Richard Spivey
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79 appearances
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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And we were kind of said, well, it's too bad because we had a record of him buying a hush puppy orbital. And we thought that that might be what it was. And the guy kind of paused for me and he goes, well, let me check something. He goes, oh, we did manufacture the exact same shoe. for DSW Shoe Warehouse. They just sold it as an orbital.
One of the first things that was done in the investigation is we're having to trace his steps. And that was done actually two ways. One is through the use of the financial records. So we knew where he stopped to eat. We knew where he spent the night, etc.
Just to eliminate any other locations, all along that travel area, we stopped and got all the videotapes at all the convenience stores and gas stations.
He stopped at a Cracker Barrel in Greensboro, North Carolina. We had, of course, the financial records of that. We have him on videotape, and we have what he is wearing on the videotape, the surveillance tape at the Cracker Barrel. Then the next time that he appears on tape is when he is in Hillsville, Virginia, and he's checking into Hampton Inn in Hillsville.
I said, somebody needs to sit down with this tape from the hotel and go frame by frame by frame. One of the investigators who was working with us on the case at that time, John Stubbs, he sat down and over like a week or so went frame by frame by frame through the whole tape.
At some point during the night, after he checked in on one of the stairwells, somebody had pushed the camera so it points straight up at the ceiling instead of at the staircase. One of the employees there realized this, went over there, readjusted the camera, put it back in the right place. And a short time later, just the cable to that camera got unplugged.
This employee later on discovered that someone had put a rock down there to keep the door from closing all the way. So it had been slightly propped open so that the latch wouldn't fully latch.
We actually have him on the other stairwell coming down the stairwell. Ends up walking to the front desk. There's more photographs of him there. And then... He leaves going toward the exit door that was propped open. And that actually is the last time we see him on video.
And they had investigators go and speak with people at these different stores as well who were working night shifts. They stopped at a convenience store in King, North Carolina, just south of the Virginia border, and went in there and spoke with the clerk that was working the night shift. I think they showed her a picture of Jason and said, have you ever seen this guy before?
And she goes, yes, I have. They said, well, when did you see him? She goes, he came in here. He was in a white SUV.
And she goes, he came in this store and he started cussing at me because the pumps weren't turned on. Night, you got to come in and pay first before we turn the pumps on so we don't have a drive off. And he came in here and cussed me. And I don't ever forget anybody that's ever cussed at me.
That was big, because he wasn't in Virginia anymore. He was back in North Carolina.
We got the search warrant for what he had searched on the internet, what he looked at on the internet. There were topics that came up, such as anatomy of a knockout, head trauma knockout, divorce, and right posterior, posterior occipital region. And that's the region at the back of the head.
I was pretty certain that if he didn't do it, he's at least involved in it somehow. I don't know if he had assistance or not, but he's responsible for her murder.
He's the main guy we're looking for. We have our suspect right here.
There was what appeared to be blood on the outside of the vehicle. It looked like a little spot of blood. They were able to seize the vehicle. completely inventory everything that was in the vehicle, and it later turned out that it was actually not blood. But at least we had the PC to seize the vehicle and completely process it.
It was obvious that whoever did this with the amount of blood, that blood is going to be on their clothes, feet or shoes or pants. I mean, you know, they're going to be covered in blood as well. They seized the vehicle when he got back to Raleigh. They did a complete inventory of everything in there.
The clothes that he was wearing at the Cracker Barrel and in the video at the Hampton Inn, those clothes were never found.
When he got up on his phones and started doing some of the phone work, it became very clear that he was talking to one of Michelle's best friends a lot more than Michelle was. She had a really, really good friend who lived at the time in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and he was talking to her and texting her numerous times daily.
Found out where there were places where I think it was someplace in Florida. They just happened to be there at the same time when he was supposed to be on a business trip somewhere else.
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