The Drugs Made Me Kill Him

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Discretion. Is it by him?
Maybe murder? None of stephen Stars neighbors

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knew how long Stephen had been sharing
his home with nineteen year old Michael Anderson.

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According to Michael, the two men
had met at a local gay club

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in early twenty eleven, where thirty
six year old Stephen invited Michael to come

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and stay with him. Nobody would
ever know if Stephen would have told a

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different version of that story. On
February thirteenth, twenty eleven, Michael logged

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into Facebook and made a post that
said, quote, my killing starts tonight.

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Later on, he made a second
post, this one read I finally

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cracked guys, I really did it
this time. The events that took place

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between those two Facebook posts ruined the
lives of both people. Inside Steven's house.

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At four forty five in the morning, Michael picked up the phone and

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made a nine one one call Katava
County nine one one. Um, I'd

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like to report on post. Okay, what's wrong? UM I took some

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pills and um the pills man to
go mad, and UM I murdered a

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roommate. Have you murdered your roommate? Yes? Where are you at?

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What's your address? Drove Patory,
North Carolina. Okay, what do you

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mean you murdered your roommate? I
showed them three times and I used the

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ax and utilizes his body. Okay. Where is your roommate now? Are

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you still in the house with him? Okay? What's your name? Michael

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Anderson? Okay, Michael? What
what did you text? It made you

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do this? Uh? Um?
Odid on miss the next dum dejection working

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um makes me uh feel a little
weird. Not took too many. Okay.

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What is your roommate's name, Stephen
Star And you said you shot him?

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Yes? Okay, where is the
gun at now? In your hand?

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Okay? I need you to put
the gun somewhere. Okay, I

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don't know what to do. What
Listen, I'm gonna stay on the phone

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with you. Okay, listen to
me. I'm gonna stay on the phone

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with you. What part of the
house are you in? I'm in the

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master bedroom? Okay? Where is
your roommate at? Okay? I want

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can you take the gun and put
it down on the floor and go to

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like is the is a living living
room? Where the front door is?

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Oh? No, okay, where's
your front door at? What part of

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the house. Oh right, as
you um, right, as you walk

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up to you master bedroom and you
turn right. Okay, okay, okay,

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can you lay the gun down on
the floor. Um. I don't

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want you to have a gun in
your hand. Okay, can you lay

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it down on the floor? Um? You know? Okay. Well,

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I'm gonna help you, okay,
But what I need you to do is

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put that gun down. Okay.
Okay, Well we're gonna get you some

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help. Okay. M pick them
on this for a few wells, but

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I didn't think it matter. Okay, that's okay. I'm gonna help you.

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Okay, So to get a little
bet on your rooms kilping me.

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And then there's a killer room.
I can't believe it's a killer rooms room.

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Okay, listen, I need you
to put that gun down, okay,

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and I need you can you put
it on the floor all right?

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Okay. Are you on a cordless
phone or a cell phone that you can

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walk around the house? Okay.
I want you to go to the room

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that is where the front door is. Okay. I'm gonna get some help

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out there for you, all right. Oh and amen, uh huh.

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Just some things to buddy that you
don't want them to see. Okay,

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well, I've got you some help
on the way out there. Okay,

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you do not want to know who
it is. Okay, I want you

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to stay on the phone with me
till they get there. Okay, all

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right, to a middle hospital.
We're gonna get you some help. All

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right, We're gonna get you some
help, I promise. Okay, just

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try to calm down like I'm having
a tend. Okay, what you need

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to do. Take a deep breath. Take a deep breath and calm down.

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And did you in your roommate get
in an argument or this just happened?

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Um? Okay? We met at
UM. I went to UM.

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I was straight, and I wanted
to go UM a sexual, just the

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experiment. And I went to a
close and I met him and went to

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his house and he took me in
and I turned straight again, and he

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wanted to um touch me in south
and I wouldn't let him, and he

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kept turning. I waited until he
went to sleeping, and I showed him

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three times and I immutilated him very
busy. I'm sorry, Oh god,

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WoT do you have anybody else in
the house with you? No? Right

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home? Okay? On the phone
with me. Okay, okay, is

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this a house or a noble hame
or it's a double word, it's a

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double wide. Do you have any
cars out in front? You'll go down

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a you'll turn out a church on
a dirt road. To go down the

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dirt road, you'll go down to
your turn and you'll turn in a dirt

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driveway, um where there'll be a
green truck, a green truck, a

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little green truck. And if you
look in the window, to be manual,

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it'll be a yellow truck. And
there'll be wood out there that I

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was chopping. Okay, I'm sorry. Remember the X isn't such a stomach.

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Okay, I want you to stay
on the phone with me. But

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you say you do not have any
weapons with you? Correct, no,

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mam, Okay, I just don't
want you to have any weapons in your

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hands. Okay, your man,
all right, I'm sorry to ruin Yourn.

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You're you're fine. We're gonna get
you some help. Okay. I

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got blood all over from my hands. Okay, I want you to I

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want you to stay where you are. Okay, just stay sitting in the

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chair, take some deep breaths.
We got to some help. On the

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way forward. Okay, listen,
listen to me, Listen to me,

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tail Meggy, and you do not
have a gun or anything in your hand.

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Okay, all right. I want
you to stay on the phone till

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I'll tell you what to do.
While he was being transported to jail,

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Michael stopped to talk to reporters,
telling them that he loved Stephen as a

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friend. The damage to Stephen's body
was extensive and brutal. He hadn't just

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been killed, he had been violently
attacked and then mutilated. First, he

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had been shot multiple times with shotgun
and handgun, but he'd also been stabbed

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with a knife and had the blade
of an axe thrust deep into a stomach.

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Michael had also carved a word into
Steven's torso. Initially, investigators refused

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to disclose more details about that mutilation, but it was later revealed to be

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the word joker carved capital letters.
Michael had also used a ballpoint pen to

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write more words on Stephen's body.
This time they were on the front of

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his stomach and chest. They read
I'm effing Psycho. Despite the vicious nature

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of the attack, investigators didn't find
any signs of struggle in Stephen's house only

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the large pools of blood found close
to where Stephen's body was eventually found.

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The lack of struggle suggested that Stephen
had been killed in his sleep and incapacitated

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before he was able to fight back. Law enforcement officials described the crime scene

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as being horrific. Coy Reid,
the sheriff, said that it was probably

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one of the worst scenes he'd ever
seen in his thirty years of law enforcement.

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Michael was quickly charged with murder and
held at the County Detention Center without

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bond. Just like he'd readily admitted
to the murder and described his actions in

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grewsome detail during the nine one one
call, he was willing to plead guilty

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to the charges against him. After
being found guilty of second degree murder with

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aggravating factors, Michael Anderson received a
minimum prison sentence of sixteen years and four

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months behind bars. Despite how much
information Michael shared about the crime, one

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thing remained unclear to law enforcement.
Had Michael really had a bad reaction to

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cough medicine causing him to misbehave violently. A medical examination confirmed that when Michael

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killed Stephen, he had almost twenty
musenex pills in his stomach, a cough

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medication that can cause LSD like hallucinations
and high doses. Or had he been

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telling the truth on the nine one
one call when he said that Stephen had

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been making sexual advances, causing Michael
to lash out and attack him. But

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when Michael was asked if he and
Stephen had been fighting before the murder,

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he replied no. Michael Anderson had
no history of violence. Second degree murder

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became the first crime on his Squeaky
Clean record, and more than a decade

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after Stephen's Starr was murdered, the
real motive for the crime remains unknown.

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