Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant
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And they, it was sort of a familiar pattern where he would groom and stalk these young teenage girls.
He would abuse them.
He would rape them and threaten them with death and somehow end up with them.
And not somehow, through coercion and threat and intimidation.
Yeah.
And he would get so he would be married already.
And like you said, he'd be stalking and raping and abusing some other younger girl at the same time.
And then inevitably, when charges were about to be brought against him because of his like rape and abuse and in one case shooting of one of the girls, he would he would convince them to marry him.
He would go to his wife and be like, we have to get divorced because I got to marry this girl so that she won't testify against me.
And he would be successful.
And if they refused at first, he would use those same tactics that he used to intimidate witnesses to intimidate these girls into marrying him and becoming his wife.
And then astoundingly, he would go find a younger girl and start the whole thing over again.
Like this guy got married more than once to keep the girl that he was raping from testifying against him because back then a wife couldn't testify against her husband.
Yeah, so, I mean, we don't need to get into every single one of those details, but suffice it to say, this was happening over and over and over remarkably.
Sometimes, you know, obviously these girls' parents would put up a fight and get involved.
And he would intimidate and threaten them to the point where at one point he – and this is the wife he had sort of when the final incident went down.
Trina McLeod, who he got together with, this is just so sick, when she was 12 or 13 years old, was like picking her up from the school bus.
Yeah.
And school officials were like, something's going on with this creep.
No one ever did anything.