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Michael calls april and says you need to get to my house. we ve got to deal with this. chris has a twin brother, mike, who thought madison s dad had good reason to be embarrassed. michael holton had a reputation to protect in eclectic. he was the former mayor, former fire chief. very well-known. how dare you embarrass me in this community, so i m sure he was (bleep). i don t blame him. i would be (bleep) too if my kid threw a house party. when michael holton walked into the house, he found the remnants of a teenage party, homemade bongs were scattered throughout the house, a box that smelled suspicious. that was it. and what he did, he called the sheriff s office and we sent a deputy up there. bill franklin is sheriff of elmore county, and the deputy sent to the house that day happened to be his son. when deputy franklin arrived, michael had something to say. mr. holton had actually greeted him in the yard and told him, hey, when you come in, ....
Said it is more probable that it is suicide than homicide. if investigators thought it was difficult for michael to shoot himself at that odd angle, defense attorney biggs demonstrated for us how easy it could be using an unloaded gun identical to the one found at the scene. this is the same make and model of gun? same make, it s a. 380 colt. not impossible, is it? greg said he didn t even need the forensics to show madison was innocent. common sense he claimed said it all. remember, madison s dad had handcuffed him behind his back, and when deputies arrived after the shootings, they found madison still in those handcuffs. my hands were like this on my back last night. i couldn t move them. the sheriff s theory? ....
and then that changed? yeah. what did you see? she would share little stories. maybe he wasn t as nice to her. tanya says april felt she couldn t do anything right in the marriage. by summer 2016 she was done. april filed paperwork for a divorce. i think she was at peace with her decision. was mike at peace with it? no. no, mike was not. too late. april had made her decision, and on september 11th, 2016, april only answered michael s call because the latest family crisis was about madison. obviously madison had thrown a party and so, they had to talk to madison about it, and she sh obviously madison had thrown a party and so, they had to talk to madison about it, and she was like i m going to have to go over there. sounds like she didn t want to go over to mike s? no, she did not want to go. she did not, but she was going to. i mean, she needed to go for madison. ....
my wife and i were able to eventually bond him out of jail. after. a year and three or four months. where d you get the money for madison s bond? my wife and i took out a loan, and we re still paying for it. after 15 months and seven days, the guard said today s your lucky day, pack it up. madison was out, but far from free. now he was prepping for a murder trial with the help of his twin uncles. his uncle mike discovered information critical to madison s defense when he went through madison s dad s autopsy report. michael holton was under the influence of heavy narcotics. michael holton had a cocktail of tramadol, oxycodone, and hydrocodone in his system at the time of his death. was pretty much everybody in your family aware that michael had a drug problem? they were. it was something nobody wanted to talk about. and it s an embarrassment? right. i mean, he was at ....
Do it i want a polygraph test. okay. generally guilty people do not ask for a polygraph. yeah, i mean, it s a lie detector test. yeah, some people can find a flaw in that. some people can beat it even when they are lying, but i mean, i was 17 years old. i mean, i didn t know nothing about it. i just knew it was a lie detector test. that polygraph never happened, and madison remained a teenager facing two murder raps. law enforcement was lined up against him. his mom s family felt differently. they saw madison behind bars as just another tragedy. i told him on day one the only role he played in this case was the fact that he threw a house party, but you don t put somebody in prison for life for throwing a house party. mike hadn t even known madison well before all of this. before this happened i never even had more than like a five-minute conversation with him but whenever i got to the jail, i mean, we d just sit there and talk on the phone ....