"DIDDY SPOTTED IN JERSEY PRISON, JULIO FOOLIO VERDICT & BAD BOYFRIEND'S DIGITAL TRAIL"
Reid Carter covers Sean 'Diddy' Combs photographed for first time since arrest at Fort Dix Federal Correctional Institute working laundry detail - beard gray and untamed, appeals sentence while Trump mulls pardon request. Friday verdict: Alicia Andrews found guilty of manslaughter in Jacksonville rapper Julio Foolio's murder - jury rejected first-degree murder and conspiracy charges, sentencing December 8th. Wisconsin bad boyfriend trial continues as Matthew Pahl charged with killing girlfriend Stephanie Pavlons and dumping body in woods - prosecutors reveal he was sexting Filipino women online, searching her obituary two weeks before body was found, never reported her missing.
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0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm reed Carter. Monday, November third, twenty twenty five. Three stories Today. Diddy photographed in prison for the first time, Juliofulio's murder trial ends with guilty verdict, and the Wisconsin bad boyfriend on trial for allegedly killing his girlfriend and hiding her body in the woods while sexting women overseas. Let's get to it. This is Celebrity Trials. Friday, Sean Diddy Combs was photographed for the first time since his arrest last September. TMZ obtained images of the fifty five year old walking through the yard at Fort Dick's Federal Correctional Institute in New Jersey recreation time, bundled up in a beanie and sweatshirt, his once well maintained beard now gray and untamed, looking every bit like a man serving a four year sentence for prostitution related offenses. Combs was recently transferred from the troubled Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn to Fort Dix. Not clear exactly when the transfer happened, but he's already working. Got himself a job in the prison's laundry department. Your tax dollars at work. Fort Dix is a low security mail prison on the grounds of the Joint Military Base McGuire Dix Lakehurst, one of several dozen federal prisons with a residential drug treatment program. Earlier this month, Combs's lawyers asked the judge to strongly recommend
1:36 transferring him there so he could participate in the facility's drug treatment program. They argued Fort Dix would best allow Combs to address drug abuse issues and to maximize family visitation and rehabilitative efforts. Judge granted the request, so now Combs is folding sheets in Jersey instead of sitting in Brooklyn's notorious MDC. He's already served about fourteen months of his fifty month sentence set to be released May eighth, twenty twenty eight, but he can earn reductions through participation in substance abuse treatment and other prison programs could get out earlier if he plays the game right. This week, Combs's lawyers filed with a federal appeals court asking them to quickly consider the legality of his conviction and sentence.
2:19 They want the appeal considered soon enough that he can benefit from a reduction in prison time if the appeals court reverses his conviction. Smart strategy file, fast argue later. Here's where it gets interesting. President Donald Trump said Combs asked him for a pardon. Trump didn't say whether he'd grant it, but he has previously called Combs essentially sort of half innocent since he was acquitted on sex trafficking charges. Trump's logic is that Combs beat the major allegations, so the two prostitution convictions somehow don't count. That's not how criminal law works. But Trump does what Trump wants. For now, Combs remains at fort day working laundry, waiting for his appeal, hoping for presidential mercy, and trying to stay out of trouble in a place where celebrity status doesn't protect you.
3:10 Quick update. Moving on Friday night in Tampa, Florida, after nearly four hours of deliberation, a jury found twenty one year old Alicia Andrews guilty of manslaughter in the murder of Jacksonville rapper Julio Folio. Not first degree murder, not guilty of conspiracy to commit murder, just manslaughter. Let me back up. June twenty third, twenty twenty four, Tampa Holiday Inn Parking lot near the University of South Florida. Twenty six year old Charles Jones, known as rapper Juliofolio, was celebrating his birthday. He'd started the night at an Airbnb, but was kicked out for exceeding occupancy limits. Moved to the Holiday Inn. Around four forty am, someone ambushed him in the parking lot. Multiple gunshots at the scene. This wasn't random. This was part of a year's long gang war in Jacksonville between rival factions. Fulio was a documented member of the Gang six Block. His alleged killers were members of two allied rival gangs, Ace's top killers, known as a t K and twelve hundred five people were charged.
4:21 Isaiah Chance twenty seven, documented ATK member, Sean Gathwright, Davian Murphy twelve hundred associate, Rashad Murphy twelve hundred member, and Alicia Andrews twenty one. Chance's girlfriend not a gang member, just a girl dating the wrong guy. Prosecutors argued Andrew's helped track in surveil Fulio as he moved between Tampa night clubs the night he was killed, that she was the lookout. That phone records showed she traveled from Jacksonville to Tampa with the four men, that she helped them avoid detection by using her cell phone and car since she wasn't part of it the gang. The evidence was circumstantial but damning. Surveillance video showed Andrews wearing a face mask in a parking lot. Prosecutors said it was to conceal her identity. Defense said she was pregnant at the time and avoiding cigarette smoke. Phone records showed her boyfriend Isaiah Chance, was making calls from her phone to co defendant Sean Gathwright. Andrews claimed she never knew who he was calling or why. Prosecutors showed the jury a twenty twenty one text message where Andrews wrote that Folio needed to die. She was seventeen at the time. On the witness stand last week, she tried to walk it back. Yeah, but I didn't mean it. I was seventeen and just gossiping.
5:43 The defense strategy was textbook blame the abusive boyfriend. Defense attorneys Life Malcolm and Jeremy McClement argued Andrews was manipulated by Chance, who was controlling and abusive. Showed the jury images of bruises on her face, showed text messages of him getting upset when she posted photos of herself on Instagram. Claimed she was afraid to disagree with him because it could lead to him hitting her or breaking her phone. On the stand Thursday, Andrew's testified she had no idea they were going to Tampa, no knowledge of a murder plot. Said Chance told her they were going out of town and she asked to come along. Claimed she didn't know they were tracking Folio at multiple nightclubs. Never saw any weapons.
6:28 I mean I heard a lot of shots, so I didn't know what went on. Shooting in the air, somebody got shot at I didn't know. Andrew's testified. Prosecutors attacked her credibility, pointed out she admitted to lying to police, admitted to deleting text conversations with Chance after Jones was shot, made three way calls through Chance's mother to speak with him from jail, sent him intimate messages not exactly the behavior of a terrified abuse victim trying to distance herself from her alleged abuse. Her assistant state attorney, Michelle Doherty told the jury this was straightforward. Andrew's helped track the rapper she was part of the surveillance team. Hotel records and phone data proved she was there. Her boyfriend and three others carried out the shooting. She was complicit. There's no mystery man here, There's no phantom rapist who slipped off into the night. Doherty said, Wait, wrong trial, wrong quote, but you get the point. Prosecutors argued Andrew's was guilty period.
7:26 The defense countered that the state was trying to put her in a box, that she was just a girlfriend in love with the wrong person, that there was no direct evidence tying her to any murder plot Friday night. The jury returned guilty of manslaughter, the lesser charge, not the premeditated first degree murder prosecutors wanted, and not guilty of conspiracy to commit murder. Sentencing scheduled for December eighth, at eight thirty a m. Andrew's faces up to life in prison without parole for manslaughter. She'll be held without bond until sentencing. Andrew RWs was the first of the five defendants to go to trial. She's also the only one not facing the death penalty. Isaiah Chance, Shaan Gathwright, Davian Murphy, and Rashad Murphy will stand trial next year.
8:12 All four face potential death sentences. Julio Fulio real name Charles Jones was twenty six years old, Jacksonville drill rapper, part of the six Block gang, involved in a violent rivalry that cost him his life. Should be twenty seven Today, should be recording music, should be celebrating birthdays without worrying about getting ambushed in hotel parking lots. The jury decided Alicia Andrews wasn't a cold blooded murderer, but she wasn't innocent either. She knew something, did something was complicit enough to earn a manslaughter conviction. December eighth, the judge will decide how many years that costs her. Make it make sense, We'll be right back with the Wisconsin bad Boyfriend trial.
8:58 Matthew Paul allegedly killed him girlfriend and hit her body in the woods while sexting women in the Philippines and searching for her obituary online. Welcome back to celebrity trials. I'm reed Carter, Waukeshaw, Wisconsin, Waukeshaw County Circuit Court. Matthew Paul, fifty seven years old, is on trial for first degree intentional homicide and hiding a corpse. His longtime girlfriend, Stephanie Pavlon's forty four, was found dead and decomposing in a wooded area in September twenty twenty two. The question did Paul kill her and dump her body or did something else happen? Let's start with what we know. August twenty third, twenty twenty two. Paul and Pavlons lived together in Waukeshaw on and off relationship for twenty years turbulent. Her mother, Georgian Pavlon, testified last week that she suspected her daughter was a victim of domestic abuse, that every time Paul left the apartment, Stephanie left, two that Stephanie had no key to their shared apartment. That morning, surveillance cameras at their apartment building recorded both Paul and Pavlons leaving. Paul had a morning appointment at Orthopedic Associates of Wisconsin for a foot injury. He'd been dealing with it for months.
10:24 Broken foot needed treatment. According to prosecutors, Paul took Pavlons to his appointment and left her in his truck, went inside for physical therapy, came back out, and during two gaps in the timeline, a sixteen minute gap before the appointment and a twenty minute gap after. Prosecutors say they have no idea where Paul was or what he was doing after that appointment. Stephanie Pavlin's was never seen again. Surveillance video shows Paul returning to their apartment that afternoon alone, carrying her purse, her water bottle, her belongings, but no Stephanie. Paul never reported her missing, didn't call her parents, didn't call police, didn't even call their own daughter. Just went about his life as if nothing happened. September ninth, twenty twenty two, seventeen days after Stephanie disappeared, construction worker Joseph Farcano was installing no trespassing signs on a property near the Orthopedic Associates clinic on Gulf Road in Delafield. Smelled something foul. Followed the smell found a dead body in a wooded area, approximately five to ten feet from the tree line. The nine to one to one call played in court last week captured the horror. Yep, Yeah, we were putting up signs for Pro health Care on their lot and we smelled something and saw there's a dead guy back here. For a long time, so police responded.
11:47 Confirmed it was human remains, badly decomposed, no cell phone, no purse, no identification. The body was later identified as Stephanie Pavlon's autopsy determined she'd be dead anywhere from a week to a month. Cause and manner of death undetermined, no clear evidence of trauma on what was left of her remains. Investigators immediately focused on Matthew Pale, the boyfriend who never reported her missing, the last person seen with her, the man who came home with her belongings but not her. They searched his Toyota Tacoma truck, conducted presumptive blood tests on three areas inside, all negative. Used luminol in the truck bed some illumination, but all swabs tested negative for human blood. No definitive forensic evidence. But then they looked at his phone. Matthew Paul had been communicating with two Skype accounts, Magen and Beautiful Disaster. Both were women in the Philippines. The conversations were sexual in nature explicit. In messages with both accounts, Paul said he wanted to move to the Philippines, that he was planning to relocate, that Stephanie was just a coworker or an employee, not his girlfriend of twenty years, not the mother of his child, just a co worker. Prosecutors revealed Paul had been involved in online relationships with these two Filipino women, talking to them daily, planning to move there in summer twenty twenty two,
13:20 but his foot injury derailed those plans. Suddenly, he was stuck in Wisconsin, struggling with mobility, relying on Stephanie more and more to help him with daily care. She was more involved in his life than ever before, and he resented it. Here's the part that sinks him. Paul started searching for Stephanie's obituary online fifteen days before her body was found. Think about that. He's searching for her obituary two weeks before construction workers discover her remains in the woods. How did he know she was dead if he didn't kill her. And when detectives brought him in for questioning, before they even told him why he was there, Paul said, do you think I cut up a body in there or something? Nobody mentioned cutting up a body, Nobody mentioned dismemberment.
14:07 Paul just volunteered that information like he'd been thinking about it. Rehearsing his denials, smart enough to plan murder, too stupid to keep his mouth shut. The trial started October twenty seventh with opening statements. Former Waukeshaw County District Attorney Sue Opper, prosecuting the case, told the jury, I'm going to ask you to be patient, right, this is a pretty complex case. She showed them two photos, one of Stephanie smiling in life, one of her remains as they were found in the woods. This is a person you will not hear from directly in this case. This is what the case centers on.
14:47 Opper outlined the prosecution's theory. Paul killed Stephanie on August twenty third, during one of those gaps in the timeline around his orthopedic appointment, dumped her body in the woods nearby, kept her belongings, continued, his online sexual relationships, planned his move to the Philippines, searched for her obituary before anyone even knew she was dead. Defense attorney Peter Wolfe countered with questions, how did Paul move Stephanie's body with a broken foot. The wooded area where she was found is bounded by a heavily traveled frontage Road, Interstate Busy, Health Center, golf course, and homes. Ask if matt carried Stephanie into that wooded area, when would he have done that. Wolfe argued, the cause and manner of death are undetermined. No evidence Paul intentionally killed her. Could have been suicide, could have been medical issues, could have been anything. Forensic anthropologist Jana Marie Trusidal testified there was no evidence of trauma on the remains, body too decomposed to determine cause of death conclusively.
15:52 The defense acknowledged Paul's online relationships, said Stephanie was aware of them, even communicated with at least one of the women, that both Paul and Stephanie had medical issues and were taking prescription medication, that Stephanie had a history of mental health issues. When you see certain evidence and hear certain testimony, you may not like Matthew Paul, but you don't have to like him. This isn't a popularity contest, Wolfe told the jury He's right about one thing. This isn't a popularity contest, but it is a murder trial, and the evidence keeps piling up. Surveillance video shows Paul leaving with Stephanie returning alone with her belongings. Phone records show him sexting Filipino women, calling Stephanie just a coworker, making plans to move overseas. Search history shows him looking for her obituary before her body was found. His own words during police interview suggest consciousness of guilt. And here's what really damns him. Paul never reported Stephanie missing. If your girlfriend of twenty years disappears, you call someone, her parents, lease friends, anyone, unless you already know she's not coming back, unless you know exactly where she is because you put her there.
17:08 Last week, Stephanie's mother, Georgie Anne, testified about her daughter's relationship with Paul, the turbulence, the suspected abuse, the way Stephanie couldn't leave the apartment without him, the way she had no key, the way their relationship trapped her. The jury visited the crime scene Monday. Walked through the wooded area where construction workers found Stephanie's body, Saw how close it was to the orthopedic clinic where Paul had his appointment, Saw how accessible it was from the road, how someone with limited mobility could potentially drag a body there if motivated enough. The trial continues this week. Dozens of witnesses expected to testify, including Paul and Pavlon's daughter. Scheduled to last two weeks. Total, closing arguments could come as soon as next week. Matthew Paul faces life in prison if convicted of first degree intentional homicide. The hiding a corpse charge adds additional time. He's pleaded not guilty to both charges.
18:07 Claims he didn't kill Stephanie, doesn't know what happened to her, just came home one day and she was gone. But the digital trail tells a different story. The online relationships, the searches, the statements to police, the failure to report her missing, the lies about who she was, all pointing to a man who wanted a different life, who saw his girlfriend as an obstacle, who chose murder over honesty. Stephanie Pavlon's was forty four years old, longtime resident of Waukeshaw, mother, daughter, trapped in a relationship with a man who was planning to leave her for women in the Philippines. Found dead in the woods seventeen days after she vanished. Should be forty seven today. Should have had the chance to leave Paul on her own terms should have had a life.
18:53 The jury's job decide if Matthew Paul killed her, If his broken foot and his searches and his line add up to murder. If the man sexting strangers online while his girlfriend decomposed in the woods is guilty of taking her life. My prediction guilty. The digital evidence is too strong, the timeline is too suspicious, the consciousness of guilt too obvious. But we'll see what twelve jurors think when they get the case. Someone has to say her name, Stephanie Pavlon's remember her. That's celebrity trials from Monday, November third, twenty twenty five. Did he photographed in prison for the first time working laundry at Fort Dix? Appeal filed, Trump considering pardon request. Alicia Andrews found guilty of manslaughter in Juliofulio's murder, lesser charged than prosecutors wanted. Sentencing December eighth, And Matthew Paul on trial in Wisconsin. Prosecutors say he killed his girlfriend and hid her body while planning to move to the Philippines. Defense says cause of death undetermined. Trial continues this week. I'm read Carter see you tomorrow. This is celebrity Trials