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Strings Attached · 10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories

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  Dispression. It's The Maude family ran an automobile empire, beginning in nineteen fifty
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  seven, with Charles Maud opening his own auto group, Charles Maud Odesmobile Cadillac.
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  The success was passed on through the generations, and by the time Charles's
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  grandson Eric Maud was born, the family was living in luxury, and Eric
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  was in corporated into the business as soon as he was old enough to work.
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  In twenty twenty, forty five year old Eric was living inside a five
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  million dollar ten bedroom mansion in Texas, overlooking Austin country club. Eric was
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  married with children, but on a trip to Nashville to see one of his
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  kids in college, he met up with another woman, a thirty three year
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  old beautician an escort named Holly Williams. Although Eric gave Holly a fake name,
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  calling himself Eric Moore to avoid her finding out his real identity, his
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  affair with her wasn't entirely no strings attached. Holly had just broken up with
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  her long term boyfriend, a man named Bill Landway. Their relationship had been
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  emotionally volatile and sometimes physically violent, and only a few months before meeting Eric,
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  Holly had officially put an end to things. However, Bill remained at
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  constant presence in her life. They kept living together after the breakup, and
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  Bill came continued to be violent and controlling. In January of twenty twenty,
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  Bill had gotten angry at Holly and then started strangling her while telling her quote,
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  this is only happening because you tried to run away. After the incident,
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  Holly had gone to the cops, telling them that she had been convinced
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  that Bill was going to kill her. It wasn't the first time that Holly
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  had called the police on Bill. In fact, it was the third time
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  after their initial meeting. Holly and Eric met up again in early February of
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  twenty twenty. Eric knew that he would be back in Nashville for a few
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  nights, so before he arrived there, he sent Holly a message stating that
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  he'd love to see her again. When she agreed to meet him, Eric
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  responded that he was excited to see her and directed her to wait for him
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  in a specific hotel bar like she had the last time. On the first
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  of March twenty twenty, several weeks had passed since Eric last met up with
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  Holly, and he received a text from her on again, off again partner,
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  Bill Lanway. Holly hadn't told Bill that she had been sleeping with Eric,
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  but he had gone through her phone and managed to trace Eric's cell phone
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  number back to his real identity. Bill was furious, and now that he'd
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  discovered how wealthy and powerful Eric was, he was determined to use this information
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  to extort the other man. In the text, he told Eric that he
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  would agree to keep the affair a secret in exchange for a significant amount of
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  hush money. Eric panicked. He had a reputation to uphold and he didn't
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  want his wife and family to find out about his infidelity. Ten days later,
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  he transferred hundreds of thousands of dollars into another bank account, but the
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  recipient was not Bill Landway. Instead, Eric paid the money to a private
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  security company called Spear Tip Security Group. The company's owner, Gillard Paled,
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  had previously been in the Israel Defense Forces as a military commander before he moved
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  to Texas and opened up the firm. When Eric approached Gillod about the fifth
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  of March and asked for his help, Gallod suggested that the case should be
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  taken over to law enforcement. Who would be able to arrest Bill for blackmail.
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  However, Eric refused. He wanted to settle this privately and didn't want
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  to risk involving the police. Instead, he wanted him and two of his
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  employees to fix it. Galad agreed, and one of his former Special Operations
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  Marine employees, Byron Brockway, investigated the situation and created what he called an
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  intelligent report. Another former Special Operations Marine employee, Adam Carey, kept both
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  Bill and Holly under tight surveillance, watching their movements. A surveillance document titled
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  Tennessee sit Rep was sent through from the employees to Gillad on the ninth of
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  March. It confirmed the details that Adam had found out while keeping Holly under
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  surveillance, including details about the vehicle she drove and her address, as well
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  as confirmation that Bill was still living with her. The document clearly stated the
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  purpose of the surveillance. Adam and Byron would use everything at their disposal to
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  stop the attempted extortion of Mond. On the eleventh of March, the same
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  day that Eric made the massive final payment to spear Tip Security Group, both
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  Byron Brockway and Adam Carey waited outside Bill and Holly's apartment complex and then approached
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  them in the parking lot. Both Spear Tip Security employees were carrying a weapon,
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  and during the confrontation, one of them shot and killed Bill Landway.
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  Byron and Adam had come prepared hiding cars for the occasion. The men forced
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  Holly into a rental car at gunpoint and then maneuvered Bill's lifeless body into the
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  vehicle before driving to Old Hickory Boulevard, where they pulled into a construction site.
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  They dragged Holly out of the car and shot her multiple times, killing
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  her, and dumped both the bodies at the construction site inside one of the
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  cars before driving away. With the deed done and Eric's payment received, Galad
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  then divided up the profits and paid Adam and Byron around one hundred thousand dollars
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  each. Shortly after Bill and Holly were killed, Byron returned the rental car
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  and the accounts that the men had used to communicate with Eric was deleted.
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  Within the same day, both killers made their way back to Austin, Texas,
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  but they hadn't done enough to erase the connection between Spear Tip Security group,
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  Eric mand and the murders Bill and Holly's bodies were found early the next
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  day at the construction site, and immediately the investigation entered their murders began.
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  Multiple factors connected Eric to the couple. His phone records connected him to Holly
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  even though he had used a fake name, and later on they connected him
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  to Bill when the threatening texts had started. Meanwhile, his financial records should
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  rowed an unexplained transfer of more than eight hundred thousand dollars, which was able
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  to be traced to Gillaud. In December of twenty twenty one, Holly had
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  been dead for nine months, and Eric's life had more or less returned to
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  normal. His wife never found out about the affair, and the family's empire
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  was intact. He decided to travel to a ranch in South Texas with one
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  of his friends, planning to go on a luxury hunting trip. When the
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  two men were driving back home along Interstate thirty five in Eric's black Toyota SUV,
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  they were suddenly ambushed at what appeared to be a routine traffic stop.
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  A group of federal agents and other law enforcement officials planned to surprise Eric and
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  prevent him from fleeing. Eric was removed from the SUV and placed under arrest
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  facing murder for higher charges. The friend he was hunting with, who had
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  no idea what was going on, remained sitting in the car's passenger seat while
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  Eric was handcuffed and taken into custody. Almost at the same time, Byron
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  Brockway was tracked down and arrested in San Diego, and Adam Carey was arrested
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  at his North Carolina home despite not being at the scene of the crime.
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  Gallad Pled was also arrested for his connection to the murders after FBI agents ambushed
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  him at the airport. Eric, Glad, Byron, and Adam all faced
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  the same charge of murder for hire, and Byron and Adam received additional charges
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  for kidnapping Holly and taking her to a secondary location before murdering her. After
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  accepting a plea deal in twenty twenty two, Gallod had an earlier trial than
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  the others involved. As a part of his deal, he agreed to testify
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  at the trials of the other three. In court, he was asked why,
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  as the man in charge of Spear Tip Security Group, he had gone
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  ahead with the murder for higher plots instead of sticking to his original suggestion of
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  Hell helping Eric to get Bill arrested for extortion. I should have, Gallad
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  replied, unable to give the attorneys a clear answer. I'm sorry. I'll
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  regret that for the rest of my life, but I didn't. The remaining
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  three men went to trial in twenty twenty three, and they were found guilty
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  on all charges. At the trial, the amount of hush money that Bill
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  had demanded from Eric was finally revealed. He had asked for twenty five thousand
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  dollars, around one thirtieth of what Eric had eventually paid to have him murdered.
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