Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Hollywood Burglar Steals From The Rich & Fulfills His Purpose
Sat, 01 Mar 2025
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Chapter 1: What led Jimmy to a life of crime?
I don't want to rob people that are poor. So I would go to Santa Monica, Venice Beach, Bel Air, Beverly Hills. I'm literally in Hollywood living like a little GTA life. I'm getting away from cops, and I'm breaking into houses, and I'm breaking into cars. And listen, just about any near-death experience is a catalyst for change. So growing up, you know, my mom and dad, who my mother is phenomenal.
So let me preface everything with saying she did everything she could to be the best mother she can be. But, you know, my mom and dad, so dope, dead dope, a lot of domestic violence. And so even though we had everything we ever wanted financially. My dad used to beat my mom real bad, so we used to have to sleep on the streets.
Many a night, me and my mom, my brother, were sleeping at my elementary school. We're running from my dad. And so all my life I would hear, I'm not your real dad anyway. Gary Mullins is. And so from a very young age, this need for validation, this need for attention, which kind of carried throughout my criminal life, was very prevalent and present. And so at 16, I get shot.
Me and this kid, we're going to fight. I'm waiting at my school bus. Now, mind you, prior to this, I was terrible in school. I was always suspended. I get shot. How does that happen? What do you mean you get shot? So me and this kid were going to fight, and he didn't want to fight. And so he's walking by the bus stop. Now, mind you, that morning my mom and dad were arguing.
And I had tried to put my sock on the right way, and it wouldn't go on. I don't know why. And so I'm banging it up against the wall. I hit my hand. I'm already frustrated. So I pull up to the bus stop with my mom and my brother and a friend, and I see this guy that I don't like walking down the way. And I'm like, I'm going to go say something to him. I'm not really mad at him.
I'm mad at everything going on in my life. So I get to the bus stop, and he's walking by, and he's staring me down, and I'm like, yo, what's up with it? What's going on? And he comes up, and we start arguing, and he's trying to get me to go around the corner, unbeknownst to me what's about to happen. And so we're arguing. We're about to fight. He pulls a gun out. I'm mad I'm not tough.
I'm not a thug. I wear my seatbelt. You can't be a seatbelt. You can't be a thug and wear a seatbelt. It don't work like that.
All right.
So when he pulls this gun out, I don't know what I was thinking. I don't even know if I thought, if I knew it was real, it was an old cowboy 22. I saw, I took my book back off and was like, I know you didn't just pull a gun out on me. And I was going to go still off on him. I was going to swing on him. And did you think maybe like, he's not going to, well, he won't do it.
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Chapter 2: How did a near-death experience change Jimmy's perspective?
Yeah, right there. Technically the chest, but kind of like the stomach. It went through my liver, nicked my kidney, and it's still in my back now. And it was at 22, and I had met a cop from New York who had spent 22 years on the force, ironically. And he said, I've never met a person take a bullet to the liver and survive.
Yeah, I was going to say that's – and, you know, it's so funny. I always watch this, and I'm sure you know this. It kills me when you watch these movies and they're like, we've got to get the bullet out. I'm like, they usually leave the bullets in.
Like if there's no reason for us to go digging around, the bullet's not bothering you as long as it's not close to your spine or something and you don't have like rejection or anything. Like if it's not causing problems, we really just need to kind of stitch up the organs and you and make sure there's no internal bleeding, but the bullet's probably fine where it is.
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Chapter 3: What was the significance of Jimmy's childhood and family dynamics?
So I fell deeply in love with the Lord. And I started doing poetry. And I started doing poetry all over my state, working with kids. I was in my room one day. I'm crying, angry, frustrated about the kid that shot me. I couldn't play basketball. I couldn't go to school. I couldn't do anything. And I was reading Romans chapter 12, verses 14 through 21. And it talked about don't repay evil for evil.
Vengeance is the Lord's. If your enemy is thirsty, give him something to drink. When I tell you that in an instant, my heart went from anger and sadness to empathy and sympathy. I started crying for this kid. I started praying for this kid. I reached out to his family to try to get a hold of him. He called me from jail and was like, what's up, bro? And I was like, I just want to apologize to you.
He's like, why are you apologizing to me? I shot you. I said, yeah, but I used to pick on you. I used to start stuff with you, too. And I just wanted to tell you that I'm sorry. It blew his mind. Now, at this time, I was the youth team leader for an organization called Chain Breakers. How old were you? I was 16.
You were still 16 when you had that call? Yeah. Okay.
I figured this was 10 years later. No, that was my 10th grade year. The summer going into my 11th grade year, I had met a man named Andy Palmer, who I love to this day. He was a mentor of mine who had got out of prison, and he had started his own organization called Chain Breakers. Him and other guys that had been in prison would go around the schools and share their testimony with kids.
They would work with kids. He saw me while he was doing his story at the Boys and Girls Club. I walked up, introduced myself. And he said, hey, you're the kid that got shot. And I said, I am. He said, I've been looking for you. I said, yeah, I grew up with your family. He said, what do you think about going to talk to kids? So I would love to do that.
I had already got on stage at my high school and did a whole poem, six-minute poem, no piece of paper, straight off the top of my head, not off the top of my head, but memorized, about standing up for Jesus, about doing the right thing. The day after I had chose to forgive the kid that shot me, I came to school, right? You know, I wrote apology letters to kids. I was apologizing to teachers.
Something in me transmorphed. Something in me became new. As I'm talking to Andy, I'm like, hey, you go into the juvenile centers, right? He's like, yeah. I was like, you think you could find this kid for me? I would love to go see him. The juvenile centers wouldn't let us happen because it was a conflict of interest. But when he got out of prison...
me and him with Andy would go to schools and share our story with kids.
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Chapter 4: How did addiction influence Jimmy's criminal activities?
all the work you've done in the community, we want to give you a full ride to college. I could have went anywhere if I had the grades. The board of directors was like, you think you can get into Harvard? I was like, nah, that's not happening. I just want to go to Bible college. And I got sprung on the, now my ex-wife, the mother of my four children, and I didn't want to leave.
And so I stayed locally and didn't do anything with it. If you've ever been young and in love, it clouds your decision-making. I've been old and in love and it clouds your decision-making. So yeah. I've had my decision-making clouded for more than things that just love. So at 18, I also found out that my dad's not my real dad.
Yeah. You had to see that coming. Because you said he said it over and over again when he would get drunk. Yeah. You think he was just saying it to be an asshole? I did. Oh, really? Okay.
I did, but I also always recognized that I was different from my family. Not in a way that's better. I love my mom and my brother. And I love my stepdad, who I only call stepdad for reference. I call him dad. He passed away, God rest his soul. He put us through a lot. But you know what? He raised a son that didn't belong to him. He's the reason I'm so affectionate with my children. Right.
Because he would love on me. He would hug me. But it was confusing. Because on one hand, you're loving me, you know, kisses and hugs and all these things fathers do. But on the other hand, I'm not your real dad anyway. So I had to learn at a very young age how to pick my battles. I've been a pretty big dude since I was 12 years old.
So from the moment I gained some size, you're not pitting your hands on my mother, homie. I don't care who you are, where you're from. I'm going to fight you to the death. But I had to learn how to start picking my battles. I used to pick cups on the wall when they would argue because if it's just verbal assault to her, I would have to just listen to it. Right.
Because the moment I get involved, then it becomes more. Right. Now the cops are coming. Yeah. Right. Well, the cops rarely ever came. But now we're out on the streets. Now he's actually fighting me and he's fighting my mom. And so when I found out that he wasn't my real dad, it was like all my life this puzzle was sitting right here and magically it just came together. So it made sense.
Now I meet my real dad.
How did that happen? First of all, how – You're giving the talk that you give when you go into a prison right now because you've got 45 minutes. Yeah. You don't have 45 minutes. We've got hours. Got you. So how did you find out that he wasn't your real dad? And how did you find your real dad? Like, did you go find him? No. Okay. You find out he was just the next door neighbor.
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Chapter 5: What were the turning points in Jimmy's life?
You can tell me what you want to tell me. You can feed me what you want to feed me. But I kind of already know. And you're not doing me or you any justice if you continue to hide this from me. And so I asked, and she finally said, yeah. And I said, well, where is he? Who is he? She said, he lives down the street.
Right? See?
He lives down the street.
I see him mowing every Saturday. He mows his yard. That's it.
You know, what's crazy is I watched my mom pull a gun on a man when I was eight years old. Okay. I didn't know who the man was. I never forgot about him. We pulled up to a 7-Eleven. She was going in the store to get me some Zoom Zooms and Wham Whams, whatever. And I saw her pull a revolver on a man. Didn't even know my mom had a gun.
Right.
Never saw this man again until I meet my real dad. He swears up and down it wasn't him. I know it was him. My mom confirmed it, and I know the feeling I had when I saw that man. I knew that man was somebody important. My mom drove me down to where she thought they lived, and it was a place called North Charleston, which is right beside Charleston where I'm from.
And I knock on the door, and a lady comes to the door, and it's my mama Mary. And the moment she saw me, she broke because she knew. Then I'm sitting there with her. And then my papa Joe comes home. And this man, they told me that this man's been praying for me my whole life. And so I'm just overwhelmed with his love from them.
And then they tell me, you know, you have a little sister named Camille. And I was like, what? And so I want to say I met my aunts and uncles before I met my real dad. And maybe it took a couple of days. We had to come back and I can't... When I saw him walk through the door, I knew. I was like, oh, I look just like you. You're my real dad. You're my real dad.
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Chapter 6: How did Jimmy find redemption and purpose after his criminal past?
And it was on from there. Now I'm doing this. And I remember the first time I had snorted one. Not only did the pain leave physically, but now a bunch of other pain that I didn't even realize I had was starting to leave.
Now I'm feeling really, really good about myself, not only because I'm on this opiate, but now I'm not having to think about the fact that I just found out about not having a real father. Now I don't have to think about the fact that my mom's in a situation I don't know if she's going to get out of. And now I'm on them and they kind of take over my whole attention.
And then, you know, she had my first son and now she has my second son and everybody knew me as Jimmy the poet. You know, you're traveling, talking to kids, you know, right from wrong, bro. I didn't know what was going on with me. Now she has my daughter. By the time she has my daughter, It got a little deeper with the pills. Now I find out what 30s are, blue 30s.
And now I'm into a deeper addiction with pills. Now I'm traveling across Charleston. I'm breaking into cars. I'm over here stealing from stores. I would go in there, get a bottle of Similac formula. I don't know why Kroger's was allowing me to do it. What is Similac formula? It's a baby formula. Oh, okay.
I would go in there, it's like a $30 bottle, $30 box, and I would take it straight to the front. No receipt. Just give them some story. Like, hey, you know, I can't find the receipt and this is not the right one, but you know, somebody went ahead and got us the right one that we needed. I really need to return this. They would give me the money. That was able to pull off a couple times.
This was able to get me the pills that I needed. They were enabling you.
They were enabling you.
Oh, a thousand percent. I know, right? Kroger's. I know. And so I want to say maybe 2012, 2013. This is after I've already got three kids. I'm not taking care of my kids the way I need to be. My kid's mom is struggling by herself. What are you doing for money? Just whatever I can. Now, mind you, my people are so dope.
And so I don't really have to do a whole, whole lot to get what I need because they have what I need. However, how am I going to pay bills? How am I going to take care of these kids? I'm basically being a bum, bro. I'm living off my mom. My mom's helping me take care of the kids financially because they got it. You know what I mean? And so it was maybe 2013. I went to go get a Roxy from somebody.
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Chapter 7: What role did mentorship play in Jimmy's transformation?
I was going to say, what are you doing? Like, what does it matter? I mean, the thwarted mind of addiction. You know, in your current state, you're useless to them. You know what I'm saying? You're a burden. More than anything. Yeah. And so. That's just selfishness.
Very much. Well, addiction is a disease of self-centered and selfishness. Yeah. Yeah. And so I called my dad and I'm like, look, this is the only options I have. He said, well, you want to come out here? And I said, look, you're not doing anything for or to the kids in the first place. So it's not going to harm anything. Why don't we get you out here? You got a gift.
Let's start getting you around the right people. And I'm like, all right. So I talked to my kid's mom and everybody's like, whoa, why do you need to go all the way to California? Why can't you just go to a rehab here? Now, mind you, at this time, I don't know anything about anything when it comes to addiction. I don't even know that I'm an addict. You know what I mean?
I just know that I like to get high and I continue to get high so that I don't get dope sick. But I find myself doing things where we call incomprehensible demoralization. I find myself doing things that I never would have done so that I'm not dope sick.
But the problem is that may be understandable, I guess, but it's not an excuse because ultimately I have to pay the consequences for these decisions that I make. So he's like, look, I don't know anything about addiction. Why don't we get you into a program? So 2014, around May, I leave. I go to California for the first time.
Now I'm in Skid Row in Los Angeles in a program called the Midnight Mission. The what? The Midnight Mission. Midnight, okay. I thought you said bid night. I was like, I don't know. The Midnight Mission. Man, they're so dope. I met Smokey Robinson through them. They have a celebrity golf tournament every year where they raise a bunch of money. Now at this time, I think H is my problem.
I didn't realize I was the problem. So for six months, I'm in this program. I'm still smoking trees. I'm still snorting pills. It's the first time I learned how to parachute a pill where you break it down, you put it into a one-ply piece of tiller paper, you swallow that, and then maybe 30 seconds later, it kind of hits you all at once. But I'm not doing H. And so in my mind, I'm getting better.
Telling my kids, their mom, yo, this is what's going on. Life is going great. I'm not telling them that I'm doing these other things. I'm not telling anybody. You're supplementing the H for the other stuff. I'm faking the funk. At the six-month mark, they wanted to test me. They're like, yo, I need you to come take this test.
They were about to give me a job behind the double doors, which was like this prestigious thing. In everybody else's eyes, I was doing pretty good. But I'm hiding. I'm being secretive, which is one of the cruxes of addiction, period, is we like to hide. We're secretive.
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Chapter 8: How did Jimmy's experiences shape his views on forgiveness and empathy?
Because I'm the type of guy like I'm not going to bust you out if you're cheating on your wife. Don't ask me to lie for you. I won't do it. Because if you're my homie and you're cheating your wife, I already don't trust you. Don't put me in that position. Yeah, for sure. A friend's not, shouldn't put you in that position. Who are you most vulnerable with? The person you pillow talk with.
So if you're the most vulnerable with them and you'll do them dirty, you'll definitely do me dirty. So he busted me out to her and she was crushed. And you know, I'm still trying to manage like, I am not a representative for AA or any 12-step recovery. But there's a part in some of the literature that talks about the mind of the addict and alcoholic
wants to be the producer, the director, the screenwriter, and the actor in his own show. And so that's what my life was like. I'm trying to be the puppeteer, but I'm trying to puppeteer everybody. I'm trying to puppeteer here. I'm trying to make sure this works. I make sure this story lines up with this.
I'm trying to, you know, coddle your emotions so you don't really see me for who I am, and none of it works. But, you know, we think we're able to do it. It's like plugging holes on a leaky boat. One hole comes up, you got to plug another. And so... I end up getting a job. Things start to look up. They give me a job installing cable for some company. But every place I go to, I'm robbing them.
I'm stealing pills. I remember I was in one house and I found 500 opiates. And they were all expired. And they were like within like four to five different big bottles. They were like 90 count scripts. But they're expired. And they're still good. Look, you can't tell me nothing. Ain't nobody going to know. They're still good.
I mean, I've got a year old Amoxicillin at the house right now for emergencies. So I start tucking them. And then one place I find a gun. So I grab it. Geez. Now, at this time, this is the very, very beginning stages of me becoming a criminal. Right. So I don't know a lot of things. Stole a Movado watch from my house. Still in money.
Or I messed up. Stole a Movado watch from a house? Yeah. Okay. But you said my house. It sounded like my house.
I thought, well, it's... I thought about it, but when I pulled up, you were really nice to me. So I was like, I'm not going to take his watch.
Not my house. I meant you said... Okay, go ahead.
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