Brice Rhodes Triple Murder Trial (Part 2 of 2)

13th Juror Podcast

Brandi Churchwell

Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary, News

4.6 • 897 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In May of 2016, a man is gunned down in the street walking home from a concert in the park. Louisville rapper Brice Rhodes shoots the man thinking there is a bounty on his head, but doesn't realize he has the wrong guy. Teen brothers Larry and Maurice, only 14 and 16 years old, were with Rhodes at the time. When Rhodes gets word the boys may have told their family about the murder, he kills them in such a brutal way that he became known as one of Louisville's most notorious criminals in recent years. Rhodes courtroom antics made headlines when he taunted the boys' mother in court, laughing at her and blowing her kisses. He threatened to kill the judge, spat on his lawyer, attacked other inmates in jail, as well as multiple corrections officers. His antics became so bad that he was forced to wear a stun cuff during trial. The details of this case are both heartbreaking and outrageous. This is the story of 14-year-old Larry Ordway, his brother 16-year-old Maurice “Reece” Gordon, and 40 year old father of two Christopher Jones, and the trial of Brice Rhodes.

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0:00.0	The brutal murders of 14-year-old Larry Ordway and his brother, 16-year-old Maurice Gordon,
0:05.7	sent shockwaves through the Louisville community where the brother's bodies were found.
0:10.2	Following up on a tip from the assistant principal at the boys' school, police were able to identify
0:15.0	Larry and Maurice. And they had already talked to the boy's mom, Elizabeth Wren, but they hadn't
0:20.7	released the identities of the boys to the public yet mom, Elizabeth Wren, but they hadn't released the
0:21.2	identities of the boys to the public yet, and the community was incredibly uneasy about what
0:25.9	had happened, and what kind of person is still on the loose in their neighborhood.
0:30.7	Elizabeth Wren was able to point police in the direction of 25-year-old Bryce Rhodes, a local
0:35.8	rapper who brags about being in the Louisville drug and gang
0:38.9	scene. The boys were last seen getting in the car with Bryce on Saturday. Their bodies were
0:44.5	found Sunday, dumped in the yard of an abandoned house, bloodied and burnt. A forensic artist was able to
0:51.9	come up with some renderings that were released publicly Monday,
0:55.0	and by Tuesday police had identified the boys and named Bryce as their main suspect.
1:00.0	Detectives knew they would need more than just a sighting of the boys getting in a car with Bryce.
1:06.0	And the big break that they needed came unexpectedly from Larry and Marisa's mom when she explained
1:12.1	that the reason that she didn't report her son's missing is because when she called Marisa's
1:16.9	phone, their best friend, Anwan, answered, and he said the boys were fine.
1:26.9	My name is Brandy Churchwell, and this is 13th juror podcast, where we unravel complex
1:33.1	court cases and present them as compelling stories, breaking down the details and weighing the
1:38.2	evidence from a non-legal perspective, just like jurors do.
1:44.1	Today, we are taking a look at the tragic murder of three Louisville natives who were all in the
1:50.1	wrong place at the wrong time and the man responsible for those deaths.
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