Buddy Shepard
Appearances
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Jeremy | Chapter 4 - Horse and Buggy
We had a chalkboard, and we wrote down anybody's name that could have done this. We put Dan Odie at the top of it. Dan Odie was 6'3", and weighed 210, 220. And I mean a big, raw-boned cow man. Not big muscles, but everything was just as tight as it could be in his arms and his chest. We were investigating Dan Odie right from the very beginning. We had the arrest warrant.
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Jeremy | Chapter 4 - Horse and Buggy
We didn't tell anybody about it. And we come down here and started following Dan around. Dan was in a pickup truck. We started following, and he knew we were behind him. But he wouldn't come into Osceola County. And so I blocked him off, and I came out with a shotgun on him. And we put him on the ground and arrested him.
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Jeremy | Chapter 4 - Horse and Buggy
We had two dogs at the time. They did track him to the abandoned house, but they lost him there. Tried to run a track from the taxi cab, even gave the dog the hat to smell, but there had been so many people running the streets and everything that the dog got misdirected.
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Jeremy | Chapter 4 - Horse and Buggy
I was already awake when my alarm went off this morning. I was just already laying in bed thinking about it, so.
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Jeremy | Chapter 4 - Horse and Buggy
They made a promise to us to look, which is much more than we got last time.
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Jeremy | Chapter 4 - Horse and Buggy
Well, I mean, honestly, this sucks, but I'm also kind of like. that gives us more flexibility, you know, we can go to everybody now. Yeah. We don't have to hold off or be polite because the state's looking into it because they're obviously not.
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Jeremy | Chapter 4 - Horse and Buggy
And he come barreling down through here. He was, needless to say, he was hauling bud.
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Jeremy | Chapter 4 - Horse and Buggy
Yes, sir. Front end of it was demolished pretty well. When I looked inside, the door was left open on the driver's seat. And I looked in and saw the cap. A black cap left behind by J.B. 's murderer. I want to see. Finally, Ned, I'm working from memory. Yeah, I know. It was a rebel flag on the front of it. Yeah. A battle flag. And a skull. And a skull, yes, sir. Yes, sir. And that was the cap.
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Jeremy | Chapter 4 - Horse and Buggy
It was dark colored and everything. It got knocked off of him, and he didn't grab it.
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Jeremy | Chapter 4 - Horse and Buggy
One thing I'm really upset about this whole mess, Wiley Black had that evidence destroyed.
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Jeremy | Chapter 4 - Horse and Buggy
I knew of him. I don't know if I've ever seen him or spoke to him or nothing. I just knew him as a kid. Yeah.
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Jeremy | Chapter 4 - Horse and Buggy
I didn't step on any laws or rules of evidence or anything. But they investigated me for it.
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Jeremy | Chapter 4 - Horse and Buggy
If you want to just turn right here. Oh, okay. You want me to do it that way? Yeah. Restricted area. We put that up for people to shoot at.
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Jeremy | Chapter 4 - Horse and Buggy
All these roads in here are named after my family. Really? Yeah. I saw a Shepherd Street up here.
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Jeremy | Chapter 4 - Horse and Buggy
It was right about in here. None of this was in here.
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Jeremy | Chapter 4 - Horse and Buggy
And he, of course, called us. And I was at home in bed. Yeah, it was like midnight or something. Yes, sir. It was about midnight, 1 o'clock. And they called me immediately and told me to get down here, so I did. What was it like when you got here? The body was laying off the road, probably about 40 or 50 feet.
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Jeremy | Chapter 4 - Horse and Buggy
We had crime scene investigators already there, and they set up some lights, and I'll never forget seeing that boy's eyes. That was eerie. His eyes were open. His eyes were open. I could see the whites of his eyes and even his pupils. I think that stays with you, right? Yeah, it does. It stayed with me until this day. Because he was like a 25-year-old kid, right? Yeah.
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Jeremy | Chapter 4 - Horse and Buggy
He was just really a kid working his butt off as a taxi cab driver. And nobody should be killed for doing their job.