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00:30Megan and Chris were seen together constantly.
00:34I don't think it was a particularly well-kept secret.
00:40There were some locals.
00:42They smelled what you can never forget, the smell of a dead body.
00:47There's the body you threw over the bridge.
00:49You're going to be charged with murder, Chris.
00:50He had a murder dump kit in his shopping cart.
00:53The exact items that Greg Rice's body was wrapped in.
00:56This is a tale as old as time.
00:58An affair, a pregnancy, and a murder.
01:02She said, have you ever cheated on your wife?
01:04I said, no.
01:06She said, well, you're about to.
01:07The central part of Horry County has a small-town feel.
01:30Everybody knows each other.
01:32It was not the norm to have someone just completely disappear like Greg Rice did.
01:44My name is Ginger Popp.
01:49I'm an investigator here at the 15th Judicial Circuit Solicitor's Office.
01:56Initially, there was talk that maybe he had a drug problem.
02:01Maybe he had an alcohol problem.
02:03You know, maybe he just wandered off and had drank too much.
02:06Where do you think he is?
02:07Do you think?
02:08I have no idea.
02:10This is not like him.
02:12The person initially who reported Gregory Rice missing was Megan Jackson.
02:19Megan Jackson and Gregory Rice had had a longstanding relationship.
02:23They had several children in common and did not live together anymore.
02:27Megan Jackson reported him missing after she took the children to Greg Rice's apartment
02:56for a scheduled visitation, and he didn't answer the door or the phone.
03:00I said, you know what?
03:02Something's not right here.
03:03His car's here.
03:04He's not answering.
03:05And I was talking to him Friday and knowing he was, like, kind of messed up.
03:11I was really scared he was, like, in an apartment and OD'd or something.
03:15Normally, when people take off, they take certain items on them that they can survive with.
03:21I mean...
03:22Well, that's why I was concerned.
03:24Megan Jackson was already known to local authorities because of her work for them as what is known
03:29as a body mover.
03:31We pick up bodies for the local coroner's office and the local funeral homes.
03:36My name is Charles Benjamin, and Megan Jackson used to work for me going to crime scenes
03:42and making the removal and taking them to the morgue.
03:45A lot of people say, oh, I could do that, and until they get out and have to clean up a nasty scene.
03:50But she adjusted real well.
03:52Has he ever tried to commit suicide or threatened suicide in the past?
03:57Just that one time I knew it was all his family stuff was going on.
04:02It was, like, 2007.
04:04But it wasn't like a...
04:05He just kind of threw himself down the steps.
04:08It wasn't a legit attempt?
04:10No.
04:12And I gotta ask, does he, like, as far as women, I mean, would he get online and find a prostitute?
04:20I mean, I hate to say that, but it's more frequent than you think with men.
04:25I honestly have no idea.
04:27He's into some...
04:28What's his sexual name?
04:30Is he...
04:31I know...
04:33Mellow, or is he like the weird stuff?
04:35He likes torture stuff.
04:38Okay.
04:39Well, thank you.
04:41Thanks for talking to us.
04:42Sorry for the situation.
04:44Ory County Police Department initially treated this right out the gate as a true missing person.
04:51A missing persons flyer was created, and it was all over the local news.
04:56Police asked for your help in finding a missing man.
04:59Who you see right here is Gregory Rice.
05:01He was most recently seen on Friday near Flint Lake Drive outside of Myrtle Beach.
05:05Ory County Police Department had dogs come search.
05:10They used drones.
05:11People were on horseback.
05:13Four-wheelers.
05:15They searched a lot of area looking for Greg Rice to no avail.
05:22It doesn't make sense.
05:24One day, not hearing from him as normal, but two days, I kind of knew something was up.
05:32My name's Ryan McNevich.
05:34I was best friends with Greg Rice.
05:37Worked with him and golfed with him and surfed with him.
05:40I was in constant contact with a lot of the detectives at the time.
05:44Greg Rice's cell phone record showed he was home most of the Friday night before he was reported missing.
05:52They knew the last contact that Greg had had with anyone, and that was with Megan Jackson.
05:57My name is Mary Ellen Walter, and I'm a senior assistant solicitor in Ory County.
06:03At that point, Megan Jackson and Greg Rice had been separated for some time.
06:08Didn't get along particularly well, but Greg was very, very focused on his children.
06:13Detectives began to gather surveillance video from the places Megan said she had been that Friday night,
06:19including a restaurant where Megan was seen with the county's deputy coroner, Chris Dantel.
06:25They were seen together constantly.
06:28They would often go to dinner together or lunch together.
06:31I don't think it was a particularly well-kept secret.
06:34So, Chris Dantel was brought in for questioning in what was still a missing persons investigation.
06:41How we got your name was Megan.
06:44Said that you guys had gone out to eat on a Friday night.
06:48What's the relationship with you and Megan?
06:50Um, if I'm being honest, it's something I would get divorced over.
06:55And that's why I said, whatever it's sitting here, it stays here.
07:01We ain't gonna run and tell nobody.
07:02I mean, I, you know, I, you know, was expecting this, so.
07:08Did you ever have any contact with Greg about anything?
07:11None.
07:12I mean, not just, like, on this day, like, period.
07:14Have you guys ever had contact with each other?
07:16I've never even said a word to him.
07:19I know of Greg.
07:20I know, um, to be honest with you, he's kind of a weirdo.
07:24Um, I know he's into some crazy stuff, and I think that's why she moved away from him.
07:32She told me that it was an abusive relationship, but obviously she never got into details, but.
07:37Yeah.
07:37She always said.
07:38He's, he, um, he is a, he's a pervert.
07:45He's a violent pervert.
07:48Have you ever been to Greg's apartment?
07:49No.
07:50So she would always go there by herself, even whenever, you know, whenever ever there?
07:54I never went there.
07:56I've never been to his apartment.
07:59And then later that day, Megan was brought in for a second round of questioning.
08:05Not in any trouble?
08:06No.
08:06Okay.
08:09There are claims that are being made against you that we have to have answers to.
08:13Right.
08:13Okay.
08:14Um, we talked to Chris this morning.
08:19Mm-hmm.
08:20We know about you and Chris.
08:22Okay.
08:24We don't care.
08:25Okay.
08:26That has nothing to do with this.
08:28But if some of the vagueness you gave the other day was to try to cover that up, it needs to go away.
08:33Okay.
08:38What are they going to know about?
08:39And what, who said something about me, like, accusation-wise?
08:44It's nothing against you, but, I mean, all the fingers from his family were like...
08:52Pointing at me?
08:53Yeah.
08:54So I have...
08:54Do you know what happened?
08:55So I got to treat you as suspect number one and prove that you aren't suspect number one.
09:01Detectives wanted to know what happened after Megan and Chris left the restaurant that Friday night.
09:07We both got in my car.
09:09Okay.
09:11That's the uncomfortable part, right?
09:13Yeah.
09:15Hmm.
09:16So y'all were in your car?
09:18Yeah.
09:19Okay.
09:20Did y'all have sex in your car?
09:23Possibly.
09:23Where did y'all go?
09:26Um, we drove off.
09:28Okay.
09:29What I've kind of gathered over the past couple days is that, or what I've been told, is that
09:36Greg recently found out that you and Chris were having sex together.
09:41He, he's known.
09:43He's had my kids spy.
09:45I mean, you can read our text.
09:47And then detectives asked if Megan would let them go through her phone.
09:51You are going to see stuff on there where he, uh,
09:54Oh, Chris.
09:55And I, I'll admit that there's been times that I was a true
10:01to him after he was, he was rude to me first.
10:06Did you do anything to cause his disappearance?
10:09No.
10:09Okay.
10:10Then you don't have anything to worry about.
10:11Three weeks after Greg Rice was first reported missing, there was still no sign of him.
10:29And detectives brought Megan Jackson in for a third round of questioning about her timeline on that pivotal Friday night.
10:37The lack of details is what's throwing these red flags and why we keep having to bring you back here.
10:43I mean, it's just because I don't remember.
10:46Here's the kicker in the whole thing.
10:47Did you ever go to Greg's house?
10:49No.
10:50But a license plate reader showed Megan's van going into Greg Rice's neighborhood that Friday night.
10:57Well, it shouldn't have.
10:58I have pictures of it.
11:01I mean, that's fine, but it shouldn't have.
11:03But it did.
11:08Right at the time that you called Greg and you exit six minutes later, which I've timed out, is just enough time to go to Greg's apartment.
11:19I didn't go anywhere.
11:20I have the camera from the LPR, from the license plate reader.
11:23Okay, but I didn't go to his apartment at all that night.
11:26Honestly, I think you're either covering for somebody's or you're covering for yourself at this point.
11:37You see what I'm getting here?
11:38It all adds up and it all, you're not telling me the truth.
11:43One of the things that Megan Jackson told police was that Greg Rice was threatening to expose her affair with Christopher Dontel.
12:07Someone had sent anonymous messages to Erica Dontel, Christopher Dontel's wife, saying that he was having an affair with Megan Jackson and she was pregnant with his child.
12:17Megan admitted she had been pregnant, but then had a miscarriage.
12:21Megan Jackson told Christopher Dontel that it was Greg Rice.
12:24She also told Erica Dontel that it was Greg Rice.
12:27Erica confronted her husband and things changed for them, but Greg Rice went missing pretty quickly after that.
12:34You know who has the motive?
12:36Who?
12:36Chris.
12:38He was with me.
12:39He has the motive.
12:41Chris has a wife, kids, a job.
12:44He has everything to lose.
12:47Okay, and Greg knows, and Greg was supposedly leaking information to Chris's wife.
12:51What do you do if somebody's leaking information?
12:55You plug the leak.
12:57He wouldn't do that, though.
12:59Is it worth covering up for somebody that doesn't really give a shit about you?
13:03It's just a piece of a shit.
13:05Because if you want to look at his phone, you're just a piece of a shit.
13:09Is it worth covering up for somebody like that?
13:12I'm not covering for him, though.
13:14I think you are.
13:16If he did something, I don't know about it.
13:22That would be the stupidest thing that he could do.
13:25I'm not a fan.
13:25You do stupid stuff when your world's about to come crashing down.
13:30I mean, we're human beings.
13:31That's the way we were at.
13:33If you didn't know Chris had done something, would you tell us?
13:37I mean, if I knew he'd hurt him, then yes.
13:43Because, I mean, that's my kid's dad.
13:46He's an ****.
13:47But I wouldn't be okay with something like that.
13:53But GPS phone data also showed that after about 10 p.m. that night, the phones of Megan, Chris, and Greg were all traveling together.
14:01All signs pulled towards that y'all were together that night, the three of you.
14:08We were not together.
14:11Then what?
14:11Where's Greg?
14:12I don't know.
14:14I'm the one that called you guys.
14:15I knew something was wrong right away.
14:17I honestly thought he was going to be dead in his apartment from an OD.
14:20The more I talk to you puts more doubt in my mind.
14:24I mean...
14:25And it just, it's very alarming.
14:28And if something happened that night and you're covering up for somebody...
14:32Then I'm going to go down too, but I'm not.
14:34I don't care.
14:35As they tracked the three phones that night, it appeared there was a stop at a Myrtle Beach funeral home, which operates a crematory.
14:47And the only explanation for that is...
14:49Is that I cremated him.
14:51I did not cremate him.
14:52I can't even run the machines.
14:53The explanation of that is something happened that we don't understand.
14:58Our fear was the body had been burned and ashes were dispersed.
15:02We wouldn't have had the evidence we needed to know that it was a murder case.
15:08There is no doubt in my mind that you and Chris have done something that has resulted in Greg's disappearance.
15:17A thousand percent.
15:18Like, there's no doubt in my mind.
15:21And all I'm going to do is end up working in order to prove to find out what it was that you all have done.
15:26I mean, it's fine.
15:28No, it's...
15:29I tell you right now.
15:30You did a horrible way, but you're not going to find anything.
15:31You know what?
15:32You can say that, but all three of us in this room know that that's not true.
15:36It had nothing to do with it.
15:38I didn't have anything to do with it.
15:41The only thing that I'm guilty of is f***ing somebody that's married.
15:47The case was at a standstill for another two weeks,
15:50until the waters of the Little Pee Dee River would surface a grisly discovery.
16:01Greg was missing for seven weeks.
16:08There were some locals who would go to Pitts Landing, and they would set catfish lines.
16:14As they were setting the lines, they smelled what you can never forget, the smell of a dead body.
16:23It was the body of Greg Rice, shot dead, wrapped in a tarp that had been weighed down with cinder blocks.
16:30They went to some stores around Horry County to see if they sold those items.
16:35And surveillance footage at one of the stores the day after Greg Rice was last seen alive told the story.
16:41You can very clearly see Christopher Dantel pushing his shopping cart into the self-checkout line
16:46and find the exact items that Greg Rice's body was wrapped in.
16:51He had a murder dump kit in his shopping cart, very clear.
16:55It was cinder blocks, zip ties, ratchet straps, and a tarp.
16:58That was a big break.
17:01It was pretty clear, I think, to law enforcement who had caused Greg Rice to disappear.
17:08Megan Jackson was brought in for a fourth time.
17:12So, we're back for round two, I guess we'll say.
17:19Round four?
17:20Well, all I want, Megan, is the truth.
17:23Okay, so you want me to show you where Chris was at 2.55 on Saturday?
17:30Uh, sure.
17:36What is that?
17:38Some cinder blocks, a tarp, zip ties, ratchet strap.
17:47I'm going to show you where I was this past Saturday.
17:50I got called out at 2 o'clock in the morning.
18:00You know who that is?
18:04Is that Greg?
18:05That's Greg.
18:07And guess what he was wrapped in and sunk with in the river?
18:11The s*** Chris bought on the third.
18:12So, like I said earlier, either you're this f***ing horrible person that killed your kid's dad,
18:21or you just took Greg to go see Chris to have a conversation.
18:29Greg was in the river for a f***ing month.
18:31You got two, two choices.
18:43Explain to us what happened.
18:45Or look like the horrible person who killed your kid's father.
18:51You got two choices.
18:52What do you want to do?
18:54You just said you guys were together the entire night.
18:56I don't know what happened.
19:03Yes, you do, Megan.
19:04I don't know what happened.
19:06Greg's f***ing dead.
19:07Somebody f***ing killed him.
19:09Shut up.
19:09This ain't a f***ing Megan story.
19:13Chris is going to be charged with murder today.
19:15This is your time to get yourself out of it.
19:24Do you want to be charged with murder today, or do you want to tell us what happened?
19:27I don't know.
19:29You do know, Megan.
19:31Down the hall, another pair of detectives was questioning Chris Duntell, who asked for a lawyer.
19:37All right, Chris.
19:38I'm not going to ask you any questions.
19:40Oh.
19:40I'll explain everything to you here in just a few minutes.
19:47What I do want to do, though, is I'll leave these here with you.
19:53As you're shopping, you bought a ratchet strap, a tarp, some zip ties, and two cinder blocks.
20:00All right?
20:04There's the body you threw over the bridge.
20:08Or at least throw in the ribbon.
20:10Take his phone, take his wallet.
20:14You understand?
20:15You're not leaving the building today.
20:16You're going to be going to Kenny Jail here shortly.
20:18Okay?
20:19Is there a warrant for my arrest, or am I a free person right now?
20:21No, you're not a free person.
20:22You're not a free person.
20:23Why not?
20:24Because you are being charged with a crime, Chris.
20:25That's why.
20:26I'll tell you what.
20:27Sir, is there a warrant for my arrest right now?
20:29You're going to be charged with murder, Chris.
20:30Am I free?
20:31You're not a free man.
20:33I've answered your question.
20:34You are not a free man.
20:35You were not a free man when you walked out of your house and told your one-year-old boy,
20:40I love you.
20:41You're not a free man.
20:42You're going to jail, and that's it.
20:45At what point can I speak with my lawyer?
20:47Yes.
20:47Yes.
20:54Chris, stand up, turn around.
20:57All right, Chris.
20:57You're under arrest for a murder of Greg Rocks, all right?
20:59I'll see you later on.
21:03Detectives tried to get Megan to confess by telling her that Chris was already blaming her.
21:07Chris is in another part of the building telling a story.
21:12And you know what he just said?
21:14It was your f***ing plan.
21:16It was your plan to kill Greg.
21:18I didn't have any plan to kill Greg.
21:21Well, you look at it like this.
21:22Chris just lost his job.
21:24He's about to lose his family.
21:26So who do you think he's going to put it on?
21:28You.
21:28He can put it on me all he wants.
21:30I don't have a story to tell.
21:32You are clear on how this is going to end today, right?
21:34You're either honest or you're taking a ride.
21:38You can give me that s*** up all you want.
21:42My next phone call is to Greg's family.
21:45To let them know that you and Chris dumped him in the damn river.
21:50I love my lawyer.
21:51You're under arrest for murder, Megan.
21:53And I get a call from my lawyer, right?
21:56You sit your s*** ready.
21:56But they still didn't know who had actually pulled the trigger, Megan or Chris.
22:04So, prosecutors decided to take Chris Dantel to trial first,
22:09believing he was most likely the one who actually killed Greg Rice.
22:13I was halfway out of my chair, about to stand up and give the opening statement in the case,
22:17when Christopher Dantel stood up and said he wanted to plead guilty.
22:20Dantel, you want to plead guilty here, is that correct?
22:23That was not an agreement he made with the state in advance.
22:26He simply stood up and pleaded guilty.
22:30The murder charge against Dantel was dropped.
22:32He pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact to murder and criminal conspiracy to commit murder.
22:38It was a big moment for us when Christopher Dantel finally decided to tell us
22:41what exactly had happened to Greg Rice that night.
22:46According to Dantel, he and Megan Jackson had indeed driven to Greg Rice's apartment that night,
22:52and they saw him walking along the road.
22:54Christopher Dantel said that Megan asked him to drive past and then pull alongside Greg,
22:58and then she jumped out and shot him.
23:02And when detectives searched Megan's home, they found evidence of another possible motive,
23:07the treatment of her children, malnourished and often locked in their rooms.
23:11They actually ended up charging Megan Jackson with unlawful conduct toward a child based on the living conditions in the home.
23:19So I think Greg was extremely concerned for the welfare of the children and may have been exploring getting custody of them,
23:27which means that Megan Jackson would have had to pay him child support.
23:29And that's certainly not something that she wanted to do.
23:32And then a final surprising discovery about who had sent those anonymous messages to Dantel's wife about the affair with Megan.
23:40Phone records showed it was not Greg Rice.
23:44In reality, it was Megan Jackson who was sending anonymous texts exposing the fact that she had been sleeping with Chris Dantel
23:52and was in fact pregnant with his child.
23:54She had two goals in mind.
23:57Number one, to be rid of Greg Rice and also to destroy Chris Dantel's marriage.
24:04Now he would be the key witness against her.
24:07We're now turning to a case out of South Carolina.
24:17Opening statements are about to begin in the trial of Megan Jackson,
24:20charged in the murder of her ex-boyfriend and the father of her children, Greg Rice.
24:25Ladies and gentlemen, we're going to begin the opening statement.
24:28Megan is a small female, short, very petite, long hair.
24:34Anytime you have a female defendant that can look frail, not strong,
24:43you can worry about what a jury may think of this person.
24:48Could they be capable of this?
24:51One of Megan's former co-workers, Marilyn Wood, was in the courtroom every day.
24:56Just does her support system for her.
24:59She had no friends, family, everybody's abandoned her.
25:02She said she doesn't know what happened.
25:05And I said, well, either you or Chris killed Greg.
25:09And she goes, it wasn't me.
25:11May I please the court honor?
25:12Yes, ma'am.
25:14Good morning.
25:17This is a tale that's on its own.
25:21It's the story of an affair, a pregnancy, and a murder.
25:25And the victim of that murder is Gregory Rice, the father of four of her children.
25:30There's one person at the center of everything you're going to hear.
25:37And that person is Bayton Jackson.
25:40She's sitting right over there.
25:42Now, when you look at Bayton Jackson, you may think, she looks me, mild.
25:47She's a small woman.
25:48But looks can be deceiving.
25:52And this defendant is certainly deceiving.
25:55She deceived Greg Rice.
25:57She deceived her co-defendant, Christopher Dontell.
26:00She deceived Christopher Dontell's wife, Erica Dontell.
26:04And she deceived law enforcement.
26:07Not only is she a master manipulator, she was literally in the business of death.
26:12And at the end of this case, if you believe that Christopher Dontell and Megan Jackson are responsible for the murder of Gregory Rice,
26:24then there's only one verdict, and that's guilty.
26:28Yes, sir, Your Honor.
26:32All right.
26:32Now, please support.
26:33Yes, sir.
26:35I'll be honest with you.
26:35I thought she was going to say Dontell in there because I split it.
26:38It sounded like, right?
26:39At the end of all that, Dontell was the one in the hand.
26:43Megan Jackson had written Greg Rice off.
26:47She's done.
26:47Fifteen years.
26:49Gone.
26:49See ya.
26:50Bye.
26:50She's already done something.
26:51She didn't need to do anything with him anymore.
26:54But the deputy coroner?
26:58Don't touch me, man.
26:59I'm a deputy coroner.
27:01He's got something to lose.
27:03That's motive.
27:05We have a chance.
27:06In this courtroom, these halls of justice, to show that the presumption of innocence is paramount.
27:18All right?
27:19It means that you don't convict somebody of a murder without a murder weapon.
27:24You don't convict somebody of a murder without any video of a crime or a shooting.
27:32Any audio of the crime they're accused of or any 911 calls from an apartment complex of that evening with five shots.
27:42No 911 calls.
27:45Zero.
27:48Remember that she's innocent until proven guilty.
27:50The prosecution's first witness was the daughter of Megan Jackson and Greg Rice, Savannah.
28:14She called us after Christopher Dantel pleaded guilty and said she really needed to see justice for her father and she wanted to testify against her mother.
28:25How would you describe your parents' relationship?
28:29It was not great at all.
28:31There was constant fighting.
28:34They were mean to each other.
28:35They were mean to the kids.
28:37Just they didn't, they weren't compatible.
28:39You didn't hear, I love you very much throughout the house.
28:45At some point, did you come to know that your mother was having an affair with Christopher Dantel?
28:51Yes, but not at first.
28:53Okay.
28:54Do you, how did you find out about the affair?
28:56I had some friends over and it was quiet.
29:00We went downstairs and we heard them having sex in their bedroom and it just kept getting louder and louder.
29:07And the next day I asked her and she said, I thought you knew.
29:10Did your mother ever say anything about your father between the time that he went missing and the time that they found his body?
29:21Yes.
29:22Can you just tell us about that?
29:24Take a couple deep breaths and tell us about that.
29:26She had come home drunk one night and I was in the kitchen and my sister wasn't, she wasn't behaving and I told my mom and she started screaming and my sister was upstairs but then she looked at me and she said, I hope what happened to your dad happens to your sister.
29:48And I asked her, what do you mean?
29:50And she just wouldn't say anything.
29:52And that was before they found her father's body.
29:58It took such strength for Savannah to get up there and testify against her mother for killing her father.
30:05And Megan Jackson showed absolutely no emotion during that testimony.
30:15Thank you, Your Honor.
30:17The state calls Christopher Dantel.
30:22Was your case called for trial in December of last year?
30:34Yes, ma'am.
30:37What happened when it was called for trial?
30:40When it was called for trial, I planned to accessory after the fact and conspiracy.
30:47Did you plead guilty to those charges because you are, in fact, guilty of those charges?
30:54Yes.
30:58At some point, did you and the defendant begin a sexual relationship?
31:03Yes.
31:03How did that begin?
31:05She said, have you ever cheated on your wife?
31:07I said, no.
31:13She said, well, you're about to.
31:17Dantel said after dinner that night at a local restaurant, Megan told him she had to go see Greg.
31:23And I saw Greg on the left side of the road walking towards us.
31:28I was stopping right next to him and she said, pull up, don't be awkward.
31:35So I said, pull up.
31:36She said, yeah, pull up.
31:37So I pulled up so that we had passed him.
31:41What happened next?
31:42She opened the door and shot him.
31:50How many shots did you hear?
31:52A lot.
31:54What did you do?
31:58I froze.
32:03Did the defendant say he came to you at that point?
32:05Yeah, she said, what are you doing?
32:10Help me, help me.
32:12Cursing at me, help me.
32:14So what did you do?
32:15She said, put him in the back of the van.
32:17So I opened the back of the van and we started treating him just as we would treat any other body.
32:27And we got in the van and I hightailed it out of there.
32:33Dantel said they stored the body overnight at the Myrtle Beach Funeral Home, as if it were an official coroner's action.
32:41She told me that if I ever told anybody what happened, she would kill me.
32:49And that we have to be in this together.
32:54So did you agree to dispose of her in the body?
32:57Not at first.
32:58I heard her say, you know, do this or do that, or I'm going to kill you.
33:07I had just watched her kill the father of a kid.
33:10I'm going to take it serious.
33:15So did you, in fact, dispose of Fred's body?
33:19I did.
33:19So I went and I just started buying things that I thought might be useful.
33:27And it makes me sick to even tell this story.
33:32I'm sorry.
33:33I knew that the Pee Dee River was out on the county line.
33:39And it took about 10 seconds to put them in the law.
33:44What did you do after that?
33:45Went back to the defendant's house.
33:51Was there any conversation at that point about getting rid of, had you done that?
33:57I came in and she smiled at me and said, did you do what you needed to do?
34:07I said yes.
34:08And she said, good boy.
34:09I don't have any further questions at this time.
34:13I believe Mr. Tommy Burton may have some questions for you.
34:16Across the generation.
34:18You're the kind of man that will lie and betray an own wife.
34:24Is that true?
34:25I did.
34:27For a period of time, yes.
34:29Well, let's just say, how many times did you have sex, maybe, Jack?
34:33I don't know.
34:34Too many to count, right?
34:36I suppose so.
34:36You blame Megan Jackson for having oral sex for you and other kind of things.
34:44Do you blame her?
34:45I don't blame Megan Jackson for that.
34:47No, sir.
34:47I blame myself.
34:49Okay.
34:50But even after the way you described me to the events for that night,
34:56the three tears,
34:59you were still having sex with Megan Jackson.
35:01After this.
35:02Correct, for a period of time, yes.
35:07Okay.
35:08That's adultery.
35:08You were committing adultery, right?
35:10Correct.
35:11So you finally decided to tell the truth today, huh?
35:15I decided to tell the truth once I had protection from your client,
35:20once my family was protected from her and her threats.
35:22Your testimony is you don't have anything to do with the shooting.
35:28You didn't know it's going to happen, right?
35:31That's correct.
35:32I did not know the shooting was going to happen.
35:34You don't expect this jury to believe
35:36that you were scared of that woman to such an extent
35:40that you wouldn't report what you consider to be
35:43and now telling us it's her misconduct.
35:47I...
35:47What was the question?
35:51Are you scared?
35:52You said you did think wrong,
35:54but you're scared of that woman sitting over there.
35:56Absolutely.
35:57My question is,
35:58as a county officer,
35:59why did you take matters into your own hand
36:01and report her
36:03and see that justice was served over her?
36:06I've answered this question twice already,
36:07and the answer is because
36:09she told me she would kill me,
36:12and I had seen her kill the father of her kids,
36:15and I believed that she would kill me as well.
36:19Nothing except your fear
36:22of that little woman there
36:24prevented you
36:26from reporting these incidents
36:29to the police,
36:30to a fault.
36:32That's true.
36:42Have you made a decision
36:44as to whether or not
36:45you wish to testify in this case?
36:47Yes, sir.
36:47Do you wish to testify in this case?
36:50No, no.
36:51And is this your decision?
36:52Yes, sir.
36:53All right.
36:54Will the defense be put
36:55up to any other witnesses
36:56or any other defense in this case?
36:59No, sir.
37:00Yes, sir.
37:01It kind of surprised me
37:02that she didn't testify
37:03just because I think
37:04she's enough of a narcissist
37:05to think she could have
37:06gotten away with it
37:07and garnered some sympathy.
37:09Ladies and gentlemen,
37:10the defense has rested their case,
37:11and now is the time of the trial
37:13where the attorneys
37:14will make their closing arguments.
37:16All right.
37:16State wish to close.
37:17May I please the court?
37:18Yes, ma'am.
37:19This is a tale as old as time,
37:23as you were told in The Infinite.
37:25It involved an affair,
37:27a pregnancy,
37:29and a murder.
37:30But there was a fourth aspect
37:31of this case
37:32that is equally as important,
37:35and that's deception.
37:37The defendant was the center
37:39of the affair,
37:41certainly the pregnancy,
37:42and most definitely the murder.
37:43She began to spin her web of lies
37:47because she wanted to destroy
37:49the Dantel's marriage.
37:51But she also wanted
37:52to get rid of Greg.
37:55And so she started to frame him
37:58for revealing information
38:00about the affair.
38:02What it is up to you to decide
38:04is, is the defendant guilty
38:06of the murder?
38:07Certainly, by Mr. Dantel's testimony,
38:10she is.
38:10If you have any hesitation
38:13about that,
38:14then South Carolina
38:16has hand of one,
38:17hand of all,
38:18which says that
38:19it doesn't matter.
38:21Two people can be guilty
38:22of killing another
38:23when only one of them has a gun
38:25and only one of them
38:26fires a shot.
38:28The defendant is the only one
38:30who benefited from Greg's murder.
38:32It is your job
38:33to end the defendant's
38:36continued deception
38:37and speak the truth
38:39and convictor of murder.
38:41Thank you.
38:46Go ahead.
38:47Your Honor.
38:53Good morning.
38:55What you're looking for in this case
38:57is a reason to hesitate.
38:58And in this case,
39:01there are many reasons
39:03to hesitate.
39:05How about the first one?
39:06Every word
39:07that was just uttered to you
39:09would have been used
39:11in a trial
39:13to try to convict
39:14Chris Dantel
39:16of murder.
39:18Now all of a sudden,
39:19he's an eyewitness to it.
39:20If that doesn't tell you,
39:21give you a reason to hesitate,
39:22I don't know what else could.
39:24He's about himself.
39:25That's the reason
39:26he's pushing Megan
39:27and that's the reason
39:29he killed Greg Rice
39:30because he is about himself.
39:33You can piece it all together,
39:35but when you get right down to it,
39:36you're always going to have
39:37to come back
39:38to trusting
39:39Chris Dantel.
39:41And that's the one thing
39:42the state didn't want you
39:43to have to do,
39:43but they could never
39:44get around that.
39:47He sat up here
39:48and told you
39:49he disposed the body
39:50in some kind of favor?
39:51You ain't buying that.
39:52You can.
39:54You know what?
39:55He did a lot.
39:56I called him
39:56Chris Dantel
39:57full of lies and cries.
39:59I'll tell you what,
40:00he wasn't trying.
40:01He wasn't trying
40:02when he was shopping,
40:03just grabbing
40:05cinder blocks
40:05and parks.
40:07But just ask yourself
40:08at the end of the day,
40:09do you trust Chris Dantel?
40:11The only way you can
40:11predict her
40:12is if you trust that man.
40:14I don't think you can.
40:15Thank you.
40:16The jury was out
40:18for about an hour
40:19and a half
40:19or two hours,
40:20so relatively
40:21quick verdict.
40:24I understand
40:24the jury's reached
40:25verdict,
40:25is that correct?
40:27All right.
40:28I ask the clerk,
40:29if you would please
40:30suppose the verdict.
40:31The state of South Carolina
40:33of the county of O'Ree
40:34versus Megan Marie Jackson
40:36as to the charge of murder
40:38will the jury
40:39by unanimous consent
40:40find this defendant.
40:41That was the one time
40:50she showed emotion.
40:51It was kind of like,
40:51oh God,
40:52I got caught.
40:53They realized what I did,
40:54so she finally showed emotion.
40:58Chris Dantel
40:58was sentenced
40:59to 20 years in prison
41:00and Megan Jackson
41:01faced between
41:0250 years and life.
41:05Jackson,
41:06anything you want to say
41:07or does anybody
41:08want to speak
41:08on your behalf?
41:11Your Honor,
41:13she wishes not to speak.
41:14All right.
41:16Your Honor,
41:16I can have
41:17Ms. Savannah Rice come up.
41:19But Savannah
41:20couldn't do it.
41:25Your Honor,
41:25she's understandably
41:26emotional.
41:27She says,
41:29this crime
41:29has torn apart
41:30my family,
41:31others' families
41:32and friends
41:33beyond any measure.
41:34Not only from
41:35the loss of my father,
41:36but the loss
41:37of a mother too.
41:38The loss of our lives.
41:40We have been waiting
41:40so many years
41:41for just a bit
41:42of closure
41:42and this is it.
41:43I finally got to say
41:44what has been sitting
41:45in my brain
41:46the last four and a half years.
41:48It was a relief
41:49finally being able
41:50to tell the truth
41:51and it goes towards
41:51a cause.
41:53I believe that 50 years
41:54to life would be
41:55a sufficient amount
41:55of time.
41:56I thank you for your time
41:57for listening
41:58to what I had to say.
41:59Thank you.
42:03Your Honor,
42:03the state is asking
42:04for the maximum
42:05term of life imprisonment.
42:06We believe that
42:07there is clear evidence
42:08that this defendant
42:08not only plotted
42:11and planned
42:11this murder
42:12but also tried
42:13to frame the victim
42:14for things
42:15that she was doing.
42:17We believe
42:17that there is nothing
42:18short of life
42:19in prison
42:19that would address
42:20this crime.
42:23All right,
42:24Ms. Jackson,
42:24you have been
42:25filed guilty
42:25of murder
42:26by a jury of your peers
42:28and a sentence
42:28of the court.
42:30I root it to stay.
42:31The sentence
42:32of the court
42:32would be committed
42:34to the Department
42:35of Corrections
42:35for the remainder
42:37of your life.
42:38Life in prison
42:39and that's no parole
42:40in South Carolina.
42:41She will be in prison
42:43until the day
42:43that she dies.
42:46Justice has been done
42:47but you can never
42:49fully achieve justice
42:51for someone
42:51who's been killed.
42:53He was robbed
42:53of his life
42:55with his children
42:56who he loved.
42:57He was so devoted
42:58to them
42:59and you certainly
43:00can't achieve justice
43:00for those four children.
43:02They lost both parents
43:03in the worst possible way.
43:05They lost both souls
43:07and they stopped
43:11by someone
43:12to see everyone
43:12who's in the case
43:13and that they loved
43:14that they'd keep
43:15through themselves
43:16and give each of
43:17and to see them
43:19who were challenged
43:20by the times
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43:23with others
43:23to hear their
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