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Patrick's housemates, they turn out to be very valuable as witnesses. The detectives have one of the housemates wear a wire. He's telling the housemate like, oh, I had just like pounds of like weed and like a million Xanax pills here. So the detectives immediately go to Zach's house. They arrest him. They find more drugs at his house.

And they basically tell him, you know, we have you on all of this stuff.

And they basically tell him, you know, we have you on all of this stuff.

So Zach lays out this entire drug ring with the shipping raw alprazolam powder from China through Vancouver and Toronto and Montreal down to South Carolina, finding a house for it, getting a pill press, pressing it into pills, and then shipping it out both through the fraternity system and pledges, but also once again on the dark web is now a completed product that they can ship all over the world.

So Zach lays out this entire drug ring with the shipping raw alprazolam powder from China through Vancouver and Toronto and Montreal down to South Carolina, finding a house for it, getting a pill press, pressing it into pills, and then shipping it out both through the fraternity system and pledges, but also once again on the dark web is now a completed product that they can ship all over the world.

The complexity of that compared to sort of the kids that you might meet at a bar in Charleston, it's pretty mind-boggling. The police are building a drug case on Zach. The drug investigation and the homicide investigation were sort of on two separate tracks. As more people brought up Zach, they would say like, yeah, we've already looked into that.

The complexity of that compared to sort of the kids that you might meet at a bar in Charleston, it's pretty mind-boggling. The police are building a drug case on Zach. The drug investigation and the homicide investigation were sort of on two separate tracks. As more people brought up Zach, they would say like, yeah, we've already looked into that.

But the homicide investigation narrowed very quickly. Policemen all over the city are looking for this red Jetta, seen at the time of the killing. And that night, after Patrick was killed, in West Ashley, they find it parked.

But the homicide investigation narrowed very quickly. Policemen all over the city are looking for this red Jetta, seen at the time of the killing. And that night, after Patrick was killed, in West Ashley, they find it parked.

And they used the pretense of seeing some marijuana on the dash, and they towed the car away.

And they used the pretense of seeing some marijuana on the dash, and they towed the car away.

You have no direct evidence. All you know is that a car pulled up to the house.

You have no direct evidence. All you know is that a car pulled up to the house.

Then they go through Patrick's phone and find out that Charles is saved in Patrick's phone as Dollar T and that he had texted him to set up this drug deal at the time of the murder. They found their dollar T. It's this guy, Charles Munchen.

Then they go through Patrick's phone and find out that Charles is saved in Patrick's phone as Dollar T and that he had texted him to set up this drug deal at the time of the murder. They found their dollar T. It's this guy, Charles Munchen.

At the same time, he's opening his home to people for whom drug dealing is a completely different proposition. It's not this fantasy adventure. It's a means of survival. And when drug dealing is a means of survival, then violence is also sometimes a means of survival.

At the same time, he's opening his home to people for whom drug dealing is a completely different proposition. It's not this fantasy adventure. It's a means of survival. And when drug dealing is a means of survival, then violence is also sometimes a means of survival.

And from there, the case really comes more about, one, finding the surveillance evidence, and two, trying to find who else was in the car.

And from there, the case really comes more about, one, finding the surveillance evidence, and two, trying to find who else was in the car.

basically going to every store, school, anything in the neighborhood. And a pizza restaurant and the school down the street and one other store had cameras facing the street. And they were able to go through all the footage and basically see this red car pulling up right before the murder and then leaving right after.