Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Wrongfully Convicted in the Weirdest Trial Ever
Sat, 24 May 2025
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Chapter 1: What led to David's bizarre trial?
What I did was start duplicating prescriptions. It went over so well, I started doing it more and more and more, right? All of a sudden, it was a highway patrolman was coming to my apartment at night and shining a light in my apartment window. I opened the door, dude, and they were laying on my car with AR-15s or whatever, pointing guns everywhere. You know, that's crap, man.
They ran up and he handcuffed me and picked me up and they start screaming at me, where's all the guns? Where's the guns? I'm like, what? I don't have any guns. I was born in DeSoto, Kansas. I had four sisters, lived with my mom and dad. They got a divorce when I was like, I don't know, 16, 17 years old, something like that. I was already pretty much out on my own anyways.
And I didn't have any real, you know, I drank and did a little drugs and stuff, but I didn't really do any drugs. I wasn't into any real criminal activity, you know, nothing, nothing. I'd never been to jail, nothing up until, well, one time I did the very first time I ever went to jail, I was driving home from work and I got pulled over and they said I had a suspended driver's license.
I went to jail. It was for one night, but, and it wasn't suspended of all things. It really wasn't. They had to let me go. So nothing came of that. But years go by, I get married and I have a couple of kids and I developed a pretty significant drug problem. Like I started doing a bunch of Xanax and methadone, right? And it just turned my life into a, I mean, it was like a fucking, just a mess.
It just started spiraling out of control. It took a few years. Why Xanax and methadone?
Like what?
Huh?
Not that you're advocating. No, I'm not.
It is amazing. It was amazing though, but it wasn't a mate. It was a, it was an extremely addictive too. I mean, I was addicted, really addicted to it real fast. So, so what happened was I, I couldn't stop taking it because I'd get so, so you get so sick, you know, a couple of days, you know, probably if you could, Xanax will make you really sick after, um,
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Chapter 2: How did David's drug problems escalate?
I'm a huge fan of women.
Yeah, I love women. Absolutely. No kidding. Nobody's a bigger fan of women than me. Trust me. How do you think I got here? So anyway, that all comes and goes. But now it came with some stipulations like six months of probation. But it wasn't it's not really sophisticated probation. Like you got to go once a month. There's there's something like that. Right.
But I'm in the middle of a drug crazed lunacy. I can't hold myself. You know what I mean? I can't. I'm not going to make it six months of any kind of supervision, dude. I'm out of control. Right. I can't. I mean, I can't. I can't do anything. It's like my brain's put in a blender. It was horrible. I couldn't hardly function. I mean, I was passing out at stoplights.
I passed out on the highway on the way to the methadone clinic one day. I mean, that's how bad it was. So you can imagine me trying to keep a job. Right. I have a bunch of credentials, so I can go get a job in the field that I'm in. I can always get a job. Yeah, but I couldn't keep I couldn't. Man, they would try to hold us together. It's so hard. Try not to go there as high as I was going to be.
But eventually they start seeing it. Right. They're like, oh, man, something ain't right. Something ain't right with this guy. You know, one day I drove. I'm not kidding. I drove all the way from my house in Eudora, Kansas. to my job in fucking Missouri without my shoes on. Forgot to put my shoes on. And I get all the way to 635. I'm like, I gotta turn around. I didn't have my fucking shoes on.
That's how bad it was. Okay, now that's towards the end. But so anyways, I get out of court. I get found guilty of that one crime. And then So that kicked off everything. So now they're over my shoulder watching me, you know, and I got a report and I got to pass the drug test, which I can't pass. I can't pass the drug test. There's no way. It's just impossible. I can't.
I mean, it would take weeks. You know, I can't I'd be dead in the gutter before I, you know, before I could pass the drug test. So I don't think that was a stipulation at the time. It was just real. You know, you had to go to work and start paying your fines. none of which I ever did. I never paid $1 of the fines. I refused to, I just didn't want to do it. I'm like, what are they going to do?
Well, they can actually, they can send it to collections and put on your credit report, you know, but they really can't force you to pay it. Right. So anyways, I never, I didn't, you know, I'd make a little $50 payment or something. My probation officer asks, you know, so anyways, I'm on probation and I'm not living at home. And this is when it got really bad.
since I'm not at my house and me and my wife are now we're separated. And, uh, I can't even remember where I was living at. I wasn't living alone. I was either with my sister or my mom. And, um, I have all these people looking over my shoulder and a bunch of stick, you know, I'm supposed to go to the ridiculous shit. They had me doing, uh, some kind of, uh, classes.
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Chapter 3: What was the turning point in David's legal troubles?
How many public defenders are there? There can't be very many. So I start plotting. I think, well, there's a fire mall. Until I get to John, they have to give me this lawyer. They have to, they don't have any choice. What are they going to do? What are they going to do? Not give me a lawyer, right? So I think this is brilliant. Oh, this is a great idea. This is going to work.
Once I got that guy on my case, I'm out of here. And I just knew it. I just, I just, I could tell. I knew he wouldn't, he wouldn't be able to, he wouldn't let me sit in jail anymore. It'd been too long. So anyway, this guy, this lawyer, that was a real problem. I can't, I can't shake this idiot off my case. So the first thing I did was,
was I started to tell my sister knows this whole story and I'm talking to her from jail. And she is by this time sick of me being in jail. I've been in jail for a long time. And she goes way out on a limb and hires this big wig, fancy law firm. I can't remember the name of this, but it was a high dollar law. It was a big deal. I couldn't believe it. I'm like, damn.
One day they come to the, they come to my jail, my pod and they got me and they say, Hey, somebody's here to see you. And I I'm walking down there and you can, I could see where the lawyers are and stuff and where they let you meet with them. And I've seen this woman, woman lawyer, stand in this really nice suit. She's real tall. And I'm like, who is this?
And I walk in there, and she's all real professional. Mr. Rickmeyer, I'm so-and-so from such-and-such law firm, and your family has hired me to defend you in this case. I'm like, oh, really? Nice. All right. Now let's get down to business. I don't even need a public defender anymore. I got this kick-ass lady from this law firm who's going to go out of her way and
You know, just like they say, if you got your own law, if you got your money to hire your own law, you'll get out of it. You know what I mean? Well, so I spent hours talking to this woman, hours plotting this case, all my ideas about how it could be, you know what I mean? And she listens to all of it. And I say, hey, do you know, by the way, do you know these people? I mean, it
i always think this it would be a little bit dangerous to hire somebody outside of their circle you know outside of the circle they don't like that stuff lawyers coming in from the outside think they're hot shots coming into their courtrooms and telling them what to do you know i thought that was kind of like man i don't know that might be a little bit dangerous and she says she starts telling me that oh oh the first thing she says hey let me ask you uh who's on your who's on your misdemeanor cases who's your lawyer on that i'm like john bryant she goes oh
Oh yeah, that's good. That'll work out. He'll, he'll fix that. I'm like, yeah, I know. I know. I tried to get him on this case, but he won't do it. Little did I know I could have just hired him. I didn't know you could hire the guy. I thought he was a public defender. I had no idea. Okay. I had no idea. I could just hire the guy.
So this one, I talked to her for hours, plotting this case and it comes time to go to court. And, uh, and I said, I tell her, I said, listen, the first thing we're going to do is let's get this bond reduced down to a reasonable bond. It's getting out of jail. It's just, let's just try to get it. I didn't say, get me out of jail. I said, just get the bond cut in half. It's $150,000.
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Chapter 4: How did David navigate his trial and legal representation?
Let me explain something. They were like, I'm going to hit the fucking compound. I'm going to have an ice cream within a couple of hours. I'm going to have chips. I'm going to have coffee. I'm going to be able to walk. I'm going to have shoes. I'm going to be able to walk the compound. I'm going to have a A radio that works, an MP3 player. It was just like, are you joking?
And they're like, yeah, I'll be able to play racquetball by tomorrow. And you were like – Well, here's the thing.
They would all bitch about the fact they had to go to what's called RDU. I don't know what it stands for, but they have to go to – you must have went there too. They have to do a level of –
what's it called r d oh oh oh no you're talking about going through the processing center that's a state thing yeah yeah it must be state well they didn't none of them like that because they had to be in a cell with another guy for 30 days without leaving or whatever and they categorize them and then yes categorized that's right that's all done by the probation officer and the bob like they automatically do it so as soon as you're
Oh, that part's over by the time you get sentenced?
By the time you get sentenced, you know, you get a pre-sentence report. And when you're sentenced, they send that to, they send that to, oh God, Grand Prairie. And they automatically calculate your level of, and what prison you're going to. And then they give you that assignment, and you sit in the marshal's holdover.
So you might get sentenced on a Monday, and then by Friday, you might be on a bus. Typically, it takes a week or two. So you might sit in the same place you were before. You're in the marshal's holdover. You get sentenced. You go in on a Monday. You get sentenced. And then let's say within a week and a half, you're on a bus headed to your prison. Period. Period.
Yeah, speaking of that, I've heard of people talking about – and this guy that I was talking about that I'm always arguing with about the trial tax deal, the feds. He was talking about how people turn themselves in. I'm like, yeah, that is true. They turn themselves in. They're in the prison they were going to go to anyways. They know where to go. Some of them go straight to camps and whatever.
Yeah, like the federal system. That's what always killed me is that – you would like... I remember one time this guy showed up for like... it's like four o'clock count, right? Like they got to get him there but before four o'clock.
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