Richard Spivey
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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It was just really strange that the two of them somehow ended up connecting, getting married, and had so, so different personalities.
From what I understood, he had some problems with her cutting back on the hours and not making as much money. He had a real, real, real problem with the plans for her mom to move in with him.
They were some of his biggest defenders. When he came back to Raleigh, they were like, you know, his wife has just died. Why are you all bothering him and wanting to talk to him? And why are you doing this and that? And like I said, they were big, big defenders of his. They did not believe he was involved in any way, shape or form.
He works at this time for a company that I believe they sell some sort of medical software. And he's gone to a hospital up there in Clintwood, Virginia. And it's an appointment that he has set up. It's not something that the hospital was requesting. They have already told him that the kind of software, whatever he's selling, is not something that they can use at their hospital.
But he wants to go up there anyway and just sit down and kind of show it to them, explain it to them, etc.,
His appointment was set for 10 o'clock that morning. He was about 35 minutes late. The person he met with described him as being hyper and kind of nervous.
He drives from Clintwood, Virginia, and instead of going straight back to the home in Raleigh, he drives to his mother's house in Brevard.
He is in the mountains, so I can understand, you know, your cell service is going to be kind of spotty. In the meantime, his mother-in-law has been trying to call him repeatedly. And it's being allowed to go straight through the voicemail and not being answered. He drives all the way to Brevard. And his mom talks about how he gets out of the car.
He's got his jacket slung over his shoulder and he's petting the dog that's come out to greet him. He's walking up to them in the driveway. The mother walks out to him and says, Jason, I've got some bad news. And he's like, what is it? And she says, Michelle's dead. And he immediately falls to the ground.
And she goes, I thought he was going to pass out, but he just fell down to the ground, just immediately kind of drops to the ground. The stepfather goes and grabs him a chair, a lawn chair, so he can sit in it out in the driveway while he gathers himself. And he's like, oh, you know, my son, my son, all this kind of stuff. Now, what stood out to me...
having delivered death notifications and stuff, is when you tell people that somebody's dead, there's a moment where it doesn't register and people are like in kind of disbelief. They're also like, what do you mean they're dead? What happened? None of that from him. Just immediately accepted that she's dead and drops to the ground. And I mean, most people would be like, are you sure?
Was she in an accident? How did this happen? A million questions.
They talked to him on the phone as he's headed from Brevard back to Raleigh. Investigators spoke with him on the phone, said that they needed to talk to him just to get, you know, find out information about her. By the time he got back to Raleigh, he had already spoken with a friend of his. It was an attorney who basically said, don't talk to them. Don't say anything to them.
Get yourself an attorney in Raleigh before you talk to them.
Well, the only thing we found as far as the blood, all the blood was hers. Once the closet doors opened, there was a little fingerprint smear in the blood, but it could not be identified.
The only DNA that really stood out that was his from any of the evidence collected, there was a condom found behind a couch in the living room. And the seminal fluid that was in that was his. The exterior DNA ended up being another female friend of his who lives in Montana that had come to visit them for a few days.
When we brought in the State Bureau of Investigation, one of their latent evidence people was looking at a lot of the bloodstains and looking at, like I said, there was blood on the bed sheets and pillows had fallen off and the bed and there's bloodstains on them. She actually was able to identify a footwear impression on one of the pillowcases.
She reached out to somebody that she knew at the FBI in Quantico. They ran it through their database and actually were able to identify the shoe. And it was a hush puppy orbital shoe, like a casual shoe.
July 4th, 2005, they'd gone in there and bought a bunch of shoes. That was one of the only receipts they found were any shoes.
When we reached out to Hush Puppy to confirm that that was the tread for that, Hush Puppy told us, oh, that's a sole that you use on the Belleville or a Sealy shoe. And they're like, those are the only shoes that have that? And he goes, oh yeah, those are the only brands that we manufacture that have that sole. And we were like, oh, okay.
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