Thrasher Banks
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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Is the dog part now?
No, it's like the main part of it.
I wanted to continue this tradition, so I went to the shelter and left flowers for Cindy. I took a picture of them and sent it to her sister. A few days later, she sent me an edited version back. It had a picture of Cindy with angel wings, surrounded by light, looking through the window of the shelter at the flowers.
Well, I don't hold anything against you at all because you showed me that you don't have to be perfect, that if you get knocked down, you can get back up. You showed me that that was possible no matter how bad things got. It made me stronger.
Okay, so here's a question I have for you. How should I end the podcast? How does it end? In your mind.
Isn't real life so boring sometimes?
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When my mom, Carrie, gave me the box that started all of this, I wanted to figure out why Cindy Cozad was murdered in June of 1995 and what was the extent of Mick's involvement. When I was a kid, my mom was adamant that Mick was just driving the car and had nothing to do with the murder. But if this is true, it's not clear why Tim killed Cindy. Even today, Mick claims he doesn't know.
When I spoke with Tim's close friend, Pete Gravins, he revealed one potential motive for the murder.
This made me wonder if the murder was supposed to be Mick's sacrifice to join the Lords of Death. Remember, to join the group, you had to take a soul. As much as I didn't want to believe this, I couldn't just write it off. And the only person who knew the real reason behind the murder was Tim. So I wrote him a letter and asked him to tell me the truth about what happened and if Mick shot Cindy.
You want to know if Mick lied? He wrote, I'm not asking you to believe me over Mick. So ask him to explain what happened on his last case when he went to prison for manslaughter. So Tim's reasoning for why I should believe Mick shot Cindy Kozad is simple. He says Mick has killed before. But if this is true, I need to know the full story.
So I sat down with my mom and asked her what she knew about it.
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Did it ever like cross your mind and make you feel uncomfortable?
So here's the thing about my mom. She always looks for the best in people. The idea that Mick sacrificed himself to protect his family outweighed the fact that he had killed someone. But for me, as an adult, I had a hard time believing Mick's story. I mean, what are the odds that Mick was involved in two different murders?
At this point, I started thinking that maybe Mick had manipulated my mom and wasn't the person we thought he was. But to give Mick the benefit of the doubt, I gave him the opportunity to tell me his side of the story.
Mick's uncle Jack lived in a rural part of southeastern Ohio with his wife Geraldine and her three kids from a previous marriage. To protect their privacy, I'm not using their real names. There was Caleb, who was Mick's age, his brother Miles, and their older sister Maddie.
After spending a few summers in Ohio with the family, Mick developed a close relationship with his cousins. For a while, everything seemed fine. Mick even admits he enjoyed spending time with his Uncle Jack and the rest of the family. But in the summer of 1985, things started to change.
Mick witnessed some of this firsthand, like the bullet holes in the bedroom wall that he mentioned. But his cousins shared other stories about Jack that detailed a pattern of abuse they'd endured during the seven years he'd been in their lives. Here's one of the cousins, Caleb. He refers to Mick by his first name, James.
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