‘I’ll Tell You Where I Hid the Body’: Convicted Killer Confesses to Murdering His Girlfriend

um Lee Road art Jr is a convicted killer and former manager of the Bonefish Grill in Mandarin Florida where he murdered his co-worker Savannah Gold in 2017. he was found guilty of second-degree murder and sentenced to 40 years in prison in 2021. like I said I want to kind of go over some something we talked the other day just for a few minutes and had some concerns about a couple things and um okay there we go um when they're talking about Savannah so I just had a couple of things that came up that I wanted

to ask you about specifically that didn't didn't seem to line up so I wanted to come down and talk to you okay yeah all right I uh um so uh let's get just a couple just make sure I've got your basic information it's leave and tell me how you pronounce your last name we're already recording okay and that's r-o-d-a-r-t-e yeah right and it's 1081 Halifax Road Jacksonville what's a zip there uh three two two one six three two two one six okay uh date of birth is 811 of 88 and 511. yeah okay and what's

your approximate weight um I was going to last I weighed myself but I'm probably about 163 something like that 163. okay what color has you have brown brown hair is problem um and what's your phone number 904 okay 452-452 yes sir six zero nine four six zero nine four okay uh in your social do you know your social sure white male how old are you um 28 28. and can you read and write yes what's the last school you went to um Forest High School how far it was your name yeah yeah when did you

graduate from there oh six okay 2006. all right you can read it right have you had uh have you drank any alcohol today any drugs today um I took in Adderall that my buddy gave me okay because I was there slowly last night yeah and I was super tired right here take this okay Adderall yeah and do you normally take that no I was uh I've took it one long time ago like I wouldn't say High School a little bit after high school but it's been years yeah uh but nothing to drink alcohol wise okay

you know how about what time do you think you took Federal I was probably 12-ish like noon yeah okay and do you understand what I'm saying though we've been able to communicate okay enough it didn't you know okay yeah I know apple and you said you can read and write just perfect awesome uh when I ask you some questions I want to go over your your rights we are currently at 501 East Bay Street which is the police memorial building today is August the 5th 2017 and it's approximately 7 15. I'm not sure about that

yep most of Lee Road art Junior's early life is unknown he was born in 1989 and by all accounts was an average American citizen he worked at Bonefish Grill in Mandarin Florida in the Jacksonville area acting as a manager and chef at the seafood casual eating chain at the time of his crimes he was 28 years old and had no History of Violence rhodart dated a woman named Chelsea for 12 years before the murder of Savannah Gold his parents have not been named publicly but his sister Amber Camarillo was sentenced to 20 years in prison

for the murder of Raquel Wallace in 2018. after arguing over a car at a Super 8 Motel Camarillo was unable to control her temper and killed Wallace in a fit of rage she was convicted of the crime and remains in prison to this day um can you will you read that that just that Top Line yeah the following rights under the United States Constitution perfect I'll read these with you and you can just kind of fall um you do not have to make a statement or say anything anything you say can be used against you

in court you have the right to talk to a lawyer for advice before you make a statement or for any questions are asked of you and to have the lawyer with you during any question if you cannot afford to hire a lawyer one will be appointed to you before your questioning if you if you wish if you do answer questions you also have the right to stop answering those questions at any time and consult your attorney or with a lawyer do you understand those rights okay awesome if you just sign there that you understand that

that isn't knitting or not saying anything it's just saying you understand those things okay perfect I appreciate that all right so um Savannah you said that you knew her and you guys had um you knew her from work I mean just kind of filled me in with that how long have you known her um like I said I've known her obviously since you've worked since you started working there um I would say probably about eight months ago yeah or so we started hanging out outside of work um and at the time I had a girlfriend

um but I kind of you know we kind of connected me and Savannah so we hung out a little bit here and there um got pretty close uh we come from I guess somewhat similar um backgrounds I guess you should say Okay um you know she didn't have it the best come growing up neither did I uh so we kind of connected hung out for a little while uh I'd probably say a period of two three months okay um and then she started using uh drugs a lot okay now I use them with her uh

not the same drugs that she used all the time um but I did them with her a couple times and then she started to get heavy into them and oh gotcha okay um so I kind of just uh tried to take a step back and you know put things off um and after that um me and my ex started kind of chit-chatting again okay um who's that what's her name here's Chelsea okay um so we kind of started chit chatting and never really 100 because obviously you know she was still kind of upset about uh

me hanging out with Savannah and stuff like that um and then probably a month or so ago um uh I saw Savannah at work and she looked healthy again you know she gained a little bit of weight and uh just you know friendly talk at work you know telling her you know hope everything's been good and she told me you know that I guess she uh did a lot of drugs and ended up in the hospital she ended up missing like and I want to say a couple of days three or four days from work

oh okay um so obviously you know me being pretty close to her I was concerned and everything but after she came back you know she looked good and she ended up telling me that I guess uh you know over those four days she talks pretty well and she kind of kind of you know new sense into why she shouldn't do some drugs so much um and like I said she looked good you know she started looking healthy so uh we kind of were talking you know here and there we hung out a couple times she

came over to the house and you know we just kicked back drink a couple beers watch movies stuff like that um and then as we hung out you know after a couple of times she bought drugs over um and I told her I was like you know you're doing really good you can't you know you shouldn't be doing it again you're finally gaining weight because when we were together the first time she was you know she got really petite and just didn't look well um which is kind of why chicken step back plus uh on

August 2nd 2017 Savannah Gold arrived at Bonefish Grill dressed in her work uniform for her at 5 30 shift she parked a car outside in the parking lot but instead of going in for work security cameras revealed she got in the passenger seat of Lee Road art Jr's parked car 15 minutes later a struggle unfolded inside of the car she did not exit the vehicle but rhodar got out and opened the driver's side door of Gold's car he reached inside then returned to his own vehicle and drove away my father used a lot of drugs

growing up my mother used a lot of drugs going on and it was just kind of a hard thing to see you know every time that we hung out like I said we did you know uh we took like some pain pills here and there on occasion but then she started like bringing heroin over and stuff like that that's you know uh my mom was addicted to methamphetamines when she was when I was younger so the those hard like hard drugs just kind of scare me a little bit so that's why I took step back

the first time and then I felt like she was better you know as we hung out recently um and she brought drugs over to my house last time that we hung out okay and uh we would text here and there I would ask her how she's doing you know hope her day is going good just because I told her when she left the last time that we hung out I was like you know you're doing really well stop doing this you know you can do it yeah no doubt um and I heard that she just

kept you know was doing the same thing okay um so we text a couple times and I ended up telling her I was like hey you know uh for one I'm dealing with a lot of personal stuff myself right now as it is you know I'm a little depressed um but I think we're moving too fast I think we should you know stop talking okay um and she said I understand it's completely fine no problem you know uh she said I'll delete your number I'll never text you again and I said the same I was

like you know I'm sorry I didn't mean to you know try to jump back into things I just it I think we moved too fast um and I said I wouldn't text her either just to you know kind of split natural ways right yeah okay um and that was the last time that we text okay uh it was probably a couple two three weeks ago okay sometime in July right right yeah and I think that's one of the things you said was that was the last time that you had contact with her as far as

I don't want to put words in your mouth so I mean you you correct me that was the last time that I texted her yeah text or a phone call or messenger or anything like that two to three weeks ago yeah okay and um and then the last time when was the last time you saw her this is what I was a bit I didn't tell you the truth when we talked about this okay last one I saw her was Wednesday afternoon okay um I heard that she has been basically telling a lot of people

at work that um we hooked up a bunch like a couple days before that and that she was going to like tell about the whole situation and you know try to get me fired why would that get you fucked I'm a manager and she's an employee so okay so you guys aren't supposed to fret now okay and she just told um uh people I guess that she was out with I work at the restaurant that we were having sex okay and you know hooking up and stuff like that and that I was her boyfriend and

this and that um so I was a little upset obviously you know I care about my job sure how long have you been there now I'll be five years in the summer okay yeah right um so I was a little upset um so I met her in the parking lot uh at Bonefish Wednesday afternoon okay whether you know what time or about um it was about 5 30. okay when you say you met for achieved was she meaning you too and um I didn't yeah I didn't I didn't call her um I just drove up

there to see if maybe she was working I was gonna you know talk to her and um I thought she was working that night um I did you did not I did oh you did okay you knew she was working that yeah okay so I drove up there and I was hoping to get a chance to talk to her okay um I pulled in a parking lot she pulled in um a little bit after me I parked uh and I said hey uh can I talk to you for a second um and she said yeah

what's up and I was like I heard you've been saying some things about me and you continuing to hang out and you know that we're boyfriend and girlfriend and she was she asked me she said can I come sit in the car because I just did some heroin and I'm a little paranoid okay I said why are you doing that you know you're doing really well you should have been doing that um and so she came inside the car and I explained to her situation I told her that servers uh app on fish were coming

to me and telling me that you're telling people when you're out that we're still having sex and one boyfriend or girlfriend and I said I would appreciate you know I need you to stop because one is jeopardizing my job we agreed to you know split stop talking mutually and just move on and you know be cordial or whatever um but it was nothing more than that and she said I'm gonna do what I want uh you can believe what you want I didn't tell anybody anything and I told her I said the girl that you

were out with told Chelsea that we were still having sex and that you were just at my house like yesterday and hanging out and because the shoes that Savannah was out with a couple nights prior okay gotcha um I guess at one of the bars okay the girl that she was with her name was Rachel Rachel yeah and Rachel told Chelsea that Savannah was saying that uh because me and Chelsea talk you know we're very you know friendly at work you know we joke back and forth okay um and Savannah said yeah I did say

that you know uh probably like Chelsea you know and I said well look you need to stop because for one we like I said we agreed to go our separate ways um and it separated my job and it's making me really upset having to come into work you know or talk to Chelsea and she just constantly you know Badger me about stuff that you're saying that isn't true yeah um and I told her that she needs to stop in an attempt to explain Gold's sudden disappearance rhodart sent several texts to family members from Gold's phone

and the hours after the struggle on his car these texts sent to her father Daniel and brother Chris claimed that she had run away with a man to start a new life these messages were riddled with misspellings and poor grammar Gold's family immediately realized these texts were unlike their daughters and when gold was still missing hours after her shift was supposed to end they reported this to police um at that point okay um and I said no stop like I'm serious I don't want to talk to you it's not good for us so let's stop

and she just say why'd you do that well I said well I'm upset you know and she said fuck you you know you're a piece of shit and I said she said she's going to keep talk you know telling lies and stuff about me and everything like that and I said and at that point uh she had her phone in her hand she got out of the car and walked towards the main entrance from San Jose so like if um so this is like like uh like I know Bonefish is like over here this is

San Jose this is the bank it's over here in this area um where were you guys parked she was parked here okay um to the left of the Five Star ATM okay yeah um and I was parked here okay all right so you're you're like here yeah I was uh I was probably three spaces away okay from her car yeah okay all right um so what do you drive I drive a Chevy Malibu okay what color is it silver silver Chevy Malibu yeah because they have Colorado tags Florida tags Georgia Tech okay and um did

you when you got there did you pull into the parking place did you park sideways back then okay you're back then you backed into this parking place over by the bank area um by the VyStar ATM and you're driving a silver Chevy Malibu with a floor attack okay and then she's she pulls in over on this side of you yeah okay so like if you're in the car and you're sitting here she would be on your level I'm sitting facing for yeah she was okay is she back end is she pulling okay all right so

when she gets out she's close enough to you and that's when you motioned her over or called her over or said hey can I talk to you where you find yourself yeah nobody's so far with you no does anybody in the car with her no okay all right what was she wearing uh her uniform uniform okay all right uh then she comes over she says can I get in the car if I say anything wrong correct me okay I'm just gonna I'm gonna repeat back but if I don't get something right I need you to

make sure I'm saying the right thing okay um you say hey can I talk to you if she walks over approaches on the driver's side you're in the car out of the car then in the car okay you're sitting in the driver's seat okay um and she she asked can she get in because she's just done heroin okay and then she how does she do it does she shoot up smoke snorts uh she snorts it okay and then she just told me she shot up before but yeah uh never in front of me okay and

then she comes and gets in in the car with you yeah and you is your car a two-door or a four door four door four-door does she get in the front seat or the back seat she gets on the back and I asks why she's getting she got in the back okay um she was like I just don't want anybody to see me you know where did you get too um she said you can come back here and we can talk okay and so I got out and I got in the back okay so you

guys are both in the back seat okay got you all right all right I wasn't sure um and then had the the conversation went basically you're telling her to leave you alone yeah stop harassing you or stop why are you telling people that we're having sex and you guys um you don't want to jeopardize your job especially since she was high I was like you know it's you know we just told me to have anything to do with each other and uh she just she said fuck you you know I'm gonna keep doing this or

whatever okay so I got out and and then you got back in and then what'd you say to her um I said no can you leave me alone like I'm serious I don't want to talk to you and she said fuck you why'd you do that and I said and she continued to say that she's going to do whatever she wants you know and she'll say what she wants and I'm like what and I knew in my mind it was because she was high yeah so what did you say you gotta get paid I mean

I would too yeah I got frustrated I said and then yeah go ahead um we were told that that it happened before to her car no okay so you didn't know about that no okay same same deal okay all right um okay what were you you were saying something about the uh after you got back you did you get back in the car yeah okay and did you get in the front seat or the backside I got in the front seat okay that time you got in the front seat and where is she she was

in the back seat still okay and at that point I said you know leave me alone she said she responded I said Okay and she said fuck you you know I'll do what I want and she got out and it looked like she was either texting or calling somebody okay um because as you started walking towards the there's an entrance to Bone to the plaza okay yeah it's closer towards 295 yeah okay I wouldn't say she was walking along the edge of the plaza but she was walking Maybe towards this way and I was saying

older model Ford pickup green okay uh drove past me and around and she got in okay so um she had she while you guys were in the car together you guys are talking back and forth she's not 100 is she calling somebody while you guys are talking back and forth on the phone um I didn't she didn't call anybody no she had her phone in her hand yeah um but I didn't I don't think she texted anybody so she gets out of the car with you um and starts walking in this direction I was in

the car you're you're in the club but she got out yeah and now you were in the front seat yes so she gets out of the back seat and begins walking toward in the direction of not necessarily paralleling um San Jose but she's walking towards 295 or down towards that entrance area yeah um and then she's got her phone and you said you thought she was calling somebody um she used she had it in her hand and looked like that I mean I couldn't tell if she was texting or not or anything but she had

her phone now yeah she had her phone out and was looking at it and then um it looked like she was going to put it up to her ear and then the green truck came around okay and how long do you think um it was between the time that she got out and started using her phone till that green truck pulled up um maybe five minutes okay so wow so she called somebody they got there in five minutes to pick her up well I mean like I said she she it looked like she was going

to call somebody and that's when the green truck came around and she got in okay so she is in the truck what what happened to that one um they drove back around kind of looped around a little bit which way did he drive so she would say like here the green truck comes here and then kind of just loops around and it looked I guess they exit that way and at that point I left they instead of going which way down um towards Mr clear Lane I guess to leave the uh so they come out

on the back side of this um Bank like this way yeah towards Claire and San Jose yeah and then you pull out which way do you go um I go around and then go out the same way same way yeah and where do you go from there from there I go home you just go straight home so tell me your route uh 295 all the way to Beach Boulevard Beach Boulevard to Grove Park and then Grove Park how long does that usually take you I think it usually takes about 25 minutes or so okay what

happened to your neck that was self-inflicted actually why I just have been having kind of a hard time I couldn't yeah I did and what did you use a knife Savannah Gold's vehicle was discovered still sitting in the parking lot of the Bonefish Grill a tire that she had replaced the day before had been slashed and her purse and other belongings were still in the front seat of the car for three days the community distributed missing posters and flyers hoping that someone would know what happened to Savannah Gold rhodart himself was among the volunteers who

helped pass out these flyers family members later say he seemed genuinely concerned for gold safety and he assisted them as searching for his own victim um some time in July yeah bloody well it's I kind of peel the scab here and there at work hitting in on stuff like that I peeled it last night working um and it was coming off a little bit today so I feel that a little bit all right let me see but this and this was the same night this one was just a lot worse yeah and this one was

okay um and that was in July yeah um like a few weeks back yeah okay um so who who could you see who the person in the truck was um the truck had seen it fairly tinted windows I saw um a baseball cap yeah okay you see a guy girl white black I couldn't really tell if it was a guy or a girl okay um I just remember seeing the truck drive and her get in yeah um and now this time sitting in front and truck drives right past me yeah and I saw a baseball

cap through the passenger window okay um but so it seemed like she knew the person I mean she got right in have you had you ever um seen that truck before no never have you seen it since then no is she sick well did she say anything to you when she got out of the car other than you know she was just like you fuck you you know I'm gonna do what I want she doesn't say anything other than that okay why didn't you mention this before since we've been looking for this girl I mean

don't you think that information I mean it definitely it definitely does um and I regret obviously not saying anything before um I mean I talked to uh Chelsea and she said you know you need to tell them what you know and everything Chelsea you talked to Chelsea about this yes okay when did you talk to her um the day that it happened okay because I mean her whole issue with me was me hanging out with Savannah sure prior yeah yeah and Savannah's out of the picture then you guys are can be free to have your

relationship be back together yeah yeah I mean she I mean let Savannah's in the way in essence right I mean she she's kind of creeped in I mean she sounds like she's an ass I mean she's that way you if she's out there telling people you guys are having sex and if you're not or if you are um then she's the one that's kind of pushing your buttons she's pushing I just I told Chelsea that I was gonna tell her you know to leave me alone you were in Savannah yeah when did you tell Chelsea

that um I believe it was Tuesday okay night maybe Tuesday night yeah um and you how how do you guys talk do y'all Facebook Talk Text uh text message okay and you have a Facebook no okay you don't have one at all um I had one okay I deactivated it maybe a month or two ago okay okay it's still there or you don't use it or you actually have the account okay so it's not you don't have one that's out there then okay um I did have one when Savannah and I first started talking that

was kind of how we talked we wait for you guys to talk without Chelsea knowing what was going on yeah I'm not telling Chelsea I'm just no no yeah okay yeah so I when I come up and talk to you yesterday I'm not threatening I'm just I'm talking to everybody up there what why I just you know I freaked out to be honest with you I mean this girl is Missing yes okay but you know she's been missing I mean you you knew from you know in essence from day one that she is um that

she's missing and you um you you freaked out that I mean yeah I mean obviously you know I was the last one to see her so I was a little bit scared at that um you just said you weren't the last one that's here you said somebody in a truck well I mean the last one to see her at Bonefish okay that the last one she's heard from right I had contact with that anybody knows though sure um and you know I thought that I had a warrant out already okay uh I didn't go to

Forte for a ticket okay okay so obviously I didn't I talked to you last night yeah and I didn't have handcuffs and I didn't wasn't threatening in any way definitely not but I mean and I left so I mean what were you you're worried if you were worried you were going to get arrested then that would have happened well I mean that's another reason that uh you know I Chelsea called me and I said you know I told him I didn't you know anything what do I do now you know I already when did you

talk to Chelsea about that when did you when you talked to her um about that you talked it hadn't been after last night so was it today no I didn't talk to it today okay so I was up there talking to you last night like 11 o'clock yeah so did you talk to her it was earlier in the day I because obviously I told her what happened on August 5th 2017 Lee rodart confessed to the murder of Savannah Gold while being interrogated at the Jacksonville Police Department he changed this story multiple times before finally revealing

that he had killed gold and disposed of her body in a nearby body of water a dive team was called in to retrieve her remains in West Side Pawn police were able to connect him to the case from security footage of his car additionally rhodart had a noticeable wound on his neck that he claimed was self-inflicted but authorities believe could have been from gold during the struggle on the car uh the day that happened um and told her that I was going to tell Savannah to leave me alone okay uh the day before um and

after I told her you know what happened about me you know getting in the car with some guy yeah um she we talked a little bit just about you know how it's kind of crazy you know what I'm saying and I said well you know she hasn't hung out with the best of people in her past okay um she asked me if I knew who it was I said no uh just thought it was you know a green truck um and then everything happened and you know her mom and the police came up there and

everything like that so we talked Thursday night and she said hey you need to tell somebody look at and I was like I don't know what to do you know I'm scared you know I don't want to get in trouble for you know anything or have anything you know be a suspect or anything like that which I mean obviously wasn't the right decision to make yeah because now yeah obviously now it looks so um so you're saying that there's a green what kind of truck was it it was it looked like a Ford like a

mid 90s yeah it was a two-door maybe the ones with the little third door that you opened from the side okay um well the good thing about that is um we should be able to verify all of that all of those kind of things I thought that won't be a problem at all um yeah I'm just I I don't know I mean so you said that you told her that you had talked to us but I don't think that that could chronologically I don't think that could match up we we talked Thursday okay not last

night we talked Thursday okay after like uh her mom and everything was on news yeah um she called me and was like Hey you know everything's all over the news uh you need to you need to tell somebody you know she said call the hotline or something like that did you call the hotline um I told her I did just because I had I wasn't I was scared to call that night see did you ever call the hotline no so this you haven't told anyone yet of this other than Chelsea is the only person that

knows okay um just because I felt like I could you know did you wanted to be truthful so after how'd that conversation go with you and Chelsea um she just she kept asking me you know it's like what happened you know what happened and I would tell her and she said it's crazy um and then she told me that you know I need to call somebody and let them know that I was talked to her Wednesday um before the news that you were missing yeah and I said I would okay and I didn't how'd that

had the conversation end with you guys she was she told me she basically said that she's not gonna you know she doesn't want to associate with me because I talked to Savannah on Wednesday yeah yeah okay so here you see the thing with me and Chelsea would argue all the time about yeah me not telling Savannah to cut it off or whatever yeah but you go up and you meet Chelsea knows that you're going to go meet Savannah Wednesday afternoon she knows that um afterwards do you guys talk about how that conversation went yes okay

so you got so she knows how the conversation ended yes and you told her that night Wednesday night about the truck and about her um is there so you just called her and told her yeah we spoke first via text okay um so you text her from your phone yes so that's on your phone yes okay so that text message is on your phone no why not you know they said Savannah was missing because I freaked out I was like holy crap yeah I mean it sounds like which is I mean it's crazy which is

so you obviously me sending a picture of one of the things that they pointed out on the news kind of scared me sure absolutely um so how do you guys get together or y'all talk anymore Wednesday night do you have does she do a follow-up with you how'd the conversation go how'd the rest of Wednesday go um we she called me on my way home okay um and you know asked where I was when I told her I was like pulling in my neighborhood um and then we just talked about the situation she asked what

I said to Savannah but Savannah said to me and you know and she asked why she because she was texting me while me and Savannah were talking and I didn't reply because me we were talking yeah and you know I was we were going back and forth so uh I didn't text her back and I told her you know I'm not ignoring you we were talking and then so she called me and asked me what I was doing I said I'm in my neighborhood about to go home uh went home uh we text a little

bit more here and there she asked me what I was doing that's what I was eating I sent a picture of her after I got the shower because she was like oh I haven't got any pics or this and that so uh as I was getting out the shower I got the text message and I texted a picture of me gonna have to show her because she said she didn't believe I was home okay or something like that so I sent her a picture and other than that I hung out of the house okay by

yourself no I have a roommate what's his name Aaron a-a-r-o-n all right seizure p-i-e-g-e-r p-i-e-g-e-r yeah he's um P or B B okay okay he's what sorry he's who I moved in with okay so Wednesday night over the house it's you and Aaron yeah okay okay no uh 11 ish okay a little bit after but before that you this time out of this house by yourself at eight um I ate some dinner took a shower Chelsea actually came over Wednesday night if I'm not mistaken okay what'd y'all do I just hung out watched movies showing

a couple beers okay um so where where when she's in the car what does she say to you about what her plans are so she's scheduled to work that night so she's going to work she didn't talk about uh I mean I assumed she was going to work um she was in her uniform but she didn't say when she got out the car she didn't say anything after she got out of the car and she gets in that truck Gee let's be honest let's we won't even call her she was Savannah okay um Savannah um

again with this picture if we're using it in the same place they you from where your drawing was they drove over here you're here and you they drive out over here do they stop does she get out and go into work um keep going I didn't see once they turned the corner past ATM once she got in and they left I left because I just you run into him on the road anywhere no okay did she call you later on or text you later on Savannah when Savannah Gold's body was recovered it was difficult to

determine her cause of death 75 percent of her body had been burned and officials declared her manner of death as violent homicide though they could not determine exactly how she died It is believed that Gold's body was burned in rhodar's backyard and then wrapped in plastic a blanket a duct tape before being thrown in a nearby pond no other contact with her no so where's Savannah right now well where would I find her I don't know that's my my Prime objective is to find her definitely I think time's running out on her and I think

that I mean I've I should have said something to you guys when I talked oh yeah I should have said something Wednesday or Thursday when it was brought in so tell me how I go from nice guy I never met you um you seem like a nice guy I come up and talk to you uh again out of you you know you agreed that there was nothing threatening or anything about our conversation just asking you for some some basic simple things we talked for just a few minutes and you didn't tell me this story I'm

not going to say the truth because um I think there's holes in this story too um so you don't tell me this story and then today we're talking again because I brought you down to talk to you because I found holes in in that story that didn't match up and now you're telling me another story that there's holes in this story that does not match up so where where's Savannah I don't know why were you being hesitant about Chelsea being at your house you first said that by yourself you ate a loan yes and I

ate dinner alone yes right but that wasn't that's not true either because you order Papa John's earlier in the evening and when Chelsea got there she was hungry right but you said so I literally said you were alone when I ate the corn dogs yeah well you know I remember specifically texting Chelsea I'm eating corn dogs and all that's on your phone no why are you doing all that just a conversation with you and Chelsea you would delete about I'm having corn dogs that text might be on there okay but she once we've got to

talking about you know me going up to Bonefish and everything like that yeah yeah uh Chelsea said you know don't involve me does Chelsea believe you see I don't know okay um just so you know Chelsea thanks for bullshit okay because we've talked we've talked a lot yeah so and I mean that's about the gist of you know Chelsea's attitude towards me for the most part for the past months ever since me and Savannah is that because liar I mean to her that's pretty much what she labels me as yeah because you lie not about

ever no I mean obviously I'd like to hear about hanging out with Savannah can you lie to me about savannah yes okay so I mean I just I'm not trying to say anything else I understand I'm just laying out a facts here I want to find this girl I need to find her um and here's a couple reasons I need to find her one is um I'm hoping that that she's still alive and that's really I really do I'm holding out for that um and if she's not alive then I think she and her family

are are due that knowledge I think that's I I think they need some closure um because I think the reality is is if somebody's you know dead somewhere a parent would want to know I think if you do you have kids no okay so one day when you have kids you would the uncertainty is is whatever kind of a person she is and I'm not about to say what kind of a person she is um because I I'm not making any judgments I'm saying that this human being is if she's alive then I want to

find her I need to make sure she's okay because several days now she hasn't been around some there things happen to the human body and people can't stand um a lot of things that can transpire but the other thing is if she's not this family deserves better than this this family deserves better than somebody who works with her and who's got knowledge and won't tell the police because they're worried about their own ass because that's pretty that's that's pretty cheap I'm gonna be honest with you and your your feelings in it I don't really care

about your feelings what I care about is finding her so where is she I don't know where she is where is it I don't know I need to know where Savannah is enough she is you don't know because you had something done with her and you weren't involved in that part I don't know tell me something what can I work with I told you the last time I saw her that's not true because we have proof we have we have proof and that's why we're sitting here Lee at this point we need this for her

I mean I look at that little girl and I think of my little girl my little girl who's her age that's who I think about that was my little girl I couldn't imagine I don't care what she said about you or whatever but my little girl is that age maybe and you're not telling the truth maybe something gets out of hand in the car I didn't do anything okay you didn't do anything but she was in your car she never got out of your car she never got out of your car Lee we're not saying

that you did anything I'm trying to find her I didn't say you did anywhere she is well we can prove that you left with her in the car so please do do do everybody a favor and just tell us where is she you've got to be able to be able to separate we're not sitting here saying you did anything to her I don't know she's on drugs uh maybe she she passed I don't I don't know I I'm not in that car with you guys I know that she's in that car with you I have

proof of all of this okay I'm asking me then tell us now if you're if you're being an honest man are you being honest yes let's start being honest she never got out of her back seat Lee during the march 2021 trial rhodark claimed he killed Gold by accident after she had attacked him and he was forced to hold her back the prosecution argued against the self-defense justification pointing to the slashing of the tire burning of the body and other suspicious Behavior as evidence of premeditation in your backseat video cameras don't lie how do you

know how do you how do you think I know this information Lee I wasn't there but a video camera caught it tell me what happened how did how what happened to her was it an overdose is that what happened I I don't know I'm not in the car with you guys you just said she was in your car and she had admittedly had done heroin a body's overdose all the time is that what happens does she overdose okay well tell us when you left with her in the car because that is what is showing we

can't make up that we can't falsify a video camera Lee I'm not lying to you because you know I'm telling the truth because you know that's what's on the video how else would I know that I don't unless I have the video where did you go with her I didn't go anywhere you did you did so the video cameras live I don't know this I mean well I'm telling you I'm telling you I'm not lying to you I'm not making that up that's why I'm so passion about this this is Someone's Child you might not

have kids but damn it is she someone's kid it's not fair to her mom it's stage four cancer once all she wants to know is where her daughter is but I have this man sitting over here a 28 year old man that first says you haven't seen her you didn't see her that day to now the roles have reversed a little bit because we've been doing our background okay and now you're saying that she was sitting in your car which all lines up with the video actually I'm glad that you said you got in the

back seat with her all that lines up you know it doesn't line up for that passenger door comes open and shuts comes open and shuts she never gets out of that car and you drive off she never gets out of that car there is no green truck and that's not right to her or fact finders we don't have anything personal against you no no not at all I mean it's it's Finders no no no where did you go with her where did you go with her lead be a human you're a human you're a man

where did you go with her I know you're not that cruel inside seriously where did you go with her maybe maybe you don't know where she is now where did you go please I'm begging you Lee please tell us don't make us waste our any more of our time just tell us please tell us please I'm begging you I know you're not evil just tell us where she is I'm begging you please please can you please just tell me you know is that what how you want it people to think during the trial Road art

pleaded not guilty explaining that the altercation occurred after discussing his long-term girlfriend Chelsea who'd he been cheating on with gold off and on for about eight months after a shouting match he says gold lunged in him and he was forced to hold her neck back which is when he heard something pop and knew she was dead I know you're not an evil person I don't see that in you I don't see that in your history I'll hear those things about you at work please tell us where you went with her she never got out of

her car please tell us please please I'm begging you for her family please please she didn't get out of your car and you know that obviously please please I'm begging you it's a human right please just please please don't make us do this any longer oh yeah for her for her family just tell us where you just tell us where did you go where did you go with her then can you at least tell us that at least tell us that part where did you go with her afterwards she didn't get out of your car

and you know that obviously that's why we were here just tell us where where did you go with her tell us that at least put us in that direction I owe her family we've been here no one's uh we're not saying anything that you intentionally didn't just tell us where you went please it's not you're doing great I mean you told you you already told us everything we already know it's not rightly this isn't right for her family or for anybody that we should have to go through this I'm just I'm just human like you

are she's human her family everybody is feelings please now Now's the Time to tell us because I don't think you're any kind of evil person and I feel like you are going to tell us the truth I I do believe that I do believe you're going to tell us the truth because I believe that you do have a conscience Now's the Time please that's all we're asking is this word where'd you guys go okay I think you're a good man I think you want to do the right thing when y'all left out of there you

went down clearly and you made a left from San Jose about 295 and you get up on 295. where else did you go before you went home I know you eventually went home straight home okay so what did y'all do when you got home Savannah was with you she was with you and that's okay at that point but I don't know you know well where did she go from there is she still at your house okay she's still in her car no okay where is she I don't know where she is okay where did she

last drop her off at I didn't drop her off okay all right before you guys go into my house people did some jokes okay now for a little and then she said she was gonna catch him and go home and did she call me bro she pulled her phone out looked like she was using it I wasn't hovering over I was pretty high I mean I wasn't she told me she was leaving she walked out the door what was going on what was going on in the back seat for the doors to be kicked open

she kicked up in that door three times Lee she kicked it we saw it and you know I'm not making it up because I wouldn't know this because I wasn't there I would never know this unless we had a video of it correct yes correct I'm not trying to trick you I'm just a fact finder I'm not gonna lie that door kicked over three times obviously something went on in that backseat don't tell me about that what happened in the vaccine did she get mad at you well we've had arguments plenty of times where she

says she doesn't care what happens or anything like that Oh No One's Gonna Do It is oh you do know ledge and right now is the time you're so close and I know I know you're going to tell me I know you are because I just I just know you are because I know you want to do the right thing but you're scared to do the right thing I get it yeah I do I'm not can just tell you what I'm being charged with please yes I think yeah hi where where is Savannah so what

am I being charged with now China wants to spend the license I don't know yet I gotta talk to you attorney that's sitting out there watching this interview where's Savannah you do know so you're gonna make me in our team in this whole entire Sheriff's Office and every person in the community to get out there after you know we after they know the truth of who she left with and sees the struggle in the backseat of your car and you're going to make all of us go and search Jacksonville for her and you could just

easily tell me where she is but is that what we're going to put everybody through think about this sometimes people do wrong right some people make mistakes it's what you do afterwards I got a family that needs closure they're now coming to the reality that she's no longer with us I need closure for them when stuff gets out that you guys left and all that together and all that stuff so you want people to remember you as a guy who said okay look I'm going to do the right thing or do you want your family

and everybody else to think that you're some evil heartless person who won't tell us where she is why would you put your family and her family through all that I don't think you're that kind of guy I don't think you're evil something got out of hand I get it but what do you do after that here's what you do you do the right thing now just tell us where she is closure for her family we understand listen we understand we're not trying to hit you up on anything man I'm telling you I'm thinking about this

girl and her family and your family she was sorry please tell me where to go find out that's how people remember you I can work with that what you're gonna do the right thing now you can do this you can do the right thing Road art was ultimately found guilty of second-degree murder and sentenced to 40 years in prison he received this verdict as part of a plea deal which allowed him to take a reduced sentence if he changed his plea to guilty Lee rhodar is 31 years old and is serving his 40-year sentence in

a Florida prison he will be 71 at the time of his release [Music] foreign [Music]