Buried Beneath Fourth Street: The Murder of Jamie Carroll by Joey Banis or Jeffrey Mundt— Part 2

Published by Hitched 2 Homicide | True Crime Podcast

"The jury got this wrong. It's completely the opposite of what it should be. My client should have received at most an eight-year sentence, and Mr. Mundt should be sitting in prison right now on a potential life sentence." — Darren Wolff, defense attorney for Joey Banis

Previously, in Old Louisville...

If you haven't read Part One yet, go back and start there — because the story you're about to read only hits as hard as it should when you know what came before it. You need to know who Jamie Carroll was. You need to know the Victorian mansion on South 4th Street, the love triangle, the drugs, the December night, and the horror of a man buried in a Rubbermaid container beneath a basement floor for seven months while two men walked above his grave.

When we left off, it was the evening of June 17, 2010. Louisville Metro Police had responded to a frantic 911 call from Jeffrey Mundt, who claimed his boyfriend Joey Banis was attacking him with a hammer. Officers arrived. Banis was placed in the back of a squad car. And then — everything changed.

"Before You Take Me to Jail..."

Sergeant Trey McKnight of Louisville Metro Police was doing what officers do after a domestic call — getting the other party squared away, preparing to transport him to the station. Joey Banis was seated in the back of the cruiser, cuffed, the night closing in around them.

And then Banis spoke.

" Before you take me to jail," he said, "I need to talk to a detective. Because there's a body buried in our basement."

McKnight stopped. Looked at the man in his back seat. Asked him to say that again.

Banis repeated it. Calmly. A body. In the basement. At 1435 South 4th Street. He gave them a name: James Carroll. He said Carroll was a drug dealer. That he and Mundt had invited him over in December 2009. That all three of them had been involved sexually. That what happened next ended with a dead man under the floor of the old wine cellar.

Detective Collin King of Louisville Metro Police later recalled his reaction to the information: "He said, 'Before you take me to jail, I need to talk to a detective, because there's a body buried in our basement.'" King described the moment as surreal — the kind of thing you hear and your brain takes a beat to process.

Detectives were skeptical. The story was bizarre. The circumstances were chaotic. One man had called 911 screaming his life was in danger. The other was now calmly claiming there was a dead man in the basement. Which story was the performance?

Both, as it turned out, contained at least some version of the truth.

Two Men, Two Very Different Stories

Investigators brought both men in separately, and what unfolded over the next several hours would define the next three years of Louisville's legal history.

Joey Banis's version: He told detectives that back in December 2009, Jeff Mundt had turned to him during the evening and asked, "Do you think anyone would miss Jamie? We could take his drugs." Banis claimed he didn't understand what Mundt meant. Then, when Jamie returned to the bedroom after retrieving more meth, Mundt — without warning — produced a knife and stabbed him. Jamie cried out, "Joey, Joey, help me," before Mundt grabbed a .38 Smith and Wesson revolver and shot him. Banis told investigators the whole thing was over in under a minute. He claimed Mundt then pointed the gun at him and threatened to kill him if he breathed a word or refused to help dispose of the body.

Jeffrey Mundt's version: He told detectives he and Jamie were together in the bedroom when Banis suddenly attacked. "Joey had a knife in his hand and was slashing at Jamie's throat," Mundt told investigators. "There was blood that was literally everywhere — you could actually smell the blood." Mundt claimed Banis then shot Carroll with the revolver, turned the gun on him, and threatened to kill him and his family if he didn't cooperate. He said Banis administered GHB — a date rape drug — to keep him compliant throughout the cover-up.

Both men agreed that Jamie Carroll had been stabbed and shot and that they had buried him in the basement together. Everything else — who held the knife, who pulled the trigger, who gave the orders — was a matter of one man's word against the other's.

To prove anything, investigators needed to go back to 1435 South 4th Street with shovels.

The Dig

When detectives descended on the Victorian mansion and made their way into the old wine cellar in the basement, they found what Banis had promised — and what Banis helped them locate by drawing investigators a hand-drawn map to the grave.

Beneath feet of hard-packed clay and mud, buried approximately four to six feet down — some accounts record Sergeant Jon Lesher stating "the bin was six feet down" in the old wine cellar — they found a large sealed plastic storage container. The container had been wrapped in tape and sealed with expanding foam to contain the smell.

Inside was what remained of James "Jamie" Carroll.

Seven months of decomposition had done its work. He was identified nonetheless. The medical examiner determined that he had been stabbed multiple times, with three stab wounds being fatal, and shot once. He had also been struck with a sledgehammer — not in the commission of the murder, but as part of the horrifying cover-up, to compress the body into its makeshift coffin.

Louisville had its body. Now it needed its truth.

Both Jeffrey Mundt and Joey Banis were taken into custody and formally charged with murder, robbery, and tampering with physical evidence. The Commonwealth of Kentucky made clear from the outset that they were prepared to seek the death penalty.

Three Years of Waiting

Between the arrest in June 2010 and the first trial in February 2013, the legal machinery ground slowly but deliberately forward. Both men sat in custody. Both men lawyered up. The evidence was catalogued — the counterfeit money seized in Chicago, the hard drives and laptops containing nearly a million files, the forensic results from the basement and the bedroom, the physical evidence of the cover-up.

Assistant Commonwealth Attorney Josh Schneider, who helped prosecute both men, would later describe them in terms that made clear how seriously the Commonwealth took both of them: "Both of them, Mundt and Banis, were the two most diabolical, intelligent individuals I have ever met."

The prosecution's challenge was formidable. They had two men, both pointing at each other, and no independent witness to the killing. What they had was physical evidence of a brutal murder and cover-up, two confessions that agreed on all the wrong things, and a jury system that would ultimately have to decide which monster was the bigger monster.

They decided to try the cases separately. Joey Banis would go first.

The Trial of Joey Banis: February 2013

When Joey Banis went to trial in February 2013, prosecutors painted him and Jeffrey Mundt as a "twisted" couple who had murdered Jamie Carroll for money — to rob him of his drugs and cash. They leaned into Banis's criminal history, his persistent felon status, his prior drug convictions. They called Jeff Mundt to the stand.

Mundt testified against his former boyfriend with clinical detail. He described the bedroom. The knife. The blood. Jamie's cry for help. He told the jury that Banis had controlled and threatened him throughout the cover-up, that he had been too terrified to go to the police, that he had lived in fear of a man he described as a psychopath.

"Jeffrey continuously talked about how in fear he was of Joey," Detective Collin King later told Snapped: Killer Couples. "And you almost feel sympathetic to him as the victim. We had no reason not to believe him. I'm like, 'this poor guy.' He's a very, very likable guy. Very articulate. Very well-educated."

The jury believed Mundt.

After deliberating, they returned a verdict of guilty on charges of complicity to murder, robbery, and tampering with evidence.

Joey Banis was convicted of the murder of Jamie Carroll.

Before sentencing, Jefferson Circuit Court Judge Mitch Perry allowed Banis to address the court. For ten minutes, Banis stood at the podium and delivered a statement that was equal parts apology and defiance. "First of all, and most importantly, I maintain my innocence," he told the court. He apologized to the Carroll family. He criticized the prosecution. He enlisted the sympathy of anyone listening.

"I know people look at me and they think, 'how could you?'" Banis said. "I admit that I assisted in covering up the crime. I understand these emotional responses, but put yourself in my place."

Judge Perry was unmoved.

Behind the scenes, a deal had already been struck. In exchange for giving up his right to appeal and agreeing to testify against Jeffrey Mundt in the upcoming trial, the prosecution agreed to take the death penalty off the table. Judge Perry formalized the arrangement.

Joey Banis was sentenced to life in prison, with the possibility of parole after twenty years.

He was transported to begin his sentence at the Little Sandy Correctional Complex in Elliott County, Kentucky, and later transferred to the Lee Adjustment Center in Beattyville. He is currently incarcerated at the Southeast State Correctional Complex in Wheelwright, Kentucky.

His first shot at parole: June 2, 2030.

The Trial of Jeffrey Mundt: May 2013

Three months after Banis's conviction, Jeffrey Mundt went on trial. And the case that had seemed straightforward — two men, one body, one clear killer — took a turn that no one in the Louisville true crime community has forgotten.

Mundt's defense team, led by high-profile criminal defense attorney Steven Romines, built their case around a single, powerful argument: Jeff Mundt was not a murderer. He was a victim. A successful, law-abiding professional who had made one catastrophic mistake in judgment — falling for a dangerous, manipulative, violent man — and who had been terrorized into silence for months.

"Jeff Mundt was very successful," Romines told A&E Crime and Investigation. "He had lived his entire life and never got a speeding ticket. He meets Joey Banis online, and about six weeks later, he's got a body in his basement."

The defense painted Joey Banis as a predator and a psychopath. "He was truly a dangerous individual," the defense argued. "He threatens to kill his family, he threatens to kill him, everybody he knows. Truly just tortured him."

Joey Banis, now in handcuffs and an orange jumpsuit, took the stand against his former boyfriend. He told the jury that Mundt was the real killer. He testified that Mundt had once told him: "No one would ever believe you. I'm the great golden child on paper. They don't know about my secret fetishes or anything. You're a convicted felon, Joey."

It was a compelling quote. It was also delivered by a man who had already been convicted of murder, had a decades-long criminal record, and had struck a deal with the prosecution to avoid execution. Mundt's defense attorney methodically dismantled Banis on the stand — pointing out every inconsistency, every lie, every reason the jury had to discount everything he said.

The jury was skeptical. But that was only half the story.

The Video That Changed Everything

The smoking gun in Jeffrey Mundt's trial wasn't a piece of forensic evidence. It wasn't a witness. It wasn't a document.

It was a video — found on Joey Banis's own computer.

In the footage, Banis could be seen in a motel room, holding Jeff Mundt at gunpoint. And in the video, Banis spoke words that would echo through the courtroom and alter the outcome of the entire trial.

He appeared to confess to the murder.

The defense played it for the jury. The prosecution scrambled. Banis's own attorney, Darren Wolff, argued that the confession had been made under duress — that Mundt had staged the video, had forced Banis into making it, that it was fabricated evidence designed to exonerate a killer. "Myself, my co-counsel, and of course Joey Banis — we know that that confession was made under duress," Wolff said. "It was made under threat of death."

The jury wasn't convinced by the duress argument.

On May 29, 2013, after deliberating for nearly eight hours, the jury returned its verdict.

Jeffrey Mundt: Not guilty of murder.

The courtroom absorbed the verdict. Louisville absorbed the verdict. The true crime community — which had followed this case through years of legal proceedings — absorbed the verdict.

Mundt was, however, convicted of the lesser charges: facilitation to robbery and tampering with physical evidence. Judge Perry sentenced him to a total of eight years in prison — three years for the robbery facilitation conviction and five years for tampering with evidence, to run consecutively.

Given the time Mundt had already served between his arrest, jail time, and home incarceration, the math worked out quickly. By August 2014, Jeffrey Mundt was released to a halfway house — having served, by most accounts, approximately one year of actual incarceration.

He appealed his remaining convictions. In December 2014, the Jefferson Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the original rulings. He completed his supervised probation. And then Jeffrey Mundt walked out of the system entirely.

The Verdicts That Divided a City

The diverging outcomes of the two trials left Louisville — and the broader true crime world — with a question that has never been satisfactorily answered:

Who really killed Jamie Carroll?

Legally, the answer is Joey Banis. That's what the verdict says. That's what the conviction record reflects.

But not everyone accepts that answer.

Banis's defense attorney Darren Wolff was blunt in his assessment: "The jury got this wrong. It's completely the opposite of what it should be in this case. My client should have received at most an eight-year sentence, and Mr. Mundt should be sitting in prison right now on a potential life sentence."

Detective Collin King, the investigator who worked the case from that first night in June 2010, has expressed his own views plainly. "I think he's one of those sick individuals that wanted to see what it's like to kill," King said of Mundt. "And I think Banis was a bad boy that was either so in love with him, or so gullible, or so ignorant and dumb that he just went along with it." King maintained that both men bore responsibility. "When these two got together, it was just a complete and utter deadly combination that ultimately ended in death. They were both complicit in the murder of Jamie Carroll."

David Dominé, the Louisville author who wrote A Dark Room in Glitter Ball City — the 2010 nonfiction book that later formed the basis of HBO's docuseries Murder in Glitterball City — has spent more time studying this case than almost anyone alive. And even he walks away without certainty.

"The prosecution argued that they both colluded, they were both equally culpable, they both killed Jamie, and they both hid his body," Dominé told WDRB. "But some people think Joey was the more active one, and Jeffrey was just kind of swept up into that and kind of had to go along with it because he was afraid. Even though the verdicts indicate that Joey was the one that did the killing — a lot of people, they don't know if that's the correct verdict."

The truth about exactly what happened in that bedroom on December 14, 2009, may be the kind of truth that dies with the people who were in the room.

And one of those people is already gone.

The Question That Lingers: What Provoked the Final Fight?

Beyond the question of who held the knife, there is another mystery that has never been resolved — one that Dominé himself has flagged as one of the case's most haunting loose ends.

What actually happened on the night of June 17, 2010? What ignited the final confrontation between Mundt and Banis — the 911 call, the hammer at the door, the screaming — that ultimately brought this entire story into the light?

"No one's quite sure what provoked that fight," Dominé told WDRB. "Was it because Jeffrey, as he claimed, was going to go to the police and tell them about the body that was in the basement for a number of months? Or had Joey done something? Some said he just went crazy and wanted to kill Jeffrey. That's kind of a mystery. What provoked the fight that night?"

It's a detail that seems small compared to everything else — but it matters, because the answer might tell us something about which man was truly in control of that relationship, and which man was truly in fear.

We will likely never know.

Where Are They Now?

Joey Banis remains incarcerated in the Kentucky prison system, currently housed at the Southeast State Correctional Complex in Wheelwright, Kentucky — a medium-security facility. He is 54 years old. He has maintained his innocence consistently, even while admitting to his role in covering up the crime. His attorney Darren Wolff has continued to advocate publicly for his client's version of events.

Joey Banis will be eligible for parole on June 2, 2030. He will be 58 years old.

Jeffrey Mundt was released from custody in August 2014 after serving approximately one year of actual incarceration. He completed his supervised probation. His appeal was denied in December 2014.

And then he disappeared.

Not disappeared in the sinister sense — there is no missing persons report, no law enforcement concern. He simply stepped out of the public eye and has not stepped back in. As of the time of this writing, Jeffrey Mundt's current whereabouts are unknown. No verified sighting. No social media presence. No professional footprint. The man who walked out of a Louisville courtroom in May 2013 as the only person in that room acquitted of Jamie Carroll's murder has vanished as completely as he once hoped Jamie Carroll would.

The HBO docuseries Murder in Glitterball City — a two-part documentary based on Dominé's book, which premiered on HBO on February 19, 2026 — brought renewed national attention to the case. Mundt did not participate. Banis, speaking from prison, did.

What Was Left Behind

The Victorian mansion at 1435 South 4th Street still stands in Old Louisville, as grand and imposing as ever. The gas lanterns still flicker on the pedestrian courts across the street. The neighborhood still draws visitors who want to see the Gilded Age architecture, walk the cobblestone paths, breathe in the history.

Some of that history, now, includes Jamie Carroll.

He was 37 years old when he died. He was a gifted hairstylist whose clients loved him fiercely. He was a performer — drag queen Ronica Reed — who commanded a stage and made everyone in the audience feel seen. He was a friend, a son, a presence in Louisville's LGBTQ+ community who left a hole when he was gone.

He was also a man who was buried in a Rubbermaid container in someone's basement for seven months, unidentified, unmissed by the system that should have been looking for him. His family believed he was incarcerated. The courts had a pending drug case with his name on it that simply sat there, unresolved. He fell through every crack there was to fall through.

The people who loved him carry that. The community that lost him carries that.

"There's only three people who truly know what happened in that room that night," his friend Barry Baisden once said, "and only two of them came out alive."

A Final Note From Hitched 2 Homicide

At H2H, we started this series because we believe Jamie Carroll deserves to be remembered — not just as a victim, not just as a footnote in a sensational case about two men and a home in Old Louisville, but as a whole human being who was loved and is missed.

The legal system delivered two very different verdicts on the two men responsible for his death. History may judge those verdicts differently. But what isn't in dispute — what was never in dispute — is that Jamie Carroll didn't deserve to die that December night in 2009. He deserved to keep his plan to get clean, keep doing hair, keep performing, keep being the magnetic, generous, irreplaceable person everyone who knew him says he was.

He didn't get that.

The least we can do is say his name.

James "Jamie" Carroll. Drag queen Ronica Reed. Hairstylist. Friend. Taken too soon. Not forgotten.

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