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A Bullet With Your Name On It · 10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories

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  Discretion, Is it by him made murder? Seth Jackson was just like any
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  other teenager growing up in Florida during the two thousands. He had two older
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  brothers, attended the nearby Bellevue High School, and he wanted to be an
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  MMA fighter when he grew up. When he was fourteen years old, Seth
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  started a relationship with a girl from school. Her name was Amber Wright.
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  That two of them dated for about three months, and as far as relationships
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  went for teenagers, it was serious. But Seth had some doubts about Amber's
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  loyalty to him. She was spending an awful lot of time with an older
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  boy, eighteen year old Michael Bargo. Seth became convinced that Amber was cheating
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  on him with Michael, so he ended their relationship in early twenty eleven.
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  The breakup was not amicable. Both Seth and Amber desperately wanted to make the
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  other one jealous, and Seth's fears were confirmed when Amber started dating Michael.
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  Only a few weeks later. Michael was convinced that Seth that Amber's relationship had
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  been abusive and began harassing Seth himself. Michael viewed himself as kind of a
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  tough guy. He carried a gun with him for self defense wherever he went,
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  and he already had a criminal record for petty theft. It meant that
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  when Michael showed up at Seth's house one day and told him I have a
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  bullet with your name on it, it wasn't just an empty threat. In
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  April two eleven, Michael and one of his friends, sixteen year old Kyle
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  Hooper, decided that they wanted to fight Seth. They told Seth to bring
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  a friend and meet them in a nearby trailer where the fight would take place.
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  Seth, being an aspiring MMA fighter, agreed, but when he showed
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  up to the trailer, he heard a gunshot nearby. Michael had shot his
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  revolver at the two boys, which she said was because he wanted to scare
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  them off a bit. It worked, and Seth then his friend quickly left
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  and went home. Michael might have succeeded in scaring Seth, but he wasn't
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  done. On the seventeenth of April, he sat his friend Kyle Hooper down
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  and told him, I need to kill Seth. Kyle agreed to the plan.
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  He also disliked Seth, who had allegedly threatened to set fire to Kyle's
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  house. The two boys decided to get more of their friends involved in the
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  plan, eighteen year old Charlie Eee, who lived in the trailer that Michael
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  had invited Seth to, and twenty year old Justin Soto. Knowing that Amber
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  was on bad term with Seth, the group also told Amber that they planned
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  to kill him, which she agreed to. Michael suggested that Amber should lure
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  Seth back to Charlie's trailer again. The rest of the group would hide nearby
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  and overpower Seth so that Michael could shoot him. The murder plan was only
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  a few hours old, but the group saw no reason to wait. They
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  wanted to kill Seth that night, as planned. Amber sent Seth the text
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  message letting him know that she wanted to meet him at Charlie's trailer so the
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  pair could work things out. She asked him to keep their conversation a secret,
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  hoping that he wouldn't tell anybody that he was planning to meet her that
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  night. It wasn't unusual for the teenagers to be spending time at Charlie's trailer.
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  It was a frequent hangout for them and their friends, so this wasn't
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  enough of a reason for Seth to be suspicious. However, the last time
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  Seth had been to the trailer, he'd also been shot at, so he
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  didn't completely trust Amber's intention. So Seth replied to the text message saying,
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  Amber, if you have me jumped, I will never give you the time
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  of day. Amber knew that Seth still had feelings for her, so she
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  tried to manipulate him into trusting her, telling him I could never do that
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  to you. I just want me and you back. Finally, Seth was
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  convinced, and he agreed to meet her at the trailer that night. When
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  Seth arrived, he was immediately ambushed. Kyle grabbed a heavy piece of wood
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  and hit him over the head. Michael aimed his gun at Seth and began
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  to fire. Seth was wounded, but he tried to escape, managing to
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  stagger outside. Justin Soto chased after him and dragged him down to the ground.
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  Michael followed behind, continuing to shoot at Seth until he was confident that
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  his victim was not going to escape. Then Michael, Justin, and Kyle
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  picked up Seth, carrying him inside the trailer while he struggled. Finally,
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  Michael aimed his twenty two caliber Heritage Revolver directly at Seth's face and pulled the
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  trigger. Seth died instantly. Michael and Justin wasted no time in wrapping his
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  body in a sleeping bag and then threw it into a fire pit in the
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  yard. They watched the body burn together for a while, and when Michael
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  and Justin went to bed, Kyle stood guard by the fire pit until his
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  son came up. Before the murder took place, the group of killers had
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  told one other person, Amber Wright's ex stepfather, James Havens. James had
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  not intervened with the plan or called the police. Instead, he agreed to
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  help the boys get away with the crime. Early in the morning, James
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  arrived at the trailer. He brought his truck loaded up with cleaning supplies,
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  cables, and cinder blocks. The group of killers divided up their tasks.
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  Some of them scrubbed the trailer with bleach to remove Seth's blood, while the
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  rest of them scooped up the charred remains out of the fire pit and into
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  buckets. They loaded those buckets into james truck. Michael asked James to drive
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  them to O'calla, where he planned on dumping the remains into a flooded quarry.
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  Seth's family had quickly noticed that he was missing, and by the evening
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  of April eighteenth, he was featured on the local news as a missing person.
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  His killers had vowed to keep their crime a secret, but when Kyle
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  Hooper saw the news report, he couldn't take it anymore. He confessed the
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  entire thing to his mother, who then called the authorities. Within hours,
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  the rest of the killers were tracked down and arrested, but Michael Bargo was
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  nowhere to be found. Initially, Kyle, Amber and Charlie all tried to
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  blame Michael for the crime, but during their police interrogations, the real story
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  was revealed. When the group was placed in the same holding cell, they
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  talked about the crime together, agreeing that Seth deserved to be killed. Meanwhile,
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  Michael didn't show any remorse for what he had done. After fleeing the
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  scene, he went to stay with family of one of his friends, and
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  while he was there, he bragged about the murder to five different people.
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  He even seemed proud as he told them about breaking Seth's kneecaps so that he
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  could stuff his body into the sleeping back. Fortunately, Michael's time on the
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  run was short. The following day, police located him and placed him under
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  arrest as well. After searching the crime scene, investigators found Michael's gun and
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  spare ammunition, as well as small pieces of Seth's remains that had been left
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  in the fire pit. Michael had been confident that nobody would ever find the
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  remains he'd dumped to the quarry, but when the search team arrived, they
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  quickly noticed one of the large buckets floating on the water's surface. The cinder
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  block that had been used to weigh it down had come loose. Now that
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  they knew what they were looking for, the searchers quickly recovered the remaining two
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  buckets at the bottom of the quarry. Seth's remains had been severely burned,
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  so DNA analysis is required to prove the body belonged to him. A team
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  of DNA analysts and forensic anthropologists analyzed samples from the buckets and the fire pit
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  and were able to confirm that the remains in both locations belonged to the same
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  person. After comparing the DNA with samples taken from Seth's family. They confirmed
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  what law enforcement already knew. The remains in the bucket belonged to Seth.
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  All but one of the killers had been a teenager at the time of Seth's
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  murder, but the prosecution quickly decided that all of the perpetrators should be tried
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  as adults. It was clear that all members of the group had been present
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  throughout their attack because Seth's blood was mixed with small traces of their DNA throughout
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  the trailer. None of them had showed remorse or tried to back out of
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  the plan. In June of twenty twelve, Kyle, Amber, Justin,
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  and Charlie received a life sentence for Seth's murder. James Havens was charged as
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  an accessory to murder and was able to receive a reduced sentence in exchange for
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  a guilty plea. It was clear that Michael Bargo had been the ringleader,
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  and for that he was sentenced to death, becoming the youngest death row inmate
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