Highway Patrol officers say they had opened fire during a confrontation with an armed man. He's a man known for his criticism of government who's had runins with troopers in the past. >> Now, this happened on Highway K in St. Clair, Missouri in Franklin [music] County, about 50 miles from downtown St. Louis. >> The highway patrol not releasing this man's name, but we've learned that it's Jeffrey Winehouse. I'm told that he was meeting two troopers, a pre-arranged meeting, but he came armed with a gun. The highway patrol says that he got out of his car and was armed and then started walking toward the troopers. There was a confrontation and then the troopers opened [music] fire. >> Hi, I'm Grant Winehouse and I'm uh 57 years old and my little brother is Jeff Winehouse. He was a good kid when he was growing up. Not really a a bad little boy, you know what I mean? Jeff and I were from Fesus, Missouri, about 30 mi south of St. Louis, right down Interstate 55. Jeff did study broadcasting. He [music] went to broadcast center and graduated from broadcast center. Went to work for a radio station in Valareerezo, Indiana right off the bat. [music] And then finally uh he kind of got out of the radio thing and started to do more of the bulletin man [music] itself kind of kind of deal. You guys ever seen the pirate jacks kind of little magazines in the stores? [music] You know, uh Jeff got the idea that you know he could do that kind of thing and he went around got advertisers. He put scripture in there and he would put an [music] ad in there uh saying that he was looking for people that had disgruntled uh issues with the law enforcement or [music] whatever. It didn't care. >> He was actively asking people for reports of corruption and and printing what he could validate that happened. >> If I had a beef against you, I could come tell him and and so people would come to him with their little problems. One of the very first things that was the subject of Jeff's eye was me because of the way that I handled our father's estate. And he made that very public to the people that were out there. You know, when the internet became more prevalent and and more of a media where a medium where people were going for their information, he's started branching off in that way. >> Jeff started his YouTube channel in 2007 when YouTube was just uh becoming a huge thing. He was ahead of his time. >> All right. Today is Monday, September 12th, and we're down here in Bourbon today, and we had an incident with the Missouri Higher Patrol, badge number 922, I believe it was. >> He says, "Get in the car." Well, of course, this is where I get pretty ignorant, you know, myself. And I'm telling him to pretty much go [ __ ] himself. And he don't have a warrant. He's not here for me. And I'm a worker in a place of business where I work. >> But know there's many, many people in the community, they still talk about him, that followed what he did. I'm sitting here with Representative Michael Frame. He's the representative uh representative of the 105th district. And Mr. Frame, good to see you. My big problem with with America is the lawyers. Um and I I know that I've seen your show. I know [laughter] >> he had he had an attitude about him, a certain kind of language and stuff, but there's a lot of people that really enjoyed his perspective on it. >> All right. Well, the bulletin man joins you on this uh Wednesday. It's August 25th, 2010. And uh we've had some interesting developments this morning. and has set to uh briefly come to you as an emergency transmission because we are about ready to declare war on the state of Missouri. >> He would go around to local city council meetings and call people out on the things that they had done wrong such as going into an old man's house and tasing him in the middle of the night and taking a bunch of guns. >> They ordered Don to come out and over a bullhorn. As soon as Don hit the door, opened up the door, they tased him, took him down on the ground. A 74 year old man who's had three heart attacks. >> Jeff wasn't the kind of person that just kind of heard about those things and let it go. He went to city council meetings and confronted the people and talked to them about it and asked, "What are you going to do about it?" >> All these guys taken over the Holocaust and they certainly in this one incident didn't do that. So, you know, I just asked you to cut off share of Mark's funding and uh you know, like John said earlier, cut the money off. That's when things get done. >> You just rumpled a lot of feathers. >> So, I was fortunate to see the video of Jeff uh in front of a Dollar General store. I think it was Bourbon, Missouri. uh where he was trying to get some information from these people [music] and he was very professional, had the uh uh microphone and was all dressed and I he looked like somebody's like CNN. Hey, it's Jeff Wine House down here in Bourbon today, the bulletin man. And uh we brought our buddy Richard along uh with the professional video equipment. Uh we can't actually show you that the Dollar General store is right there. Uh the lady came out and said, "Oh, we can't be videotaping the Dollar General store." But [music] they did not want to talk to it. So basically after a short conversation they ordered him off the [music] property. Uh this actually belongs to the Bourbon Community Development Corporation. Perhaps the best corner in town and it was acquired with insider information that the mayor was. >> Yeah. You guys need to get completely off our property. >> Oh, okay. Property >> and uh and they thought that was the last they would see of Jeff. But Jeff, uh, very resourceful, I'm finding out, uh, rented a helicopter. [music] [music] And [music] the next video I watched, jets in the helicopter flying over a Dollar General filming that goes, I was just down there trying to do an interview with those [music] folks. He broke up on the dollar store, Frank. Where did that right on Route 6? Why didn't [music] Robert? >> They told me that it's good. They told him to put his camp. >> Oh, what? Why? [music] They're exposed to that. I don't know. I don't want power. I don't get it. Yeah, I [music] don't either. Bit of a prank. What are they going to want you to film? >> Well, yeah, that's a [music] good question. Thought they know. >> And I just thought, man, that guy is tenacious. [music] Who would had the imagination to build to do that? And I think the way he paid for it is he [music] offered them a deal that he would advertise for them if they would take him for a ride over the Dollar General. Jeff is a has a sort of an eclectic personality. You know, he just doesn't fit in any box. He's part Bible thumper. We're going to see uh the return of Jesus Christ. And no one knows the day of the hour, but it isn't going to be long. >> So, don't be discouraged. Don't be disheartened. I know it's hard. Just Just praise the Lord. >> He's part wild concert promoter. He just he he just he's Jeff White House. That's it. >> He wants to go out and and uh and be the the herald for other people's causes. Uh he wants to be the champion for other people's things. >> What' you guys do, man? 99. >> You made an illegal left turn. >> Oh, okay. >> Thank you. >> I'm going to tell you right now, don't come up to my traffic stop. You're going to have to go back inside or over. >> You're on private property, I believe, officer. >> Okay. Well, >> and and their name is >> I'm conducting a traffic stop. >> And your name is >> Lehei. L A H A Y. >> Okay. So, I can't talk to them. >> No, you can't. >> I'm a member of the press. So, you're telling me I can't talk to them? >> Sure. You're a member of the press? I tell you what, >> listen. Although he [snorts] didn't have any press credentials or anything like that, he was kind of what our founders imagined. >> He was more considered like to be a gadfly kind of person. And this is what he did for 16 [music] years. >> He was highly critical of uh the sheriff's department in Crawford County. >> Jeff kicks the hornets nest and then they start coming out and then that's when this all started happening. >> There had been some officer involved shootings there in Crawford County. the the deputy uh was involved in one of them. Uh that Jeff thought were highly suspicious. >> I'm Jeff Winehouse. I want to be the next corner here in Crawford County. Um really don't want to be the corner, but I've got to run for the office of corner. >> Jeff's running for coroner because he's told me that he's got he's got the the goods on somebody down there and [music] that he needs to be the coroner in order to to uh convene a grand jury that he can get this corruption exposed. In Missouri law, the coroner can [music] conduct an inquest against the sheriff. >> Like in Crawford County, I know of two murders been committed by one cop. He's still on the force. I know of other couple suspicious murders, some other funky stuff going on down there. And that's why I'm running for corner. >> And it was at that time that the officers began [music] targeting Jeff. >> He kicked those hornets nests and that's what happened. Well, [music] they developed these fusion centers after 9/11 and they were anti-terrorism task forces, joint task forces that were set up in in many different [music] states. OKAT organized crime and anti-terrorism units worked in, you know, with the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI and these in these fusion centers. In 2009, Missouri specifically came under fire for these fusion centers. They would target Muslim groups to say that participation in a Muslim group might be a sign that you're a terrorist. They also targeted what they call constitutionalists and you know anybody with a Ron Paul sticker or a constitutional activist. [music] They were targeting people based on their beliefs or their associations. Jeff Winehouse was one of the people that was being monitored [music] by these fusion centers. We had a staff meeting with [singing] Lieutenant George and Lieutenant George Nullles and Lieutenant Satfield and Bruce Houston from OKAT. It was decided that we would all try to work and get as much intelligence on him if we could. And uh we might go so far as to put a GPS tracking device on his car and do some other things. [music] >> He published a video in late August of 2001 that he called the party's over. >> Bulletin man sits down finally to join you on August 16th, 2012. I am alive. I am well. Back up here in Piney Park for the time being. I've been in Crawford County the last couple of weeks. Um business this year's off. We're down about 25 30% across the board. And uh maybe it's the drought. Maybe it's the 100 plus degree weather or maybe it's the fact gas is $4 a gallon and everybody's not back in school. um the fact that the the real unemployment rate is 25 or 30% and over 50% of the country is now on some sort of government assistance, aid, welfare, social security, whatever. Uh it is um the America that I grew up in is long gone. >> That's the video that they really used to [music] say that uh Jeff was tampering with the judge. Now the good news is it can be restored and it can be restored peacefully if the powers that be just simply walk away. They found out gig is up news is out. Finally found you. And really what I've been trying to lay down over the last 16 years is my right to go in there and blast you [ __ ] out of there if we have to. Now I don't want to come down to that. I really don't. I'd been familiar with him for years and I'd watched numerous videos he'd made, but the [music] last few it really escalated. Now, we want you to leave peaceibly, and we pray you do, but we have every right to remove you by whatever means necessary, including, but not limit to the use of force. Now, we're not going to go out and kill you like you do other people. >> We were still anticipating um problems with Mr. Wine House because he had set a date that he was going to occupy the courthouse. >> You have until September 17th, 2012. Mr. State courts administrator, circuit judge, lawyer, judge, policeman to stand down and really just quit because you can't revert back to constitutional government. It's too far gone. You guys are fire. >> I mean, he had really gone to, you know, the second amendment taking over. It's all right. Hanging and executing people and and uh I mean he was really getting out there. Oh, he'd like to see you go peaceably. But if you want to try to resist, well, you're going to meet your own fate. You will be arrested. You will be tried. And once you're convicted by a jury, not of your peers, actually they will be your peers. Then you will be executed for the crimes you've committed against the American people. >> You know, he he didn't say anything that's not in the Declaration of in Independence, [music] but he certainly said things that I would not have said. The uh FBI had said that [music] there was nothing in there that was illegal, but still uh the judge Parker [music] that was involved in the case wanted these task forces to go after Jeff. So they did and they uh they conducted a raid on his house. Wednesday the 22nd, Sergeant HJ Folsam, who's the supervisor of the criminal investigation unit of the Division of Drug and Crime Control, is the one who came up and uh initiated all this. >> When I first knocked on his door, my intention of being there was to assess whether or not he was a danger or to himself or others so that we could possibly get him committed and get him evaluated. talked to me 15 20 minutes ascertained whether or not I was a threat to uh the establishment or whatever. >> We had about a 30 35 minute conversation during that entire time. He said absolutely he was never a threat to anyone. He would never harm anyone and he just kept saying it over and over again. >> Sergeant Folsam and Officer Mertens were the ones that conducted this raid on his house. Officer Folsam said that he smelled marijuana. Merins testified that he didn't, but Officer Folsome used this uh alleged smelling of marijuana to say that he needed to search Jeff's house. >> And when we finished our conversation is when he wanted to go back in the house. And I said, "You're going to have to hang on for a minute because I smell marijuana and I'm going to apply for a warrant." We searched the house and we actually found a high point 9 mm. And I didn't get a close enough look at the gun to tell you that that's what it is, but it looked like it to me. And that gun was in a holster in the nightstand, a small black holster. Uh, and it certainly went that OD green one because like I said, I I actually have one of those holsters from Army days and I hadn't seen one in a long time until he stepped out. >> When they came to visit him at his home when they conducted the search and they finally got the search warrant, were able to go in, they didn't find anything cuz Jeff never had anything. He had one firearm, I think, that they found. >> I never saw another single gun. I never saw any ammunition. There was a box of ammunition down there where the box was uh where I put the gun down there with the box. That was it. It was a very small box of ammunition, like a 20 like 25 round box >> and that was it. >> But he's not a gun guy at all. He's not a violent person at all. He's probably one of the most docile people I've ever met in my life. >> We we searched the house from top to bottom. I never saw anything, not even like knives or anything other than in the kitchen anywhere. I never saw any type of weapons in that house. >> They searched Jeff's house and got some marijuana and I think there was a morphine tablet, which Jeff had a script to have the morphine, but it was out of its canister. And so they charged him for that. And then they took his computers, which was obviously the whole goal. When I seized his computers, I had to take them to Cole County and get another warrant to have them searched in Cole County. >> And they basically came and stole my uh first amendment right the other day by seizing my computers because they smelled pot. So I guess my computers were smoking pot. >> He put out an ad in the one of his newsletters asking for reports on political corruption. He received about 200, you know, responses and they were all stored on his computers and that's when they came in and took the computers. They wanted to stop him from publishing that bulletin. >> It's not unusual uh for them to use the tactic of I smell marijuana coming from a car coming from a house to be able to activate a search warrant or an arrest. That's that's a pretty typical ploy. >> Following this raid about a week later, Jeff called the uh Missouri State Highway Patrol office and he complained. >> Highway Patrol. >> Hey, is the colonel available by any chance? >> We can give it a try. >> Yeah, let's give it a try. office. This is Carla. >> Um I I'm My name is Jeff Winehouse. I'm a reporter and uh they basically have came in and seized my computers and cameras and um have taken away my First Amendment right. You know, of course, I've talked to the sergeant there and the captain and I'm not really getting anywhere. And I went to court this morning to try to get a hearing with the judge and of course, you know, I'm not a lawyer, so you know, that can't happen. And um so I'm really kind of like at a loss here. Um I really don't know what to do other than, you know, declare war on the state of Missouri and go to war. Huh. [snorts] >> Okay. Well, I hope not. >> Well, I don't want to either, man. That's the whole point of this. That's why I have a First Amendment right. >> I mean, he went on a tirade and, you know, called PSD, called the colonel, called the governor's office. >> Yeah. I've went to court today to try to get this straightened out and I couldn't get before a judge. I couldn't get no redress and I really don't know where to go from here. >> You know, >> and you're calling me for >> uh to get this officer fired. Uh all the other officers that who came out here, Corporal Mertens, Scotty Mertens, and the road officers from Troop C were professionals. Uh were were great individuals. I have no problem with the majority of y'all. Okay. >> I don't know what else to do here, Kyle, other than just tell you guys what was up and pray that you do the right thing and relieve Mr. Folsson of his command of his duty because uh he's put you guys in a very precarious situation. >> Very good. >> All right. I appreciate that. >> All right. Well, God bless you. Have a good day. Have a great night. >> Take care. Bye-bye. He sent me an email the day after I left his house that said, "Who is your attorney that's going to be representing you cuz I'm going to sue and do you want to be served in person or at your office?" >> All right. Today is Sunday. It is uh September 2nd, 2012. You joined the bulletin man one more time. And by the grace of God, I'm still able to post my videos. It is day 11 of Bulletin Man's computer crisis. Um, but uh, all my big backers have backed out. Everybody who was supporting my run for corner uh, has declared and decreed that I'm a little too radical for them and a little too politically incorrect. But the good news is is uh, you know what, there's hundreds and hundreds of other people don't have the big money they do, but who've um, been more than happy to support my campaign. I actually just thought about dropping out the whole corner thing. I'll pray about it and see what happens. But no, I mean, I'm not one to quit. I don't care um who stands before me or who stands behind me or who stands against me. I know this much of God before me who could be against me. He that spared up not his own son, but delivered him up for us all. How shall not he freely give us all things? You know, and I'm on the right side of this battle. I really am. So, I do love you. I can ask you to continue to pray for me. Pray for Robert Bear Bass and Stephan Bass. And pray for J.R. and Vicky Isam. Pray for everybody else in Crawford County who I'm scaring with these radical views. But you know what? One more time. What is a crime? A crime is an act that causes provable personal injury, loss, or harm. Who are the criminals? Those who are causing provable personal injury, loss, or harm. Now, is that really that hard to figure out? Just think about it. You'll get it. See you. >> That was in late August, early September. And then on September the 11th of 2012, the officers Folsam and Merrens [snorts] invited Jeff into a a ruse. It says, "On September 11th, 2012, Sergeant Henry J. Folsam and I went to the Franklin County Prosecuting and Attorney's Office wherein Sergeant Folsam applied for and received an arrest warrant for Jeffrey W. Winehouse, white male, date of birth, October 6th, 1966." >> It was going to be weeks before Jay Pragman was done looking at the computers. that I was going to go and contact the prosecutor, Bob Parks. I went and talked to Bob and I said, "Bob, we need we need a favor so we don't have to beef up security in all these, you know, three counties. We need to uh we need to go ahead and issue a warrant for him." Bob said he'd support that. If I brought him a PC statement, he'd get it filed and we would pick him up and then part of his condition of bond was going to be that he'd be mentally evaluated. They uh called Jeff and they told him that in order to get his computers back, he needed to come meet them at uh at a gas station. >> I called him on the phone and I said, "Jeff, I I've got your computers and and I need to give them back to you before they close business today." >> And he said to me, "Uh, I don't trust you." I said, "Well, I understand that, but I've got to give you your computers back. If if you don't want them, I I can [music] go back to Raleigh with them." Mhm. >> He said, "No." He said, "Let me let's meet in a public place." And so, we were already sitting there. And so, I said, "Well, we've already kind of driven all the way over here. We just thought we'd meet you at that gas station up the road from your house there." >> We agreed to attempt to have Wine House meet us at the Missouri Farmers Association Oil Station on Missouri Route K between St. Clair and Piney Park, Missouri under the ruse that we were returning property seized from his residence on August 22nd, 2012. We have been to this store a couple of times and and there's never anyone there. >> I mean, for the highway patrol to choose that place, if they've just wanted to arrest him, then you have him come to the highway patrol. You that's your domain. You control that whole thing. You don't meet him out in some deserted parking lot someplace. >> Uh we took two FBI guys with us and we stationed two patrol cars down on each location of the road where he was going to meet us. Jeff probably should have known not to go, but you have to understand Jeff's whole livelihood was in that bullet and that was his basically his life's work at the time. He wanted his computers back. >> When they said he was going to meet us, everybody got stationed. Everybody was ready. Uh it was about 10 or 15 minutes later is when he drove in. >> Jeff pulled into the gas station here. >> He came in from the south and turned into the parking lot. He pulled in and he made a little semicircle and he parked about right here. Right in front of him was officer Folsam's car. He was parked kind of caddy corner with the trunk of his car facing that way. >> We had positioned our car high visibility to be be able for him to see it in the road and and appear that we were alone. >> The trunk of the car was opened up. It looked like he was going to give him the computers that he was deciding to meet here with. Sergeant Folsam exited my patrol vehicle. He requested I open the trunk to support the ruse. We were returning property to Wine House. Yeah. As we were getting out, he said, "Pop the trunk and make it look like we're giving him his property back." >> And Jeff pulled up. He got out of his car on the left side of the car over here. He stepped forward couple feet. Officer Folsome standing there and asked Jeff, you know, how are you doing, Jeff? I'm doing good. >> I stepped from behind the left rear of the car and started to approach him. >> His car. this car. >> Okay. >> And he is still with the driver's door open, uh, standing in the V of the door in the car. And then he steps forward and closes the door. And when he turned, I saw the guy. >> Jeff being the type of individual he is, he openly carried a weapon. [music] like 13 seconds after Jeff exited the car and some pleasantries ex pleasantries exchanged. The first thing they did was question Jeff's possession of a firearm in the state of Missouri where open carry is totally illegal. >> I was trained whenever you get in a situation like that, you need to ask a person a question. Why is this guy blue? Is today your birthday? [music] Anything. Because it slows their reaction time down. So I said, "What are you doing with that gun, Jeff?" and I stepped again back towards the car. [music] >> He said, "Well, why do you have a gun?" And Jeff asked the officer, "Well, I'm authorized to carry one. Why do you have one?" "Well, I'm authorized to carry one, too." And he told Jeff, he said, "Get down on the ground." >> I drew my gun and I pulled the sights up and I only had one hand on it. And I was ordering him with my hand to get down on the ground. I told him to get down on the ground. I'm at work on a Tuesday, 1:00, 1:30 in the afternoon, and Judy, his wife, called me. You know, she's frantic, and I'm like, "What's going on?" They shot Jeff. >> Highway Patrol officers say they had opened fire during a confrontation with an armed man. He's a man known for his criticism of government. >> Do you know how many times you fired? >> I fired four. I I fired two chest, one head, one hit. When I fired the two rounds to his chest, I mean, it was immediate. It was just, you know, I double tapped and and fired the one to the head almost, you know, instantaneously [music] as fast as I could. >> I'm told that he was meeting two troopers, a pre-arranged meeting, but he came armed with a gun. >> After I shot two to the chest, one in the head, and his eyes were all back in his head, [music] I didn't think he was ever going to be able to pull that weapon out. I saw the two rounds hit him in the chest. >> Right. When I fired those rounds, I saw his eyes roll up in the back of his head. He kind of swayed backwards. [music] And so I uh fired the three shots and I and after I heard the other shot, I scanned [music] I scanned everybody, everything there. >> And I looked back at him, he still had his hand on the damn gun trying to pull it out. So I fired one last shot to his head. I put the front sight blade right on his head and squeezed the trigger. The highway patrol says that he got out of his car and was armed and then started walking toward the troopers. There was a confrontation and then the troopers opened fire. >> Sergeant Folsome says that Jeff approached them at the gas station and he [music] was gunning the gas on his car and spinning around him in an aggressive way. >> When I saw him pull in, he gunned it. He said that he he ripped his seat belt off and opened the door an [music] aggressive way. And >> he ripped open the door and threw off the seat belt like like they train you to do in the academy. I mean, he wanted that belt off. He was out he was out on his feet staring back at us. [music] >> He's trying to characterize Jeff as as this crazy person. >> At first, I thought maybe he was going to try to ram us the way he was driving. Unbeknownst to the officers at the time, Jeff had the entire thing recorded on his spy watch. >> 911 2012, Sergeant HJ Fulome called me back and supposedly they're going to give me my computers. >> Glory, glory, hallelujah. Glory, glory, hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. >> Glory, glory, hallelujah. his truth is marching on. They're waiting to meet me at the gas station to get my computers back. Uh but I'm looking for someone to [ __ ] go with me. And you know what? These pastors around here, I just So just pray for me, okay? Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus, Lord, I thank you, Lord, that every no weapon formed against us shall prosper, Lord. Whatever these people are plotting, planning, if it's nefarious, Lord, if it's not of you, Lord, cancel it and cast it down in Jesus' name. I thank you, Lord, for exceedingly abundantly above all we could ever ask and thank you, Lord, as we loo wealth of the wicked. Plead my cause, Lord, to demonstrate with me and fight against them and fight against me. Take hold of shield and buckler, Lord, and stand up for our defense. Stand up for our defense. Stand up for our defense in Jesus name we pray. And all God's children said, amen. >> All right. All right. Well, they're here and I'm pulling in here. All right. >> Thank you, Lord. Praise the day, Jesus. Glorify. This is Jeff with the control. How's it going, Jet? >> Good. How are you? >> You got the gun for >> Why I got the gun? Why you got the gun for? >> Cuz I'm authorized to have the gun. >> All right. Well, I'm authorized to have on the ground. Get on the ground. >> Get down on the ground. >> You have to shoot me, man. >> You still got the guns. Scott, >> got him. >> I got him. Yeah. Police, FBI, Highway Patrol. >> Within 13 seconds [music] of getting out of the car, he had been shot four times. Twice in the head and twice in the chest. >> You don't have to shoot me or you have to shoot me. [music] There's been debate both ways on that. >> I said I said, Jeff, get your hand off the gun. And he said, "You're going to have to shoot me." >> Jeff put his hands up, said, "You don't got to shoot me, man. Get down. You didn't get on the ground. >> Get down on the ground. >> You had to shoot me, man. >> Fullome side in the prosecution. They say that Jeff said, "You're going to have to shoot me, man. >> You had to shoot me, man." >> Jeff told me what he said was, "You don't have to shoot me, [music] man." And that's what I hear. >> You had to shoot me, man. >> At the shooting, there are five eyewitnesses that I'm aware of. Two of them were FBI officers. The other three uh were witnesses were civilians [music] who were at the gas station. >> And we we had been to this store a couple of times and [music] and there's never anyone there. All of a sudden before he showed up, these two guys pull in with a flatbed [music] truck and are standing on the back of it trying to fix the gutters. >> Marty Leech gave an interview to Jeff's original lawyer team the day after the shooting. >> There were a couple of lawyers from St. Louis. Jeff's family came down and talked to us about what happened out here the other night. Um, >> the execution, you mean? >> Well, that that's that's what they're saying. You know, >> exactly what the [ __ ] it was. >> Did Did And you said you saw it saw it go down. >> I'm standing right there where my my truck is parked exactly where it's parked right now. >> Is that right? >> Yep. And [music] I was facing this way and after I heard the first shot, it was pow pow. After I heard the first shot, I turned around. A man was falling toward me with his hands up [music] facing me and the cop straight behind him and he shot [ __ ] as he was going down. >> Was his gun in his holster still? I never seen a gun. >> I never seen a gun. Period. No one ever has hands up. >> No. >> No. I All I can say I cannot swear the man did not have a gun. I can swear the man did not have a gun in his hands. >> Is that right? >> Well, you got to praise the Lord. He inhabits the praises of his people. >> Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus, Lord, I thank you, Lord, that every no weapon formed against us shall prosper, Lord. Whatever these people are plotting, the planet, if it's nefarious, Lord, if it's not of you, Lord, cancel it and cast it down in Jesus' name. We're at the MFA oil station on Route K about a mile and a half above the uh >> not J4. >> We're about a mile up >> from his house. Roll him over. No. Hold on. Hold on. >> Yeah. >> Stay with us in Franklin. >> Stay with us. >> All right. I'm going to hang up now. >> Stay with us. Stay with us, Jeff. Well, you know what? I'm a praying man. I believe in miracles and I believe that God took care of it that day. [music] It's a miracle. Um, this one here should have took my head off. I'm Jeff Winehouse. I'm a political prisoner. On 911 of 2012, the state of Missouri tried to kill me [music] and silence me. Uh, by the grace of God, I'm still alive to tell my story. I was shot once right here. Uh, [music] it skipped out the top of my head. Uh, shot at the back of the neck where it entered in and went around my spine. Uh, shot once to my chest. Uh, about 8 in from my heart and [music] then which collapsed my left lung and then, um, shot in the shoulder. Um, so shot twice in the chest and twice in the head. 18 days later, I wake up in the hospital. I'm I'm knocked out. They put me in a medically induced coma. Um, so I have no recolleation from the time I'm shot till the till the time I'm I I wake up out of the coma. >> They said, "Oh, they know they moved him. They moved him to a rehab facility." I'm like, "Moved him?" Last time I saw him, he wasn't even conscious. >> Yeah. That was shot with 40 40 caliber. They shot the kill. Uh, two to the head and two to the chest are kill shots, but it literally uh touched my temple and skipped off the top of my forehead. >> After Jeff had been released from the rehab facility, he came to live with my wife and I at our home in Peaveley and he was there for about 30 days with us. They had an arraignment on October the 31st. [music] >> I was released from the hospital on October 11th. So, 30 days I was in the hospital and then I got out of the hospital and I was out for three weeks. Uh, and then I went into the court on November 1st. >> As we had been talking to these attorneys that [music] Jeff had been meeting with that said that it looked like everything was going to go well. We were they were adamant that Jeff had a [music] legitimate case and they were adamant that you should just go and turn yourself in and they'll probably get you a low bond and and you can get out of prison. You get [music] out of jail, you know. I drove him down there on Halloween night, assured him everything was going to be fine, >> and then that's when they charged him with attempted murder or first-degree assault. In Missouri, as you know, attempted murder is first-degree assault. I was charged with two counts of that and two counts of armed criminal action. >> They nailed him with this high ass bond, >> quarter million bond and [snorts] uh or $50,000 cash only. >> And so Jeff could not Jeff couldn't make bond. We we we didn't have the money to do it. >> Coverage you can count on. This is [music] 18 eyewitness news. >> Bulletin man will go on trial in April. 46-year-old Jeffrey Winehouse was indicted last year on two counts of assault on a law enforcement officer, two counts of armed criminal action and resisting arrest in connection with an incident that occurred September 11th when he was shot. The case also includes his prior charges from August of possession of a controlled substance tampering with a judicial officer and misdemeanor possession of marijuana. Over the years, Winehouse has criticized Southeast Missouri officials through internet blogs, YouTube videos, and bulletins. >> Now, important part of the background here is that Jeff does not like attorneys. >> My big problem with with America is the lawyers. doesn't like him at all. >> We couldn't uh get along very well. So, uh they withdrew [music] >> and then he was attorneyless and then he was trying to represent himself. We as a group of people had raised about $4,100 to help Jeff pay for an attorney. Hate to say it, but he got a pathetic defense attorney, Hugh Eastwood. Jeff's wife at the time uh got a hold of Hugh and they hired Hugh at the shooting. There are uh five eyewitnesses that I'm aware of. Uh two of them were FBI officers who testified that they saw Jeff from his right side and that he he never reached for a gun. >> There are two FBI agents, Cuttingham and Marshack. Mr. streets would have opposed both of them and neither one saw a weapon on me, much less me try to draw it. >> Both of those guys in their depositions have testified that they did not see Jeff reach for a gun. >> They are swearing that Jeff never even made a move to remove his gun from the holster. This lawyer, this particular lawyer, never even called them as witnesses. They're sitting in the audience. [music] They could have been called as witness. Never even called them. >> Uh the FBI should have been called. uh they they saw the whole thing. A jury would have believed the FBI guys and I insisted that my lawyer call them and he just ignored me. >> When you first receive your stunt cuff, make sure it is fully charged by plugging it into the charger provided. >> I couldn't make a big deal about it because uh I didn't want to get shocked. To strap on the stun cuff, take the included standard handcuff keys and insert the key in the hole on the side of the stun cuff. >> For the first time in their history, the the county ordered these special shock cuffs. They fitted Jeff with these cuffs on his ankle that nobody could see, but that uh were capable of delivering an 80,000 volt charge. >> To fire the stun cuff and trigger the electrical shock, press the on button. Then within 10 seconds, press the fire button. >> Way these tasers are set up, if uh they shock you with a taser, I mean, you're going to defecate yourself. It's not a pleasant feeling. >> It's been said in the literature that these can cause a person to urinate or defecate on themselves. It could even possibly be fatal. >> The fire button can be held down for longer shock. >> You know, they could have juiced him at any time. >> Stun only as long as needed for compliance. >> He was muzzled. He could see the baoof whenever he would try to say something, you know, showing him the switch to these shot cuffs. >> Demonstrate the stun cuff to the prisoner before strapping it on. >> The prosecuting attorney told the bal uh zap him if he gets out of line. >> They have no purpose as as far as physical restraint. Jeff was physically restrained in the courtroom. There was there was no way he could harm anybody. Should your cuff fire for no reason, press and hold the on button until the stun cuff is shut off. >> Their purpose was to prevent him from testifying in his own defense. >> Well, yeah. I mean, the whole point of the taser was to to keep me silent and to intimidate me the whole time. >> They tried to make Jeff look crazy because of what he said in these YouTube. But even after Jeff was convicted and put into jail, very strange things kept happening in Crawford County. In a town south of St. Louis, a man shot in the head and then buried in a backyard. >> But for a year and a half, his sister says no one cared. Now she's asking, did police protect a killer? >> News4's Lauren Trager is in Bourbon getting answers in part two of her exclusive in-depth News4 investigation. >> Why did it take an outside agency to come to justice? You see, the murder suspect, Deacon Zelch, is the son of Crawford County Sheriff's Deputy Vernon Zelch. Well known in the community with a lot of friends in law enforcement. Bourbon's chief, Paul Satderfield, was a detective in the Crawford County Sheriff's Office. >> And Paul Satderfield was a associate and friend of Vernon Zelt. Paul Satderfield was also a deputy on the Crawford County Sheriff's Department at the time. Paul's proximity to corruption is evidenced in this case, and there have been several more. When Jeff discovered the case in Crawford County, when he decided to run for corner, it was all due to Paul Satderfield, who is a was a sheriff's deputy, I believe, there, who is the relative of Shawn Satderfield, who is the state patrol supervisor of Henry F. >> Like in Crawford County, I know of two murders been committed by one cop. He's still on the force. I know of other couple suspicious murders and some other funky stuff going on down there. And that's why I'm running for corner. and she goes, "I'm going to deal with you, Mr. Satderfield, and your cousin, too." Whoever Lieutenant Colonel Sean Satderfield is. >> Uh, in Crawford County, the sheriff's department was responsible for a couple murders. Uh, so I was looking into them. >> One of the videos Jeff made, he's talked about, I know of some suspicious shootings down there, and there were several at the time. There was one of uh, Kelly Bran. Kelly was maybe possibly a drug addict, but he was under investigation by the Crawford County Sheriff's [music] Department and uh he was shot at his home and one of the shooters was Paul Satderfield. Jeff did not believe that this was a justified shooting. >> Uh Sean Satderfield approached me and said, uh basically we're going to take you out and uh we're going to uh eliminate you. uh you best mind your own business. So I ran for coroner and the reason why you run for coroner in the state of Missouri the coroner has the power to arrest a sheriff and can impanel a grand jury when it come to uh uh to a murder in the county and there's no statute of limitations on murder. >> In Missouri law the coroner can conduct an inquest against the sheriff if uh if there's wrongdo doing by the sheriff. And indeed, this actually happened in Texas County, Missouri, where the coroner removed the sheriff for crimes. And so Jeff was in the process of running for coroner. >> We had a staff meeting with Lieutenant George and Lieutenant George Nolles and Lieutenant Satderfield. >> During the trial, Jeff's attorney got Henry to answer the question, why did you go? Why? If you had animosity with Jeff already, his supervisor, Sean Satderfield, insisted that Henry go and finish the job. Finish what you started is what he said. And I heard that and I'm like, Hugh, why aren't you on this man? What is your deal? >> The whole case is based on uh Folsam's testimony. There's lots of evidence that Folsam's testimony was false. >> Trooper Folsam alleged that uh he told me to remove my hand off the gun. >> At that point, I said I said, "Jeff, get your hand off the gun." And he said, "You're going to have to shoot me." >> Which is not on the uh the videotape. Why' I got the gun? Why you got the gun? >> Because I'm authorized to have gun. >> All right. Well, I'm authorized to have on the ground. Get on the ground. >> Get down on the ground. >> You had to shoot me, man. >> The troopers alleged I tried to draw the weapon out that I got the weapon halfway out of the holster and that's when they shot me. >> At that point, he began drawing the weapon out of the holster and he had the weapon up in his hand and he had just maybe all but an inch or two inches of the barrel out. Jeff never drew the gun. There's no way. There's evidence from several different points of view of why Jeff could not have even reached for a gun. >> It's an Army green holster. It's I was serving in the army for 7 years. They're very hard to draw from. They're made to retain a weapon, not to draw. And I saw it and I saw a big black gun. >> They use it so that there's no way that the gun can ever accidentally come out of the holster. It actually takes two hands to open this parachute holster. >> Well, the holster has a spring. And first you have to pull down and it releases. >> Then you have to sweep the entire flap away. >> Okay? >> And then you have to reach inside and draw the gun completely straight out. It doesn't have any breakaway. It's not cut down or anything. It's made to hold the gun if you jump out of an airplane. If you look in detail at that spy watch video, the angle of the view was up over the top of the Subaru, indicating that that just like the eyewitnesses said, Jeff had his hands in front of him. >> If Pulson is correct, and it takes two hands to get the weapon out of the holster, then one of those hands is above the door of the car. He could not be assisting in getting the weapon out. >> Had to shoot me, man. The troopers alleged I tried to draw the weapon out that I got the weapon halfway out of the holster and that's when they shot me. >> Officers arriving on the scene uh you know 10 minutes later look down at the holster on the ground and said, "Is that a gun in there?" >> Huh? >> Is there a gun in there? >> Yeah, there is. And leave it right there. Okay. >> So, the gun was in the holster. >> But when we look at the crime scene photographs, the weapon is uh probably halfway out of the holster. then that means that someone pulled it out for the photograph. >> It would suggest [music] that the crime scene had been manipulated. >> Jeff uh didn't get as good of a legal representation as he should have. >> I think anybody [music] in the first year of law school could have won that case. What was the result of it? Well, Jeff Winehouse never assaulted anybody. He never got his gun out of the holster. He got shot four times and went to trial and was sentenced, I believe, to 30 years. >> I was acquitted of assaulting Corporal Merins. I was acquitted of tampering with the judge and I was acquitted at trial for resisting an arrest. The judge told the prosecutor that they never even said I was under arrest. So, how can you resist if you're not under arrest? They found me guilty of assaulting Sergeant Folsam. They found me guilty of armed criminal action. They found me guilty of possession of marijuana. and they found me guilty of possession of morphine. The prosecuting attorney um with charged me with originally was assaulted Sergeant Folsson by shooting him. Uh he changed the charge uh to attempted to draw a weapon to shoot Sergeant Folsam, but they didn't change the paperwork at trial and the jury actually signed off on the fact I shot the Sergeant Folsam. And no, the man was never shot. >> The the person that committed the assault was the highway patrolman. Actually, they sentenced me to 30 years with armed criminal action and 30 years uh for assault in the first degree against Sergeant Folsson. 63 years altogether. Uh but the judge ran all the sentences what they call concurrent. Uh so they I don't have to serve 63 years. Uh they're going to let me out in 30. So 18 more years. I'll be 70 years old by the time I get out of here. I just turned 53. So he's serving 30 years for assaulting an officer that was never assaulted in any way. Well, the thing I find interesting about Fulsome is that the day the shooting took place, he he never did an official act for the Highway Patrol again. They put him on leave. They uh said that he was not fit for duty and then he used up his vacation time. Uh it all ended December the 23rd, I believe, and then they terminated him. >> He was on medical leave the whole time. Uh they wouldn't let him go back to work. So after his medical leave expired, after he ringing out all his medical leave, that's when they fired him. >> He was fired within a week or >> Yeah. about a week after the trial. >> And then he sued them for wrongful termination. >> And he took him to the circuit court. He lost there. Surprise, surprise. [music] He took him to district court. He lost there. Another big surprise. But when the judge wrote the finding, it came out in the record in the finding that uh he was drug impaired during the shooting of Jeff Winehouse. >> During Jeff's trial, Folsam was asked if he was on any medication, and he said no. >> Turned out that he had failed the drug test on the day he shot me. Uh it turned out that he had Prozac and ambient in his system and that's when they found out that he was on being treated for PTSD. >> He lied under oath and said that he was not [music] on drugs. He was not incapacitated and he was fit and ready for for duty. >> Turned out he had uh shot someone else in October 2000 and after that he was diagnosed with PTSD >> from the habius corpus case. In 2000, Fulsome shot and killed another suspect. Although Folsam would later discuss this 2000 shooting during his deposition in Mr. Winehouse criminal case, Folsam failed to disclose the critical [music] fact that as a result of that shooting, he developed post-traumatic stress disorder. Neither Folsam, Merens, Missouri State Highway Patrol, nor the prosecution disclosed Folsam's mental health condition to Mr. Winehouse defense council. Additionally, when Fulsome was asked directly what medication he takes and whether he was taking medication at the time he shot Mr. Wine House Fulsome denied taking any medication at all. This was a lie. He was [music] being treated with psychotropic drugs, ambient and Prozac. Uh the literature cites these drugs [music] as being involved in cases of violent behavior. Folsam told Lieutenant Whitler that he has been undergoing treatment for post-traumatic stress syndrome for 8 years and that he was afraid to report his condition earlier because he feared for his job if he revealed his condition. this information which uh the higher administration had always known about but it was withheld exculpatory evidence withheld from uh the accused. >> They relieved him from his duty. Uh they required him to go under a psychological evaluation. Dr. Lutz concluded that Folsam is not psychologically capable of returning to his job with the Missouri State Highway Patrol. In June of 2014, Folsam met with Dr. Wayne Stillings. According to Stilling's report, Fulsome told him that because of his experience in the two prior shooting incidents, he will never work in law enforcement again because his PTSD gives him false signals of being under threat. He is fearful of pulling a gun and shooting someone when they are merely reaching into their back pocket for a wallet. So, I have to ask myself, if Folsome feels like his life is in danger and he [music] shoots the perceived threat four times and the victim is transported to the hospital, pretty unusual that he's not handcuffed to the bed, that he there's not an officer there. And the thing that amazes me the most, he's released for over 21 days. No arrest. No contact, nothing at all. >> The state patrol knew where he was the whole time. >> They released me from the hospital. I was out of the hospital for 3 weeks before I was arrested. >> Sergeant Folsam said some of the symptoms of his diagnosis are that he has angry outbursts. He explained by saying that when he was notified by Captain Everheart that Wine House was being released from the hospital where he was as a result of the officer involved shooting and that Wine House was not being charged with any crimes. According to Sergeant Folsam, it was at that time that he experienced an angry outburst and [music] admitted to speaking to his commander, Captain Everheart, in a very angry manner. According to Fulsome, he spoke to her in a way that was turs. That gives a very strong impression that the highway patrol was not going to arrest him or they would have done it immediately. They wouldn't have waited 3 weeks uh to make the arrest and only after the officer that did the shooting insisted in a very tur way. There's just something not right about that story. If he actually committed those crimes, he should have been arrested immediately. He would never left the hospital. He would never have left the hospital without being arrested. Sergeant Folsam went on to say that during one of his meetings with Captain Neberheart, she stated, "If you ever do come back to the patrol, I'm going to bring formal charges on some of the things that came up while you were gone and the fact that you were insubordinate to me." The inquiry found that uh Sergeant Folsome uh was violent and moody uh that he intimidated subordinates and that he departed from the truth. The document [music] contains written details of interviews with patrol employees who report that Sergeant Folsam departs from the truth and subordinates of Sergeant Folsam are intimidated and suffer low morale due to Sergeant Folsam's quickly changing emotional patterns. >> He's become paranoid. He's speaking out. He's uh difficult to work with. uh according to the to the [music] deposition, according to what other highway patrolman said, >> even at Jeff's trial, Folsam at one time, you know, had an outburst [music] and uh was highly critical of the Missouri State Highway Patrol uh for not backing him enough. Sergeant Folsam said his wife is a prosecutor in the county and the alienation by the patrol are affecting his family. And this is constantly building on him uh to the point that uh he's like paranoid and it's difficult to get along with people his own pure group and now he's striking out against the highway patrol and now they're wanting to get rid of him and they're wanting to terminate his employment which goes to show that he should not be in that position and the highway patrol administration knew that >> but yet none of this uh was ever made available to Jeff's [music] defense team at the trial and exculpatory evidence is required to be revealed and it wasn't. All of this uh information was not only withheld from the jury in Jeff's original trial, but it was withheld in his appeal. And Jeff had a federal habius case going on in which the Missouri Attorney General's office was the respondent. Of course, we know at the time uh that Josh Holly was the attorney general. >> The attorney general is supposed to to go to court if necessary and to stand up in favor of business in our state, in favor of families in our state. >> Josh Holly knew what was going on with Trooper Folsam's uh uh lawsuit against the state of Missouri. uh his office was handling the uh the uh the defense of the state and uh he knew that Folsam was had PTSD and he failed to tell my attorney at the time while they are are defending the state against Folsam [music] then they are at the same time keeping that information away from Jeff Wine House >> at the time trooper Folsam had had sued the state of Missouri and the attorney general's office was handling the lawsuit for the state of Missouri uh against Trevor Folsome. >> So if that's the case, then he would definitely been aware of the results of the drug test and when the drug test was administrated and would [music] have known Folsam, Sergeant Folsson was on drugs whenever the shooting took place. He would have been aware the attorney general of this from the very beginning. Now some people go, "Well, Josh Holly is is [music] too busy being ambitious to become the president of the United States, so he hasn't got time to look at that." But the problem with that argument is that it's imputed in the law [music] that if your people under you, if they know about it, then you know about it. [music] >> The idea that Mr. Rogers is trying to imply is that I'm crooked and that I have deliberately withheld evidence from the defense. Right? Whether your secretary or your investigator knew of it, it is imputed in law that you knew it. >> We are taking a closer [music] look at a story we reported on yesterday about a man named Ryan Ferguson. He spent almost a decade in a Missouri prison for a murder he always insisted he did not commit. This morning, the 29year-old is a free man. Ferguson was convicted in 2005 of the murder of Kent Heightold, a Columbia, Missouri newspaper sports editor. Ferguson's release followed a nearly decadel long campaign led by his father, Bill, to clear his son's name. Last week, a Missouri appellet court found that prosecutors had concealed evidence from Ferguson's defense, denying him a fair trial. His conviction was thrown out. The reason that the Ferguson case is relevant is because the thing that freed Ryan Ferguson is the same principle that applies in Jeff's case. And it goes back to uh Brady versus Maryland, what they call a Brady violation. So in the Ryan Ferguson case, the prosecution knowingly hid evidence that would have showed that Ryan was innocent. And in the Jeff Winehouse case, the same thing occurred. If Jeff had had this information during his trial, if his attorneys had known that, I think the case would have been thrown [music] out. >> Well, I mean, just the rank injustice of it all. Uh, I've sat in jail for 2,500 something days already, and uh I've harmed nobody. I mean, that's the bottom line of the matter. Um, and it's hard time doing jail. I've missed birthdays. I've missed uh holidays. Uh, my daughter is going to graduate high school here in another month or so whether or not if they're able to get back to school. Um, I'm going to miss that. I've missed my kids growing up. Um, I've missed a lot. They ain't going to make me stop cuz I got something to say. >> Do I think that there should be accountability of law enforcement? Absolutely. When we start getting into these cases, we're going to find out there are a lot of skeletons [music] in the highway patrol closet. >> I was shot four times, twice in the head, twice in the chest, as we all know. And uh I'm the one in in prison for 30 years. And uh Mr. Folsson was never harmed. Matter of fact, I've been convicted of assaulting Sergeant Folsson by shooting him. And I was the only one shot. So here I am. Jeff's not guilty of anything. You know, [music] he never assaulted anybody. He never intended to assault anybody. They targeted him because he was criticizing the authorities. And we're supposed to be able to do that in [music] the United States. I have a uh just a just a questioning demeanor. Uh I I I first of all don't believe in injustice. I believe in the underdog. I'm kind of fighting for the little guy. And u I stand up for people who can't stand up for themselves. I I'm prohibited from making any recordings coming out of the prison. Uh I'm prohibited from making recordings and phone calls. I they have done everything they can to silence me. And it's by a miracle uh if you're able to get out of here with these videotapes uh that they weren't able to silence me here today.