DERANGED: Twisted Couple Plots the Unthinkable | Clayton and Molly Daniels

Hey everybody welcome back to an all new episode of 10 to life with me Annie Elise now if you're not driving right now if you're at home watching this or you're even at work it's fine if you're at work just it'll be our secret but if you're somewhere safe I want you to close your eyes for a moment close them are they closed close them and I want you to imagine driving down a very dark Rural Road late at night then suddenly You come upon a car completely on fire on the side of the road

it's crashed into an embankment it's engulfed in flames in the middle of nowhere so you grab your phone you call the police when they arrive at the scene they find a body in that car that is so completely destroyed by the fire that it's next to impossible to know who for sure this person even was I mean where do you even go from there right you need to figure out who that person was how they ended Up like that was this an accident could this have been a homicide what's the deal you can open your

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as well in 2004 20-year-old Molly Daniels was a young mother of two from a town north of Austin in Texas she had shoulder length brown hair thin eyebrows wore glasses she worked as a receptionist for a Home Remodeling Company and she was known to be very kind to everybody around her she was also known to be a very good attentive mother to her kids Molly was married to a 23-year-old named Clayton Daniels who Went by the name clay for short clay had Sandy brownish blonde hair he usually kept it pretty short also usually had a

goatee or a thin beard along with like a pretty big mole on his chin I'm just trying to paint the I'm just trying to illustrate it guys I'm just trying to tell you so they had met when Molly was just a teenager she went to a bar they hid it off right away and they stayed together for years now they had two children a four four-year-old son named Caleb who was from Molly's different relationship and then a one-year-old daughter named Harley who Molly and Clay had together clay treated both of these kids like they were

his own and Caleb called clay Dad they really were such a loving family and one of Molly and Clay's absolute favorite things to do together was go riding on Clay's motorcycle motorcycles were basically Clay's entire life he was on a bike as much as he possibly could be he had the Whole biker get up as well including a leather jack jaet a silver chain I mean he even named his daughter Harley so you can imagine how big of a deal motorcycles were to him he had been an auto mechanic in the past but by 2004

he didn't end up having a job he stayed home and he took care of Caleb and Harley while Molly was out working he just for one reason or another struggled to find a job that worked for him they all lived in Leander Texas which is About 22 Mi Northwest of Austin and the Leander that exists today is not like the Leander that they lived in back then I mean back then it was a lot smaller in the past few years it's grown a ton and it now has a population of about 74,000 people but it's

a quiet suburban area and it's also not too far from the city which is nice but it also means that you get all the downsides of quiet Suburban life like judgy neighbors see not everybody approved of Molly and Clay's Relationship Molly's own mother thought that she could do better but she also wasn't going to step in and interfere with her daughter's life especially since Molly and Clay had a daughter together she didn't want her grandchildren to be stuck without a dad but she kind of looked at clay almost like a loser anyway and not only

did her mom think that but so did Molly's co-workers and her sister her sister really didn't like clay apparently he Kind of just gave her the ick the heebie jeebies and Clay was also known to have a temper and have some issues with road rage things like that so they just didn't really they were just weren't really happy and over the moon about their relationship but going back to that road rage it was kind of like if somebody pissed him off while he was driving he wasn't going to let it slide he would either lay

on his horn he wouldd flip the person off he'd Sometimes even get out of his car which that's all pretty bad but even when clay wasn't driving around he also got into fights with people or threaten them like how One Time One of Molly's co-workers offered to pay for her and Clay to go out to dinner while they watched the kids when Molly and Clay got back from dinner clay was super pissed off that the neighbors upstairs were making too much noise so he went up to go yell at them and even went as far

as daring them To fight him nothing ever came of it because the neighbors didn't want to deal with him they also didn't take his dare or get into a fight but still it was clear that clay was a hotthead with a temper that was pretty difficult to control so it's not too hard to see why so many people thought that clay wasn't exactly a catch he was angry he didn't have a job he didn't ever seem particularly interested in getting one he also had a record it was mostly theft Charges and other minor offenses but

then he also had one very big issue see clay was convicted of assaulting his cousin in a sexual way when she was only 7 years old now the assault had happened before Molly met him although clay didn't exactly volunteer the fact that he had done it it took seven years for this victim to go to the police and to talk about what the then 16-year-old cousin had done to her when she was just 7 years old so in 2004 all of those Years later when clay probably thought that it had all gone away he learned

that he was being charged with aggravated assault now clay didn't actually know what aggravated assault meant so he asked one of the detectives investigating the case and the detective told him that when he assaulted his cousin in that sexual way he also beat her up badly and that apparently set clay off so he stood up and he said I didn't I didn't beat her up when I her Almost as if it was okay that he did assault her in a sexual way but he was now claiming he didn't beat her he admitted it himself but

even with that confession Molly still felt like clay was being pressured into taking a guilty plea she wanted to see the best in clay he was the love of her life and he felt the same about her so Molly wasn't about to give up on him even with that kind of background now you would think that Molly would leave clay as soon as she Found out about that kind of disgusting Behavior but she didn't she stood by Clay's side and planned to stay with him him during his one month joke of a sentence that was

supposed to begin on June 21st 2004 which you heard that right one month clay only had to go to prison for 30 days and then afterward he would be on 10 years probation which Molly somehow thought was unfair which I agree that that's not fair but obviously not in the way that Molly was thinking She thought it was unfair like it was too long and look Molly loved that clay loved her for who she was and I guess because of that she was going to love him unconditionally as well which I guess might be hard

to understand but she also had never had a man in her life before who had ever seemed to actually like her this much or love her this much she wasn't used to feeling special or appreciated so she probably did feel like she hit the jackpot with Clay even If he was an offender with a horrible past now of course that attitude didn't really line up with what everybody else thought Clay's Uncle who was the victim's father was absolutely livid about the fact that clay was only getting a slap on the wrist for what he had

done the uncle wanted him put away for a long long time ideally forever but for whatever reason the state wasn't changing their minds and Clay was only Going to get a month in prison but then just a few days before his sentence was about to begin clay went missing it was the morning of June 18th 2004 Molly got up to go get ready for work and to get the kids ready for the day that's when she realized that clay had never made it home the night before she knew he had gone over to his mom's

house but he wasn't supposed to spend the night there so he definitely should have been back by now now in other circumstances you Might think okay maybe he changed his mind maybe he was too tired to come home so he just like fell asleep or caught a nap on his mom's couch except he and Molly shared a car and without a car Molly wasn't making it to work which was vital for them she was the sole bread winner and they were already on an extremely tight budget so it would be a very very big deal

for clay to not come home with the car and it also wasn't like him so when Molly called Clay's mom She said clay wasn't there Molly called her mom freaking out and crying saying clay was missing and afterward she called the police to file a missing person's report later that morning Clay's Mom Lori also called the police she was worried about where her son could be since she knew he didn't return home and weirdly enough it was an extra busy morning for the police that day because they had also received a call from a guy

riding his motorcycle earlier That morning before the sun was even up while he was on his bike he saw Flames coming from what looked to be a car on fire and this car was stuck in the embankment on County Road 258 in Leander County Road 258 wasn't your busy City street either it's more of like a quiet Rural Road that winds through the outskirts of Leander it's the kind of road that doesn't see much traffic making it a very unlikely spot for any major incidents so the fact that a car Was on fire there it

was pretty shocking to find when help arrived the fire was so bad that the police weren't able to even identify what original color the car had been the tires were also completely melted meaning that this fire was unusually hot even for a fire related to a car accident and on top of all of that there was a body inside but the body didn't have a head legs or hands had they been burned off had the body been dismembered before the fire There was no way to tell there was basically little to no way to even

identify this person because there was no way to check prints dental records or anything else and when it was all said and done the police had 12 lbs of Bones essentially there wasn't even any blood or any other kind of fluid in the car which is very unusual to say the least in a car accident but the police were able to figure out that the car was Molly and Clay's 1999 Chevy Cavalier They figured this out due to some of the items in the car and the registration so by process of elimination it was assumed

to be clay inside this car a few of his personal belongings were also in the car like a Harley-Davidson pin that clay always wore on his hat his silver chain necklace also part of a burnt shoe and those items were enough for Clay's Family to identify the body as his but the police still had to make sure that all of their tees were crossed all of Their eyes were dotted on their paperwork it wasn't was n't enough to just have the family identify the body they also needed to get some testing done and they needed

to confirm that this was really him among other things a medical examiner extracted bone marrow from the body's hip bone to send it over for testing to see if that matched his mother's DNA however that process was long it was going to take 6 months for these results to come back in in the Meantime the police were trying to determine what to rule Clay's death as accidental or homicide because there were some really odd things that stood out at the scene of the accident and the biggest one being that there were no skid marks on

the road which was unheard of if a car is found on fire on in an embankment it's assumed that this person driving it lost control which would of course result in skid marks on the road from the tires but there was nothing so The police thought that they were looking at a homicide situation the running theory was that somebody killed clay beforehand then they put his body in the car and then somehow they crashed it that would also explain the lack of any blood or other bodily fluids in the car so this now had them

asking who had killed clay Clay's Mom Lori didn't know who this killer could be but she did know even without the DNA evidence and the results back yet that tragically the Body had to be clay as much as she would have loved to hold out hope knowing that he was still alive she knew that there was no way that some other random person died inside his car the exact same morning that he went missing missing without a trace the odds of that happening were just way too far out there to even consider Molly was absolutely

beside herself because now the love of her life had just died suddenly but life had to go on which Meant that the women now had to plan his funeral and as we know funerals are typically very sad usually proper toned down to some degree people are there to grieve and pay their respects to the deceased and to the family but that wasn't the case at Clay's funeral that following Monday on June the 21st first it had only been 3 days since Clay's body had been found and and if you were to walk into this funeral

you'd almost think that you were at a Hole-in-the-wall biker bar on a Friday night I mean first of all there was a literal motorcycle with a Confederate flag draped over it and parked at the front of the room near Clay's casket Molly and Clay's moms were dressed in black leather biker jackets there was rock and roll music playing almost everybody there was just getting wasted and this wasn't some small gathering Clay's family and friends either I mean around 200 people showed up which Remember what I said earlier about how clay wasn't well-liked and he had

a temper he didn't even have 200 close friends so it seems more likely that some of these guests were just nosy people who came in because the burning car had been big news in the city so you can only imagine that with so many people getting drunk at a funeral things started to get kind of Rowdy and with the drinking came some foul language especially when it came to Clay's Character in fact his best friend got up to give his eulogy and said that everybody was just better off with Clay being dead because he was

an [ __ ] the whole funeral was incredibly bizarre which I'm assuming you've already figured out normally in this kind of situation you might be asking okay well who would want clay dead but the issue in this case was that the answer was kind of like everybody he was known to be a hotthead who picked fights and you All heard that his own best friend somebody who supposedly you know loved him liked him said at his funeral that he was an [ __ ] and was now everybody was better off but something that did stick

out to the police was that there was one person who had recently been very outspoken about how much they hated clay his uncle I mean clay had hurt his daughter if that's not something that lots of people would be willing to kill over I don't know what is and look Plenty of times on this channel we have talked about disgusting people who either deserved the punishment they got or even more people who seem more like Monsters because of things that they have done and Clay had assaulted his uncle's seven-year-old daughter and don't forget he had

badly beaten her too so if klay's Uncle had it out for him you can certainly understand why except they eventually ruled that the uncle was not a possible suspect not at all and Without him the police were running out of leads they were basically stumped and they weren't the only ones having a hard time at this point now Molly was struggling with her financial situation I mean sure clay didn't contribute any money to the household as it was since he didn't have a job but he did watch the kids while she was at work all

day and she couldn't afford to start using daycare now so she was struggling luckily for Molly the community really Did rally for her Caleb and Harley first of all her job and co-worker stepped up to the plate and they pulled in some donations together and gave her a gift of $1,000 she was able to use that money to pay for some of the day-to-day stuff not only that but the company that she worked for paid for all of her utilities for a couple of months after Clay's death her co-workers even went as far as to

buy groceries for Molly and the kids and drop them off right at her doorstep Which it was just incredibly generous and Molly was so thankful to just have this break so that she could focus on her kids and get things back to normal as much as possible for them but again when it was time for Molly to get back to work she knew that she needed child care and her monthly income just it wasn't going to cut it so Molly posted a sign in her neighborhood that said newly widowed mother of two needs help and

a neighbor named Jenna penis saw that sign And felt bad for Molly even though she didn't know her personally she felt like she needed to help Jenna had a son of her own and felt like if she was in that situation she would hope that somebody would step up and help her so she told Molly that she would babysit Caleb and Harley every single week at her house for just $120 which if you break that down that is quite a deal because that's roughly $150 per hour per kid certainly not the Stand standard rate Molly

wasn't going to find something better than that so she took this woman up on her offer and felt comfortable going back to work and once she was back to working a regular schedule she just Dove right in which kind of came off as strange to everybody that she worked with her co-workers didn't really expect Molly to bounce back so quickly and you might be thinking okay well yeah some people grieve differently some people actually Work a lot when they're going through tough times because their jobs can be a distraction or it can help them feel

normal but I don't mean Molly was just back at work she was also performing the same way that she always had she didn't start making mistakes or missing deadlines or do any of the things that you would expect of somebody who was trying to work while they were also dealing with major issues at home I mean she did not miss a beat Molly had been An amazing worker before the accident and none of that changed now so things were kind of getting back to normal for Molly and the kids she had support she was waiting

for Clay's $110,000 life insurance policy check luckily clay had taken out this big policy on himself 2 years before his accident so once that was supposed to kick in things were definitely going to get easier for Molly I mean at least financially she was even starting to Feel up for going out with co-workers for dinner beginning a month after the accident and one night while she was out with a couple girlfriends from work she asked them when they thought that it would be appropriate for her to get back into the dating pool again her friends

tried to be supportive but truthfully they did find that it was kind of odd and way too soon now I know what you're thinking I'm not going to pretend that you're not picking up on how suspicious This all was and I don't want you to think that the police were missing all of this either they didn't have strong suspicions about Molly necessarily there wasn't any hard evidence tying her to the murder scene but they did bring her in for an interrogation just to see if she knew anything and Molly went into this interrogation like it

was any other day and any other kind of interview she didn't show any strong emotions she almost seemed cold which was pretty odd Given how fresh Clay's death still was it's definitely not what you would expect for a woman who just lost her husband all of a sudden in the meantime though Caleb and Harley's babysitter Jenna was actually getting the scoop about what was really going on in Molly's life without even meaning to without even intentionally trying to get it see every time Jenna would go watch the kids Caleb would go on and on about

a man named Jake he would tell her how Fun Jake was Jake would wrestle with him go to races with them and basically he was just the coolest guy ever so Jenna had to know who is this mystery guy was he just a friend or was Molly already dating somebody new but whenever Jenna asked about him Molly swore up and down that Jake was just a family friend which fair enough you're allowed to have friends but then Jenna started to doubt that cover story especially one morning when Molly's car wasn't starting Molly Called at Jenna

to see if she could come help jump start her car and when Jenna got there and started working on the car a man came out of Molly's house that man was Jake whose full name was Jacob Alexander Greg he was only wearing boxer shorts when he stepped outside which definitely is not exactly an outfit that you wear to somebody's house when you're just a friend right so that was when it clicked for Jenna that Jake wasn't some family friend he was Molly's new Boyfriend Jake had black hair darker facial hair and Molly seemed pretty smitten

with him her younger sister hadn't apparently met Jake yet and he was always on the road with his truck driving job so it made it really challenging but then one time early on in the relationship she looked at a text conversation on Molly's phone between her and Jake where they said I love you so things were definitely moving fast this was only a matter of weeks after Clay's death so moving on droing I love yous I mean that of course feels like a red flag doesn't it now Caleb especially was getting to be more and

more attached to Jake all he did was talk about him which he was the only one because no one else knew much about Jake Molly was staying unusually quiet about her new man I mean all she really said was that he was a friend of Clay's that she had met at that same bar where she had met clay all those years earlier so this was All very mysterious or maybe not mysterious because when I first started researching this case my assumption was that it was probably obvious Molly was probably cheating on clay with Jake and

now that clay was out of the picture she could openly date Jake right well if you think you have this case figured out trust me you don't and you're wrong so now Molly's kids were growing closer and closer to Jake even though no one else in her life other than Jenna had met him Due to his busy work schedule and always being on the road as for Jenna she really didn't think too highly of him in fact she thought that he seemed trashy mainly due to the fact that he would just casually walk out of

the house in his boxers and he was inserting himself into Molly and her kids lives so quickly after after Clay's death but Jenna just figured it was none of her business so she kept her opinions to herself well then several months went by and still no One else got to meet Jake Molly kept him to herself and then started acting kind of weird when it came to her work she was almost like a completely different person you'll remember how earlier I said that she was usually good at what she did and very on top of

things but now anytime a coworker would come by her desk they would notice that she was surfing on the internet but they couldn't tell what websites she kept visiting CU as soon as they would come By she would just minimize her screen and basically like act all kind of like shady and hidden about it now you need to understand that was out of character for Molly I think we've all had days where work is slow we sneak a peek at Amazon for me I used to go on Perez Hilton back in the day and I'm

like look at all my celebrity gossip so I would get it if somebody walks up and catches you kind of like not being productive and not working so you'll close that Window as fast as you can and then like pretend you're working right on its own that's not a weird thing to do it's just that for Molly specifically it was out of character she had never been a procrastinator before and it stood out to her co-workers Not only was Molly being weird but her son Caleb was also acting different when he was at Jenna's house

as well so much so that he tried to hurt Jenna's pets he would also push other kids down the stairs I mean he was Clearly acting out for some reason and Jenna just could not get through to him there were timeouts there were firm talking toos but nothing was working and anytime that Jenna would mention something to Molly about Caleb Molly would just shrug it off and say that he acted fine at home so it was nothing but Jenna knew it wasn't fine she couldn't let him run wild in her house especially because this wasn't

just an ordinary temper tantrum he could potentially hurt Somebody else so whenever he was at her place she did what she could to discipline him and try to get his behavior under control but it was hard because she wasn't Caleb's mom she could only do so much as the babysitter and if Molly wasn't going to do anything to put a stop to the behavior it was going to be an uphill battle for Jenna to try to stop it but here's where things got really cranked up and kind of went up to like an 11 in

terms of weird mysterious Bizarre red flags Molly's sister Melissa came over to visit her at some point she had gone to the bathroom to grab something which was upstairs but when she got up to the bathroom she could see into Molly's room and she noticed a pair of legs that were sticking out of Molly's bedroom closet and from from the looks of the legs they were a man's bare legs which weren't moving so she peered in a little bit but she only saw a man's lower half he was wearing boxers and his Head was in

the corner out of sight so Melissa was obviously freaked out Molly had never mentioned anything about a man staying over and also why would he be sleeping half in and half out of a closet was he hiding from her or was it something else so she ran downstairs and she told Molly what she found but Molly seemed kind of unfazed she didn't seem to care and was just kind of like oh okay let me go check it out so Molly went upstairs for a few minutes and then She called for Melissa to come and see

what it was when Melissa got up there Molly explained to her that she had just seen a pair of jeans and shoes sticking out of the closet not a man just some shoes and dirty clothes that were sort of laid out in a way where it looked like legs but Melissa knew what she had seen and it wasn't jeans she saw a man a three-dimensional man and she distinctly noticed that he wasn't wearing any pants it was bare skin that she was not going To get confused with jeans I mean come on SO Melissa didn't

say much to Molly about it but she did go to the police with the information she wasn't quite sure what to make of it but she figured that if Molly really had nothing to hide then she wouldn't have told such an obvious lie Now by this time Melissa was pretty sure that the legs had belonged to Jake but it was weird that he always seemed to be in his boxers whenever anybody talked to him and that was on Top of how now suspicious Molly was being about everything so when the police got the tip they

definitely thought that it was weird and let's just say they had been thinking that Molly's whole situation hadn't been adding up for quite a while at one point things heated up enough in the investigation that the Texas Rangers were called in to help and for those who don't know what I'm talking about they're a more Elite version of the Texas police and the Reason they were called in is because when they did that autopsy on Clay the medical examiner didn't find any soot in his lungs which kind of supported the original theory that was murdered

before that fire even started and this was no accident at all not to mention the more they looked at the condition of the car and studied the physics of the situation the more obvious it was that it didn't just accelerate off the road it must have been pushed from an area higher Above the road however here's the kicker I mean for me at least if a car catches on fire it usually starts with the gas either in the tank or because the gas is leaking somewhere else that makes sense right the most flammable part of

the car is the part that's going to be burning well when it came to Clay's car the gas in the tank was not burned it was still there so the fire didn't start from any gas in or near the tank someone would have had to use a match or a lighter or Something else to get this fire going and the seat that Clay's body was found in was totally saturated with charcoal lighter fluid so the police even called in an arson investigator who confirmed that the fire could not have been started by accident anyway after

the police now got this tip about the Man's legs sticking out of the closet from Melissa they went around to some of Molly's neighbors trying to figure out who this man with the bare legs was Because at this point they had no idea that Molly had this new man in her life not at all and I guess Melissa didn't want to share her speculation that this guy was Jake so she just stuck to the facts in her reporting that this was some man and she didn't know who but Molly's neighbors didn't hold back they told

the police that Molly had a new boyfriend named Jake and he had moved into her house just a couple of weeks after clay died so now Jake became a new Suspect the police thought that there was a good chance that Molly and Jake had started their relationship well before clay died and that they conspired together to get rid of clay so they could be together exactly it what I hinted at before the theory now was that Molly had been fed up with Clay especially after his assault conviction against his cousin she'd always acted too calm

about what he had done and shockingly so but maybe she was just Hiding the fact that she had this plan to get rid of him and she was kind of just like biting her time so the police started looking into Jake but they weren't finding anything and in the meantime things were just getting worse for Jenna when it came to Caleb so much so that she decided to give Molly an ultimatum either she got Caleb some help so that he could deal with his emotions or she would be done babysitting in her mind Caleb was

clearly acting out for Attention maybe it was because he missed his dad or maybe there was something off about the new guy in his life Jake it could have been causing some tension at home but the thing was that Caleb was still constantly talking about how great Jake was so none of it made any sense but either way something needed to change or Jenna was not going to be able to keep taking care of Caleb but again Molly didn't really seem to care she was kind of like in la la land then on December 3rd

2004 just about 6 months after clay had died Molly took a very long lunch break so that she could have a little date with Jake the two of them went to a Taco Bell in North Austin and Jake was biting into his burrito right as a police team stormed in this Taco Bell with guns drawn when Jake saw them he apparently said oh [ __ ] and it was for good reason because the detective looked at Jake and realized he wasn't looking at a man named Jake at all he Was looking at clay right dead

center in the eyes the officer asked to see his ID and Jake I mean clay pulled out his license which had the name Jake Alexander Greg on it but the officers knew that this was fake this was obviously clay he looked exactly like him just as if he had dyed his hair from sandy blonde to Black so when they arrested him one of the officers said welcome back kind of like a little joke since apparently clay you know rose from The dead now in the meantime Molly was flipping out she was cussing up and down

at the officers saying she was a grieving Widow they had no right to be doing this to her she was basically trying to say that this man that they were arresting wasn't clay and that he was a completely different person and innocent and then Molly really went and shot her mouth off yelling that the police could not arrest her which was a big mistake because they were not about To put up with any of Molly's crap so she was arrested as well and if you're wondering how the police figured out that clay was Jake and

how they had known that he and Molly would be at that Taco Bell that day well 6 months had gone by since the accident and those DNA results came back from that bone marrow test and the person in the car car was not clay so as soon as the police realized clay was alive or at least he wasn't that body in the car they took Another look at Molly's life her life post accident and that alone was enough to give them a strong feeling that she and her new boyfriend were up to something nefarious something

weird they just needed a bit more evidence to piece together what exactly that was and to figure out why or if they were faking Clay's death so they started tailing Molly and they followed her that day to the Taco Bell where she met clay SL Jake for lunch so at the time of their arrest Clay was charged with violation of probation for not fulfilling his 30-day sentence for that assault on his cousin and Molly was charged with hindering apprehension which is basically when somebody helps somebody else avoid getting caught by the police so this can

mean hiding them lying to the police helping them Escape destroying evidence or warning them about a police search and as we know Molly did all of that with Clay she had him hide in her closet Anytime somebody came over who actually knew him and she also lied about him still being alive obviously to everyone and all along Molly and Clay had been telling their kids to call him Jake not clay and further that Jake wasn't actually their dad which how twisted is that to do to little kids after his interrogation clay finally admitted that he

really was Clay and that he had dyed his hair black all as a disguise but when Molly was questioned she basically Played Dumb and said she had no idea that clay had faked his death according to her one day a month after he supposedly died he just showed up at her front door and from then on she just kind of basically went along with everything she tried to throw him completely under the bus to protect herself but obviously that didn't make any sense meanwhile clay told the police his entire plan basically he didn't want to

go to prison for the assault charges And he especially didn't want to be put on the registry or have a record so basically he just didn't want to deal with the legal Fallout that was going to come from these charges from being convicted for this kind of crime the offender status seemed to be the biggest motivating factor for clay and Molly and faking his death apparently felt like the best way to get out of it Molly even gave an interview eventually where she said that if Clay did get put on the Registry quote we would

lose our house we were going to have to move we'd lose a lot of different things that had to do with our kids he won't be able to be a stay-at-home dad anymore he wouldn't be able to take the kids to school pick them up from school so the two of them figured that he would get his life insurance policy check and they would be able to move the family to Mexico not to mention Molly had received all of those donations from people when clay died so The plan was that in Mexico clay could get

face altering plastic surgery so that nobody would be able to recognize him Molly also planned to get a tummy tuck as well there too because I guess that was needed the plan hadn't gone through yet though because the insurance company didn't send the check which I just got to say this seems like the wildest craziest idea to me right and you're probably wondering okay so it wasn't clay in the car after all so who Was it well clay wasn't talking at that point and Molly was still at this time saying that she had nothing to

do with any of it but while clay was in prison for the charges of Faking his death while the investigation into everything else was still going on he ended up telling his cellmate everything he said that he and Molly had hatched a plan to dig up a grave remove the body and that that is who was in his car and as we see so often that cellmate ended up Repeating some of what he had told him so some detectives asked Molly about what that cellmate said and she said yes Clay did dig up a grave

in a rural area she said it was a cemetery that had gas pipelines nearby so I guess she had figured that The Jig was up but she didn't give an exact location well the police went to a local Cemetery that wasn't too far from where that car accident had happened they wanted to see if any Graves looked like they had been Recently dug up and I mean it had been over six months but at this point it was really the only lead that they had so the nearest cemetery was called Pebble Mound cemetery and right

away when an officer pulled up and started looking at the graves he noticed one plot that seemed to be a little bit messed up compared to the others so the police got in touch with the funeral director to get permission to dig up that plot to see if the remains were still in the Casket or if they had been removed the funeral director brought over a back ho and he and the officers dug for 2 hours until they hit the casket the seal had been broken and sure enough when it was opened there was no

body just a pillow this empty grave belonged to 81-year-old Charlotte Davis she had died 6 months before this car accident on December 20th 2003 she had spent a good bit of her life in group homes due to being in a wheelchair and also having mental Disabilities but she had been known to always have a smile on her face and she radiated happiness but beyond that there isn't much public information known about her she lived a pretty quiet life but I do know that she didn't want to be cremated which sickeningly enough clay and Molly kind

of robbed Charlotte of her dying wish because she was burned up in that accident that they staged once the police had dug up the empty grave they searched Molly and Clay's house as Well as Molly's work computer at their house they found a bunch of records for that fictitious Jake Greg character including fake school transcripts credit reports that they ordered online I mean the works and you'll remember Molly was acting very weird at work and minimizing her computer screen anytime a coworker came around well as it turned out she was actually looking things up like

how to fake a death how to come up with a new identity plus she had also Researched how to burn a body which I almost can't believe that kind of information is just out there for anyone to find it's bizarre but there you go I mean the world is full of some messed up people needless to say there was a ton of evidence to prove that not just clay was involved but Molly too she could deny things all she wanted but the proof was right there on her hard drive so it ended up coming out

that the two had been planning it for quite some time They found Charlotte by driving around looking out for different cemeteries and when they found Pebble Mound Cemetery they started looking at headstones looking for ones that matched their specifications they wanted to find someone who was older who they thought wouldn't have many visitors if any so nobody would notice if the ground had been Disturbed or not and Molly later went on to say we felt because she was older there would not be much Family Impact if any and in another interview she even said the

body had to be you know a certain amount of old if it was too old it wouldn't work if it was too new it wouldn't work too old it wouldn't probably be feasible to get the body out of the Grave too new it wouldn't burn the way that it needed to it's also important to note that Charlotte was embalmed and embalming fluid is highly flammable which it is super disturbing how much thought and research clay and Molly put into everything I mean months and months of research from finding the cemetery to then finding the perfect

dead person to then figuring out how to burn the body and get away with it all of that to just avoid a month of prison time and a criminal record for something that you clearly did you admitted to so on the Thursday night the day before the car was discovered on fire clay went to the cemetery alone while Molly stayed home with the kids now there are some Sources that said that Molly helped dig up the body and Stage the scene but from my research most sources say that it was all clay he dug up

the body he loaded it into the car he pushed it down a hill he doused the body with fuel then lit the fire he even purposefully planted some of his own things in the car to make it seem like it was him there and then he dressed Charlotte's remains in his clothing and shoes finally at the end he left by hopping on a motorcycle that he And Molly had hidden in a bush beforehand and he left thinking he just got away with his own murder and all of that makes sense to me that he did

it by himself because they had little kids that would have needed to be watched and since no one came forward saying that they were babysitting them that morning I think it's safe to assume that Molly stayed home for this part of it not guaranteed but certainly looks that way Molly ended up pleading guilty in May of 2005 to the felony charges of insurance fraud and hindering apprehension she was given the maximum sentence of 20 years in prison the prosecutor on the case said that what Molly and Clay did was a ghoulish and horrific crime that's

a direct quote at her sentencing hearing she cried and she said it was was all about keeping her family together she swore up and down that it had nothing to do with money though I do find it hard to believe that the money wasn't a Motive at all given how they had plans for how they were going to spend it and what they were going to do not to mention accepting the free child care I mean the money that was fundraised for her at work the free groceries the utilities and basically just taking advantage of

a lot of different people's generosity as for clay in January 2006 he pleaded guilty to arson and to desecrating a cemetery he was given 10 years for those charges but he was also In the middle of serving another 20 years for violating his probation which how ironic is it that he was trying to avoid prison for 30 days and he ended up getting 30 years and that my friend is on Karma so Molly gave an interview about a year and a half into her sentence in it she tried to justify what she had done to

Charlotte saying those people out there who are upset with me about it are supposedly God-fearing Christian people and they need to Understand it was just body she was in heaven like they said she was a good woman who went with God it was just a body okay can you talk about having no remorse then the interviewer asked her if she had any remorse because it sure didn't seem like she did and Molly said I can tell you that being locked up 13 months has made a great impact on my life and I don't feel right

now there's a wall up and I wish people could actually see how I feel on the inside When she was asked if there was anything that she wanted people to know she said said that I care about what I did that I'm sorry for what I did that I want to be a good mom that I can't believe that I did this Molly also said that she was still fully Team Clay in all of this she was planning on getting back together with him after both of their sentences are over specifically she said I still

do love him he is a good man she added that she did it all for clay because According to her quote I like to fix things I like to make things better well even though she had talked all this big game about standing by her man she definitely didn't wait around for clay she legally divorced him while she was still in prison so Molly ended up being released in 2016 after just 12 years after a while she ended up moving to Florida and apparently she doesn't appear to be in a relationship so maybe once clay

gets out she will take him Back she hasn't publicly said anything that makes me think that she came to her senses and realized that he was pretty much garbage so who knows though but she seems to have maintained a close relationship with both of her kids who are now adults and she even reconciled with her mother who at one point apparently had cut her off so everything seems to be back to normal for Molly Clay is still in prison though serving his sentence and there's no telling when He will get out the county where Charlotte

was buried ended up paying for a new casket for Charlotte so that she could be laid to rest in it a second time now I can't believe that Molly and Clay got away with things for as long as they did I mean they didn't even bother moving or anything like that they literally just dyed Clay's hair and expected nobody to ever notice how long did they think that was going to work out and two young kids even if you're Saying call him Jake he's not your dad how long is it going to take for one

of them to Spill and say my daddy clay or slip it up or tell them like oh but I'm not supposed to say anything it just makes no sense how long did they think that that was going to work and let's say that the police didn't catch on to them weren't they thinking that eventually their parents were going to notice that Jake was actually clay even if he went to Mexico and got all of this Elective cosmetic surgery was he going to hide his real identity from his best friends his family he thought no one

would notice that he had the same voice the same personality the same everything is Clay other than the way he looked and I also can't get over the fact again that Caleb the four-year-old was being coached to call Clay Jake and pretend that he was this entirely different person it's so awful Molly's sister even talked about it in an interview saying What they did to Caleb convincing him that Jake was not his daddy that is where my anger comes from but Molly didn't seem to think that what she was doing really affected Caleb we know

his babysitter was saying that he was acting out but Molly just tried to brush it off as ordinary 4-year-old behavior and actually that was something that stuck with the jury the most they wanted Molly to have a harsher sentence for what she did to her kids However unfortunately as We've seen time and time again being a shitty parent isn't always against the law so maybe it's just me but it's hard to feel bad for her and I want want to know what you guys think did she serve a long enough sentence and should clay ever

see the light of day because again let's not forget that on top of a robbing a grave he assaulted his child cousin in a sexual way so my vote is no but let me know what you guys think in the comments below thanks again for Tuning in to another episode it was a wild one I've got a lot more Wild Ones on the deck too so if you haven't hit subscribe yet hit it now so that you don't miss those even if you think you're subscribed I would suggest hitting it again because like I said

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