S2|E8: The Whole Story

Gone South

Audacy Podcasts

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

After years of denial, Biloxi strip club owner Mike Gillich agrees to help the government solve the Sherry murders. His cooperation reveals the true trigger man and the people responsible for the killings, including former Biloxi Mayor, Pete Halat. But as a new trial unfolds, Pete maintains his complete innocence. A Special Thanks to Celia Tisdale and the Mississippi Department of Archives & History To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	See 13 originals.
0:07.0	It's not unusual for criminal defenders not to tell their attorneys the whole story.
0:13.7	I mean we always just operated on the information we had.
0:16.7	I don't think that we ever were under the illusion that we had, you know, the complete truth.
0:24.7	This might just, the authorities were the enemy, you know, he did not cooperate with
0:30.9	the authorities.
0:31.9	He did not see himself as a snitch.
0:36.6	I don't think he had ever ratted out anybody and I was shocked that he would do that.
0:45.7	You know, at that point it was just a whole new ballgame.
0:52.8	I'm Jed Lapinski.
0:54.9	This is Gone South.
1:01.0	Episode 8.
1:02.8	The Whole Story.
1:15.6	We and the FBI and me in particular decided the only way we would ever get to the bottom
1:21.7	of these murders would be to flip an insider and we targeted the insider as being Mike
1:29.3	Gillich.
1:31.6	We knew Mike would know everything.
1:35.1	We knew if we could break him.
1:36.9	We could probably get the whole story.
1:39.8	For Special Agent Keith Bell, the first step was convicting Mike of conspiring to kill
1:44.2	the Sherries in 91.
1:46.8	Step 2 was the marijuana smuggling conviction in 92.
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