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Josh Yager

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48 Hours
Post Mortem | The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon

In this case, the truck captured and stored a tremendous amount of data. It measured things like speed, acceleration. brake pressure, the slippage of the tires as they spun on the concrete. And one other thing which just blew my mind, they talked about this thing that the car does called handshakes.

48 Hours
Post Mortem | The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon

When the truck encounters a public Wi-Fi network, that network actually communicates with your car, and it sends out a ping that essentially says, here I am, I'm a public Wi-Fi network, and your car answers that ping and says, here I am, I'm a car that's passing your network. Well, it turns out that the car in this case, as many others, stores a record of those communications.

48 Hours
Post Mortem | The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon

When the truck encounters a public Wi-Fi network, that network actually communicates with your car, and it sends out a ping that essentially says, here I am, I'm a public Wi-Fi network, and your car answers that ping and says, here I am, I'm a car that's passing your network. Well, it turns out that the car in this case, as many others, stores a record of those communications.

48 Hours
Post Mortem | The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon

When the truck encounters a public Wi-Fi network, that network actually communicates with your car, and it sends out a ping that essentially says, here I am, I'm a public Wi-Fi network, and your car answers that ping and says, here I am, I'm a car that's passing your network. Well, it turns out that the car in this case, as many others, stores a record of those communications.

48 Hours
Post Mortem | The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon

Why is that important? You can essentially use that information to plot the route that the car drove on. And that's what investigators were able to do in this case. They were able to learn a lot about where Bud Ackerman had driven on this particular night.

48 Hours
Post Mortem | The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon

Why is that important? You can essentially use that information to plot the route that the car drove on. And that's what investigators were able to do in this case. They were able to learn a lot about where Bud Ackerman had driven on this particular night.

48 Hours
Post Mortem | The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon

Why is that important? You can essentially use that information to plot the route that the car drove on. And that's what investigators were able to do in this case. They were able to learn a lot about where Bud Ackerman had driven on this particular night.

48 Hours
Post Mortem | The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon

It was, and she talked about it actually in terms of being a sort of a white picket fence life that she thought she was going to get. I mean, here again is a small town and a woman who meets the son of a well-known family in town. His family works in dentistry, and he became a businessman at one point himself. And within a few years of getting married, they had three children.

48 Hours
Post Mortem | The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon

It was, and she talked about it actually in terms of being a sort of a white picket fence life that she thought she was going to get. I mean, here again is a small town and a woman who meets the son of a well-known family in town. His family works in dentistry, and he became a businessman at one point himself. And within a few years of getting married, they had three children.

48 Hours
Post Mortem | The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon

It was, and she talked about it actually in terms of being a sort of a white picket fence life that she thought she was going to get. I mean, here again is a small town and a woman who meets the son of a well-known family in town. His family works in dentistry, and he became a businessman at one point himself. And within a few years of getting married, they had three children.

48 Hours
Post Mortem | The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon

So they were really sort of living the dream. And according to Meredith, what really changed things was that Bud started experiencing difficulty at work. He had been working in an auto body shop, but then became the owner of that shop. And as the owner, just found himself subjected to the stresses of running his own business.

48 Hours
Post Mortem | The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon

So they were really sort of living the dream. And according to Meredith, what really changed things was that Bud started experiencing difficulty at work. He had been working in an auto body shop, but then became the owner of that shop. And as the owner, just found himself subjected to the stresses of running his own business.

48 Hours
Post Mortem | The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon

So they were really sort of living the dream. And according to Meredith, what really changed things was that Bud started experiencing difficulty at work. He had been working in an auto body shop, but then became the owner of that shop. And as the owner, just found himself subjected to the stresses of running his own business.

48 Hours
Post Mortem | The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon

And according to Meredith, he started sort of bringing that stress home with him at the end of the day. She talks about him always having enjoyed a drink, but that as this stress at work took hold of him, his drinking became more frequent and there was more of it. And the more he drank, the more sort of unpredictable and volatile he became.

48 Hours
Post Mortem | The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon

And according to Meredith, he started sort of bringing that stress home with him at the end of the day. She talks about him always having enjoyed a drink, but that as this stress at work took hold of him, his drinking became more frequent and there was more of it. And the more he drank, the more sort of unpredictable and volatile he became.

48 Hours
Post Mortem | The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon

And according to Meredith, he started sort of bringing that stress home with him at the end of the day. She talks about him always having enjoyed a drink, but that as this stress at work took hold of him, his drinking became more frequent and there was more of it. And the more he drank, the more sort of unpredictable and volatile he became.

48 Hours
Post Mortem | The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon

Yeah, this is another fascinating aspect of the story, the sort of proximity of this young woman, Megan McGovern, to the Ackerman family and how young she is. As you pointed out, Anne-Marie, she starts as a young teenager who becomes a babysitter for the family. And her relationship to them really changes.

48 Hours
Post Mortem | The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon

Yeah, this is another fascinating aspect of the story, the sort of proximity of this young woman, Megan McGovern, to the Ackerman family and how young she is. As you pointed out, Anne-Marie, she starts as a young teenager who becomes a babysitter for the family. And her relationship to them really changes.

48 Hours
Post Mortem | The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon

Yeah, this is another fascinating aspect of the story, the sort of proximity of this young woman, Megan McGovern, to the Ackerman family and how young she is. As you pointed out, Anne-Marie, she starts as a young teenager who becomes a babysitter for the family. And her relationship to them really changes.

48 Hours
Post Mortem | The Hit-and-Run Homicide of Davis McClendon

She talks about almost starting to leave behind the role of just a babysitter and to become more and more of a confidant of Meredith, almost a younger sister type person who Meredith talks to about problems both with the kids and in her own life.