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A peaceful Midwestern community is rocked by a tragic murder.

There was a gunshot wound

to the head.

I just remember laying down and crying.

My heart had been ripped out.

I couldn't believe that this was happening.

Who would want to hurt?

As authorities search for a suspect, the investigation descends into the dangers of online dating.

He said he was going to go meet up with some guy on Grinder.

You don't know who you're meeting up with.

It was a big fear.

Was this a date that went bad?

Was this a setup date as a robbery?

Lots of questions.

The investigation will take a sharp turn as rumors of a toxic romance come into focus,

leading to the discovery of a disturbing betrayal fueled by desperation.

They punished him to protect themselves.

They needed each other to survive.

I still cannot wrap my mind around how you could be so close to somebody and do something so horrific.

A quiet community south of Indianapolis, Morgan County, Indiana, may be best known for its family-friendly living.

Morgan County is a small rural area, about 30 minutes south of Indianapolis.

It's a peaceful, quaint community with not a lot of crime.

But at 3 p.m.

on September 13th, 2019, a local resident calls 911 in a panic.

We've been selling something for a couple of days here, and we just thought it was a dead animal that turned a dead person laying up here at the dead.

The caller reports the victim is lying along a fence adjoining her property.

And you're for sure that that person is deceased, right?

Oh, yes.

There's

bugs crawling around them.

There's officers on the way.

They're going to be there in just a few minutes, okay?

Investigators with the Morgan County Sheriff's Office are immediately dispatched to the scene.

I was on call, so I proceeded to the location.

This particular area was isolated.

It had one residence right off the road

and the area was shaded by trees and thick brush.

The deceased person was in late stages of decomposition.

When we looked at the body, it was difficult to even tell if it was male or female.

There was a gunshot wound.

to the head

and I've noticed that the deceased right right pocket was pulled out.

So it automatically had us leading the belief for the possible robbery.

Most people carry cell phones.

Most people have some kind of ID or credit card or money.

So the fact that there was really nothing there

led police to believe that maybe that was intended.

As we started looking at the scene, we found seven nine millimeter shell casings.

We determined that it was an automatic handgun and possibly a clock to the indentions on the shell casings.

There was some blood found coming from the top of the fence to the bottom.

There was some blood found on the rocks below the fence.

It was the hypothesis or assumption at the time.

that the victim was going over the fence and then was shot.

When investigators speak with the 911 caller, she says she hadn't seen anything suspicious, but she had heard something four days earlier.

She had gone to sleep on September 9th at 4.30 and heard several gunshots, but it was a rural area, so there's a lot of target practicing and hunting.

different people in that area shooting guns off, so it wasn't uncommon.

with no clear evidence pointing to who might be responsible investigators focus on identifying their victim

the body was transported at morgan county morgue and then forensic pathologist did an autopsy on the deceased the next day

the forensic pathologist determined that it was a male probably in their 20s approximately 6'2 6'3

The pathologist confirms the victim died from a single gunshot wound to the head.

They couldn't say exactly when, but they just know the body had been out there for a few days.

We also were able to get fingerprints from the deceased at the autopsy, and those were put into what's called APIS.

We got a hit on a fingerprint for a male out of Jacksonville, Illinois named Alexander Jackson.

The Morgan County Sheriff's Office, they were asking themselves questions like, what was this guy doing out here?

And why was he killed?

Born in Illinois in 1996, Alexander Jackson had always been bright and brainy.

Alex was born and raised in Jacksonville.

He was a good kid, and he was really, really smart.

Alex was very outgoing, caring, bubbly.

I mean, when you think of somebody that would literally give you the shirt off their back, I mean, that is him to AT.

He loves science.

Everything with plants, trees.

He would always hate seeing people cut trees down and everything.

He always just wanted to do what he could to help the environment.

We called him Sid, Sid the science kid, because he would have all these

like facts that no one, like, what, why do you know that you know

when he graduated high school he then decided to go to Western University in Illinois to study environmental science

one day his sophomore year of college there I guess there's a coming out day he had posted this this post and said that I was gay

He just really figured out who he wanted to be, what he wanted to do, and we were all just really proud of that.

After sophomore year, Alex decided to join his aunt in Indianapolis.

Alex moved in with me in January of 2017.

He wanted to come here to spread his wings.

I was the person who kind of just introduced him to

the scene, the gay scene, you know, on MassApp.

He did drag and things like that, and he was having a lot of fun with that.

In July 2017,

he decided he wanted to get his own apartment.

And I was kind of sad when he decided to leave because I really enjoyed having him around.

But I was happy that he was finding his way in life.

But Alex's plans for the future would come to a tragic end on an isolated stretch of road nearly 20 miles from home in Indianapolis.

Once they got Alex identified, then the detective would reach out to the family.

I was able to get in contact with Alex's mother, Walona Jackson.

I remember them telling me that they had found him.

It's that moment is kind of a blurb.

Because I was there by myself.

I just remember

laying down and crying.

I think it dropped to the floor.

Felt like

a part of my soul, my heart had been ripped out.

I couldn't believe that this was happening.

Who would want to hurt him?

I'd learned that Alex had moved to Indianapolis to live with his aunt, Heather.

He was taking classes there and working a job and doing really good for the most part.

Alex's mother says her son's life had taken an unexpected turn after he moved out of his aunt's home in July of 2017.

He lived in an apartment complex and

something had happened above him and so water had leaked into his apartment and he ended up needing to leave.

Talking to Lalona, he was actually staying with friends at different places and hotels and I think that kind of got him in a situation where he was getting with the wrong people.

He had quit his job and had quit school.

and had started to hang around some people that were partying a little too hard.

Alex called me

and

voiced some concern about the people that he had been hanging out with and that he had been doing things that maybe he shouldn't have been.

He knew he needed to stop.

It was quite a shock.

Coming up, a chilling discovery leads investigators to uncover a bitter conflict between friends.

He made a cryptic Facebook post in which he tagged Alex and said, robbing the debt.

That post sounded very awful, especially the timing.

But a deeper look at Alex's dating life suggests a more sinister motive.

Anytime you're dealing with one of these dating apps, there is a concern that you don't know who you're dealing with.

And unfortunately, there could be predators out there.

Investigators have identified 23-year-old Alex Jackson as the murder victim found off a rural road in Morgan County, Indiana.

And law enforcement has learned that Alex's family had become concerned about him in recent months.

There was about a month or two there that I'm not sure exactly what happened, but things went downhill

quickly.

You know, the people he hung out with, I didn't know them.

I knew his friends before, and all of a sudden, things changed.

These people,

I had no clue who they were.

No clue.

While Alex's family is unable to name any of Alex's new friends, they can offer investigators helpful insight.

Alex's car actually was in the shop, so he needed a rental car.

And this family friend offered to get him a rental car for four days.

And after that four days, they're like, well, why wasn't the rental car returned?

It was a short-term rental.

That would have been on September 6th.

On the 10th, that rental car was not returned.

They didn't know where the car was.

Investigators immediately begin the search for the vehicle of 2018 Hyundai Elantra.

They also issue a press release, hoping to identify Alex's new friends in the city.

It's important to know who was the last person to talk to him or had seen them.

We were trying to locate names as far as who he hung out with and where he might have been.

And with the press release, we had gotten a call from one of Alex's friends who gave us some information on who he had been hanging out with at the time.

One of the names mentioned was Chad.

According to the tipster, Chad had made an alarming post on social media on September 6th, three days before authorities believe Alex was killed.

On September 6th, Chad made a cryptic Facebook post in which he tagged Alex and said something to the effect of robbing the dead.

They were concerned about the post due to the fact Alex was deceased.

That post sounded very awful, especially the timing.

So at that time, we locate Chad

and we went and spoke with him.

When investigators confront Chad about the social media post, he alleges that Alex was the thief in question, not him.

Chad said that him and Alex were friends and that Alex had actually stayed with him for a while and that him and Alex had a falling out due to the fact that that Alex might have taken some items from him.

Chad claims that the alleged theft occurred after the two friends partied together on September 6th.

Chad had bought some drugs and had used the drugs and had nearly overdosed.

When he woke up, his money was gone and he blamed Alex for taking it.

So he stated that he posted that due to the fact that he was robbing him while he was almost dying.

So that was his explanation for the post.

The situation had bothered Chad, but he's emphatic that he didn't kill Alex.

We have a software that we use that actually can show which towers in an area that cell phones had sent data to.

And when our Evidence Tech ran those numbers through, we found that Chad's number at the morning of the homicide was far away from the crime scene.

Cleared of any connection to Alex's death, Chad suggests they talk to Alex's closest friend in Indianapolis.

He advised that there was another person that Alex hung on with on a regular basis named Brittany Overton.

Alex really trusted Brittany

and kind of looked at her as maybe a big sister.

She was older and looked up to her for guidance, protection,

stability.

Brittany's name came up and that eventually led the investigators to pay a visit on Brittany.

We proceeded to her grandmother's house and we talked to Brittany.

This is Mark Anderson, one sheriff's worker.

Okay.

We are investigating Alex's death.

What happened to him?

He was shot and killed.

Was shot?

I'm sorry.

I can't.

I can't.

She said she had been friends with Alex for a year or so, ran around with him on occasions and partied with him.

So had Alex ever lived with you or stayed with you or have you ever lived with him?

He never lived with me.

He was talking about getting an apartment together.

Okay.

According to Brittany, the last time she saw Alex was the evening of September 8th, 2019.

She said they were driving around in a blue-rental car that Alex had.

They had gone to a couple stores during the day and at 11 o'clock that night, he had dropped her off at her house.

Brittany puts herself with Alex together at her house in the blue-rental car.

Alex leaves at 11 p.m., was supposed to come back.

He never came back.

So now we're getting a lot closer to what happened to Alex the morning of the 9th when the neighbors heard gunshots at 4.30 a.m.

So we're not sure exactly who he was with or where he was at from 11 p.m.

to 4 a.m.

He said he was going to go meet up with some guy on Grindr.

Grinder is an app where men can meet other men.

Did he say who that guy was?

No name.

Like okay, well be careful, you know, come back if you want to, because he didn't have a place to stay at the point in time.

I was concerned that maybe he met up with somebody on Grinder and that something had happened and that we really wanted to find out who he met up with at that time.

Was this a date that went mad?

Was this a setup date as a robbery?

Lots of questions.

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One week after the body of Alex Jackson was discovered, his friend Brittany Overton has just told investigators that Alex planned to meet up with a Grinder date the night of September 8th, the last time anyone saw Alex alive.

Brittany said that he was meeting or talking to a male on a dating app.

If it's true, Alex was with Brittany at 11 p.m.

the night before he was killed, and he went on a Grinder 8.

How did this person come into play?

Anytime you're dealing with one of these dating apps, there is a concern that you don't know who you're dealing with.

And unfortunately, there could be predators out there.

Detective Mark Anderson immediately obtains a search warrant for Alex's personal Grindr account.

When I got the information back from the dating app, it just gave me the username and when they would log in or log off.

It didn't give me any names who they talked to.

It didn't give me any names that they hook up with or anything like that.

That reached a dead end.

A lot of these dating sites are very discreet for the obvious reason.

But just as the investigation hits a roadblock, authorities receive crucial information that breathes new life into the case.

Alex's rental car was found by Indianapolis police, abandoned.

The rental car was found wrecked on a road in Indianapolis.

The theory then is the people that killed Alex may have been the same people in the rental car when it was wrecked.

So we did search warrants on the rental car.

When we got the vehicle back, we noticed that in the passenger seat, there was a set of keys.

And realized there was a car key to Buick.

The keys to the rental car were there, but this extra set of keys was significant to investigators because it led them to wonder, who did these belong to.

Also, interestingly about the rental car, the front plate of the radio was removed, and the radio was actually pulled out.

and we were able to recover some very good fingerprints of the right hand of an individual on top of the radio.

Detectives, evidence technicians processed for evidence, and of course it doesn't come back right away.

So we're waiting on DNA, we're waiting on fingerprints.

While investigators wait on forensics, weeks pass without any new leads.

For the first several weeks, investigators didn't really have a lot to go on.

They were reaching out to anyone who might have known Alex in the Indianapolis area.

Unfortunately, they really weren't able to get any answers.

Five weeks after Alex's death, investigators receive a promising tip from a concerned woman.

And we went and spoke with her.

She stated that her grandson had told her that he had shot somebody named Alex.

He then showed her on his phone an article from a local television station where Alex Jackson was identified as deceased in a homicide.

She had asked him why, and he had made a comment that he thought that this person was going to try to hurt him.

She gave me the name of Justin Blake.

I had never heard that name in the investigation.

Justin's grandmother explains that 18-year-old Justin had had a tumultuous upbringing.

Justin grew up in Indianapolis

and at a very young age, his sister and him were taken from biological parents through the Department of Child Services.

and spent some time in foster care and he was adopted at one point in time.

Justin had gotten into some trouble and had gotten incarcerated as a juvenile.

It was too hard for them to take care of him, so they kind of washed their hands of him and he went to the system.

Justin lived on and off on the streets.

By the time he was 18, a fairly hardened individual, which is really sad.

Six months earlier, Justin had reconnected with his grandmother.

Grandma treated him with love, was concerned about his appearance, concerned about who he was hanging around with, but still, as a grandmother, as love would be, what can I do for you?

And Justin buried his soul

and basically told grandma that he'd killed somebody.

She was was still in shock that he had said this to her, but she knew she was trying to do the right thing, so she gave that information.

Investigators know they need to speak with Justin immediately.

She told me he was at the Hendricks County Jail in October of 2019.

He had gotten arrested for having a stolen van and a stolen gun.

And she was concerned that possibly that maybe that gun was involved in the case.

We had then a good belief that this person was a viable suspect in Alex was killing.

And that's when I went to the Henders County Jail and spoke to Justin.

Justin?

Hey good.

Mark Anderson with Morgan County Sheriff's Department.

This is Dean Minton.

Okay.

And first thing is we're not here.

We don't care what you're here for.

We absolutely don't care.

Okay, we're here for something else.

And you go back to your cell anytime.

You don't have to talk to us.

I advised him that I was here to speak to him about homicide.

Who the homicide is?

A man named Alex Jackson.

Alex Tackson.

And it wasn't until a short time later he stated, oh yeah, I know Alex.

But I have only met him two times.

investigators informed justin an anonymous tip has implicated the teen in alex's murder so why would your name come up as homicide i don't know sir

i mean did they specifically mention your name i mean i have a bad reputation because i've been locked up you've not shot anybody no sir okay

you didn't tell anybody you did no sir

he tried to explain that he only met alex twice and and he tried to brush it off that he didn't really know him.

When asked how he met Alex, Justin tells investigators they were introduced through Justin's girlfriend.

What's the girl's name?

Brittany.

Brittany What?

Old Justin.

When I heard that, then it started clicking together that the two names were connected.

Brittany

and Justin.

Over a month after the shooting death of Alex Jackson, investigators in Morgan County, Indiana have zeroed in on Justin Blake as the primary person of interest when Justin reveals he was introduced to Alex by Alex's friend, Brittany Overton.

Investigators made the connection that Justin knew Brittany.

In fact, the two had a relationship for some time.

And add that to the fact that investigators were told by Justin's grandmother that Justin had confessed to killing Alex.

These were strong pieces of evidence.

Justin was pretty much saying he's not involved.

I don't know why you're here.

However, Justin does admit to being with Brittany and Alex on September 8th, the evening investigators believe Alex was killed.

Justin started to tell a story very similar to Brittany: that that he saw Alex that night.

Alex had a date on the dating app

and that Alex left in a blue rental car at 11 p.m.

and never came back.

So you met Alex, wasn't Alex?

He said that Alex dropped him off at the house.

He never saw Alex after that.

I just don't think you're giving me all the information.

I gave you all the information that I know.

We didn't talk to him much longer after that because we wanted to make sure we had another shot to talk to him.

While Justin is escorted back to his jail cell, investigators focus on the stolen weapon found in his possession during his recent arrest.

I then called the arresting officer in that case to confirm.

what kind of weapon that he was charged with.

He had a revolver in his possession at the time, so it didn't match the shell casings that we found at the scene due to the fact a revolver doesn't spin out shell casings.

They weren't able to find the murder weapon,

so they strongly suspected that Justin had dumped the weapon shortly after the murder.

Still, investigators have no idea what motive Justin would have or what role Brittany Overton might have played in the crime.

Before circling back to Brittany, they focused their efforts on developing evidence against her.

So we did search warrants of social media, cell phone records, cell phone power locations, anything that we could to either include or exclude someone as a suspect.

Brittany had clearly kept some interesting company.

There was some involvement in the drug community.

Not terrible, but enough that she was on probation.

We learned that Brittany met Justin Blake through a drug dealer.

They had the same dealer.

Once I got the Facebook records for Brittany Overton, you can see that she's hanging with Justin a lot as a couple in pictures.

Brittany and Justin did have a sexual relationship with each other.

He had a bad guy persona about him already, and he was only 18 at the time.

I think in looking at some of the social media, she had a bad boy crush on him.

There's some comment that all they've been through, they had a bond, like a band of brothers, a thickest thieves type of bond.

When I'm going through her accounts, I'm finding conversations with her and other subjects in the criminal world.

Just days prior to the homicide, she's actually talking to people about wanting to get a gun.

Investigators are unable to determine if Brittany had acquired a gun.

But as they continue analyzing her social media data and usage, they come to a startling realization.

Neighbors heard gunshots at around 4.30 a.m.

on the morning of September 9th, which is believed to be the time that Alex was killed.

And then at 4.45 a.m., Brittany logged on to her Facebook account and she unfriended Alex.

That stuck in our mind really hard.

It was exactly 15 minutes after the homicide that she befriends Alex Jackson.

Once we had that foundation, Then when those cell records came back, her cell phone put her in the the area from Northman Road, very close to where Alex was killed at 4.31 a.m.

on September 9th.

Investigators have the evidence they need to secure a warrant for Brittany's arrest.

When they receive the forensic analysis on Alex's rental car, the case becomes more than circumstantial.

We sent a copy of Justin Blake's fingerprints to the state lab with the fingerprint that we found on the radio.

They called back and confirmed it was a match to his fingerprints.

So that places him in the vehicle.

The DNA results on the keys, those DNA results came back to Brittany Overton.

The DNA, the phone records all kind of put Justin there, Brittany there.

There didn't seem to be any obvious motive, but it was time to roll up our sleeves, file the charges, and get arrest warrants for Justin Blake and Brittany Overton.

On October 3rd, 2020, more than a year after Alex Jackson's murder, police take Justin Blake and Brittany Overton into custody.

Justin had been in Hendricks County Jail for stealing a car and having a gun in his possession.

But at that point, Justin had been released from jail.

Justin was in Indianapolis with a new girlfriend, and he was located at her residence.

Brittany was found inside Indianapolis city limits.

Hi, Justin.

You remember me?

Investigators sit down with Justin first and confront him with the evidence stacked against him.

So why would I just accuse him?

I guess you know, well, I don't know.

Why would you?

Is there something gone wrong?

The antoton you want to buy?

He just denied it the whole time and said the same story he said before.

He was given a voice stress test.

He agreed to take one, and of course he fell dead.

After that, he pretty much said, oh, I want to talk to a lawyer.

Brittany.

Detectives next turn their attention to Brittany.

I think you want to get it off your chest of what happened and get justice for Alex.

I don't know if he was.

What about?

So, you're saying that I'm associated with it because I witnessed it.

Did you witness it?

No, I'm saying, like, this is what he's saying.

Brittany for two hours played

innocent.

We know you were there, 100%.

When Alex died, you were there.

There's no doubt in our mind.

And it wasn't until the detectives talked about that her phone records put her at the scene.

There was no way she wasn't there.

These are all locations where your phone is pinging.

That's the exact time Alex was killed.

And you're all over here.

I think she finally realized, well let's tell this story and see what happens and then she gave a story of what happened that night.

All those pieces of the puzzle fell into place as we had planned.

Indiana authorities have arrested Brittany Overton and Justin Blake for the murder of Brittany's friend, Alex Jackson.

While Justin continues to maintain his innocence, Brittany eventually cracks under the pressure.

Brittany told them that on the night of September 8th,

Alex had picked her up in his rental car.

Brittany said Alex and her was running around.

And at some point in time in the night, they picked Justin up.

They were driving around, partying a bit, and at a certain point, Justin suggested they go try to make some fast money.

They get Alex to contact a guy from Grinder,

and they set up a date to meet him,

and they were going to rob him.

According to Brittany, when the trio arrived at the apartment complex, Justin forced Alex to accompany him to the front door

i sat in the car

they ended up going inside

brittany stated that when they met the guy justin started pistol whipping him

Brittany said that Alex didn't expect them to beat him up and be that violent.

so they were back in a room and what'd they come out with do you know

they came out with some credit cards

um an xbox i believe or it was a playstation and this one

and maybe a checkbook

Brittany claims the trio partied for the next several hours, but Alex became increasingly upset about what had happened.

Alex has never seen this kind of stuff before.

He's not a criminal.

That must have been a shock.

He was kind of regretting doing the robberies and stuff and was talking about it.

There was a concern that Alex would snitch on them.

And they ended up on this road.

And at that time, then...

Justin supposedly tells her to stop the car.

What do you mean, stop the car?

He's like, stop the fing car.

And he's got a gun, and it's held right here to my head.

At that point in time, I was scared.

When she stopped the car, he then made the comment, Alex, you know it's time.

And at that time, she says, Alex looks over at her and said, what's going on, Brittany?

I'm freaking out.

He's like, Brittany, what's going on?

I said, I don't know.

And

we were both pretty hysterical at that time.

So, Justin gets out of the car

and pulls Alex out of the car.

Justin gets out with the gun in his hand, and she proceeds to look straight ahead and hear several gunshots.

Hear Alex screaming.

Anything like that?

No, dude.

It's just like a spirit kind of scream and gunshots.

And then Justin gets in the front seat of the car.

He had the gun in his hand and Alex's cell phone.

And Justin drives her,

drops her her off, and says, don't say anything to anybody or you're going to die.

And then he drives off and leaves.

Investigators aren't buying Britney's story.

If Brittany was afraid of Justin, she certainly didn't seem to show it in the days after the murder.

Brittany admitted to police that they'd used the rental car for two days after the murder.

He had had it hid for a couple days.

Okay, and then came back and got you?

Yeah.

She said that her and just were drinking and that he ran off the road

and hit the tree.

So you were in the car when Carl's rapped.

Right.

Yeah.

So I'm seeing now that she's more of a manipulative person and you can see where she's doing anything she can to survive.

While Justin continues to deny any involvement, investigators have what they need to file charges.

We charge Justin Blake with murder and felony murder.

Murder for shooting Alex, felony murder for stealing the car.

We charge Brittany Overton only with felony murder and robbery.

We did not believe that she pulled the trigger.

I didn't know anything about Brittany, but I just needed whoever was was responsible

to pay for it.

They took my baby

for no reason.

After the arrests were made, the family was happy, Lolana was happy, my brother was happy, but now comes trial.

With Brittany's testimony and a mountain of physical and digital evidence in tow, prosecutors take Justin's case to a jury in February of 2022.

While prosecutors don't need to prove motive as an element of their case, they believe they know why Alex was killed that night.

Alex fell in with the wrong crowd.

He certainly wasn't hardened like Brittany and Justin.

Ultimately, Alex was caught up in their crimes, and as soon as he showed a sign of weakness,

they punished him for that that to protect themselves.

Obviously, they were intimate.

They found some attraction to each other.

I think it became a bond of what they did together that night, and then a bond of how they thought they could get away with it.

Despite Justin's defense team attempting to shift blame solely to Brittany, on February 24th, 2022, the jury sides with the prosecution.

The jury convicted Justin of all counts, murder, felony murder, and robbery.

We proceeded to sentencing, and the judge gave him 61 years.

In May 2022, Brittany Overton accepts a plea bargain.

The judge did credit her for testifying in Justin's cross.

The judge ended up giving her 20 years with 17 and a half to do.

Brittany teared up a little bit, but I didn't think she was very remorseful.

I still cannot wrap my mind around how you could be so close to somebody like Alex and do something so horrific.

I just will never understand

why.

They took an amazing person.

And that was part of the problem.

He was so trusting and befriended people because he saw the good in everyone.

Brittany Overton will be eligible for parole in 2033 at the age of 39.

Justin Blake will be eligible for parole in 2066 at the age of 65.

The town of Agda in France is famous for sun, sand, sea and sex.

But lately, life on the coast has taken a strange turn.

The town's mayor, a respected pillar of the community, has been arrested for corruption.

His wife claims he's been bewitched by a beautiful clairvoyant.

Then there's the mysterious phone calls that local people have been getting.

I am the Archangel Michael.

The whole town has been thrown into chaos.

Monsieur Le Mayer, As the mayor is unable to carry out his duties, I would like to address you all.

Legal proceedings have been initiated.

Join me, Anna Richardson, and journalist Leo Sheikh for The Mystic and the Mayor as we investigate a story of power, corruption, and magic.

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