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- Kiki George: What happens when a baby face and a winning smile are a cover-up for a much deeper personality flaw? This is the Minor Mischief Podcast, and this is the case of Craig Price, the Warwick Slasher. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. That's just me practicing my AI voice for when the machines take over and I have to blend in amongst them because y'all won't leave this AI stuff alone. Welcome to another episode of the Minor Mischief Podcast. I'm your host and homegirl for the time being, Mrs. Kiana Amir. And thank you for hanging out with me. Listen. Today's story and this case, and I know I do this every week. I feel like every week I'm like, listen, today's story. Yes, it's all gonna be shocking awe. But researching this case and reading these articles and going through all of the information frustrated me so badly that I had to put my laptop away and take a bye week last week to gather my bearings. So I apologize. I know I said I wasn't gonna do any bye weeks. You know what your favorite TV shows have bye week. So I just needed a moment because I was like, what the hell? Now that I got that out the way, I'm gonna get into the story. Now I know that we blame kids anger, attitude, resentment, and overall descent into darkness on their parents or on situations. Usually there's a bully. They were relentlessly bullied. Usually there's mental health. Usually there's neglect. Usually there's something that you can pinpoint. They're crying to. But who do you blame when by all accounts the kid had a normal upbringing, a loving family, was taught right from wrong, and was held accountable when he messed up? How do you describe a crime with no motive? For today's story, we are heading over to Warwick, Rhode Island. Now, one of my nearest and dearest friends is from Rhode Island, and I was so confused because I was like, there are black people in Rhode Island? Now listen, hear me out. I know that sounds ignorant to say. I know I I heard the ignorance as it was coming out of my face. I'm aware friend. But you know, when you think of Rhode Island, you think very much boat life. You think very much like, you know, I don't know why I see people in my head, the people from Rhode Island, they literally wear tennis skirts and like have like they dress like Carlton from The Fresh Prince in my head. Boy was I wrong. Now that I have gotten, you know, to know her. Now that I have gotten to meet other black and brown people from Rhode Island, I'm a willing participant in visiting Rhode Island now. And with that, let's get into today's story, shall we? We shall. Warwick, Rhode Island, and I'm gonna let you guys know right now, the word Warwick has beat my behind. Beat my ass. Since I have started recording, I have edited it, edited it at least four or five times. And now I just don't care anymore. So if you hear me say blah blah blah, then you know I mean Warwick. Warwick. Now that we got that out the way. Warwick, Rhode Island is known as a coastal hub with an avid boating scene, making it an entry point for visitors heading to Newport or Providence. Warwick is known for its extensive oceanfront dining options, and baby, I love dining on the water. Warwick also hosts Gaspie Days, which is a spring festival commemorating the burning of the British revenue shooner HMS Gaspie in 1772 in an act of defiance coined as America's first blow of freedom. They weren't playing with y'all over there in Rhode Island. And Warwick, Rhode Island hosts about 84,000 residents present day. In Warwick, Rhode Island, we are introduced to Craig Price, who is our mischief maker, and Rebecca Spencer, Joan Heaton, Jennifer Heaton, and Melissa Heaton. Who are the stars of our show, but also unfortunately our victims. I do want to issue a quick trigger warning on today's episode. We do detail the deaths of two minors, a 10-year-old and a seven-year-old. If you'd like to stop here, no worries. I do understand that everything is not for everybody. And we do get into some pretty dark subject matter in this show. If that's the case, no worries. I will see you next week. If you'd like to listen to today's episode in its entirety and just skip past that part of today's episode. I will issue another warning right before I discuss the murders, and then you can skip to the next chapter. All hearts and minds in alignment? Very well. Craig Chandler Price was born on October eleventh, nineteen seventy three in Massachusetts. He has a birthday with my husband, and I'm gonna tell you guys why that's hilarious to me later. Craig was born to John and Shirley Price, and although I could not confirm if he had any siblings, some sources do report that he has two siblings, a brother, John Jr. and a sister, Kimberly. Take that with a grain of salt. Because of his age when this crime committed and the laws and statutes in place in Rhode Island, a lot of the information regarding this crime is redacted. And so I had to dig through a bunch of stuff to get this information. But take it with a grain of salt. I'm gonna tell you what I find. If for any reason there's something where I'm just like, I read this, but question mark, I'm gonna let you know. That's just who I am as a person. Now, Craig. You know, they came from they were an average of middle class family. Like they had a beautiful ranch style home in Rhode Island. They were Baptists, like they went to church, they did the Bible study, they did all of that. And you know, they were by all accounts a loving family. Now, Craig in his early years, he was said to be a big old teddy bear. You know those kids who are just big for their age, they're kind of chunky and they give really good hugs. That was Craig. And he used his sides, he used his size to his ability to. Excelling in sports and gaining popularity as a star football player. He went on to go to Warwick Veterans High School, Go Hurricanes, and play football there as well. Now, Craig, like I said, he had a pretty average childhood. He had an average family, loving parents, you know, siblings, they love each other, they fight. We know how that goes. And he grew up in a neighborhood where people loved him. His teachers described him as kind, funny, polite, well-mannered. And apparently, like my husband, he was the neighborhood mom whisperer because all of his friends' moms loved him. All of the moms in the neighborhoods loved him. And they just really were they just adored Craig. They thought he was so respectful and he had a smile that could brighten even the most dreary of days, is what one of his neighbors said about him. Craig wasn't completely innocent, though. Behind his cool and kind demeanor, Craig had a little bit of an anger issue, a little bit of a rage baiting issue. Now, some sources say that they can pinpoint this to a time, I guess, where Craig was younger. He was playing outside, and I guess this group of like white teenagers pulled up to him. They started throwing things at him. They were calling him all kind of slurs. You gotta remember, this is Rhode Island in what the 70s and 80s. We weren't that far removed from segregation. We're still not that far removed from segregation. Like, you know, even though it was in a northern state, he still encountered things. And they said after those, like after that incident. They started kind of seeing a change in his demeanor. so the people closest to Craig, they did say that, you know, he had a little bit of a repressed anger issue. And every once in a while, when he was frustrated, they will see that anger peek out. But it was always well maintained. Craig also had a little bit of a sticky finger issue. You know, he liked to jack people. He liked to steal a little bit. He liked to put things in his pockets from stores. And if you ask Craig, he's just like, listen, it's not a big deal. I'm just Steven. I'm just getting mine. Ain't tricking if you got it. Like Craig is like, I'm just Steven. Like, it's cool. It's not cool. Theft is a crime. That's all I'm saying. Craig, like some of our other mischief makers, also found his way into the daring world of drug usage, using THC and LSD to kind of mellow out when he felt in a pinch. To no explanation of anyone, Craig gets a bright idea on July 27, 1987. It's a warm summer night in Rhode Island and we can find Craig planning to climb through your windows and snatch your people up. You better hide your kids, hide your wives. Like Craig was just like, you know, I live in this neighborhood and it's a safe neighborhood. Nobody really gets into anything here. I bet you, I bet you that they leave their windows and doors unlocked. So he's just sitting there, he's sitting in his bedroom, he's smoking. And he's just like, you know what? I know that house over there. I know two people live there, but I know the man leaves at night. So it's late. I'm gonna go over there. I'ma see what they got in that house. So Craig finishes, you know, he finishes his bowl. He had packed the bowl, he smoked it, and he's just like, all right, I'm ready to, I'm ready to go start some stuff. So he walks over to the house of Rebecca Spencer, which is located less than a quarter of a mile away from his home. Rebecca Ann Batty Spencer was born on December 1st, 1959. She had been married and had two young children at the time of our story. Her and her brother Carl, you know, I guess she's going through this divorce. She's just like, listen, bro, I need help. You need help. Let's just get a house together. Let's, I'm gonna raise my kids until we both get on like stable footing and then we can part ways. So her and her brother Carl, they're renting this house together in the Buttonwood subdivision, a quarter mile away from Craig's house. And her brother Carl works nights, and her kids were, you know, she's going through divorce, so they're spending the night with their father. So Becky is just like, all right, I have the night to myself. I'm just gonna kind of watch music videos. Remember what music video? Remember when music videos were cool, like when we would rush home to like watch TRL? I mean, this is obviously way before TRL days, but I just loved music videos and I really should have taken a career in directing them, but that's neither here nor there. So she's in the living room, she's watching her VH1 videos, and you know, she drifts off to sleep. Shortly after she drifts off to sleep, here go Craig, climbing through her window, snatching her people up. And he gets into the house and he sees Rebecca laying on the floor with a purple blanket draped over her. And so he's just like, okay, she's sleeping. I'ma I'ma just carry on with my thieving. So he walks through the house, he goes through the kitchen, and he's just like, All right, I'm let me just grab a knife in case I'm startled. Now this is Craig's version of things. I'm gonna tell y'all what I believe when I when I'm done with this part of the story. Craig's version of things is he's just like, listen, I just grabbed the knife, self-defense, not self-defense, but I just grabbed the knife, just in case I'm startled. And you know, just for protection. So he's walking around the house, he's picking up a few things, and he walks, you know, he's he did admit that there was a moment where, like, I guess there was a recliner by Rebecca, and he sat in the chair and just kind of watched her sleep, which is creepy AF. So Rebecca, I guess, is feeling a presence around her. And so she wakes up and she looks up and she sees Craig. And so she's immediately frightened. And so she gets up and she starts running. And she, you know, Craig grabs her and she's swinging on him. She's defending herself. And Craig stabs her fifty eight times, leaving her to bleed out on the living room floor. There was no motive, no plan, no witnesses. And he took nothing. Which is why I believe that he picked up that knife to kill her. I don't think that he picked it up to say, you know. Just in case she wakes up, I'ma defend myself. In case she wakes up, climb your ass back out through that window and run. And you know what? If you get a break in and enter in charge, just a break in and enter in charge. Now you have a murder charge. But I digress. The next morning, Carl comes home. He's tired. He just got done with his overnight shift and he's like, my gosh, I'm just about to take a shower and go to bed. He opens the door to the house and finds Becky laying in a pool of blood on the floor. Carl freaks out and he immediately calls 911 and begins CPR on her because he's just like, I'm not losing you. Like, you're my sister, you're all I got. Unfortunately, it was too late. Becky was already gone and had been gone for some time. And Craig returns to his life, his home, his school, like nothing ever happened. Becky was laid to rest at the Glenwood Cemetery in Rhode Island, and police immediately began investigating Becky's murder. And they're just like dead end, dead end, dead end, dead end. It's not the ex-husband. He was with the kids. The kids can confirm he was there. It's not the brother. We confirmed he's at work. And eventually the trail goes cold. They there were no leads, no tips, no updates, nothing. And this was incredibly frustrating for Carl and his family because he felt like the entire investigation was t was quiet. It was all hush hush. And nothing. They got nothing, they got no information, they got no news, nothing. And eventually Becky's name just fades into the f into the back of the headlines. The community begins to feel safe again because time is passing, nothing else is happening, Warwick is still safe, and they just move on. Her case grows cold. Two years go by with very little updates. Becky's family knows nothing, the police knows nothing, everyone has gone back to their normal lives at this point. And whereas Craig, you ask, well, Craig is continuing his life. Same old song and dance. Death, drugs, charges, repeat. Death, drugs, charges, repeat. Death, drugs, charges, repeat. And he's living his life, and nobody's talking about Becky anymore. So now it's 1989, it's September 1st, 1989, a month before your favorite podcast host was born, and we're once again along the well-maintained streets of Warwick, Rhode Island. Two years had passed since Craig's first crime, and the community is kind of just settling back into normal, as they possibly can. They figured out, like, listen, Becky's murder may just have been a one-off. Maybe somebody in her family did it. Maybe she did it to herself. I don't know. There's no crime in Warwick, Rhode Island. We're moving on. So it's a Friday night, and Craig must have been bored. Hi. And he has started drinking by this point. So Buddy decides today would be a perfect day to once again climb through your windows and snatch your people up. And I don't know if he was just out of things that he had stolen previously, but his palms must have been itching because he gets the bright idea once again, like, you know what? That lady behind our house ain't no man in there. I know she has nice stuff. I know she just bought a new VCR player. She was shopping today. She was shopping today. I know she brought home some good stuff. And he's just like, you know what? I'm about to smoke real quick. I'm gonna take some LSD. I don't know how you take LSD, but that was all the fuel he needed to go over there. So it's very late at night. Craig once again sneaks out of the house, cuts a hole. In the screen, in the window screen of the Heaton House slides open the bathroom door because it was open, and he enters through the bathroom. In the Heaton House, we find 39 year old Joan Heaton, her 10 year old daughter Jennifer, and her seven year old daughter Melissa. So this is the second trigger warning that I was talking about. This part of our story does detail the deaths of two minors a 10 year old and a seven year old. Listener discretion is advised. If you'd like to skip ahead a little bit, you can click on the chapter with the investigation and just start from there. Joan Marie Heaton was born Joan Marie Bouchard on August 7th, 1950. That is my brother's birthday. Now, Joan was a single mom of two girls: Jennifer Marie Heaton, who was born on February 8th, 1979, and Melissa Joan Heaton, not to be confused with Melissa Joan Hart, who was born on January 6, 1981. Now, like I mentioned, Joan was a single mother, but not by choice. You see, her husband John had died six years earlier, leaving her to raise and care for the girls on her own. Outside of this, I couldn't find really any other information on Joan, which makes me really sad because I really would have loved to know more about her. So Joan and her daughters, they're settling for the night. It's a Friday night. You know how Friday nights are, especially during you know, you school is getting ready to start back, and they're just really enjoying the last days of summer. So they're Doing what they do, like I said, Joan had been out shopping earlier, they had dinner, they watched some TV, and now Joan Joan and the girls have gone to bed for the night. So Craig is climbing through the windows. But Craig, like I mentioned, Craig is a big dude. He's 15 year old, but he's like 5'11, 250, you know? And so he's climbing through the window, and he's not really the size or stature to be climbing through these people's windows. He's big as hell, and I don't know. There's a correlation between s the size of a person and their level of clumsiness, but I swear the bigger you are, the harder you fall and the more clumsy you are. I'm 5'11. I'm 5'10 technically, but I'm j I'm clumsy as hell. So Craig enters through the home through an unlocked bathroom window and he walks to the kitchen. He opens the fridge, he takes a swig of orange juice straight from the bottle. Like, boy, be so for real. Why are you drinking these people's orange juice? And he must have been making a whole lot of noise because Joan is just like, hmm, what the heck is that noise? So she gets up and she, you know, walks out of her bedroom. And I guess she was holding in one of those midnight peas because she's just like, Okay, before I walk into the kitchen, I gotta go pee real quick. So she goes to the bathroom and Craig just stands there. He hears her go to the bathroom, but he's just like, I'm gonna pick up a knife in case I'm, you know, startled. And so he picks up the knife. And this is where he loses me. Cause I'm just like, okay, you hear her awake. You see she's going to the bathroom. She's going to hear you in the kitchen drinking up all her orange juice. Leave. You can literally just walk out the front door now, leave it open. And she would not know that you were ever there. But no. He grabs a knife and he's just like, you know, just in case I'm startled or something. And so Joan uses the bathroom and she's just like, let me go check out that noise. I think it's coming from the kitchen. And she walks into the kitchen. And she looks at Craig and he looks at her and she looks at Craig and he looks at her. And she's just like, I should probably run. And so she like kind of just like makes a small about face, like, hey, I see you there. I'm not bothering you, but I'm a head back that way. And as soon as she turned to walk back down the hallway, Craig rushes her and ambushes her, stabbing her fifty. 57 times. The whole time she he's stabbing her, she is screaming, she is swinging, she is fighting back, she is screaming, Jen, Melissa, call for help, call for help. And he is stabbing her over and over again. As the life is drained from Joan's body and she falls to the floor, Craig looks up. And he sees the terrified face of 10-year-old Jennifer. Without so much of a word of warning or time for her to run, he grabs her and begins stabbing her over and over and over again, 62 times in total. By this time, Melissa's out of bed. And she's like, What is going on? Are mommy and sissy playing? And she walks in on Craig stabbing her sister. Craig drops Jennifer and begin stabbing Melissa and he stabs her 30 times. As if that wasn't enough. Craig takes a nearby stool and is just like, I just gotta make sure you're done for real because I ain't stab you as much as the other people. And he crushes her head with a bar stool. At that point, he's just like, I need to clean up some of what's going on here. So he goes in the bathroom, he gets a trash bag and some towels and he starts wiping up blood. Now Craig stabbed the girls so much so that he broke two knife blades in their bodies and they were unable to be retrieved. He just left them there. But he took the handle because I don't know if DNA was a thing back then, but he took the handles with him. Joan had just purchased those knives that day when she went shopping. So Craig's trying to clean up and he's just like, you know what? I'm not gonna be able to get this clean enough. And and the whole time he's cleaning, he's walking to the window looking to see if the police are coming. He's been going back cleaning. Walking to the window, seeing if anybody else is coming home. Then he'll go back. And then he's so he's walking back and forth, and he's like, you what? This is kind of productive. I'm gonna just leave. So he takes the bag and goes back out the window that he came in with through. And I'm just like, Craig. You could've really used the door. Like at any point, you could've really just used the door, but I digress. So the weekend passes as normal and it's Monday, September fourth, nineteen eighty-nine. And Joan's mom, Marie, is just like she calls her daughter Mary Lou. She's like, Mary Lou, have you heard from Joan? No, I haven't heard from Joan mom. And she's like, That's weird, it's Labor Day weekend. Like, usually I mean, she ain't called for a hot dog or nothing. And Mary Lou's just like, Yeah, that is weird. We should go check on her. We should go check on her and the girls. And so they get together, they head over to Joan's house and they see her car parked in the driveway. So they're just like, okay, maybe she's fine. Maybe, you know, she just needed a moment, whatever. And so they ring the doorbell. They're just like, Well, I just need to put my eyes on her, make sure she's good, and then we can go about our merry way. So they ring the doorbell and no answer. They ring it again, no answer. They go to the window and they're just like, Know why it feels like I see a faint blood splatter. And I guess they had keys because after this, they're just like, let's go inside to make sure everything is really okay. So they go inside and they said that the smell of decomp, like just damn near knocked them off their feet. And they're just like, What the hell is that smell in here? Like, Joan, I know you keep your house cleaner than this. So they keep walking and they're like, Joan, Jen, Melissa, like, is anybody home? And then they turn the corner to the kitchen. And they find their bodies. They call police immediately, and Detective Ken Anderson responds to the scene of the crime, and he says that even now, he will never forget that crime scene. So he begins looking around, he's processing the crime scene, and he's taking note of the pools of blood around the bodies. But then he's like, There's a small trail of blood leading away from them. Now, what I failed to mention earlier, but I'm going to mention now, is that Craig He was slash happy, and he had actually stabbed himself while he was stabbing Joan, Jennifer, and Melissa. So he stabbed, I believe they said it was his right hand. And as he was walking and cleaning up, he was dropping little bits of blood everywhere. So he's taking note of the small trail of blood leading away from the bodies, and he's like, That certainly does not belong to either of my victims. And he was unsure of the time, but he's just like. This scene seems very familiar to Rebecca Spencer. Because Rebecca Spencer was stabbed 50-something times. She was home alone. There was no man there. She was left in a pool of her own blood, and her brother found her the following morning. And he's just like, that blood doesn't match. I'm sure it belongs to the killer. And this crime scene is feeling very similar to Rebecca Spencer's house. Joan, Jennifer, and Melissa were buried side by side at the Rhode Island Veterans Memorial Cemetery. Police, once again, they're faced with a crime that's unexplainable. We have a vicious, brutal, like the stabbing was given crime of passionate. He didn't even know these people. Like fifty some fifty-seven times that's overkill. It's too much. It's too much. You really could have got her with one. You shouldn't have gotten her at all. You should have been at home sleeping, studying, doing what teenage boys do in their room. But that's neither here nor there. So they're like, okay, we have to figure this out. We cannot just Rebecca Spencer this case because this is now the second time our neighborhood is on edge, our streets don't feel safe, and there is someone, there was someone here that is doing this. And so as they're investigating, widespread panic is taking over the neighborhood because they're just like, okay. Now we know for sure and without the shadow of a doubt that there is a ruthless killer walking, living, and commuting among us. Warwick Police partnered with the FBI to create a criminal profile for their suspect. The FBI determined that the person they were looking for would be someone local to Buttonwood subdivision, someone who was in close proximity of the two crimes. And the other mention in the FBI report is that the killer would likely have a fresh cut on his hands. And that the droplets of blood that they found at the scene likely belong to the killer. So, with this information, police begin questioning the residents of the Buttonwood subdivision. They're like, Okay, we're trying to solve this. Where were you that night? You know, they're going and they're crossing all their T's and dotting their I's. So they get to the price house, they speak with everyone, and immediately they're just like, Craig, I noticed that you have this gash on your hand. What's that about? And Craig's like, I know, and you know, I got drunk and I got the bright idea to break into this car and I broke the window and when I was pulling my hand back it cut me. And they're just like, suspicious. But okay. And so detectives look at Craig and they're just like, I hear what you're saying, but any innocent person would be okay with taking a polygraph, right? And I don't know if y'all listen to crime junkies, because I do. And I think they're just like crime junkie rule number whatever, never take a polygraph. So Craig's like, sure, I'll take the polygraph. I don't know if he thought he was bigger than the program or if he was gonna be able to beat it, but he takes the polygraph. And to the surprise of no one, but probably his mom, she may have been surprised. Craig Fails the polygraph with flying colors. So after Craig fails this polygraph, the police obtain a warrant to search his home. During the search, they find bloody clothes in Craig's room, they find the murder weapon, a trash bag, and bloody items from the Heaton home, which was found in a shed belonging to the Price family. After the discovery of the weapons in the shed, Craig was taken into custody by Detective Ken Anderson, who stated, quote, People have to know, just because he was 15 at the time, he wasn't just some poor little kid that went astray. He killed four people. Two of them were children. Children. They were eight and ten years old. They're never coming back, but he's still here. At the police station, Craig Craig was questioned further with his mother Shirley by his side. He started off eluding everyone's questions, and then finally Shirley turned around and she said, Baby, tell these people what they want to know. And then he confessed to murdering Joan, Jennifer, and Melissa Heaton. Craig, I want you in your own words at this time to tell me as clearly and as best you can what occurred there. She didn't say anything. S she was just like trying to like since you seen it, like br like run the other way. You put the clothes in the attic, you put the knives in the shed. what else do you do? live with guilt 'til I get caught. Yeah. And then things just got hectic after that. What did she say to you when she saw you cry? She didn't say anything. S she was just like trying to like as soon as she seen you like br like run the other way, break the other way. Okay. And I grabbed her. What happened then? So I was just like trying to kill her. Do you remember one of the girls trying to get to the phone? I don't know, she said, get to the phone, get to the phone. She was just saying that, get to the phone. She didn't say the name, but she said. Do remember one of the girls trying to get to the phone? Nah, she was just standing at the side of the wall. And I was running back to the window back and forth to see if the police were coming or something like that. Okay. If you can remember, how many knives did you use? Six I think maybe. Can't she she bit me. Like to see a mark right there. She bit me there and I bit her back. The rug. The rug. Okay. All right. Why did you call him R because I didn't want to look at that. During the confession, Craig did not show a single ounce of remorse. As you heard, he was just very matter of fact. He was also asked if he had anything to do with the murder of Becky Spencer, which he denied. However, they c they kept him there. They kept questioning him. They kept questioning him. And the detective on the Becky Spencer case finally comes in the room and he's like, Craig, I'm gonna tell you right now, it's not looking good for you. Like these crime scenes look very similar. The motive is very similar, everything is similar. So what's to stop us from just pinning this on you? If you tell me the truth, you're young, they'll have mercy on you. If you make me do this work and find this out, I'm not gonna press charges on you until you're older than eighteen. And then it's gonna be a different ball game. And Craig's just like, you know what? Okay, yes, I did it. Due to the statutes in Rhode Island law at the time. It was illegal for them to charge Craig with murder. You see, back back in the day, Rhode Island law made it basically impossible to charge a minor with a serious crime. Best you can do is send him to Juvie. And a minor could not stand trial legally. So Craig was arrested, they took his confession, and they sent him to a juvenile facility. Detective Anderson did go on record speaking to WPRI 12, stating, quote, for a 15-year-old, he was pretty savvy. He knew we had him for the Heaton murders, obviously. We had everything we needed, but he probably assumed, and he was right, that we didn't have anything on Becky Spencer. End quote. And that's why they had to force him to confess. And with that, Craig's file was sealed, his record became untraceable, and he was sentenced under a juvenile detention program at the Rhode Island Training School to be released at the age of twenty one. Five years is all the time that he got. For those four murders. Which brings me to where are they now? On today's episode of World Democrat Criminals, Chow, Craig may be the only person in creation to turn a five-year sentence into a life sentence. So during Craig's five-year sentence at that training school, he broke the orders of his sentence so many times that he was denied parole and transferred to an adult facility. In the adult facility, he broke the rules so many times, got into so many fights that he was found in contempt. After he got into a fight and I think he like accidentally slashed a correction officer or something. And they charged him with an additional seventeen years. The state of Rhode Island was just like, you know what? Craig, we are sick of your shenanigans. Like you went to jail. Well, you went to a juvenile detention program in nineteen eighty nine. It is two thousand four. And you keep you continue to find yourself here. We're gonna send you someplace With people of your caliber of foolishness. Florida. Yes, they sent him to Florida. And if you think a change of scenery is what Craig needed to get his life together, baby, you are mistaken. Because in 2009, Craig was charged with attempted murder for stabbing fellow inmate Joshua Davis with a five-inch shiv or a homemade knife. For those of us on the outside, he confessed to his part of the fight and the attempted murder, and he was sentenced to an additional 25 years. Currently, Craig is 52 years old. He is still In a Florida prison, even though he is technically a Rhode Island inmate. And you know what? Keep his ass in there. There's not much word from the victims' families, but in two thousand fifteen Becky's brother Carl that I mentioned earlier, he released a statement and he said they should try everything they can to keep him behind bars so that nobody else pays the price that both Becky and the Heatons did. She enjoyed hanging with her friends and she enjoyed her children. She worked hard, you know. Make a better life for her children than we had as kids. At thirteen he killed my sister and at fifteen he butchered her entire family. And I don't believe any time in the prison is gonna stop him from doing it again once he's released. Well, I think it's ridiculous. How can you get good time if you can't keep out of trouble in prison? He's serving prison time. He shouldn't be getting good time after all that he's done since he's been in prison. And This was in response to an article that was published around the same time stating that Craig was up for early release. And basically, I guess in Florida, you can earn good time. So if you stay out of trouble, they'll and this is not for all cases, but it was valid in Craig's case. You can earn good time, which basically lessens your sentence because it's like, hey, you've been good this amount of days. We'll take this amount of days off your sentence. Luckily for Carl and the outside world. Florida was not the final say in releasing Craig early on good time and the state of Rhode Island denied his parole. Which brings me to our final thoughts. I I don't know, y'all. Craig pissed me off so bad. I feel my heart goes out to the victims' families naturally because I mean this was so senseless. Like he didn't even really know these people. And it's like you did it all for what? Like you killed them and you still didn't get what you went in for. Which is why I feel like the theft story was BS. Because he left with nothing. If you went in there to steal something and got caught. you would leave with the thing that you came in to steal. But maybe not so because it's like, okay, if Becky is murdered and her VCR is missing and that VCR turns up in Craig's bedroom, then that's understandable. But I just I'm still not buying his story. I'm not, because there was no reason. Number one, when when Becky woke up and caught you, you could have really just been caught. It wasn't your first it wasn't your first. It wasn't your first time being caught for stealing. It was not your first time being arrested for stealing. He had done stints and juvie before. So he could have just taken it. He's been caught before. But the rage that was displayed, the anger, the senselessness, the overkill, that's what leads me to believe that he really did not give a damn about that VCR. And he went in there to kill. He went in there to see what he could get away with, and he knew that. He was gonna wake them up and he knew he was gonna kill them. And I think that once he got away with that first murder, he was just like, This one should be easy too. That's what I believe. I think he should be in jail for the rest of his natural born life because even today, in the year of our Lord 2026, Craig still shows no remorse. And truth be told, let's be so for real, if if they let him out, he'll probably just go kill somebody else. That's how I feel. My heart goes out to his family because I truly do believe when they said he wasn't raised like that. I really do. I do believe that his parents taught him better. And it just makes me wonder about the psychology of it all because if you it just reminds me of this lady I knew. She had two kids. Both kids were raised the exact same. She had been divorced from her husband. She had gotten remarried. Both of her kids were raised the exact same. Her daughter excelled, took the stable. life she gave them, took the stable life they gave her, did well, got married, had her own children, had a thriving career. Her son, jailbate, could not get his life right. And so it's just it just makes me wonder how like the psychology of it all, like what was it in him that made him do these things? Because it was completely unprovoked. It was completely unprovoked. It was completely uncalled for. And I just feel like I do agree with Detective Anderson and I agree with Carl Batty because it's like you did this and you've yet to apologize. And which I'm gonna be careful with saying that because you know, Jakey can check me. He said maybe I did apologize. So maybe he did apologize, but it just didn't seem genuine. I'm not talking about Jake, I'm talking about Craig. Jake is forgiven in my book. But yeah. What do you guys think? Let me know in the comments. I need to get back to posting. I have not been posting on my socials, but follow me on TikTok, Minor Mischief Pod, follow me on Instagram, Minor Mischief Podcast, case suggestions, story. You want a kiki, you want a chit chat, you want to tell me you love it, you want to tell me you hate it. You can email me at minor mischiefpodcast at gmail.com. This case pissed me off so bad. It really did. So sorry about the bye week last week, but I really had to gather my bearing because I promise you I was like, where is Craig? I'm about to he's in Live Oak, Florida. For anybody interested. But yeah, that's our show. And I will see you all next week, same day of the week. And until then, stay mischievous, friends.