Thrasher Banks
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112 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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Some of the stories Caleb and Mick shared with me are so horrific, I don't even want to go into detail here.
Matty had it the worst of them all, and as the abuse escalated over the coming months, the other cousins couldn't bear to let it go on a day longer.
As the night went on and Jack became more intoxicated, his behavior towards Maddie grew more violent and unpredictable, making his cousins felt that if they didn't do something, her life could be in danger.
The way Jack was treating Maddie pushed Mick and his cousins over the edge. Rather than let him continue to abuse her, they decided to finally do something about it.
And according to Mick, the cousins weren't the only ones ready to do something about Jack.
The cousins decided that rather than call the police and run the risk of Jack making bail and it all coming back on them, they needed to end it once and for all. To them, the only way out was to kill Jack. So after he left the house with Maddie to drink with a friend, Mick, Caleb, and Miles put a plan into motion.
The plan was for Mick and Miles to wait behind a coal pile and shoot Jack when he got out of his truck. Caleb's job was to guard the back door with a shotgun in case Jack tried to get inside.
At that point, they went inside the house to check on Matty and Geraldine, who were both distraught.
After killing Jack, they wrapped his body up in a rug and put him in the back of a pickup truck. They decided that Mick and Miles would bury his body in a remote part of Wayne National Forest while Caleb stayed home to clean up the blood and pick up the shell casings.
Nick and Miles spent several hours digging the hole for Jack's body. By the time they were done, it was daylight, and they drove into town to wash the blood off of the truck.
They filed a missing persons report.
It took authorities nearly two years to figure out what happened. When they first spoke with Mick, he wrote out a detailed confession about the murder. Here's part of his statement. That was a very nice family, Mick wrote. They would do anything for a person. But when Jack came into their lives, it was a whole new deal. Jack had that family scared to death.
What we did was the only way out for the family. And if you knew Jack the way we did, you would agree that was the only way out for them too. You know, I've never had any feelings of taking someone's life. And after we shot and killed Jack, things in my life haven't been the same for me. And I'm sure it hasn't been for Miles and Caleb. You have these weird dreams, can't think right.
But as time goes by, it clears up little by little, but not all of it. I can see myself not wanting to do things like I used to. It's just a different life to live with. Although Miles, Maddie, Caleb, and Geraldine could finally live in peace after seven years of fear, beatings, and whatever else Jack put them through, they are free to live their lives the way they want to.
But you gotta understand this much. I ain't no murderer. I don't intend to be one either, even though I have killed a person. But that was the only chance that I could see of getting something done about Jack. You must understand, it had to be done. We had a purpose to do what we did, and I sure do feel bad about it. We had no choice.
All I want to do is get this out in the open so I can go on living a normal life. Because I feel that after all this is over with, I'll be able to go on without any problems. But I want you to understand, we're not cold-blooded. And I don't want to be thought of as that. Just investigate it, and you'll see I speak the truth.
Even with Mick's confession, the lack of a body made it difficult to build a case. So they asked Mick to take them where they buried Jack, out in Wayne National Forest.
I found documents in the box about Jack's murder and noticed that an attorney named Rick Faulkner represented Mick on the case. I have no reason to doubt making Caleb's account, but I hope to get additional clarification from a third party. So I gave Rick a call and asked him if he remembered Mick's case.
Even law enforcement understood why they killed Jack. As Caleb said, they went through seven years of hell. Given the pattern of abuse they were subjected to, I could see why they did what they did, although I don't condone it. And so far, it sounds like Mick has been truthful about why they killed Jack. His public defender, Rick, was able to confirm it almost to a T all these years later.
So the discrepancy between Mick's account and Rick's is that Mick told me that they buried Jack, but when he went with law enforcement to search for the body, he told them they dumped him in a well.
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