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20 YO Breaks Down After Discovering His Mom Dead


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A young man returns home from a friend's house to find his mother's boyfriend pacing outside. The boyfriend says he just found her unresponsive. The son pushes past him, runs inside, and sees his mother on the floor. He collapses. He screams. He tries to revive her. It is too late. He does not know that the man who called 911 is the man who killed her.

In July 2019, Amanda Crum was found dead in her Lithia, Florida home from an apparent gunshot wound . Her boyfriend, 44-year-old John Wakefield, called 911 and told dispatchers he found her unresponsive. But a bullet hole was discovered in the living room wall that contradicted the story . The medical examiner's office initially ruled the death "accidental" before revising it to homicide .

Wakefield had searched for how to commit murder on his phone and had taken out two life insurance policies on Crum, making him the sole beneficiary . He was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. Jurors found him guilty after just four hours . Wakefield did not know that the son who collapsed over his mother's body would become the key witness who helped put him away.

Turn down the lights, put on your headphones, and press play because the 20-year-old who found his mother dead helped the jury see through the boyfriend's lies.
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