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The Craigslist Killer： Richard Beasley - Serial Killer Documentary · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

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Speaker 1: We just had a gentleman come up to our front door.
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Speaker 1: I claims that he's been shot.
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Speaker 2: Well, mister Beasley sets up that's Craigslist ad. He puts
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Speaker 2: himself in the position of power.
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Speaker 1: My twin brother, who's fifty one years old, found a
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Speaker 1: job on Craigslist as a farm caretaker. Dear Cambridge.
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Speaker 3: It's an aspect of unfair play using technology like craigslists
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Speaker 3: to lure men and then find themselves in horrific situations.
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Speaker 1: I've been looking through newspaper articles and shawl the one
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Speaker 1: about the man that was lured and had been shot.
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Speaker 1: This is just to pose to what my brother was
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Speaker 1: going there for.
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Speaker 4: But he found the job on Craiglist too.
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Speaker 1: Yes you did.
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Speaker 5: I knew there was a dark side, but not to
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Speaker 5: the extent that it turned out to be.
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Speaker 6: It occurs to Richard Beasley, what if I do this
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Speaker 6: as my next career.
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Speaker 7: When I turned around mister Gag who was in kind
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Speaker 7: of mister Beasley.
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Speaker 8: Did he seem to be dead?
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Speaker 1: Yes, he was dead.
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Speaker 9: It hit me really hard.
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Speaker 5: He was a wolf in cheap's clothing.
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Speaker 10: I thought it, and guess what I was right.
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Speaker 4: Akron Ohio was once the buckle on America's industrial belt.
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Speaker 9: Akron used to be a really booming city. It was
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Speaker 9: a rubber capital the.
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Speaker 2: Turn of the century, nineteen hundreds. You couldn't have found
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Speaker 2: a more bustling and important area to the world economy.
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Speaker 2: But times changed, and certainly as a lot of jobs
2:24
Speaker 2: have been automated and left. You know, we felt it
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Speaker 2: harder than most and it's hard to remember what a
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Speaker 2: different world we were in in the end of twenty eleven,
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Speaker 2: and Ohio was harder hit than many other states. So
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Speaker 2: there was a lot of people feeling a lot of pain,
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Speaker 2: a lot of employment pain, and a lot of people
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Speaker 2: looking for opportunities wherever they could.
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Speaker 4: Craigslist is booming as a website where people can find anything,
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Speaker 4: even a job. In the fall of twenty eleven, more
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Speaker 4: than one hundred people responded to an ad posted on
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Speaker 4: the site by Richard Beasley.
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Speaker 11: It's three dollars week. They have a trailer they can
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Speaker 11: live on.
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Speaker 5: You know.
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Speaker 6: The only drawbacks are, hey, you know, your cell phone
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Speaker 6: probably isn't going to work, and you got to want
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Speaker 6: to be by yourself because you're kind of going to
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Speaker 6: be off the grid. This is a difficult time financially.
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Speaker 6: We had the two thousand and eight kind of home crisis,
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Speaker 6: and there are a lot of people who were really
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Speaker 6: in very difficult financial straits.
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Speaker 4: Fifty six year old Ralph Geiger is one example. He's
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Speaker 4: living in a homeless shelter, having lost the construction company
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Speaker 4: he used to run. He applies for Richard Beasley's job
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Speaker 4: on the farm in Caldwell, Ohio.
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Speaker 6: This is somebody who's down on his luck for the
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Speaker 6: past few years. This guy had a good history of working,
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Speaker 6: but now he's in a bad place. He's desperate for work.
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Speaker 6: He's going to look for a job in the library
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Speaker 6: every day.
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Speaker 3: This is someone who who says, Wow, I'm looking on Craigslist.
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Speaker 3: This opportunity exists for me to have a new life,
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Speaker 3: perfect job. I'm going to drive and take my possessions there.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to get interviewed, and then I'm going to
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Speaker 3: find this wonderful outcome that's going to give me a
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Speaker 3: fresh start.
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Speaker 4: Countless other men like Ralph are also interested in the
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Speaker 4: job and the chance to start a new life. David Polly,
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Speaker 4: Scott Davis, and Tim Kern are all unemployed and hope
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Speaker 4: Beasley's advert could be just the break they need. Richard
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Speaker 4: Beasley will arrange to meet and interview all of them.
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Speaker 12: Most of them will end up dead.
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Speaker 4: They never really knew the man who posted the ad.
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Speaker 6: So Richard Beasley reportedly was physically abused by his stepfather,
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Speaker 6: came out later that he had been sexually abused by
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Speaker 6: some neighbors, and so he really did start out I
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Speaker 6: think with some pretty significant trauma.
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Speaker 11: He was interested in school to some extent.
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Speaker 6: He had said at one point that it was important
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Speaker 6: to have Christians as friends because they would always vouch
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Speaker 6: for you. And so I think from an early age
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Speaker 6: we see a little bit of a Richard Beasley kind
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Speaker 6: of realizing that two year around and how you pretend
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Speaker 6: to be it can really get you places.
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Speaker 4: Richard graduates from high school in nineteen seventy six and
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Speaker 4: trains to become a machinist, but he quickly loses interest.
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Speaker 6: So he moves to Texas, has a job or two
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Speaker 6: that are legitimate, and then quickly kind of gives that
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Speaker 6: up and really becomes a prolific burglar. He is arrested
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Speaker 6: for that, and you know, the judge throws the book
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Speaker 6: at him when he receives like forty years in prison.
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Speaker 6: He only though, does about four so he is released
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Speaker 6: and he goes back to Ohio. He meets his wife.
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Speaker 6: They're both avid motorcycle enthusiasts.
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Speaker 12: My name's Tina Beasley.
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Speaker 5: I'm sixty two years old and I is married to
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Speaker 5: Richard Beasley. Was an instant attraction for both of us.
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Speaker 12: Me I fell for.
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Speaker 5: Them gorgeous blue eyes, oh and him. I'm not sure
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Speaker 5: why he fell for me, but it was instant.
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Speaker 12: I mean we clicked instantly.
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Speaker 5: And then it wasn't too long after date and I
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Speaker 5: became pregnant, so we decided to get married.
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Speaker 12: We had a biker wedding.
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Speaker 5: Basically my family was there, his family was there, but
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Speaker 5: everybody else was from our mutual biker friends.
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Speaker 12: Three days later, Tanya was born.
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Speaker 9: My name is Tonya Beasley. I'm thirty years old, and
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Speaker 9: Richard Beasley is my father. My dad was a really
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Speaker 9: goofy dad. He liked to have fun. He would actually
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Speaker 9: get down and kind of use his imagination with me
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Speaker 9: when we were drawing. It was story telling and dragons
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Speaker 9: and monsters and all that kind of cool stuff. Like
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Speaker 9: I actually felt like he was a kid like me,
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Speaker 9: just having fun.
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Speaker 4: With a new family. Tina wants to leave the biker
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Speaker 4: gang that she and Richard are members of, but Richard
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Speaker 4: wants to stay.
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Speaker 2: Matthew the lifestyle motorcycle gang is a close knit community,
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Speaker 2: you know, they are very tight knit. They don't let
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Speaker 2: it outsiders, even if it becomes violent. Often involved in drugs.
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Speaker 2: At that time, we were seeing a lot of meth moving
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Speaker 2: through motorcycle gangs.
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Speaker 5: He was a good bother. He was good to me.
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Speaker 5: He had a paycheck every week, bills were paid, but
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Speaker 5: I had no clue what he was doing. And then
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Speaker 5: I found out he wasn't working. The paychecks wasn't.
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Speaker 12: Real, and then I knew what he was doing for
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Speaker 12: a living.
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Speaker 4: In the mid nineteen with Tanya, a little girl, Richard
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Speaker 4: becomes involved in illegal firearms.
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Speaker 9: While my dad was being this ideal father from the outside,
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Speaker 9: he actually at the time was breaking and entering. He
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Speaker 9: was illegally selling weapons. So it looks like he was
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Speaker 9: doing the right thing, but he kind of had a
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Speaker 9: double life in a sense too. He was a father
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Speaker 9: but also a really good con man. Even just from the.
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Speaker 5: Start, everything was doing good until they come to arrest him.
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Speaker 5: At that time, I had to have a hysterectomy. I
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Speaker 5: got out of the surgery and there was no rich
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Speaker 5: no page from him, no call from him.
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Speaker 12: He just disappeared. They had raided dar Allison.
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Speaker 5: Ripped up my ouches looking for weapons.
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Speaker 12: Oh, I was mad.
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Speaker 9: I do remember being all dressed up for the court
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Speaker 9: date and having to hug him and say bye. But
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Speaker 9: I didn't realize what four It was more and more
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Speaker 9: of real As I got older, I knew.
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Speaker 5: There was a dark side, but not to the extent
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Speaker 5: that it turned out to be.
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Speaker 4: Richard Beasley is behind bars for dealing drugs and carrying
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Speaker 4: illegal weapons. In two thousand and three, he's released early,
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Speaker 4: and twelve year old Tanya is unaware her mother or
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Speaker 4: filed for divorce.
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Speaker 5: We had a perfect family life. For her sake, we
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Speaker 5: stayed together, but we separated. He was very upset about it.
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Speaker 5: Even to this day, rich still has not come to
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Speaker 5: terms the dy divorced him.
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Speaker 12: We still tried to be friends.
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Speaker 5: It wasn't like it was before. I just didn't trust him.
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Speaker 4: But after his release, Richard Beasley swears he's now a
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Speaker 4: changed man.
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Speaker 6: While he is in prison, during the seven year stint,
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Speaker 6: Richard Beasley finds God. He reads the Bible. He memorizes
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Speaker 6: Bible verses, and when he gets out, he tells his
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Speaker 6: daughter and other people that his life.
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Speaker 11: Is changed and he is going.
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Speaker 6: To spend the rest of his life helping other people.
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Speaker 4: Beasley puts his newfound faith into action on Akron streets.
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Speaker 4: He becomes a self styled pastor and even earns the
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Speaker 4: nickname Chaplin rich.
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Speaker 9: There were all these people who had been down on
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Speaker 9: their luck their whole lives. They'd been in and out
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Speaker 9: of prison their whole lives, and so he kind of
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Speaker 9: was a role model in the sense that no matter
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Speaker 9: how many times you do fall, you can get back up,
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Speaker 9: not just the first time you fall, not just the
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Speaker 9: second time you fall. It's almost like an ebb and
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Speaker 9: a flow. And he showed people.
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Speaker 6: That he does for a while, go out and minister
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Speaker 6: to other people. He goes to soup kitchens, he volunteers
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Speaker 6: his time. And the question I think becomes is this genuine?
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Speaker 6: And so we don't know completely Richard Beasley.
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Speaker 3: Opportunities still exist when one is around vulnerable people who
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Speaker 3: are looking for help, it can be very easy to
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Speaker 3: hurt them as they look for that help. So what
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Speaker 3: comes first trying to rehabilitate and try to be a
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Speaker 3: different person, or seeing that as an opportune to see
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Speaker 3: people who will need your help and then you can
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Speaker 3: take advantage of them.
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Speaker 5: They were driving and I believe he was hit by
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Speaker 5: a dump truck. His truck rolled, it severed his achilles tendon,
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Speaker 5: broke asternum.
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Speaker 9: Not only did it affect his ability to work, but
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Speaker 9: he also was prescribed painkillers. Ultimately, his accident led to
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Speaker 9: him being addicted to oxyconton. At the time, he was
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Speaker 9: getting into street ministry with individuals who were addicts, so
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Speaker 9: I think there was that struggle at one point he did.
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Speaker 9: I don't think he realized he was addicted to it.
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Speaker 9: After his accident, he used part of a settlement to
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Speaker 9: buy a house an Akron, and it was in kind
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Speaker 9: of rough neighborhood. So he helped the people in the
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Speaker 9: neighborhood and through his ministry, get back on their feet.
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Speaker 9: And he converted the bottom into his apartment so he
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Speaker 9: could monitor what was going on in the rooms and
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Speaker 9: the housing upstairs.
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Speaker 6: And he begins to go to the courts and he
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Speaker 6: was vouching for people.
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Speaker 11: He is going on the streets, he's.
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Speaker 6: Recruiting people and people in town are thinking, man, You
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Speaker 6: know Chaplain Ridge is a great, great guy.
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Speaker 9: When my dad first got his halfway house, a lot
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Speaker 9: of people were donating furniture. When he first got out
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Speaker 9: of prison, a lot of people donated stuff. So by
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Speaker 9: the time he finished setting up, he had all this
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Speaker 9: extra stuff. So he asked me to make the Craigslist
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Speaker 9: account so he could sell all of this these extra
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Speaker 9: things that he had. And of course at the time,
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Speaker 9: Craigslist was the place to go to sell and buy stuff. Also,
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Speaker 9: at the time it was the leading technology was a
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Speaker 9: computer or a laptop, and so he had no idea
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Speaker 9: of how to use that stuff. In the beginning. I
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Speaker 9: had to help him a lot, but then after that
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Speaker 9: he learned and did it all himself. So first it
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Speaker 9: was just men that lived in the house, and then
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Speaker 9: it started becoming here and there, Oh, well, there's a
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Speaker 9: woman that needs help. And when you start mixing things
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Speaker 9: like that, it gets massy real quick, and that's when
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Speaker 9: things really started going south.
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Speaker 2: He had manipulated the system enough to get some defendants
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Speaker 2: sent to him as part of their probation. So what
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Speaker 2: he's doing here is two different things. He's trying to
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Speaker 2: scam money from the courts for this, you make work
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Speaker 2: halfway house. But we also found out is that in
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Speaker 2: doing so, he's trying to get women who are drug
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Speaker 2: addicts into his halfway house and trying to turn them
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Speaker 2: into prostitutes.
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Speaker 9: And around that time he started getting a little snippy,
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Speaker 9: like he would snap at me over random things and
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Speaker 9: not the kind person I know, which I know I
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Speaker 9: knew at the time. When you're on drugs, that's what happens.
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Speaker 9: It affects your personality. It almost felt like overnight there
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Speaker 9: was this great, awesome dad and then there was this
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Speaker 9: hateful kind of show of the guy that I knew,
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Speaker 9: but to everybody else he was great.
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Speaker 6: There was some psychological payoff for him, this idea of,
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Speaker 6: you know, kind of getting off on other people, fooling
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Speaker 6: other people.
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Speaker 11: There's a term called duping delight.
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Speaker 6: It's people who get psychological satisfaction from fooling other people.
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Speaker 6: You know, Richard Beasley was showing up at court and
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Speaker 6: pretending to be this wonderful person and having this facade
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Speaker 6: in the community. It's hard not to believe, as elaborate
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Speaker 6: as it was, that he wasn't getting some kind of
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Speaker 6: thrill or some kind of satisfaction out of that part
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Speaker 6: of it as well.
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Speaker 5: He pretended to be a Christian burden hell for that.
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Speaker 12: Excuse me saying that. But yeah, God forgives.
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Speaker 5: But I don't think that you can be a man
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Speaker 5: of God and run a prostitution and drug ring out
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Speaker 5: of your house either.
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Speaker 9: At the time, I was dating someone who was older
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Speaker 9: than me, and I found out that my dad had
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Speaker 9: been using him to sell pills in marijuana in my
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Speaker 9: hometown to people. That's when I completely cut off contact.
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Speaker 4: By twenty eleven, Richard Beasley is under scrutiny by Akron
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Speaker 4: police for sex trafficking. His behavior is deteriorating, and he's
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Speaker 4: now a wanted man following a probation violation.
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Speaker 6: Richard Beasley really does feel like I think his back
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Speaker 6: is up against the wall. And one of the things
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Speaker 6: he had said on several occasions is he did not
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Speaker 6: want to go back to prison, and so he began scheming,
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Speaker 6: you know, Okay, how am I going to avoid this.
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Speaker 6: I can't go on the run with my name and
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Speaker 6: with all my history.
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Speaker 11: I can't. I mean, that's not going to work.
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Speaker 6: And so he comes up with this horrendous scheme, I'm
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Speaker 6: going to find somebody who looks like me, who's about
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Speaker 6: the same age that I am, Somebody who is older,
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Speaker 6: somebody who's vulnerable, somebody who isn't going to be missed.
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Speaker 6: They don't have a lot of family ties. If I
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Speaker 6: can find that person, I can just kill them and
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Speaker 6: assume their identity.
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Speaker 4: In the summer of twenty eleven, Beasley plans to lure
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Speaker 4: potential victims to him with an ad.
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Speaker 12: He's placed on Craigslist, and then.
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Speaker 4: He's going to kill them and steal their identities to
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Speaker 4: avoid being captured by police.
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Speaker 3: Look at the situation and the desperateness that some people
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Speaker 3: may have. Here's a person that says, there are people
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Speaker 3: without work, there are people without opportunity, there are people addicted,
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Speaker 3: there are people involved in prostitution. This is now starting
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Speaker 3: to come my way.
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Speaker 2: Well, well, mister Beasley sets up that Craigslist ad. He
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Speaker 2: puts himself in the position of power. He's the one
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Speaker 2: who has the job, so he can ask any questions
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Speaker 2: of any applicants, and so he can find out who's local,
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Speaker 2: who's not local, who has strong family ties, who doesn't
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Speaker 2: have strong family ties. You know, it's not going to
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Speaker 2: be a coincidence that he winds up with several victims
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Speaker 2: who don't have a lot of close family ties, and.
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Speaker 9: He knew that if these people had no one that
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Speaker 9: would miss them, and they brought all their belongings for
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Speaker 9: this job, he'd be able to sell their belongings. There's
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Speaker 9: the money, steal their identities because they had long hair
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Speaker 9: and looked like him. There's the drugs. And then he
18:54
Speaker 9: had this huge plot of land wherever he was saying
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Speaker 9: that provided him a place to live. So at that
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Speaker 9: point in his head, he was just trying to survive
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Speaker 9: and get his drugs.
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Speaker 4: Estranged from his daughter and physically unable to carry out
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Speaker 4: his plan alone. Richard Beasley develops a closer bond with
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Speaker 4: Broken Rafferty, the sixteen year old son of a close friend.
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Speaker 2: Our investigation showed that Broken Rafferty his dad was pretty
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Speaker 2: high up in a local club, and we kind of
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Speaker 2: think that's how those two, mister Beasley and mister Rafferty
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Speaker 2: started to meet.
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Speaker 11: I think that he.
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Speaker 6: Certainly probably enjoyed the attention and that love and the
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Speaker 6: admiration he got from this young child.
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Speaker 12: He would teach Broken things.
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Speaker 5: At first, it was about Christ and church and everything
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Speaker 5: like that. Then it turned into mafia and broken copied
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Speaker 5: Rich's dress. You know wor same leather jacket, identical leather
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Speaker 5: jacket and gean, same brand, the genes, and he just
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Speaker 5: became obsessed with Rich.
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Speaker 3: Sixteen year olds, please don't be fooled, are still in
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Speaker 3: the formative stage. The brain is still forming what we
20:12
Speaker 3: call it the teen brain. So perhaps that sixteen year
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Speaker 3: old is looking for a definition of life, looking for
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Speaker 3: those materialistic goods the fifty year old is able to
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Speaker 3: provide it. The fifty year old is looking for a
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Speaker 3: person that has the youthfulness to allow for some of
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Speaker 3: these criminal activities to take place.
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Speaker 4: Fifty six year old Ralph Geiger, who's now homeless after
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Speaker 4: losing his job running a construction company, is the first
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Speaker 4: to answer Beasley's ad I'm.
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Speaker 3: Out of work. Here's an opportunity for me to work.
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Speaker 3: Here's an opportunity for me to be on a farm,
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Speaker 3: and all I have to do is answer this call
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Speaker 3: meet with this person. It's an aspect of almost unfair
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Speaker 3: play that this would be set up in this way,
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Speaker 3: using technology like craigslists to lure men to find these
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Speaker 3: jobs and then find themselves in horrific situations.
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Speaker 6: Ralph becomes Richard Beasley's avenue in his mind to escape going.
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Speaker 11: Back to prison.
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Speaker 6: So he and Ralph and Brogan meet up and they
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Speaker 6: basically get the car and they go out in the woods,
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Speaker 6: allegencing to this farm. Richard makes up some ruse to
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Speaker 6: get Ralph out of the car.
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Speaker 11: And they go through the woods.
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Speaker 6: Somehow Richard gets behind Ralph Geibert, and Richard Beasley just
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Speaker 6: pulls out a gun.
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Speaker 11: And shoots him at the back of the head.
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Speaker 9: My dad was so far into drug usage at the time.
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Speaker 9: He knew it was wrong, but I don't think he
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Speaker 9: could emotionally connect to it. When you're on drugs, it's
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Speaker 9: all about self gain, what benefits you, what helps you
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Speaker 9: get your next high, and that's all he was thinking about.
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Speaker 6: Richard now becomes Ralph Geiger. He asked people who knew
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Speaker 6: him to start calling him Ralph, which I can only
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Speaker 6: imagine what they thought about that. He rents a room
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Speaker 6: under the name Ralph Geiger, and it occurs to Richard
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Speaker 6: Beasley aka Ralph Geiger at this point that man, that
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Speaker 6: was so easy. Nobody's looking for Ralph Geiger. I need money.
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Speaker 11: My back hurts. I don't want to work. So what
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Speaker 11: if I do this as my next career.
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Speaker 6: I mean, this is really the beginning of Richard Beasley
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Speaker 6: the serial killer.
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Speaker 4: For two months, Richard Beasley has been living under the
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Speaker 4: identity of Ralph Geiger, a homeless man who Beasley killed
23:11
Speaker 4: after responding to a Craigslist ad. Now he's looking for
23:15
Speaker 4: another victim. From the applicants to.
23:17
Speaker 6: His ad, he is looking for very very specific vulnerable victims,
23:23
Speaker 6: lack of family ties, middle aged, willing to.
23:27
Speaker 11: Go off the grid.
23:29
Speaker 6: And so he gets over a hundred replies for this position.
23:39
Speaker 4: Beasley agrees to meet fifty one year old David Paully.
23:43
Speaker 2: So, mister Pauley is coming from Norfolk, Virginia, which is
23:45
Speaker 2: almost a ten hour drive for Macro Ohio. He's not
23:48
Speaker 2: coming here just to find out about a job. He
23:50
Speaker 2: packed up his U haul and moved all of his
23:51
Speaker 2: possessions here, so he was coming here with the attention
23:54
Speaker 2: to stay here and make a new life here. And
23:56
Speaker 2: I think that mister Polly being willing and able to
23:59
Speaker 2: leave Norfolk, Virginia and drive ten hours for a promise
24:03
Speaker 2: of a job or the possibility of a job, shows
24:06
Speaker 2: how desperate mister Pauli was at the time, and frankly,
24:09
Speaker 2: how a lot of people were at the time.
24:11
Speaker 3: Can you imagine the helplessness and the hopelessness that exist
24:15
Speaker 3: in someone responding to that thinking that this is a
24:18
Speaker 3: new start again, the vulnerabilities of people lending them to
24:23
Speaker 3: take down their guard a step or two.
24:26
Speaker 2: He starts hearing from these victims and luring them to Ohio.
24:30
Speaker 2: Some of the questions he's asking are do you have meds? Clearly,
24:33
Speaker 2: drugs is a through line through all.
24:34
Speaker 9: Of this, so the motive was him stealing identities and
24:39
Speaker 9: trying to get money and drugs while not getting caught
24:42
Speaker 9: by the police. He was so numb to what he
24:45
Speaker 9: was doing he didn't grasp the concept of another human life.
24:56
Speaker 11: So David Paully is beside himself.
24:58
Speaker 6: He packs all of the stuff up, he drives all
25:01
Speaker 6: the way to Ohio. He meets with the person who
25:08
Speaker 6: he thinks his name Jack. Jack's nephew Brogan is also
25:14
Speaker 6: with him, and once again he does the same ruse.
25:20
Speaker 11: He convinces David to go out into the woods. They
25:23
Speaker 11: go for a walk.
25:25
Speaker 6: Richard Beasley gets behind him and shoots him at the
25:28
Speaker 6: back of the head. What struck me was how much
25:33
Speaker 6: psychological payoff there seemed to be for Richard Beasley in
25:38
Speaker 6: running the schemes and duping the people around him, And
25:42
Speaker 6: I think that motive was extremely powerful him, and probably
25:45
Speaker 6: more powerful to him than he even realized or would acknowledge.
25:50
Speaker 2: We see a lot of time pass between that first victim,
25:52
Speaker 2: mister Geiger, and that second victim, mister Pawley. But given
25:56
Speaker 2: that the time had passed and still nothing happened, they're
25:58
Speaker 2: even more in bold and they're not going to wait
25:59
Speaker 2: to time. They're going to move faster this time, and
26:01
Speaker 2: that's exactly what they did.
26:03
Speaker 4: Less than three weeks later, fifty year old Scott Davis
26:07
Speaker 4: is on his way to meet Richard Beasley.
26:09
Speaker 2: Scott Davis was from South Carolina, but he was living
26:11
Speaker 2: locally with his mom in Masly in, Ohio, so that's
26:14
Speaker 2: about forty minutes for Macron. But like everyone else, he
26:17
Speaker 2: was also kind of down on his luck at his time,
26:19
Speaker 2: So this is how he comes into mister Beasley's orbit.
26:21
Speaker 2: Mister Beasley is still relying on that same Craigslist ad,
26:24
Speaker 2: He's still getting people interested in that job, and he's
26:27
Speaker 2: still going back to that same ad and going to
26:29
Speaker 2: the same pool of victims to pick from him. So
26:37
Speaker 2: what we find is mister Beasley lures mister Davis to
26:39
Speaker 2: a restaurant just like he did mister Polly. They have
26:42
Speaker 2: their meal there, and he takes them to the same
26:44
Speaker 2: secluded wooded area with every intention of killing mister Davis
26:48
Speaker 2: just like he killed mister Pally.
26:51
Speaker 6: And so once again, Richard Beasley pulls out the gun
26:57
Speaker 6: Poinston Scott's head and it and go off. There's a click,
27:04
Speaker 6: and Scott turns around and sees this gun. Now, Richard
27:10
Speaker 6: Beasley fires again, and this time he doesn't miss, and
27:13
Speaker 6: he hits Scott in the elbow, which is a pretty
27:16
Speaker 6: serious injury. But Scott absolutely takes off and he is
27:20
Speaker 6: running for his life and Richard Beasley is looking everywhere,
27:25
Speaker 6: and so is rug and Rafferty.
27:27
Speaker 11: And Scott Davis is running just losing blood as he goes.
27:32
Speaker 6: He ends up hiding in this creek bed for like
27:36
Speaker 6: seven hours, losing blood this entire time. After seven hours,
27:44
Speaker 6: it's freezing outside and.
27:46
Speaker 11: He's losing blood.
27:47
Speaker 6: This man gets up and walks seven miles to a
27:52
Speaker 6: house where he knocks on the door and people open
27:57
Speaker 6: it and there's this man covered in blood and who
28:00
Speaker 6: tells them this horrendous story and they call nine one one.
28:05
Speaker 1: We just had a gentleman come up to our front door.
28:08
Speaker 1: He claims that he's been shot. He's got some blood
28:11
Speaker 1: on him. What's your name, sir, Scott Davis.
28:16
Speaker 4: Scott Davis is rescued, treated for his wounds, and questioned
28:20
Speaker 4: by police.
28:21
Speaker 13: Well, I was on the please list and it said
28:24
Speaker 13: in that read I was looking for someone's sake here
28:28
Speaker 13: at six hundred and eighty eight acres for farm land.
28:30
Speaker 8: He went back and forth for a month, you know.
28:32
Speaker 8: They said they was going to get me three hundred
28:34
Speaker 8: miles a week and a place to live. We got
28:36
Speaker 8: probably about forty fifty.
28:38
Speaker 13: Feet and her click, oh crowd. I smart around and
28:43
Speaker 13: he had the gun in the back of my head.
28:45
Speaker 13: That's a pretty nuts that is done, jam. When it
28:47
Speaker 13: was done, Jam, I thought.
28:48
Speaker 8: It right up in the wood for everything I would work.
28:50
Speaker 8: He shout at me again. That's why he got me
28:51
Speaker 8: in the arms. Okay, you said there was two guys.
28:53
Speaker 8: One of them was Jack. You say I had short.
28:55
Speaker 12: Hair blee Jean Tennis and the other guys him.
29:01
Speaker 8: I don't have that any to get to think. Another
29:02
Speaker 8: guy had blonde hair, probably seventeen years old. Uh, six',
29:09
Speaker 8: five all, right but he went By. Jack that's what
29:11
Speaker 8: the thing. Was you tell her to share the.
29:13
Speaker 6: Beard at this, Point Richard beasley has become not only
29:19
Speaker 6: desperate but. Reckless he's realizing that the gig is about
29:23
Speaker 6: to be.
29:24
Speaker 4: Up before authorities begin to track Down beasley And, rafferty
29:28
Speaker 4: they're luring another. Victim this time they Picked Timothy, kern
29:35
Speaker 4: an unemployed father of a teenage son From masilla In.
29:38
Speaker 4: Ohio timothy's son drives him to an interview With beasley
29:42
Speaker 4: And rafferty at a waffle. HOUSE a few days, Later
29:46
Speaker 4: beasley confirms tim has got the, job so he heads.
29:49
Speaker 2: Back they lure Mister kern through the same. Thing they sit,
29:53
Speaker 2: down they have a, meal and they're going to go
29:55
Speaker 2: take him to this advertised wooded. Area they have to
29:58
Speaker 2: go to a different place after what happened to Mister,
29:59
Speaker 2: day but they find another wooded area to do this.
30:01
Speaker 2: In they start taking him to this wooded area and
30:04
Speaker 2: they shoot him four. Times Mister kerran didn't die at
30:11
Speaker 2: the first shot of the, head and he kept, breathing
30:13
Speaker 2: and it was a cold, blooded calculated. Murder four time.
30:17
Speaker 6: Shot he literally has five dollars in his. Pocket to, me,
30:23
Speaker 6: again it's an indication that while money may have been
30:28
Speaker 6: part of that entire, scheme it wasn't. EVERYTHING i Think
30:33
Speaker 6: richard was angry as a. PERSON i think he was.
30:37
Speaker 6: DESPERATE i think he saw what was going to, happen
30:40
Speaker 6: AND i think he was just he didn't.
30:42
Speaker 11: CARE i don't think he cared at.
30:44
Speaker 6: All about his, victim and maybe he never, did but
30:47
Speaker 6: he chose at that moment to go ahead and kill.
30:50
Speaker 3: Him this is the question that occurs right about this,
30:53
Speaker 3: time is after you've committed two three of these heinous,
30:56
Speaker 3: acts is it something that you're doing to fulfill a
30:59
Speaker 3: need or is it something that you've gotten very good.
31:02
Speaker 3: At whatever is the answer, there we still have to deal.
31:05
Speaker 3: With there are people who will do these heinous, crimes
31:08
Speaker 3: and it takes outstanding police, work and they also the
31:11
Speaker 3: general public being out there willing to be the persons
31:16
Speaker 3: to report activities that may be suspicious or in.
31:20
Speaker 4: Question the sister Of David Pauley beasley's second victim is
31:25
Speaker 4: one such.
31:26
Speaker 2: Person MISTER pauli actually had a sister who lived up In,
31:30
Speaker 2: maine and he told his sister what he was. Doing
31:32
Speaker 2: he told her that he had found out an ad On.
31:34
Speaker 2: Craigslist he found a job In ohio and that's where
31:36
Speaker 2: he was going to. Go so fortunately in this, case
31:38
Speaker 2: his sister is aware and can contact authorities and alert
31:42
Speaker 2: people that his brother's gone.
31:43
Speaker 1: Missing my twin, brother who's fifty one years, Old, okay
31:48
Speaker 1: found a job On craigslist as a farm caretaker Near.
31:52
Speaker 1: Cambridge he arrived In, Parkersburg West virgina on the twenty
31:57
Speaker 1: second Of. October i've been looking through articles and everything
32:02
Speaker 1: and saw the one about the man that was bored
32:04
Speaker 1: and had been. Shot, yeah and THEN i was, like
32:07
Speaker 1: this is just two posts to to what my brother
32:12
Speaker 1: was going there.
32:12
Speaker 4: For, really but he found the job On craigslist, Too.
32:17
Speaker 1: Yes you.
32:17
Speaker 4: Did at the same, time as police start investigating the
32:22
Speaker 4: disappearance Of David, paully authorities are getting closer To beasley
32:26
Speaker 4: thanks to details From Scott.
32:28
Speaker 2: Davis now we have Mister davis also saying that he
32:31
Speaker 2: responded to A craigslist, ad and once you kind of
32:34
Speaker 2: compare that with what Mister paully's sister is telling, authorities
32:38
Speaker 2: that's when the pieces start to fall in. Place so
32:42
Speaker 2: once they have That craigslist ad that's been. Up they're
32:45
Speaker 2: starting to be able to investigate where THAT ad came,
32:47
Speaker 2: from WHAT ip addressed WAS i? Used and it's finding
32:52
Speaker 2: out that the computer AND ip address was In, Akron,
32:55
Speaker 2: ohio in the basement of a gentleman's home where Mister
32:58
Speaker 2: beasley was running a. Room so now we are on
33:01
Speaker 2: to Mister beasley as a suspect in this.
33:02
Speaker 4: Case investigators visit the restaurant Where beasley Met Scott.
33:09
Speaker 2: Davis we're able to look at the video at the
33:13
Speaker 2: restaurant where they had and that's where we get the
33:15
Speaker 2: picture Of Brogan rafferty And Richard beasley coming to meet Mister.
33:20
Speaker 2: Davis that's the video that ultimately leads a case to break.
33:22
Speaker 8: Up we had the surveillance photographs and shows and we'll
33:36
Speaker 8: showing and your picture's there and we know who you.
33:38
Speaker 8: Met yea, name his name Is Scott davis and he met.
33:45
Speaker 8: You guys were brakerst at the? Show do you remember?
33:47
Speaker 10: THAT i don't.
33:48
Speaker 14: KNOW i don't think he was.
33:50
Speaker 6: There, Yes and Initially Brogan rafferty, SAYS i don't know
33:54
Speaker 6: what you're talking.
33:55
Speaker 11: ABOUT i have anything to do with.
33:57
Speaker 7: Us what did you do after they had a bit
34:00
Speaker 7: of an, altercation AND i didn't just didn't feel, comfortable
34:05
Speaker 7: SO i just left the.
34:06
Speaker 6: Situation but he's sixteen years, old and so he confesses fell.
34:13
Speaker 8: Us about The geiger into.
34:14
Speaker 15: IT i was to go Help beasley murder this man
34:22
Speaker 15: had the body for, him.
34:23
Speaker 2: Okay and in talking to, him they're able to get
34:26
Speaker 2: a lot more, details not only in the, murders but
34:29
Speaker 2: where all the bodies are.
34:30
Speaker 7: Buried and WHEN i turned, around Mister gager was in
34:33
Speaker 7: front of Mister, beasley and Mister beasley pulled a pistol
34:38
Speaker 7: out and with both.
34:39
Speaker 15: Hands he pointed at the back of Mister geiger's. Head
34:43
Speaker 15: AND i saw that AND i closed my eyes and
34:46
Speaker 15: THEN i heard a gun shut AND i opened. Them Mister,
34:50
Speaker 15: gager who was sitting in the creep, bed.
34:54
Speaker 5: Did he seem to be? Dead, yes he was.
34:56
Speaker 2: Dead we get a full account of everything that happened
35:00
Speaker 2: and where everybody was.
35:00
Speaker 4: Buried police also find what they call a killing kit
35:05
Speaker 4: At rafferty's. Home they now hope to Find beesley before
35:08
Speaker 4: he can kill. Again sixteen year Old Broken rafferty has
35:21
Speaker 4: confessed to taking part in the murder Of Ralph, geiger
35:25
Speaker 4: but police are yet to find suspected serial Killer Richard
35:28
Speaker 4: beasley or establish any alias he's.
35:31
Speaker 9: USING i was working at fast food and this guy
35:34
Speaker 9: comes up to the counter And i'm thinking he's going
35:36
Speaker 9: to order food per, usual normal, day and he flashes
35:40
Speaker 9: his badge says he's with THE fbi and wants to
35:42
Speaker 9: talk to me about my. Dad, definitely red flag's going
35:44
Speaker 9: off in my. Brain but at the same, TIME i
35:46
Speaker 9: knew he would get caught, eventually BUT i thought it
35:49
Speaker 9: was weird that it was by THE fbi and, not you,
35:51
Speaker 9: Know acron police. Department so he pulled me. Aside we started.
35:56
Speaker 9: Talking he asked me if my dad had land, anywhere
36:00
Speaker 9: if there's anywhere he could be hiding. Out so Then i'm, like,
36:03
Speaker 9: oh they didn't catch. Him that's. WEIRD i guess they're
36:06
Speaker 9: still trying to find. Him why are they talking to.
36:08
Speaker 9: ME i haven't talked to him in. FOREVER i did
36:11
Speaker 9: know there were a couple places he had talked about
36:13
Speaker 9: about his friend having, land and then he had me
36:16
Speaker 9: identify pictures of, him but Also, brogan which was. Weird i'm,
36:21
Speaker 9: like where Does brogan come into play of all of?
36:24
Speaker 9: This SO i identified the pictures and then he got
36:27
Speaker 9: a call and was discussing with someone that they found another,
36:31
Speaker 9: body And i'm, like this probably pertains to my. Dad
36:36
Speaker 9: so he came back AND i asked. HIM i was,
36:39
Speaker 9: like was that call about my? DAD i know you
36:41
Speaker 9: aren't supposed to give, details but, like what's going? On
36:44
Speaker 9: BECAUSE i heard? It NOW i, Know and that's when
36:47
Speaker 9: he confirmed that they were looking for bodies of people
36:51
Speaker 9: my dad had. Killed in that, MOMENT i kind of
37:01
Speaker 9: froze AND i didn't feel. Anything my heart dropped AND
37:04
Speaker 9: i felt this this whole but at the, TIME i
37:08
Speaker 9: don't think my teenage mind could really process. It it
37:13
Speaker 9: was almost like my whole dream and idea of him
37:15
Speaker 9: came crashing down at, once AND i was feeling so
37:19
Speaker 9: many EMOTIONS i couldn't even decipher. Them, basically this this
37:24
Speaker 9: black hole of despair sucked in all my emotions and
37:28
Speaker 9: it was like time froze and IT i just it was.
37:33
Speaker 9: Broken it wasn't just open ended the friend like he killed.
37:50
Speaker 9: People this was it like this he's, done you, Know
37:53
Speaker 9: it's it's something, major and it hit me really.
37:58
Speaker 5: HARD i was just totally taken aback anything they could
38:03
Speaker 5: have told me rich. DONE i would never have thought That.
38:09
Speaker 4: Richard beasley is charged on multiple counts of aggravated, murder attempted, murder,
38:15
Speaker 4: kidnapping and aggravated.
38:16
Speaker 5: Robbery it's, rough it is KNOWING i married a man
38:22
Speaker 5: that became THAT i never would have thought that a
38:27
Speaker 5: RICH i still can't believe when they call him a
38:30
Speaker 5: serial killer THAT i have so many good memories and
38:35
Speaker 5: my daughter has so many good, memories and he can
38:39
Speaker 5: throw it all.
38:39
Speaker 2: Away when we looked Into brogen at the, time because
38:49
Speaker 2: we're trying to find out how does this sixteen year
38:52
Speaker 2: old fifteen sixteen year old kid get involved with? This you,
38:55
Speaker 2: know Our bureau Of Criminal investigation investigators looked into his computer,
39:00
Speaker 2: history and what we find is someone who is obsessed
39:02
Speaker 2: with mafia. Lifestyle he's obsessed with, crime and you can
39:06
Speaker 2: see someone who's clearly trying to emulate that. Lifestyle be,
39:10
Speaker 2: heavy be a tough. Guy and so we find that
39:13
Speaker 2: these two people meet and they wind up being a
39:15
Speaker 2: perfect match to carry out these, awful awful.
39:17
Speaker 6: CRIMES i don't think That richard knew when he first
39:21
Speaker 6: Met Broken rafferty that he was going to use him
39:25
Speaker 6: to commit murders down the. Road rich was involved in
39:28
Speaker 6: Taking broken to church on many many, occasions and he
39:32
Speaker 6: became like a substitute. FATHER i also would imagine that
39:36
Speaker 6: part of that grooming process was exposing him a little
39:41
Speaker 6: lot of time to criminal, activity so that broken becomes
39:45
Speaker 6: desensitized to. That AND i think it's very easy to
39:49
Speaker 6: underestimate the power an adult can have over a child
39:55
Speaker 6: when you look at his age and you look at
39:59
Speaker 6: his life. Circumstances he was somebody who was absolutely right
40:04
Speaker 6: for the picking in terms Of Richard.
40:06
Speaker 4: Beasley brogan agrees to lead police to the burial sites
40:11
Speaker 4: Of Ralph, Geiger David, pauley And Timothy.
40:14
Speaker 2: Kern we found the first two victims In Noble county In, Caldwell.
40:18
Speaker 2: Ohio that was the field and wooded area where Mister
40:21
Speaker 2: besley Mister raffrey were taking their victims to. Start so
40:24
Speaker 2: we found the first two victims there in shallow. Graves
40:27
Speaker 2: but because Mister davis got away and they had to
40:29
Speaker 2: switch up their method and went to a new. Place
40:31
Speaker 2: here we found Mister kerr Near Rolling Acres. Mall Mister
40:37
Speaker 2: davis getting away is probably the only reason we broke this.
40:40
Speaker 2: Case if Mister davis doesn't get, away we don't know
40:43
Speaker 2: how many more victims Mister besley and Mister rafferty would
40:46
Speaker 2: have killed.
40:48
Speaker 4: Broken rafferty is offered a deal that will allow him
40:51
Speaker 4: parole after a significant jail, term but he refuses to
40:55
Speaker 4: turn On beasley and is sentenced to life without the
40:58
Speaker 4: possibility of.
40:59
Speaker 3: Par this relationship was so strong That brogan sacrifices his
41:06
Speaker 3: freedom for the sake Of.
41:08
Speaker 7: Beasley over the, years he had built up more and
41:11
Speaker 7: more trust for, me and you, know vice.
41:15
Speaker 14: Versa we had a little bit of an understanding that
41:17
Speaker 14: since he was a friend of my father's and we
41:20
Speaker 14: just had known each other for a, while that we
41:22
Speaker 14: had you, KNOW i would do anything for, you you
41:25
Speaker 14: would do anything for me kind of, thing because that's
41:28
Speaker 14: just what we, thought that.
41:29
Speaker 1: We were that good of.
41:30
Speaker 6: FRIENDS i do think That Richard beasley and maybe to
41:35
Speaker 6: a lesser, Extent Brogan, rafferty got a thrill out of
41:40
Speaker 6: these fantasies of their schemes that they're putting, on and
41:43
Speaker 6: how they were these kind of master criminals and they're
41:47
Speaker 6: this elaborate plot and you, know they're the ones who
41:51
Speaker 6: are deciding who lives and. Dies and so when you
41:55
Speaker 6: look at, THAT i think it isn't that surprising that
41:59
Speaker 6: he would be interested in the. Mafia who does kind
42:02
Speaker 6: of pick and. Choose he's going to live and. Die
42:04
Speaker 6: SO i think this kind of anti hero thing he's
42:07
Speaker 6: got built up in his head is really consistent with
42:10
Speaker 6: all the time he takes concocting this scheme and carrying it.
42:15
Speaker 4: Out In march twenty, Thirteen Richard beasley is sentenced to.
42:21
Speaker 4: Death to this, day he maintains his.
42:24
Speaker 12: Innocence In rich's, eyes he'd done nothing. Wrong he feels no.
42:29
Speaker 12: Remorse he's a typical.
42:31
Speaker 5: Sociopath he has never taken responsibility for anything in his.
42:37
Speaker 2: Life there's no Question Richard beasley was looking to take
42:40
Speaker 2: advantage of. People and there's no question, too given the
42:43
Speaker 2: viciousness and calculation in these. Crimes he had been plotting
42:47
Speaker 2: for a while how he was going to take advantage of.
42:49
Speaker 2: People so it's not a surprise to see that he
42:51
Speaker 2: had tried several different ways to put himself around people
42:56
Speaker 2: who were vulnerable and could be taken advantage of by his.
42:59
Speaker 9: Manipulation it's that victim. Mentality he blames it on everyone.
43:05
Speaker 9: Else he constantly writes notes to the newspapers and, everything
43:10
Speaker 9: stating that the system is, corrupt and this is what really,
43:13
Speaker 9: happened And i've tried to confront him about, it even in.
43:18
Speaker 9: Person but THEN i got to the point WHERE i
43:24
Speaker 9: was able to separate myself from, it but not as
43:27
Speaker 9: a trauma, response but because FINALLY i had all this
43:33
Speaker 9: time period had finally healed AND i was able to move.
43:36
Speaker 9: Forward and the first TIME i went public with my
43:39
Speaker 9: story was when that, happened BECAUSE i Realized i'm my
43:42
Speaker 9: own person who can tell this. Story this happened to,
43:46
Speaker 9: me BUT i am not This my dad happens to
43:50
Speaker 9: be a serial, killer and despite whether he says he's
43:54
Speaker 9: innocent or he does, this it just doesn't affect me,
43:58
Speaker 9: anymore
44:25
Speaker 10: Thinking mach