime spree, hitting numerous fast food restaurants.

Speaker 2 They start getting thirsty, you know, to do more robberies because these men were just easy to lure in. They're at these clubs, they're spending money.

Speaker 2 They're trying to have a good time, and they meet these pretty ladies. And so that's what happened with Michi.

Speaker 30 Investigators are taken aback by Felicia's matter-of-fact confession.

Speaker 11 This is one cold-blooded female that just does what she needs to do and does what she wants to do. I mean, I don't know if I'd ever seen anything like that.

Speaker 41 Next, detectives turn their attention to 21-year-old Amisha Irvin, aka Snow.

Speaker 11 Her statement matched up pretty well. She goes into some details about how they took some money and how Felicia did all the shooting.

Speaker 2 When Felicia starts firing during these murders, Amisha hits the ground. And then Felicia kept screaming, get the money, get the money, you know, like, let's get out of here.

Speaker 2 She helped take the money.

Speaker 37 After both confessions, Felicia and Amisha are charged with three counts of malice murder, armed robbery, felony murder, and theft by taking.

Speaker 17 Once I got the news, I was like, oh my God, thank you, Lord Jesus.

Speaker 17 And I immediately felt a little bit more safe because someone was in custody.

Speaker 17 Ray didn't deserve that. He did not deserve that at all.
Doc didn't deserve it either.

Speaker 3 They both were good guys.

Speaker 30 As prosecutors prepare for trial and news of Felicia's arrest hits the media, DeKalb County investigators get an unexpected call from detectives in Florida.

Speaker 11 After the arrest of Felicia and Amisha, the Orlando Police Department contacted our agency concerning a similar incident that they were investigating in their jurisdiction.

Speaker 18 Four months before their arrests, on the night of April 17th, 2002, an Orlando man invited a young woman back to his motel room to party.

Speaker 15 Instead, he was attacked.

Speaker 11 That individual was robbed and shot in the head.

Speaker 11 However, he was still alive and the caliber of weapon used was a.32 caliber automatic handgun. According to the victim in the city of Orlando, the female was described as a black female.

Speaker 11 He mentioned that she was wearing a necklace with a padlock on it.

Speaker 11 Felicia Blakely, when she was arrested, she also had a necklace with a padlock on it.

Speaker 20 Did Felicia commit this attempted murder across state lines?

Speaker 14 And if so, how much blood is on her hands?

Speaker 2 Knowing that Felicia had attempted to kill somebody before these three victims, it raised suspicion for detectives that possibly she's done more murder than we've discovered.

Speaker 24 Coming up, a courtroom revelation no one sees coming.

Speaker 11 The necklace represented that she was his property.

Speaker 37 Is Felicia a cold-blooded killer, or is someone manipulating her every move?

Speaker 2 He knew how to pick his prey

Speaker 41 After a killing spree that left three dead in less than 24 hours, Felicia Blakely and her accomplice, Amisha Irvin, are in jail awaiting trial.

Speaker 2 At the initial interview, even though Felicia was being truthful, they just still had this sense that maybe there was more information that she wasn't telling, but they just couldn't figure out exactly what that piece was.

Speaker 2 So Felicia was interviewed later after her arrest.

Speaker 18 During her second interview, Felicia makes a stunning allegation.

Speaker 2 Felicia explained Mike Berry was her pimp. She was forced to do it due to Mike Berry.

Speaker 2 and that he was the one that really wanted the money and put her and Amisha up to these crimes.

Speaker 2 Mike Berry knew how to pick his prey. He knew exactly who his target would be, and he selected his girls carefully.

Speaker 2 Felicia had a necklace with a padlock on it, and she had disclosed that the only person that had the key to that padlock was Mike.

Speaker 11 The necklace represented that she was his property.

Speaker 18 According to Felicia, Mike believed the successful photographer would have cash on hand, and he ordered Felicia to rob Ray.

Speaker 22 According to her, Mike Berry had been ordering her to collect more and more money that there was all of this pressure.

Speaker 30 Mike enlisted Amisha to be her accomplice.

Speaker 30 When she and Amisha arrived at Ray's that afternoon to party, Felicia says she had a hard time building up enough nerve to pull out the gun.

Speaker 37 But Mike wasn't letting it go.

Speaker 22 Felicia says he keeps calling her while she's there and saying, When are you gonna do this?

Speaker 22 Finally, she calls him back, leaves the phone, like sitting on the couch, so he could hear what's happening.

Speaker 2 He was on the line and he heard the whole murder.

Speaker 15 Felicia says once the deed was done, Mike insisted she kill again.

Speaker 39 And within hours, Michi was also dead.

Speaker 11 Her defense attorney attempts to use Mike,

Speaker 11 her pimp, I guess, at some extent, as being the catalyst to this.

Speaker 11 They also went and interviewed Mike, and he didn't admit to anything. There's really no evidence on our end involving Mike.

Speaker 2 I think if Amisha had come forward and corroborated some of Felicia's information, detectives could have built a case on Mike, but that just wasn't the case.

Speaker 27 Regardless, the 20-year-old does not deny that she was the one to take the lives of three men.

Speaker 22 She was really clear about her own level of responsibility, even though she was under the control to some extent of him.

Speaker 25 We started out seeking the death penalty, absolutely.

Speaker 25 At the time, you could not get a life without parole sentence unless, in fact, you were seeking the death penalty.

Speaker 30 In 2004, Felicia accepts a plea deal.

Speaker 22 Felicia and her lawyers made the decision for her to plead guilty and avoid that trial and serve life in prison rather than be considered for the death penalty.

Speaker 21 Felicia is spared the death penalty.

Speaker 15 Instead, she receives three consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.

Speaker 17 I was like, Thank you, God, there is a God. Thank you so much, Lord, that this girl is off the street and she can no longer hurt anybody else.

Speaker 18 Amisha also pleads guilty.

Speaker 30 She receives concurrent life sentences with the possibility of parole.

Speaker 2 The Florida case was never pursued just because the court system believed that Felicia was never going to be out of prison for these three murders.

Speaker 23 For those who lost loved ones during Felicia's 24 hours of bloodshed, her claims at sentencing bring mixed emotions.

Speaker 17 Felicia could have made different choices. You did what what you did because that was the person you are on the inside.

Speaker 3 It doesn't make me feel better about what happened, you know. It's a very, very, very small amount of relief.

Speaker 36 I miss him.

Speaker 3 I miss him a lot.

Speaker 16 Felicia Blakely is housed at the Arendelle State Prison, serving three life sentences without the possibility of parole. She has never been charged for her alleged role in the Orlando shooting.

Speaker 16 Amicia Irvin is housed at the same prison, serving three life sentences. She will be eligible for parole in 2027.

Speaker 16 Mike Berry continues to deny all claims of his alleged role in the murders and has never been charged.

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