A Bullet With Your Name On It

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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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in the state of Florida. That's
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here, but this is the first
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try to share it with people as
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like a crazy person. I have
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to do this podcast, you probably
read a lot of current news and keep

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up to date with what's going on
in the world. Is there anything going

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on right now that is keeping you
up at night? Melissa and Beaumont,

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Texas. Melissa, thank you for
the email, and yes, and since

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you didn't specify true crime, I'll
talk about what's not related to true crime

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that's keeping me up at night.
A couple of things. First of all,

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the Taylor Swift Travis Kelsey thing.
Why won't that end? I don't

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know why people are still talking about
it. It's a it was a it

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was a story for a minute,
but we're like a week past it now.

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Why are we still talking about this? I mean, it could be

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because Taylor Swift is the biggest thing
in entertainment news right now and has been

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for the last I don't know how
many years. She's massive, so anything

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she does or says makes news.
But this Travis Kelsey angle, I'm I'm

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a little bit tired of it.
It doesn't concern me like the government shutdown

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thing concerns me. So I'm not
going to get political here, but that

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is looming at the time that I'm
recording this podcast, so who knows what's

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going to happen with that. So
I've tried to avoid the Taylor Swift,

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Travis Kelsey news stories and figure out
what's going on with the world of government

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shutdown, and neither of those really
keep me up at night. But I

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will tell you what does currently in
the news, and that's how inept the

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Alabama football team offense seems to be. That might be bothering me more than

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anything. All right, let me
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