Michael Carter
Appearances
Sword and Scale
Episode 284
So they had to find the woman who answered Celia's cell phone after she'd gone missing.
Sword and Scale
Episode 284
But I got a number, so she gave me a number. So we started talking and texting. How long ago did you meet? Like, it was on a Sunday. Because she had came back from her sister's graduation from Tampa or whatever. And so she came back. So we seen each other and were talking or whatever. She came to the house or whatever. We talked. Was it like a month ago, two months ago, one month ago?
Sword and Scale
Episode 284
It was last month or whatever. One of the Sundays when she came back from Tampa.
Sword and Scale
Episode 284
Yeah, we were like talking at first and then we got serious or whatever. I guess she started liking me a little more than she had told me, so we had made an agreement that we were going to start talking and dating and stuff like that. So that's what happened. And we were just talking from here on out, seeing each other. I stayed at her place a couple nights, and then she'd come to my place.
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Episode 284
My mom would allow her to come, or whatever like that. And we'd just been together almost every day from then on out. So you talked to her every day, just about? Talked to her every day. She'd call me every day.
Sword and Scale
Episode 284
We had sex. Probably that Wednesday, that Tuesday night. But we stayed, chilling, hanging with each other all that Wednesday afternoon. Then she brought me back at like 6 or 7. So she said she was going to her parents' house, I guess. So it was past Wednesday?
Sword and Scale
Episode 284
Okay. It was past Wednesday in the afternoon? Yes, sir. At her house? Yes, sir.
Sword and Scale
Episode 284
I called it, and the girl had the phone and said she was asleep, so I asked her. Like, you put on the phone or whatever, it's important. She's like, well, she said she'll call you tomorrow, so I waited. Mike thought it was weird that Celia had not called him back in days. Still, he kept trying her number. And it would go to voicemail. Again and again.
Sword and Scale
Episode 284
You knew any of her friends? I ain't no friend besides Amitris or whatever. Amitris got along. They went to school together. What is her name? Amitris. Amitris? Smith.
Sword and Scale
Episode 284
Like ex-boyfriend? Yeah, she had an ex-boyfriend who she had an altercation with a while back that had got her in trouble or whatever. So I guess they were trying to work something out. He'll come by the house when I was there and knock on the window of the door or whatever, but she never opened. I asked her, I said, why didn't you answer? She's like, I don't feel right.
Sword and Scale
Episode 284
Like, let him in or whatever, and me and you go together and all that, bring another man to the house. When was the last time that happened? I think it happened on Tuesday or that Wednesday, yeah, Tuesday morning or whatever, because he was bringing his movie back. I guess that was the way he was trying to get with her, like, talk to her, but she didn't open the door. You know his name?
Sword and Scale
Episode 284
She told me a whole bunch of serious stuff that she never told her parents or nobody told her about her personal life. Like what? Like... how she got in trouble with him about another girl and all that and went to jail or whatever. A woman didn't never know. So I guess she finally seen her dad came to the house and seen some papers or whatever when she went to jail and got in trouble or whatever.
Sword and Scale
Episode 284
You ever talk about how he treated her? Yeah, like, they argue and they fight or whatever when they was together, like, a while, while back or whatever. It wasn't recent, though. Anything about her getting hurt by him?
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Episode 284
Nah, he hit her before or whatever. She said then, like, one time I think he got mad and threw a brick through a window. She had to get a whole new window or whatever, I guess, because he and she didn't want to talk to him or whatever. She didn't mention any words? She got beat up by him or anything like that?
Sword and Scale
Episode 284
I was trying to see because my mom was in Chiefland, but I came home by myself or whatever. So a lot of times I was like, oh, a lot of times I was like, okay, well, she left at like 10 or 7 or something. So I'm going to see when she's going to get back like 10 or something because she wasn't getting paid back. This is in, you know, you wear a watch. This is her car.
Sword and Scale
Episode 284
I had it on my phone too. What kind of purse did she have? It was either Gucci or a coach purse. Was it big, small? It was one of the big purses. Which you normally carry? She carried everywhere, everything with her. Like, that's where her wallet would be, maybe. Wallet, phone, everything. Our sleep medication, I mean, our medication that she'd take, like, at 11 o'clock or whatever.
Sword and Scale
Episode 284
As Mike was talking with a detective, another team of officers was over at Celia's apartment collecting evidence.