Mike Boudet
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
He'd been drinking, smoking, shutting down, and fixating on dark things.
She had just decided to get him into therapy.
But here's what Jalen's mother didn't want to say.
She remembered that his behavior had started to change around the time of another arrest.
Police already knew the name that would leave her lips.
This was a man from the same city, a serial killer that had haunted Cleveland and was arrested and convicted during Jalen's crucial adolescent years.
It seemed possible this disturbed Jalen so much
that he became fascinated with killing and ultimately exploded in a murderous fit that night, leaving his grandmother dead.
She was the kind of person others felt comfortable with because they knew she'd been through it.
She was always open to hearing about everybody's hard times because God knows she'd had enough of her own.
She was a mother of one of the most notorious killers in Cleveland's history.
Her son, Michael Madison, grew up in that same house on Chickasaw Avenue.
As an adult, he returned to raise a family there with his girlfriend, Tania Plummer.
They had two children, including a disabled son.
The growing suspicion, the arrest, the conviction of a killer...
someone who had once called that house home.