Latest / When Killers Get Caught with Brittany Ransom / Anthony Sowell and the Dark Path that lead to the Cleveland Strangler
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- 0:37Everybody in serial killer country.
- 0:40It's your girl. Brittany Ransom and I'm here,
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- 0:50Today we sat down and record, our first podcast, a little
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- 1:14Well, known serial killers and As their childhood wives
- 1:18methodology. And most importantly how they
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- 4:01do you remember Brian a couple months ago?
- 4:05There was that guy who was way too and to q and on and he
- 4:10killed. He took his two-year-old and
- 4:12ten-month-old to Mexico and murdered them.
- 4:16Yes, he is. So what I came across a couple
- 4:21days ago was his name is Matthew Coleman and he has apparently
- 4:26devoid of a constant diet of Internet.
- 4:30He's kind of come to his senses. They said, he poured out his
- 4:34heart in a jailhouse letter to a friend.
- 4:38They said he's really despondent and hopeless, he's reflecting on
- 4:41his mistakes. He made in life and wondering if
- 4:43there's any chance for Redemption.
- 4:46I doubt from your wife, you just killed her two under
- 4:49two-year-old baby so yeah, that's not gonna happen anytime
- 4:53soon. Yeah, it was August 7th and the
- 4:56family were planning to go on a trip.
- 4:59So like everything was already packed up his wife.
- 5:05Abby realized that they were like all gone.
- 5:09And she couldn't contact him at, he wouldn't answer the phone,
- 5:12nothing he took their van and drove from Santa Barbara,
- 5:16California. All the way to Mexico and two
- 5:18days later he took the kids to a ranch.
- 5:22It wasn't his, it was just some random thought of land, and he
- 5:26killed him with a spear phishing God, but he returned to the
- 5:30hotel, a couple hours later and he got arrested when he was
- 5:33trying to cross the border back into the u.s. and for folks who
- 5:36don't know, like people who get way too, Deep into Q&A on start
- 5:40thinking about like how everybody's made out of lizards.
- 5:44They've merged q and on with Illuminati conspiracies and
- 5:48honestly Illuminati has just become like a mega conspiracy.
- 5:51We've talked about it on the patreon.
- 5:54Yes, yes. Yeah.
- 5:57Like when I heard about the speargun, it was like that's a
- 6:01little bit of Overkill, don't you think my guy definitely and
- 6:06I mean he believed they were going to grow up to become Um
- 6:10not like yeah you know you're a monster like real most literal
- 6:15monsters. Yeah he thought they were going
- 6:17to be literally wizard monsters. Yeah.
- 6:21I feel super bad for the guy because like that's the thing is
- 6:25like when Trump was agonies people on especially like Trump
- 6:31was telling people to do things and get themselves arrested in
- 6:34trouble. None of those people that he
- 6:37edged on to hurt other people. He stopped paying for any of
- 6:40those people to Legal funds. He's on helping me those people
- 6:44out. So no words in it.
- 6:47That It took being in prison for four months to kind of deprogram
- 6:55himself when it comes to conspiracy theories and that's
- 7:00why thing anybody listen who likes them?
- 7:04It's fun to like talk about certain conspiracy theories, but
- 7:07when you cross that threshold of thinking that like you need to
- 7:10kill people. You got to step back.
- 7:14Yeah, yeah. You gotta think about what
- 7:17you're doing, buddy. But that was my True Crime Story
- 7:21this week. What you got?
- 7:24Okay. So this happened.
- 7:28It's a couple days ago. So, right actually take after
- 7:31Christmas so Minnesota, man. He confesses to killing his dad
- 7:42and his sister. He confesses to his brother,
- 7:47that he's killed them and the way they found a body, he's,
- 7:56they were just like sitting upright in their chairs.
- 8:01So I guess I guess right after Christmas or whatever they were
- 8:05doing, you know, you had these two over and you got two dead.
- 8:13Pieces with Dash? Yeah, yeah they're just sitting
- 8:18here. So the table set, the creep
- 8:24Factor. It doesn't say so The person who
- 8:31did it. His name is Ivan.
- 8:36Maybe I've been marked room Delilah and it's a double a dog.
- 8:47So I don't know if they'll be Russian, it's because he's like,
- 8:53he's a, he's a POC. So he's black guy.
- 8:56So maybe it's a different country.
- 8:59Yeah. His African name or something
- 9:01like that, you know, this is you tell anybody why he just ran him
- 9:06over these people know, okay? So this is a story to how it
- 9:09went well according to his brother who he told so he said
- 9:14like he his brother, his brother was acting weird and then he
- 9:18ultimately like he broke down and told him that.
- 9:22Yeah, I shot I shot dad in, you know, sister Like a couple of
- 9:28few days ago actually, so oh. So yeah, so the snow was
- 9:35probably not that nice just sitting there at the dinner
- 9:40table and I don't know, you know if it was dinner table just says
- 9:44they were sitting up sitting up in our chairs.
- 9:49Yeah. So yeah, you know, his brother
- 9:53went to, you know, investigator. He got the complete, the police
- 9:57to come over and, you know, the founder on locked in the, then
- 10:02they found. The dad in the sister, just
- 10:04there sitting upright in her chairs and apparent gonna strip
- 10:07root booster heads and like he's been arrested, of course, and
- 10:16he's charged with. I think we're seeing that.
- 10:21It's Second degree murder. Yeah, so yeah, I'm not sure it
- 10:31was like a holiday gathering that went wrong.
- 10:34It doesn't really like well. I wonder what happened.
- 10:37Great. You know what?
- 10:45It may be because Either he was, he was living with his dad and
- 10:53his sister, and he was trying to evict them and something went
- 10:59sour or he like, I'm in an addiction an addiction from
- 11:08life. But yeah I think he's he's he's
- 11:13gone to court his first Court appearances.
- 11:17January 12th. So you see yeah yeah yeah
- 11:22sometime soon. And yeah, that's about it.
- 11:26Oh, I got for this week. All right.
- 11:41Well, he's heading to my killer deep dive.
- 11:46And last year, this serial killer was requested.
- 11:49Multiple times that didn't have the time to cover them, but I
- 11:52aim to please and I actually had a secret Santa from Reddit, who
- 11:57got me booked and I assumed, you know what, that must be my sign
- 12:01from the Aether that it's time to cover Anthony style, one of
- 12:06Ohio's, most prolific serial killers and also Known as the
- 12:10Cleveland Strangler the main source of this week's podcast
- 12:15was nobody Swimming by Steve Miller and I think that title
- 12:19kind of gives you an idea why he was able to kill 11, women from
- 12:232007 to 2009 and not even be a suspect despite the fact that he
- 12:28had a criminal record he also was known at like the local
- 12:31hospital for being a rapist. It was terrible time.
- 12:34This is going to be a terrible time.
- 12:35It's it was hard for me to write this one this week.
- 12:38It was bad from start to finish. Well, I guess one of those crazy
- 12:43things and there was a stench of death That started in like 2006
- 12:50and went on until 2009 that they blamed on a local sausage
- 12:55manufacturer, that was around the corner.
- 13:00Not they didn't check any houses.
- 13:01Nothing. Oh my God.
- 13:04Okay, okay, we'll wait. So you've been in Lancaster,
- 13:09right? So on the stretcher I'm not even
- 13:12sure if it's like if the factory still there, but you've been
- 13:15passed the hot dog Factory, right?
- 13:17I don't know. I mean I've been by a chicken
- 13:20factory and that's the friggin worst.
- 13:23I forget what street it's on. But there's a hot dog Factory in
- 13:28like in the middle of like the city we're not in Middle City
- 13:31but like terms outskirts of the city and like you drive past it
- 13:34just smells just like hot dogs and I mean I could yeah I can't
- 13:38I know chicken factory smell really bad because of how they
- 13:41keep the chickens. Like happen is all that poop and
- 13:43stuff but I don't think sausage factories are the same way and
- 13:47this is like a small one like in a community like these are
- 13:49houses and then there's this little tiny building.
- 13:51It's called Ray sausages. They're still around but their
- 13:53struggle, it partially because of what happened to you, right?
- 13:59But like every week I can only start at the beginning.
- 14:03Anthony cell was born August 19th 1959 to a single mother and
- 14:07Aunt Connie Garrison. He's one of seven children and
- 14:10neither he nor any of his siblings ever knew their
- 14:12parents, then their fathers. His siblings have spoken with
- 14:17the media or testifies of try out.
- 14:19Our trusty Garrison Owen Davis, Thomas L Allen Sal, a Tricia
- 14:25Davis Thatcher. His mom, Claudia struggled, as
- 14:29any parent would with so many children.
- 14:33Trying to provide for them with little resources, trying to get
- 14:36help from A system that makes it hard for you to actually do
- 14:39better while you're on it. And on top of that, Claudia was
- 14:42also supporting her mother Irene Justice.
- 14:45The kids never really had a solid place to live or anything
- 14:48of their own before. He was like five or six years
- 14:51old. He was a lot like the definition
- 14:54of a latchkey kid by kindergarten and for people who
- 14:58don't know what that means because it's not really a term
- 15:00to use anymore. So, latchkey kids were children.
- 15:03And who walk to school by themselves, they had a key on
- 15:07like a string or a lanyard around their neck and they
- 15:10walked home where they would also be alone for hours because
- 15:14their parents were working all the time.
- 15:19Now Anthony's older sister Patricia had a very serious case
- 15:23of asthma as a child and by the time she was 18 and Anthony was
- 15:27only like six or seven. She had five kids of her own so
- 15:31she didn't really have the time to help her mother.
- 15:33With Anthony or any of the other kids. and, At the point where
- 15:42Anthony's like seven years old, Claudia and Irene, you know Mom
- 15:46and Grandma have a home at six kids and now adult Patricia has
- 15:51another house with her own seven kids.
- 15:56So I said by 18, she had five, then she had two more.
- 16:00And so what would essentially happen is that like whoever was
- 16:03working would be watching the kids 13 of them.
- 16:08And by say watching, I mean, not watching because it's nearly
- 16:11impossible. Like I worked as a teacher for
- 16:13years and in the state of Pennsylvania, you are not even
- 16:16legally allowed to watch more than 12 children under the age
- 16:21of, I believe eight. So this is that, and this will
- 16:28be hard enough in the 60s and 70s, but the South kids also
- 16:31suffered from birth defects mental illness and some of the
- 16:34kids said, epilepsy all up and down the barbed wire and you It
- 16:37hard for, you know, spending money on doctor's appointment,
- 16:40that's taken more money out of the potential.
- 16:45And there was 0, both physical and sexual abuse.
- 16:50So in 1966, Anthony is hanging out at his older sisters house.
- 16:56He Witnesses his older nephew, take his younger niece into the
- 17:00closet and abuser as the time he didn't understand it, but he's
- 17:05he began to look at that as if it was normal.
- 17:09Later in life that he was psychologically evaluated.
- 17:11He told doctors that he was being molested as well.
- 17:14During this time, he told the doctors that it only ended when
- 17:18he did his older, his older Matthew you go.
- 17:25So remember this is his yesterday.
- 17:28Yeah fine. Yeah, that's what happens.
- 17:31When you have like, an older sibling having babies the same
- 17:33time. Mom is hmm.
- 17:38But he said, he couldn't exactly remember what stopped?
- 17:42But it's now August of 1969. Years later, Patricia dies of
- 17:48chronic bronchitis due to her asthma.
- 17:51She's only 27 years old, seven kids, and all of her kids were
- 17:56moved to the house on East Boulevard with Mom and Grandma.
- 18:02So now there's 13 kids at this house.
- 18:05Damn everybody, all the kids sleep into three to a room some
- 18:10of the children as well. Patricia's children didn't even
- 18:13know that Claudia was their grandmother.
- 18:16I think she was hurt there, Mom? Yeah, I think so.
- 18:19Hmm, it was just so chaotic and also Claudia was really mad at
- 18:25Patricia about the fact that she had so many children kind of
- 18:28like, you know, I'm parents like I don't want you to go down the
- 18:30same path that I went down and so she didn't like her
- 18:34grandchildren and the kids all new.
- 18:38Like, if she wanted to talk to you or talk to them, she be
- 18:40like, go get that black. So, and so They apparently said
- 18:45she was only nice to one of the nieces who was like skin.
- 18:49So a little bit of inter-family color isn't happening there,
- 18:52right? Yeah.
- 18:57That's all that house on East Boulevard is where physical
- 19:00abuse started. Claudia was so stressed with all
- 19:03the children like her and Irene, we're just working 24/7.
- 19:07Like, only one of them was ever at the house.
- 19:09That time, I know, Claudia had two jobs, everyone's working
- 19:11another job. So, what the stress levels that
- 19:15high, she started hitting kids And it became like her fuse was
- 19:19super short. Your chores weren't done
- 19:21correctly, you get caved, you know, switch extension cord.
- 19:27Unfortunately this is the old way that holder black folks used
- 19:33to deal with kids. And, you know, we look back at
- 19:36it now and it's awful and, you know, I look at my friends and
- 19:40I'm like so proud that all the people that I know who have
- 19:43kids, don't treat their kids like this.
- 19:46But I feel bad because we were treated this way and our parents
- 19:50were treated this way. That's yeah, that's the breaking
- 19:54of like it talk. I talked to tear about it like a
- 19:56lot like breaking that like generational curse and stuff
- 19:59like we got to raise our kids, a little softer and people like
- 20:03the world's not going to treat them that I'm like, yes, the
- 20:06world is not going to treat themselves.
- 20:08So at least they can have a safe place in their home.
- 20:10Exactly, exactly. But a 1970, the entire family
- 20:16moves to a house on page. Avenue.
- 20:18And it was large enough that almost all of the kids had space
- 20:21to living by themselves. A couple of the rooms they like
- 20:23partitioned off to make like two bedrooms.
- 20:26They had a big yard space to play in when both Irene and
- 20:30Claudia were at work. They would just play in the yard
- 20:33climate cherry tree. This was kind of the closest to
- 20:36a time of happiness in their childhood because there was
- 20:39never money for birthdays. No, sleepovers no candy or any
- 20:44food, that wasn't homemade and the beatings didn't stop.
- 20:47And when Anthony was spoke interviewed post being found for
- 20:54his crimes, he said that his child home was like a war
- 20:59constant yelling and screaming the being for brutal.
- 21:03Claudia would have the children strip and then she would tie
- 21:06them to the banister at the foot of the stairs, and beat them
- 21:09with an extension cord Earth, which and it happened pretty
- 21:13much every single day and sometimes in the middle of the
- 21:16night. Despite the fact that Happy's
- 21:19kids are school age, she was finds like an unwashed dish at 2
- 21:23a.m. and she wake everybody up for this, like ritualistic
- 21:26public lashing. That reminds me of slavery.
- 21:32Mmm-hmm. Yeah other times she just has to
- 21:37get mad and she walked into a kid's room and just start
- 21:40beating them while they were sleeping and the kid didn't even
- 21:42have any idea of what they did wrong. so, so remember the uncle
- 21:52well, So, Anthony had an uncle known as Junior.
- 21:59And this point. Now a lot of the older boys and
- 22:02some of the older girls are moving into puberty, which means
- 22:06that the, the boys are focusing on the girls and Anthony found
- 22:13out that his mom had a secret stash chips and sodas and candy
- 22:17and he would steal it, and he would blame it on his cousin
- 22:22Leona. So he could see her getting
- 22:27dressed. And he what it says he started
- 22:37sexually assaulting her when he was 13 and she was 12.
- 22:42And she said that before that they were friendly, but his
- 22:45whole demeanor changed after half.
- 22:48And we got really violent with her.
- 22:49Whenever she tried to avoid, like, going up to his bedroom,
- 22:52punch her in the face, gave her a black eye and the honest of
- 22:56this went on for years. Uncle Junior.
- 22:58Uncle Junior are sold his own sister Ramona and so did
- 23:01Anthony's brother Owen? Jr's younger sister.
- 23:05Renee was also being assaulted and this was happening every day
- 23:09in her home. And the girls were still being
- 23:12beaten by Claudia. So they had absolutely no idea
- 23:15who they could turn to all the girls began running away from
- 23:18home in their own teams. and even what's Claudia found out,
- 23:25or like learned with the girls were saying, she didn't believe
- 23:28them, which is also Sterile, like it's also an aspect of the
- 23:34black community that, you know, was very rampant during this
- 23:36time, too. She had nobody to turn to God.
- 23:43Not even safe in your own house is just terrible.
- 23:46Ramona, got caught running away. Should I put in a facility for
- 23:49troubled kids? Leona actually followed her to
- 23:52the facility and hid there for two months before they found her
- 23:55and they took her back home, the girls are just repeatedly picked
- 23:59up, put in the center return back to the hell.
- 24:01That was home a system failing them over over and over again.
- 24:07You'd like why would you do that?
- 24:08Why would you put them back like you're obviously running away
- 24:11from home for a reason? Like, I don't know if we can say
- 24:15about previously, protect the child, protective systems and
- 24:18staff but he obviously wasn't doing very well.
- 24:23Well, you gonna realize that the way out was trying to or so.
- 24:28So she went upstairs to her mother's bedroom, lock the door
- 24:31and set the bedroom on fire. After that, they put her in a
- 24:36psychiatric hospital and someone at the hospital believed her.
- 24:41She did continue to attempt suicide, and she ended up
- 24:44staying in that hospital. She's old enough to be released,
- 24:48she's since healed, and she's actually healed enough to talk
- 24:52about this. But I mean it's so
- 24:54heartbreaking. That that's the only way she was
- 24:56able to get home, right? Yeah.
- 25:00Now, by 1970, Anthony's. Just answering to your high
- 25:05outside. He's a shy, skinny kid, it gets
- 25:07pretty bad grades. You just wasn't good at school.
- 25:11He went at most days, you was just not exceptional and he
- 25:15lived in a home where nobody was paying attention.
- 25:18So he was getting apps that, you know, your basic English and
- 25:20math and like beans and like physical education, he would
- 25:24join like swim club or golf club didn't do very well.
- 25:29He did get, well, you can go Jess, which he played with his
- 25:32science teacher and that get continuous high school, but he
- 25:36could see you to try, and he was just never good at anything.
- 25:39Basketball football baseball. All.
- 25:42And then no one really understood.
- 25:44Why? But when we 17, he just quit.
- 25:51Yep, he made his first girlfriend Twila, Austin
- 25:53shortly. After drop it out, he was 13
- 25:55years old and a freshman. She lived in an area called the
- 25:58hill was considered to be upscale the time and they were
- 26:01just walking down the street from high school.
- 26:03Anthony was finishing his paperwork that said, he failed
- 26:06his junior year and he said, hi Twila and they just started
- 26:09hanging out. She actually liked the things
- 26:12and he was good at boxing. He was, she did it look like
- 26:15athletic police athletically. He's good chess.
- 26:19They'd hang out in Claudia's room when she wasn't home.
- 26:21They went to movies and she wasn't sure how but Anthony
- 26:25always had money for days. I was typical you know young
- 26:32relationship. Now this is 1977 anything's, a
- 26:38high school. Dropout Cleveland is a city on
- 26:40the decline. People are moving from the city
- 26:43in droves. The town's falling apart Twila,
- 26:48realized how he had all that money.
- 26:49Which was that Anthony was a thief.
- 26:51He sold stolen goods on the street.
- 26:54He had a list of misdemeanors by the time he was 18 from being
- 26:58caught, he picked up a drinking habit, got arrested multiple
- 27:01times for drunk and disorderly conduct.
- 27:04He also stole from people's houses sold that too.
- 27:06Sometimes assaulting the homeowner got arrested for that
- 27:09too and he managed to avoid jail.
- 27:11Time for more of the more intense crimes and when he
- 27:15turned 18 he decided it was time to leave his mom's house.
- 27:19You'll find this to be a verb recurring fee when it comes to
- 27:23serial killers. What do you think he did?
- 27:25Next? He left his mom's house, did he
- 27:32go in joining the Army? You bet your bottom dollar?
- 27:38You join the Army actually, he was intending on going to the
- 27:43Army and then he heard that the Marines were harder.
- 27:46So he decided to be a memory. Okay, yep.
- 27:50What's basic training? January, 24th 1978 at Parris
- 27:53Island, South Carolina and a month after his basic training
- 27:56started while I found out she's pregnant.
- 27:59They were both kind of happy about it and Julius L was born,
- 28:03August 1974 Anthony did very well in basic training.
- 28:08He was first in his class of 40, top marks and shooting great.
- 28:12A hand-to-hand combat became an electrician at Camp Lejeune and
- 28:16may of 1978 after getting his GED and studying electrical
- 28:20wiring, they moved him to Cherry Point North Carolina in 1979 and
- 28:24then in March 1980, who works for the 2nd Marine Our tract
- 28:28today, which is an aviation unit that supports the Marines during
- 28:31wartime. And I'm pretty solid that my dad
- 28:34did that during Vietnam, he fixed planes on base and
- 28:39Vietnam. I'm going to ask him about.
- 28:40That was pretty cool. He's next move was to Camp
- 28:45Smedley Butler in Okinawa Japan. And while it's can he met Kim
- 28:50lost? Say she's a fellow officer and
- 28:54Anthony considers this to be the best relationship he's ever
- 28:57been. Now Anthony was emotionally.
- 29:01Stunted from his traumatic childhood to the point where
- 29:04like an active affection was the kind of thing that would bring
- 29:07out like, violence in him and can't help him to accept love
- 29:12and being treated. Well, They got married, 91 in a
- 29:18civil ceremony, back in the u.s. at the Craven County Courthouse
- 29:21in New Bern North Carolina. They moved to a small trailer
- 29:25park off base and that was where Anthony sustained.
- 29:29A pretty life-changing injury. It's not what you think though.
- 29:36He's coming back home from a going away party for a fellow
- 29:38Marine. What was happening?
- 29:40Is that his sister Tressa and his daughter Julia had come down
- 29:45and They just they wanted to still give their respects o chem
- 29:49stayed with the sister and daughter and he just went to go
- 29:53say goodbye to his fellow Marine as he was driving back from that
- 29:56little bone away party. The car overheated and he lifted
- 30:00up the hood and he was kind of poking around and a hose blew
- 30:03off hitting him in the face so fast and he couldn't close his
- 30:07eyes, the injury caused to Second and third-degree Burns
- 30:13and split his eyes. And I got to tell you, I wanted
- 30:16to Google that but I don't want to know what that means.
- 30:20I have to Google it but continue flying for three months and they
- 30:25weren't sure using there and gain his say when the injury
- 30:28happened his daughter, they like he just said them away.
- 30:33He's didn't one of them dealing with him while he was injured
- 30:36cam. Tried her best to help him, but
- 30:38he started picking up drinking a lot.
- 30:40She was actually worried. He's going to get discharged
- 30:41from the Marines, Marines, for alcoholism.
- 30:46So 1984 Anthony gets sent back to Camp Butler in Okinawa.
- 30:53Kevin Anthony only really got to live like a married.
- 30:56Couple for about two years and then they were sent separate
- 31:01places. And then in January of 1985 she
- 31:05filed for divorce. The day she left the mine.
- 31:09Just the physical distance being listed for the divorce and Kim
- 31:15loss and actually died in California in 1988 and then Dust
- 31:18real accident. But she didn't really have any
- 31:21further contact with Anthony after the divorce.
- 31:26Now after their divorce, he also got discharged.
- 31:31He was finishing up his last bit of time and Camp Pendleton
- 31:33California. Like his son, the military was
- 31:36great, though. He got Awards all during the
- 31:38seven years, he's there Good Conduct medals with one star, a
- 31:42meritorious Master ticket, a sea service deployment ribbon, a
- 31:47certificate of commendation and two letters of appreciation.
- 31:50He was promoted through his time in the military, he never got
- 31:53demoted, This local probably the highlight of his life.
- 31:58So unlike some serial killers, you actually go to like Army and
- 32:03Navy and stuff like that Marines.
- 32:05He was actually really good at it.
- 32:06And he enjoyed his times of the year.
- 32:09I imagine, like for some of the people we talked about last
- 32:12year, it was the first place that Anthony would have
- 32:16experienced order. Wyatt.
- 32:23You know, like when it's lights out in the barracks, it's lights
- 32:28out in the barracks, you know, there's those rules and there's,
- 32:31you know, and you only get punished when you actually Break
- 32:34The Rules. Not, you know, whenever your
- 32:36drill sergeant decides, it is one beat your face in really,
- 32:39that's a completely different. So in some ways, it's positive
- 32:43for some people, but he comes back to Cleveland and like this
- 32:50back to normal. Like many low-income areas in
- 32:56the u.s. in the 80s. Cleveland was ravaged by crack
- 33:00cocaine and for people who don't know a lot about drugs cocaine
- 33:05mumbling your smoke crack, you heat up and then inject directly
- 33:09into the bloodstream especially harmful because the speed in
- 33:14which it gets to your brain. People who start cocaine get
- 33:18high, but it can take some time to do a job and essentially
- 33:21crackheads so fast that people are addicted to it.
- 33:23Just keep trying to get that same Rush that they got the
- 33:27first time they injected themselves.
- 33:31Now, before going into the Marines, Anthony been smoking
- 33:33weed drinking as a total shock to him, go to come back and see
- 33:37like the same street. So he used to walk when he was a
- 33:40kid that we're safe now, people just sitting out in the open you
- 33:45know, smoking crack can also spoken to sorry.
- 33:48Yeah, I forgot about that if you'd like I can heat it in the
- 33:52little spoon and then inject. It also sometimes smoke it but
- 33:57it's not good. It's what I'm going to say I
- 34:00feel like it's on par with like how heroin has been harming
- 34:06people and like the 2002. Yeah, yeah.
- 34:12Sure difference is that crack is cheap.
- 34:15Because it gets cut down from the pure cocaine and so I'll let
- 34:19you can afford a lot of it. Whereas heroin cost a lot of
- 34:24money. So it's a different
- 34:26socio-economic bracket. You would have been in if you
- 34:30were doing heroin versus practical.
- 34:37We also learned during this time that crack was so addictive.
- 34:41That women would do anything who were strung out to get ahead.
- 34:45I was something he would later take advantage of but in the
- 34:49moment he was a jobless man with a seven-year-old kid.
- 34:52Be left with her mom and a family that was still chaotic
- 34:55and terrified he drank every day.
- 34:58He moved back in with his mom on Page Avenue, where she stayed in
- 35:02the attic and he met other women, but none of those
- 35:04relationships were substantial or anyway.
- 35:07But now he liked it so he got angry.
- 35:13Now his sister Tressa, he's a little younger than him said
- 35:15that he came back from the Marines more serious and at the
- 35:18military made him, but I feel like we can kind of ascertain
- 35:23that Anthony had a bad streak before he went to the Marines.
- 35:27Yes, definitely. Well, you know I said he went
- 35:29moved to the attic, right? Twila and Julie were living in
- 35:33the Attic. And he kicked them out.
- 35:38Oh, he's like you can't stay in the room with me.
- 35:42This is our room. We can't seem to.
- 35:44Let me just like drink and be sad.
- 35:51He actually started snorting cocaine at this time.
- 35:53He got arrested for domestic violence.
- 35:55And 1988 spent eight days in prison.
- 35:58That wasn't his only violent running.
- 36:00One time, his sister Tressa was in an argument with another girl
- 36:03in the neighborhood and I do trust is like in her teens and
- 36:0629, year-old Anthony tells his other girl, like leave my sister
- 36:09alone and she kept talking smack and he's straight-up punch and
- 36:13teenager girl, a teenage girl in the face.
- 36:15Just straight knocked her out. Ridiculous.
- 36:21By that point, he was already on track.
- 36:26And he approved more criminal offenses, disorderly conduct
- 36:30possession, public intoxication. Now things get worse for him in
- 36:351989. When he refused to let a woman
- 36:37who's dating the house. She was three months pregnant
- 36:41and her name was Mel. That sock wall.
- 36:43He bound her hands and feet with a tie and belt and gagged her.
- 36:47She would later tell the police that she thought she was going
- 36:49to die because she was losing sensation.
- 36:50And while her extremities for this Anthony was charged with
- 36:54kidnapping, rape and attempted grade.
- 36:56He pled guilty to attempted rapist is the lesser sentence
- 37:00and was given 15 years in prison.
- 37:06Now, you think that's a great. Great.
- 37:08I always hear like great was too terrible in prison, apparently,
- 37:12not Anthony. He got along with the other
- 37:14inmates. He they kept like, getting him
- 37:17parole hearings and he didn't really understand what they
- 37:20wanted him to do. The same line kept getting
- 37:23written in his parole reports lack of significant program.
- 37:28And what that means is that he doesn't understand that he needs
- 37:30to do certain things within the prison program to Capital and
- 37:34they would have him like Fill out.
- 37:36These questionnaires to assess his feelings about his Prime and
- 37:40is not allowed in general, and some of them are going to reach
- 37:42you that are specifically poignant here.
- 37:45So it was he like, I feel, I think, you know, those kinds of
- 37:48questions and they haven't filled in says, I feel nothing
- 37:51at this time of my life. I suffer no ill feelings.
- 37:55I failed to get myself out of trouble and the worst one.
- 37:59Most women just tell lies. so it seems in his head, he had blamed
- 38:06malbet for the fact that he's in prison, For the fact that you
- 38:12assaulted me and kidnap, you didn't let me leave the house,
- 38:16literally kidnap the pregnant lady and it's not her fault that
- 38:19you did that, but whatever not apparently.
- 38:22No, it's all her fault. He had one weird perk, this was
- 38:28that he was very serious about how people citizens.
- 38:31So apparently, some people say could name like Soul, it's a so
- 38:35wel L and he portrayed, he preferred selling for selling,
- 38:41So that's why I've just been saying it that way, I don't know
- 38:44the right way. Mostly double listening for a
- 38:47long time. I destroy names, so it's owl.
- 38:52It's owl. So it sounds, he never got
- 38:56parole. You never really got the point
- 39:00and so Monday. June 20th, 2005, he gets
- 39:03released from the Lorraine correctional institute in
- 39:06Grafton Ohio. He is 46 years old and his
- 39:09sister Tressa went to pick him up. up with all of her children
- 39:12because she had like seven kids by now, to the mini mansion
- 39:17house, he grew up in with his family gone repossessed because
- 39:21nobody can pay the mortgage Everything moved in with his
- 39:25sister and a few other family members and the area called
- 39:28Slavic Village was nine kids, three adults.
- 39:34He tried to make himself useful, like, cooking for people, and
- 39:38you play, like, Madden with all the little boy kids.
- 39:42It was nice, but he moved out a couple months later into his
- 39:45stepmothers house. Sir, Colonel Henderson cell,
- 39:49Segura was his biological father's third wife, Thomas L
- 39:53senior. Had died while he was in prison.
- 39:57He actually was 80 years old. He fell down the steps and 2003,
- 40:01but his death certificate also said that he had prostate cancer
- 40:05heart disease in a seizure disorder.
- 40:07So we're not claiming that they are not claiming the ball.
- 40:09Is what killed them? It's the fact that he had three
- 40:12major illnesses simultaneously at 18 years.
- 40:14I mean, Thomas Thomas. L senior never really had
- 40:23anything to do with Claudia but apparently he had reached out.
- 40:26Out to Anthony at some point and they talk to each other while he
- 40:30was in prison. So Anthony, the other places
- 40:32said he didn't realize that his dad died but he actually in that
- 40:37a Right up the questionnaire. He wrote very kindly about his
- 40:43father which I thought was very surprising considering that he
- 40:46didn't have any contact with his dad until he was in his 40s.
- 40:49All right? Now that's a Grandma's house.
- 40:56He was depressed because he got some letters that said that he
- 40:59had a registered sex offender. Which made him one of twelve,
- 41:05offenders in a 5-mile radius. And honestly, he was the boat,
- 41:08pretty. Humiliated by it.
- 41:10He thought it was gonna get in the way of him getting a good
- 41:12job and he was filing all these job applications and nobody was
- 41:16responding and then get a job as a prep cook at Jacobs Field.
- 41:22Which is where the Cleveland Indians played.
- 41:24Is a really good job actually. And so, in the middle of the the
- 41:28summer season, he gets a letter August 2005 saying that he needs
- 41:32to go through a sexual predator evaluation as part of being
- 41:36monitored for being a sex offender, which I didn't realize
- 41:39they do in Ohio. And I kind of think it's a great
- 41:41idea that everywhere, actually, not that.
- 41:44I didn't realize you had to check in every couple years.
- 41:47Oh yeah. Oh yes, you Brittany.
- 41:50Yo, let me tell you, I've heard the I just heard stories.
- 41:57Of like you know section sex offenders like not checking in
- 42:01for a while and like the states. They don't they don't check up
- 42:05on them. Yeah, that's what I heard too.
- 42:07I was like, people just do what they want.
- 42:09Yeah, they don't like they then they just go and live like
- 42:14normal lives when, you know, the reason why you're like register
- 42:18as a sex offender it, so you can't live a normal, damn life.
- 42:21It's like so people know what you've done and it's a away from
- 42:25you. Well, this analysis goes the
- 42:30word. It goes as wrong as it could
- 42:31possibly be. Go, he shows up for this
- 42:34meaning, September 1st 2005. They immediately tell him this
- 42:38records going to be part of a public evaluation.
- 42:40It'll be public. Like, if anybody looks you up,
- 42:42they will see this interview. So, of course, as they ask you
- 42:49to he, as I asked him questions, he decides.
- 42:51I'm not going to be honest about anything.
- 42:56Okay. He told them he grew up in a
- 42:58crowd of single-parent. Home said he had a lot of
- 43:01friends but then he was bullied and teased.
- 43:03He of course left out that he was a sexually violent child and
- 43:07that he and his nephews watched and also raped their siblings
- 43:11and cousins. He told the therapist he was
- 43:13never exposed to violence in his home or school with that.
- 43:17He just had a bad time. Now, it was true that he had
- 43:20never been suspended in school and he never been fired from any
- 43:23job. He told the therapist that he
- 43:26had admitted to the charge because he didn't think he had a
- 43:29good defense, you didn't want a longer sentence, and when they
- 43:33interviewed his public defender, James McDonald, the man was
- 43:37quoted. As saying all I can tell you is,
- 43:40I remember nothing about represent, so he Told the
- 43:48therapist that you've been alcohol before jail for that, he
- 43:51hadn't had a drink in 50 years when they discussed Stacks, he
- 43:55just straight up lot saying, Twila was his first.
- 43:59He did tell the people that he engaged in prostitution while
- 44:03abroad in the Marines and he did look at porn to the analysts.
- 44:08Looked over this interview, he seemed like a regular dude who
- 44:11just got a bad break on a rape case.
- 44:14And since the u.s. does have an issue with coercing, innocent
- 44:18people to admit to crimes, they didn't do the analyst wrote and
- 44:22is my opinion that would reasonable professional
- 44:25professional certainty, that mr. Self is not currently present.
- 44:29The following risk factors most significantly correlated sexual
- 44:34offense recidivism. Now, here's a fun fact for you,
- 44:40that I learned because I made a video Tick-Tock and I was very
- 44:43angry, but the rate at which sexual offenders reoffend is
- 44:49roughly 22%. So, about one in 500, people who
- 44:57have committed violent offenses about 36% and here's the worst
- 45:02one. People who go to jail for any
- 45:04reason have a 40 6.45. Point, six percent, likelihood
- 45:10of reoffending and suffering. That's you have horrible
- 45:15recidivism rates in this country.
- 45:17Our prison system. Does nothing to actually help
- 45:19people and prepare them for life out of prison.
- 45:22This is so true that that just reminds me of a joke.
- 45:26Like it's not, it's a joke but it's not a joke, which is joke.
- 45:30It's like, you know, someone going to prison and then they
- 45:33went right back to prison like a few months later for doing the
- 45:36exact goddamn thing. Yeah, that's one of the things
- 45:39from the TV show Orange is the New Black that they really got,
- 45:42right? When Casey got out of prison and
- 45:44she was back like, two months later and she remember in the
- 45:47show, she was just like, you know, I didn't have anywhere to
- 45:49stay, like I was sleeping on the floor with like 10 other people
- 45:53like it's just snow. Honestly, honestly Anthony had
- 45:58more than most and a lot of people who get jail, like he had
- 46:03a lot more help and people. Yeah, he had a lot more help.
- 46:06Yeah. Well, his job, with the
- 46:08Cleveland Indians ends, October 2nd, 2005.
- 46:11He gets another job at a packing plant.
- 46:13His next big job is doing molding injection at a custom.
- 46:18River. I think I made a mistake in my
- 46:22own notes. Buddies is like molding
- 46:25injections, at a custom shop, in March of 2006.
- 46:29The union job, we make good money and especially that was
- 46:33like right before the recession hit leave as Around town.
- 46:37He was known as a friendly guy. You go drinking with you but
- 46:39nobody ever got close to. He would entertain people at the
- 46:42bar with Chad about being a marine.
- 46:44His time in prison food storage travel in the world.
- 46:48He did make one friend, the owner of a convenience store
- 46:52named Sam Taya. This owner had been pretty kind
- 46:57to his parents Taylor was from Jerusalem and he had a rough
- 47:00time as a foreigner in the area and the South had taken care of
- 47:03him and he returned the favor. And then he gave up a strange
- 47:08Vibe of being both serious and intimidating, but also fine.
- 47:14So when people threatened Taya after, he had recorded, somebody
- 47:17selling drugs, to the store, Anthony Captain died out.
- 47:20And kind of a Riff Raff. Moved elsewhere in that could be
- 47:25in stores. Where he met the next and last
- 47:28significant relationship. Laura Fraser.
- 47:32Glory was an attitude got into a lot of trouble with the law
- 47:35based on her addictions. She's 37 and had four kids, who
- 47:39were all with her mother, because her time in prison, she
- 47:44was turning tricks for crack. When Anthony saw her holding a
- 47:47brown bag with beer and he offered her something better
- 47:50than here. And so, this being a normal like
- 47:56John and escort relationship, the two of them realize that
- 48:00they like each other. And they ended up just sitting
- 48:05around having drinks. Eating some Chinese food.
- 48:08They went to his house, the Stepmom was in and out of the
- 48:11hospital and so Anthony was currently living on the first
- 48:14floor at that point and they start kind of living together
- 48:17almost right away. Now when you're in prison for a
- 48:21long time you don't get access to the internet.
- 48:24I know. Now some prisoners have access
- 48:26to the internet but not back. How about that?
- 48:29They got access to the internet and cell phones and TVs.
- 48:33And some of that you got to be in good behaviour for sure.
- 48:36Yeah but Anthony got home, he realized that the internet was
- 48:42the incident. Internet wasn't a thing when he
- 48:44went to prison. He made an account on certain
- 48:48alternative sex websites. Where he was free to talk to
- 48:53people about these dark fantasy success.
- 48:56He he wrote himself as a dominant looking for a
- 48:59submissive. He was active on Black Planet,
- 49:02both places, he said he was single.
- 49:05And he kept telling Lori, he wanted to bring another woman
- 49:07into the bedroom. Lori was like, all right?
- 49:12Now things are going well for you, Anthony, and this is the
- 49:15year that people start noticing an odd smell 2006 Laurie,
- 49:20brought it up to him first, and he told her it was his stepmom
- 49:23at this point. He had moved up to the third
- 49:25floor and there was another family on the second floor and
- 49:28his mom was on the first, so he was blaming it on her being my
- 49:31bed, rest? Yeah.
- 49:33Then the, this, the middle family assumed that it was an
- 49:35animal that had crawled up under the house and died.
- 49:39He told his nephews, who came to visit that the basement Florida?
- 49:43The neighbors, blamed it on Race, sausage, that was next
- 49:45door. The City Health Department is
- 49:47getting complaints non-stop like somebody even said to the
- 49:50police. It smells like there's a dead
- 49:51body on this block. Oh, God.
- 49:55Now Renee cash and inherited, kind of the business from her
- 49:58family and she ran it with her siblings and she was, they were
- 50:02running Ray sausage, so the health department required them
- 50:07to pretty much rip up the ground in front of the plant and change
- 50:11out all of the greats. it's where the leftovers and blood
- 50:16and stuff. One cost the cost, the company
- 50:19thirty thousand dollars, God and nothing changed.
- 50:24The the health department was constantly checking the shop for
- 50:27cleanliness, nothing fat when I was ever found and that's of
- 50:30course because it wasn't raised sausage.
- 50:35Smoke was the only started when Ray and when Lori and Anthony
- 50:38were on the Rocks. So boring.
- 50:42It was always a crack at it but she had a rule.
- 50:46We can't be together if you use crack too.
- 50:50And Anthony hit it from her and she realized something was wrong
- 50:53and slowly dealers and other people would show up to the
- 50:56house at random times, they started fighting over, who was
- 51:00getting one from which dealer, who was using more, who was
- 51:02spending more of their money. Those arguments within the
- 51:06violent fights between the couple By June of 2006, Anthony
- 51:11doesn't even have the money to pay for a stepmother.
- 51:14Like Rank and Sabrina was actually trying to kick him out
- 51:17because she realized he was using drugs.
- 51:22The first of the major breakups happened shortly after that when
- 51:27Anthony got three thousand dollars from his tax return and
- 51:31Lori came home to a house party with kids as young as 12 at
- 51:36right, 15 kids were as young as 15 all over the house, drinking
- 51:41doing drugs. Oh my God, people in the house.
- 51:46Like people to go are like okay. She said one point there were
- 51:49like kids down behind the furnace like Like in up.
- 51:55Mhm. And then like, she's trying to
- 51:57look for Anthony. He will like, he's not here and
- 51:59so she saw it like, it was a very public like humiliation.
- 52:03She went back to her sister's place.
- 52:05You, she's really upset. This was start, their on-again
- 52:08off-again status that went on for quite some time.
- 52:11They would go back to date. They start fighting again.
- 52:14Anthony tell her to leave. The family on the second floor
- 52:19where the prompt is. So it's middle of 2006.
- 52:25Palm Bay is go downstairs and they see a piece of shirt tied
- 52:28to one of their cars and for people who didn't grow up in the
- 52:31hood, this is a sign that drugs are being sold at the property
- 52:34where the house where the car is the pompey's are like, you know
- 52:38what, I have had enough and they move out leaving his stepmother
- 52:43on the first floor, and him on the third Now, winter of 2007.
- 52:53So just after the season turn Anthony suffers a heart attack
- 52:57and he doesn't realize that he just realizes that he's sick.
- 53:02He doesn't go to the VA for like three weeks.
- 53:07And by the time, they look at him, that he suffered major
- 53:11heart damage, He also was dealing with atrial
- 53:14fibrillation, which is when your heart randomly just speeds up
- 53:18for no reason. It took until February 26.
- 53:22Well, I'm not even at by February 26.
- 53:23They thought he was dying. Man's it up giving him a
- 53:26temporary pacemaker and it actually worked, but they
- 53:29weren't sure that the pacemaker was going to stop
- 53:31defibrillation. They told him he was going to
- 53:34need therapy, but they weren't going to pay for it because
- 53:37that's how the VA treats veterans and the bill for the
- 53:41multiple pacemakers and everything.
- 53:45Was two hundred thousand dollars and we're God, mmm?
- 53:50What she obviously didn't have. He never went to therapy for his
- 53:53heart. He ended up having another small
- 53:55attack at the machine is job, and he had to quit.
- 54:00Now, he and Lori are on that. She would disappear for days, on
- 54:03end, for kids won't even know where she was, and they would
- 54:06call him and be like, where's mom?
- 54:11And then he would be mad at her when she came back and you be
- 54:14like, yo, your kids are calling me crying.
- 54:15Like, what are you doing? Yeah, she's like mind your
- 54:19business. Well, it's kind of my business
- 54:22now, because your kids are, like, involving me in this.
- 54:25I know, I know, You start using again, despite the fact that the
- 54:30man has a heart condition and should not be doing any sort of
- 54:33major drugs. And these first victim was May
- 54:39of 2007. She went missing on Mother's
- 54:41Day, my name is Crystal Dozier Christmas.
- 54:46I knew that his mommy's drugs and he even reported the fact
- 54:50that she went to Anthony sowell's house to score, but the
- 54:55police never filed a report and never checked campus house.
- 55:02June of 2007. He ramps up in Cleveland, the
- 55:08bad smell start. Again people call the health
- 55:11department over. Another nothing comes from it.
- 55:14Now that same month Sam Taya, has that corner store on the
- 55:19Block, one of his employees, says, like, yo, there's
- 55:25something nasty out in the dumpster.
- 55:32So, He goes out there and he sees these like two packages,
- 55:39they like wrapped up in plastic so you can't tell what they are
- 55:42but there's like it smells awful like death and there's flies
- 55:46around there and then he's just like I don't have time for this
- 55:51right now. I'll check it later.
- 55:52Get I'll take a check it later later.
- 55:54That day, the dump trucks take it away.
- 55:56It's never thought about it now, the rest of 2007, nothing else
- 56:01happens. But in early 2008, Lori comes
- 56:05home and finds the like the entire third floor.
- 56:09Apartment. Covered in blood like walls
- 56:11floor bed. He had tried to clean it up some
- 56:14and he just told her that someone had tried to Rob him and
- 56:18they got into a fight with a person when they're gone.
- 56:21Yeah. Gone.
- 56:23Huh, in February? She checks on Anthony again.
- 56:27He has a neck wound, so deep. You can see the like the white
- 56:31meat his neck. He told her he'd been attacked
- 56:33while he was scrapping an abandoned house.
- 56:36Now, here's the thing. Like, I list these in here as
- 56:39the victims, that we know what it is, considering the bad smell
- 56:43started in 2006, and he had multiple events like this, that
- 56:48we don't have any correlation to a missing person.
- 56:52There is the belief that he had more victims.
- 56:58And that these were people who fought back.
- 57:02And either, they were rape victims who never told on him or
- 57:11these are people, he murdered and he just supposed of them in
- 57:14other ways like the dumpster. A month later.
- 57:19March now, Lori's like you gets attacked again this time near
- 57:25Woodland Hills Park Lori doesn't really have time to focus on him
- 57:28to there's a warrant out for her arrest.
- 57:30She gets caught March 6, 2008 and ends up having the battle
- 57:33with the courts until August of 2008.
- 57:35Strangely enough go Anthony supports her the whole way
- 57:38testifies for her is just like she's one of a person, you know
- 57:42she really helped me when I got out of prison, yada yada yada.
- 57:46So she ends up not going to jail.
- 57:48But she didn't go back to you. He was very upset, he backed up
- 57:53all of her stuff and she like dropped it off at a friend's
- 57:56house. And by the time she got, when
- 57:57she went to the friend's house, she opened the bag and
- 57:59everything was cut, cut up into pieces, honey.
- 58:05I think it's worry broke up with him because she heard that while
- 58:08she was in like, can do, he was having women over the house and
- 58:12he was women who he murdered, she know about that part yet,
- 58:16but yet she's you'll find out. This week.
- 58:19Well, the second victim was to show Nicole over and she was
- 58:22last seen May 21st 2008. Almost all of Anthony's victims.
- 58:27It's the same Emma. They come from broken homes.
- 58:30Have, horrible lives that lead to drug addiction criminal
- 58:32prosecution, which make them people that no one is really
- 58:35looking after Shauna was the same day.
- 58:38She had a domestic violence charge with her ex she was part
- 58:44of a work release program and then she just disappeared and
- 58:47the courts. Just decided but oh, she must
- 58:50have just skipped and she's gone.
- 58:54All they know is that at some point, she left work, she met
- 58:57Anthony went to his house and never came out.
- 59:04His third victim was respond to what was Sean along.
- 59:07She was a Cleveland native with a long history of abuse drug
- 59:11abuse drug convictions. She had stopped returning her
- 59:16family's called and may of 2008 but she was living with a
- 59:20boyfriend and obviously of 2008. Her boyfriend obviously, didn't
- 59:25give too much of a damn because all they did was make up flyers
- 59:31and put them all around the neighborhood.
- 59:32She was never officially filed as a missing person.
- 59:35Wow. Not Anthony kidnapped and failed
- 59:39to kill the Nessa gay and September of 2008.
- 59:42She met him on the street. Sometime in August that you were
- 59:45familiar with each other. We get high together from time
- 59:47to time, but he never made a move to her.
- 59:49And so he invited her to his house on his birthday.
- 59:52August 19th. He attacked him in the home and
- 59:55tried to choke her with an extension cord.
- 1:00:01So that he could rape her and that's was able to fight him
- 1:00:04off. She never spoke about this to
- 1:00:06anybody until he was arrested because she didn't believe that.
- 1:00:09Anybody would believe her. She would later tell detectives
- 1:00:13that the same night. She was attacked.
- 1:00:15She saw a decapitated head that was his Emma, choke them.
- 1:00:22Rape them, Hilda, His fourth victim was Michelle Mason
- 1:00:28missing in October of 2008, just like the Shonda, Michelle's
- 1:00:31family, pepper, the neighborhood photos.
- 1:00:34They knew that she'd been hanging out with Anthony and
- 1:00:36they didn't want her to be near him, her parents even mentioned
- 1:00:40to the cops. This man that she's hanging out
- 1:00:41with his infected sex offender, but they told the family that
- 1:00:45this wasn't enough evidence to get a search.
- 1:00:54Sorry. Yeah.
- 1:00:55Well, that's number five, Tommy Carmichael.
- 1:00:57Her parents realized she was missing in November of 2008,
- 1:01:01which disclose at responding to them and she showed she wasn't
- 1:01:05even from Cleveland. But that they knew that she was
- 1:01:09there. So they cross they come to
- 1:01:12Cleveland. They show up at the Warrenville
- 1:01:14police station on November 2008. They ask you.
- 1:01:16They could submit a part A submitting a couple missing
- 1:01:19persons report for some reason, they don't do it.
- 1:01:22And so the family starts their own search for her people on the
- 1:01:26Block say, like yo, we saw her around Imperial street which is
- 1:01:29the street where Anthony lived. Her mom goes to try and follow a
- 1:01:33report at the fourth district station which covers Imperial
- 1:01:36street. And they won't take a report.
- 1:01:41Cleveland Police deny this behemoth.
- 1:01:45Her mother, find your missing car.
- 1:01:48You're the corner of 118th Street and Ken's New Street
- 1:01:52which is about a 10-minute walk to Anthony sowell's house.
- 1:01:57Sighing. Islam goes back to the 4th
- 1:01:58District, and it's just like she was obviously in your District,
- 1:02:03her cars here, like, help us out, and the fourth district
- 1:02:07police, tell her no go back to Warren's.
- 1:02:09Bill filed, a missing persons report there because you said,
- 1:02:12that's where she was living, but she was here, she ended up
- 1:02:17missing here. So when y'all do the search
- 1:02:21here, right? Well, Warren's will take the
- 1:02:24report, but this time so much time has passed. past that like
- 1:02:28you're starting a week behind when people go missing, you got
- 1:02:3224 hours to do something to find people, like 24 hours or 48
- 1:02:38hours and you got you're definitely behind on that and
- 1:02:43it's sorry. No, you're fine.
- 1:02:46I was going to say it's just funny, like yeah.
- 1:02:48All these people that are coming like hey my family member is
- 1:02:52missing and it just happens to be around the same area, right?
- 1:02:57No one's making a issue that like women are going missing
- 1:03:00left and right specifically around here you'll Street yeah.
- 1:03:07Looking like a several block radius, but regardless, just
- 1:03:11like the other women time passes, Sonya's, forgotten.
- 1:03:17Now, Gladys Wade, would be the second woman who survived her
- 1:03:20encounter with Anthony? That we know of that happened.
- 1:03:23December of 2008, lot of was a hardcore crack addict who had
- 1:03:27actually dropped in a college. Just before she was done.
- 1:03:30Like the two months before she was finished, because she was so
- 1:03:35addicted to drugs. That's what it does to you man.
- 1:03:37Like there's some stuff not even once not even once.
- 1:03:40No heroin no crack will cocaine. No Molly drugs.
- 1:03:44But you can like have horrible side effects of First time you
- 1:03:47take them not even once. Yeah December 8. 2008 she'd
- 1:03:54actually just gotten out of County Jail, her and her
- 1:03:58boyfriend got in trouble for attacking the Apartments
- 1:04:00maintenance, man. Now Gladys had a sister.
- 1:04:06Her sister was Twyla. And so after she gets out of
- 1:04:10jail, she goes to visit to Iowa, that's the mother of Anthony's
- 1:04:13child. She stopped at the corner store
- 1:04:17on Imperial and 123rd Street. And that's where she met
- 1:04:21Anthony. He offered to buy her a beer.
- 1:04:22She was like, no thanks. And as he was leaving the area,
- 1:04:27he grabbed her from behind a Chokehold cutting off her hair,
- 1:04:30she passed out and took her into the house.
- 1:04:33As soon as she woke up she started screaming as Anthony is
- 1:04:38like yelling at her. Take off her clothes she like
- 1:04:41Gladys fought back viciously. The two of them falling down
- 1:04:44like the first flight of stairs from the third to the second
- 1:04:47floor. During the encounter her hand
- 1:04:49goes through a glass, pane causing a laceration in her
- 1:04:52hand. There's blood everywhere, they
- 1:04:54fall down another flight of steps before, Anthony, it's just
- 1:04:57like this is too much. She runs across the street to
- 1:05:02the pizza place. They call the police.
- 1:05:04They didn't want her to be in the building because she was
- 1:05:06like just bleeding everywhere. Yeah.
- 1:05:11The police, she overhears Anthony telling neighbors that
- 1:05:14some woman had tried to Rob him and he hit her and that's why
- 1:05:17there's blood in the snow. Gladys takes off running into
- 1:05:23the night, so she finds another set of cops and they get her
- 1:05:26Nancy, they take her testimony that night.
- 1:05:29They take Anthony hands cuffed Well, here was that he had
- 1:05:34actually had succeeded in doing either.
- 1:05:39There was a record. He raped somebody in the past.
- 1:05:42Yeah but he can only drug her off the street to so it wasn't
- 1:05:47you're not wrong but he was removed based on he was released
- 1:05:52based on something called a straight and relief. and
- 1:05:57honestly Gladys had never heard of that ever happening before,
- 1:06:02but it is a political thing where Essentially.
- 1:06:10It was a 24-hour that you have 24 hours to get the charges
- 1:06:15together or they release the criminal.
- 1:06:20This was something that only existed in Cleveland in the 90s
- 1:06:23and like the early 2000s and the problem was with the straight
- 1:06:28releases that criminals will use aliases, which hindered the
- 1:06:31indictment process, they slide and it took the police too long.
- 1:06:36Like they missed the 24 hour window and the person will not
- 1:06:38release. That's exactly what happened
- 1:06:40here. When they failed to be able to
- 1:06:43come up with enough evidence to prove that, like it was he said,
- 1:06:46see, like he said, she said they released him on December 10th.
- 1:06:51They said, Gladys wasn't a credible Witness.
- 1:06:58But the number six is Tim Smith. She went by the name Candy on
- 1:07:01the street. What messing January 17th 2009?
- 1:07:04She lives with her dad and actually, they were really
- 1:07:06close. She gone out for a night of like
- 1:07:10fun and she never came home. Her dad, Donald Smith like
- 1:07:13absolutely love the crap out of his daughter, but she developed
- 1:07:16a drug problem in college. She actually worked Street
- 1:07:20around Imperial and she went missing while she was working.
- 1:07:24Again. He put out a reward for 500
- 1:07:29dollars for information for his daughter, but he never contacted
- 1:07:33Cleveland police because he didn't believe in their ability
- 1:07:35to help him find his daughter. I mean you wrong there but yeah
- 1:07:44there's a law in kidnappings after this probably because of
- 1:07:47the fight we thought us and the subsequent arrest.
- 1:07:49So I think he was trying to be a little bit more Discerning but
- 1:07:53either way, no one goes missing until again until April.
- 1:07:59That tiny dots escaped in April and Imelda Hunter and Nancy
- 1:08:03Cobbs both disappeared in April. So things are ramping up now.
- 1:08:07Tanya Das have been an ex of Anthony's before he dated Lori
- 1:08:11and I guess she had fixed in her head that she was gonna get him
- 1:08:15back. So they started like being, you
- 1:08:19know, nice to each other. Can she come see him in the
- 1:08:21hole? April 21st.
- 1:08:24Everything's gone. Cool.
- 1:08:26They smoked they watch the game and then just one moment.
- 1:08:29When time is not paying attention he's straight up like
- 1:08:31knocks her down on the bed, she described it as like Jacqueline
- 1:08:34high and she opted to comply instead of fight and the
- 1:08:41following morning she told him she had to go check on her
- 1:08:43granddaughter and let her go. Tanya never told the police
- 1:08:49because she was worried that she get arrested because they both
- 1:08:51been smoking. Crack it right there.
- 1:08:53And tone that is. Hey, this guy's all to me.
- 1:08:58Last time, Imelda country was seen was a few days before.
- 1:09:02Tanya's tack on April 18. Imelda was also an addict and
- 1:09:07she had an adult son who went to all her old Hangouts and her
- 1:09:11that she had been at the houses across the street, from the
- 1:09:15pizza place on Imperial. Similar to Kim Smith, dad,
- 1:09:19Imelda tried to find his mom on his own, never filed.
- 1:09:21A police report because He was just like screw thoughts his fan
- 1:09:26him and the rest of the family kind of peppered the
- 1:09:28neighborhood, the Flyers about amalga.
- 1:09:31Now here's the one that really like kind of wow I feel bad
- 1:09:34about this foot. Tanya had a best friend.
- 1:09:38Her best friend was Nancy Cobb. and so, after the assault that
- 1:09:43takes place on April 21st, Tanya tells Nancy that Anthony raped
- 1:09:52her and she's just like, you know, it was crazy.
- 1:09:59Nancy just assumes that maybe he just got too high, he freaked
- 1:10:02out and like his look, real aggressive during sex.
- 1:10:05Whatever Nancy goes, missing, April 29th, 2009.
- 1:10:12This her friend, like I don't know, maybe report this to the
- 1:10:17police or me. Well, not only did Nancy's
- 1:10:21family report her to the police. Nancy story was on the news but
- 1:10:26nobody had any idea where she was that made the game seven and
- 1:10:31eight. The next tax happened, about two
- 1:10:35months ago. June of 2009.
- 1:10:37Pick the ninth Alicia forts in, just like all of our other
- 1:10:40victims troubled past starting in adolescence, she went
- 1:10:43missing, just after visiting, the Imperial Corner Store,
- 1:10:47Anthony's block, her mother Inez, reported her, missing to
- 1:10:51the East Cleveland police, and they gave her a list of morgues
- 1:10:56hospitals and other police departments to go.
- 1:10:59Call boy, no. I thought you would find that
- 1:11:05one. Interesting.
- 1:11:06What the fuck? We're Not Gonna file.
- 1:11:10A missing persons report. Go look for your junkie daughter
- 1:11:12and all the mortise and Tenon. Yes.
- 1:11:14Go find her no more because she's pretty, she probably is
- 1:11:18God. That's oh my God.
- 1:11:20Yeah, she called them all, but no one.
- 1:11:23There was no delay. So it just vanished.
- 1:11:27Victim time was Janice web another.
- 1:11:29She was actually a former addict trying to get her life straight.
- 1:11:32She'd been going to AA for a couple months.
- 1:11:35But she met Anthony, she started using again even though she was
- 1:11:40back on track and her family has kind of separated themselves
- 1:11:43from her. She still called them every
- 1:11:45single day. So her sister, Audrey realized
- 1:11:49something was wrong, when she didn't hear from Janice by June
- 1:11:532nd. Audrey found a missing persons
- 1:11:56report. Art, and she did the same thing
- 1:11:58as everybody else. She started putting up fliers
- 1:12:01around her around Anthony's house.
- 1:12:06Victim, 11 was Diane Turner. She went missing in September of
- 1:12:092009. Diane also started traveling
- 1:12:13with drugs. She was epileptic.
- 1:12:15She had struggled with her mental health, she spent her
- 1:12:18childhood and adult life and out of the system, she didn't have a
- 1:12:21lot of family. And so, even though people on
- 1:12:23the street noticed she was gone, no one ever found a missing
- 1:12:26person report for Diane either. Now Anthony is disposing of
- 1:12:31these remains of all of these victims in around his house and
- 1:12:34it's not like people didn't say anything.
- 1:12:37Like, summer 2009, there was a handyman named James, Martin,
- 1:12:40who did some work, like, to another house on the Block.
- 1:12:43And he was just like, it smells like dead people here.
- 1:12:47Pretty much anybody who came around there, notice this just
- 1:12:51permeating set of death. But the next two attacks would
- 1:12:56be the things that would get Hannah.
- 1:13:00So, September 22nd 2009, it's pretty cloudy Tuesday.
- 1:13:03The tundra, Billups remembers that she was in the middle of a
- 1:13:07pretty bad crack habit. She knew Anthony, because he
- 1:13:11helped her score, she had been there with victim.
- 1:13:15Number 11 Diana and Nancy called But because Anthony had remains
- 1:13:24on the third floor, they were now hanging out on the second
- 1:13:27floor. He told her his room, his living
- 1:13:31space was too dirty didn't want to bring a woman there.
- 1:13:34So, the tiger had heard around the block that there was an
- 1:13:38accusation that he was the rapist.
- 1:13:40And so, she was like, yo, what's up with this?
- 1:13:43All these girls are saying, you did weird stuff to them and
- 1:13:46Anthony responds by attacking her and trying to rape her.
- 1:13:49Oh my fucking God. Come on.
- 1:13:54It's like well, you know, they're not wrong.
- 1:13:57She actually noticed him pulling away extension cord, out of the
- 1:14:00wall and he choked her until she passed out afterwards.
- 1:14:02She said he behaved normal. He apologized for ripping up her
- 1:14:06sweater and she was with a promise that if she came back.
- 1:14:09The next day, he gave her 50 dollars for a t-shirt, she made
- 1:14:12it across the street to a restaurant called by a man named
- 1:14:17place at Beth. She started like sobbing as soon
- 1:14:20as she walked to the restaurant door.
- 1:14:23She told the owner Anthony tried to kill her and that she played
- 1:14:26dead to get him to leave her be. She went to the ER reported that
- 1:14:29she'd been assaulted and raped. She talked to a counselor And
- 1:14:34the counselor there said, yeah, you're like the fifth woman to
- 1:14:38tell us that Anthony Sowell. Rach, you done.
- 1:14:44I'm fucking done. Ooh, pretty.
- 1:14:47I told you. If you frustrated, they tell you
- 1:14:49what what what do you what do you?
- 1:14:52What do you mean? What do you mean?
- 1:14:55Well the problem is for some of these women who are kind of
- 1:14:59transient By the time the process of the time like for the
- 1:15:06tundra, it was weeks before anybody from the sex crimes unit
- 1:15:10reached out to her. And there was a detective whose
- 1:15:12name was Durst, who did take the tundra seriously.
- 1:15:15But he had to then go do the legwork and try and track down
- 1:15:18other people and get interviews and evidence.
- 1:15:21So that goes well into October. The final attack that I think
- 1:15:27really like a lot like these two between like September and
- 1:15:30October that happened are the things that ultimately caused
- 1:15:34his demise. So while detective Durst is
- 1:15:38working the case pretty much the meantime. 51 year old, Sean
- 1:15:43Morris is salted by Anthony to October 20th. 2009 she'd been
- 1:15:47out kind of have a you know, day party and getting high during
- 1:15:50again she stood at the bus stop when Anthony saw her She knew he
- 1:15:55had connections to drugs, and that's all she really wanted for
- 1:15:57that. She wanted to score.
- 1:15:59So they had a pretty regular moment, getting high Sean, went
- 1:16:02home and as she was going to get on the bus, she realized that
- 1:16:06she had left her identification at Anthony's house.
- 1:16:09If she went back. When she went back into the
- 1:16:12house and ran upstairs, that's when he attacked her, he told
- 1:16:15her if she tried to scream or run, he would kill her.
- 1:16:17She says she remembers those thought, being very violent, but
- 1:16:22she screamed for help. He ran to another room to start
- 1:16:26closing the windows and left one window in his room where the
- 1:16:30attack was happening open. And which Sean naked.
- 1:16:36Climbs out the window on the third floor.
- 1:16:39Yep, Anthony comes around. It's like, oh no.
- 1:16:43And he tries to grab her to pull her back in and she's straight
- 1:16:47up. Let's go.
- 1:16:49Falling three floors three stories to the ground breaks,
- 1:16:52both her hands eight. Ribs, fractured her skull, but
- 1:16:55she is alive. Okay, now one of us that
- 1:16:59bastard's employees is like I just saw a lady fall out of a
- 1:17:02building Right across the street from me, right?
- 1:17:06Exact place. That is just like I am sick and
- 1:17:09tired of what is going on with the women and Anthony foul so he
- 1:17:14heads over. To the alley.
- 1:17:16And he sees Anthony down there trying to pick up shot Sean.
- 1:17:21It's just kind of, like, incapable of moving, just
- 1:17:23screaming. Help other people have come out
- 1:17:25of their houses and they are filming this interaction.
- 1:17:28Somebody ends up giving her their shirt to cover her up.
- 1:17:32And he tries to say that she's his wife and he need to bring
- 1:17:35her back inside that she had. Fallen out of balcony, the
- 1:17:38paramedics came and by that time she had passed out, he tells
- 1:17:42them. I'm her wife, they let him ride.
- 1:17:49and the ambulance now here's the thing Sean was unfortunately she
- 1:17:55was married and that person was not a right.
- 1:17:59It's a show he felt like my husband's going to find out that
- 1:18:02I was caught naked with a string.
- 1:18:06So she just told them that they were getting high she dropped
- 1:18:08her keys golf about only problem is the balcony wasn't on the
- 1:18:12same side of the alley and the police were real suspicious but
- 1:18:16both Anthony and Sean said it was an accident.
- 1:18:19So please for like are you sure it was an accident?
- 1:18:22And she's like, yep. Yep.
- 1:18:23Yep, so they could really do anything because nobody reported
- 1:18:26a crime so as he thinks he's safe, but let's hundreds case
- 1:18:31makes it to the department and they filed charges against him
- 1:18:34on October 28th. Nine, they sign a warrant to
- 1:18:38check his house on October 29th at six pm 13 SWAT members show
- 1:18:43up to raid his home. Now.
- 1:18:44This is just for the rape of the tundra.
- 1:18:48The SWAT team walk in and they're just like this place
- 1:18:51smells awful. So the team breaks with like,
- 1:18:57splits up a team, goes down to the basement.
- 1:18:59They're open all the doors on the first floor.
- 1:19:01Second floor, third floor, third floor, there is a locked door,
- 1:19:05the breach, the door. And there are the bodies of
- 1:19:08Tunisia for Stephen and Diane tartar in the basement.
- 1:19:12At the same time officers, find freshly, move dirt which is
- 1:19:15Genesis Webster means they stopped the search, leave the
- 1:19:20house and the change, the warrant pretty much they contact
- 1:19:23the Age to get a new war. Screw the rape charge murder and
- 1:19:29they contacted the court, Anthony's, not in the house of
- 1:19:33business. But they're recovering bodies
- 1:19:36everywhere. One of Anthony's neighbors goes
- 1:19:40and tells his sister truss up. That look police are in front of
- 1:19:43Anthony's house. And as she walks in, she finds
- 1:19:47Anthony combo sitting on Tresses couch.
- 1:19:51And she's like, you got to go back and talk to them, like
- 1:19:54they're saying that they found a body upstairs, and he only says
- 1:19:58two things on the right there, that girl made me do it and it's
- 1:20:03all going to come out now. when they pulled up though, he asked,
- 1:20:08he's like, take me back and so she did When the neighbor got
- 1:20:14home, she just straight-up wanted to the police and was
- 1:20:17like, the man you're looking for is that his sister's house?
- 1:20:22He admitted to us. That he did it.
- 1:20:25Now as soon as Anthony got back to trust his house, he took off
- 1:20:28running. He was staying in abandoned
- 1:20:31houses. They put a 12 thousand dollar
- 1:20:35bounty on his head Crimestoppers.
- 1:20:39Friday, October 30th 2009, they bring in like a whole like
- 1:20:43forensic team, who find the remains in the property, he had
- 1:20:47made very little attempt to hide what he was doing.
- 1:20:49Most of them were shot in the backyard, not buried, more than
- 1:20:5224 inches. Which did not hide them or the
- 1:20:56scent. She Crystal Crystal Dozier was
- 1:21:00found with a piece of cloth wrapped around her neck, her
- 1:21:02wrists and ankles were bound with wire tying.
- 1:21:05A Carmichael was discovered in a shallow backyard, Grant
- 1:21:08electrical cord around her neck and that's a hunter was there as
- 1:21:11well. A strap from her purse.
- 1:21:12Since around her growth Michelle Mason was partially covered in
- 1:21:15the backyard by dirt and blankets and plastic garbage
- 1:21:19bags. It even bother bury her like
- 1:21:22Crystal. She'd also been strangled with
- 1:21:24cloth. Tim Smith who hadn't even been
- 1:21:27reported missing was the last of the bodies.
- 1:21:29We found the backyard naked from the waist down wrapped in a
- 1:21:31blanket and clear plastic bags. She was also tied with strips of
- 1:21:36gall to show in a Culver was found and the crawl space in the
- 1:21:40front sitting room which is the same SWAT place.
- 1:21:44Where SWAT team member Richard Butler, found selicia Fortson
- 1:21:47Nancy cobs and Diane toner. So Sean is necklace fractured
- 1:21:52and she was bound with moderate growth.
- 1:21:55Nancy. Nancy was determined to be the
- 1:21:59fourth body. She had been strangled then
- 1:22:01close in five layers of black plastic bags and wrapped in a
- 1:22:05comforter. A 36-inch shoelace and 12 inch
- 1:22:10long. Sock were wrapped around her
- 1:22:13neck, and her wrists were bound with other shoe laces, Janice
- 1:22:16web and the Shonda long were also found in the basement.
- 1:22:19Anthony managed to hide until Halloween.
- 1:22:22So two days And the reason why he came out of hiding was
- 1:22:27cussing, you need to get high, and a man by the name of Joe
- 1:22:31Beale wasn't cost them walking around like a skeleton.
- 1:22:36And he saw Anthony and he called it, he didn't, he did get that
- 1:22:42twelve thousand dollars as well. Say he got his money.
- 1:22:45Damn, right. He got that 12 Grand Anthony
- 1:22:48tried to play it off. When the police arrived, they
- 1:22:50didn't have a picture because I guess cops didn't have cell
- 1:22:53phones like that at the time he wasn't late 2009.
- 1:22:59You had so, come on. Yeah, I don't know, but they
- 1:23:01didn't have a picture of who they were looking for. but that
- 1:23:07didn't really matter with the cops, they were just like this
- 1:23:10guy's wanted and that guy thinks you look like the guy and then
- 1:23:14you try to play it off like he was a druggie and the cops had
- 1:23:17already like talk to him the night before.
- 1:23:20They bring out a fingerprint scanner and he's just like,
- 1:23:22never mind. It's me.
- 1:23:24I did it. He's 50 years old, they said
- 1:23:29it's bonded. Five million dollars owed.
- 1:23:33This is good. No, but damn good.
- 1:23:40I take his lawyers. Almost two years to go through
- 1:23:43the thousands upon thousands of hours of CCTV, footage of
- 1:23:47Anthony's comings and goings in the area as well as all the
- 1:23:50Cements and records and charges against him.
- 1:23:52He's Charles started on June 6, 2011, he was charged with 11
- 1:23:55counts of aggravated murder and seventy four counts of rape,
- 1:23:59kidnapping tampering with evidence and abuse of a corpse
- 1:24:02he plead guilty by reason of insanity.
- 1:24:04But during the trial, he just changed it to not guilty.
- 1:24:08Trout took about a month, July 22nd 2011.
- 1:24:11He's found guilty of all, but two counts.
- 1:24:14The jury reconvene on August 10 2011 and they recommended the
- 1:24:18death penalty. Two days later, it was upheld by
- 1:24:22the judge. and September 14th, Anthony was put on death row, at
- 1:24:27the chili cook-off, Correctional Institution, which is when we
- 1:24:33find our next flaw in the system, is lawyers filed an
- 1:24:36appeal, the Supreme Court of Ohio because his execution was
- 1:24:41scheduled for October 29th, the following year, okay, he had one
- 1:24:46year there were not going to be 20 years on death row and Ohio,
- 1:24:49apparently No, they didn't get an appeal but they did get a
- 1:24:53stay of execution. She just didn't kill next year.
- 1:24:59Why not? They managed to push it off
- 1:25:022013. He gets new lawyers.
- 1:25:04Who say that he didn't get a fair trial because the media
- 1:25:07coverage, but his previous lawyer suck, and they had an
- 1:25:09issue with the jury being chosen.
- 1:25:10When the court was closed from the public, these motions went
- 1:25:14on for a while, but in 2016, that appeal was rejected, May
- 1:25:172017. He appealed to the US Supreme
- 1:25:20Court, they denied to hear the case saying that Ohio had done
- 1:25:23its job properly. February 2018, the Ohio Supreme
- 1:25:26Court, denied a third appearance, He'll may have 20/20
- 1:25:29was denied again. Pretty much through abusing the
- 1:25:33appeals process and he sells example to extend his life, an
- 1:25:37extra decade. He died.
- 1:25:40February 2021 and the turmoil. Oh, just last year.
- 1:25:46Yep. That Imperial Avenue house was
- 1:25:50demolished in 2011 on July, 16th 2021, it began building what
- 1:25:54they call The Garden of eleven Angels.
- 1:25:57It was dedicated on my birthday. November 6 2021.
- 1:26:01Hey for the first time and 2001 the five women who escaped
- 1:26:06Anthony told their stories and episode of snapped on oxygen on
- 1:26:10July 24th 2021. Ray sausage still struggling to
- 1:26:15stay in business, obviously was proven that the family's
- 1:26:18business was not the reason for the smell but that did
- 1:26:20negatively impact their business for quite some time.
- 1:26:23All right. Did he have Cleveland agreed to
- 1:26:25pay six of the 11 families, 1 million dollars due to botched
- 1:26:32investigations or feasible investigate the disappearance
- 1:26:36It's what about like? What about?
- 1:26:40Like the hospital and leave the the person who said, oh yeah,
- 1:26:43yeah, five other people who came here in like, wait.
- 1:26:46So that's not the hospital's called there.
- 1:26:48But all the hospital can do is take the rape kit, reports the
- 1:26:51police. The problem is, you've got
- 1:26:54somebody who's a junkie who's scared, they're going to be
- 1:26:56arrested if they talk to cops. So, by the time, the cops get
- 1:26:59there, the woman's though. And so now they just have this
- 1:27:02report. And this woman, they can't find
- 1:27:05And that well, I'm going to talk about like part of why.
- 1:27:08This is the problem and give me mod, like two minutes to
- 1:27:11grandstand. I know you've been looking for a
- 1:27:13while, but I painstakingly brought up the strictest history
- 1:27:16because it is important to ask you to decide that's the story.
- 1:27:19Socially, we have decided that some people don't deserve
- 1:27:21empathy, they deserve less caring, less respect.
- 1:27:24And those people are always the victims of man, like Gary
- 1:27:27Ridgway and Samuel, little and Anthony sell.
- 1:27:29A lot of times people ask me how our serial killer so successful.
- 1:27:34And I have So many times in the last year that serial killers
- 1:27:37are not so brilliant class of criminal, they are exploiting a
- 1:27:41loophole in our justice system. A blindness that our system
- 1:27:44possesses and like until we stop ranking in filing.
- 1:27:48Human value like this, we're going to see crimes like this.
- 1:27:51Persist, I also think this is why I am so hard on Cops in
- 1:27:55these pods fast because when a community does not have faith in
- 1:27:58the justice system, they don't use it.
- 1:28:03Too, many of his victims did not have faith in the Cleveland
- 1:28:06Police Department, and because they didn't have that Faith
- 1:28:10police were unaware, that they had a serial killer on their
- 1:28:12hands. It's all checks, and balances,
- 1:28:15and for the USA, everything is out of balance, and it has been
- 1:28:18now for decades. This is why we have the protest
- 1:28:21for unjust shootings and brutality and I feel it really
- 1:28:24feel like police officers, feel like everybody's ganging up on
- 1:28:27their profession right now, but like we want to be protected, we
- 1:28:30want to be able to call you. We want to believe that
- 1:28:33somewhere out there. When bad things happen, the bad
- 1:28:35guys get caught. That's the satisfaction of this
- 1:28:38podcast. You know that when you leave the
- 1:28:41episode, I have told you that Justice was done.
- 1:28:44It may have been delayed but it happened.
- 1:28:47I wish there were more cases where I could say, the bad guy
- 1:28:50gets got it doesn't take 10. 20 years for it to happen.
- 1:28:55Way we work on that as if we stopped our victims away because
- 1:28:58they aren't perfect people and we got to stop letting Predators
- 1:29:01go because they are nice, guys. But, you know, that's my
- 1:29:06grandstanding for the day I'm done. yeah, got a lot of
- 1:29:12feelings about I mean, what's your right though?
- 1:29:16You're like everything. You said absolutely correct?
- 1:29:18Like you stand wonder what's behind that.
- 1:29:20Link. If the, if the justice system
- 1:29:24worked in that Community then they would have called him like
- 1:29:30the first woman who report but specifically chose women who
- 1:29:35were addicts, and I don't know if it was as purposeful as say
- 1:29:41Gary Ridgway or Sam, Littles was but People who are streetwalkers
- 1:29:48or doing sex work or on drugs, should be able to report that a
- 1:29:52crime has happened to them and have some reasonable
- 1:29:55expectation. That will be taken.
- 1:29:57Seriously, that this is not what they deserve.
- 1:29:59Yeah. Because they aren't living the
- 1:30:02life that we approve to be. You know, I deal in the US and
- 1:30:06that just reminds me of the Green River Killer like, like
- 1:30:11seriously? Yeah.
- 1:30:18Great storytelling is always thank you.
- 1:30:22Well, what do we have today in our paranormal palette?
- 1:30:27Because that was a lot. Okay?
- 1:30:29This one you'll find enjoyable. Okay, okay, okay.
- 1:30:37So I talked about like two men last year that had a knack for
- 1:30:41finding frauds in the spiritualism community and
- 1:30:46exposing them, where the trial license that they were.
- 1:30:49Are we talking about more magic people, maybe?
- 1:30:57What magician hates ghosts, ghosts people mediums.
- 1:31:00Now, I wouldn't. Okay.
- 1:31:01So it's, this is not magicians that he kills people today.
- 1:31:06So, the two people I'm talking about, you know, the to Harry's
- 1:31:10Harry Harry, Houdini? Yeah, your price.
- 1:31:15And it occurred to me that I didn't know entirely well into
- 1:31:21like holding a seance and or what was considered a seance or
- 1:31:26honestly? Like, I've seen people just be
- 1:31:29like, all right, we're just sitting together, chilling.
- 1:31:31And then I've seen other situations where it's like,
- 1:31:34super elaborate, right? Yes.
- 1:31:37So, I'm like, well, who's right here?
- 1:31:39Do I need like, 57 candles and I need to, like, nobody intentions
- 1:31:44as I'm lighting them. Do I need a fancy table?
- 1:31:47Do I need a Ouija board? I got on.
- 1:31:48Oh yeah. So I wrote this down, I wrote it
- 1:31:54down. So I gotta say, okay, so demons
- 1:31:58your boy went on a search if they got to tell you about so
- 1:32:03seances today. Hey, are you like famous ones?
- 1:32:09So what I'm going to do is go over like what I say or else is
- 1:32:13what's considered Nerd a seance. There are some famous ones that
- 1:32:17I read about. I'm probably not gonna go to in
- 1:32:20deep like in depth with them because there's so much going
- 1:32:28into. What's a seance is and what it
- 1:32:31goes. Almost seances.
- 1:32:33So what are we contacted? We contacted ghost.
- 1:32:39Some people do. Some people do also, I have this
- 1:32:42real like Wonder because you know, I love my TV show about
- 1:32:46the cop and the lady. Amy Allan.
- 1:32:49It's not that files, you know? I love my dad files.
- 1:32:51Yeah. Okay, NEC stuff.
- 1:32:56This not just like judeo Christian.
- 1:33:00She she sees like some ancient things sometimes I'm like, can
- 1:33:03you talk to those things I just thought, you know, like, they
- 1:33:06don't want to talk to us, there's not.
- 1:33:08Not right. Maybe we don't want to talk to
- 1:33:09us. They're like ancient being.
- 1:33:11So like just been walking the Earth for like Millennia and
- 1:33:13they're like, can y'all just go somewhere, please, you're so
- 1:33:17beneath me. No, that's exactly what they're
- 1:33:30like. They're like little ants want to
- 1:33:33talk to me go away. Oh God.
- 1:33:37So if you're new to this end of the podcast, deep dark recesses
- 1:33:42of the podcast or to the Paranormal things, you're
- 1:33:46probably like, well, you know, WTF is a seance.
- 1:33:50Well, I got the answer for you right here.
- 1:33:53And according to many of my sources today, See aren't at?
- 1:33:59It's like the basic or is basically like an attempt to
- 1:34:02communicate with the dead in the afterlife, that's that's it.
- 1:34:08So the word Seance come originates from France and it
- 1:34:12means to sit or a session. So basically what it's a on,
- 1:34:20says you're sitting having a session trying to do it.
- 1:34:26I mean I don't say anybody could do it.
- 1:34:34Definitely. If you're like sensitive or like
- 1:34:37your if you know your medium mediums are mediums.
- 1:34:42Are the main people who hold sayings or who lead this Seance.
- 1:34:48See that's another thing I have seen people who are not mediums
- 1:34:52Do this, like how do you hold the commune with the spirits?
- 1:34:57Like how dangerous try just do it.
- 1:35:03Okay, the I'll make the rules. I know and no need to hook and
- 1:35:08she's do I, but people, if he would do these things, oh God.
- 1:35:16So, in the 19th century English, the word Seance referred to a
- 1:35:25meeting, a people trying to receive spiritual istic
- 1:35:28messages. So, so the meaning of It, kind
- 1:35:32of like, stay the same, but like, so you're not talking to
- 1:35:38they don't, they don't include the afterlife, they just include
- 1:35:41that they want spiritualists acknowledges.
- 1:35:44So, It's implied, it's implied, but it's not like, okay.
- 1:35:51That's so weird to me. So yeah, this was just like a
- 1:35:56meeting of people get together and talk about weird stuff D&D
- 1:36:01night for us. I know right baby.
- 1:36:04Basically that's like deity for us.
- 1:36:08So the Seance always has a medium.
- 1:36:13There's always a medium and there.
- 1:36:17They are there to basically just channeled the spirit here and,
- 1:36:22you know, have helped it communicate with people.
- 1:36:25That's something I would never do anyway.
- 1:36:28Even if I had the ability, you don't get to take control of my
- 1:36:31body? I don't know, boys.
- 1:36:38So normally seances are attended by people who want to contact a
- 1:36:43loved one or friend say they were like, I don't know, someone
- 1:36:49who knew this person. And hey, I remember that one
- 1:36:53time. This person had like buried some
- 1:36:55treasure in their backyard but I can't find it.
- 1:36:57So can you help me? That's just reminds me freaking
- 1:37:04episode Courage. The Cowardly Dog, when uses he
- 1:37:09hires like, I guess he doesn't hired it.
- 1:37:11They bring his medium and he goes to find, like he wants to
- 1:37:16find his brothers treasure or whatever the hell or a key to
- 1:37:19his brothers lockbox. And that's the only reason why
- 1:37:24he liked. He contacted.
- 1:37:25You want to talk to his loved one.
- 1:37:26He's like, where's the key? So I can get this money.
- 1:37:30Awesome. Yep, it smells Eustace.
- 1:37:33So yeah. So, they also, you know, people
- 1:37:40who like loved ones, they always, they also wanted to make
- 1:37:43sure that they're whoever had died had absolutely like passed
- 1:37:48over. They were doing well in the
- 1:37:50afterlife. There was actually an afterlife
- 1:37:53and that they didn't really end up in like, you know, he'll or
- 1:37:57something. What happens, what happens when
- 1:37:59you find out? I don't know, I don't know.
- 1:38:03Think you're probably talking to a demon if your total saying
- 1:38:09like, you know, you called Uncle Charles and he's like, what up
- 1:38:12call me and you're like oh is it nice and heaven?
- 1:38:15And Uncle Travis like haha, I don't know what happens like,
- 1:38:20okay. How's how's Purgatory?
- 1:38:22How you know, Purgatory neither. Sorry nephew, what is it?
- 1:38:40I'm pretty sure that's why. Yes, if you're in heaven, like
- 1:39:02we don't let them know that Angels really look like
- 1:39:13Monsters. Oh my God.
- 1:39:20Gabriel look like and you cannot respond to you as 20.
- 1:39:23Have a nice if you don't count his eyes.
- 1:39:28Okay. If we don't talk about that eyes
- 1:39:31and inhale demons are like the wardens.
- 1:39:34They're just like screening or phone calls through like hmm.
- 1:39:37This seems like something I can possess.
- 1:39:39Let's get this kid. Had it when your daughter
- 1:39:42called? Should I tell her that you're
- 1:39:44burning in hell that you're getting a pineapple should have
- 1:39:48been sure. But from Little Nicky, it is for
- 1:39:52Little Nicky. She did the Hitler's hilarious.
- 1:39:58But anyway anyway, so you know people trying to communicate
- 1:40:15with the dead friends, do whatever forms it to can.
- 1:40:21This also Was a time when you know, frogs were pop up a lot of
- 1:40:27frogs and he wanted to make like a quick Buck at their lips.
- 1:40:31Great table system. Oh my goodness.
- 1:40:34Yes, at the expense of other people suffering.
- 1:40:37It's like that's. So like they went through so
- 1:40:40much to make so much. Like, I just want to talk to my
- 1:40:44grandma and then, here it is. Person is, Here's my thought
- 1:40:47process, though, like if you're like, listen, I got like a to
- 1:40:53say, W minimum. And you like lie to this person
- 1:40:57and tell them like how happy like their grandma was so proud
- 1:40:59of you. I know she never said it but she
- 1:41:01loves you so much. And then like, you're done.
- 1:41:04I feel like there's not that much harm in that.
- 1:41:06I think the problem was there were people who got like a
- 1:41:08dicted going to the sansa's. Like the lady who.
- 1:41:11Um, yeah, it's just a mystery house.
- 1:41:13Yes. Yes.
- 1:41:15Like seeing those people every Sunday and she was probably
- 1:41:18paying she do. Definitely wonder-percent, they
- 1:41:20were charging for that groups. Groups of mediums coming to her
- 1:41:23house. So I feel like in that situation
- 1:41:27that sucks but you're just taking advantage of somebody,
- 1:41:29but like if you make somebody feel better like one time so
- 1:41:32nice. Yeah.
- 1:41:34But didn't you have people like, was it, Sir, Arthur Conan Doyle
- 1:41:38and he's just like, yeah. All this stuff is real.
- 1:41:42These mediums that, uh, told me exactly what I wanted to hear
- 1:41:45and stuff like that, and they're just doing like cold readings
- 1:41:47and shit. And to him and it's just, like
- 1:41:50nothing delighted me more than when Houdini was just like, My
- 1:41:55mom didn't speak English. This bitch like he was so he was
- 1:42:00like any letter? That should have come from.
- 1:42:03My mom should have been in german.
- 1:42:06Yes, he's like. When am I mom were English?
- 1:42:08He always fluid then. Chairman was like the mom medium
- 1:42:12is like, of course. Yeah, because everybody thinks
- 1:42:19like nobody else and I love it. Yeah, that was the best.
- 1:42:25Always always, stay the Houdini God.
- 1:42:31So, you know what? We need to have like a code word
- 1:42:33for you and I so that he died. You gotta let me know the code
- 1:42:39word somehow. You say you got to get it to me,
- 1:42:43somehow. Oh, and then we will have proof
- 1:42:49of. Yeah, there you go.
- 1:42:51There you go. Well, that's what I'll talk
- 1:42:53about that later to vote. Houdini, Seance that.
- 1:42:57Remember that from last year? That was a fun time.
- 1:43:02Okay, so this is normally how a seance is set up.
- 1:43:06Like I'm just going to like stereotype a seance.
- 1:43:09Okay. So it's a dimly dimly lit room
- 1:43:13of always. But the table when it of course,
- 1:43:18maybe maybe chairs, who knows, maybe you want some floor?
- 1:43:23You can't lose most definitely candles and you have medium
- 1:43:27there to lead Seance and probably there, you know, your
- 1:43:31friends, our families is there with you.
- 1:43:35Plus some weird-looking guy, who, who's just, who's just
- 1:43:42who's just like he looks skeptical and he's just standing
- 1:43:46in like a corner and you just waking up.
- 1:43:49They always have like septic shock.
- 1:43:51No, just a joke. Okay, it's funny that you
- 1:43:55laughed because I smiled at the exact moment you start that.
- 1:43:59Like before you even laughed I just was like wait a second,
- 1:44:02what? Yeah.
- 1:44:04Yeah. There's this guy, he looks
- 1:44:06skeptical at home or in the corners like wait a second.
- 1:44:08Is that is that Harry Houdini? Why are you here?
- 1:44:12At this very personal thing and my family are doing a little
- 1:44:17side note in Houdini like he was such a star that like it was
- 1:44:21just like listen Brittany I want to sit in on The Stance.
- 1:44:25You have to contact your mother. I've been like.
- 1:44:27Alright cool dude. Yeah.
- 1:44:29Yeah. It but remember when Houdini he
- 1:44:32did attended séances, he had to go in Disguise sometimes because
- 1:44:37mediums were like, I don't want writing this used to do it.
- 1:44:42Yeah. God.
- 1:44:44And it's like, like he may contact the family and if he's
- 1:44:49just like randomly shows up in a disguise, and it's just like,
- 1:44:53like, when I was writing this, I was just thinking of like,
- 1:44:55someone just like him. Houdini like you're okay.
- 1:44:58So you're at Like Sears with somewhere getting to your family
- 1:45:01picture taken, right? And and Houdini just walks in on
- 1:45:06and off the street and he just like oh don't worry about me.
- 1:45:09I'm just here to observe and then I might jump in like a
- 1:45:12couple of your pictures to just because that's just like me,
- 1:45:21laugh is funny. While you talk to this lady, I'm
- 1:45:43gonna hide under the table. I'm gonna, I love that thing.
- 1:45:49He did with his knees and like, he could tell when she was
- 1:45:52moving her legs. Like, when his Like walk behind.
- 1:45:55Yeah basically. Yes don't worry about me.
- 1:45:59I'm just you know I'm just I'm just you know don't you sit over
- 1:46:02here doing like let's look at like he's playing that game
- 1:46:09twister. Yes, she's like.
- 1:46:11All right I'm ready. Got one leg over here.
- 1:46:13What are by here? A little TV.
- 1:46:20Okay, so anyway, at the table to say on starts in the medium you
- 1:46:25know they enter this trance-like state that's which allows them
- 1:46:29to community to communicate with the spirit work.
- 1:46:32So they begin a channel, to Spirit.
- 1:46:35And for anybody who is confused channeling, it's not possession.
- 1:46:41Channeling is not possession. Channeling is consensual.
- 1:46:48As well as possession is not consensual at all.
- 1:46:52Absolutely, not consensual. I don't even trust people to
- 1:46:55wear a mask right now. I
- 1:47:14hate it. I hate it.
- 1:47:16Yeah, you know, yeah, like don't touch me.
- 1:47:20Don't, you don't have to, like, put your hand in your ghostly
- 1:47:22hand, on my shoulder just like, hey, see him across the room and
- 1:47:25just shout into this this way when you do I want you to like
- 1:47:29knock on the door like 27 times? Yep, you know, and that is
- 1:47:37actually like one of the tools that mediums use to get Speers
- 1:47:43the communicate with them. Like getting to tap on to Tables
- 1:47:47or like something a candle blows out or some like, well-loved
- 1:47:51channeling. And the auto writing though.
- 1:47:54Yes, alrighty. I mean I guess it happens during
- 1:48:01the channel lineup where they know I'm writing.
- 1:48:03The ghost is riding through my hand.
- 1:48:04Yep, you have to either taking control of my hand.
- 1:48:07Hmm. Interesting.
- 1:48:09I see okay and you know like the medium, they ask them questions
- 1:48:13and they answer them it. It's Clip that goes from, I went
- 1:48:19on. It's like you ask them
- 1:48:20questions. Like they're different tools
- 1:48:21that you use to get your goes to speak to you either like a turn
- 1:48:26off your mag light or you know dislike goes off whenever they
- 1:48:32want to communicate like yes or no question.
- 1:48:35If I worked at like one of those locations and I pretend to be a
- 1:48:38medium, every single person would get a letter.
- 1:48:40That just took like die die. You're like, I don't know why.
- 1:48:48I like I've been on this ghost tour.
- 1:48:50Like five different times notices die.
- 1:48:54Like they hate me. Now, I realize I'm just gonna
- 1:49:03like mess up. Oh, yeah, definitely woman.
- 1:49:09Owns this manner. And she talked about murdering
- 1:49:13ghost her entire life, and I'll just be like in the corner like,
- 1:49:19yelling, do the radio, you suck, just fucking everything up.
- 1:49:29Yeah, yeah stupid-ass bitch singing singing rap songs is
- 1:49:41like wait a second. Is this EVP say I like big butts
- 1:49:46and I cannot lie. What is a wop?
- 1:49:55They're like apparently the ghosts that there's some hoses.
- 1:49:58In this house, maybe we should get out of this house.
- 1:50:02Ha ha ha. Oh my God.
- 1:50:07The best part is like, in the EVPs, like, they don't hear,
- 1:50:10right? And so like they'd be like, I
- 1:50:13don't, I don't understand. I can't understand what you
- 1:50:15saying. There's what in the house Shoes
- 1:50:21shoes. There's some shoes in this
- 1:50:24house. Oh my god.
- 1:50:28Oh now some mediums. Some mediums did get fancy with
- 1:50:33it and they started producing some something called ectoplasm.
- 1:50:38Oh no. Yeah and that those were fun
- 1:50:42times when one what was it made out of Brian.
- 1:50:47Um, sometimes. Well, if for a frauds, they were
- 1:50:53found not to be like, made out of cheese cloth and stuff like
- 1:50:56that, like, she's cool. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, that
- 1:51:02they. Okay.
- 1:51:03So when was I think it was like when Houdini did the The contest
- 1:51:10for like, like, stop me with your spiritualism shit, right?
- 1:51:14So he just like, scoop it up and put it in his mouth.
- 1:51:19No no, no. They actually like head labs and
- 1:51:22stuff like that would be okay. Stuff on site.
- 1:51:25Was he like yo this is some cheesecloth cheesecloth.
- 1:51:33I don't understand how okay, I so yeah.
- 1:51:40They would give like they would give the median, not the
- 1:51:43mediums. They would give like Harry
- 1:51:44Houdini and or Harry prize for whoever like was like doing the
- 1:51:50doing the investigation on them they would give them like a
- 1:51:52sample of this ectoplasm and they go back to your lab and
- 1:51:55test it and stuff like that. And then like this is this is
- 1:51:59she's cool so I Googled it. Yeah ready for this and on the
- 1:52:06listing someone has made a tiny little go.
- 1:52:10Out of the cheesecloth and he's holding a sign.
- 1:52:13That says, here's my thing. Like I don't understand, this is
- 1:52:19just fabric. How is this ectoplasm?
- 1:52:21I think of ectoplasm, I think of Ghostbusters.
- 1:52:23Well, who well, they would put other things like you put things
- 1:52:27in it. Like the cheese cloth for cover
- 1:52:30yellow eggs. Whatever they could find.
- 1:52:33That was slimy. So like egg.
- 1:52:35White is pretty slow. Yeah.
- 1:52:39So they would do stuff like that cheese cloth.
- 1:52:41I was like, she's focused even gooey, you know it's just
- 1:52:46something they could put in something that you put stuff
- 1:52:48inside of but yeah you did also mention like automatic writing.
- 1:52:54That's also something that Spirit mediums use as well.
- 1:52:58Oh yeah, that creeps me out. yeah, so other than automatic
- 1:53:04writing mediums mediums. They have other tools they can
- 1:53:12use to communicate with the dead, okay?
- 1:53:20And like automatic writing. It's basically, you know, the
- 1:53:25other parameter channeling the spirit and it's either like
- 1:53:28they're writing on a piece of paper.
- 1:53:31Like just for now. Everybody in the league there.
- 1:53:33Is there asking questions to the spirit?
- 1:53:35And that's basically yeah. The spirit is control your hand.
- 1:53:42Or there's this there's this this cute little game that's
- 1:53:47been out for, I don't know. Like hundreds is like 100
- 1:53:52concerts a year. I think or something that's like
- 1:53:54that. I'll need a spear upward.
- 1:53:57It's the talking, they Corner talking board as well or as it's
- 1:54:02more, commonly known Ouija board.
- 1:54:06Not a fan. This is how they would get their
- 1:54:10answers when they wanted to let me talking to Spirits.
- 1:54:16So if you don't know what a Ouija board is a Ouija board,
- 1:54:21it's a basically, first of all, I'm shaking my head at you if
- 1:54:25you don't know what a Ouija board is.
- 1:54:30But I'll also explain what it is.
- 1:54:33It's really like a flat board and on it is written the
- 1:54:38alphabet English. Alphabet, I'm not sure if they,
- 1:54:41I didn't, I should have looked this up.
- 1:54:43If they had like, we drew Ouija boards for like, those are
- 1:54:47countries and stuff like that. I'm pretty sure other countries
- 1:54:49are smart enough. Not to use, like, Ouija boards,
- 1:54:53or not to make something like this to communicate with the
- 1:54:55spirit were. But here we are an So it has the
- 1:55:03English alphabet A to Z on it and then it also has numbers is
- 1:55:08029 on it and in each of the upper Corners it's a yes or no
- 1:55:15and I think in the middle of the top it says goodbye.
- 1:55:19Yeah or at the bottom says goodbye every.
- 1:55:22Yeah the bottom says goodbye and like like one side will say yes
- 1:55:27the other side say no. There's letters in the middle.
- 1:55:29And numbers. Yes, yes.
- 1:55:33Then it also includes a I can hold on the plant chat it
- 1:55:39includes the planchette for you to highlight the letters or
- 1:55:44whatever. Answer was yes or no or numbers.
- 1:55:47So they have that. Like I said it's also referred
- 1:55:52to as a talking board I call it the don't fuck with the board
- 1:55:59myself because I don't fuck with that board at all.
- 1:56:05Since you never know like if we're actually contacting a
- 1:56:09human Spirit or possibly a demon and just remember when you're
- 1:56:16using a Ouija board just you know say goodbye and if they
- 1:56:19don't say goodbye back to and say I said goodbye, so make sure
- 1:56:22you say goodbye. I don't know, like I shouldn't.
- 1:56:25I also should have looked up what happens when you say
- 1:56:27goodbye it. Ain't there like no, I think.
- 1:56:36And talking to ghosts and stuff. They?
- 1:56:44You close the circle. Yeah, it's kind of like if I'm
- 1:56:48on the phone with you. I'm I said, goodbye click
- 1:56:53basically, if you can be honest. Yeah you can be on the other end
- 1:56:59but I've decided to like, stop this, we're done here, is this
- 1:57:02terminated sorry sir? Well yeah, like Ouija boards.
- 1:57:07They were popularly. They were made Popular by Hasbro
- 1:57:13and like they were supposed to be like some type of like just
- 1:57:16they were supposed to be just like a basic like parlor trick
- 1:57:19type of thing and then people actually started taking it more
- 1:57:23seriously and like Leaving that to the cult and stuff like that.
- 1:57:29And that's where you get the best abdon by the satanic Panic.
- 1:57:36The seventies know, you gotta love that.
- 1:57:39I love that era. It's my favorite error.
- 1:57:43Everything was the devil. Everything was the devil's
- 1:57:45fucking metal. I loved it.
- 1:57:50Oh my God. But yeah.
- 1:57:53It's a parlor trick but you know something and I'll get into that
- 1:57:59as well as her eyes talk about this other thing.
- 1:58:03So I I wrote down like Bloody Mary and like handyman stuff
- 1:58:06like that. But I'm like, is that like, I
- 1:58:10mean, it's like a slumber party type of thing.
- 1:58:12Is that more like a summoning ritual for like, like, you're
- 1:58:15trying to like summon somebody instead of like trying to
- 1:58:19communicate with them because you're trying to like, yeah,
- 1:58:21it's like those are not saying Take situation.
- 1:58:24Yeah. But There is a game / challenge
- 1:58:33that popped up, like six years ago.
- 1:58:35Do you remember the Charlie Charlie challenge?
- 1:58:41No. Okay, yeah, wait.
- 1:58:45Wasn't that like writer who said there's that kid.
- 1:58:48But he saw in his house and sleeping.
- 1:58:50He had asked the kid how he died and I was the one rule.
- 1:58:53You weren't supposed to ask, he's like, taking pictures all
- 1:58:56over his house and setting up videos and things.
- 1:58:59Is that the guy with chocolate or possibly, possibly.
- 1:59:04I think the kid might have been named Charlie.
- 1:59:06I don't know if they had another was challenge associated with
- 1:59:08this. It was very good moment in
- 1:59:10Creepypasta history. Yes.
- 1:59:12Yes, sir. It was as well as with it Momo.
- 1:59:17I love the Mosaic because it was don't like the most thing.
- 1:59:21It was just a really cool statue and then they like tried to
- 1:59:23scare kids. Okay.
- 1:59:25Yes. That thing but then they had
- 1:59:27like the Moment Like it Like Moma was on WhatsApp.
- 1:59:32That was just somebody being a jerk.
- 1:59:34Yeah but yet it was on WhatsApp and like they would tell you
- 1:59:39things and she liked that it was just a weird thing to happen.
- 1:59:44But no. Okay.
- 1:59:45So Charlie Charlie challenge at its base based, basically
- 1:59:50raising you get like a piece of paper, right and on your right
- 1:59:56it for time. So let's get on a paper.
- 2:00:00You write yes and no thing, right?
- 2:00:05No, yes, no, yes, I think and that's how it was done.
- 2:00:10And You get two pencils. And you're like, just cross them
- 2:00:17over each other. Like we have one pencil
- 2:00:20balancing over the Elder one and whichever way that pencil went.
- 2:00:25Was this Charlie person? Answering your question.
- 2:00:31And for some reason this was believed to be a demon named
- 2:00:37Charlie. I'm not even sure why a demon
- 2:00:40would be named Charlie but So, this challenge actually
- 2:00:53originated in I guess. The Spanish-speaking countries
- 2:01:01and it was very it was just called a pencil game.
- 2:01:04So it's like a Magic 8-Ball. Yeah, so this High children.
- 2:01:14Oh Hi, anyway. Um so like people were
- 2:01:24interested in it because it had crossed language barriers, and
- 2:01:30like, it was just like this, this type of game just like
- 2:01:33connected everybody together. For like, I don't know for like
- 2:01:37the few couple months that it was popular on YouTube.
- 2:01:45And best. Because that's that's usually
- 2:01:47that's where I first saw on YouTube.
- 2:01:49Was someone doing the Charlie Charlie Challenge?
- 2:01:51And they were saying Charlie, Charlie blah, blah blah.
- 2:01:55Something something, how'd you die?
- 2:01:58Or who's going to am I going to die?
- 2:02:01Yes, no, I get that. The the the ritualistic aspect
- 2:02:06of it is the writing on the paper or whatnot, but it's like
- 2:02:09that, like crosses over into being like a tulpa.
- 2:02:14Look enough people believe a thing that becomes real.
- 2:02:17Yeah. Okay.
- 2:02:18Okay. Yes.
- 2:02:19Yeah. I feel like that kind of like,
- 2:02:20Charlie becomes the the taupe of they're not necessarily You
- 2:02:25should do a whole episode on that.
- 2:02:26That's got some very interesting.
- 2:02:28It's from the list. Yeah, that's right.
- 2:02:32That's how I thought. I feel like Bloody Mary and
- 2:02:34Candyman. Those are all cope with to.
- 2:02:36Yeah. Like millions of people were all
- 2:02:37doing, you know, the flickering light thing.
- 2:02:40At the same time, a lot of things could be topaz, but we
- 2:02:45will talk about that on top of the episode.
- 2:02:47Awesome. I think that's a really great.
- 2:02:50Yes, paranormal Concepts. I was doing research on that
- 2:02:55actually the other day and I was like, this is so much, just
- 2:02:57there's so much goes into it. I watched a movie on Hulu, like
- 2:03:02a called hookah lives. Oh, I love, I love that.
- 2:03:05Yes. And I was like so surprised when
- 2:03:09they were like at the table and I was like you're right, it is
- 2:03:12there's a fucking tool only in the movie it actually has
- 2:03:15catastrophic You know consequences.
- 2:03:21You didn't watch the first puka movie yet though.
- 2:03:23The one? Where the guy plays the actual
- 2:03:26point? Yeah yeah.
- 2:03:27Yeah. I saw that one.
- 2:03:28I was like, oh this is kind of fucked up.
- 2:03:30I was looking for like, horror Christmas movies.
- 2:03:33Recently on break But yeah, it's hopeless will get in the tour
- 2:03:40bus. So with games like the Charlie,
- 2:03:46Charlie Challenge, and, and Ouija board, there's this thing
- 2:03:51that kind of explains how they work, or how do I know you're
- 2:03:57gonna talk about? I forget how you say it, but I
- 2:03:59know it is. I'm going to try to pronounce
- 2:04:03his Idol motor as an idol motor phenomenon.
- 2:04:07Yeah, yes. So I had to Wiki this and see
- 2:04:11what the fuck. That meant anything.
- 2:04:13Because for people who believe in spiritual stuff, right?
- 2:04:16Yeah. I feel like the ritual aspects
- 2:04:18of using these toys are more important than like the, the
- 2:04:23movement of the planchette and that totally works with this
- 2:04:25concept. You know, she's that your
- 2:04:28subconscious is moving. Yep, that's basically.
- 2:04:31It is your like, I guess it's like you want an answer and you
- 2:04:37yourself who's holding the planchette or like the paper
- 2:04:41like that paper have two pencils are on balancing that you kind
- 2:04:44of like breeze into that direction or you like Make your
- 2:04:49hand move into the. I've read about this before and
- 2:04:51like they say that like the more people are together.
- 2:04:55The more you feel like you have less control.
- 2:04:59Yes. Yes, I can see that.
- 2:05:01You're not doing it. You think that you're not doing
- 2:05:03and everybody thinks they're not doing it?
- 2:05:05And together, you're kind of all collectively.
- 2:05:06Hoping something happens. Yep.
- 2:05:09And it kind of make it happen. And then you're like, who's
- 2:05:12moving? The planchette?
- 2:05:13Are you moving it? You're doing it.
- 2:05:14And I'm like, no, I'm not going. That's the funny part was doing
- 2:05:17it. All our people are moving it
- 2:05:20that you don't realize it. Yes, you're all moving it.
- 2:05:23Yeah, for me though I feel like they'll do virtual nature of
- 2:05:26stuff. Like I feel like repetitively
- 2:05:27doing certain things over and over again.
- 2:05:30That's where I feel like there's a lot of power.
- 2:05:32Oh yeah absolutely. Yeah you know you if you wake up
- 2:05:35every day and you talk to yourself in the mirror and you
- 2:05:38tell yourself positive things that that's a ritual and that
- 2:05:41has power over you you are meeting up consistently with the
- 2:05:45same group of people and you're all thinking about the same
- 2:05:47stuff. You're doing the same ritual
- 2:05:49over and over again. I feel like there's power in
- 2:05:51that and it's not a good thing. When you know you're sitting
- 2:05:55here like we're going to be the demon like okay if you're trying
- 2:05:59to contact a demon no it's not a good thing at all, created a
- 2:06:03ritual now based around something dark and I don't feel
- 2:06:08like the board itself is actually doing anything.
- 2:06:10No, no, it's just like something.
- 2:06:13You should really. I feel like the powers and the
- 2:06:15people and their connection to Spirit.
- 2:06:18Quality and stuff like that. Absolutely 100%.
- 2:06:21That's yeah, I love that. Yes.
- 2:06:24Absolutely. But yeah, I know, that was so
- 2:06:29interesting like ages ago, I was like there's a real physical
- 2:06:33like you're like your body has impulses.
- 2:06:35Yeah. Separate from your you knowing
- 2:06:39that you're doing It's wow. How cool is wrong?
- 2:06:45so, I talked about the tools. Of course, I want to talk about
- 2:06:51people who've actually, I don't know, use these tools, so, and I
- 2:06:55can't talk about people who use these tools when I'm talking
- 2:06:58about people. The two people who may have
- 2:07:01actually started this, whole fucking spiritualism stuff and
- 2:07:06that's the fox sisters. Yeah, it's a haven't Renee's
- 2:07:11right now. Of course we're gonna say is so
- 2:07:15mad. No.
- 2:07:19I love will reign and I will not stand for lowering slander.
- 2:07:23No, no no, no slandering will rain today, but they were both
- 2:07:28teenagers. Won't one was a teenager just
- 2:07:31was like Prix team so Margaret Fox and are they called her
- 2:07:36Maggie? And she was 15 and then Kate Fox
- 2:07:39and she was 11. So I have this story had to stir
- 2:07:50goodness. So yeah.
- 2:07:52So, I guess this there's a story behind how they started doing
- 2:07:57their spoofs through medium work.
- 2:08:00And so Story Goes that For like a week or so their household
- 2:08:09with their parents and stuff. They had just been experiencing
- 2:08:13some random knocking and like a lot of noises and bangs and
- 2:08:19stuff like going on at night and one night.
- 2:08:26Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
- 2:08:27One night Kate. She's like, I want to talk to
- 2:08:31this thing, whatever. I'm going to just talk and see
- 2:08:34if something answers me. and so she begins asking questions, you
- 2:08:42know, just random as questions and seeing if the thing would
- 2:08:46respond by knocking, she's like, if you're like a person or a
- 2:08:53man, if you're like a man knock like Twice done.
- 2:08:58Yeah like twice. If you died as like if you were
- 2:09:04murdered or something knock once and stuff like that and then
- 2:09:07like this thing would like knock back for her.
- 2:09:10And People in, you know, people caught wind of this, in the
- 2:09:18neighborhood, just like what's the word?
- 2:09:22Word is she just like here in the knocks of her house?
- 2:09:27No. - sister, I don't know, because that would suck.
- 2:09:34If your sister is like messing you up.
- 2:09:38It would suck those look so much.
- 2:09:42So so her popularity grew, of course, people from the
- 2:09:48neighborhood, heard about it. They'd come over to her house to
- 2:09:51hear these knockings. And in here to say, knocking an
- 2:09:54inch like answering her questions with these knocks, it
- 2:09:57were these noises. And there's a soul like oh my
- 2:10:00God. Like you're you're fantastic.
- 2:10:03You're a medium? Oh my God, like they know what?
- 2:10:06Obviously any homes. Those media inspector?
- 2:10:08I least. I don't think so not in the
- 2:10:09beginning. But that they like Katie and I
- 2:10:15don't know how Maggie got involved in this, but Maggie
- 2:10:20Maggie ended up, actually being like the manager for Katie like
- 2:10:25okay yeah, so They were so popular.
- 2:10:33I read this okay? They were they were popular.
- 2:10:35They were used in to seances. Okay well to see it.
- 2:10:38Two famous seances and they were both done by Presidential women.
- 2:10:44So first first the first lady's, okay.
- 2:10:50The first one was look it up. Jane, Pierce, she had, she had
- 2:11:03hired a fox sisters to hold a seance at the White House.
- 2:11:10And I think this was for, I guess her going to get her sons
- 2:11:17and she wanted to communicate with them and and they she it
- 2:11:24says that they didn't, she didn't give people like what
- 2:11:28happened. She didn't give them, you know,
- 2:11:32her reaction to their Seance or whatnot because well for one it
- 2:11:37was White House and it's probably confidential what goes
- 2:11:39on in the White House. And to, this is another reason I
- 2:11:45tell you that later. But another person another woman
- 2:11:48who Another first lady who hired the fox sisters was Mary Todd
- 2:11:55Lincoln. Oh yeah.
- 2:11:58She hired them to hold a seance. I think, first it was for Not
- 2:12:07not Abe. It wasn't for a bat first, but I
- 2:12:12think she had Sons as well, so she's trying to contact her sons
- 2:12:15and, and, and then she was trying to contact a gene and
- 2:12:20then. Yeah, I was like, that's yeah,
- 2:12:24yeah, that's sad. But, um, She also would not
- 2:12:33speak on it but on their Seance but she was like, she wasn't
- 2:12:37very impressed and you know, stuff like that she wasn't very
- 2:12:44so, okay. I'll tell you why later on down
- 2:12:49the line. Like after you going to do these
- 2:12:52two girls are, you know, you're famous for being mediums and
- 2:12:56stuff like that. And Zay.
- 2:13:03Want to, I think it's up Maggie, Maggie comes out to the public
- 2:13:06and she's like, hey guys, just want to let you know, like she
- 2:13:10just has her Her filming her, YouTube apology video.
- 2:13:15I just want to let you know that me and my sister actually had
- 2:13:18been faking this the whole time and they're like well how'd you
- 2:13:24do it? And she's like well when Kate
- 2:13:27was talking to people were there like responding to these knocks.
- 2:13:31I just be built like somewhere. Library banging like apples on a
- 2:13:34shoe strings and stuff like that against the wall I said it, it
- 2:13:40was her sister. I didn't want to give you the
- 2:13:46satisfaction. I have it now sir.
- 2:13:51I was right. Right.
- 2:13:54But yeah. So you know, after after all of
- 2:13:59these hearings is they had done and stuff like that
- 2:14:01communicating with people it was just Maggie behind the wall.
- 2:14:06Would apples and Kate just like going along with it.
- 2:14:10Now here's my thing. Nobody went.
- 2:14:13Yo, where's the other girl? Why is she not here?
- 2:14:20Oh my God. Oh my God.
- 2:14:22And and this is like, so some people believe this and some
- 2:14:26people are like no no, they were like they were course to like
- 2:14:31saying this because for one they were alcoholics and he died of
- 2:14:36alcoholism and people were like, well, someone had bribed them
- 2:14:42with alcohol to get them to say this.
- 2:14:46And that's like they The said this stuff.
- 2:14:52And I don't I mean I could see that happening.
- 2:14:56Someone like like what does what you just told me today with this
- 2:15:01horrible story? You told me today, somebody
- 2:15:04taking advantage of people in their addictions and other
- 2:15:11people. Yeah.
- 2:15:14Yeah. It's it was terrible other
- 2:15:17people were like, yeah, I guess he is that.
- 2:15:19Like I could see that they faked it because they're two or two
- 2:15:24girls, there, two teenagers and they're just bored in the house.
- 2:15:28And then the house board and like, this is like Jeff.
- 2:15:33Come on goose. Like obviously that little girl
- 2:15:35had just made up Jeff and was just talking to Jeff the
- 2:15:40Mongoose through the walls, her little imaginary friend.
- 2:15:43She is made up. But yeah.
- 2:15:50Also, I did want to touch on this Houdini say I'm staying
- 2:15:54which is still funny as fuck. I love the fact that he know.
- 2:16:02So apparently he didn't only give his wife a password.
- 2:16:06He gave like close friends to him a password as well, like
- 2:16:10different passwords for each people and like nobody has
- 2:16:15gotten the password at all. None of these mediums Well, you
- 2:16:19go and you have just like that's that's that's why I like
- 2:16:25nobody's real. And it's like I think the last
- 2:16:28one they did it last year. There's one that it 2020
- 2:16:31actually. They didn't want to 2020 is
- 2:16:34virtual it. A virtual Seance was for
- 2:16:37Houdini. Oh my God.
- 2:16:40Yeah. Um, what else, what else?
- 2:16:44I also want to touch on like other frauds, like, I don't
- 2:16:47know, like, John Edwards and Sylvia Browne.
- 2:16:50How they, what they do is they'll be a brown is the one
- 2:16:56who Said that the girls who were out of what's this mean
- 2:17:01Castillo. Yeah, that guy.
- 2:17:03Yeah, that. Yep, that they were dead girls
- 2:17:06that were dead. Yes, because I remember the one
- 2:17:08girl said she was watching the episode.
- 2:17:12That's where Sylvia Browne said to her mom.
- 2:17:15Your daughter's already dead. Yeah.
- 2:17:17And just, wow. This is wild.
- 2:17:20That was her biggest fail. A little time.
- 2:17:22That ended her career. I feel like you're a member.
- 2:17:25I think you're right, because she used to be on So shows and
- 2:17:28everything too. She's everywhere.
- 2:17:29She's always on the month, he'll show.
- 2:17:31Yes, I mean, all those guys. All they do is just cold reader
- 2:17:36are. That's all you do.
- 2:17:37That's all you do. And that's when those are, I'm
- 2:17:40like, in a room, full of, like, 200 people.
- 2:17:45Someone's experience a lot. Yeah, it's starting with the
- 2:17:48letter j. There's got to be a lot of
- 2:17:52people who've experienced a loss, and it starts the letter
- 2:17:55j. I'd say, yeah.
- 2:17:57And then the person will be like, oh yeah, well my grandma's
- 2:18:00little name is Janet or they were Dave, look around the room
- 2:18:04and see did it. Yeah, it's Janet.
- 2:18:06I can, I can feel a Jedi, feel a strong attraction to you.
- 2:18:10For some reason, this Janet I saw a great one online.
- 2:18:14We're like the guys like pulled up the idea that like whoever
- 2:18:19they were talking to was like cursing at them and the lady was
- 2:18:22like, that's definitely on my grandpa, she's like listen.
- 2:18:25Oh, right. Yeah.
- 2:18:26She was alive. She wasn't honest with you.
- 2:18:28But right now she's saying some stuff and I was like, bra, gasps
- 2:18:32lightly me better, yes, to Gaslight the person is say that
- 2:18:37Grandma is calling people names or you just go.
- 2:18:41You know what, maybe it's not your grandma.
- 2:18:42Maybe it's somebody else. Grandma's not angry right now
- 2:18:46like to go there, just to go that direction.
- 2:18:49Wow, yeah, sometimes mediums are just fucking scum.
- 2:18:54Yeah, that's what I think this is.
- 2:18:56I think John Oliver covered it like a couple years ago and very
- 2:18:59good episode. You did about, you know, just
- 2:19:03scamming for people out of my way sucks.
- 2:19:05Yeah, that's all I'm going to talk about today or mediums are
- 2:19:11or seances actually, but yeah. That's where I got.
- 2:19:18Hope you guys enjoy. Thanks so much for being part of
- 2:19:21art. Well, this, if you're watching
- 2:19:22good luck, because I got hot. I took off my hat.
- 2:19:25I put it back on, like, I'm over here being crazy for getting
- 2:19:28them on camera. I also forgot for a second, my
- 2:19:33facial expressions. I hope you guys enjoy those
- 2:19:35facial expressions but I hope. Yeah.
- 2:19:37Yeah, if you're still listening thank you so much for listening.
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- 2:20:19with Brian. I missed.
- 2:20:20It was only a couple weeks. We were gone but I missed it.
- 2:20:22Yeah, same same, it's good. It is good to be back but I got
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- 2:20:34Like I said, one thing I said I'm picked up yesterday I was
- 2:20:37like 20 21 was the best year of my life so I was like there's
- 2:20:41even more work to do but I could be happy to do it.
- 2:20:44Absolutely I feel the same good night.