MIke Murdaugh Update -- Love Me Tenderizer

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Inmate 162753
M MURDAUGH

This is the real Mike Murdaugh of Wittman, Arizona. If you werent' terrified by Mike on Wicked Attraction's Love Me Tenderizer episode, you should be.  This hideous specimen delighted in beating and terrorizing and psychologically battering everyone he could, human or otherwise. He had the entire town of Wittman in his hip pocket, thanks to his brutalizing ways. Mike also used a "carrot" along with all his great big sticks: he provided drugs to people he wanted to control. 

As for Becky, it's important to point out that at the gas station where she first met the 2nd victim, not only did the man give her his number, she gave him hers.  Becky could hardly have been offended by his interest in her or in the slightest bit frightened of him.  Too bad the man, given the state name of Miller in the show, could not foresee that he should be afraid of her. 

There is no question that Becky deliberately lured the man to his awful death. Although she told police over and over that she told Mike about the incident at the gas station out of fear that he would find out from witnesses (such as the cashier, since everyone in Wittman really was in Murdaugh's pocket) anyway and she would be punished if she did not disclose it first, during the days that followed, Becky had a romantic encounter with another stranger from a bar. She seemed to have lost all her fear of him when she went home with the second guy. 

For all his brawn and bluster, once apprehended Mike Murdaugh started confessing right away. To both murders. After all the horrible wounds he had inflicted on others, what drove Murdaugh into the arms of authorities? He cut himself pretty bad during the dismemberment of the plumber and sought medical help.  

After a few years rotting in an Arizona jail while lawyers dickered, Murdaugh told the court we wanted to "spare the victim's families and his own family" the trauma of a trial. So out of this great well of compassion in his heart, Mike Murdaugh pled guilty. I guess he left that compassion under the bunk the day he threw his own feces at prison guards during that time. 

Murdaugh is now on Death Row. 

Becky also pled out. She will be released in 2017.   She does not face execution.

"Woody" Dezarn held the other firearm on a night of terror

The other accomplices, who go by pseudonyms in the show, entered Guilty please as well. The man who helped Murdaugh hold the plumber at gunpoint all night is serving a sentence in excess of 15 years but was released in summer of 2011. 

Betty Gross helped entice a plumber to his death, robbed his van

The other woman, who actively helped entice the plumber to Murdaugh's home (more so than was shown in the episode due to time constraints) pled guilty and received the lightest sentence of the four. She left prison in late 2003. 

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"When evil is present as a pre-existing condition...."

What: New episode of Wicked Attraction
Episode Name: "Love Me Tenderizer"
When: Saturday, Sep. 12, 2012
Where: Investigation Discovery Channel

 (Also airing tonight is The Body Shifters episode, back to back with Love Me Tenderizer. Click here for case info on Body Shifters.)




The "Love Me Tenderizer" episode of Wicked Attraction features a case so disturbing I could hardly get through the TV interview.  In the promotional clip posted above, psychologist Dr. Leigh Hagan says circumstances can create evil, "but when you have evil as a pre-existing condition..."

I knew exactly what he was talking about.

The props in this case are a canal, a horse trailer, and a meat tenderizer.  Nothing good happens with any of them. Believe me.

Please check your local listings for the time the episode "Love Me Tenderizer" airs in your hometown. Watch the show...then come back here. I will post an update on the case as soon as the show airs. 

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TV Shoot This Week - Watch For Air Date

True Crime Author Camille Kimball shoots another TV show

We were already breaking down the set before I remembered to take pics! The crew had come in from out of state.

Except for Rusty, whom we've worked with before. Rusty keeps the sound pure and even, wrangling the whir of AC units, passing planes, and the occasional wail of a street performer's saxophone.  Thanks, Rusty!

Cinematographer Jacin we've happily worked with before, too.  At his last visit, Jacin became an enthusiastic fan of Mrs. White's Golden Rule Cafe. But this time, I learned Jacin is a true foodie with a blog of his own. Visit Jacin's recipes and ruminations from the road here. Don't let the title of his blog fool you, he's an EXCELLENT cinematographer (and I happen to know was trained by the bestest, too, so he better be!).

Producer Melissa poses with Cinematographer/Foode Jacin

Keeping all the plates spinning, as is the crazy job of any TV producer, was Melissa. Melissa had gathered eight thousand pages of documents in pursuit of this story.  You think it takes time and concentration to read and absorb eight thousand pages of testimony, forensic reports, and the like? Try distilling them all down to an hour's worth of television?! My hat is certainly off to Melissa for tackling this massive story.

There are so many people who step in in big ways and small to shepherd along a TV show. I would like to thank them all right here though some will have to remain anonymous. You know who you are!

I don't know the air date yet, but I will announce it here when I do. Hope to see you on TV!

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