108: Leonard Patrick Gonzalez - The Crew
Obscura: A True Crime Podcast
Justin Drown
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🗓️ 1 May 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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July 2009
Escambia County, Florida
Leonard “Patrick” Gonzales Jr., age 35, is broke. He’s desperate for cash. So desperate that his mom is paying his bills. Patrick, of course, finds this embarrassing. Against his wife Tabitha’s better judgment, he invested their savings into a Karate School. Savings that the two saved up together working at Long-Wiggins’ antique business.
But the Karate business, like 40 percent of businesses in the United States, went belly up. And that little venture has placed Patrick (and by extension Tabitha) in financial jeopardy. Patrick felt like he was letting his family down. Both his wife and his children. But he had an idea. His ticket out of this whole mess was 66-year-old Byrd "Bud" Starling Billings
Escambia County, Florida
Leonard “Patrick” Gonzales Jr., age 35, is broke. He’s desperate for cash. So desperate that his mom is paying his bills. Patrick, of course, finds this embarrassing. Against his wife Tabitha’s better judgment, he invested their savings into a Karate School. Savings that the two saved up together working at Long-Wiggins’ antique business.
But the Karate business, like 40 percent of businesses in the United States, went belly up. And that little venture has placed Patrick (and by extension Tabitha) in financial jeopardy. Patrick felt like he was letting his family down. Both his wife and his children. But he had an idea. His ticket out of this whole mess was 66-year-old Byrd "Bud" Starling Billings
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| 1:49.0 | Welcome listener. I'm glad you're here. Take a seat next to the fire. Welcome to Obscura, where we shine a light on the dark. you're going to be here. July 2009, Escambia County, Florida. |
| 2:27.0 | Leonard Patrick Gonzales Jr. |
| 2:30.0 | age 35 is broke. He's desperate for cash, so desperate that his mom is paying his bills. |
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