In Battle Creek, Michigan, Chad Allen Reed is the owner of a property. He lives on the bottom floor and rents out the top floor. He complains to everyone about the couple renting his upstairs, Joe Soule and Jaclyn Lepird are loud at night and Reed doesn't like it. When Joe and Jaclyn vanish, everyone is looking for them, except for Chad Allen Reed. He is too busy trying to hide what he has done. His property burns 5 times in 7 days but Chad Allen Reed is being haunted by the smell. Two bodies, wrapped in plastic, hidden in the back of a pickup truck. When nobody solves the mystery of what happened to Joe Soule and Jaclyn Lepird, Chad Allen Reed calls the tip line himself, and tells them what happened! Join Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack break down the story of the Murdering Landlord and find out what evidence is left behind when two people are murdered on grass in a yard. Transcript Highlights 00:00:07 Joseph Scott Morgan shares a renting nightmare 00:04:23 discussion of landlord complaining about tenant 00:05:20 Joe talks about trauma and evidence left behind at the scene 00:07:58 Landlord confronted tenants over noise 00:10:37 Discussion of the matter of cutting and bludgeoning someone 00:12:25 Talk about postmortem interval 00:13:23 Chad Allen Read shoots Joe Soule, shoots Jaclyn Lepird in the back 00:15:38 Discussion about Read beating Lepird with a pipe 00:16:37 Joe explains “Bullet Wipe” 00:18:32 Discussion about evidence left in yard 00:19:42 Talk about 2 people missing 00:21:51 Evidence left behind by 2 victims 00:23:31 Explanation of how bodies are examined in morgue 00:25:44 Discussion about perpetrators not putting distance between themselves and their victims 00:27:49 Bodies wrapped in plastic create more evidence 00:29:18 Talk about 5 fires in 7 days 00:30:13 Chad Allen Read calls the tipline himself

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