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Bub Flaugher and Teresa Leadingham moved into their dream home in the Kentucky Hills. However, it turned into a nightmarish experience for the quiet couple as they were killed in the summer of 2004. The investigation learned that a fiery dispute and long-running feud led to the tragedy. All the intricate details of the case are explored extensively in the episode titled ‘A Killer View’ of Investigation Discovery’s ‘Fear Thy Neighbor,’ which also features exclusive and insightful interviews with the deceased couple’s loved ones and the officials who worked hard to solve the case.
Bub Flaugher and Teresa Leadingham Were Found Dead in Their Mobile Home
On July 13, 1978, in Morehead, Kentucky, Jeffery Flaugher and Janie Wagoner Rice welcomed Jeffery Lynn “Bub” Flaugher Jr. into the world as a little bundle of joy. He grew up alongside three sisters, Amanda Jo, Amber Brooke Flaugher, and Ashley Nicole Flaugher, and later became an independent truck driver in Grayson, Kentucky. Bub married Teresa Ann Criswell Leadingham, with whom he had two sons — Hunter Kane Flaugher and Caden Dale Flaugher. While she had five daughters — Rebecca Ann Labor, Melissa Leadingham, Shanna Leadingham, Brianna Leadingham, and Krista Leadingham — from a previous relationship, he had a daughter named Erin Lynn Flaugher.
Born on September 26, 1974, in Kentucky, Teresa was the beloved daughter of Marion “Dale” and Bonnie Martin Criswell. Much like her husband, she was accompanied by her siblings — two brothers, Phillip and Danny Criswell, and a sister, Cindy — while growing up. The young couple looked forward to watching their children grow up and succeed in life. Unfortunately, fate had other ideas as 26-year-old Bub and 29-year-old Teresa met their sudden demise on July 16, 2004, in their mobile home in Grayson, Kentucky. When the authorities arrived at the crime scene, they collected evidence and determined that the couple died of gunshot wounds. Thus, they launched a double homicide investigation.
Bub Flaugher and Teresa Leadingham’s Killer Turned Out to be One of Their Neighbors
Upon talking to Bubg Flaugher and Teresa Leadingham’s loved ones and neighbors, the detectives learned that they were in the middle of a feud with their neighboring couple, Clyde and Cathy Reddicks. The two couples lived about 100 feet apart on Satellite Road, off US 60, just west of Grayson. As tensions arose between them, they reportedly called the police on one another multiple times in the weeks and months prior to the shootings. It was alleged by Clyde and Cathy that Bub and Teresa caused mental harassment by hurling insults and sexual taunts at them.
The detectives theorized that the feud got to the point that Clyde decided to end it once and for all by taking the lives of both Bub and Teresa. When they brought Cathy in for questioning, she told them that she was the one who shot Bub and Teresa to death by firing multiple rounds of shotgun into their trailer on the fateful day of July 16, 2004. However, it later turned out that Clyde was responsible for the shooting as he shot the couple to death with a 20-gauge shotgun. Prosecutors noted during the trial that the pair pleaded for their lives. After gathering enough evidence against him, he was charged with two counts of capital murder, first-degree burglary, and wanton endangerment.
Clyde Passed Away in Incarceration, While Cathy Reddicks Stays Away From Limelight
A couple of years after Bub Flaugher and Teresa Leadingham’s deaths, in July 2006, Cathy Reddicks pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree hindering apprehension or prosecution. After agreeing to her guilty plea, the State dismissed the charges of complicity to capital murder, complicity to first-degree burglary, and criminal mischief against her. Moreover, Cathy was sentenced to five years in prison, but by then she had already served two years in the Carter County Detention Center, making her eligible for a parole hearing almost immediately. That same month, Clyde Reddicks stood trial for his neighbors’ killings. The defense acknowledged that he committed the double homicide, but told the jury that Bub and Teresa’s alleged abusive behavior towards him and his wife triggered flashbacks from his time in Vietnam.
The defense claimed that on the fateful day, Clyde received a threatening remark from Bub, after which “he was driven to a place where an event triggered him to engage in combat to protect him and Cathy.” Four days into the trial, on July 21, 2006, in order to avoid the death penalty, Clyde pleaded guilty, but mentally ill, to two counts of first-degree manslaughter, one count of second-degree burglary, and three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment. In other words, he admitted to killing Bub and Teresa, but claimed that he was mentally ill and under extreme emotional duress at the time of the murders.
On August 24, 2006, Clyde was sentenced to a total of 35 years in prison — 18 years for each of the manslaughter counts, 10 years for the burglary charge, and seven years for the wanton endangerment counts. The burglary and wanton endangerment sentences ran consecutively with the manslaughter sentence. On the other hand, Cathy was sentenced to a year of home confinement for her conviction of hindering prosecution. After serving six years in prison, Clyde Reddicks reportedly died from cancer. Two decades later, Cathy is in her 60s, seemingly leading a private life in Daytona Beach, Florida.
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