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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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