Episode 366

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences. Listener discretion is advised.

**Mike Boudet** (0:14)
I had to look at what he did. I had to look at it with my own eyes after putting everything I had into finding her. And I promise you that everybody involved is going down.
So I'm letting you know. Everybody who's involved in know something and didn't tell us is going to pay.

**Mike Boudet** (0:35)
Hello and welcome to Season 13, episode 366 of Sword and Scale, a show that reveals that the worst monsters are real.
In late April of 2024, something wasn't right in Denmark. The Denmark in South Carolina, that is. That's when residents of this small town turned on their nightly news and learned about a troubling situation. A young mother of three had gone missing.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:40)
Tonight, rising emotions in Bamberg County as investigators search for this missing mother of three.

**SPEAKER_5** (1:45)
Something's not right because she wasn't the mother that just drops her kids off with anybody.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:50)
This is 25-year-old Megan Bodiford. Investigators say she sent some concerning text messages to a friend last Thursday, and she has not been seen since.

**Mike Boudet** (1:59)
25-year-old Megan Bodiford was reported missing on April 26th, 2024, by one of her closest friends, Grace Rindle.
According to Grace, the last time she heard from Megan was through text messages. Megan had asked if she and her youngest baby could spend the night at Grace's house, which was something that wasn't out of the ordinary. Grace told her yes, and that she would leave the front door unlocked before going to bed, so Megan could let herself in, just like she had done many times before.

**SPEAKER_6** (2:32)
You had a follow-up call with her at 9.50?

**Grace Rindle** (2:34)
Yep, 9:50 p.m. April 25th. I called her.
I had to take sleeping medication to help me sleep at night, so I had already taken it, so I told her I couldn't try just to get a baby to come to me. So I got up and I unlocked my door, it turned on the porch light, and figured that she'd let herself in, as she's done so many times before.

**SPEAKER_6** (2:52)
Okay, but she never did.

**Mike Boudet** (2:54)
The next morning, when Grace woke up, she realized that Megan and her baby hadn't shown up. At first, she assumed Megan had simply changed her mind, but after repeated attempts to reach her when unanswered, that assumption started to feel a lot less certain.
So Grace drove to Megan's house to check on her.

**Grace Rindle** (3:15)
Also the night that I did call her in, just saying I went to her house.

**SPEAKER_6** (3:20)
Question on that. How'd you get in? Did you kick the door? It's fine if you did.

**Grace Rindle** (3:23)
Yes, that's fine. Cool.

**SPEAKER_6** (3:25)
We're just trying to piece. Everyone said you kicked the door, it was not a big deal.

**Mike Boudet** (3:30)
When Grace arrived at Megan's home, there was no sign of Megan or her baby. At that point, she knew something was very wrong. So she went to the police and reported her missing.
It didn't take long for this story of a missing mom to reach the local media.

**SPEAKER_8** (3:46)
This home used to be full of life, but now it stands empty.

**SPEAKER_5** (3:50)
April the 11th, I heard from her and I told her I loved her. And she told me she loved me too, forever and always.

**SPEAKER_8** (3:57)
Those were the last words Megan Bodiford said to her cousin.

**SPEAKER_5** (4:01)
She's very strong and resilient and beautiful. She's a wonderful mother and we need her home.

**SPEAKER_8** (4:09)
The pain is hard to put into words for her family, but all they want is for Megan to come home.

**SPEAKER_5** (4:15)
It's my baby cousin. She got to come home to these babies. I need her home. I don't need her lost.

**Mike Boudet** (4:23)
As Megan's family held on to hope that she would return, local authorities brought in the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, better known as SLED, to assist with the investigation. Part of that assistance involved arresting someone close to Megan, her 28-year-old boyfriend, Jarrett Davis.

**SPEAKER_8** (4:43)
A missing persons report says due to prior call history, concern for the safety of a baby in the home and her boyfriend having an active arrest warrant, deputies wanted to request SLED to assist in executing a search warrant and then arresting him on an outstanding warrant.

**Mike Boudet** (5:00)
Jarrett was the father of Megan's youngest child, and when officers arrived at his home to arrest him on an unrelated warrant, they found the baby unharmed. But there was still no sign of Megan. As her boyfriend, Jarrett was an obvious person of interest. It's always the boyfriend. But it wasn't just their relationship that drew attention.