Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Inside the Mind of a K*ller (What Nobody Will Tell You)
Mon, 12 May 2025
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Chapter 1: What does it mean to be extracted from normality?
He's on his knees saying his prayers and When you do it, you grasp this concept, right, that we are all born into a collective tunnel of normality. For some reason, you realize that we're all human. We all understand in this tunnel. And then when you do something like this, you're extracted from that tunnel.
And you know that there's boundaries that are never meant to be crossed between human and human. Then I was extracted. I could look into the collective tunnel, but I can never be a part of it again. Oh. My father was really abusive. He was in church, so that religion played a huge part in our family.
My mother... He was religious, but he was abusive.
Yeah, religious. They were the type of dudes that go to church on Sunday, beat your ass on fucking Sunday night. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, my mother was...
kind of crazy too man because she would be the type that you know would get beaten up and then when we would try to stick up for her she would kind of come at us sideways for trying to stick up for her it was just weird you know what i'm saying do you have brothers sisters how many brothers
i'm the youngest of five brothers the brother that was close the closest to me when he was two years old he was playing in front of a pot of boiling water and he was out there playing with it and i guess something happened the handle was protruding from the in the kitchen and it kind of just spilled on his head and it peeled back his skin um He ended up paralyzed. From that accident?
Yeah, so the burns ended up coming to his skin. It paralyzed him. Yeah, my whole life, I was feeding him through a tube. But he was my best friend because when there was nobody to talk to, I would talk to him. You know what I mean? Right. That was my road dog. That was my best friend.
So when I was eight, he ended up passing away on me.
Is this from complications of? Complications of his situation. Right. So when my brother passed away, we sued the hospital. He passed away in. We ended up suing him for four point something million. And my family ended up getting paid, but my father was an alcoholic. My father left us. He left us for two or three years. And he came back without nothing.
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Chapter 2: How did childhood trauma shape their lives?
that situation played a huge role because from that point forward um i declared war on fucking fear you know what i'm saying like i've made it certain that nobody would ever instill fear in my heart again you know what i mean and so whenever somebody would try to talk shit or something like that you know um yeah we would handle it and i would do whatever i had
had to do to confront the situation, you know? 11 years old at 12 years old, I was homeless. I was sleeping on the streets. Well, I had a home. I didn't want to be at home. So I was, like, couch surfing and shit, you know? I ended up sleeping on the bleachers of my school, and that's where I actually met my wife. She was walking the track. She came from another home.
She comes from a family that was... That was a family, like a real family. You know what I mean? I was actually sleeping on the bleachers, and that's how we ended up having a conversation and stuff. But she goes, hey, man, what's going on with you? Like, what you doing out here? You know what I mean? And so I started talking to her. We ended up talking.
but it was so strange because I'm this kid coming from shit and she's this person, you know what I mean? Like she's got a mom, dad, family and shit like that. Those, those, those, those were things I never had, you know?
Um, how long, I mean, do you, at some point, like, what are you doing for, you know, I mean, I understand you're in survival mode, but what are you doing for money? Are you burglarizing houses?
Are you pretty much? Okay. I'm out there. Yeah. All right. I mean, we're out there.
Is it drugs robbing?
stealing alcohol robbing people um purses purses were a thing so we would go in a go into cars still like speakers and uh like the radios because back back in the day there was like flip faces you know so you you can you
smash in the car break the wires and tear out the whole thing and get like 20 bucks you know what i mean 20 bucks at the at the swap meet and shit you know so we used to do that um that pretty much continued until i was 14 at 14 i ended up still in still in some beer and i was still in beer my father just beat my mother and i was angry um
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Chapter 3: What led to the first robbery incident?
aggressive so these other kids ended up hitting them up and then it was nkt nightmares coming true that's that's who we were we were the ones that tagged things up and stuff like that the nightmares coming true and um that was the thing like back in the day you know
uh he ended up these dudes ended up hitting them up and they beat him up and a week later he caught up with them they go back and find him yeah behind a ross and just smokes them both like two brothers you know he got like 75 years um But like the robbing, the chaos, the type of violence, we would do shit just to do it, bro. You know what I'm saying? Yeah.
So now I'm 16 years old, 17 years old, making money. I mean, I didn't want to be violent at that point. I just love making money. But also with money comes the arrogance, you know? I don't know. Yeah.
so we ended up getting caught for selling so i ended up getting caught at 18 years old i um for drugs yeah how'd that happen drugs yeah i ended up getting caught with 20 grand 25 grand or something like that i was i was me and my brother i told my brother i didn't want to leave the hotel room my brother's like come on just one one more drop one more drop take the money
he wanted to go to a strip club or something. So we're like, all right, I'll take the money. Right. So we ended up going over there. Um, we ended up getting stopped, pulled over. He ended up taking like a wrong turn or something like that. And we pulled in at the Dairy Queen and, and we seen the cost behind us. You know what I'm saying? Um, As soon as we head out, I see the cops.
I dodge and duck, grab my backpack, and I take off. I take off to an adult shop and flush the green in the toilet. And I stash the cash.
i don't know like like the toilet like dispensers you know those like those one things that that you put on a toilet paper on a toilet yeah right there open it exactly there's this much toilet paper or whatever there's a pocket okay so so the pocket i stuffed it in with 20 grand right and i left it there and then i left and as soon as i walk out call the cab cops are just like
get on the floor get on the floor and this is just because you ran not because they were just a fluke this is just because i ran yeah this is just because i ran and then they ended up searching that spot at the adult shop and then they ended up catching that money
and um they came out started high-fiving each other and shit you know and they put five thousand five thousand in evidence and they said and they said eight thousand dollars they found me with eight thousand dollars that's what the the report said right eight thousand i know for a fact i had like 25 fucking grand there I told him, bro, you could take the whole fucking thing, man. Just take it.
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Chapter 4: How does violence manifest in their upbringing?
you'll glance at each other and both of us because my wife did five years for an ice conspiracy yeah she did five years for an ice conspiracy and these people will be talking about very normal things kids soccer games um school plays and you'll glance at each other we'll glance at each other really and you'll have that moment of you feel like We don't belong here. I don't belong here.
Or people that know your story and you're at dinner with them and they kind of go around. They all talk, but they never get to the point where they talk to you or ask you because they know...
We don't want to touch this.
Right. I can't say anything. We don't want to kind of include them because we know that their story is so vastly different. It will make us feel – them feel uncomfortable. It won't make us feel uncomfortable. We kind of laugh about it. We kind of like – which I understand is different. But I kind of feel like that. Like you're always – You're always on the outside.
Even when you're in the thick of it with everybody else, you know and your friends know we don't belong in this situation.
So with my wife's kids now, this is another story completely, but I found her. She found me on a TikTok live because I blew up on TikTok, right? So we're doing these lives. And my beautiful wife, man, she used to come to visit me and she used to put in so much work for me. She used to... go drive eight hours just to visit me, get a hotel, put $200 while she had a 7-Eleven job, you know?
And it was the most precious thing anybody ever done for my ass because I never had nothing. Yeah, just talking about it gets me emotional, man. You know what I mean? Like, fuck, like nobody is ever given two shits, you know? So she would bring her kids and stuff. And now...
um i'm out out here with her kids with her and um i'm looking at them and they got this weird way this family like that dynamic where they come home and they tell each other how how their day was right
You're totally foreign to how you were raised. You're just like, right?
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Chapter 5: What were the circumstances of the murder discussed?
Yeah, so it wasn't a thing. It was like, okay.
Motherfucker.
There's fucking flyers. Right there in my face. I was like, no tacos for me that night.
On the thing?
On the taco stand. His big old face right there. Missing four months. If anybody has any questions, Christopher Lampkin case.
So they grab your cousin, and then you say you're on your way there, and the cops pull you over, or when you get there, the cops grab you?
No, no, no, no, no. I am not caught. The cops got my cousin, and we had gotten calls that he was already caught. We had went to go to talk to my cousin. Sounds like a you problem. We weren't going to talk to my cousin. If you pick up what I'm saying. Yeah.
Oh yeah. No, no, that's over.
Yeah. That's over. I was, I was gonna, gonna go take him fishing. We were going to be hanging out. And then I was going to have the talk with my cousin. Um, before I got there, um, the cops had picked him up. So we didn't ever get a chance to talk to him. Um, But he ended up going to prison, and he had told me, oh, no, bro, don't worry. I got this. He didn't say nothing, bro.
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Chapter 6: How did family dynamics affect their choices?
No. She said more on me than anything else. She hated me for some reason.
Well, I mean, and, you know. I can understand.
I was going to say.
I mean, not for some reason. You know what I mean?
She's doing the right thing. Let's face it. And she was. She was doing the right thing. You know, so. For some reason.
Please edit that shit out, man.
All right, bro. So, basically, your fear at this point is she's going to get on the stand. She's going to say exactly what happened. You can't go to trial. I'm thinking trial. Like, I mean, I'm assuming your lawyer's thinking trial until she shows up.
until she shows up he said no they got way too much because if your cousins say what they what your other cousin told him you're fucked you already have multiple people ready to get on like a million people because my cousin went out there and started telling people that we did this that's hearsay they need him it does not matter they got a few people to say it does not matter bro like
in my case um i was gonna get a beaut beautiful deal right but because of what so many people
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Chapter 7: What was the impact of their past on current relationships?
So they're protective custodians. but high high levels like protected custody is like like the pdds of the of the of the world you know what i'm saying right like this dude's gotta not be here because this dude will get touched you know what i'm saying so they actually signed sign and signed that off But where I was was the four units.
So where you come in there and everybody's, like, from a different prison in there for bad things. And that was the first prison that I went to. And it was crazy. I was like, what the fuck? It was wild seeing some dude get his face sliced open, like, almost like the fourth day in there.
His, like, cheek was flapping because the knife went right through his... Or the piece went right through his cheek. You know what I'm saying? And this was my introduction to the prison facility like this, you know? And I... I knew that I had 15 years, but at the same time, I was like, there's no way that I'm going to wait 15 years here. Fuck no. You know what I mean?
So I just started fighting like almost, almost immediately. I got broken face right here. This is a, That's a plate right here. I got my knuckle broken, see, right here. That's a plate in my hand. I got poked right here in my head. That's a bite mark from a cell fight. I became a shot caller at the age of 24 for the Bison game in prison.
And it's funny, right, because that's one game that nobody talks about. But we're the ones that call the shots, and they're, like, without a doubt. We're the Pisces.
Yeah, the Pisces ran all the prisons.
Why doesn't nobody talk about it, though, right?
They don't have a really cool name. Exactly. You have to have a Latin key. You have to have a Latin key.
Exactly, like a cool name.
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Chapter 8: How does one cope with guilt and redemption?
You hear the screaming. And then the helicopters come in. Like, they're landing helicopters because multiple inmates were fired on. And, you know, that's serious, obviously, because these guys don't have guns, right? Oh, yeah, for sure.
From the towers. Yeah. This is like previews. Yeah.
And helicopters come in. Equalizers. They end up leaving. There was a newspaper article that I wish I could find. I actually had it at one point. The problem is it might be out. I'm sure it's out there. Somebody could find it. When the article comes out, it talks about how there was a riot in the Coleman facility. Mm-hmm. They don't mention which part. They were right in the Coleman facility.
There were over 300 and some odd people involved because there's only like 500 guys in the pen. And they said helicopters come in like whatever, two correctional officers were injured, six inmates. I want to say there was a death. And several inmates were life flighted to the hospital.
That's what happened.
And then they said that the Coleman facility, right, facility, not Penn, but the facility holds such infamous inmates as Conrad Black, which was a guy that was locked up, and Matthew Cox.
And then it says... Matthew Cox, the big shebang?
Then it says... What?
The serious gangster, Triple OG, Matthew Cox?
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