Latest / True Crime and Wine Time / S6 E20 _ Captured_ The Chilling 911 Call That Brought Down Shawn Grate Part 3
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Welcome to True Crime and Wine Time. I'm Terry and
- 0:04Speaker 1: I'm Lama. Tonight we are uncorking the truth why one
- 0:09Speaker 1: of the darkest crimes and breaking it down together with you.
- 0:13Speaker 1: One case, one conversation, and one or maybe two glasses
- 0:17Speaker 1: of wine.
- 0:18Speaker 2: Taking a job.
- 0:19Speaker 1: It's time to get comfortable and double check those locks
- 0:22Speaker 1: before we just started, So let's take a step and
- 0:26Speaker 1: dive in. Hello. Hello, everyone, Welcome to another episode of
- 0:47Speaker 1: True Crime and Wine Time. I'm Lama and I have
- 0:51Speaker 1: my lovely guest co host with me, who's on mute
- 0:53Speaker 1: still before she goes to try to say anything. I
- 0:57Speaker 1: don't know why she's muted, but she is there.
- 0:59Speaker 2: She is Hi.
- 1:01Speaker 1: Hi, it's the lovely Amos. Usually she's behind the scenes
- 1:06Speaker 1: keeping us in line, but she's come to help me
- 1:08Speaker 1: tell this story. So thank you for being here, Cherry.
- 1:12Speaker 1: True Crime will be back next week, but you get
- 1:14Speaker 1: us for another week. How exciting.
- 1:18Speaker 2: To bring you the not so great Sean Great.
- 1:22Speaker 1: M Yeah, he's not great. He's not great at all. Hi,
- 1:25Speaker 1: Lady and Gray, good evening to you. Hope you're doing well.
- 1:29Speaker 1: It's been so long since I've seen you. Huh. All right,
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- 3:23Speaker 1: you're doing well today, Babe. There's the lovely Buffy Bot
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- 3:39Speaker 1: to be like, oh, feeling a little rough there. That's true.
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- 3:48Speaker 1: that you get what you get. You get what you
- 3:52Speaker 1: get with us, and it's not disappointing.
- 3:54Speaker 2: But you know what, we have fun, right, I do?
- 3:56Speaker 1: We have lots of fun. I mean if you're not
- 3:59Speaker 1: having fun, then you're doing it wrong. Well, friends, while
- 4:03Speaker 1: we're here tonight is because we are on part three,
- 4:06Speaker 1: the final part of ore the Captured the call that
- 4:11Speaker 1: brought down sean great finaleus tonight. It's been a very
- 4:16Speaker 1: interesting story all along, so I am very eager to
- 4:21Speaker 1: get into that tonight, finally get rid of this guy
- 4:24Speaker 1: who is garbage. Yeah, gosh, she is the worst. And
- 4:29Speaker 1: you're having fun, see s, Betty's having fun. Everybody be
- 4:32Speaker 1: like Spetty Russ. Oh, I will have that sexy Lana
- 4:36Speaker 1: lost voice tomorrow. Excellent for foucong Friday. All right, well,
- 4:43Speaker 1: what are you drinking tonight? Aims?
- 4:46Speaker 2: I'm I've got diet mountain dew. Hello, I'm not very uh,
- 4:53Speaker 2: that's true.
- 4:53Speaker 1: She has a dream.
- 4:54Speaker 2: I'm not very adventurous with my drinks, and usually peachd
- 4:58Speaker 2: water or die mountain dew or coffee.
- 5:01Speaker 1: As you're sometimes a monster and when she gets kids,
- 5:05Speaker 1: it's my favorite. Amiss if you.
- 5:07Speaker 2: Don't want a monster amy tonight, because that would be something.
- 5:11Speaker 1: It would probably be whatever was going on with me
- 5:13Speaker 1: this morning? Oh my gosh. Well tonight, I'm drinking my
- 5:17Speaker 1: usual what is it, the Yosemite Road mescato. It's nothing fancy.
- 5:23Speaker 1: I'm gonna go pick up some fancy or wines. This weekend.
- 5:26Speaker 1: It was very last night because I wasn't going to
- 5:28Speaker 1: drink anything, and then I was like, oh yeah, I'm
- 5:32Speaker 1: gonna sell it's you know, it's classy like me. It
- 5:38Speaker 1: is delicious. I mean, listen, it's cheap wine, but it
- 5:40Speaker 1: goes down smooth. You don't really get you know, that
- 5:44Speaker 1: cheap wine hangover. So it's that bad. I don't mind it.
- 5:49Speaker 1: I drink it a lot, not a lot. That doesn't
- 5:51Speaker 1: sound right, but you know what I.
- 5:52Speaker 2: Mean, it's funny. I was on speaking on wine. I
- 5:56Speaker 2: was on vacation and we were walking out of a
- 5:59Speaker 2: store and there was this guy carrying two boxes of
- 6:02Speaker 2: wine walking down to the store and he was by himself,
- 6:05Speaker 2: and he was very very happy. Just he was extremely happy.
- 6:09Speaker 2: And my husband goes, what is he so happy about?
- 6:13Speaker 2: I said, well, he's got two bucks as a wine.
- 6:16Speaker 2: Why wouldn't he.
- 6:16Speaker 1: Be Why wouldn't you be happy? He was like, I
- 6:21Speaker 1: got what I need. I'm gonna go have a good time. So,
- 6:25Speaker 1: you know, listening to True crime and wine time. Maybe
- 6:29Speaker 1: are you out there, sir from North Carolina? Are you
- 6:32Speaker 1: a fan? Well, you know what we do, get a
- 6:35Speaker 1: long one tonight, So let's get into the rest of
- 6:39Speaker 1: the story for Sean gret shall we oh, should we
- 6:43Speaker 1: do a little recap of where.
- 6:45Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I feel like it's been more than a week.
- 6:50Speaker 2: I don't know why it feels like it's been more
- 6:51Speaker 2: than an.
- 6:52Speaker 1: I thought today it was Monday. We're a mess. So
- 6:58Speaker 1: on our last episode, we were in the middle of
- 7:02Speaker 1: Sean being interviewed by Detective Kim Majors, who was doing
- 7:06Speaker 1: an excellent job getting him to confess to not only
- 7:11Speaker 1: the two bodies that were found in the house and
- 7:15Speaker 1: Jane Doe who did survive, but he also dropped some
- 7:20Speaker 1: extra details she wasn't expecting, including other women he had killed.
- 7:27Speaker 1: So we got to hear what was his excuse why
- 7:31Speaker 1: things happened, and it was nauseating about, you know, how
- 7:37Speaker 1: him and Jane Doe were gonna get married and it
- 7:40Speaker 1: was it was so disturbing and gross. He of course
- 7:44Speaker 1: does what all the other people usually do and try
- 7:47Speaker 1: to minimize everything, including when he talked about the murders
- 7:52Speaker 1: of Stacy and Liz. He minimized the shit out of
- 7:58Speaker 1: those all right. I think it safe to say it
- 8:01Speaker 1: was probably way worse than what he admitted to, because
- 8:05Speaker 1: he does care what people think about him, or at
- 8:09Speaker 1: least they feel like he did with Majors. You know,
- 8:12Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe it was like this mother complex.
- 8:16Speaker 1: There's something I don't know. But so we went over
- 8:21Speaker 1: all the interrogation for Jane, Doe, Liz, and Stacy Stanley,
- 8:26Speaker 1: and tonight we'll be going through the rest of the
- 8:29Speaker 1: confessions of the other women, including the trial that happens,
- 8:35Speaker 1: victim impact statements and more, an uncovering of another victim
- 8:42Speaker 1: several years later, and justice for some more of the women.
- 8:45Speaker 1: It's a kind of a long one, but you know,
- 8:49Speaker 1: what are you going to do? What are you going
- 8:51Speaker 1: to do? Their stories are really important to us and
- 8:55Speaker 1: telling you know, who they are, what the families went through.
- 8:59Speaker 1: You know, Ashland, Ohio is a large town, but it's
- 9:04Speaker 1: still it's a small town. Everybody knows everybody, you know,
- 9:09Speaker 1: so it's the community pretty hard, not just the families,
- 9:12Speaker 1: but the communities as well. So there are some pretty
- 9:16Speaker 1: awesome possible and.
- 9:17Speaker 2: A lot of places in Ohio as I traveled through it.
- 9:21Speaker 1: I mean, even Columbus is just the big city town,
- 9:25Speaker 1: like everybody still knows everybody, it feels like, so his
- 9:29Speaker 1: words are trash that they are that they are, Hello
- 9:32Speaker 1: Pam and Hello wicked Banshee. Well let's continue on with
- 9:38Speaker 1: this interrogation, shall we start?
- 9:43Speaker 2: I will do that, Okay, get us over here to
- 9:46Speaker 2: this so that I can do my other job. Have
- 9:50Speaker 2: assing as much as I possibly can.
- 9:56Speaker 1: You're doing so.
- 9:58Speaker 2: As the interrogation transitioned away from the immediate horrors at
- 10:02Speaker 2: the Yellow House on co Court, Sean Great began to
- 10:07Speaker 2: map out a trail of bodies that stretched back months
- 10:12Speaker 2: and years, leading investigators toward a name they hadn't even
- 10:17Speaker 2: been looking for. Candace Cunningham Now.
- 10:21Speaker 1: Candace was twenty nine years old, born in Canton, Ohio,
- 10:26Speaker 1: to a mother who remembered her as a girl who
- 10:30Speaker 1: was always giggling, always happy. She had siblings, Chucky and Ashley,
- 10:36Speaker 1: and once held dreams of becoming a massage therapist. But
- 10:41Speaker 1: like so many of Great's victims, Candace's life had been
- 10:45Speaker 1: a series of peaks and valleys because he sucks and
- 10:50Speaker 1: goes after very vulnerable women.
- 10:53Speaker 2: She was a mother. She had a son, Devlin and
- 10:57Speaker 2: a daughter, Christina, but life I had become a struggle,
- 11:01Speaker 2: and after losing custody of her children to Children's Services,
- 11:05Speaker 2: Candace decided to move to Mansfield, Ohio for a fresh start.
- 11:11Speaker 1: Now in Mansfield, weren't you just there the other day?
- 11:16Speaker 2: Or no, no, no, I was Mary's Marysville.
- 11:19Speaker 1: That's right, that's where you were. Never mind, I get
- 11:22Speaker 1: them confused. Even though they're not very close to one another,
- 11:24Speaker 1: they're like in opposite ways north of me. Yeah, Well,
- 11:30Speaker 1: in Mansfield, she moved through a series of roommates. She
- 11:35Speaker 1: was a woman living in the margins, just trying to
- 11:38Speaker 1: find her footing in the world. But in April twenty sixteen,
- 11:43Speaker 1: the trail went cold. To the outside world. It looked
- 11:47Speaker 1: like she had just simply drifted away. Now she had
- 11:51Speaker 1: been picked up for having a marijuana pipe in her purse,
- 11:55Speaker 1: and her family believed she had moved to North Carolina,
- 11:59Speaker 1: and they weren't surprised that they couldn't really reach her,
- 12:02Speaker 1: as she often didn't have a working cell phone.
- 12:07Speaker 2: Because she was transient. Her family thought she had moved.
- 12:13Speaker 2: Candace Cunningham was never reported missing. She had disappeared into
- 12:18Speaker 2: thin air, and for months no one was looking for
- 12:21Speaker 2: her until Sean Great sat in a room with Detective
- 12:28Speaker 2: Major and uttered her name. You said, there's someone in Mansfield.
- 12:33Speaker 2: What happened to her Sean, Oh, it's so sad.
- 12:37Speaker 1: I mean, I don't blame them for not filing a
- 12:39Speaker 1: missing person's report. But at the same time, like man
- 12:44Speaker 1: right now, Great began to detail the end of a
- 12:49Speaker 1: relationship that had once looked like a fresh start for
- 12:53Speaker 1: both of them. For a brief window in the spring
- 12:57Speaker 1: and early summer of twenty sixteen, Sean Gray and Candace
- 13:01Speaker 1: Cunningham appeared to be a couple building a life. They
- 13:05Speaker 1: lived together in a house on Park Avenue East. Candace
- 13:10Speaker 1: was active on Facebook, posting about their relationship just one
- 13:14Speaker 1: month before she vanished, digitally documenting a romance that was
- 13:19Speaker 1: rapidly spiraling into a nightmare.
- 13:24Speaker 2: And according to greet, the snap happened in the early
- 13:30Speaker 2: hours of June twelfth, twenty sixteen. Let's get us and
- 13:39Speaker 2: that's not showing.
- 13:42Speaker 1: The morning I had hit in the face with the diyasbacco.
- 13:46Speaker 2: I understand.
- 13:48Speaker 1: He got hit in the face with a bag of
- 13:51Speaker 1: tobacco and he just snapped, Ah, poor little Seane.
- 13:58Speaker 2: Yeah up is he is douchebag? Well it is a
- 14:06Speaker 2: hauntingly petty catalyst for murder. In Greats narrative, the minor
- 14:12Speaker 2: physical slight was enough to trigger his hunger.
- 14:17Speaker 1: After he killed her inside the home, his instinct wasn't
- 14:21Speaker 1: just to hide the body, but to erase the very
- 14:24Speaker 1: memory of the space where they had lived. What did
- 14:27Speaker 1: he do? He set the house on fire, wrapped Candace's
- 14:32Speaker 1: body in a blanket, and carried her to a ravine nearby,
- 14:37Speaker 1: very similar to what he told Jane do he was
- 14:39Speaker 1: going to do. If you remember when we talked back
- 14:43Speaker 1: in episode one, he told her he was going to
- 14:46Speaker 1: set the house on fire.
- 14:48Speaker 2: Yeah. Months later, Great sat in the back of a
- 14:53Speaker 2: police cruiser leading investigators to the charred remains of ten
- 15:00Speaker 2: twenty seven Park Avenue East. As they stood in the
- 15:05Speaker 2: Madison township weeds, he pointed, sorry, I'm having eye trouble
- 15:11Speaker 2: issues towards the ravine about sixty feet from where the
- 15:15Speaker 2: door front door used to be. When where they where
- 15:19Speaker 2: they found what was left of Kansas cutting in.
- 15:23Speaker 1: Yeah. Sorry, Amos got some sign burns on her trip
- 15:29Speaker 1: that have also affected, as Buffy would say, her eyeballs. Yes,
- 15:35Speaker 1: so be nice and bear with hers. She's doing her best,
- 15:38Speaker 1: but you know, sun affects everything. So I'm just glad
- 15:42Speaker 1: you're feeling and looking better. She oh, yeah, our delicate.
- 15:47Speaker 2: I could not have wore this days ago.
- 15:50Speaker 1: I believe it now. Perhaps the most jarring detail of
- 15:55Speaker 1: the recovery was great reaction. Standing before the black and
- 15:59Speaker 1: foundation of the house he had torched, the man who
- 16:03Speaker 1: had remained cold and clinical about strangling numerous women, suddenly
- 16:09Speaker 1: became emotional. Whatever It wasn't crying for Candice, though, it
- 16:16Speaker 1: seemed more like he was grieving the loss of a house.
- 16:20Speaker 1: You know, the side of fantasy that he himself had
- 16:24Speaker 1: set a blaze.
- 16:27Speaker 2: So two days after his initial arrest, Detective Major set
- 16:31Speaker 2: across from him again. At the end, the onion began
- 16:36Speaker 2: to shed its oldest, most weathered layer. When Major asked
- 16:42Speaker 2: if there was anything else Grated wanted to tell her.
- 16:45Speaker 2: He didn't hesitate.
- 16:47Speaker 1: He told Detective Major about a woman in Marion County, Ohio,
- 16:53Speaker 1: from ten years earlier, a woman whose name he couldn't
- 16:57Speaker 1: quite remember. He threw out like Dana, Diane or Dana.
- 17:04Speaker 1: But he was certain about one thing, and that was
- 17:07Speaker 1: that they had already found her. I can't place the time.
- 17:12Speaker 1: It's for two thousand and five cold case. They've already
- 17:18Speaker 1: found her.
- 17:19Speaker 2: The motive for this murder was a petty as the
- 17:22Speaker 2: bag of tobacco or perceived or a perceived lie. Great
- 17:27Speaker 2: claimed the woman had been selling magazines and supposedly ripped
- 17:32Speaker 2: off his mother by never delivering the order. One day
- 17:36Speaker 2: he spotted her in town. He lured her with a lie,
- 17:39Speaker 2: telling her he had money for her at his house,
- 17:43Speaker 2: and once they were isolated, he confronted her.
- 17:46Speaker 1: M that's okay with me to my grandparents house.
- 17:51Speaker 2: I was living.
- 17:52Speaker 1: I remodeling my grandparents house.
- 17:54Speaker 2: Startings or like?
- 17:56Speaker 1: Did call him? He's going to take you go here,
- 17:59Speaker 1: take my mind? I felt her bullshit announce songraged, okay,
- 18:06Speaker 1: so that's on my front. Dr So you don't written
- 18:09Speaker 1: me off like you did my.
- 18:10Speaker 2: Mama his mama.
- 18:16Speaker 1: But before she could answer, he choked her into unconsciousness.
- 18:22Speaker 1: He dragged her to a basement, a precursor to the
- 18:25Speaker 1: horrors of a yellow house, and stat her in the
- 18:29Speaker 1: neck to ensure she was dead.
- 18:34Speaker 2: He wrapped her in sheets and dumb her near a
- 18:36Speaker 2: railroad tracks northeast of Marion, but killing her wasn't enough.
- 18:42Speaker 2: He went home, burned the sheets, and then returned to
- 18:45Speaker 2: her body in a dark mirror of what would be
- 18:50Speaker 2: What would later do what he would later do in
- 18:53Speaker 2: Mansfield to Candace, he set her remains on fire, attempting
- 18:58Speaker 2: to burn away any trace of who she was.
- 19:02Speaker 1: This man, you know all these slights on Lean. She
- 19:06Speaker 1: hit me in the fiends of the bag of tobacco. Oh,
- 19:09Speaker 1: I felt slighted about money. Like that's why I know
- 19:13Speaker 1: that we go over how many victims, five plus Jane survivor,
- 19:18Speaker 1: I feel like there still has to be more. I mean,
- 19:22Speaker 1: we know how he treated his previous girlfriends. We did
- 19:24Speaker 1: talk about that in the last episode, but like that
- 19:28Speaker 1: sets you off, and you're just like, you know what,
- 19:31Speaker 1: I'm gonna kill you, Like, are you serious?
- 19:34Speaker 2: It's his triggers that easy.
- 19:36Speaker 1: Yeah, that's yeah exactly. You didn't know this woman. Yeah,
- 19:40Speaker 1: but he was like, you know what, I am entitled
- 19:43Speaker 1: to take your life over some fucking magazines, Like are
- 19:46Speaker 1: you serious? He yes, yes, Leading he killed her, Yes,
- 19:51Speaker 1: Leading Gray says he killed her in his grandparents' house.
- 19:55Speaker 1: What a fuck face, Yes he is. There's your lama
- 19:59Speaker 1: lamaism for today. What a fuck face. Now, When a
- 20:04Speaker 1: man looking for cans found her remains a year later,
- 20:09Speaker 1: there was sadly nothing left to identify her. No clothes,
- 20:15Speaker 1: no jewelry, no id, just scattered remains in a field,
- 20:20Speaker 1: and for nine years she was known only as Marion
- 20:24Speaker 1: County Jane Doe. Just another cold case, gathering dust on
- 20:29Speaker 1: a shelf.
- 20:31Speaker 2: Unfortunately, there's way too many of them out there, that's true.
- 20:36Speaker 2: The woman Great called Dana remained a ghost, leading investigators
- 20:41Speaker 2: to pull out every technological tool in their arsenal. After
- 20:47Speaker 2: Great's confession, a sketch artist from Delaware County Sheriff's Office
- 20:51Speaker 2: sat with Great trying to put pull a face out
- 20:55Speaker 2: of his decade old memories. Simultaneously, a forensic artist from
- 21:01Speaker 2: the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation began a three D
- 21:05Speaker 2: facial reconstruction, building a face out of clay over a
- 21:09Speaker 2: model of the skull.
- 21:11Speaker 1: Wow, that's really impressive. By the way, podcast listeners were
- 21:17Speaker 1: looking at pictures of the three D model of her head,
- 21:21Speaker 1: and that's really good. I don't know how much it
- 21:24Speaker 1: looks like her. That's who was in the last one, right,
- 21:27Speaker 1: that's okay, all right, that's that's fairly good. I think.
- 21:32Speaker 2: Wow, it's the only picture of her out there, so yeah.
- 21:36Speaker 1: Wow. Well, while the high tech reconstruction was underway, one
- 21:42Speaker 1: of the most significant leads didn't come from a lab.
- 21:46Speaker 1: It came from a conversation between Detective Major and her
- 21:51Speaker 1: oldest son. They were at a local football game where
- 21:56Speaker 1: her husband was coaching, and amidst the cheers and the
- 21:59Speaker 1: crisp Ohio fall air, she found herself talking to her
- 22:03Speaker 1: son about the case that had basically consumed her life.
- 22:07Speaker 1: At this point, she mentioned the struggle to identify the
- 22:11Speaker 1: victim from a decade ago.
- 22:14Speaker 2: But her son remembered something. He brought up a body
- 22:19Speaker 2: found years earlier in Ashland County by a Columbia Gas employee.
- 22:24Speaker 2: At the time, the death hadn't been treated as homicide
- 22:28Speaker 2: because of the victim's lifestyle. It was written off as
- 22:32Speaker 2: a suspected drug overdose. Major's son pointed out that the
- 22:37Speaker 2: area where the body had been discovered was the exact
- 22:41Speaker 2: same area where Sean Grat had built one of his
- 22:44Speaker 2: temporary forts.
- 22:46Speaker 1: And Detective Major didn't wait. The very next morning, she
- 22:51Speaker 1: went back to the jail and sat across from the
- 22:55Speaker 1: man with the piercing blue eyes and waited. She told
- 22:58Speaker 1: Great that she had questioned about this unknown victim, the
- 23:02Speaker 1: one near the fort.
- 23:06Speaker 2: Unexpectedly, the onion shedded another disturbing layer Great didn't say
- 23:12Speaker 2: Dana this time, he looked at Major and gave her
- 23:15Speaker 2: a name that finally matched a real life, a real family,
- 23:19Speaker 2: another body, and a real police report. Rebecca Lisi.
- 23:24Speaker 1: I think that's how you say it with those two words.
- 23:28Speaker 1: A once closed overdose case was reopened as a murder investigation.
- 23:34Speaker 1: Rebecca Lazy, once dismissed by the system, was no longer
- 23:39Speaker 1: a statistic. She was Sean Gray's fourth confirmed victim. Now
- 23:46Speaker 1: lady and Gray says, I'm getting sick of this lifestyle.
- 23:50Speaker 1: Excuse me to girl. They have been using it for
- 23:55Speaker 1: decades in all of our stories, And yes, does it
- 24:00Speaker 1: sadly a lot of the lifestyle ends and over, yeah, absolutely,
- 24:07Speaker 1: But we shouldn't be like, yep, that's enough and yeah
- 24:11Speaker 1: close that, especially when we're about to learn something more
- 24:14Speaker 1: go to you know, yeah I mean. And also if
- 24:19Speaker 1: somebody does, you know, struggle with drug addiction, how easy
- 24:25Speaker 1: it would to murder them and make it look like
- 24:28Speaker 1: an overdose? Yeh Like I think honestly, I think that
- 24:33Speaker 1: happens a lot more, yeah than we think, to be
- 24:36Speaker 1: quite honest with you.
- 24:39Speaker 2: But now the story of Rebecca Lasi is the shining
- 24:43Speaker 2: example of how a predator like Sean Gray thrives in
- 24:46Speaker 2: the gaps of the broken system. Rebecca wasn't just a
- 24:51Speaker 2: case file. She was a woman whose life was a
- 24:53Speaker 2: tug of war between a determined spirit and a devastating addiction.
- 24:59Speaker 1: Now Born on March twenty fourth in nineteen eighty three,
- 25:03Speaker 1: Rebecca was a daddy's girl with a very bold and
- 25:07Speaker 1: spunky personality. Her father remembered her as a quote spunky
- 25:13Speaker 1: little brat who fought to get her way. I mean,
- 25:16Speaker 1: who isn't sometimes. But she was a loyal friend and
- 25:21Speaker 1: a mother who, at just sixteen, chose to leave high
- 25:25Speaker 1: school to raise her first son with the support of
- 25:29Speaker 1: her parents.
- 25:32Speaker 2: But the wrong path started early for her. A boyfriend
- 25:35Speaker 2: in high school introduced her to the world of hard drugs,
- 25:40Speaker 2: and what began as a recreational use spiraled into a
- 25:44Speaker 2: lifelong battle with addiction.
- 25:47Speaker 1: You know, and I know some people's opinions can be like, oh, well,
- 25:50Speaker 1: of course this is what's going to happen. But let's
- 25:53Speaker 1: not forget Stacy Stanley who had overcome her addiction. You know,
- 26:00Speaker 1: can be a happy ending for these people, and Sean
- 26:04Speaker 1: took that possibility away. He stole that possible future for her,
- 26:10Speaker 1: and he stole all of Stacy's hard work for nothing,
- 26:16Speaker 1: you know. So just remember there can sometimes be happy
- 26:20Speaker 1: endings to people that are you know, suffering from addiction,
- 26:25Speaker 1: but they also you know, their lives shouldn't be taken
- 26:28Speaker 1: away without getting that you know, that future that everybody deserves.
- 26:34Speaker 2: Now.
- 26:34Speaker 1: The year two thousand and six was the breaking point
- 26:37Speaker 1: when Rebecca's mother passed away. The grief was too heavy
- 26:42Speaker 1: for her to carry sober, she fell deeper into her addiction,
- 26:48Speaker 1: leading to long stretches of silence where her family wouldn't
- 26:52Speaker 1: hear from her for months. She did have two more children,
- 26:56Speaker 1: but as the drugs took hold, her family had to
- 27:00Speaker 1: step in to provide the stability she could no longer give,
- 27:05Speaker 1: and Rebecca became a ghost in her town, sleeping in
- 27:09Speaker 1: tents or on the streets.
- 27:13Speaker 2: Rebecca was last seen on January twenty second and twenty fifteen.
- 27:17Speaker 2: When she was reported missing in February, the Mansfield Police
- 27:21Speaker 2: focused on focused their search on abandoned houses on Third
- 27:27Speaker 2: and Fourth Streets, where she was known to frequent. They
- 27:32Speaker 2: searched over sixty vacant buildings, but they were looking in
- 27:36Speaker 2: the wrong city. On March sixteenth, twenty fifteen, the search
- 27:40Speaker 2: ended in the worst possible way. A body was found
- 27:44Speaker 2: in the woods near Ashland.
- 27:47Speaker 1: Now, the initial autopsy seemed definitive, right. The metalcal examiner
- 27:53Speaker 1: did find a lethal cocktail in Rebecca's system, morphine, cocaine
- 28:00Speaker 1: and buper norphine, and I can't pronounce, right, but we
- 28:03Speaker 1: all know what that probably is. With no skull fractures,
- 28:10Speaker 1: no stab wounds, and no obvious signs of sexual assault,
- 28:15Speaker 1: the conclusion to how she died seemed fairly simple. And
- 28:19Speaker 1: I know you're all just like Loma didn't even just
- 28:21Speaker 1: say well, I did say, maybe we shouldn't assume that,
- 28:26Speaker 1: but we're not done with this part of the story yet. Now.
- 28:29Speaker 1: The corner noted that the next showed hemorrhaging, but at
- 28:34Speaker 1: the time it was interpreted in a way that ruled
- 28:37Speaker 1: out manual strangulation. So there's the one little clue where
- 28:42Speaker 1: it's like, hmm, that's kind of weird, but okay, she
- 28:44Speaker 1: did have a lethal combo in her so okay, okay.
- 28:51Speaker 2: Because of her history, the system saw what it expected
- 28:54Speaker 2: to see. Her death certificate was marked undetermined, and eventually
- 28:59Speaker 2: the supplemental report finalized it as an accidental overdose.
- 29:04Speaker 1: Now, despite the medical ruling, investigators on the ground knew
- 29:10Speaker 1: that the math didn't add up because Rebecca was found
- 29:16Speaker 1: propped against the tree and a wooded area, yet she
- 29:21Speaker 1: was not wearing shoes. Most tellingly, her socks were perfectly clean.
- 29:29Speaker 1: Now it was a pretty glaring red flag because how
- 29:32Speaker 1: in the hell can your socks be clean when you're
- 29:36Speaker 1: in the woods, Like, I don't know how that would
- 29:40Speaker 1: even be possible. The clean cotton was silent shore, yeah,
- 29:46Speaker 1: and her shoes weren't there, yeah, like, oh okay, the
- 29:49Speaker 1: clean cotton with silent testimony that she had been carried away,
- 29:54Speaker 1: but without a suspect or a confession, the case stalled.
- 29:59Speaker 1: Now I say this, I can understand why they wouldn't
- 30:02Speaker 1: initially think murder by a serial killer, right because is
- 30:08Speaker 1: before the time where Ohio has the Good Samaritan law
- 30:11Speaker 1: now right to where if you're partaking in drugs and
- 30:16Speaker 1: somebody starts to o D you can call for help
- 30:19Speaker 1: and you are not going to get in legal trouble
- 30:22Speaker 1: for using illegal drugs. It's probably a system that's saved
- 30:27Speaker 1: quite frankly, a lot of lives especially listen in Ohio,
- 30:32Speaker 1: these areas ravaged, ravaged by opioid, the opioid crisis, I mean,
- 30:39Speaker 1: all of these areas in Ohio. Nobody really stands a
- 30:41Speaker 1: chance in a lot of these places, especially in this timeframe.
- 30:49Speaker 1: But the fact that she was carried there, there had
- 30:52Speaker 1: to be more to it, right, So, like, maybe somebody
- 30:55Speaker 1: didn't murder her, But it's still like abuse of a corpse,
- 30:59Speaker 1: you know, it's still problematic. But right.
- 31:06Speaker 2: Her family was left with the crushing news of her death,
- 31:10Speaker 2: but without the justice of a homicide investigation. Little did
- 31:15Speaker 2: they know their spunky Rebecca hadn't succumbed to her addiction alone.
- 31:21Speaker 2: She had crossed paths with a man who frequented the
- 31:24Speaker 2: same woods, a man who had built a fort nearby
- 31:29Speaker 2: and was waiting for the right moment to admit what
- 31:31Speaker 2: he had done.
- 31:34Speaker 1: Oh, high bells, hypee. You haven't seen you in a
- 31:37Speaker 1: few days, Belle says, strange, strange your prenphrine. I can't say.
- 31:42Speaker 1: Is seboxing, which is used to get off of opioid
- 31:46Speaker 1: stops cravings. Oh? Is that what that is? Okay, that's
- 31:48Speaker 1: not what I thought that was. I really didn't know
- 31:51Speaker 1: what it was. In the first place. But I thought
- 31:53Speaker 1: it was like, you know, like some sort of like
- 31:55Speaker 1: anxiety thing or whatever. But well, I mean, you know,
- 31:59Speaker 1: suboxin is used to help people get off of that,
- 32:02Speaker 1: so it makes excuse me, it makes sense.
- 32:10Speaker 2: What's that I was agreeing with you?
- 32:13Speaker 1: Oh?
- 32:13Speaker 2: Okay, chalking, chocking? No stop now.
- 32:18Speaker 1: It wasn't until Sean Great sat in the interrogation room
- 32:22Speaker 1: with Detective Major that the overdose narrative finally crumbled. As
- 32:28Speaker 1: Great sat in the interrogation room, he provided the harrowing,
- 32:32Speaker 1: step by step account of a struggle that the medical
- 32:36Speaker 1: examiner had missed, a struggle that turned a petty theft
- 32:41Speaker 1: into a brutal murder. Oh what Sean being petty over nothing?
- 32:46Speaker 1: Go fucking figure, right. They always talk about women being
- 32:50Speaker 1: so emotional. Look at him losing his shit about a
- 32:53Speaker 1: bag of tobacco and some magazines.
- 32:56Speaker 2: He is he is petty.
- 32:59Speaker 1: He's so petty.
- 33:01Speaker 2: According to Great, he and Rebecca were more than strangers.
- 33:04Speaker 2: They were part of the same transient world in Mansfield.
- 33:07Speaker 2: They worked as sex workers, shared the same addictions, and
- 33:11Speaker 2: occasionally shared a bed. On that night, in early twenty fifteen,
- 33:16Speaker 2: Gray invited her back to a vacant building where he
- 33:20Speaker 2: was squatting at thirty two North Walnut Street.
- 33:25Speaker 1: They played a game of pool, but the piece ended
- 33:29Speaker 1: when Great went to the bathroom. He told Major he
- 33:33Speaker 1: heard the jingle of a bell attached to his money
- 33:36Speaker 1: clip and that when he checked, he claimed four dollars
- 33:41Speaker 1: was missing. Jesus, ridiculous quote. I confronted her, she tried
- 33:48Speaker 1: to leave, I grabbed her, and then the fight started.
- 33:52Speaker 1: Four fucking dollars.
- 33:53Speaker 2: Right, so petty again, I mean, four dollars is four dollars,
- 33:59Speaker 2: but it's certainly not something to lose your shit over
- 34:02Speaker 2: and take somebody's life. He takes someone's life, right, Well,
- 34:06Speaker 2: following was not a snapped but a prolonged, agonizing assault.
- 34:12Speaker 2: Great admitted to strangling Rebecca multiple times. At one point,
- 34:16Speaker 2: she regained consciousness fighting for her life, and Great responded
- 34:21Speaker 2: by needing meeing her in the face. I just got
- 34:25Speaker 2: so tired. I got so tired of fighting with her
- 34:28Speaker 2: that I just decided to strangle her to death.
- 34:30Speaker 1: Yeah, how awful to do that to her numerous times? Right,
- 34:37Speaker 1: It's very cruel, very cruel. Oh No, her death is
- 34:43Speaker 1: very suspicious. Bells because Great just admitted to murdering her.
- 34:46Speaker 1: It was not, in fact due to overdose. Now Great
- 34:52Speaker 1: provided the missing link from her autopsy, cervical compression aka strangulation.
- 34:59Speaker 1: This was notice during the initial autopsy because the advanced
- 35:03Speaker 1: decomposition of Rebecca's body had masked these subtle internal injuries
- 35:08Speaker 1: of strangulation during the first exam. But once Great described
- 35:14Speaker 1: how he had clinched on, the medical evidence was reevaluated
- 35:20Speaker 1: and it was very obvious.
- 35:24Speaker 2: The Ohio Department of Health eventually issued a final, corrected autopsy.
- 35:29Speaker 2: The cause of death was no longer tragic accident of addiction.
- 35:34Speaker 2: Rebecca Liasi didn't just lose her battle with drugs. She
- 35:38Speaker 2: was silenced by a predator who used her vulnerability as
- 35:43Speaker 2: a shroud, knowing that the world would likely look at
- 35:47Speaker 2: her clean sacks and undetermined cause of death and simply
- 35:52Speaker 2: look away.
- 35:53Speaker 1: He wasn't wrong until you know, he wasn't wrong.
- 35:58Speaker 2: Absolutely, they had filed that away. Mm hmmm mm hmm.
- 36:03Speaker 1: Yeah, he has a status. He's such a piece of shit.
- 36:06Speaker 1: I hate this guy.
- 36:08Speaker 2: Now.
- 36:09Speaker 1: In his twisted mind, the murder was a way to
- 36:12Speaker 1: end his exhaustion. Oh no, he's so tired.
- 36:17Speaker 2: God.
- 36:18Speaker 1: Once she was gone, he stuffed her body into a
- 36:21Speaker 1: hard plastic golf bag, a detail that would later provide
- 36:26Speaker 1: the forensic smoking gun. He left her in the basement
- 36:30Speaker 1: for a day and a half while he figured out
- 36:32Speaker 1: his next move.
- 36:35Speaker 2: Great eventually borrowed a car and drove her to the
- 36:43Speaker 2: woods in Ashland County. This explained the mystery of the
- 36:47Speaker 2: clean socks that had haunted investigators. The forensic evidence was undeniable.
- 36:53Speaker 2: Investigators located the bag, and the DNA profile was a
- 36:58Speaker 2: perfect match for the story. Rebecca's DNA was on the
- 37:01Speaker 2: inside and Sean Greats was on the outside.
- 37:05Speaker 1: Now I kind of find amy. I don't know if
- 37:07Speaker 1: you know, because I know you know a lot about
- 37:09Speaker 1: the story. You've watched the trial, you read the book.
- 37:12Speaker 1: Where did they find this golf bag? Because so many
- 37:16Speaker 1: years has passed. Where where did they find it? Was
- 37:19Speaker 1: it still in this abandoned house or do you remember?
- 37:25Speaker 2: I think that it was at the site.
- 37:28Speaker 1: Oh, it was at the where the body because it was.
- 37:31Speaker 2: An empty field. I mean, that makes sense. But they
- 37:35Speaker 2: found a lot of evidence in other places. He had
- 37:39Speaker 2: been had tents, okay, so like he would camp out
- 37:45Speaker 2: somewhere and he would have things from that He stole
- 37:48Speaker 2: from a previous area in the new location or whatnot.
- 37:54Speaker 2: I don't know specifically, and so I will just put
- 37:58Speaker 2: the caveat out there that I don't know that for
- 38:00Speaker 2: a fact that that's where they found it. But my
- 38:03Speaker 2: guess it's something. It's something along those lines.
- 38:05Speaker 1: That's pretty helpable.
- 38:06Speaker 2: I'll be honest. When they started talking about all of
- 38:09Speaker 2: the evidence and where they found things, it was a
- 38:13Speaker 2: little confusing, and I was really stick to my stomach
- 38:16Speaker 2: over this douchebag.
- 38:17Speaker 1: So that's fair, fair enough, A for effort. Hello Stringer Bell,
- 38:23Speaker 1: welcome man, good evening. I hope you're doing well, babe,
- 38:25Speaker 1: thanks for being here now. Perhaps the most chilling part
- 38:30Speaker 1: of this confession was Great's focus on the memorial her family,
- 38:36Speaker 1: trying to honor her memory, had placed across at this
- 38:40Speaker 1: site where she was found. Quote, they put the memorial
- 38:44Speaker 1: in the wrong place. I dumped her behind that tree
- 38:47Speaker 1: and the cross is in the front of it. Ew right,
- 38:52Speaker 1: like fuck you, Sean, Oh, I'm sorry, that's not the
- 38:56Speaker 1: right place. Shut up.
- 38:58Speaker 2: Even in his confession, Great was correcting the record to
- 39:01Speaker 2: maintain control over the narrative of her death. With these details,
- 39:06Speaker 2: the Ashlal County prosecutors had everything they needed, and with
- 39:10Speaker 2: the amended death certificate, Sean Gray was officially charged with
- 39:13Speaker 2: the murder of the woman he had killed over four dollars.
- 39:18Speaker 1: So these last three women, let's break it down to
- 39:22Speaker 1: bag a tobago Tobacco hit him in a face death.
- 39:26Speaker 2: Who he claimed he loved her, of.
- 39:29Speaker 1: Course, of course, of course he did. And then somebody
- 39:33Speaker 1: going selling magazines that he claims are ripped off his
- 39:37Speaker 1: grandma for how much? Probably nothing? And who says that's
- 39:42Speaker 1: even what happened, that's just what he says. Well, yeah,
- 39:45Speaker 1: but that's what he says. That doesn't mean that was
- 39:48Speaker 1: the case. And then four dollars, four dollars, Like, are
- 39:53Speaker 1: you serious? Three women lost their lives over that petty bullshit,
- 40:00Speaker 1: ridiculous lurking while you dye your hair. Oh, I love
- 40:03Speaker 1: that for you, something fun, I hope Stringer bell Now.
- 40:08Speaker 1: Critics and observers would later compare the relationship between Kim
- 40:13Speaker 1: Major and Sean Grat to that of Clarice Starling and
- 40:17Speaker 1: Hannibal Lecter. I would say, yes, but also, Sean Gray
- 40:22Speaker 1: is no Hannibal Lector. Okay, not at all, not even close,
- 40:28Speaker 1: not even close. He's petty and not smart and doesn't
- 40:33Speaker 1: have good taste in anything. He's smart, No, but I
- 40:38Speaker 1: will say the dynamic was it resembled it? But I
- 40:43Speaker 1: don't want to hold him to like that. Would know
- 40:46Speaker 1: he would love that comparison, probably, And he does not
- 40:49Speaker 1: deserve any impact. Well, nobody that would be in that
- 40:53Speaker 1: position to deserves it, but especially not.
- 40:55Speaker 2: Him, right, especially not him. Now.
- 41:00Speaker 1: The interrogations were like a high stakescheme of psychological chess
- 41:05Speaker 1: between a hunter and a monster.
- 41:09Speaker 2: Major Ever, the top gun interviewer began to dig into
- 41:13Speaker 2: the biological sensation of his crimes. She didn't ask what
- 41:18Speaker 2: he did. She asked how it felt, asking him if
- 41:23Speaker 2: it felt like a release of something when he killed?
- 41:27Speaker 2: Did it feel good?
- 41:29Speaker 1: Great's answers were often a whisper, a dark mumbling about
- 41:34Speaker 1: his hunger. He admitted that the violence didn't just happen
- 41:39Speaker 1: alongside the sex. For him, the violence started with the
- 41:44Speaker 1: sexual encounter, which doesn't make sense for all that bullshit
- 41:48Speaker 1: you just told us, Shine, sex wasn't involved in any
- 41:52Speaker 1: of those, so.
- 41:54Speaker 2: The story changes so many times.
- 41:57Speaker 1: He just wants everyone to think he's more than he
- 42:00Speaker 1: actually is, which is just a pathetic sad, petty little man.
- 42:05Speaker 1: Mm hm. With Stacy Stanley, the act of sex was
- 42:10Speaker 1: the catalyst that flipped the switch to homicide. Again, this
- 42:15Speaker 1: is based on what he said, which I don't fucking
- 42:17Speaker 1: believe anything, but that's all we unfortunately had to go
- 42:21Speaker 1: with because he murdered them. So Yet, with Elizabeth Griffith,
- 42:27Speaker 1: he claimed he didn't touch her sexually, which I do
- 42:30Speaker 1: believe is a lie because he quote wasn't attracted to her.
- 42:35Speaker 1: He said this so many times that you know when
- 42:39Speaker 1: somebody when Dallas doth protest too much?
- 42:43Speaker 2: Yes, really thinking that same thing.
- 42:46Speaker 1: Really mm hmm, now to great even in death, his
- 42:51Speaker 1: victims were subject to his personal whims of attraction. A
- 42:59Speaker 1: lot of us just going all night.
- 43:01Speaker 2: I know, can't you can't, just so many times. One
- 43:09Speaker 2: of the most haunting series of questions centered on the
- 43:13Speaker 2: house itself. Major needed to know why he stayed, Why
- 43:18Speaker 2: did he eat, sleep, and play house with Jane Doe
- 43:22Speaker 2: with two women who were decomposing feet away.
- 43:27Speaker 1: Gray admitted that his plan to torch the house was
- 43:30Speaker 1: about erasing the evidence. He wanted to burn the house
- 43:34Speaker 1: to the ground to incinerate Liz in the closet and
- 43:37Speaker 1: Stacy in the basement, but the only thing that stopped
- 43:41Speaker 1: him was a lack of accelerant apparently, which also doesn't
- 43:45Speaker 1: make sense. You love stealing shit, Sean, Get.
- 43:47Speaker 2: Out of here right, Sorry about my dog barking. Major
- 43:55Speaker 2: then asked about the sensory sensory experience of Do's captivity.
- 44:02Speaker 2: Did she smell them? Great confirmed she had noticed that
- 44:07Speaker 2: the scent of the decay, and she had told Major
- 44:10Speaker 2: about a terrifying thud she heard coming from the second floor.
- 44:16Speaker 2: I don't know, sometimes I hear thuds too, that's quote
- 44:22Speaker 2: it was. It was a rather chilling dismissal. Well, Jane
- 44:27Speaker 2: Doe was hearing the sounds of a house haunted by
- 44:30Speaker 2: its own residents. Great was simply living in it, coexisting
- 44:36Speaker 2: with the bodies as if they were pieces of furniture.
- 44:39Speaker 2: It was weird, and as the thirty three hours of
- 44:43Speaker 2: interrogation over eight days wound down, Major reached for the
- 44:48Speaker 2: one thing Great had been faking, faking remorse. She asked
- 44:55Speaker 2: if he felt bad for the lives he had stolen. Quote,
- 45:00Speaker 2: I feel like, what have I done? Now?
- 45:04Speaker 1: It wasn't the cry of a man who felt the
- 45:07Speaker 1: weight of his victim lives of course he didn't. Instead,
- 45:12Speaker 1: it was the cry of a man who realized his
- 45:15Speaker 1: fantasy world had finally collapsed. The what have I done
- 45:20Speaker 1: wasn't about the women in the closet or the basement.
- 45:24Speaker 1: It was about the fact that he was finally caught.
- 45:29Speaker 2: Yes, Detective Major then shifted from the women Great had
- 45:35Speaker 2: killed to the women who had, by some stroke of
- 45:38Speaker 2: luck or intuition, escaped him. She brought up several women
- 45:44Speaker 2: who had been seen at or near the house. One
- 45:48Speaker 2: of the women, named Tracy, who had actually stepped inside
- 45:52Speaker 2: the house with two other people. Great Great admitted that
- 45:57Speaker 2: she had come inside, that he didn't do anything to
- 46:01Speaker 2: her because he just didn't.
- 46:04Speaker 1: Want to, despite the other two other people being there,
- 46:07Speaker 1: which is a bad idea. But sure he didn't want to, Okay.
- 46:11Speaker 2: It's another example of Great's earlier self description as an opportunist.
- 46:18Speaker 2: For some reason, the hunger didn't trigger with Tracy.
- 46:22Speaker 1: Then there was a seventeen year old girl he had approached,
- 46:25Speaker 1: offering to help her with her laundry. It was the
- 46:29Speaker 1: same helpful, friendly persona he used at the BP station
- 46:33Speaker 1: with Stacy Stanley, but this time, for reasons only Great new,
- 46:38Speaker 1: he let the opportunity pass. When asked if there were
- 46:43Speaker 1: any others he had learned into that apartment, Grat finally
- 46:47Speaker 1: said no. The list of the dead was complete and
- 46:51Speaker 1: the list of the lucky was very short.
- 46:56Speaker 2: As the weight of his confession settled, did you find
- 46:59Speaker 2: a stringer? No?
- 47:00Speaker 1: Sorry, there's two views on YouTube. There's a vertical in
- 47:04Speaker 1: the regular. If we're tiny, little people like that, then
- 47:09Speaker 1: you're on the other one.
- 47:14Speaker 2: Great turned his thoughts. I'm sorry, I'll start over. As
- 47:18Speaker 2: the weight of his confession settled, Great turned his thoughts
- 47:22Speaker 2: to the one person who carried his name, his son.
- 47:26Speaker 2: In a rare moment of apparent emotion, Great broke down
- 47:30Speaker 2: sobbing as he spoke about his legacy. Quote, I'm going
- 47:35Speaker 2: to write him a letter. I want to let him
- 47:38Speaker 2: know that if it's that, it's not in his genes.
- 47:42Speaker 2: This isn't who he is. Unte Please don't write your son.
- 47:55Speaker 2: You're muted, my dear.
- 47:58Speaker 1: Thanks, I'm being thriven my back. It was a moment
- 48:03Speaker 1: of profound irony. Great, a man who had turned a
- 48:07Speaker 1: home into a graveyard, was desperate to convince his son
- 48:12Speaker 1: that the darkness stopped with his father. He wanted to
- 48:16Speaker 1: believe he was an anomaly, a mistake of nature, rather
- 48:21Speaker 1: than a man who had made a series of calculated,
- 48:25Speaker 1: monstrous choices and choices, yes, you know, choices, but no,
- 48:34Speaker 1: there's just something wrong with me. I don't know, and
- 48:37Speaker 1: there is something wrong with you.
- 48:38Speaker 2: There is something wrong.
- 48:39Speaker 1: I'll give you that, but you're not a special little
- 48:42Speaker 1: do drop great okay mm hmm. And finally you give
- 48:48Speaker 1: a shit how it affects your kids, and how you
- 48:52Speaker 1: fucking care get out of here.
- 48:55Speaker 2: You didn't care about anybody but himself exactly. In the
- 48:58Speaker 2: final minutes, mine return to the religious themes he had
- 49:02Speaker 2: used to justify his violence to Jane Doe. He spoke
- 49:06Speaker 2: about wanting forgiveness from the families of Liz Stacy, Rebecca Dana,
- 49:13Speaker 2: even though he can even remember her name, and Candace,
- 49:16Speaker 2: but his focus quickly shifted back to his own soul. Quote,
- 49:22Speaker 2: I need time for myself to see if Jesus will
- 49:25Speaker 2: forgive me. Jesus forgives all sins if you repent. That's
- 49:29Speaker 2: what Jane Doe taught me.
- 49:31Speaker 1: Uncle jan Do told me. Shut up, keep her name
- 49:34Speaker 1: out of your mouth, Keep your name out of her mouth.
- 49:38Speaker 1: Oh thank your stringer bell thank you for the super
- 49:41Speaker 1: chat so much, she says, I love these stories. Cheers everyone. Oh,
- 49:46Speaker 1: thank you. I'm glad that you enjoy listening to us.
- 49:49Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Stringer, I appreciate you and all
- 49:52Speaker 1: your support. Now, he clung to the teachings of the
- 49:57Speaker 1: woman he had kidnapped and tore, using her faith as
- 50:02Speaker 1: a life raft for his own conscience disgusting. In a
- 50:08Speaker 1: final delusional statement that likely left the detective's cold, Gret
- 50:14Speaker 1: said he prayed that quote one day he will be free.
- 50:17Speaker 1: I mean, it's not up to me what happens, but okay,
- 50:22Speaker 1: whether he meant free from prison, which is never going
- 50:24Speaker 1: to happen, or free from his own hunger, Sean Gray
- 50:28Speaker 1: would never see the outside of a cell again. The
- 50:32Speaker 1: thirty three hour a multi day marathon was over, the
- 50:36Speaker 1: names had been given, and the bodies had been found.
- 50:42Speaker 2: The interrogation of Sean Grave's remains one of the most
- 50:44Speaker 2: significant recordings in criminal history, thanks to the patients and
- 50:49Speaker 2: psychological skill of Detective Kim Major. He thought he was repenting,
- 50:56Speaker 2: but she knew he was securing his conviction. Ugh, I
- 51:01Speaker 2: just got chilled reading that.
- 51:04Speaker 1: Right now, Sean Gray was handed twenty charges for the
- 51:10Speaker 1: murders of Liz Griffith and Stacy Stanley, as well as
- 51:15Speaker 1: the kidnapping and rape of Jane Doe. Yeah, I know
- 51:18Speaker 1: you noticed that there's only three names there, But don't worry. Well,
- 51:22Speaker 1: there will be justice, just not yet now. In the
- 51:26Speaker 1: state of Ohio, the prosecution didn't just want to prove
- 51:30Speaker 1: that Seawn Gray killed Liz Griffith. They wanted to show
- 51:33Speaker 1: the calculated sequence of terror that preceded her death and
- 51:38Speaker 1: being dignity that followed. So for her, he was charged
- 51:43Speaker 1: with two counts aggravated murder, kidnapping, gross abuse of a corpse,
- 51:50Speaker 1: burglary for when he went under her house, and tampering
- 51:54Speaker 1: with evidence, which I'm glad that they put. You know,
- 51:59Speaker 1: they didn't, I guess, have to do all these charges
- 52:01Speaker 1: because of what he was facing. But like I feel
- 52:04Speaker 1: like with the amount they gave him for each person,
- 52:08Speaker 1: it was like the best they could do for justice for.
- 52:11Speaker 2: Well, I mean, and his his acts. All of the
- 52:16Speaker 2: little things mattered in this and exactly, and they needed
- 52:20Speaker 2: to be documented and he needed to be charged, and
- 52:23Speaker 2: you know, I just think it mattered in the end
- 52:26Speaker 2: that all of those things mattered.
- 52:28Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, because sometimes they're like, well, we don't
- 52:30Speaker 1: need a charge for you know, because we have all
- 52:33Speaker 1: these big ones. But I do feel like they made
- 52:36Speaker 1: sure that each of these women was going to be
- 52:39Speaker 1: held accountable for what he did, and I do appreciate that,
- 52:44Speaker 1: Unlike when we were in Alaska and all the fuckery
- 52:47Speaker 1: went around for twelve years, where they're like, oh, you
- 52:49Speaker 1: were assaulted and kidnapped, We're just going to drop that
- 52:53Speaker 1: for a plea deal for this other case because we
- 52:54Speaker 1: don't give a fuck about you. Like so, it does
- 52:57Speaker 1: feel nice to have some sense of just Hyle got right,
- 53:02Speaker 1: even if you know they're vulnerable victims in their lifestyles
- 53:06Speaker 1: or whatever. So I'm glad that that happened. Now, as
- 53:10Speaker 1: the prosecution turns its attention to the death of Stacy Stanley,
- 53:14Speaker 1: the charge shifted. Charges shifted from a narrative of invasion
- 53:18Speaker 1: to one of predatory optimism and extreme sexual violence. He
- 53:24Speaker 1: got charged with aggravated robbery, murder and unauthorized use of
- 53:29Speaker 1: her vehicle, kidnapping and rape and murder some more and
- 53:35Speaker 1: felony assault and terrorism and a forcible sex act and
- 53:40Speaker 1: gross abuse of a corpse. Again just piling them on
- 53:44Speaker 1: you know, because they didn't have to charge for him
- 53:47Speaker 1: using her car, but it was in such a violation
- 53:51Speaker 1: that he used her car that they were like nope, Sean,
- 53:54Speaker 1: fuck you buddy, we don't care. We're charging you with everything.
- 54:00Speaker 2: I mean, can you imagine all of the charges that
- 54:02Speaker 2: Robert Hansen could have been exiledly exactly? Thank you, Ohio
- 54:09Speaker 2: for following through and counting every little detail on these right.
- 54:13Speaker 1: Why don't you do the final charges for Jane?
- 54:17Speaker 2: Uh? The final set of charges in the indictment belonged
- 54:20Speaker 2: to the women who would ultimately be Sean greats undoing prosecutions.
- 54:26Speaker 2: Final counts detailed the brutality, brutal reality of her three
- 54:31Speaker 2: days in a bedroom of the Yellow House. She counts
- 54:37Speaker 2: of kidnapping with sexual motivation. Is that the mm hmm
- 54:43Speaker 2: sorry forcible rape, vaginal or three of them counts for
- 54:50Speaker 2: each thing? Yep? Robbery? Uh, which is much like what
- 54:59Speaker 2: happened with st said like, shoot, he went to her
- 55:02Speaker 2: apartment and took things, and burglary was count twenty.
- 55:09Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 55:11Speaker 2: So with all twenty counts laid out, the legal trap
- 55:15Speaker 2: was set. The all American boy from Maryan, Ohio was
- 55:19Speaker 2: now officially on his way to being one of the
- 55:21Speaker 2: most prolific serial killers of the state.
- 55:25Speaker 1: Again, I'm just it's we cover so many stories here
- 55:29Speaker 1: and so many have pissed us off and in this
- 55:33Speaker 1: season shows, but I really just want to say I
- 55:37Speaker 1: appreciate the charges they gave them for each victim, and
- 55:44Speaker 1: that's not something you see everywhere if you've been listening
- 55:46Speaker 1: to us, and it's just nice to see it under
- 55:49Speaker 1: such horrible circumstances. But again, it's a small community. This
- 55:55Speaker 1: affected all of them. I mean, sweet Liz Ugh, you know,
- 56:00Speaker 1: the police were devastated when she was gone, you know,
- 56:03Speaker 1: And it's just I'm so happy to see that. Now,
- 56:07Speaker 1: onto the trial of Sean Gray, which began in April
- 56:11Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, listen less of a mystery and more of
- 56:15Speaker 1: a formal reckoning of sorts. I mean, they basically got
- 56:18Speaker 1: this guy dead right right now. The media had already
- 56:22Speaker 1: branded him, branded him the Lady Killer, which I think
- 56:26Speaker 1: is a stupid fucking name, but whatever, And it was
- 56:30Speaker 1: a bit of a double edged title that referenced both
- 56:33Speaker 1: his lethal history and the charming blue eyed persona he
- 56:38Speaker 1: had used to lure his victims. And the reason I
- 56:40Speaker 1: say Lady killer is and why I think it's stupid
- 56:44Speaker 1: is because he purposely went after vulnerable women, you know
- 56:49Speaker 1: what I mean. It's not just like, oh he's no,
- 56:53Speaker 1: he's a fucking scumbag living in a four in the woods.
- 56:56Speaker 1: And I feel like he would enjoy that name lady killer,
- 57:01Speaker 1: and I don't like that. So yeah, that's why I'm
- 57:04Speaker 1: either with it. I'm like, oh, why do we give
- 57:06Speaker 1: them that one? Why not petty little fort baby fits.
- 57:14Speaker 2: I'm just saying, yeah, I agree with you, of course
- 57:17Speaker 2: I do, because this guy is a He should have
- 57:20Speaker 2: been the douchebag killer of Ohio. That's what he should
- 57:23Speaker 2: have been.
- 57:24Speaker 1: Dubbed, Oh thank you, Stringer Bell. Stringer Bell says, I
- 57:27Speaker 1: wanted to clarify I love the awareness you give these victims.
- 57:32Speaker 1: My chat earlier it may not have been oh well,
- 57:35Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. I mean it's their stories, you know, yeah,
- 57:40Speaker 1: and I like to make sure that we tell their
- 57:42Speaker 1: full stories, you know, instead of the just Sometimes we
- 57:46Speaker 1: can't because there's simply not enough information out there. But
- 57:49Speaker 1: when we can, I know, it's really important to all
- 57:53Speaker 1: of us here on True Criven.
- 57:54Speaker 2: One time, So the fuck face killer of Ohio, Yes,
- 57:58Speaker 2: fuck face killer Ohio. Yeah, and it works.
- 58:01Speaker 1: Yes, I'm gonna write them be like excuse me and
- 58:06Speaker 1: made fuck face hashtag zero one, two, whatever numbers are.
- 58:12Speaker 1: That's why I'm writing.
- 58:15Speaker 2: Inside the Ashland County Court of Common Pleas, the atmosphere
- 58:19Speaker 2: was thick with the grief of the families of Stacy
- 58:22Speaker 2: Stanley and Liz Griffith, who filled the gallery day after day.
- 58:27Speaker 2: Presiding over the case was Judge ron Mmmm.
- 58:32Speaker 1: I think it's force full, full force, the ful for.
- 58:37Speaker 2: Some disrespect, Judge, I just don't. I would not be judge,
- 58:41Speaker 2: Judge f. But I think it's forceful Judge ron F. Okay,
- 58:46Speaker 2: we'll go with that. Facing a man who already confessed
- 58:49Speaker 2: to unthinkable on tape yet officially entered a plea of
- 58:54Speaker 2: not guilty. But I just he.
- 58:58Speaker 1: Admitted it case, like what I mean, it's a death
- 59:01Speaker 1: penalty case, so he'd be stupid. I guess you know
- 59:05Speaker 1: that's not true. You'll plead guilty because the sentencing part
- 59:08Speaker 1: you can still not plead and the jury has to
- 59:11Speaker 1: de side. But just ro back to the lady killer thing,
- 59:13Speaker 1: and why it pisses me off is because the majority
- 59:16Speaker 1: of these women weren't a fucking relationship with them.
- 59:20Speaker 2: No, you know, Jane Doe wasn't.
- 59:23Speaker 1: Liz wasn't.
- 59:25Speaker 2: Candace wasn't.
- 59:27Speaker 1: Candace was. Yeah, Candas was the only one. Well Rebecca
- 59:30Speaker 1: was she No, they did sleep together and stuff, but
- 59:34Speaker 1: I would call it.
- 59:36Speaker 2: I wouldn't have called it a relationship.
- 59:38Speaker 1: But and then Dana was selling magazine. So four out
- 59:41Speaker 1: of the six had nothing to do with this fucking guy.
- 59:46Speaker 1: And so I think that that's another reason why the
- 59:48Speaker 1: name is band. Yes, agreed, because they were just in
- 59:53Speaker 1: the wrong place at the wrong time, or talk to
- 59:57Speaker 1: the wrong guy, but not in that way that you wanted. Anyway,
- 1:00:01Speaker 1: I can ran about it for too long. I am
- 1:00:04Speaker 1: in a rantom mood today.
- 1:00:07Speaker 2: It's fair though, I mean now.
- 1:00:11Speaker 1: Lead Prosecutor Christopher R. Tunnel didn't mince words. Along with
- 1:00:16Speaker 1: his team, including Michael McNamara and Mark Weaver, he laid
- 1:00:21Speaker 1: out a case that was essentially a march towards the inevitable.
- 1:00:26Speaker 1: This defendant confessed to every element of every crime he
- 1:00:31Speaker 1: is charged with. This is not a who done it? Case?
- 1:00:36Speaker 1: This is a he did it kind of case. He
- 1:00:41Speaker 1: done did it.
- 1:00:43Speaker 2: The defense, led by Ralph and Robert Whitney, was in
- 1:00:47Speaker 2: an impossible position, they made the rare strategic move of
- 1:00:53Speaker 2: waiving their opening statements entirely. There was no alibi to present,
- 1:01:00Speaker 2: no alternate, no alternate suspect to point to, only the
- 1:01:05Speaker 2: recording of Great's own voice.
- 1:01:09Speaker 1: Now, while much of the testimony was regarding the murders,
- 1:01:12Speaker 1: the court also heard hours of testimony regarding Great's life
- 1:01:17Speaker 1: as a ghost. Witness after witness described a man who
- 1:01:21Speaker 1: broke into campers and stole from bait shops and flea markets.
- 1:01:26Speaker 1: You know it, just like Robert Hanson and the FBI
- 1:01:31Speaker 1: profile that said, Hey, this person's going to be a kleptomaniac.
- 1:01:34Speaker 1: Well look at this. Here we go another example of it.
- 1:01:38Speaker 1: And it painted a picture of a man who treated
- 1:01:40Speaker 1: the world as his personal pantry, taking whatever he wanted,
- 1:01:45Speaker 1: whether it was a cooler or a human life.
- 1:01:50Speaker 2: And as the evidence piled up, like the DNA and
- 1:01:53Speaker 2: the golf bag, the bodies in the house, the living
- 1:01:56Speaker 2: testimony of Jane Doe, Great made a desperate play, pleading
- 1:02:00Speaker 2: guilty to fifteen of the twenty counts against him. It
- 1:02:04Speaker 2: was a cold and calculated move. By admitting to most
- 1:02:08Speaker 2: of the charges, he hoped to show a shred of
- 1:02:12Speaker 2: cooperation that might sway the jury to spare him from
- 1:02:15Speaker 2: the needle. He wanted to trade a confession for his life.
- 1:02:20Speaker 2: The defense presented no case.
- 1:02:22Speaker 1: What would they even say?
- 1:02:24Speaker 2: Right? There were no witnesses to speak for Sean Gret's
- 1:02:28Speaker 2: character and no evidence to contradict his crimes. But all
- 1:02:33Speaker 2: these people had to sit.
- 1:02:39Speaker 1: Yes, and he doesn't. He doesn't plead until before posing arguments.
- 1:02:45Speaker 2: Right.
- 1:02:46Speaker 1: They ate, yeah, like his size, his side rests, and
- 1:02:50Speaker 1: then he's like, oh, I'm going to plead to like
- 1:02:52Speaker 1: everything but the murders. Basically yep, pretty much. Cool. Great,
- 1:02:56Speaker 1: glad we had all that camper talk. Now. The tension
- 1:03:01Speaker 1: in the courtroom on May seventh, twenty eighteen was nearly
- 1:03:05Speaker 1: physical as the four person for the jury, Duror number
- 1:03:09Speaker 1: thirty four, rose to read the decision for the families
- 1:03:14Speaker 1: in the gallery. This wasn't just a verdict. It was
- 1:03:17Speaker 1: the final legal confirmation of the nightmare they had lived
- 1:03:22Speaker 1: through since the bodies were discovered in the Yellow House
- 1:03:25Speaker 1: on Covert Court.
- 1:03:28Speaker 2: With the reading of the guilty verdicts, the first phase
- 1:03:31Speaker 2: of the trial is over. Sean Gray sat at the
- 1:03:35Speaker 2: defense table, the man who had once his head, hid
- 1:03:42Speaker 2: in a count that's right.
- 1:03:43Speaker 1: He hit in a couch. I forgot all about him
- 1:03:46Speaker 1: mine and in a couch. Get twice.
- 1:03:48Speaker 2: He hid in a couch and sent letters to cats.
- 1:03:51Speaker 1: I forgot.
- 1:03:52Speaker 2: Of course, we are going to bring that up again,
- 1:03:55Speaker 2: right right now, officially aurial murderer in the eyes of
- 1:04:01Speaker 2: the State of Ohio. I I can't even believe I
- 1:04:05Speaker 2: forgot about the.
- 1:04:06Speaker 1: Couch me either, the couch and the letters to the cats.
- 1:04:09Speaker 1: That's just crazy. But the work wasn't done. Judge force
- 1:04:16Speaker 1: Full dismissed the jury with a stern warning to not
- 1:04:20Speaker 1: go home and look at social media, don't watch the
- 1:04:24Speaker 1: news or talk to anyone about the case. The hardest
- 1:04:29Speaker 1: part of their service was still ahead of them.
- 1:04:33Speaker 2: The trial now entered the penalty phase. This is where
- 1:04:37Speaker 2: the jury had to look at the mitigating factors and
- 1:04:40Speaker 2: weigh them against the aggravating circumstances of his crimes. In
- 1:04:45Speaker 2: the end, they had heard the tapes, they had seen
- 1:04:49Speaker 2: the photos of the closets in the basements, and the
- 1:04:53Speaker 2: jury returned with their recommended recommendation of death. They decided
- 1:04:59Speaker 2: the only and to the man who had stolen the
- 1:05:03Speaker 2: breath of so many was for the state to eventually
- 1:05:07Speaker 2: take his.
- 1:05:09Speaker 1: Now on June and first. On June first, twenty eighteen,
- 1:05:14Speaker 1: the gallery in the small Ashland community was a sea
- 1:05:18Speaker 1: of purple, the favorite color of Stacy Stanley. Oh, this
- 1:05:24Speaker 1: part is going to be so hard to get through, Okay.
- 1:05:29Speaker 1: Her friends and family wore shirts emblazoned with hashtag Stanley Strong,
- 1:05:37Speaker 1: a silent, unified front against the man who had tried
- 1:05:40Speaker 1: to erase her. As Sean Gray was led into the room,
- 1:05:44Speaker 1: he was forced to look into a crowd of people
- 1:05:47Speaker 1: who loved the woman he had treated, women he had
- 1:05:51Speaker 1: treated as disposable objects. Look Amy, good luck, breen in
- 1:06:00Speaker 1: and throws so hard. It's so hard. It's so beautiful
- 1:06:04Speaker 1: and so hard and sad and no.
- 1:06:07Speaker 2: I I listened to these people. Yeah. Then the man
- 1:06:15Speaker 2: who spent hours whispering to detectives about his hunger stood
- 1:06:19Speaker 2: up to speak to the gallery. Quote, I just want
- 1:06:24Speaker 2: to say to the families, it's a good day for you.
- 1:06:28Speaker 2: I ask for your forgiveness. It may justice be served today.
- 1:06:32Speaker 2: I want to thank the victims, Stacy, Elizabeth and Jane.
- 1:06:37Speaker 2: I wish I could change things for them.
- 1:06:41Speaker 1: The fo Shan greats.
- 1:06:43Speaker 2: You can speak their names like.
- 1:06:47Speaker 1: You want to thank them for what? God, he's the
- 1:06:53Speaker 1: fucking worst. It was a surreal moment, great true to
- 1:07:02Speaker 1: his lady killer. But we don't fuck it. We're just
- 1:07:05Speaker 1: gonna fuck face. Persona attempted to frame his own sentencing
- 1:07:10Speaker 1: as a gift he was giving to the families the
- 1:07:14Speaker 1: audacity because they're only there because of him. He phrased
- 1:07:18Speaker 1: his request for forgiveness as something he wanted for them,
- 1:07:23Speaker 1: as if his apology was a final act of charity
- 1:07:28Speaker 1: to help them heal, rather than a plea for his
- 1:07:31Speaker 1: own soul.
- 1:07:36Speaker 2: The state of Ohio remained silent. The prosecutors knew that
- 1:07:40Speaker 2: no legal argument could match the weight of what was
- 1:07:44Speaker 2: coming next. They deferred their comments, stepping aside to give
- 1:07:49Speaker 2: the floor to the people whose lives had been shattered.
- 1:07:53Speaker 2: The stage was set for the Victim and Pact statement,
- 1:07:56Speaker 2: the moment where the buck Face would finally be forced
- 1:08:01Speaker 2: to hear the true cost of his hunger.
- 1:08:07Speaker 1: Now, the air in the room changed as the first
- 1:08:10Speaker 1: family member stepped towards the microphone. Curtis Stanley didn't come
- 1:08:16Speaker 1: to the podium to offer the forgiveness Sean Gray had
- 1:08:19Speaker 1: asked for. Instead, he stood there to reclaim his mother's dignity.
- 1:08:27Speaker 2: He stared out, started out with how he has tried
- 1:08:32Speaker 2: to wait a long Let me start that over, because
- 1:08:36Speaker 2: I want to give this justice. He started out with
- 1:08:39Speaker 2: how he has had to wait a long time to
- 1:08:42Speaker 2: look Sean in the eye and call him a coward.
- 1:08:47Speaker 2: Curtis had gone to the jail to confront Great man
- 1:08:50Speaker 2: to man, but Great had refused to leave his cell.
- 1:08:55Speaker 1: Of course he did, of course he did.
- 1:08:58Speaker 2: Quote it doesn't make you a man to kill these women.
- 1:09:03Speaker 2: Stacy had a family that cared. You live with the punishment,
- 1:09:08Speaker 2: you don't live with the hurt. You killed the wrong women.
- 1:09:13Speaker 2: She meant a lot to a lot of people. You
- 1:09:17Speaker 2: made a judgment about Stacy, and you were wrong. You
- 1:09:20Speaker 2: knew they were weak, and you took advantage of that.
- 1:09:24Speaker 2: I couldn't even have an open casket because of what
- 1:09:29Speaker 2: you did to her. You took that from me. You
- 1:09:33Speaker 2: made me a stronger man, but it was pathetic the
- 1:09:37Speaker 2: way you did it. She wasn't a piece of.
- 1:09:40Speaker 1: Trash, No, she was not, Curtis, you know it was trash.
- 1:09:45Speaker 1: Sean Great as trash, the trash man. No offense to
- 1:09:51Speaker 1: trash men. They're different, but this guy's trash. Now, perhaps
- 1:09:56Speaker 1: the most biting part of Curtis's statement was his view
- 1:10:00Speaker 1: on the sentence. While the state sought death, Curtis solid
- 1:10:05Speaker 1: as an escape. He wanted Great to sit in the
- 1:10:08Speaker 1: silence of a cell and live with the punishment because
- 1:10:12Speaker 1: quote death is the easy way out end quote.
- 1:10:19Speaker 2: Scott and Nick Adams, Stacy's brothers, took their turn at
- 1:10:23Speaker 2: the podium. Scott led with the raw, righteous anger of
- 1:10:29Speaker 2: a brother. He looked directly at Great, the physical tension
- 1:10:33Speaker 2: so high it seemed for a moment he might bridge
- 1:10:36Speaker 2: the gap between the podium and the defense table. Quote,
- 1:10:43Speaker 2: you are a monster. Who are you to decide to
- 1:10:47Speaker 2: take their life her life? Today someone else finally holds
- 1:10:53Speaker 2: yours in their hands. Real justice would be for you
- 1:10:57Speaker 2: to come with me for about five minutes, burn in hell.
- 1:11:03Speaker 1: Bravo. Now, Scott gave voice to the private thoughts of
- 1:11:08Speaker 1: every person in that gallery. He stripped away the lady
- 1:11:13Speaker 1: killer myth and replaced it with the reality that Great
- 1:11:17Speaker 1: was now the one without power, waiting for his own
- 1:11:20Speaker 1: life to be weighed by the state.
- 1:11:24Speaker 2: When Nick Adams stepped up, he addressed the psychological torture
- 1:11:29Speaker 2: the trial itself had inflicted. For eight days, the families
- 1:11:35Speaker 2: had been forced to sit through a revictimization, listening to
- 1:11:39Speaker 2: the critical I'm sorry, the clinical descriptions, and looking at
- 1:11:44Speaker 2: the horrific photos of their loved ones.
- 1:11:47Speaker 1: Quote. We listened as he described my baby sister's head
- 1:11:52Speaker 1: banging off the stairs as he dragged her down. He
- 1:11:57Speaker 1: threw her in the basement and covered her with trash,
- 1:12:01Speaker 1: thinking that's who she was. I'm here to tell you
- 1:12:05Speaker 1: my sister was not trash. She was a loving, generous
- 1:12:11Speaker 1: person whose willingness to help others is exactly what you
- 1:12:16Speaker 1: used to kill her. You may have killed my baby's sister,
- 1:12:20Speaker 1: but you'll never kill our memories. Justice for me is
- 1:12:25Speaker 1: the death penalty. She deserves justice for the heinous acts
- 1:12:30Speaker 1: you committed. The Adams brothers made it clear that while
- 1:12:37Speaker 1: Gray had tried to treat Stacy like a discarded object,
- 1:12:41Speaker 1: she was a central pillar and a massive protective family.
- 1:12:47Speaker 1: There were five siblings, children, and a grandchild, all of
- 1:12:53Speaker 1: whom were now united in a single, unwavering demand for
- 1:12:58Speaker 1: the ultimate punishment.
- 1:13:02Speaker 2: Stacy's sister, Gina, born just eleven months apart from her,
- 1:13:09Speaker 2: stood up to dismantle great slies once and for all.
- 1:13:14Speaker 2: During his confession, Gray had tried to justified his violence
- 1:13:18Speaker 2: by labeling Stacy as a or attempting to paint her
- 1:13:23Speaker 2: as someone whose life had less value. Quote Stacy is
- 1:13:28Speaker 2: not the person you claimed her to be. She was
- 1:13:31Speaker 2: the one who loved to cook, the one who took
- 1:13:33Speaker 2: care of everyone. We spoke several times every single day.
- 1:13:38Speaker 2: Since you murdered her, my life hasn't been the same.
- 1:13:42Speaker 2: Our father rarely leaves the house anymore. You've taken the
- 1:13:47Speaker 2: life out of him too.
- 1:13:49Speaker 1: Quote the ripple effects man. There's always ripple effects. It's awful.
- 1:13:56Speaker 1: She looked directly at the man with the piercing blue
- 1:13:59Speaker 1: eyes and offer him no grace, only a cold promise
- 1:14:04Speaker 1: of what she believed awaited him. I believe you will
- 1:14:08Speaker 1: burn in hell with your eyes wide open. You don't
- 1:14:12Speaker 1: deserve mercy. A part of me thinks the death penalty
- 1:14:16Speaker 1: is too humane for you. I want you to suffer.
- 1:14:24Speaker 2: Finally, Stacy's younger brother Joe, stood up next. Like his
- 1:14:28Speaker 2: brothers before him, he spoke of a barely contained urge
- 1:14:33Speaker 2: to take justice into his own hands. He talked about
- 1:14:36Speaker 2: the most tragic what if of the entire search the
- 1:14:43Speaker 2: family had been more mere blocks away from the Yellow
- 1:14:47Speaker 2: House while Stacy was still inside.
- 1:14:53Speaker 1: We were so close to finding you when we were
- 1:14:56Speaker 1: out looking for her, if we had just this have
- 1:15:00Speaker 1: been served right there on the street. You took our
- 1:15:04Speaker 1: dad over the edge with what you did.
- 1:15:08Speaker 2: Joe ended his statement by stripping Grade of his future,
- 1:15:12Speaker 2: reminding him that the family man persona he had tried
- 1:15:17Speaker 2: to protect in his letters to his own kids, was
- 1:15:19Speaker 2: gone forever. Quote. You're never gonna hug your kids again.
- 1:15:23Speaker 2: You're never going to kiss them. That's over for you.
- 1:15:27Speaker 1: End quote. Now, Cecy's other son, Corey, the one she
- 1:15:32Speaker 1: was originally supposed to have dinner at Applebee's with, took
- 1:15:36Speaker 1: kiss turn. I'm only twenty four years old and I
- 1:15:41Speaker 1: had to bury my mother. She won't be there to
- 1:15:45Speaker 1: see me get married. She won't be there for any
- 1:15:48Speaker 1: of it.
- 1:15:51Speaker 2: Corey's statement was brief, but focused on the final finality
- 1:15:57Speaker 2: of his loss. He thinks the court for the work
- 1:16:01Speaker 2: they had done to secure justice, and finding a grim
- 1:16:04Speaker 2: sense of peace in the fact that great would finally
- 1:16:08Speaker 2: suffer for the vacuum he left in their lives.
- 1:16:13Speaker 1: One by one, they had stood up sons, brothers, and
- 1:16:17Speaker 1: a sister. They had successfully replaced the image of a
- 1:16:22Speaker 1: body in a basement with the image of a woman
- 1:16:25Speaker 1: who loved her family, cooked for them and called them
- 1:16:28Speaker 1: every day, and had big, big hair.
- 1:16:34Speaker 2: The snea of purple shirts in the gallery remained, but
- 1:16:37Speaker 2: the voice of the courtroom shifted from a brother's fairy
- 1:16:40Speaker 2: to a mother's faith. As Judy Griffith, Liz's mother, approached
- 1:16:46Speaker 2: the podium, the atmosphere became heavy with the weight of
- 1:16:49Speaker 2: a different kind of grief. Judy Griffith stood before the
- 1:16:52Speaker 2: man who had occupied her daughter's home and had taken
- 1:16:57Speaker 2: her life. For Judy, the crime was more than just
- 1:17:01Speaker 2: a violation of law. To her, it was an act
- 1:17:05Speaker 2: of pure, unadulted evil. Quote you robbed her, Elizabeth was
- 1:17:12Speaker 2: kind to everyone. You are evil. My faith tells me
- 1:17:16Speaker 2: I should forgive you, but you deserve the death penalty
- 1:17:19Speaker 2: for what you've done. You've turned our entire world upside down.
- 1:17:25Speaker 1: She spoke of a spiritual reckoning that no court of
- 1:17:28Speaker 1: law could provide. She told Great that while he might
- 1:17:32Speaker 1: seek forgiveness, he would never see heaven, that the darkness
- 1:17:38Speaker 1: he had unleashed on her family was exactly what he
- 1:17:42Speaker 1: deserves to have returned to him.
- 1:17:47Speaker 2: Lloyd Keith Griffith wasn't just standing up there for himself.
- 1:17:51Speaker 2: He was there as a proxy for his younger brother,
- 1:17:54Speaker 2: Liz's father, who was too broken to speak for himself. Quote,
- 1:18:00Speaker 2: I'm here for my brother. He didn't get enough time
- 1:18:03Speaker 2: with his daughter. Elizabeth was a sweet Christian girl, and
- 1:18:07Speaker 2: you took that kindness and you used it to kill her.
- 1:18:11Speaker 2: I have a lot of dislike in my heart for you.
- 1:18:14Speaker 2: For you monster, it's all between you and the Good Lord.
- 1:18:19Speaker 2: Now your ass is going to hell.
- 1:18:22Speaker 1: And see a trend with these and I don't think
- 1:18:25Speaker 1: they're wrong. Now, the atmosphere in the courtroom was still
- 1:18:31Speaker 1: as heavy as the final family members addressed. Sean gret
- 1:18:36Speaker 1: Ryan Stanley, Stacy's uncle, brought a terrifying new perspective to
- 1:18:41Speaker 1: the timeline of the Yellow House. He describes how while
- 1:18:46Speaker 1: she hate Sean Grat was sitting inside with the bodies
- 1:18:49Speaker 1: of their loved ones, the Stanley family was a physical
- 1:18:53Speaker 1: presence outside his windows. When these shirts say stand strong,
- 1:19:01Speaker 1: you don't know what you got into. We were right
- 1:19:05Speaker 1: on your trail. Shown Stacy's picture was on the laundromat
- 1:19:10Speaker 1: door across the street. We were knocking on doors right
- 1:19:14Speaker 1: next to the house you were squatting in. I had
- 1:19:17Speaker 1: two and a half gallons of chainsaw gas in the
- 1:19:20Speaker 1: back of my truck. We're putting the pressure on you,
- 1:19:23Speaker 1: and you knew it. Wow. Wow.
- 1:19:28Speaker 2: Ryan also spoke of a spiritual reckoning, telling Great that
- 1:19:32Speaker 2: he had been misled by his own simple minded darkness.
- 1:19:37Speaker 2: He made it clear that it wasn't the police alone
- 1:19:39Speaker 2: who followed Stacy. It was the relentless prayer field search
- 1:19:45Speaker 2: of a family that refused to stop until they were
- 1:19:48Speaker 2: at his doorstep.
- 1:19:51Speaker 1: Now, Lizzi's cousin, Sabrina Culor, focused her words at Great's
- 1:19:56Speaker 1: most delusional defense, his claim that he was freeing these
- 1:20:01Speaker 1: women from their struggles. You say you freed her, are
- 1:20:06Speaker 1: you God? What exactly did you free her from? You
- 1:20:10Speaker 1: can hide behind your rough childhood, but we've all had
- 1:20:14Speaker 1: struggles and we aren't murderers. Your words are empty.
- 1:20:21Speaker 2: Now.
- 1:20:21Speaker 1: Sabrina suggested a punishment that mirrored the crime's strangulation, or
- 1:20:27Speaker 1: being left in a dark closet under a pile of clothes,
- 1:20:30Speaker 1: just as he had done to Liz. She dismissed his
- 1:20:34Speaker 1: ten x ten cell as a luxury. He didn't deserve,
- 1:20:38Speaker 1: calling for a swift public end to the small man
- 1:20:43Speaker 1: who had taken so much.
- 1:20:48Speaker 2: Closing out the impact statement was Liz's cousin, Kathy Shay.
- 1:20:53Speaker 2: She was the one who vocalized the predatory logic Sean
- 1:20:57Speaker 2: Grat had used for decades his habit of targeting Christian
- 1:21:01Speaker 2: women whose faith made them vulnerable to his charming act.
- 1:21:09Speaker 2: You went after Christian women because you knew their hearts
- 1:21:13Speaker 2: were soft and kind. You didn't save them from anything.
- 1:21:18Speaker 2: The jury gave you death, and you should ask for
- 1:21:21Speaker 2: the needle today so we never have to see your
- 1:21:25Speaker 2: face again. The sooner the better.
- 1:21:29Speaker 1: And with that the circle was complete. Two families, one
- 1:21:35Speaker 1: defined by their Stanley strong unity and the other by
- 1:21:39Speaker 1: their quiet Christian faith, had both reached the same conclusion.
- 1:21:45Speaker 1: They had seen the other Sean, the one who lived
- 1:21:49Speaker 1: in couches and forts in the woods, and they were
- 1:21:52Speaker 1: done listening to his excuses. They had reclaimed the names
- 1:21:57Speaker 1: of Stacy Stanley and Elizabeth Griff from the headlines, and
- 1:22:02Speaker 1: now it was up to Judge Ron Forceful to put
- 1:22:06Speaker 1: the final lego seal on the jury's recommendation.
- 1:22:11Speaker 2: Prosecutor Christopher Tunnell didn't leave any room for ambiguity. He
- 1:22:17Speaker 2: looked at the bench and stated that Sean Gray is
- 1:22:20Speaker 2: the very reason the death penalty penalty exists in Ohio.
- 1:22:25Speaker 2: He wasn't just requesting a sentence of death. It was
- 1:22:28Speaker 2: more of a demand for a permanent end to the
- 1:22:31Speaker 2: risk Greats Great posed to the world.
- 1:22:35Speaker 1: Now, before delivering the sentence, the judge stripped away every
- 1:22:40Speaker 1: possible mitigating factor. Gray was not under arrest, he wasn't
- 1:22:45Speaker 1: coerced or provoked, He was not suffering from a mental
- 1:22:49Speaker 1: disease besides being a petty little bitch asshole, or the
- 1:22:53Speaker 1: fact that would excuse his actions, and that he and
- 1:22:59Speaker 1: he alone was the principal offender, the sole architect of
- 1:23:03Speaker 1: the horror in that yellow house on Covert Court. The
- 1:23:07Speaker 1: judge also noted a haunting silence when not a single
- 1:23:11Speaker 1: member of Sean Great's family stood to speak for him.
- 1:23:19Speaker 2: At one thirty two pm on June first, twenty eighteen,
- 1:23:23Speaker 2: the gavel fell. The judge moved past the out options
- 1:23:27Speaker 2: for parole and even life without parole. Quote the Court
- 1:23:32Speaker 2: finds that a sentence of death by lethal injection shall
- 1:23:37Speaker 2: be imposed for the aggravated murder of Elizabeth Griffith, and
- 1:23:40Speaker 2: a sentence of death by legal injection shall be imposed
- 1:23:44Speaker 2: for the aggravated murder of Stacy Stanley. But the judge
- 1:23:48Speaker 2: didn't stop there. To ensure the public was protected and
- 1:23:51Speaker 2: that the seriousness of every single crime was recognized, he
- 1:23:55Speaker 2: ran the sentences consecutively to death sentences a lot, followed
- 1:24:02Speaker 2: by a minimum of ninety years to life for the kidnapping,
- 1:24:06Speaker 2: rapes and robberies.
- 1:24:09Speaker 1: Even if the death penalty was never carried out, Sean
- 1:24:12Speaker 1: Gray would never again breathe the air of a freeman.
- 1:24:17Speaker 1: He was labeled a Tier three sex offender. His fines
- 1:24:20Speaker 1: were waved because he would never have the means to
- 1:24:24Speaker 1: pay them, and his six hundred and forty days of
- 1:24:28Speaker 1: credit for time served became a meaningless statistic in the
- 1:24:32Speaker 1: face of a century long sentence.
- 1:24:37Speaker 2: Outside the courtroom, the sea of Purple moved. Sorry. Outside
- 1:24:45Speaker 2: of the courtroom, the sea of purple moved. Stacy Stanley's
- 1:24:49Speaker 2: family released purple and yellow balloons into the Ohio sky,
- 1:24:54Speaker 2: a silent, colorful signal that they were finally carrying her
- 1:24:59Speaker 2: memory away from the Yellow House and into the light.
- 1:25:04Speaker 1: But as the balloons drifted away, the shadow of Sean
- 1:25:08Speaker 1: Gray was still lingered. While the Ashland courtroom provided justice
- 1:25:14Speaker 1: for Jane, Doe, Elizabeth and Stacy, the ghosts of the
- 1:25:18Speaker 1: past were still calling out. There were three more victims, Rebecca, Lacy,
- 1:25:24Speaker 1: Kendice Cunningham and the woman named Dana from two thousand
- 1:25:28Speaker 1: and six, but their stories didn't end here. Oh look
- 1:25:36Speaker 1: at that. I'm not gonna cry that picture of them
- 1:25:39Speaker 1: releasing balloons. See fuck you, Sean. Just because you think
- 1:25:44Speaker 1: some people don't matter doesn't mean that they don't. Look
- 1:25:47Speaker 1: at everyone who loved Stacy Endless. I hate him.
- 1:25:55Speaker 2: On June twelfth, twenty eighteen, the community gathered on Cover
- 1:26:00Speaker 2: Court to witness the final act of Catharsis. Simpson Construction
- 1:26:08Speaker 2: donated their time and machinery to tear down a house
- 1:26:11Speaker 2: where Jane Doe had been held and Liz and Stacy
- 1:26:16Speaker 2: had been found for years.
- 1:26:18Speaker 1: This property and others nearby were owned by pump House Ministries,
- 1:26:23Speaker 1: a group known for taking in the invisible members of society,
- 1:26:27Speaker 1: like those with you know, criminal histories or no place
- 1:26:31Speaker 1: to go. Great had used the lack of oversight to
- 1:26:36Speaker 1: turn a home into a tomb. As the walls crumbled,
- 1:26:40Speaker 1: the families of the victims stood by watching the physical
- 1:26:44Speaker 1: reminder of their nightmare turned into a pile of rubble.
- 1:26:49Speaker 1: To them, they weren't just clearing a lot. They were
- 1:26:52Speaker 1: trying to clear the air of the rot Sean Grat
- 1:26:56Speaker 1: had left behind. I'm so glad they tore it down.
- 1:27:02Speaker 1: The video just there's no audio.
- 1:27:05Speaker 2: It just makes me sad and relieved.
- 1:27:08Speaker 1: And I wonder what they did with that area. Do
- 1:27:14Speaker 1: is they develop It isn't a part, it's nothing, Okay,
- 1:27:17Speaker 1: of course it is. Well, maybe someday there can be
- 1:27:20Speaker 1: something nice there to represent how nice Liz and Stacy
- 1:27:25Speaker 1: sounded as people. Okay, lady and Gray, I sincerely hope
- 1:27:35Speaker 1: he never has honeybun money. Me too, Me too, Lady
- 1:27:42Speaker 1: and Gray. Maybe we'll just write in letters and be
- 1:27:46Speaker 1: like here, no honeybun money for you, okay, bye, and
- 1:27:50Speaker 1: you suck fuck face.
- 1:27:53Speaker 2: He shouldn't have anything. He shouldn't have anything.
- 1:27:57Speaker 1: No, I don't know how he does. I don't think
- 1:27:58Speaker 1: you can work when you're on death row, Like I
- 1:28:00Speaker 1: don't think you can get a job if you're on
- 1:28:02Speaker 1: death row at all. So that means he probably has
- 1:28:05Speaker 1: like nothing.
- 1:28:07Speaker 2: Well, and it clearly nobody came to stand up for him.
- 1:28:11Speaker 1: So okay.
- 1:28:14Speaker 2: On March first, twenty nineteen, less than a year after
- 1:28:16Speaker 2: Gray had been sentenced to death, facing the overwhelming evidence
- 1:28:20Speaker 2: he had already confessed to, Great pled guilty to the
- 1:28:24Speaker 2: murders of Rebecca Lacy and Candace Cunningham, along with accounts
- 1:28:28Speaker 2: of gross abuse of the corpse.
- 1:28:31Speaker 1: Now, Candace's sister Ashley stood before the court, her voice
- 1:28:35Speaker 1: thick with the what ifs that haunt every survivor. I'm sad,
- 1:28:41Speaker 1: I'm hurt, but mostly I'm angry. I wonder what her
- 1:28:47Speaker 1: last thoughts were. I will never forgive you. You took
- 1:28:52Speaker 1: someone who meant so much to so many people. Her mother, Deanna,
- 1:28:59Speaker 1: couldn't even bring herself to look at him, noting the
- 1:29:03Speaker 1: chilling lack of remorse and the man who sat at
- 1:29:06Speaker 1: the defense table coward.
- 1:29:11Speaker 2: But in the courtroom, but the courtroom saw a rare
- 1:29:15Speaker 2: and heartbreaking moment during the Lazy Family turn, Lazy's Family's turn,
- 1:29:22Speaker 2: Bob Lacy, Rebecca's father, walked out of the courtroom in protest.
- 1:29:27Speaker 2: Despite Great's own guilty plea. Bob refused to believe Great
- 1:29:32Speaker 2: was responsible for his daughter's death. Quote Becky was a thief,
- 1:29:38Speaker 2: she stole from dealers. She she told people she feared
- 1:29:42Speaker 2: for her life. I think a dealer killed her and
- 1:29:46Speaker 2: Sean just had her bag. He's innocent of this end quote.
- 1:29:51Speaker 1: Oh, I know. When I read that, it really pissed
- 1:29:55Speaker 1: me off, Like what, But then I thought about it
- 1:29:59Speaker 1: some more. It's not great, all right, it doesn't occur,
- 1:30:02Speaker 1: Dad look great, But you know, maybe that's easier for
- 1:30:07Speaker 1: him the stomach than what really happened to her. I
- 1:30:11Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know what their history was. Did
- 1:30:13Speaker 1: they kick her out? And that's like, I feel like
- 1:30:16Speaker 1: it's deeper than that, and he's just using this as
- 1:30:19Speaker 1: a way to not properly deal in Great.
- 1:30:23Speaker 2: Well, I was thinking the same thing. You know. Is
- 1:30:26Speaker 2: it easier to think that somebody murdered your daughter in
- 1:30:31Speaker 2: a bad drug situation than it is to know that
- 1:30:36Speaker 2: this man who has admitted to all these awful things.
- 1:30:41Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know. I don't know if nobody
- 1:30:44Speaker 2: wants to say that their child was killed at all,
- 1:30:49Speaker 2: let alone by a fuck face like Sean Great, you know,
- 1:30:53Speaker 2: and I don't know.
- 1:30:55Speaker 1: I mean, I don't like what he said at all,
- 1:30:57Speaker 1: all right, Bob. Not great, But again I don't have
- 1:31:01Speaker 1: a murdered, you know, daughter, So people handle things in
- 1:31:07Speaker 1: different ways. I'm sure maybe he might feel differently about
- 1:31:10Speaker 1: it out now. I mean, I do think the idea
- 1:31:12Speaker 1: that Great's innocent when people only knew what happened because
- 1:31:16Speaker 1: he admitted to it, it was pretty crazy. But again, grief
- 1:31:21Speaker 1: is bizarrely that grief guilt all sorts of things.
- 1:31:25Speaker 2: I think the thing that gets me the most though
- 1:31:26Speaker 2: about that is that he knew where he discarded her
- 1:31:32Speaker 2: body and the fact that the cross wasn't in the
- 1:31:35Speaker 2: right spot. M that that's pretty telling to me. Yeah,
- 1:31:42Speaker 2: you know because in an interview with Detective Majors, she
- 1:31:47Speaker 2: says that wasn't something people knew. That wasn't it wasn't
- 1:31:52Speaker 2: out there.
- 1:31:52Speaker 1: Yeah, it wasn't.
- 1:31:54Speaker 2: Factly he brought that up knowing that, It just tells
- 1:31:58Speaker 2: me he knew he did it.
- 1:32:01Speaker 1: And Rebecca is the one that they initially ruled as
- 1:32:03Speaker 1: an overdose, you know. So I can also see how
- 1:32:07Speaker 1: you've already grieved your child in one way, and that
- 1:32:11Speaker 1: was the reality of what you thought had happened, and
- 1:32:13Speaker 1: you told yourself and maybe you started healing by then,
- 1:32:18Speaker 1: and then this happens, and it's it's too much that
- 1:32:23Speaker 1: you are over again. To grieve all over again, you'd
- 1:32:27Speaker 1: have to stick with the old story to even you know,
- 1:32:30Speaker 1: So listen, Bob, I don't think what you said was great,
- 1:32:34Speaker 1: but I'm going to give you some grace, you know,
- 1:32:37Speaker 1: because you've had to grieve your daughter twice, and to
- 1:32:41Speaker 1: do it even one time must be just awful, let
- 1:32:46Speaker 1: alone two times.
- 1:32:48Speaker 2: So I'm sure they grieve every day. I mean, yeah,
- 1:32:51Speaker 2: that raised.
- 1:32:53Speaker 1: And they raised, and it's complicated. I don't like it,
- 1:32:57Speaker 1: but it's complicated. It's not really any of my business,
- 1:33:00Speaker 1: I suppose. But still now, it was a testament of
- 1:33:04Speaker 1: the chaos great showed even in the face of a
- 1:33:08Speaker 1: confession a grieving father search for a different why led
- 1:33:13Speaker 1: to a dramatic exit when the court wouldn't read his
- 1:33:17Speaker 1: specific statements, which I want to know what that statement was. Now.
- 1:33:24Speaker 1: Usually when a defendant is being sentenced in the victim
- 1:33:28Speaker 1: impact statements, usually you can't say certain things right. But
- 1:33:35Speaker 1: it kind of seems like they let people say whatever.
- 1:33:38Speaker 1: So I don't know. But this also is a whole
- 1:33:40Speaker 1: different case. It's not the death penalty one we just
- 1:33:43Speaker 1: talked about, so it could be a different judge with
- 1:33:46Speaker 1: different rules. Whatever statement was, though, if he wrote it down,
- 1:33:52Speaker 1: it still went into the record. They just weren't going
- 1:33:55Speaker 1: to let him read it for reasonsknown.
- 1:34:00Speaker 2: Remind me to talk later about some statements that were written.
- 1:34:05Speaker 1: Oh okay, I'll do my best anyway if we remember.
- 1:34:10Speaker 2: Okay, But before the final sentence was read, the lady
- 1:34:15Speaker 2: killer mass slipped completely, revealing a man who was terrified
- 1:34:19Speaker 2: of the very fate he had inflicted on others. Quote.
- 1:34:23Speaker 2: I really would like to stay alive through all of this.
- 1:34:27Speaker 2: I would have loved to have been able to do
- 1:34:30Speaker 2: a lot, but I know I wouldn't have been able
- 1:34:34Speaker 2: to get away with it.
- 1:34:36Speaker 1: Why would you say that? What is it even mean?
- 1:34:39Speaker 1: There's a lot of bad stuff I wanted to do,
- 1:34:41Speaker 1: but I couldn't get away with it. So why would
- 1:34:43Speaker 1: you see that? Sean fuck face?
- 1:34:46Speaker 2: He's he's a stunning self admission. He was he wasn't
- 1:34:53Speaker 2: sorry for the lives he had ended. He was sorry
- 1:34:55Speaker 2: he got caught and he was afraid to die.
- 1:34:58Speaker 1: Yeah, like, i'd really want to stay a line.
- 1:35:02Speaker 2: I don't know. You can't believe a freaking word that
- 1:35:04Speaker 2: comes out of his mouth? Really?
- 1:35:06Speaker 1: No, now, common please Judge Brett Robertson see different judge
- 1:35:11Speaker 1: than the death penalty one didn't offer the mercy great
- 1:35:15Speaker 1: begged for. He sends tend to life without parole for
- 1:35:19Speaker 1: the murder of Rebecca Lasi, plus another seventeen years to
- 1:35:23Speaker 1: life for the remaining charges, including the murder of Candace Cunningham.
- 1:35:28Speaker 1: These sentences were piled on top of the death penalty
- 1:35:32Speaker 1: he had already received in Ashland. Sean Grat was now
- 1:35:36Speaker 1: a man buried under a mountain of time and two
- 1:35:40Speaker 1: death warrants. And you know, some people may be wondering,
- 1:35:43Speaker 1: I don't know, if you are, well, why didn't they
- 1:35:45Speaker 1: go after death penalties for Rebecca and Candace. It's a
- 1:35:48Speaker 1: good question, but death penalty cases are very expensive. We're
- 1:35:53Speaker 1: talking two to four million dollars of a towards his
- 1:35:58Speaker 1: defense a death penalty for two more victims. And that's
- 1:36:03Speaker 1: not saying that Candice and Rebecca are not worth the money,
- 1:36:07Speaker 1: because I don't like that argument of oh, it's just
- 1:36:11Speaker 1: really expensive, because we shouldn't value lives like that in justice.
- 1:36:16Speaker 1: But they've already secured too that there's no way those
- 1:36:20Speaker 1: are going to be overturned. So okay, fine, will allow that,
- 1:36:28Speaker 1: but they are very expensive for the state. I mean,
- 1:36:32Speaker 1: how just to do George Wagner the third having even
- 1:36:35Speaker 1: done his dad's His defense was four million dollars for
- 1:36:41Speaker 1: his defense for a three month death penalty trial that
- 1:36:44Speaker 1: ended up not even being a death penalty case. It
- 1:36:46Speaker 1: don't even get me sick. It's a whole different story.
- 1:36:49Speaker 1: If you want to hear about the Pike County massacre,
- 1:36:51Speaker 1: you let me know, because I got lots to say.
- 1:36:56Speaker 2: Well, I would hope that they have they spoke to
- 1:37:00Speaker 2: the families too. Yeah, I mean, I don't know how
- 1:37:04Speaker 2: much that weighs on what they actually do for prosecuting.
- 1:37:08Speaker 2: But but I mean there's a families may have been
- 1:37:12Speaker 2: like it's you know, I don't know.
- 1:37:15Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, there's a lot that goes into a death
- 1:37:17Speaker 1: penalty case. It's not your normal death trial. You have
- 1:37:21Speaker 1: to have death penalty qualified lawyers. You have to have
- 1:37:24Speaker 1: a death panel jury, which means extra jury selection. It's
- 1:37:31Speaker 1: not one trial, it's two. Right, you find out whether
- 1:37:34Speaker 1: they're guilty not guilty, and then a sentencing life for death.
- 1:37:38Speaker 1: They're very long trials usually and it's again it's not
- 1:37:44Speaker 1: because their lives don't matter. That's for damn sure. But
- 1:37:48Speaker 1: we've already he's he's on death row. He ain't going nowhere,
- 1:37:52Speaker 1: okay at all. So I do understand why they chose
- 1:37:57Speaker 1: not to go with that, those two. But again, life
- 1:38:03Speaker 1: without parole for both of them. So you know, even
- 1:38:08Speaker 1: if his death penalty gets overturned, he has so many
- 1:38:10Speaker 1: life without paroles. He really he's not going anywhere exactly,
- 1:38:16Speaker 1: going nowhere.
- 1:38:17Speaker 2: Yeah, Now, only one mystery remained, the woman who started
- 1:38:23Speaker 2: it all in two thousand and six. She was a
- 1:38:26Speaker 2: ghost in the system. A collection of burned remained discovered
- 1:38:30Speaker 2: on March tenth of two thousand and seven that seemed
- 1:38:32Speaker 2: toy I defy identification.
- 1:38:37Speaker 1: When those remains were found in Salt Rock Township, there
- 1:38:40Speaker 1: were no clothes, no jewelry, and no ideas. Surett Bailey
- 1:38:45Speaker 1: would later reflect that the effort to give this woman
- 1:38:48Speaker 1: her name back was a worldwide endeavor. Investigators didn't just
- 1:38:54Speaker 1: look in Ohio. They reached out to the FBI, the
- 1:38:58Speaker 1: Secret Service, and the US marshals. They trek leads Canada, Mexico, Israel,
- 1:39:06Speaker 1: and Eastern Europe, and for years the database sat silent.
- 1:39:12Speaker 1: The DNA was there, but it was a key without
- 1:39:15Speaker 1: a walk at the time, and.
- 1:39:18Speaker 2: In twenty eighteen, while Great was facing trial for the
- 1:39:22Speaker 2: Ashland murders, science finally caught up to his first crime.
- 1:39:27Speaker 2: Investigators utilized a technique called oxygen isotope analysis. A person's
- 1:39:35Speaker 2: bones are a map of their life. By I analyzing
- 1:39:39Speaker 2: the isotopes and the skeletal remains, scientists at the University
- 1:39:43Speaker 2: of South Florida were able to tell a story of
- 1:39:45Speaker 2: what this woman had eaten and what water she drank.
- 1:39:50Speaker 2: This chemical signature cast doubt on the theory that she
- 1:39:54Speaker 2: was a foreign national.
- 1:39:57Speaker 1: Now the bones whispered a different She was likely from
- 1:40:02Speaker 1: the southern United States Florida, Texas, or perhaps Louisiana, and
- 1:40:08Speaker 1: for the first time in twelve years, investigators had a
- 1:40:13Speaker 1: starting point. Armed with this new geographical profile, investigators narrowed
- 1:40:19Speaker 1: a list of thousands down to just fifteen photographs. These
- 1:40:25Speaker 1: were fifteen women from the South who had vanished around
- 1:40:29Speaker 1: two thousand and five or two thousand and six and
- 1:40:32Speaker 1: fit the physical description of the remains.
- 1:40:37Speaker 2: The plan was to present these fifteen faces to Sean
- 1:40:40Speaker 2: grat By this time, Great had already hinted at a
- 1:40:44Speaker 2: victim from his past. The magazine lady, but he couldn't
- 1:40:49Speaker 2: remember her name. His attorneys, however, weren't ready for a reunion.
- 1:40:55Speaker 2: They blocked the meeting, insisted that great wait until the
- 1:40:58Speaker 2: Ashland trial was before looking at the faces of the
- 1:41:02Speaker 2: missing fair.
- 1:41:04Speaker 1: We don't like it, but that's what that's fair.
- 1:41:08Speaker 2: They wanted to protect their client from a third capital case,
- 1:41:12Speaker 2: but the wheels of genetic genealogy were already turning faster
- 1:41:16Speaker 2: than the legal system now.
- 1:41:19Speaker 1: In twenty nineteen, the Marion County Sheriff's Office partner with
- 1:41:23Speaker 1: the DNA Dual Project, a nonprofit that treats unidentified remains
- 1:41:28Speaker 1: like a family tree waiting to be reconstructed. By finding
- 1:41:32Speaker 1: a single distant relative in a public database, they were
- 1:41:36Speaker 1: able to work backward through generations until they landed on
- 1:41:41Speaker 1: a name that had been missing for thirteen years. Dana
- 1:41:45Speaker 1: Nicole Lowry. Dana was a twenty year old mother of
- 1:41:51Speaker 1: two from Mendon, Louisiana, born in nineteen eighty three. Her
- 1:41:56Speaker 1: life had been marked by early tragedy with the loss
- 1:41:59Speaker 1: of both her parents, but she was remembered by those
- 1:42:03Speaker 1: who knew her as a hard worker, someone who was
- 1:42:07Speaker 1: always trying to do the right thing. For her girls.
- 1:42:13Speaker 2: In two thousand and six, Dana was traveling through Ohio
- 1:42:16Speaker 2: selling magazines door to door to support her daughters back home.
- 1:42:20Speaker 2: She called three or four times a week to hear
- 1:42:23Speaker 2: their voices, and then in May of two thousand and six,
- 1:42:27Speaker 2: the phone stopped ringing.
- 1:42:29Speaker 1: Her boyfriend, David Cobb was left in a position many
- 1:42:33Speaker 1: families of victims' face. Without any evidence of foul play,
- 1:42:39Speaker 1: he assumed Dana had simply moved on to a new life.
- 1:42:43Speaker 1: An aunt filed a missing person report, but in a
- 1:42:47Speaker 1: predigital age of transient door to door sales cruise, the
- 1:42:52Speaker 1: trial went cold almost immediately. I don't love the distance
- 1:42:57Speaker 1: between Ohio and Louisiana. You know, it's only this family
- 1:43:01Speaker 1: even knew where to begin looking in Ohio.
- 1:43:04Speaker 2: You know that we were selling magazine store to door
- 1:43:06Speaker 2: in two thousand and six, though, But what isn't it
- 1:43:12Speaker 2: I don't know. In two thousand, I mean.
- 1:43:14Speaker 1: The internet was around, but like people are still buying
- 1:43:16Speaker 1: magazines at that time.
- 1:43:18Speaker 2: I'm not saying it didn't happen. I'm just saying it
- 1:43:20Speaker 2: just doesn't. It seems like we wouldn't have.
- 1:43:22Speaker 1: Been I don't know, but I don't know.
- 1:43:26Speaker 2: For thirteen years. Dana's daughters grew up without knowing if
- 1:43:29Speaker 2: their mother had left them or if something terrible had
- 1:43:32Speaker 2: happened while they were growing up. Their mother's remains were
- 1:43:35Speaker 2: sitting in a Marion County evidence locker labeled only as
- 1:43:39Speaker 2: Jane Doe found off Victory Road.
- 1:43:43Speaker 1: When Dana vanished in two thousand and six, her daughters
- 1:43:46Speaker 1: were just one and five years old. They were babies
- 1:43:51Speaker 1: who grew into young women without any memory of their
- 1:43:54Speaker 1: mother's face or the sound of her voice. It is
- 1:43:59Speaker 1: a rural irony that the very thing they inherited from her,
- 1:44:04Speaker 1: their DNA, was the only thing that could finally bring
- 1:44:09Speaker 1: her home. I know, it's heart breaking. Samantha Mulner from
- 1:44:19Speaker 1: Samantha That's just me, my titles.
- 1:44:21Speaker 2: I mean, it could be a mean Samantha Mulner from
- 1:44:26Speaker 2: the Bureau of Criminal Investigation said, I can't even put
- 1:44:31Speaker 2: into words. It's sad. It's exciting because at least the
- 1:44:36Speaker 2: family knows, but the result is awful. She was so
- 1:44:41Speaker 2: young and her daughters grew up never knowing their mother.
- 1:44:44Speaker 2: I think that breaks my heart more than anything.
- 1:44:47Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely now. In May twenty nineteen, Sheriff Bailey of
- 1:44:54Speaker 1: the Marion County traveled to meet the family. He wasn't
- 1:44:59Speaker 1: there though, too deliver good news. He was there to
- 1:45:02Speaker 1: ask a daughter for a cheek swab to confirm that
- 1:45:05Speaker 1: the burned remains found off Victory Road twelve years earlier
- 1:45:10Speaker 1: were in fact her mother.
- 1:45:14Speaker 2: It wasn't just your children who were looking for all
- 1:45:16Speaker 2: these years. Daaner's former stepfather, Ed Phillips, had spent years
- 1:45:21Speaker 2: scouring the Internet hoping to see a reconnected notification or
- 1:45:26Speaker 2: a social media profile that would prove she was still
- 1:45:28Speaker 2: out there. He remembered her as a pretty girl with
- 1:45:32Speaker 2: a bright future, a future great extinguished over a four
- 1:45:36Speaker 2: dollar magazine commission.
- 1:45:38Speaker 1: Ridiculous Now, Ed Phillips said in an interview quote, throw
- 1:45:43Speaker 1: the book at him. Do everything you can. Just tell
- 1:45:47Speaker 1: the prosecutor do not let him see the light of
- 1:45:50Speaker 1: day ever again. And in September twenty nineteen, the cycle
- 1:45:56Speaker 1: of justice for Sean Grat reached its conclusion. In a
- 1:46:01Speaker 1: Marion County courtroom, he pled guilty to aggravated murder, kidnapping,
- 1:46:07Speaker 1: tampering with evidence, and abusive a corpse. He was sentenced
- 1:46:11Speaker 1: again to life without the possibility of parole for sixteen
- 1:46:15Speaker 1: years added to his death sentences in Ashland and his
- 1:46:19Speaker 1: life sentences in Richland County, Sean Gray became one of
- 1:46:24Speaker 1: the most heavily sentenced individuals in Ohio history. And I
- 1:46:29Speaker 1: think it's important to know that all those happened in
- 1:46:31Speaker 1: different counties, so to try to undo all of it
- 1:46:36Speaker 1: is very messy. So he's not going anywhere. Guys, trust
- 1:46:40Speaker 1: me on that it's not happening.
- 1:46:42Speaker 2: So thank God for that.
- 1:46:47Speaker 1: Mhm.
- 1:46:49Speaker 2: The final chapter of this story belongs to the woman
- 1:46:51Speaker 2: who sat across from Sean grat for hours, navigating his
- 1:46:56Speaker 2: delusions and pulling the truth from his other me. Detective
- 1:47:01Speaker 2: Kim Major's rule didn't end with the handcuffs clicked shut.
- 1:47:06Speaker 2: It evolved into a legacy of advot advocacy.
- 1:47:12Speaker 1: Sorry, there you go.
- 1:47:13Speaker 2: In the pursuit of the right story.
- 1:47:17Speaker 1: For years, Kim Major was a silent guardian of the case.
- 1:47:22Speaker 1: Despite being a determined detective who broke great She declined
- 1:47:27Speaker 1: over thirty invitations to speak on podcasts and news programs.
- 1:47:32Speaker 1: Though we are more than happy to talk to you,
- 1:47:34Speaker 1: Detective Kim Major. I'm a big fan big fans. Amy
- 1:47:39Speaker 1: is very much a big fan, so I mean too.
- 1:47:43Speaker 1: Was still but she wasn't interested in the spotlight or
- 1:47:48Speaker 1: the true crime spectacle.
- 1:47:53Speaker 2: That changed when a victim's family member approached her with
- 1:47:56Speaker 2: a heartbreaking plea. They told her that their loved one
- 1:48:00Speaker 2: was being portrayed negatively in the media, labeled as trash
- 1:48:06Speaker 2: or disposable. They asked Major to do something about it.
- 1:48:11Speaker 2: They asked her to tell the truth.
- 1:48:14Speaker 1: Right now, Stringer your comment earlier about how you appreciate
- 1:48:17Speaker 1: we tell their stories exactly, because you never know if
- 1:48:21Speaker 1: their family's watching, but they probably are. And even though
- 1:48:26Speaker 1: the victims aren't with us anymore, they deserve decency and
- 1:48:30Speaker 1: humanity all the time. And a lot of the a
- 1:48:35Speaker 1: lot of people don't really care too much about that,
- 1:48:38Speaker 1: but it happens all of the time where they get
- 1:48:41Speaker 1: things wrong about the victims or oh, we're not going
- 1:48:44Speaker 1: to talk about them because they're lifestyles, because they're not
- 1:48:47Speaker 1: the perfect victim. Now Major partner with acclaimed author Lisa
- 1:48:54Speaker 1: Politzer to write A Hunger to Kill. The book serves
- 1:48:59Speaker 1: as the definitive account of the interrogation, detailing exactly how
- 1:49:05Speaker 1: she utilized psychological strategy to dismantle Great's defenses. More importantly,
- 1:49:11Speaker 1: it serves as a platform to restore the dignity of
- 1:49:15Speaker 1: the women he killed. It was no longer about the ladykiller.
- 1:49:21Speaker 1: It was about the victims, the small town that survived him,
- 1:49:25Speaker 1: and the quest for a confession that changed everything. And
- 1:49:30Speaker 1: you read that book, yes, SeeMe, Yes, yeah, what do
- 1:49:33Speaker 1: you read it? What do you rate the book? Four stars?
- 1:49:37Speaker 1: Five stars? How'd you like it?
- 1:49:39Speaker 2: I mean I started reading it again?
- 1:49:42Speaker 1: Oh wow, okay, so a reread. Wow okay.
- 1:49:46Speaker 2: I mean I don't know why, because it's not a
- 1:49:53Speaker 2: The topic is not so.
- 1:49:54Speaker 1: Great, right, I know what you mean. Yeah, but I
- 1:49:58Speaker 1: think it's well written.
- 1:49:59Speaker 2: It's, yes, not well spoken because I can't speak apparently,
- 1:50:04Speaker 2: because I was going to say well written. But you know, it's.
- 1:50:07Speaker 1: Still it's good. A Hunger to Kill is the name
- 1:50:11Speaker 1: of a book by Kim Major.
- 1:50:17Speaker 2: Major's commitment to Ashland County didn't stop with her retirement
- 1:50:22Speaker 2: from the police Department on May thirty first of twenty
- 1:50:24Speaker 2: twenty two. The very next day, she stepped into a
- 1:50:28Speaker 2: new role as an investigator for the Ashland County Prosecutor's Office.
- 1:50:32Speaker 2: She traded her badge for a desk where she could
- 1:50:35Speaker 2: continue to bridge the gap between the between law enforcement
- 1:50:39Speaker 2: and the legal system, ensuring their futures. Future cases were
- 1:50:43Speaker 2: built with the same meticulous care she gave to the
- 1:50:48Speaker 2: Great investigation.
- 1:50:51Speaker 1: Now today, she continues to serve her community as the
- 1:50:54Speaker 1: Safety Services Director at Ashland University, giving a watchful eye
- 1:51:00Speaker 1: on the next generation. But perhaps her most lasting contribution
- 1:51:06Speaker 1: is the Major Impact Fund, established through the Ashland County
- 1:51:10Speaker 1: Community Foundation. Recognizing the deep psychological scars left behind by
- 1:51:17Speaker 1: violent crime, Major created this fund specifically to help victims
- 1:51:23Speaker 1: navigate mental health issues, which I just think is such
- 1:51:28Speaker 1: a great thing to do.
- 1:51:32Speaker 2: It is the ultimate rebuttal to Sean Great's hunger. While
- 1:51:36Speaker 2: he sought to consume lives and leave only trauma behind,
- 1:51:41Speaker 2: Major has ensured that the community had the resources to heal. Today,
- 1:51:50Speaker 2: Sean Great sits on death row. His execution was originally
- 1:51:54Speaker 2: scheduled for March twenty twenty five, but it remains and
- 1:52:00Speaker 2: legal limbo. As Ohio continues to grapple with the logistics
- 1:52:03Speaker 2: of lethal injection. His appeals are exhausted. Thank God, the
- 1:52:09Speaker 2: Lady Killer is now just another number in the system,
- 1:52:12Speaker 2: waiting in a ten x ten cell for his death
- 1:52:14Speaker 2: to come.
- 1:52:16Speaker 1: Now, the story of Sean Great is a dark one,
- 1:52:21Speaker 1: but the ending belongs to the victims and the survivors
- 1:52:27Speaker 1: Dana Stacy, Liz, Rebecca, Candace, and the survivor who started
- 1:52:35Speaker 1: it all, Jane Doe. Their names are the ones that matter.
- 1:52:41Speaker 1: It belongs to the family members in the purple hashtag
- 1:52:45Speaker 1: Stanley Strong Shirts, to the daughters who finally know their
- 1:52:50Speaker 1: mother's name, and to the detective who refused to let
- 1:52:54Speaker 1: a monster write the final draft of history in Ashland, Ohio.
- 1:53:00Speaker 1: A yellow house has gone, but the strength of the
- 1:53:03Speaker 1: people who tore it down remains. And with that, that's
- 1:53:08Speaker 1: the conclusion of the story of the call that brought
- 1:53:13Speaker 1: down Sean grat.
- 1:53:16Speaker 2: Oh And for my closing thoughts, Stringer Bell has pretty
- 1:53:20Speaker 2: much written it for me. Remember the victims, not the
- 1:53:24Speaker 2: fuck face.
- 1:53:25Speaker 1: Yeah, agreed.
- 1:53:29Speaker 2: I I know it's I'm supposed to have some great
- 1:53:35Speaker 2: closing thing to say here, but I think the story
- 1:53:39Speaker 2: that you wrote here has really shared this very well
- 1:53:45Speaker 2: the entire from what I know about the case, it
- 1:53:49Speaker 2: is written well. I would strongly recommend reading the Hunger
- 1:53:56Speaker 2: to Kill a Hunger to kill, And you know, I
- 1:54:03Speaker 2: just I don't know what else to say that loss
- 1:54:07Speaker 2: for words, I'm kind of feeling a little emotional to
- 1:54:09Speaker 2: be honest.
- 1:54:10Speaker 1: So yeah, no, I think hearing the impact of every
- 1:54:15Speaker 1: you know it, the ripple effect. We hear it in
- 1:54:18Speaker 1: every story we tell about how far it goes that,
- 1:54:22Speaker 1: you know, these things affect everyone all over all of
- 1:54:26Speaker 1: the time. I also want to say a special thank
- 1:54:29Speaker 1: you to Pam and Disguise, who was a researcher for
- 1:54:33Speaker 1: this series. I can't even tell you how many pages
- 1:54:36Speaker 1: of research she gave me. Good research too, So thank
- 1:54:41Speaker 1: you Pam for all the hard work you put into
- 1:54:43Speaker 1: researching this for us. You know, going from a multi
- 1:54:51Speaker 1: part series of Robert Hansen to this, it really does
- 1:54:57Speaker 1: show you the difference of how things can be handled.
- 1:55:02Speaker 1: And listen, I know Robert Hanson was the seventies and eighties.
- 1:55:07Speaker 1: Alaska hasn't changed shit. We know that from recent cases.
- 1:55:11Speaker 1: They're okay, it's the same thing. Am I saying that
- 1:55:16Speaker 1: what Ohio did was perfect? No, but listen, I know
- 1:55:22Speaker 1: many of you aren't from Ohio, I am. And the
- 1:55:27Speaker 1: counties where these took place they're still rural counties.
- 1:55:32Speaker 2: You know.
- 1:55:33Speaker 1: They have one big yeah city if you want to
- 1:55:37Speaker 1: call it that, Everything around it is farmland. You just
- 1:55:41Speaker 1: drove through Ohio you can verify that's what it is.
- 1:55:45Speaker 2: No, I was gonna say something like it. It was
- 1:55:48Speaker 2: really kind of eye opening driving through Ohio this last week,
- 1:55:54Speaker 2: just how vast the farmland is. Yeah, yeah, I mean
- 1:55:59Speaker 2: very wrong say it. People talk about it, but actually
- 1:56:03Speaker 2: seen it. Yeah, and it's you know, the it just
- 1:56:09Speaker 2: wowed me. It did well.
- 1:56:13Speaker 1: You know, these counties are very small counties. They don't
- 1:56:16Speaker 1: have a lot of budget. They don't. That's just the
- 1:56:19Speaker 1: reality of it all. And I know that when we
- 1:56:23Speaker 1: did talk about Stacy, her family, you know, expressed some
- 1:56:26Speaker 1: grievances that we covered with the police, but comparatively to
- 1:56:31Speaker 1: other police departments, they actually took a lot of this
- 1:56:34Speaker 1: way more seriously than I was honestly expecting them to
- 1:56:38Speaker 1: because they don't have a lot of the same resources.
- 1:56:42Speaker 1: You know, these are very rural counties. You have like
- 1:56:45Speaker 1: one big town of like I don't know, twenty to
- 1:56:48Speaker 1: fifty thousand people. Everything else around it is rural, you know,
- 1:56:54Speaker 1: so having the budget to do a lot of what
- 1:56:57Speaker 1: they did, I mean even for you know, Dana and
- 1:57:01Speaker 1: in them. They went around in Candae. But that's more
- 1:57:08Speaker 1: than a lot of other places have happened. I have
- 1:57:11Speaker 1: done for people of life styles. So I really.
- 1:57:18Speaker 2: Have to be kudos to Ashland. I felt like from
- 1:57:21Speaker 2: what I read that they did as good a job
- 1:57:24Speaker 2: as they could have. I mean, it was you can
- 1:57:31Speaker 2: always do better, right, you can always improve. But with Stacy,
- 1:57:37Speaker 2: she had been missing, and I'm not trying to diminish
- 1:57:40Speaker 2: how many days she was missing. I mean, one day
- 1:57:43Speaker 2: is devastating to a family. Oh, absolutely, month, but it
- 1:57:47Speaker 2: was a few days before everything. I mean, I feel
- 1:57:52Speaker 2: like there was momentum happening. It just wasn't going as
- 1:57:55Speaker 2: fast as you want it to be. One that's your
- 1:57:57Speaker 2: loved one missing.
- 1:57:58Speaker 1: She is more than the stand upal correct with fair grievances,
- 1:58:03Speaker 1: of course, of course. But you know, I'm pleased with
- 1:58:10Speaker 1: what they did in this case because they didn't know
- 1:58:13Speaker 1: when they answered Jane Doe's call. They didn't know they
- 1:58:16Speaker 1: were uncovering a fucking serial killer in this small ass town,
- 1:58:21Speaker 1: and they had no idea what they were walking into.
- 1:58:27Speaker 1: I mean, they kind of knew that something was going
- 1:58:29Speaker 1: on between Liz being missing because she called the police
- 1:58:33Speaker 1: all of the time, but to think of what they
- 1:58:36Speaker 1: ended up uncovering, they had no idea.
- 1:58:42Speaker 2: So sex of measure, though, man, she had his number.
- 1:58:47Speaker 2: I think she as soon as she first time, I
- 1:58:50Speaker 2: mean after her interview with Jane Doe. She was on
- 1:58:55Speaker 2: a mission.
- 1:58:56Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, we didn't include what Jane Doe I was
- 1:59:00Speaker 1: doing with her life. I don't know what she's doing,
- 1:59:03Speaker 1: but I don't really care because I think she wants
- 1:59:07Speaker 1: to exactly on your kneath the radar. She exactly, and
- 1:59:12Speaker 1: so I didn't really go digging for stuff on her.
- 1:59:15Speaker 1: I mean, I do care what she's doing. I hope
- 1:59:17Speaker 1: she's happy. I hope she's peaceful. There is the trial
- 1:59:23Speaker 1: is available on YouTube if you want to watch it all.
- 1:59:27Speaker 1: We pretty much like went over all the stuff, but
- 1:59:29Speaker 1: sometimes you like to hear with your own ears. She
- 1:59:32Speaker 1: is named in the trial. We still chose not to
- 1:59:35Speaker 1: name her anyway. If you want to hear Jane Doe's testimony,
- 1:59:40Speaker 1: you can find it. It's on YouTube dot com. But respectfully,
- 1:59:44Speaker 1: I still wanted to continue referring to her as Jane
- 1:59:47Speaker 1: Doe because she didn't she didn't want to ask for
- 1:59:52Speaker 1: any of this, and she was listed as Jane Doe
- 1:59:56Speaker 1: for so long, and she's a very private person, seems yes,
- 2:00:01Speaker 1: But yeah, the trailer or the trailer the trial is
- 2:00:04Speaker 1: available on YouTube Long Crime. I think covered it Long Crime.
- 2:00:08Speaker 1: How many eight days?
- 2:00:09Speaker 2: Is it?
- 2:00:09Speaker 1: Eight days? Nine days?
- 2:00:11Speaker 2: I think there's like ten days because of all of
- 2:00:14Speaker 2: the other the closing statements and ring and all that
- 2:00:21Speaker 2: total is like ten days.
- 2:00:24Speaker 1: Yeah that makes sense, which is not too bad for
- 2:00:28Speaker 1: a death penalty case. But no, I'm really glad we
- 2:00:34Speaker 1: covered this story again. Here we have another group of
- 2:00:38Speaker 1: very vulnerable victims being preyed on, and I think if
- 2:00:42Speaker 1: there's anything we learn episode by episode is that, yeah,
- 2:00:47Speaker 1: you know these people that are on the margins or
- 2:00:49Speaker 1: they're vulnerable or they're naive. Yeah, they can run away,
- 2:00:54Speaker 1: or they can overdose or whatever. But how many times
- 2:00:58Speaker 1: do we have to keep hearing the same story before
- 2:01:03Speaker 1: we even consider that a reality that somebody is after them.
- 2:01:08Speaker 1: I mean, it's so textbook and cliche that I'm taught,
- 2:01:13Speaker 1: as leading Gray said, I'm tired of hearing about their lifestyles.
- 2:01:18Speaker 2: You know, yeah, like.
- 2:01:21Speaker 1: It's yes, it's very rare for you to get murdered
- 2:01:24Speaker 1: by a strangers statistically, yes, but we know predators target
- 2:01:30Speaker 1: these people all of the time for everything, not even
- 2:01:34Speaker 1: just murder, assault, all sorts of things, you know, and
- 2:01:40Speaker 1: people are down on their luck, and I get it,
- 2:01:42Speaker 1: but I'm just I'm just over it. And some people
- 2:01:47Speaker 1: might be like, oh, that's job security. I'd rather not
- 2:01:49Speaker 1: be doing this, I'd rather not be telling these these
- 2:01:54Speaker 1: really sad stories. But there's so much to learn from
- 2:01:59Speaker 1: these stories, and there's so many new outlooks, you know
- 2:02:04Speaker 1: that I think we provide on these people on the
- 2:02:08Speaker 1: Margins's society, you know, by giving their humanity back to them,
- 2:02:13Speaker 1: the rest of society is kind of forced to see
- 2:02:17Speaker 1: their humanity too, and that's what we tried to do here.
- 2:02:21Speaker 2: Well, I think that it's what I, if you can say,
- 2:02:26Speaker 2: enjoy because it's the topic. But it's what I like
- 2:02:32Speaker 2: about what we do on True Crime Line Time is
- 2:02:35Speaker 2: that we tell the personal side of it. Like Stringer
- 2:02:38Speaker 2: had mentioned earlier too, that I've listened to so many
- 2:02:44Speaker 2: podcasts and I've watched so many documentaries about true crime stuff,
- 2:02:49Speaker 2: but I literally the details about these people's lives. Did
- 2:02:54Speaker 2: not know any of this, and not like I want
- 2:02:59Speaker 2: to put their lives out there, but it's such an
- 2:03:01Speaker 2: important piece of the story. Yeah, you know, I just
- 2:03:06Speaker 2: I feel like they deserve to have their story is
- 2:03:10Speaker 2: told as much as you can without not knowing who
- 2:03:13Speaker 2: they knowing them personally, you know, yeah, but.
- 2:03:17Speaker 1: Instead of some generic like oh they line up a
- 2:03:21Speaker 1: room or whatever. I mean, and people do and that's fine, uh,
- 2:03:25Speaker 1: you know, but sometimes it's like, okay, well, like what
- 2:03:29Speaker 1: were they into? You know, why did so many people care?
- 2:03:33Speaker 1: You know, things like that. So, I mean, I'm really
- 2:03:37Speaker 1: glad we're done talking about this guy. This guy sucks.
- 2:03:40Speaker 1: I don't care to hear anything about him ever. Again,
- 2:03:44Speaker 1: I don't care to read anything about him. He is
- 2:03:47Speaker 1: not that special. He is a petty biach. I'm happy
- 2:03:52Speaker 1: where he is.
- 2:03:54Speaker 2: My only want. I mean, here's the thing, I don't
- 2:04:00Speaker 2: know if he has any more victims. I really find
- 2:04:03Speaker 2: it hard to believe that there aren't.
- 2:04:07Speaker 1: Going to admit to them.
- 2:04:09Speaker 2: But that's the part that that I'm thinking, like, I mean,
- 2:04:12Speaker 2: he's not gone. He could be saying things right, yeah, exactly.
- 2:04:18Speaker 2: He seems to like to talk. He knows he's not
- 2:04:21Speaker 2: going anywhere. Why wouldn't he want the attention that it
- 2:04:24Speaker 2: would get. On that note, I wanted to remember, I said,
- 2:04:28Speaker 2: to remind me about notes. I saw a news article
- 2:04:31Speaker 2: while looking into all of this and all of the
- 2:04:35Speaker 2: Sean great stuff, he's writing letters to a news reporter
- 2:04:43Speaker 2: and she brought them to law enforcement. I don't know
- 2:04:50Speaker 2: what's coming of that. It was like a year ago.
- 2:04:54Speaker 2: I saw that that that clip was dated. But I
- 2:04:57Speaker 2: almost want to reach out to her and go, Okay,
- 2:05:00Speaker 2: want to know what is he saying?
- 2:05:02Speaker 1: Give us the tea.
- 2:05:04Speaker 2: I don't want to give him that pleasure of knowing
- 2:05:07Speaker 2: that I want to know, but I want to know
- 2:05:08Speaker 2: what he's saying.
- 2:05:10Speaker 1: Yeah, if we can't even believe it, but you know
- 2:05:15Speaker 1: that is my one thing. Is there more victims? I mean,
- 2:05:18Speaker 1: I think this guy gets set off by fucking nothing.
- 2:05:21Speaker 1: But at the same time, he also confessed to people
- 2:05:23Speaker 1: they weren't even looking into. And even though it was
- 2:05:26Speaker 1: miss you know, there was no reason to just offer
- 2:05:30Speaker 1: up those other women. Thank god he did.
- 2:05:33Speaker 2: You know. Obviously we didn't know about Candace.
- 2:05:37Speaker 1: She wasn't regret.
- 2:05:39Speaker 2: I mean, we knew about Dana, but nobody knew why
- 2:05:43Speaker 2: or who are you know who's responsible?
- 2:05:47Speaker 1: Yeah? And Rebecca, you know that overturned her her death
- 2:05:52Speaker 1: from overdose to fucking murder, you know. So I mean,
- 2:05:57Speaker 1: maybe he does still have secrets. But as Betty said,
- 2:06:02Speaker 1: attention seeker, and I think that's exactly what he is
- 2:06:05Speaker 1: because he feels like he wants to feel more important
- 2:06:07Speaker 1: than he really is. You know, there are some people
- 2:06:10Speaker 1: that I want to hear from after the fact, you know,
- 2:06:15Speaker 1: like I'm curious, I want to know more. This guy,
- 2:06:17Speaker 1: I don't give a fuck, Like, I don't ever hear
- 2:06:20Speaker 1: anything about him. I don't care about him. He is lame,
- 2:06:24Speaker 1: he is petty, he is disgusting.
- 2:06:27Speaker 2: As long as he never gets out of the ten
- 2:06:30Speaker 2: by ten cell he's in, I could give a shit
- 2:06:32Speaker 2: less what happens.
- 2:06:33Speaker 1: To exactly exactly, And I hope they do something with
- 2:06:37Speaker 1: that property in Ashland, you know, to do something like
- 2:06:41Speaker 1: some sort of like memorial or something. But it's private property,
- 2:06:45Speaker 1: so what you can do it is and sad juicy jewels.
- 2:06:50Speaker 2: Juicy Jewels.
- 2:06:51Speaker 1: I like that name.
- 2:06:51Speaker 2: That's fine. I mean I think that from what I
- 2:06:55Speaker 2: could tell, Ashland probably isn't a community that's really growing
- 2:06:59Speaker 2: a whole lot, so there's really not a whole lot
- 2:07:01Speaker 2: of money there, so doing something with land might not.
- 2:07:06Speaker 1: Be It's a fair point.
- 2:07:08Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. And there's always something to be
- 2:07:10Speaker 2: said about where people have died, and especially in such
- 2:07:13Speaker 2: a tragic way. That they might not want to do
- 2:07:16Speaker 2: anything with that place is true.
- 2:07:19Speaker 1: That's true. Well, with that, let's wrap up for tonight.
- 2:07:24Speaker 1: Thank you all again for being on this journey with us.
- 2:07:27Speaker 1: Thank you again to Pam for all of the amazing
- 2:07:30Speaker 1: research you helped do in helping put all of this
- 2:07:34Speaker 1: together for us, because like it was one hundred and
- 2:07:37Speaker 1: seventy pages I had to go through and and sort
- 2:07:41Speaker 1: of things and one hundred and seventy amazing note pages
- 2:07:45Speaker 1: with everything. So thank you again Pam for all of
- 2:07:49Speaker 1: your health researching.
- 2:07:50Speaker 2: That well, I agree with that. Thank you, Pam, you
- 2:07:53Speaker 2: did an amazing job.
- 2:07:54Speaker 1: And Amy for being a fantastic first time guest co host.
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