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00:00William Faulkner, maybe one of our greatest, said, to understand the world, you have got
00:23to understand a place like Mississippi.
00:26And he was so right.
00:30The South does not have the most spectacular history.
00:37The Civil War created multiple scars all over us.
00:43And I think the South in its struggle to rise above the past, learn to tell stories, learn
00:52to share tragedy, and then sometimes learn to make up stuff.
01:00So Southerners, we're the best storytellers of any area and the world.
01:08Believe it or not, we actually like trauma.
01:12And in this story right here, we're proud to show you every characteristic of being a crazy Southerner.
01:21Southerner.
01:29Hello there.
01:31I hope everybody out there is having a good day.
01:37I can't really introduce myself and tell you who I am.
01:43I had a few run-ins with the law in the last couple of years.
01:47Well, let's just say that the law enforcement and myself don't quite see eye to eye with things
01:55that are acceptable in society.
02:00Personally, I don't see anything wrong with having a few drinks
02:03and driving around with no clothes on.
02:07Mmm, that's good.
02:11Around 9.30, we received a call that there was a letter that was mailed to one of our Justice
02:23Court judges.
02:24Inside this letter was a suspicious content.
02:28I've been under attack and harass for quite some time now, and it's affected me in various
02:37ways.
02:39Your time is limited.
02:41Do not harass me anymore.
02:44More breaking news right now.
02:45We're just learning that a letter apparently laced with the poisoned ricin was sent to a
02:51United States Senator of Mississippi.
02:55Scott Palukis is responding to a suspicious envelope.
02:59We're currently conducting an investigation.
03:03I never anticipated going to jail, losing my home, my business, my land.
03:09My friend, my friends, my family.
03:11Now I'm upset, and I'm done with it.
03:16Ricin has been found on letters mailed to the President.
03:21Outside of the White House has been closed off.
03:23The FBI and the Secret Service now investigating several suspicious letters.
03:28The President has, of course, been briefed on these letters.
03:31He was briefed last night and again this morning.
03:33And as the President said, we will find out who did this, we will find out why, and we will
03:39bring those responsible to justice.
03:43And after an exhaustive investigation, authorities trace those letters to Paul
03:49Kevin Curtis of Tupelo, Mississippi.
03:52He'll be charged with an attempt to kill the President of the United States.
03:57Strange new details emerging.
03:59He is said to be an Elvis impersonator obsessed with conspiracies.
04:04Well, thank you very much.
04:06The FBI has been following this man for years.
04:13Paul Kevin Curtis is no stranger to the FBI.
04:17He seems to believe that there is a conspiracy putting him on the front lines of a secret war.
04:23This is my Shangri-La.
04:40It's a paradise.
04:44I'm getting away from people taking photos of me,
04:48whispering, pointing, their faces turning red.
04:51Sometimes they come up to me, are you an Elvis impersonator?
04:55Did you get into some trouble a few years ago?
04:57Are you that guy?
04:59People would say, you lived through that?
05:02How does it feel being the toughest guy around?
05:06And I mean, literally, my daughter said, there's no one that can touch you.
05:11Like, Dad, you are the king of Tupelo.
05:21You've been the king of Tupelo.
05:47I'm the king of Tupelo.
05:48You've been the king of Tupelo.
05:49You've been the king of Tupelo, Tupelo.
05:49Ten years ago, I finished an entire screenplay.
05:56The Secret Service stole it from me.
05:59I actually checked out a book from the library,
06:01how to write a screenplay,
06:04and no one supported me.
06:08But who's laughing now?
06:11This is Netflix, you bitch.
06:13Missing Pieces is the name of my movie.
06:19And I just believed in it like Sylvester Stallone believed in Rocky.
06:24So in the next few months,
06:26I'm going to complete my screenplay once and for all.
06:33Act one, scene one.
06:36The camera zooms in on a rundown shack
06:39on the east side of Tupelo, Mississippi.
06:44The story of the 2013 presidential assassination attack
06:50begins right here,
06:52at the birthplace of the king.
07:01Out of poor old Tupelo, Mississippi,
07:05there arose this young man by the name of Elvis Presley,
07:09and he changed things.
07:13We say we're the most famous hardware store in the world,
07:21because Elvis bought his first guitar
07:22right where you guys are standing.
07:26Now, the story goes,
07:28Elvis came in here on his 11th birthday
07:30and bought a guitar.
07:32And he did learn about four chords.
07:34He learned how to shake his hips and go,
07:35hub, hub, hub, hub, hub, hub.
07:36And the girls went,
07:37ah!
07:38And it all took off.
07:44Well, Elvis came here when he was a little boy
07:46to come to the movies.
07:49Rumor has it he got his first kiss up there.
07:51I don't know who it was with.
07:52I never got the lady's name.
07:57This is the original five founding members of the fan club.
08:01The Elvis Presley sweethearts.
08:04I always thought if I could just have one night with him.
08:06I got a picture hanging outside my office here.
08:10And it's the original picture of Elvis coming down
08:13to the sheriff's department being sworn in in 1971.
08:17So he was a deputy.
08:19And the sheriff that I replaced was Elvis' third cousin.
08:25A lot of people don't know,
08:27but Elvis took martial arts and Tupelo just like Elvis.
08:31Self-defense hand-to-hand.
08:33That's my forte.
08:34You know, if it's life or death, you got to be brutal.
08:37Throat.
08:39All right?
08:41Eyes.
08:42Grab them, pull them to you,
08:43and bite a chunk out of their neck.
08:45All right?
08:46That's brutal.
08:48Sovereign grand architect of the universe.
08:51We thank you for the life of Elvis, Aaron Presley.
08:54The light of a fateful life never dims nor dies.
08:58Shine on, Elvis.
09:00Shine on.
09:01In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
09:03Here in Tupelo, we have many types of Elvi, which is what I call plural Elvises.
09:12There's four-foot tall Elvises, seven-foot tall Elvises, fat Elvises, skinny Elvises, paraplegic Elvises.
09:20We even have an insurance Elvis.
09:21I look forward to helping you understand Medicare and answering your questions.
09:27Call me today.
09:29Elvis was like a god.
09:31And this presidential assassination story is the biggest, most talked about thing since Elvis Presley.
09:40So, welcome to Tupelo, Mississippi, where teams are different.
09:49Let me tell you something.
09:59One day, my husband was singing with Elvis.
10:03Elvis.
10:04And backstage, Elvis asked him, is that your wife, will you?
10:11And when he found out that I was a Mississippi girl, he said, what's your phone number?
10:19Oh?
10:20Yeah.
10:21All of a sudden, he just gave me a hug and a kiss.
10:27That's it.
10:28Listen, man, my mama raised me on Jesus, Elvis, and cornbread, and yes, in that order.
10:46Growing up, I was the shy, geeky kid with the glasses.
10:51And I got picked on.
10:52Like, I got bullied.
10:54Poor Kevin.
10:56Kids picked on him.
10:58Made fun of him.
11:01But he was my sweetie.
11:04He's kind of a mama's boy, like Elvis.
11:07Where's my little Elvis?
11:09Hi, mama.
11:11So, I spent my whole childhood locked in a room practicing the quiver of the king.
11:17It all sounded.
11:21And I remember neighbors would gather around and listen.
11:25Wow, it's Elvis.
11:29And then when I was 14, my mom got the jumpsuit by the same people that made Elvis's.
11:35Once you pull that zipper up, it's like Clark Kent becoming Superman.
11:41And by high school, I was on fire.
11:46Kevin Curtis, winner, first place in 15 talent shows.
11:52Ladies and gentlemen, the winner of our contest, Kevin Curtis.
11:54And in my 20s, I was a seven-time world finalist at the International Images of the King.
12:06Then, all of a sudden, my older brother Jack just decides to become an Elvis tribute artist overnight.
12:16I really didn't ever think or intend to become an Elvis tribute artist.
12:29Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Jack Curtis.
12:31But then I realized, as an insurance agent, this could be special in the form of business.
12:42I'll help you save the premium dollar.
12:44However you know me.
12:47Call me today.
12:49Jack, you know, we're extremely different.
12:53He's logical, successful, very wealthy, popular.
12:59He's always been a winner.
13:01The thing that's most important in life is what I call achievement drive.
13:08And that's what you need in order to be the Michael Jordan, to be the Tiger Woods in our business.
13:15A burning desire to be successful.
13:18Now, with Kevin, I knew he likes to have fun.
13:26No cares, no worries.
13:29But what I didn't know about was his work ethic.
13:35I mean, he kept getting fired from a restaurant that he worked at.
13:43He really needed some inspiration and motivation.
13:46So, I got him the Tony Robbins cassette program.
13:53And it was all about personal empowerment.
13:57Ask yourself a question.
13:59Why is it that so many people are frustrated?
14:02They feel overwhelmed.
14:03They feel like they're not living what's most important to them.
14:06It's one idea.
14:07It's all it takes to change your whole life.
14:11I would listen to Tony Robbins seven days a week,
14:14just pump positive information and affirmations right into my brain.
14:20My gosh, he would take those books and audio tapes and memorize them.
14:24You want to change your life?
14:26Your past doesn't equal your future.
14:28The past does not equal the future.
14:30Just make one subtle change and all your dreams can come true.
14:34One idea.
14:36It's all it takes to change your whole life.
14:37And I'm asking myself, what can I do that no one had ever done before?
14:43One idea.
14:45And one day, one little idea popped into my head.
14:48One idea.
14:50Boom.
14:52Out of vision.
14:53Out of vision.
14:55Ladies and gentlemen, in 1935, two babies were born in Tupelo, Mississippi.
15:01One of those babies were still born.
15:04But the other went on to become the king of rock and roll.
15:10What if there were two?
15:12There were two.
15:14And the band kicks off.
15:17Two brothers standing there with spotlights.
15:20Introducing the first brother Elvis Presley tribute act in the world.
15:27Double Trouble!
15:31When I pitched it to my brother, Jack's like, well, I'll be damned.
15:36Two Elvises?
15:37I'm like, yes, man!
15:38Double Trouble.
15:41That's a million dollar idea.
15:43Jack told me.
15:49You know, I told Kevin, if we're going to do this, I want to be the best.
15:56Jack and Kevin, it's Double Trouble.
15:59Double Trouble changed the game.
16:02The triple costume change is something no one had ever done in the international competition history.
16:09We're the only ones incorporating full-blown martial arts.
16:16And it wasn't long before Double Trouble just took off.
16:22Double Trouble was buzzing, man.
16:27We were written up in magazines in Japan.
16:29Kevin and I made the Guinness Book of World Records as the only Brother Elvis act in the world.
16:39All right, we're so glad to have Double Trouble.
16:42And you've got Double Trouble twins.
16:45We sure do.
16:47Ladies, you're all pumped up for the Big Double Trouble concert, aren't we?
16:51Absolutely.
16:53And the ladies, they're enthralled.
16:56They love it.
16:58They throw things up on the stage, you can imagine.
17:01They write me, they send me gifts, money, some letters and panties and neglige.
17:07A 95-year-old woman was trying to molest me.
17:11Wow, this is a part of the gig.
17:13I don't know what extra appeal a brother show has.
17:20Let me say this.
17:22Crazy things happen.
17:24Act one, scene five.
17:31Double Trouble auditions a new backup singer.
17:35Enter Laura.
17:37Little did I know, she'd soon move to center stage.
17:45Curtis's wife Laura has some crucial information for the FBI in their investigation.
17:50And now here is the song that the birthplace of the great Elvis Presley made famous.
18:04Love Me Tender.
18:05Welcome, Laura Curtis.
18:07Love me tender.
18:10Love me more.
18:13I grew up in Tupelo.
18:15And every girl who wants to sleep with the Elvis impersonator once in their life
18:19It's just, it's the bucket list.
18:24Lucky me.
18:26I was in a band with two of them.
18:30Jack's the rich brother.
18:32Very handsome.
18:35But Kevin, I thought he was very sexy.
18:40Because I have a thing for pencil thin mustaches.
18:43I was on my first date with Laura.
18:47She took the jacket off.
18:49I'm like, my goodness.
18:51She was well endowed.
18:53You know, that's what I'm saying.
18:55Bam.
18:57He's like, the boobs, the boobs.
18:58It's fun.
18:59But most importantly, she had the most beautiful, tiny, petite feet.
19:11I'm a soul man.
19:13I'm a foot king.
19:15What do you do?
19:16Videotaping you.
19:18I mean, the fact that it's hidden.
19:20That the socks are covered in the shoes.
19:23Like, this is a mystery.
19:25Like, when my mom hands me a Christmas present,
19:27I want to unwrap that thing like I'm pulling a nice sock off them toes.
19:31Look, I do not judge.
19:34Everybody has a thing.
19:35Look, he's tired.
19:49Act 2, scene 1.
19:52Kevin Curtis is a new dad with a new baby.
19:56Just learning how to change diapers.
19:59And Laura says to me, Elvis ain't paying the bills.
20:02Guess it's time for a real job.
20:08So, Elvis did get a job.
20:11I am a janitor.
20:13A janitor?
20:15Imitating Elvis.
20:17That's crazy.
20:19Kevin, do you do Elvis impersonations?
20:21I do.
20:22And Elvis cleans carpets.
20:24He cleans carpets.
20:25He strips floors.
20:26He bumps.
20:27You name it.
20:28Elvis will do it.
20:29You call the cleaning man.
20:33The singing janitor.
20:35And I tell you, he worked hard at that cleaning business.
20:40Kevin's a terrific cleaner.
20:42We're going to have to do some more detailing.
20:44Going over it twice.
20:46He cleaned seven businesses a night.
20:49Thousands of toilets.
20:51And he loved his work.
20:53I don't know, man.
20:55Cleaning fucking sucked.
20:57I was so happy.
21:00He was making money.
21:02We bought our little house.
21:04Toys for the children.
21:06It was the American dream.
21:09I just sucked it up.
21:11Went to the same jobs every day.
21:14Buffed the same floors.
21:15Cleaned the same buildings.
21:17But that all changed.
21:20When I booked the biggest contract we ever had at the North Mississippi Medical Center.
21:27Wow.
21:29It's the largest rural hospital in America.
21:34And very important as the top employer in the state of Mississippi.
21:42Here at the North Mississippi Medical Center, we're proud being Mississippi's most trusted health provider.
21:49Apply today and join our family.
21:51So, I remember thinking, okay, this is really good.
21:59And my brother would tell me, I am so proud of you, Kevin.
22:04Got a great job.
22:07And a beautiful family.
22:09You've come so far.
22:11Look at you now.
22:13Then I found a severed head.
22:15The whole fucking world hated me.
22:16The whole fucking world hated me.
22:33December the 17th, 1999.
22:36Started off a joyous day.
22:38Christmas spirit is in the air.
22:41KC is headed off to the hospital's big holiday bash.
22:46Ready to enjoy a mug of fresh eggnog and some well-deserved treats.
22:53I walk into the hospital and Cheryl said, we've had a backed up drainage system under the autopsy table.
23:01Nobody will go in there.
23:03So, can you go into the morgue and do a clean up job?
23:09And I was just like, I guess, I mean, I hate to say no.
23:14No.
23:16So, and walked in for the first time with a hazmat suit on.
23:22And there was a lot of blood coming up out of the drainage system.
23:27Fuck.
23:28So I start stripping side to side, back and forth, 30, 40 minutes, breaking a sweat.
23:39I'm just, I'm draining.
23:40There was no ventilation.
23:42And I was thirsty.
23:44I said to myself, man, a Dr. Pepper would be so good right now.
23:48So, I just casually open the refrigerator, looking for a Dr. Pepper.
23:55And there were several shelves of body parts.
23:59Then I open the freezer and there is a severed head of this man that I saw in the emergency room the night before.
24:08Now I'm holding his severed head in my hand.
24:13Oh, my God.
24:15What have I stumbled upon?
24:16When Kevin came home that night, he was hyper excited.
24:25He said, you've got to hear this.
24:28I was cleaning in the morgue.
24:29Guess what I found?
24:30I'm like, I don't know.
24:33I had.
24:34I had?
24:35Yes.
24:36And it was of a patient that was there two days ago.
24:39I said, damn it, Kevin.
24:40We need this job.
24:41So, just shut up and don't tell anybody about it.
24:46I told every person on shift that morning.
24:49I just found a shitload of body parts and a severed head in the freezer.
24:53You want to see it?
24:55There's Cameron and Twine coming down to my nice clean floor.
25:01I came out at lunch and everyone gathered around.
25:04And they're like, hey, Elvis.
25:06Yeah, we heard you found body parts.
25:07Yep.
25:09I sure did.
25:10A severed head, arms, legs, feet.
25:11Just perfectly severed.
25:13And I hope it's very easy to be skinned.
25:16I'm resting.
25:18Two feet.
25:19One was from a child.
25:20I got thirsty and I wanted another one.
25:22And the next thing you know, was called over the intercom.
25:26Paul Perkins, please come to the director's office immediately.
25:32Walked in and one man says, please read this statement.
25:37Paul Kevin Curtis accessed an area of the hospital he did not have authorization for.
25:43I said, I'm not signing that.
25:44That's a lie.
25:46Within 30 seconds, six armed security guards are grabbing me.
25:50Pushed me up against the wall.
25:52Handcuffed me.
25:54You were hereby banned for life.
25:56When Kevin came to my house, he was just so emotionally distraught.
26:14And he was talking so fast that he had seen body parts.
26:20And that the hospital wanted him to sign a statement that he never saw that.
26:26And that's what had me curious.
26:28Why not just say, yeah, Kevin, we have body parts and here's why.
26:32So, I was intrigued with why.
26:37Why?
26:38Why did this happen?
26:39So what was your thoughts when Kevin got fired?
26:42Oh.
26:44In how many ways do I say I was upset?
26:46Let's see.
26:47Tony Robbins is always saying, if you don't understand something, Kevin, you ask a question.
26:57You ask.
26:59I was like, what have I discovered?
27:02What did I see?
27:03So that night, I made a decision to spend the rest of my life trying to uncover the truth.
27:16First order of business.
27:18Went down to Walmart and purchased my Gateway 2000.
27:23Welcome to the information superhighway.
27:26Gateway 2000 computer.
27:29Color printer.
27:31Joystick.
27:33$3,500.
27:36I typed in, is there a market for body parts?
27:41Question mark.
27:42Enter.
27:45I found message boards and all these people.
27:49I posted, how much is a dead body worth?
27:54Question mark.
27:55Enter.
27:57I found secret websites on the dark web.
28:01It was my introduction to the world of conspiracy.
28:07Many won't believe it.
28:09Many don't want to believe it.
28:11But there is a billion dollar body parts industry today.
28:15It was like a mental drug.
28:18Like you're under hypnosis.
28:20It was rumored that Kevin had stumbled up on a part of the hospital that was harvesting body parts.
28:39And for what purpose, I don't know.
28:40Maybe if you get your arm cut out there, say we'll get you another one to fix you. I don't know.
28:50He actually found like intestine parts and baby parts from babies and I think he even mentioned it's ever dead.
28:58And it was just, it was just a lot. It was too strange.
29:02Kevin went to the mall.
29:03Kevin went to the mall.
29:04He's going to believe what I've seen.
29:08I've seen some body parts.
29:10You want to go and see them?
29:12They kind of scoop me.
29:13Who want to walk up on a person's head and arms and edge?
29:19This number from the body.
29:20Don't sell it.
29:21Not me.
29:23I don't know.
29:24I don't think it's true.
29:26But I also don't check the donor box on my license for that reason, you know what I'm saying?
29:32Kevin would come by the store talking about selling body parts, the black market, and a silvered head.
29:39Wild stuff he was talking about.
29:41If he found them dead body parts, Kevin won't get to the bottom of it, you know.
29:47He wants the truth.
29:49He gon' get the truth.
29:50He wants the truth.
29:51He wants the truth to the court.
29:52It gets the truth to the court.
29:53He wants the truth to the court.
29:54In my entire law enforcement career over about 40 years, we never dealt with anything like
30:20this.
30:22It was something out of a movie, just the bizarre craziness of it.
30:30All over Tupelo, the community was talking and all, and Kevin's name would come up a lot.
30:38He would get on this rant about this conspiracy at the hospital where there are body parts.
30:47So the hospital contacted me.
30:51We met with security there.
30:53And they were fearful of this guy, you know, that he could retaliate at the hospital.
30:59So yes, he did get on the radar.
31:03If you think about it as running an airline and people get on the no-fly list, well he got
31:08on the list over this bizarre behavior because you don't know what his next move's gonna be.
31:14And so I told my office, we need to keep our eye on it.
31:22Every day, I would log on to my computer, go on the dark web, and I would research body
31:28part harvesting.
31:30And I learned funeral homes, morgues, doctors, politicians, they were all involved.
31:40In the dead of the night, funeral directors open up legs, back arms, and they pull out femur
31:47bones, skin tissue, and sell it to hospitals on the black market.
31:54And not just in Mississippi.
31:56We're talking about China, Russia, all over the country.
32:01So I told Jack and Laura, oh my God, I'm on to something.
32:06Kevin would keep me up all night long talking about this conspiracy.
32:13His brain would make weird connections, and because there was no job to go to, he stayed
32:21in the house on his computer the whole day.
32:23And of course, then the rest of my life, I've heard about the body parts.
32:32I was on a one-man crusade to spread the word about this billion dollar hidden black market
32:39industry that nobody in the world knows exists.
32:44So I set up 40 websites and blogs with my research under different aliases.
32:52Bodypartsinfo at MySpace.com, Bodypartsforprofit at MySpace.com, PhillyBobbybodyparts at MySpace.com,
33:01and the entire page with blood dripping from the top.
33:06And I got so good at the graphics, and I didn't go to school for this.
33:11Wow, all these people started following me and actually cared about what I had to say.
33:18Well, when I saw the head and the arms and the brains and the barcodes, I turned white as
33:24a ghost.
33:25Then, a lady named Karen Delray Thornton contacted me.
33:30My name is Karen Delray, and I live in Hazlitt, New Jersey.
33:35My dad's name was James Thornton, Sr.
33:37And she said, I think my dad was harvested by this man, Michael Mastromarino.
33:47And that was my first case ever.
33:52I could see this conspiracy was taking him spiraling downward.
33:56So I was very concerned about his health physically, mentally, socially, psychologically.
34:03Jack, he was very sympathetic at first.
34:09But after a while, after two, three years, you're losing your mind.
34:16I probably got 20, 30 emails a day from him.
34:22Every waking moment was putting something on MySpace or on Facebook.
34:29It made me wonder, how did, how did we get to this point?
34:34I never stopped.
34:35I was relentless.
34:36While everyone else is going to Cancun, Kevin Curtis is on the computer.
34:40Michael Mastromarino harvested body parts.
34:44Okay, Master Marino is linked to this guy who's handling bodies, is connected to the
34:50funeral home.
34:51Who's connected to the body.
34:52Friends and family would call me and say, you know, Kevin is online posting all this
34:57stuff and can you do something about that?
35:01Not one person in my family and not one friend wanted to hear my research.
35:07They didn't want to know the truth.
35:09Nobody gave a fuck.
35:11No one wants to hear politics or criminal injustice and they're trying to shut me down and shut
35:17me up.
35:19So I gathered up all of my research and printed out hundreds of documents.
35:25I called up Fox News, NBC, CNN and I set my paper trail for the world to see.
35:33Tupelo's Elvis Presley Festival gets underway a little more than a week from now.
35:38More than 30,000 people are expected to attend this year's festival.
35:43You know, Elvis is our biggest treasure here in Tupelo.
35:48So all of us are excited about this Double Trouble concert.
35:51If you love Elvis and want an hour and 45 minutes of it, you need to be at Milam School Saturday
35:58at two o'clock.
36:01My name is David Daniels.
36:02I'm an assistant district attorney here in North Mississippi.
36:07But I made a living as a musician for 20 something years.
36:12For the 2003 Elvis Festival, my band and myself were approached by the Tupelo Tourism Bureau
36:20to back up two brothers who were Elvis impersonators who called themselves Double Trouble.
36:25Double Trouble with the Double Trouble Band.
36:29Well, they had the outfits and they had the moves and they were pretty good.
36:38This is Double Trouble show.
36:40This is a huge deal.
36:44We were the debut act for the first annual Elvis Presley Festival at Milam School, the
36:51school Elvis went to.
36:54I mean, hundreds and thousands of dollars went into this.
36:57We made CDs.
36:58We had promo pictures.
36:59We had 1,500 t-shirts.
37:01We had a TV promoting the show.
37:03Don't miss the premiere performance of Double Trouble and Elvis Tribute sure to get you all
37:07shook up.
37:08I mean, people were coming from all over.
37:11Five days before the biggest concert in Double Trouble history, Casey meets his new guitar player
37:20and all shit hits the fan.
37:24A week before the show, we were having our Double Trouble practice and there was an altercation
37:32that happened between Kevin and David Daniels.
37:38David was cocky.
37:40He was late for every practice session and was very unprofessional.
37:43Kevin's perception was that the band member may have been flirting with Laura, his wife.
37:52After band practice, everybody's leaving and Laura asked me if I'd like to have a drink
38:00sometime.
38:01And I was about to leave and bang on my window.
38:04It was a handprint.
38:07And I called him out on it.
38:09Did you just give my wife your phone number?
38:13All of a sudden, heaven starts screaming at him.
38:16How dare you?
38:17How dare you?
38:18How dare you?
38:19I just put my truck in reverse and I'm back into Laura's car behind me.
38:24Now, I've got the building in front of me and her car behind me.
38:28I can't go anywhere.
38:30Next thing you know, we got into this heated debate about corruption in Mississippi and
38:35I'm like, you want to talk about it, bro?
38:37I'll talk about it.
38:38Have you seen my website looking for justice in Mississippi, David?
38:41And he's standing there screaming and talking about he found a head with a barcode on it.
38:50And that's when I really got scared.
38:52I said, this guy's having a mental breakdown right here.
38:56David gets out of his truck and says, fuck your website.
38:59I know all about your crazy corruption, body parts scandal.
39:04It's all bullshit.
39:05You're a liar.
39:06You're delusional.
39:07You're a fucking nut job, dude.
39:09Everyone knows that.
39:11And I said, you're fired.
39:13And by the way, you suck at guitar.
39:16So it wasn't good.
39:19He hit me with full force.
39:22I went back like two feet and that's when I did the smile, the little death stare smile.
39:26Okay, let's go behind this building.
39:28I'm going to teach you what your daddy didn't teach you.
39:30It's after that that he came at me with the beer bottle and he says, I'm going to F you
39:36up.
39:37And so I just reached and got my pistol and I brought it back up.
39:42And I told him, no, sir, you will not.
39:46David pulled a gun on him.
39:51Cocked it.
39:52Hair trigger.
39:53Nine millimeter bread in front of my wife and children.
39:55And my kids are right behind him.
39:57And David said, I'm going to kill him.
39:58I literally began to shake uncontrollably.
40:00My hands went up, shit, I'm about to die because of what I know.
40:05I looked down, I said, please don't kill me, David.
40:18Before the show, I heard him say, I've been treated wrongly.
40:24And this is my chance to let everybody know what kind of corruption is going on.
40:30And I told him in no uncertain terms, you better not do that.
40:36Jack paid like $10,000 for this to be filmed.
40:39So he told Kevin, you better behave.
40:45I told Jack, don't worry about it.
40:47I'm going to go out there and get my best performance of my lifetime.
40:51And that's what I did.
40:52We were watching Kevin the whole time.
40:56Jack was standing behind the curtain, having a heart attack, basically.
40:59When he started his show, I was like, phew.
41:03I was relieved.
41:05It's a sellout.
41:061,500 people.
41:07The whole Milam auditorium is packed.
41:11We had these giant, beautiful Hollywood cameras, backup singers, light production.
41:18And I killed him.
41:19Standing ovation.
41:20The crowd goes crazy.
41:23Everybody's clapping.
41:25It's great.
41:26Everything's done.
41:27And we're like, thank God.
41:28And then right at the end.
41:31And ladies and gentlemen, I have something to say.
41:34Oh, God.
41:35What is he going to say?
41:38Two-level Mississippi is the most corrupt place in the world.
41:43I think I knew why Elvis left and never came back.
41:46Well, who would he think he had Elvis left and never came back?
41:49I found this ever dead in a more refrigerator and a hospital fired me.
41:56Then, last week, we assisted being almost curvy.
42:00So thank you all for coming.
42:02But I will never perform for anything that you go on Mississippi associated with the North
42:07Mississippi Medical Center as long as I live.
42:13That's the devil right there, man.
42:15That's the spirit of Daniels right there.
42:20I told Jack when I left, I am embarrassed to be seen with this man.
42:24And he's the father of my children.
42:26And I said, I don't even want to be associated with this man.
42:29There's very few things in my life that anybody's ever done that just really gets me angry.
42:36The show, it's one of those times that I was angry.
42:41I said, I'm sorry, I had to tell the truth, Jack.
42:46I just told him, I said, we will not be doing this show again.
42:51That definitely separated us as brothers and entertainers.
42:55I don't think we talked for like a year.
43:17Nut job.
43:19Mental case.
43:21Idiot.
43:21Loser.
43:22Retarded.
43:24And a dumbass.
43:27To not be believed is the most lonely place.
43:33I felt defeated.
43:36Time for Kevin Curtis to move on.
43:41I mean, I may have to shut down and I'm not sure.
43:45Thank you for your support.
43:46And then one day, I turn on the TV set.
43:56All of a sudden, I hear.
43:58We interrupt this program to bring you something that's out of a horror story.
44:03Well, it's like something out of a cheap horror movie.
44:06It's the bust of a body parts ring.
44:09They say four men harvested bones and tendons and heart valves for more than a thousand bodies.
44:15Holy shit.
44:20It's a miracle.
44:23Oh, my God.
44:24Thank you, God.
44:25I remember saying, thank you, God.
44:27There's three words.
44:28Thank you, God.
44:29A bizarre scam where the defendants stole body parts from dead bodies and then sold them.
44:38The funeral home had a secret operating room to harvest these organs.
44:42And behind it all, Michael Mastromarino, the mastermind behind this horror.
44:48The accused ringleaders Michael Mastromarino and Michael Mastromarino charged with selling
44:54the loot for millions of dollars.
44:56Yee-haw!
44:58I told you so.
45:01I told you all so.
45:05New cases spread like wildfire.
45:08Texas, Florida, Colorado.
45:10Tonight, a funeral home owner now under investigation by the FBI.
45:14They in the back room of a funeral home, sawing up bodies with a power saw.
45:26I am a warrior ninja with a sword of justice.
45:32Want to explain why you chopped up bodies?
45:34Get off the property.
45:35Want to explain what you did, sir?
45:36Get off the property.
45:38You sold bodies to body brokers.
45:41I am the biggest whistleblower on organ harvesting in the United States of America, possibly the world.
45:47So don't fuck with me.
45:59Here in the South, we still believe that people have some sense of destiny.
46:06We just know somewhere deep in our soul, this is the road, this is the path I'm supposed to be on.
46:18I mean, Joseph Campbell says we all have a path.
46:20He called it the hero's journey.
46:21And I think for Kevin, this body parts thing just might have been his destiny.
46:30So the South can live without almost anything, but we cannot live without a sense of meaning.
46:38Act three, scene one.
46:47The curse of common sense is it gets tiring, always proving people wrong.
46:53Well, but there's no cure for old K.C.
46:58With the wind at his back, K.C. embarks on an epic quest against some very powerful forces.
47:04He sharpens his mighty pencil and drafts his own groundbreaking legislation.
47:11House Bill 6631.
47:16After I was proven right, I created this extremely significant House Bill resolution
47:23to stop the illegal sale of human body parts in Mississippi,
47:28which had never been done in the history of the world.
47:31I was frustrated with Kevin's House Bill.
47:36And I told him, you might have proved that somebody is harvesting body parts illegally in another state,
47:44but that does not mean that it was being done in Tupelo.
47:49Jack was scared and he was nervous.
47:52But this is happening to human bodies.
47:54And something needs to be done about it.
47:56And I guess God chose me.
47:58So I sent my legislation.
48:02State Representative Steve Holland, the only man in Mississippi with the power to pass it into law.
48:11Look, I tried to tell him, you are going to make the wrong people mad at you.
48:20Especially somebody that's in a position of authority.
48:24They're a lot of times going to use that position of authority any way they can.
48:31In politics, I was so powerful.
48:34If I'd have been born in 1776, I would have been the leader of the fucking revolution.
48:46The heated debate of the state capitol this week got out of hand.
48:50One lawmaker had to be escorted out the building.
48:53I'm not going to talk about that.
48:54What are you?
48:56That's an old neediness, man.
48:58I would just castrate the opposition.
49:02This is a ridiculous piece of legislation.
49:05And as far as I'm concerned, the chairman ought to be ashamed for bringing it out here.
49:09Somebody's got to be the king.
49:11It's windy at the top.
49:13So that was the benevolent dictator.
49:15And everybody loved Steve Holland.
49:24Truth be told, I could fuck a bull moose on the south steps of the Lee County Courthouse and gain 10% of the boat.
49:36Hello and welcome to Holland Funeral Directors.
49:43Can you imagine the what moment that I had when I discovered our Mississippi state representative,
49:53Steve Holland, owned three of the largest funeral homes in the state of Mississippi?
50:01Yes, sir.
50:02I'm the Mississippi undertaker.
50:05I'm the taxidermist of humankind.
50:09I see everybody in this county.
50:13One way or the other.
50:17One night, I got a letter from Paul Kevin Curtis asking me to pass a bill
50:24and to stop illegal harvesting and sale of human bone, tissue, organs and body parts in this state.
50:31Oh, wow.
50:33Pretty interesting.
50:34That's what I did to it, and I put it right in my garbage pan, and boom, that was the end.
50:42Now, as this whole episode with Kevin Curtis unfolded,
50:57I could not dream of how it turned into such a royal scandal.
51:03I mean, it went to the White House, went to the top, went to the top.
51:13Let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the floor,
51:19Let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the floor.
51:25Let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the floor.
51:44Let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the floor.
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