Rachel Shannon

Police discovered these messages on Will's phone and immediately identified Eric Mund as a person of interest in the case.

From there because the case now crossed state lines from Tennessee to Texas the FBI got involved and what the FBI were able to uncover through their investigation was just insane.

The lengths that Eric went to to cover his involvement with escorts was extensive.

After identifying Eric as a person of interest the FBI were able to gain access to his cell phone records.

Using that, they found that Eric had been in extensive contact with someone in the weeks leading to the murders.

Not only that, but just days after receiving the blackmail text, Eric had transferred $15,000 to this person's account.

That obviously looked suspicious, so the FBI worked to identify this other person.

Eventually, after looking more extensively into Eric's communications, they were able to identify this man as Gilad Peled, the dealership's new security guard.

Now, Gilad had just been hired on at the dealership by the Munns, but he did have a pretty extensive military history.

He claimed to have served as a special agent with Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency.

After moving to the United States, he landed some high-stakes bodyguard jobs, some being for big Hollywood stars such as Charlie Sheen.

Gilad always took his job as a bodyguard very seriously, and he looked the part too.

He had a big build with a shaved head, and he just had this very serious and intimidating look on his face.

By 2014, Gilad moved to Austin, Texas, where he had some family members.

There, he sort of struggled to find work, taking on different security jobs, until he landed the job with the Munns at their dealership in early 2020.

There, he would mostly just look out for vandals, keep an eye on inventory, and make sure things were looking good.

nothing too crazy or exciting.

But knowing that Gilad had this extensive history of working with special intelligence and being trained in negotiation tactics,

Eric decided to confide in Gilad about the blackmail and asked for his help with dealing with this person.

Gilad agreed and immediately got to work with identifying the blackmailer and thinking of a plan of how to take care of the situation.